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omohayek:
You obviously have an English comprehension problem. The point I was making was that most men of equal or greater ability to these women don't consider working for the World Bank worth their while.

Oh, and by the way, "less prominent" is not a "key word", as it's actually 2 words.

Lol! You compare world bank positions with unknown obscure position simply to satiate your innate ethnic loyalty that you tried but failed to conceal under a veneer of neutrality?

Yea, " less prominent" has two words.

advocates:
Maybe you should tell me why Obiano your Governor directed the reconstruction of the said mosque if nothing was burnt, and why the Igbo elders led a delegation to meet with the Arewa council immediately after the escalation. Maybe NTA and AIT lied then when it was reported that a mosque was torched? I believed the media tuned down a little concerning the killings to avoid a reprisal attack which could be deadly.

Did Obiano tell you that the Mosque was burnt?
The mosque is an uncompleted building.
www.nairaland.com/2778661/obiano-visits-mosque-which-attacked


Obiano being one of the political jobbers Igbo youths left the politics of Igboland for, in favour of aimless and directionless protests, decided to take advantage of the media publicity the falsehood of a burnt mosque propaganda was generating to warm his way into the hearts of his would be future masters, by completing the uncompleted mosque and inviting the media to publicise it.

He( Obiano) was simply hustling for future Grace of the masters.

omohayek:
Perhaps because Nigerian men (of any tribe) are more concerned with making money in private sector organizations, and would rather not work for non-profits like the World Bank? For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Ogunlesi

There are many other men who like him who may be less prominent, but who make far more money than one could ever earn at any position with the World Bank.

Sorry if I've burst anybody's enthusiasm for tribal chest-beating ...

"LESS PROMINENT". That is the key word from your post.

Now we can go back to the More prominent ones, that's what this thread was all about, after all.

advocates:
Go back and read the original post all over again and tell me if the op didn't correlate with my statement.

At best, the actions of IPOB youths and the Hausa Muslims far north is closely related. Except that one is religious, the other is political. You are quick to cite that barbarism that greets the violent nature of the Hausa Muslims, but myopic to see the unwarranted attack and killings of the Muslims during the last protest in Anambra. Before you call for my ban, ensure you refute my claims.

Where exactly were Muslims killed during the last IPOB protest, and who exactly were these Muslim?

The only people killed during IPOB protests were innocent Igbo youths, who you Blood thirsty Nigerians demanded the Nigerian Army and soldiers to shoot all over the social media, and right here in NL for daring to challenge Nigerian unity without acquiring military weapons for war.

The pics are all over the internet. Can you show me those of Northerners killed in the East by IPOB?

We all saw that no mosque was burnt in Onitsha, but that didn't stop you lots from spreading that falsehood.

IPOB has no similarity whatsoever with Northerners that killed for the sake of cartoons drawn in Denmark.

IPOB remain a weaponless, harmless Youth group with misplaced priorities.

One of the " one Nigeria" screaming political jobbers Igbo youths left their political destiny at their hands, and are all busy running all over the streets of Igboland in the name of protests for secession.

Take your political destiny away from these political jobbers and you can have all you ever wanted, including the very reason you protest unstrategically.

SMH.

advocates:
I bet you, the volatile nature of the Easterners could be explosive compare to other regions when matter of opinions against the general views of the people become debatable. Little why very minutes tribes find it 'comfortable' to live among them.

Such stands in Lagos, Kaduna, Ibadan, Rivers or even Bayelsa would provide a divergent of views and opinions without the fear of being attacked for being different. But in these case, anything contrary to the belief could lead to bloodshed. Such much for the rising son.

Lol! Can you Post just a single news article from the SE where newspaper stand arguments led to the massacre of those with contrary opinions.

We all know where people are running around with placards demanding that Igbos should leave their city for them, we all know the region that massacred thousands of Igbo and non Igbo Christians over a cartoon drawn in far away Denmark,

If you don't provide evidence where Igbos massacred people for holding contrary opinions, then I demand you be banned for spreading false information against the Igbos and attempted image assassination of Igbo people, using NL as a medium.

