Franking:
Yoruba can have the presidency for ten thousand years but, please, biko, ejoor, give us Biafra. No be fight, no be quarrel. Na beg we dey beg. We no marry again. Give us Biafra, please.

ORIENTATION101:
bro keep ur emotional rant, 2019 election proved north re not power hungry like all the false narrative that ur type always said.
1) north got a chance to extend their rule 12 yrs they turned it down
2) they dealt with their political leaders mercilessly those that escape were lucky to.
meanwhile a certain region in south returned their useless leaders that bribe their way with kerosine

izzou:
The north has proven for the second time that they decide who becomes president, all thanks to the foolish South West, South South and South East.

Go and check the 2019 results again.. Even if the South West voted Atiku, Buhari would still have won.

The entire South is at the mercy of the North come 2023.....

We have the North West, North East, North Central, South West, South East, and South South.

There is no written agreement anywhere that power must switch to one geo political zone after 8 years so what we will see is the north presenting a North Easterner for presidency and the stupid south as usual, clamouring for Vice....

Jonathan was lucky to have ruled this country.

izzou:
The north has proven for the second time that they decide who becomes president, all thanks to the foolish South West, South South and South East.

Go and check the 2019 results again.. Even if the South West voted Atiku, Buhari would still have won.

The entire South is at the mercy of the North come 2023.....

We have the North West, North East, North Central, South West, South East, and South South.

There is no written agreement anywhere that power must switch to one geo political zone after 8 years so what we will see is the north presenting a North Easterner for presidency and the stupid south as usual, clamouring for Vice....

Jonathan was lucky to have ruled this country.

Deadlytruth:


For the first bolded: where did that Ironsi's unitary system land us today, and how come Igbos' voices are the loudest about a return to the true federalism Ironsi replaced with that unitary system? Is it just about being bold to do things however stupid?

For the second bolded: how come with all the mutual love and respect that existed between Igbos and Jonathan, Igbos didn't one day have the audacity to challenge Jonathan to restructure but chose to only keep on with the narrative that Jonathan must have his second term as if that was more important than the restructuring to which Jonathan paid lip service throughout his uneventful tenure?
The only Igbo man, Festus Odumegwu, who had the temerity to challenge the system by making a case and a genuine attempt towards an important aspect of restructuring was booted out of office by Jonathan to the applause of his own Igbo kinsmen.

Shinjitsu:




Please bro I want you to go back to history and check when a man from old eastern region ruled this country and now the Yourbas and hause/Fulani are ruling us please which one is better?

izzou:
The north has proven for the second time that they decide who becomes president, all thanks to the foolish South West, South South and South East.

Go and check the 2019 results again.. Even if the South West voted Atiku, Buhari would still have won.

The entire South is at the mercy of the North come 2023.....

We have the North West, North East, North Central, South West, South East, and South South.

There is no written agreement anywhere that power must switch to one geo political zone after 8 years so what we will see is the north presenting a North Easterner for presidency and the stupid south as usual, clamouring for Vice....

Jonathan was lucky to have ruled this country.

Princedapace:


Nigeria generally has no remarkable leader. Like I said, be was more practical than others. He could have made mistakes. He was able to begin a process than settled the agitations in Niger delta. And that helped the country.
How competent he was is not the bases of my points. My point remains that a region produced leader doesn't change anything. All Nigerians seek is a leader to solve our problems.

North and west have ruled this country with nothing to show for it.

Urchman200:
This article is promoting tribalism but the writter doesn't seem to care because is a paid journalist wheather igbo or yoruba I don't care because non of will bring changes to the live of a common man in the country. But equity demand that igbo tribe should be given the opportunity to represent just like every other person supported Atiku and Buhari from the same tribe heaven did not fall.

Firstandonly:
the chances of south south to rule again is much higher than that of south east. Adam, Amechi, Donal duke etc this are men with political advantage over any south easterner

RTSC:

Ironsi did what he thought was right. It doesn't mean it is not a hard thing.
A better igbo president would do the hard job of restructuring this country and correcting ironsi mistake.

