barcanista:
Do you know when the Agitation for an Ijaw state started? I can see that you have no knowledge of the Ijaw history. I know your type and I can bet you that you don't even participate in any Ijaw programs nor contribute to the Ijaw cause in any way(I may be wrong though). Let me refer you to my brother, IjawCitizen! He is a Jonathanian, he also think I am not being fair to Jonathan, but despite our disagreement, he has Ijaw's interests at heart (though we disagree in some respect).

naso2:


lol. wetin concern ijaw history with wetin I ask you? You are so "smart" that from my post you can tell how much of Ijaw history I know. But that is completely out of scope.

Tell me how Ijaws are worse off under GEJ . remember I am only asking for more "light" on a statement you made in your post.

For your info I have one leg(paternal) from bulu orua (salga lg) and the other leg (maternal) from kolokuma/opokuma so, no be me you go tell about kaiama declaration.

tonychristopher:


Which people are we looking at that will cripple the economy and who will support them and what are the population of the so called Cripplers of economy

Ngwakwe:


Stop deceiving your subconsciousness and other independents

The same people holding down PIB for no reason other than what South South will benefit from Oil companies (not even from National purse) is now going to bless the South.

There is no end in sight to your new found brainwashed status.

naso2:


lol. wetin concern ijaw history with wetin I ask you? You are so "smart" that from my post you can tell how much of Ijaw history I know. But that is completely out of scope.

Tell me how Ijaws are worse off under GEJ . remember I am only asking for more "light" on a statement you made in your post.

For your info I have one leg(paternal) from bolu orua (salga lg) and the other leg (maternal) from kolokuma/opokuma so, no be me you go tell about kaiama declaration.

barcanista:
You may be foolish, but the Ijaws are not. Maybe you need to read the statement of MEND to get a clue. I am passionate about Ijaw project, Jonathan doesn't represent it. If the region will become worse than it was before his ascension to power, then you think we are foolish? Now I know that he will win majority Ijaw votes due to brotherly sentiment, but Buhari will get a percentage. When election is declared and Jonathan is defeated, NO IJAW son or daughter will take up arms. Not even Asari Dokubo. I know my people, we aren't fools. And btw: Are you an Izon?

Adminisher:


This is the problem with people not thinking. Nobody is saying the Niger Delta will be invaded. The region will be starved to death is what we are saying. The government controls littoral waters and owns the airforce. Only a very big fool turns his homeland into a war zone. Win or lose the military war, that homeland is set back many years. Russia just invaded Ukraine a few months ago and the economy is ruined as we speak.I am telling you a blockade of the region will just turn them into a land of hunger or a colony of Cameroon.
Just try it. These things are not what you talk about and I am not making threats, I am mostly following the normal thread of things

barcanista:
I will send you PM. I think our brotherly conversation should be private before antagonists hijack it. Are you cool?

justi4jesu:


And why is that?

PointB:


So the rag-tag Boko army did not starve to death, it is Niger Delta people, the source of Nigeria wealth that will starve to death because of Nigeria Navy that can't even tackle piracy?

You are not joking, you are the joke!

Prinzofparis:

Mr Man you asked a smart question and I thought you wanted to know the region called south south.
About this your follow up questions, I will dim them rhetorical, otherwise I will have to view them as 'stewpid'.
I'm sticking with the rhetorical though so it won't look like I insulted you.

Best regards.

hedonistic:


The problem is that perceptions or assessments of "performance" are often subjective and laced with biases. Otherwise, it should be easy to acknowledge that GEJ has achieved significant progress on many fronts - a bigger economy, agriculture, industry/FDI, rail transport, stronger democratic institutions (free and fair elections, freedom of speech and other liberties), etc. Even in terms of corruption, Nigeria now ranks lower on Transparency International's Corruption Index than was the case under Obasanjo.

In the end, the main issue that has been used to discredit and condemn this government is the so called insecurity caused by Boko Haram, which is clearly an artificial problem set up by the North to reclaim power. That is the basis for all the anti-Goodluck noise, and that is why the south south would never accept that their son would be stampeded out of office by such nonsense. If that happens, they would also prove that no region has a monopoly of violence. This is the crux of the matter.

Remove this stage-managed Boko Haram distraction and rate Goodluck objectively based on tangible performance metrics. If he has failed woefully, I'm sure nobody in the South would complain if he loses the election fair and square. But we in the South can see through this so called Boko Haram insurgency and we realise it is a well-orchestrated ploy to make the country ungovernable for GEJ and blackmail him out of office to make way for the parasitic northerners. That is completely unacceptable.

zendy:
Asari Dokubo has said it many times that the minimum requirement for the continuation of oil flow out of the Niger-Delta is the re-election of Jonathan. I have no doubt in my mind that if Buhari wins, the militants of the Niger-Delta will return to the creeks and stop all oil activities which will invariably lead to the economic strangulation of Nigeria. The oil and gas wealth of South-south people constitutes over 70% of Nigerias GDP,without them,there is no Nigeria. Contrary to some opinions,the oil and gas wealth does not belong to Nigeria,it belongs to the people of the Niger-Delta. The rest of Nigeria has used the notion of 'one Nigeria' to steal their oil wealth since the end of the war. Should Buhari win this election, it is bye bye oil money and I fully support the Niger Delta people taking back what is theirs. It is an injustice that these people are paying 'to run Nigeria' while the rest are dictating who will rule them. These people don't need Nigeria for anything. So should Buhari and his zone who don't contribute anything to Nigeria win, they will shut down all oil activity.

