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ifechez: Akpa amu!!!! didn't you see the hotels and shopping mall? wasnt the sabmiller plant built under PPP?

olodo raised to power 1000000, so you cite last minute/uncompleted/election hotels and shopping malls as developments from an 8 year government? with over 2 trillion in misappropriated funds and no govt activity/presence in the local governments and you expect south east to develop. fool

ifechez: ewu yirober!!!! sabmillers in Onitsha, three shopping malls in anambra; each in awka, onitsha, and nnewi. four five star hotels; each in agulu, Onitsha, awka and nnewi. A power plant in anambra. The biggest distilleries in Africa is setting up it's plant in Onitsha under PPA arrangement. Heinze is also coming on board in Onitsha. Nest oil is building it's power plant at Okija. besides, innoson wud not have succeeded without the encouragement from the entire south east governments especially anambra.

Again olodo, what has your governors done with FG allocations. I see no govt financial input in all you listed. A certain Peter Obi has not even held LG elections with over 270 billion in just LG funds missing. What are your fraudulent governors (bar Chime) doing with their FG allocations

ifechez: mehn!!! you are dull. so in mind building stadium is a capital project that should be praised. As a people, what we need is an enabling environment to setup up biz and industries. Are u saying sabmiller, innoson motor, geometric, the biggest can industry in Africa are not big projects. will building a stadium put food in anybody's table? we are talking of artisan clusters and you are here talking nonsense about stadium and other useless things. you talked about airport, wen the old IMO built their airport most parts of the country were still sleeping on a bicycle.

olodo tell us what your governors are doing with their allocations, innoson set up his factory in his hometown regardless of any govt input. Tell us what your governors are doing with their allocations.

ngozievergreen: Seriously, I don't know whether the Op smoked Indian hemp before this topic, where and where did he say is developing better than SE sef?

keep deceiving yourself

The worst and clueless governors in Nigeria are in SE. Peter Obi, Rochas and Theodore orji has no business with leadership or administration, These folks are mere traders. Another failure who has no business with governance and no blueprint is being imposed in Anambra under ethnic sentiments devoid of pertinent developmental issues. Tomorrow they will tell you they have scattered development across the state when there is absolutely nothing on ground. And then the migration continues.

PointB: Guy,
Face the topic , answer the questions in my post or shut up. I don't have the time for your brand of inanity at this time of the day.

I have advised you to start speaking for your deluded self or for your master. Your opinion do not represent that of educated igbos. Its high time we stopped hired urchins like you from misrepresenting igbos on the internet. Keep your crude politicking and opinions to yourself.

PointB: Joe is just being plain silly. What did APC bring to the table in Anambra beyond the damaged brand of Ngige and APC that other parties failed to match? Ngige was an election rigger, he was caught on photo butt naked in Okija shrine. Ngige over promised en-route the senate, yet he under-delivered. Personally, I think it is the political naive that will believe Ngige will win Anambra election. Same Ngige that defeated Dora Akunyili with less than 300 votes after heavily rigging the election.

As for Joe, I predict that him and his bunch of synchophants will be the first and only people that will suffer as he hoped. NdI Igbo have no fear for tomorrow and we prefer to have our destiny in our hands.

nobody made you igbo spokesperson. Speak for your biased self or your master Peter obi. Who heavily rigged the senatorial election? Ngige or Peter obi?

sagombugo: If you read through my comment very well,you will noticed I used the word 'some Igbos' and not all Igbos copiously! So I know how to pick words for a subject matter.

I know Peter Obi's shenanigans could not be representative of the entirety of the Igbo race but the unfortunate fact is that its not all Nigerians who are open-minded to know that what Peter Obi and even Arthur Eze said while the campaign lasted aint what all Igbos support

I would never have attempted to ever say anything about the Anambra Guber if not that a party I support has a strong brand in an Ngige but its highly regrettable that rather than discuss issues,the whole summation of APGA's campaign style boils down to heavy propaganda and Tribal politicking

So how come you now base your stand on what the "not open-minded" Nigerians think. The most important thing is what you think. Come to think of it People like Fani Kayode and Adeyinka grandson have said worse things that could shape the igbo/yorubas relationship if we are to go by the thinking of the not open minded Nigerians and most of you have not said Anything. I smell hypocrisy.

