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Ojiofor:To avoid this scenario was the reason we were all shouting that Ndigbo should reign in Nnamdi Kanu because his hate speech would trigger others. |
Dedetwo:Atiku is Fulani and will never restructure Nigeria. Atiku is a power monger who was contesting power with his boss, Obasanjo, when they were both in Aso Rock. Such a person cannot be trusted with power. |
Goodmarlian:Perhaps you might be right. |
MetaPhysical:I think 2023 should be more about the party than the candidate. Our experience with strong and powerful candidate teaches us to do away with the philosophy of powerful and and great candidate. We need a strong party that showcases a number of good and quality candidates and party members. We do not need heroes again. Messiah era is gone. |
Dedetwo:Are you reopening old wound when we seeking for peace? |
saintmm:As far as 2023 is concerned Ndigbo are in a catch 22 situation. They have boxed themselves into a tighter corner. The odds are really against them. With Ipob it is a catastrophe. |
rdokoye:For now everything is on paper. I see Ipob as a political means towards an end that maintains the status quo |
shgenius123:Nwodo is elderly Igbo while Kumuyi is elderly Yoruba. |
Before Nwodo, Nnamdi Kanu once gave order that Kumuyi, Deeper Life General Overseer , should be stoned if he dared step his feet in Abia for a crusade. Deeper Life called off the crusade. Ndigbo did not rise up in unison to condemn Kanu. To them Kanu was dealing with a Yoruba person. Body of Christ was less important than Biafra struggle. Kanu was on course.Biafra first and the end justified the means. It was Igbo nationalism at its peak. Ndigbo saw all non - Igbo as enemies and Nnamdi Kanu was given the assignment to deal with them all. And he was doing a fantastic job. Not until he attacked Nwodo did Ndigbo wake up that there are "elders". All the elderly people of non - Igbo extraction deserved insults. Ndigbo elders being insulted? No way! This is hypocrisy of highest order. Perhaps if Ndigbo had cautioned Nnamdi Kanu over his attack on Kumuyi, he would not have issued the stoning order on Nwodo. Kumuyi did not deserve respect from Ndigbo but Nwodo does. Blood is really thicker than water and Ndigbo should also allow other ethnic nationalities to protect and honour their elders. Not even the body of Christ could make Ndigbo respect Kumuyi. It was Biafra first and Christ second. |
MetaPhysical:Let keep our fingers crossed and watch events as they unfold |
MetaPhysical:Hopefully they will retrace their steps |
Artiiclebeast:Another godfather in the making. Those that reject Godfatherism are scheming to become one. I cannot join a group with no manifesto. What is the structure? |
MetaPhysical:From your writing the Igbo political elite never invest in any political project on a national scale. They wait to claim the trophy. Once the soup is done they will come forward with their soup bowl. They are waiting for the tickets to be shipped to them. |
Tinubu has been on Nigeria's political scene since 1999, the year of Nigeria's return to democracy. He is the poster boy of the progressives in Nigeria. He has been playing the the role of a stabilizer and unifying force. Some call him a godfather while others see him as obstacle. However I see him as a shape of what to come: party supremacy. Most of the the governors that are clamouring for the control of their state party machinery are budding godfathers. They want to call the shots and be loose. They do not want to submit themselves to the party authority. They have succeeded in subduing their various Houses of Assembly and therefore seeking absolute power. And looking at all the states in the be federation, the governors are baby dictators with no check and balance. They are not accountable to anybody. Not even the electorate can call them to order. Consequently they get away with impunity and never deliver on their electoral promises. Impeachment is nothing to them since the Houses of Assembly are under their feet. An aspiring governorship candidate also has to break the central bank to be able to contest. And with all the spending victory is not certain because all the contenders are equally throwing around money. A lot of unpredictability is therefore in the race to become a governor in Nigeria. In the end it is the electorates that lose. Asking Tinubu to leave the political scene without studying the secret behind his political success is like throwing away the baby with the bathwater. The gospel of party supremacy being preached by Tinubu should be looked into. It helps in checking party hijacking by moneybags and enhances party cohesion. It also checks unbridled political ambition of individuals. Ambode bowed to party supremacy and there was peace and harmony. However Obaseki is aiming to become a Godfather too and Edo is in crisis. We can ignore Tinubu but his message ought to be looked into. It is dangerous to have baby dictators all over the federation. Party supremacy should be carefully studied, improved upon and introduced into our political life. With time it will be refined and work for us. All countries in the world are works in progress. |
rdokoye:Personal agreement in a matter of life and death? No agreement paper? No signatories to the agreement? Should a party default how will they be held to account? Fulani - Igbo political alliance is a personal agreement? Kindly present another story. This narrative is incredible. |
rdokoye:Can we view PDP manifesto section where reference is made to referendum? |
