₦airaland Forum

kel4soft: Walter, Obuah, Wike and the rest, they make me laugh. The state chairman can't suspend or expel a Governor, is only the NWC and NEC that have the impetus. Beside, Amaechi's suspension is in court and PDP can't act until the court process is over. That said, Felix Obuah faction are only boiling and frustrated because their mission last week thursday failed.

The state branch of a party, not the chairman as you would want us to believe, can expel any state member of the party irrespective of their position. I am not privy to the suit instituted by Amaechi but it seems against NWC and NEC of the PDP not the state.

Granted that Obasanjo and loudmouthed punk called Adekunle were not soldiers of tactical repute, Gideon Alabi-Isama is a deceitful attention seeker. I wonder why anybody who has donned khaki as uniform is yet to call the goon to order. How could a junior and field commander such as Alani Akinrinade, transplant of 3MCDO, pick his GOC?

Ugo50: From my own point of view, she is a fool.

If Gumsu’s opinion makes her a fool, your point of view renders you moronically irredeemable.

Ola Johnson: The opinion that the attack on the person of Gumsu Abacha for expressing her opionion amounts to collective idiocy is an expression of stupidi.ty of the highest order.

The tenure of idiocy in you is conspicuously demonstrated in your bigoted opinion. Opinions are not made for dunces such as you.

One wonders when Wole Soyinka has been elevated to the status of Oluwa. Maybe it is the figment of imagination of dunderheads such as you.

Most of our mothers were married at tender ages but were not put to bed. I guess this will force the local feminist champions to hurriedly look for husband. I know Nigeria has no plan-B.

The alleged tribally induced vitriolic attacks on the person of Gumsu for expressing her opinion amount to collective idiocy.

I had wished these so-called Middle Belt goons got it right in 1967. Simply put, I can never find any wrong in their plight.

[quote author=Igbo.owore]@ My dear igb0-son, If I could remember, in a previous thread in your words you called me " a Monday morning arm chair football critic" and I said I am surprised that you could compare war to a football match. I don't care about ojukwu's war strategy after all he stated in an interview that he was not trained at Sandhurst so his knowledge of warfare was limited. I am so sure, whatever strategy the cantankerous coward adopted, biafra would have been defeated. ojukwu knew about the January 1966 coup but he never reported the coupist. Let me quote again from Adewale Ademoyega'd book "Why We Struck" Page 70
"Of the Lieutenant-Colonels, only two were known to be political and revolutionary and were willing to take part in any effort to revolutionise Nigeria. These were Lieutenant-Colonels Banjo and Fajuyi. For reasons that are later explained, neither of them actually took part in the coup of January 15. Lieutenant-Colonels ojukwu and Njoku were unsure and preferred to adopt the "if you boys succeed, we shall go along with you" attitude". Before you raise any issue, ojukwu too alluded to that fact in his book "Because I Am Involved". Ejoor in an interview said, ojukwu had sounded him and Gowon out to carry out a coup in 1964.

I still don't understand what you wanted from Awolowo, this man at his own personal safety travelled to ibo land to beg the deluded cantankerous coward, yet he remained obstinate after all he knew he could run away with his family members. I don't have to remind you the fate of Yoruba officers who fought on the biafran side (Banjo and Ademoyega). Also Wole Soyinka who went to jail because of the ibos, has been called unprintable names by the same people just because he said chinua achebe is not the father of African literature. I have always said the average ibo person thinks he is the only one God gave a brain. When an ibo man owns something, it is his only but when another man owns something, he now remembers we should be our brother's keeper. I still don't understand what you meant "if he had stood up for the truth"? You wanted to turn his land to a battlefield yet you wanted him to keep quiet and waste innocent lives? My dear igbo-son, your people are the only ones who are smart abi. If it was the other way round would you allow the Yoruba people turn your land into a battlefield? Nzeogwu said in his last interview that the real power was not in Lagos but in Kaduna, yet that deluded cantankerous coward sent troops on their way to Lagos. Do I have to remind you what the biafrans troops did in the neutral Mid-West. There is a Yoruba proverb that says you don't open your eye and allow a fly enter your eye.

