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nwakibie3:
Former aide to the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has said that he and other politicians from the South West have always known that associating with the Northern political elites is regrettable.

Doyin said any Southwest politician can come out to prove him wrong adding that most northern politicians he had worked with played very selfish and parochial politics.

The former Presidential aide said this in a post he shared on Facebook where he maintained that the northern political elites often time, make them, the southern collaborators look like saboteurs of their people.

Doyin wrote, “I chose politics over Surgery.

“In choosing politics I also chose a party, NPN, with a national outlook than the regional party, UPN, that held sway in my geopolitical zone.

“From then, 35years ago, and now I have always choosing national parties because of my belief in Nigeria.

“I am not alone in this class of southwest nationalists. i have seniors like, Akinloye, Awotesu, Odunjo, prince adetona, M.K.O. Abiola,who are all late. Baba Akinjide is still alive and well.

”However and quite sadly I say it openly today without any fear of contradictions that with no exception, WE ALL REGRET OUR ASSOCIATION WITH THE NORTHERN POLITICAL ELITES.

“I have not spoken to chief akinjide in over 3years and I do not have his permission to speak on his behalf. Since God has preserved his life till such a time as this, nigerians are at liberty to (confirm or denounce) my statement from him.

“We regret our association because the most of those we worked with played very selfish and parochial nearly based on master servant relationship. Always the interest of the north superseded every other interests and it must be achieved at any and all cost. Often times making us, the patriotic the southern collaborators look like saboteurs of our people.

“I must add here that but for general Babangida and Aliyu Gusau with very few associates, the wrong that was done by the unfair annulment of Abiolas mandate would not have been assuaged by the the creation of a political scenario which ensured head and tail, a southwest President emerged in 1999.

“People may want to argue that this was not a big deal since it was Babangida’s administration itself that caused the annulment. If the annulment was an error the subsequent incaseration and death of MKO was a major disaster that had the potential to scatter this great nation for good if not carefully recompensed through a political retribution in 1999.

“Whenever we asked for the correction of the political and unjust imbalances done by the military, the northern political elites always give the untenable excuses that those actions were done by through military fiat and not the political democratic system.

“Yet the entire military interregnum was headed by northern officers. This is why today we have ridiculous lopsidedness in distribution of states and local governments in the country. it is the same reason we are a federation run with a unitary constitution. it is the same reason that virtually ALL northerners irrespective of their political parties are united in their opposition to Restructuring.

“It is the same reason that all securities agencies in the country (except for 1 or 2 minor ones) are headed by northerners. Yet our political elite class and colleagues in the north look the other way and are quite comfortable with all this unfairness and condemnable injustices which breed hate and disunity in the country.

“The worst of it all is the unguarded, arrogant and uncaring pronouncements from northern elites and leaders in times of severe national calamities inflicted by some northerners on other citizens of the nation.

“The recent gruesome killings in Benue is a thing all Nigerians should be sad and concerned about. It is not an occasion for profuse but irrational arguments and justifications. Certainly not an occasion for display of insensitivity.

“I personally will never ever do anything or participate in any actions that will precipitate the dismemberment of Nigeria. To do so, will be to break the nearly 60years mirror of hope that I had envisioned Nigeria.

“I will however sound a note of warning to our friends from the North, and this is more partisan, that yet we may appear to have been fooled for so long, yes, in the interest of national unity, we have with great anguish, we have tolerated and accommodated the sustained excesses of the north, we have finally reached the end of our tethers. Our elasticity has been stretched to its breaking point.

“I therefore desperately plead with our friends and colleagues to apply reason and good conscience in issues that concern equity and justice in this country. No part of this nation was conquered by another.

“We are an independent sovereign Nation and no citizen must live in fear, none must be treated before the law as being superior or inferior. Governance must be all inclusive and must belong to all not a few as we presently have. Senior citizens from the north must stop playing the ostrich just to please their own especially when their actions harm other sections of the country.

“From now onward it is the North that will decide if the country shall remain together or otherwise.

“May the Almighty Bless our country Nigeria and imbibe its leadership especially those from the North the conscience to stand for what is equitable and just and the courage to speak against evil no matter who the perpetrators are.”


http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/24/yorubas-always-regret-associating-northerners-doyin-okupe/

The grandmother of such useless association was joining the northerner region of Nigeria in prosecuting war against Ndigbo and Biafrans in 1966.

Follygunners:
My bro., I totally understand your plight. A mediocre state of mind, ignorance (even the very educated ones) and non-progressive cultural beliefs and norms are what have back-pegged our growth as a people. How do you expect someone like that animal, 'Trump' to regard you as human when you don't even give yourselves any of such regard?