Jonathan was his own man. There was no way you can make a man braver than he is.
He was his own man and made his own decisions based on his character.
You can't hold igbos responsible for his failure. You can't force a president to restructure Nigeria.

And just like you said Jonathan removed an igbo revolutionary just to placate northern voices. It was the same mentality that made him invest heavily in the North and very little in his homeland.

There was nothing igbos could have done.

Deadlytruth:


Just like how a better Hausafulani, a better Edo, a better Yorubas, a better Ijaw, a better Urhobo, a better Ibibio, a better, Ogoni, a better Efik, etc would easily do the correct thing that would address all Nigeria's problems. So it is not just about Igbos alone.
The Yoruba man, Obasanjo who ruled twice, was not the choice of Yorubas but that of the IBB-led Northern Oligarchy and their southern collaborators mostly from the SE and my own SS.
The SS person who ruled in the person of Jonathan, was not the genuine SS' choice as the circumstances that brought him to power were beyond the SS people's control. If the SS were allowed to make a choice, they would have opted for Donald Duke whom even all other regions easily admit is a material for ideal national leadership.
The Northerners who ruled after Ahmadu Bello and Balewa were as well thrown up by circumstances beyond the Northern generality's control hence their musrule can't really be rubbed on all Northerners.

RTSC:

But the two major revolutionary events in Nigerian history was spearheaded by igbos who took the bull by the horn.
Imagine that kind of courage in a responsible, patriotic and competent leader.
Nigeria could finally change for good.

Other ethnics have good potential leaders. But I don't think it is very easy to find that kind of courage to do what is necessary.

Deadlytruth:


For the first bolded: Without prejudice to the fact that his so-called amnesty offer didn't solve any problem in the Niger Delta as the agitations have continued till today, he has the gold medal of genocide in the Niger Delta as it was he who ordered the massacre of over 3,000 innocent civilians in Gbaramatu kingdom and had the monarch's palace razed down all by JTF in the name of going after militants one of whom was never apprehended. Your logic above is akin to eulogizing Gowon for beginning a process that brought peace to Igbos despite the process consumed over 3 million innocent Igbo civilians.

Secondly, the amnesty offer was not borne out of genuine intention because, apart from the fact that it was an afterthought prompted by the militants reprisal attacks on oil facilities which saw crude oil output plummet by a historic 75% within just two weeks, it redefined and reclassified freedom fighters as criminals asking for pardon from the government which had raped them for years and was therefore the real criminal. Ideally the Niger Deltans are supposed to be the ones granting the Nigerian Government amnesty, but for the stupidity of the likes of Edwin Clark and Jonathan who, with his PhD ought to have known better, urged the Niger Delta freedom fighters to accept Yaradua's reclassification of them as criminals.
Do you think that, after having admitted to being criminals to whom the FG showed forgiveness, the Niger Delta people can ever sue the Nigerian Government to any local or International court for war crime or marginalization and win? And that was Yaradua's legacy.
Thirdly, did the amnesty policy address a shred of any of the fundamental demands for which Ken Saro Wiwa was killed by Yaradua's brother Abacha?
If anything, the amnesty offer only increased laziness, sense of entitlement and unproductivity in the Niger Delta.
Fourthly the very wrong precedent set by the amnesty offer is what is being extended today by way of suggesting same for Boko Haram and other terrorist groups to the dismay of the public.


How would you feel if Buhari grants Amnesty to Ipob now and the latter foolishly accepts it, then other Nigerian tribes begin to use that as a basis to credit Buhari with beginning a process that brought peace to the SE?

For the second bolded: Please note that the East too through Ironsi, has as much as the West and North ruled, and not only having nothing to show for it but even destroyed our federalism hence laying the foundation for all the injustice and misrule we currently complain of.

Princedapace:


I am personally not a fan of Yaradua. My point is: presidency from this region, that region, is not what we should be dragging..

I do wonder why mere people here on this forum do get excited when appointments come from their region. I mean, fashiola is the minister of power, he is a south westerner, has his position made south west to resolve electricity issue?

