What Mistakes Ndi Igbo Now Has
To Pay For?
1 day
“After the presidential election and the
collation of the results from 36 states
and the FCT the reality began to dawn
on Ndi Igbo” , claims Joe Onwukeme,
Naij.com reader and guest contributor
from Enugu state. What have they not
taken into account when chosing a
prefered candidate?
For every decision or action one undertakes
in life there’s a reason. However, what I am
yet to understand at this moment is the
reason why we, Ndi Igbo, have decided to
put all our eggs in one basket during the
presidential election.
After the presidential election and the
collation of the results from 36 states and
the FCT that reality began to dawn on Ndi
Igbo. While other regions were busy
celebrating the results of the presidential
poll, we all bowed our heads in shame not
because our preferred presidential
candidate lost, but because we realized very
late we had shot ourselves in the foot.
In our desperation to re-elect President
Jonathan we’ve lost our common sense.
Even when the odds against him became
glaringly obvious, we allowed the
sentiments to overrule our conscience
without thinking of the consequences. We
have lost out entirely.
After May 29 handover, when the 8th
parliament will be inaugurated, we won’t
have any of our elected senators on the
platform of the APC emerging as the
majority party in the upper chamber.
There’s no ethnic group that was not
represented in the outgoing PDP-led
government. However, it didn’t prevent the
people from other regions, that had
benefited from the PDP-led government
even more, from voting against their people
in other political parties that would
represent them at the centre.
Here, in the southaest, the PDP is seen as a
mini god. Anyone against the PDP is seen as
an outcast. We’ve taken that mindset to the
presidential election. We knew in some
places the PDP would lose, and we
manipulated the results in favour of the
PDP candidates.
That is the only reason why such outspoken
and charismatic senator as Dr Chris Ngige
of the APC, with a proven track record of
performance, has lost his re-election to the
Senate.
The APC has won the majoriry of the seats
in their strongholds in the northern and
western parts of the country. However, it
didn’t prevent the electorate in those
regions from electing or re-electing some of
their legislatures on the platform of the
PDP.
Other ethnic groups have taught us a great
lesson. It’s not all about party, it’s about
choice and interest. That’s why in some
cases they’ve looked beyond ethnic,
religious and party affiliations to vote for
their choices. However, in our own case
we’ve voted every individual of the PDP not
because they are our choices, but because
they are in the ruling party.
Our precipitous actions have disqualified us
from contesting for the Senate, presidency
and the speaker of the House of Reps
including their deputies. It would be
extremely painful watching helplessly what
we could have contested unopposed by
other regions. We have lost it and may not
get it again till 2019 because of our own
selfish and parochial interests.
There is a question I have been asking my
fellow Ndi Igbo. Now we have lost out in all
elections at the federal level under the APC.
How are we going to cope with the APC-led
government we’ve never supported and
haven’t even hidden our hatred during the
campaigns?
When Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, Igbo sociocultural
group claiming to represent the interests of
Ndi Igbo, endorsed President Jonathan for
another term, I asked what was the moral
justification behind it if not some personal
gains? Had Ohaneze Ndigbo considered
their members in other political parties
before they endorsed President Jonathan as
their presidential candidate? We all know
the endorsement never comes without a
reward.
Ohaneze Ndi Igbo has recently been
functional during general election battling
with credibility problems as a result of its
meddlesomeness in politics. However, its
endorsement of President Jonathan and his
failure at the poll have stripped Ohaneze
Ndi Igbo of the remaining credibility.
We have also refused to learn from history.
The adopted political parties have won
other elective posts in the strongholds of
some of the political parties endorsing
them many times. After adopting President
Jonathan as its presidential candidate for
re-election, the APGA, even being the ruling
party in Anambra state, could not win a
single seat out of 3 senatorial seats in the
state. Now it is protesting against
being rigged out of the 3 senatorial seats by
the ruling party whose presidential
candidate it has endorsed.
Those narrow-minded among us have
realized the cost of putting all their eggs in
one basket, but its already too late to make
amends. We are like the proverbial mother
that poured out the bath water on the
baby.
Think of many federal projects Igbo senate
president would have attracted to the
eastern region. I mean, the visit to Enugu
West and its environ would convince you
that if the present deputy president of
the Senate had attracted such federal
presence in his state, Igbo senate president
under the APC would have done more for
the southeastern region.
Putting all our eggs in one basket have
taught us a great lesson. While we continue
paying the price of our costly mistake, the
pains of ignorantly rejecting what could
have been offered to us on a platter of gold
will continue to hunt and hurt us till 2019.
There is no question about my people being
very resourceful and productive, but we
lack political leadership. We may have
astute political players, but there is no
mentoring, no structure and therefore no
political future. The maximum we can
achieve politically is that others will
concede to us, but not what we deserve by
virtue of strategic thinking and alliance.
The views expressed in this article are
the writer’s own, and do not necessarily
reflect those of Naij.com’s editors.

