overlord77:


Whether you like it or not, Amaechi and whoever he is fielding will be defeated in Rivers state.

MY broda I want that more than u.and no rivers election has been a stroll in the park 4 any candidate.but let's call a spade a spade or a charade a charade >

Watching this charade reminds me of the 'obasanjo,obasanjo,obasanjo primaries era.Let me let them know the election proper will not be this easy.

U blokes hv posted n reposted this same article a million times using different titles.pls look for fresh info abt GMB n post.And may be u don't know GMB is Fulani not hausa.

In as much as I'm not a fan of the APC and their brand of so called opposition politicking,I have to commend them on how they went about there guber primaries.The media has not been awashed with complains as regards the conduct of the primaries.I have heard much of loosers complaining of being short changed.I hope the Pdp will take a cue from this.But already even before the conduct of the primaries complains have started springing up.A good case is in Rivers,delta.Abia etc.well let's wait till monday to see the outcomes.

Na wa ooo,the things wey politics dey cause eehn! Buhari and his family have been visiting the photo studio of late often.prior to dis time the only pictures I have seen of buhari are his khaki and agbada.now I see him in suit et al.na wa oo

Pls out of curiosity I would like to know if the APC governorship primaries is taking place in Imo and the aspirants?.Hence governor Rochas is involved in presidential race

God bless the author of this article.yet some ppl knowing all these are willing to sell their race,tribes,ethnic groupings for a bowl of porridge

