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Ttipsy:
its high time flyovers r needed, hence traffic will be terrible in the next years to come

How much tax do you pay?

How much tax and sundry revenues does Owerri generate to build very expensive and obstructive flyovers in Owerri?

Owerri is eating "Ngwori" from barely-educated state governors who think it is appropriate to use federal allocations meant for development of the 27 lgas of Imo state to build a Mega City in Owerri, while the lgas are denied basis amenities, not even common pipe borne water.

Once growing towns of Okigwe, Orlu and Oguta remain glorified villages - depopulated in the last seven years.

SoNature:
You don carry your hate for Owerri enter Enugu thread, abi?

Respect yourself!

Shatap. No body hates Owerri.
What we condemn is the excess greed of Owerri as they believe that a State capital must be developed by government while rest of the state marks time until Owerri becomes a Dubai of Africa.

The same greed that made Owerri-born Minister of Aviation wanting to divert International Airport Status from Akanu Ibiam Airport in Enugu to Owerri.

Owerri greed has made close to 90% of Imo state remain rural, no modernity, while government has developed two cities in one Owerri - Old and New Owerri;

as successive state governors of Imo state were blackmailed by Owerri with: "build Imo people a befitting capital city to look like Dubai of Africa, other areas of Imo state may have to wait for future governors to take care of their development issues."

Abagworo:
Imo

The moment you and gov. Okorocha understand the difference between Imo state and Owerri, the better for you people.

Okorocha has stepped on the toes of many Imolites with his propagation of the falsehood that a state capital must be more developed by government than any other town in the state.

Owerri is less than 5% of the surface of Imo state for which the federal allocations are meant to develop. What happened to 95% of Imo state abandoned by Okorocha government, but left with only a tiny and occasional flash of infrastructure?

horsepower101:
Anioma state should be our no 1 priority when it comes to state creation. No more further didvision of the south east.

Anioma is in the SS. Anioma people shall not agree to be dragged into the SE region. Wake up. Some of you are like: we don't want the extra federal allocations that shall come to the SE if a sixth state is created in the SE;

some of you who don't want state created in the SE do not like to be appropriately represented in Nigeria's political process. Self-centered interest, not love for progress of Igbo is behind your stance. Many of you come from state capital, therefore deplore any further state creation. Awful.

Tufiakwa, the low level of intellect which some educated Igbos exhibit is alarming. Even the Almajiris are more brilliant than some Igbo PhD holders when matters of Nigeria's political structure and process are the discourse.

jamjo:
As an Igbo person and from Imo, my view on agitation for a state for Southeast, the five states are too small for another state to be created from it. We have the opportunity to expand our territory if we as Southeasters will see the vision and the advantages in supporting the creation of Anioma State in Delta state to complement the Southeast as the sixth State that will be good for us. We need room to spread and we also need the population, the Southeast is fast running out of agricultural lands and that is a big problem.

Polutical underepresentation of the Igbo at the federal level is main reason more states are needed in the SE. To be pronounced president, a presidential candidate must win 25% of votes in 36 states.
19 of the states and Abuja were ultimately proliferated by Abacha and IBB in one northern region, thus that makes northern presidential candidate capable of winning any presidential election, unless northern leaders did not say the president must come from the north.

Revenue allocation is second reason. SE has lost close to 300 billion Naira federal allocations due to absence of merited sixth state.

I am not going to be surprised that you may come from Owerri zone of Imo state.

But tell Owerri man that five states in the SE ARE TOO MANY, that Imo state and others shall fuse to former East Central State with Enugu as capital.

The Owerri man shall immediately retort "olom," - a big no.


But Owerri man is ready to make the SE continue to lose the two advantages of representation and revenue allocation, as Owerri wants to retain the oil producing areas in Orlu zone for development of state capital, Owerri.

InvertedHammer:
You contradicted yourself.

