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Beaf:
You are funny dude. I can beat anything you study for 6 years in one month, cos I have a high IQ while you are still evolving, and stuck somewhere beteen monkey and man.
I've seen the crap pic in your profile, I wouldn't even need 3D Max to beat that.

Bloody nematode.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

can you stop this your mo.ronic behaviour,.,., mumu

Obiagu1:
Those dudes are lazy f.ools!

Call a spade a spade.

Maybe everyone that is a native of where natural resources are mined including those states that host Kanji dam should start trooping to Abuja to collect allawee.

gbam

jason123:
Guy, calm down. Dapo was discussing this issue from an econmic point of view which is the comparative advantage while you are looking at it from a tribal or ethnic point of view. It is not a conspiracy against anyone, please cheer up.

jason123, no vex me oo

he was just joking,.,.,. how can he be that ethnocentric,.,. it unreal ,.,. i mean even to business

i agree with onlytruth on the idea of buying from a nigerian firm but the price and quality has to be right

my igbo brother, we are getting there do not worry

Justcash:
[]Dapo and you reason like goats. Especially you. You are a bigger goat because you over value your "goaty" mate. Just a fact.[/b]

frustrated mumu

ode ,olodo

ewu amu, onya ara  go sleep mumu

udezue:
This is the reason why I keep saying that Igbos should become hardened tribalist and not give a 4k about anyone who does not give a 4k about them. Nigerians hate the Igbo and the must in return hate Nigerians even more with exception of their neighbors but at the same time must demand respect. The only thing that will save us is when we harden ourselves in the way we treat others. Whether we perform magic for Nigeria we will still be hated and envied hence we should in fact do all those things we are accused of doing. I mean its better to be hated for something u are doing not what u are not doing. Rather than try to fix economy of Nigeria Okonjo and Soludo should have helped tank and destroy it completely hell after all all Nigerians will feel the pinch. We should view the Nigerian state the way Jews view Arabs. No love but pure contempt. Igbo must strive to destroy that cesspit till they Nigerians start begging us to freaking declare our own nationhood. We must frustrate that nation economically the way the Ijaw are doing by blowing up oil pipelines. If it means going back to re-invent the Ogbunigwe bomb then so be it. Let Nigerians regret ever having us as a part of their entity not the other way round.

lol

pure trash

i thought he was igbo elebe azikiwe

Justcash:
[]Look at how many made in Japan electronics that you have. You may just have my brand among them. Those products would have been made in Nigeria if your local and illiterate brain was big enough to understand the principles of economics. If you think it is cheaper to manufacture in a foreign land than in Nigeria (Even with all the lack of basic infrastructures), then you must be a Demented backside-h_ole.
Don't worry, one day, you will wake and find a Chinese Eku-bear, and you'll feel it is okay to have another not-so-smart person that is made in China. Ewu! [/b]

did you just call dapo ewu, illiterate

guy you are clearly out of ur league here take my advice go sleep mumu

Beaf:
3D Max! Is that the peak of your abilities?

I can bet you that I will whopp your arse and that of your combined neolithic goat herding clan in any field you pick (apart from swearing and acting stoopid). Lol.
Dude, I am 100% sure that I can draw better than you, think better than you. . . any intellectual topic under the sun. Bush man! I bet you look a bit like a frog as well. LOLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!

I'm here laughing my arse to bits!! Imagine being challenged by an amoeba!

co mot here abegi tout

mumu

alex101:
My friend shut the fu@k UP! They deserve it because there is a provision for allowance in the amnesty agreement. nigeria is known for not adhering to terms of any agreement.

they deserve free money while the edo, yoruba, ibibio and igbos in niger/delta oil producing area do not deserve the free money as well

see stu.pidity in display

see my igbo brother causing fight between ijaw and yoruba

smh

mukina2 better act fast before it turns to something else

mods please delete this thread as soon as possible before it gets out of hand

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-611071.0.html

the title is misleading

alex101:
I have to side with Beaf on this one. These boys risked their lives fighting the govt. for resource control. Since, they weren't given the full resource control, then atleast let them enjoy their monthly allowance. Others, like politicians, and unproductive states/LG are just getting a free ride for doing absolutely nothing.
To carry gun and face nigerian soldiers no be for lazy man o! I love these Ijaw boys men.

sorry alex101 if i sound rude but chai!!!! you are da.ft  above all you are not even using any part of your body to think at all!!!!

why should they even face nigerian soldiers at all,.,.,. so without oil they can not survive,.,.smh

so if nigeria did not discover oil,.,. ijaw people will die of hunger or what are you saying

it is pure act of laziness,.,.,,.

