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It was mentioned back in December that Seun Kuti had the intention to register MOP ( Movement Of The People ) as a political party in Nigeria and he approached INEC with a document of interest for registration back in January earlier this year.

Well as of now they are holding the NEC and SEC elections for the party.

They've completed the manifesto, code of conduct and party constitution

They've set up secretariats in 5 states and FCT so far ( Lagos, Anambra, Ogun, Rivers and Kogi )

Once they've set up base in 5 more states then they approach INEC for final registration so we're currently looking at October this year latest January 2022.

Now I know to never make a thread about anything to do with development between the yoruba and the igbo for whatever reason there is tension between the two groups when we should be uniting I said Onitsha using highrises due to lack of space is an innovation that should be recycled in other Nigerian cities and then some people who have no sense and can only see ethnicity thought I was insulting yoruba cities and they proceeded to brign up random information that had nothing to do with my original view or statement.

Oduduwa and Biafra can never work and the way things are going neither can Nigeria all these ethnic groups will simply become like DRC in perpetual poverty and controlled by the west like a toy because they cannot simply unite and do the right thing they can't even acknowledge when another ethnic group has done something well.

I wiah you luck with these your arguments but personally I hope this thread is locked by the mods because you guys can't seem to just agree on something at least once in your life simply because someone speaks a different language and was born in a different part of the country

The future of Nigeria and Anambra state starts here I don't want to fully derail this thread so i'll make it quick the party of the masses MOP ( Movement of the People ) has finally set up base in Anambra state home of some of the most ingenious and industrious people I know hopefully next year the name MOP will be on the mind of all Nigerians.

aribisala0:
Pain ? yes the pain of unrequited delusions

It's clear you seek attention and you're a troll I won't give you anymore attention

Broveens42:
Your argument is relative since we could achieve something decent with same leadership here. Don't you think we would have achieved more if we had our own embassy, international airport, international sea port, controlled our crude and gas?

bigger GDP maybe but basically the same as Nigeria

Broveens42:
We would have been a developed nation but for the forced union

I think you mean but for the bad leadership across the board there's bad leadership even in SE.

division won't get us anywhere without revolution and a mass peoples movement and under Buhari such is about to take place even in the north

Broveens42:
Onitsha

Simply planting more trees will solve a lot of Onitsha's problems then it is to properly organize and clear the streets the rest is electricity and water which is the governments job

aribisala0:
So most Nigerian Cities are shitty / Why should we aspire to be like Onitsha if not for a misguided I better pass my neighbour mentality that inspired this thread
You have said nothing sensible

I said take the highrise example from Onitsha's book and use it

aribisala0:
Believe me

This thread will end in pain for you
That I can guarantee

Pain? I couldn't care less your opinion doesn't affect me and neither do your insults, my opinion will still stand and one day my opinion will show in other Nigerian cities

aribisala0:
What is the Transport Strategy that we need to copy


What is the Security Strategy


The Sanitation Strategy

How does Onitsha measure up on indices like


Air Quality?

What transport do most Nigerian cities have apart from FG

What security do most Nigerian cities have tbh?

What sanitation do Nigerian cities have when there's no running water?

Onitsha's high rises are a good model for Nigerian cities that is an indisputed fact you can't accept that so you're looking for reasons to discredit it/ Why? I fail to understand

Broveens42:
Lol. That onitsha pic dey give people nightmare.
They can't just comprehend how a planned structure could exist in south east

And as more money comes in a lot of these buildings will become taller and be given a much more modern look as seen in Asian cities like Tokyo and Shanghai

aribisala0:
So am I . We all have freedom of speech
So let us proceed

When did I say you have no freedom of speech? But if we are proceed there is no need for tribalism or to bring out personal insults. Okay?

ABlAstate:
This is why you should copy Onitsha.


1. Ibadan

2. Abeokuta

3. Onitsha

Bros stop it you're keying into his tactic let's not fall into it state the facts and don't frustate him to much otherwise more will come and the thread will be about 'Afonja' and 'Cownu' and not about the good model Onitsha can be for future urban development in Nigeria

aribisala0:
Who appointed you to find solution for Nigeria's problems. Have you found solution to your family's problems

Nobody appointed anyone but freedom of speech exists and I am exercising my right

My family has no problems and is of no relevance in this conversation the pain seen through this post details two things you're either so tribalist that you can't accept good from anyone but the yorubas or you're a fatherless child who can't act right because they never had a male role model.

aribisala0:
Why do Eegboes like to embarrass themselves with these endless insecure threads on Nairaland?

