Jimmy Boy:

@Nashville I agree with you that we are not facing the real enemy. Just that I find it hard to standby watch while someone is peddling lies as if it is the truth.

Omo_Tier1:

Do not be fooled in thinking South-South people do not know where to hinge their shoulders as regard the ethnic composition in Nigeria. A typical South-South person like myself, is more inclined towards the South-West rather South-East 'cos of our History and more importantly we think alike on several issues and we tend to see Nigeria in much of what we do. That cannot be said of the South-East who seems to forever habour a cladestine mindset that they are not part of the entity called Nigeria!

Haven said that, I still think ethnicity and tribalism has no place in modern society. If by any measure, and to say what Lagos did to Igbo traders in Lagos equates ethnic cleansing is very very foolhardy indeed! In fact, Lagos has been very very accommodating of Igobs and much more than any other group, Igbos have been given due recognition in Lagos. Even where market stores are destroyed and rebuilt elsewhere, the Igbos are by certain measures compensated but I wonder how many times we have heard or seen same done to other ethnic groups in South-East?

noiseless:

If the southwest want to re candle their shameful alliance with their arewa masters,please my advise is they must not spice it up first by over adding chilli,salt and garlic,and just be man enough come out openly and announce your alliance with the arewas the way NDVF and DOKUBO expressed and called for the alliance with southeast,that is how real men behave. orderwise they (southwest) are only exposing their cowardice in over 40 wasted years of a@sh licking their arewa masters.Finally to the OPs and Poster, i'm not surprised why you thought it would help your case if enugu state is dragged in to your mischiefs,THANK U.

gratiaeo:

Some Yoruba are here talking about ejecting Igbos from Yoruba land, and i ask: which land are they talking about? The ones we have bought with our money, or do they think that we are silly? The last time i checked Lagos was half own by Igbos.
Since 40years (as they claim) the so called Hausa/Yoruba have occupied the head bridge, do they have even one completed store not talk about building.
Pls that place need to clean up

Yeske!:

The slowpoke who wrote the story should be hanged for stirrinp up unnecessary tension because there are more Igbo traders there.

2011:Ojukwu canvasses support for IBB National News May 2, 2010

By  Tony Edike, Enugu

THE Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, was yesterday, reported to be in support for the presidential ambition of former military leader, General Ibrahim Babangida, in 2011, saying he would support him as far as it was the desire and aspiration of the people of the country. Ojukwu, who declared that Babangida deserves a second chance to rule the nation, said he was convinced that he possessed the required qualities that could take the country to further heights as, according to him, IBB remains a strong voice in Nigerian politics.

Icheoku asks, what was Ojukwu thinking or smoking when he poured this heinous libation for Babangida; or has he not "strayed" enough from the course since his return from exile in 1982,

when he pitched his tent with NPN instead of the NPP. Admitted he had then promised to take the Igbos back to the mainstream of Nigeria with his joining NPN; but his recent political antecedents, carrying the banner of APGA, suggests he is no longer mindful of the quest for a full integration.

When the Igbos and other peoples of the defunct Biafra thought that Ojukwu's going to Abuja, cap in hand, to genuflect before his juniors, for his pension as a retired Nigerian army colonel was already enough insult on what they fought and died for; now comes the mother of all disappointments, the Ikemba's endorsement of the Nigerian worst reject, the most hated man alive in Nigeria, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.

Does Ojukwu, a once darling hero of the Igbos and the entire former Eastern region, still have any moral scruples left in him; or does he think that simply because Ojukwu says so, that makes it alright; and every Igbo man and woman should salute and bow out.

OJUKWU PLEDGES SUPPORT OF IGBOS FOR IBB

Former Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeku Odumegwu-Ojukwu has pledged support of Igbo people for the presidential aspiration of former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and gave him the name Okechukwu.

The Ikemba of Nnewi gave this pledge when a group of IBB campaigners under the aegis of Campaign Network for IBB 2011, South East Zone, paid him a courtesy visit at the weekend. 'Tell your principal that Igbos are for him. He has my support and by extension he has the support of the whole Igbo people both at home and in the Diaspora.

He is my friend and I am stoutly behind him,' Ojukwu said. He used the occasion to rechristen Babangida as Okechukwu. 'He is now Ibrahim Badamasi Okechukwu Babangida. . Wonders shall never cease.

That is his new name. I wish him success.' Earlier, the leader of the group, Chief Tony Emeka Ani, said the group had come to solicit the support of Ojukwu for the presidential aspiration of IBB, adding that the group had just been inaugurated in the South East. On the entourage of Ani was Mr. Yemi George, leader of the group in Europe, who came down from Germany to grace the occasion.