DaStunz:
. So its only d south East dat have News paper Stand Abi? U shuldnt hv added too much No cox ur No 1 nd 2 depicts the ethnic mesage u really wana pass. WTF

Numbers 1,2,4 and 5 are the real message the OP intends to pass across, the rest are condiments used to give it all a sense of neutrality.

greatiyk4u:
C'mon, bro that's where I live and that why I restricted my research to that location.

I never doubted your location. Just calling it as I see.

Mack3N:
Mr man,these are random set of people you see at newspaper stands all over Nigeria,not SE!

Everything attached to Igbos, Igboland and SE sells like hot cake in NL.

If you want your thread to boom, trend and make front page faster than the speed of light, make sure you add Igbo flavour to it, and you are set.

Don't blame the OP.

[quote author=jpphilips post=41941369][/quote]Lol!
And Buhari votes were not marred with error?

Slice it and dice it any how you want, fact, stat, figures and numbers show that PDP had won all presidential elections in SE from from 1999 to 2015, if you never castigated and demonized them for voting PDP all those years, why then are you hawks out to demonize them now, what changed?
It doesn't make sense to you and your cohorts why the Igbos should vote an OBJ that was corrupt and incompetent, and yet did nothing for the SE, but you never complained nor demonized Ndiigbo for doing so then, there was never this nationwide cry to crucify the Igbos for voting a corrupt and incompetent OBJ coming from the SW and North.

The PDP presidential candidates from 1999- 2015 were all corrupt and incompetent, the only thing that changed in 2011 and 2015 was the fact that the PDP presidential candidate wasn't from the SW or the North, and this is where the problem lies for you( SW and Northerners) lots

I don't give a rat about what you think or feel, but I call it as I see it, and I am puting to you that you are a hypocrite.

jpphilips:
Because Igbos are politically dumb. read here
https://www.nairaland.com/2166883/president-jonathan-south-east-orchestra

Excerpt:

[b]"Since 2004, no South Easterner can boast of buying any petroleum product at the government approved rate always, while the Govt approved rate is 97naira, south easterners buy between 110-115 naira, have you guys bothered to ask why? Ans; Enugu Depot is not working.

This is how it works, Petrol used in Enugu, Ebonyi, and Anambra come from either Portharcourt or Warri, if the right thing is done, it is supposed to be coming from the Enugu depot, the increased transport fare (tanker hire) will be added to the products so it hardly sells for the Govt approved rate.

Now you know, for a pretty long time, you guys have suffered this and Govt after Govt including Jonathan your beloved didn't care as much as OBJ never cared, do you know what the problem is ?

There is a pipeline section at Okigwe, it is not like the whole pipeline have to be replaced but just the Okigwe section, that is the Genesis of your suffering. I am yet to understand the zombie follower ship Jonathan has in the South East, South- South his father land has already dropped him like a hot object (Rivers and Bayelsa), what is the SE waiting for?
Since 2011, jonathan refused to fix it for you thereby leaving you guys at perpetual high energy cost, is that what you guys really want?

According to Patrick Obahiagbon " there is no reason for Nigerians to pontificate the faucet origo of a presidential aspirant" whatever that means"
[/b]

So young man, a problem that Jonathan your political ally refused to fix despite all my warnings, do you expect your political rival Buhari to fix it? I don't think so?

I agree with you that SE remain politically naive.
But I couldn't help seeing that your post is hypocrisy and bigotry tainted.

You never had problem with SE voting OBJ, even though OBJ remain a corrupt ruler who never repaired the SE pipeline, the SE still voted for him, and the North( Atiku brothers) and Yorubas( OBJ) brothers were happy with the whole scenario, no one cajoled the Igbos for voting OBJ and PDP that had done next to nothing for the region.

In 2007, Igbos still voted for PDP and Yaradua, despite the fact that PDP continued to ignore the region, never did any Yoruba or Northerner demand that Igbos should dump PDP, even though you all knew PDP was of no use to Igbos, you could care less about the sufferings of Igbos as long as they were voting for a PDP controlled by either a Yoruba president or A Northern president.