Why hasn't the agitation for Adada and Orlu come to fruition after all these years? Because he "who wakes up to decide" is not interested. Agitate all you want, if the Head of State is indifferent, you ain't getting it. They signed away States the same way they allocated oil fields to cronies and mistresses. Heck! Maryam Babangida was rewarded with Delta state. The buck stopped at the desk of the Head of States back then which you acknowledged surreptitiously.
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Because of political differences with then Imo state governor Udenwa, Senator Arthur Nzeribe killed the agitation for a merited sixth state in the Southeast. Njaba/Orlu state was about to be created when Arthur Nzeribe said it must be Orashi/Oguta state, instead of Njaba/Orlu.

Once the division from the same constituency in Imo state emerged, Nsukka people started to insist for Adada/Nsukka as the sixth state.
But it's on record that after Ebonyi was carved out as fifth SE state from Enugu and Abia states, the sixth SE state must be carved out from Anambra and Imo state's.

Arthur Nzeribe did his worst.

Paying for the genocide in Biafra.

Federal government doles out monthly allocations to the 36 states and 774 lgas of Nigeria.

The money is meant for development of the entire land space of Nigeria.

But in Imo state, in the last seven years, governor Rochas Okorocha seizes these allocations, builds only on the state capital, and the occasional scratches like a drop of water in the ocean, outside the state capital.

Owerri land owners get delighted; dance Atilogwu.

Imo state outside the state capital decays.

Latest News:

"I WAS ELECTED TO BUILD OWERRI"... Gov. Rochas Okorocha.

Yesterday, Gov. Okorocha Rochas told chieftains of Owerri who paid him a courtesy call that he was elected to build Owerri.


In reply, the Owerri chieftains told Okorocha that Owerri shall accept whoever Okorocha picks to succeed him as governor of Imo state.


It will be recalled that about two months ago, Owerri adopted Okorocha's son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, as an indigene of Owerri.

bedspread:
Festus Keyamo is a Shame to the Nigerian Judicial system....

Keyamo used medical terms to explain his opinion.

Perhaps he regrets not belonging to the medical profession.

In fact, he has no business in the Judicial Council.

jaylister:
More http://www.gistful.com/2018/03/27/festus-keyamo-reacts-to-pdps-apology-to-nigerians/

The difference between PDP and APC is only in name.

More than 90% of senior APC members were once in PDP.

Buhari who makes the difference is too old to steer Nigeria to glory.

tomakint:
You are one of the major reason why the Yorubas are tagged Hausa-Fulani slaves. Always running away from the truth when there is no point doing so just like how the elders did in yesteryears and it landed them in big poo. Tinubu has been sodomized by the Fulani or let me say his Fulani masters in Abuja.

OWAMBE TIME FOR FULANI - ELECTION TIME.

Election time is near. Soon, every important Fulani man shall start to attend every important Owambe and burial ceremony in Yoruba land.

That's what Fulani did in Yoruba land from 2013 to May 2015.

Buhari won. Since the Buhari victory, there has been no more traces of Fulani in Owambe parties in Yoruba land.

papoose321:
Na bus terminal president de com commission for Lagos c how backward dis country de go

You see what I saw. A whole president visiting to commission bus terminus.

I would think Buhari would visit to restart the Lagos Metro Transport System which he maliciously cancelled immediately he became HoS in 1994.

Issakendrick:
A fulani herdsmen was seen having sex with one of his cows he was grazing Today, At Kubwa, Abuja.


Source:
http://www.nairaplus.com/2018/03/herdsman-seen-having-sex-with-one-of.html

Video Source: Ib9ja

Tomorrow, he can become a senator or even the president of Nigeria.

Abagworo:
You made this same useless noise before 2015 and yet he beat you all silly even with all the Jonathan forces and Mbaise rigging. 2019 will be a walkover as there is no viable candidate to challenge Nwosu. I've given the analysis earlier just like I did for 2015. Only 3 Mbaise, Isiala Mbano and Owerri North is where Nwosu will not win 90% and if they want war majority of the youths with fire power are with Nwosu so it's best they accept the people's choice or be doomed.

The Okorocha trick of 2015 can't work again.
In 2015, Okorocha deliberately left many road works he started uncompleted, mostly in Orlu area.

People said if they don't allow him continue, the roads may remain uncompleted for long.

The uncompleted roads and drainage system still remain.


So what will he promise this time?

obrigado080:
Roach Ass Okoro Awusa, is in panic mode. He has seen the writing on the wall...
Same with rotimi and asiwaju!

