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asha 80: correct talk....as if other governors of other states built industries for their states....instead private individuals instead of building industrial outfits they are building hotels all over the place(though they are making a killing).

Are you holistically excluded from the said private individuals in the above post? I guess you were from Obowo. If Owerri is not you home town, there is no doubt Okigwe is. Please be mindful that the governor is a loafer who would want to know the LGA of a prospective investor before discussing enabling environments for business.

The poor chap named Ngige is shamefully deluded. If he is not a jerk, who else? I guess the state of misplaced priorities in the jackass named Ngige is beyond human comprehension. Somebody should tell the goofy jack his people are in Lagos State and Yoruba.

berem: Like MASSOB, Like OPC!!

No!! At least, OPC members were armed with den guns and able to shot into the air skyward. In the other hand, MASSOB would have been armed with palm fronts.

Afam4eva: Odimegwu should know that there are some things that are better left unsaid especially if you don't have evidence to prove them. He should talk less and work more. I'm not in doubt of his abilities. I'm only concerned about his utterances.

What arrant nonsense. What does transparency denote in democracy? The chairman of NPC has said, “No census has been credible in Nigeria since 1816. Even the one conducted in 2006 is not credible. I have the records and evidence produced by scholars and professors of repute. This is not my report. If the current laws are not amended, the planned 2016 census will not succeed.” Yet a person has the audacity to insinuate the commission’s chair does not have evidence to support what he said in an interview.

Mallam Rochas Okorocha is unashamed 419er who never had gainful employment except as thug and butler of former governor of Plateau State. I guess Okorocha’s sectional village style of blackmail did not work this time around as he attempts to rope Catholic Church in Imo State into his bloody idiocy in Imo State.

The dude named Rochas Okorocha should be tied to a stake, along with his blind sycophantic praise singers, and shot.

agbameta: Invitation denied. Who go fall inside trap?

You are not going to kidnap, kill or roast him for diner..


Mba....

Eko Ole

Eko oni baje lo!!!

biodunid: Is it not great when you think you are winning? Do people ever learn? My people say you cover your yam when it is sprouting vigorously but maybe that bit of native wisdom is peculiar to my people.

The native wisdom seems to fail you on this matter. For example, the name of the lady, Iye Bola, mentioned in the idiotic episode is likely Yoruba and Béninoise. Also, it is very unlikely that her 14-year-old daughter went to Lagos State or Ogun State to serve as house cleaner in Igbo household.

I guess you realized few Nigerians knew that the majority of Béninoise in and around Cotonou are Yoruba. If it quacks like duck, it is definitely a duck.

hardywaltz: I knew the op and the writter where Yoruba after reading a few line...
Crap

Bros, the poster, author and the Punch Newspaper, have one thing in common – Yoruba. Even the thought expressed in the article reeks of Yoruba.

agbameta: 1. I am not ashamed of who I am and where I come from and had it not been for others holding us back I know where the south west and the Yoruba would have been by now in terms of development.


2. I will never renounce my views. As a matter of fact now more than ever before I see how important it is for us to ensure a certain degree of separate development in this country and to hold on to our heritage because we are just so different. Those that have chosen the path of aggression and open hostility and that seek to suppress our voices, intimidate us into silence and drown us with their propaganda are vulgar, crude and rude. That is their way. They are also experts at telling lies.



God bless FFK.

The above post is beyond the realms of infantile drivel. This dutiful dreamer seemed to have forgotten the opportunities of 1966.

Kamanda: Dede is simply a Dumb Agbaya.

You looked a dumber agbaya than Dede

[quote author=Mayor_of_Lagos]It amazes me that Igbos are not outraged at this call by Kwankwaso and even no one at the political leadership in SE has given any response, formal or informal, in defense of Odimegwu.

First, is Odimegwu not a Nigerian?

Second, is it not an insult to Igbo nation that a governor is harassing this man and calling for his termination?

Third, doesn't Igbo own 50% of Kano, where Kwankwaso is governor?

