What's the benefit of previous elections of south easterns? Just mention one?
This man didn't conderm ipob killings and other ill treatment by Nigeria state and the nepotism of Islamic govt in S E
Election boycott is what you have come here to shed tears.
When would you stop leaking Fulani anus in this contraption?

He was sounding nice till he went the election way
I knew he was a one Nigeria beggar
So he said ipob should use their strength to vote in politicians that can use the state power so that the attorney general of the state doesn't throw them into jail for raising a Biafran flag
When I got here I stopped reading


Holding a Biafran flag is not a crime against a state government but a crime against the federal government
He can't fool us with nice talks
We are not stupid
Ipob is a group the government calls a terrorist group
And the federal government is the one against ipob not the state

fk001:
Let me book space I love anything IPOB


modified

Thanks Okoroawusa

Any IPOB that go against Nnamdi KANU order will certainly face the wrath of Shuku Shuku okiki Abiyamu

Shuku Shuku Okiki ...I will not correct u again

midolian:


This Afonja must be so nice to advise against boycotting Elections.. otherwise, wetin concern Buhari with Onitsha goat seller?

Boycott Elections and make Atiku cry

The Onitsha goat seller is an aboki. Ask around they tell you

A very BIG thank you to the writer for this piece.

midolian:


Brethren,
I bring you greetings.

It is beyond argument that, through the agitation for Biafra which you lead, you, The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) have brought both local and international attention to the plight of Ndigbo in Nigeria. You have raised our consciousness to a level never seen before. In the face of Unclad brutality and state terrorism, you have stood tall, refusing to bow to tyranny. Your members have paid the ultimate price for the emancipation of the people of old Eastern region from the clutches of Nigeria, a country that is deaf and dumb to the sanctity of human lives. Above all, you have resisted the urge to go violent, remaining peaceful, even in the face of demonic provocation from the Muhammad Buhari led government. For these, my gratitude is yours.

But,I have not come to offer you gratitude. I have come to convey to you my concerns in areas I reasonably believe you are progressing in error and offer unsolicited advice as an Igbo man and a stake holder in the Biafra project. Just to be very clear, this letter is for the sake of posterity, seeing as we are all before history and will be judged by it.

1) The Biafra agitation IS NOT a quest for vendetta against Igbo politicians, Ohaneze Ndigbo and other Igbo non-IPOB members who may not share your method on Biafra in toto even when they may completely share the underlying message of your agitation. The Biafra agitation is a people's cry against state-sponsored killings and other forms of institutionalized injustices. A quest for freedom to self determine our future and explore our potentials. That the Igbo leadership collective has not lived up to our expectations as youths is not in doubt. But a wise man must first catch Mr Vulture before asking him the name of his Barber. K'anyi zotagodi ana tupu anyi azowa ute.

2) To preside over a people, exercise any authority over them or even agitate for anything on their behalf, you must first understand them. Sometimes I fear that some of you, especially the online warriors, do not really understand the Igbo so well. Ndigbo are natural parliamentarians with a deeply rooted republican default setting. A very proud people. And they like debating every issue and having every man contribute his opinion before a conclusion is reached. This is the only way the conclusion can be binding on them. Plus, they don't give anyone, not even the gods, absolute loyalty or trust. They can shout "Hosanna To The Highest" for you today but they won't hesitate to gift you with "Crucify Him, Crucify Him" song the next day if they feel you are no longer serving their interest. Even if an Igbo man knows that you are taking him to heaven for a one-on-one with God, he will still need you to explain to him, in full detail, how you intend to do the journey and even after your explanation, he will not just close his eyes and allow you carry him in a wheelbarrow to God. He will want to walk the road to heaven with you, with his eyes wide open, maka adighi ama ama. That is who the Igbo man is. Most importantly, you don't order him around.

This foray into who the Igbo man is, is as necessary as it is strategic, to enable us have a better understanding of the people for whom we are agitating for Biafra.

3) If a non IPOB Biafran expresses divergent view on any issue concerning the Biafra agitation, questions your method or voices concerns about any of your activities, do not be so quick to shut him up, insult him into silence, character-assasinate or bully him while spraying the "Sabo" tag on him like the anti-mosquito thing called "Raid". You cannot insult an Independent Biafra Nation into existence neither can you character-assasinate your own people into submission. Everytime you insult people for asking question or refusing to follow your method without question, you create the wrong impression that the Biafra you are fighting for will be one in which free speech will be outlawed and people branded Saboteurs simply for owning and expressing divergent views on issues affecting them. Remember, the Biafra you are fighting for will not be for your members only. And if it is for all of us, how can one be a Saboteur simply for asking question or disagreeing with your method?? Being a member of IPOB does not make you more Biafran than other Igbo non IPOB members just as insulting people does not make you a hardcore IPOB members.

