alj harem:

and also not accepted by the hausa

the igbos like[b] ezeuche and co support his views that nigerdelta ppl are minorities and should remain like that[/b]

tpia@:

i thought you were going on and on about somebody wanting to have the last word?

bloody hypocrite and senseless i.diot that you are.

always ranting like a drug crazed buffalo.

becomrich4:

igbo have more than enough in elected position. jonathan is part igbo.

alj harem:

gbam

ChinenyeN:

Actually, there are no sentiments. I've been as factual as I really can. I haven't ranted either, but I have criticized and advised. You honestly can't expect me to approach your organization for you. That would be rather naïve.

Do you have a problem with anything I've said, because otherwise, I see no reason why you would want to debase this discussion by dwelling on my lone voice.

Andre Uweh:

The Izu Anioma has a website where you can contact them. But it seems to have broken down. You may try this: www.aniomapost.org.uk.
If that fails, you can reach them via Ohanaeze U.K as some of their leaders are members of Ohanaeze U.K.

ChinenyeN:

Oh, well, if that's what you mean by not bringing anything to the table, then you are correct. I have no dealings with the Ohanaeze body. It is not my organization. So I could care less about bringing anything to the Ohanaeze table. You though, very well could. After all, you acknowledge Uwechue as your leader, and you endorse Ohanaeze. So, I would like to think, that as a reasonable individual, you would take reasonable ideas to your organization. I've offered you (what I would otherwise think of as) a reasonable idea. Yet, you expect me to go out of my way and approach your own organization with the idea. Please, think again.

As an Igbo person, I have all right to speak out, but I am under no obligation to approach your Ohanaeze organization and bring anything to its table, when you or even Andre could otherwise, easily do such.

Andre Uweh:

Am in touch with Izu Anioma leaders. Am wating for them to raise the issue. Some two years ago, Pat Utomi addressed the Igbo Youths in U.K, but this time, I do not know yet his mission.
Pat Utomi is more cherished with the entire Igbo than only Aniomas here. Some of them are not happy that Pat does not let them know his intentions before declaring his intentions to rum for elective posts in Nigeria.
Also am in touch with Ika Union president in the U.K. What surprises me is that most people pushing for the merger of Igbanke to Delta state are not the Ikas but the larger Igbo voices.

ChinenyeN:

You're exhibiting selective memory, Chyz, because I actually have brought something to bring to the table. I've done much more than just criticize. I offered a rather considerable alternative (or did you just so happen to miss that?). Ohanaeze may not be my organization, but as an Igbo person, I have all right to speak when some claimed "apex Igbo 'socio-cultural' organization" takes any steps that are disagreeable.

hasyak:

i will appreciate if i can be brief on who was the first pope?

Andre Uweh:

@ Chyz: May the peace of our Lord be with You.

ChinenyeN:

Chyz, this isn't at all about my voice. Stop trying to divert attention away from your leaders' out-of-place behavior.

chosen04:

So it was right for her to have waited till eternity before calling for the law to be followed? at what point even? At the point she has gathered information that power was about changing hands? and she opportunistically wanted to belong?

Feathers ruffled after death is so like medicine taken after death. . . . . .And what is worth doing is worth doing at the right time and not when it suits one . . . . . .

She only ruffled feathers ONLY IT SUITS HER. Governance is not doing things when it suits one, but standing for justices at all times without fear or favour . . . . . .

So at what point did it now become a role for her to take? . . . . . .

When her noticed that opportunism/ cheap attention was the inn thing? . . . . .Did she think we all ''heroic worshippers and shortsighted?''

Was her usually ranting of the ''president will soon return'' not handdicap the judiciary?

An not surprised, after all nothing makes sense to ''heroic worshippers than HEROIC DEEDS'' . . . . . You Just confirmed it.

ChinenyeN:

Actually, blaming myself would only make sense if there was anything that I could realistically do about the chaotic symphony, but I am only one completely unimportant, diaspora-raised, Ngwa youth (you all have even acknowledged this yourselves). So it's no secret to us all that my voice realistically counts for nothing. So I can't blame myself, but I can blame YOUR leader[s] for refusing to listen to reason.

chosen04:

If the constitution was not good enough to be followed for the 1st 73 days (2 whole months and 13 days) how does it become fashionable to follow the same constitution after that long, after she become aware that power was about changing hands? . . . . . .If not is not opportunism and back-stabbing . . . . . Then God has no reason(s) not to forgive Satan!!!!!

chosen04:

Exactly, So way she back stabbed Yar'adua after supporting him for the 1st 73 days of his AWOL

ChinenyeN:

Well then, I guess you can thank your leader[s] for this present chaotic symphony and refusing to listen to reason. Also, if you really want to protect Igbo interests, then it is well-advised that you keep politics and socio-culture separate, by establishing a completely separate political body. Doing otherwise would be unwise.

wales:

The consensus committee set up by the Northern Political Leaders Forum has ruled out either former head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.) or Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, as the choice aspirant of the North.



