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Buhari is anti-Igbo.

IGWE--Midnight crew.

This Igbo hater called Buhari was responsible for the siting of LNG station in Bonny instead of the initially agreed location of Oguta.

seal777:
JEG IS GASPING FOR BREATH, SOUTH EAST GOVS LOOSING GRIP, ,WITH BB TICKET, ITS NO LONGER AT EASE FOR PDP, THINGS RE FALLING APART. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Take this your crap to jokes section.

@The poster: I thank God that your brains are working again. Kudos.

smile11s:
if Buhari wins, then it shows Nigerians aren't ready to be renewed.
We are not ready for a change.
We do not believe in taking risks or trying something new.
we do not believe in the new generation of today.
We have being infested by the old pilitical virus that the old never retires or dies,

If Buhari wins, I will hang myself!

believe it!

GEJ 2011

Don't worry, he will not win. Your life is precious and we should not let you lose it.

dyabman:
na u bi head of nairaland ni , abi microsoft don give u contract , wetin be your own and besides , who am i insulting ?, your papi ,? hell no! so get a life in haiti

Monkey, once again, it is needless to be insultive here about a coach who has not done any thing wrong to you. Take your insults else where. Eediott.

It's high time this brainless thread is deposited in the tribalism section.

As a lay-African, this writer believes there is too much going for the president and his campaign to think he will derail now. As a lay-man, he sees fate and destiny on the side of G.E.J., as far as these elections are concerned. Call it superstition. Mr. Goodluck has been a lucky man almost from the very minute he delved into party politics. No time to go down memory lane right now. But, of course, it’s no secret how every other rival, mentor, boss, friend, enemy, acquaintance or colleagues has had to give way, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, every time G.E.J needed to take a step in politics

banom:
I am endorsing president Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan for 2011 presidency, and i am urging all my friends here on nairaland to massively vote for him

God bless you.

May your days be long.

The privilege of being the incumbent chief-executive has been exploited to very great use by Dr. Jonathan. Look! to criss-cross a country as vast and populous as Nigeria, all in the name of election campaigns, can’t have been an easy proposition for most of the remaining presidential candidates. You may think they count less. On the contrary, G.E.J’s campaign my have managed to tour 70 per cent of the country, before the Buhari or Ribadu campaigns will have managed to cover a few states.

