DropShot:

[s]OP, this post says it all.

If not for hate and victim mentality plus lack of unified position of the Igbo race, they would have produced the president in 2015.

Had Igbo decided to abandon PDP in 2007 when PDP/OBJ pushed forward Yar'Adua/GEJ and support Buhari/Ezeoke, it will have been easy for PMB to pass the baton to an Igbo president in 2015.

But because of hatred for anything Buhari and ANPP then, the Igbo race shot itself on the foot.

As things stand, the earliest time we can have an Igbo president is after 2023 and that is IF the region plays smart politics by aligning with PMB/APC so that after PMB in 2023, a legitimate and valid case can be made for an Igbo candidate then.

Looking at how Igbo is playing its politics again by aligning massively with PDP that has zoned the president to the north in 2019, they're making another huge mistake. Assuming PDP even wins in 2019, it means the earliest time for an Igbo president is 2027. And assuming APC wins in 2019 without the support of Igbos, then the case becomes worse as they can't fight for APC ticket in 2023.

How and why it's so difficult for the Igbo race to apply tact and wisdome to politics is absurd.[/s]

Sinkills:
I actually knew that some people seriously dislike the idea of an Igbo man becoming president. One, there is this suspicion of the person demonstrating nepotism by favouring people from his tribe if voted in. Though this is not right if it happens, I don't think nepotism can be worse than it is now and I think people are getting wiser now. Secondly, Igbos do not need to unite to support their kin before he can be elected president.That would even make him to feel he needs to repay them and thus use the famous formula of 97% versus 5%. Apart from that, it is on record that president Obasanjo was not the candidate of the Yorubas. It was Olu False that was their preferred choice. However, the rest of Nigeria voted for Obasanjo while his Yoruba people overwhelmingly rejected him at the polls. Contrary to popular views, it is not all Igbos that demonstate hatred for other tribes. There are Igbos who are nationalistic in outlook. Examples include Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Dr Ken Nnamani, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Ben Igbokwe, Dr Chris Ngige, Orji Uzo Kalu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, Ike Nwachukwu etc. We can pick from among these. Thank you.

Greatfuture:
Are you aware that they were igbo persons of south east extraction that vied for the 2015 election and Igbo people never voted for them

Ambrose Albert for Hope Democratic Party,
Godson Okoye for United Democratic Party, UDP.
Martin Onovo of National Conscience Party, NCP,
Chekwas Okorie of United Progressive Party.
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Sinkills:
The freedom Igbos crave for may not necessarily be a separate country but the assurance and proof that they are not second class, or even third class citizens, that they are not the endangered species in Nigeria. Don't you think so?

HammerTheirPapa:


your brand of dog-and-baboon politics is alien to a sound Igbo man, that's why there are Igbo politicians in Finland, Poland, US, and Uk where sane people reside, but they can't just fathom how to play the "bloody" Allah-inspired politics of ISLAMOGERIA. Beyond that, Igbos are not interested in the presidency of your zoo. No matter who rules a zoo, it will always capitulate and never make head way. yorubas and hausa and fulanis have tried and FAILED.

DeleteNonsense:
Bring Donald, Obama, Ekwueme & etc to rule Nigeria will not stop Bi*fra agitation but True Federalism can calm it small but @the end we will realize why God gave people different culture, language & religion. When a system develops serious problem u can only chunk the problem and solve it bit-by-bit so is not bad if we chunk Nigeria bit-by-bit to solve her problem. I believe in solution & peace/justice.

mikolo80:
[s] Yet presidency and Lagos state gofnor de hungry una How many headway biafra don make. Awo did not wait for Nigeria to develop south west o Na from morning we de Sabi how night go be[/s]

Godemcee:
Nobody is stoping igbo's from being a president,if igbo field a presidential candidate come 2019,if he his capable I wud vote for him ahead of a northerner am not tribalistic.igbo's just need to get mature nd stop being emotional,they shud stop feeling everybody in nigeria owes them.they should stop hating all other tribe in nigeria,hate can't take them nowhere,they shoild learn to work with other major tribe in nigeria either yoruba or hausa nd stop being hateful

Milonis:
Biafrá or Igbo presidency? Which is the priority.

