atlwireles:

Promise, you will be a suicide bomber, when the campaign trains gets to Borno. DSS will take care of you.

I m far away but I am sure your hosts will be waiting for you, just bring all your family with the GEJ man! 20,000 Tons of TNT awaits you there!

babe_online:
Not just that. Hate crime should not be ignored.

Yes I agree and it is systematic genocide. It is important for the people being victimized to respond with more deadly and brutal force until Nigeria is arranged in a way that allows the law to punish crimes without any room of escape.

This is another argument for state police and even more regionalism. Until Nigeria devolves into smaller, cohesive units it will be impossible to checkmate crimes of this nature. I can see merit in the argument of the respondents and the only key is better community policing where community means the regions, where criminals can be known and dealt with long before they have had a chance to perpetrate their criminal acts.

I hope Jonathan can go and campaign in BH enclaves in Borno and NE, not hiding away in Abuja or the West??

Too bad Nigeria continues to have disgustingly corrupt set of leaders at the highest level! She should be fired immediately, duly prosecuted in court and on the weight of the evidence should be convicted and sentenced to significant jail time in Kirikiri after forfeiting all her assets and monies! In a country that takes cases of corruption seriously, by now she should be prepping for the hangman's noose or getting ready for the guillotine!

And you ignored this ONE: The Apc Governors Are After Anambra State Oil -: https://www.nairaland.com/1507376/apc-governors-after-anambra-state

Kponkwem:

Is this moniker still living in dream land? How are you certain that Nigerian politics will continue on this gerry mandering trajectory?
For your information the country has gone beyond this type of political analysis. All the permutations points to control of the levers of power to be able to dispense the oil resources of the South.
At no time in the future, mark my words, will one region lord it over another in the name of national politics. Infact SS and SE are tired and want to control their resources.
I have first hand info that the naked dance of the 'progressives' will be their very last of it. Nigeria is certainly decentralising by the expiration of Jonathan in 2019. By then there will be little or no more struggle at Aso Roc. Take note..

I think you are the one who needs to wake-up! Your points are premised on conjectures and speculations while I am telling you the reality, historically and present! If Nigeria remains the way it is (I hope not and would choose either sovereign independent countries, which may not happen with out kind of corrupt leaders and people; or REGIONS), at some point power will return to the north and more and more elections will be decided for electoral majority (meaning rigging could be reduced with the right level of political will). Where is the majority in Nigeria and what parts of Nigeria have proven that they can always negotiate and achieve a consensus? Since you mentioned SS and SE, be sure that the Westerners have been campaigned for what you are now saying the SS/SE want since before independence! When it comes to controlling our resources, you can be sure that no part of Nigeria is BEST positioned for that on DAY ONE like the South West!

[b]List any and everything required for economic growth, political stability, peace, foreign policy, natural resources, human resources - there is TOO MUCH already NOW available in the South West! That is exactly what I want, a control of the resources of the people by the people for the people! I know you are mostly thinking of oil, which is abundant in Ondo, Lagos and Ogun but did you read this week that the Toyota Hydrogen car is ready to go on sale in 2014? Electric cars (chevy volt) is already in the market and the US (the world's largest energy consumer now has so much of it's own energy sources, it does not need anybody's oil again!). Think demand and supply (Economics 101), when the demand for a supply declines the price for that commodity declines! Now, a scenario where the price of oil exports diminishes radically is a good possibility, so from a price of $90+ to say $50+, how is that going to be profitable for a people who are behind in infrastructure, education, security, human resources, a polluted environment needing $ Billions to clean-up and restore agricultural activities? Now you also forget one more thing, should Nigeria break-up, all the oil wells already ceded to Joint Venture Contracts with Shell, Chevron, etc will subsist and cannot be cancelled by an organized Nigerian country going into re-arrangement except it can afford to buy off the companies! Now, tell me how much money will Nigerian leaders be willing to spend to buy off billions in dollars of assets of Shell and Chevron, so that any SS/SE can benefit? Go and think about that because if you think people who NOW are happy to spend N 1 Tr on food for themselves alone, have not budgeted N 1 M for your whole family to feed will go spend $ 10 - $ 20 billion to buy off Shell, Chevron, Banks, interest fees so that they can give it to the SS / SE is seriously mistaken! If they will not do that, the oil contracts remain, ownership of the oil well which significant numbers are owned by Nigerians from somewhere other than the SS, who will benefit?? Will a northerner who owns an oil well or controlling interest in an oil company not get even richer and make his people richer by doing even much less work and repatriating all profits ASAP? Now can you tell me what fixed assets are owned by the SS or SE in significant numbers that cost up to $ 1 B and cannot be easily paid off if or when Nigeria breaks?[/b]

Again, be objective here, do not get upset and start throwing insults around for lack of tangible answers!

