Depriest2020: They should sell it to private investors if they have no interest in it again.
Which private investors? Unless investors who can convert it to living homes. Govs who build vainglory projects in their state capital while rest of the state stink are many.
When gov Hope Uzodinna leaves office, your Owerri people will ask for the new ICC building be demolished, the way the former ICC building before this got demolished. The way Eke Owerri market has been demolished and rebuilt, and demolished and rebuilt, and even a new Eke Owerri relocated to Egbeada in Owerri. Insatiable in your search for Owerri cities to become Dubai of Africa, while rest of Imo state outside Owerri senatorial zone remain rural areas with no modern development infrastructures. Most of what Okorocha government built in Owerri were rejected as substandard and got ruined. Replacements started to be built in Owerri zone. For short, rest of Imo state collected potopoto from Owerri. Imo state got mired in Owerri. This ICC building is still under construction as can be seen. You already condemned the roof.
For the umpteenth time, Owerri senatorial zone is now wealthy enough to be a viable state. When Imo state was cut out from the old East Central State, the people of Anambra state then knew that Imo state was having some natural resources which Anambra then didn't have. But Anambra people then never campaigned against cutting out Imo state from Anambra people. Abambra could have as well said; why divide us, after all one northern state then was larger than East Central State as a whole. Iberiberism mixed with primitive greed wu nnukwu oria. Tufiakwa. Hiding under parochial interest to shoot the larger Igbo on the feet. That is what support by a section of Imo state for Anioma as sixth state in the southeast is all about.
Objectivist04: My brother it is quite unfortunate, we are all here supporting the creation of Anioma state in unison and now just as evil spirit intermittently possessed Saul and he would start misbehaving, same thing just happened here. These people can not do away with bragging
Once again @ arisbull I want you to give us just one instance where Anambra dictates to the rest of south east , let us keep it healthy,no insult or bickering. I and others like me want to learn .
We can later support creation of Anioma State after a 6th state has been created for the southeast area. It's only a FOOLISH Igbo from the southeast who can support creation of Anioma as sixth state in the southeast. Good that most of the Igbo population are not so FOOLISH to support a cause that will UNARGUABLY REDUCE IGBO PARTICIPATION AT THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. If not for adequate political representation for Ndiigbo of southeast, and loss of federal allocations to the southeast, what else do you think has been making the Southeast political class since 1996 ask for additional state for the southeast? They NEVER ASKED FOR ANIOMA AS SIXTH STATE IN THE SOUTHEAST, NOT FOR ONE DAY. Don't shoot your feet because you think Orlu state is solely for the benefit of Orlu people. Develop more sense.
GeneralPula: What’s stopping Alex otti from probing him?
Alex Otti has no time because he looks forward for good. Enyimba city is alive again. Some state govs take delight in arresting progress in any part of their state because they see one or two rivals in the area. Otti is on a higher plane.
DevilsEqual: I know things are hard and almost everyone is feeling the heat
But I'll be never e understand the need for creating this kinda thread as I've seen 100000 of this in the last two weeks
We can't pray for you We can't pay for you We've always complained about it
What do we do about this now
The most resilient humans in the world are Nigerians. The diversity of the ethnic groups in Nigeria makes mass protest against misgovernance impossible.
Obi1kenobi: Nigeria runs a unitary system of government, not a regional government and geopolitical zones have no constitutional relevance in this country. Landmass, population, ethnoreligious fault lines etc are important means of creating economically and socio-culturally viable federating units - which is what states should be rather than just unviable,
useless entities collecting Federal allocation every month. The SE as it is presently constituted (tiniest landmass by far, smallest population, ethnoreligious homogeneity) does not merit an additional state, except parts of the SS or Middle Belt with Igbo minorities are carved into it, expanding SE territory. That other regions of Nigeria have even pretended to take SE state agitations seriously has always been pretty idiotic. The SW with its massive population, or the Middle Belt with its ethnic diversity would deserve a 7th state like the NW, before you even talk of the SE getting a 6th state. At least, in a serious country rather than the laughingstock Nigeria is. Only a "buffoon" thinks "political correctness" should be the definitive factor in state creation rather than other much more pressing, practical realities.