donmalcolm21:
From the look of things, it is evident that there is fire on the Nigerian Mountain. This fire is all consuming and there is no obvious way of checkmating this fire. The fire, it seems, is going to lead to the end of Nigeria. But for someone like me, who has lost faith in the Nigerian Project for a long time, it is just a matter of course. This is because Nigeria is gradually approaching her DESTINY - the eventual freeing up of the ethnic nationalities within its confines. Like Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, popularly known in history as Lenin, was always saying about the situation in mother Russia in his exile days in Switzerland when the Bolshevik revolution was fermenting, “The worse, the better.”
While the dynamics of the Nigerian centrifugal forces are presently cocooned in the façade of politics, giving the wrong impression that we have a country in which we all believe, Nigeria is gradually ebbing away into its natural habitat of independent ethnic nationalities committed to determining their own destinies and being the captains of their own souls. The political class may still be able to postpone the doomsday, if Nigeria survives 2015, but it is a doomsday that would still come, nevertheless. The façade of politics is the present opium of the fake nationalists that believe in Nigeria at all costs, to them Nigeria is a subsisting country when indeed, it is a mirage.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been in power for the last 15years plus. The Hausa Fulani oligarchy, after frustrating the mandate of Chief M.K.O. Abiola in 1993 made efforts to assuage the anger of the Yoruba Nation by imposing another Egba man from Owu Kingdom in Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who has always been their “willing tool” (apology to Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late Sardauna of Sokoto and former Premier of Northern Region) to subjugating other nationalities in Nigeria. This oligarchy made sure that the Yoruba never got what they wanted and that the Yoruba aspiration could only be as determined by this Hausa –Fulani neo-colonialists. This oligarchy and its satellites across the country - Southwest, South-south, Southeast, Northeast and Middlebelt (or Northcentral) – in conjunction with their “militocrats” ensured that Obasanjo was shoved down the throat of Yoruba in particular and Nigerians in general in 1999.
Since the inept days of Tafawa Balewa to the tyrannical aeon of Mohammadu Buhari, through the anomic era of Ibrahim Babangida to the inane epoch of Musa Yar’Adua, the PDP, euphemised in different taxonomies, has been “failing.” I put the word “failing” in quote because as far as Nigerians are concerned, their fate has grown progressively worse in geometrical terms. But as far as the Fulani descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio are concerned, Nigeria could not have been better for them as an “inherited estate” – largely feudalistic and underdeveloped- peopled by hewers with subjugated will and failed dreams.
This brings us to the present spell of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ), also on the platform of the same PDP. He is reported to have earned a Doctorate in Zoology. GEJ, as he is popularly called, is an extraction from the minority Ijaw nationality whose homelands have provided Nigeria with its petro-dollars for decades while its landmass had been wasted recklessly and mercilessly by the Hausa-Fulani inspired Nigerian government. His people along with other minority nationalities in South-south have been fighting for preservation of their land while the land was being exploited. The renowned author and dramaturgist, Kenule Saro-Wiwa and seven others were murdered in the course of this struggle in what has come to be known as the Ogoni Eight Murders. The indifference of the Nigerian Government to the plight of the South-south people led to the calls for Resource Control and Fiscal Federalism.
Thus, when GEJ, who could not afford shoes while he was growing up as a young lad in Otuoke, ascended the Presidency of Nigeria, the descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio, who considered themselves as the “inheritors” of Nigeria, which to them is “an extension of the estate” of their ancestor vowed to make Nigeria “ungovernable” for him. They have made good their promise and have gotten away with it. And I don’t blame them. It is GEJ’s fault, all through and through. This is because as the Yoruba often say, “Aguntan ti ri Jinadu bee, ki o to gba isu owo e.” (The sheep has discerned Jinadu to be insensate before dispossessing him of his yam).
When GEJ assumed power, he was expected to be guided by history. He was expected to remember the struggles of his people to benefit from the resources gushing from beneath their homelands; to remember how over 80% of those who have oil wells are from the Hausa-Fulani stock to the detriment of other Nigerians in general and his people in particular; to remember that his people have suffered endlessly in the hands of the Nigerian political and economic carpetbaggers; to remember how the homelands have become desolate from ruthless exploitation and his people could hardly farm or fish any longer; to remember the tears and the wailings of his people who have been forgotten and thrown to the curbs of poverty and want.
But alas! He suffered pathological amnesia as soon as he got to the comfort of Aso Rock. He not only failed his Ijaw people and other Nigerians who looked up to him as a liberator, he failed himself and all those who fought for him to get to the exalted position of power. GEJ’s case is emblematic of the sayings of my wise forefathers in Yorubaland “Ai kuku j’oye, osan ju enu mi o ka ilu” literally meaning “It is better not to ascend power than to have power and whine about inability to appropriately use it.” GEJ should have gone out to take on the condescending and deleterious “inheritors” of the Nigerian “estate” who made the country “ungovernable” for him. He had the means and the power to put them in their place and help them to understand that all are equal partakers in the stake called Nigeria. He had the opportunity to remind the “Born to rule” goons that Nigeria belongs to all.