- We are agreed on certain things: INDEPENDENCE for components of current Nigeria or at LEAST regions. The first one is a long shot and chances are that the thieving elites will NEVER allow that, some everyday people may not be bold to ask for independence but we can all take the middle ground - which would be music to our ears I presume.

- If either does happen, I will put it to you for a number of reasons of which I mentioned a couple in the foregoing paragraph that in the short and medium term, any regions that are harping on "their resources" cannot control those resources except they are able to buy the contractual rights already ceded to them by corporate Nigeria. This is $ billions you can not come up with for sure, the value of the oil will eventually decline and until it does, other people will still own and profit from your so called oil and have to do much less work whereas, you will have no such leverage in the West or North! The owners will have a right to be there for as long as they own it (by contracts that precedes the breakup) but the ordinary SS / SE native will have no right to remain or live in either the West or North. If you have contrary, OBJECTIVE, opinions, I'd like to hear it!

The despicable and disgusting level your people will go to demonize anyone not from your ethnic group is more than shameful and beastly! Has Tinubu or Fashola gotten any oil wells from Edo State yet? Has their governor, Oshiomole, come out to say that Tinubu or anyone in the party is demanding money from the state allocation? Will Ngige not be the governor of his state?? Goodness, this is just too low for your people and even pigs don't descend this low into the stinking pit!

noblezone:

Bros, the existence of Nigeria is already in contention~!

No problem, come back here after 2014 and tell me what have changed!

It seems PDP is deeply pained by Amaechi's independence and assertion of his fundamental rights of freedom of association! LMAO

I think the Ibos have a good chance to come back into political reckoning by what they do during the Anambra elections and 2015 elections. Going by natural justice and equity, power should return back to the North because Yaradua died, this is the truth and we should be honest that was why Jonathan became president. However, if Ibos pretend not to know that, they are making a long term mistake because whether in 2014 or 2019, the north will most likely get their slot back and after 8 years, they will not be able to continue as president and cede the position to another zone. Can the Ibos honestly expect go get their support at that time if they deliberately pretend not to know that the reason they had their "slot" cut short was because of Yaradua?

Well, the northerners are better negotiators than the easterners (by all available evidence) and could easily negotiate with in fact the middle belters or south west or SS (Edos), etc to have the next slot, this way Ibos are going to schemed out again! Well, it is their choice but it is important to point out their misstep before they make another big mistake. The reality is that no zone of Nigeria can become president without at least one of the major regions in support. With Hausas and Yorubas always seen as enemies by the Ibos, how are they going to get a crack at the presidency?? If those two continue to build bridge and negotiate with every candidate from any other part of Nigeria except the SE for political support, then it is clear that the SE might remain a much, much longer time in their current situation.

What is the grouse of people who are obviously neither from Osun State or Yorubas on this thread? This is another reason why Nigeria needs to devolve into regions faster, so that the people can concern themselves with their progress internally. It is distasteful and downright disgusting that unwanted characters are crying about a state and people thinking about their today and TOMORROW by investing in it while their own leaders have eaten their yesterday, tomorrow and devouring their today cry louder than those concerned! The US military just launched another $ 13 B Aircraft carrier in the past few days, are they in a war today that they need so much to build an aircraft carrier? Obviously, their leaders care about their people, country and tomorrow and they are protecting their tomorrow even before it arrives! The Yorubas are doing the same, why are the perpetual haters crying or would you prefer the money be stolen like people like Orji, Obi and Chime do all the time and are sung as heroes??

