₦airaland Forum

Seun please tell your super/mods to move back that thread to the politics section.

The removal of Eyo Ita as Eastern premier was not ethnically influenced but was done based on principles and ideas of the two major factions in the NCNC unlike what happened on the other side of the Niger.

And thank God, Mbu is from cross river state.

Matthew Mbu from Cross River's view on Igbo and other Eastern minority groups.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/12/12/the-north-built-on-mistakes-of-the-south-%e2%80%94-mbu/

Q: You talk about these our fathers, leaders of Nigeria at independence and some insist that they created the foundations for the type of country that we have today – tribalism, for example and the events in the Western House of Assembly. Some say Azikiwe was merely outplayed, politically and others say….?

A: No! You are not really…Permit me to interrupt you; you were not there. Zik won all, the majority, in the Western region. It was when he went to the East, that this notorious question, this notorious carpet-crossing, for the first time in our history was enacted on the floor of the Western House of Assembly. Before then, we never knew about carpet-crossing. Those who won on the platform of the NCNC were suddenly bought over by the Action Group.

Q: But in an earlier interview with Pa Ayo Adebanjo, I was told that it was at the point when they said members of the different parties should move and sit separately, that it became obvious that AG members were more?[/b]

A: He would say so. What do you expect from him, he’s AG; he’s partisan. AG top notch!

Q:It would be difficult for people not to say you are also being partisan, being of the NCNC?
The AG introduced, for the first time in our history, carpet crossing; I didn’t know about it. I wish the late Adelabu (PENKELEMSS) were alive. The leader of our movement in Ibadan, I wish he was alive, he would have told you what happened; he would have told you the drama that happened on the floor of the Western House of Assembly; the debacle, as he put it, the debacle of western election, so don’t tell me anything that I don’t know.

A:I know you know that’s why I’m asking you. For Nigerians who do not have a recollection of the events of that era and who talk about tribalism, they would want the records set straight. Some even say had Zik stayed back, may be he would have fought it? And some even say that from that moment onwards, Nigeria lost it?

Yes, we lost it from that moment onwards. That was crude tribalism on display. That’s all. What else could it be that somebody of Eastern origin should come and control a region that belongs to the westerners? That was a clear display of tribalism, crude and that was when Nigeria lost it, the true sense of nationalism. Yes! AG, NCNC, that I belonged to, were at opposing ends on true nationalism and nothing else. NCNC till tomorrow remains a nationalist party, one Nigeria, one people, one destiny. AG believed in one Yoruba, one nation, one Oduduwa.

Q: When you look at the way some people accuse the North of holding unto power without wanting to let go, and the philosophy of Awolowo that before you can claim to be a Nigerian, you would have to first be either an Igbo, a Yoruba or Hausa?

A: Chief Awolowo never pretended and I have a lot of respect for him. He never for once pretended that he was a true nationalist. He was a true Yoruba leader – simplicita. And he never in any way felt ashamed about it. Yoruba for Yoruba, Hausa for Hausa and Igbo for Igbo – that was the way he felt and he never flinched.

The North learned a lot from the mistakes of the South and the way the tribal politics was being played, the North elevated it to another level. They reasoned that if tribalism was to become the name of the game, then they were ready to move it to the next level – the North for the North. The Sardauna would always say, ‘we of the North’, and he never pretended. His great grand father, Uthman Dan Fodio, was a conqueror of a greater community and why should he go for anything less. He, therefore, settled for a bigger North.

Q: Could you please give examples of what the North learned from the South?
The North went and excelled in everything we did. We introduced thuggery, Michael Okpara called them party stalwarts in East, but they were thugs. Then the North recreated it, took it to another level: Why did we bring in the native police? They were uncompromising in the North.

A: There in the North, if you were not of the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, they would tell you, don’t cross, if you did they would kill you – and they meant it. Their own thuggery was worse and they took it to a level that was something else. So the only way to curb the excesses of the native police was to integrate them into the Nigeria Police Force, to train them, to shed them of the crude and excessive extra-legal powers. Not only that, you went to the native courts as a southerner, the Alkali courts.

A case was on, the judge was chewing his gworo and he slept off while the case was on, then he woke up and asked, ‘yes, what do you have to say; nothing. Okay go to jail for six months’. Meanwhile he had been sleeping all along-o. If you tried to argue you’re in trouble. ‘If you said anything there I’ll give you another six months; okay another six months, go’. Very crude! The North moved from one extremity to the other extremity and that’s where we are.

Q: Back to NCNC, Zik and the East: What was done to NCNC and Zik in the West, Zik was not magnanimous too, when he went back to the East?

A: I do not think that you were born to understand the politics of those days.

Q:We read?

