Nwadiuto247: PDP will lose a lot of vote in the southeast in 2023 election due to the following.
The 2015 and 2019 voting pattern in the South East was a kind of protest vote against APC who they see as people who cheated Jonathan out of power. With Buhari out of the game in 2023 the voting pattern will change and PDP will lose a good number of it's voters in the South East to APC.
2. The rumour of killing of igbos in Oyigbo is another factor that has dampen the excitement the south east have about Wike and PDP.
3. The defection of Gov. Umahi to APC will lead to more defection before 2023 and this will affect PDP. Votes the SE.
The days of 5% APC and 95% PDP in the South East are over.
APC has more visible projects in South East than the PDP but PDP gave South East more appointments than APC so each o tof the party has something to compaigñ with in the southeast.
The Southeast is now a level playing ground for both parties.
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Useless, unnecessary propaganda!
Igbos massively supported NPN even against their own NPP. Point being that once you don't treat Igbos as second class people like APC has done, they will support you.
APC can dream to Las Vegas that they will claim SE without rigging. Chris Ngige was very very popular in Anambra. Yet, did his defection bring APC to power in Anambra? He couldn't even win under APC, even when people loved him.
Truth is that unless they change their attitude towards Igbos, 20 Umahi defections will change nothing.
BTW, i know APC thinks even without Igbo support they can rule Nigeria. Yes, but ask Buhari how sweet it has been ruling Nigeria while deliberately marginalizing a major ethnic group. So, Igbos could care less if APC rigs itself to power in Abuja. Nigeria will remain exactly as it is today under Buhari and even worse, unless they change their attitude.
aguele: Some well-meaning Nigerians have blamed the failure of state governors to deliver the dividends of democracy to their people for the civil unrest and insecurity witnessed in parts of the country.
The group, under the aegis of March4Nigeria Initiative, said the governors should be held responsible for the escalation of the EndSARS protest into violence.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, National Coordinator, Comrade Augustine Adie said some governors have constituted themselves into demigod, leading to agitations and disenchantments in the polity.
Comrade Adie noted that the "discovery of COVID-19 palliatives stored in various warehouses across the states is indeed a vindication of the efforts of the federal government towards improving the lives of the people in ways too numerous to mention".
Describing the attitude as "appalling and inimical to sustainable growth and development in Nigeria", the group said it is time for citizens to hold their governors accountable.
The March4Nigeria Initiative, however, tasked the governors to do the needful in their different states with regards to delivering the dividends of democracy.
It also hoped that the governors would admit their mistakes and retrace their steps in the way and manner they govern their various states.
Read full statement below:
Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the leadership of March4Nigeria, I warmly welcome you all to this press conference put together in the wake of the aftermath of the EndSARS protest in Nigeria that resulted in quite unpleasant events across the country.
The March4Nigeria Initiative is constrained to lend its voice to bring an end to bad governance in the country, which is rife at the state and local government across the country. We must all admit that the activities of most governors and local government administrators are somewhat responsible for the various agitations and disenchantments in the polity because these governors have constituted themselves into mini gods.
The recent discovery of COVID-19 palliatives stored in various warehouses across the states is indeed a vindication of the efforts of the federal government towards improving the lives of the people in ways too numerous to mention.
However, it has become clear that most governors are not in tune with reality either by omission or commission, as it is inexcusable for food items meant for the people during the coronavirus pandemic are kept from the people for God knows why.
The March4Nigeria initiative views such actions as counter-productive and ultimately against the interest of the country in this critical point of our existence, hence the need for demonstration of responsibility in governance at the state and local government levels because they are indeed accountable to the people that voted them into office.
The hoarding of the COVID-19 palliatives is just one example of how things are going wrong at the state and local government levels, which by and large undermines the efforts of the government at the centre.
When one takes a cursory look at budget performance across the 36 states of the country, one would be confronted with tales of underperformance and a lack of commitment to uplifting the standard of living of the people.
The March4Nigeria Initiative views such disposition as appalling and inimical to sustainable growth and development in Nigeria. It is also instructive to state that not until citizens start to ask questions on accountability from state governors and local government administrators, we would be going round in a vicious circle.
