₦airaland Forum

Chilug:
Where is the borehole or any other water source

Igbo short-changed on appointments, compensated with projects –VON DG
Published September 2, 2018
Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu


The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria and a chieftain of the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Osita Okechukwu, speaks with JOHN ALECHENU on the alleged marginalisation of the Ndigbo and the 2019 general elections

Do you agree with the Ndigbo who are accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of marginalising the South-East in terms of federal appointments?



The Enugu-Onitsha road was first constructed by the Shehu Shagari administration in the 1980s, repaired by the Petroleum Trust Fund under Buhari and was not rehabilitated in the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic Party spent in power. By then, we had the Secretary to the Government of the Federation; we had the minister of finance; the chief of army staff; we had the minister of power; we had the senate president; we had deputy senate president; we had deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, we had the chairmen, Senate and House of Representatives committees on works – all from the South-East

Within that interval of 16 years that the PDP held sway but infrastructure collapsed. Now, we have somebody who we didn’t vote for, but who chose, on his own, to use his pan-Nigerian platform to borrow $100bn, divided it into $16.6bn and gave each of the six geo-political zones, including the South-East.



Are you saying the PDP government did nothing in the South-East throughout between 1999 and 2015?

The PDP used the second Niger Bridge as a campaign slogan for 16 good years. They even went into a public private partnership at some point. The Obi of Onitsha, who is an intellectual, reminded the then President (Goodluck) Jonathan about the promise he made about the bridge in 2011 when he went to use the same thing to campaign in 2015. When Buhari came, he fixed the Second Niger Bridge as one of the five top priority projects of his administration and voted N14bn to start the foundation of the bridge with big pipes that are 40 feet and big radius; that has been completed. It is going to cost the Federal Government about N240 billion because Mr. President doesn’t accept half measures.

This is a man who didn’t give us chief of staff; he didn’t give us secretary to the government or minister of finance, coordinating the economy, but you can see the paradox; we are benefiting more from him. We need to vote for him because of this foundation he is laying in the interest of this country. I am an Igbo man; if it is good for Nigeria, we will benefit because we are everywhere in this country. If I stay another 10 years, I would have spent more years in the North than I have spent in the South-East. I am 63 years old. I have the advantage of traversing this country and have made friends across ethno-religious lines.

You spoke about Buhari revamping the Enugu coal project. Are you saying that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is from the state and has spent 11 years on the seat, hasn’t made any case for it?

Let’s take it this way. By the end of the 8th Senate next year, my younger brother, Distinguished Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President, would have spent 16 years there (as a senator). We are just saying enough is enough.

krisdzhon:
Well said! The prospects for other functional Seaports in the Southern part of Nigeria was killed due to political sentiments.

It's quite unfortunate, Nigeria is yet to come to realization of the truth that no nation can attain sustainable development without a defined economic plan devioded of sentiments!

Nigeria can only make meaningful progress when we learn to separate POLITICS FROM ECONOMIC PLANS (DEVELOPMENTAL BLUEPRINTS)!

SolutionMee:


Saraki as the face of our democracy is not power hungry.

He will sign it.

His goal is not just to rule Nigeria but to help remove a bad leader from government.

Not-Too-Young-To-Run Movement disowns Saraki’s affiliation



Abuja – The Not-Too-Young-To-Run Movement on Thursday disowned affiliation with President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki’s declaration for the presidency in 2019 election. Senate President Bukola Saraki In a statement signed by one of the Converners of the group, Mr Samson Itodo, it said that it was displeased with the use of its platform by Saraki to declare his ambition without prior consultation.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/not-too-young-to-run-movement-disowns-sarakis-affiliation/

celestialAgent:
Learn to celebrate quality not all these mediocrity being established.

celestialAgent:
Have you seen to the port at Lome, Togo? I doubt if you have.

Check out what these women were seen doing on the road.
A group of women who was said to be coming from a wedding had the worst experience of their lives when the bus that they were travelling with break down in the middle of a very bad road. The woman had to alight from the vehicle into the murky water to push the vehicle.

The scene was caputured by Tonniel Avo who berated the government for not caring for the masses, he wrote, "Brethren see Nigerian women in sufferation. Who dey do us this kind thing l beg. Oga president, governor,senator,minister,commissioner, chairman, counselor etc. e don doooo. Show



https://oddnaija..com/.../check-out-what-these-women-were-seen

celestialAgent:
The architecture is too ordinary for my liking...

MYHUBBY:
see me see this mumu o . it's either you're dumb or naturally retrogressive in reasoning because buhari speeches against Nigerians, so far is anti-nigerian. I want to believe you're just one favoured almajiri that's enjoying buhari 5k payment. even Yusuf himself would be ashamed of his father speech against Nigeria most time


your foolishness had no limitations for tagging everyone that oppose you and that ancient mallam as ipob. you this brain disorder experiment is even calling someone mental lawless according to your incoherent jargons

GavelSlam:
Reno hailing himself with different monikers on Nairaland.

