oluamid:


I agree that the time is ripe to have an Igbo President, but tell us why we should vote for one with all these Biafra thingy going on. Nobody wants a president that will come and divide the country.

I believe the Igbo can produce the President if they will win the heart of the remaining tribes just like the case of Jonathan in 2011. You can't continue to threaten Nigeria's unity and expect to be voted for, rather appeal to peoples' emotions, build bridges, unite us behind your candidate and show us you mean well for the country and you are sure going to get the votes.

Msauza2:


So, is the anything wrong if over 40 million people call for self-determination?

ZeroTolerance:
Blame Tony Nwoye and his gang for the insults that came with their visit.
Well deserved

oluamid:


Caveat: Don't take this as a tribal slur.


The reason people are hammering on the land-locked thingy is because the current Igbo is largely seen as a trading people. I.e, they need the ports to import products since most products sold are largely manufactured outside of the country. No one is saying the Igbos can't manufacture their own products, but that won't happen in a day or for years to come.

Wise thing to do would be for some of these problems to be solved before the clamour for a separate country. You don't want your new country to be entirely dependent on another (Nigeria) for survival, do you? Because that will just be a colonialism of sorts, worse than what you were running from in the first place.



And when you say Lagos belongs to the Eguns and Egbas, does that mean those people are not Yoruba or Nigerian?

ZeroTolerance:
Blame Tony Nwoye and his gang for the insults that came with their visit.
Well deserved

ODUBEZE:

You are not getting my point!
Non of these leaders you mentioned threatened the peace of this country.
They all believed in one Nigeria.
Using Yaradua as a case study:
Yaradua is a peace loving man and not biased.
As far as I am concerned, he treated everyone fairly and equally.
Are U not aware that Buhari himself does not believe we are one? Are U not also aware that hr threatened to cause chaos if power did not return to North(him)?
Today he is arresting KANU when he himself was Bokoharam spokesman back then.
He understand the Northerners very well, isn't it?
Put yourself in other peoples shoe!
I hate injustice.
He is not the only one might likely to get that treatment, believe me someone like Atiku might as well because of character. It is not every one that is fit to govern this country and that is the message the SE is trying to pass across!
You remember IBB tried coming out and he got d same reaction! He crawled back.
Even now if you have noticed, if any great thing is happening in the South, he sends Oshibanjo while in the North, he attends!
Is that an attitude of someone who bel8eve in the unity of this country?
D minister stuff came as a matter of necessity!
The bottom line is that you don't have push anyone aside because they carried out their constitutional right or speak ill of them. He is the President for Christ sake!
Isn't always said that customers are always right?
Pushing. the problem away will not get it solved, face it, get the fact behind the problem and get it solved!
That is what a true leader will do.

Even now if you have noticed, if any great thing is happening in the South, he sends Oshibanjo while in the North, he attends!
Is that an attitude of someone who bel8eve in the unity of this country?

henryhemon:


Now i know you are just making noise for noise making sake not for it to make impact. I argue not with you again.

mulattoclaro:
guy shut up. Two houses. Who dash you poverty stricken igbo man two houses. Keep deceiving yourselves over there. I'm a son of the soil. Infact a community boy. You want make I order my boys to come close that your provision store there? The only business igbos run very well is drug business and anything criminal.

wiseoneking:
yet you wont allow them to go. Afriaca's most stable economy is still THE LAND LOCKED BOTSWANA. Shame! Lol. Stronger currency than Nigeria, most political stable in africa. Google now. You that have all sea ports, who are the people controlling its biz. Lol. Dont be mentally lazy, your greatness is in your people and not in the sea port. I know that you have a secret envy for the igbos. GODWIN!

Speechless3:
Give the igbos biafra first if you are not scared.

IGBOPRINCE:
I must confess, I love your comment.you were not too sentiment or hash. It sound cool and reasonable.
Keep it up
There s sense in what you said there , but truth is that, I just don't know how to starts telling you words now? cos am going out for business.

But i just believes that if biafra comes, there will be a solution to every given problems. Here and there.

If we the biafrans wait for nigeria to fixed up their systems like dredging the river niger or others rivers from the east because of seaports, then we'll waits till thy kingdom come.

It s better we go and starts facing our major problems and offers financial solutions to it.
My people re not poor nor lazy. So definitely, we will solves our predicaments.

At the last statements, if I tell you now that egun and egbas are not yorubas, from your heart, you will say this igbo guy is a liar.
But tell your people to stop saying such reverse comments to my people in the southsouth.
They said the same thing which I am saying to them too. If you believes that egun and egbas re yorubas cos they speaks like yorubas language and felt they came all the way from ogun state to settled in the coast of lagos, then you should believes that
Ikwerres,ukwuanis, and ikas re igbos too? Cos they re nigeria and a brother of biafrans. Hope that answers your questions well.

Have a nice days.

rusher14:


He did not call it a tribal or ethnic blunder.

He called it a political blunder.

Not aligning with the ruling party has its drawback.