The igbo's lost out on this one no doubt. It is indeed a lesson for other tribes. I'll advice them to start re-strategizing against future elections rather than sulking on this one.

Everything is under the influence of ''probability'' think of what would have happened if Pdp had won the election, so let us die the matter please.

satanic op....you definitely aint igbo and are wrong....peeps got rights of choice and its inalienable

The moment u allow ur emotions to be cloud ur sense of thinking or judgment.. you are headed for Doom.. nothing is ever too late.. APC and GMB should please be fair and just in whatever they do.. we all all Nigerians and be treated fairly and justly. In addition LAGOS belongs to d Yorubas.. I hate that believe that it's a no man's land. #irepchangeandgoodgoverance

Am nt an igbo.. bt I understand wat d writer is sayin. u dnt av to put all ur egg in 1 basket.. at least d igbos should av produce Apc senator nd 1 Apc Rep. even in yoruba land dey still produce pdp senator nd rep.

Everybody trying to be relevant, that the equation suddenly changed and the APC now the ruling party doesn't change any fact that every zone, tribe and even individual have right to whom to support, Northerners supported APC Buhari wholistically without any division, the west on the nomination of prof Osinbanjo as VP candidate threw their full weight behind APC- Buhari, so what trash are you writing? Igbo this , Igbo that, in case you don't know, let me educate you, that its not all Igbos that supported PDP-GEJ, talking of endorsement almost all the politically relevant bodies in the west and North Endorsed APC buhari, coming to the South almost all did same to GEJ, there are still some that either refuted the endorsement by the factional leaders to either of the candidate, like NEF, Ohaneze, AFenifere, OPC etc or remained indifference, so what's the cry for,you people should stop all this ethnic division, GMB has been elected, come may 28th he will be sworn in God willing and it will be time to measure and score him. If he feels the South didn't support him, the let him marginalize their zone and he will be taught a good lesson, remember one of the sins of GEJ was that he allegedly marginalized the westerners, even though it wasn't intentional but he paid dearly for it. Let me also draw your attention to some facts from the last presidential election. GEJ's major failure came from the low turnout of votes from the south east, if what happened in the just concluded Governorship elections last saturday where most state only wrote their results based on the PVC collection rate in their states and not through vote casting especially in the south and North east, only the south east would have given GEJ enough votes to cancel the over 2million vote difference from GMB.imagine Abia, imo, enugu, Anambra etc with over 1million voting power giving GEJ between 500k to 600k votes, then do the calculation yourself The south west that even despises GEJ voted for him on the smell of dollar, imagine what GEJ got in Osun state where PDP has a record of failure, what of lagos etc, make your research and calculation. But the low turnout Of voters marred everything and the people thought that PDP GEJ would have done it the OBJ way unfortunately, its God at work So brother pull a seat, sit down relax and let's watch this Nollywood movie as it unfolds.

