₦airaland Forum

AkinPhysicist:
Guy RMD is not Igbo. He is either Urhobo or Itshekiri.

laudate:
Hehehe......

AkinPhysicist:
Don't mind her. She even includes RMD - can you imagine? Imagine the level of ignorance.

Kagawa10:
I really don't know why Laudate is answering these foolish dumb illiterates who don't know the Op is a their fellow potor boy. The way these silly folks love to seek attention.. Hian!

edkai:
Restructuring, call for true Federalism is the right thing for us to do as citizens of this country right now. Its the only way forward. Biafra agitation should be be channelled towards the above stated goal.

moninuola65:
don't deceived yourself igbo is a curse to Africa and Nigeria! No African will tarnish image of Africa like igbo. No Nigerian can damage the image of Nigeria like igbo the bitter true

moninuola65:
don't deceived yourself igbo is a curse to Africa and Nigeria! No African will tarnish image of Africa like igbo. No Nigerian can damage the image of Nigeria like igbo the bitter true

moninuola65:
haa!
damilola, oto leleri yanrin, oto leleri gaari.
Igbo ee seleri gari.
boo ki won dola, eri won o le huu!

read this quote:-
It seems you people didn't really know who is Igbo
Igbo is Jew, it can never board the train of peace, from East to West return back to East it's always war, genocide and holocaust!
here in Nigeria from first coup to pogrom to civil war to agitation heading towards the 2nd civil war! it will continue in circle!
Igbo didn't love peace!
If I were the president of Nigeria I will send them packing from Nigeria to Israel!....for Nigeria to know peace!
otherwise it will be war!

meritocrat:
THE SENATE ANTI-RESTRUCTURING VOTE, BIAFRA AGITATION AND THE REST OF US.

By Charles Ogbu

This is certainly not the best of time for Nigeria. And most certainly not for the advocates of #OneNigeria as Tuesday's "No Devolution Of Power" vote at the floor of the Senate appears to have finally given a very serious form of institutional credence to the assertion by the Nnamdi kanu led Biafran movement that the Nigeria state is unsalvageable.

But beyond the rhetorics and verbal gymnastics, there are some wildly held opinions which the Senate vote has simply elevated to the status of fact. Here are some of them:

1: It is not the Senate as an institution that doesn't want a restructured Nigeria. It is the North as a region. Sadly, long years of military rule championed by mostly northern military officers have succeded in skewing the political equation of Nigeria in favour of the North. As it stands now, the North is in a default position to hold the rest of the country to ransom and that is exactly what is happening. She gets whatever she wants no matter how scandalous such a want might seem and she ensures that what the other region wants doesn't see the light of day no matter how fair and just such a want might be. Even with the combination of the numerical strength of southern lawmakers, the North still has the veto power.

North East Development Commission bill was passed into law almost before it was even presented on the floor of the parliament. But, a bill to "gift" Lagos state with special status was killed. A bill to set up a development commission for the southeast was equally shut down. Before the adulterated version of PIB was allowed to pass 2nd reading, northern lawmakers made sure that Kano and Kaduna were included as beneficiaries of the Host Community fund even when those two northern states do not produce even one litre of oil.

2:No form of re-organization of the political and economic structure of the Nigerian state a.k.a restructuring, can be effected through the existing constitutional structure. The status-quo is terribly skewed in favour of the only region (North) currently benefiting from it.

The Yorubas want true federalism. The south south want to be in charge of their resources. Igbo elders want a well restructured Nigeria where every region will be able to harness her full potentials and develop at her own pace. Igbo youths, under Nnamdi kanu, is agitating for a total separation from Nigeria because they believe the North which holds the numerical advantage in every facets of state institution here would never allow for restructuring.

Under close examination, the aspirations by the aforementioned peoples/groups are not mutually exclusive but the bitter truth is that no amount of sophistry and beautiful poetry robed in flawless grammar will give us restructuring.

It was the height of naivity in the first place to assume that our Northern neighbours will willingly relinquish the undue advantage their military heads of state gifted them with, without a fight.

The North will never allow for a restructured Nigeria UNLESS she is confronted with an alternative such as a determined quest for a referendum by the other component units.

It is at this point that we must all admit that the leader of Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has been right all along. The action of the Northern Senate caucus has further legitimised the Biafra struggle. Above all, it has buried the argument that the Biafra strong man, Kanu, should use institutionalized politics to push his quest for a referendum.

Contrary to a very popular Igbo saying, what the young man, Nnamdi Kanu, saw while lying down, the elders have failed to see even while comfortably perched ontop of iroko tree.