Fourth, when are we going to hear Ohanaeze, MASSOB, Obi and Kalu demand apology and issue an ultimatum to Kwankwaso and Hausa people?

Fifth, judging by their response in Lagos, isnt it true that if Kwankwaso had been Fashola Igbos would have raised hell?

Sixth, judging by the silence here, is it not evident that Igbo have a morbid fear of offending Hausa and would rather suck up this humiliation than voice their grievance?[/quote]You seemed to have cut a niche in misplacing priorities. There is no doubt your silly conception about things around your backwater sets you on a wrong course. Ndigbo are not petty noisemakers and do not arrogate err of character to themselves. Since Nigeria’s independence, the people known for political noises can not be traced to Alaigbo.

It has never been the style of Ndigbo to kill their guests or engage in the act of arson to compensate their political or religious misfortunes. It is arrant nonsense for normal human to remotely insinuates that Igbo nation should be on a war path because one ill-formed novice expresses his wish to have an Igbo person dismissed from a position.

I guess your issue would have been the character such as Kwankwosa as governor of any state in Nigeria. The governor is free to express his idiotic opinions. The fool perpetuates the fact that anything seemingly good in Nigeria is bad.

Mr. Festus Odimegwu has seen it fit that ethnicity and religion should be integral part of Nigerian census and rightfully so I may add. Nigerians should begin to wash away all forms of falsehood that have beclouded the country for so long. If the truth about the cesspit called Nigeria could lead to its disintegration, I say good radiance.

funshint: I can now see U̶̲̥̅̊'re a political neophyte! So U̶̲̥̅̊'re saying Ngige shld publicly lambast Fashola; a fellow party man?! Then what will that tell of Ngige's ambition and party image. U̶̲̥̅̊'re truly a learner; go and sleep.

I can categorically say that above post is borne out of idiocy and lacks political prudence. According to your infantile drivel, Ngige should be asking APC, Fashola and Yoruba to vote him in as governor of Anambra state not the people of Anambra State.

REHOZIBAH: In all that you have said, does it not disturb u that after all said and done by the anti-Deportation/Human right latterday activists from Peter Obi to Orji Uzor Kalu who want us to see the act as gross abuse of human right, None of them after issuing ultimatums and threatning lawsuits indeed approached the law courts to enforce the 'fundamental right' of the 'deportees'? Had they done that it would have gone a long way to put this matter to conclusion but knowing fully well that the constitution was not breached in any way except that the modus operandi of the LASG might not be right,they shied away from going to court!

It should be clear to you that some so called leaders just wanted to play dirty politics simplicita and keep the Igbo perpetually in a frenzied/combative state against their more accomodating tribe while they smile to the bank or keep political power perpetually

But for me I believe Ikemba would have summoned or sought audience in private with Fashola and advised him the best way to go about it as a father and a detribalised Nigerian who have business and political interest across both sides of the divide

The above post has confirmed what I believed that Nigeria is an empty expression. In a civilized society, a forceful relocation of a citizen of a country should have been challenged by the Justice department of the country before the so-called politicians start to circle the wagon.

I do not give a ratazz what the so-called politicians wish to accomplish. My beef lies with a character named Babatunde Fashola who ignorantly parades as a SAN yet contravenes a major clause in Nigerian constitution that sought to protect human decency. What stops Lagos State government from deporting an affluent-looking citizen of Nigeria? Being a destitute or poverty stricken does not make a person less of human being.

I only pray death for Nigeria.

funshint: That's not it; Ngige saw that Obi was being mischievous with the whole issue and he's not going to fall into his trap. Most of U̶̲̥̅̊ hv not asked vital questions about the whole saga; all U̶̲̥̅̊ do is shout and make noise. What is the identity of those who were deported? Were they engaging in any legitimate biz in lagos b4 being relocated? Is this the first time LASG will carry out such exercise? Is it only Igbos that hv been relocated out of Lagos? What was Obi's response to the documents released by LASG showing that Obi's govt was earlier intimated about the exercise? If truly there is a plan by APC against Igbo; why weren't they relocated in other SW states...etc Igbos think!!! Your ignorance and lazy mentality is gradually killing U̶̲̥̅̊. U̶̲̥̅̊ pple are easily manipulated; no wonder Obi is taking U̶̲̥̅̊ for a ride... U̶̲̥̅̊ better wise up and don't be left behind!

