₦airaland Forum

May the good Lord help all the seekers.

If you are not careful in this country you may end up looking for a job in a Babalawo shrine.

The inspector was only inspecting the woman to find out what made her a widow but unfortunately he didn't know that he was making another a widow.

This old man still unmarried till this time?

Let tell ourselves the truth, Davido is there best thing that happened to Nigeria

I can't wait to start watching world cup.
Brazil, Germany, & Sénégal for the cup

I am an introvert but and they know me everywhere I go, they feel like I am a secret service personnel

[quote author= post=111535279]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 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?

I 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 mentions 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. [/quote]I concur with you on this very epistle.

Preshieben:
who said nairaland girls are not beautiful?

Have you seen me before?

Why must he see you?

I don't lodge in hotel anymore for business trip because of the disgusting shit I see around there.

Chai !! My Radio has divorced me .
I can't remember I listened to her.

Na this pikin be the zazu wey I dey hear??

This man is just an extra dirty man.

Everything Nigeria is vawulence .
Uncultured people

RIP to the victim though you died foolishly.
As trained as I am some circumstances won't allow me to cut my life short.

Where is the baby picture?

Should I say that this is the greatest man doing ever in history of mankind

Sleeping in the car park is more safer than Hotel

NwaAmaikpe:



Just like wine, women get better with age.
An aged kpekus always remains a delight to me; zero pregnancy worries, unscripted orgasms, minute infection potentials, better grasp but worse smell.

When I discovered this, I began spending more time at the States Pensions Board. The way I always loitered there in search of prey, you'd think I had just been appointed the Permanent Secretary of the Board.

Omg. The lord is your strength

Take it to the mechanic to smoothen the brake disc then change the brake pads to a soft make then let him tighten & grease the linkages then your problem is solved

Inkling:
Which criminal will order for camo?. Camo you can get easily down here

I am shocked bro. That's to say that it all false accusations

Supporting Sénégal and Japan.
Love those japanese names

The manufacturers are not complaining as long they are making a lot of sales

This is bad but a win win situation if the woman has invested it out of reach of the court.
She will accept her jail time with joy because the 91million can not be made in this present Nigeria for 10years .

Therefore; let her make use of her proceed wisely and stay cool in the correction center to acquire some skill which will help her turn around things after her 5years jail term.

Why are Nigerian media so evil?
600 souls gone and they are telling us 60

I said it before and it happened.
It's not like I am happy seeing eagles not representing us in the world cup but the fact remains that we are not ready for anything in this beautiful country.

Always say your last [lord's] prayers whenever you wake up in Nigeria

What are the playing sef

Congratulations to lala family, this is a festive period of abundance snake pepper soup in your home

Jaydot01:
What's your budget?

100k

I still feel some regret over some girls I turned down those good old days.
My immaturity made them detest me for no good reason at the present.
Well, I believe I did the right thing if not I may not have been where I am today.

mozes01:
nonsense how is having sex in your room with your wife the same as having it in her presence. e gbami ke. una oversabi too much here o, wetin wrong gan sef una no go talk am.

This is not acceptable, this is moral deceadness.
That you have the freedom or right doesn't mean that you should exercise them

Everywise man in Nigeria can see the hand writings on the wall I won't say more than that, let come 2023 first