Beaf:
People keep calling the ex-millitants lazy people. It is very ironic, because every single state and LG in Nigeria does exactly what these folk are doing; your state, my state, all states queue in Abuja, begging bowls at the ready for money they never worked for.

I say, look in the mirror.

[size=13pt]beaf, ijaws or niger/delta people are not the only oil producing area in nigeria, we have cross-river, ondo, lagos, akwa-ibom, imo anambra, edo

now are igbos, yoruba, bini, ibibio people begging for money like you people,.,.,.,please answer honestly[/size]

how many igbo or yoruba militants have you seen ddoing this because they produce oil

are itsekiri not in niger/delta, why they not begging for money like ijaws,.,.and yet it is not laziness  smh

Beaf:
^
Dude, my small toe packs more IQ than your whole arid, desert clan. Lol!

@topic
The truth is bitter.

As they say, remove the log in your eye before complaining of the speck in your neighbours eye.
Those ex-millitants are a graphic picture of the Nigerian nation, where each state does fvckall, yet collects welfare money from Abuja, instead of the other way round.
If all our states and LG's are beggars, why point fingers at ex-millitants who have an agreement with the FG thats as valid as the one the FG has with the states. Isn't it an irony and a pitiable delusion?

Look in the mirror and see yourselves in our fvcked country.

[size=18pt]everyone can you see beaf,.,. this is who beaf is supporting lazy people, militants and insulting a northerner that perfer to even be a shoe maker than becoming a militant[/size]

if beaf is thinking like a mo.ron,.,. now imagine how his master will be thinking jonathan

thanks mod

you all see how lazy this niger/delta people are,.,.

while other nigerias from igbo to yoruba to hausa are working to make their lives and the country a better place, niger/deltans want free money just because they produce oil.

now the question is, does ondo, lagos, awka ibom, cross river not produce oil,.,.,.,., are they protesting?

can this people try this nonsense in OBJ or buhari's term?

why id it only in jonathan's term they are flexing there muscles ?

people vote wisely

Andre Uweh:
Because what you have in the East are roadside mechanics, taxi drivers, newspaper vendors, tailors and barbers.

i think this is a news we should be looking forward to.,.,.,. there should be ohaneze in the north as well

Eko Ile:
These ibo warriors need serious anger management I swear, lmao

c,mon you do not have to take a jab at them

A political party, doubtless, serves as a platform for like-minded people to unite for the ultimate goal of capturing power. But such power should not be an end; rather, it is a means of improving the lot of the society through faithful implementation of well-conceived programmes. As parties stage their various campaigns in line with the Independent National Electoral Commission’s 2011 timetable, there has been a perceived hollowness in their conduct. For political personalities have not been forthcoming on how to solve the nation’s daunting problems. It can be safely said that, except in the civil war years, at no time has the nation been more overwhelmed with problems than now.


The nation’s economy, for instance, is in a shambles. The nation’s industries are collapsing and Nigeria has today become one of the most import-dependent nations; the nation’s power sector has defied all rescue efforts generating only about 3000megawatts, less than one-fifth of the nation’s needs; unemployment has risen to about 33 per cent, including more than 50 per cent of the nation’s graduates. More than 70 per cent still live below poverty line with basic needs becoming increasingly unaffordable. Inflation rate remains high. The education sector is comatose with reports that more than 10million children are out of the school system. For the pupils in the school ,there are no sufficient personnel, classrooms and teaching facilities. Unlike in the past, the nation’s universities are not producing competitive graduates. Also, the health system has collapsed with leaders today running to foreign hospitals to treat common ailments. The problems appear endless.


