Junaid Muhammed has finally let the cat out of the bag. His recent outburst proves that some northern elements are not happy with how the Igbos are heading economic port folio's in the government. Even with the nature of his venom, one cannot rule out the possibility of a post election violence against the Igbos should they lose out in the next election. How prepared is Ndigbo from (Delta, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Rivers and other southern groups) in mitigating this subtle threat? What machinery is on ground to stem an ethno-religious induced killing against Ndi-Igbo in the north ? The early we begin strategizing the better for us all. This isn't an ordinary threat.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-cant-win-in-2015-because-he-never-won-any-election-in-the-past-junaid-mohammed/

He just wants to cause confusion

Enough of all these tribal threads from Junaid Mohammed. The senile had not made any sense or contributed to the 'one Nigeria' project since he came back from USSR

They cant do sh it. Their army BH has been considerably cut down by us. "They are scared cos they know who we B."

I can't believe my eyes.

Who has d monopoly of killing?

saintikechi:
They cant do sh it. Their army BH has been considerably cut down by us. "They are scared cos they know who we B."

I hope so. But why is this man still moving freely? If it was in advanced countries he would have been put behind bars by now. Threat like this in 2011 was what fuelled the Boko-Haram insurgency to this stage. The earlier we begin to take people like this serious - and engage them wits for wits, pounds for pounds - the better for us.

Chiwude:
Junaid Muhammed has finally let the cat out of the bag. His recent outburst proves that there are plans by some northern elements to carry out mass killings of Igbos should they lose out in the next election. How prepared is Ndigbo from (Delta, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Rivers and other southern groups) in mitigating this subtle threat? What machinery is on group should a confrontation break out between Ndigbo and their enemies? The early we begin strategizing the better for us all. This isn't an ordinary threat oh.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-cant-win-in-2015-because-he-never-won-any-election-in-the-past-junaid-mohammed/

It is okay.
Nobody has a monopoly of violence and one hopes the abokiis will leave our land before 2015.

Get out of the north by christmas...

Junaid mu'd again ? Am personally going to purge that bigoted tribalist of his old bad habits after 2015

Brand him whatever you may, tribal, bigots, extremist, Junaid had the Igbos at heart.

Before you crucify me, he had unveiled their plans and to be forewarned is to he forearm. Will the Igbo and indeed Nigerians heed his warming and prepare for the D-day?

Mass killing or not ... Let him know that Deris God. ..

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Descartes:
Enough of all these tribal threads from Junaid Mohammed. The senile had not made any sense or contributed to the 'one Nigeria' project since he came back from USSR

madam how far your china hustle? abeg show me the way for aristo hustling, me wan go international

Why is the goat still on the loose ?

Having used the link provided by the OP and read the interview, I find it incredible that the OP would stoop so low as to openly manufacture and be spreading such blatant lies, clearly designed to whip up tribal hate and unrest between Nigerians.

I challenge the OP to point out where Dr Junaid said or even inferred there are evil plans against the Igbos (as he deliberately and misleadingly titled this thread); it is a matter of basic comprehension, I challenge him to prove these allegations.

For those who may not be bothered to click on the provided link, please find below the entire transcript copy of the alleged interview, read and judge for yourselves; please also help me as the OP identify where Dr. Junaidu mentioned plans by northern politicians to kill Igbos.

@OP:
Shame on you.
You are a LYING BASTARD and a disgrace to Igbo ppl, what do you hope to gain by inciting such hate through such obvious falsehood? How would such lies advance the course of your ppl?

Jonathan can’t win in 2015 because he never won any election in the past –Junaid Mohammed

OCTOBER 25, 2014 BY JOHN ALECHENU 400 COMMENTS
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Dr. Junaid Mohammed
Dr. Junaid Mohammed


In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, a Kano State delegate to the just concluded National Conference and convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, speaks about his brush with the law and other sundry national issues. Excerpts

You were once arrested by the State Security Service for a statement you made which it considered inciting. What do you make of your arrest?

It was true I was invited. That was the word they used. I was invited by the SSS to present myself at their Kano State office which is about one and half kilometres from my residence. Before I arrived Kano from Abuja, there were some shadowy characters who were following me. The order for my arrest came directly from the Director of Operations, an Igbo man. Apparently, he does not like anyone who says anything uncomplimentary about Igbo people and their greed. I think he was particularly very unhappy because I said Igbo have taken charge of the economy and that they have also grabbed most of the land especially for estates in Abuja; where they don’t have any historical claims or any other logical claim to even one square foot of land in Abuja. He was also unhappy because I said what was taken out of the North and converted into a national land holding is about two and half times the size of Lagos. I don’t see any Nigerian ethnic group, zone or region that could be prepared to cede that kind of virgin land in addition to the valuable mineral which is under the land. When I got there, some small boys started asking questions which I answered. I spent about half an hour and somehow; because of the many calls that were coming into my telephone from a number of media people and civil society groups, I think somehow they got a bit jittery and allowed me to go. That was what happened. I believe what was done was deliberate and it had the blessing of people in government at the highest level and those in the security services. It was done primarily with a lot of ethnic bias. I am aware that long before now, SSS had tried to get me arrested months before what happened. They even took my name to the office of the NSA and other people trying to frame me up for things I didn’t do because they said I was unhelpful and that I am a threat to the government of Goodluck Jonathan; I wish I were. Every patriotic Nigerian must do what he or she can do legally to constitute a threat to this government. This is the most irresponsible, most corrupt and the most incompetent government in the history of Nigeria. These are people who are not only tribalistic; they are also sectarian and they are very clannish. Their greed and stupidity is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.

But people say you’re chronically tribalistic going by your statements on national issues.

I want them to tell me what makes me tribalistic, let them mention the statements they are referring to. If saying about 42 per cent of the key positions in the economic sector of Nigeria is dominated by Igbo, if that is what they call tribalism, then I stand by that tribalistic statement because these are verifiable facts and whenever I made that statement, I mentioned names and positions and institutions. For example, I said the most powerful person in this country is the Minister of Finance who is in fact, the de facto Prime Minister. What it means is that she is the de facto head of government. For a person who was not elected and the legitimacy of the government that appointed her still in doubt, anybody who thinks saying this is being tribalistic, so be it. They can burn to ashes and go to hell. Two, I said the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, next I said the DG, Nigerian Economic Summit Group is an Igbo man, the DG, Sovereign Wealth Fund, is also an Igbo person, the DG, Securities and Exchange Commission is also an Igbo person, the DG, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, other ministries which are very critical to the running of the economy like aviation, are also in the hands of Igbo people. So, what are we talking about? Igbo remains one ethnic group in Nigeria that is so devoid of any shame to show their greed, selfishness and contempt for other ethnic groups. I said and I will still say that the first time Igbo officers staged a coup and assassinated wholesale the political leaders of most other ethnic groups was when we had General Aguiyi Ironsi as the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He was involved in the coup where the entire political leadership, the military and economic leadership of other regions especially the North was decapitated under him and he was from Umuahia. The next time we had another Igbo man as Chief of Army Staff was at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency and that man was (Azubuike) Ihejirika, who also comes from the same Abia State, from the same Umuahia. So, if this is what they use to call me a tribalist, then they can go to hell.

