odumchi: This is a clear example of the drawbacks of the Igbo 'capitalist' mentality and the 'advantages' of northern 'socialist' mentality. Some Igbo politicians work only for their own personal gain and expect others to claw their way up whereas the northern politician feeds his people and works for them.

PointB: Indeed Eze, the article is a very sad commentary of performance of Igbo public officers.

What harm will it cause them or the county to use the office to channel federal resources to the development of SE Zone. Or is SE no longer part of Nigeria?

However, I am not really going to pile the blame on PDP. PDP for all it flaws has appointed several Igbo men and women into influential positions, as you have rightly noted, the question is what have they done and what are they doing to help develop their zones - SE/SS?

We need to rile and deride this fellows, until they shape up or ship out.

Any Igbo public officer who will not lift a finger to help develop SE should not have our support whether s/he is in APGA, PDP, AC.N or CPC!

Dudu_Negro: Eze,

How can ACN help you?

Onlytruth:

ACN is not in a position to help anybody, honestly.
What power does it control at the center?

Dudu_Negro:

Well, it is the main opposition power and that is significant for injecting strategies into the polity. Strategies that shape policies at the center and bring the ruling party into compromises. You know the history of PDP in the West. . . we have shaved off their influences.

For good or bad, Yoruba has its own destiny in its hand. Our land, our people, our vision, our politics. . . united under one umbrella. We may not rule the policies in the center but we rule the temperaments that guide consequences for the center.

ACN can help you. We see what you or no one else see.

Dudu_Negro: Odumchi,

Nice observation! In a highly communal society, individualism will not succeed. Collectivism is what you need. You can split the North into six political zones if you want, they still act and speak in one political synch. You need a political community that is immune from the strategies of your enemy.

As you correctly pointed out, your people are taking lessons of individual successes in trade and business and supplanting it in political ambitions. Profit by any means possible has been perfected in Lagos and Kano and the models of those successes are expected to produce similarly scaled rewards to the politician in Alaigbo. Your political opponents understand this vulnerability and continously exploit people you vote into power. . . . steering them into the center of the cake where it's sweetest. The sweetness is a shackle!

odumchi:

Let's not talk of enemies here, we aren't in a war (at least not one of the conventional setting).
The problem with some Igbo leaders is that they like to pretend that all is well web it really isn't. There are many issues that need to be addressed and resolved, yet they sit idly.

Dudu_Negro:

Well, it is the main opposition power and that is significant for injecting strategies into the polity. Strategies that shape policies at the center and bring the ruling party into compromises. You know the history of PDP in the West. . . we have shaved off their influences.

For good or bad, Yoruba has its own destiny in its hand. Our land, our people, our vision, our politics. . . united under one umbrella. We may not rule the policies in the center but we rule the temperaments that guide consequences for the center.

ACN can help you. We see what you or no one else see.

Onlytruth:

lol, what can ACN see that we cannot see? BTW it is not as if there is no ACN in SE. We have Chris Ngige and he is an ACN senator. What is he doing in the senate, except sipping Cool Aid with the rest of the powerless ACN crew in the senate. In Nigeria, once you are not the ruling party, you have NO POWER. Simple.
That is why I wanted to know if there is an ingenious way by which ACN governors are funding BIG projects that we need to know about. I am looking at SW under ACN. With the exception of Fashola who is awash with LAGOS funds, I can't see any other ACN governor performing what APGA governors are unable to do in SE.
For our people to join ACN en masse, you have to show us something revolutionary. Can you see that happening?

Dudu_Negro:

The political conscience of Yorubaland is far more important to us in ACN than is skyscrapers and bridges and airports and seaports in Lagos. The political capital of Yorubaland is in Oyo and the spiritual capital is in Osun, while the economic capital is Lagos. Our political leaders take marching orders from Oyo, not from Lagos. Tinubu is in synch with dictates from Oyo. Individual Senators drinking koolaid in Abuja is irrelevant to us, as long such Senator does not disobey the dictates from Oyo. We are an integral political body that operate within a disjointed political system. Attempts to disturb that integrity always almost result in bloodshed. We will sacrifice an unconforming individual to Ogun before we allow disunity on our land. Abuja koolaid is good reward for those that conform.

Get your house in order first, shape and direct the consciense. . . the developments you crave will come.

ACN know how to bring order out of chaos.

odumchi:

There are four types of political parties in Nigeria: local government parties, state parties, zonal parties, and national parties. ACN is in the process of transitioning from a state party to a zonal party, whereas APGA is a state party seeking to become a zonal party. Despite this, ACN does not have much influence nationally. At the heart of the power circle in Nigeria is PDP closely followed by CPC.

The amazing part of this is that the North, although divided by PDP and CPC, still moves in a somewhat singular direction. This shows how political success doesn't require one-party domination. Rather, people should learn to put aside faction rivalry and combine heads and aim for similar goals.

What the Igbo (and the East) need is an influential party (or a group of somewhat powerful parties) that will work for our goals on the national level because we are a majority and make up a considerable percentage of this country. ACN, in it's current state, doesn't seem to have the type of influence that umu Igbo are looking for. But then again, I'm not a political expert.

Igbo awuu ogo nta, wo wu oke mba.
The Igbo aren't a little village, they are a large nation.

odumchi: @ Eze Onlytruth,

Anam acho ka m deachiri gi imeelu kama o di ka telephonu mi achoghi ibanye hushmeelu. Chi ututu bo echi, m elee kwa ozo oburu o ma ekwe.

Dudu_Negro:

Odumchi,

You are preaching to the choir! North always have at minimum two parties - one for Fulani, the other for Kanuri. . . but both congregate against interests in the South.

My point is this, you cannot loose the center and also loose your homeland. ACN, as a opposition, is in the legacy of AG. Nationally, CPC is confrontational. Opposition parties function as a mirror for the ruling party. It is the sounding board from which the ruling party formulates ideas and proposals for policies and bills. ACN remains that sounding board. CPC is promising bloodshed between baboon and dogs and you jubilantly call that a viable opoosition. Where is your head?

If APGA is what works for you, then take examples from what ACN is doing and take your land back from Senators that drink Abuja koolaid and still disrespect your land, leaving you with losses nationally and locally.

kingoflag: Ver interesting thread. I enjoyed the posts from all parties.

Onlytruth:

APGA is supposed to be doing that in the East, but APGA is unfortunate to have pacifists as leaders. Ojukwu's death dealt a serious blow to the APGA bite. What APGA needs is for militant Igbo youths to take over and sack the coward old guard. We need a party that speaks to our needs in Nigeria.
APGA's fight will not be easy because PDP is busy spending money to keep causing confusion in APGA. However, Imo state citizens proved that PDP can be defeated and they did so by share militancy. If it happened in Imo, it can happen in ALL parts of Igboland.

tunnytox: I usually don't post any reply on tribal threads especially Igbo's but for the first time since I can remember the OP is not pointing accusing fingers at Yorubas or dwelling in the past (Biafra/Nigeria war) but admitting that the Igbos need to change their political ideology, come together as one to defeat the common enemy.
This is the type of thread that you people need to forge ahead and reorientate some young ones among you on how to come together as one and develop a single 'national' (Igbo kingdom) ideology and goals politically, economically, etc rather than 'I'll chop my own and don't care if my neighbour die of hunger' approach which only make some few people rich without benefitting the entire Igbo race.
Aabo oro la n so fun omoluabi

Dudu_Negro:
Our political leaders take marching orders from Oyo, not from Lagos. Tinubu is in synch with dictates from Oyo.