There are crimes and insecurity in the land, including assassinations, armed robbery, kidnapping, ethno-religious violence. The nation’s transport sector is also in a mess, owing to poor road network and moribund railways. How do we combat corruption, the Niger Delta problems and also bring about profitable exploitation of solid minerals? Party men ought to be thinking of how to strengthen the country’s federalism and settle once and for all fiscal federalism and indigene/settler questions. Yet, in the face of all this, parties and candidates are not issue-driven. To many, it is just how to get power, not what to do with it. Over time, sentiments have risen above concrete issues. Some politicians are still labelled as either pro or anti-zoning. Two major parties, the Peoples Democratic Party and the Action Congress of Nigeria, that are expected to woo the electorate through sound ideas have resorted to name-calling and brickbats. Headlines are not about the concrete plans of the respective parties but about how one has launched into a tirade of abuse and how the other has countered it.


When issues are occasionally mentioned, nothing is said about specific steps to actualising them. When a party for instance pledges to “transform the country” through provision of quality education and “stable power” and improving the economy to make lives of Nigerians more meaningful, without telling us how, then it is questionable.


Parties and their members should start to work out the details. On Agriculture, for instance, what will be the role of government in construction and maintenance of functional irrigation dams, procuring high-yielding seedlings, high grade livestock and acquiring tractors and hectares of land in different parts of the country for mechanised farming? What is the cost and what is the role of the private sector? Candidates should tell us how they are going to use either centralised or decentralised policing to combat crimes. And since it is certain that not all parties will be satisfied with the present power road map, what are the better alternatives? On education, what are the plans for recruiting more teachers, improving facilities and classrooms towards expanding the space in all the nation’s educational institutions. What is the projected population of pupils and students? There were reports that the Action Group’s free education programme in the Western Region in the First Republic and the Unity Party of Nigeria’s in the Second Republic would not have succeeded without painstaking plans. There were careful projections on number of pupils, number of classrooms , textbooks, notebooks and other teaching aids needed. Funds needed to execute the programmes and sources were carefully projected.


In the Second Republic, the major political parties, the National Party of Nigeria, Unity Party of Nigeria, Nigerian People’s Party, People’s Redemption Party, Great Nigeria People’s Party and Nigeria Advance Party then bestrode the political space with specific ideas and vision for the country. The NPN was built around the slogan “one nation, one destiny” and had clearly stated policies on agriculture and housing. But both UPN and PRP were widely believed to have presented the most “coherent” plan of action during the 1979 campaigns. UPN was known for and guided by democratic socialism. It sought partnership based on coalition of like-minded advocates of the ideology, pledging free education for all, free health services, integrated rural development and full employment. The NPP hammered on “politics without borders “ and GNPP “politics without bitterness.” The PRP was another centre left party that derived its character from its focus on the “talakawas,” the poor and the deprived. The present parties lack such identities.


In the United States, electorate can readily predict what the policy of Republicans and Democrats shall be. The Democratic Party will, for instance, implement a broader range of social services in America than those done by the Republicans. The latter’s philosophy is based on a limited influence of government and a dominant foreign policy. The Democrats on the other hand are on the left and in favour of active role for the government and believe that such involvement can improve the quality of people’s lives and help achieve the larger goal of opportunity and equality. The far-right and conservative Republicans believe that reliance on the private sector (businesses and individuals) can improve economic productivity and help achieve the larger goals of freedom and self-reliance. They are described as “anti-bureaucracy, pro-military and pro-personal responsibility.”


Candidates and their supporters should start looking at what their parties stand for to see in what way they are relevant to the nation’s goals. Politics should not be seen as merely hijacking power for the sake of it. Parties should start adopting clear ideas about how to address the nation’s daunting challenges, while the Nigerian voters should start rejecting politicians without mission.
https://www.punchng.com/images/February/Wednesday/pix201102234315740.jpg


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201102234321225

No fewer than 18 people were brutally killed in the early hours of Tuesday at Belle village near Dorowan Tosho, Fan District, Barakin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State by armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.

