₦airaland Forum

biafranqueen: Is that the only thing you see you people are so naive I wonder why we some think dressing like oyibo is appropriate... Anyway I dont blame you when I wear my Lace and ankara custom made white people be like I love your costume not knowing my whole outfit cost more then a Gucci handbag White people get bush mentality more then we think

biafranqueen: [s]Like I've been saying while we fight for party and tribe they are popping champagne and living the high life together #nigeriansarefoolingthemselves[/s]

Freewilly: I know it's hard, but we need to learn to ignore the trolls. Their life is worthless without us, without us they doomed. The more you feed the trolls the may they want to hang around us. Imagine you wake up tomorrow you not Igbo anymore. So don't blame them my brother, it's not their fault.

Brimmie: Some tradition need common sense o! How you go dey tie wrapper na??

But wetin e wear under? Boxers??
Abi na mini-wrapper??

Ngwakwe: It's culture, an identity that needs to be preserved.

You don't follow Eko ile dey dance naked for market square?

It no fit you, at all.

The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio- cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo is currently on war path with the parent body of the group over the recent visit to President Goodluck Jonathan at the presidential villa, Abuja.

The youth wing are said to be disgusted over the non-inclusion of youths and other Igbo interest groups on the delegation that met with Jonathan recently, insisting that the situation does not speak well of the organization.

247ureports.com gathered that on learning about the visit to Jonathan, members of Ohanaeze youth wing were said to have approached ranking members of the parent organization like the Secretary -General, Dr. Joe Nworgu for them to be allowed to have a representative on the delegation.

Nwaorgu who was alleged to be angered by the effrontery of the youths to demand for a representative on the delegation to Aso Rock pointedly told them to wait patiently for their turn or kill all the elders of the organization and assume their position if that will satisfy them.

247ureports.com further gathered that the youths are spoiling for war as they insist that the present Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership will no longer have their way as they must consult relevant interest groups in any matter of Igbo interest.

According to a leader of the youth wing, “Our elders hardly think of the future and this is why the Igbos has not made much progress in the politics of Nigeria. How can Ohanaeze Ndigbo prepare a list of delegates to meet with the president without a single youth? What does this tell you? We met with the secretary General, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu to make the issue known to him, but he told us to wait for our turn or kill all the elders if that will satisfy us. We are not happy the way our elders are going.

“This kind of meeting between the president and Igbo leaders should have included youths, clergy or representatives of other Igbo cultural groups because whatever that would be discussed will be in the interest of Ndigbo. The elders cannot know it all; the inputs of youths or women would still be needed.”

Another member of the youth wing who pleaded anonymity advised the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to borrow a leaf from their Arewa or Afenifere counterparts, whom he said, cannot take any major decision without consulting their youths.

“The worst part of it is that it is still the same old people, Justice Ozobu, Prof. Anya, Joe Nwaorgu, Joe Irukwu and Mbazulike Amaechi who are always meeting with the president on behalf of Ndigbo. What has Ndigbo benefitted from such meetings? Even if it is for the Ndigbo to back Jonathan in the 2015 election, how many of the elders who were part of the delegation will be there to mobilize and vote for Jonathan on that day? For us to make progress, Ohanaeze leaders must borrow a leaf from Arewa or Afenifere unless they don’t believe that youths are the leaders of tomorrow,” he said.

Sloan: What are you saying and who is "WE"? Are you not the Ibo tribalist saying WE? No, when you have a sea shore to reclaim as land in your villages, you can write WE until then, start getting ready to pack out of my father's land! you ungrateful people! >>>

Even more hurtfully, the statement by the NLM demonized the northern part of the country, insinuating that anyone “who has ties to the north” is inherently evil or a terrorist. Never in the chequered history of this country have we seen such alarming levels of bigotry and polarization along ethnic, tribal and regional lines, as we are witnessing since President Goodluck Jonathan came to power.

phantom: you are a fool.how does an article directed at jonathans irrational and illogical supporters irrespective of tribe translates to an article directed at igbos.you are the typical graduate she referenced in her article.you call the igbos all sorts many of you yorubas are exactly the same.get the message in the article please and stop tribalising it.

I have been the target of deliberate attacks, threats, accusations leveled against me by persons who hold themselves out as Igbo ethnic champions and supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

arsenalwenger: How old are you? Do you reason at all or simply treacherous in reasoning? Can't understand how you think with the garbage your thought is spewing?

Sincere 9gerian: @OP..,let me enrich this thread with additional information. Here some of the things GEJ has done/is doing in the north (northwest, northcentral and northeast)

DerideGull: I guess you have constitution which stipulated the office dress code for CBN staffs and how letters should be written in office environment. You are just an irresponsible dullard.

Bennoit Kenny: But why must Sanusi write a letter to the President and proclaimed that huges funds are missing ($49Billion) without the consultation of the Deputy Governors of the CBN and other directors that will contribute to the revelation of the proper account or the balance sheet?. Sanusi want to score a political point and need to be probed because he has started nursing some ulterior motives that will not sound well for the management of the Nigerian economy, and even at the CBN.

