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A lopsided National Assembly where northern region draws undue large political representation from the undue large number of states created in old one northern region can't move Nigeria forward. Nigeria has remained in a political quagmire since northern soldiers proliferated 20 new political units as states in one northern region, but allowed any 17 political units as states in two southern regions. That's the huge fraud about Nigeria. |
Ahmed Lawan must not think of adding Sharia Criminal justice to Nigeria's constitution. This is one thing the duo of Saraki and Dogara resisted from 2015 to 2019. To steer an inclusion of Sharia Criminal justice system in Nigeria's constitution has been behind the recent clamour by APC top shots to have Lawan and Gbajamila to head the present NASS. The soldiers that steered Nigeria's constitution avoided inclusion of Sharia Criminal laws into the constitution because they understood the enormous blood spill it could cause in a multi religious Nigeria |
APC rightly said that many of Okorocha's actions as governor of Imo state were embarrassing to APC. A governor Okorocha who fought eight years war to kill his state University teaching hospital established 15 years before his tenure began, scrapped roads leading to the hospital because he didn't like Orlu and its people, but built empty houses all over the place and called them hospitals. |
Okorocha Rochas cut to size now begs for association in APC. |
[quote author= post=79194281]Time to ponder........ SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE? 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. We have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023", they don't want us in the National Assembly". 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, 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 barely finished one 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? All these guys below have 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. 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!! See ya NL! [/quote]Sounds like one of those wailers for Roch Okorocha loser. |
[quote author= post=79194281]Time to ponder........ SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE? 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. We have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023", they don't want us in the National Assembly". 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, 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 barely finished one 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? All these guys below have 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. 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!! See ya NL! [/quote]You wasted all time thinking that democracy is winner takes it all.Must every group join an alliance, vote for the alliance presidential candidate? Step out of your non decrepit village for once to other countries that we copy democracy from, to see that once election is contested and won, the winning party brings back every group together to make governance easy. Once again, you forgot that NIGERIA was founded on the hands of its first major three ethnic groups, including the Igbo. Any leader who excludes one group fails. How far has Nigeria been faring since 2015 APC that excluded the Igbo from apex political offices? |
durangokid:Lol. Tongues are waiting to wag. People shall say Mbaise is bad if Ihedioha does not immediately do the needful. The buck now stops on his table as far as Imo state is concerned. |
Yes. Not until gov Ihedioha claims that Eastern Palm University Ogboko whose land you and your father-in-law got on behalf of Imo state University, built with Imo state government funds, but wanted to claim as private property 90%. |
affable4:Some people don't understand that without Buhari, APC is dead. |
Tinubu of all persons? Toronto certificate after Certificateless Bubu? Will Nigeria ever survive? |
Igbo & Yoruba stick to one Nigeria, until you are crushed by Jihadists. Never seen sets of ethnic groups so insensitive to the plight of their future generations like Igbo and Yoruba. Boko Haram fights for a Theocratic country to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal codes. Twelve northern Sharia states adopted unconstitutional Islamic Sharia Criminal codes and want a Theocratic state like Boko Haram. Igbo and Yoruba ought to take their peoples out of one Nigeria, before they get crushed. |
BuhariAdvocate:In Biafra, there ain't gonna be slave and master tribes. It's gonna be a Biafra of True and Fiscal Federalism. Revenues from Kalabari or Ndoni or Ukwa shall no go to develop Enugu toward NY standard, first build standard gauge rail lines in Enugu region, while the regions of Kalabari, Ndoni and Ukwa remain desolate. No, NEVER. |
Ayoefa:Afonja divide and rule. Ijaws are not cowards and spineless, not monkeys. Ijaws are brave people like their Igbo neighbours |
hassan4:Op. FYI. Asari Dokubor is Biafran in heart and spirit. Don't like Biafra to South Sudan if that's your objective. Focus on Fulani who want to Islamize you and all in one Nigeria |
The older a person, the more religious, often fanatic he becomes. If Buhari is sworn in May 29, Nigeria shall witness religious fracas from Buhari's manipulation to use federal government powers to impose his Fulani brand of belligerent Islam upon all of Nigeria. |
bigeliot:Yes, as you said, "no wonder the Igbos want to break away from Nigeria." But hopefully, the British still holding one Nigeria are seeing what Fulani are doing to their country. Hopefully, Britain shall no longer stand against splitting dysfunctional Nigeria into workable countries now. Enough is enough from the Fulani |