revolt: now as usual u sieved all I said and pickd on the line which suits ur argumnt of painting ma person as bigot! Now ill explaim y I pointed a finger @ yorobz! I haven't seen any yorob that has ever supported a good policy by GEj(one single one), the subsidy removal was fought mostly by the west. When soludo planned to implement the 25billion recapitalisation scheme, western technocrats faulted his paper ideologies as opposed to reality on ground! We know the result thereafter. GEjs dispensation has been painted by western media as the worst govt in nigerias history and why? Cos he's changing the status quo ie level playing ground for all and gradually removn viable sectors from govt control, by implication stallin all govt contractors(our greatest problems). Isn't it shocking that @least all yorubz on NL diss GEJ n support buhari! Atleast we knw so many SS\SE NLnders tht oppose GEJ! Dangote isn't a capitalist perse cos he only operates in sectors he's been able to monopolise via FG support! But well thts topic 4 anoda day. How can u guys point fingers @ GEJ and elevate APC wif Tinubu as the leadr! Hypocrisy @ its peak

Well, you are still responding with a lot of emotions, not objectivity! I am therefore not surprised you've blindly cited examples that are clearly bad policies for which we already have the results! First, understand that Yorubas will never oppose a good policy because if they did, all Yoruba land will be worse than Iboland but everyone in Nigeria and foreigners would visit the South West 99.99% times before they visit the East, do you know why?? Head over to http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5985.html and see that there is no mention of any Yoruba State on that list, which means even foreigners know where bad policies has created a terrible and criminal society. There is no need to be emotional about this because everyone wants to tell others that their father's farm is the biggest and best but here is an unbiased third party telling you that there is no evidence of a consistently criminal society in Yoruba land which is always the product of bad policies!

That out of the way, you mentioned the subsidy removal policy, which has again proved to be a terrible policy. My question is: can you tell from any facts on ground that subsidy removal and the SURE-P has impacted the life of the ordinary citizen? Are you better off today than you were before the subsidy removal? Unemployment was around 24% in the days of Yara'adua but now well over 30% according to the FG NBS! Yesterday, N 500 B of the so called subsidy savings money was declared to be missing by the law makers and are calling for an investigation! I may bot recollect all the facts but the biggest issue that a lot of common sensical Nigerians had about the subsidy removal was that the so called palliatives ought to have been in full effect before removing the subsidy, so how does putting the cart before the horse become good policy? Buying a few buses for all the states (assuming that was done) will never make a dent on the transportation problems, has it helped the ordinary people? A government, so insensitive to the people, abruptly cuts off "subsidy" which every informed commentator said there is NO SUBSIDY and smart people said, look it is bad policy to just wake up on New Year day and make such wholesale changes without planning for the consequences in advance but we all see they were right - SURE-P and subsidy removal has NOT helped 99.99% of Nigerians! Your YOU-WIN has not reduced employment has it? So if your relative was in the hospital and on life support with oxygen masks in his / her nose, you will think it a good decision for the doctor to take off the life support and oxygen because he thinks the treatment he is about to administer will heal him?? Think!

Oh and the 25 B capitalization was a farce, a falsity! It was a charade otherwise, why did Oceanic and Intercontinental Bank go belly-up as soon as the Soludo lie was replaced by someone who refused to cover-up for the banking system in order to perpetuate a false impression of performance? That is what Soludo did, he basically was pulling wool over the eyes of Nigerians!

Yoruba people can support anyone, that is not your decision but theirs! Of course by every index of performance and record, GEJ cannot mop the floor that Buhari steps on in the area of leadership. GEJ is a failure and history will vindicate that position because the cracks in Nigerian society has never been more pronounced with any other leader who leads by tribal and religious pandering. By your standards where you come from, GEJ might be next to the best leader ever from your region because at least he has not supervised the killing of up to 3 M people yet but maybe a few thousands! This kind of person cannot lead or win anything in Yoruba land - imagine that OBJ celebrated by others is not considered a leader by most Yorubas. It is funny ibos keep ingloriously prefixing Tinubu's name with "Thief" but I ask, what did he STEAL from Iboland? Can you show when he stole a dime there because the plunderers of Iboland are all Ibos and if Tinubu who was tried by the PDP FG government of GEJ could not convict him of corruption, is it you an unknown quantity that knows better? Your local government right now in your land has been plundered to the ground but you see no evil there, but 800 KM away you are crying about Yoruba land that has always been ahead in everything in the geographical space called Nigeria? Physician, heal thyself! You call Tinubu a thief and Buhari a terrorist, yet the PDP GEJ government pretends to be ignorant about all of these, while controlling the army, police and all instruments of state with more than 50% of all important positions controlled by the Ibos and Jonathan's Ijaw kinsmen, yet they have been chasing shadows since budgeting almost N 1 Tr for security, are you saying you know something nobody else knows? I am sure your level of mental cognition must be apalling even to a tuber of yam!