You only started blackmailing the Igbos and pretending to care more about the Igbo predicaments than Igbos themselves, the moment you lost control of PDP to a SS president, then suddenly the Igbos became cajoled and demonized for sticking with the same PDP they had stuck with since 1999, which you lots( Yorubas and Northerners) never seem to have any problem with, simply because the PDP of those days were controlled fully by you lots( Yorubas and Northerners).


It doesn't take a genius to see how insincere you lots are in your haste to demonize and make mockery of the Igbos plight, though I don't blame you, I blame the Igbo youths, who had allowed their politics to be ran by corrupt political jobbers masquerading as Igbo leaders.

It's obvious that MASSOB was not only compromised, hijacked and used to not only derail the Igbo secession movement, but it is now also used to make mockery of Igbo secession move.

I wonder how men like Uwazuruike sleep well at night.
Posterity won't be fair to him. Many Igbo youths laid down their lives believing his cause was noble, but he wasn't noble enough enough to die for his cause, he chose to live on his knee and faeces and in the process led many of those innocent youths to die for nothing.

Such a pity.

You channel your energy at the wrong venture, Igboland is due for an in house clean up, I expect Igbo youths to lead that. Get your house in other, then meet Nigerians from a point of strength.

You can't be screaming for dissolution of Nigeria, while the political jobbers representing you, scream " One Nigeria", you make mockery of yourselves and provide a comedy show for the rest of Nigeria.

A divided house is only headed for one direction.

You can even take your secession to the floors of the Nigerian Senate, but first you have to get your house in order. Save Igboland from the hands of political jobbers that currently plaque her, transform this your struggle from a street one( Elections are won in the streets and villages) to a mandate backed ideology, secure your power base politically, and proceed from there.

Is this rocket science?

What will IPOB do? Start running around the streets of the East again in the name of protests?

Are they that silly?

You don't go about threatening a country, when you have not taken care of your own house first.

Igboland have a bunch of political jobbers whose hands are stained in corruption and easily blackmailed into carrying out anti Igbo activities by the powers that be, and all IPOB are interested in doing is marching all over the place?

How hard is it for them( Igbo youths) for to see that the easiest way out of their current conundrum is by hijacking the political representation of Igboland from the current corrupt political jobbers that control their politics and hence their destiny, by making use of their grassroot presence and support of the Igbo populace to vote out the current political jobbers and install themselves politically all over Igboland. This should be the Vision 2019 of all Igbo youth groups.

Who was responsible for the hundreds of Igbo youth bodies thrown at Ezu River? It wasn't a non Igbo.
Why do you think that almost all these old Igbo political jobbers are running to embrace APC, what do you think is pursing them if not the skeletons in their cardboards that the powers that be will use to disgrace them, if they don't submit to them?
How then can you leave your political lifeline at the hands of such people, but instead March all over the streets chanting?
If this is not a case of misplaced priority, I don't know what else it is.

Igbos will remain politically irrelevant in Nigerian politics for a very long time.

If Buhari can openly address Igbo land as 5% and still get Igbos supporting him, you don't need anything else to know that the Igbos are doomed as long as politics in Nigeria is concerned, why would anyone else take such a people serious? I know I wouldn't, if I were in Buhari's shoe, and rightly so.

A group of people who many of it's members would readily put individual interests and greed ahead of group interest are only headed for one destination, and that's downhill.

This one had been used and dumped by her masters. She truly is a 5%, she exactly is where she deserves, I guess at a point she forgot her place in scheme of things, I think she is quietly making Peace with her real status as a member of the 5%.

The fasting is good for her.

Weedcrusher:
Isn't it clear to you that APC doesn't give a fck about Ndigbo. You guys are loser, and you will continue to lose for a very long time. The igbos are politically irrelevant in Nigeria politics. And you ain't gonna get Biafra because the name doesn't belong to you to start with.

Lol! I agree with you that APC doesn't care about Igbos, isn't that the sole aim of the 95%- 5% rant from Buhari?

Yes, I also agree with you that the Igbos are politically irrelevant in Nigeria today, and would continue remaining so for a long time to come, if despite the glaring APC unfair policy to the region, you still have Igbos in APC who are ready to die defending APC, the Igbo are enemies of themselves, and have from time to time shown to be incapable of puting group survival ahead of individual gains in Nigeria political sphere, and for this sole reason, both the Igbos in APC and those outside APC will remain political non entities for a very long time, they will all be left with crumbs from the masters( SW and Northerners) table, it's simply their place.

