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Osyabj:
"I don' t give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think is hell"..Harry Truman, Former US President.

Onwa Ngige SHALL shine n Anambra again come 2017.

2017 will not be a repeat of infectual buffoon , jonathan using his Army to rig the Obi puppet into office.

100 out of 100 "Free and Fair election" in Anambra and Ngige will Win. Don't talk about the last stolen election which the world knew was not an election.

Governor Chris Onwa Ngige, Anambra Governor 2017.


Take that to the bank and cash it.

And what if Ngige decides not to run?

kamalcole3000:
What den is a good idea?
Stay and do nothing while Fulani's take over our ancestral homeland because we don't want to deal with attendant challenges that will result from proliferation of arms in our different villages or wake up one day and hear it in the news that Fulani's have taken over your village,killed your grand parents,burn down your family home and turn your family plantation to grazing land for their cows.
The best and only way to continue breathing in the face of unprovoked attack is to defend yourself.

How can you defend yourself if you cannot match your attacker strength for strenggt?

What is the strenght of your attackers?

Acquire that and there will be mutual respect.

peace.

The only way to protect your self from the Fulani aggressors is to demand your sovereignty. Then you can police your borders and chase the Fulani out whenever the invade your community. As long as you are under the banner of 'one Nigeria', you had better start getting used to Fulani attacks. A Fulani man is currently your president, if you are thinking he is going to bring the weight of the Nigerian armed forces on his own people, forget it. You have an armed forces that is heavily dominated by the Northerners, if you are thinking that they will go after Fulanis, forget it. Fulanis have killed so many people in this country, many unreported. Not one single Fulani has ever been arrested. They are untouchable. Truth is bitter to hear

obailala:
Unfortunately, Nigeria is not a sane or civil society, the madness can only be matched. There's a law in Nigeria that says "the first to report the case is innocent." The man was arrested because someone reported him. Meanwhile if you report northerners even when they commit a real crime, within 24 hours, the suspects would be released. It's not magic, it happens because someone big made a phone call or someone big came down to the station to effect that release.

So next time a person like Chinakwe is arrested for a flimsy reason, someone big from his side should make that call too, that's how this jungle works; for how long are we going to keep whining and weeping everyday and blaming the north like we don't have our own leaders down south? If the northerners can release theirs, why can't we?... Oh I forgot, the only thing our leaders down south know how to do is to cater for their personal pockets, they only remember they have constituents whenever they are caught red-handed in some corruption case.

And it all goes to buttress the fact that we are wasting our time together. We should all go our different ways and manage our selves and make our own laws. That way, when people like Chinakwe go to a foreign land, e.g the North, he will conform to their way of doing things, and if he doesn't , he only has himself to blame. We can't keep claiming to be 'one Nigeria' when the law applies different to different people. Chinakwe does not have to live by a strange constitution that gives him freedom of expression but takes it away when he is in a 'Hausa dominated area'. I should not have be a citizen of a country with a Northern dominated armed forces that thinks Igbos are trouble makers.

Simply a case of the Northerners victimising an Igbo man.

betterABIAstate:
then dont blame people agitating for secession

Of course. Secession is another to way to achieve sovereignty

Not a good idea. The vigilante you are arming could later be a menace just like the herdsmen.

betterABIAstate:
Make the system work in such a way that

1. Aba will be the port and industrial capital

2. Enugu will be the administrative/mining capital

3. Ontisha will be the commercial capital

4. Owerri will be the tourism capital

5. Abakaliki will be the agricultural capital.

Connect these places with roads and railway facilities. Leave the rest for us

You can only get the above if you are practicing true federalism under a regional structure. It is then you can have the powers to make your own laws, control your resouces and govern your self. But as long as Nigeria is in this unitary system that has made Abuja all powerful, forget it.

obailala:
Where was his senator, his governor and other igbo leaders and elite when this was happening to him?

