₦airaland Forum

Yes, Presiding Officers were trained on how to electronically upload results, but in the field, this encountered many itches. INEC relied totally on manual collation of results.

e-diot! By the way though, I see nothing special about any girl's nudes.

Radarada ni yen naw! Anyway, I'm sure you know the game she's tryin to bring up. You either play it or get her off the pitch.

But for your wife, any woman that has the temerity to hit you, brother, be humble and civil enough to tripple the guts and hit her back. And make sure it connects.

LOOM...BOOM...DOOM...ZOOM!!!

Temple no pay, the nigga enter street. The hustle is just so real!

ednut1:
99% of 9ja pastors were not called by God

Na dem call demselves

Centcanada:
I hate APC with passion. I pity people who are not seeing what am seeing.

you funny o! wetin you dey see?

OUK is trying so hard to align with the centre and gain political relevance. I wish other politicians from the South eastern block had this orientation.

I share your sentiment, broe.

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Time to ponder........

SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

We have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023", they don't want us in the National Assembly".
Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has barely finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

All these guys below have all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore.
As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu!!

See ya NL!

Nothing but the truth. The SE has for the past 8 year been playing wrong politics

Baba, education in Nigeria can be likened to pre-intimacy. I suppose you know its not a sine qua non to having a mind-blowing sex.

babyfaceafrica:
so the other tribes came to sell guguru.....in politics, u invest, then reap..no sentiment

APC is a national party and this should be reflected in her government. Sidelining the SE (the 3rd largest ethnic group) just because it voted against it isn't the best.

Mind you, the SE gave APC more votes in the just concluded election than it did in 2015.

Odingo1:
Nigeria is a failed nation, wether SE is considered or not, those that are there are just for their personal gain and their immediate family, the country will continue to sink into abyss. Any place there is injustice there is never peace in such a place.

The kind of crisis that will engulf Nigeria in the coming years will be unprecedented.

Baba easy o! I no get where I go run go o!

Da, getting a level 10 Lagos state civil servant with landed property therein that will stick-out his/her neck for a yahoo boy nor be beans.

Where are all the "Free Naira marley" fans? I believe they or their relatives should help their beloved artiste.

chinjo:
Must they all come from the north?

Na dia matter, make dia brother settle am for dem

The SE should have been considered in the zoning arrangement. We know they invested least in the party, but national interest and equity should have been considered.

Your story rings a bell. Yes, its possible. But it demands a great deal of maturity and understanding from all involved, and you need be on guards.

I'll advice you make the girl your very good friend. Your friendship with her will tell you alot about them.

ykalhaji:
They were hesitant. The Coach needs to decide his starting 11 now and then have them play scrimmages with the bench so they can have a feel for themselves, there was too much hesitation in passing or even throw in, it gave the Norwegians enough time to setup their defense and positions. They need to practice "throw ins" at the same time have dedicated throw in takers and learn how to come in to space to give the thrower an outlet to throw the ball when the opponent presses the person throwing the ball.

Sure. I also observed that once they get the ball in midfield, the next thing was to volley it to Asisat or Desire. This exposed the strikers, and the Norwegians simple choked them up. That was why they were frustrated.

80% are attracted by money and afflunce, and 20% by character and personality. 80% of that 80% are slay mamas and gold diggers, hence end up being used and dumped, while 80% of the 20% are good ladies, hence end up marrying their crush and building happy homes.

Eja nla!

If you've been following this man politically, then you'll agree with me that he deserves all he is getting. His style of politics is legendary. He is about the only politician in Nigeria that listens to and does what his people want. He simply buries his interest in their interest and makes a fortune of it.

They said "NO" to Ambode and he said "who am I to say "YES"". Tell me why they'll revolt against him.

Our girls lacked team cohesion and ambition. Their play was so bumpy and their moves well read and anticipated by the Norwegians.

AfonjaBoston:
Maintain status quo meaning license withdrawal stands

No. It means maintaining the state of affairs before the license withdrawal. And what was the state of affairs before NBC bashed on Daar comm.?

One of the primary responsibility of any govt is to protect lives and property of her citizens. If bringing these germans together will bring peace, why not!

showafrica:
Na that akwa ibom man, he is been selfish since he came in

If you're referring to Okon, then you know nothing about football. That dude is the only outstanding player in that team

But for Okon, I don't see any good footballer in that squad. Though they put up a good fight in the second half. They just weren't clinical off front.

This is probably the worst Nigerian team I've seen in recent time. The entire team (particularly the keeper) is a big flop

Orji Uzor Kalu is about the only south easterner mainstream politician that is nationally relevant. He therefore should contest for President come '23.

Nice one, Neymar.