If in doubt, just examine each moniker above. Go to their history and notice how they mostly praise Reno on different threads and that alone.

MYHUBBY:
all these jargons of yours shouldn't prompt a so called impeccable honest as some imbeciles do call him to make such silly comment about his country people


was it the reckless engagement of PDP administration that made him to call Nigerians corrupted people abroad and calling Nigeria youths who are hustling to make a living lazy Nigerian youths?


anyone defending buhari end up sounding like one educated illiterate because his silly quotes against the people he govern is out of Democratic structures



I don't care about PDP or APC. I was part of those who voted for him to make a different, we didn't vote him to be making silly excuses and comment about Nigerians. but I don't blame him though the mumu Nigerians would still wait under the sun to vote for him again. some people's foolishness is really hereditary

15Ebisco:
“It has now become clearer that the President will later today after hosting the German Chancellor Angela Merkel depart to frolic in China at the 7th Summit of the Forum on China – Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), a visit the President is embarking on with an unnecessarily bloated government delegation devoid of any Nigerian businessmen/women or beneficial target.

China loans Nigeria $328 million to boost telecoms: Nigeria presidency

Nigeria's presidency, in an emailed statement, described the loan as between Nigeria's Galaxy Backbone and China's Huawei Technologies .

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-china-tech/china-loans-nigeria-328-million-to-boost-telecoms-nigeria-presidency-idUSKCN1LH3MF

GavelSlam:
Reno hailing himself with different monikers on Nairaland.

If in doubt, just examine each moniker above. Go to their history and notice how they mostly praise Reno on different threads and that alone.

Wendell Simlin: American woman accuses Reno Omokri of identity theft




An American woman has accused President Goodluck Jonathan’s special assistant on New Media, Reno Omokri, of impersonation and identity theft.

Mr. Omokri had used the now infamous moniker, Wendell Simlin, in his attempt to link the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, to the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Back in February 2014, Mr. Omokri wound up in a scandal after digital footprint of an article that tried to link the spike in Boko Haram attack to the suspension of Mr. Sanusi as CBN governor was traced to him.
Mr. Omokri allegedly used the pseudonym, Wendel Simlin, in the article circulated to bloggers and journalists but the document digital signature was identical to previous documents Mr. Omokri had sent to PREMIUM TIMES.

The Califonia- based woman, Deborah Campbell, told Sahara Reporters in a series of emails and telephone conversation that her son, based in Hercules, California, is the real Wendel Simlin.
She explained that she is married to Mr. Omokri’s brother-in-law and that the president’s aide exploited the relationship to perpetrate forgery.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/174113-wendell-simlin-american-woman-accuses-reno-omokri-identity-theft.html

TeamDoctor:
l can decipher without stress than you an
N power stipend lazy youth.

TeamDoctor:
what is fake in what they said about ur dullard, kunu siping, Daura zombie who is only best in failure and public momentary embarrassment... How can political interest blindfold... that you now distance ur self from glittering truth... I spit on you political bigots... buhari has taking Nigeria 20years backwards' and he shows no iota of remorse...
and here you are defending him at ur own peril... ""man know thyself". think for once...

slivertongue:
GMB does know d difference between a private citizen &a leader. He doesnt think b4 talkin.
2019 wil cure his shallowness

MYHUBBY:
regardless of party twisting words and apologetic, buhari is so dumb to made such statement against Nigerians that left this non working country to seek asylum in a foreign land.


I felt a responsible leader should accept fault of why his citizens are littered abroad instead of putting them in a sorry case with his incautious words. they're on their own statement, is a statement buhari ought to caution zahra of saying sef


he's not even hiding his nonchalant attitude towards Nigerians welfare both home and abroad and we are bent on reelecting this dumb skull in 2019? average Nigerians truly need to be place on psychatric mode. how can a thinking being see a man that rubbish them both inside and outside as a Messiah? some foolishness of some Nigerians scare me lately

blackboy:
Telecoms? Hmmm China seems to be dictating or is this govt don't know priority

flavnwokem:
All these BMC scavengers, if you are asked to pick either Buhari or Saraki to manage your business you will pick Buhari? Forget the 30k and tell yourself the bitter truth.

delkuf:
I don't know if you guys notice it, the summit is from 3-4 of September, and our president is going on the 31 of August. You see waste of money. He is going with his wife and daughter, 4 governor and 4 senators. when Theresa may and the German councillor came, they didn't come with there husband and children. Pleaseeeeeeeee buhari must be voted out

Azam101:
I hope the likes will send money to ur account