illiad:

That is why the Igbo, in all their dealings with other nationalities keep faith to fairness.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/why-igbo-never-vote-out-of-fear-2/

If Governor Fashola has been fair to Igbo in Lagos, without discriminating against them, over-taxing them, milking them of their hard-earned money, setting up all types of agencies to ensure that they do not do their business in peace, the APC have nothing to fear.

aresa:



But you vote out of what with the above quote? Fear and paranoia since you are not the only people doing business in Lagos or subjected to state laws and policies.

You have unrealistic expectations and sense of entitlement, you want preferential treatment not available to the rest of the society, you want to love in your own lawless world unrestrained, you want to be left alone to destroy the environment while making your money which happens to be all you care about and not the larger society.

What state agency was put in place specifically to target you? That must be a joke..

Laws and policies are put in place to benefit the society and not to discriminate against any particular section of the society, but fear, paranoia, false sense of persecution and flawed sense of entitlement betrays your sense of judgement, it makes you feel singled out when in fact it's the other way around.

The sad irony that contradicts your flawed judgement remains the fact that back in your own states where they don't have the laws and policies you think are designed to discriminate against you, what have they achieved in terms of human and economic development. Nothing, ZERO.

Your governors back home combined have not built 1 single classroom since 1999, no new hospital or anything to justify the taxes and allocations they collect on your behalf and this is the reason why you can not stay in your own towns and villages to make a living, this is the reason why you to survive you have to migrating to societies where they have laws and policies that constitute sane, lawful and conducive environment for you to live in peace and thrive in economically.

How come other sections of the society makes no such claim, but obey state laws and policies?

So, you are wrong, you vote strictly based on fear, paranoia and false sense of persecution..

PentiumPro:
Tribalistic fool, you will soon be doing that your shipping institute inside your landlocked Biafra.
Ungrateful eddiottt

illiad:


You're certainly a falamous!
So pathetic.

Read your comment & look at yourself in the miRror.

Gutter Girl.

illiad:


You're very bitter, why?
Have you been disappointed by the vicissitudes of life?
Don't give up, God will come to your aid one day!

In personality structure the typical Igbo has traits of paranoia, narcissism and antisocial personality. He is paranoid because aware of his lack of existential worth, and instead of accepting that reality

If care is not taken Igbo land could very easily turn into a lawless place, such as Somalia; Igbos have no regard for law and order; what matters to them is their individual interests; in such a self-centered society law and order easily break down and folks revert to living in Hobbesian state of war with each other and life becomes insecure for all

PentiumPro:

Answer the question with no nigeria, would that man know anything about shipping?
Ungrateful fools

illiad:
In this interview, Mr. John Patrick Egesi, President/Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Shipping and political  analyst explains why Igbo’s would always vote in gratitude to those who have been fair to them.  Egesi spoke against the backdrop of the statement by Oba Rilwan Akiolu that the Igbo in Lagos should vote the APC candidate ahead of the April 11 gubernatorial poll in the state.

Controversy has continued to trail the outcome of the March 28 election. What is your view on  threat by the   Oba of Lagos that  Igbo should have voted for the must vote for APC in the April 11 election or face the consequences?

Ever since General Buhari won the election, all sorts of people in all sorts of places have been busy telling the Igbo that they should have voted for the winning team, that they voted emotionally  which is another way of saying that ultimate wisdom lies in voting for the winner.  The latest was that of Oba of Lagos giving the Igbo a marching order to vote for APC or else. Now this piece is not about who the Igbo should vote for or not but to tell the world who the Igbo are.

The Igbo are almost all Christians and their valuation of any situation emanates from their Christian values – which include among other things sacrifices and faithfulness to ‘friends’. That is why the Igbo, in all their dealings with other nationalities keep faith to fairness.

As far as the Igbo are concerned voting for Jonathan is being fair to the man who has shown them genuine brotherliness and support for the Ijaws and South – South people who are producing an executive president for the first time and from whose territory most of Nigerian sustaining wealth comes from.

They reckon that four years is not forever after all. Even when they know that they will suffer unexplainable persecution from their compatriots because of their inclination to fairness, they still went ahead and did what they perceived to be just. Even though they are well known to work hard for money but  money usually takes a far second when it clashes with the dictates of conscience. They are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election.

Don’t you think their voting pattern has further exposed them as an endangered specie?

Igbo do not vote out of fear of being marginalized by a predominant race or tribe wherever they reside. They vote in gratitude to those who have been fair to them. When the Igbo complained that Jonathan did not do much for them, it is not in comparison with former heads of state (who did absolutely nothing and left them to starve) but in comparison with what he did in the North and other southern parts of Nigeria.

If Governor Fashola has been fair to Igbo in Lagos, without discriminating against them, over-taxing them, milking them of their hard-earned money, setting up all types of  agencies to ensure that they do not do their business in peace, the APC have nothing to fear.  Igbo have a way of saying thank you to those who have been fair to them. In my book, Voting with Conscience, what the Igbo do is far superior to strategizing to join the winning team.

But the South-East voted massively for the PDP at the general elections even when they were not very pleased with the party’s performance?
When the Igbo voted massively for President Jonathan, it is because he kept faith with them. Has Fashola been fair to them in the past eight years?
My humble opinion is that he dealt ruthlessly with them.

Igbo should not be afraid of anyone but the Eternal who has been faithful to them in their struggle against injustice. Voting is about choosing a candidate who, given his past record, is likely to be fair and sympathetic to your cause and who has kept faith with you in the past four years. The Igbo should join other well-meaning Nigerians – Yoruba, Hausa, Efik, Fulani, Ibibio, Ijaw, Gwaris etc – in voting for those who will make Lagos truly metropolitan and not a tribal enclave.

