₦airaland Forum

Johnpaul88:
Well this sticking with neighbours have effectively sink us into political oblivion, until maybe 2027

yorubas were in political oblivion in the past six yrs..how did that affect the average Yoruba man?

gnykelly:
the former minister is very agile and conversant with the power problem. he was sacked by GEJ because okorocha decamp to APC and the minister is from IMO.

ignorance of the highest other..nnaji is from enugu

san316:
No! But for the ss n se we will be watching them with HDD vision because they can try to be the spoilers in the administration.

if you like focus your lens on them and ignore others who would use that opportunity to loot and wreck the country

san316:
Not possible. SS and se have proven to be too primordial. The best they can get would be ministerial appointments and if they don't perform they'll be kicked out.

and I guess other ministers from other zones that do not perform would be retained?

What about south south?

Akshow:
So misfiring and looking very embittered and bigoted is better

embittered about his performance in the senate?why not?or do you like rewarding failure?do you even lnow about his performance in the senate other than he is in apc?what about apc legislators that lost there seats to other parties in Lagos?if the apc legislators were doing well would they have been voted out?

Akshow:
A sensible Igbo friend posted this on Facebook about Ngige and I think it answers the op aptly


One of the closest Igbo man to the President
Elect is Dr Chris Ngige Onwa, a Senator who
was defeated in the Senatorial Election.
See how bad Igbos are at strategizing? They
couldn't override a pathological hatred for
General Buhari to make a hedge bet and
return this man to the Senate, to enhance his
chances at Senate President, incase General
Buhari wins, which he did.
Instead folks played tribal and religious
politics to the tilt as drunken sailors, and
failed the man and the chance to make
history as Senate President.
That's what happens when emotions trips
common sense and folks succumb to
hustlers like Peter Obi and Arthur Eze,
scoundrels after their own interests instead
of the masses.
I urged caution, I pleaded that we were
making a huge mistake to hitch our wagon
on Jonathan who wasn't going to win. And
predictably he lost, so also our chance in
the new administration.
I hate to gloat.
But maybe, maybe, only maybe he gets a
good ministerial appointment, but nothing
beats being Senate President.
Igbos are very bad at politics.
And sadly it won't stop until we learn to
coexist with others instead of our 'better
than thou' attitude when dealing with the
Hausas and Yorubas. We are not better than
anyone, these folks we thumb our noses at,
are God's creatures like us.
We don't like the Hausas and we don't like
the Yorubas, yet we populate their States in
search for our livelihood. Our politics should
mirror our economic aspirations, not the
other way around.
How long can this collective amnesia
insulate us from meaningfully seating at the
table, making contributions to Nigeria's
political evolution?
How long can this foolishness go on?
How long?
There is a miserable silence across the land
today, because we are realizing that we were
sold off for pennies by pimps who parade as
Igbo leaders. Where are they? Anyone
home?

what was ngige's performance in senate?vip toilets as he admitted?why vote someone who is dormant in senate?

QuotaSystem:
Oh, I thought the plan was obvious,

with the rapid plummeting of crude oil prices which is not likely to abate anytime soon, the strategy is to use the remnants of our present mainstay to diversify the economy into large scale industrial agriculture, mining, steel, metals,and human capital exploitation. We will witness a return of the groundnut pyramids, tanneries, factories and mills of the North as well as the plantations, enhanced ports, private sector industries and factories in the SW. The oil though still under our control and domination, would serve as a secondary income source for the Nation.

Thanks btw.

these are just mere fantasies of hope rather than the present realistic hopes

Onegai:
Quick question:

In 2011, the entire SW and North Central (Taraba and Plateau and co) overwhelmingly voted for GEJ. In 2015, the same regions gave their votes to Buhari.

So why are you people now calling them tribalistic?

And yeah, us SS people don't align ourselves with Igbo politics. Some of it is tribal but a lot of the animosity stems from the fact you guys are constantly claiming us "our brothers and our cousins" and there is a lot of dominancy to that claim. It makes us uncomfortable (an example of that is when Igbos meet me and expect me to speak Igbo, when I tell them I'm not, they brush it aside and tell me "you are as good as Igbo" as if my identity and culture don't matter. I don't care how similar you think we are, please respect that difference. I don't call everything above the Niger Hausa-Fulani, why should you call SS your kinsman without them welcoming it? ) An Urhobo man won a seat in Lagos, yet all I'm hearing is "Igbos are growing their clout in Lagos", because apparently his tribal identity is now Igbo (btw I'm from his constituency, he was winning Yoruba votes and not Igbo).

My mum queued up for hours to vote GEJ. If it had been an Igbo candidate, she would have realised her back would hurt from all that standing, there would probably be violence at the poll and used quite a lot of excuses to stay at home. Same thing with my relatives and a lot of SS voters.

You constantly lament about being victims of tribalism yet are tribalistic. GEJ got his largest number of votes from SS states and everyone there feels Igbos let him down by not turning out massively to support him. Because they (and i) kept hearing from so many Igbos "GEJ is our man" and no other reason backed it up save misplaced tribal sentiment.

I'm not starting a war, just being truthful.

the person that made that 'igbos are growing their clout in lagos' is actually a Hausa guy with the monker nduchucks..if have been in nairaland long enough and engaged him you will know....if they ss feel igbos let down Jonathan because the turn out for presidential election was not much despite him getting the majority of votes then they ss should have canvased for more support from other zones.

ribbit:
Op


False
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I believe they will work in South south because everything comes from I.. They won't want another naija delta wahala.