Yes, they are not getting Biafra anytime soon. Those of them getting crumbs from the masters table will always ensure that, and their youths lack strategy and will to take their political destinies in their hands.

So, you are right. But my rebuttal to the ignorant author of this thread stands.

Thanks.

Another attention seeking confused human being.

Your life revolves around the Igbos, without them you don't get relevance, you don't get attention you crave so much for, you have it bad bro. It has gotten so bad that you now had to create a hypothetical situation just to get your daily fix of Igbo attention, without which you might break down

You need help, go get a life.

[b] politics in igboland pro-biafra-protesters

Again, things didn’t go as expected. Wike first threw the first stone. He warned against any Biafra rubbish. One after the other, our so-called brothers, denied us again. They ain’t part of any Biafra business. Wow. I thought we fought for this people? We gave Jonathan our all. We actually threw away Igbo ambitions for these people? Wow. This is happening again. They did it in old Biafra. Now again. Na wa ooooo.

What next? And Buhari is arresting people up and down. Nwobodo has been named. Who next? Uche Ekwunife has been sacked at the court. Na wa o. Wahala de o.

Uche, with the endorsement of Peter Obi, that same Peter has finally joined that same APC, the anti Igbo Islamic party. She has to go back to Senate. Tony Nwoye is set to join.

But that’s not the main gist. Our father, Senator Jim Nwobodo, first executive governor of old Anambra state, the godfather of Enugu state, founding member and the biggest chieftain of PDP, a member of the yam eating Dasuki committee of eminent Nigerians, yesterday, in company of another former Enugu Senator, walked into stakeholders meeting of the APC in Enugu and declared loyalty. He has joined the “Islamic” party. Finally. [/b]


This part of the article that even exposes this author poor grasp of issues he was trying to dabble into, it's really too disturbing that people so lacking in knowledge of issues in discourse like this author would dabble into them, infecting the populace with their unhealthy ignorance and streams of thought drawn from myopic view of issues at hand.

Is it not the same Igbo political jobbers( the Jims, the Ubas, etc of this world) that sold PDP agenda for OBJ and Yaradua in Igboland that did the same for GEJ? Why is the author suddenly feigning ignorance of this fact?

The Northerners and Yorubas never cared how and the methods used by those political jobbers to rally for Igbo support for OBJ and Yaradua PDP,they never cared, so why are they so much caring now?

Everything remained constant:

1,Igbo political jobbers that rally for PDP support in Igboland, Check.

2, The PDP flag bearer GEJ, like Yaradua and OBJ was not an Igbo man,Check.

3, GEJ was as corrupt as or rather allowed many corrupt practices like OBJ, ie he settled the Igbo political jobbers financially , and was a graduate like Yaradua, Check.

4, He( GEJ) promised Ndigbo alot, ( second Niger bridge comes to mind), like OBJ and Yaradua, but delivered little or nothing in return, our roads remained the same way OBJ and Yaradua left them, ie death traps, Check.


As long as the Igbo was concerned, everything was the same, but for the Yorubas and Northerners, it wasn't. The reason being that the presidential candidate wasn't a Yoruba man or a Northerner.

So, who is fooling who here?

Ndiigbo voting PDP is a culture, a pattern that had been on between 1999- 2011, which Yorubas and Northerners never had any problem with, since their sons OBJ and Yaradua were direct beneficiaries of that Igbo affinity to PDP, even when the party arrangement wasn't much in Igbo favour, only mischievous persons eager to look for anything to hang on the Igbo, would write this silly article, when it's obvious that Ndiigbo had been consistent in voting for PDP, and her voting for PDP in 2015 was only in conformity to the Norm.

Same can not be said of the North and Yorubas who had always voted PDP when they held sway there, and simply dumped the party the minute they felt they had lost control of the party apparatus.

Ndiigbo should instead be praised for their selflessness in having so far voted for candidates from all part of Nigeria except Igboland, that PDP presented between 1999-2015, in sane countries, they should have been held as true patriots and pillars of Nigerian political unity, but instead, what they get is all their good deeds twisted by hate filled and ignorant Nigerian persons and ethnic groups and used against them.