Are you one of those who believe Northerners are born to rule and that a Northerner should be President in 2015?

I have never said a Northerner should rule Nigeria in 2015. There was never a time in my entire political career when I said a Northerner must govern or rule Nigeria under any circumstance. I will not dignify this question with an answer. Next question.

Why did you say that President Jonathan will not win a credible election in 2015?

Because he never won any election in the past. The election which brought him to power as number two to Umaru Yar’Adua was not a credible election. The election he was alleged to have won in 2011 was not credible and I don’t believe he could win any election if anybody is to vote rationally- by this I mean, if people are to vote for a man on the basis of his performance and that performance must tally with what he promised to do, there is no way-let me tell you, we have a saying in American English ‘at the end of the day, all politics is local.’ As far as I am concerned, if he is to be voted for without recourse to ethnicity and religious bias and people are to vote for him on the basis of performance, there is no reason why any part of this country should vote for him- apart from the mercenary Igbo and of course, the Ijaw who are opportunistic, they are the only people who will have occasion to vote for Jonathan. When I say Ijaw, I choose my words carefully because most of the people who got appointments in this government are Ijaw, not Kalabari, their cousins, not the people of Akwa Ibom whether they are Anang or Ibibio and not even the few other tribes who are not associated with Edwin Clark. None of them got anything. The Igbo are mercenaries; they are there for sale. If the devil were to come today to say, I am the devil about whom the Bible and the Quran have spoken, I am prepared to give money, the Igbo will take the money and vote for him. Quote me!

You once described President Jonathan as a bad president. Is it because he’s not a Northerner?

I knew Jonathan before most of you. I employed him and Chief Horsefall is alive. I employed him (Jonathan) as Assistant Director when I was a Federal Commissioner in OMPADEC in Port Harcourt. To be fair to President Jonathan, he has never denied me nor has he ever denied circumstances surrounding my employing him. If I hated him, why should I be the one who was instrumental in his getting a job as Assistant Director in OMPADEC? Two, I said he was a bad President but I never said he was a bad director of ecology because that was what I recommended and insisted he should be employed as and he was employed. I did not say he was good enough to be president but I said he was good enough to be director of ecology because he comes from an educationally disadvantaged area and that to me is important. I come from the North which is also educationally disadvantaged and I believe people who are underrepresented in such circumstances especially in the Federal Government institutions should be employed. I believe every Nigerian has a right to be given a sense of belonging and I believe one of the good aspects of a government is how inclusive it is so that every Nigerian should have a sense of belonging. I have never hated him and he himself has never said I hated him.

Some people say that you hate Igbo people, is that the case?

I have an Igbo daughter. I don’t see how I can hate my daughter. My daughter speaks better Igbo than Hausa. Nobody can make me hate my daughter. I also have a Yoruba daughter and I have an Ijaw daughter who is doing her Master’s degree at the University of Ghana, Legon. I don’t hate Igbo but I see no reason why I should spare them when they have done more damage to the psyche, to the sovereignty and the existence of Nigeria. Some of my closest friends for life are Igbo and one of them is Uche. S.G Ikoku is someone I regard as my political mentor even more than the late Aminu Kano-as far as I am concerned, and he was an Igboman. I can tell you many more. I have never associated with other Nigerians (who are either majority or minorities) who have accused me of being a tribalist.

You have said a lot about the 1966 coup, where some northern leaders were killed. What about the killing of Igbo in the North, weren’t you bothered about that too?

I have always said that tit for tat killing is not a characteristic of human beings. I have always said that an eye for an eye is not a way of running a society. If you continue an eye for an eye, at the end of the day, the world will be blind. I am not a believer in an eye for an eye and I never believed that what the Igbo did which was purely on tribal basis, politically motivated-it was also motivated by tribal hatred- was right. Even if what they did was deliberate; I believe it was deliberate. The frenzy which somehow took over the North was wrong because I believe there was a way in which that issue would have been handled differently in a much more humane and sensible manner. That is number one. Number two, when you look at what happened during and after the Igbo coup and the action of the Igbo, you don’t justify what happened, but you have to agree that the Igbo themselves contributed to the severity of what happened after their own tribal coup because I was alive and well and I knew what the Igbo were saying afterwards. They were showing photographs of the Sardauna and saying we killed your father. I saw that, in addition and if you look at the long term consequences of the Igbo coup and the civil war afterwards, you will notice that first and foremost, the North treated the Igbo much more humanely, much more honestly and as fellow citizens than the rest of the country. My first job in government in 1968/69 was as an abandoned properties officer in Sabon Gari, Kano. At that time and up till now, Sabon Gari is one of the most developed parts of Kano metropolis. When I finished my assignment and had to leave for the Soviet Union, I handed over to another person. The sum total of what I am saying is that not a single Igboman can claim that he came back to Kano and that his house or property was alienated. Every Igboman who came back got his property back and I challenge any Igboman to tell me that he came back to Kano or any part of the North for that matter and he found that his land had been taken from him or his house or his market stall or anything of that nature. I can give you an example of a good friend of mine, Prof. ABC Nwosu who was formerly Political Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and later Minister of Health during the first term of Obasanjo’s administration. He was the one telling me and he is alive- he said but for the houses his father left in Kano which he recovered completely when he came back, he and six of his brothers would never have gone to school. You can crosscheck this with ABC Nwosu. If I hate Igbo, he will not tell me that. He is a good friend of mine and Governor Sule Lamido; fact must be fact.

You said that Gen. Buhari is not fit to rule Nigeria again. Do you have any other Northerner in mind who will offer good leadership to Nigeria?

Where and when did I say that? I never said that.

You said that the PDP cannot win the presidential election in 2015. What will you do if the party wins?

There will be mayhem. The party cannot win a free and fair election. It is not beyond it to connive with Attahiru Jega the way they did in 2011. And if they do that, there will be mayhem.

Why do you think that Abuja should go with the North if Nigeria divides? Is Abuja not central to the country?