But na SE I pity... They will be over marginalized.. They are just parasite on the nation just like the north they hate so much.. So nothing for them really.. Except for may be imo

stupidity at attempting jest

oyb:
what i principally remember Otedola for , esp in the obj years was using political influence to jump queue at ports, thereby reducing his demurrage costs. that was when zenon was doing diesel direct and the guy was feeling on top of the world - all that ended with yardua and diesel direct died

have you forgotten that Farouk phone call debacle?

oyb:
what i am referring to is that the likes of maduka and ubah were neck deep in the rot - the guy has been bringing in who knows how many cars duty free and selling at full price - all that came out in oduahgate. we have ubah and his kerosene scam, his company taken over by amcon, his rebirth as a gej tanmaster - the father of all the riffraff who have strode this website for the past one year

i feel like i'm in france after the liberation

if I am not mistaken otedola was also neck deep in subsidy scam

oyb:
i have been looking for that post of yours to quote it - when you were in dubai

you will not see jokers like ifeanyi ubah or cosmas maduka in this group

not sure cosmas maduka's biz is going to be affected that much but for ifeanyi uba no comment

oyb:
all those guys worked behind the scenes to take gej down

it was only those tandroids making noise

do you know what gej has done to the economy with his incompetence?

do you have any idea how much the fg owes petroleum marketers?

you think they would sit still and let him run them into the ground?

the fact that these guys are appearing so soon in the inner circle is all the answer you need.

if refineries in the country are to work then otedola's present business has to go down

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Zonacom:
From the look of things, Buhari might be declared winner. If that happens, then the southeast would probably go back to the days of serious marginalisation. Its evident that the southeast voted for Gej morethan every other zone. An APC govt at the centre would probably punish us for that. Anambra is likely going to be the greatest casualty. The oil wells at Aguleri is likely going to Kogi state.

why do you think so?is he not supposed to be the president of the whole country?

Uteghe:
Am Oron man. If we had Igbos' voting strength,we would have bargained at the federal level. But,then,more than half of Akwa Ibom people voted APC.

yeah with the gap pdp gave apc in akwa ibom akwa ibom people really voted apc indeed

tunapole:
In addition to what op listed, pdp undersetimated the influence of yorubas in the scheming of nigerian politics, no yoruba man enjoyed juicy political appointments during Jonathan administration and finally, pdp did not get the backings of the retired military generals that help shaped this present nigeria

.

if you really want change you have to drop this idea of juicy political appointment mentality...what is juicy about serving your nation?

MaziOmenuko:
They are protesting the Abia Central Senatorial election won by the incumbent governor.

They all voted against the man; results called at individual pooling units showed he lost each and every pooling unit only for INEC to collate them all and announce something else.

I just wish that the apga candidate has evidences of these victories so that he can go to go to court to get back his mandate because this rigging seems obvious

Tvegas:
ABIANS are the architect of their own problems by allowing APGA to adopt GEJ openly as its flagbearers. Sentiments favored GEJ so most people who voted GEJ also voted PDP in other positions. They didnt learn from the mistakes AD made in the southwest in the past by openly embracing OBJ. I know Ochendo isnt popular though but at this rate its not even sure for Alex Otti.

you do know what you are saying...they did not vote for orji in senate..there was no confusion on not voting for ochendo for senate as they were more geared up to stop ochendo than voting gej

jcmaiah:
Chuks hapu onye ofe nmanu a ka ona akotori onu.

the person you are quoting is a northerner..you seem not to have engaged him in the past..

ArodeTsolaye:
These yoruba APC always pray for APGA to die. It will delight them. I got news for them. Apga is taking more Legislative sits in the East and at least 2 state Governorship seats- Anambra and Abia. These are #Surebankers. It would been would been 3states by now if mallam Rochas didn't run with our mandate in Imo.

These APC monkeys do not even know who APC governorship candidate in Abia is yet they want us to vote him/her because he/she is in APC.

Igbo vote personalities not inanimate objects like Brooms ask Philantropist Rochas about 2011. Yorubas and hausas find themselves easy to brainwash to vote brooms and packers without even knowing the candidates history because they are the least exposed and educated in the North and South- Herd mentality.

we should focus on abia..have you seen what I was telling collynzo?

customized07:
He who laughs last, laughs best.

I hope you will also laugh last when senate and house of rep results from abia start pouring in..be careful what you wish for

MaziOmenuko:
Umuahia.
Aba is not in Abia Central senatorial zone, which is the flash point of the protest as people voted against the governor but he is already rigging for himself and GEJ, padding up the votes.

Soon, you will hear that INEC office in Umuahia has been burnt down just like Benue.

I thought inec has already announced ta orji winner? I hope they burn inec office down in umuahia..if abia loses this chance of freeing themselves from this bondage then no hope ever for abia...a state that was touted to develop more than present Imo when the two were split

MaziOmenuko:
One thing is sure: SE and SS results are presently being manipulated to show 99% turnout. This is a far-cry from the credible elections we were promised. Abians has trooped to the streets to protest this purported show of shame. This is why PDP are waning that peeps should ignore results on the social media; they want to doctor the entire result and publish straight from INEC offices.

We are watching in 3-D.

are they protesting in umuahia and in aba?

Apga candidate should contest this result..i am sure he has enough evidence for that...abia electorates should know that this is what pdp plans for guber elections and prepare to counter it....meanwhile it is abia central not south.

Ngwakwe:
It seems you are taking these things personal and thereby complicating your peace.

I voted APGA in the NASS and so did most Imolites. We are also bothered and are fighting PDP against subverting our mandates.

Una no want Chris anyanwu again?

This things that are presently happening in Imo and rivers would be child's play compared to is in the offing for governorship election

Hehe Na Wao...like rivers like Imo