No, so at this age, what Nigerians should glamouring for is a proper political structure that will help the country grow.

Me and u no come here drag anything becus I can see where ur view is headed to already. Lol.

Deadlytruth:

Neither am I interested in which Region any leader comes from. The theme of my argument here is that Yaradua is the opposite of what you tried to portray him as. Recall that your crediting of him with vision is what triggered it off?

Franking:



With due respect, Yaradua, RIP, was completely bereft of ideas as president. He was just a nice guy who was beyond his depth as president. I have nothing against him but truth be told he was a dullard.

Princedapace:


Yes, because there were stuff he did that I personally liked. He refused fuel price, increased police salary, started housing scheme, was interested in education. He was compassionate, not such a tribal person. He is not such a great leader, he didn't rule that much. I was just comparing with the nonsense leaders we have produced as a country.

Deadlytruth:

Maybe those are your own standards of good governance. However those achievements, to me, are not fundamental to nation building hence I don't see him as an outlier.
I would score Jonathan and Buhari far above him because these two have done certain things which are aimed at addressing the root cause of some of our national challenges unlike Yaradua's contingency approaches you listed above.
For example Jonathan's tenure saw the end of political assassinations, genuine and practical electoral reform legacies unlike Yaradua's lip service to same. Jonathan pursued the PIB which would have fundamentally addressed the intractible fuel scarcity thus stabilizing prices and eradicating the agitation for subsidy which removal causes the hike in prices which Yaradua is credited with reducing when in actual fact he only removed the VAT which Obasanjo imposed on the eve of his departure. Jonathan also showed example by being the first sitting president to visit innocent victims of violence in their hospital beds thus showing a human face to governance, and lots more which can't be said of Yaradua. However Jonathan derailed the moment he began trying to, in pursuit of re-election, connect himself to the sympathy of the Hausafulani Core North at the sacrifice of the interest of the South and Middle Belt which gave him his victory votes over Buhari in 2011.
I don't know how you came to the conclusion that Yaradua was detribalized. You have forgotten that against intense public outcry he made his kinsman, Rilwan Lukman, minister of petroleum despite that one had no cognate qualification or experience. Just like Buhari, most of Yaradua's appointments had moslems and Northerners as beneficiaries. The same Yaradua totally ignored his own tribes militia (Fulani Herdsmen menace) which started right under his nose but was busy chasing Niger Delta militants with JTF and killing innocent Niger Deltans in thousands while Fulani Herdsmen had a field day.

As for Buhari, he too has increased police salary, so what's the big deal about Yaradua doing so? He too is doing some critical infrastructure in education and federal housing scheme. If we don't have to be sentiments driven, his modular refineries policy is a very fundamental approach to a major hydraheaded national problem and a fulfilment of one of the demands for which Ken Saro Wiwa was matyred hence not a contingency or divide and rule amnesty offer like Yaradua's. It is also a step in the direction of the overall restructuring being called for. His ban on importation of many of our comparative advantage commodities, though very harsh, is one of the most fundamentally impactful policies ever made by a Nigerian Government. Yaradua was never that bold and daring. Should Emifiele come up with a Naira Redenomination policy exactly like Soludo's, Buhari will never overrule it even though he might not understand the nitty gritty. But as long as he understands that it will hurt the thieving elite, he will gladly approve of it.

izzou:
The north has proven for the second time that they decide who becomes president, all thanks to the foolish South West, South South and South East.

Go and check the 2019 results again.. Even if the South West voted Atiku, Buhari would still have won.

The entire South is at the mercy of the North come 2023.....

We have the North West, North East, North Central, South West, South East, and South South.

There is no written agreement anywhere that power must switch to one geo political zone after 8 years so what we will see is the north presenting a North Easterner for presidency and the stupid south as usual, clamouring for Vice....

Jonathan was lucky to have ruled this country.

helinues:
Power is not given but taken.. Deserved is just an overstatement.

Whoever region/candidates interested in 2023 presidency should fight for it.

kaen1317:
Hausa should be President and not Yoruba. The southeast will gladly vote a buhari over any candidate from the SW.