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"za a yi kare jini biri jinni"
All i see is blood everywhere in this statement

What does blood got to do with an election?

Jonathan's administration was better than obj's

Everybody dey form ajebo,see dia mouth
Phobia for cochcroaches and failure my azz

Almajiri state of mind

Ayus34:
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boss I'm not against urs opinion we might reason differently,I don't think anything is wrong doing that,everyone with different political view. ....but the moment u begin to insult other just because he failed to support ur ideology...then u are not meant to be in the midst of civilized people. ....none of this politicians is paying me...so we need to be objective in our mode of reasoning...remember what amaechi said is not different to what statemen like Edwin Clarke, dokubo,ciroma,buhari,kanti bello and the likes have said.....but when u vent ur anger on a particular person because urs hatred for him,its highly unfair,as we all know rigging is part of Nigeria culture so vulgar language is not synonymous to a particular party......it cit across both two Nigeria top parties its sad but that's the reality....that is what the system is offering us,and we equally have the right to chose where to belong among them,so when I decided to oppose urs opinion or ideology that doesn't makes me ur enemy unlike what that nonentity and underexposed bigots believe in.......VULGAR language is not invented by amaechi so it won't end with him... as if been the system had stopped it,by prosecuting previous offenders then maybe amaechi would ve say something else....blame the system as well![/s]

Was this post meant for me?

Shiii doesn't add up.

I smell she.male

Ayus34:
I can now reach a logical conclusion that u a re real fool!
how on earth will u call me a dumb just because I decided to chose a path different from a myopic way of urs ?it shows how uncivilize and unexpose u are.....if u think amaechi is wrong,its ur right to go to court and if u can't may u be destroyed for life..... ...a lot of politicians have made worst statements than this from both political side and if u are knowledgeable enough amaechi statement,that is even conditional(IF),Should not be the issue if not because u are already hopeless of a better tomorrow and u are looking for one to vent ur anger.....please this man didn't bring u to this world,u can sit ur parents down and asked them why they failed in their duty...amaechi is not ur problem but ur parents that failed in their responsibility. ....all hope is not lost.....u can still GET A LIFE.
BASTARD!

You people amaze me with this your IF.

You talk as if there's ever been a politian who lost election in nigeria and claimed his opponent didnt rig?
Admit it! This is low on amaechi's part,seems like he already knows he and APC would lose at coming election.Why cry foul already with incitive statements? Even before election?

iluvnaija:
If this statement is an examination many so called graduates have failed woefully.

The word "if" and "Rigged" has been taken out of contest. No one is talking about rigging, all opposing comments here support "Rigging".

So it is very obvious the PDP is synonymous with "Rigging". Rigging is PDP and PDP is Rigging.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong in what Amechi said. He said if elections are rigged, he didn't say if APC loose. That was exactly what Buhari said in 2011, Buhari haters changed it till today.

I think many Nigerians are not honest, I don't have any hope for Nigeria if we continue with the current administration.

Mr man, that same rigging put Amaechi into power so what are you saying? PdP is this and that,wasnt amaechi part of this PDP when he was rigged into power? Who is amaechi to come here and cry about rigging before election? Saint?

The way you people reason atimes sef

brightmexy:
'Sai' is an hausa word meaning 'only' in its mostly used contest. e.g. ' sai Buhari' means 'only Buhari'.... 'Sai Jonathan' means 'only Jonathan"... 'sai kai'... 'only you'

Some one said it means "good buhari"

Osakah24:
As far as nigeria is concerned Asari dokubo is an ordinary citizen ranting for himself, same cant be said of a governor of a state
.How will you determine if an election is rigged without going to court or does it mean if APC dont win its rigged, but if they do its free and fair? .

Exactly my thoughts,

major466:
You get sharp mind bros. That's the general idea. To provoke the police to use tear gas. Their plan is to smear the name of GEJ and portray him as a dictator to the world through their mass media tools. APC is indeed the definition of AGBEROS. Yuck!

Thats it.So when next we say buhari is a dictator,they'd would come with gibberish about how GEJ is also a dictator siting this failed attempt as an example.But sadly it didnt work.

In other words, amaechi is saying,if we lose(which is inevitable) we will form our own government cos the lust for power has eaten too deep in we(the apc) hearts.

pendicle:
If in all I've written and said on this forum, you still lack the modicum of knowledge to appreciate the lesson then you're a lost cause.

What is wrong with good buhari? Or good Nigeria or good APC?

If you have a better meaning try educate us here.

All talk and no content. Are you this hollow?