4)Whatever you do, however you do it, please DO NOT boycott election, especially your own states elections UNLESS you are ready to go violent. The only two means of securing an independent Nation is through the Political process or war. Any other thing aside this two is what the Igbo call 'Ajambene'. No one will take you seriously, no one will fear you, and surely, no politician in Igboland will lose sleep over your activities UNTIL you put your numerical strength into use and prove that you can punish your enemies and reward your friends with your vote. Political power is everything. The man who holds it can determine when you should sleep and wake up. If you can't use your numerical strength to change political terrorists in Biafra land and replace them with real Igbo Patriots who will at least use their States Attorney Generals to ensure your members are not thrown into jail simply for holding a flag, your journey to the land of the rising sun will remain an endless one because the truth is, the second biggest tragedy of Ndigbo is the tragedy of leadership.

If you cannot control your own homogeneous Igbo Nation, politically, with all your much touted numerical strength, you simply cannot extricate Biafra from Nigeria.
Before preaching Boycott, do well to ask yourself the gain from the boycott of the 2006 census as championed by MASSOB. After boycotting the last Anambra governorship poll, did it exempt you from Governor Willie Obiano's policies?

5)For any agitation to succeed, the agitators must balance Emotion (passionate commitment) with Reason. Before taking any steps, the first question you must always ask yourself is, how will this step take me closer to my target. And seeing as a Referendum date is your target, your question should be, HOW WILL ELECTION BOYCOTT HELP BRING THE MUCH NEEDED REFERENDUM FOR BIAFRA? The answer to the above question should be your guide.

It is an unjust world we live in. No one but us is coming to save us. Nigeria is a sovereign "Nation" with enough black liquid to bribe away the eyes of the international community from our plight. The United Nation is an assemblage of Nations full of flowry speeches but devoid of conscience. In the midst of well documented ethnic cleansing the Cameroonian sit-tight leader, Paul Biya is carrying out against the people of Southern Cameroon, the same UN "rewarded" Paul Biya with a seat at its Human Rights council. Syria yet burns in a senseless war being fueled by member States of the same UN. They care about one thing and one thing alone: Their Interest. The US is no different. The way and manner the US President, Donald Trump placed his country's business interest with Saudi Arabia over and above the need to get justice for Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist allegedly butchered by the Saudi Authorities says it all.

lastly, brethren, I understand that due to the emotional attachment we have for Biafra, some of you might feel uncomfortable with this piece but I assure you, I bear nothing but love for you all and it is because of that love that I have refused to allow you be like 'Eze Onye Agwana m' who was busy dancing Unclad while mistaking laughter directed at his unclothedness for cheers for his dancing prowess.

We cannot stop the Nigerian rain from falling but we can at least take measures to stop ourselves from being beaten by it.

Love From Charles


http://saharareporters.com/2019/01/06/open-letter-ipob-charles-ogbu

Please the above crap and shove it. I do not have time to respond appropriately to this junk of thought.

Corrinthians:
Even though it pains me to do this, knowing how dumb iPod supporters tend to be, let me just break it down.

The writer already captured precisely how participating in elections would hasten the realization of the aspirations of iPod.

Read:

Use your numerical strength to install patriots who would have the best interest of Ndigbo at heart. One of such interests is biafra. Otherwise, no one would care a hoot how much you wail, curse and insult!

Whatever it is, I STAND WITH TOTAL BOYCOTT OF THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION IN BIAFRALAND!

Even if Biafran sympathisers managed to win every electoral position in their area and install Biafran agitators as political leaders, they will still have to go to the National Assembly of Nigeria to seek a referendum and they do not have the numerical strenght to get a vote on Biafran referendum in the Nigerian National Assembly. It would all be a waste of time. Had Nigeria been structured differently along regional lines, then it might have been possible. But that is not the case.

The only way Biafran agitators can get a referendum in the current dispensation is using the numerical strenght of its supporters against Nigeria by mass protest, election boycott, civil disobedience etc.

Election boycott is a good way of letting the Nigerian state as well as the international community know that a people are longer interested in being part of a country

Problem of igbo is not Nigeria but igbos themselves , we are arrogant and disorderd.

First we executed a coup, killing only the westerners and northerners. ( may I even use this opportunity to apologise for the 66 coup) without touching a single igbo man.

Second they went to war without single preparation, and nearly terminated their existence.

For me ipob/massob isn't genuine, otherwise they would have corrected our fault lines.

criuze:

Problem of igbo is not Nigeria but igbos themselves , we are arrogant and disorderd.

First we executed a coup, killing only the westerners and northerners. ( may I even use this opportunity to apologise for the 66 coup) without touching a single igbo man.

Second they went to war without single preparation, and nearly terminated their existence.