Finally, your English and communication skills is atrocious and unfitting of a human in a public discourse! It shows your education is of low quality or you are just mentally lazy and you would rather not apply yourself to learning how to communicate properly! Perhaps, you are an illiterate who has been recruited into the 40-lapdog squad and all you do daily is to muddy intellectual issues with low level retarded talk to distract the issues!

revolt: so its buhari or Tinubu dem thtll deliver for nwafors abi? GEj ISN'T doin bad @ all only an ediot will fink ny govt will come n perform magic for thEm! GEJ has privatised the power sector @least tht shows hw progressive he is! The fulanis need the sectors to be controlled by. Govt so they can manipulate federal xter and quota system, they can't compete in a capitalist enviromnt wth us! So jes like yaradua stalled the power privatisation, redecimalisation and etc so will buhari do same! The only way to fight corruption isn't by voting a vicious buhari in power cos buhari won't go from door to door wif audit books and whip, hell still hve to utilise the efcc n civil servants whom we all knw r corruption personified! Thts like fytn a corrupt system wif the same corrupt system! The only solution is capitalism n privatisation cos a biz man wants to mke profit n so hell focus more on filling the square holes wif square pegs! This moribund civil service must be riDden off all sectors. Wonder y yorobz hate capitalism n want to maintain the statusquo of quota system etc GEJ isn't da perfect leader but amongst the crop of leaders he's most suitable for naijas progress

I know you are Ibo and what has bringing tribalism into this debate by mentioning Yorubas? You have no evidence that any part of Nigeria hates capitalism - Dangote is a northerner and he is far ahead of all business men in your neck of the woods, so can be be said to be a better capitalist than all your people? You gave the example of the privatization of power and again blame the Yorubas but why?? Again you seem not to know or ignore the fact that there were more Yorubas who participated and bought more power companies than the people in your mind are the ones who are the poster boys for capitalism! Stop all these emotional response to issues and think about the facts! That you don't know certain simple facts or ignore them does not mean other people are not aware!

Fresh air! No wonder they don't want Buhari, the money was shared to ALL Nigerians!

atlwireles:

You are not an undecided voter

And an undecided vote would vote for a GEJ in 2015 when his life has not changed one bit in the PAST 6 years?? Look, there is nothing wrong in making a bad decision, recognize it was a bad decision and deal with it by making a better one! Nigerians made a bad decision in 2011 and should correct it by choosing differently in 2015. What has the average Ibo gained from a GEJ president, not what a Ihejirika, Oduah, Iweala and co. have gained! Where is the Niger bridge (he wants to build it by concession, and if that ever happens it means people will be paying tolls to use it), how about the dry port in Onitsha, is it now working and ferrying millions of tons in cargo? Are all the federal roads tarred? Look, there is no point to deceive yourself, leadership, real leaders do not need a religion to be the best they can possibly be but shady politicians and people always pander to narrow interests like religion, tribalism and demonization of the opponent - that is what you are doing here!

Afam4eva:
Going by this premise then who's more qualified than Fashola in APC? It seems APC are more interested in winning than actually presenting the ideal candidate. For now, APC is trying to win an election and they would present someone they feel will help them win as opposed to someone who has a track record of performance. The best they can do is to reach a compromise between the two. I really don't care about APC neither do i care about any party cos i'm confused right now and i'm finding it difficult making a choice. I could care less if APC presents an Igbo candidate. I'm only saying what i nthink will be the deal breaker for them.