Lol.... What a fuccktard. I should go and ask the useless governors from the zone that have ruled the state for donkey years why they brought no development to your zone. The people who elected the failed leaders (while blaming Owerri people for the incompetence of their useless leaders) from Orlu zone shouldn't ask them: I should ask them. No, I won't ask them anything. Your state agitation based on your fake, dishonest deeply unserious grievances is already dead on arrival. If you aren't civilized enough to elect competence, and demand accountability from your leaders, and find mutually beneficial political arrangements in a Christian, ethnically homogenous, small state, it shouldn't be up the rest of us to support your dumb state agitation, to bail you out of problems created by your own incompetence.
Ebonyi was a historically marginalized zone.
Two bolded lines from you.
"You don't create a new state to kill an existing state," that was the refrain from Owerri zone in 2006 when Njaba state proposal was about to be created as 6th state for the southeast area. You people have started again.
If you tour Owerri and Orlu today and don't see that Orlu area is over-marginalised in Imo state, like Ebonyi area was before Ebonyi state was created, you can't tell your teeth even the simple truth. The marginalization of Orlu area is a product of Owerri literally seizing all government tertiary education institutions and government establishments that are supposed to be distributed to all over the crannies and nooks of Imo state to engineer human and economic development in all areas of Imo state, but Oru-Owerri got those institutions including FUTO, Fed Polytechnic, Imo state university, Fed College of Lands and Survey, AIFCE, all federal government housing estates, all federal ministries and paratarals, all state government institutions and parastatals in Imo state, located in Owerri area.
Owerri zone is stupendously rich now, such that Owerri zone as a state is viable. Above that, Oru-Owerri politicians know that Owerri is more related to Ikwerre in Rivers state culturally and traditionally, than Owerri is related to Orlu zone, and that's why Oru-Owerri struggles to have all government establishments to Imo state be located in Owerri area, no consideration for what it can leave in Orlu and Okigwe zones to induce modern development in Orlu and Okigwe areas. If a sixth state in the southeast area is to be created, since Nigeria is not willing to return to regional or zonal government system, the sixth state MUST have Orlu zone as its nucleus. If most of Anambra south these days is unwilling to return to their old Orlu division for Orlu state, Orlu senatorial zone as a state is most viable, like Owerri senatorial zone will be viable as a state.
Na today? In 2007, a man who was in the Editorial board of Guardian Newspaper asked the federal governnent led by Obasanjo to arrest and imprison people asking for creation of new states.
The man happened to be from Owerri senatorial zone.
Njaba state (now named Orlu state for the 2nd time) was penciled down for creation as 6th state for the southeast area then, after the delegates of the National Assembly Committee for Constitutional Ammendments toured the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria and obtained a consensus to amend the Constitution and create a 6th state in the southeast for political correctness. Ohaneze Nd'Igbo took Njaba state proposal to the National Assembly for creation as 6th state for the southeast area. But the then Senate President, Ken Nnamani, threw away the baby with the bathtub in his anger over the purported 3rd term for then president Olusegun Obasanjo. The rest is history.
About 20 years after, some apolitical elements from Owerri zone have started on the same mission with the then member of Guardian Editorial board. The man was eventually pushed out of Guardian Editorial board for using his position for parochial interest.
Obi1kenobi: Nigeria runs a unitary system of government, not a regional government and geopolitical zones have no constitutional relevance in this country. Landmass, population, ethnoreligious fault lines etc are important means of creating economically and socio-culturally viable federating units - which is what states should be rather than just unviable, useless entities collecting Federal allocation every month. The SE as it is presently constituted (tiniest landmass by far, smallest population, ethnoreligious homogeneity) does not merit an additional state, except parts of the SS or Middle Belt with Igbo minorities are carved into it, expanding SE territory. That other regions of Nigeria have even pretended to take SE state agitations seriously has always been pretty idiotic. The SW with its massive population, or the Middle Belt with its ethnic diversity would deserve a 7th state like the NW, before you even talk of the SE getting a 6th state. At least, in a serious country rather than the laughingstock Nigeria is. Only a "buffoon" thinks "political correctness" should be the definitive factor in state creation rather than other much more pressing, practical realities.