No de menstrate

Keep calm and "Sai" you dont know the meaning

pendy79:
You grew up in the north and you can't fault the meaning he gave? Truly you're more than daft

Give us the meaning na so we can know he is lying

You want hear am from my mouth? Ok you go pay for hausa lessons o.Ya'll was murking acid for giving you a dictionary meaning of the word SAI and ya'll couldn't come up with a better one.I'll just let ya'll wallow in your self ignorance.

BTW its better to admit you dont know the meaning of something that to interpret it wrongly.In a bid to potray buhari in a goodlight someone had to say "sai means good" as in, sai gobe = good night as a result, sai means "good buhari"

pendicle:
Are you this daft or foolish? You qouted me as saying SAI means Good, what more do you want again?

If you say sai death and it makes meaning to you then feel freee to use it. You have gotten the meaning yet you fail to understand, is it my duty to break it into functional usage for you.

Sai gobe means good night will you say it means death night? Use your head at times na.

Sai as use in the concept is similar to saying

Love live Buhari, long live Nigeria.
Sai Buhari, sai Nigeria.

It relates to a good person, good product, good thinking.

Dude admit it,you dont know the meaning

Dont come here and cook up shyte,do you know i grew up in the north?

pendicle:
If your eyes were not blinded by illiteracy like your brother's you would have seen where I gave the meaning not once but twice.

Go back to my posts and sanctified yourself from foolishness and ignorance, it is worst than madness.

I was actually waiting for you to give a sensible meaning of the word and you didn't,even up until this moment nothing from you yet.All you said was the word is used for something good or positive.So before i kill someone now i shout "sai death to the janja.weedians" it automatically means i want to do something positive or good as you rightly said?

These APC touts want to provoke the police to deal with them so as use that as a political tool to smear the office of the president.

chakula:
For those that don't know the meaning of 'Sai' (especially acidosis) in Hausa is simply means 'Pointing'. However, if you attached anything with the word 'Sai' is like you are pointing something to the people or calling their attention to look after the thing. Simple.


Sai Buhari.

So this means "pointing buhari?" Senseless if you ask me.

Janja.weedians having heavenly feeling over the header of the thread.See them coming to console themselves one by one

Gej and his wife no go finish dis country,Wetin concern first lady with bayelsa politics biko? To the level of she having her own candidate

Nigeria has gone to the dogs.

Tonto dey beef everybody

Seun and the mods can we please have this on the frontpage,more people need to know about the itsekiri heritage.

Wulfruna:
Isn't this funny? On another thread where people were discussing the form of Igbo spoken in Bonny/Opobo and other issues pertaining to Eastern-Ijaw/Igbo relations, you showed up to berate the 'land grabbers' and 'identity thieves'.

Now, here you are claiming the land of the Itsekiri people as well as the people themselves.

It's amazing that people don't see in themselves what they see in others.

Thank you my sis.Can you imagine the guts.

ijawcitizen:
1. How come Ijaws are settlers in itsekiri land when they met Ijaws in the land before the foundation of the so called itsekiri nation? 2. Do you agree that the founder of the so called itsekiri nation, Ginuwa the exiled prince from benin was a refugee who seeked asylum within the ijaws of the same area, and himself and his co-refugees (about 70 people, all men) were all given ijaw wives ie itsekiris are maternally ijaws? Other than God Almighty Himself, we ijaws created the itsekiri nation, we nursed it from the very begining. I really don't know if you're all just some cursed and wretched ingrates or just acting like one. Ijaws settling in itsekiri land indeed!

These ijaw people are indeed trouble makers and land terrorist as someone rightly said.You settled in someone's land,next thing you wanna claim the land to be yours cos you think you have power or what? Ya'll are fund of this.You can do well to educate yourself,there is link in the post where you can find different reference materials to help you understand what you are saying.Dont do a beer parlour 'na-us-get-am' kind of argument,provide links to back your arguments.

All naija celebs except 2face.

About the EPZ controversy
I saw this online so i thought to share.Any thoughts Nlders?