sagombugo: In as much as I won't want to dabble into an Igbo V Yoruba ish but flowing from Anambra Guber,I think some Igbos are not somehow looking at the bigger picture at all hence their present tantrums and insults of others as if Anambra election is the only one that will ever be held

The babysitters of APGA have done an incalculable damage on the rest of the Igbos with the deadly politics of attrition they mounted just because they want to stop Ngige at all cost but succeded in losing millions of other potential voters going forward

Infact the election made me know the real mindset of the average Igbo against his brother not to talk of even outsiders

The issue of Catholics V Anglicans V others

The issue of blatant intolerance against outsiders as exemplified in the El-Rufai saga led by Peter Obi

The attempt to drag and ridicule men of God into politics

Infact I learnt that to some Igbos,any Igbo man that seeks to align with people of other regions is a sellout and an attempt for their enemies to lord things over them again

Lastly I learnt that probably the Civil war is still not ended in the minds of some Igbos even 40yrs after

God Bless the Igbo brand of Politics!

my problem with some of you is how you generalize the actions of Peter obi and his paid internet hirelings with other poorly educated igbos as the general consensus in igboland. Was the last election the first in the state. Didn't this same tribal and divisionary politics started by the fraud Peter Obi play out in the last senatorial elections and the real igbos on ground still voted Ngige in ACN, the reason they decided to rig this one. Who told you the outcome of this election wouldnt be the same if not for the rigging. Even obiano said the other day on twitter that Anambra is seriously divided and any candidate that wins should do something drastic about it. The statement gave him some approval points by me.

These cry baby governors should spare us with their emotions. This is politics, if you wanna battle then brace up. only blackmail and you are crying already. so much for "G7 rebels"

lol. sign up for igbo classes then.

gratiaeo: Who is this JEO Igbokwe?
Did he know that Yoruba did not vote for OBJ and yet he become president?
Did he even know that Yaradua is not northern's choice that Obj foisted him on them and yet he was elected?
Whom did SS form alliance with before GEJ become president?
The man just want to be relevant with his cheap political point
Btw, what did he do/say when Fashola deported his fellow Igbo from Lagos.........

Yorubas did not vote Obj but the rest did. That is the same way only igbos cannot produce president. Anyway I don't care about igbo presidency though. Igbos are not ready yet. There is currently no political leader of thought in igboland except Ekwueme who I don't think is interested

Obi1kenobi: I don't get it. The bitter losers would have you believe the election was rigged but they'll also have you believe primordial ethnic sentiments were responsible for their loss. Surely, if the reason they lost is only due to rigging rather than losing the actual popular vote, then they shouldn't be talking about the tribalism factor. What has becpme clear is that despite the moaning and whining of the losers and despite the irregularities and malpractises in the election, APGA were certainly the winners of that election. They are easily the most popular party in the state.

It's also rather funny watching Ngige, the man that sold his soul to the Uba thugs, claiming the moral high ground. In a civilized society, his tainted self would never have the chance to contest any political post.

He was responding to a post based on ethnicity on his Facebook from one of the ethnic brainwashed dullards. He clearly mentioned the election was rigged if you actually read beyond topics.

mekaboy: if the election was rigged in favour of obiano then he is right.

I supported obiano not because of apga or all this igbo party trash. but with hope that he will apply the same zeal he exhibited in the firms he worked for when he becomes governor.

but I still prefer a level ground. where the true winner takes over.

most igbos will say other regions are against us, they hate us etc. I have never been part of that belief, because I know we r our own enemies.

whenever u see an igbo man marginalized or maltreated by another region of people, a fellow igbo man is behind that attack.

the reason why we cant have an igbo president is not that we r marginalized, but because an igbo man will sell the rest of his people for his own selfish gain. he will take bribe and support someone from another region rather than his.

I am not in support of APC but I am saying he has a point in the attitude of igbos.