#Asslickers

Yes.

Rochas has seen he can't succeed himself as he thought.

He now resorts to stopping Ararume who is believed to be capable of probing every hair of Rochas if Ararume wins.

5Ebisco:
The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has highlighted reasons Senator Ifeanyi Araraume would fail woefully if given the chance to run in the 2019 election as the flag bearer of the ruling party in the state.

Ararume is one of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in the state.

The Governor also told Ararume to leave the APC to a fresh party if he has what it takes to win elections.

Okorocha, in a lengthy statement made available to reporters in Owerri by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo on Sunday said that he would not allow Ararume “destroy” the party.

Okorocha claimed that Araraume contributed to the woes of his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before deserting it.

The statement reads, “He was one of those who called Rochas ‘Alhaji in Government House’ and ‘Okoro Hausa’. The truth is that he won’t be allowed to do to APC what he did to APP, PDP and ACN.

“It is unfortunate that a former Senator of Chief Araraume’s caliber should be telling cheep lies over an issue that is well known to all Nigerians who had followed events in APC right from the outset.

“Senator Araraume has never been a good Party man. A good Party is the one who, when he looses the Primary, would work to support the party and the candidate of the Party. Senator Araraume has never done that. And we won’t allow him to destroy APC like he had done to some other Political Parties.”

“Further explaining how Araraume put a spanner in the progress of PDP, as well as his claim as one of the founders of APC, he said “And he was in Court with Ihedioha until the election was conducted. He only began to relate with APC during the Supplementary election for the governorship.

“So, if Senator Araraume Contested the PDP governorship Primary in 2015, could he have in the circumstance also been one of the founders of APC? The answer is obviously in the negative.

“What we do not do is to allow opponents of the government to benefit from their lies. We shall continue to submerge their lies.

“In case we have forgotten, Senator Araraume was the Pioneer State Chairman of APP. But before the 1999 election, he abandoned the Party following a development that will be a story for another day. The late Evan Enwerem took him to Chief I.D. Nwoga and late Emeka Echeruo who were leaders of the PDP in the State then and secured ticket for him for Okigwe Senatorial zone and that was how he went to the Senate.

“In PDP, in 2007, he fought the sitting governor then, Achike Udenwa, to a standstill, took away the Party structure from Udenwa and emerged the governorship candidate of the PDP. Chief Udenwa decided to tell him that he was a sitting governor and then supported Chief Ikedi Ohakim of PPA, and he won.

“He also fought Chief Ohakim from the same Okigwe zone with him up to the Supreme Court and lost. And in 2011, he left the PDP and became the governorship Candidate of the ACN. In the governorship election proper he came fourth and could not win any of the 27 LGAs in the State.

“By the way, where would Senator Araraume get the votes to win governorship election in the State. Is it Owerri Zone whose people still feel that he is one of the major problems of PDP and Ihedioha or Okigwe Zone where the people of the area still believe that he was the cause of Ohakim’s failed second term bid or Orlu Zone people who see him as the person who never allowed their son, Achike Udenwa to have a peaceful handover.

“Beyond the false claims in the media, let one sit down to imagine the fate of APC in the South-East or in Imo without Rochas Okorocha.”

Okorocha further challenged Araraume to join a fresh party, like he did in 2011, if he claims he has the structure to win elections, to test his popularity.

“If he has what it takes to win an election, let him do what Rochas did in 2011 by picking the ticket of APGA that was not on ground and won and in 2015 when he defiled all odds and joined the merger that gave birth to APC and also won,” Governor Okorocha stated.

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/03/2019-araraume-called-me-okoro-hausa-he.html

Rochas Okorocha's belief that Hausa/Fulani "appoints" governors for Imo state is behind Rochas' statement that Ararume called him Okoroawusa. Rochas therefore wants to bring Ararume disrepute before Hausa/Fulani.

Okorocha ntooo gi. After battling Ararume, Izunaso, Madumere factions of Imo APC, you shall face Orlu people who you deliberately undermined development in their zone, as you pursued your private businesses in Owerri and your Ogboko village.

winj3:
1, independent Biafra means freedom for all = a blatant lie, Fulani herdsmen can still cross the Biafra border and kill as many IGBOs as they want.

