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Ystranger:
I like you. You've got spunk!

you are back

[quote author=EzeUche__ link=topic=652658.msg8184849#msg8184849 date=1303513656]I don't need beef. Frankly, most Igbos can't even eat beef this weekend.  

The other food we produce locally. [/quote]like onions, tomatoes, pepper, corn, millet, etc

[quote author=Abu-Maryam link=topic=652658.msg8184794#msg8184794 date=1303513206]This shows how we need each other [/quote]thank you

this people understand nothing about nigeria and the balance of system

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=367789.msg8121881#msg8121881 date=1302738442]Why? It is in the interest of everyone for the city to be a success, isn't it? If the city is destroyed, everyone loses, right? Just come up with a power sharing agreement that is fair and that everyone respects. If you do that, then everything will be smooth sailing.

T[b]here will only be problems if one group tries to take it all for themselves. Otherwise, should be fine.[/b][/quote]and that is the problem

there will always be a group (likely ijaw) that will try to take it all for themselves

EPOMA:
The North this , the north that, I am from Niger delta, common debate our only candidate(PHD) could not come out and defend us. What does that tell you. The most corrupt and brutal governors are south south. I am not being deceived anymore.

The thought of people like Ibori , Odili and Godswll just wanna make me throw up

thank you

[size=15pt]Nuhu Ribadu stepping down for Buhari?[/size]

Update: Unconfirmed reports say The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Nuhu Ribadu has bowed out of the Presidential race in favour of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd). But elombah.com sources say the report is not yet true. Some reports are claiming that the deal which has just been struck between the ACN and the CPC would see Mr. Nuhu Ribadu stepping down for General Muhammadu Buhari in Saturday's Presidential Election.

A source close to Ribadu simply told elombah.com: "The parties are still meeting".
Pressed on the possibility of this happening, the source said they "Should know in about an hour or so".

This is corroborated by a CPC Chieftain who told elombah.com that while that could be a possibility, that has certainly not taken place. "meetings are still taking place", he said.

Asked whether it is possible for Ribadu to step down for Buhari, the CPC Chieftain says in view of what happened last Saturday it is in the interest of the opposition to work together, and "I am sure a sort agreement will be reached between the parties on the Presidential election".

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu had over the weekend vowed never t to step down for anyone ahead of next week’s presidential election.

The two parties - CPC and ACN, gained a sizeable representation in the National Assembly after last Saturday's election which reduced the dominance of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). However officials of both parties feel that an alliance of both parties would be very welcome.

Answering questions from journalists in Gombe April 9,2011 when he came to seek voters’ support for has aspiration, the former EFCC boss said Nigerians wanted a generational change.

He said, “why don’t you ask Buhari to step down for me? We are looking for a progressive who can take this country forward not to look back.

This country requires a change, a generational shift, we want people who can deliver, people who can work. We want modern people who can address modern problems confronting our country and that is what the challenge is all about”.

Mallam Ribadu said that Nigeria must embrace a generational change in its leadership if it wants to be enlisted in the map of advanced countries.

He said Industrialising the country remained the only solution for curbing unemployment adding that it could only be feasible if the lingering problem of power sector is tackled.

Me Step Down? Never! - Nuhu Ribadu, Yola, Adamawa State, April 2, 2011

My attention has been drawn to the claim, which started first as an April Fool joke yesterday, and is now made viral by opposition CPC members, that I have stepped down for General Muhammadu Buhari in what is termed a consensus arrangement.

First, I must clarify for my teeming supporters, our ever progressive ACN party members, and the millions of young people of this country who have trained their sights toward, and have sacrificed so much for a better Nigeria, that this is wicked falsehood, and a piece of mindless propaganda.

I have not and could never betray the confidence of Nigerians by trading my candidacy for any other person. So this claim remains a lie and a poor attempt to manipulate the electorates to seek cheap victory.

Secondly, I want to stress the point that this cheap scheme is deliberately calculated to abort our democratic march through manipulation, and through the hijack of our right to electoral choice, a central value of a true democracy.