On the Aburi Accord, ojukwu's body language showed his mind was made up and was waiting for the slighted excuse before he activated the war button. You never made reference to my post where I said chinua achebe even said in his book that Gowon obviously never understood what he was signing. Is that what you call in good faith? I saw a video of the Aburi meetings recently, where at the end of the meeting when they were posing for photographs, where your dear brother was smoking in the front of cameras. I smoke too and am surprised that a man could not control his urge for a few minutes till he got to his hotel to smoke is allowed to lead his people to their deaths. Yet he knew it wise to evacuate he and his family from danger.

There is a saying in Yoruba land that a witch cried yesterday and the child died today, who does not know it was the witch that killed the child. In 1964, ojukwu had sounded out Ejoor and Gowon on the possibility of carrying out a coup. chinua achebe wrote a book about how some officers carried out a coup. Then their junior brothers struck. They kill the four most senior Northern Officers while the most senior officer in the NA who happened to be an ibo man is not at home when they came for him. They killed the Prime Minister who is a Northerner but like in the above case the President who is an ibo man is out of the country. They killed the premier of the Northern Region but when they got to the house of the premier of the Eastern Region he is placed on house arrest because he had an august visitor and later the coup leader comes visiting. Then the senate president who is an ibo man hands over to the GOC of the NA another ibo man. So who is fooling who? An incident happened when I was in secondary school. I had just resumed JS 1 and started in second term because I had been sick throughout the first term. One day after school hours, I was trekking home and suddenly I saw my fellow school mates running but I just kept strolling until another shouted out to me to run. When I looked back I saw boys with bottles and knives stabbing and beating our fellow school students apparently some bad boys in my school had gotten in to a fight and injured some Akoka boys. I could easily have been killed for no reason than I was school mates with some boys with bad home training. This was a school I was barely two weeks. I don't support mob action of any kind and I would never support the killing of innocent citizens under any guise but I maintain it is the problems of the ibos to fix.

On my handle, call me whatever that suits your disdain and disgust for me. You have obviously chose what you want to believe. You said I cant stand the ibos, I can but am always with my guards on[/quote]The above is a classic example of regurgitating fabricated crap from Nowa Omoigui without self discipline.

[quote author=eagle,eye]Again, you miss the point. How many of the brave Yoruba soldiers, including this Brigadier-General Alabi, really gained from the spoil of the war? I believe these Brave Yoruba soldiers fought with their hearts and for the True Unity of Nigeria, but they were left to hang and dry after the war.
People like Danjuma, IBB, Abacha and other Hausa-Fulani people gained the spoils of the war. Oil Wells and Power.
Even Isaac Adaka Boro, who thought he was fighting the Igbo oppressors died in questionable circumstance.
Again, are we willing to still fight on behalf of the ELITES, or we should all think and come to a National Conference and decide how we are to be governed and how we are to make the best of this contraption Called Nigeria?
Tribalism is a weak arguement to continue the way we are.[/quote]There is nothing bravery in the Yoruba officers and soldiers during war. However, they are what every reasonable Nigeria has come to know, loud mouths. Brig. Gideon Alabi-Isama is not a Yoruba. The major problem with certain accounts of the war is noted author’s exaggerations. For instance, Alabi-Isama never commanded a brigade in 3MCDO. However, he was a sector commander. In fact, Alani Akinriande played more prominent roles in 3MCDO than Alabi-Isama.

Any Nigerian who remotely associates Nigeria with unity is indebted to delusion. Nigeria is wildly growing in population that is set on political pedestal meant to document our cultural differences and antagonism. We must find a way to disengage from colonial union in peace or pieces.

From the original post, it clearly demonstrated the so-called Northern Youths are politically inconsequential. It is true that when it rains, it pours.

ilugunboy: Dede ...maka why? Try make small sense.

