₦airaland Forum

benson81:
I am frm the SS.Let me state that this prejudice against the SE will not help for a united Nigeria.if u talk of block voting I believe its the same thing that is done in the NE/NW.You said the SS was favoured because GEJ was President.But when push came to shove its only the Ibos that stood by GEJ.

When i said the SS favouring their own son was as a result of the developmental stage we are in, I was only using euphemistic considerations. Jonathan is the most inept president ever in Nigeria and a disaster at leadership. Google the word leadership and then try to determine if Jonathan provided it for Nigeria. He cannot lead a compound. I did not want to call Nigerians stupid that was why I said developmental stage. The north and the SW voted for Jonathan in 2011 but by 2015 it has become clear that he is the wrong man for the job. Ibos are mischievous and implacable at real or perceived wrongs so I am happy for you and your newfound friends. Good luck

I read your post thinking you will bring something new to the table after careful observation but I'm afraid the post is full of stereotypes and rampant generalisations.and does not help matters

To be candid, this thread should be in the jokes section

Arysexy:
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Ishilove, lalasticlala. Rule 2 should apply to this guy

Clap for yourself

Clap for yourself

denko:
Sooner or later the games executed by Jega will soon be reveal, now it clear that we will have a less qualify person to run the affair of this country for the next four years. Can i call Buhari my president? Is he qualify to be a president constitutionally?

Grow up, you lost because you fielded a clueless bonzo as your candidate. We now have a proper leader. By the way I do feel a bit of schadenfreude at your plight.

benson81:
It has come to my notice of accusations against the SE/SS parts of the country of playing ethnic politics because they voted massively for GEJ.its their choice and its democracy!.but let me ask?1.what politics were the NE/NW playing in 2011 when they voted massively for GMB?.what politics were the NE/NW playing in 2015 when they voted massively for GMB alone?.what politics was AD playing in 1999 when they won only in all SW states? And what politics has AC/ACN been playing when they were only winning in the SW?

Stop being funny, people do not have animosity against the SS.They favoured their son and that is understandable at this stage of Nigeria's development. IBO's are the main problem, they practice block voting and would do anything to stunt Nigeria's growth. They also tried to use block voting to seize control of a land that does not belong to them.They are also empty chest beaters. SS people are nicer than the opportunistic devious ibos

Jonathans trains are as defective as tenure

falconey:
that's my nigga.

How can a fine nigga like this rape you? Or you raped him.

Nigerians are animals.

thehannibal:
Ghanaians should know that yulobass were the ones who connived with shehu shagari to send them packing from Yulobaa land not Nigeria.

No Ghanaian was sent packing from Enugu, PH, Calabar and other Eastern cities.

surely nobody is this silly, but I have been known to be wrong before

lionstone:
Buhari Initiated Xenophobia In
Africa. - BBC News!!!
The British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) has have
linked the current hate attacks
on Africans living in South Africa
by the locals to Muhammadu
Buhari and Shagari, who gave
the same treatment to Africans,
mostly West Africans in 1984.
They claimed that the 'Ghana-
must-go' policy against Africans
was Muhammadu Buhari's
Legacy to Africa in 1984.
The Seed of the shameful
xenophobic Atrocities the World
is sadly witnessing in South
Africa presently was actually
sown by Buhari more than 30
Years ago...
The world keeps quite as Evil
people destroy the peace of the
Earth. The Oba of Lagos, Oba
Akiolu and the US based
Cardiologist, Dr Adeniran
Abraham Ariyo who called for the
Mass killing of Igbos in Nigeria
and overseas need to stopped
before they start or their
utterances ignites another
genocide.
SOURCE:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013t60w

why are Nigerians so dull. Try and read books sometimes so that when you get to nigerian history you would know that shagari a democractically elected president kicked the Ghanaians out and moreover the ghanaians kicked out the Nigerians first. Ibo troublemakers, always out to destabilize Nigeria. Enemies of the Nigerian state.

It would mean most ibos will die before Buhari lol

otemanuduno:
So babalegba, would you go for GEJ's autograph or a 10k cool cash?