To all the architects of this devilish scheme therefore, I have a simple message: that their electoral manipulation only goes to feed into the machinations of the same forces of misrule and darkness that have kept our nation down for the past two decades. If it is not clear to them that they are in bed with the PDP, Nigerians are finally getting to know now whose interest they are working to advance.

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6183:nuhu-ribadu-stepping-down-for-buhari&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=67

[quote author=Abu-Maryam link=topic=645300.msg8113867#msg8113867 date=1302648634]Guess who was born 1999 and will die 16 Aprill, 2011[/quote]FI DI FI (PDP) Insha Allah

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this is getting better day by day  

The ACN candidate, Nuhu Ribadu has bowed out of the Presidential race in favour of the CPC candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd).

By Chidi Okoye
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Nuhu Ribadu has bowed out of the Presidential race in favour of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd).

Sources have told Daily Times that the deal which has just been struck between the ACN and the CPC would see Mr. Nuhu Ribadu stepping down for General Muhammadu Buhari in Saturday's Presidential Election.

The two parties gained a sizeable representation in the National Assembly after last Saturday's election which reduced the dominance of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). However officials of both parties feel that an alliance of both parties would be very welcome.

Beaf:
Lol! Dude,[s] it is Nigeria vs "born to rule."[/s]

that is a lie

it is DEMOCRACY vs MEND and corruption

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=645300.msg8113809#msg8113809 date=1302647931]News 100% confirmed. Shekaru next. [/quote]is it really true

kai i go dance tonight oooo

brother can you provide links to confirm this

EzeUche:
Kobojunkie brings out the worse in people.

how jor

she is just saying how she fells

remember she is igbo as well before you think she is ofemann nu or something else

recoome:
The evil ones have gathered against the child of GOD, they shall fail cos GOD reigns. This people should please not throw this country into ethnic or religious(ACN/CPC are majorly muslims), the minorities have been marginalised enough already, if they bounce back, no one will benefit 4rm it o!

guy you must be mad or drunk to think it is about minority, religion or ethnic sentiment

sege mumu

Eziachi:
How come your choice is limited between Amaechi and Sekibo, when Nigeria got 62 political parties? For the sake of argument, if Amaechi contested under PRP in 2007 would you have voted for him?
Although we are now been force fed some deceitful convenient theory that you no longer vote for a party but rather an individual because they think it will help GEJ.
If we now vote individual, why did GEJ use every apparatus of govt in his power to fought off northern zoning apostles just to get the PDP's mandate, when he should have join the JUSTICE PARTY,after all party no longer count but individuals and let us see how much vote he will get from his own family alone.

hmmmm

words

Beaf:
LOL! Another Northern consensus candidate waiting to be Atiku'd!

[size=16pt]Ribadu has just put this nation first before personal interest

if only jonathan can do the same then he would be a national hero[/size]

Kobojunkie:
I don't think we need them . . . you may think so, but in the last 40 years, most every issue in Ibo land can be traced back to the so-called leaders. At some point, it is OK for the people to step out and take their democracy into their own hands. And not until that starts to happen, will we see improvement in Iboland. Ibos do not have to do it like the Hausa's or the Yoruba's or the Ijaws or even the Ibibios. We can look outside to see that there are more successful people's out there who do not have leaders per say. In the west, those models don't exist and look . . . these people seem to be doing a lot better than we are with our co-dependence on these numbskulls called leaders.

Ibo people are strong enough to make decisions for themselves . . . we finally have a system that allows us do just that  . . . I would rather than than have a bunch of lowlifes continue to sarbotage the future of our children in the name saving it.

you are certainly right here

i strongly believe we can use our republician nature to our advantage

which is what Nchara was saying yesterday

Andre Uweh:
Uche, I know you hate evil, how I wish you can silence that Bigot. I wonder why her parents failed to teach her good manners.