Such a pity.

The new Igbo party was PDP. The plan was going well. Jonathan would win election and our brothers would continue chopping on our behalf. The Grand Plan was for 2017. Oil blocks allocations would expire in 2017 and there would be fresh allocations. Boys were positioning themselves for the greatest cake.

This is another silly line from the author, Ndiigbo had voted for PDP when a Yoruba man OBJ was its flag bearer twice, even when their son Ekwueme was disgraced by PDP hierarchy at the primaries,even against Ojukwu and against Orji kalu, They also voted for Yaradua PDP, I guess they were not accused of seeing PDP as Igbo party, since the PDP candidates of those era were Yorubas and Northerners.

But the moment PDP candidate became a SS, Ndiigbo were expected by Yorubas and the Northerners to immediately stop voting for PDP and immediately start voting for a party whose leader Buhari had his hands soaked in innocent Igbo Blood as one of the leaders of counter coup of 1966, and in the civil war proper, a Man whose desire to humiliate the Igbo made him to detain and imprison Ojukwu for 9 months, for no reason at all, other to mock the Igbo, even when Ojukwu was not in Shagari government, while Shagari was allowed to be a free man?

Who is this Ignorant author to dictate to wise people like Ndiigbo who and who not to vote for.

It is very silly for any one to narrow the Igbo rejection of Buhari and acceptance of GEJ and PDP down to Igbo political jobbers campaign who had little or no control on the Igbo grassroots and commoners.

Who ever wrote the crap article is suffering from profound mental retardation.

- Ndiigbo are not the type given to sycophancy or easily controlled by individuals, it was a known fact that fashola deported Igbos in Lagos at Onitsha and even refused to apologize when it was pointed out to him, APC had Fashola to blame for their increasing unpopularity in Igboland, just like Ambode with his recent demolitions in Oshodi is further increasing the gap between Ndiigbo and APC, it's foolish when people refuse to accept the consequences of their actions but would rather look for where to apportion blames.

imhotep:
Is that illiterate prof tired of one Nigeria already?

Oh! On the contrary, he is not in any way tired of one Nigeria, just as he was not in any way tired of Delta state, He just wanted a Delta where the "Delta Igbo problem" would be permanently fixed, just as he wants a one Nigeria where "The Igbo problem" would be permanently fixed.

How to fix the Delta Igbo problem, according to Sagay:

1, No Delta Igbo should be allowed to govern delta state.

2, Delta Igbos must accept their second class status in Delta, they must be constantly put down and reminded that they are not "Real Delta" people by the non Igbo tribes of Delta state

3, They must accept the above conditions in good fare and not dare as much make noise about it or seek to free themselves.

Substitute Delta Igbo for Igbo and Delta state for Nigeria, and you understand Sagay current outbursts.

He has been pretty consistent.

"Alternatively, Anioma can join Anambra State and become a member of the South Eastern group of states to which it truly belongs"- Sagay

Lol, you don't see Sagay saying that Anioma should be returned to Edo now, do you?

tuale4u:
Sagay clearly stated Anioma is from Edo State.

Sagay said "It should not be forgotten that the Anioma part of the present Delta State came from Edo province. It was never part of Delta province. It is therefore an unacceptable outrage for a territory transferred from Edo State to join us, to be made our capital."

No, he stated that Anioma was once in Edo province. He never said Anioma is Edo or belongs to Edo

"Here again, fellow Nigerians are capitalising on the unfortunate plight of another group of Nigerians. SHOULD ASABA WHICH STRICTLY BELONGS TO IGBO NATIONAL GROUP be capital of a state of the Delta peoples?
"~ Sagay


Infact, as we speak, we still have a huge chunk of Anioma( Igbanke, Irun, Ekpon, etc) still trapped in the Edo state.
Sagay know who the western Igbos are.

imhotep:
See the gibberish a so-called prof is yarning.

Sagay is an honest man, he says it as it is.

He had been consistent, he had never pretended to have any love for Ndiigbo.