The Nigerian Tribune learnt that the assailants who were in large numbers, stormed the village through hills within the area and launched attack on the people who were in bed at about 1.00 a.m. and killed the people at random while several others sustained injuries.

The chairman of Barakin-Ladi Local Government Area of the state, Honourable Pam Dakwat, told newsmen that the marauders attacked the people with various dangerous weapons like sophisticated guns, cutlasses, bows and arrows, among others.

Honourable Dakat, who said that 14 people died on the spot, stated that four others gave up the ghost on their way to the hospital, adding that the number of casualties would have been more than that but for the youth of the area who quickly mobilised to wade off the assailants.

According to him, the youth, through their efforts, repelled the assailants and succeeded in killing one of them, which gave them a clue of who the attackers were, adding that the remains of those who died had been deposited in the mortuary.

Meanwhile, the Plateau State Police Command has confirmed 18 people dead, seven people injured, one house burnt and 19 cows rustled as a result of the attack. The command added that security operatives moved to the scene after being informed about the development.

The command, through a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, ASP Apev Jacob, pointed out that the victims were taken to the Jos University Teaching Hospital for medical attention, adding that the fleeing attackers were being hunted with a view to arresting and bringing them to book.

It appealed to the people of the state to remain calm and be law-abiding as security personnel were doing everything possible to forestall future occurrence, adding that investigation into the matter had commenced.

Meanwhile, Vice-President Namadi Sambo has stated that the recent unfortunate loss of lives in Borno and Jos are leading to a gradual subversion of democracy, saying that whoever is found responsible for the loss of life and property will be dealt with according to the law of the land.

The vice-president stated this at the inauguration of the Senior Executive Course No 33, 2011 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State.

Sambo, who was represented by the Head of Service, Professor Oladapo Afolabi, said cynics and other observers across the world were eagerly waiting to see if Nigeria could organise and conduct free, fair and credible elections, adding that Nigerians must prove themselves worthy of doing so.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/17943-18-people-killed-in-another-fresh-attack-in-plateau-state-borno-jos-crises-leading-to-subversion-of-democracy-sambo

President of the Ijaw National Congress, (INC), Dr Atuboyedia Obianime, narrowly escaped being killed on Monday night when a gang of kidnappers attempted kidnapping him as well as hijacking his car.

The Ijaw apex organi-sation chief, who is a serving lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, did not escape without a mark from his assailants as he was shot in the thigh in the struggle for his life.

His resistance against abduction was, however, buoyed with the arrival of patrolling policemen, who came after the hoodlums and eventually got them to flee the scene, abandoning their firearms.

A security report obtained from the office of the Rivers State Police Command spokesperson, Dr Rita Inoma-Abbey (SP), said investigations had already commenced on the matter.

“On 21.2.11 at about 2010hrs, at Choba roundabout, Port Harcourt, there was an attempt to kidnap and snatch a vehicle from one Dr. Atuboyedia Wolfe Obianime, a University of Port lecturer and President, Ijaw National Congress (INC),” the report stated.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/17951-ijaw-leader-escapes-kidnap

at least some one is thinking here

praises Allah

i think the write can not be too sure of what he is talking about until GEJ finish his term

i am sure ohaneze made a deal with jonathan

just like other corrupt people eg IBB, ciroma, GAUSA, OBJ, ATIKU and so on

i mean with is good for the goose is good for the gander

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=610463.msg7786108#msg7786108 date=1298472279]what can i say,crime runs in their genes.we know where they come from. [/quote]it runs in nigerians genes because they are nigerians and we know they are nigerians

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=610463.msg7786074#msg7786074 date=1298472067]Oh Lord.  