Most Africans, regardless of classroom education, are morally idiotic and mediocrely existed.

Arrant nonsense!!! This crap is coming form dumbass retired soldier who has been at the center of a plot to stealthily and strategically corner Nigeria for the Fulani Jihadists. You have not seen anything yet. Nigeria shall be overrun by guns illegally or not.

Mr. Udeh, the alleged comment of Donald trump about Nigerians and Huts is plain truth. How many of your fellow South University professors in Nigeria can afford such a mansion without embezzling funds? I shall bet my last cent that if you had remained a teacher in Nigeria, you would have been renter.

Alariwo2:
That man Ojukwu was a very selfish and wicked human..

He took his own family to safety in Abidjan and left millions of his people to die in a needless war he started.
Whenever I see those gory kwashiorkor and starvation pics of Igbo kids and women. I feel nothing but pity for them. Yet they hold the simpleton in high regard

Bath a pig and comb a pig, pig shall remain a pig. The main man who was at the center of the war has even stated that Nigeria attacked Biafra firstly.

These is the empty arrogance and err in personality most Nigerians tend to exhibit. The lady's hobby as a photographer does not in any way or form add or reduce the unseeingly respect the goons from the Ebony state house of assembly beg to portray.

Dfire:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/6594015_screenshot20180123195431_jpegf276bd492b0ca8de8df080b93884bbd0

Does this make sense to you? A man who led a bloody war for what reason exactly could they have buried this man a man who hated Nigeria buried like a patriot does that make sense to you?
Nigeria the ironic nation

www.nairaland.com/attachments/6590611_images112_jpeg3ea1b00fa3debec875574a595d22874b



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eIvHihMFME


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUliAlj4U8A

I honestly believed you do not have the average intellect to comprehend the reasons even if they take years to be explained.

Sammiejokes:
in the best interest of Africa and humanity at large. Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard.
You are a fool to ask for an apology. All these Igbo now see OBJ letter as the letter from heaven, when he wrote the buffon all of you called OBJ a fool now he is the prophet. Go get the apology in heaven

Most Nigerians exhibit the demeanor representative of shithole country. Where in the OP's write up did he/she mention OBJ? It is perfect to disintegrate Nigeria so that people of intellectual mindedness can forge together.

What an Igbo person saw while seated cannot be seen by most Nigerians even if they stood up.

Balkan:
Worth Sharing:

I love the Fulanis! Our Political Scientists take time to study Machiavelli, Gramsci, Shaka de Zulu, Hans Morganthau, Guevara et al ignoring a rare and unique political philosophy in our midst -Fulanism-Jihadism!
See how they took Hausa land, took Ilorin, used and dumped Ken Saro Wiwa, used the Tivs, Igalas, Idoma's et al and dumped them. Unongo is now a wailing wailer, David Mark has lost his voice, Gemade is lost, Audu is still somnambulistic, Fani- Kayode is screaming, Olu Falae is now a chronic wailer; learnt they visited him again yesterday. Na so life be?

Now, let it be known all over Southern Nigeria, that the March to dip the Koran into the Atlantic ocean has began in earnest. Any obstacle will be ruthlessly crushed. They tested the people's will of by threatening to soak dogs and baboons in blood, they got their way. The killed and burnt the entire family of a REC, nothing happened. They appointed only people from their side into their kitchen cabinet, southerners were made to justify it. They closed the chapel on the rock at Aso, our Christian Vice president, explained it away. They released murderous Boko Haram members, without any kind of penal measures into society, we hissed and went about our normal businesses. They paraded our people accused of corruption in handcuffs like common criminals, we kept quiet. They picked up Nnamdi Kanu, whose words pierced their conscience, exposed their plans and cried to the world; they handcuffed him, like a common criminal while Boko Haram kingpins, who have murdered thousands, appeared in court unfettered, we only grumbled. They sent herdsmen to cause havoc in our homelands, we kept quiet and begged them to stop killing us in our own ancestral homes. They pushed further by appointing only their own people into the National Defence Council, something that has never happened before, not even immediately after the civil war, all we did was murmur. They took on unarmed IPOB, proscribed them, labeled them militants, politically correct people hailed them and clapped for them. For the jihadists, sorry government, sorry, Nationalists, patriots and elder statesmen, it was a sign that the time is has come, the time to implement the time tested strategy that worked in Ilorin, Lebanon, Turkey and several other places. Since it is now very obvious, that the people have been cowed, intimidated and politically outsmarted, it is now time to introduce the Trojan horse, the cattle colonies. They will take the people's lands, develop them with proceeds from oil, gotten from the people's land and hand them over to their people. They will move in with their families, one man to four women, each woman have at least five children, in twenty years time, they'll outnumber the Aborigines, use their numbers to get strategic political positions and declare an Islamic state. Sounds like fiction? No! That's exactly how Lebanon moved from a very popular trading and beautiful tourist country that it was, to the ruins and debris laden country that it is today
The Christins in the South have a choice, they either hand over the colonies to the Jihadists, sorry government and convert to Islam or say No! to the colony project and begin to prepare for the consequences. To be forewarned, is to be forearmed! - Oguejiofor Okeke