A: It depends on what you have been reading and by whom? Look, the East was so democratic to a point where when the Onitsha issue came up, although a lot of it engendered by the opposition, led by the late chief justice of the East, Sir Louis Mbanefo, Onitsha market issue, there was a demonstration by the Onitsha people against the premiership of Zik, an Onitsha man, and I saw the father and I asked him: ‘Papa, you joined the delegation, too, to denounce the premier’? You know what he said to me in response? He said: ‘He’s not one of us, being an Onitsha man, he should not oppose us’. That was the extent to which the people in the East understood democratic principles.

Q: But an Efik was not allowed to lead in the East?

A: What was the problem of the Efik? They split. You were not born yet; you needed to be around with us then to understand what happened. UNIP was a splinter of the NCNC and they were to topple the leadership of the NCNC. UNIP was within the NCNC, led by, more or less, English trained graduates, leadership.

They were looking up on themselves as better educated than American trained graduates, led by Zik, Orizu, Mbadiwe and co – that is the truth. And who were the other groups? Graduates, Nwapa, Cambridge, make no mistake about it; Njoku, Manchester, London educated; my country man, Okoi Arikpo, London educated – London School of Economics; Ozoma; even Ita himself, having gotten his MA from Columbia University in the United States of America, came back and repeated the London MA so he used to be referred to as Prof. Eyo Ita, MA Columbia, MA London. They felt they were more educated and, therefore, a better bred to lead the new dispensation in the East; not this ill-bred American educated fellows from schools they did not recognize.

A: But Eyo Ita?

A: My friend, he was opposition, when you split against the leadership, then you are already taking up arms against the party. Must there be two premiers? It was Zik, in fact, who named him Prof. Don’t tell me what you did not witness.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/12/12/the-north-built-on-mistakes-of-the-south-%e2%80%94-mbu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsiN0W15w0U

This right here was genocide supervised by Obasanjo.

cherryice:
BlackPikin I dont like ur pp n ur name

Why? This picture I used is on the Internet and it was used as a meme two years ago.
Is there any wrong with "blackpikin"?
Blackpikin means "the son of a Blackman".

What city in China are you?
cherryice, I sent an email to you.

cherryice:
am in china

Never been to China. What part of China?
I'm still in Asia(Sk&Jp) till the end of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9h6LFtobWU

This is Pastor Tunde Bakare accusing Tinubu.

The earlier you realize APC is a Ponzi scheme the better for Nigeria.

APC is Scam!!

cherryice:
Vj the mail I use for nl isnt accessible
Ddnt you get my mail?

Where is Asia are you?
I'm presently in SK.

Just a few people supported the opposition. lol.

You all should get off social media. Social media don't win elections.

Wetin happen for 2011 go happen for 2015.

GEJ is winning and the streets of Nigeria seems to confirm it.

pazienza:
SE= SOUTH EAST.
www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26110:mekahog-to-build-springbuck-armoured-vehicles-at-new-factory-in-nigeria&catid=50:Land&Itemid=105

MEKAHOG is in FCT,but the owner seem to be from Imo by name, Franklin Obinna Ohakim.

Silent Igbo achievers doing great things and making the Igbo nation proud. I wonder why he didn't site the company Mekahog at Imo state, like Innoson did with Nnewi.

Thanks man. I wanted to be sure.
Never new about MEKAHOG and the owner. He's really a silent achiever.
But I would advise he sites an operational base in the South too.

ocelot2006:
Must everything go tribal?! Anyway correction: Proforce does NOT produce the Igirigi, but the PF series vehicles as shown in pic 1 and 2 below. The SE equally owns a defence manufacturer called MEKAHOG, co developers of the Ikri (Pic 3) and Springbuck MRAPs (Pic 4) in conjunction with DCD South Africa. And don't forget that they own Innoson. So enough of the Dick measuring contest.

Where's MEKAHOG located? Never heard of the manufacturer.
What does SE mean?
Thanks.

I have lived in conorado, Oceanside and national city.
That was when I visited Tijuana.

I have tons of pictures of my long drive from Milwaukee-Las Vegas-San Diego-Bakersfield.
I think I'm gonna create a thread and put up all the pictures.

I understand you live in San Diego. Have you been to Tijuana?

San Diego is/was my Best experience yet but I don't intend to live there.

What's your driving experience/history like in the US.

bogolobango:
Igbos are so confused i taught they said goodluck ebele azikwe jonathan is an igbo man why are they looking for another igbo president again
Awon.oni iranu

Awon ara Ile re ni oniranu.

focus7:
Igbo president will never happen in Nigeria. Igbo already has their chance in their son Badluck Azikwue Ebele Jonathan and that is final.

Don't you have a problem to take care of? So Igbo man is now your problem, ehh. Ewu nama!

You know during elections especially in Naija, People tell funny stories to win people's vote.
And trust me some of these stories are really funny like this one.

This picture made it funnier.

jackpot:
[b]Story Of The Chinese Man Who Designed Febuhari T-Shirts, But Wasn't Paid


[color=indigo]This is Mr. Chung Hui Li. He is the owner of Hui garments in China, all the APC's campaigns T-Shirts were designed and made by him. Just last week, he got a call from APC to make 10 million T-shirts which should be branded FEBUHARI.