Abuja has been and remains central to Nigeria but it is also central to the North. In creating Abuja, not one square foot of the other regions was incorporated into Abuja. In fact, 80 per cent of the whole land of Abuja came from Niger State. The remaining 20 per cent came from the northern states of Kaduna and a small fraction of Nasarawa when it was part of Plateau. How can you then say if Nigerians decide to go their separate ways, Abuja will remain central? I have said it before that if you draw a straight line from Abuja southwards, you will have to go over 351,000 kilometres before you reach the end of the North. That is where the border will be in case of a break-up. I invite you and the Igbo irredentists and all the historical revisionists to see what happened recently when the North and South Sudan split. The North retained Khartoum. The stretch from Khartoum to the border is more than the distance between Abuja and Okpila. Even Okpila where you have the cement factory is originally Igbira land and if we want to reacquire it, we will re-acquire it, it is Northern land. If Nigeria was to break up, Abuja will not only remain a northern territory, it will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

Many think if President Goodluck Jonathan wins in next year’s poll, the current Boko Haram crisis will not subside. Do you share this fear?

I believe that this government is involved with Boko Haram directly and indirectly with some of the terrorists in the Niger Delta. Anybody who believes that there is a direct connection knows that this Boko Haram insurgency is not coming out of the blues; it is being financed indirectly or directly by the government. If as they tried to do during the (Peter) Odili tenure in Rivers, to encourage people to unleash violence and after the election, they abandon them, those people will take up arms and unleash terror on them. The fact is this, government is irredeemably corrupt and incompetent.

Do you think that negotiation is the key to curtailing the Boko Haram crisis in the North-East?

Who are you going to negotiate with? Modu Ali Sheriff, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark or the President himself who are all implicated? How do you talk about stopping armed robbery with a confirmed armed robber?

You seem not to see many good things about the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. What is your rating of his administration?

I am sorry to say and I hope that I don’t sound too negative, I challenge anyone who has anything positive to tell me. The first responsibility of any government is the maintenance of law and order, is there law and order in Nigeria today? No. One of the first promises made by this President was that he was going to get rid of corruption, has he done that? He promised he was going to get rid of poverty, the poverty level has risen beyond belief. Tell me what he has done about infrastructure? On a daily basis, I spend more on petrol than I pay on a monthly basis for my entire NEPA bill. I live in a small bungalow, my bill has been in excess of N2,000 for the past six months, I have not paid more than that. And there is no water, no major state in Nigeria has reliable water supply. And the Igbo who have been running the ministry of aviation have taken it upon themselves to deny other airports particularly Kano Airport of commercial venture. They want to destroy the airport as a commercial venture, they have refused other airlines who had expressed interest in coming to Kano. Starting with Stella Odua and now Osita Chidoka, I challenge those who say Jonathan has performed to tell me what he has done in terms of what he claims he would do.

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If Nigeria was to
break up, Abuja will not only remain a northern territory, it
will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be
unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to
break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will
acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

IGBOS stop buliding oustide the east u will lose ur property if this country splits.

malele:
If Nigeria was to
break up, Abuja will not only remain a northern territory, it
will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be
unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to
break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will
acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

IGBOS stop buliding oustide the east u will lose ur property if this country splits.

What will they do with Abuja? Turn oil money off and watch these folks shrivel in a second. Abuja will in 5 years revert to virgin land it was before southern money graced it.

@OP you are supposed to be shot through the anus cos that is where your brain is. Can you point to where Dr Junaid talked about evil plans for Igbos? Is people like you that surrounds GEJ, conbstitutes TAN and other pro Jonathan groups theefore there is no way GEJ government can perform. The likes of you are the one's giving Igbo the bad, unfortunately your breed made up over 75% of the Igbo`s Nigeria has no future wahalai

MeAboki:
Having used the link provided by the OP and read the interview, I find it incredible that the OP would stoop so low as to openly manufacture and be spreading such blatant lies, clearly designed to whip up tribal hate and unrest between Nigerians.
I challenge the OP to point out where Dr Junaid said or even inferred there are evil plans against the Igbos (as he deliberately and misleadingly titled this thread); it is a matter of basic comprehension, I challenge him to prove these allegations.
For those who may not be bothered to click on the provided link, please find below the entire transcript copy of the alleged interview, read and judge for yourselves; please also help me as the OP identify where Dr. Junaidu mentioned plans by northern politicians to kill Igbos.
@OP:
Shame on you.
You are a LYING BASTARD and a disgrace to Igbo ppl, what do you hope to gain by inciting such hate through such obvious falsehood? How would such lies advance the course of your ppl?
Jonathan can’t win in 2015 because he never won any election in the past –Junaid Mohammed
OCTOBER 25, 2014 BY JOHN ALECHENU 400 COMMENTS
print
Dr. Junaid Mohammed
Dr. Junaid Mohammed
In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, a Kano State delegate to the just concluded National Conference and convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, speaks about his brush with the law and other sundry national issues. Excerpts
You were once arrested by the State Security Service for a statement you made which it considered inciting. What do you make of your arrest?
It was true I was invited. That was the word they used. I was invited by the SSS to present myself at their Kano State office which is about one and half kilometres from my residence. Before I arrived Kano from Abuja, there were some shadowy characters who were following me. The order for my arrest came directly from the Director of Operations, an Igbo man. Apparently, he does not like anyone who says anything uncomplimentary about Igbo people and their greed. I think he was particularly very unhappy because I said Igbo have taken charge of the economy and that they have also grabbed most of the land especially for estates in Abuja; where they don’t have any historical claims or any other logical claim to even one square foot of land in Abuja. He was also unhappy because I said what was taken out of the North and converted into a national land holding is about two and half times the size of Lagos. I don’t see any Nigerian ethnic group, zone or region that could be prepared to cede that kind of virgin land in addition to the valuable mineral which is under the land. When I got there, some small boys started asking questions which I answered. I spent about half an hour and somehow; because of the many calls that were coming into my telephone from a number of media people and civil society groups, I think somehow they got a bit jittery and allowed me to go. That was what happened. I believe what was done was deliberate and it had the blessing of people in government at the highest level and those in the security services. It was done primarily with a lot of ethnic bias. I am aware that long before now, SSS had tried to get me arrested months before what happened. They even took my name to the office of the NSA and other people trying to frame me up for things I didn’t do because they said I was unhelpful and that I am a threat to the government of Goodluck Jonathan; I wish I were. Every patriotic Nigerian must do what he or she can do legally to constitute a threat to this government. This is the most irresponsible, most corrupt and the most incompetent government in the history of Nigeria. These are people who are not only tribalistic; they are also sectarian and they are very clannish. Their greed and stupidity is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.
But people say you’re chronically tribalistic going by your statements on national issues.
I want them to tell me what makes me tribalistic, let them mention the statements they are referring to. If saying about 42 per cent of the key positions in the economic sector of Nigeria is dominated by Igbo, if that is what they call tribalism, then I stand by that tribalistic statement because these are verifiable facts and whenever I made that statement, I mentioned names and positions and institutions. For example, I said the most powerful person in this country is the Minister of Finance who is in fact, the de facto Prime Minister. What it means is that she is the de facto head of government. For a person who was not elected and the legitimacy of the government that appointed her still in doubt, anybody who thinks saying this is being tribalistic, so be it. They can burn to ashes and go to hell. Two, I said the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, next I said the DG, Nigerian Economic Summit Group is an Igbo man, the DG, Sovereign Wealth Fund, is also an Igbo person, the DG, Securities and Exchange Commission is also an Igbo person, the DG, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, other ministries which are very critical to the running of the economy like aviation, are also in the hands of Igbo people. So, what are we talking about? Igbo remains one ethnic group in Nigeria that is so devoid of any shame to show their greed, selfishness and contempt for other ethnic groups. I said and I will still say that the first time Igbo officers staged a coup and assassinated wholesale the political leaders of most other ethnic groups was when we had General Aguiyi Ironsi as the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He was involved in the coup where the entire political leadership, the military and economic leadership of other regions especially the North was decapitated under him and he was from Umuahia. The next time we had another Igbo man as Chief of Army Staff was at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency and that man was (Azubuike) Ihejirika, who also comes from the same Abia State, from the same Umuahia. So, if this is what they use to call me a tribalist, then they can go to hell.