And because of this attitude, we dont trust each other and cant achieve anything collectively.

mekaboy clap for yourself. this is the first time ve seen you being objective and reasonable. Keep it up boy My problem with us igbos is pride. Igbos are not good schemers. I don't want to say more in a public forum but I think any igbo man who can sacrifice good governance in igboland just on the basis of ethnic jingoism should be exterminated. Clear case of cutting your nose to spit your face. The worst is most of these fools spill these garbage from Lagos. Nobody have cared to ask why the worst and clueless governors in the land are from the south east.

pokur: Says one who's not even from Anambra,yet cries more than the bereaved.
Just shut it,dude.We've had enough of your constant rants n whining on things Anambra,a state u know not n don't live nor have u ever lived in.We've made our choice n our next governor is Obiano.The supplementary election is a mere formality since he's winning that one too.

you are an idddiot. Pokur I guess is the abbreviation of Peter Obi, that explains why you are forever in his azz.

Ngwakwe: Apc Rejects Supplementary Election In
Anambra State.

Who invests in failed venture? No hope of coming 2nd for that matter.

you are not even from Anambra to know the elections are being conducted in the stronghold of Ngige where he will sweep the votes. Why not face your backward Abia state with the knack for electing clueless and dormant governors in Abia, we don't want your virus in Anambra

Inec is fraudulent. They are playing out a script. Jega said 'stakeholders' asked them to move the idemili election to Sunday which the did. Now the major stakeholders are calling for the total cancellation of the shambolic Selection and they have now turned deaf and blind to the calls.

chidindufrank: Channels TV is no longer a credible source? My man you are hungry o

are you slow or what? Reread my earlier posts, I have squashed the lies. The sycophants where quick to misquote Joe igbokwe.

chidindufrank: And this thread haven't made front page till now? Thunder fire Nairaland server,may the server experience hitches for 100days so that partiality would be eradicated here

sorry nairaland front-page are not dumping grounds for senseless lies and unsubstantiated stories and propaganda.

Majority of these Peter obi hirelings are dumb, poorly or uneducated/civilized. Here is a report of an election observer in the recent elections complaining about the poor state of roads in the state.
https://www.nairaland.com/1527907/anambra-governorship-election-tears-udo

Fraudulent sycophants!

90% of 'roads' done by Peter Obi has fallen apart! #Fact

Foolish people, as if you don't know he was referring to the Ngige quality roads. Like most of us have not been to the state. Foolish and fraudulent propagandist.