iwaeda:Enough of this deception. Fulani Radio is for rallying Fulani to conquer all in Nigeria and impose Fulani brand of fierce and belligerent Islam and culture. |
oilPUSSY:In 2003, Yoruba wholly owned and supported Obasanjo. That lawyer is a Liar. By the way, ask for restructured Nigeria, northern Nigeria that monopolizes leadership of Nigeria is worse off. |
Muguish lawyer, do you know that APC can't survive after Buhari? |
oz4real83:Northern soldiers gave 12 unmerited states and hundreds of local government areas to the northern region through which loads of Nigeria's oil revenues are shared to north, that is not enough for north which also uses Boko Haram to siphon Nigeria's revenues to north. |
MobilityExpress:OBJ never granted Sharia Criminal laws to any group in Nigeria. 12 northern Nigeria states wanting a theocratic State adopted unconstitutional Islamic Sharia Criminal codes beginning 1999 when OBJ became president of Nigeria. OBJ thought the clamour for Sharia Criminal codes would fizzle out with time, hence OBJ nicknamed it political Sharia because the north did the adoption to spike OBJ the north saw as an infidel president. Adoption of unconstitutional Islamic Sharia Criminal codes by the northern states has brought Boko Haram and ISIS to fight in Nigeria as one of their Caliphate areas. |
This is why any fellow who talks against restoration of Biafra is not getting it right: Boko Haram fights for a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal codes. Buhari said in 2001 that he would not stop until Islamic Sharia Criminal codes are used all over Nigeria. Boko Haram emerged shortly after the 12 northern Nigeria states who want a theocratic State adopted Islamic Sharia Criminal codes, including stoning women to death for adultery, death for blasphemy, cutting off hands of thieves, etc.
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Afonja007:All these because of power of colonial masters who hold Nigeria one, not because of power of northerners. If oil disappears from Niger delta today, colonial masters lose interest in Nigeria. Some southern regions break away, Northern Nigeria can't withstand one month's fight if north dares fight back for one Nigeria. |
JudasNaCarrot:President Muhammadu Buhari doesn't hide his face that he is the pageboy of Othman Dan Fodio's declaration that southern Nigeria must one day be a quasi colony of north in Theocratic State of Nigeria. |
hammerFC:Say it louder. IPOB wants a separate country from CHAOS NIGERIA. What in NgeneUkwenu's head made her mention IPOB here? Tufiakwa, see what excess booze can do.
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NgeneUkwenu:Excess Booze can make one not understand that political power is transient; doesn't last in one man's hand for too long.
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Fulani Army of occupation. Nigeria has no external enemy, does not need armed forces everywhere. |
mejai: |
gistvicreports:RIP. But why fight zombie fight? US marines and other Western World soldiers fight a war deriving from their political conviction. Third World soldiers fight because they are commanded to fight, lack political conviction. Boko Haram says it's fighting for a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal codes. The 12 northern Nigeria Sharia states who want a theocratic State of Nigeria adopted Islamic Sharia Criminal codes. Therefore , it's like a difference between 6 and half-a-dozen between the 12 Sharia states and Boko Haram. How long do you think you gonna fight to defeat Boko Haram? Only way to end Boko Haram is grant the 12 northern Sharia states a theocratic country. |
Generalnomercy:Struggle by northern Sharia states for all of Nigeria to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal codes seems to have gone underground, after Boko Haram took the struggle to the next level, now killing without discrimination. We shall not forget how clamour for a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal codes gave rise to Boko Haram. |
Esseite:Are we sure Ali the caller did not rejoice beginning 1999 when Sani Yerima and other political leaders of 12 northern states adopted unconstitutional Islamic Sharia Criminal codes prelude to a THEOCRATIC STATE OF NIGERIA? Boko Haram followed that and says it's fighting for a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal codes. Sharia Criminal codes include stoning women to death for adultery, cutting off the fingers of thieves, death for blasphemy, etc. The difference between Boko Haram fighters and millions of northerners sympathetic to the cause of Boko Haram is like the difference between twelve and half-a-dozen. Only means to end Boko Haram is restructure Nigeria to old regional governance system; Or, Split Nigeria up into workable countries. |
HELL ON EARTH. We wait for the UN to sponsor a referendum on the integrity of this most dysfunctional country in the world, Nigeria. Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General, has remained a supporter for group self determination all over the world before he became the UN Secretary General ... It's man's inhumanity to man if the UN organs hide under Sovereignty of nation states to let the burning of human lives continue in Nigeria. The elders of Nigeria were not consulted by the colonial masters when they merged non compatible nations into one Nigeria. More than three million innocents lives have been lost, and counting, since 1914, due to the inadequacies of one Nigeria. There are no more angels left in heaven, they are all let lose upon Nigeria. |
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[/quote]Sounds like one of those wailers for Roch Okorocha loser.