Mr. Chung didn't bother collecting an advance payment since he was billed to come down to Nigeria for the payments and supply. The 10 million T-Shirts which are branded FEBUHARI is ready.

INEC has postponed the election, Mr Chung just called Lai Mohamed but he refused to pick. He called Tinubu and Tinubu asked him to call Amaechi. He called Amaechi and Amaechi said it was Rochas that was supposed to pay him, now ROCHAS has warned Mr Chung to stop calling him, saying that after all the FEBUHARI T-Shirt is no longer workable since the election is no longer going to hold on 14th FEBUHARI, I mean 14th FAILBUHARI, or sorry, 14th February.

This man has been crying for the past 2 hours and it's really difficult consoling him. Oh! Poor man, I so pity you. APC and Jega plans failed and their witches and wizards just affected you all the way from Naija. Sorry Mr. Chung.[/color] [/b]

Lucifer the satan will punish Buhari!!!

Criminal Mad man.

Nigerian politicians are thieves especially the opposition state.

Compare the amount Lagos and Rivers spent to build an incompleted project.

Omo thIs one na big embarrassing moment .

Na small thing separate idi Amin and buhari. Can you imagine starvation level 3 was introduced.

Compulsory vegetarian... Lol. When we be chopping meat nation.

He said many students were compelled to become vegetarians.

Lalasticlala abeg front page

Is "Rochas the eeddiot" serious?

So know from this day if any Igboman is killed in the north during the elections, na Okorocha head their blood dey.

Igbo in the north, if you value your life, it's better, safe and wise to relocate to the south until the coast is clear.

Watched the video and I enjoyed it. It's a journey and hopefully we will get there.

Jonathan's team have demonstrated the zeal to make this sector work.

sincerenigerian:
Good for them. I can see the actress that Lagos State and Fashola paid her medical bill to India.

Who's the actress? I know say you dey lie like your master Lai Mohammed.

Buhari chose a Fulani from Niger rep. to head OAU. He was from a town about 100km from Buhari's hometown Daura.
Is there any other reason why he chose a fellow Fulani from Niger republic to an Igboman who was then the acting secgen of OAU.
Buhari na devil go punish you well well.

I could not believe that would come from her, and I just wondered whether she was being deliberately dishonest, or simply gullible. Well, just for the records: When Dr Edem Kodjo vacated his seat as Secretary-General and the OAU could not elect a successor, Dr Peter Onu, as the most senior official was asked to head the OAU Secretariat as Acting Secretary-General from 1983-1985. Indeed, in 1985 when a new Secretary-General was to be elected, several countries requested Nigeria to nominate Dr Onu to run for the election, but General Buhari refused. Ironically, when Edi Oumarou, who came from a town in Niger less than 100 kilometres from Daura, Buhari’s hometown was elected, there were innuendos from some Nigerian papers. It was, therefore, not correct to allege that a Nigerian had once been the Secretary-General of the OAU.

www.safpi.org/news/article/2012/19th-au-assembly-pitting-nigeria-against-south-africa

What do you say about military men who are deployed or are separated from their family for a year or more?

This Tinubu with his lighter.

U.S AGENTS EXPOSE BOLA TINUBU'S DRUG TRAFFICKING DEALS

www.pointblanknews.com/os1147.html

U.S Court Ready To Release Certified Court Papers Of Tinubu’s Drug Crimes

pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/u-s-court-ready-release-certified-court-papers-tinubus-drug-crimes/


Tinubu and hard drugs is like bread and butter.

They are inseparable.

Is Izombe same as Ijaw?

https://www.nairaland.com/2114373/dont-think-jonathan-get-up/2#30154301

berem:
I was in a public bus one day from my place to Iyana Ipaja. A yoruba lady in the bus started telling the passengers to vote for Ambode.
A particular yoruba guy flared up and said over his dead body will he vote for Ambode because he hates Tinubu,he said he will rather vote for Jimi Agbaje because he likes him and he will vote for Buhari for president because he's a die hard supporter of him.
Surprisingly,almost all the Yorubas in the bus supported the guy including the driver.
Well I didn't join in the conversation because I just wanted to hear their conversation.

My carpenter who came to my house to fix a bad furniture,watching one of APC presidential rallies said he will never vote for Buhari because he hates Tinubu. He said Tinubu will control Buhari just like he is controlling Fashola. He is a muslim and a yoruba.
He said he will definitely vote for Jonathan.

I think people will not vote based on the political party but on personality.

This is a quote from your fellow party member.

Op, Anything Igbo will make you mad. Keep digging for more Igbo topics, Ewu!

Umuigbo ndewo nu o.
Ifyalways Nwanyi Oma Happy newyear.
Odumchi, I see ya work on Instagram.
Adabekee baby kedu.

Good job.

Aigbofa:
Ibo made HIV vaccine approved by courts! Lmao

These guys are hilarious.

Bro, what's funny? Igbo made vaccine is funny to you?