Handsomegod:
I don't even know where to start addressing this mess you vomited up there. You implicated yourself all through. You stated that the North's exclusive long hold on power did not and have not helped them as they are being ravaged by poverty and turned around to blame Igbos who held appointments in the past for not developing Igboland. What da Bleep are you blabbing about Oga? You wasted a whole space yapping without even addressing the very cause of Nigerian crisis which is the structure. Sad to say. Again,the discussions here so far was never centred on blaming anyone for Igbo woes but strictly on optimising our human and material resources. And sir,there is systemic marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria. It is not only shrouded in the extant laws but also a matter of covert federal policy.We still manage to overcome these odds nevertheless. Your infantile rants and denial of this obvious fact that even the so called northerners you appeal to have acknowledged clearly gave your rants away as another smoky noise. Do you want me to start giving you federal projects cited in other regions without an equivalent in Igboland? Let's start with the recent Railway masterplan which saw Igboland completely exempted. What about the recent concessions of selected international airports in the country with Akanu ibiam Airport exempted too? Infact Akanu Ibiam Airport was not even gazetted as an international airport for starters and oga,Mr alanlyser,it does not strike you as odd and premeditated? Attention should also be given to your silly analysis of Lagos! Have never heard or seen such blank ignorance and misfiring analysis on rampage! Please note: Lagos is Federal government and Federal government is Lagos! All the governors have been doing are window dressing. To even consider Lagos developed by any stretch of indices showed some of you really need to travel out and see what development truly is. Kualar Lumpur,New Delhi,Mumbai,Seoul,Karachi etc are all contemporaries of Lagos but your so called centre of excellence can't even hold a torch for those other cities today on any index of advancement bar none! For you to even compare the dynamics of Lagos to any other state,much less South Eastern states further gave you away. Please stick to the spirit of this thread(not trend.take note).

Develpeast:


I stated this as early as 2015 when I saw the need to move on without Nigeria's federal government allocation and the meagre IGR we generate. Igboland needs solid infrastructures and system that will catapult us to the next 50years within the next 10 years. Without doing these we will keep managing the situation and not gaining anything from this country.

For igboland to develop, it is going to be all-hands-on-deck kind of development. Leaving the development for the government officials who think about the short term and not the long term will always make us go back to square one after every eight years. We need to create a body whose sole intention is to develop infrastructures and systems that will build the different sectors of the economy in Nigeria. Since the body wont be looking at the next election, they will be more focused in achieving their aims rather than gaining so much money from the system.

Our minds are faster than our actions. We need to unify behind one party. Let igboland be synonymous to APGA and we the youths and younger generations, infiltrate their ranks and make our own the people leading us. Let us forget federal politics and focus on the local things we can achieve.

Cjrane2:


He is Yoruba trying so hard to claim Igbo. I have always known his true identity because i read 100% of his posts here and elsewhere. There is another one that i have been reading all his posts. It might be his second moniker because they write in a similar way using similar English tenses.

I am sure he chose NnamdiJonathan from (Nnamdi Kanu) and (Goodluck Jonathan) thinking these are names Igbos must like

Ofodirinwa:


The same APGA that left the bodies of IPOB and MASSOB men to rot in gutters? Stop saying nonsense.

DanielOc:


I barely talk against peoples opinion online or offline....

As faceless as we all seem, I can't say you're Igbo or otherwise, but get this within your circle of comprehension,..


As it is now in Nigeria, APC or any party dominated by non Igbo can never want it well for the Igbos but for either themselves or their people...

Apga is a party known to be a gift from Ojukwu to the Igbos.
In order to make it sell, we have to patronize it....

And its also time we fit into sentimental politics fully.....

nnamdijonathan:


OK ooo. I have heard you. You can go ahead and vote for APGA that clearly has no political vision. What if the APGA candidates are money driven visionless people?

Curlieweed:


Thanks. This has always been my exact thoughts. The key challenge will be how to go about this objective. The financial architecture shouldn’t be too difficult but getting people who combine integrity with wide acceptance will be key.

While I support your APGA idea, I think that waiting until all the 5 states are under one political umbrella before starting will only encourage opportunities for sabotage. I think a grassroots anchored approach might be better. The old Igbo Union made outstanding use of town unions.

spyder880:


Are the PDP candidates having any visions? APGA is the best party for Igbos. All Igbos have APGA at heart.

nnamdijonathan:


So Wike, Umahi and Ugwuanyi are all vision less?

Develpeast:


Yes, igbo unions are always going to be there. The plan is more complex than what is been written here. We need real coup plotters to remove those already in power. For us to engage in this kind of coup, we need to ally ourselves with IPOB (because of its wide acceptance) and make its members join the APGA party and with membership cards. This will give us the advantage of numbers in winning the primaries, at first, then we can also infiltrate the locals easily through their teeming youths and grassroot mobility.

Why do we need the political class?

1. We need them to play to our tune and push the igbo agenda well. So that policies that will bring the necessary development to igboland will be achieved without the positions.