GEJ had the opportunity, to reinforce the Republican nature of the Nigerian State and insist that though, “tongue and tribe may differ,” we are all one and the same with equal rights and access to whatever appurtenances Nigeria has got to offer. He should have focused on righting a lot of historical wrongs for the disenfranchised nationalities in the country and carve a niche for himself in history. He had the opportunity to save Nigeria from itself by charting a different path for it. But as his detractors often say, he is “clueless.” His actions have worsen the situation and he has continued to wallow in delusion as he allows his enemies free reign to ruin him and whatever reputation he might have had. Goodluck Jonathan is the emblem of PDP as a tragedy.
Jonathan failed his Ijaw people. He also antagonized the Yoruba people through the length and breadth of his administration. The Yoruba were not just relegated from his administration, they were excommunicated. After being excommunicated from the Jonathan administration, the Yoruba became the butt of witch hunting, blackmailing, ridicule and undeserved humiliation. It was Jonathan administration that engineered the idea of the Yoruba State of Lagos as being “no man’s land.” He called Yoruba politicians “rascals.” If not for a Yoruba man, used by Providence, Jonathan would not be President today. Jonathan has been odiously ungrateful to the Yoruba Nation. He is a tragedy to the aspirations of the Yoruba Nation.
But as 2015 approaches, another serious threat to the survival of Yoruba Nation is in the horizon for which Jonathan would be indirectly culpable if it comes to fruition. Jonathan would be indirectly culpable because he has given “cover” to some compulsively traitorous Yoruba politicians to be able to actively collaborate with the enemies of Yoruba Nation in the bid to unseat him (Jonathan) because of his “cluelessness” and the tragedy that his administration represents for and to the Yoruba Nation. And that threat is represented by the leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and their sentries. The APC has foreclosed its presidential ticket to the “Born to Rule” Hausa-Fulani ethnic stock. This is the ethnic nationality that has held Nigeria to ransom for the last five decades.
Both through the history of Nigerian civilian and military administrations, several ethnic nationalities have been seeking ways to extricate themselves from the bondage of the “Born to Rule” Fulani “inheritors” of the Nigerian State. Obafemi Awolowo was denied the leadership of this country by this clique because he insisted in defeudalising Nigeria. Gideon Orkar and company laid their lives down for this freedom. Tai Solarin was consumed by this struggle. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s life’s trajectory was changed because of this struggle. Yohanna Madaki suffered unfairly and had his career taken from him in his bid to ensure this freedom. Alhaji Abdulrahman Shugaba was humiliated and deported from his motherland because he resisted this feudalism. Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi sacrificed his life to attain this freedom.
Ebitu Ukiwe’s career was cut short by this Hausa Fulani oligarchy while insisting on this freedom. Fela Anikulapo Kuti dedicated his talent for this struggle. His nationalist mother, Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was murdered in this fight. Ken Saro-Wiwa died in this struggle. Gani Fawehinmi died engaged in this fight. Isaac Adaka Borro gave up the ghost seeking this freedom. Wole Soyinka foreclosed his youth and mortgaged his adulthood in order for us to have this freedom. Beeko Ransome Kuti gave all he had for this struggle until he died. Even, Major Abubakar Umar Kankiwa, a Fulani himself, got a raw deal because he dared to dislike feudalism as espoused by the oligarchy of his ethnic nationalism.
And this precisely, is what the APC is trying to bring back and send the Yoruba Nation and other disenfranchised ethnic nationalities to another round of slavery in the name of politics! If the APC is a serious political party, intent on bringing true change to Nigeria, why must it dexterously preclude other ethnic nationalities from its presidential ticket without having to say so? To make matters worse, the APC could only showcase the worst of the Hausa-Fulani in its contenders! From a born-again cunning tyrant, incompetent and incorrigible religious fundamentalist in Mohammadu Buhari through a baptized international fraudster in Abubakar Atiku to the loudmouth political neophyte named Rabiu Kwankwanso, the APC is projecting itself as a NEW THREAT to the dreams of the constituent units of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria - to be free and be able to self determine their destinies.
For the Yoruba Nation and other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, this indeed, is a serious dilemma!
But 2015 would not present a dilemma if we could all find the courage to do the right thing. Before the advent of further bloodshed, the killing and maiming of innocent children and women, we could muster the courage to do the right thing. Enough people have died already. If Option One – PDP and GEJ is unattractive; and Option Two – APC and the trio of Buhari, Atiku and Tinubu is also detestable, then it is time to consider Option Three – break up this façade called Nigeria and let my people go. Yes, to your tents O Israel! T. http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/29/pdp-tragedy-vs-apc-threat-dilemma-yoruba-nation-remi-oyeyemi