That is why you are confusing the two factors: Fashola is being mentioned NOT because the APC just wants to "win" an election but because he has shown that after winning, we will not be stuck with a liability, tuber of yam who does not know what to do to improve the lots of Nigeria - that is the real gain of the people not who wins or lose! If Fashola were as terrible and useless as Orji is reputed to be, even if he were in APC (1000X) more than everyone else, would you see his name here? Tinubu is a great candidate, with vision and proved himself well but his skills are not being asked by most people because there's something else he does better! Look, on the day after the winner emerges, that is the day he starts being criticized and questioned and a useless do nothing president will not cut it: this is why almost 100% of Nigerians would go the US if they could get a visa! Again, to state it clearly, Governor Fashola is a CLEAR WINNING CANDIDATE by track record of performance, nothing else and those are the TWO things APC and Nigeria needs - someone that can win and an has shown he can perform! I bet you are tired of Nigeria the way it is or you just want to continue on this journey to nowhere??

atlwireles:

Buhari will win the same states he won 2011. The election will see some changes in the southwest. A Buhari/Fashola ticket is a non starter for many Christians in the southwest. Pretend all you want in nairaland, that is the simple truth.

I am a Christian and I DO NOT CARE ABOUT MOSLEM-MOSLEM ticket! There are countries that are ALMOST 100% MOSLEMS and they are FAR BETTER than ALL CHRISTIAN or the current dullard christian-moslem ticket you are selling GEJ and Sambo! Abiola and Kingibe won and it was a moslem-moslem ticket! I wonder if some people just like to act stupid as though they don't know that food, shelter and clothing, peace and prosperity does not look at religion or tribal orientation!

atlwireles:

How come the numbers eluded him in his previous 3 attempts

See question! What does it mean when PDP said it was do or die? You pretend to forget about that now as though you don't know PDP rigged the numbers even for GEJ with 99% votes? Such percentage votes have never been possible anywhere else I know in this world except PDP Nigeria!

Dive-Bomber:


Exactly!!! Is it the birthright of the hausa/fulani to rule? What is all this pls? Why can APC not present Rochas or Fashola as presidential candidate and then a hausa/fulani as vice?

Who is born to "siddon loo" for heaven's sake?

Nawaoooo!

Stop pretending as though you don't know that Yar'adua's death cut short whatever "slot" the north had and that alone is enough for any fair minded person to see why the north will most likely get back in the saddle after 2015 or 2019! You cannot hold the previous years of military rule against them of course because military knows neither north or south - the ill advised coup of January 1966 is what precipitated the several years of military rule you now cry about and we all know you people are responsible for it!

Afam4eva: if APC wants to come out with something tangible at the end of the election, they have to present someone who has a followership that will bring them the unexpected numbers. Amaechi does not have the political muscle in his region because the president has colonized that region and nothing tangible can come from him. It will be suicidal for APC to present a VP from the South-South. I also think APC shouldn't present a South-Westerner because the party mostly has it's roots in that region and most people from that region would support and vote for an APC candidate irrespective of the person't ethnicity anyways, so it will be redundant presenting a Fashola for example, no matter how good that combo may look as far as performance is concerned. I think the deal breaker is to use a popular figure in the South-East like Rochas as a VP and it will even get better should Ngige win the governorship race in Anambra. That will mean that Rochas and Ngige will use their influence to sway voters in two of the most important Igbo states thereby taking possibly half of the votes that should have gone to Jonathan. These are words of wisdom. It's left for APC to take it or leave it. This is not the time for experiment because if they fail to beat Jonathan in 2015, they shoould just forget it forever because after Jonathan, presidency will most likely return to the north anyways.

Your premise is completely FLAWED when you emphasis getting the office and relegate the track record and performance of the office holder to the background! This is why the country is not moving forward! I would rather have an unknown person as president who would create an environment like the one I live in the West rather than someone from my family who will keep Nigeria the way it is or unable to make any changes, can you do the same? Clearly not because you are here advocating Rochas (just say you want Ibo close to the presidential office or as president) but note that your wish does not and can never translate to that of the majority! In my opinion, Ibos will NOT vote for anybody else except GEJ and they've said that over and over again, why do you insist on pretending that we don't know that?