FrLukas:All the problems Nnamdi Kanu keep rolling out cannot be solved by Igbo presidency. Nigeria's problem gives rise to Igbo problems and other nationalities' problems. The solution is reconfiguration of the country. |
FrLukas:Ipob is a front by Ndigbo to obtain the presidency. |
Whiteangel1234:Many ethnic nationalities are equally marginalized in this country. It is a universal problem. Giving Ndigbo the presidency can not solve the problem. It is beyond Igbo presidency. |
Whiteangel1234:Presidency is by consensus and negotiations. Threat and blackmail will introduce setback to the struggle. |
Officialgarri:Don't forget Nnamdi Kanu is from Israel. |
On one hand Ndigbo are being led by Ipob under the leadership of the their so-called supreme leader, Nnamdi Kanu. According to them, Nnamdi Kanu derives his authority from God and most of his pronouncements are therefore final and cannot be challenged. To demonstrate how powerful Nnamdi Kanu is, he recently issued out an order that the president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo , should be stoned to death anywhere he was seen. His crime was associating with the Hausa/Fulani. Some few days later, after much pleading and appeal, Nnamdi Kanu suspended the stoning for three months. The three-month grace is for Nnia Nwodo to stop being a saboteur of the Biafra struggle. We are yet to hear from Nwodo himself. However many Ndigbo are already praising Nnamdi Kanu for his listening ear and showing mercy to Nwodo. They are advising him on how to better run Ipob and how they want its success. The passionate Biafrans have nothing to do with Nigeria and Nigerians and cannot wait to see Nigeria disintegrate. Atiku/Obi presidential campaign on PDP platform however tested Ipob resolve when Nnamdi Kanu commanded his base to vote for PDP. How Nnamdi Kanu would have achieved his Biafra this way is best known to him. Nnamdi Kanu has exposed his hypocrisy and fraud by this singular act. It means Nnamdi Kanu may not be working for Biafra after all: his agenda is to position Ndigbo as a hegemonic power in the nation seat of power. Having known that Ipob is actually working for Ndigbo to clinch power at the centre, the Igbo project of taking over the presidency should now be seeing as a strategy being executed from many fronts. The fact is Ndigbo are after the presidency and every other things are a distraction. All said and done it is crystal clear Ndigbo want the presidency and Ipob is just a blackmailing tool. All hands are on deck for Ndigbo to see one of their own in Aso Rock. That is the greater Igbo agenda. |
Officialgarri:There are street hawkers in New York. Buhari approach is always high - handedness and sentiments tainted. He is biased and not patriotic. |
On Tuesday, 27th August 1985, the military government of Buhari was overthrown by Babangida - led junta. Buharism and corruption were the two main reasons for the coup. I remember the late chief MKO Abiola complaint about the retroactive decree enacted by the Buhari junta. Abiola was the publisher of National Concord, and his imported newsprint was either on the high Sea or at the port when the decree was made. It was about import duty. Abiola argued that he had processed his papers before the decree was made and so should not be affected by the decree. Buhari junta insisted on implementing the retroactive decree. That was the beginning of Abiola's feud with Buhari. Buhari harsh economic policy was being unleashed also on the rich. The poor were not left out of Buharism. War Against Indiscipline task force was wrecking havock all over. I remember vividly because I was a street hawker then and Buhari made life unbearable for us. We were always laying curse on Buhari and his deputy, Idiagbon. We saw hell. In a nutshell both the rich and the poor suffered under Buhari military government: locked shops and warehouses were broken into and the goods sold off; many traders commited suicide because of financial losses. It was confusion everywhere. Buhari's corruption crusade became a facade when he allowed his ADC's father 53 cases of currency to be allowed into the country when Nigeria currency was being changed. It was then Nigerians began to see Buhari as fraudulent. And it appears in 2020 the corruption Czar has not changed. And his choking economic policy, Buharism, of the old has been revived. While Nigerians are still not sure how to survive with the recent increase in pump price of petrol from N121 to N143, Buhari has the gut and affront to announce payment of stamp duty on house rent agreement, C of O, and others. Of what benefits are all the taxation to the public? Buhari, the man that failed twice. As it was in mid 1980s so it is in 2020. |
Realadey:Nobody takes responsibility. Politicians are not accountable to anybody. |