I urge anyone interested in knowing the facts of this matter to see Vanguard of Wednesday July 30, 2014 and read the Ugborodo rejoinder to the issues being raised by Gbaramatu. Ijaws have no claim whatsoever in the Ogidigben EPZ. There are two projects in one: Gas City covering 2,560.89 hectares of land and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Jetty Project of 300 hectares.
The land Delta State Government acquired for the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) for the Gas City lies between Ogidigben and Ajudaibo. Notices of Revocation of the Rights of Occupancy as published respectively in The Pointer of Thursday, November 12, 2012 and Vanguard of Thursday, December 6, 2012 expressly show that the land is between Ajudaibo and Ogidigben, which are in Ugborodo Community. The 300 hectares NPA Jetty lies between Madangho and Kpokpo. Courts of competent jurisdictions have adjudged these lands part of Ugborodo in various suits.
Tendered receipts where Ijaws pay as customary tenants to Itsekiri were part of the facts that gave Itsekiri court victory in those suits. Certainly, Itsekiri have copies of these receipts and are verifiable public documents in the Courts!
Barring the debate on land ownership, the Ijaws are asking for their own Interface committee. They say in the days of EGTL which they acknowledge was solely on Ugborodo soil, the Ijaws and even Ilajes of Ondo had their own Interface Committees to negotiate their stakes as impacted communities.
It is good to hear they agreed that they don’t have land ownership claim to the EGTL. The Itsekiri people have made it clear that they recognize the presence of the Gbaramatu people settled in Itsekiri land and the Sokebolou Ogulaha people as their neighbours. Same goes for the Ilajes. For this reason Ijaws and Ilajes benefited from projects within Ugborodo Community like the EGP, EGTL etc. in the usual Itsekiri spirit of accommodation, magnanimity and hospitality.
For the EPZ, Itsekiris are prepared to accommodate these people again, not as of right or by falsehood and threat or violence but as a privileged to neighbours. They can have as many EPZ Interface Committees as they desire if and when the project come to their land. For now, the entire land (about 3, 000 hectares) acquired by government for the EPZ Project belongs to the Itsekiri. Let me add that EPZ is 3 times bigger than the gradually winding off EGTL. There is so much to go round not just for Itsekiris, Ijaws and Ilajes but Delta State and Nigeria as a whole.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ijaws-claim-ogidigben-epz-eyengho/

Culture and religion

The Itsekiris traditionally lived in a society that was governed by a monarchy (the Olu) and council of chiefs who form the nobility or aristocracy. Itsekiri society itself was organised along the lines of an upper class made up of the royal family and the aristocracy – the 'Oloyes and Olareajas' these were mainly drawn from noble houses including the Royal Houses and the Houses of Olgbotsere (Prime Minister or king maker) and Iyatsere (defence minister). The middle class or Omajaja were free-born Itsekiris or burghers. As a result of the institution of slavery and the slave trade there was a third class 'Oton-Eru' or those descended from the slave class whose ancestors had come from elsewhere and settled in Itsekiriland as indentured or slave labourers. In modern day Itsekiri society the slave class no longer exists as all are considered free-born.Traditionally, Itsekiri men wear a long sleeved shirt called a Kemeje, tie a George wrapper around their waist and wear a cap with a feather stuck to it. The women wear a blouse and also tie a George wrapper around their waist. They wear colourful head gears known as Nes (scarf) or coral beads.Itsekiris are also famed for their traditional fishing skills,melodious songs, gracefully fluid traditional dances and colourful masquerades and boat regattas.

Religion
Before the introduction of Christianity in the 16th
century, like many other African groups, the Itsekiris largely followed a traditional form of religion known as Ebura-tsitse (based on ancestral worship) which has become embedded in modern day traditional Itsekiri culture.Once the dominant form of western Christianity in Itsekiriland for centuries, only a minority of Itsekiris are Roman Catholics today whilst the majority are Protestants notably Baptist and Anglican .

Itsekiri language
Whilst genetically, the Itsekiris are a complex mixture of the
many different ethnicities and races that have settled in their area, however, the Itsekiri language is very closely related to the south-eastern and Ilaje Yoruba dialects and to the Igala .It has also been influenced significantly by the Bini,Portuguese and English languages due to centuries of
interaction with people from those nations. However, it
remains a key branch of the Yoruboid family of languages
even retaining archaic or lost elements of the proto Yoruba
language due to its relative isolation in the Niger-Delta where it developed away from the main cluster of Yoruba language dialects. Unlike nearly all key Nigerian Languages, the Itsekiri language does not have dialects and is uniformly
spoken with little or no variance in pronunciation apart from
the use of 'ch' for the regular 'ts' (sh) in the pronunciation of
some individual Itsekiris, e.g. Chekiri instead of the standard
Shekiri but these are individual pronunciation traits rather
than dialectal differences. This may be a relic of past
dialectal differences. The English language continues to exert a strong influence on the Itsekiri language both in influencing its development and in its widespread usage as a first language amongst the younger generation. Modern standard Yoruba (the variety spoken in Lagos) also appears to be influencing the Itsekiri language partly due to the similarity between both languages and the ease of absorbing colloquial Yoruba terms by the large Itsekiri population living in Western Nigerian cities. Itsekiri is now taught in local schools up to university degree level in Nigeria.There are a number of semi-autonomous Itsekiri
communities such as Ugborodo whose history predates the
15th-century establishment of the Warri Kingdom. The
Ugborodo community claims direct descent from the Ijebu a
major Yoruba sub-ethnic group.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsekiri_people