The most foolish talk ever is yours above that Fulani herdsmen can still cross the Biafra border and kill Igbos in Biafra.
That's impossible.

Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen phenomenons MUST DISAPPEAR once Nigeria is divided into more governable countries.

Fulani is able to rope in all, including Danjuma's Taraba state, in one FAILED Nigeria, still sustain one Nigeria with the collaboration of foreigners, because of crude oil in the Niger delta.

It's like most politicians in Nigeria hold tightly on one Nigeria because of proceeds from crude oil.

zoba88:
Read more. http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2018/03/president-buhari-receives-rescued.html?m=1

Nigeria: one country, two worlds apart. That's what the photos show.

hajoke2000:
let just hope Nigeria will change for the better .......i am sure u do set alarm for u to wake up.....so dat is what hope is ....we all absolutely have no idea if we are going to wake up tomorrow .....but am sure we do hope dat.........so let us keep hoping that Nigeria will change .....and together we can by voting wisely in 2019.....we all cant run away.........

Hoping on hopelessness itself.

Nigeria can never change for better

Abagworo:
Another important fact you Chino need to understand is that the IMSU photos you post were taken during Ohakim time as Governor and not now. IMSU is highly improved now though I don't have enough photos. This is a hint of the present day IMSU.

Lovely pics of IMSU, Owerri

But: a state governor, Rochas Okorocha, establishes another IMSU Campus in the same Owerri senatorial zone which hosts all the three public universities in Imo state;

thereafter, the same state governor set up a committee to relocate Imo state University teaching hospital from Orlu to the same Owerri.

No former governor of Imo state agreed to build a lasting infrastructure on the present site of IMSU in Owerri because it's believed the site can't host IMSU.

Owerri-born Evan Enwerem defied equity and zoning principle when he located IMSU in Owerri, he was shown suitable sites outside Owerri, yet he defied pleas to locate IMSU outside Owerri zone which then hosted and still hosts FUTO, AICE and POLYNEKEDE.

Lots of rats smelling, lots of skeleton in governor Okorocha's cupboard, vis a vis his rush to make most of Imo state come to live in Owerri.

Abagworo:
Take it easy with this gibberish.

Gibberish?

Gov. Okorocha brought gibberish, hatred, grudge and destruction to government house, to political leadership. He targeted and destroyed things built by his predecessors whom he brands opponents

1; immediately after becoming governor of Imo state, Okorocha started to dismantle the roofs of Sam Okwaraji Stadium, Orlu, built by a reputed construction company which specializes in stadium and sports arena construction. The stadium was rendered useless thereafter, no organised sports in it till today. Today the seats and floodlights of the stadium are decayed.

2; after rendering the Imo state University teaching hospital (IMSUTH) in Orlu comatose state, by refusing for five years to repair the road to the institution, as well as owe arrears of salaries to IMSUTH workers, Okorocha set up a committee in 2016 to relocate IMSUTH to Owerri. He intends to trade IMSUTH with Owerri for his private Eastern Palm University in his community in Ideato south lga.

Okorocha is believed to be waiting to implement the recommendation of his IMSUTH Relocation committee if and when his son-in-law becomes governor of Imo state. A pointer to this is Okorocha's continued refusal to repair the road to IMSUTH.

3; The roads to the Imo international market Orlu were scrapped and abandoned since 2012 by Okorocha government.
Only a tiny alleyway leads to this market which hosts mire than 40,000 visitors a day.

A state governor who deserts and inflicted huge punishment upon the people and area that gave him the highest support and number of votes is bizarre.

Abagworo:
Take it easy with your lies. All of Imo State cities and towns are receiving facelift. All the major markets in all the villages are under total reconstruction to something more appealing. While other Governors are making noise about dualisation 104 years after amalgamation even smaller towns like Amaraku are endowed with dualised roads, modern market and decent development courtesy Okorocha that you hate and write lies against. Today a 15km dual carriageway is under construction from Mgbidi to Oguta cutting across heart of Oguta city.

Okorocha is a silent revolutionist and wherever he points is where all of us will follow and victory is assured.