I'd like to know before telling you what I think

Godemcee:
Nobody is stoping igbo's from being a president,if igbo field a presidential candidate come 2019,if he his capable I wud vote for him ahead of a northerner am not tribalistic.igbo's just need to get mature nd stop being emotional,they shud stop feeling everybody in nigeria owes them.they should stop hating all other tribe in nigeria,hate can't take them nowhere,they shoild learn to work with other major tribe in nigeria either yoruba or hausa nd stop being hateful

Godemcee:
Nobody is stoping igbo's from being a president,if igbo field a presidential candidate come 2019,if he his capable I wud vote for him ahead of a northerner am not tribalistic.igbo's just need to get mature nd stop being emotional,they shud stop feeling everybody in nigeria owes them.they should stop hating all other tribe in nigeria,hate can't take them nowhere,they shoild learn to work with other major tribe in nigeria either yoruba or hausa nd stop being hateful

Sinkills:
Majority of Igbos want Biafra, a minority prefer to remain in Nigeria. Majority of other Nigerians would want them to remain. I think the best way to kill the Biafra agitation is to allow only Igbos contest for the presidency in 2019 so that one of them can emerge president to give them a real sense of belonging. Let us then see if Igbos will still want out of Nigeria.

DropShot:

Of course you're right in all you've said but people still want heir person there for sake of having sense of belonging.

Sinkills:
Thanks for not being tribalistic. I just hope other Nigerians are like that. You claim that Igbos feel everybody in Nigeria owes them. Can you please explain yoursel? What exactly do Igbos want from you other than that they want a seperate country, which right they constitutionally have?Nigeria said 'no' they must remain. Igbos supported former presidents Obasanjo, Yar'adua and Jonathan. They refused president Buhari out of the fear that he is an ethnic and religious bigot. The man won and became president. He is not the first person to have been massively rejected by a particular tribe for obvious reasons. It happened to former presidents Obasanjo (1999) and Jonathan (2011). Yet after they were elected presidents, they carried the 'haters' along to prove them wrong. Has the current president proved Igbos right or wrong? You claim they hate other tribes. I see it as mutual hatred and suspicion which has been part of Nigeria's political culture and history since the amalgamation of Nigeria.

Sinkills:
Majority of Igbos want Biafra, a minority prefer to remain in Nigeria. Majority of other Nigerians would want them to remain. I think the best way to kill the Biafra agitation is to allow only Igbos contest for the presidency in 2019 so that one of them can emerge president to give them a real sense of belonging. Let us then see if Igbos will still want out of Nigeria.

babyfaceafrica:
Obasanjo never did anything for thr SW neither did jonathan did anything for SS,both of them enriched few people.buhari does not need to prove anything to anybody...does he owe igbos?..that said all politicians are the same..they ony care about themselves

Sinkills:
OK. If you think so. In your own 'patriotic' opinion, the president, who is the father of all and who preaches that Nigeria's unity is not negotiable does not need to prove that he is for all, that he doesn't hate any tribe. He doesn't owe any particular tribe but he owes all Nigerians justice, fairness and equity so that all can have a sense of belonging. I think this is what all tribes and Nigerians want, not just Igbos. But I still think a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction will not only heal wounds but will bring about national economic and technology revival and advancement. Let's try and see.

DropShot:

OP, this post says it all.

If not for hate and victim mentality plus lack of unified position of the Igbo race, they would have produced the president in 2015.

Had Igbo decided to abandon PDP in 2007 when PDP/OBJ pushed forward Yar'Adua/GEJ and support Buhari/Ezeoke, it will have been easy for PMB to pass the baton to an Igbo president in 2015.

But because of hatred for anything Buhari and ANPP then, the Igbo race shot itself on the foot.