Lol.... What a fuccktard. I should go and ask the useless governors from the zone that have ruled the state for donkey years why they brought no development to your zone. The people who elected the failed leaders (while blaming Owerri people for the incompetence of their useless leaders) from Orlu zone shouldn't ask them: I should ask them. No, I won't ask them anything. Your state agitation based on your fake, dishonest deeply unserious grievances is already dead on arrival. If you aren't civilized enough to elect competence, and demand accountability from your leaders, and find mutually beneficial political arrangements in a Christian, ethnically homogenous, small state, it shouldn't be up the rest of us to support your dumb state agitation, to bail you out of problems created by your own incompetence.
Ebonyi was a historically marginalized zone - unlike the fake marginalization cries of the unserious people who keep crying marginalization despite ruling a state for what would be almost 24 years out of 28 when Uzodinma completes his 2nd term. I honestly can't believe how shameless some of you are to be crying marginalization - given your unprecedented privileges in Imo state. I don't think you can find any state in Nigeria where 1 out of 3 Senatorial zones has had such dominance over a state's affairs since 1999. And you're trying to compare your situation with the creation of Ebonyi. Very shameless, dishonest idiocy. "Knowledgeable Igbos" do not understand your silly agitation. Every single community in Anambra that you have proposed to annex for your dream state has distanced themselves from your agitation. Even a number of communities within your own Orlu zone have distanced themselves from you. The only drivers of the Orlu state agenda that I have seen anywhere are Orlu people. Don't project your obsessions on other people who don't care about it.
You people from the other side of Imo state pretend you don't understand that having Anioma as the 6th state for the southeast zone is like lowering political representation of Igbos in Abuja central government. Do the Arithmetic: Anioma has two federal constituencies, a lot don't accept they are Igbo.
Orlu senatorial zone has three federal constituencies. If they make Anioma the 6th state for the SE zone, but keep Orlu zone still in Imo state, Nd'Igbo loses federal Constituencies in representation at Abuja central government.
Methinks, the disdain for Orlu in many of you from the other parts of Imo state, disdain flowing from your anger that govs from Orlu senatorial zone have governed Imo state most of the time since return to democracy in 1999, that is driving you people insane to ask for Anioma in the Southsouth zone as 6th state in the SE area. Some of you also ask for an unthinkable division of former Enugu State for the 2nd time for Nsukka area (Adada), to be the 6th SE state; while Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe remain in Imo state. You people should be ashamed of what you are driving for.
nwadikeokey11: If indeed they sincerely and openly declared their Igboness then Anioma state is more appropriate. I don't support any Orlu state rubbish whether there will be Anioma state or not, for they are driven by greed. I'm from Okigwe zone in Imo state and if Orlu zone who have been ruling Imo since the return of democracy in 1999 are raving over a supposed marginalization what do they expect us that had had the opportunity to govern for just 4yrs to do? The only thing I deduced from what these Orlu state propagatos are ranting about is that they want Orlu state so that they can get the state capital sited in their Orlu zone so that that would enable them to develop like Owerri. Very terrible human beings indeed. I support Anioma state if only they have whole heartedly aligned with the Igbo across river nija.
I read a lot of people that write like you writing that gov Hope Uzodinma, Hon Ugochinyere and their other criminal cartels from Orlu zone, are demanding for Orlu state for their selfish interests. You people are wrong. In 2005 was the first time Orlu state was demanded at the National Political Reforms Conference in Abuja. Before then, Njaba state had been the name for those demanding the same state.
Uzodinma and Ugochinyere were not at the Political Reforms Conference.