That's the wrong question. Why should there still be tribalism and victimisation in the Nigerian Police force? If the senators and leaders should be rushing to save their own all the time, then what are we doing as 'one Nigeria'? We

Look at how was machete was used on my fellow Igbo! Later one ediot will be asking why Igbos won't accept the beauty of 'one Nigeria'

obailala:
Bro, Chinakwe's tribe or his decision to be termed Deltan or Anioma instead of Igbo doesn't really have any bearing on this case.

What do you mean it has no bearing on the case? That's what the whole case is about! This man Joe Chinakwe has an Igbo surname and speaks Igbo as his ancestral language and he calls himself 'Deltan' and 'Anioma'. There is no tribe called Delta or Anioma in Nigeria. Had this man had the surname 'Abubakar', would there be no case today. The Hausa/Fulani community would have been more diplomatic and asked Joe why he wrote Buhari on the Dog. But because Joe Chinakwe is an Igbo man, he was victimised by both the Police and his accusers.

mikolo80:
and lost. We simply used our words and they fall in line, works everytime

Better to have fought and lost than to embrace cowardice out of fear of losing.

RoyalMail:
Lord have mercy...



lalasticlala

What are you exclaiming for? You people said you want 'one Nigeria' with Fulanis don't you? So why are you not ready to accept Fulani attacks as well?

You said you must share your House with Scopions but you lament every time you get stung.

All hail 'one Nigeria'!

Hamakude:
A faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has broken out of the main group and is set to burn the sacred Biafran flag come October 1, 2016. In what was termed as an 'inflexible and defeatist position of IPOB led by Nnamdi Kanu', who is currently in Kuje prison, a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), identified as The Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra (TRIOPOB), has broken out of the main group.

Chima Phillip Effiong Osuji, who is the spokesperson of the splinter group, said the decision to break away, was taken at an emergency meeting convened by some disaffected members of IPOB on Monday, August 22, 2016 in Aba, Abia state.

http://www.gisturb.com/2016/08/is-biafran-breaking-apart.html

Why did you start a stupid thread like this? Can't you use your head? What kind of Biafran group sings the Nigerian national Anthem and burns the Biafran flag? How can IPOB be splitting up in Nigeria when it's entire leadership is based abroad?

evilapc:
The truth is always straightforward. ..southern Nigerians have been conditioned as slaves to the core northern Nigerians

Not us Igbos! We fought a war against them to prove it. If you are looking for the ones that have been conditioned to be slaves, look westward.

Umu Biafra! Ndi Chukwu goziri agozi! Ndi Chukwu Okike ga zoputa n'aka obodo Ekwensu bu Nigeria!

babyfaceafrica:
Ipod will be sad

Not really. Unlike Nigeria, what IPOB wants is not 'by force'. All IPOB has ever asked is that the will of the various ethnic nationalities be done. So if Ijaws are comfortable elsewhere, they are welcome to carry on.

Godwin616:
Interestingly you have an igbo man in Ekweremadu as a senate leader yet you people cannot use that opportunity to present your case by following a due process. No one will take this agitation serious because there is no eminent igbo leader speaking in support of this agitation. Where are the likes of Emeka Anyanoku,pius anyim, adolphus nwabara etc, even the traditional rulers are not talking. The agitation appears to be a youth movement stuff. If indeed Ndi igbos really need the seccession, I think the approach should change.

It's not about the elite or about crooked politicians. It is about the sovereign will of a people and also the fact that the British colonial creation called Nigeria expired on 31st December 2013.

Funny story. The leadership of IPOB is based abroad but it is splitting up in Nigeria? I feel like laughing. The funniest part of this Lagos/Ibadan media concoction is the claim that the breakaway group wants to burn the Biafran flag, sing the national Anthem then unvail a new Biafran flag How can anyone be singing the national Anthem and unvaiing a new Biafran flag

The Lagos/Ibadan expressway media think we are all fools.

President99:
U've tactically dodged a simple question I asked! Ojukwu feared death and therefore had an option of exiling. Did he provide escape route for the masses he endangered their lives?
Ojukwu should have stayed to die in the war front to become a true HERO; If he had done he would have silenced people who r now seeing hom as a coward.
Biafra was never declared with overwhelming consent of Ogonis, yes! read kensro wiwa's article titled Awo and the creation of states and not jst ogonis buy the entirety of Niger delta.