Are you one of those who believe Northerners are born to rule and that a Northerner should be President in 2015?
I have never said a Northerner should rule Nigeria in 2015. There was never a time in my entire political career when I said a Northerner must govern or rule Nigeria under any circumstance. I will not dignify this question with an answer. Next question.
Why did you say that President Jonathan will not win a credible election in 2015?
Because he never won any election in the past. The election which brought him to power as number two to Umaru Yar’Adua was not a credible election. The election he was alleged to have won in 2011 was not credible and I don’t believe he could win any election if anybody is to vote rationally- by this I mean, if people are to vote for a man on the basis of his performance and that performance must tally with what he promised to do, there is no way-let me tell you, we have a saying in American English ‘at the end of the day, all politics is local.’ As far as I am concerned, if he is to be voted for without recourse to ethnicity and religious bias and people are to vote for him on the basis of performance, there is no reason why any part of this country should vote for him- apart from the mercenary Igbo and of course, the Ijaw who are opportunistic, they are the only people who will have occasion to vote for Jonathan. When I say Ijaw, I choose my words carefully because most of the people who got appointments in this government are Ijaw, not Kalabari, their cousins, not the people of Akwa Ibom whether they are Anang or Ibibio and not even the few other tribes who are not associated with Edwin Clark. None of them got anything. The Igbo are mercenaries; they are there for sale. If the devil were to come today to say, I am the devil about whom the Bible and the Quran have spoken, I am prepared to give money, the Igbo will take the money and vote for him. Quote me!

You once described President Jonathan as a bad president. Is it because he’s not a Northerner?
I knew Jonathan before most of you. I employed him and Chief Horsefall is alive. I employed him (Jonathan) as Assistant Director when I was a Federal Commissioner in OMPADEC in Port Harcourt. To be fair to President Jonathan, he has never denied me nor has he ever denied circumstances surrounding my employing him. If I hated him, why should I be the one who was instrumental in his getting a job as Assistant Director in OMPADEC? Two, I said he was a bad President but I never said he was a bad director of ecology because that was what I recommended and insisted he should be employed as and he was employed. I did not say he was good enough to be president but I said he was good enough to be director of ecology because he comes from an educationally disadvantaged area and that to me is important. I come from the North which is also educationally disadvantaged and I believe people who are underrepresented in such circumstances especially in the Federal Government institutions should be employed. I believe every Nigerian has a right to be given a sense of belonging and I believe one of the good aspects of a government is how inclusive it is so that every Nigerian should have a sense of belonging. I have never hated him and he himself has never said I hated him.
Some people say that you hate Igbo people, is that the case?
I have an Igbo daughter. I don’t see how I can hate my daughter. My daughter speaks better Igbo than Hausa. Nobody can make me hate my daughter. I also have a Yoruba daughter and I have an Ijaw daughter who is doing her Master’s degree at the University of Ghana, Legon. I don’t hate Igbo but I see no reason why I should spare them when they have done more damage to the psyche, to the sovereignty and the existence of Nigeria. Some of my closest friends for life are Igbo and one of them is Uche. S.G Ikoku is someone I regard as my political mentor even more than the late Aminu Kano-as far as I am concerned, and he was an Igboman. I can tell you many more. I have never associated with other Nigerians (who are either majority or minorities) who have accused me of being a tribalist.
You have said a lot about the 1966 coup, where some northern leaders were killed. What about the killing of Igbo in the North, weren’t you bothered about that too?
I have always said that tit for tat killing is not a characteristic of human beings. I have always said that an eye for an eye is not a way of running a society. If you continue an eye for an eye, at the end of the day, the world will be blind. I am not a believer in an eye for an eye and I never believed that what the Igbo did which was purely on tribal basis, politically motivated-it was also motivated by tribal hatred- was right. Even if what they did was deliberate; I believe it was deliberate. The frenzy which somehow took over the North was wrong because I believe there was a way in which that issue would have been handled differently in a much more humane and sensible manner. That is number one. Number two, when you look at what happened during and after the Igbo coup and the action of the Igbo, you don’t justify what happened, but you have to agree that the Igbo themselves contributed to the severity of what happened after their own tribal coup because I was alive and well and I knew what the Igbo were saying afterwards. They were showing photographs of the Sardauna and saying we killed your father. I saw that, in addition and if you look at the long term consequences of the Igbo coup and the civil war afterwards, you will notice that first and foremost, the North treated the Igbo much more humanely, much more honestly and as fellow citizens than the rest of the country. My first job in government in 1968/69 was as an abandoned properties officer in Sabon Gari, Kano. At that time and up till now, Sabon Gari is one of the most developed parts of Kano metropolis. When I finished my assignment and had to leave for the Soviet Union, I handed over to another person. The sum total of what I am saying is that not a single Igboman can claim that he came back to Kano and that his house or property was alienated. Every Igboman who came back got his property back and I challenge any Igboman to tell me that he came back to Kano or any part of the North for that matter and he found that his land had been taken from him or his house or his market stall or anything of that nature. I can give you an example of a good friend of mine, Prof. ABC Nwosu who was formerly Political Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and later Minister of Health during the first term of Obasanjo’s administration. He was the one telling me and he is alive- he said but for the houses his father left in Kano which he recovered completely when he came back, he and six of his brothers would never have gone to school. You can crosscheck this with ABC Nwosu. If I hate Igbo, he will not tell me that. He is a good friend of mine and Governor Sule Lamido; fact must be fact.