Gej's autograph is not worth 500 naira.

dadexcel:
. My friend don't mind them, the fact is that as long as they slight a man as successful as jonathan, both as an ordinary citizen (bsc, Msc, phd, lecturer), and as a leader (local government chairman, deputy governor, governor, vice president , acting president and president), you can see that he is not a mere man, someone that has cahieved these fits is almost a near super human, and some unknown, irresponsible and apparently disrepectul youth will come here and say he prefers 1000 to his autograph! That tells you the level of reasoning, please ignore them. Jonathan is blessed and no man can cause him!

this is the kind of post that made me realize that Nigeria has no hope. He failed woefully in all those posts you mentioned and he is a curse to Nigeria . In better countries he would never have been a councillor but in Nigeria where university graduates find it difficult to string English sentences together, he is a star. Daft country

As the English would say: he who laugh last laughs best

Sweetguy25:
The time to call for a 100 percent control your resources has now come. We all witnessed the brazen level of ethnic, tribal and geopolitical voting pattern that characterized the 2015 elections, which subsequently removed a Niger Deltan from being the president of this country.

The people of the Niger Delta have sacrificed their lands to sustain Nigerian unity and the economy for over 30 years to the detriment of their own development. The altruistic efforts shown by the people of the Niger Delta have always been taken for granted. As the campaign slogan of the APC goes, it’s time for a #CHANGE!!!

The people of the Niger Delta have never for once enjoyed the freedom of being in absolute control of their natural resources. Oil revenues over the past 30 years estimated at over 500 billion dollars has been wasted to satisfy the selfish needs of other Nigerian zones and their leaders. If these revenues were properly invested in the Niger Delta, the level of infrastructural and socioeconomic development in the region would been tremendous.

To make matters worse, we are in a country that makes no sense at the moment. Nigeria is like a vehicle traveling from Lagos to Adamawa on a top speed of 10km/hr. Yes, we are moving forward but at the slowest speed attainable. Most people will blame this on corruption but I have a very different view about this.

Nigeria is like a man who earns a salary of 200,000 naira per month but has 36 wives and 80 children. It’s impossible to give the best of education, feeding and clothing to all his children and wives. That’s the same problem with Nigeria. Nigeria earns an average of about 60 billion dollars every year from oil and about 10 billion dollars from tax and other IGR but with expenditure needs of over 200 billion dollars per annum.

We may think that the money Nigeria earns from crude oil is enough to turn Nigeria to Dubai or Japan but that is far from the reality. We tend to forget that we have a population of about 170 million people and growing. Those who have the time to check should check for countries with similar populations with Nigeria and the annual budgets of these countries. You will clearly see that Nigeria lags far behind. For a country with a population like ours, we need nothing less than 150 billion dollars in annual budgetary spending. Where will the money come from?

Any discerning and rational thinking person who assesses the chances of Nigeria witnessing any accelerated growth in the next 10-15 years will clearly acknowledge that our chances are very very slim because

1. Nigeria is poor country
2. We have a huge population
3. We have weak governmental and sociopolitical structures that hinder economic progress.
4. We have some of the worst human development indices in the world. (No country develops with a literacy rate of only 60 percent and life expectancy of 51)
5. We are not ready to change the fundamental problems that are hindering our growth and progress.

These 5 problems make it very impossible for Nigeria to have a performing president. Every single president who's elected will always fail to "perform" as expected because these problems will weigh him/she down.

Niger Deltans cannot continue waste their resources on this failed scam called Nigeria. The only option available right to now Niger Deltans is to collectively demand to opt out of this unfair and parasitic arrangement called Nigeria.
There is no better time than now peacefully ask to leave.

Typical ibo trouble maker post.Always looking for ways to destabilize the country.Disgraceful implacable scoundrels

tomakint:
You guys no dey taya, Kashamu has declared openly why he should be left alone for a crime he never committed, he even substantiated his defense with evidences yet you clowns would not let him rest. Ok, continue.....

The man can afford a plane ticket, he should just buy a ticket to New York, go there and prove his innocence. Easy, isn't it

Ibos tried to keep Nigeria in Jonathan's satanic bondage but God delivered Nigerians from IBO satanic evil machinations and the stage is now set for Nigeria's progress