Your problem is that you don't know anything about military training or the rules of war. Let me educate you. Soldiers are not trained to be martyrs. Every Soldier is taught that in a situation where things have become hopeless, rather than wait to be captured or killed, they should find an escape route. That is were the doctrine of 'live to fight another day' comes in. Ojukwu followed his military training and left at the end of the war. I'm glad he did, he denied you Nigerians the satisfaction of parading his dead body for the propaganda of 'one Nigeria' and he later returned to a heroes welcome by his people. Ojukwu was not looking for the respect of Nigerians, he was looking for the respect of his people and he got it. So if Nigerians were hoping that he would stick around to be killed so that he won't be called a coward, then they are crazy. You people would have called Ojukwu worse than coward if he had stayed back and died. Neither Ojukwu nor his people care about your respect.

As for the civilians who died, it was Nigeria that killed them by not following the rules of war. The civilian populace was targeted with starvation, which is a war crime. Soldiers know that in armed conflict, the civilian populace should be left alone as much as possible, which means allowing food, aid and medicine into affected areas, even at the risk of the enemy Army acquiring some of it. By not following the rules of war, Nigeria commited mass murder.

I don't know what you mean by Ojukwu seeking consent of Ogonis. Ojukwus sought mandate from all the traditional rulers and representative of of the 20 provinces of the old Eastern region and the gave him the mandate to declare Biafra.

Unlike Nigeria that was created with no mandate or consent of anyone.

krazykoons:
when the said persons goes about stoking the embers of hate against your people.
yessiir I do have a right.

The embers of hate were there long before Kanu. You think was out of love that 50,000 were slaughtered in 1966 and 3 million killed 67-70?

krazykoons:
what exactly are you guys doing except for cursing and insulting other tribes or people that holds a different view.

The only time you have a right to hold a view on another persons right of self determination is if that person is your Siamese twin.

Victorvexz:
The leadership of Ipob is currently in Kuje prison Abuja, eating watery beans daily.

Do you know what Awolowo, Buhari, Mandela, Obasunjo all have in common? At some point, they were all in jail eating watery beans for the same charges as Kanu. But they all later bounced back and are now eating well. It's Kanus time too to eat watery beans, but when he bounces back, it will be on a whole new level.


How anybody can see that this news is fake is where the said they will burn the Biafra flag, recite the Nigerian anthem then unvail a new Biafra flag. How can someone be singing the national anthem and be unvailing a new Biafra flag? Fake news from the Lagos/Ibadan gutter media.

omenka:
Shouldn't that be a source of worry for you people

Of course not. They can do more in developed countries than they can in a backward third power hellhole like Nigeria.

This is the most fake news I have ever heard in my life. There seems to be a trend of people claiming that groups have split. First it was 'reformed Niger Delta Avengers', now it is Tripob. I laugh in Igbo. The leadership of IPOB is not even based in Nigeria so anyone splitting in Nigeria only knows what they are splitting from.

AlphaPegasi:
before lord lugard came to nigeria that whole igbo region belonged to benin empire. you igbos relocated there from cameroon. you are from cameroon, go back home to cameroon .

Come on, let's be practical here. You are proud to answer the name of a River the White man gave you right? Imagine how proud you would feel if an African renamed you?

Look, there is a River in my village called "mmiri- ndida" ('River by sloap' in Igbo). I think I should name you after this River. How about 'Mirinda''? or maybe 'Miranda'? Although that is a girls name. Infact I will give you the choice Lugard never gave you by letting you choose between Mirinda (a former soft drink) and Miranda (Girls name).

Just imagine all the embarrassment you will save your self when you tell people that your 'River name' was chosen by a fellow African rather than a white stranger?

So which is it? Mirinda or Miranda?

