Lessons for Igbos in Nigeria outside Igboland (copied from Facebook)
It is time to rethink when you travel home annually after every 4 years (election year). Annually, every one of you head home during Christmas, and some in August (August meeting, if it still exists). Then you return to your state of residence after the new year celebrations and try to vote there during the election that happens every 4 years. In the process of voting, you are prevented from doing so, insulted, asked to go back home, disenfranchised by the local (state) governments and their thugs, have your businesses burnt, and in many cases killed. Have you noticed that Buhari and other politicians go back home to vote in their villages or towns? Have you wondered why they don't vote in Abuja? Even, a lot of poor northerners in the South travel home to vote. I see them packed in lorries heading up North. A group of them were interviewed on YouTube and they said they have their PVCs back in Zamfara and must return before D-Day to vote.

UmuIgbo, it is time to rethink. Every election year, I strongly suggest that you suspend going home during Christmas/New Year. Instead, travel home a week before election in February and vote in your village or hometown. This is a sacrifice you can make once in 4 years. By doing so, nobody can harass or disenfranchise you on account of non-indigene-ship in your own hometown. Nobody will threaten to throw you into Lagos Lagoon, and nobody will feel you are influencing the politics in their own state (which is a stupid feeling, but we are talking about a failed country). That is how you make your vote to really count. That also helps you to be involved in electing good governors and state representatives for your native states.

We keep hearing that the SE has the least voting population in Nigeria. This is because you scatter your votes all over NG and most, if not all, of those votes outside the SE are wasted votes because you are either disenfranchised or rigged out.
If you keep doing the same thing, you get the same result back each time.
One of my blood siblings who lives outside of the SE returns home to vote in our hometown - he transferred his voting location since 2017. Good job, brother.

Good God bless you,this is the best therapy igbo nation has gotten since 1970.
We just have to go back to the drawing board, time to build the economy of the east that would prevent the rubbish, shabby, demeaning treatment from invalids and street urchins.

Thank you Peter Obi for being used to open the eyes of the Igbo nation

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Victory is sweet!

Nothing is soothing than seeing your enemies in pains!

Damn! I feel so fulfilled and happy.

This is not wisdom. The same government managing INEC logistics will frustrate the region through artificial scarcity of INEC equipment.

kettykin:
Good God bless you,this is the best therapy igbo nation has gotten since 1970.
We just have to go back to the drawing board, time to build the economy of the east that would prevent the rubbish, shabby, demeaning treatment from invalids and street urchins.

Thank you Peter Obi for being used to open the eyes of the Igbo nation

I thought Nnamadi Kanu opened the eyes of the Igbo nation. Correct me if I am wrong.

Getting the required 25% in 25 states won't be possible if they try this.
May the best person suited for the job win and not necessarily who we preferred.

If they can't vote where they live ,why do we claim to be a nation?

FSU:
Lessons for Igbos in Nigeria outside Igboland (copied from Facebook)
It is time to rethink when you travel home annually after every 4 years (election year). Annually, every one of you head home during Christmas, and some in August (August meeting, if it still exists). Then you return to your state of residence after the new year celebrations and try to vote there during the election that happens every 4 years. In the process of voting, you are prevented from doing so, insulted, asked to go back home, disenfranchised by the local (state) governments and their thugs, have your businesses burnt, and in many cases killed. Have you noticed that Buhari and other politicians go back home to vote in their villages or towns? Have you wondered why they don't vote in Abuja? Even, a lot of poor northerners in the South travel home to vote. I see them packed in lorries heading up North. A group of them were interviewed on YouTube and they said they have their PVCs back in Zamfara and must return before D-Day to vote.

UmuIgbo, it is time to rethink. Every election year, I strongly suggest that you suspend going home during Christmas/New Year. Instead, travel home a week before election in February and vote in your village or hometown. This is a sacrifice you can make once in 4 years. By doing so, nobody can harass or disenfranchise you on account of non-indigene-ship in your own hometown. Nobody will threaten to throw you into Lagos Lagoon, and nobody will feel you are influencing the politics in their own state (which is a stupid feeling, but we are talking about a failed country). That is how you make your vote to really count. That also helps you to be involved in electing good governors and state representatives for your native states.