That name sounds ibo

Oba was wrong but ibos are troublemakers

biafransoul:
The pogrom was on in the north and Igbos were being hounded and slaughtered indiscriminately . Many of the Yoruba elite read opportunity into the disturbances.. And Lagos, home to many Igbos, convulsed with hatred for the Igbo. Prominent Lagos Igbos went into hiding and pondered their fate. Hunted like rabbits by death squads , they soon relinquished the idea of waiting out the storm in their holes and had to sneak out of Lagos in darkness. Ordinary Igbos , free to flee, had thronged the motor parks and taken the boos and jeers in their hurried steps. Those who booed and jeered included not only excited and ignorant motor park touts but also shrewd covetous and perhaps envious civil servants and lecturers who had eyes on positions occupied by fleeing Igbos . A cocktail of sadism, opportunism and delirium. The Igbos in Lagos and Yourba land were perhaps fortunate . The north , seized by their own sense of vengeance, was a literal killing field. Let’s leave the details to belong to our history. Igbos may have fled Lagos in 1966-67 but their participation in Lagos politics had effectively ended in 1951. Nnamdi Azikiwe, otherwise a Lagosian, prevented by corrupted ethnic passions from becoming premier of the west , left for the east . And the implications and ramifications of that dislocation have impaired socio political cohesion in Nigeria till today. So when Igbos fled home in 1966 any doubts about an ordinary law abiding Igbo Lagos resident having same political rights and status as the ‘indigene’ were settled. For Igbos then , Lagos was not , after all, home. You can live in Lagos but do not forget that you belong somewhere else and it wouldn’t matter if you have lived in Lagos or port Harcourt all your life. Once law and order break down, ‘settlers’ fret. The civil war ended , Igbos with their 20 pounds, poured out of the villages and many returned to Lagos. And Lagos welcomed them. And before long , Igbos , by sheer industry, came to dominate street commerce in ‘Lagos and as their businesses flourished, their numbers grew. The Igbos’ preferred trade apprenticeship system meant that as Igbo entrepreneurs grew they brought in family and friends from the east as apprentices. And apprentices imbued with the “young shall grow” mentality soon became business owners and brought in more apprentices. So unsurprisingly Igbos would dominate whole trade lines likes the motor spare parts and electronics business and all dealings in imported goods. Naturally , they would dominate market complexes like ‘Alaba’, and ‘Aspamda’ and ‘Trade fair’ and ‘Balogun’. And that meant that they would dominate areas like Ajeromi Ifelodun, and Amuwo odofin and Oshodi isolo and Ojo , residential areas around major markets. Preoccupied with commerce, wary of politics, mindful of the war and their residency status, Igbos helped build and develop Lagos but played only at the fringes politically. The ambitious trader aspired to be the president of the market union or the Eze ndi Igbo Lagos for vain glory but could not wrap his mind around being a member of the house of assembly and didn’t want to take political risks. Igbo professionals didn’t get involved either And despite the pervasive high level of political consciousness of Lagos and despite the intensity of media coverage of Lagos and despite the claim to progressivism by the dominant party of Lagos , Igbos who constitute a significant ethnic minority were kept out of elective positions. There is something glaringly anomalous about a system in which citizens can
live all their lives in a city , raise children , pay taxes , have constitutionally protected rights to vote and be voted for but are somehow not expected to occupy elective positions. For indigenes, politically ambitious “settlers” are ungrateful usurpers . And this is a national malaise . Prevalent high degree of urban migration means that many have no other home towns besides where they reside. And how are they supposed to lead fulfilling lives if they can’t seek elective offices? Some are residents/ settlers and some are indigenes. Yet all are citizens. And minorities everywhere have been similarly afflicted whether it be Muslims in Birmingham or Latinos in Florida or Igbos in Sabon Gari kano or the Arewa in Hausa quarters in Aba. Lagos has remained the most cosmopolitan city in Nigeria and the Yorubas have remained one of the most sophisticated and accommodating groups in Nigeria. And nothing in this article discredits the Yorubas particularly. The culture of exclusivity in Lagos politics existed in spite of the fact that Lagos is the most accommodating of all cites in Nigeria to non indigenes. But since Lagos is the leading light in commerce , politics and tolerance, any attempt to cure this national affliction must start from Lagos. Besides morality, the stake of non indigenes in the state is proportionately too high to countenance their exclusion from effective representation in the governance of the state. The AC/APC in a rather tokenistic appreciation of the electoral weight of the Igbos appointed an Igbo technocrat , to the Lagos cabinet . And such tokens must be appreciated. However any thoughts that that gesture by Tinubu 10 years ago would lead to greater inclusiveness of the minorities in Lagos affairs has been conclusively disconfirmed by the failure of Lagos APC to allow Igbos represent communities where Igbos predominate. It’s even more absurd because we know that the APC has a way of drawing up lists of candidates.
