vicenzo:

Hmm,seems like everybody wants fresh,imagine they are planing to hijack him,then why shout BB,looks like only the igbo is enjoying the fresh air while others are planing to hijack him,breaking news:FRESH AIR is for all nigerians.

KnowAll:

The strongest & most sellable Igbo man who was already an establish ruling class was Soludo, despite his Bank cock-ups d SW & moderates in d North would have backed a Soludo candidacy than Ngozi, but Jo-boy destroyed that promising young man's ambition by awarding that election to Obi & secondly Jo-boy was too scared to dear Ojukwu. Today Ojukwu is almost on his way out, but d most promising man east of dNiger in both d SS & SE career lies in ruins courtesy of Jo-boy yet Igbo's today are still supporting Jo-boy, d Igbo's had better join d new gravy train in Town which is Team BB.

jason123:

Now that you are calm, we can reason together as brothers and fellow country men.

The economic spearheading was done by the OBJ (same yorubas you hate and despise) to allow igbos greater roles in the society, that I do not have problem with. If we all look out for our individual ethnic groups, then who will look out for the country??The ethnic lines are already burred. Take a look at Lagos and maybe port harcourt,Lagos is a multi ethnic society where tribalism has no place. See the way it change from just an economic center to building its own island. Lagos is the epitome of what Yorubas, Igbos and Hausas can do when they are detribali[b]sed.
But my eastern brother, when we start playing tribal politics and ethnocentric games[/b], then we will only result back to 1967 (I do not pray for that) and we Nigerians (whether yorubas, isoko, ijaw, hausas, igbos etc) will lose everything.
On the issue of presidency, I am SURE many people do not care anymore about where the president comes from as long as he does well. Anybody that can remove OBJ's god fatherism and corruption will do the nation a whole lot of good. When the nation starts functioning with a bit of morals then we can start the proper development because my bother, development will not come as long as corruption is our bane.

We should not tribalise the position of presidency. It will do us more harm than good. It will sow ethnic hatred and mistrust. It might even lead to something we all do not want.

Vote for whoever you like but please do not based it on ethnic judgments as most igbos are doing now. Even the SS are not as crazily tribal as some igbo are about GEJ. I just do not want a region or the whole country to regret their actions. Thank you

Diligence:

that same Buhari also denied an internationally experienced hand such as Okonjo-Iweala the VP ticket; let him be assured that NDI-IGBO votes will go 100% to Jonathan/Sambo!

u people are just jobless. LIARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Ngozi does nt belong to BUHARI Class. Buhari cant even dream of it not to DAREEEEEEEEE. Who is Buhari to do dat. somebody dat cant make clear sentence in English wants to pick Ngozi as running mate MUMU. D best he can do is dat prophet of DOOM Bakare. LOSER

But OBJ was fvcking her so tey de dey saw asoebi, Not so??

Dav.e:

As Seun rightly said @ the OP, it's very likely that the story isn't true. But if by chance it is, then there is a part missing by either the narrator (Pastor Bakare) or the journalist was just another quack:
Since P. Bakare claimed he sought for the opportunity to leave Nigerian politics and such an opportunity (for him and for his very beloved country) for a vibrant candidate to take the position of VP came along, WHAT WAS HIS RESPONSE TO BUHARI WHO ASKED HIM WHETHER HE WAS READY TO DO JUST THAT?

Secondly, isn't Okonjo-Iweala a Nigerian and a person of her own?
If Obj/Ibb or whoever recommended her, so what? Was she qualified? Wasn't it a great opportunity for Buhari to demonstrate to Nigerians that the end to political 'godfatherism' had arrived and ensuring that Obj and co. would have no influence on individuals appointed to any office? With his 'anticorruption stance', I don't even think anybody recommended by the 'devil' go wan enta office mess up!

You are crazy. You are sick, I guess you are on hard drugs? What kind of drug are you on? Mumu

nuzo:

Honestly,I absolutely dont see nothing wrong with supporting Buhari for all the right reasons. However, it becomes hyper-hypocritical to shut down those Igbos using ethnicity and religion as their basis for supporting GEJ even when most Hausas and some Yorubas are supporting Buhari for exactly the same reasons.

As Delta Igbo,

Why I'm Buhari's Running Mate - Dr. Chuba Okadigbo
21 January 2003



Enugu — FORMER Senate President and Vice Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Chuba Okadigbo says his acceptance to be General Muhammadu Buhari's running mate is the shortest way the Igbo can produce a Nigerian president. Okadigbo who arrived Enugu weekend to commence his campaign tour of the South East said his acceptance to run was the shortest road to the presidency for Ndigbo in the right of the reality on the ground. If Obasanjo/Atiku continue by winning this election in the event of that hypothetical absurdity, it will mean eight years of Obasanjo, eight years of the presidency in the South, so that when it goes to the North, there will be another eight years and Igbo people will have been without the presidency for sixteen (16) years," he said.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200301210288.html

ANPP - Ume-Ezeoke Remains Buhari's Running-Mate
30 January 2007

Abuja — The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) said yesterday that its National Chairman, Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke remains the running mate of its flag-bearer, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

A statement from the party's national secretariat in Abuja signed by its National Director of Publicity, Alhaji Ibrahim Modibbo, said: "The choice of the Vice Presidential candidate of our great party remains the prerogative of our Presidential candidate and Chief Ume-Ezeoke who parades an envious political profile as a leader with mass grassroots appeal, high integrity and commitment towards the entrenchment of viable and vibrant democratic culture remains on the ticket".


http://allafrica.com/stories/200701310032.html

Why I picked Bakare my running mate’
22/03/2011

I recognized Bakare as a highly principled person. He is very courageous, loyal and patriotic. I was impressed how he organized the Save Nigeria Group (SNG). When there was a constitutional crisis about succession –when our late brother former President Musa Yar’Adua was sick, Bakare mobilize people and went to the National Assembly and protested –that the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria is absolutely clear about succession. That is Bakare for you. So, I couldn’t get a better partner than Bakare. And if you could recall, I personally signed a letter, when I was in the National Democratic Initiative with Bafarawa and Atiku then. We said there was no problem about succession; that nobody should try to cause confusion in Nigeria. And later, when we became National Democratic Movement (NDM), which included Bafarawa, Atiku, Bola Tinubu, Path Utomi among others, again, we wrote to the senate; we went and saw the senate president, and we took a copy to the leader of the House. We did so because we didn’t want anybody to bring any problem by confusing Nigerians.

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/politics/31390.html

Seun:

Maybe he just personally hates the men and it has nothing to do with integrity.

Seun:

So I'm not allowed to even suggest that Buhari is not necessarily a perfectly righteous man?

daqskin:

there is no such thing as Delta igbo, i repeat no such thing as Delta igbo

Seun:

So I'm not allowed to even suggest that Buhari is not necessarily a perfectly righteous man?

cjfavour:

i wonder about the type of brain some ppl have.The article says OBJ suggested Ngozi.Ngozi and Obj are nt in goo terms.remember how she left his govt.2,Obj again.you want buhari to make a deal with OBJ? God forbid.The fight is against what OBJ did in govt and the plan to probe him and you ppl want him to b Buhari god father.No to OBJ and no to PDP.Buhari know better.

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