Citizens must be charged to ask questions on the performance of budget across the 36 states of the federation. Citizens must also demand transparency from governors in the conduct of state business, as only this can guarantee socio-economic development at the state and local government levels.
It is thus a statement of the fact that should the governors continue in such fashion, sustainable development would elude us, and we would all bear the brunt of our actions and inactions.
The March4Nigeria initiative is using this medium to task the various state governors to go to work and do the needful in their different states with regards to delivering the dividend of democracy to the people.
We are also tasking the various state governors to display a strong commitment to complementing the efforts of the federal government in tackling the various challenges in the country. We also acknowledge the fact that some governors have been quite cooperative with the federal government in addressing security challenges in their domains.
It is thus our considered opinion that if this attitude is replicated across the 36 states of the federation, Nigeria would be steady on the path of economic growth and development. Thus, the governors and local government administrators must shun all acts of corruption in their domains.
This is on the heels that the level of corruption at the state and local government levels is indeed mindboggling and should indeed be the focus of any genuine EndSARS campaign in the country. If this trend is no curtailed, sustainable development will continue to elude us and youth restiveness would not abate.
There must be an entrenchment of transparency and accountability in the states and local government to ensure that Nigeria makes substantial gains in our quest for development.
It is also our considered view that if there are no attitudinal changes on the part of governors; Nigeria might remain a project that won’t be completed for a long time to come.
The March4Nigeria Initiative is advocating for collectiveness and synergy between the federal government and the state governors towards ensuring that the people enjoy the dividends of democracy.
We thank you all for your time, and we desire that state governors would realize their mistakes and retrace their steps in the way and manner they govern their various states. This remains the only option left towards setting Nigeria on the path of greatness.
Thank you all, and God bless
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Governors ke?? Can they even control the Police in their state?
What powers do Governors have to do anything or build real infrastructure in Nigeria? ~ Absolutely none! They can't build railway, refinery or electricity projects unless Buhari approves it. In almost 99.9999% of cases the Federal Government will deny approval.
Nigeria will never move forward under the unitary 1999 constitution that over concentrates power in the hand of just one man. He will approve everything before even an electricity connection is extended from one village to another. Even if he is God, he cannot manage everything simultaneously for the country to make real progress.
What a shameful post! Nigerians are inseparably tied to backwardness!
So Lagos is now standard to be copied? Yet, Nigeria rejected its capital as Lagos and built a modern capital? So why are you copying the design of the 1940s? When even in same Nigeria you have a more modern design in Abuja?
I live in the best part of Lagos. Yet, i feel like living in a slum. I agree new cities should copy Abuja and not replicate the mistakes of Lagos.
PROUDIGBO: No one should engage all these embittered bastards claiming to be Igbo or from wherever! They're jealous scumbags intent on trying to derail the thread! Their angst is that upon all their evil scheming and machinations, Ndigbo can have such a resilient city like Enugu! Had they faced even 10% of what Ndigbo have faced from the late 60s to date, they can never in a million years have a city in their region that can rival Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri or Abakaliki!
muykem: Elections is a political game, you can either win or lose. Stop wailing and accept outcome.
[/s] Another Fulani thread trying to fool around with Nigerians.
I thank God Fulanis are watching to see how politics and legitimacy is earned. If you win, you donot launch a war against people that voted for your opponent. Nigeria is continuously dragged to the stone age by the same group of people.
They actually violated Nigeria's territory by landing troops in northern Nigeria. But what can you do? ~ NOTHING! You have failed to properly equip the army, so America will not wait for our incompetent, Boko Haram infested army to rescue their citizen.
America probably simply wanted to send a subtle message that no part of Nigeria is beyond their reach. Because some people think they can hide in northern Nigeria and threaten them with "body bag" statement. Just know if they really want to erase you, you will be erased.
Ballack1: I think Lagos state governor should resign.