Orlu state demand continues to prop up as number one. Once it is pronounced, those who want to keep Orlu zone as part of Imo state at all costs would start to engineer Anioma and Nsukka to it. Bottom line, Orlu state proposal is for adequate political representation of Igbos of southeast in the Central government. It's to close the gap of loss of federal allocations to the southeast, it's not a selfish drive by anybody or group of people. In 2006, the then governor of Anambra State from Uli, Mbadinuju with traditional rulers from most of Anambra south agreed upon Njaba state with the then gov of Imo state, Udenwa and traditional rulers from Orlu senatorial district. Ohaneze Nd'Igbo then led by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, adopted Njaba and took it to the NASS to be created as 6th state in the southeast area. Not much has changed since then.
irisher: It's not about being a billionaire or having the highest numbers of multimillionaires in your region. The indigenes of Owerri are known to be more educated than others, the people of Owerri are more educated than other regions of Imo State. I have met so many old professors, Mathematicians & retired Medical Doctors from Owerri but I will not attest that to Orlu folks.
Now, btw a community with many illiterate rich people and a community with "very educated" people which community do you think will attract more human resources and modern development?
Okay, develop your Owerri zone in a new Owerri state, with its more educated professors and doctors.
Why all your efforts to keep Orlu zone in the same Imo state with Owerri, after your educated folks from Owerri literally seized all government institutions that induce developmment wherever located, and got all located in Owerri area?
Obi1kenobi: Lol.....it doesn't matter that our sons have controlled the state government and its resources for donkey years. Do you understand how ridiculous you sound? You people have managed to hoodwink many other Igbos just by persistence and sheer force of will and disingenuousness that you're marginalized (I was one of such hoodwinked people who didn't know anything about Imo politics), but it seems important for everyone to understand just how absurd the ostensible motivation for the Orlu state agitation is. Because- I don't see anyone with common sense who comes to understand the facts who could support your dishonest state agitation. All over this country, many groups are marginalized as ethnic minorities, religious minorities etc who haven't come close to having their sons as state governors for decades and have reaped absolutely nothing from their governments (think of Igbo communities in Benue, Kogi, Edo etc for example) and you jokers are crying about marginalization in an ethnically homogenous state where you have dominated its politics since '99. Just an absolute laughable joke.
Imo and Anambra states are veeery tiny states, smaller than some Northern local governments and smaller than Anioma zone of Delta (the 34th and 35th smallest states in Nigeria respectively out of the 36). And not particularly large populations. And among the most ethnically homogenous states in Nigeria. And all Christians. If they are going to be split for another state, there has to be very good reason to do so. And the fake, dishonest grievances of Orlu people in Imo state is a nonsense reason to split the territories of Imo and Anambra. It's also interesting that this agitation seems entirely driven by Orlu people without broad consultation. No credible Anambra organization, or traditional rulers, or elected Representatives, or Senators representing the areas of Anambra you wish to annex have come out in support. Even a number of the Imo communities have similarly rejected any inclusion in your agitations. And they should all be afraid of a group of people who despite dominating the political structure of their state, claim to be marginalized. Because if ruling a state for 24 out of 28 years is not good enough for you, then you'll probably try to dominate all these groups by ruling for 50 out of 50 years.
(1) new federating units in a country formed by different regions are not created with land mass or population as criterion, but with political correctness first as criterion.
You write like a buffoon - little or no senses
(2) if you have queries for the Imo governors from Orlu senatorial zone who refused to do expected development infrastructures in the Orlu headquarters of their sematorial district, go to them and ask. Their private actions should not be obstacles to realising Orlu state for the millions of people who subscribe to it.
You have been on this 'Orlu is nothing' for days now. It's time you quited the thread and stop exposing your hatefilled and uncouth nature. You will not die if the area of more than 3million people in the 12 local government areas of Orlu zone is conceded the state status it merits going by the same method the five states in the southeast came into existence. Major part of SE's 5th state, Ebonyi, was cut out from old Anambra and Enugu states. Therefore the major part of SE's 6th state should be cut out from Imo state. You are a dumbo if you don't understand this. Knowledgeable Igbos understand that.
Objectivist04: You have said it all,. Orlu zone is the only zone to have ruled a state for 24 years in the entire country. No other zone have achieved such a feat since 1999 still Orlu town looks derelict. Just two years in office Soludo is already transforming his zone, building flyover and dualizing major roads with other roads he is constructing in the zone and you want him and his people to join Orlu people in their dream world state where they would use their number to subjugate them and unleash crass incompetence on them .
Adada state is a fraud
That Orlu town looks derelict according to you, is not the fault of the people from Orlu.