Why G.E.J. may coast to victory
THIS discussion will have nothing absolutely to do with semantics. It will do little, if anything at all, to help anyone in the academia who is looking for a reference point for a paper or thesis; and for those well versed in "grand politics and politicking", they are warned ahead of time that they may be disappointed, because only common folks like us will read it, understand it, and not find too many faults with it.
We wish only to be plain-sailing and plain-speaking. That is the essence here. For that reason, I shall begin in this wise: given what we have on the ground, today, there is almost nothing in place, especially from the perspective of the political opposition, that will prevent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan returning to Aso Rock Villa on May 29, 2011.
What are we saying? We’re saying, in essence, that everything seems to be in place to deliver to him and the ruling P.D.P something in the neighborhood of a landslide victory, come April 10. For once, nearly every political pundit agrees with that view. Ordinary citizens, among the estimated 60 million-plus that registered to take part in April’s elections, may already have taken it for granted that no other candidate from whatever other party will be elected to the job of fourth chief-executive of the Third Republic, unless under three distinct scenarios.
The first scenario may be for Dr. Jonathan to pull out of the race, abruptly, which everybody considers to be near impossible. The second scenario could be incapacity or a kind of terminal ailment. And the third, death. Someone recently told this writer that the last two won’t, not that they can’t, happen, because President Jonathan would, as we know it, have been an extremely unlucky man for either fate to befall him at this point.
As a lay-African, this writer believes there is too much going for the president and his campaign to think he will derail now. As a lay-man, he sees fate and destiny on the side of G.E.J., as far as these elections are concerned. Call it superstition. Mr. Goodluck has been a lucky man almost from the very minute he delved into party politics. No time to go down memory lane right now. But, of course, it’s no secret how every other rival, mentor, boss, friend, enemy, acquaintance or colleagues has had to give way, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, every time G.E.J needed to take a step in politics. Not even O.B.J., who is the acclaimed master tactician, not even he, in all his glory, could annihilate his political opponents in the manner Goodluck Jonathan did it in January 13’s P.D.P presidential primary election. Once the purportedly powerful Governors Forum couldn’t but join the G.E.J band-wagon, once Alhaji Atiku could not even take his own home-state of Adamawa at the party primary, and once all these doomsayers were proved wrong, almost to embarrassing proportions, that the P.D.P was going to collapse after selecting a Jonathan candidacy, you almost saw the inevitability of the wall of Jericho falling. What we’re saying is that in 2011, not 2015, 2019 or further back in 2007, providence appears to have cleared the path for this Ijaw-born political kinpin.
Now, let’s be more practical. Everybody seems to have taken it for granted that anyone the P.D.P brings forward as its candidate will almost certainly occupy Aso Rock. In 1999, that was true, when O.B.J was selected, so to speak. Not even the intense animosity of his kinsmen in the Yoruba-dominated western region could stop him. En masse, they had forsaken him, and embarrassed him even in his own ward, somewhere in Abeokuta in Ogun State. You saw it back then, namely, that the only political party that had tentacles across the length and breadth of Nigerian was P.D.P. inside the party’s rank and file were heavyweights of all persuasions: former gnerals, money-bags, political "gurus", the academia, as well as wily but highly professional opportunists. If you were a part of the G.34 coalition, you knew virtually all that was to know the antecedents of national politics, and you could rest assured that virtually anyone who came under the umbrella of Africa’s largest political party was going to get nearly everything he wanted.
What we’re saying here is that the pillar that saw Obasanjo win the presidency in 1999 and 2003 was responsible, more than anything else, for the late Mr. Yar’Adua’s victory in 2007. Maybe, matters would have turned sour for Dr. Jonathan if the P.D.P had, as some in the northern half of the party predicted, torn itself in pieces, because of G.E.J’s emergence.
The facts on the ground are too compelling to suggest otherwise. One fact on the ground is, and has to be, the power of incumbency. In elections of this nature, be they in Uganda, South Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Japan or Australia, this factor pays off handsomely. Why not here? O.B.J. did benefit immensely from the incumbency factor, in much the same way that Alhaji Yar’Adua would have done, had he lived to be the P.D.P flag-bearer.
The privilege of being the incumbent chief-executive has been exploited to very great use by Dr. Jonathan. Look! to criss-cross a country as vast and populous as Nigeria, all in the name of election campaigns, can’t have been an easy proposition for most of the remaining presidential candidates. You may think they count less. On the contrary, G.E.J’s campaign my have managed to tour 70 per cent of the country, before the Buhari or Ribadu campaigns will have managed to cover a few states.
Yes! The advent of mobile telephony and the widening use of the internet, especially the social networking sites, has done so much to bring various candidates closer to the electorate. But, at the same time, radio and television will remain the main mediums of communication. They are the ones that can take the voices and faces of candidates to voters who live or work in the remotest of villages. They are the ones who can turn a relative unknown into household names or faces.
Coming to the real nitty-gritties of what will or won’t count on election-day: let us honestly tell ourselves that a bigger majority of those who will be voting in April are illiterate or semi-literates. This is the bane of the democratic process in much of Africa and many other parts of the Third World. For democracy, having so many parties standing in elections is a good thing. But, of course, Dr. Jonathan and the P.D.P are pitted against an assortment of opposition candidates, and for many uneducated eyes, confusion has almost always been the order of the day. In 2003, the P.D.P benefited immensely from the inevitable problem caused by various candidates and parties represented by different "party" symbols and the like. Jonathan will do, too.
Also, we saw in the 2003 race an assortment of Igbo presidential candidates pitted against O.B.J both at the P.D.P primary election and the general election proper. Of course, the APGA candidate, Chief Ojukwu, performed no better than an Igbo-born front-runner would have done. No matter how much anybody may try to make of this argument about voters having now been better educated and more enlightened, we don’t expect much to change in the voting pattern this year, especially in the race for president. Having removed the Atiku factor, and not minding whether or nor the former vice-president will work behind the scenes against the P.D.P’s choice of candidate, the anti-Jonathan vote that will come from the north will no doubt be divided, with the likes of the C.P.C. and A.C.N. candidates, among others, in the race. These are simple calculations and permutations that can’t be discountenanced.
Besides, if the facts and statistics on the ground are anything to go by, then, let no-one expect Dr. Jonathan to do badly in the north-west, north-central or even the north-east. As a party, the P.D.P enjoys a fair degree of backing in those geopolitical entities. It’s hard to see him gaining a majority of the popular votes in at least a third of the states in that region. In those northern states where he may not win outright, he looks set to win a third of the popular votes.
Yes! Nigeria, like many other countries, is a place where ethnic, religious and sectional sentiments influence voting patterns. But, over the years, this country has caused to graduate a fairly sizeable chunk of highly enlightened voters. To Dr. Jonathan’s credit, a voting population. They cut cross geography, language and religion.
They can be found in large numbers, not least in the urban communities.
(To be continued)

http://www.champion.com.ng/displaycontent.asp?pid=5468

He should stay and fight for his place at Chelsea.