For me ipob/massob isn't genuine, otherwise they would have corrected our fault lines.

namecalling
and arselicking
will not make you popular

Election boycott is self destruction. Be wise as serpent

tit:


namecalling
and arselicking
will not make you popular

Just as if NK led us into another war he would have escaped to isreal before any other person

Have you ever heard of insult in the tradition of our people, but he did it without recourse, insulting even Queen Elizabeth and American President Obama.


Even this buhari/jubril issue is just a cooked plot to Burry his court case.

Nwanne ichoo iwota, ofu okwu ezugolu onye malu ife.

criuze:

Problem of igbo is not Nigeria but igbos themselves , we are arrogant and disorderd.

First we executed a coup, killing only the westerners and northerners. ( may I even use this opportunity to apologise for the 66 coup) without touching a single igbo man.

You are wrong. Major Ademoyega, Captain Oyewole, Lt Adeleke and Lt Egbiko were all participants in the coup. The first 3 were Yoruba and Egbiko was a Northerner. Anyone who tells you it was just Igbos that carried out the coup is lying. Also, a top Igbo Igbo officer , Lt Col Unegbe, was killed by the coup plotters.

Second they went to war without single preparation, and nearly terminated their existence

Nigeria declared on the Easterners by Nigerians. When someone comes to fight you, you fight back. The luxury of all the time in the world to be prepared wasn't there

For me ipob/massob isn't genuine, otherwise they would have corrected our fault lines.

IPOB and MASSOB are calling for freedom, independence and referendum. What fault lines can they have?

Dreambeat:
When you talk about number,here lies the problem.The Nigerian constitution is so skewed in favor of the North that even if all the representatives of the old Eastern region are pro Biafrans,they cannot achieve Biafra through the National Assembly.So voting in pro Biafran lesgislators won’t change anything as long as the present constitution stands.Don’t tell me about lobbying other regions because it won’t work.The north is feedin fat on the south resources easily and you don’t expect them to give it up just like that.Ordinary restructuring,you see how the north has been kicking against it.

So how exactly will boycotting elections grant Igbos Biafra??...that is the question IPOB members have not been able to answer!..

It is the stupidd actions of boycotting the last Population Census that enabled what you are complaing about to get worse..

Be strategic instead of monkeying around!....i just cant wrap my head around the inability of you guys to think strategically.

midolian:

Brethren,
I bring you greetings.

It is beyond argument that, through the agitation for Biafra which you lead, you, The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) have brought both local and international attention to the plight of Ndigbo in Nigeria. You have raised our consciousness to a level never seen before. In the face of Unclad brutality and state terrorism, you have stood tall, refusing to bow to tyranny. Your members have paid the ultimate price for the emancipation of the people of old Eastern region from the clutches of Nigeria, a country that is deaf and dumb to the sanctity of human lives. Above all, you have resisted the urge to go violent, remaining peaceful, even in the face of demonic provocation from the Muhammad Buhari led government. For these, my gratitude is yours.

But,I have not come to offer you gratitude. I have come to convey to you my concerns in areas I reasonably believe you are progressing in error and offer unsolicited advice as an Igbo man and a stake holder in the Biafra project. Just to be very clear, this letter is for the sake of posterity, seeing as we are all before history and will be judged by it.

1) The Biafra agitation IS NOT a quest for vendetta against Igbo politicians, Ohaneze Ndigbo and other Igbo non-IPOB members who may not share your method on Biafra in toto even when they may completely share the underlying message of your agitation. The Biafra agitation is a people's cry against state-sponsored killings and other forms of institutionalized injustices. A quest for freedom to self determine our future and explore our potentials. That the Igbo leadership collective has not lived up to our expectations as youths is not in doubt. But a wise man must first catch Mr Vulture before asking him the name of his Barber. K'anyi zotagodi ana tupu anyi azowa ute.

2) To preside over a people, exercise any authority over them or even agitate for anything on their behalf, you must first understand them. Sometimes I fear that some of you, especially the online warriors, do not really understand the Igbo so well. Ndigbo are natural parliamentarians with a deeply rooted republican default setting. A very proud people. And they like debating every issue and having every man contribute his opinion before a conclusion is reached. This is the only way the conclusion can be binding on them. Plus, they don't give anyone, not even the gods, absolute loyalty or trust. They can shout "Hosanna To The Highest" for you today but they won't hesitate to gift you with "Crucify Him, Crucify Him" song the next day if they feel you are no longer serving their interest. Even if an Igbo man knows that you are taking him to heaven for a one-on-one with God, he will still need you to explain to him, in full detail, how you intend to do the journey and even after your explanation, he will not just close his eyes and allow you carry him in a wheelbarrow to God. He will want to walk the road to heaven with you, with his eyes wide open, maka adighi ama ama. That is who the Igbo man is. Most importantly, you don't order him around.

