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occfx:
My issue is at the collation center... I was a PO... After announcing results at the polling units... You won't know what happens at the general collation center and what is transmitted to Abuja. They shut down the server in 2023...means election was rigged in advance.

Opposition should work towards checking what is been transmitted to Abuja either by road or electronically and compare with what was announced at the polls within 24hrs and raise alarm.

There should be constitution that says election results must be announced after 72hrs when video evidence of election are all analysed.

Alternatively, let the election be conducted region by region for 4 weeks.

The basic truth is that upload of WARD-COLLATED results (note the emphasis) on IREV will eliminate 85% of rigging of ANY election in Nigeria. INEC knows this, but are hesitant to do be doing it because they are part and parcel of electoral fraud in Nigeria.

franchasofficia:
This should be the main focus of all opposition figures; how to stop election rigging to at least 80%.


APC's only hope of holding on to power is through massive rigging using state-backed mercenaries.

Upload of WARD-COLLATED results (note the emphasis) on IREV will eliminate 85% of rigging of ANY election in Nigeria. INEC knows this, but are hesitant to do be doing it because they are part and parcel of electoral fraud in Nigeria.

NastiLord:
Shut up you slave. APC and INEC rigged the election. This is just one of the evidences

INEC is very complicit in election rigging. INEC should be collating ward-level results and upload on IREV !!! 80 % of rigging has its root here and INEC knows this, so upload of ward [/b]results should be mandatory and legal in ALL future elections in Nigeria! Just like polling unit results are uploaded, the results from all the polling units that make up a ward should be collected at the [b]ward level, and the collation officer should upload that sheet on IREV before before before going to the LGA collation. Each state has probably just 280-380 wards.. Now imagine just being able to download and sum the results from this number of result sheets before INEC start doing their abracadabra at LGA and state office., then there is no way a party can rig the votes, because you and I are able to input the figures in excel sheet and even the media can call the results way ahead of time. I have not seen any effort by the useless opposition parties canvass that ward-level collated upload on IREV should be mandatory and legal, because they are also waiting for their turn to benefit from the corrupt system!

Kreesxxx:
At this situation has shown to be a lie Igbos saying ikwerre denied being Igbo after the war. Ikwerre formed Ogbakor Ikwerre in 1963 years before the civil war.

The denial is not yet complete by attaching 'R' s to place names. Only when you change Rumuigbo to Rumu'Ikwerre' or Rumu'Bini' can you be taken serious, and until then, the joke is on you 🤣🤣🤣

CommonSense1967:
Trying to force others to be who they are not is pathetic and sad.
Na by force to be Igbos?
Do you see any other tribes Trying to force others to join them?
And this is all about oil, if not for the oil in SS these IPOB retards will be telling these Ikwere that they are not Igbos.
Clowns 🤡

Who is forcing who?
Azuta Mbata freely paid half a million naira for nomination to become Ohaneze PG, same as his Ikwerre kinsmen Uche Okwukwu and Jackson Womenazu. That alone demonstrates their pride in IGBO identity. I'm sure you bicker about paying your community dues, that is if you even belong to one, because you are probably a bast@rd. Tueh!

MasterJayJay:
1966 came first before 1945?

Go and read about Jos riot 1945 where they massacred Igbo people.

Kano riot of 1953..

Back then Akintola planned to your northern Nigeria, Wada planned to attack him and gathered youths
Akintola cancelled his visit. When they saw that Akintola wasn't coming again, they started killing Igbo people in the north.

Excerpts "Here, Mallam Inua Wada, a former Federal Minister and an honourable man, recalls: “It was the booing and jeering experienced by the Northern members of parliament at the hands of Lagos crowds in Lagos”. So, on Saturday, 16th May 1953, despite the fact that Chief Akintola team’s did not even turn up, red-eyed organised mobs and hoodlums went into action and killed innocent citizens from the South, especially those from the Eastern part of the country."

All these happened before 1966.

See how Akintola a Yoruba man cancelled his visit and Igbo people have to suffer for it.

Thanks bro. Any reasonable person will see the mischief and selective amnesia from FFK, as if Nigeria's problems began in 1966.
When will 'One Nigerianists' and 'Lovers of Nigeria' apologize for the massacre of Igbos in Jos in 1945 and in Kano in 1953? Were wives, children, husbands and parents not victims of these murderous events way before 1966? The obsession against the IGBO in Nigeria has always existed prior to 1966 and was well-known even to the foreign press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_odAy4rVz8

Kreesxxx:
You are the kindergarten here. We have in Ikwerre land freed Igbo slaves. If they say they are Igbos tried they are. Deal with them. Don't generalise the whole ikwerre just because Mbata jobbed you people.

