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PoliticsRe: VIDEO: Nnamdi Kanu Launches Security Outfit " Eastern Security Network" by Balkan(m):
Like joke, this guy is becoming more powerful than the government itself.
these guys are volunteers and not paid a dime.
Who in Biafra land can mobilize these able-bodied men.

Nigeria don't know what they are in for?
RomanceRe: Funny Guys Experience When Expecting A New Girl In The Uni. by Balkan(op): 7:46am On Dec 09, 2020
I have this guy that's goesto knock on the door like a lady. If he notices that you are expecting a lady, he will go out and stay away after some minutes he will not on the door like a lady gently, you will thing your babe is the one knocking. So annoying.
RomanceFunny Guys Experience When Expecting A New Girl In The Uni. by Balkan(op): 12:00am On Dec 09, 2020
Guys do some funny things and experience funny things too. I have one guy in my room in those days in school, if he notices you are expecting a babe, he will not leave the room again. He not step and inch. He will carry his book and start reading the room.

Or if you ever share a room with born again, you will be frustrated.

Share your experience.
PoliticsRe: Abdulkadir Mohammed: We Accept PDP's Defeat With Dignity, Sportsmanship by Balkan(m): 3:00pm On Dec 06, 2020
That governor is planning to defect to APC
Don't mind him
CelebritiesRe: . by Balkan(m): 4:09pm On Dec 03, 2020
#Endsers2 will be the last straw
PoliticsRe: Anyim Pius Anyim Writes Umahi An Open Letter by Balkan(m): 11:30pm On Nov 30, 2020
Umahi is a confirmed fool.
APC is a useless party. Umahi is a criminal
PoliticsRe: Presidency Criticises Killed Borno Farmers For Farming Without Military Clearanc by Balkan(m): 1:49pm On Nov 30, 2020
But the military is in every part of Igbo land that is very peaceful. SHAME ON UMAHI
BusinessRe: Court To Restrain GTB From Deregistering Itself As A Limited Liability Company. by Balkan(m): 1:46pm On Nov 30, 2020
Igbo Amaka. GTBank will soon turn to Innoson Trsut Bank IBT grin
PoliticsRe: JUST IN: Boko Haram Beheads 43 Nigerian Farmers by Balkan(m): 9:06pm On Nov 28, 2020
4+4
God bless PMB
PoliticsRe: Again Mefor Blast Nnamdi Kanu, Calls IPOB A Terrorist Organization by Balkan(m): 6:47pm On Nov 28, 2020
He is talking about APC led government and their reckless activites
PoliticsRe: Horrific Bloodshed And Killings In Oyigbo: Full Story By Premium Times (Photos) by Balkan(m): 12:29pm On Nov 23, 2020
Nnia Nwodo will never see peace in his life and death.
PoliticsRe: Bola Tinubu Arrives Fasoranti's Home On A Condolence Visit by Balkan(m): 1:36pm On Jul 14, 2019
Ok
PoliticsRe: PHOTOS: APC Leader Tinubu In Reuben Fasoranti's House by Balkan(m): 1:34pm On Jul 14, 2019
Afonja
PoliticsRe: Adeyinka Grandson Accuses Igbos Of Being Behind The Death Of Funke Olakunrin by Balkan(m):
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What is this again? It is reported in the video that its masked men. We should not start what we cannot finish by spreading falsehood.
dont be scared of the Fulanis. That is their way
PoliticsRe: Yoruba People Are Not Paper Tigers And Dogs - Aare Adams by Balkan(m): 12:41am On Jul 14, 2019
Very funny people. Watch how they will gather used tyers and start burning them on the streets as if it's the tyer they are burning killed the woman.

Spineless set of people
PoliticsRe: Biafra Flag Spotted In Shoprite Lagos by Balkan(m): 5:30pm On Jul 13, 2019
Ok
PoliticsRe: Osinbajo Firm, Simmons Coopers Partners Linked To N100bn Alpha Beta Scam - Punch by Balkan(m): 11:25am On Jul 13, 2019
The day of reckoning is here.
Pastor Osibanjo, the fake pastor is about to be dealt with by the Fulani cabals
CrimeRe: BREAKING: Killing Of Fasoranti's Daughter Declaration Of War On Yoruba -odumakin by Balkan(m): 10:55am On Jul 13, 2019
Nobody takes this Afonjas serious.
Ranting of an �. This the benefit of voting for Buhari.

Enjoying your next level
PoliticsRe: Throwback Photos Of Professor Wole Soyinka As He Celebrates His 85th Birthday by Balkan(m): 10:27am On Jul 13, 2019
CBT. Awah to Ya
Sally 4 ever.
You shipwrecked in paradise
PoliticsRe: Appointments: Southeast Not Being Marginalised, Says Orji Kalu by Balkan(m): 7:21am On Jul 13, 2019
Orji Uzo Kalu, you are making the greatest mistake of your life.

Just because of personal ambition, you are selling yourself to the Fulanis. This your position will hunt you for Life
PoliticsRe: FG gives 6-months grace for registration of irregular migrants by Balkan(m): 6:41am On Jul 13, 2019
Another stategy to invite all Fulanis in Africa to come and register officially in Nigeria so that nobody will call them illegal immigrant.

Why can't the illegal immigrant be deported?
Well no space for fulanis in SS/SE.
PoliticsRe: Only If Igbos Will Learn From Hausa And Yoruba by Balkan(m): 9:13pm On Jul 12, 2019
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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!!
cheesy
efulefu
PoliticsRe: Biafra Flag Spotted In Shoprite Lagos by Balkan(m): 4:57pm On Jul 12, 2019
I don't think that is Lagos, It could be one of the African countries.
But I think the Biafra and Igbo factor is the reason the Fulanis have not taken over Nigeria
Hate Igbos or like them, they are the check and balance of the country Nigeria

Remove the Igbo factor and see everybody a Muslim in Nigeria
PoliticsRe: Gbajabiamila Appoints Media Aides by Balkan(m): 9:43pm On Jul 11, 2019
Rubber stamp speaker
PoliticsRe: Governors Kick Against Fuel Subsidy, Say ‘It’s Not Sustainable’ by Balkan(m): 11:55am On Jul 11, 2019
This is very interesting. This next level will be so sweet. Thank God no spacial petrol station for zombies.
I miss Dugara and Saraki who could have kicked against this inhuman behavior of APC

What we have now is Rubber Stamp speaker.
well, Tinubu will cancel all these when he becomes president 2023 grin grin grin grin grin
PoliticsRe: Offensive Comments: Gbajabiamila Reads Riot Act To Benue Rep, Gbilah by Balkan(m): 10:29am On Jul 10, 2019
Rubber stamp speaker
PoliticsRe: Arewa Group Defends Ruga Settlement, Blasts Ohanaeze’s Nwodo, Fani-kayode by Balkan(m): 4:56am On Jul 08, 2019
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The supreme leader of Biafrans said that Buhari will use his hand and give us Biafra
PoliticsRe: Governors Rejecting Ruga Are Inviting Our Wrath.. Miyetti Allah Chairman by Balkan(m): 9:40pm On Jul 06, 2019
Thank God Tinubu will cancel all Ruga settlement when he becomes president 2023
CrimeRe: Yahoo Boy Caught While Trying To Escape With Runs Girl Dead Body In Hotel by Balkan(m): 9:30pm On Jul 06, 2019
A lot evil in this government. Poverty has turned the youths against each other since 2015

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