2. We need people to bargain for us during election period. Like 2019 is coming, the igbo people have no say in the working of things during the elections. Even if Buhari is bad, if we does our bidding, he isnt bad to us then. We need real deals on the table and not promises. If we give 10million votes, these are the things you will do for igboland. And to that effect we give him the votes and get what we want while the organisation I mentioned earlier will continue on its own path.

3. We need their constituency allowance and some parts of their benefits for us to get more funds in delivering projects. This will be rule of the new APGA. You either sign it as an agreement or you lose your voting power. Senators and rep members will not be constructing roads with low
quality. They will not be gifting people stoves and lamps anymore, the monies will be channeled to real projects and more people will gain from them.

Moreover, the political party will only take care of the political class, but other citizens will fall under the igbo unions, religious and community organizations. We will have to generate funds from everywhere and anywhere possible. So that we can generate the required amounts to deliver great projects and systems that will push us forward.

spyder880:


Now, compare them to Obiano?

nnamdijonathan:


How many Obianos are in APGA? Have you forgotten that Enugu is the richest state in the SE in terms of IGR and it rose under PDP leadership? You see why I said that it does not depend on the Party but on the individual. The progress of the SE depends on our leaders not on our political parties.

nnamdijonathan:


Even if things get done the way u have put them, getting Biafra now is the worst thing that can ever happen to us and our land. If we break out now, we will be cut out of the national power grid thereby leaving our land in total darkness, we don't have a functional seaport, many Igbo people will lose their businesses located outside igboland in Nigeria, there will be mass relocation of over 10 million Igbos back to Igboland which will stretch our little infrastructure, we will lack food because we are currently not sufficient in any food crop we consume etc. Many things have to be addressed before we even think about breaking out of Nigeria.

spyder880:


There are over a million Obianos in all parts of Nigeria, but we only need to be committed to see them. Stop the diversionary tactic of talking IGR and face the points on the table. Enugu governor has also tried, but he needs to switch to APGA too to try more, then all Igbos will come to see APGA as Igbos saving organisation. This is what Rochas missed when he switched to APC from the APGA imolites voted for him from.

B2mario:
Another wrong comment from same guy. Pls how old are you? Study nigeria properly before you come and disgrace us, Igbo is marginalised and this is true. Igbo still has investments as far as Ivory coast and Angola, nobody is depriving her the right to her investments just because she is not indigenous to these areas.

nnamdijonathan:


Keep deceiving yourself. You will play this stupid blame game till 2050 and Igbo land will not go anywhere. The rail line from Lagos to Calabar covers Agbor, Umunede, Issele uku, Asaba, and Onitsha before returning back to warri and then to Calabar. Lagos is Federal government? Another hopeless and stupid talk. Ogun state is gradually becoming the second richest state in Nigeria, maybe Ogun state is also a federal project. You guys are always giving stupid excuses to defend the miscalculations of Igbo leaders. You are comparing Lagos to the cities of other countries as if you can also compare any Igbo city to the top cities of other countries. I used the North's underdevelopment level as an example for you to understand that it is not only the SE that is lacking basic infrastructure from the Federal government, the entire country lacks federal infrastructure so don't make it look like the FG is punishing only the SE.

nnamdijonathan:


Even if things get done the way u have put them, getting Biafra now is the worst thing that can ever happen to us and our land. If we break out now, we will be cut out of the national power grid thereby leaving our land in total darkness, we don't have a functional seaport, many Igbo people will lose their businesses located outside igboland in Nigeria, there will be mass relocation of over 10 million Igbos back to Igboland which will stretch our little infrastructure, we will lack food because we are currently not sufficient in any food crop we consume etc. Many things have to be addressed before we even think about breaking out of Nigeria.

aniomafirstson:


Don't forget igbos were @ the forefront of Nigerian affairs before the civil war.
But the failed NZEOGWU coup changed everything coupled with what ironsi did by changing our government it to a unitary system of government

Those acts coupled with the loss of the civil war changed everything.

nnamdijonathan:


Wait oo, Do you know how many years I have spent in Lagos living with the Yoruba people and you just expect me to allow this una stupid blame game against them to continue?

nnamdijonathan:


After the civil war, Igbos have been the architects of their own passived backwardness. I just know I have passed my message, we should stop blaming Yoruba and Hausa for our problems because everybody and tribe in this country is the architect of their own backwardness or progress.

Develpeast:
If we can be patient and vote just APGA in all the different southeastern states both state house and federal house and national assembly. We will be able to infiltrate the political ranks through this medium. If we take over the political powers of the east, we are getting close towards getting what we want.

spyder880:


Now, compare them to Obiano?

B2mario:
No it is not ideal. everybody has his choice of party and freedom of association. All Igbos belonging to the same isolated Igbo party will make everything seems clannish.

Cjrane2:


He is Yoruba trying so hard to claim Igbo. I have always known his true identity because i read 100% of his posts here and elsewhere. There is another one that i have been reading all his posts. It might be his second moniker because they write in a similar way using similar English tenses.

I am sure he chose NnamdiJonathan from (Nnamdi Kanu) and (Goodluck Jonathan) thinking these are names Igbos must like

B2mario:
No it is not ideal. everybody has his choice of party and freedom of association. All Igbos belonging to the same isolated Igbo party will make everything seems clannish.