I really can feel your deep pain that reasonable personalities like Azuta Mbata embrace their IGBO identity rather than tow the line of brain-dead, idi@ts that pose as elders in Ogbakor Ikwerre.
The sweetest thing is the knock-out punch by Livingstone Wechie on filthy irritants like you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkEAHwOWwNs
Keep clowning old f@@l. Soon intelligent Ikwerre youths will rise up and drag you naked to the marketplace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CH92HlMc8M&t=39s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50drk5wfetI&t=3s

Cindypresh:
What is ogbakor in Bini??

I don't know if you people realise how stewpid you all sound??

Please do not bother responding to that Mgbati slowpoke.

Tranquill:
Go and sit down in the dustbin abeg?

What is your business with what Ikwerre identifies as, if not for your nuisance?

Are you from Ikwerre? Why can’t you move on if people have rejected you severally?

Did Ikwerre represent at the Willinks commission or not?
The commission was set up for the minorities and Ikwerre wouldn’t be there if they identified as Igbo.

Did they along with other minorities demand to be separated from Igbo people or not even before the war?

You are the nuisance here. I just was waiting to expose your LIES, which is not surprising since many people (including you) are history revisionists that feed on petty gossips to massage their ego. You are not from Ikwerre, rather you are an ignorant idiot. Someone seeing you shouting 'Willinks Commission' would assume you know its findings, not knowing you are just another empty head. If 'Ikwerre represented separately', how come the Commission still classified Ikwerre as Igbo? Keep hating on IGBO. Now go and kill yourself..

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO “ENQUIRE INTO THE FEARS OF MINORITIES AND THE MEANS OF ALLAYING THEM”, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958”
THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND.
1. [b]“More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Igbo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Igbo and speak one language, though of course with certain differences of dialect. [/b]There are nearly five million of them and they are too many for the soil to support: they are vigorous and intelligent and have pushed outward in every direction, seeking a livelihood by trade or in service in the surrounding areas of the Eastern Region, in the Western Region, in the North and outside Nigeria. They are no more popular with their neighbours than is usual in the case of an energetic and expanding people whose neighbours have a more leisurely outlook on life.”
2. “Though there has been no great kingdom or indigenous culture in the Eastern Region, the coastal chiefs grew on their trade with the (European merchant) ships and they adopted customs, clothing and housing more advanced than those of the peoples of the interior on whom they had at first preyed for slaves. They came during the 19th Century to regard the people of the interior as backward and ignorant, and it was therefore a blow to their pride, as well as to their pockets, when the Ibos began to push outwards into the surrounding fringe of the country and particularly into the Calabar area, to take up land, to grow rich, to own houses and lorries and occupy posts in public services and in the services of large trading firms.”
“It was among the Igbos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”
3. “It is important to remember that of this (Ogoja) Province’s 1,082,000 inhabitants, 723,000 are Ibos, almost entirely in Abakaliki and Afikpo (Divisions), while the census classifies 350,000 as “Other Nigerian Tribes.”
4. The Rivers Province …includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema, both overwhelmingly Ijaw, and the Ogoni Division. The former Rivers Division also includes over 300,000 Ibos of whom 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 in Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt is a town of recent growth and of rapidly increasing importance; it is built on land that blonged originally to an outlying branch of the Ibo tribe, the Diobus, but is largely inhabited by the Ibos from the interior who have come to trade or seek employment….Of the total 747,000 in the Rivers province, 305,000 are Igbos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.”
5. “The strip to the south of the Igbo block, is physically, divided by a block of Igbo territory, tipped by the important Igbo town of Port Harcourt [/b]and tribally divided between the Ijaws and the Ogonis.”
6. “In the whole of this non-Igbo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over-run, commercially and politically, by the Igbos…..[b] if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Igbo , are considered with the solid centre of Ibo population, there are 54 seats for the Ibo area and 30 for COR (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers) in (Eastern Regional House of Assembly).”
THE FEARS AND GRIEVANCES OF MINORITIES:
7. “It was suggested (by non-Igbo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”
8. “The allegation was put forward by counsel (to petitioners) that the Judiciary (when not European) was predominantly Igbo, with the implication that this caused fear among those who are not Ibos. But it was clearly stated in evidence by Dr. Udoma, the leader of UNIP, that no occasion could be adduced of the judiciary acting with partiality. The fact is that the legal profession is largely Igbos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Igbo preponderance among Judges and Magistrates. Further, it is the declared policy of Government that the Judiciary should be federal and this does not indicate a desire to control it. Again, the operation and composition of Public Service Commission here, as in the West, appeared to us in no way open to reproach.”
9. “In the Police, which in this region alone is wholly Federal, the number of Ibos in the higher appointments is not out of proportion to the Ibos in the region. The force is now federally controlled and although there are a large number of Ibos in the lower ranks, this is due to the fact that it has for long been a tradition among the Ibos to offer themselves for recruitment in this force in far greater numbers than any other tribe.”
10. “we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity. On the evidence before us, we conclude that the allegations of discriminations in the matter of scholarships are unjustified.”
11. “It was further suggested that loans by the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation, the Eastern Region Development Board, and the Eastern Region Development Corporation were made with some degree of preference to Ibos. It did appear that most of the loans made by these bodies were to Ibos, but that is not to say that this was necessarily improper. Ibos constitute two thirds of the population of the region and have a bigger share of financial and commercial responsibility than their numbers warrant.”
12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”
13. “The question of land was repeatedly raised, it being resented by the Efiks and Ibibios that the Igbos should acquire land at all in their territory while the methods by which it was obtained were also questioned. There is no doubt that on the Igbo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Igbos are thrusting outwards where possible they acquire land and use it either for cultivation or building…..This is a matter which will require legislation sooner or later and it will be delicate to handle, but the economic process is in itself healthy and we had little sympathy with a witness who remarked that there is much undeveloped land in the district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Igbos… We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development....”