zendy:
Asari Dokubo has said it many times that the minimum requirement for the continuation of oil flow out of the Niger-Delta is the re-election of Jonathan. I have no doubt in my mind that if Buhari wins, the militants of the Niger-Delta will return to the creeks and stop all oil activities which will invariably lead to the economic strangulation of Nigeria. The oil and gas wealth of South-south people constitutes over 70% of Nigerias GDP,without them,there is no Nigeria. Contrary to some opinions,the oil and gas wealth does not belong to Nigeria,it belongs to the people of the Niger-Delta. The rest of Nigeria has used the notion of 'one Nigeria' to steal their oil wealth since the end of the war. Should Buhari win this election, it is bye bye oil money and I fully support the Niger Delta people taking back what is theirs. It is an injustice that these people are paying 'to run Nigeria' while the rest are dictating who will rule them. These people don't need Nigeria for anything. So should Buhari and his zone who don't contribute anything to Nigeria win, they will shut down all oil activity.

ISpiksDaTroof:
How has the oil money---with GEJ in power--- benefited the ordinary man in the Niger Delta?

TheIROKO:
I see a lot of sentiments in your take on this issue. It doesn't take a historian to know that if Jonathan loses next year, the south south may fall back into Anachy,not necessarily because the government of Gej was better but because of the ethnic conspiracy theory by Northern elite against a south south president which is been sold by the leaders of the south south to their Masses. Remember what caused to the civil war? it was a situation like this. This is Nigeria my brother.

zendy:


The presidential elections is no longer about if Jonathan has performed or not, or about what Buhari will do or not do if he wins. The Presidential elections has now become a battle of the South and East of Nigeria against the west and North of Nigeria for political control. As an Igbo man,nobody expects me to support a Hausa/Fulani man over my South-south neigbour particularly when that Hausa/Fulani man is an accomplished coup plotter,tested tyrant and proven religious bigot. I have no doubt in my mind that if Jonathan had been a Yoruba man, there would have been no APC (we all remember how the Yorubas rallied around Obasunjo for him to win a second term even though his first term was a monumental disaster). If Jonathan had been a Hausa man, the North would have crucified Buhari for mounting any challenge against Jonathan. But because Jonathan is a south-South man,the Yorubas and their Northern allies have found a common cause to vilify his administration and have united to conscript power back for themselves. In other words,as long as a Yoruba man or northerner is in charge,all is well. But should an Igbo man or South-south man be in charge,that's when they remember "Sai this" and "Sai that". Who is fooling who here? I and my fellow Igbos are going to vote massively for Jonathan as will the south-South. With portions of the middle belt,PDP strongholds in the north and west will just be enough for Jonathan to clear up this election and be sworn in a second term. Jonathan till 2019!!!!

ISpiksDaTroof:


This is why I say Ibos are idiots, and the Yorubas and Hausas are even bigger idiots. You, as an Ibo man, will admittedly not vote for a Northerner or Westerner regardless of their pedigree, but you hope that those same people will vote for you so that you can remain in power to continue oppressing and insulting them?

Then you have the amongst the Yorubas and Hausas those that can't see that you've declared war on them as a group and are only willing to elect your "Brother" so long as it will spite their Regions.

I think, though, that you are in for a rude awakening.

naso2:



very important point . don't joke with egbe....whatever with me abeg. I am seated in heavenly places far above any principality and power. I serve the one and ONLY LIVING GOD----JEHOVAH

Hausa/Fulani was in government when these things happened does not mean they "gave" you .

what exactly is your point? They discovered the awareness was getting quite dangerous and uncomfortable and ceded these things you now see as big achievements from Gambaris.

Guy you will do well to speak for yourself and not pose as a spokesman for IZON or as having a view that is popular amongst IZON OTU. you may be very popular on this forum but your view on this is at best a minority view.

Aboki that gave you states but ensured that the national structure is one where just Kano and Jigawa reps in the national assembly equal that of the entire SS. To remind you Jigawa was carved out of Kano in 1991

You stylishly expanded the discuss to dodge my simple question of " how is the IZON nation worse off in a GEJ government"?

zendy:


What did you expect? Are you under the illusion that Nigeria is a united entity where all ethnicities love each other? You 'bolded' the part of post that concerns you and conveniently left out the part where I said that the alternative to Jonathan is an accomplished coup plotter and well documented dictator. The awakening is for the west and north to realise that their planned hegemony of Nigeria has failed.

naso2:



bros fine you are right that most of these politicians are largely selfish and only fallback on regional sentiments when things get tough, but I beg ,don't connect Ijaw nation to a Buhari project. abeg things never bad reach like that.

while the posters position may be extreme , it is pure naivety to think that a better part of the SS will just applaud and cooperate with a GMB government when BH is clearly a northern project to rubbish jonathan.

Shey BH don endorse their preferred candidate, coincidentally it is same man they chose as there negotiator 2 years ago.