Lagos State under PDP'S Obasanjo comes to mind.

mazeltov:
it may hurt some people reading this I just have to say it so my sincere apology in advance!! Why is it that all the igbos think anti clockwise?. They all think the same way, the same direction. They always think that people always envy them, they always think that anybody saying the truth is their enemy, they always show this sense of insecurity anytime they speak - as in, I don't just get it!! Ok take a look at another one here >>>
scared of what? My brother, you really need to extend the coverage of your knowledge, I mean it!!

jumobi1:
Imagine if when George Bush won, the chairman of the Republican Party said,

"The African Americans commit­ted political blunder in the 2004 general elections by putting all their eggs in one single basket". He said "that act has denied them the opportunity to be part of the power equation in the United States."

He or she would be removed the following day.

It is sad that even the biggest wigs in APC don't understand democracy. Yet we pretend we are "one Nigeria".
Even if the average Nigerian is a tribalist, our leaders should at least pretend not to be.

fr3do:


But he is talking about the entire Igbo race, that we committed blunder.
That is tribalistic.

ArodeTsolaye:
yorubas and their egg-and-basket politics. Na only food this people sabi for their life?

Mr oyegun, take your egg and take your basket you'll find them useful in arid oduarewastan where starvation will be the order of the day as there will be no more oil.

disloman:
You are only mentioning Biafra.I doubt it if you know what that mean.Go and study what isbiafra and what it entails.You will be shocked.A country within a country?You guys will be landlocked.How will you survive?

mulattoclaro:
No igbo man will ever rule Nigeria. They can never be trusted with power. Pa Oyegun you hit the nail on the head. Who would want to share power with people that have proven to be enemies of the state and traitors? The day an igbo rules this country he will divide Nigeria. They're not to be trusted. They'll have to wait for the next 500yrs or probably rule themselves in Biafra. Thank God the last elections showed how irrelevant their votes are. South South is in a better position of producing another president than the SE. My advice to my fellow S/Southerners is that we should allow ourselves to be dragged into politics of bitterness and hatred like those from the red soil zone.

rusher14:


Believe me one can choose to see any statement as an insult.

fr3do:


Your man was being tribalistic

size40:
Good development. This is the more reason why I asked my south-south people to forget this very bitter politics they are now copying from the Igbos. GEJ, our son lost an election for sure. But that does not stop the rest of us from moving on or joining the party in power to move our various states and region forward. Politics in Nigeria is give and take. U can't take when u have not given anything just d way the Igbos are doing in this current dispensation. Supporting the Igbos politically or otherwise will ruin our political future in Nigeria. Let's continue to build bridge across board for a better Nigeria. If we take a close look at today's Nigeria, the south-south region is far more considered to be politically relevant than the south east because of their one sided politics filled with hate, bitterness for other Nigerians. If I may ask, how can a people that behaves and act this way be trusted. With power? Today the Igbos are shouting Biafra Biafra. Protesting on our soil, disturbing business activities in many south-south states making it look as if our zone is not safe for willing investors. Instead of taking such protest to Lagos and Abuja where their Nnamdi kanu was arrested and taken to Abuja. Instead they protesting in port Harcourt, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom etc. This was exactly the same they did during the civil war. B4 Nigerian troops got to our areas, the Biafrans troops were already on ground killing, raping, burning houses and committing all manners of crime with d hope they will win the war to take over our region.

obailala:
Arrant nonsense... keep deceiving yourself and your likes with this rubbish talk about "the clamour has been on since 1960."

Up until 2015, how many Igbos were die hard members of massob or ipob?.. how many were going out into the streets to protest?... How many were running around online insulting anyone and everyone and declaring themselves biafrans?

As an Igbo man I was personally subtly in support of biafra all through my life, but the stark hypocrisy of this recent struggle (all because of election) makes me to totally detest the idea of this secession. How can the trigger to secession be election loss? Not even that the candidate who lost was igbo and not that he was rigged out or deposed by a military coup?... What sort of childish impulse is this?

It would be a disaster if a secession is based on the impulse of election loss hangover and I can never be a party to such senselessness. You guys can keep deceiving and embarrassing yourselves on the streets and online insulting everyone, such bad losers! My only worry is that when the problem starts (it has even already started with the sharp ethnic division championed by you guys), all Igbos irrespective of stance would suffer for the folly of you guys.

Ioannes:
the only blunder they committed was to resurrect the Biafra ghost after Jonathan lost.

bad losers.

they have shown other Nigerians that they can't be trusted with power and they may have to wait another hundred years for a shot at the presidency.

bolanto24:

I am not an Igbo but you sound stupid.

ModiKen:
Speaking when the Tony Nwoye-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stormed the head­quarters of the ruling party in Abuja yesterday

CC: TonyeBarcanista................Is this you?

Refute this and shame the devil

TonyeBarcanista:

Hahaaha, So Tony Nwoye has finally defected to APC? Well, I'm not the one. Tony is from Anambra state. He is a former PDP Chairman in the state.

IGBOPRINCE:
people like you shouting landlock have not being to the east.
There re three mighty rivers in the east they will soon dredge soon.

One is obuagu river in abia state, the other one Is imo river in imo state, the third is river niger, the most popular river which I think you must have seen on the tv cos your people don't like travelling at all.

To me that landlock is a stale news by now.

There re countries without rivers or seaports and they re surviving
So definitely,biafra will surely survives cos we re not from a lazy tribes, we believes in human endeavour or development.

So take it or leave it.
Our minds is made up, with or without the denials.

Without lagos, which belongs to eguns or egbas , the five southwest is landlocks .
Hope you know.


Yeye dey hang.