chrisxxx:
https://twitter.com/Manlike_ED/status/1392113733095378955

The link you posted is a non-starter. You see, your mischief will always lead you to dabble into issues that you have zero understanding. I have no business talking with you from SW Nigeria about Ikwerre. The point is that no reasonable Ikwerre would DARE reference the report of Willink's Commission to support an ethnic identity separate from the Igbo. I await the original liar (Tranquill) if truly he is Ikwerre, to state anywhere in the entire report that 'Ikwerre representatives ' presented themselves as non-Igbos.

Tranquill:
Ordinarily, I will not bother replying you because you sound as imbecil….c as most of you shameless, repulsive, irritating mkpurunmiri addicts and idi0ts that litter all over your Igbo land.

Amaechi during the election talked about how no one can take away his Igbo ‘heritage’ from him which you have now replaced with “ancestry”. I don’t know if your inherent idiocy would allow you to go and find out the difference. The same Amaechi at various places during the election including Bauchi, Ondo etc categorically said that he is NOT IGBO. Amaechi when he was governor was asked at a radio station in Lagos if he was Igbo and he said NO.

When your shameless Ohaneze president in the person of professor Anya O Anya addressed him as “an Igbo son” at an event in Abia State Amaechi quickly corrected him that he is not Igbo but a proud Ikwerre son. And for the records Amaechi and Wike though proud Ikwerre sons, are not from the SAME local government area.

Ikwerre was in the eastern region that was created by the British just like a few other minority ethnic groups. Even before independence, Ikwerre like most of the other ethnicities were already agitating to be separated from Igbo people into their own region the reason why they represented at the Willinks Commission in1957 three years before independence. They wouldn’t be at that conference if they identified as Igbo. In 1965 three years before the war and while Igbo were controlling the dead eastern region just by reason of their population and nothing more, Ikwerre made it clear that they are neither Igbo, Ijaw etc but Ikwerre in what is today known as Rumuomasi declaration.

Ikwerre never identified as Igbo even when Igbo people were running and pillaging the defunct and dead eastern region. Before the war, Ikwerre along with other ethnicities like Ijaw, Efik and other groups even met with Ojukwu and told him of their desire to be separated from Igbo people. Gowan only wanted their support by giving them what they were asking for long before the war. Your lying parents never told you the truth.

You can say whatever you like, come online and insult your fat.her as you wish but one thing is certain: YOU ARE IN NO POSITION TO TELL ANYONE WHO THEY ARE.

If you feel that those protesting were paid, please come on ground and lift your own placard saying that IKWERRE IS IGBO….I say no more.