Orlu town was denied, and is still being denied, of government institutions and infrastructures because of old political grievances that some people in Imo state know of. Even the tiny bit of government establishments in Orlu are being removed this time. Latest is Imo polytechnic campus in Orlu now being removed from Orlu. Don't say it's because of the unknown gunmen thing in Orsu-Anambra south.
So the story of Orlu left derelict is a story which has no bearing with doing the just thing in Ala Igbo - create Orlu State as the 6th state in the SE zone.
TechBaron: Email the school through the office of the Registrar.
I have been verifying our employees certificates during recruitment using this method for years now.
Most times, it takes ages for the school to respond, just get the school phone number and out it on auto redial.
They'll definitely attend to your enquiry.
You think say Registrar of a Nigerian University will reply to such enquiry? All he/she is after is month salary. A foreign University Registrar will quickly reply to such an inquiry.
Even some Nigerian banks, if you are abroad and lose your Internet banking facility, that is the end of your banking business with the Nigerian Bank. Their telephone numbers hardly go. Their email does not accept replies.
Abagworo: You're writing thrash. Orlu is developed to it's capacity and has enjoyed enough Government patronage. I've transversed across Nigeria and there are different types of settlements. Orlu is a vast but nonnucleated settlements of different related peoples. Oguta is a decent urban, Mgbidi, Umuakah, Okwudor, Orlu town, Amaifeke, Umuna, Nkwerre, Amaigbo, Ogboko, Akokwa, Agbaja etc are urban and semi urban independent nucleated settlements that form Orlu zone. They are not that bad
Umuaka is in Njaba Local govt area of Orlu zone. Notable new development in Umuaka is the modern market built by Okorocha and the reconstructed Owerri-Orlu road. This new devt in Umuaka is not up to one quarter of new devts in Nwaorieubi or Orogwe in Owerri. Oguta is a place provided modern infrastructures by oil companies. ISOOADEC headquarters that was supposed to be built in Oguta or Ohaji-egbema area was built in Owerri. How? Oru-Owerri fought Okorocha government to do that, the same way it fought Okorocha government hands down when info came that IMSU would be permanently relocated from Owerri to Ideato South LGA. Why the fights by Oru-Owerri?? Because Owerri is bent on leaving every other place outside Owerri zone to remain rural village status in Imo state.
Nobody knows whether the following is true or not: when Uzodinma government began, it was recommended to rebuild roads in Owerri as well as roads that lead to Owerri, that these roads are the economically viable roads in Imo state. Looking at Imo state since then, you may believe it. So it doesn't matter that govs have come mostly from Orlu zone. Orlu zone was deprived of government institutions that induce modern development. More than 90% of funds to Imo state circulate in Owerri senatorial district.
Abagworo: You're writing thrash. Orlu is developed to it's capacity and has enjoyed enough Government patronage. I've transversed across Nigeria and there are different types of settlements. Orlu is a vast but nonnucleated settlements of different related peoples. Oguta is a decent urban, Mgbidi, Umuakah, Okwudor, Orlu town, Amaifeke, Umuna, Nkwerre, Amaigbo, Ogboko, Akokwa, Agbaja etc are urban and semi urban independent nucleated settlements that form Orlu zone. They are not that bad
Abagworo, why is it that all you know about Orlu Municipal LGA, is those four roads enlarged by Okorocha government, now added Orlu end of Owerri-Orlu federal highway? If you move onto Orlu and see the rot of dillapidated urban roads, vis a vis the shining urban roads in Owerri Municipal, Owerri West and Owerri North local government areas, you will brand Imo a state of FRAUD. Yes, govs from Orlu zone did it, you know why and how, as a veteran of Imo politics. Orlu Municipal LGA is left with no governnent institution that can boast of population of 500 people, but Owerri Municipal LGA has all federal and state ministries and paratarals with AIFCE and IMSU, even the staff and students of FUTO, FedPoly, Fed. College of Lands and Survey live mostly in Owerri Municipal LGA which has now expanded beyond Owerri West and Owerri North and going to Ngor Okpala axis.