Bennoit Kenny: Is it now that Gov.Amechi want to sound very innocent?. Thanks be to God and let the other Alhajis from the core north (Hausa Fulani) that had joined with Alhaji Amechi, make the same turn back. But let us watch them if these are not tricks.

talktimi: i dont know why you keep bothering with that mor0n..

DerideGull: Eko Olee

I have repeatedly stated you are one reason among regrettable ones that constituted the base rock of my desire to see disintegration of Nigeria. If Sanusi Lamido Sanusi's letter to the President of Nigeria was an official letter as dumbass such as you would want us to believe, he, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, would have followed the proper official channel. Instead the jackass concealed it as a personal letter and later leaked the existence of such crap to the press. If the moronic airhead had followed the proper channel in delivery official letters to the president, the ill-conceived letter which heavily lacked the technical ingredients required of such letter would have been stopped.

There is no doubt you do not have a job talk less of having a job that is regarded essential.

themaskedman: I‘m sure in ur haste to pen a reply u didn‘t take time to read and understand the import of my comment. I was taught by my professors at IMSU, UNN and UI to critically and thoughtfully examine all statements and propositions to unravel even hidden meanings. There‘s no other interpretation to ‘by all means possible‘ other than what I‘ve given it. You may argue that there‘s no REAL and POTENTIAL intent to hurt that‘s understandable but the statement subsumes all known means constitutional and otherwise to remove a govt.

Do you even understand the meaning of the word ‘possible‘ dear? Perhaps u do perhaps u don‘t. My Oxford A.L. Dictionary says it means ‘...that can be done or achieved:...‘ now I ask u is it possible to assassinate the president or not?

I don‘t hate VIO cos I don‘t have any reason to but like I told her on her facebook wall where she posted the offensive comment watch ur tongue/finger before they get u into trouble. That‘s the best advice and not the praises she‘s getting from you. I‘m sure when yawa gas nau Queen berem ga agba oso.

There is simply no way a statement made within the limits of free speech, and again, made well within the context of established modes of democratic ascendancy could be myopically construed to mean a backing to murder a serving president! - victoria Ohaeri

themaskedman: As a fan or friend of Victoria you should be asking her to mind what she says or does. That she has freedom to sprek doesn‘t mean you should talk herself into trouble, I have told her that on facebook even though we share different political inclinations. She can ask that the president be removed no problem but adding ‘by all means possible‘ is too reckless and careless and could land her into trouble. If you care for her, tell her the truth.

It‘s treason to call for regime change ‘by all means possible‘ means which may include coup, assassination and other unconstitutional means.

Ordinarily, the above interpretation is laughable and undeserving of a response as there is clearly no way that the phrase, “by all means necessary” connotes or even suggests a recommendation of an assassination plot. Such mischievous misinterpretation, steeped in incurable idiocy again brings to the fore, the continuing rot in the Nigerian educational system, which has seen the universities churn out retards as graduates. Determined to overturn this rot, Nigerian lecturers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on a protracted strike, refusing to yield to official intimidation and all untoward pressures aimed at breaking their resolve. - victoria Ohaeri

DerideGull: You are a demented ninny. What is it about calling the shot in mere pewaterside ztter, olodo? I guess you did not understand that the aforementioned letter raised technical issues beyond the pedigree of shot calling, agbaya. Yoruba are legendary in illogicality as in the case of their progenitor.

naija2dabone: [s]Common boy, learn some manner.

Say thank you when you get some free education. Its nice though for you to accept that 'which yourself and your kind all the badluck ....' is garbage[/s]

DerideGull: [s]Eko ole, I guess you have gone nuts and not even able to comprehend simple rebuttals to Sanusi Lamido Sanusi's letter to president by the former's subordinates. When subordinates regarded a letter written by their boss as technically inadequate, the so-called boss has to hit the door. Again, you are one of the reasons I want Nigeria disintegrated. [/s]

The growing repression of citizen reporters and advocates that challenge the never-seen-before levels of corruption and political under-performance going in Nigeria has now assumed frighteningly alarming dimensions. For some time now, I have been the target of deliberate attacks, threats, accusations leveled against me by persons who hold themselves out as Igbo ethnic champions and supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. Their main grouse is that I have refused to heed their ‘wise counsel” to support a president from my tribe and region. Over time, they have continuously launched series of deliberate campaign of calumny against me on the social media, employing all sinisterly bewildering means to coerce me into silence.

Particularly on December 12, 2013, I had made the Facebook posting below:

Yes, Obasanjo clearly lacks the moral ground to write GEJ and level accusations he himself was, and is still guilty of. But that’s not the issue. The issue is whether there is any question OBJ has asked in that letter that isn’t true, and deserving of compelling answers. If all that most Nigerians can do after reading that letter is to hurl tirades at OBJ, then the bigger joke is on us all.