Lies, even if repeated a million times can never be true! You mouth 'Willinks Commission of 1957' but your claim simply indicates that you have zero knowledge of the content of that report. Further, I challenge YOU to present evidence of the so-called 'Rumuomasi Declaration in 1965' (eg. a screen shot of the communique). I shall expose your grave lies from whatever way you respond to these points.

mrvitalis:
I blame mbano people
When soldiers tried it in my place Mbaise we took up the matter, from state House to reps to Senate to the presidency

If you want to catch Criminals no body is stopping you... But you see burning of house and random attacks on villagers never in Mbaise... Since then we have not had such rubbish

Can the whole Nigerian Army fight Mbaise alone talk of igbos...

It now make sense why they keep manipulating our elections in Igbo land to give power to Idiots

Mbano people are no-pushover, same with Mbaise.
Hope Uzodimma and the Military are fishing in deeply troubled waters..

press9jatv:
this is just the fact here. Nigerians should protest against Inec and its bad conduct of Nigeria 🇳🇬 election 🗳. Yiaga Africa should propose a bill to the Nigeria Senate that will enable the Irev to calculate the poll results online and announce the winner of the poll. Online collation is the best please

INEC is very complicit in election rigging. INEC should be COLLATING WARD-LEVEL results and UPLOAD ON IREEEEVVVV !!! 80 % of rigging has its root here and INEC knows this, so UPLOAD of WARD results should be mandatory and legal in ALL future elections in Nigeria! Just like polling unit results are uploaded, the results from all the polling units that make up a ward should be collated at the WARD level, and the collation officer should upload WARD-COLLATED result sheet on IREV BEFORE BEFORE BEFORE BEFORE going to the LGA. Each state has probably just 250-350 wards.. Now imagine just being able to download and sum the results from this number of result sheets before INEC start doing their abracadabra at LGA and state office., then there is no way a party can rig the votes, because you and I are able to input the figures in excel sheet and even the media can call the results way ahead of time. Nigerians should PUT PRESSURE TO MAKE WARD-LEVEL COLLATED UPLOAD ON IREV MANDATORY AND LEGAL, because that should be the purpose of having IREV in the first place.

bismarck:
Please naptu2, what of 'Ririovara' by Edna Ogholi This song should be in top 100 (though I don't understand the language)

Na wa for you oooo, I 've gone through your list, neither Victor Uwaifo's 'joromi', nor ' Akhuankhuan Ekassa' (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enyvs9f9VnM). Even Rex Lawson 'Iworiwo' is missing. Hmmm

Please naptu2, what of 'Ririovara' by Edna Ogholi This song should be in top 100 (though I don't understand the language)

AkinPhysicist:
This one can't even construct a simple sentence and he wants to debate - go and play outside

Oh yea, liar, fraudster, pedophile, you-robber Aki Ola-ni-hi. I' m having really good time this weekend, while you hide in a very dark room in brown roof republic typing crap from a stolen phone. Bast.rd pig with no ability to argue intelligently

AkinPhysicist:
Don't forget to provide this 'Historical fact' that shows that no Yoruba name with the word Oba existed before the coming of the British. Your failure to do this means you will forever be my intellectual 'wife' in this forum. Your a$$ is grass son.

Cantankerous Soka forest goat...always twisting statements as if that hides your featherweight IQ. Igboid referred that Oba as a title of you-robber monarchs was 'nt original but copied from another culture. Wish you can be helped with better faculty but quite a shame yours can't be helped

AkinPhysicist:
I am very surprised that one Ipob yoot is siding with another - why is that so? Nigerian vs Ghana and the referee is named Asamoah Gyan. I am still waiting for your Ipob brother to provide the INDEPENDENT research he CLAIMS to have to prove his assertions. And please warn him not to come here with IPOB- inspired publications. As you can see from the above posts, I strike to kill (intellectually speaking of course). As for you, go and sleep joor - you are embarrassing yourself here. You are so dumb you make your poorly educated Ipob colleague seem like a top rate nuclear scientist.

....The Ogba high Chief, besides his active involvement in the Nigerian national politics, where he was once a federal minister, was as well involved quietly in the struggle to resist the corruption of his identity.
http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2008/apr/282.html

AkinPhysicist:
Obviously still deeper than that dirty Aba gutter you have been trying to fish from the whole day.