As things stand, the earliest time we can have an Igbo president is after 2023 and that is IF the region plays smart politics by aligning with PMB/APC so that after PMB in 2023, a legitimate and valid case can be made for an Igbo candidate then.

Looking at how Igbo is playing its politics again by aligning massively with PDP that has zoned the president to the north in 2019, they're making another huge mistake. Assuming PDP even wins in 2019, it means the earliest time for an Igbo president is 2027. And assuming APC wins in 2019 without the support of Igbos, then the case becomes worse as they can't fight for APC ticket in 2023.

How and why it's so difficult for the Igbo race to apply tact and wisdome to politics is absurd.

Sinkills:
The freedom Igbos crave for may not necessarily be a separate country but the assurance and proof that they are not second class, or even third class citizens, that they are not the endangered species in Nigeria. Don't you think so?

Sinkills:
You actually think some Igbo have not done that in the past? Who was the leader of the G -34, the group of eminent Nigerians who fought the Abacha junta to a standstill? Was it not Dr. Alex Ekwueme, a former vice president in the defunct (northern)NPN, an erudite, well educated well experienced and bridge-building Igbo man? The group later metamorphosed into the PDP. But when it was time to pick their presidentical candidate, they preferred Chief Obasanjo, a Yoruba man who just came out of Abacha's prison then. Although the Igbos are mostly proud and resist insolence, it is not true that they do not build bridges. They supported Obasanjo, Yar'adua and Jonathan who are non Igbo. But I know that hatred for Igbos accounts for the stereotypes.

Sinkills:
I actually knew that some people seriously dislike the idea of an Igbo man becoming president. One, there is this suspicion of the person demonstrating nepotism by favouring people from his tribe if voted in. Though this is not right if it happens, I don't think nepotism can be worse than it is now and I think people are getting wiser now. Secondly, Igbos do not need to unite to support their kin before he can be elected president.That would even make him to feel he needs to repay them and thus use the famous formula of 97% versus 5%. Apart from that, it is on record that president Obasanjo was not the candidate of the Yorubas. It was Olu False that was their preferred choice. However, the rest of Nigeria voted for Obasanjo while his Yoruba people overwhelmingly rejected him at the polls. Contrary to popular views, it is not all Igbos that demonstate hatred for other tribes. There are Igbos who are nationalistic in outlook. Examples include Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Dr Ken Nnamani, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Ben Igbokwe, Dr Chris Ngige, Orji Uzo Kalu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, Ike Nwachukwu etc. We can pick from among these. Thank you.

Sinkills:
We used to accuse South Africa of Apartheid. They proved to us that they have matured beyond that racism by electing late Nelson Mandela as president. We accused the United States of racism, they proved they have gone beyond that by electing president Barack Obama. So when is Nigeria going to prove that we have gone past the civil war and anti-Igbo sentiments by electing a SouthEasterner as president?

Sinkills:
Majority of Igbos want Biafra, a minority prefer to remain in Nigeria. Majority of other Nigerians would want them to remain. I think the best way to kill the Biafra agitation is to allow only Igbos contest for the presidency in 2019 so that one of them can emerge president to give them a real sense of belonging. Let us then see if Igbos will still want out of Nigeria.

HammerTheirPapa:


your brand of dog-and-baboon politics is alien to a sound Igbo man, that's why there are succesful Igbo politicians in Finland, Poland, US, and Uk where sane people reside, but they can't just fathom how to play your "bloody" Allah-inspired politics of ISLAMOGERIA. Beyond that, Igbos are not interested in the presidency of your zoo. No matter who rules a zoo, it will always capitulate and never make head way. yorubas and hausa and fulanis have tried and FAILED.

Sinkills:
Majority of Igbos want Biafra, a minority prefer to remain in Nigeria. Majority of other Nigerians would want them to remain. I think the best way to kill the Biafra agitation is to allow only Igbos contest for the presidency in 2019 so that one of them can emerge president to give them a real sense of belonging. Let us then see if Igbos will still want out of Nigeria.