How do you attempt to blame Lagos governor for the heinous crimes committed by soldiers in his state, when he doesn't command the army in his state? Yet, you have said nothing about Buhari, Burutai and the Fulani people using the army to commit genocide around Nigeria?
Fulani people would always see fault through an ethnic lens.
Anybody thinking they will allow the video showing the shooting still does not understand the liars we have as government in Nigeria.
Since they already said no shooting happened at the tollgate, and those killed at the tollgate were mysteriously killed by American bombs or Cameroonian soldiers that distributed army uniforms, guns and army vehicles to protesters to shoot themselves.
They will NEVER let the truth come out. They will also NEVER punish the Fulani soldiers that massacred people at the tollgate, nor reveal which Fulani army generals gave the order to kill people.
I wish somebody can send this video to the Governors and Commissioners of Agriculture of the entire SE & SS states.
I know wild rabbits are what we call grass cutter or nchi. So it's not in doubt if people prefer this meet in our environment. We also have ample grass that the animal needs.
I wish they can popularize the proper way of rearing rabbits as alternative protein sources as well as creating good-paying jobs. The way we have campaigned until fish farming became an avenue for youths to create employment for themselves.
I wish somebody can send this video to the Governors and Commissioners of Agriculture of the entire SE & SS states.
I know wild rabbits are what we call grass cutter or nchi. So it's not in doubt if people prefer this meet in our environment. We also have ample grass that the animal needs.
I wish they can popularize the proper way of rearing rabbits as alternative protein sources as well as creating good-paying jobs. The way we have campaigned until fish farming became an avenue for youths to create employment for themselves.
I wish somebody can send this video to the Governors and Commissioners of Agriculture of the entire SE & SS states.
I know wild rabbits are what we call grass cutter or nchi. So it's not in doubt if people prefer this meet in our environment. We also have ample grass that the animal needs.
I wish they can popularize the proper way of rearing rabbits as alternative protein sources as well as creating good-paying jobs. The way we have campaigned until fish farming became an avenue for youths to create employment for themselves.
I wish somebody can send this video to the Governors and Commissioners of Agriculture of the entire SE & SS states.
I know wild rabbits are what we call grass cutter or nchi. So it's not in doubt if people prefer this meet in our environment. We also have ample grass that the animal needs.
I wish they can popularize the proper way of rearing rabbits as alternative protein sources as well as creating good-paying jobs. The way we have campaigned until fish farming became an avenue for youths to create employment for themselves.
Professional military worldwide observe: "Rules of Engagement"
1. The biggest rule that guides a professional soldier is that you don't fire at an unarmed person UNLESS you are attacked or under imminent threat of attack. 2. You immediately cease-fire once an enemy surrenders and throws down their weapon. Take the surrendered into custody as a prisoner with full rights granted by the Geneva conventions on the conduct of war. Any shot fired after a combatant surrender becomes a "Crime Against Humanity"
~ I am shocked they don't teach these to our soldiers. Yet we have military schools everywhere.
So how can one be called "professional soldier" if they don't observe any rules or code of conduct of the profession? That is why Nigerian military is seen as a mob of thugs by many in the international community.
Arrewa: The conventional print media has always been biased against the North and Muslims in Nigeria, and this hasn't changed with the new media.
Hausa Muslims were killed in oyigbo but there is no outrage. The killers are the IPOB terrorists, & those that championed the Endsars protest on social media are deliberately not interested in these killings because those Nigerians killed are the Hausa Muslims.
The rich/Elite northerners must necessarily invest in media, nobody will tell your story if you don’t tell them yourselves, even if they do, they’ll never do justice to you.
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will glorify the hunter”.
Thank God for social media
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Mods,
You need to close this thread for posting false information in Nairaland
IGBOSON1: Can't be! Maybe he's claiming the ones ongoing in Anambra and Ebonyi!
Exactly!
The Federal Government has NEVER built any airport in Igboland. Even the more benign Federal governments of the past didn't, talkmore of the malignant anti-Igbo Buhari federal government of today.