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They planted this seed of discord before January 15, 1966. It is even funny that fool from Ijo was talking about the Prime Minister as if he was his grandfather.

MasterKim:
I don't understand this "shithole" stuff
Does it mean that trump will grant every Igbo man free visa if they join him in shouting shithole?


before you call your family home a shithole, ask yourself what means you've tried to repair it.

They are the one selling drugs, using pre teen kids for prostitution, engaging in baby factory, kidnapping, making substandard stuffs amongst the like yet they are the one making the most noise

You made the alleged Trump's comment about Africa a perfect match.

SSGN:
In a scene reminiscent of the sounds of drums for war in the 1995 Walt Disney animation Pochahontas, Nigeria is gradually heading down the path of civil war. This coming just after the defeat of Boko Haram (at least in the technically they hold no territory), which in itself burst into the scene just after the end of the Niger Delta insurgency.

The question i ask myself is : Who or what are these forces relentlessly trying to provoke a civil war in Nigeria? Now the media will say its the Fulani herdsmen and farmers bladabladabla. Who runs these death squards? A standard AK-47 rifle will take you back N170,000 in the black market. How can desperately poor Fulani herdsmen afford expensive assault rifles? Who pays the militia herdsmen who make up the Fulani herdsmen. Where is the Nigerian army? the powerful army that crushed the Shite El-Zakzaki sect and Pro Biafra agitators, while at the same time pummeling Boko Haram is incospiciously absent.

Just today 21 January 2018, it was reported that a helicopter suspected to be loaded with arms and ammunition was reported to have landed in a village called Jibu, located along the River Benue, near ibi, in zwukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. Senior Special Assistant to Governor Darius Ishaku on Media and Publicity, Mr. Bala Dan-Abu said that the arms and ammunition were allegedly meant for a militia group that might have been planning an attack on Taraba villages.

If this is public knowledge why hasnt the Nigerian army been deployed to the restive areas. Nigeria has a strong gun control policy, whereby the possession of firearms without liscence carries severe penalties. Why are cattle herders allowed to bear arms?

This is an eerie reminder of the unmarked helicopters reportedly seen delivering packages in the Sambisa forest to.....you know. Or the incident of two caucasian men that emerged from a crash helicopter and reportedly set bundles of U.S Dollar bills on fire before leaving bugging out of the crash site.

Nigerians are not naturally of the warrior class. Nigerians are effusive with a zest for life. We love to party and have fun, i mean....despite lack of government support for Nigerians, we have still been able to beat the odds of frequent power outages, fuel shortage, political instabilities (Boko Haram) as well as other civil unrests to become Africa’s biggest entertainers not just in music but in Film as well as Fashion.

Its like a parralel universe. But certainly, somebody at the moment is trying to provoke a civil war in Nigeria for over a decade. Someone wants a civil war. Some powers that be want a civil war. There never give up. The security situation in Nigeria is like a hydra headed monster. Cut off one head another pops out.

Even though Boko Haram has been flushed out of their ladt major stronghold in the Sambisa forest,  theinsurgency, after a brief lapse, witnessed an increase in suicide attacks, and attacks on military units. All these, and other adventures, ensured that Nigeria’s security apparatus had their hands full all year, keeping us mirred and focused in conflicts rather than focus on development and rebuilding our infrastructure.

The pastoral conflict is now morphing into a deadly threat, with with 470 victims killed as a result of cattle rustling, and 1,425 killed in attacks involving Fulani herdsmen.

The average number of fatalities per attack was high at 30 deaths per attack by Fulani herdsmen, while the average for cattle rustling stood at 39 per attack. There were four times as many attacks on communities by herdsmen than incidents of cattle rustling. Unlike the Boko Haram insurgency, the majority of the deaths in the pastpral conflict are not the belligerent herdsmen, but residents of the attacked communities.