Investigations by THE PUNCH on Saturday in Abuja showed that the decision of the committee was one of the outcomes of its consultations with stakeholders in the region in the past few weeks.



The NPLF had last month set up a 17-man committee to pick a consensus aspirant out of the four contenders for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party –Babangida; Saraki; ex-vice- president Atiku Abubakar and former National Security Adviser, Gen. Aliyu Gusau (retd.).



THE PUNCH gathered that the committee was still considering whether to pick former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar or ex-National Adviser on Security, Gen. Aliyu Gusau.



Besides Babangida and Saraki, it was learnt that the committee also foreclosed the possibility of fielding any Northern minority as the consensus aspirant of the region.



Investigations, however, showed that the committee had stepped up efforts at producing a consensus aspirant early this month.



A member of the committee, who pleaded anonymity, said, “After consultations with emirs and other stakeholders in the North, we discovered that Babangida would be a hard sell.



“He is being haunted by his past, particularly the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election. We were advised by those we met that we should look for an aspirant that would commend nationwide acceptance.”



It was also learnt that the committee was bitter that Babangida, who was adopted by National Democratic Party on Thursday, had demonstrated his lack of faith in the consensus arrangement.



“While we have not concluded the consensus arrangement, the former president has started making moves to contest on the platform of All Nigeria Peoples Party,” the committee member said.



Investigations also showed Saraki was not being considered because he was from a minority ethnic group in the North.



“From our consultations with Northern stakeholders, our consensus aspirant must come from the core North. That rules out aspirants from the Middle Belt,” the committee member said.



When contacted, the chairman of the committee, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, told our correspondent on the telephone that the issue was still at the preliminary stage.



Denying that the group had picked an aspirant, he said, “We are at the preliminaries. We are still consulting.”



But as the committee was intensifying efforts to produce a consensus aspirant, President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said he was confident of emerging victorious in the PDP’s presidential primaries.



The Head of Media and Publicity, Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation, Mr. Sully Abu, in an interview with one of our correspondents, said, “We are very much prepared and will drub anyone, including any candidate a gang-up throws up.”



Abu stated that the consensus arrangement would not yield any positive result, adding that the President was not intimidated.



Meanwhile, Saraki has given a condition for the sustenance of unity in the PDP. Saraki spoke in an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Saturday, after the local government election in Kwara State.



He noted that the party would remain intact after its presidential primaries “if there is a level playing ground for all the aspirants.”



The governor was reacting to a question on fears that there might be a split in the PDP after the primaries.



He explained that denying any of the contestants a fair chance in the primaries would cause a crisis.



He, however, expressed the hope that the PDP would not experience any division “because the party now appreciates internal democracy and transparent elections.”



Saraki said it was important for the PDP to provide all its presidential aspirants a level playing ground to contest the primaries.



He, however, said, “I have confidence in the ability of the leadership of the party to conduct crisis-free primaries because I believe there are capable hands at the helm of affairs of the party.”



Answering a question on his inability to speak Hausa, in spite of his claim to being a core Northerner, he said, “My candidature is about what I am bringing to the table, not about the language I speak or which one I don’t speak.”


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201011012311275

ChinenyeN:

I'm sorry. That is incorrect; an Igbo socio-cultural organization. This decision made by Uwechue & Ohanaeze is beyond the bounds of such an organization. Note, there is a clear difference between a recommendation and an endorsement. By endorsing anyone, Ohanaeze is playing politics (which it shouldn't) and establishing itself as an authoritarian-style political body (something which we all know wouldn't fly with us Igbo). Look, all I'm saying is that if Ohanaeze wants to keep up with this behavior, then it should stop trying to hid this emerging authoritarian-style political body behind in the guise of 'socio-culture' and fully step out to present itself as an Igbo political organization and also internally [agreeably] function as such.

ChinenyeN:

eh-hehn. I biala ugbu a ma i biaghi osiiso. I daala ya ada. . ma lee otu i si ji style gbanwee posti gi. I che na i di slick?

Igbo kelee nu. Eji m aka na ahu ike dikwa unu niile.

marcdunu:

Why not answer mine since you already have a candidate, or you are supporting someone since Uwechue and Clarke said so?

marcdunu:

Do us a favour, why do you support Jonathan?

Is he a member of Ohaneze?

What programs did he outline in his declaration speech that will specifically favour Igbos?

Is Jonathan running at this time not a destruction of the PDP zoning policy?

How can Ralph Uwechue support both Jonathan running in 2011 and the PDP zoning policy at the same time?

Under what zoning policy is Uwechue plotting to bring power to South East in 2015? The one invented by Uwechue/Clarke?