Kyase: Some people will avoid this thread like SARS
Nigerians, BEWARE of these people coming here to try and divert our attention from #ENDSARS and #EndImpunityInNigeria towards narrowing the focus to Peter Obi or Tinubu. It is a well over used tactics to bring tribalism into the unprecedented unity of purpose to dismantle evil in Nigeria. They will try every trick of divide & rule to target the ethnic and religious fault lines of Nigeria to try and divide us because they know the game is up.
JUNIOR OFFICERS STARTS TO LEAN ON MY SIDE AS INSUBORDINATION GROWS.
====================================== Let me quickly clarify that, the second coming of James Nwafor to AWKUZU Sars and how it all played out will come later. Let me concentrate on what transpired within the AWKUZU Sars as it concerns my incident.
After two to three weeks of no complainant in my matter, James Nwafor was clearly frustrated with the case. He was particular on Peter Obi's haste in demolishing my Upper class hotel. He said that in my presence. Releasing me from detention is off because how would Peter Obi explain the hotel demolition? Charging me to court is equally a problem because there was no complainant.
Two or three weeks into the quagmire, he called me up one morning and told me that we were going to exhume the body of the person that I killed and buried. As we walked towards the entrance of AWKUZU Sars, I saw not less than 100 Sars officers from different outlets of the outfit, fully armoured and we commenced the movement.
We drove to 33 Nkwelle Ezunaka and we branched into OTIGBA layout. I still was not able to put it all together until we stopped at a particular area of the layout and we all came down. He led myself and the team to a particular area and pointed at a spot for digging.
All of a sudden my memory came back and I sought his permission to speak. It was like a moment of silence for the morons. We now have him , they may be thinking and I opened up.
I said to them that, the body that they wanted to exhume is not at the very spot but that it is within the very vicinity and possibly , the exact location may be inside the next compound.
I now opened up as follows. The name of the individual that was buried in the very vicinity is Mr Akas Orefo. He died in 1972 when I was 6 or 7 years and he worked for O.U.C.C. ( Onitsha urban county council). I made them to understand that he worked as ONYE OBULU NSI as we called them then . Bucket faces removal workers. The reason the family buried him in the very vicinity is because he suffered from leprosy and he had no wife nor children. Superstition played a role.
I informed them that Mr Akas Orefo is from Nkwelle Ezunaka, Akpukwu family in particular and that it is not more than 200 meters from the very vicinity. I listed his relations as follows:
I volunteered to take the team to their respective houses at Akpukwu kindred that is not more than 200 metres from where we were. The silence was total. James Nwafor then asked me how I knew all that I said and I responded as follows;
I made him to understand that most of my landed properties are from Akpukwu family. In 2008 , the chairmanship of the kindred was in dispute between one John Anyakora and Nnanyelugo Peter ILobi . In an attempt to frame Peter Ilobi with a murder case, John Anyakora wrote a petition to force headquarters Abuja accusing Peter lLobi of murder. He alleged that the individual he murdered was buried in the very vicinity that we are in. The IPO'S name that came from Abuja for the investigation is DSP Dada. James Nwafor asked me if I mentioned Dsp Dada I responded in the affirmative.
He then stepped aside and started making calls. After a lot of minutes , he came back and his countenance changed and he moved the team again. I later established that, James knew Dada and all the details I gave balanced out with what Dsp Dada told him.
By that time, most of the Junior officers were no longer happy at all. His deputy Sunday Okpe was like, what are my doing here?
James Nwafor now took us to another layout opposite OTIGBA layout NKWELLEEZUNAKA. We stopped at a large property with a high wall and we all disembarked. Is this not my property James asked me and I said no. He paused some minutes and repeated his question and I said no. I then told him to get in touch with the chairman of the layout he will be able to know.
Meanwhile the property is walled with Gate. Feeling frustrated, he ordered the officers to brake one partition of the wall and we entered. He took us to yet another spot and the digging started. It did not get to a depth of not more than 3 feet and a body was exhumed. He turned around and asked me what do I have to say.