Odua goat, instead of you to accept you are no match for this sort of debate and concede total defeat, you 're here bleating like the sacrificial Soka forest goat you truly are. Igboid gave good points why Ogba claims to Bini is laughable. Oh! why should I even be responding to a goat?

tonquendo4u:
Everyone screaming cultism n calling him a cultist is just insane n misinformed.There are alot of things that makes people to b shot in school.Av seen someone shot because of a girl.Someone can b shot due to an altercation on a football field or exchange of words at a viewing center.there are also a lot cases of mistaken identities.Just pray for his soul n don't come n talk trash.its not all about cultism

Judging from his profile and posts on facebook, this boy is hardcore cultist who got well-served! Look at his gestures, ...even when he's not posing with a gun, he's putting his fists that way.... & for those who say RIP, I doubt if he has n't shed innocent blood, so how can he RIP?
Cultists cannot strike a non-cultist, except as collateral damage. The way he was mowed down clearly showed he was targeted; it was n't as if he was caught in some sort of random fire or anything like that.
The only people I may have some sort of consolation, could be his parents, but again, it is very clear they never gave him good parenting. He might look innocent and handsome, but that's the way of many cultists too, they are just wolves in sheep clothing. I remember my early days at uni, one lanky guy who was easy-going as well. The day I figured out he was a cultist, I completely distanced myself from him. There hearts are evil! And the most wicked ones tend to finish from seminaries. I won't be surprised if this same O'Brien finished from a seminary or attended a religious school earlier on. It all turns out to be a façade for their occultic activity.

drss2:
forget nigerian army. they ar under islamic rule. our only saving grace is for soldiers of south east south south origin to develop liva to disobey odas from their oga at d top. d ogas ar d real terrorist backing n shielding fulani terrorist to continue ethnic cleansing.

For all the states in SE, and the south as a whole, it's just a question of time before we get another bloody attack by Fulani herdsmen... it will hit the news stands, everyone ll cry eww chi m oo! and that ll be it!!! Why is it that in all these murders, we have n't had even a single arrest by the security forces of the perpetrators? In the previous case, why were 80 Agwu youth rounded up and kept in detention for attempting to ward-off these marauders? People sit in the comfort of their homes and blab... use and arm your vigilante! youth no get liver! Governor na sidon look (yes the Nigerian system make them that way)! etc. forgetting that the Nigerian military and police is merely Fulani Armed Forces, protecting their brother-herdsmen.
Until the Igbo unite in their quest for a separate/ independent state, where they will have their own conventional Army, Police, Navy, Airforce et.c. that will man the borders of Igboland, so that even these incursions will now be treated as trans-national conflicts, all these arming of youth, fighting back, IGP visit to communities, etc. na nonsense!!!

Jessam:
[color=#000099][b]It is time to boycott cows and beef from the north till this issue is sorted out, Yes there are good Fulanis who would not mete out such barbaric acts but for the time being till a complete halt is put to this murderous cattle journey business its time we boycott it.

You are here suggesting boycott, when people's lives are at stake, even when it is clear that these attacks enjoy the support of Buhari-led government. I dare say that boycott of cow meat can't even prevent massacres. In fact, for all states in SE, and the south as a whole, it's just a question of time before we get another bloody attack by Fulani herdsmen... it will hit the news stands, everyone ll cry eww chi m oo! and that ll be it!!! Have you asked yourself why in all these murders, we have n't had even a single arrest by the security forces of the perpetrators. People sit in the comfort of their homes and blab... use and arm your vigilante! youth no get liver! Governor na sidon look! and now.. boycott etc. forgetting that the Nigerian military and police is merely Fulani armed forces, protecting their brother-herdsmen.
Until the Igbo unite in their quest for a separate/ independent state, where they will have their own conventional Army, Police, Navy, Airforce et.c. that will man the borders of Igboland, so that even these incursions will now be treated as trans-national conflicts, all these arming of youth, fighting back, IG courtesy, etc. na nonsense!!! If you still don't grasp it, have you for one moment pondered why 80 Agwu youth were rounded up and kept in detention for attempting to ward-off these marauders??

Viktor1983:
Every community/neighborhood in Anambra has a state sponsored vigilante outfit, equipped with trucks and shot guns ....These were put in place during Peter obi's tenure... also continued when willie came on board...
The vigilante in the cities are funded by the state and small contributions from locals.
The ones in the villages are strictly handled by the state...Where I live in onitsha( one major street and 8 adjoining lanes) can boast of 25 security men armed with shot guns....
I won't say it's enough but ,we are better off than places who only rely on the police.