I laughed with the present emergence of Dakuku Peterside as governorship candidate in R/state because from political permutations Amaechi would never have supported Abe over peterside.Reasons being that:1.peterside is his direct offspring politically whereas Abe was into politics same time as amaechi.2.Abe and Amaechi came into the house of assembly the same time in 1999 which implies that he must have had persons who he was loyal to.he even came to assembly under APP b4 decamping to Pdp to enjoy chop chop as normal in naija politics.3.Amaechi made Peterside commissioner of works during his first term and facilitated his going to the national assembly .4.He was a nobody politically before amaechi took him under his feathers.5.In Nigerian Politics where trust is an issue,all politicians would favor there own direct boy over any other because you knw they all have skeletons in there closets they want hidden even after they have left office.This same scenario played out when Odili was leaving office when he imposed Amaechi on delegates and other aspirants because Amaechi was his direct boy.Before the K.leg saga and how the courts straightened it.The rest they say is History.

When I say Nigerian politicians are all d same some ppl will say its not so.Was it not the same APC calling PDP names because of GEJ's adoption.is it not a case of pot calling kettle black.they say by consensus?by which ppl?or is it a case of Amaechi hand picking?.what is democratic about this?was there popular participation?me I can't be fooled by any of these fools in Pdp or Apc.

When I say Nigerian politicians are all d same some ppl will say its not so.Was it not the same APC calling PDP names because of GEJ's adoption.is it not a case of pot calling kettle black.they say by consensus?by which ppl?or is it a case of Amaechi hand picking?.me I can't be fooled by any of these fools in Pdp or Apc.

My problem with D banj is ITK!.U know as singers in Nigeria or Africa ur insurance is ur latest Hits.N he has not got any.why did he rush n leave Jazzy who was helping him make good music.since he left Jazzy how many hit tracks has he got?.his biggest hit oliver twist was done with don jazzy.if he goes to a venue to sing fall in love dem go shout say e don old.that is why he is revising his head to say he will do anniversary works with Jazzy who's outfit is churning out hit after hit.

redcliff:


Yoyr backward mentality smells from here

Responding negatively to u wud be a waste of precious time and energy!

pacesetter939:


The office of the governor of any state is no match when compared in terms of the resources that accrues it, with that of the Speaker of the House of Representatives as the governor pulls more political weight, et al.

Now you have hit the nail on the head its about controlling more resources(Money).Naija Politicians

Is this not equivalent to contesting for LGA chairman after serving as speaker of House of assembly?Na wa!Politicians and the desire to remain continuosly relevant.as far as I'm concerned wat befitts him is a shot at the presidency win or loose.

Nigerian politicians all the same!.If he is on my side whatever he does is good.if he is not on my side whatever he does is bad.if na PDP house member do same we 4 no here word again!.Abeg did any1 else hear some of the house members who came to the gate of the chamber with tambuwal shouting 'kill us' 'we want to die' or was it just me

Kingsley1000:
Denominational segregation is queer in anambra politics,aint surprise....Peter ada initiated it

often times,you hear anglican and catholic bishops castigating eachother

Bros abeg no vex who be peter ada?

Nctrice:
you support them while they dig your grave for you? Hur? I bet u don't even have a passport not to talk of enough money to pay your way to neighboring Ghana when the whole trouble starts... because by then Amaechi would send his kids and extended families to Europe and the Brave America while you would be left on your own to feed on the spoils of war!

Amaechi's 3 sons have been in uk since he became speakers in 1999 till today.if kasala bust na 4 only him and him wife to sneak out.After only EFCC n K leg make the guy run b4!

vedaxcool:


Regardless of the bigot laden statements so far on the thread, this remains the main reason why Ajami was used on the naira note, CAN is really working though, through ignorance,it is raising the next generation of lord resistance army fighters, who rather than demand good governance would prefer finding new fronts to fight Muslims. Any nation where people put bigotry and fanaticism before tolerance is doomed to be stagnated.

From my Last check it is christains who are always killed in this nation even for the slightest of reasons.Now a raging war is going on where xtains are forced to convert or are killed or abducted n raped or conscripted.who is fighting who pls?

After all these Fulani killings without condemnations from there leaders dem go come expect these ppl to vote for Fulani Buhari,Fulani Atiku or Fulani Tambuwal.There ris God oooooo!

