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Firstly, we're nationalist.

Secondly, the power and resources to make the disruptive positive change lies at the center

Paraman:
Let Igbos change the trajectory of Enugu and Ebonyi, the two poverty stricken state in the south first

Removal of subsidy wasnt the problem, its the devaluation of the naira that wrecked everything.

nairalanda1:
So you now admit that in 2012, tinubu, buhari and co were right to call for subsidy to remain then?

As for me, they were wrong then, still wrong now.

It seems only Igbos have the capacity of changing the trajectory of the country. An Igbo man needs to be president to do the needful

thesicilian:
An igboman hiding under the username of Alaafinofoyo. I'm sure you're one of those who say things like "I'm Yoruba but..." And also a "Yoruba" obidient.

You must be kidding me!

DeepsightX:
By saving money through subsidy removal and higher taxes because Nigerians need to pay more to make the country economically stable as well agreed by most economists, the IMF, World Bank, and even eminent persons such as Cardoso, Wale Edun and nairalanda1 for the general good of Nigeria.

Who is subsidizing who? If anybody tells you he is subsidizing anything, that person is a fraud - Buhari

How many supplementary budgets?

Rubber stamp senate

Hope you know this is reinforcing the unitary system?

If Nigeria never wanted a unitary system, there's no way Ironsi's decree 14 would have survived because he was killed 40 days after promulgating that decree

seanfer:
INEC has been the one conducting LGA elections until OBJ led govt use the LGA election to conpensate PDP Governors for supporting his second term ticket in 2003.

You think they reaigned because they're being owed? Otti will not allow looting so they've to go somewhere else

CyrusVI:
And how are u sure about this. Thats a fictitious statement at best. A terrible assumption too

With the facts on ground, its reasonable to say that they resigned cause they dont wanna work with a man that gets allocation from the FG every month yet sticked to paying 18k as the minumum wage in 2024

Its even more sad, when u consider that the workers are still being owed 11months salary

People who destroyed Lagos

LegendHero:
We are protesting in Abia, Otti will feel our wrath in August.

How can you be paying less than 15k to workers with families? This is injustice.

I don't have your time

ResidentSnitch:
Can you just shut up and listen to a better reasoning?
All the years you have been protesting, what did you achieve?
Just shut up and think.

Tinubu govt is highly incompetent and fraudulent!

Didn't know I was engaging an agbado CORNfused miscreant

HilcomTech:
Bringing Igbos together is different from attaching fake and substandard Igbo wannabe to real Igbos

Tinubu should listen to criticism. He is performing abysmally[quote author=Paraman post=131004472][/quote]

He is also free to stay. The party does not belong to anyone

Paraman:
He's free to leave the APC and join any political party he wants to join

Tinubu is not beyond criticism. One more northern enemy for Tinubu

Paraman:
The APC has not done anything wrong on this issue

Leave cho cho cho. Tell Tilumbu to show workings.

If Tilumbu is performing, nobody would be talking of protest. Now that Northern Nigeria has written IG about the protest, are you still accusing Igbos? E go clear for una eyes.

#DaysOfRage

WizardOfNG:
No one is dictating to them. Just calling out their hypocrisy most Nigerians now know is dues to their vindictive and hateful nature that has left them willing to strike back in any way and manner possible since they swore to remove Tinubu for denying them Igbo Presidency through Peter Obi.

Tell Igbos to adhere to tenets of peaceful protests and you will soon see Ekpa, Mefor and literally thousands of Biafrans sending similar messages to that shown below so they can hijack the protest and send hundreds of Chiinasa Micheals out to destroy the "Zoo" because they simplistically believe ousting Tinubu somehow means they will be in charge or enjoy greater control over Nigeria.

Folks should be guided. Authorities know what Igbos are up to. That is the truth.

They did not prevent Southerners from protesting. Our division in southern Nigeria is our challenge

Racoon:
Protest was haram under Buhari according to these bloody hypocrites. Meanwhile, what happened to the muslim muslim ticket miracle? God punish all of una.

Keep your opinion to yourself and do as you wish. Don't discourage others

jyz200:
Me not joining any protest
I rather invest that time on myself become rich nd stop complaining
Govt can't do shit for anybody

Stop blackmailing them! Did they asked you not to protest when Buhari was in power?