Anambra State in Nigeria occupies a position of
both historical and political importance. It
produced the first (non-executive) President of
Nigeria and a major force in Nigeria’s
independence struggle in the person of Nnamdi
Azikiwe. The Vice President under the 2nd
Republic Chief Alex Ekwueme was also from
Anambra State.
It boasts of an array of distinguished Nigerians
who have made their mark locally and
internationally such as Chief Innocent Ifediaso
Chukwuma who pioneered local production of
automobiles in Nigeria. Belying this geographical
enclave with less than desirable urban planning
and infrastructure is also the biggest market in
Africa which is found in Onitsha bordering the
famous Niger River.
Sadly, this great state has achieved
unprecedented political infamy since the return
to civilian rule in 1999. It created a new record
in political god fatherism when a sitting
governor was kidnapped and nearly forced to
resign.
It was the state where an election petition for a
governorship election lasted for nearly three
years in a four-year tenure. It was also the state
where the impeachment of a governor was
found to be without merit and it took months to
get the governor back in office. The local
government structure in the state has been
under constant battering. Given its chequered
history, Anambra is a lesson in what is wrong
with our ‘democracy’.
Thus the election on the 16th of November was
not just an election but a huge opportunity to
navigate away from a history of dysfunctional
democracy that is gradually tilting towards
normalcy. This tilt to normalcy however
appeared to have been brutally stopped on its
tracks.
I travelled down to Anambra state with hundreds
of other civil society observers who not only
understood the significance of the governorship
elections but also its implications for Nigeria’s
general elections in 2015. INEC had also framed
the election as a test of its preparedness for the
2015. The stakes were clear to every participant
including political parties who were keenly
aware of how the outcome of the elections will
boost or diminish their chances in the 2015
general elections.
It was in this electrifying atmosphere that the
elections commenced.
In the morning when we made our rounds
across the state, it appeared normal and we
were very optimistic that the elections were
going on fine. By midday, it all took a disturbing
turn. What become obvious was the chasmic
difference between the glowing rhetoric of
Atahiru Jega (The INEC Chair) and the
dysfunctional system on ground.
It is important to point out that INEC has never
been in deficit of good intentions. It has always
by words and posture coupled with the
impeccable goodwill of its chair portrayed good
intentions. However, these ‘good intentions’
seems to be restricted to the words and office of
the chairman.
The reality is that there is a disconnect between
policy framework and practice; between
projections and the on-ground structures to
achieve them; between assumptions and realty
and most worrisome between principles and
practices. Inherent in this disconnect is the
constant cry against late arrival of election
materials or bungled logistics arrangement; poor
deployment and capacity of election staff and
poor sensitization of the public. These factors
reared its ugly head in Anambra in a manner
that severely damaged the credibility of the
election.
The worrying question is how long INEC will
continue to make the same mistakes all over
again. Like the Civil Society Election Situation
captured it in their report, this is a case of
perennial incompetence. With this kind of
incompetence (though some Nigerians argue that
it is more of sabotage), the 2015 election with
all its strategic importance is in grave danger.
The events of the election also revealed the
disappointing quality of our political parties. It
is not just the usual case of election malpractice
which cuts across the three major political
parties contesting for the election, but sadly the
inability of the political parties to perform the
basic functions required in an election. It was
pretty obvious that most of the political parties
did not review the voters’ lists that were shared
to them which resulted in the omission of
numerous names in the voter register.
There was poor sensitization of the people
resulting in very poor turnout. Vote buying,
thumb printing of ballot papers, and other
electoral offences were routinely carried out. It
was really sad to hear stories of voters
dispensing with their votes for about N500 ($3).
This not only exposes the poverty in the land
but the fact that rather than address poverty,
political parties exploit it.
Another sad reality of the Election Day was the
level of faithlessness that people had in the
process. Across the board, many people I
interacted with said there was no point in voting
since the result of elections were already
determined. People had no qualms aiding
electoral malpractices. You get the sense that
the election is just a season of activities with
little relevance to the quality of governance.
This citizens’ apathy is sustained by the poor
quality of governance and is not also helped by
INEC putting its credibility and character to
question.
The death knell for the election in Anambra was
the fact that for some reason (sabotage from an
INEC staff) elections were not held in Idemili
North the stronghold of one of the opposition
candidates. INEC management of this crisis was
disastrous. While acknowledging its fault, it did
nothing to elicit confidence; and the hurried
announcement for a supplementary election the
next day which was a Sunday felt more like panic
than troubleshooting.
The lessons from Anambra election were painful.
The events of the day captured in my view the
dysfunctionalities of the Nigerian state. INEC
cannot be removed from the larger challenges
facing the country but it has created a standard
for itself which it has acquired notoriety for
falling short. The fragility of our democracy, the
twisted nature of value system and the weakness
of our institutions played out in Anambra in a
manner that raises fundamental questions about
the sustainability of our democracy and the
diminishing fortunes of our development.
Driving away from Awka on the evening of the
17th with a report of an inconclusive election
after months of preparation was heart breaking.
As I drove through the weathered and
embarrassing road network in the Anambra
capital city, I wondered what manner of
democracy imposes this kind of regression on its
people. When I joined the federal road that will
take me from Awka to Enugu State, I had to hold
firmly to my seats because of the debilitating
nature of the road.
I sadly realized that the road has been in decay
for almost a decade. These kinds of
infrastructural failures mirroring the
insensitivity and failings of governance reinforce
the gravity of undermining the ability of people
to speak through the votes. I couldn’t help but
shed tears for a country that has so much but
enjoys so little.
Udo writes from the Civil Society Election
Situation Room. Twitter handle-@udoilo

ballabriggs: Dede anuohia. No wonder you are frustrated because you cannot get a wife. Any woman that marries a mad dog like you is in trouble. Best thing you will do for yourself is to go to Ann Summers and buy one of those sex t0ys to help your frustration else you are doomed. Animal

hahahahahaha evils

invest-now2013:
Authur Eze is better be advised to use his money now to bring development to Anambra-State than wasteing it in sponsporing Political Charlatans & Holigans to be Governor of This noble state! Mbanu Chukwu ajugo nkea!.Ibeto,Chikason,Innoson, Dangote,Bilgate etc are making waves in attracting Big Businesses to their locality, But people like Authur Eze are busy spending money sponsporing reneges & Corrupt politicians to take over Anambra-State!. Tell me one functioning industry owned by Chief Authur Eze in Anambra-State!