I am preparing myself for the tribal onslaught.[/quote]why should there be any tribal issue here , ,.,.,

@op

this is a shame on nigeria government and PDP

if you can not provide adequate health service and other basic things for your people, they would have no choice but to travel outside the country and be disgraced there,.,

shame on nigeria!!!!

please filter this thread before it turn to an animal zone by ezeuche

thanks

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-610707.0.html#msg7785976

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=610707.msg7785961#msg7785961 date=1298470961]I know Muki told you to stop posting tribal threads yet you continue.

You know what that means. [/quote]please do not destroy this thread

what is tribal about this now

please it is an open discussion

By Mazi Uzo Obi
About eleven years ago precisely in 1999 when the military ceded power to the civilians, I had lamented the wrong choices that Ndigbo were making in a widely publicized article " The Igbo and their Bad Choices: Cause of Igbo Marginalization"-http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/obi/igbo.html.Today, nothing has changed and the southeast Ndigbo have totally lost out and lack any political strategy.

No Igbo of Southeast origin heads any of the branches of Government at the Federal level. The House of Representatives has Speaker Bankole from the Southwest while Ike Ekweremadu of the Southeast is the deputy Senate President. I respectfully submit that the failed leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and Southeast Governors will make Ndigbo politically irrelevant in Nigeria. I am not making a claim to superior knowledge of anything but I will outline the facts as they are today for the reader to make the judgment.

In 1999 Odumegwu Ojukwu set up the Progressive Democratic Congress (PDC) which was denied registration but the Southwest based Alliance for Democracy succeeded in getting registration. At that time Dr Alex Ekwueme and his group who had formed the PDP dragged Ndigbo to the PDP hoping that the Ndigbo would be better served. Ndigbo put their eggs in one basket and lost and have not yet recovered even up till today. The Igbo politicians except for a few refused to join the Ikemba to fight for the registration of the PDC and so Ndigbo were stuck with the PDP. Olusegun Obasanjo from the Southwest presented himself for election and his supporters argued that as a retired military officer he knew how to relate better to the military during the transitional period. On the other hand those supporters of Alex Ekwueme argued that the academic pedigree of Ekwueme and his experience as former Vice President made him a better candidate.Besides,every other tom, dick and harry in Igboland had their hands and legs in the race. Amongst the top Igbo politicians in the PDP was Ebitu Oko Ukiwe, a retired military officer and former military VP to Babangida.Ukiwe is a very disciplined and retired military officer who was also widely respect in the military. The Southeast zone failed to rally round the candidacy of Ukiwe and so Obasanjo finally got elected as the PDP flag bearer. What pundits like me are yet to understand is why the Southeast zone refuses to recognize the status of Ukiwe and why they failed to protest the shabby treatment meted out to Ukiwe under Babangida.I will save this for another discussion.

This is 2011 and there has been no change in the way Ndigbo approach national politics and no apparent political strategy has been developed by this zone. In one of my earlier submissions, I used the words 'politically naive' to describe Peter Obi and I have always chastised the Ohaneze Ndigbo for their inability to articulate an effective position for Ndigbo. Rather than constantly criticize other geopolitical zones and cry marginalization, Ndigbo need to take a deep breath and do a soul searching. I have said that instead of putting all their eggs in one basket, the zone should evolve alternative strategies/plans to reposition the SE in national politics. Our refusal to do this will cause us to fail and when we fail we should blame no one but our leaders'.