Andre I know you are angry because of the tone at which she adress the igbo leader. ndo ewele iwe brother

Now what do you think about our leaders, I know the truth and i will speak the truth

the reality is that we need A leader not ohaneze

whether kalu or obi anyone but we need A leader

ohaneze leaders are not good in politics at all.

alex101:
Thesame way you love-peddler mother sold her p#ssy to you crack dealing father for 2 rock of crack. No wonder you are a frustrated junkie living on section 8 and food stamps in america. Stay away from Igbo affairs you old barren/childless witch. Igbo men don't do ugly Yoruba/Yoruba women. Go find your Yoruba men to grease that your ugly looking and smelly puna##y of yours. naughty person!

what is with you insults again, how does this relate to Yoruba

moreover with is with you signature (death to alj harem=ndu chuks)

Andre Uweh:
You are a no brainer at all. Your deceased fingers does not type anything good but only insulting words on Igbo leaders. Yorubas, Hausas, Ijos etc have leaders, yet you hardly insult them. Should I say menopause is the reason?.

you are right there leaders do not treat them like this

how come our leaders are making common mistakes

Kobojunkie:
Revolution in Ibo land will have to begin with the public denouncement and disowning of these nincompoops who continue to pretend they are ibo leaders. I mean they make skin crawl each time I read of them claiming to make yet another decision on behalf of people WHO DID NOT ELECT or select them to LEAD.


For those not aware, these are the Tinubu's of Ibo land -- going around pretending to be LEADERS, only selling the people's future for a kobo or two!

i think we need a leader in igboland but certainly not this people

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username Alj Uche

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Hon. Juventus Ojukwu was elected to the House of Representatives twice in the second republic. A commissioned officer of the Nigerian Army before the civil war, Ojukwu tells Daily Sun in this interview conducted in Abuja that as the 2011 presidential election draws by, Nigerians should look for the person who has the capacity to confront the twin evils of indiscipline and corruption which have been the greatest obstacle to national development. Fortunately, he says, Candidate Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) fits the bill.

Ojukwu is not happy that the Igbo socio-political organization, Ohaneze, had endorsed the candidacy of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, and charges that Chief Ralph Uwechue and his cohorts railroaded the Igbo into the position without due consultation and wonders whose interest their action was meant to serve. According to him, in the process of endorsing Jonathan, Ohaneze has foreclosed the chances of the South-East producing the president of the country in the next 20 years.

Ojukwu is surprised that Igbo people are excited by the Ebele in the President’s name, and explains that it is short for Ebelemi which is an Ijaw word and not an Igbo name as many of them have supposed.

We must address indiscipline and corruption
I am not satisfied with what I see in the political atmosphere for the reasons that it appears that in spite of all we have gone through, Nigerians don’t appear to have grasped what our problems are. We talk about it, but we have not grasped it. The biggest problems confronting this nation today are indiscipline and corruption. And it is at the root of every other problem.

When you talk about power supply, when you talk about the road, when you talk about education, unemployment, infrastructure, indiscipline and corruption are at the root of it all because when money is voted and the people are corrupt, and there is no probity and integrity, you can’t develop. You can’t do anything; you can’t employ; hospitals will decay; universities are decaying, and it’s all because of indiscipline and corruption. And Nigerians don’t seem to be addressing it.

Everybody is crying and crying, this government is not good, this government is not good, but we don’t seem to be doing anything about it. Everybody seems to fear and praise the man who distributes the money. This doesn’t give much room for cheers. That’s one area. Another area is the apparent insecurity that is prevailing in the country today. We don’t seem to have learnt much from history, and a nation that does not learn from history is doomed to fail and decay.

There’s so much insecurity everywhere – killing, bombing, and what have you, and the people at the helm of affairs tend to look the other way. They only pay lip service to these problems, telling us government will do something about it, and nothing is being done - at least we are not seeing anything being done. And when you cannot secure lives and property, you cannot say you have a nation. These are areas that bother me in this period of electioneering. People are interested in wearing uniform and dancing and singing praises; that’s not electioneering. Issues are not being discussed.

From the presidential campaign, only one or two candidates have given the indication that they will address these issues. But one of them stand out on top of the bill, and that is Gen. Buhari. I don’t make any bones about it, I don’t feel shy about it, I am talking as a patriotic Nigerian. Buhari is known in this country as a person who is highly disciplined. And I happen to know him personally, and I can vouch for him. If Buhari comes to power, he can arrest this indiscipline. He had once tried to do it, and for the short period he was in power he succeeded.

