SLOVFO:


I wouldn't know because I am not a politician. And I am also not interested nor have the capability to be the president of Nigeria, for now. But I won't be surprised that some serious Igbo politicians are covertly lobbying for the position.

LegendHero:
And what have the said Ibo politicians done to seek the buy-in of Asiwaju? What steps have they taken to negotiate the alliance?

Abuse him daily on the internet with putrid hate?

So Asiwaju will work tirelessly all through his life and hand over his lifelong dream to some hateful beings because he wants to please them or because of what!!

LegendHero:
And what have the said Ibo politicians done to seek the buy-in of Asiwaju? What steps have they taken to negotiate the alliance?

Abuse him daily on the internet with putrid hate?

So Asiwaju will work tirelessly all through his life and hand over his lifelong dream to some hateful beings because he wants to please them or because of what!!

Maobichek:


Nairaland is not the basis to judge this great country, Even here in Nairaland, there are ppl who do not preach hate nor practice tribalism ( I believe you might have gone through my comments in my profile before saying few and then 1%).

Generalizing that Igbo hate BAT is pure lie because BAT have friends and followers among igbos. The best you should have done is to show me where I preach hate and tribalism against non Igbos but since you can't, please stop generalizing, thank you.

Millimann:
If it was a southeasterner saying this, they would have insulted him.

If you are a southerner advocating that power should come to the south yet you don't want it to go to the southeast, then you are a big hypocrite, and you have no right whatsoever to ask the north to relinquish power.

olaolaking:
Tell them they are smoking.No be only Igbo na ugba.

What have they done to deserve it? When everyone say let go up, Igbos will come out to say down. Always anti people.

Make dem go carry am now

post=106702405:
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

post=106702405:
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

Olaolufred:


It failed in 1979, we did not cry like babies.

It was daylight robbery in 1993, we challenged the power that be with all resistance.

1999 came, we presented our candidate in Olu Falae, he lost, but we moved on.

In 2015, It finally worked. To God be the glory.

2015 was just a leeway for a Yoruba man to get there.

But those who were clearing another man's farm (peedeeepeee) now wants to reap elsewhere. It doesn't werk that way.

Don't bother telling me OBJ was Yoruba man. He was an imposed candidate of the Fulani/Ibo Coalition.

That was why he did not execute one successful project in SW throughout his 8 years.

Globad:
The same people on this forum who abuse him daily and call him names?

barcaboi:

Orji kalu
Obiano

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.

NSK4U:


That was what happened in 1999. South West abused not just IBB alone but the entire North because of the annulment and every other region agreed to micro zoning it to the West via the two dominant parties, if it had been left open, OBJ wouldn't have smelled the presidency because it was handed over to him on a platter of pacifying aggrieved sw region. so what lame logic are you bringing to counter the naked truth staring you in the face?

yetunsbay:
lol at 30% why not say 85%

jaxxy:


There are obviously places lacking. Igbos are not ingrates.

Hausaamaka:
I think mc oluomo will be in a better position to give you details. Ask him why he chase ibo voters away. He knows what ibos are capable of doing in yorubaland.

LegendHero:


I mean Igbo populace itself.

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.

LegendHero:
And what have the said Ibo politicians done to seek the buy-in of Asiwaju? What steps have they taken to negotiate the alliance?

Abuse him daily on the internet with putrid hate?

So Asiwaju will work tirelessly all through his life and hand over his lifelong dream to some hateful beings because he wants to please them or because of what!!

Gbajure:


Respect!

Imagine Peter Obi boasting to be the sole.importer for Ovaltine in a country that is leading producer of cocoa. Also for salad dressing with our million of dairy and poultry products.

The Igbos beef with PMB is simply becos he made importation tougher.

Olaolufred:


OLU FALAE was our candidate as Yoruba People. I voted him proudly too.

It was Fulani/Igbo alliance that imposed OBJ.

I agree with the story that said OBJ is from Anambra.

The only project OBJ started in south-west between 1999 and 2007 was the flyover at Sango ota (Ogun State).

Do you know what? It was only completed by Yar'adua / Dimeji Bankole intervention when it became an eyesore.

OBJ represented those who imposed him, not Yorubaland.

erinalex:


This is always the big problem facing the lgbos.

The most confused tribe in Nigeria.

Igbos doesn't even know what they actually wanted.

Is it Biafra nation or Nigerian President

emilo2bad:

Bros in APC the party they hate and tagged as Islamic party? Or PDP their darling party? To me it is their turn in PDP not APC

yetunsbay:
Only useless people don't know that its an act of shame benefitting from where u never sow

Gbajure:


And you want the support of those useless people! Tinubu has no power in the pdp so let them win the pdp ticket first. As regards APC, the Igbos has no moral right to even demand such. Now don't talk about 1999!

Yorubas were strong in pdp and never worked for the demise of that party. Infact a Yoruba man, Chief Bola Ige drafted pdp constitution. He left the party with his men when they refused to concede the ticket to yorubas.

And Ekwueme contested with OBJ and only the North safe the day. So it is silly to expect anyone talkless of Tinubu to be arguing for an igbo man

Ezemust:
let it be any party.it's igbos turn to rule nigeria.that is if we are truely one nigeria

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.