I really considered it a waste of time and bandwidth to respond to posts such as above. It is plain display of recklessness and total regardless of basic human right as even entrenched in Nigerian constitution to forcefully relocate a citizen of Nigeria under any guise.
It beats the pearl of decency and average human intellect to note the perpetrator of such ra.pe on human right masquerades as a SAN. What a country. I now know Nigeria is not called a jungle for nothing.

Lagosbabe1: You take things far too personal. What was Dr Ngige supposed to do to? Come to Lagos and lambast Fashola? How would he explain his opposition to the removal of these destitutes, when his own state has carried out similar exercises in the past and more importantly it was Ndigbo from Imo and Abia that were removed from Anambra state. A lot of you speak from both sides of your mouths.

I would have imagined that the motive to be a Governor of a state is to provide better living conditions of his people so events such as the "deportation" of Ndigbo would not arise in the first place.

@ Topic

I fully agree that Ojukwu being the progressive he was will undoubtedly have joined APC and would have called for the dissolution of APGA. APGA is becoming an IBO tragedy before our eyes- equivocating and full of corrupt and non-performing leaders. I am quite sure Ojukwu would have had none of these

Have you heard that all politics are local? You are right on the comment of being too personal. It is either you are blissfully myopic as an observer or Ngige is a pathological goofy politician. If Ngige really sought to lead any Igbo person or even learned, he would have publicly lambasted Lagos State government for the contravention of certain human rights of the people it deported which is granted in the Nigerian constitution regardless the tribal hue of the deportees.

It is even worrisome that few of the deportees were indigenes of Anambra State yet the Mr. Ngige is seeking to lead the people of Anambra State as governor. If he could not, at least, cough at the idiocy perpetrated by Lagos State led moronic B Fashola for deporting fellow Nigerians, then Ngige will go to sleep as governor of Anambra State if indigenes of his state are brutalized by an APC- controlled state.

I really do not give a hoot what party Ojukwu would have joined. After all, he joined NPN and could not lift a mere senatorial seat from his federal constituency when Ojukwu was taken to the cleaners by out-of-state resident named Onwudiwe.

REHOZIBAH: How absolutely trashy and baseline infantile can some people get? So in a plural and multi ethnic society like Nigeria, some of you still cling unto tribal and ethnic vituperations despite the fact that even the reverred Dim Ojukwu was a member of and chairman Board of Trustee of the All Peoples Party(APP and later ANPP) a core Hausa party(party consisting of the tribe that killed his people if we are to reason like the youths of nowadays) knowing fully well that no single ethnic group can afford to stand alone politically but would need others to help achieve it political aspirations.

Most of those who comment here only do so from the angle of misinformation and childish chest-beating as many may not be old enough to know a bit about our past and history. Politically it is not a sin to align with the hausas or yorubas to achieve one's group's aim and to think otherwise is delusional.

I have always contend that modern day Igbo youths should rather be open-minded,bridge builders and pragmatic rather than being aloof and disdainful of others. That the Ngiges,Rochases and others are politically aligning with the people some today's youths sees as enemies doesn't make them less Igbos,traitors or sellouts as everyone can't be in PDP a self-touted national party

What if APC wins power at the centre and there are no high ranking Igbos in it to canvass for democratic dividend to the SE there, the political alienation you would face would be better imagined. So its better for some to be in the PDP and some in the APC and whichever of the parties that wins power,then the SEners will be sure of adequate representation but to think that you don't wanna have anything to do with APC is political naivety

What I have highlighted above is the mindset of pragmatic and visionary politicians which Rochas,Ngige,Annie and Izunaso are which made them to join APC as we all know that the APGA you all are sentimentally attached to is being deliberately presented to be raped by the PDP and Presidency by SE leaders for selfish purposes