You said that Gen. Buhari is not fit to rule Nigeria again. Do you have any other Northerner in mind who will offer good leadership to Nigeria?

Where and when did I say that? I never said that.

You said that the PDP cannot win the presidential election in 2015. What will you do if the party wins?

There will be mayhem. The party cannot win a free and fair election. It is not beyond it to connive with Attahiru Jega the way they did in 2011. And if they do that, there will be mayhem.

Why do you think that Abuja should go with the North if Nigeria divides? Is Abuja not central to the country?

Abuja has been and remains central to Nigeria but it is also central to the North. In creating Abuja, not one square foot of the other regions was incorporated into Abuja. In fact, 80 per cent of the whole land of Abuja came from Niger State. The remaining 20 per cent came from the northern states of Kaduna and a small fraction of Nasarawa when it was part of Plateau. How can you then say if Nigerians decide to go their separate ways, Abuja will remain central? I have said it before that if you draw a straight line from Abuja southwards, you will have to go over 351,000 kilometres before you reach the end of the North. That is where the border will be in case of a break-up. I invite you and the Igbo irredentists and all the historical revisionists to see what happened recently when the North and South Sudan split. The North retained Khartoum. The stretch from Khartoum to the border is more than the distance between Abuja and Okpila. Even Okpila where you have the cement factory is originally Igbira land and if we want to reacquire it, we will re-acquire it, it is Northern land. If Nigeria was to break up, Abuja will not only remain a northern territory, it will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

Many think if President Goodluck Jonathan wins in next year’s poll, the current Boko Haram crisis will not subside. Do you share this fear?

I believe that this government is involved with Boko Haram directly and indirectly with some of the terrorists in the Niger Delta. Anybody who believes that there is a direct connection knows that this Boko Haram insurgency is not coming out of the blues; it is being financed indirectly or directly by the government. If as they tried to do during the (Peter) Odili tenure in Rivers, to encourage people to unleash violence and after the election, they abandon them, those people will take up arms and unleash terror on them. The fact is this, government is irredeemably corrupt and incompetent.

Do you think that negotiation is the key to curtailing the Boko Haram crisis in the North-East?

Who are you going to negotiate with? Modu Ali Sheriff, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark or the President himself who are all implicated? How do you talk about stopping armed robbery with a confirmed armed robber?

You seem not to see many good things about the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. What is your rating of his administration?

I am sorry to say and I hope that I don’t sound too negative, I challenge anyone who has anything positive to tell me. The first responsibility of any government is the maintenance of law and order, is there law and order in Nigeria today? No. One of the first promises made by this President was that he was going to get rid of corruption, has he done that? He promised he was going to get rid of poverty, the poverty level has risen beyond belief. Tell me what he has done about infrastructure? On a daily basis, I spend more on petrol than I pay on a monthly basis for my entire NEPA bill. I live in a small bungalow, my bill has been in excess of N2,000 for the past six months, I have not paid more than that. And there is no water, no major state in Nigeria has reliable water supply. And the Igbo who have been running the ministry of aviation have taken it upon themselves to deny other airports particularly Kano Airport of commercial venture. They want to destroy the airport as a commercial venture, they have refused other airlines who had expressed interest in coming to Kano. Starting with Stella Odua and now Osita Chidoka, I challenge those who say Jonathan has performed to tell me what he has done in terms of what he claims he would do.

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engrfcuksmtin:
@OP you are supposed to be shot through the anus cos that is where your brain is. Can you point to where Dr Junaid talked about evil plans for Igbos? Is people like you that surrounds GEJ, conbstitutes TAN and other pro Jonathan groups theefore there is no way GEJ government can perform. The likes of you are the one's giving Igbo the bad, unfortunately your breed made up over 75% of the Igbo`s Nigeria has no future wahalai

MeAboki:
Having used the link provided by the OP and read the interview, I find it incredible that the OP would stoop so low as to openly manufacture and be spreading such blatant lies, clearly designed to whip up tribal hate and unrest between Nigerians.
I challenge the OP to point out where Dr Junaid said or even inferred there are evil plans against the Igbos (as he deliberately and misleadingly titled this thread); it is a matter of basic comprehension, I challenge him to prove these allegations.
For those who may not be bothered to click on the provided link, please find below the entire transcript copy of the alleged interview, read and judge for yourselves; please also help me as the OP identify where Dr. Junaidu mentioned plans by northern politicians to kill Igbos.
@OP:
Shame on you.
You are a LYING BASTARD and a disgrace to Igbo ppl, what do you hope to gain by inciting such hate through such obvious falsehood? How would such lies advance the course of your ppl?
Jonathan can’t win in 2015 because he never won any election in the past –Junaid Mohammed[/b]remain a northern territory, it will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

[b]Many think if President Goodluck Jonathan wins in next year’s poll, the current Boko Haram crisis will not subside. Do you share this fear?

When I read comments like the above I weep for this nation. The op may have exaggerated the comments of the obviously senile old man, reading in between the lines one can clearly see there's a plot. A plot to carry something that isn't out in the open now. If GEJ is not the most qualified candidate give us an alternative. Don't bring in sentíments and charge up the whole place. The question of the minister of finance and all the places he mentioned aside ministerial appointments, let him mention one northern candidate that's qualified. Is the minister of finance qualified to hold Such post? Is Arunma Oteh qualified to be the DG of Sec? Isn't an igbo man more qualified to run the manufacturing sector cos of their enterprenural Fervour? I hate it when these old men who in saner climes would have been locked up in a psychiatric ward come and spew thrash into our ears. Why has the man not come out to deny Dangotes rise as the richest black man owing to a favourable climate given by a Southerner? Does he even know the role NOI played in him getting his strategy Right? Ignorance is really a terrible disease and the likes of Junaid who believe so much in the born to rule mentality will only run themselves aground cos this ship is headed for greater things and no weapon of theirs shall prosper against her.

If only we had a serious government......

Fools like this man and others like Asari Dokubo ought to have been locked up somewhere in a well guarded psychiatrist/mental home...