You know they will all end in pain and humiliation but you persist
As always w e will dismantle your crap


Onitsha is the dirtiest place on end in competition with Aba and you think we should copy that?


Let us start with water the medicine for pigs

Tell us where Onitsha gets water from? What is the source of water in these "high rise" buildings ? What is the sewage and waste disposal strategy of Onitsha

You know very well most places in Nigeria don't have water due to the government and dirt doesn't discount the construction of tall buildings to accomodate many people in small expanses of land. Stop looking for ways to discredit the ingenuity of those in Onitsha and when did I mention Aba? Which I can agree is actually very badly planned and dirty

aribisala0:
Only eediots go around posting stupid photos

City life is about

santation
Security
Health
Transport

Not photos

Only an idiot thinks that you can capture one ciity in one photo

I will not indulge your childishness. There are good and ugly photos of every city in Nigeria.

Proves nothing

Onitsha remains the dirtiest place on earth

Don't turn my thread into ethnic violence and tension I was simply trying to find a Nigerian solution to Nigerian problems and currently the city planning in Onitsha is best for Nigerian cities of today

theInterpreter:
nah
I don't believe that trash
Densely populated cities increase pollution

Besides
We don't need to cut down anything

Having many trees in large cities greatly reduces pollution so cutting down trees to build more houses increases CO2 as well the way things are going all of the mangroves in Lagos will be gone in the next 20 years

RenaissanceGuy:
The only well-planned city in Nigeria is Abuja. Others are glorified villages with pooooooor town planning, where you'll see some few very beautiful buildings and offices mixing with mud houses, even in the capital city.

They may have poor town planning but they are still good looking cities and not fully mixed in with mud houses as you say and in any case what's wrong with a house made of mud

theInterpreter:
trash
We are not encroaching into anything

There's enough land

You are cutting down forests and destroying mangroves and savannah land and most of all you're cutting down trees there may be land but a lot of it should be protected

Biodun556:
Russia and China will NEVER comply, Iran that's under US most painful sanction is still getting armunition and nuclear technology from China and Russia

Because Iran actually benefits them strategically they know Nigeria won't defy the US and in any case they have no power to there is no strategic benefit in defying the US embargo on a country like Nigeria

mr1759:
Nor dey vex because we vex pass una
The only documented black history European and other historians in other part of the world study in Nigeria is Benin history because they are documented go to all the museum in Europe and America you will see thousands of Benin art work with inscription
The rest are stories especially that of Yoruba history just stories how obatala gave birth to twins then the twins became triplet stories,
Do you have a king? No you don’t , all you have is appointee
Kings are born not chosen at a random
Till date the oldest family in Africa is Oba of Benin family even the European attest to that

Oduduwa who the Yoruba claim is their Christopher Columbus who is he and where did he come from if you can answer me sincerely then I will accept that his grandchild Oba of Benin is also a Yoruba man

A lot of artefacts were lost or destroyed during the yoruba civil war had it not occured there would be ten times more yoruba artefacts in European museums then Benin artefacts but even with a whole civil war and mass slave raiding we still had and still have a lot of artefacts available and many are still being discovered till this day.

mr1759:
This other was made of recent since the first one was sold in 1938 you people can’t retrieve it back so you people decided to clone another for IFe museum

Bronze making is not Yoruba culture is Benin culture
Wood carving is Benin culture
The use of bead is Benin culture
Edo did not learn anything from Yoruba
olokun is a Benin deity and does not look like this image
Oduduwa, his son oromiyon, his grandchildren are not Yoruba people.
Oduduwa came from Benin not the sky nor Mecca

You do realize carbon dating exists

theInterpreter:
Lol
"High rise buildings" without lifts
No wonder chiamaka has yamlegs


Besides high rise buildings are for people without land
That is more reasonable in the SE and lagos

Everywhere else has enough land

Nigeria's population is expected to grow to 400 million by 2050 on top of that we shouldn't be enroaching into our forest land that will have a massive impact on ecology and diversity in our ecosystem and would also result in increased CO2 emissions which is not something Nigeria wants to be involved in, so at some point ALL cities will have to start building highrises at least in the centre to accomodate for all the people.