People are saying it was idiagbon, but they forget that Idiagbon was his second in command. Buhari was the man calling the shots. He’s a taciturn kind of person, and not given to too much talking. Now about indiscipline, Buhari can handle it; in terms of corruption, he has shown that he is anti-corruption personified. And he has had the opportunity to be corrupt, and he has refused to be corrupt. Why can’t Nigerians look at his antecedents. He does not own propeties all over the places, whether here or abroad. So I think General Buhari can address these two nagging issues.

Buhari is not a bigot
There is something people hold against Buhari – against him in quotes - religion. And I don’t want to shy away from this issue because we must face the fact. People say Buhari is a religious fanatic, but he is not. Nobody has come to show how he is, whether by words of mouth or action. They attribute certain words to him which he did not say. I read somewhere where the renowned Monsignor Matthew Hassan Kukah, a catholic priest, wrote something few years ago when this matter was raging. He said Buhari didn’t say that.

And he said what Buhari said, vote for a God-fearing person. Buhari never said vote for a muslim, and you will be Buhari’s friend if you are God-fearing; that’s it, period. He’s not a fanatic. Maybe I’m a fanatical Christian myself, but I don’t think I’m a fanatic; I just like to practise my faith. He practises his faith, and if you practise your faith well, whatever religion you belong to, you are my friend because it means that you’re God-fearing.

CPC has no disdain for the South-East
I wouldn’t say CPC has disdain for the south-east because of the way Mike Ahamba’s bid to be the chairman of the party was truncated. I’m not an insider in the party, I must admit. And when I look at facts given by people, I judge them by what they say. If there is hidden agenda, I should be able to see. They had an issue; I read what Buhari said, and I was sympathetic to him. Buhari said Ahamba did not discuss this matter with him; did not tell him he had any interest, not that he had the power to do it if he had told him. But the party had decided to take a chairman from the South-South. Ahamba did not make his interest known. And when Ahamba complained, I was a bit disappointed, he went to the press.

When I’m dealing with my friends, I like to discuss with them, unless there is a big quarrel and we have fallen apart. There was nothing to show that they had fallen apart except when he went to the press, and Buhari said, since he complained to me through the press, I will answer him through the press. And what Buhari said was plain truth. You see Buhari doesn’t lie, even if he is joking; that’s one thing about him. Even it is against him, he says it as it is, that’s Buhari for you. He said he didn’t tell him and did not complain to him. He said the Board of Trustees of the party had decided that the chairman would come from the South-South.

How would I know the ground on which they took their decision? Let’s look at it from another angle. In the past three elections, Buhari had chosen his running mates from the South-East. When you are into an election, going to a contest, you look for areas and possibilities that will enhance your position. It is possible, I don’t know. But from what we read in the papers, Buhari chose Tunde Bakare, and gave his reasons why he chose him.

They had not been friends. It was not that he was looking for somebody from the South-West. It’s simply that it suits his bill, what he intends to do, the programme he wants to execute, that’s why he chose Tunde Bakare, and Tunde Bakare happens to be a Yoruba from the South-West. And it is possible that if Chuba Okadigbo, may he rest in peace, were still alive, he still would have chosen him. After Chuba Okadigbo in 2007 he chose Ume-Ezeoke, and we know how that ended. If I were in Buhari’s shoes, I would look

for somebody I will trust, who will go with me, swim and sink, and whatever I believe in he believes in. they have not been friends, but they met for the first time during the Save Nigeria Campaign. So that’s how I want you to look at it. Now about the zone and all that, I happen to know that Buhari does not disregard our people. And in any case, win or lose.

Ohaneze did not consult before endorsing Jonathan
I am not happy with the position taken by Igbo leaders on the presidential election; the way that Ralph Uwechue and some people in Ohaneze seem to have railroaded into Jonathan presidential project, saying we have all agreed to vote for Jonathan, claiming to have consulted with the people. I don’t expect them to consult with everybody, but if they consulted with people we would have known. It is typical Igbo politics, always the short term, not looking for the long run. A president from the South-South will not favour Igbo cause unless we have decided not to have a shot at the presidency in the next 20-30 years. Unless we have taken that decision, there is no way a South-South presidency will favour us.