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=634706.msg8020399#msg8020399 date=1301517498]^^^ Thesame that OBJ bleep from her arsse.

From finance to tourism. What a shame![/quote]Boy, desist from using foul language in this thread. You have not only insulted nairalanders and Nigerian leaders but have also insulted ethnic nations and regions.
Just be civil and reasonable.
My last warning to you.

The Igbo been considered as one of the languages on census enumeration form did not come out of the blues. There were Igbo organisations in the U.K that presented a very factual case to the U.K govt for inclusion. One of the Organisations is the Igbo Youths U.K (www.icsn.co.uk) which this poster is or one of the leaders. Thanks to the Igbo Katolik Community for their assistance as well.

What has this idiotic thread got to do with culture section?.

Ndipe:
Some 'free born' Ibos still adhere to the outdated customs that they should not marry an osu.

This your brainless post is very irrelevant to the thread.

Katsumoto:
He is the same one.

Thanks.

Any one who wants Gold must dig deep.
Igbo women are so unique and special.

jason123:
[size=20pt]All of una no dey tire?? [/size]

Am not sure he watched it. If this match had been played some weeks back, surely he would have watched it because he was not in interested in tribalism unlike now.
Replied Henry's post to Aigbofa.

soloqy:
IK uche again. Oh how we missed this guy at the world cup and nations cup. I need to say that I didnt see the replay as this id'iotic cameramen were busy showing people shouting

I think say na only me see that NTA madness.

Aigbofa:
The ibos of course! Who else?

I fail to understand how Aigbofa has gone back to tribalism so soon.
Oh Aigbofa, you earn everybody's respect the little time you turned your back on tribalism.
Why?.

Alj Uche:
naa i think it would be jonathan

The presidential election is just a one man horse race.
Ribadu should be contesting for the second slot with Sekarau or Buhari.

I know of one Ify Onuorah who once played for Gilligham F.C. May be they are same. Can some one clarify this?.

mbatuku1:
The manner in which you bigots reason make me laugh.

Is yorubaland= only Lagos? How many yorubas invest in Ekiti and Osun states?

There's a property bubble and a massive market potential(due to the high pressure on accommodation by the huge population) going on in Lagos and spreading into Ogun. Who would not cash in on that? I already have a property in Lagos, and still developing 2 more in Ogun.

If Igbos have that kind of huge number of other ethnics in any of their cities, you think they'll invest much outside? I dont need to even buy properties, my  family's ancestral
lands will be big money for me.

You bigots are simply amazing in your foolish thinking.

Spot on.

[quote author=[WilyWily link=topic=631684.msg7989676#msg7989676 date=1301133438]The spirits of Akintola and Awolowo are still alive.
very very nice YORUBAS are killing themselves.[/quote]Wily, it's really been long, I suppose no problems.
Have a nice day.

Alj Uche:
supported

the south west is now a hot spot where politicians are killed like chicken

lagos is the same now

thugs carry guns everywhere now

oyo and ondo is not any better

God bless you Mazi Uche. You were so honest those days you were new in nairaland. Am happy you have rediscovered your honest self. Kudos.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=631683.msg7987754#msg7987754 date=1301096041]^--- A better idea: How about you go F ekt_bear.[/quote]

I think Ribadu will come second in the presidential polls.

Eziachi:
Even if Ararume said that, Ararume is not the only candidate in Imo gub election. I am sure there are a dozen other candidates. Your cheap propaganda tend to concentrate on Ararume/Rochas.
Irrespective, we have told you to go back and tell your master than Imo will choose anything or anybody over Ohakim.

Word.

I think, it's high time state of emergency is declared in Ekiti and Plateau states.

Ekiti state has always been a disgrace to South Westerners. What a shame.