CoolHunk:
Evolution maybe hasn't run it's course? Lol

u have a gud point because even in the south here they don't waste time to threaten to kill or kill when they are confronted with even the most minor issues.

Every day the media is full of stories of Fulanis killing scores of people mostly in the North central areas and other parts of the country.please if I may ask our fulani brothers and sisters on NL,why do there kits and kins enjoy killing and maiming?.it is pertinent to note that Atiku and Buhari are both fulanis.please I want to know why they are so vicious?

Please don't get it wrong I'm not a religious chauvinist.But I have paused to ponder over this issue.They are fighting everywhere they are in the world.I am talking of the Jihadist/terrorist moslems.Let me start from Africa,they spilling innocent blood in Nigeria,Cameroun,Mali,Egypt,Libya,Algeria,CAR.In the middle East they are spilling blood in Yemen,afghanistan,lebanon,iraq,syria.in Asia they spilling blood in pakistan,india,indonesia,china.In Europe they are spilling blood in Russia and environs and causing pockets of trouble in everywhere they reside.In America 9/11 is still fresh in our memory.if not for the strong security network in the country they would have hit it several times.If you look critically they are presently they are the cause of over 80% of crises in the world.do they want to destroy the whole world?.Why are they so angry and lack human feelings?.May God help the world!

It is not a hidden fact that peter odili as gov was sorely corrupt, while chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as speaker of that govt for 8yrs unusually quiet.I'm now baffeled by d sudden holier than thou attitude?".He was not just the speaker in that govt but prior to dat he was the personal aide to the Odili.Odili was so infamous that he was tagged 'donatus'.in comes Amaechi after the court issues n he stays 4 4yrs and nobody heard him as an anti corruption crusader.infact he had a running battle with the EFCC during this time.He even went all out to say there was a subsisting perpetual injuction stoping any Rivers govt official from being investigated for corruption.In comes his second tenure he falls out with the presidency and he all of a sudden becomes an anti corruption crusader.I cannot put the two together!

moststylish:
dstv channel 199 will show it.but why is iyanya not invited even if he is from cross river after all the mavins crew were invited

u knw say na only kerewa songs iyanya dey sing.and those kind song no be 4 where everybody dey dem dey sing am

That is the problem with we the Nigerian masses,we are easily manipulated.what is the Big deal about him driving a car? Abi him no be human being again?.in other climes govt officials use public transport system.But here we make Heroes out of anyone in govt,even when dey are selfish and self serving.We praise political office holders 4 doing things dey are supposed to do like building roads,hospitals,schools etc.I wonder why we don't learn anything when watching international news meduims.Have we ever seen on CNN or BBC were dey come to talk that a politician drove a car?or a Governor built school or Hospital in the western world so they dey praise him to high heavens? May be as Fela said Suffering and smiling!

God punish greedy and self centred politicians.Orji for trying to impose his son and cronies,Jang for try to foist his son,Tinubu for sending his wife to the senate and sending Mamora to oblivion,having his son-inlaw in the house of reps.

Hungry politicians using youths/Hungry youths using politics.same as so many northern youth groups are endorsing GEJ

egift:

I suspect u are from 'ANGOLA' or some land far far away.the man in the foto is called Ikedi Ohakim not Ikiri.

egift:


Are you ok? This was when Ikiri was the Governor of Imo State. Before the 2011 election. In your blind hate for Rochas, you did not even look at the issue being discussed. Typical of TANiods.

who is ikiri?

egift:


As I said, PDP only hope to remain in Power is for Nigerians to forget the evil they committed yesterday.

Here is the link:
Owerri Lockout Of Igbo Leaders: The Inside Story
www.nairaland.com/526761/owerri-lockout-igbo-leaders-inside

Here is the picture. They were forced to hold their meeting under the sun and refused entry to Hotel Concorde they had already paid for.

why do Nigerians enjoy falsehood.ask all imo ppl,they will tell you the locking out of ex VP Ekwueme et al was done by Rochas.