Now that you brought this up Tell me one functioning industry owned by Peter Obi in Anambra-State! Last time I checked he just built the biggest mall in Abuja..

He was never a factor. Did he even get up to 10 votes?

DerideGull: Those are human errors. Nobody is perfect including your deluded self. Yes, human blunders happen in USA however no attention is paid to moronic loudmouths and sore losers such as you.

There was case in Baltimore were local electioneering staff forged voter’s names and modified voter’s lists. Nobody knows how long she has been on such malpractice. When she was finally caught, she was persecuted and sent to serve time. There was no fool calling for the election to be cancelled.

so we should excuse human errors because it favors and when did America become a benchmark for assessing our elections by the way? When you talk sore losers, shouldn't the loss come clean and clear or reasonably so? "When she was finally caught" has anybody been declared winner of the election already or was the election declared inconclusive? You see, the problem is some of you drop your thinking caps before logging onto the internet.

DerideGull: Those are human errors. Nobody is perfect including your deluded self. Yes, human blunders happen in USA however no attention is paid to moronic loudmouths and sore losers such as you.

There was case in Baltimore were local electioneering staff forged voter’s names and modified voter’s lists. Nobody knows how long she has been on such malpractice. When she was finally caught, she was persecuted and sent to serve time. There was no fool calling for the election to be cancelled.

so we should excuse human errors because it favors and when did America become a benchmark for assessing our elections by the way? When you talk sore losers, shouldn't the loss come clean and clear or reasonably so? "When she was finally caught" has anybody been declared winner of the election already or was the election declared inconclusive? You see some of you drop your thinking caps before logging onto the internet.

bushwailo: Was the flawed elections not perpetuated mostly by Anambrains ?
How can Jega stop every INEC official from taking bribe and Anambrains from selling their votes for N500.
How come it is easier to rig an election in alaigbo than anywhere else ?

I am not giving you a bad name, you have a bad name already.
You choice of leadership has always been questionable.
Your low moral standards and your love for money is pathetic.
The same way they chose Ojukwu over Zik is the same way they have Chosen a tribal clique like APGA against a party like APC.

Look at the way you are throwing insults around on the internet and you say i'm giving you a bad name.

Elections have been rigged in virtually all states in this country so what are you saying? Is it the common Anambra man that infiltrated the voters register? Are forces in Abuja who helped rig the election Anambra people. APGA was always going to win in the everyday Nigerian election due to incumbency and FG but we had hoped for a credible poll where they had no chance. So generalizing the election as Anambra decision is a fraud. Talking about insults, I have not insulted more than You!

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How irrational nonentites leave the major rigging cases to focus on initial registered and the accredited voters tells us their foolishness. How about voters whose name where missing in the register, how about delaying voting in your opponents stronghold only to postpone it to a Sunday, how about ballot papers without result sheets, how about monetary inducement of voters, how about massive thumbprinting by police etc etc. do they also happen in the US? As much as Punch is not a credible media source, they are objective and way above mark in this case.

bushwailo: Ngige should throw in the towel.
Whatever Obi did, the initial result is quite damning.

I have the feeling that even in a free and fair election Ngige will loose massively.
I neglected that fact that the state is littered with backward Biafra and Catholic Bigots who will follow their tribal sentiments even to mass graves like during the Biafran war.

you blockheads should stop giving us a bad name. how does a massively flawed election represent the vote of Anambra people. Didn't Anambra people vote ACN against APGA in the Senate. bloody fool.

chukwudi44: if Ngige is as popular as you claim why then is he afraid of the election/ let him go and test his so-called popularity afterall 113,000 votes are up for grabs

I should ask you why APGA the igbo party is afraid of a rerun in igboland. 113,000 voters indeed after you have stolen the majority. Thieves!