Rozross:
Peter Obi will not even win in south east. I wonder why a man will choose to labour in vain. It’s like a man with orchitis asking to participate in a race competition, is that not juju �

Lol...I am begining to feel sorry for you guys. Calm down, it's just an election..you don't have to talk irrationally.

......

Doyin Okupe has been benched

naptu2:
Chief Oseloka H. Obaze was the secretary to the Anambra State Government in the administration of Governor Peter Obi. He was also the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2016 Anambra State governorship election. He is now a key figure in Peter Obi's Presidential Election Campaign Council.

Tonye Barcanista is a Nairalander and a supporter of the PDP.



Tonye Barcanista @TonyeBarcanista



https://twitter.com/TonyeBarcanista/status/1569618598477307905



Oseloka H. Obaze @OselokaHObaze

Replying to @TonyeBarcanista



https://twitter.com/OselokaHObaze/status/1569644553010876418

He shouldn't have replied Barcanista. Nairalanders are usually not serious people.

[quote author=chosen4now post=116671177][/quote]I don't hold a political post and yet u are trying to make me to be the problem....mehn ! ow old are you pls ?

OkoRemi2023:



President of Ipob till Nnamdi KANU return from exile




imagine campaign crew filled up with his kinsmen yet he want to be Nigeria for all



mumu jingoist

It's only ethnic politics you guys know how to play...bongo die from hypertension on top hate o...stupid people.

Lakside1955:
Yea, we all tribe are for Peter Obi

I’m a yoruba guy from kwara
I’m a typical Muslim
I’m not tribalistic
Me and my family will surely vote for Peter Obi next year � Insha-Allah

I only wants Better Nigeria for the next generation

God bless you for your decision.

holatin:
a lot of people here hate barcanista because the guy may or may not be a political jober who align with who benefit him the most, during buhari first campaign, him and some of us were on the fore front on nairaland campaigning like day tomorrow no dey...I can hit my chest even bragging that I didn't receive a Kobo from anyone....I only did it cus Jonathan don Bleep up and e need to be ejected out.

concerning this post, barcanista raised a salient point...he is trying to show his campaign team is made up of people he share ethnicity or state with....that's segregation and nepotism on its own but it's not my business cus am done with Nigeria politics....none of the presidential candidate this time is the right choice...first time I won't be a preferred candidate.

But did you read the response or you just skipped it

Lakside1955:
Yea, we all tribe are for Peter Obi

I’m a yoruba guy from kwara
I’m a typical Muslim
I’m not tribalistic
Me and my family will surely vote for Peter Obi next year � Insha-Allah

I only wants Better Nigeria for the next generation

Typical Muslim! What does that even mean?

Easterners will NOT vote for the fake CHINESE man Alias Obi Him Tu lie. Let him continue to pour water inside basket

Rozross:
Peter Obi will not even win in south east. I wonder why a man will choose to labour in vain. It’s like a man with orchitis asking to participate in a race competition, is that not juju �

Angelawhite:


But did you read the response or you just skipped it

did you read both paragraph. firstly I addressed the nairaland response to the twitter post then I replied the post. reread again pls

Tonye is one those few assumed educated fellows whose actions and decisions are suggesting that they needs mental evaluation and their academic qualifications claims needs verification.

This people writing nonsense about OBI are indirectly advertising his.
The more they hate, the more we love.

Paper weight politicians *scoff*

Rozross:
Peter Obi will not even win in south east. I wonder why a man will choose to labour in vain. It’s like a man with orchitis asking to participate in a race competition, is that not juju �

Please wetin you dey smoke.
If in your Dreamland you think Peter Obi will not win heavily in south east, then, you're seriously drowsy.
That is the only candidate that will win heavily his region while Tinubu will be struggling with PDP and LP in south west and Atiku also struggling with APC, NNPP and LP in north east.
Please be politically correct.

holatin:
a lot of people here hate barcanista because the guy may or may not be a political jober who align with who benefit him the most, during buhari first campaign, him and some of us were on the fore front on nairaland campaigning like day tomorrow no dey...I can hit my chest even bragging that I didn't receive a Kobo from anyone....I only did it cus Jonathan don Bleep up and e need to be ejected out.

concerning this post, barcanista raised a salient point...he is trying to show his campaign team is made up of people he share ethnicity or state with....that's segregation and nepotism on its own but it's not my business cus am done with Nigeria politics....none of the presidential candidate this time is the right choice...first time I won't be a preferred candidate.

Aside Val ozoigbo, everyone there has been with him since his days as governor. I will see reasons with the Barca guy when each of them gets an appointment in obi's government.