Meanwhile the installation of highpower solar streetlights continues in Okigwe where a brand new stadium and 8 lane ring road is also nearing completion.

Glad that you and gov Okorocha are gradually coming to understand that Imo state is not Owerri; though belated.


8-lane Ring Road in Okigwe nearing completion?

Thank goodness. But please show us the Okigwe Ring Road here for proof; assuming you understand what a City Ring Road is.

Imo state and development in it may be further reduced to Douglas and Wetherel Roads with the expansion and beautification of these two major roads in Owerri, If Gov. Okorocha is allowed by people of Imo state to succeed himself through his daughter via Okorocha's son-in-law, Uche Nwosu,

Woow!!

The outstanding undertaking of Anambra governor, Willie Obianor, as he is taking oath of office for second term is unrelenting development of Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi.

Last year, Obiano flagged off dualization of the urban roads of Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi.

In Imo state, gov Rochas Okorocha shrinks Imo state to become Owerri, as he builds ten-lane streets in Owerri, buys urban mass movement vehicles for use only in Owerri, builds City schools at every street corner of Owerri, paints and rebuilds schools in Owerri, demolished what he and previous governors built in Owerri, including state library, markets, etc and builds new ones. Okorocha crew does not even understand that state library exists in all the local government areas of a state.

Rest of Imo state outside Owerri decays under Okorocha government.

Okorocha does not tolerate criticism.

Ignoramuses hail Okorocha's lopsided and abhorrent development pattern. Some from Owerri see Okorocha as saviour

beejaay:
Anyone still expecting anything from this country is doomed...

They need to be taken to a Mental Health Clinic;

yeah, I mean, those still expecting that one day Nigeria shall function like a normal country to deliver wealth and happiness to majority of Nigerians.

If one may ask Prof. WS: what is disrupting about IPOB?

IPOB wants Biafra restored from Nigeria.
It doesn't matter if it's All-Igbo Biafra.

If Oil producing areas of the SS region refuse Biafra, they can join Nigeria of the old SW and Northern regions twinned by Islam.
If black man in Nigeria does things the way things are supposed to be done, no one would say IPOB is disruptive.

After all, no country was created to remain indivisible.

Imo's oil money is devoted to development of one senatorial zone in Imo state - Owerri.

Meanwhile Orlu and Okigwe zones are abandoned, and a norm established by Okorocha Rescue Family that Owerri must be a million miles more developed than any where in the two zones of Imo state.

Okorocha Rescue Family members have the big businesses in Owerri; the Rescue Family government therefore does nearly all of its development projects in Owerri to attract most of Imo state to come to live in Owerri to patronize Rescue Family businesses scattered all over Owerri.

SALUTE IPOB BOYS.
THEY SEE FARTHER, SEE AHEAD, SINCERE, MORE THAN YOU WHO CALL THEM BIAFRAUDS.

RIP to innocent dead Kogites.

Anywayzzz, Crude oil in the Niger delta still keeps all in one Nigeria.

If not, there are many sovereign nations less populated than Kogi state.

RIP.
But all the outrage while crude oil cannot allow us free ourselves from the killer group through firming our own countries different from the Nigeria dominated by the killer group?

LasGidiOwner:
Imo state is cursed. Okoroawusa has failed Imo state and its people. Bikes, Keke and rickety buses should be banned from the major roads in Imo state.



https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/12/driver-dies-fatal-accident-involving-bus-imo-state-photo.html

Governor Okorocha bought hundreds of taxis and limited them to Owerri roads.


Our governor bought mass transit buses and limited then to Owerri roads.

Okorocha named them Imo buses and ImoTaxis, instead of Owerri buses and taxis.

Imo governor Okorocha bought dozens of police patrol cars and other security apparatuses but limited them to police only Owerri.

... all these with federal allocations for the 27 local councils in Imo state.

But when Okorocha visits the UK, he travels from London to Manchester with public transport system provided by government for all the UK cities, not only for London.

No city in the UK is miles of development ahead of others, but Okorocha and crooks clapping for him are establishing the type of Soweto and Cape Town Apartheid disparity between Owerri and rest of Imo state.