You my friend, just like many people have not even taken time to analyze the trend of events before commending whoever. These attacks enjoy the support of Buhari-led government. I dare say that if Peter Obi were still in power, it wont even prevent massacres. In fact, for all states in SE, and the south as a whole, it's just a question of time before we get another bloody attack by Fulani herdsmen... it will hit the news stands, and nothing will happen!!! Have you asked yourself why in all these murders, we have n't had even a single arrest by the security forces of the perpetrators. People sit in the comfort of their homes and blab... use and arm your vigilante! youth no get liver! Governor na sidon look! etc. forgetting that the Nigerian military and police is merely Fulani armed forces, protecting their brother herdsmen.
Until the Igbo unite in their quest for a separate/ independent state, where they will have their own conventional Army, Police, Navy, Airforce et.c. that will man the borders of Igboland, so that even these incursions will now be treated as trans-national conflicts, all these arming of youth, fighting back, IG courtesy, etc. na nonsense!!! If you still don't grasp it, have you for one moment pondered why 80 Agwu youth were rounded up and kept in detention for attempting to ward-off these marauders??

Stylaay:
I will forever respect peter obi for community policing concept in anambra state. Empowered the vigilantes that you would even see able bodied young men with pump action guns guarding filling stations in my community alone we bought over 10 automatic pump action rifles for vigilante members. This is what governors should start doing with their security votes since the federal police can not longer guarantee safety of their citizens, the concept of state policing should be brought to the fore burner again. The fulanis will dusuntegrate this country and not ipob. They are just giving everybody a reason to fortify their regions against them

You my friend, just like many people have not even taken time to analyze the trend of events before commending whoever. I dare say that if Peter Obi were still in power, it wont even prevent massacres. In fact, for all states in SE, and the south as a whole, it's just a question of time before we get another bloody attack by Fulani herdsmen... it will hit the news stands, and nothing will happen!!! Have you asked yourself why in all these murders, we have n't had even a single arrest by the security forces of the perpetrators. People sit in the comfort of their homes and blab... use and arm your vigilante! youth no get liver! Governor na sidon look! etc. forgetting that the Nigerian military and police is merely Fulani armed forces, protecting their brother herdsmen.
Until the Igbo unite in their quest for a separate/ independent state, where they will have their own conventional Army, Police, Navy, Airforce et.c. that will man the borders of Igboland, so that even these incursions will now be treated as trans-national conflicts, all these arming of youth, fighting back, IG courtesy, etc. na nonsense!!! If you still don't grasp it, have you for one moment pondered why 80 Agwu youth were rounded up and kept in detention for attempting to ward-off these marauders??

ogene007:
That is why only the Hausa/Fulani are heading all the key security apparatus in the country. As nigeria stands today, they are confident that they are holding everybody to ransom.
What should our response be? We should quickly organize ourselves and demand the immediate convocation of a sovereign national conference to determine if Nigeria should remain one. The agitation by all the groups agitating for self determination should be increased and relentless pressure mounted on the central government. There should be mass movement across the entire country against this hausa/fulani invasion with the minimum demand that all the sponsors of these massacres be brought to justice. The time to act is now.

Well, my brother, I cannot imagine why many people fail to realize that only an independent Igbo country will bring total solution to repeated Fulani aggression on Igbo communities. Why do I hold this view? People come on-line and rant about how youths in affected areas are cowardly, how SE governors are docile (yes they are!), how security agencies are not helping, blahblahblah, but no one is asking questions about the very-biased structuring and attitude of national security forces, namely, in their dominance by Fulani elements themselves. In all cases where these atrocities are committed, any intelligent person should decipher a worrying pattern: movement during wee hours, of dangerously-armed Fulani herdsmen, police and military failing to nip these moves even when fed with intel reports, then the marauders unleash havoc, and if vigilante/youth try attempt to fight back, they are hounded, arrested, and at times, even killed by security personnel.
These are really trying times for the Igbo in Nigeria, and any true son or daughter of this great ethnicity must start to realize that their identity as a race is in real danger, should they remain in this useless Federation. If Igbos have their own country, what is happening now, will not even arise as their armed forces will be truly nationalistic in securing Enugu borderlands, and even launch raids to destroy militia bases in the North. Please, how can you expect Nigeria's security forces to protect the lives of Ndigbo when Fulani interests are what matters? This is a wake-up call to fight for the actualization of an independent Igbo country, so that in situations like this, they become trans-national conflict, which when garnished with appropriate diplomacy, can lead to imposition of economic and political sanctions on Usman Danfodio's people..

macfarland:
Permit me to point out one fact here:

The Fulanis are not invincible (undefeatable) because they posses some kind of special fighting prowess. No! Not at all. These fulanis are invincible because they are enjoying govt support/cover/protection in their murderous activities. The impunity with which these guys operate is state-sponsored.