The truth is that GEJ may chose to call his estranged godfather’s bluff, but citizens, the diplomatic and international community are alarmed, and are taking the contents of that letter very seriously. He should also keep in mind that OBJ isn’t the kinda person whose hard questions can be wished away or dismissed with a wave of the hand.

GEJ is free to order his aides to decline a response, but most of the grave accusations – especially those bordering on all kinds of presidential corruption, oil theft, arms-piling and pursuit of a regional agenda – in that letter MUST be answered. Many issues raised in that letter have given the calls for regime change more tonic. And if these questions aren’t answered, then a regime change by “all means necessary” has become very imperative.

Capitalizing on the phrase, “by all means necessary” contained in the above post, a Facebook group named, Nigerian Liberation Movement (NLM) published hate messages with very malicious and defamatory content with intent to harm my reputation, and promote their characteristic ethnic bigotry. Very preposterously too, the above post was misinterpreted to mean that I was calling for the assassination of President Goodluck Jonathan, and on that basis, they urged the State Security Service to arrest me.

The statement contains in part:

Mrs Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri with ties to northern Nigeria has been a vocal critique of the Jonathan-led administration and believes that for the country to move forward the president should be removed by impeachment or through a military coup, which may result in his assassination.

Many Northerners have reacted to the call by Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri with suspicion and view her as a spy amongst them while their eastern counterparts have distanced themselves from the call. The Northerners view such a move as another repeat of the 1966 debacle for the eastern people of Igbo origin to seize power while using a “detribalized” mole like Mrs Ibezim-Ohaeri to wade off suspicion. Easterners on the other hand see such call as an attempt to push the country into another round of “Igbo killing and massacre” which they called pogrom.

Ordinarily, the above interpretation is laughable and undeserving of a response as there is clearly no way that the phrase, “by all means necessary” connotes or even suggests a recommendation of an assassination plot. Such mischievous misinterpretation, steeped in incurable idiocy again brings to the fore, the continuing rot in the Nigerian educational system, which has seen the universities churn out retards as graduates. Determined to overturn this rot, Nigerian lecturers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on a protracted strike, refusing to yield to official intimidation and all untoward pressures aimed at breaking their resolve.

There is simply no way a statement made within the limits of free speech, and again, made well within the context of established modes of democratic ascendancy could be myopically construed to mean a backing to murder a serving president! A subsequent post made the following day (December 13, 2013) specifically referenced an impeachment process, confirming my original intent on constitutionally-prescribed modes of political changeover.

Sight must not be lost of the fact that the call for regime change “by all mean necessary” was preconditioned on the president’s refusal or failure to provide cogent and compelling responses to the allegations of “presidential corruption, oil theft, arms-stockpiling and the secession agenda” contained in General Olusegun Obasanjo’s infamous letter to President Goodluck Jonathan.

This trend is however, not entirely new. In the last two years, there has been a clearly defined pattern of branding anybody who boldly speaks against the frustrating levels of bad governance and unprecedented corruption in Nigeria as an “enemy”. Patriotism is now defined as loyalty to the serving president, and not to the country itself. While this persecution against real and imagined critics of government persists, ex-militants and warlords famed for their inflammatory statements continue to enjoy the support and protection of the authorities.

Even more hurtfully, the statement by the NLM demonized the northern part of the country, insinuating that anyone “who has ties to the north” is inherently evil or a terrorist. Never in the chequered history of this country have we seen such alarming levels of bigotry and polarization along ethnic, tribal and regional lines, as we are witnessing since President Goodluck Jonathan came to power. Almost every issue, analysis, advocacy and even policy interventions that affect generality of the populace are now understood and dissected through ethnic prisms and warped regional predispositions. That is why an important bill like the Petroleum Industry Bill has remained on the parliamentary shelf, gathering dust, blocking billions of investments and oil revenues that could have been used to provide infrastructure, create jobs for restive youths and clean up the environmental mess in the Niger Delta.

It is difficult to believe that the Nigerian authorities are unaware of the ignominious activities of overzealous pests and rodents on the social media purporting to be acting on its behalf. No known attempt has been made to dissuade the activities of these often faceless groups and actors who have succeeded in making more enemies for the government of the day. These nuisances, mainly characterized by their low intellectual depth, fake identity and abusive expertise spend long hours on the social media throwing mud at personalities, citizen advocates and human right defenders perceived to be strong critics of President Jonathan’s administration. That these cyber rodents never use their real identities to mobilize public support for the present government is compelling proof that they are ashamed of the wicked roles they play, and wounded by their conscience.

For more than a decade, I have been actively involved in the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria, mainly through public interest litigation and other channels of popular expression to achieve these goals. Having come this far, I cannot be intimidated by the ranting of cheap blackmailers and lazybones. The struggle to restore sanity to Nigeria’s democratic and political climate has only just begun!

DerideGull: Your grammar sucks big time bro.

naija2dabone: ^^Under your post, the modify option is there for your use:

Edit and replace 'wish' for 'which'