A solid strategy is for the APC to field someone who has the will, track records and courage to change Nigeria, not a ball-less president and people like Buhari and Fashola have shown that so far! Their records speak for them very loudly! Going to choose a candidate from the SE or anywhere who will continue the unprogressive policies you people have complained about so many times is downright reprehensible! Those two choices already guarantee approximately 2/3 of the entire population of Nigeria and then, they can move out to contest for votes in Iboland, SS and MN by selling their policies and manifestos, maybe they will get another 10 - 15% not the gambling approach you so mentioned! Let Ibos prove they can rise above parochial sentiments by not voting 99% for a GEJ who is yet to do anything for the 99.99% of the ordinary ibos in iboland as appointment of Ihejirika, Iweala, Oduah, etc will do nothing for the ordinary ibos! When a change of government happens, they will all be replaced but a change of government will not remove the roads and infrastructure which the ordinary ibo man can use to improve his or her business and maybe develop further to attract more people or investment! People care about having enough to eat, a decent place to sleep, good clothes to wear, peace and a happy life and whatever party or leader brings that is far more profitable than a leader from your clan who does not do anything for his people! Let Ibos first show that they will not follow a GEJ or any leader blindly but someone who can be accountable and who will put the people's interest first and then the rest of Nigeria can trust them with leadership in 4 years! Should they continue the way they have been going about it, note that GEJ will get only a maximum of another 4 years and after that, what can Ibos expect? Truth is Yar'adua's death truncated the "slot" of the north and leadership will most likely return there and then after 8 years, they pay you back in the same coin by supporting everyone else except Ibos who refuse to see beyond their noses! A word is enough for the wise!

So what do you want us to do with the mall?

Mftivi:
if u can't come close to 1KM too get your own idea tooo. don't mind whatever the argument but this line of yours is very dark

Are you working with multiple IDs?? I think that truth jabbed you too hard! Well, I can tell you that if I needed to talk to Tinubu or anyone in the SW, all I need to do is to mention my name and make a case for why I need to do whatever, I am guaranteed of audience at the VERY least! You and your sidekick (other IDs) have no chance in hell, you'd probably be kicked to where you really belong! LMAO

9Willywilly: Look at that infant killers called Buhari

When did it happen that infants were killed? I hope you are not referring to biafra war because that would be the biggest joke of the century because it was a war, not play or game! WAR has serious consequences and only people who have really thought about it and ready for EVERY CONSEQUENCE should never go into it! This is why ALMOST every country that has ever fought and lost a war never whines about it, remembrance they do for their fallen soldiers but that is it! Japan was nuked twice and hundreds of thousands wiped out in a single blow but they have moved on. It is time you moved on because everybody else has and even if you don't, it doesn't change anything.

cashkid_is_back: it is a stranger in nig dt does nt knw dt Tinubu is corrupt n a looter

You have a right to your opinion even if it bothers on ignorance and idiocy! The funny thing is that Tinubu does not even know you exist or read your comments here and even the GEJ who controls the police and EFCC will watch his mouth carefully before he says something about him! In real life, I bet you cannot come close to 1 KM of where Tinubu will be, that should give you an idea of your irrelevance!

Lets be honest, Nigeria MADE A MISTAKE IN 2011 with GEJ and they now have an opportunity to correct it in 2015! A chance to correct a mistake of this scale does not always present itself and Nigerians should do that IMMEDIATELY! When you try a method to solve a problem in your life and it fails, you don't keep doing it for 4 more years, YOU change strategy and method and try something else! It is time Nigeria does just that!

BTW...I don't know enough about Amaechi but he seems fairly courageous! Nigeria needs courageous leaders today, not pussies! A pussy leader will do nothing for Nigeria just pander to every segment of the country to remain leader while the country goes nowhere! You need someone to talk to the northerners, south-southerners, south westerners, south easterners, middle belters and say look, you have a problem and because you have a problem WE and all of us have a problem! I want us to fix that problem TODAY and WE all WILL NOT BE SLEEPING until that problem is FIXED so if you want sleep any soon, it is time to fix IT! This is the kind of person Nigeria needs as president not someone who would say I am not a lion or general or I know corrupt people in my government but I can't tell you or do anything about if so that they won't attack me!

cashkid_is_back: sophisticated indeed.i dont u pple said dt u dont support corruption bt u pple ar d ones celebrating Tinubu a renowned corrupt politician n a looter..am sure dt if he runs for d presidency u pple will stil vote for him

This is the problem with you people! You allege that Tinubu is corrupt but provide no evidence and choose to forget that the EFCC controlled by the GEJ PDP government put him in the docks less than a year ago and he was acquitted! Do you know something that the EFCC, judge, lawyers and the apparatus of the government does not know about Tinubu or you are just being an idiotic troll? If Tinubu is a thief, can you show me any governor in your entire state or zone of the country who has achieved anything close to what Tinubu did in 8 years? Just show it here!