Obi1kenobi: It's actually amusing that when I was hearing all these lamentations from Orlu people about their marginalization in Imo state, I had no idea that the Orlu zone has been dominant in Imo politics through most of the 4th republic. Okigwe zone that has been more marginalized don't even make 10% of the noise of their Orlu brothers about marginalization. I was also shocked and bemused to find out that the Owerri zone (apparently the eternal oppressors of the Orlu zone), apart from the brief 7 months reign of Ihedioha, has not produced a governor in 24 years! So serious questions need to be asked about what all these governors from the Orlu zone have been doing all these years. How can you be taken seriously when you have been in power for so long, and you still cry about marginalization? It's so bizarre for a people who have dominated the power structure of the state for over 2 decades to be the ones constantly crying about marginalization. I can't think of anything like this anywhere else in Nigeria.
There also doesn't seem to be any wide consultation and broad consensus around the movement. The initiators of the movement, driven ENTIRELY by their own obsessive, selfish motives, seem to have arrogated to themselves, the privilege of representing the interests of other groups that they hope to annex to their new state which they have not adequately consulted (or even made any serious contact with). The arrogance alone of that is off-putting to many of those groups which is why every Anambra community so far included in the Orlu state has been either vehemently opposed or categorically stated that they haven't been part of any serious discourse and two Federal House of Reps members from Anambra have denounced the lack of any consultation. Some Ogbakor groups in Imo as well have similarly rejected being part of such a state - most amusing being the oil-producing communities in the Orlu zone which have claimed to have been marginalized by the same communities who claim they're marginalized by the Owerri cabal.
But what I still want to understand is how a zone which has produced the governor of the state for what would be 23 out of the last 27 years (when Uzodinma's 2nd term concludes) keeps talking about marginalization. I admit I don't fully understand, so maybe someone here can educate me.
Development does not come from nothing.
Visit Imo state, go to Owerri 1, and Owerri 2, and to the other once rural areas in Owerri senatorial district now turning into urban centres; now Visit Orlu Municipal LGA and other places in Orlu zone.
After your visit, if you don't conclude that Imo state is a huge FRAUD against Orlu senatorial zone, you lie even to yourself. Don't forget that in 1976, the difference in modern development between Owerri and Orlu is minimal. Truth is that before 1999, all federal and state institutions that are meant to induce human and economic development in all areas of Imo state were located by Oru-Owerri people in Owerri using state capital mantra. What do you expect Orlu to develop with? Oru-Owerri knew that before long, Orlu state would come to be, hence Oru-Owerri people fought for all government institutions and parastatals in Imo state be located in Owerri zone.
irisher: "A city has a certain kind of aura about it", yes, Owerri was developed by some efforts of her indigenes. A city is not only developed by being a state capital or having all the government parastatals, development of a city also depends on the entrepreneurial mindsets and skills of the people living in that particular region. I used Otuocha city as example.
If you truly believe that a city, like Owerri, develops through the ingenuity of its people, why then are you here all day all night in veiled campaign to retain Orlu zone with you in Owerri in Imo state? Okwa ihuru unu, you are cuny like green serpents; that's why you people have used state capital mantra to locate all govt facility for Imo state in Owerri area; govt establishments that should have been evenly distributed all over Imo state to attract human population to all over Imo state for modern development. There are more thsn than 300,000 staff and students from all the 5 federal government tertiary education institutions in Owerri. Money from the institutions circulate in Owerri. Rest of Imo state deteriorate. Let Orlu area breathe please. Having Orlu with Owerri in the same state; with Oru-Owerri people swearing that no important government establishment must be located outside Owerri zone; this has led to Owerri state unofficially.
FatimaAbubakar: Better for them. Useless government criminals. They mount road blocks just to extort motorists. Most of them working in the east are posted from northern and western Nigeria. Criminals.
The Chukwura of road safety knows that the road safety Corps in the southeast are mere extortioists. Most of the federal roads in the SE are dead. This is Ihialla to Orlu federal highway. It has been like this since the last 10 years. They mention reconstruction in every years federal budget. But road is not reconstructed.