We keep hearing that the SE has the least voting population in Nigeria. This is because you scatter your votes all over NG and most, if not all, of those votes outside the SE are wasted votes because you are either disenfranchised or rigged out.
If you keep doing the same thing, you get the same result back each time.
One of my blood siblings who lives outside of the SE returns home to vote in our hometown - he transferred his voting location since 2017. Good job, brother.

I don't completely agree with you. If all Igbos are to vote on their village government or other actors can sponsor the likes of Simon Ekpa and create terror that will cause poor turn out.

Secondly igbos presence in other areas will contribute to the 25% spread needed to win an election

OP you are very correct. That is what the Igbos should do.

One more thing, the Igbos must learn how to build bridge most especially with the North. Peter Obi campaigning based on religion has dealt the Igbo tribe more heavy blow than imagined in the North and that will affect future polls and acceptance.

Igbo must know one thing, no region can win the presidential election without the North. Even if all Igbos go to SE to vote, they still won't win any election without true alliance with the core North.

Techwriter:


I don't completely agree with you. If all Igbos are to vote on their village government or other actors can sponsor the likes of Simon Ekpa and create terror that will cause poor turn out.

Secondly igbos presence in other areas will contribute to the 25% spread needed to win an election

If your presence in a place is what you bank on for giving you 25% spread, then you are ignorant.

You need the locals/politicians/religious body within a state to buy into trusting you to deliver you. Tinubu and Atiku got 25% in most states not because Yoruba/Hausa are in those states, they got the votes from the people within that state.

Igbo people need reorientation and they need to know that they can't do it all by themselves.

How can they claim London (Yoruba land) if they do what you ask them to do? 🤣🤣🤣

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gbadexy:
Getting the required 25% in 25 states won't be possible if they try this.
May the best person suited for the job win and not necessarily who we preferred.

That's why you guys are politically backward. Stop claiming ownership of another man's land because they welcome you.

You can't get 25% from other peoples places by just your presence there. You need to stop being tribalistic, form alliance with them, build bridges, invite them to your regions too.

Tinubu getting 25% in regions outside the south west is not only the Yoruba votes in those places but Also the locals. They heard good things about him, formed allainces with them, not being tribalistic and has been building bridges with them for a long time.

Kankwazo was supposed to step down for tinubu because he also said it that they have been friends since early 90s and were senators together at that time but he also wants to test his popularity.

LegendHero:
OP you are very correct. That is what the Igbos should do.

One more thing, the Igbos must learn how to build bridge most especially with the North. Peter Obi campaigning based on religion has dealt the Igbo tribe more heavy blow than imagined in the North and that will affect future polls and acceptance.

Igbo must know one thing, no region can win the presidential election without the North. Even if all Igbos go to SE to vote, they still won't win any election without true alliance with the core North.

not only that tell them to stop insulting or cursing others tribe that's not what igbo stands for 😏

smiley001:


That's why you guys are politically backward. Stop claiming ownership of another man's land because they welcome you.

You can't get 25% from other peoples places by just your presence there. You need to stop being tribalistic, form alliance with them, build bridges, invite them to your regions too.

Tinubu getting 25% in regions outside the south west is not only the Yoruba votes in those places but Also the locals. They heard good things about him, formed allainces with them, not being tribalistic and has been building bridges with them for a long time.

Kankwazo was supposed to step down for tinubu because he also said it that they have been friends since early 90s and were senators together at that time but he also wants to test his popularity.

Because he is a Muslim also it was rigged in his favor

FSU:
Lessons for Igbos in Nigeria outside Igboland (copied from Facebook)
It is time to rethink when you travel home annually after every 4 years (election year). Annually, every one of you head home during Christmas, and some in August (August meeting, if it still exists). Then you return to your state of residence after the new year celebrations and try to vote there during the election that happens every 4 years. In the process of voting, you are prevented from doing so, insulted, asked to go back home, disenfranchised by the local (state) governments and their thugs, have your businesses burnt, and in many cases killed. Have you noticed that Buhari and other politicians go back home to vote in their villages or towns? Have you wondered why they don't vote in Abuja? Even, a lot of poor northerners in the South travel home to vote. I see them packed in lorries heading up North. A group of them were interviewed on YouTube and they said they have their PVCs back in Zamfara and must return before D-Day to vote.