AlphaPegasi:
igbos, i will say this once and i will not repeat myself, if you want biafra you need to move out of the nigerian landmass and go and look for another land to colonize. this landmass called nigeria is already colonized and conquered by nigeria. go and look for your own land mass. and then you can call yourself biafrans there. but so long as you remain on this land mass called nigeria ? we expect you to conform to the nigerian way of life or you will be thrown in jail like nnamdi kunu. i hope i am making myself very clear

Oh you mean the area that was conquered and named after a stupid River by Lugard? Didn't anybody tell you that Lugard has gone back to Britain? So what are you still doing here? As a follower of Lord Lugard, you have to follow him to Britain

Abiola was a victim of Northern hegemony, as was Ironsi, Awolowo, Shonekan etc. Whenever a Southerner positions himself to sit, or is already sitting in statehouse, the Northerners start scheming on how to undermine and get that person out. The only Southerner who managed to hang in there was OBJ and that was because he already proved his talents as a professional 'Northern a$$licker' as head of state in the 70's.

Abiola paid the price for pursuing his mandate against the North. He was arrested, detained and just when he thought he was about to get his freedom after the death of Abacha, they killed him. One thing I never understood though was why the Yorubas still went into political alliance with North even after they killed Abiola.

braden107:
This forum is just a joke .the country is shiit anyway. You guys keep creating silly threads . Igbos should be grateful for free oil money . Igbos have nothing . Below is an ethnic map of Nigeria. Do not trespass and include other regions on your igbo Biafra map or face repercussions .Do not include the Akwa cross on your map. Akwa cross is by far better than Igbo . Akwa cross has greater potentials . abundant natural resources. The longest beach .deepest natural seaport. greenery and nature. marine life, food,etc.beautiful and intelligent people . Oronians are industrious .Oronians are brave warriors and fighters . Do not include the Akwa cross on your map and get ready to be mass deported once shiit hits the fan.

What good has the Oil done for Nigeria? Other countries that don't have a drop of Oil have moved past Nigeria. The Oil you are talking about in plentiful in Igboland from Aniocha/Oshimili to Ohaji/Egbema to Otuocha to Ukwa East, Oil is being drilled there. As for Akwa-Cross, huge potentials that have come to mean nothing in Nigeria.

President99:
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Was Ojukwu daydreaming or liveth in spce? didn't he know the consequence of seceding in a third world country? was he expecting Nigeria govt to watch on as he declared biafra?
U dont endanger people's lives cox of ur caprice n whims!
If ojukwu had no option of running away, he would not have declared biafra. He feared death n exiled leaving behind masses whom his ego n over ambutious brought untold hardship to.

The consequences of secession are many, wether third world or 1st world. A government can choose several peaceful options such renegotiation, reintegration or referendum. The Nigerian Government chose war. It was the Nigerian Government that endangered the lives of people and killed them. It is also important to note that the Government of Gowon caused the war by breaking the Aburi agreement.

Another way to look at is, was Ojukwu justified in declaring Biafra? If you say no, then Lord Lugard was not justified in declaring Nigeria either. Nigeria as a country came from Lugard and not the indigenous people of the land. Therefore, Ojukwu as an indigenous born Igbo man was even more justified in declaring his people Biafra than the White stranger called Lugard was in declararing us all Nigerians. You cannot say Ojukwu was wrong and Lugard was right. We Igbos see Ojukwu as a freedom fighter who fought a war of liberation to free us from the colonian symbol of oppression called Nigeria. We may not have won, but the attempt at freedom far outweighs the loss. Freedom is not cheap, it can cost millions of lives. So we Igbos have no ill feelings towards Ojukwu, he did the right thing and we are proud of him. It is you Nigerians that are pained. Even up till now, you Nigerians have to use the same brute force to keep Nigeria together as Lugard did force our fore-fathers together which shows you people don't really have any country worth the paper it is written on. Freedom is one of the few things in life worth fighting and dying for and we Igbos are not cowards not to fight for it.

Since 1970 to date, the country that Nigeria came to kill millions in the East to keep together has progressed an inch and this again vindicates Ojukwu. Ojukwu must be laughing in his grave.

One thing is certain. Obasunjo ran a highly corrupt regime. GEJ's regime was also highly corrupt, the only difference was that because GEJ was not Yoruba, the Yorubas suddenly discovered their tongue for criticism which had mysteriously disappeard during the corrupt regime of OBJ their brother