Igbo should not behave like other races because we are not other races – we are the NDIGBO and we keep faith with those who have demonstrated spirit of justice, equity and fairness and not those who treat them like aliens in their own country.

Nigerian is not only about presidency. Decamping to the APC by some morally-weak politicians shows that they are in politics for their stomach and not for what they believe in. The only way the APC must be kept on their toes at the federal level is to ensure that they are not totally in control at the states’ level otherwise they will develop the sort of impunity that total control brings. I will advise Nigerians to vote for parties that will keep the APC in check all over the country.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/why-igbo-never-vote-out-of-fear-2/

Ojiofor:
Igbos are doing shipping business in all west Africa countries,fyi.

PentiumPro:

Lmaoooo, what a dense explanation. Why not become the institute president in any of those places

Ojiofor:
How would you know if they are and my response was directed at your childish question if he would be in shipping business or know about shipping without Nigeria..
The world is global village for Ndigbo,we are everywhere not just in your corner of the world and please you guys should s[b]top behaving as if anybody owns you anything[/b].

PentiumPro:
Tribalistic fool, you will soon be doing that your shipping institute inside your landlocked Biafra.
Ungrateful eddiottt

PentiumPro:

Answer the question with no nigeria, would that man know anything about shipping?
Ungrateful fools

papaejima1:
To hear some of you talk, you'd think yoruba's have no life outside Lagos!
Get out of Lagos and see yorubas doing well in various cities across the country. No one is killing them or begrudging them their success. PH alone is home to several thousand yorubas so why particular angst against Igbos in lagos?

aresa:



With this thoughtless and selfish article and topic, it's obviously the other way around.

You people think other people owe you special treatment and privileges.


When they make laws to benefit the society, you think it was done to do you harm and you must be exempted while the rest of the society obeys.

You do nothing but make endless and unrealistic demands even in places and instances where you failed and refused to contribute show any kind of support.

And please explain to us the sense and wisdom in crying and moaning everyday about other people and the the laws and policies they put in place to better their society? Why not just stay in your own towns and villages and make it better for you to exist and survive in with your own laws to function under instead of holding other people back, holding them to mental emotional ransom with your cries and expectations of preferential treatment?

Just look at the last elections, you voted for the same crooked, unproductive and incompetent people, you call them nasty and derogatory names, you spewed your usual religious and tribal bigotry nonsense, but exactly what did you do after the elections? Only you showed up with your usual selfishness, unnecessary demands and flawed sense of entitlements as if they owe you something.


Look in the mirror and change your ways...

illiad:


Your abysmal ignorance is a constant headache for those who have sacrificed their sweat to get you a sort of education.

Do a little research on the ingenuity of the Igbos and might be finding among others that while the nigerian army was able to build an APC just last year, the Igbos built one 50yrs earlier.

Don't let your hate blind you!
Read and do Research, especially against the people you hate.

Falamous.

papaejima1:
To hear some of you talk, you'd think yoruba's have no life outside Lagos!
Get out of Lagos and see yorubas doing well in various cities across the country. No one is killing them or begrudging them their success. PH alone is home to several thousand yorubas so why particular angst against Igbos in lagos?

SonOfEl:


words from a biased and insecured mind... What grouse do you have with igbos ogbeni? Cant you be truthful even for 1second? Lagos is nigeria's economic capital with the highest gdp, igbo play a huge role in this reputation AND YOU KNOW IT! oba of lagos' fears are real because igbos entreprenueral presence is huge, from white collar jobs to street hustle. So try not to allow your jealousy and insecurity eat you up. We have every right to speak out our choice candidate, we dont have it in our DNA to obey a king's wish unlike your tribe, and we owe no apology for that. With all your hate, we are still making it big. Deal with it.

PentiumPro:
Tribalistic fool, you will soon be doing that your shipping institute inside your landlocked Biafra.
Ungrateful eddiottt

aresa:



Yes of course, you are the best and smartest people since slice bread, but unfortunately can not use the same imaginary smartness to develop your own land and avoid trooping to the land of the not so smart people for your daily bread.. See how smart you are...?

Shouldn't the not so smart other people in Nigeria be trooping to your very smart, developed and advanced land aka Dubai instead of the other way around?

The chest you people beat all the time is shallow and empty, it just doesn't jive with your day to day realities...

illiad:


Your abysmal ignorance is a constant headache for those who have sacrificed their sweat to get you a sort of education.

Do a little research on the ingenuity of the Igbos and might be finding among others that while the nigerian army was able to build an APC just last year, the Igbos built one 50yrs earlier.

Don't let your hate blind you!
Read and do Research, especially against the people you hate.

Falamous.

ANAMBRA11:
fool lagos is a no mand land u will have to live with igbos till enternity, if e pain u go back to ur state ogbomosho

ANAMBRA11:
fool lagos is a no mand land u will have to live with igbos till enternity, if e pain u go back to ur state ogbomosho

aresa:
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But the same GDP and economic capital was made possible by prudent and dedicated Yoruba people and the laws and policies they put in place that makes it possible for you and your people to prosper peacefully. Respect and obey their laws and quit being lawless and anti social.

Btw, why do you people think asking you to act like human beings and respect basic laws and policies that the rest of the society abides by means jealousy? Jealous what exactly? Jealous of some lawless and anti social people who can not survive and earn a living in the imaginary DUBAI villages and must troop all over the place for their daily bread?

Empty and shallow chest beating is boring and nauseating...