Our biggest mistake was antagonizing the IPOB leader rather than seizing the momentous occasion his Biafra agitation gifted us with to demand in practical terms, an end to the grave injustices and institutionalized daylight roquery in the Nigerian system.

How can it be that an "Emeka" from Akpugo-Nkanu in Enugu state must score not less than 120 to get admitted into federal govt unity college while an "Ibrahim" from Daura in Katsina state only needs to score 10 to be admitted into the same unity college......in the same country? And paradoxically funny enough, this same Ibrahim will most likely end up as the president of Nigeria even if he decides not to finish his secondary school education while the more intellectually endowed Emeka has less than 1% chance of even getting a job at the end of his academic sojourn??

Why should a state like Kano have the right to operate a parallel system of govt with sharia court (judiciary), sharia police known as the Hisbah working under the office of the governor (Executive) plus another very powerful body known as the Sharia commission (legislature) in the same country where Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, was almost crucified for setting up a security outfit to confront the marauding fulani herdsmen??

Institutionalized injustices such as these should be unacceptable even by the lowest moral standard of natural justice.

The enemies of Nigeria are not those pushing for her balkanization due to entrenched injustices in the system. The real enemies are the beneficiaries of the unjust system who have sworn to allow neither restructuring nor a referendum for us to determine our future. It is very important that we always remember this fact.

The fact that the advocates of restructuring are yet to hit the street in protest over the Senate action is a grave indictment on their seriousness and collective resolve as a group.

One thing is certain, the maintainability of the status-quo IS NOT an option.

Eventually, something must give.

The position of not just the Igbos but every southerner today DOES NOT call for political correctness.

By making a comprehensive restructuring of the system impossible, the North is only making the complete balkanization of the country inevitable.

Ngokafor:
...I support Biafra whole-heartedly, and i am determined in my own way to ensure that i contribute my quota to her success...ready to offer sacrifices i would never render to Nigeria as she is presently structured to see she is a model country..

..Now i ask you..why do you think Biafra will not 'solve the problem of Igbos'?..I ask because statements like yours is a catalyst that ignites the need to ensure Biafra is better than Nigeria by the average Biafran supporter like me..at least..

...One mistake you lots are making about Igbos is telling them they cant do something or cant succeed...that means you want to get that thing done..I am exactly like that.

...

Brooklynsouth:
poetic unity begging anything associated with unity begging leave it for the yorubas

DerideGull:
You should learn to live your sorry life without the Biafrans or the would-be citizens of Republic of Igbo land. I can safely say you have managed with the not-too-good life without Ghanaians, Beninois, Togolese and Cameroonians. It is even funny there are ethnic Yari.ba people in Republic of Benin yet the dingbat such as you have never lamented to unite with them. However you have the silly impetus to kick against Ndigbo and Biafrans seceding from the cesspit called Nigeria. The best thing to happen to colonial contraption named Nigeria is unconditional disintegration. From now on, Nigeria shall never be the same and whatever the unity goons in Nigeria seemed delusional about can never be achieved.

Ngokafor:
..@op is there anything wrong with having friends and even spouses from another country??...It does not have to be a bitter seperation you know?

hisroyalrealnes:
I'm touched but.....D east never 4gets....

DerideGull:
You should learn to live your sorry life without the Biafrans or the would-be citizens of Republic of Igbo land. I can safely say you have managed with the not-too-good life without Ghanaians, Beninois, Togolese and Cameroonians. It is even funny there are ethnic Yari.ba people in Republic of Benin yet the dingbat such as you have never lamented to unite with them. However you have the silly impetus to kick against Ndigbo and Biafrans seceding from the cesspit called Nigeria. The best thing to happen to colonial contraption named Nigeria is unconditional disintegration. From now on, Nigeria shall never be the same and whatever the unity goons in Nigeria seemed delusional about can never be achieved.

Warship:
Which kind of unity begging is this for Christ's sake


So degrading and irritating.


Respect peoples choice

Africlegend:
Ekiti people may seem silent now, d time will soon come

kayalcomp:
Forget about this so called love you are referring to. If Fayose fails to have good relationship with Ekiti Workers/ Pensioners, i tell you it will affect him in Ekiti politics. And i will advise that he should not be proud, let him just behave humbly , and he will see the result. Are you even aware that Fayose has lost a Senatorial election before?

DamiBukola:
Is your father Ekiti worker, when last did you hear Ekiti workers complaining about non payment?

kayalcomp:
My sis dont worry. Extending Fayose's tenure cannot be possible. He may only be compensated for the stated period. And he should not think that he controls Ekiti politics, because if he does , he will be disappointed. He should also remember that these Workers and Pensioners that are being owed salaries are the ones he will seek vote for. They are the majority.