It is safe to say you know absolutely nothing about executive or non-executive protocol. You should cease to constitute yourself into a misguided political pestilence.

martinseme: All those who fought and were defeated in all the world wars are not lamenting till date but have moved on to higher development..igbos should forget the past and forgive all and move on to more important issues like how to get the largest chunk of the national cake. lets leave the old men who perpetrated the war to continue living in their old past....those old days were really times of absurd brutish brutality.

The only succor out of unfortunate Nigeria/Biafra civil war is disintegration of the cesspit called Nigeria.

Abati is a known butt licker and can hardly understand that no two human beings are alike. In addition, large cross section of Nigerian trolls is in the same boat as Abati.

The victory secured for Nigeria has created unimaginable number of loudmouthed suckers and favor-seeking hack writers, Alabi-Isama inclusive, who tend to arrogate err of personality to their silly images.

debetmx: From Adewale Ademoyega's book "Why We Struck" Page 196

" Later on, after I Had been released to join in the struggle, I realised ojukwu knew what he was talking about. He knew that he was ill-prepared for the fight and if it came, he had nothing to send against the enemy except the bodies of his own citizens - no guns, no armour, no planes, no ships - only flesh and flesh - what a suicide plot, or was it a reverse pogrom? Did this have to be so?"

From Adewale Ademoyega's book "Why We Struck" Page 196

" Later on, after I Had been released to join in the struggle, I realised ojukwu knew what he was talking about. He knew that he was ill-prepared for the fight and if it came, he had nothing to send against the enemy except the bodies of his own citizens - no guns, no armour, no planes, no ships - only flesh and flesh - what a suicide plot, or was it a reverse pogrom? Did this have to be so?"
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The above post is aftermath of silly comments patented by the trolls who are intellectually challenged.

Gov. Obi is a class act.

@OP

It is a shame you consciously constituted yourself into a joker. I can bet you have never being a member of executive entourage or detail and do not know iota of official protocol yet have the effrontery to publicly expose your ignorant on such a subject.

I must say the election of GEJ as president of Nigeria hence Patience, the first lady, has brought to the fore the political crudity of Yoruba people. Anyway, such political antics are only new to political minnows in Nigeria. The current Nigerian political picture being painted by Yoruba is the same as in 1965 sketched by the very evil axis which colluded to precipitate a war on eastern Nigeria.

Eko Ile: A sad byproduct of ignorance and illiteracy...

Mr Literacy, you have ignorantly modified the historical facts about another village empire in the place of Oyo that even the so-called emerging Oba(s) are disputing the fake stories. A mere Local Government Area chairperson can dethrone Oba and a pitiful dingbat such as you is dwelling on a fantasy land of kingdom.

50calibre: No the reason Nigeria is behind the growth curve is because people like you are too ******* to rise up against your inept government, instead all you do is blow their trumpets and kill one another like street dogs on their behalfs, while they brazenly bleed Nigeria dry and ship government funds to European and American banks.

Worse part is, when someone stands out to speak the truth, he is attacked by the victims he is trying to defend.

Wole Soyinka has contributed more than some of us in sustaining the governments in Nigeria. He was shown standing in line while his moment comes to cast his vote that saw the present government. He has featured in previous governments and ate and dinned with the so-called leaders you have suggested in your dry post.

Any reasonable fellow in Nigeria knew Wole Soyinka has been part of the government directly or indirectly.

[quote author=se.xkilza.phull]It seems some Nigerians whose brains, present and future have been bought and paid for will do nothing but destroy the reputation that Nigerians have always be known for: smart, intelligent, forward-looking, articulate, confident, concise, clear-headed thinkers, etc (some in a bad way but mostly in a good way). In graduate school admissions, I got in ahead of a lot of other contenders and one of my professors was even Russian! However, people like the OP is useless piece of garbage like the retardeen and his hippopotamus wife! People like you should be ground like powder and fed to the animals in the ZOO!