I first told him that, my property was mistaken for the body planting. The owner of the property could have explained better. I now observed the dug up body and I said as follows;
1. The water proof that was used to wrap the body was practically new while the body is very old.
2. What it means is that, the body was not buried with the new waterproof abinitio . The body came independent of the waterproof. The body was exhumed somewhere and the waterproof was bought to wrap it for the purposes of what it was intended for.
3. I then told the gathered officers to take a look at the rope that tied up the hands of the corpse together. The rope was very tight on the bones. If the individual had his hands all tied up before being killed and considering the years of the corpse, the rope ought to be lose and not to be tight against the raw bones because as the flesh decays, the rope will losen and not tighten against the bones. Morons.
The loss of interest became total amongst the junior officers. It remained like that until I left the AWKUZU Sars.
As we drove back, contrary to the instruction, the Officer sitting next to me removed my handcuff all the way to AWKUZU.
James Nwafor's frustration became total after the trip. Hotel has been speedily demolished by Peter Obi and charging me to court remains an uphill task . Releasing me remains off because it will contradict the reasons Peter Obi gave for my hotel demolition. James was stuck with the money he was paid to make sure that I die at the AWKUZU Sars.
Peter Obi's slippery tendency to always dodge equally did not help matters for James Nwafor.
The next page will deal with Willie Obiano's role in the second coming of James Nwafor to AWKUZU Sars and some details about Peter Obi over the incident.
MY NAME IS BONAVENTURE CHOKWEBUNDU MOKWE NWA LATE CHIEF G.C.MOKWE NU UMUCHU AND ALSO CALLED THE CHIEF PRIEST.
THE RETURN OF CSP JAMES NWAFOR BACK TO AWKUZU. THANKS TO WILLIE OBIANO. ===================================== Faced with no complainant and to release us will be a fatal embarrassment to Peter Obi because of his haste in demolishing UPPER CLASS HOTEL, James called up Dr Justin Nwankwo and myself one morning for court.
Like I stated earlier, we were charged for killing one Nnaelue Okafor and remanded in the prison. We subsequently dismantled the whole contraption by locating the parents of the Very Nnaelue Okafor at Ifite Ogwari town with the help of one Mr Odogwu Odogwu blog based in Awka and Okechukwu Nwanguma of NOPRIN . The mother of the deceased filled an affidavit in court stating that, the son Nnaelue Okafor was the MASSOB commander at Silas works Fegge Onitsha who was arrested by the AWKUZU Sars on the 29th of April 2013 and that she never saw her son till date . She mentioned how she gave her farm produce to a Sars officer at AWKUZU to enable the release of the son. If the son was released, the bail bond for the very release should be tendered.
It turned out that, the very Sars officer she was giving her farm produce, was equally our own IPO . Suffice to say that the police and the state government disappeared after that. When we came out of prison, the onslaught on James Nwafor and AWKUZU Sars commenced immediately. Amnesty international anchored by one Damian Ugwu, the astronomically rugged Okechukwu Nwanguma of NOPRIN, the ever stubborn Justus Uche Ijeoma, Dr Justin Nwankwo and myself released all the Cylinders on AWKUZU Sars and James Nwafor. This led to a BBC African focus program by the Amnesty international. Justin Nwankwo featured in the program were he narrated our ordeal in the hands of Csp James Nwafor. Aljazeera news network aired Justin Nwankwo's presentation of our case intentionally.
Not long after that, the same Amnesty international facilitated a world press conference at Abuja with the police hierarchy in attendance . Victims of James Nwafor narrated their ordeal before the world. After the press conference, James Nwafor was transferred to Bauchi state from AWKUZU Sars.
We kept a tab on his movement. Not long after, we got an information that he has been transferred to Enugu state from Bauchi state and Willie Obiano was behind the transfer. Before you know it, He was back at AWKUZU Sars compliment of Willie Obiano. It was Justus Ijeoma that called me one early morning to tell me that James is back at AWKUZU Sars and I did not believe it. I then called my contact officer at the place and he equally told me that he was eating rice in his office. We subsequently went back to the trenches yet again with Justus leading the onslaught. Within the very period, Willie Obiano continued to shield him. Eventually he was removed again and only for him to resurface as an SSA to Willie Obiano on security after retirement.