This is a fact, not just my opinion. Deep down, you know it. I know it.

~ Charles Ogbu

Thank you my brother for these comments. You really understand the situation which most people, surprisingly tend to overlook.
In truth, only an independent Igbo country will bring total solution to repeated Fulani aggression on Igbo communities. Why do I hold this view? People come on-line and rant about how youths in affected areas are cowardly, how SE governors are docile (yes they are!), how security agencies are not helping, blahblahblah, but no one is asking questions about the very-biased structuring and attitude of national security forces, namely, in their dominance by Fulani elements themselves. In all cases where these atrocities are committed, any intelligent person should decipher a worrying pattern: movement during wee hours, of dangerously-armed Fulani herdsmen, police and military failing to nip these moves even when fed with intel reports, then the marauders unleash havoc, and if vigilante/youth try attempt to fight back, they are hounded, arrested, and at times, even killed by security personnel.
These are really trying times for the Igbo in Nigeria, and any true son or daughter of this great ethnicity must start to realize that their identity as a race is in real danger, should they remain in this useless Federation. If Igbos have their own country, what is happening now, will not even arise as their armed forces will be truly nationalistic in securing Enugu borderlands, and even launch raids to destroy militia bases in the North. Please, how can you expect Nigeria's security forces to protect the lives of Ndigbo when Fulani interests are what matters? This is a wake-up call to fight for the actualization of an independent Igbo country, so that in situations like this, they become trans-national conflict, which when garnished with appropriate diplomacy, can lead to imposition of economic and political sanctions on Usman Danfodio's people..

Ponponkon:
T A Orji di not win anything rather ndi Ngwa voted for their true son. T A cannot contro Okezie

i think your brain has to be fixed so that you can reason properly.... Did you see the result of the supplementary elections which showed that Otti won? This is a clearly a case of stolen mandate pepertrated by TA Orji, Ikpeazu, Olisa Metu, Abaribe and their criminal gangs. Majority of Abians voted for Otti, Ngwas or Non- Ngwas, else would how you explain that out of 17 LGAs, PDP got about 1/3 of their total votes in a single LGA (Obingwa - 81,000 votes) Would Obingwa have had a higher voter turn-out than Aba South/ North The courts should ensure that this heinous crime by PDP in Abia is severely punished and that Otti is declared winner

maestroferddi:
Why not limit yourself to APC politics that you apparently love.

Mbaitolu is the largest LG population wise. Only Mbieri alone is almost as big as some LGs. You also have Orodo, Umunnoha, Afara, Ubomiri, Ogbaku, Ifakala, Eziama Obiator and other communities.

LOL @ Orlu LG being most populous. Mbaise LGs of Ezinihite, Ahiazu and Aboh Mbaise are all more populous than Orlu.

pot

Spot on. Mbieri communities population alone should be larger than the whole of Nkwerre LGA and Mbaitoli = Orlu + Orsu lgas combined http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-admin.php?adm1id=NGA017

splashbaby:
Igbos are confirmed clowns without a circus to showcase their foolishness. Without the useless Ojukwu we wouldn't have had a civil war.

Danjuma is damn right... Igbos are still overwhelmed by their civil war errors almost forty years after... A clan of many unserious bunch of suicide loving lost 'jews', too keen to blame others for their errors, never at peace with their hosts, friends and brother... Dey swear for una!

Danjuma is a fool and u are an id.iot. For Danjuma to indirectly ridicule GEJ, while referring to events that ended more than 45 years ago betrays his pathethic state of mind. What is the link between GEJ's visit and Biafra? Could he not have found an honourable thing to say??

For the records, Ojukwu's effort to protect his people was more than heroic...it's only in Nigeria that psycopaths like Danjuma, who ought to have been severely punished for overthrowing the government in 1966, should be given attention. Nothwithstanding, a billion Danjuma is not up to half of Ojukwu, and his puerile remarks can never diminish the proud and rich history of Ndigbo.