Before I continue the review of Southeast politics, a brief review of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) is necessary. Now that the SW is no longer in power at the center, the ACN has begun reclaiming the SW states to maintain their political independence and to gain strategic political advantage. There is no question that the ACN is a SW based party and its decision to field Nuhu Ribadu is a gimmick no person should readily buy. The ACN understands Nigeria very well and is not ready or available to be used by any region or non SW politician for their political advantage. This is what Muhammadu Buhari does not understand. Yes Buhari can fight corruption but is the ACN really interested in that? Within the ACN, the national interest of the SW zone is of top priority and that, I respectfully submit, drives the politics of the ACN. “We know that Buhari needs us but what do you have for us?” Without much formality, the ACN appointed Nuhu Ribadu as its flagbearer and is not yet selling his candidacy causing some to doubt that the ACN is really serious with Ribadu. No doubt Ribadu has some following among the youth and the internet crowd but the ACN does not belong to this group.
What does Ribadu bring to the table within the ACN? There is nothing that Ribadu has that the SW desires or wants. Key questions about this Ribadu that linger are: Who arranged for his dismissal from the Nigeria Police as a deputy commissioner of police (DCOMPOL) to be reversed? Who arranged for his demotion from Assistant Inspector General (AIG) to DCOMPOL to be reversed and his rank of AIG restored? Why was he then retired as an AIG? Why were the criminal charges against him dropped and why did Ribadu subsequently end his self imposed exile? Were all these packaged for him to come back and become President Jonathan’s (GEJ) political opponent (bite the finger that fed him?).The SW geopolitical zone’s mastery of political strategy and tactics is unquestionable and would one be surprised that Olusegun Obasanjo once declared that the SW will decide who becomes the next President? The SW stake in the 2011 presidential elections is all about gaining strategic political advantage. Not too long ago, the nation received the news that the matriarch of the Awolowo political dynasty had been appointed the Chair of the Yoruba Unity Forum. There is the Alliance for Democracy (AD), the ACN and the SW caucus in the PDP and the politics of these parties is driven by the collective interests of the SW geopolitical zone.

The emergence of Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP flagbearer has thrown the Northern zones in disarray. From what is happening in the north, there is ongoing political realignment that has thrown up Buhari and increased his political standing in the north. The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) is likely to capture the states in the northern geopolitical zone which includes the Northwest (NW), Northeast (NE) and North Central (NC) and there it ends. I will not devote time to the ANPP because Governor Shekarau does not even have name recognition that is required in campaigning nationally.

The dominant political party in the land of the rising star supposedly should be the All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA). This southeast based political party suffered the most from the impact of the grand rigging of the 1999 and 2007 national elections. The party was involved in a series of litigations to recover its stolen mandate from the PDP. The APGA was able to recover Anambra state which has the largest share in electoral value in the Southeast zone. Another state that proved promising in terms of success in litigations was Imo state but the sudden turnaround at the Appeal Court which did not favor APGA surprised many even in the face of abundant evidence. In Abia state, Governor Theodore Orji made a right move in joining APGA with his group. This success recorded by APGA in Abia state was short lived as Dr Emmanuel Nwodo and his PDP team convinced T.A.Orji to sell out. On the surface it appears as a feat recorded by Dr Nwodo but in reality it was the grand old man at Otta farms that pulled the strings. Let me digress a bit here to x-ray some developments in the southeast zone during the tenure of Obasanjo. There is no question that under Obasanjo the Southeast zone was given the key positions in government at the finance, foreign affairs, and defense ministries as well as at the Central Bank of Nigeria.However, what dealt a very devastating blow on the Southeast zone was under the two terms of Obasanjo. The Southeast zone was forced to produce five different Presidents of the Senate deliberately designed to favor the five states in the zone. There were only two senate terms with an excessive number of five senate presidents. This was the first and probably the last time in the history of the senate that this will ever happen. Will the Southeast zone understand the effect of remote interference in the politics of the Southeast zone?

Since 1999, the Ikemba has worked relentlessly to position the Southeast zone strategically in national politics. However, the greatest obstacle that has worked against positioning the SE zone in national politics is the greed for money. My reading of the Southwest politics is that the politicians do not allow selfish interests to jeopardize the collective interests of the zone and I stand to be corrected. The APGA which is a regional party like ACN and CPC has not established itself as a political force in Nigeria. The APGA has failed to position the SE zone to gain strategic political advantage. This is partly because of Ojukwu’s illness and the fact that the politically naive Governor Peter Obi is calling the shots in the APGA now that the Ikemba is sick. Recent developments in the APGA include the joining of APGA by Dr Akunyili and a number of other PDP politicians. These developments are hardly anything that can impact the strategic positioning of the Southeast zone in Nigeria. In the case of Akunyili, we see the immediate goal as an attempt to join the senate but the long term plan could be a possible run for the state governorship. All these have nothing to do with strategic positioning of the SE zone in national politics although she has criticized the move to zone the Senate Presidency to the SW zone.
Another significant development in the SE zone is the emergence of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ).Ordinarily this should not be significant because there are six geopolitical zones in Nigeria and GEJ is from the Southsouth (SS) zone. In the Southeast (SE) geopolitical zone, GEJ is well liked and his emergence as a Presidential front runner has provided some healing in the old Eastern Region as a result of the wounds of the civil war. But the political interests of all the zones have always been different. Suddenly, the people of the SE zone have been psychologically manipulated into believing that GEJ is an Igbo man because he has Igbo names. This has been done without regard to the overall strategic interests of the SE zone in my humble opinion. To support this view, it is important to look at the emerging political scenario on the national level.