[size=16pt]Professor Wole Soyinka is one of the brightest lights from Nigeria and Africa, on his own merit alone! This is a man who was at one point or the other Professor at Harvard, Cornell, Honorary Doctorate degrees from Yale, Harvard, Morehouse, Emory, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburg, Toronto, Alberta, Paul Valery, Montpellier, Sorbonne, Bayreuth, Cape Town, Havana, Turin, Bologna and Hungary! In case you don't know, these are not the schools where "thieves and polithievians" are awarded phoney "Honoris Causa" in Nigeria for painting a classroom or donating N 1 M for whatever project! No one in your generation would be considered worthy of admission even into any of these Universities for you are so dull, you have absolutely no brains that can be educated! [/size][/quote]Above post is a display of inferior mentality at its lowest depth.

50calibre: My heart bleeds for Nigeria, as I read some comments here, I can't help but realise that the future of Nigeria is as bleak as ever.

This forum should be where young, sharp minds come together to brainstorm and tackle pressing issues of our time, but to my amazement, I see that as generations go by, Nigerians are getting more stu*pid.

Only functional idio*ts can attack a man of Wole Soyinka's calibre, and side with the daughter of a dictator who derived pleasure in killing and looting you all dry as well as a First Lady who is a national disgrace.

Nigerians are regressing mentally, that's why they abhor the truth.

Nigeria is dead, I'm giving up my passport.

The above post is the classic example why Nigeria is behind the curve of growth. I guess the poster inherently forgot that nobody is beyond or above verbal attacks or criticisms. Even Wole Soyinka will tell you he is not beyond reach.

Nigeria is a patented jungle indeed. Even a backyard clown known as Esogban of Benin Kingdom is trying to draw attention. Benin Kingdom was a glorified village and ceased to exist since the British did a number on it.

If Nigerians were lawfully allowed to carry weapons, the stones would have been bullets instead. Most Nigerians in corridor of influence have refused to respect the dignity of ordinary Nigerians. If majority of Nigerians were able to maintain certain respectability in the society, these overfed political freeloaders would have stayed away from Rivers State. This nonsense would not have happened in the 60s as den-guns or muskets would have been employed by the protesters instead of stones.

The loudmouthed dimwit called Maleye should be arrested and flogged until he or she passes out.

The moronic group should call for disintegration of the jungle called Nigeria.

Blueboy0402: I've said it before and will say it a million times "with the power of social media in our hands, the likes of Abagworo et al cannot play on the sensibilities of discerning minds. Inasmuch as GEJ has his flaws as president and C-in-C, can Abagworo and co sincerely answer the following question;
1. Is GEJ doing "anything" new from what what Gowon, OBJ, Buhari, IBB, Abacha etc has done? (anything in this context conotes negative/evil deeds). Little wonder Wale Soyinka said recently "we have passed through this road before".
I'm appalled by the self aggradisement and pull-him-down syndrome of of Abagworo and co. It is worrisome that the "pot" would resort to calling the kettle "black" all in the name of opposition. I'm not saying GEJ is a saint but you guys are trying to use a sledge hammer to kill an ant. Abagworo, those without sin should cast the first stone!!
Though we are suffering and smilling, the mediocrity of opposition has been exposed by Sule Lamido. Do I need to say more?

Bros, it is absolute copout to call these dingbats opposition groups. They are memebers of the evil axis noted as pigheaded ingrates and usurpers. The same northern and western regions of Nigeria that spearheaded the civil war against eastern region seemed to be hell bent at frowning at GEJ’s presidency. The reason of this unsettled behavior from the so-called oppositions stems from the fact that since 1967, this is the first time a person from either northern or western region is not at helms of the country’s authority.