But if we say as a people, for which I am proud to be one – if you are not a good ethnic person you cannot be a good Nigerian. So I am not being tribalistic or whatever. If Igbo people have decided they are not interested in the presidency, they can then go for the South-South, whether Jonathan or whoever. There was a beautiful analysis by Nnanna Ochereome in Vanguard, and many people have written, if the man is there, it only makes sense that after four years, if he is going to run one term, that the North will likely insist it will come to them, because they were short-changed this time around. So I think that is a very poor thinking by Ndigbo.

Secondly, Jonathan looks nice, but I have not seen him as a man I can trust politically, and I doubt his credibility. And a man with such a big question mark on his credibility, I cannot, with my yes open, tell my people to vote for him. If it must be somebody from the South-South, another person, maybe. Why do I say this? A man who cannot keep an agreement of his party, cannot be trusted to keep a national agreement. It’s simple. Don’t tell me it’s politics; I don’t think politics is opportunism. I have been a politician; I was a member of the National Assembly two times. I believe in politics with principles, even if it doesn’t favour me.

For a man who signed an agreement, his name was number 33 or 34, to now jettison it because there is an opportunity…and let me tell you, what led to the civil war was the reneging of an agreement. That’s what caused all the conflict. People say it is politics and it doesn’t matter, no. So Ndigbo are short-sighted in queuing behind such a person because he will not keep to his word in their regard.
Again, the next thing is, before Ralph Uwechue and others took that decision, they did not consider those who are likey to be our future friends politically. Now they are saying 2015 is not negotiable, and I laugh.

When Abba Aji said we should forget it, people abused him. He was merely stating the facts which are bitter. Now we don’t have political friends. Those we would have supported based on principles would have been candidates from the North. I am not saying it because I like the Northerner or I hate the Southerner, I say based on principle, on what is equitable and good. When it is now your own turn, you will have somebody who will support you. But now you are just blowing hot air, saying you must have it, how can you have it? Politics is a game of numbers. You don’t support me now, and tomorrow you expect me to come and support you. That’s why I’m against the leadership of Ndigbo in this matter.

Jonathan’s name is Ebelemi, it’s not Igbo
And look at, recently, Jonathan’s government appointed top management team for the NNPC, and 75 per cent of them was from Niger Delta, not one Igbo. The rest were from the North and West; because the man answers Ebele which is Ebelemi - it is not an Igbo name, his name is Ebelemi – the Igbo people are saying he is one of their own, it’s not Igbo; it’s an Ijaw name.

We have never had any political friend, and it is our making because we have not husbanded our political thinking properly. It is not because other people hate us, but because we have not managed our political affairs well. That’s why we don’t have political friends. And each time we are about to have political friends, we blow it. Take for instance during the Abiola era, that’s the time we could have had political friends from the West, but we failed to do that.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/abujareports/2011/apr/11/abujareports-11-04-2011-001.htm

mods please warn or ban this poster

i really do not want to start

please ban this poster infact, he has been following me about with insults and abuses

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=profile;u=217644

The Ndigbo has a lot to gain if Ribadu or Buhari enters as the next president because zoning still exist in the minds of Nigerians.

Ohaneze has put us Ndigbo in the worse political situation in resent times, but if Ngige wins we can push for political relevance but in the western Nigeria and ACN as a party

The new political game that has to be played by our igbo elites is to make sure Jonathan loses and Ngige wins the senatorial seat.

By 2015 if Buhari keeps to his words, not only would we have ACN fielding Ngige as a presidential candidate or VP but also we can truly fight for our place in Nigeria economic centre of Lagos because of the ACN.

Moreover we still have PDP and APGA still in the bag as a backup plan.

Please air your thoughts on this Ndigbo

OBJ, what a shame

chai !!!!

this is sad indeed

the daughter of such a great person

may Allah grant her eternal peace

EzeUche:
That would make CPC a socialist party. . .

PDP is purely capitalist.

and do you think capitalism is needed in nigeria

remember nigeria is not america where people are still comfortable even if they are broke

EzeUche:
None of the major parties with maybe the exception of the Labor Party has a clear political ideology. We are not at that stage yet.

CPC ideology is as clear as day

" give power back to the people
fight against corruption"