Why doesn't Chime let this woman go for goodness sake? Is it by FORCE?? It's a pity some women do not look to the best place to marry but are carried away by temporal, pedestrian considerations! If the woman dies, Chime should be found guilty and given the capital punishment! His life is not superior to that of this helpless woman!

lygn19:
Yes, we agree, also we hope that Nigeria doesn't try to annex or subjugate any part that wants to join the Igbo's...

Of course! We at least agree on that one.

Personally, I'd want Nigeria to become independent countries with all non-native populations LEAVE to their lands - that is a decision that is not up to them as soon as Nigeria breaks up! Nothing would be better than that but on a more practical note, will other Nigerians and the people in the immediate position to influence this allow their bread and butter be taken away from them?? I really doubt that, they would do anything to keep Nigeria the way it is so that they can keep milking most of its benefit for themselves!

So, perhaps the compromise is for both sides to shift to a middle point where we all gain some and we all lose some - and go to make the best of it - the answer is regional governments! People of other regions might still have some opportunity to come into another region because it is still the same country but I would rather in fact prefer that we all go build our own ends of the country. However, national problems that we have struggled with for so long become more localized - if any peoples cannot solve their problems, they do not hold others down! If a leader is corrupt, the people are only a bus or taxi-ride away to come and ask for his head not when they are hiding 700 - 800 KM away! Quota system is destroyed immediately because everyone now knows there is competition and the regions must make enough money by the end of the month if it must pay salaries, naturally, mostly competent people will be employed! Most people understand that their chances are improved if they can get a good education and try to achieve better results because there is no guaranteed jobs for uneducated or unmotivated workers! The regions who continue incompetence can do just that but they will not be getting a dime from the parts that work hard, not from oil or taxes! If they want to starve to death or bomb themselves off the earth, they can do just that too! Criminals from other parts of the country who have operated without being caught now know that the police in their regions need to earn their pay! An insecure regions will get less and less economic activities so crime must be wiped out! The list goes on and on, however it would be foolhardy to reject the intermediate compromise if we cannot get independent countries now! Nigeria should get the next best thing and maybe in another 50 years, each regions might have found a better way to make things work for the entire country or be in a better position to become independent countries!

noblezone:

Before I read up the Acts of the Union which united the English and Scottish parliaments in 1707, i will galdly like to first and foremost read up the Acts of the union which united the Jihardists with the Biafrans in 1914.

There was no need for that referendum then, but we need it now.

Sir, Biafra did not take over Nigeria violently and then declared independent after her sons were kicked out of power.

I don't know which history you have been reading.

Biafra was not declared because "our sons" were kicked out of power! It was declared because Our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, uncles, aunties, nephews, nieces. brothers, sisters, young, old, were being slaughtered across Nigeria by Nigerians and there was no moves to stop it.

Let me remind you that when we say that Anioma part of Delta belongs to us, you say no. yet Nzeogwu whom you call "our son" is from Anioma!

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By all MEANS, the Aniomas belong to Ibos IF THEY SAY SO! I am sure no part of Nigeria or individual will dispute where the people want to belong or who they say the are! However, it is a very fair and equitable intervention if any other parts of Nigeria stand against Ibos if they forcefully want to annex or subjugate the Aniomas! It is that simple...the same goes for any people from any part of Nigeria!

cashkid_is_back: anybody running wit buhari as mate wont win a single vote in d SE/SS especially in d SE.igbos wil vote massively for gej in 2015..evn if buhari runs rochas,igbos wont gv him their votes

You don't know that! All you have is your own single vote, assuming you are 18 and those of your immediate family and friends who may listen to you! Stop acting as though you speak on behalf of million of people because YOU DON'T and CANNOT!