Stingman:


NOPE!!! NC has external border...WE are talkng about regions here...

drnoel:


It doesnt take effort to want something good for ur people bros. Think nationalism cos its one way out. Its the peaceful way out. Any other way will bring out the guns and bombs and the war just as history showed us will be fought again on Igbo soil and homeland. As half Igbo who still have cousins living in the east, I dont that for them.

ianSweet:


Na border we won chop?
SE is a homogenous region which can easily be united unlike northern minorities who requested for one region but were carved into the 3 different regions of the north to be manipulated by Hausa-fulanis.

omohayek:

Yes, I know all too well the sad history of regionalism in Nigerian politics, but just because things were done that way in the past doesn't mean that they must be so in the future.

The trouble with parties with regional origins is that they find it difficult to shake off their "tribal" coloration even if they start trying to go national; the alternative approach is what you currently have with the ACN/CPC to APC transition, whereby a free-market, pro-business party is yoked to a statist party led by an ex-general, and the result is a completely incoherent governing platform.

What the Nigerian masses really need isn't yet more parties of "come and chop" politicians funded by godfathers who've enriched themselves through corrupt means. What they need are parties which actually stand for something, which draw their funding from the mass membership, and which choose their leaders through truly open primaries instead of backroom deals between godfathers.

Above all, the Nigerian masses need politicians who appeal to them as individuals who want better roads, safer streets, more jobs, better schools for their children, etc., not by saying "my kinsmen, it's our turn to 'chop' from the 'national cake'"; any party which fails to make such a broad national appeal from the outset will always remain vulnerable to tribal attacks; no southerner would ever vote for the CPC, no matter what policies it pronounced, just as only westerners supported the ACN, and only easterners backed the APGA. It was always enough to say "they are a Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba" party for people to close their ears to anything these parties might have had to say.

jegz25:
this party is dead in arrival

Stingman:


But the Yorubas are there as well...I don't care about tribes very much...here...If all the regions are planned to have external borders as in the NC, SE should have with Cross River...

Kagarko:


Don't be deceived. They are bunch of failure. Senator Usman Jibrin Wowo is in APC and can never change to another party.


What I understand is the Christian minority in the North Central are trying to package something that will make them comfortable politically.

Atiku2019:
Buhari will surely be Humiliated in 2019

bashydemy:


Keep fooling yourself.

Atiku2019:



My Regards to Tinubu

Iam4Atiku:

Wrong, in this case, it's divide and conquer.
If the AC wing of APC leaves, the North Central becomes formidable and sentimental, the North-East presents Atiku, Buhari stands no chance. The North-East can't abandon Atiku for Buhari. Norh-Central feel marginalized.
The South-East is already aggrieved with Buhari, same as South-South. The only issue now will be the South-West, because you can hardly predict them. They give their votes to the highest bidder(with due to people from that region, facts are there to back my claim).
Buhari will be left with his North-West people, maybe some part of North-Central and Maybe some part of South-West.

You can agree with me that Buhari can't win North-East this time, he can't win South-South and South-East. So, whoever the South-West gives block support carries the day. And if you take out Aregbesola, Fayose, Ambode, Tinubu, Obasanjo(still skeptical though) from the South-West, then you know what's left for Fashola and Fayemi to gather for Buhari!

ianSweet:


Speak for the northwest or Zamfara state alone. Those of us from the northcentral will not vote Buhari.

drnoel:


I did say the time was ripe for a new political party tospring up. I did say the north central was going to soon reveal the new name and people behind this new party. Those people that were insulting me for saying that where are they now? Nice development. No one party or group should be allowed to hold the nation at ransom. PDP did it and now APC wants to do it. Such an action only creates and breeds impunity.