UmuIgbo, it is time to rethink. Every election year, I strongly suggest that you suspend going home during Christmas/New Year. Instead, travel home a week before election in February and vote in your village or hometown. This is a sacrifice you can make once in 4 years. By doing so, nobody can harass or disenfranchise you on account of non-indigene-ship in your own hometown. Nobody will threaten to throw you into Lagos Lagoon, and nobody will feel you are influencing the politics in their own state (which is a stupid feeling, but we are talking about a failed country). That is how you make your vote to really count. That also helps you to be involved in electing good governors and state representatives for your native states.

We keep hearing that the SE has the least voting population in Nigeria. This is because you scatter your votes all over NG and most, if not all, of those votes outside the SE are wasted votes because you are either disenfranchised or rigged out.
If you keep doing the same thing, you get the same result back each time.
One of my blood siblings who lives outside of the SE returns home to vote in our hometown - he transferred his voting location since 2017. Good job, brother.

see as u humble finish

U forget to add that igbos should stop insulting other tribes n see us as humans like u

If u go back to Biafra or death n u start calling us zoo again, don’t think we will still vote u when u suddenly become emergency Nigerians a year to election ooo

So know areas to work on

smiley001:


That's why you guys are politically backward. Stop claiming ownership of another man's land because they welcome you.
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Stfu were nigerians and can do as we want in the country within the bounds of law

LegendHero:


If your presence in a place is what you bank on for giving you 25% spread, then you are ignorant.

You need the locals/politicians/religious body within a state to buy into trusting you to deliver you. Tinubu and Atiku got 25% in most states not because Yoruba/Hausa are in those states, they got the votes from the people within that state.

Igbo people need reorientation and they need to know that they can't do it all by themselves.

many people voted against them cos they demonized Islam instead of campaigning straight

Godwin4444:
many people voted against them cos they demonized Islam instead of campaigning straight

Obi introduced the highest level of tribalism and religious division in this election.

Most times when he visit a state, he either campaign in Igbo dominated area or go and campaign in Christian dominated area in the state. That will always send wrong signal to the majority within that state.

A Mulsim candidate that grossly exploit religious division will also not win the presidency. Buhari always win the North not because of religion but because the Northerners LOVE him so so so so much.

The church cannot make anyone president in a nation like Nigeria & The Mosque cannot also make anyone president in a nation like Nigeria.

LegendHero:


Obi introduced the biggest revel of tribalism and religious division in this election.

Most times when he visit a state, he either campaign in Igbo dominated area or go and campaign in Christian dominated area in the state. That will always send wrong signal to the majority within that state.

he believed since he’s d only Christian candidate he should play religious n tribal politics

It boomeranged big time cos it didn’t work for him coupled with d madness of division by his foot soldiers always shouting Yoruba Christian n Yoruba Muslim

I voted tinubu cos I wanted to see d worst they would do if he wins, they demonized tinubu n make it look like heaven will fall if he wins

Let tinubu win first so we can see d worst that will happen

Godwin4444:
he believed since he’s d only Christian candidate he should play religious n tribal politics

It boomeranged big time cos it didn’t work for him coupled with d madness of division by his foot soldiers always shouting Yoruba Christian n Yoruba Muslim

I voted tinubu cos I wanted to see d worst they would do if he wins, they demonized tinubu n make it look like heaven will fall if he wins

Let tinubu win first so we can see d worst that will happen

It boomeranged big time.

But some Yoruba youths still voted Obi tho. Obi is getting some kinda votes in some LGA in the SW that wouldn't have happened had it being Yoruba fail to vote him like Ibo people once claimed.

Infact in Lagos, votes from Ikorodu, Mushin, and etc have shown that Yoruba youths have been voting PDP all along in Lagos and Peter Obi just inherited those votes.

In Ogbomosho too, Obi got some very good vote. In Akure South LGA also, he got some good vote. Even in some part of Abeokuta.

But yet, Igbos will still come online and call Yoruba people tribalist even with how divided our votes have been in this election. Atiku winning Osun and having huge chunk across some LGA in the West.