hgnbello:
What Mistakes Ndi Igbo Now Has
To Pay For?
1 day
“After the presidential election and the
collation of the results from 36 states
and the FCT the reality began to dawn
on Ndi Igbo” , claims Joe Onwukeme,
Naij.com reader and guest contributor
from Enugu state. What have they not
taken into account when chosing a
prefered candidate?
For every decision or action one undertakes
in life there’s a reason. However, what I am
yet to understand at this moment is the
reason why we, Ndi Igbo, have decided to
put all our eggs in one basket during the
presidential election.
After the presidential election and the
collation of the results from 36 states and
the FCT that reality began to dawn on Ndi
Igbo. While other regions were busy
celebrating the results of the presidential
poll, we all bowed our heads in shame not
because our preferred presidential
candidate lost, but because we realized very
late we had shot ourselves in the foot.
In our desperation to re-elect President
Jonathan we’ve lost our common sense.
Even when the odds against him became
glaringly obvious, we allowed the
sentiments to overrule our conscience
without thinking of the consequences. We
have lost out entirely.
After May 29 handover, when the 8th
parliament will be inaugurated, we won’t
have any of our elected senators on the
platform of the APC emerging as the
majority party in the upper chamber.
There’s no ethnic group that was not
represented in the outgoing PDP-led
government. However, it didn’t prevent the
people from other regions, that had
benefited from the PDP-led government
even more, from voting against their people
in other political parties that would
represent them at the centre.
Here, in the southaest, the PDP is seen as a
mini god. Anyone against the PDP is seen as
an outcast. We’ve taken that mindset to the
presidential election. We knew in some
places the PDP would lose, and we
manipulated the results in favour of the
PDP candidates.
That is the only reason why such outspoken
and charismatic senator as Dr Chris Ngige
of the APC, with a proven track record of
performance, has lost his re-election to the
Senate.
The APC has won the majoriry of the seats
in their strongholds in the northern and
western parts of the country. However, it
didn’t prevent the electorate in those
regions from electing or re-electing some of
their legislatures on the platform of the
PDP.
Other ethnic groups have taught us a great
lesson. It’s not all about party, it’s about
choice and interest. That’s why in some
cases they’ve looked beyond ethnic,
religious and party affiliations to vote for
their choices. However, in our own case
we’ve voted every individual of the PDP not
because they are our choices, but because
they are in the ruling party.
Our precipitous actions have disqualified us
from contesting for the Senate, presidency
and the speaker of the House of Reps
including their deputies. It would be
extremely painful watching helplessly what
we could have contested unopposed by
other regions. We have lost it and may not
get it again till 2019 because of our own
selfish and parochial interests.
There is a question I have been asking my
fellow Ndi Igbo. Now we have lost out in all
elections at the federal level under the APC.
How are we going to cope with the APC-led
government we’ve never supported and
haven’t even hidden our hatred during the
campaigns?
When Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, Igbo sociocultural
group claiming to represent the interests of
Ndi Igbo, endorsed President Jonathan for
another term, I asked what was the moral
justification behind it if not some personal
gains? Had Ohaneze Ndigbo considered
their members in other political parties
before they endorsed President Jonathan as
their presidential candidate? We all know
the endorsement never comes without a
reward.
Ohaneze Ndi Igbo has recently been
functional during general election battling
with credibility problems as a result of its
meddlesomeness in politics. However, its
endorsement of President Jonathan and his
failure at the poll have stripped Ohaneze
Ndi Igbo of the remaining credibility.
We have also refused to learn from history.
The adopted political parties have won
other elective posts in the strongholds of
some of the political parties endorsing
them many times. After adopting President
Jonathan as its presidential candidate for
re-election, the APGA, even being the ruling
party in Anambra state, could not win a
single seat out of 3 senatorial seats in the
state. Now it is protesting against
being rigged out of the 3 senatorial seats by
the ruling party whose presidential
candidate it has endorsed.
Those narrow-minded among us have
realized the cost of putting all their eggs in
one basket, but its already too late to make
amends. We are like the proverbial mother
that poured out the bath water on the
baby.
Think of many federal projects Igbo senate
president would have attracted to the
eastern region. I mean, the visit to Enugu
West and its environ would convince you
that if the present deputy president of
the Senate had attracted such federal
presence in his state, Igbo senate president
under the APC would have done more for
the southeastern region.
Putting all our eggs in one basket have
taught us a great lesson. While we continue
paying the price of our costly mistake, the
pains of ignorantly rejecting what could
have been offered to us on a platter of gold
will continue to hunt and hurt us till 2019.
There is no question about my people being
very resourceful and productive, but we
lack political leadership. We may have
astute political players, but there is no
mentoring, no structure and therefore no
political future. The maximum we can
achieve politically is that others will
concede to us, but not what we deserve by
virtue of strategic thinking and alliance.
The views expressed in this article are
the writer’s own, and do not necessarily
reflect those of Naij.com’s editors.

a man gotta do what a man gotta do...so i bet ur silly op arsse you aint no man..,

bla bla bla bla bla. Every man has his choice, you made yours and others made theirs.