The APC was rejected by Igbos in the last polls for less than objective reasons. That reflexive rejection borne of bigotry may have, however , yielded unintended positive collateral effects in Lagos. The electoral prowess of the Igbos in Lagos has been confirmed beyond refutation. The APC lost comprehensively in Igbo dominated areas . Hitherto , many treated claims of Igbos’ electoral importance in Lagos as exaggerated . It is otherwise perhaps inexplicable that the politically astute Lagos AC/APC, that has a reputation for foresightedness and inclusiveness, perennially failed to attach adequate importance to the touted numerical strength and wealth of the Igbos and allocated no tickets to Igbos in Lagos. How did they cede this glory to the PDP? While Azikiwe’s ambition to lead the Western region may be seen as grotesque in today’s Nigeria because he , an Igbo, sought to lead the Yoruba nation. Any ambition by a qualified Igbo woman to pick up APC ticket and represent Amuwo Odofin cannot be an outsized ambition because she seeks to represent a political space in which she is by no means an interloping minority. The idea that those who are in majority in the state or who are indigenes must decide for inhabitants who would rule over every street and ward is not only undemocratic but immoral. Let’s face it , you can’t sell Amuwo Odofin to Igbos, collect billions for those rural lands, have marsh lands transformed to magnificent estates and yet seek to preclude them from representing Amuwo Odofin in the local and federal assemblies. The sentiment that settlers should not dominate indigenes may not be totally irrational. From Florida to Birmingham , from Paris to Jos north, settlers / indigenes dichotomy has led to social unrest. It is however more plausible to countenance the partial cultural exclusion of minority populations than to condone an attempt to preclude a population from freely choosing their representatives especially if that means settlers taking up elective positions in small localities where they constitute a relative majority. It should be a democratic given. There is therefore no feasible democratic argument to explain a Lagos house of assembly without Igbos or minorities. While one may sympathize with the Yorubas when , with perhaps innocently felt moral indignation , they ask , rhetorically , if a Yoruba can be a member of Abia house of assembly? Abia state has not even cared to have an Imo commissioner. The present governor , T . A Orji sacked civil servants of Imo state origin when he assumed office. Internecine squabbles in the east have meant that Igbos cannot have successful government careers in states other than their home states. Let’s not even discuss Rivers state. Lagos has an Igbo commissioner but Rivers cannot even contemplate that despite the population of Igbos in Port Harcourt. The civil war left many ugly legacies. But since Gov Amaechi has publicly , during the campaigns, claimed he is Igbo, we hope that some pre civil war brotherliness would one day return. South East Igbos are by no means any less guilty. It is sad that Igbos fighting for political Justice in Lagos haven’t established such standards of justice in the east amongst themselves. The general political environment in the east and everywhere else in Nigeria is hostile to political representation by non indigenes. And I must concede that Lagos and the political tendency that constitutes the south west APC is being held to higher moral standards. Lagos sets the pace, if Lagos initiates the practice it would have a great national normative force. The reality many argue is that Nigeria isn’t sufficiently politically mature and sophisticated to tolerate such representation by non indigenes as the polity is rife with inter ethnic and regional rivalry . And that our sense of nationhood is subservient to ethnic allegiance and other parochial identities. Others condemn emphasis on ethnic politics. When freedom and sufficient cohesion are achieved ethnic cleavages will disappear. Ohaneze and Arewa forum and Afenifere if conscientiously run will benefit the nation building. An inescapable reality is that when a minority group legally settles in a locality and achieves significant numbers they cannot be ignored and must be allowed full political participation in the overall interest of the society. This is the right moral and democratic position. Whether it is in Jos north or Sabon Gari Kano, every human being must be treated with equal moral concern and should be accorded human dignity. The irreducible minimum is to allow full active political participation. It’s all the more imperative now , in this age, when many no longer have “ancestral homes” and belong wherever they legally reside. This piece had been written before the sickening pronouncements made by the Oba of Lagos went public. He exuded scorn, contempt and hate. Igbos should forgive the Oba or ignore him. But he should not be spared collective opprobrium and sanctions so that others similarly afflicted are deterred. Igbos do not owe their continued stay in Lagos to anyone’s magnanimity. Igbos like other groups, must with clear headed , reflective sobriety, pragmatically organize themselves politically to make their numbers and wealth and versatility count, protect their interests, promote local and national unity , and help enthrone good governance and excellence in Lagos. And every where else. All who are possessed by bigotry and conceit will in time come to reason. Igbos have been back to Lagos politics but they announced their return on March 28. For many Igbos now, Lagos must be home.
Eko o ni baje o!

Verbose horsecraap , go back to your overpopulated dunghill already You lot are the criminal class of Nigeria

You are right but the violence is almost limited to the s.south and south east, so we are getting there

fritiyo:
pleas some one should humble hail the king maker of ekiti state in the person of AYO FAYOSE.

Even 1million Obj and Tinubu can not stop him.

In ur own point of view, who is the new king maker?

Define kingmaker

Nothing good ever seem to happen in iboland