Those his outbursts are exactly the sentiments of most Nigerians towards the Igbo, irrespective of their educational attainment, just that many are very good at hiding their's.

Ndiigbo should stop feeling like anyone owe them fairness and justice, no one owe you a dime, it's a brutal world, if you want it bad enough, you take it.

Ndiigbo should be happy for the existence of painfully blunt individuals like Sagay, if only the Igbos are strategic enough and not petulant, they should be silently be thankful to Sagay, and be puting to good use, his sentiments that mirrors those of other Nigerians.

imhotep:
No wonder Nigerian universities are run down.

How so?

"I am always surprised that the Anioma people cannot understand the deep sense of injury of the peoples of the real Delta. It is no excuse that they have benefited from our misfortune. Instead of being sombre and restrained and joining us to seek a solution, the Anioma elite has been celebrating this great injustice - the stealing of our capital ".

"Our Capital", indeed. The solution Sagay was speaking of here is Anioma surrendering her right to vie for the leadership of Delta state, since they are not "Real Delta" people, and had no right to host the Delta state capital.
A similar scenario to what Nigerians mean when they say: No Igbo Man Can Ever Rule Nigeria Again.
That's their solution to the Igbo problem, just as Sagay was offering Igbos in Delta a Solution to the Anioma problem in Delta.

Did the Igbos in Anioma ask for Sagay head? No, they knew he was but a symptom, they simply tackled the disease, and today nobodies like Sagay had been forced to swallow their vomit, as an Anioma son seats currently on the seat of power of Delta state.

Ndiigbo in General, can borrow a leaf from Ndiigbo in Delta.

Stop making Sagay relevant, when he isn't relevant in the grand scheme of things, Stop this your petulant attitude and for once, rid yourselves of the current crop of political jobbers and sell outs masquerading as your political leaders.
How hard can it be for the current Igbo youths agitating for dissolution of Nigerian to rather mobilize themselves and vote out the current rotten Igbo political class, by choosing better alternatives from within themselves capable of standing in the gap for the Igbo nation, to stand for election and be voted for. A New youth driven political class to reposition Igboland.

Isn't it time Ndiigbo forget about what is happening in Abuja come 2019, but rather use 2019 to do a serious in house cleaning that will usher a true renaissance of the region, and rid the region of expired political jobbers?

"Here again, fellow Nigerians are capitalising on the unfortunate plight of another group of Nigerians. Should Asaba, which strictly belongs to the Igbo National Group be capital of a state of the Delta peoples? If then by a gross anomaly, this wrong has been inflicted on the Delta people, should this be confounded by an extra injury of governorship? Would that not effectively make the Anioma the colonial overlord of the Deltans?"

Sagay couldn't even set aside his ethnic bigotry and work for the unity of delta state, but he is expected to work for the unity of Nigeria.

Is it surprising that he had taken his personal battle with Igbos in Delta to Igbos in the national politics, the moment he was offered a platform by the Nigerian people?

Why focus on the symptom, Ndiigbo, when you lots could cure the disease itself?

"When I was invited to Asaba in May 1999 to give the hand over lecture from Military dictatorship to Civilian democratic government, and was asked by the out-going Military Administrator, Commander Feghabo, what I thought of the fact that only the southern Delta, particularly the Urhobos have so far produced civilian Governors for Delta State, my reply was simple. 'Delta State' is constituted by two States, Delta proper and Anioma. As long as the Delta Capital remains in Anioma,the Governors will come from the REAL DELTA",

This is the true nature of the man you want to kill yourselves on top? Why waste time threatening sagay, will killing him change the mindset of the average Nigerian towards the Igbo?

Lol, you have a bigger fish to fry, leave Sagay alone, he is the symptom, not the disease, work on the disease first.