Objectivist04: This is democracy and democracy is all about majority, even those in the national assembly are there because the majority of their constituents voted for them. If the majority of those that matters are for Anioma their is no way it will not fly, People who are supposed to be part of the so called Orlu state are kicking against it and you are still optimistic, if that is not delusion then I don't know how to describe it again.
You have labelled all the Imo governors of Orlu descent incompetent and you want others to come and join you in your so called Orlu state, people that couldn't develope their zone despite dominating the leadership of Imo state.
You are from Nsukka. Little wonder. You demonize Orlu state but crave Adada state.
After Enugu State was divided to get major part of Ebonyi state, whereas Imo state remains same, only a brain dead fellow can advocate for Enugu State to be divided again, carve out Nsukka area for a sixth state for the southeast area, but leave Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe areas still in one Imo state.
Objectivist04: This is democracy and democracy is all about majority, even those in the national assembly are there because the majority of their constituents voted for them. If the majority of those that matters are for Anioma their is no way it will not fly, People who are supposed to be part of the so called Orlu state are kicking against it and you are still optimistic, if that is not delusion then I don't know how to describe it again.
You have labelled all the Imo governors of Orlu descent incompetent and you want others to come and join you in your so called Orlu state, people that couldn't develope their zone despite dominating the leadership of Imo state.
What part of Igbo land do you come from, assuming you are Igbo? Are you not from Owerri zone?
The leadership of Orlu senatorial zone does not end at the governors from the zone who swore they are building Owerri to international standards or to designer's delight; while Orlu and most of the zone deteriorated. Only ignoramuses or crooks in Igbo land hiding on some primitive parochial interest would be asking for injustice be done - that's deny the Orlu area what it merits as the 6th state for the southeast.
By the way, they don't create states on the Internet. There are votes in areas included in a proposed state. You will use army to stop people in places like Uli, Amorka, Uga etc in Anambra south, from voting for Orlu state. A lot of these places were under Orlu Division before state creation, they are still under Orlu Dioceses in the church.
Objectivist04: Ned nwoko has never denied his Igbo identity, I once heard him advocating polygamy among igbos, citing out forefathers who were polygamists. Even though I don't agree with him on that but just to let you know that he never denied his Igbo identity.
About his name, are you also saying that Andy Uba and other igbos whose real name is Nnamdi but chose to shorten it to Andy denied their Igbo identity ?
What about people like Jim lyk ? Toney Umez ? Kach Ononuju and many other Igbo that shortened or modified their Igbo names to make it sound exotic ?
A popular radio station in Enugu made this issue a topic of debate in their yesterday evening program and those for anioma overwhelming dominated . All the callers who are from Anambra spoke against Orlu state including majority from enugu , only few imo callers went for Orlu state.
Orlu state is not popular and that is the fact
In 2006 when this same state was about to be created as Njaba state, why was it popular then? Is it because of the change of name now to Orlu state? It's popular among the knowledgeable Igbos who are to make decisions on what the name shall be. These hoi polloi will not be there to decide. There are Gombe, Ekiti, Ondo, Kaduna states; what's wrong with Orlu state? As for Njaba, there is already Njaba local govt area. So common sense goes for Orlu state, Orlu has been the oldest name for which people in the area identify with.
Above all, given the history of states creation in the southeast, Orlu zone is meant to contribute the nucleus of a sixth state in the southeast area. No amount of radio talkshow in Enugu or Anambra or Owerri, can stop that justice from getting done.
You can't swear how many times you told someone: "my name na Chikeluba, but I am not an Igbo?" The first time I met one from upper Anioma he told me that if Biafra is restored, his people would not join to be part of it. Now you want to play on the sentiments of some ill-informed Igbos in the southeast area who say such silly things like bring all Igbos in one zone. These type of Igbos are those that say: "no referendum no Biafra." They don't know what they meant to say.
Fulani is seeking ways to expand to all the zones of Nigeria. Yoruba are in four states in the Middle belt zone. FYI, Igbos are the only group in one area. The river Niger does not separate Anioma from the Igbos of the southeast area. More bridges across the river Niger are expected to link Onitsha and Asaba.
The Hausa is in all the three northern zones. So is the Fulani. Worse, it's like diminishing Igbo influence in Nigeria if Anioma is made the 6th state in the southeast area.