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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by MrJanuzaj: 4:25pm On Aug 25, 2018
bedspread:
U play politics with boy sides not at the detriment of your people...

Which politics is detrimental to ndigbo?

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Holuwarsweun(m): 4:26pm On Aug 25, 2018
jumper524:
you think kwaralites are stupid for kicking against saraki?

u Guys won't do your research well be4 coming here to type nonsense

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Nobody: 4:27pm On Aug 25, 2018
MrJanuzaj:


Which politics is detrimental to ndigbo?

Is obvious u lack sense of history

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by MrJanuzaj: 4:31pm On Aug 25, 2018
Yyeske:
OP, you even forgot that it was the Igbos who refused the rotational presidency under PDP all because they wanted Jonathan to win in 2011.
The SE is supposed to be having the presidency now but look at where we are.

Jonathan and co. release the greatest and most dangerous brand of ethnic and religious politicking in 2011 which peaked in 2015, but when Nigerians and PMB overcame that dangerous scourge, the result was the birth of a deadly virus into the Nigerian political space called Nnamdi Kanu. Unfortunately it has infected a lot of unimmuned people from my place.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Yyeske(m): 4:33pm On Aug 25, 2018
MrJanuzaj:


Jonathan and co. release the greatest and most dangerous brand of ethnic and religious politicking in 2011 which peaked in 2015, but when Nigerians and PMB overcame that dangerous scourge, the result was the birth of a deadly virus into the Nigerian political space called Nnamdi Kanu. Unfortunately it has infected a lot of unimmuned people from my place.
Bros, the whole nonsense tire me

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Alexk2(m): 4:34pm On Aug 25, 2018
Truth at it's peak for all south eastherners and I wish for the sake of the future, they listen this time and play a more pragmatic politics that'll earn them there pride. The old propaganda method and feeling of entitlement for what you never worked for is stale and inconsequential in Nigeria politics. Stop putting your eggs in one basket...enough said.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by vedaxcool(m): 4:34pm On Aug 25, 2018
The article spoke hard truths, you cannot keep making the same political miscalculation and expect to score.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by chiagozien(m): 4:34pm On Aug 25, 2018
Juliusmalema:

I don't reply mixed blood or I was born and I die in lagos....

I reply full breed of igbos....igbo bu igbo.
God bless you my brother,
the one you quoted is one of my mama say i be igbo.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by MrJanuzaj: 4:34pm On Aug 25, 2018
Juliusmalema:


Is obvious u lack sense of history

Teach me hustory my great historian

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by intruxive(m): 4:38pm On Aug 25, 2018
Op nice quote, rational. But you know your people are not given to independent thinking (maybe due to illiteracy)
So they will only insult you instead of reasoning with you

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by buharitill2023: 4:41pm On Aug 25, 2018
SolutionMee:
Apart from Rochas, all Igbos love Saraki and are ready to vote for him

I'm a Yoruba and I will as well vote for him

That's my decision and it is best known to me

Best known to me alone
and you are alone

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Nobody: 4:43pm On Aug 25, 2018
MrJanuzaj:


Teach me hustory my great historian

I don't teach hustory.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Alexk2(m): 4:44pm On Aug 25, 2018
MrJanuzaj:


Jonathan and co. release the greatest and most dangerous brand of ethnic and religious politicking in 2011 which peaked in 2015, but when Nigerians and PMB overcame that dangerous scourge, the result was the birth of a deadly virus into the Nigerian political space called Nnamdi Kanu. Unfortunately it has infected a lot of unimmuned people from my place.

It was terrible back then. There was a tape circulated about even in churches claiming APC was an Islamic party and Buhari is coming to establish Islamic agenda and so much hate speeches everywhere against the then opposition party; APC and her bigwigs like Tinubu.
We just have to do away with that type of politics.


@ the topic, I just wish and hope SE get the politics right this time around and stop been used as porn in Nigeria political chess game.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by kennypoju04: 4:52pm On Aug 25, 2018
The Igbo presidency is not easy in today's Nigeria,the igbos have to unite for it,no single politician can promise that even buhari can't promise that not to talk of the no 3 man


Check my soggy

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by jayson87: 4:55pm On Aug 25, 2018
Buhari bloggers and E-herdsmen association, we see your hand. No more GEJ and PDP cause of Nigeria's misery, it is now saraki

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Nobody: 4:55pm On Aug 25, 2018
MakeNigeriaGrea:

This is the same thing I was telling Butterflyle0. I am Yoruba. Buhari needs all vote. I am sure the way you talk foolishly here is the same way you have reduced Buhari's vote outside.
Read this write up to cure your foolishness .
I know I wouldn’t see you on the thread so I’m helping you
MrJanuzaj:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit.

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine.

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'.

REWIND TO 2014.
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance.

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did.

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more.

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma.

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023?
On what grounds?
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone?
Is it an appeasement or a gift?

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested.

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game.

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary abuse from nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

(c) Dr Uche Diala

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Nobody: 4:55pm On Aug 25, 2018
Rubbish post.

The real Igbo's don't need any presidency.

They want a country of their own.


Supporting buhari does not guarantee any Igbo presidency.

All the Igbo's that have reached Abuja, what did they do for their people?