Itsekiri people

The Itsekiri' (also called the, Isekiri, Itsekri or Ishekiri or
Itsekhiri ) are an ethnic group of Nigeria 's Niger Delta area,
Delta State .The Itsekiri presently number under a
million people and live mainly in the Warri South, Warri North and Warri South West local government districts of Delta State on the Atlantic Coast of Nigeria . Significant
communities of Itsekiris can be found in parts of Edo and
Ondo states and in various other Nigerian cities including
Lagos, Sapele , Benin City, Port Harcourt and Abuja. Many
people of Itsekiri descent also reside in the United Kingdom,
the USA and Canada. The Itsekiris traditionally refer to their
land as the Kingdom of Warri or 'Iwerre' as its proper name – which is geographically contiguous to the area covered by the three Warri local government districts. The area is a key
centre of Nigeria's crude oil and natural gas production and
petroleum refining and the main town Warri (a multi-ethnic
metropolis) forms the industrial and commercial nucleus of
the Delta State region.

Ethnography
The Itsekiri are a people of very mixed ethnic origins who
speak a language very closely related to the Yoruba language of South Western Nigeria but which has also been
significantly influenced by other languages particularly
Portuguese, Edo (Benin), English . Although linguistically
related to the Yoruba ethnic group, however, through
centuries of intermingling modern day Itsekiris are of very
mixed ethnic origins (primarily of Yoruba (Ijebu, Ilaje,Ondo
and Owo), Edo, Urhobo, Ijo, Anglo-Scottish and Portuguese
descent) and are today mainly Christian (Protestant and
Roman Catholic) by religion. Thus having had six centuries of direct cultural exposure to Western Christianity and other
African influences, contemporary Itsekiri language and
culture has successfully evolved into a hybrid of the many
cultures that have influenced its development. Similarly
owing to the complex genetic mix of most Itsekiris over the
centuries, many individuals self-identifying as Itsekiri would
usually be a complex mix of any of the aforementioned ethnic and racial groups.

History
In the 15th century, the early Itsekiris adopted a prince
(Ginuwa) from the Kingdom of Benin as a monarch, and
quickly coalesced into a kingdom under his rule.
Traditionally fishermen and traders, the Itsekiri were among
the first in the region to make contact with Portuguese
traders. These interactions in the 16th century led the Itsekiri to become primarily Roman Catholic .The Itsekiri monarchy has continued to the present day, with the coronation of Ogiame Atuwatse II in 1987. The Itsekiri's historical capital is Ode-Itsekiri, though the monarch maintains a palace in Warri town the largest city in the area and home to diverse other communities including the Urhobos , Ijaws , Isoko and many other Nigerian and expatriate groups working in the oil and gas industry.

Itsekiris today
The Itsekiri, though a minority group within Nigeria, are
considered to be a highly educated and affluent ethnic group with a very high rate of literacy and a rich cultural
heritage .The Itsekiris have one of the oldest histories of western education in West Africa, and are noted for producing one of its earliest university graduates – the Itsekiri king Olu Antonio Dom Domingo a 17th-century graduate of Coimbra University in Portugal. Today, many Itsekiris can be found working in the professions particularly medicine,law and the academic professions and in business, trade and industry and were among the pioneers that led the development of the professions in Nigeria during the early-to-mid 20th century.

007Bruce:
the guy one they troll & me no they follow person they talk rubbish. you sef see werrin him type; ''what is this one saying?'' if he had typed ''what are you saying?'', i wont reply like that

You started the trolling when you called me "djicedumb".I was just paying you back in your own coin...and now you are the victim? Smh.

Lessons To Be learnt:Don't troll a nigga if you don't wanna get trolled.

However, apologies!

007Bruce:
are you dumb? You were asking me what is ''acting slice'' and i showed you there's a full stop after acting. no quote me again!

You made no sense.You just re-quote the line put fullstop inside.I wanted to know the meaning of the line of which you obviously dont know you yourself.

007Bruce:
djicedumb, I'll have you taken back to Christ, when you
sacrifice the way you acting.' slice, when I tear your
back with knifes

What is this one saying