UCyril:
in developed countries people don't park cars in the street. High rise building is ok but with adequate planning to give room for other amenities. Do you know in Onitsha even some hotels don't have parking space and i wonder who approved sure building in the first place.

Yes they do park on streets in developed countries go to England any time of year in the residential areas even in business districts there are cars parked everywhere on the streets the streets are wide enough to allow two cars to drive on either side and more cars to park on that same street as well. Onitsha is very small and wer strained for space especially when it came to parking so of course there isn't much space for such but that doesn't mean that other cities cannot improve on where Onitsha failed.

Biodun556:
...because he relied on only US that placed arm embargo on his government

Buhari patronizes Italy, Russia, China and others

America blocked him from buying arms so other cpuntries complied Russia, Israel, Italy, UK all of them didn't want any diplomatic problems with America other a small country like Nigeria

It's clear you don't understand international relations and what an arms embargo entails

dat9jaguy:
So those 3 to 4 story buildings are high rise buildings ba.

It's still a starting example for what Nigerian cities could become low rise or high rise whichever one should be copied and repeated outside Onitsha

UCyril:
High rise building without car park...

Wider streets allows for space to park cars added to that car parks could be built into the buildings without a problem, Nigeria needs to build lots of houses but save land the solution is highrises as Onitsha has done.

Biodun556:
May God bless Buhari.

He did not put all his egg in one basket unlike Jonathan.

Jonathan was banned from acquiring arms so what's this nonsense

Onitsha is known for having high rises as far as the eye can see and this solution that they came up with is the solution to Nigeria's housing problem. 10 families can fit into a highrise building built on a plot large enough for just a singular bungalow. The ingenuity of the Igbo to build Onitsha in such a manner due to lack of land is impressive and should be emulated in other parts of Nigeia especially in Lagos, Kano and Port Harcourt where housing is a massive problem.

Apart from it saving space and accomodating more people it also makes it easier to include more greenery in cities with less people needing more land to live in the more land can be used towards ecology and even more land for roads and more walkways for people.

Onitsha should be replicated tenfold across Nigeria by the government we could soon have the most highrises in the whole of Africa if we follow the planning done in Onitsha

HowManGoDo:
-PLEDGE TOTAL SUPPORT

-TO MOBILISE ANAMBRA DIASPORA FOR NOV. 6

A delegation of Eze Ndigbo in the northern part of Nigeria, has endorsed Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), for the November 6 governorship election in Anambra state.

The delegation, led by HRM Igwe Ikechukwu Oliver Akpudo, the Eze Ndigbo na Kano, were in the Ogidi countryhome of Dr. Okonkwo on Thursday to pledge unalloyed support for his visions for the state.

Also on the delegation were the Eze Ndigbo na Karu, HRM Amb. Igwe Ochedo; the Eze Ndigbo na Azare, Bauchi state, HRM Sir Andrew Ekemezie and Onowu Eze Ndigbo na Nyanya, Onowu Edwin Agomuo.

They monarchs, who represented all Eze Ndigbo in the northen part of the country, told Dr. Okonkwo that they were encouraged by his vision and agenda for the development of Anambra to seek to partner with him and support his mandate.

Speaking on behalf of the delegation, the Eze Ndigbi na Kano, said the story of Anambra state has become embarrassing adding that as Indigenes of the state, they were equally deeply interested in how affairs of the state was managed.

Noting that the APGA years have been a disservice to the state, the monarch prayed that no person like Willie Obiano ever comes near the seat of power in Anambra state.

They also stated that Anambra people cannot reward Obiano's leadership mishap by electing his handpicked candidate adding that Anambra must move in a new direction with Okonkwo.

According to Igwe Akpudo "we came down from our different places in the north -Kano, Bauchi, Nyanya and Karu- as representatives of the Igbo Diaspora to liaise with you on how best to empower you to lead our state into a new era of development.