I hope the DSA is keeping a tab on the fool!!

It`s good for us to be getting these revelations, these simply tells us what the northerners think of the other tribes and what they discuss in private why they want to be perpetually in charge of the country even when they are dullards

malele:
If Nigeria was to
break up, Abuja will not only remain a northern territory, it
will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be
unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to
break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will
acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

IGBOS stop buliding oustide the east u will lose ur property if this country splits.

can the people of Abuja call the awusas their brother certainly no. for your information the people of Abuja the gbagyi's hate the awusas more than the way rat hate cat. the people of abuja would like to be called middle beltans and never awusa.
in case of any division the middle beltans which include Abuja will never accept to be with the hausas , because they have had bitter experiences with the hausas just the way plateau, Benue and other middle beltans.

this is what buhari has to offer.

we will begin to ask ourselves why bokoharam attacks are subsiding when elections are drawing closer.

if they loose, you will know the stuff northerners are made of.

mynd44 lock this idiotic, lie based thread! While Juniad comments were unfortunate, the op takes the role of satan trying to stir things up!

engrfcuksmtin:
@OP you are supposed to be shot through the anus cos that is where your brain is. Can you point to where Dr Junaid talked about evil plans for Igbos? Is people like you that surrounds GEJ, conbstitutes TAN and other pro Jonathan groups theefore there is no way GEJ government can perform. The likes of you are the one's giving Igbo the bad, unfortunately your breed made up over 75% of the Igbo`s Nigeria has no future wahalai

It is shame that NL is a largely un-moderated cyberspace where anything goes. A shame! A moderator should have edited the Headline to reflect better the true content of the interview, or better still, block it. Less than 10% will actually other to read the actual interview.

How Really Ready are igbos to prevent another genocide against them , i just noticed Junaid if a Russian trained Doctor and Punch Newspapers is a Yoruba Media company. Igbos should thread carefully most people igbos think will be Neutral in a North versus East war might not be neutral when the conflict starts , Igbos should borrow a leaf from the Jews and plan for the rainy day, Nigeria is pregnant and no body knows for sure how this pregnancy will be delivered

psalmizt:



When I read comments like the above I weep for this nation. The op may have exaggerated the comments of the obviously senile old man, reading in between the lines one can clearly see there's a plot. A plot to carry something that isn't out in the open now. If GEJ is not the most qualified candidate give us an alternative. Don't bring in sentíments and charge up the whole place. The question of the minister of finance and all the places he mentioned aside ministerial appointments, let him mention one northern candidate that's qualified. Is the minister of finance qualified to hold Such post? Is Arunma Oteh qualified to be the DG of Sec? Isn't an igbo man more qualified to run the manufacturing sector cos of their enterprenural Fervour? I hate it when these old men who in saner climes would have been locked up in a psychiatric ward come and spew thrash into our ears. Why has the man not come out to deny Dangotes rise as the richest black man owing to a favourable climate given by a Southerner? Does he even know the role NOI played in him getting his strategy Right? Ignorance is really a terrible disease and the likes of Junaid who believe so much in the born to rule mentality will only run themselves aground cos this ship is headed for greater things and no weapon of theirs shall prosper against her.

You hit the nail on the head. But if truth be told, the Nigerian political landscape is soiled with evil men. Men who we tag elder statesmen, yet at the back of their hearts worst than hitler himself. Hate and Killings don't just develop flesh overnight, it start from the thoughts of men.
When men begin to occupy their minds with envy, jealousy and strife they end up becoming a monster to the society. The heart of Junaid Muhammed is filled with hate and one dose'nt need a seer to tell him what this man will do, if given only but a little chance. History is replete with such men and their evil vices. And anybody especially Ndigbo who swallows his comments with a pinch of salt is only deceiving himself. I insist if Nigeria was a country were human lives are valued, the likes of Junaid Muhammed, Ango Abdulahi and Asari Dokubo would have been rotting in jail by now.

Chiwude:
Junaid Muhammed has finally let the cat out of the bag. His recent outburst proves that there are plans by some northern elements to carry out mass killings of Igbos should they lose out in the next election. How prepared is Ndigbo from (Delta, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Rivers and other southern groups) in mitigating this subtle threat? What machinery is on group should a confrontation break out between Ndigbo and their enemies? The early we begin strategizing the better for us all. This isn't an ordinary threat oh.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-cant-win-in-2015-because-he-never-won-any-election-in-the-past-junaid-mohammed/

F A K E N E W S

MeAboki:
Having used the link provided by the OP and read the interview, I find it incredible that the OP would stoop so low as to openly manufacture and be spreading such blatant lies, clearly designed to whip up tribal hate and unrest between Nigerians.

I challenge the OP to point out where Dr Junaid said or even inferred there are evil plans against the Igbos (as he deliberately and misleadingly titled this thread); it is a matter of basic comprehension, I challenge him to prove these allegations.

For those who may not be bothered to click on the provided link, please find below the entire transcript copy of the alleged interview, read and judge for yourselves; please also help me as the OP identify where Dr. Junaidu mentioned plans by northern politicians to kill Igbos.

@OP:
Shame on you.
You are a LYING BASTARD and a disgrace to Igbo ppl, what do you hope to gain by inciting such hate through such obvious falsehood? How would such lies advance the course of your ppl?

Jonathan can’t win in 2015 because he never won any election in the past –Junaid Mohammed

OCTOBER 25, 2014 BY JOHN ALECHENU 400 COMMENTS
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Dr. Junaid Mohammed
Dr. Junaid Mohammed


In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, a Kano State delegate to the just concluded National Conference and convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, speaks about his brush with the law and other sundry national issues. Excerpts

You were once arrested by the State Security Service for a statement you made which it considered inciting. What do you make of your arrest?

It was true I was invited. That was the word they used. I was invited by the SSS to present myself at their Kano State office which is about one and half kilometres from my residence. Before I arrived Kano from Abuja, there were some shadowy characters who were following me. The order for my arrest came directly from the Director of Operations, an Igbo man. Apparently, he does not like anyone who says anything uncomplimentary about Igbo people and their greed. I think he was particularly very unhappy because I said Igbo have taken charge of the economy and that they have also grabbed most of the land especially for estates in Abuja; where they don’t have any historical claims or any other logical claim to even one square foot of land in Abuja. He was also unhappy because I said what was taken out of the North and converted into a national land holding is about two and half times the size of Lagos. I don’t see any Nigerian ethnic group, zone or region that could be prepared to cede that kind of virgin land in addition to the valuable mineral which is under the land. When I got there, some small boys started asking questions which I answered. I spent about half an hour and somehow; because of the many calls that were coming into my telephone from a number of media people and civil society groups, I think somehow they got a bit jittery and allowed me to go. That was what happened. I believe what was done was deliberate and it had the blessing of people in government at the highest level and those in the security services. It was done primarily with a lot of ethnic bias. I am aware that long before now, SSS had tried to get me arrested months before what happened. They even took my name to the office of the NSA and other people trying to frame me up for things I didn’t do because they said I was unhelpful and that I am a threat to the government of Goodluck Jonathan; I wish I were. Every patriotic Nigerian must do what he or she can do legally to constitute a threat to this government. This is the most irresponsible, most corrupt and the most incompetent government in the history of Nigeria. These are people who are not only tribalistic; they are also sectarian and they are very clannish. Their greed and stupidity is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.