I have news for them; GEJ will remain president of Nigeria for another six years. If any bloody jackass does not find it funny, he or she can denounce the citizenship of Nigeria.

olaheavy1: SEUN, I just had to answer these fools here. Please, don't hide this rebuttal.
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What I don't understand is how unreasonable these Easterners can be. All of you cretins here should go home and ask your elders how unbiased and highly pragmatic Wole Soyinka is. The same man you're insulting today took the bullets for your useless Biafran cause, and singlehandedly attracted the international awareness to your ignoble secession bid. For those acts of his, Wole Soyinka was jailed for life on treasonable felony offences. He even attended your hated Ojukwu's burial in your landlocked Biafra. Why he cares to honor and respect you Easterners, honestly, I don't know - because, to start with, you buffoons are not worthy of his attention. You animals ought to know that Wole Soyinka is never an ambiguous individual; in the past, when he formed a pressure group and became an albatross on the neck of Abacha to the extent that he was forced to go on exile, you people didn't insult him then. During Obasanjo's regime The Professor did not give him a breathing space, at all. Remember when that illegitimate governor of Osun state, Oyinlola, dedicated a library or some historical books or something to Obasanjo it was the erudite professor who took it upon himself to write a letter to the UNESCO blocking Obasanjo's and Olagunsoye's antics. I remember then how Oyinlola vituperatively descended on Soyinka passing scathing invectives on him. Recently, you all were happy when the professor wrote a stinker against Buhari for his draconian laws/decrees during his reign as military head of state. Wole Soyinka is a social critic of the highest order.

Go figure.

When you get one aspect of your views moronically wrong, you are marked as a loser. Only an irredeemable fool will have arduous pedigree to describe Biafra or the defunct eastern region of Nigeria as being landlocked. By the way, what is freaking wrong being a landlocked country? If esteemed Wole Soyinka did not see the Biafran issue as useless, submitted himself to years of imprisonment because of Biafra yet you spewed the above crap, it shows you are a bigoted nutcase.
Some of us who knew the characteristics that made Wole Soyinka an exemplary being wish to inform him to desist from woman’s business. It is very uncomfortable for us to watch Wole Soyinka in a news media war with a first lady.

[quote author=ShyM-X]"Incommunicado" is the role of a first lady and a good housewife when it comes to political matters she wasn't elected to be part of. She isn't Hilary Clinton(she was a senator) and definitely not the Iron Lady, Lady Thatcher(she was elected as PM).

Anyway, no one elected that woman - and she needs to go hide where the sun don't shine!![/quote]It will be nice to remind you that Hilary Clinton was not elected to any stump of a tree when her husband was President. In addition, Mrs. Thatcher’s husband was politically nobody. It is ridiculous to suggest such lame comparisons. Has Patience Jonathan tended any bill for consideration in NASS?

It will be an unimaginable shame on Wole Soyinka if had remotely insinuate the crap of “be a lady before being a first lady” as accredited to him. I do not know if Wole Soyinka is an expert on lady talk less the arbiter on who qualifies as a lady. Besides, I am sure the esteemed professor knows the damnable consequences of talking about someone’s wife in a social stratum of lady-like when such castigator does or may not have a wife.

[quote author=ShyM-X]The crux of the matter is that she's the hand behind everything. And what's shocking is that she wasn't elected by Nigerians, so how come she has that much power?

Also, in this case, there's only one-side to the coin - the other side has been on the defensive throughout. And it's only right to call the offensive side to order before it consumes everyone, especially when the mastermind of the offense arrogated herself more powers than she ought to have.[/quote]If you and Wole Soyinka accuse Patience Jonathan of having the ears of her husband, it is socially, politically and intellectually understandable. However, it is plain silly to politically indict Patience Jonathan on wild and winded contravention.

I guess some of her distracters would have been glad if Patience Jonathan is piled up in one corner of Aso Rock and ordered to remain incommunicado. Nigerians elected Patience Jonathan to the position of first lady by the virtue of electing her husband as President.

In certain countries, mere social transgression of certain spouses can cause their partners a political office.

I had rather take CP as governor of a state than the little and pigheaded despots parading themselves as governors in Nigeria today.