This foray into who the Igbo man is, is as necessary as it is strategic, to enable us have a better understanding of the people for whom we are agitating for Biafra.

3) If a non IPOB Biafran expresses divergent view on any issue concerning the Biafra agitation, questions your method or voices concerns about any of your activities, do not be so quick to shut him up, insult him into silence, character-assasinate or bully him while spraying the "Sabo" tag on him like the anti-mosquito thing called "Raid". You cannot insult an Independent Biafra Nation into existence neither can you character-assasinate your own people into submission. Everytime you insult people for asking question or refusing to follow your method without question, you create the wrong impression that the Biafra you are fighting for will be one in which free speech will be outlawed and people branded Saboteurs simply for owning and expressing divergent views on issues affecting them. Remember, the Biafra you are fighting for will not be for your members only. And if it is for all of us, how can one be a Saboteur simply for asking question or disagreeing with your method?? Being a member of IPOB does not make you more Biafran than other Igbo non IPOB members just as insulting people does not make you a hardcore IPOB members.

4)Whatever you do, however you do it, please DO NOT boycott election, especially your own states elections UNLESS you are ready to go violent. The only two means of securing an independent Nation is through the Political process or war. Any other thing aside this two is what the Igbo call 'Ajambene'. No one will take you seriously, no one will fear you, and surely, no politician in Igboland will lose sleep over your activities UNTIL you put your numerical strength into use and prove that you can punish your enemies and reward your friends with your vote. Political power is everything. The man who holds it can determine when you should sleep and wake up. If you can't use your numerical strength to change political terrorists in Biafra land and replace them with real Igbo Patriots who will at least use their States Attorney Generals to ensure your members are not thrown into jail simply for holding a flag, your journey to the land of the rising sun will remain an endless one because the truth is, the second biggest tragedy of Ndigbo is the tragedy of leadership.

If you cannot control your own homogeneous Igbo Nation, politically, with all your much touted numerical strength, you simply cannot extricate Biafra from Nigeria.
Before preaching Boycott, do well to ask yourself the gain from the boycott of the 2006 census as championed by MASSOB. After boycotting the last Anambra governorship poll, did it exempt you from Governor Willie Obiano's policies?

5)For any agitation to succeed, the agitators must balance Emotion (passionate commitment) with Reason. Before taking any steps, the first question you must always ask yourself is, how will this step take me closer to my target. And seeing as a Referendum date is your target, your question should be, HOW WILL ELECTION BOYCOTT HELP BRING THE MUCH NEEDED REFERENDUM FOR BIAFRA? The answer to the above question should be your guide.

It is an unjust world we live in. No one but us is coming to save us. Nigeria is a sovereign "Nation" with enough black liquid to bribe away the eyes of the international community from our plight. The United Nation is an assemblage of Nations full of flowry speeches but devoid of conscience. In the midst of well documented ethnic cleansing the Cameroonian sit-tight leader, Paul Biya is carrying out against the people of Southern Cameroon, the same UN "rewarded" Paul Biya with a seat at its Human Rights council. Syria yet burns in a senseless war being fueled by member States of the same UN. They care about one thing and one thing alone: Their Interest. The US is no different. The way and manner the US President, Donald Trump placed his country's business interest with Saudi Arabia over and above the need to get justice for Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist allegedly butchered by the Saudi Authorities says it all.

lastly, brethren, I understand that due to the emotional attachment we have for Biafra, some of you might feel uncomfortable with this piece but I assure you, I bear nothing but love for you all and it is because of that love that I have refused to allow you be like 'Eze Onye Agwana m' who was busy dancing Unclad while mistaking laughter directed at his unclothedness for cheers for his dancing prowess.

We cannot stop the Nigerian rain from falling but we can at least take measures to stop ourselves from being beaten by it.

Love From Charles

http://saharareporters.com/2019/01/06/open-letter-ipob-charles-ogbu

The writer's message should ordinarily be seen as calming and reasonable by those who think alike. The irony of the human mind, though, is that the IPOB drivers (I mean leadership and followers) will easily see a virtually completely opposite picture, and conclude that the writer is, in fact, seeking to impose an alien will on them!

That, folks, is the true definition of co-habiting between literarily equally matched groups of people. It is in fact what's currently obtainable between Nigeria's so-called most dominant three ethnic groups of (in alphabetical order) Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. Thus, there must be a truce and bridge between any two for there to be a semblance of sanity in our nation's political eco-system. Believe it or not, this is what needs to play out on a local scale within the Igbo.

Contrast that with the situation in South Africa for example, where the Zulu are so predominantly populous over other ethnic groups, such that the Zulu can afford to be fractionalized, go into national elections, and still defeat other parties centered on other ethnic groups.

Just my two Kobo.

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