So to answer the question if Dim Ojukwu Eze nd'igbo gburugburu would have joined APC if he were alive,I would say a resounding yes as he would have felt very comfortable around the likes of Fashola(as he would have dispassionately counselled him about how to go about the 'deportation' unlike the one that blew the action out of proportion for political expediency sakes),Oshiomhole,Aregbesola,Fayemi,Rochas and an Ngige(who like him is a fighter for the common good) and Yes Buhari as both Dim Ojukwu was in the same APP party with Buhari unlike those of you who are just demonising a honorable man

Rehoboah

Please listen to yourself because you can not eat your damn cake and have it. In your infantile drivel called post, you claimed Nigeria is “plural and multi ethnic society”. You must agree that there is a serious social oddity if a person is French and can not speak French. It is normal for a person from Nigeria to cling to his/her tribal and ethnic idiosyncrasies.

egift: Truth be told, Soludo is my first chioce while Ngige is a close second.

Every politics is local. It is time for Anambra to secure its fronts by voting massively for Ngige. Anambra State cannot become another object for corrupt politicians to kick around.

#TeamVotePersonalities

The above crass postulation is what sets Europeans and Africans apart. I guess the same Ngige who could not stand up for a poor trodden Ndigbo who were forcefully deported by APC led government in Lagos State is being remotely contemplated as gubernatorial candidate in Igbo land. There would be no chiefs without the Indians.

Rochas Okorocha is a crude clown. The deluded jackass is an indelible disappointment on the Ndigbo.

kodewrita: Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A large number of Oyo people have Nupe/Borgu blood in their veins. In fact, Oyo town has had Borgu rulers before so this is not earth-shaking news.

The important thing is that as of this moment, he is Yoruba. End of story.

Almost everybody known as Yoruba today could be Nupe. After all, Nupe and Fulani sacked Oyo Empire and its capital city at Oyo-ile situated 30 mile north of Ilorin.

kunlekunle: Fabrictaed story, another igobtic propaganda.
OBJ's grandfather was igbo,
kwankaso town was a bastardised name originally nwankwo stores.
Bunch of ACHEBE's reminants. story teller

It is even feverishly laughable that fickle-minded junkies such as the poster of above post would continue in their quest to claim unfounded fallacies to boaster their empty ego. All the empty claims the Yoruba had proclaimed in Nigeria are false and clouded with murderous inadequacies. Every returnee who came with British or invited to Lagos colony became a Yoruba.

Anyway, empty barrels make the most noise.

Nigerian armed forces left the scene of regimental discipline on July 29, 1966 when Gowon, with the help from band of relatively junior officers from northern region, usurped the position C-in-C.

0monnak0da: This thread reall should not be necessary if our youth are properly educated. We continue to hear to this day how Calabar was once the capital of Nigeria or how Nnamdi Azikiwe moved the capital etc.This is simply false and without foundation.

The history of Nigeria i.e from a Colonial perspective is NOT complex. Nigeria as we know it was formed by the Amalgamation in 1914 of The Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Northern Nigeria Protectorate.
The capital of the Southern Protectorate was Lagos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Nigeria

and that of the Northern protectorate was Zungeru and Kaduna

The Southern Protectorate was formed in 1906 with Lagos as its capital by joining the Niger Coast Protectorate/Oil Rivers protectorate with the Colony of Lagos.

So what was this "Colony of LAGOS" ??

Dayolodo


You are a hell of scintillating embarrassment. What a dead wood. Modern day Nigeria has two capital cities, Lagos and Abuja. So what is the deal with your moronic search for cheap and self-aggrandizing knowledge?

There were administrative and military headquarters of the colonialists during the periods of colony and protectorates before being amalgamated and later granted independence. Lagos, Calabar, Asaba, Zungeru and Lokoja acted as administrative or military headquarter to the British colonialist during 1800 to 1900s.

Anybody with Igbo blood who dreamt of electing Mr Ngige as a dog catcher in Igbo land is an irredeemable fool.