Now we are quick to blame corruption and incompetence, but even gross ineptitude reaches a saturation point then common sense takes over. This is beyond government incompetence. These conflicts that keeps popping out of thin air with military precision is organized and planned.

The reaction of the Nigerian state to the pastoral conflicts in particular, brings to the fore the question of what value the state places on the lives of average citizens, the people they were elected to serve and protect.We had, in 2016, multiple situations where some groups killed other Nigerians with impunity, justified their murders openly, and the government did little or nothing to punish the killers or put an end to the killings.

The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke the civil war? 

https://defensenigeria.com/2018/01/22/drums-of-civil-war-looming/

The current fashion of the so-called Fulani herdsmen is the continuation of the uncompleted 1804 Jihad. Sokoto Caliphate was unable to penetrate certain section of Nigeria. However with end of the civil war which planted them into the center of power in Nigeria due to the idiocy of their known slaves, they are trying to rekindle the Fulani myth of being unstoppable.

I shall disintegrate the colonial crap and make it a case study.

When someone calls the country a shithole, few clowns get offended.

This shithole is very unfortunate with so-called leaders.

It is very difficult to rehabilitate a person who has been under the authority of Emirate. Sokoto Caliphate did a good number on certain folks in the northern region of Nigeria. The non-Fulani in the so-called northern region of Nigeria always act slavishly.

Any country that goes to war or kills its citizens because a section of the society wants to secede is a big shithole.

Yari.ba majorly contributed to the unstructured Nigeria. Nigeria is dysfunctional today because Yari.ba played a cowardly hand in 1966. I guess this demeanor could not be unrelated to the fact that most Yari.ba people were under certain emirates.

Those who failed to embrace the tenant of history tend to repeat blunders of yesteryears.

Yet there is no nabbing of Boko Haram collaborators in northern region of Nigeria. Nigeria police and law enforcement agencies in Nigeria are only effective in southern Nigeria. It is very spooky indeed.

Until non-Muslims and the entire people of the southern Nigeria start to carry AK-47 openly as do the herdsmen and endeavor bear arms for protection, they will remain victims of well planned and orchestrated Islamic expansionism carried through the so-called Fulani herdsmen. Only a fool stands at a place when if informed there is impending catastrophic danger. Every project carried out by the military regimes in Nigeria and governments led by a Fulani folk has a strategic undertone that will enhance rapid deployment of Islamic soldiers to the south part of Nigeria.

Okoroawusa was given a political rope and he hung himself. He is just a fool.

sylvez:
My dear, the point is that the economy improved significantly, whether it is Obama or Trump that is responsible, they are making progress while your president is still busy pushing blames to past administration

The above statement indicates nothing good comes out of Africans. Trump has destroyed silly impediments the so-called Obama placed on business enhancement.

I have stated without time that Sokoto Caliphate's attempted into southeastern Nigeria was stopped cold at the northern fringes of Igbo-Eze North, Igbo Eze South, Nsukka, Isi-Uzo, Uzo-Uwano and Udenu L.G.A.s of Enugu State in a fracas known Hausa/Akagbe War. The Igbo warriors did a very good numbers on the Sokoto Caliphate troops. The British even employed the tactics used by the Igbo warriors to smash home against the Islamic marauders from Sokoto.

aolawale025:
Her appearance doesn't have a correlation with her capacity to do the job

As a news presenter, appearance is a ground zero factor for those folks from civilized countries.

These are not women but baby killers.

Why are certain goons in the wasteful shithole called Nigeria hellishly terrified on instance of disintegration? There good people in the geographical expression known as Nigeria who determined to breakaway from Nigeria. It is humanly important to grant these people their fundamental right of association.

Obasanjo is a typical Yari.ba folk.

sylvez:
WHICH WAY NIGERIA O!

Trump's first year in office marks significant improvement on her economy. 44% Americans argue that Trump is responsible while 56% argue that Obama is responsible.
But in Nigeria, almost 3 years in office, the economy is still dwindling, 90% Nigerians argue that Buhari is responsible while 10% argue that Jonathan is responsible.
Till now we are still in the blame game.
But America is looking for who to give credits.

A fool cannot make such assumption. The so-called Obama was in office for eight years while USA economy remains stagnated.

A shithole is a shithole regardless how you slice it.

Abogwara:
That's not in Imo State but a photo from unknown source deliberately being spread by PDP agents as Amaraku town in Mbano. It has already been refuted on facebook. Today they've changed it to Okigwe but still out of place with reality. Here's ongoing work at Okigwe and notice the architecture typical of SE.

What type of road construction is performed with wheel-barrows and jerry cans?