Before then, on the 26th of December 2016, Igwe Godfrey Ezechukwu, the Okwuluora of Umuchu sent one Ichie Mathias Ekeariri to invite me to his palace. When I got there, he informed me that Victor Umeh came to his palace and complained that I was disturbing the individual the state government invited to fight crime in the state by name James Nwafor. He reminded Victor Umeh of the injustice I suffered and the relationship he had with my father and the need to address the injustice.
Then, at a funeral occasion at Umuchu and Victor Umeh was present, one Onunkwo Ikenga Tony took the microphone and called on Victor Umeh to intervene in the injustice against me. Two or three days after, Victor Umeh arranged a meeting between myself , Willie Obiano and himself at the government house. Willie Obiano asked me if I had any problem with Peter Obi before my hotel demolition incident and I said no, not at all. He then said that Peter did not leave any money and that the 75 billion naira talk was an accounting gymnastics. The best he could do was to give me a contract and I will recover from there. That was the last time I heard from Willie Obiano.
It is very clear that Willie Obiano knew all that is to know about James Nwafor and cannot claim innocent in any form
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Crap!
One thing that will make this ENDSARS campaign flop is to try and exploit it for useless politics as this crazy write up tried in vain to do.
Let us focus on making sure SARS is not renamed as F_SARS or SWAT and ensure all murderers within SARS are made to face justice for the slaughter of innocent people.
Once you make this struggle about one politician or another, or APC, APGA & PDP, or Nnamdi Kanu ,IPOB & MASSOB, it will totally flop as everything in Nigeria. That is the trick the FG is playing by inserting writers like the OP to distract us.
The problem with some Nigerian youths is mostly laziness for research. Perhaps due to our broken educational system. Therefore, most times they speak from a position of ignorance which they believe by typing the same ignorance in capital letters multiple times, somehow makes it automatically right.
Nigeria's biggest and busiest airport ; Murtala Mohammed intl, Lagos at it's peak recieves 6.5 million passengers/ year. That is about the 9th or 10th busiest airport in Africa! After Oliver Tambo intl Johanesburg (30 million), Cairo intl (17 million), Addis Ababa intl. (15million), Cape town intl (11 million), Cassablanca intl (10 million), Algiers intl (8 million), Nairobi intl ( 7 million), Hurghada Intl. (6.6 million), Murtala Mohammed intl. (6.5 million) and Tunis Intl (6.4 million).
Worldwide, Atlanta and Beijing airports are the busiest with about 100 million passengers. Most of these airports have up to 7 - 20 terminal buildings! Murtala Mohammed intl. airport, Nigeria does not even show up in the top 100 busiest airports in the world despite Nigeria being the 6th or 7th most populous country on earth! See stats videos below.
Now to my point, if you are thus building an intl. airport in Anambra, would it make sense to concentrate immediately on building its first terminal building to be the biggest in Africa or the world? When our busiest airport in Nigeria despite all political maneuvers to make it the only airport in Nigeria handles about 6.5 million passengers, talkmore some of their posts here citing all these huge international airports with more than 50 million passengers as the "standard" they expect to see at Anambra intl. airport?
This is where i think some of our youths acutely lack IQ by insisting that Umueri Intl airport must be the best and biggest in Africa. More interestingly, the countries they are citing are not poverty capital of the world like their own. Thus, they have not asked themselves "where is the money to build such massive airport that will be the best in Africa" or even "where will we get all the millions of passengers we will be building a gigantic terminal building for"? After reading all they have typed in capital letters here, you conclude that some of these youths have very low IQ or are somewhat very angry to see an international airport being built in Anambra. This is what makes me guess that these monikers are owned by yorubas. Since it is often their stock in trade to bitterly hate any development in Igboland. mktinsight has already been uncovered as a yoruba troll here. I trust Chino will unmask some of the others masquerading here to "advise" Igbos as they usually imagine they are smarter than everbody else.
Politics › Re: How PDP Is Losing It In The Southeast. by Cjrane2: 9:00pm On Nov 11, 2020