The World Bank defines governance as: the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources for development Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. A ward councilor that can not detail his achievements and performance for all to see will be aspiring to be a local government chairperson; a local chairperson that only collected federal allocation and shared it out without accountability will be seeing scheming to be governor; a governor that cannot turn the fortune of their state around for the better is always desperate for a second term; and the president has always been a failure. Nothing good comes out of Nigeria's political offices. It is so bad that an average Nigerian voter always demands that he should be "settled" before voting because they believe the candidate they are voting for has nothing to offer and so should deliver upfront before getting into office. As result of more of politics than governance, Nigeria has been retrogressing and in a mess; there are no roads; hospitals are slaughter houses; schools are a place to keep the children away from home; no drainage and flooding takes over everywhere. Nobody can query their elected officials. We all accept we are fatally doomed and nothing can be done. Nigeria can never work, so we all chorus. Nobody is held responsible for all the woes befalling the country. Those that can escape run abroad and the ones remaining accept their condition as designed by fate. Others turn to crime. And nobody is ready to rebuild Nigeria. It is all politics without governance all over and the citizens are helpless. Nigeria is like a prostitute that all men sleep with but none want to marry her. Nigeria is a case study of how not to govern a country. We must act fast before we become outcasts on the world stage. |
. "Yoruba are slaves" ." Yoruba Muslims are Igbo problems" . "Igbo will displace Yoruba in Lagos and take over". . "Igbo are the ones developing Lagos" . "Igbo are buying over all Yoruba land" . "Igbo are controlling the economy of Yoruba land". . "Igbo Christians should stop attending Yoruba Churches". The above-mentioned statements are currently on the lips of every Igbo. If Ndigbo can publicly display this toward Yoruba, who knows their plot in secret. And while all this is happening no Igbo calls them to order. It is the glorification of the conquest of Yoruba land by Ndigbo. They do not care about mutual respect neither do they bother about the damage they are doing to Yoruba - Igbo relationship. They gloat over it. However little do they know that Yoruba are paying attention and now Yoruba nationalism is on the rise. And very soon Ndigbo will start playing the victim card. Ndigbo have a lot of job to do in controlling Ipob because Ipob is seeing as Igbo. No ethnic nationality will fold their arms while another ethnic group is using derogatory language on them. Nigeria is a federation and ethnic nationalities homelands recognition is the foundation for the union. Ndigbo must bear this in mind always. Biafra is dear to them so also is Oduduwa precious to Yoruba; they are the owners of Biafra so also are Yoruba the owners of Oduduwa. |
Dare Sunday Awoniyi is one of the children of the late Sunday Bolorunduro Awoniyi, Aro of Mopa, Kogi state. The late Awoniyi lived all his life defending Northern hegemonic oligarchy interest. He never identified with the main stream Yoruba in the west. His political camp was pitched with the northern power base. He openly declared his political leaning and he never wavered in his defense of the northern political establishment. He lived and died for the North. However in 1999, when political reconfiguration of the country was being done, the late Awoniyi had a head - on collision with another defender of the Northern oligarchy, Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo. The north was reading the nation political radar better than the late Awoniyi. Awoniyi could not adjust to the new political beat fast enough and he was sacrificed by the oligarchy. Awoniyi kind of political permutation was still rooted in Nigeria of the 1960's. He could not decipher fast that the political climate had changed. Awoniyi was a dinosaur that the northern oligarchy wanted in the museum of politics because the oligarchy needed Obasanjo more than he needed them. Obasanjo was needed to give Nigeria a semblance of unity and cohesion. Awoniyi had been used and was sacrificed by the oligarchy. Obasanjo was used for the job. The occasion was the election of the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Power, PDP, the largest and the most powerful political party in Nigeria then. And the year was 1999. The venue was the eagles square in Abuja. The man that was put in the ring with him was Barnabas Andyar Gemade, another member of the oligarchy. In the full glare of the camera the ballots were counted and Awoniyi lost to Gemade. The rest as they say is history. Before the convention that threw up Gemade as the chairman of the party, PDP, something interesting happened between Awoniyi and Obasanjo and it had to do with the Yoruba ethnic identity crisis of so-called northern Yoruba. Obasanjo called Awoniyi and told him he could not become the party chairman since a Yoruba man was already the President. However Awoniyi disagreed with him and told Obasanjo that the presidency was zoned to the south west while the party chairmanship was zoned to the north central. And, according to Awoniyi, being from Kogi state made him belong to north central and as a result eligible to contest. Obasanjo, as humorous as ever asked Awoniyi: which Hausa person bears Sunday Bolorunduro Awoniyi? I hope Dare Sunday Awoniyi will resolve his Yoruba ethnic identity crisis earlier. Living all his life in Kaduna does not make him Hausa. And I ask like Aremu Obasanjo: Is there any Hausa man answering Dare Sunday Awoniyi? |
LadyExcellency:Biafra queen, this is no beauty contest. Kindly keep off. I don't want you to have depression, please. |
GBOKASINCHA:Even Igbo working in Onitsha live in Asaba. Igbo are too provincial. |
GBOKASINCHA:Who wants to live in Igbo land where Ndigbo put a bar on the prosperity of non - Igbos? |
selemempe:They can never realise their potential. That place is a dead end to non - Igbo. |
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