"We have examined all the other candidates and none of them come close to you in terms of vision and programme. We believe that working together, we will be able to pull the Anambra Diaspora to work for your success on November 6.

"We will mobilise our people home and abroad to support you and make sure that our state moves in a different direction.

"We are tired of complaining about bad leadership in Anambra state. Now, we are getting involved to make sure that the right kind of person is elected to lead us", he said.

Welcoming the delegation to his palatial home, Dr. Okonkwo said he was in the race for the good of Anambra people.

According to him, the state of development of the state would not allow any genuine patriot to sleep comfortably.

"I am in this race for Anambra. It is not for what I will gain. If it were for it, I would have moved on. But we cannot relax while our state is mismanaged.

"The past years of APGA have been wasted years and we cannot reward Obiano by allowing him continue with this sort of mismanagement by imposing his surrogate on us.

"It was the same continuity that brought Obiano to us. He wants to continue that with his errand boy. We must not allow that to happen because if we do, our children will one day ask us what we did to rescue the state while it was being mismanaged by APGA", he said.

Okonkwo who promised to create a Diaspora Commission in line with his 10-Point Agenda to manage affairs of Ndi Anambra in the Dispora, said the life and welfare of every Anambra son and daughter, matters to him.

He urged Ndi Anambra in the Diaspora to remain steadfast and positive as November 6 approached expressing confidence that with their unalloyed support, the narrative in the state will become history.

Which one is Eze Ndigbo again? 90% of Igbos don't have rulers so where is this Priest/King of Igbos coming from?

Adaorababy:
That's very insightful. Does MOP have a presidential candidate or a list of aspirants yet?

Not yet elections for such are going to be held later this year and the list of aspirants hasn't been released yet. Expect to see us in the news this December

Adaorababy:
Come 2023, please nobody should vote either APC or PDP coz we know all of them prostitutes except suffer never do us. We're used to their gimmicks and tactics. We need a fresh party void of all the dull criminals who have contributed to where we are today as a very poor nation despite the abundant natural and human resources that exists in this country.

If we vote PDP, Buhari and his cohorts will all decamp to PDP and if we vote APC (although God forbids it), Wike, Okowa and Ortom will all decamp to APC so their sins can be forgiven. Enough of the frolicking.

Meanwhile, please Nigerians, let's vote with our common sense come 2023, we are not voting for any pastor, military person, lawyer, engineer, medical practitioner or a teacher. Who we need come 2023 is an economics expert. Someone with the pragmatic capacity and intellect to revive and reposition this already dead economy otherwise such a person will become overwhelmed and will give room to corruption. Let's begin this sensitization now. It's never too early or too late. The candidate must also agree to a presidential debate. We will not be whitewashed by any person parading himself in the behavior of Buhari again. Because, I believe if we had all insisted Buhari partook in a presidential debate, many people would've seen his flaws. We can not keep doing same thing and expect a different result. It's not possible, this is no miracle. See the way bright minds are running out of the country. We will soon be left with bandits and terrorists if this country is not quickly repositioned soonest.

I strongly believe if the economy becomes revived, and we are able to implement laws that will enhance ease of doing business, grow our GDP, so that Foreign Direct Investors can be encouraged to come in and invest, then everything else such as corruption, insecurity and others will automatically be tackled with the good policies in place.

Many parties are already coming up to fill this gap but what we need is one party to absorb all of these different mushroom parties to properly challenge APC and PDP and that these parties won't accept APC and PDP members who are likely to turn them into the same degenerative rot we see in APC and PDP

Currently the two parties i've shortlisted are MOP and KOWA

MOP because they recently merged with a youth party of 2000 members and absorbed 50 old AAC members but not only that but i've been on their telegram channels and the conversations and the solutions they've been coming up with are superb and I genuinely believe they can move Nigeria forward,


KOWA because they've fielded many technocrats in the past few elections namely Remi Sonaiya who was the only female candidate in the 2015 election so as far as i'm concerned they also have the technical capacity to do well in Nigeria when it comes to mergers i'm unsure of what KOWA is doing.


Out of these two parties I believe MOP is most likely to do good for Nigeria.