But people say you’re chronically tribalistic going by your statements on national issues.

I want them to tell me what makes me tribalistic, let them mention the statements they are referring to. If saying about 42 per cent of the key positions in the economic sector of Nigeria is dominated by Igbo, if that is what they call tribalism, then I stand by that tribalistic statement because these are verifiable facts and whenever I made that statement, I mentioned names and positions and institutions. For example, I said the most powerful person in this country is the Minister of Finance who is in fact, the de facto Prime Minister. What it means is that she is the de facto head of government. For a person who was not elected and the legitimacy of the government that appointed her still in doubt, anybody who thinks saying this is being tribalistic, so be it. They can burn to ashes and go to hell. Two, I said the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, next I said the DG, Nigerian Economic Summit Group is an Igbo man, the DG, Sovereign Wealth Fund, is also an Igbo person, the DG, Securities and Exchange Commission is also an Igbo person, the DG, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, other ministries which are very critical to the running of the economy like aviation, are also in the hands of Igbo people. So, what are we talking about? Igbo remains one ethnic group in Nigeria that is so devoid of any shame to show their greed, selfishness and contempt for other ethnic groups. I said and I will still say that the first time Igbo officers staged a coup and assassinated wholesale the political leaders of most other ethnic groups was when we had General Aguiyi Ironsi as the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He was involved in the coup where the entire political leadership, the military and economic leadership of other regions especially the North was decapitated under him and he was from Umuahia. The next time we had another Igbo man as Chief of Army Staff was at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency and that man was (Azubuike) Ihejirika, who also comes from the same Abia State, from the same Umuahia. So, if this is what they use to call me a tribalist, then they can go to hell.

Are you one of those who believe Northerners are born to rule and that a Northerner should be President in 2015?

I have never said a Northerner should rule Nigeria in 2015. There was never a time in my entire political career when I said a Northerner must govern or rule Nigeria under any circumstance. I will not dignify this question with an answer. Next question.

Why did you say that President Jonathan will not win a credible election in 2015?

Because he never won any election in the past. The election which brought him to power as number two to Umaru Yar’Adua was not a credible election. The election he was alleged to have won in 2011 was not credible and I don’t believe he could win any election if anybody is to vote rationally- by this I mean, if people are to vote for a man on the basis of his performance and that performance must tally with what he promised to do, there is no way-let me tell you, we have a saying in American English ‘at the end of the day, all politics is local.’ As far as I am concerned, if he is to be voted for without recourse to ethnicity and religious bias and people are to vote for him on the basis of performance, there is no reason why any part of this country should vote for him- apart from the mercenary Igbo and of course, the Ijaw who are opportunistic, they are the only people who will have occasion to vote for Jonathan. When I say Ijaw, I choose my words carefully because most of the people who got appointments in this government are Ijaw, not Kalabari, their cousins, not the people of Akwa Ibom whether they are Anang or Ibibio and not even the few other tribes who are not associated with Edwin Clark. None of them got anything. The Igbo are mercenaries; they are there for sale. If the devil were to come today to say, I am the devil about whom the Bible and the Quran have spoken, I am prepared to give money, the Igbo will take the money and vote for him. Quote me!

You once described President Jonathan as a bad president. Is it because he’s not a Northerner?

I knew Jonathan before most of you. I employed him and Chief Horsefall is alive. I employed him (Jonathan) as Assistant Director when I was a Federal Commissioner in OMPADEC in Port Harcourt. To be fair to President Jonathan, he has never denied me nor has he ever denied circumstances surrounding my employing him. If I hated him, why should I be the one who was instrumental in his getting a job as Assistant Director in OMPADEC? Two, I said he was a bad President but I never said he was a bad director of ecology because that was what I recommended and insisted he should be employed as and he was employed. I did not say he was good enough to be president but I said he was good enough to be director of ecology because he comes from an educationally disadvantaged area and that to me is important. I come from the North which is also educationally disadvantaged and I believe people who are underrepresented in such circumstances especially in the Federal Government institutions should be employed. I believe every Nigerian has a right to be given a sense of belonging and I believe one of the good aspects of a government is how inclusive it is so that every Nigerian should have a sense of belonging. I have never hated him and he himself has never said I hated him.

Some people say that you hate Igbo people, is that the case?

I have an Igbo daughter. I don’t see how I can hate my daughter. My daughter speaks better Igbo than Hausa. Nobody can make me hate my daughter. I also have a Yoruba daughter and I have an Ijaw daughter who is doing her Master’s degree at the University of Ghana, Legon. I don’t hate Igbo but I see no reason why I should spare them when they have done more damage to the psyche, to the sovereignty and the existence of Nigeria. Some of my closest friends for life are Igbo and one of them is Uche. S.G Ikoku is someone I regard as my political mentor even more than the late Aminu Kano-as far as I am concerned, and he was an Igboman. I can tell you many more. I have never associated with other Nigerians (who are either majority or minorities) who have accused me of being a tribalist.

You have said a lot about the 1966 coup, where some northern leaders were killed. What about the killing of Igbo in the North, weren’t you bothered about that too?