[b] So if my Urhobo brothers share my view in this regard, does that make me their political jobber? Who says Itsekiris are happy to travel for two hours to a Delta State Capital situated in foreign territory, when our real capital is right there with us in Warri. Only a few weeks ago, we lost a great intellectual and true leader of his people in Professor Austin Egborge, who died whilst having to travel from our real Capital, Warri to Asaba. Who says Ijaws are happy to travel eight hours by motor boat to Warri, before starting afresh on a two-hour journey to Asaba? The truth is that the configuration of the present state is a misnomer, an absurdity and a terrible scourge on the people of the real Delta.
Okonjo says that I am out to please people in the corridors of power in making my proposals. Only an incorrigible opportunist, and an unprincipled exploiter and operator like Okonjo, can believe that unlike himself, no one can take a position on principle. No one can act on conviction. As for my so called Urhobo benefactors, it will be the happiest moment of my existence, when the Itsekiris, Urhobo and also the Ijaws start working together like one family that they have been for over 500 years. We have the same culture, food, identical mode of dressing; we have intermarried and are intertwined. The relationship can no longer be unravelled. Okonjo hopes in vain that the Urhobo/Itsekiri quarrels will prevent us from identifying our areas of common interest. He hopes in vain. Let the Urhobos be my benefactors, whatever that may mean. I accept that insult. But I shall not be diverted.
All the name calling, my 'ego trip' desire to be heard on every issue, all go to no issue. I have no apologies to make about my prominence and status in Nigerian Society. My constancy, steadfastness in the pursuit of principles and great causes have earned me that position. If I had wanted to be rich, or be appointed to a position of power, authority and profit, I could have compromised my principles in nearly thirty years of military rule in this country. My steadfastness and principled stand for human rights, democracy and justice have earned me the power and authority I have today, because inspite of all Okonjo's ranting about 'Jobbing', I hold no office in any political establishment even now.
If because he is a nonentity his views are not sought by journalists; if he is neither erudite nor popular, he must not lay the blame on me. Let him find out whether the fault is in his stars or in himself and do something about it. At the end of his abusive and vexatious article, Okonjo came out of the closet and revealed the true source of his burning hatred; the Urhobo people. My crime is that I do not hate the Urhobo too, for in Okonjo's imagination, every true Itsekiri man must hate the Urhobos. Well I don't. Many Itsekiri don't. They are our kinsmen. We shall reconcile and claim back our rights together, whether in terms of resource control or our estranged capital. Okonjo's rabid outburst will be an incentive for our unity.
http://www.waado.org/nigerdelta/essays/politics/SagayOnDeltaCapital.html [/b]

[b] Let me state clearly that my position on the location of the capital of Delta State has been consistent from the very beginning; right from August 1991 when Babangida used the Delta State Capital to pay his bride price to his Anioma in-laws. When I was invited to Asaba in May 1999 to give the hand over lecture from Military dictatorship to Civilian democratic government, and was asked by the out-going Military Administrator, Commander Feghabo, what I thought of the fact that only the southern Delta, particularly the Urhobos have so far produced civilian Governors for Delta State, my reply was simple. 'Delta State' is constituted by two States, Delta proper and Anioma. As long as the Delta Capital remains in Anioma,the Governors will come from the real Delta. Inspite of castigations in the press, by the Asagba of Asaba, and some other Anioma elites, I have remained firm in my views. The best solution is for the two entities to separate into two states with the Delta State Capital being at Warri. Anioma can then be a state with its capital at Asaba. Alternatively, Anioma can join Anambra State and become a member of the South Eastern group of states to which it truly belongs. It should not be forgotten that the Anioma part of the present Delta State came from Edo province. It was never part of Delta province. It is therefore an unacceptable outrage for a territory transferred from Edo State to join us, to be made our capital. The fact that the Anioma part of the State produces less than four per cent of the state's revenue or income only adds salt to a grievous injury.
I am always surprised that the Anioma people cannot understand the deep sense of injury of the peoples of the real Delta. It is no excuse that they have benefited from our misfortune. Instead of being sombre and restrained and joining us to seek a solution, the Anioma elite has been celebrating this great injustice - the stealing of our capital. Let me ask again as I did at a public forum on May 8 2002: "Here again, fellow Nigerians are capitalising on the unfortunate plight of another group of Nigerians. Should Asaba, which strictly belongs to the Igbo National Group be capital of a state of the Delta peoples? If then by a gross anomaly, this wrong has been inflicted on the Delta people, should this be confounded by an extra injury of governorship? Would that not effectively make the Anioma the colonial overlord of the Deltans?" [/b]