I come in peace obidiently

Rozross:
Peter Obi will not even win in south east. I wonder why a man will choose to labour in vain. It’s like a man with orchitis asking to participate in a race competition, is that not juju �

You will eat this word

Reasonable4me:


Aside Val ozoigbo, everyone there has been with him since his days as governor. I will see reasons with the Barca guy when each of them gets an appointment in obi's government.

the political arena isn't my cup of thing right now bro. just wan advertise my work. stopped commenting on nairaland for over ,5 years. who ever enter.... situation may not change for the common people

Is tonye not that lost loquacious thing who is only wise in his own eyes....such a terrible being.

Rozross:
Peter Obi will not even win in south east. I wonder why a man will choose to labour in vain. It’s like a man with orchitis asking to participate in a race competition, is that not juju �

Even you will vote for Peter Obi's Labour Party, one way or the other.

naptu2:
Chief Oseloka H. Obaze was the secretary to the Anambra State Government in the administration of Governor Peter Obi. He was also the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2016 Anambra State governorship election. He is now a key figure in Peter Obi's Presidential Election Campaign Council.

Tonye Barcanista is a Nairalander and a supporter of the PDP.



Tonye Barcanista @TonyeBarcanista



https://twitter.com/TonyeBarcanista/status/1569618598477307905



Oseloka H. Obaze @OselokaHObaze

Replying to @TonyeBarcanista



https://twitter.com/OselokaHObaze/status/1569644553010876418

Tonyebarcanista is a nobody. He isn't even worth the data that convey the response

Rozross:
Peter Obi will not even win in south east. I wonder why a man will choose to labour in vain. It’s like a man with orchitis asking to participate in a race competition, is that not juju �

Shutup your smelling agbado mouth.

Throwback:
Peter Obi cannot change his ways.

Someone should confirm if they are all Catholics.

The Chameleon is ready to become like a traditionalist if it would serve his desperate ambition, but can never change its ways of deception.

Obi is a Chameleon.

Your papa Na the chameleon...go ask ya mama.

Rozross:
Peter Obi will not even win in south east. I wonder why a man will choose to labour in vain. It’s like a man with orchitis asking to participate in a race competition, is that not juju �

Please tell us who will win in the south east

Tinubu of Apc that is hated across Nigeria abi na atiku

Don’t worry by next year
Your cry will multiply when Obi is declared winner

And know this nothing will happen
Obi will win and Complete his 8years

And heaven will not fall not even you and your bandit can stop it

holatin:
a lot of people here hate barcanista because the guy may or may not be a political jober who align with who benefit him the most, during buhari first campaign, him and some of us were on the fore front on nairaland campaigning like day tomorrow no dey...I can hit my chest even bragging that I didn't receive a Kobo from anyone....I only did it cus Jonathan don Bleep up and e need to be ejected out.

concerning this post, barcanista raised a salient point...he is trying to show his campaign team is made up of people he share ethnicity or state with....that's segregation and nepotism on its own but it's not my business cus am done with Nigeria politics....none of the presidential candidate this time is the right choice...first time I won't be a preferred candidate.

Those are narrow and shallow minded perspective. Everyone knows that there are people from every part of this country supporting and campaigning for Obi, with their own money.

It's actually a non issue. Bacanister is being paid and he'll be seen as not doing enough if his engagement is not generating traffic.

The only way to get huge traffic in political discussions for NOW, is to attack Obi.

How many e- flyers of BAT or Atiku, do you see around. Videos of their speeches? Very few.

They can't campaign for these people, so the next thing to do is, Attack Obi.

Obi trends everyday on all media platforms.

We understand the whole thing. Interestingly, we're following up on all rigging possibilities, to block them.

Soon it will be clear to APC and PDP.

Cj4charles:
Obi's movement has been initiated..... Victory assured 2023

With the likes of Doyin Okupe?

Lol social media presido

I stand with Peter Obi

holatin:
a lot of people here hate barcanista because the guy may or may not be a political jober who align with who benefit him the most, during buhari first campaign, him and some of us were on the fore front on nairaland campaigning like day tomorrow no dey...I can hit my chest even bragging that I didn't receive a Kobo from anyone....I only did it cus Jonathan don Bleep up and e need to be ejected out.

concerning this post, barcanista raised a salient point...he is trying to show his campaign team is made up of people he share ethnicity or state with....that's segregation and nepotism on its own but it's not my business cus am done with Nigeria politics....none of the presidential candidate this time is the right choice...first time I won't be a preferred candidate.

Don't waist your time all this cry will end when the real thing begin

All foot ball match na match untill world cup show

naptu2:
Chief Oseloka H. Obaze was the secretary to the Anambra State Government in the administration of Governor Peter Obi. He was also the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2016 Anambra State governorship election. He is now a key figure in Peter Obi's Presidential Election Campaign Council.

Tonye Barcanista is a Nairalander and a supporter of the PDP.



Tonye Barcanista @TonyeBarcanista



https://twitter.com/TonyeBarcanista/status/1569618598477307905



Oseloka H. Obaze @OselokaHObaze

Replying to @TonyeBarcanista



https://twitter.com/OselokaHObaze/status/1569644553010876418

*HISTORY NEVER DIES....*

*By Reno Omokri*

What Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Exposes About Biafra

First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in today’s ThisDay.