Another election year, propaganda don't start.


I hope they know that Yoruba's are interested in 2023
MrJanuzaj:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit.

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine.

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'.

REWIND TO 2014.
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance.

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did.

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more.

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma.

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023?
On what grounds?
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone?
Is it an appeasement or a gift?

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested.

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game.

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary abuse from nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

(c) Dr Uche Diala

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by goaldynboy: 4:55pm On Aug 25, 2018
The so called Uche Diala, the writer of this trash is another APC Zombie (just like Okorocha) who has collected his pay from APC to come and write trash! Who told you Igbos are regretting not voting Buhari in 2015! As a matter of fact Igbos will not vote Buhari in 2019! Buhari has nothing to offer except cluelessness, wickedness, blood letting, corruption and nepotism! If APC wants Igbo vote, they should field someone else who has something to offer!

It is obvious even to a blind Igbo man that PDP are more sincere and will cater for Igbo interest than APC! Atiku as a person employs thousands of diverse tribe including Igbos in his Company (Intels Logistics) Without discrimination! Saraki has been working cordially with an Igbo man (Ekweremadu) and takes him as a real brother!

Mind you this is democracy! Every region, State, tribe, person have right to vote whoever they deem fit without discrimination or intimidation! So don't come here to cajole me to vote Buhari!

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by HIGHESTPOPORI(m): 4:57pm On Aug 25, 2018
Yyeske:
OP, you even forgot that it was the Igbos who refused the rotational presidency under PDP all because they wanted Jonathan to win in 2011.
The SE is supposed to be having the presidency now but look at where we are.
EVEN YOU DEY FORM IGBO? LOL

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by salford1: 4:57pm On Aug 25, 2018
Juliusmalema:


Kwarans love saraki so much....

But they hate that lying mantis lai mohammed.
Not true. I can count so many kwarans that can't stand that man.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by BruncleZuma: 4:58pm On Aug 25, 2018
Who see sugar lick make eeee lick well well well oooo...

Mentioning PDP and leaving APC as though APC is not PDP shows who pays this Piper ...my brother blow well oooh.

ji si ike

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by osazeeblue01: 4:59pm On Aug 25, 2018
MrJanuzaj:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit.

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine.

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'.

REWIND TO 2014.
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance.

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did.

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more.

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma.

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023?
On what grounds?
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone?
Is it an appeasement or a gift?

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested.

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game.

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary abuse from nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

(c) Dr Uche Diala


RUBBISH

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Yyeske(m): 4:59pm On Aug 25, 2018
HIGHESTPOPORI:
EVEN YOU DEY FORM IGBO? LOL
Wetin 'consign' you Somali man with my forming?

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by 007inc: 5:00pm On Aug 25, 2018
MrJanuzaj:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit.

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine.

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'.

REWIND TO 2014.
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance.

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did.

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more.

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma.

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023?
On what grounds?
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone?
Is it an appeasement or a gift?

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested.

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game.

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary abuse from nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

(c) Dr Uche Diala


Oga Shut up there

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by mightguy(m): 5:01pm On Aug 25, 2018
Nonsense. Must every body support apc?.. What ave apc done for the igbos.. Do you think igbos will get presidency through apc? If u think the igbo voting for Buhari will give them presidency then u are a fuull.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Omeokachie: 5:01pm On Aug 25, 2018
An APC apologist foaming in the mouth about Saraki, while the Buhari he would want the gullible to believe has a pact to hand over to Tinubu, whilst deceiving the gullible about an Igbo taking over after him.

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Yyeske(m): 5:01pm On Aug 25, 2018
007inc:



Oga Shut up there
Counter his points or you should shut up

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Adiwana: 5:01pm On Aug 25, 2018
Nigerians keep on making the same mistake expecting different results.Forgive my ignorance,but should we be more concerned about getting an igbo president,hausa president etc or a president that will make Nigeria better?? Isn't that suppose to be the reason we elect this officials into office??

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Nobody: 5:02pm On Aug 25, 2018
Alexk2:


It was terrible back then. There was a tape circulated about even in churches claiming APC was an Islamic party and Buhari is coming to establish Islamic agenda and so much hate speeches everywhere against the then opposition party; APC and her bigwigs like Tinubu.
We just have to do away with that type of politics.


@ the topic, I just wish and hope SE get the politics right this time around and stop been used as porn in Nigeria political chess game.

I am telling you. They were very desperate so were campaigning with every trick in their books including wicked and diabolic means

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by mightguy(m): 5:02pm On Aug 25, 2018
Nonsense. It is this kind of posts that reach fp... While others are sidelined... Nairaland and itz hypocritical mods

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Re: "The Truth About Igbo Presidency: Senator Saraki Playing On Our Intelligence" by Nobody: 5:02pm On Aug 25, 2018
MrJanuzaj:


Keep waiting dor the parties to drop the presidency at your door steps, dont play the right politics
Stupid politics,

Which politician in Nigeria cares for the people except their pockets


All the senate president and speakers that they produced of what benefit was it to the Igbo man in the market.


Nigerians are not foolish, stop spreading rubbish tales.

Yoruba's are already planning 2023 and supporting buhari does not guarantee any Igbo presidency

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