Arch1:
i have friends who are of the Agbabiaka Dynasty, the same royal family where the current Osolo of Isolo hails from. I cant tell you how livid they are to the fact that an ibo man, Tony Nwulu would be the one representing Osodi/Isolo federal constituency in Abuja just because PDP gave him that slot and helped him rig his way through

It is in the best interest that he won that constituency! How can a people who constitute no less than30% of a state's population, and contribute no less to its economy, remain excluded from politics?? APC in Lagos has never made any sincere effort to brng in non-Yorubas into governance, not even at the community level and you think that is fair Amadioha is doing press-up on your case ooo...
APGA is a registered political party in Nigeria and it's folks like you that would always view its position with tribalism. Igbos wanted a country of their own but were forcefully opposed and told to embrace a very false 'one Nigeria' that continously try to diminsh their nationalistic outlook. One finds a good number of Yorubas, and indeed all other Nigerians in Igboland, but what is their level of integration with locals in these areas? How much investment or even residency do they have in these areas, such that they can impact on politics in Ala Igbo?
I repeat, it is the Igbo by their willingness to move to other areas that fully express Nigerian nationalism. PDP Lagos chapter are trying to right the wrongs of the age-long, hate-filled, wicked, greedy agenda of the APC and its forebears (AD and co..). Only useless, ethnic rats would be against the new rapproachment the PDP is trying to bring among all the tribes in Lagos. As long as Nigeria remains as presently constituted, [b]Ndigbo MUST continue to press high [/b]for fair representation in the governance of Lagos, and in indeed in all states outside Igboland where it has strategic interests. They ought not to be relegated as mere tax-payers, just using their numbers by previous wicked state governments to collect Federal allocation. The hunger for Ndigbo to get administrative posts and contribute meaningfully to the development of Lagos must never be diminished by the blabbing of an irrelevant village head.

Onegai:
Quick question:

In 2011, the entire SW and North Central (Taraba and Plateau and co) overwhelmingly voted for GEJ. In 2015, the same regions gave their votes to Buhari.

So why are you people now calling them tribalistic?

And yeah, us SS people don't align ourselves with Igbo politics. Some of it is tribal but a lot of the animosity stems from the fact you guys are constantly claiming us "our brothers and our cousins" and there is a lot of dominancy to that claim. It makes us uncomfortable (an example of that is when Igbos meet me and expect me to speak Igbo, when I tell them I'm not, they brush it aside and tell me "you are as good as Igbo" as if my identity and culture don't matter. I don't care how similar you think we are, please respect that difference. I don't call everything above the Niger Hausa-Fulani, why should you call SS your kinsman without them welcoming it? ) An Urhobo man won a seat in Lagos, yet all I'm hearing is "Igbos are growing their clout in Lagos", because apparently his tribal identity is now Igbo (btw I'm from his constituency, he was winning Yoruba votes and not Igbo).

My mum queued up for hours to vote GEJ. If it had been an Igbo candidate, she would have realised her back would hurt from all that standing, there would probably be violence at the poll and used quite a lot of excuses to stay at home. Same thing with my relatives and a lot of SS voters.

You constantly lament about being victims of tribalism yet are tribalistic. GEJ got his largest number of votes from SS states and everyone there feels Igbos let him down by not turning out massively to support him. Because they (and i) kept hearing from so many Igbos "GEJ is our man" and no other reason backed it up save misplaced tribal sentiment. No Igbo state could give him up to 800, 000 votes yet here you all are, still arguing and beating your chests.

You've proved you cannot be relied on by any political party attempting to court you (even the SW you're insulting gave him more votes and if I'm a politician now, I will certainly brush up on my Hausa because those guys are loyal )

I'm not starting a war, just being truthful.

Mr. Man... [b]ur an id.iot![/b] You should first blame certain governors within ur SS who actively canvassed for APC and even sought to annul votes GEJ got there. Have u even sat down and asked ur useless self y govs. of Jigawa, Kaduna, Gombe, etc. have not expressed displeasure or concern about the 'magic' votes APC polled against their own very candidate (GEJ)? They all kept quiet, knowing fully well were their real loyalty was. Yet Amaechi and Oshiomole were hell-bent on pulling down someone from their region! Use your diseased tongue to count ur rotten teeth!!
For the records, South-East owes no region or group any favours, as it was evident that neither GEJ nor Buhari offered any meaningful expectation of greater role in governance. Yet they remained committed to GEJ's cause and denied Buhari, even in Imo. Honestly, I think I have dignified ur post because u lacked understanding to know that Jonathan was thoroughly outrigged by his own party members in the North, and also demonized by APC govs in the SS