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It will happen one day when we Igbos learn and start playing politics the right way.......




Unfortunately, we told them the below 8 years ago,
2014, but our people never listened to us.
2023 would have been the best and perfect time for us Igbos to Rule, but for where, they pitched their tent with politics of hatred and bitterness.
It's a shame.
The below is the HARD TRUTH, for your reading pleasure.


NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party.
The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda.
So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe.
I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake.
Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence.
The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.
That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 
Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'.
We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who 

Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today.
Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023".
"Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one and a half tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?
really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary responses from nonentities .
As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu. 


Please, people should stop getting it twisted.
Not all Igbos are Ipobs cannibals, murderers and animals.
We igbos are great, sensible and good people.
We won't allow some miscreants and cannibals that are not up to 1% of our tribe/population to keep giving us bad image in the face of other Nigerians and the WOLRD at large.

We will keep making this clear everytime we come across where anyone want to juxtaposed us together with forests animals , AKA Ipobs swines.
We are not cannibals in our tribe, we do not eat human beings...... NEVER!!

We Rise.

Keep quiet BOT.

UnfairLife7:
Kwakwanso a PhD holder is far beyond and much more experienced than Obi

I honestly feel for Obi seriously

The show of shame of his campaign and the bad name he gave Psquare the upcoming artists performing in an empty field in PH is so embarrassing

I honestly feel for him on a more serious note

I sincerely wish he will not giveup in contesting again after the election

Joke apart, I honestly feel for him

Osibanjo is a Prof and Buhari has NEPA Bill certificate. Which of the 2 is more qualified?

It's authentic because my in-law just did her own screening for facilitators in Awka last week. And she said this week is for specialized work force and the remaining facilitators.

REST IN PEACE LEGEND

LeoDeKing:
I agree with Canada.

Before the major powder distributors start claiming they developed Canada.

What do you gain from always hating on Igbos on this nairaland? And I'm shocked that Seun and the mods haven't found it necessary to ban you for at least a year. Stop polluting this forum with tribal hatred. This is a new year.

Nobody cares about what Reno OMUMUckery has to say.

That's the Grinch

Buhari and APC have finished Nigeria

Na wah

Candidlady:
Did iever said she was FORCED
isaid they took advantage of her.. •••and it could mean many things•••
We know itoro's age to be 17 what bout the remaining 5 iaM sure they are in their twenties...

Keep supporting rubbish. .. again you should be locked up in a confine space where you only get to see the ray of sun when it rise(s) and set(s)

Imagine you calling her ashewo

I'd go into midwifery so any boy child that comes through me is definitely going back to hell that he came from

You're sick. Baby killer.

Candidlady:
Statutory rape is called what ••••don't come at me that the boy too is underage cos we all know that won't fly••••▪

Five dead genders taking advantage of the poor girl...


You should also be locked up for asking me this silly question.. it just shows how sick you people are

Who raped who? The girl raped him.too.since he's a.minor.

Atiku is wasting his time. He won't win because PDP is divided between him and Wike.

CorrectBizWoman:
Please who else is been sex starved at home. I can count how many times we've had sex since dis year. Always money money money all the time which is beginning to bother a lot more on greed. We're very comfortable. Solid investments, own the house we live in.

He don't cheat at least none that I know of and he's very free with his phone.

I'm tired of living this way... Any help guys? He's the last person you can seduce. It just don't work with him.

To think it's this same man loves sex like crazy even after our kids before this money talks, makes me wonder how people change so fast

When you turned him into a money making machine, you didn't know. Now you have all the money you want. Enjoy it and stop complaining.

El-Midgeto is not serious. He should keep kissing Buhari's ass.

Vote for Peter Obi to stop all these nonsense.

And the kidnappers? Why can't the police or dss fish them out?

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Ebubeagu has turned to Umahi',s GESTAPO police

APC men

Obi we know...

Odewaleadesoye:
...says 'm in the race because my country desperately needs change



VANGUARD

Kachi who? He's not known. Another noisemaker.

naptu2:
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/uzodimma-orashi-river-portends-great-economic-benefit-to-seast/

Instead of building a business hub at the lake, he is encouraging naval base.

Tribalist

Buckeyemedia1:
Hajia Aisha keep deceiving yourself, APC & Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win the election overwhelmingly.

Hell will freeze the day an Igbo man can defeat a Yoruba & Hausa/Fulani man in a general election in Nigeria.

AND IT WILL HAPPEN RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY AGBADO EYES.

Why chasing when she can simply wait for him at home?

About how I.wouid get money to japa after Uni.

Nice. All South East States will now have airports (except for Abia that has had useless Governors since 1999)

You will.soon know him when he wins in 2023

Please has anybody used this Canadian hospital named Notre Dame Pavillion Hospital?

Thanks

What else do you expect from an illiterate aboki?

Get a side chic (just to make her jealous). Thank me later.