When on Thursday, September 8, 2022, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed on into ancestor-hood, I was not particularly moved. I like England. I schooled and worked there and those years were some of the best of my life. The English people are by far some of the most decent peoples on planet Earth.

However, I am rather indifferent about their monarch. I did not like or dislike Queen Elizabeth II. The only thing I can think of that I admire in her is her stoicism. Her ability to take pain and pleasure with equanimity. She is the epitome of duty and a stiff upper lip.

But I doubt that I bothered much about her and her goings on. I was just aloof.

So, while I was not one of those mourning, it was not because I had some grudge against the House of Windsor. No. It is just that the House of Ginuwa (the first Olu of Warri), mattered more to me than Buckingham Palace.

The above not withstanding, I was absolutely mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate things that were said about the Queen and her family by a Nigerian woman living in America, whose name I will not dignify by mentioning.

I later got to find out that this woman has other issues, which made me understand her bitterness better, though I still vehemently reject her indecorous words.

She was one of the people who famously celebrated the death of TB Joshua and called him all sorts of unprintable names when he died. So it is no big surprise that she has turned her vitriol in the direction of the late Queen.

And so now, let me tackle what the death of Queen Elizabeth II reveals about Biafra. It shows us as a people not aware of our history, and because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo history has been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it, and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.

That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and for some strange reason decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

But of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, there are millions of people who believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.

One fellow named Uche Nnaya even tweeted at me that the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria had a right to rail against the British monarch and the rest of Nigeria, because “you can’t push people to the wall and dictate how they react.”

Really? But do those who hold such views not know that some other persons were FIRST pushed to the wall? Uche’s response will also justify how those who were first pushed to the wall reacted.

We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.

My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should my people carry that grudge forever?

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to LUTH and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.

This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?

I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.

So, please let us stop pretending as if the late Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria and ignited a war. The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of mostly Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.

Many people now spewing vitriol against the late Queen Elizabeth II for her alleged role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during the Biafran occupation of the Midwest.

After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed. Please research it before you insult me.

I need to add that the killings by the liberating forces were worse than the killings of the Biafrans, and should truly have been declared war crimes.

Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.

The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today!

There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East.

That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.

So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!

It is only those who are ignorant about how the British government works that will blame the late Queen for the actions of the British government. She was a titular and ceremonial head of state, whose actions were limited to appointing the candidate who has won election directly or indirectly as prime minister, and declaring open the parliament. She was a symbol. She was not the initiator of the policies of the British government.

And even the British government are not to blame for the Nigerian Civil War. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions. That war was the result of the ill advised January 15, 1966 coup.

The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:

1. Kaduna Nzeogwu
2. Emmanuel Ifeajuna
3. Timothy Onwuatuegwu
4. Adewale Ademoyega
5. Chris Anuforo
6. Humphrey Chukwuka
7. Donatus Okafor

Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.

Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say that have learned very little since the civil war.

22 people were killed during the coup, including

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Ahmadu Bello
3. Ahmed Ben Musa
4. Hafsatu Bello
5. Ahmed Pategi
6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola
7. Festus Okotie-Eboh
8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun
9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari
10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde
11. Col. Kur Mohammed
12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema
13. Lt. Col. James Pam
14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe
15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun
17. Zarumi Sardauna
18. PC Yohana Garkawa
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo
20. PC Akpan Anduka
21. PC Hagai Lai
22. Philip Lewande

As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria. . (I have since learned that Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe was Igbo. He was in charge of weaponry in Lagos, and was killed when he refused to cooperate with Major Chris Anuforo).

After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.

However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.

These are facts that we all should address, rather than blaming the late Queen Elizabeth II for a war she did not cause, nor had anyway of stopping. And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.

The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of soldiers and civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore.

We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming Queen Elizabeth II 50 years after the war?

And when you point this out, the very same people castigating the late Queen will accuse you of creating ethnic tension? Do you want to be victims and victors at the same time? Leave the woman and her family to grieve in peace. By celebrating the Queen’s death, you are giving Nigeria a very nasty reputation that will affect all of us and not only you. We cannot afford to be seen as a nation with anti British and American sentiments, when we are not able to get a better deal from China and Russia.

Reno’s Nuggets

Dear men,

As long as a river is dry, fish won’t come. Stop looking for women in your poverty. The first thing that a dry river needs is water, not fish. Look for water for your river and fish will come naturally. Look for prosperity and the right woman will come naturally. Eve came as soon as Adam secured the job of tending the garden. And until you have a salary or income, you should learn to control your libido. Much of the world’s challenges is caused by adult males who increase the population when they have no remuneration. Be productive in the boardroom before being reproductive in the bedroom!

#RenosNuggets #FreeLeahSharibu

*©Reno Omokri*