I have always said that tit for tat killing is not a characteristic of human beings. I have always said that an eye for an eye is not a way of running a society. If you continue an eye for an eye, at the end of the day, the world will be blind. I am not a believer in an eye for an eye and I never believed that what the Igbo did which was purely on tribal basis, politically motivated-it was also motivated by tribal hatred- was right. Even if what they did was deliberate; I believe it was deliberate. The frenzy which somehow took over the North was wrong because I believe there was a way in which that issue would have been handled differently in a much more humane and sensible manner. That is number one. Number two, when you look at what happened during and after the Igbo coup and the action of the Igbo, you don’t justify what happened, but you have to agree that the Igbo themselves contributed to the severity of what happened after their own tribal coup because I was alive and well and I knew what the Igbo were saying afterwards. They were showing photographs of the Sardauna and saying we killed your father. I saw that, in addition and if you look at the long term consequences of the Igbo coup and the civil war afterwards, you will notice that first and foremost, the North treated the Igbo much more humanely, much more honestly and as fellow citizens than the rest of the country. My first job in government in 1968/69 was as an abandoned properties officer in Sabon Gari, Kano. At that time and up till now, Sabon Gari is one of the most developed parts of Kano metropolis. When I finished my assignment and had to leave for the Soviet Union, I handed over to another person. The sum total of what I am saying is that not a single Igboman can claim that he came back to Kano and that his house or property was alienated. Every Igboman who came back got his property back and I challenge any Igboman to tell me that he came back to Kano or any part of the North for that matter and he found that his land had been taken from him or his house or his market stall or anything of that nature. I can give you an example of a good friend of mine, Prof. ABC Nwosu who was formerly Political Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and later Minister of Health during the first term of Obasanjo’s administration. He was the one telling me and he is alive- he said but for the houses his father left in Kano which he recovered completely when he came back, he and six of his brothers would never have gone to school. You can crosscheck this with ABC Nwosu. If I hate Igbo, he will not tell me that. He is a good friend of mine and Governor Sule Lamido; fact must be fact.

You said that Gen. Buhari is not fit to rule Nigeria again. Do you have any other Northerner in mind who will offer good leadership to Nigeria?

Where and when did I say that? I never said that.

You said that the PDP cannot win the presidential election in 2015. What will you do if the party wins?

There will be mayhem. The party cannot win a free and fair election. It is not beyond it to connive with Attahiru Jega the way they did in 2011. And if they do that, there will be mayhem.

Why do you think that Abuja should go with the North if Nigeria divides? Is Abuja not central to the country?

Abuja has been and remains central to Nigeria but it is also central to the North. In creating Abuja, not one square foot of the other regions was incorporated into Abuja. In fact, 80 per cent of the whole land of Abuja came from Niger State. The remaining 20 per cent came from the northern states of Kaduna and a small fraction of Nasarawa when it was part of Plateau. How can you then say if Nigerians decide to go their separate ways, Abuja will remain central? I have said it before that if you draw a straight line from Abuja southwards, you will have to go over 351,000 kilometres before you reach the end of the North. That is where the border will be in case of a break-up. I invite you and the Igbo irredentists and all the historical revisionists to see what happened recently when the North and South Sudan split. The North retained Khartoum. The stretch from Khartoum to the border is more than the distance between Abuja and Okpila. Even Okpila where you have the cement factory is originally Igbira land and if we want to reacquire it, we will re-acquire it, it is Northern land. If Nigeria was to break up, Abuja will not only remain a northern territory, it will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

Many think if President Goodluck Jonathan wins in next year’s poll, the current Boko Haram crisis will not subside. Do you share this fear?

I believe that this government is involved with Boko Haram directly and indirectly with some of the terrorists in the Niger Delta. Anybody who believes that there is a direct connection knows that this Boko Haram insurgency is not coming out of the blues; it is being financed indirectly or directly by the government. If as they tried to do during the (Peter) Odili tenure in Rivers, to encourage people to unleash violence and after the election, they abandon them, those people will take up arms and unleash terror on them. The fact is this, government is irredeemably corrupt and incompetent.

Do you think that negotiation is the key to curtailing the Boko Haram crisis in the North-East?

Who are you going to negotiate with? Modu Ali Sheriff, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark or the President himself who are all implicated? How do you talk about stopping armed robbery with a confirmed armed robber?

You seem not to see many good things about the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. What is your rating of his administration?

I am sorry to say and I hope that I don’t sound too negative, I challenge anyone who has anything positive to tell me. The first responsibility of any government is the maintenance of law and order, is there law and order in Nigeria today? No. One of the first promises made by this President was that he was going to get rid of corruption, has he done that? He promised he was going to get rid of poverty, the poverty level has risen beyond belief. Tell me what he has done about infrastructure? On a daily basis, I spend more on petrol than I pay on a monthly basis for my entire NEPA bill. I live in a small bungalow, my bill has been in excess of N2,000 for the past six months, I have not paid more than that. And there is no water, no major state in Nigeria has reliable water supply. And the Igbo who have been running the ministry of aviation have taken it upon themselves to deny other airports particularly Kano Airport of commercial venture. They want to destroy the airport as a commercial venture, they have refused other airlines who had expressed interest in coming to Kano. Starting with Stella Odua and now Osita Chidoka, I challenge those who say Jonathan has performed to tell me what he has done in terms of what he claims he would do.

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You came out to prove me wrong, but all you did is contradict yourself. Even from your post, it is obvious that I did'nt frame the topic. And it is obvious that someone, somewhere and his group have evil plans toward some certain people.

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@OP you are supposed to be shot through the anus cos that is where your brain is. Can you point to where Dr Junaid talked about evil plans for Igbos? Is people like you that surrounds GEJ, conbstitutes TAN and other pro Jonathan groups theefore there is no way GEJ government can perform. The likes of you are the one's giving Igbo the bad, unfortunately your breed made up over 75% of the Igbo`s Nigeria has no future wahalai

For your information, I am not a PDP. Neither am I a TANoid. I can't sell my conscience for a pot of Porridge. Political parties have been bastardized in the country and what we need now is to vote in men who are qualified to do the job. If Buhari can salvage Nigeria then so be it. But what I hate most, is the attitude of men who rather than accept defeat in an election go out to incite ethnic tension against vulnerable groups. Also, I'm among the few Igbos who feel that GEJ's performance is below expectation. And if truth be told, I would say that Jonathan has no business running for 2nd term. He needs no one to tell him that he has failed Nigeria. Someone slow to decision making has no business being President of a multi-ethnic country as Nigeria. The challenges we face as a country today - the terror, bombings, murders - was fuelled largely by GEJ's lack of political will power. He tends to always handle problems with kids glove. What Nigeria needs now is a President that will be ruthless to saboteurs in government. A man that can put behind bars the likes of Junaid Muhammed. Someone who will bring corruption to it's bearest minimum. Someone who will unite this country and be fair to everyone not minding his tribe and religion - spreading developments to every nook and cranny. A true nationalist and father of the nation. Among all the presidential aspirants in the coming election only Buhari comes close. I can score him 65% over 100. Others are way below my preference. Yet, the best President that Nigeria never had were just two men. True heroes of the masses, freedom fighters and nationalists, their names : Fela Anikulapo kuti and Gani Fawehinmi.