SOUTHEAST POSITION

1. The SE zone has through the SE Governors declared that the SE is not interested in either being President or VP and this position has been supported by Ohaneze Ndigbo. In addition they have pledged total support for GEJ on the grounds that the SE will produce the President in 2015( Is this not ambiguous?)

2. There is now a tussle for the position of National Chairman of the PDP by Dr Emmanuel Nwodo. The PDP North argues that since GEJ is flying the flag the position of Chairman should move to the North. The SE on the other hand argues that the term of the SE will expire in 2012 and therefore the SE should be allowed to finish their term in 2012.

3.President GEJ apparently in agreement with Governor Peter Obi suddenly appointed Lady Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu as Senior Special Assistant Diaspora (whatever that means).A few SE Internet miscreants are all over the place gloating and rejoicing.

SOUTHWEST POSITION:

1. While all the foregoing are going on, the Southwest zone saw an opportunity and have positioned the zone for Senate President if GEJ wins.

2. The Southwest has also positioned the region for Vice President if Buhari/Ribadu wins.

This reminds me of the popular line by Dr Kingsley Mbadiwe: Obulu na IS a workuro WAS ga work. This again should remind us of 1999 when the two major candidates were from the Southwest zone.

Today, the SW region knows when it will be their turn again and they are not speaking. As at today three names have been mentioned as possible VP candidates namely Adebayo, Tinubu and Tunde Bakare.

It must be emphasized that I have not claimed to be a master of political strategy. What I have essentially done is to bring together known facts that have occurred and make a prediction of further outcomes. I expressed my thoughts about eleven years ago and I presented the link to that article in an earlier paragraph and nothing has changed and I have not been proved wrong eleven years after and the Southeast position has not changed. The Ohaneze Ndigbo may be banking on the statement made by GEJ that he was seeking to complete the term of Yar Adua but this is not settled in the PDP. Besides, it cannot be denied that the power of incumbency is a very big driving force in national politics and that is why GEJ is the PDP flag bearer today. I further submit that the Southsouth zone has an equal stake with the other five zones and therefore is entitled to the Presidency. If GEJ wins he will be starting the first four year term for the Southsouth zone. In the meantime, the Northern zones will have the time to re-strategize for the future.

After Obasanjo had completed two terms as President, the SW zone took the position of Speaker of the House. What was the thinking of Ohaneze when the SE zone failed to seek the position of Speaker but instead settled for deputy senate president which is a redundant position? Why is the Ohaneze banking on 2015 and ignoring the present when the SE should have been seeking to head the senate or house if GEJ wins? Why is the PDP SE caucus fighting for the PDP National Chairmanship position which will end in 2012? Has the Ohaneze ever thought of a possible scenario where GEJ would lose in his bid? In the event Buhari/Ribadu wins, the SW will produce the VP and if GEJ wins, the SW will head the Senate. If GEJ wins the election, the SE will be going home with the position of Chairman which will end in 2012. The failed leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and Southeast Governors will make Ndigbo politically irrelevant in Nigeria.

rebranded:
For me ACN or CPC will give us the change we need

stop on

imagine GEJ making deals with crooks that have ra.ped this country since independence

@mukina2

Thanks for the message, I will behave myself do not worry

it just shows how corrupt GEJ is