Edygrin:
When Buhari was in power, protest was haram. Now because it's a Southerner, you remember that protest is your right. During the end Sars protest in 2020 in Lagos, there was no single protest in the North, instead there was counter protest in Abuja and Kano.
Please keep your protest in the north and await the counter protest from the south. 2 can play the game.

Anything Tinubu or APC does, you slavishly support

Paraman:
He has not being speaking like a responsible person. You fixed your children in NNPCL and CBN but claim to be speaking for the poor ones in your senatorial district you couldn't fix in juicy FG parasatals


He has the choice to resign and join any other political party in Nigeria

You are narrow-minded and shortsighted. If you're strategic, you will be bringing Igbos together rather than succumbing to divide and conquer unconsciously.

HilcomTech:
the person you quoted Just like Nzeougu, DMerciful is just another Igbo wannabe. He is not a real Igbo and is doing everything at all cost to be accepted as Igbo by the real Igbos. He is from the same Delata state as Nzeogu and for some reason is just as unwise as Nzeogu


cc: DMerciful

The current hardship is coming from this that is reserved for the fg...inflation rate, exchange rate,
subsidy removal, insecurity

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Funny thing is that you don't live in Nigeria to lead the protest.
I agree with Pazienza. We should be holding our senators, house of representatives, governors accountable. That should be the main goal.

This is the fake Ohaneze. Nobody knows this clown!

If Tinubu survives the 4yrs and come for 4 more yrs, even the SE governors wont be held accountable after pledging loyalty to Tinubu.

The greatest thing politicians fear is unity and saying we shouldn't get involved is playing to what they want. Keep us divided

pazienza:
Tinubu will do 8yrs. Complete 8 years for that matter

And oh! Shettima will do 8years too. You can go mark it down anywhere.

No one is discouraging anyone, we are just saying they should keep their protests outside SE. Don't bring the useless protest to our homeland.

We are not hopeless, we have governors and we have Aku luo Uno to channel our energy on.

Allow the owners of Nigeria and those who know how to play better politics do their thing.

Are you afraid of people in the west? Are you gonna endure bad governance forever?

Worst case the country is balkanized, we cannot live this mess for another generation

nedu666:
Say no to protest in the east. So that in future no body from the south west will try the nonsense they did in ojota under jona. Secondly, no protest will lay to rest any Yoruba man critiquing any govt in future when they have failed.

These are less than 2000 men holding 220 million to ransom. Totally unacceptable!

There's no long term plan that justifies looking on, with this approach, some people will never experience good governance

pazienza:
Nnaa, nkwucha aburo ujo.
Igbo approach to Nigeria now will be nkwucha.

Our approach will be to endure long enough until Nigeria collapse under debt.
It mustn't be in our current generation or the next.
But that should be the goal.
Channel all that energy at getting better governors at home and continuing our Aku luo uno campaign.

Work more on getting all Igbo groups outside SE to be zoned to SE.

Nwanne, that debt will be paid by all parts of Nigeria and we are the most adept at surviving under such conditions having seen hell in Biafra.

We are not cowed, we are just trying a different approach towards disentangling ourselves from the Nigerian web.
Self preservation is a good strategy. We will pay the debt in the future.
Let the rest of the country lead the charge for better Nigeria, let's relax for once and enjoy the scenery.

Tinubu will not do 8yrs.

Pls stop discouraging people. If you don't wanna protest, keep it in your mind.

How can you tell people to be happy in servitude and you're even telling them to accept it for 16yrs. What kind of hopelessness is this?

pazienza:
Who will stop them?
You?
Are you any good at playing politics?
Of course Tinubu will do 8yrs and Shettima will do same too.
The energy needed to stop them does not exist and Ndiigbo will not be a part of such, as we have better places to channel that energy.
I'm a realist.
Tinubu will do 8yrs and Shettima will do 8yrs too. The earlier you accept that, the better for you.

As for the Ronu accusations, that's ridiculous, you must be new on NL to not know this moniker and what I stand for.

If any protester is killed then Tilumbu must go. Behave like the Kenyans and not like cowards.

The small minority cannot dictate to the super majority

Dozis:
Two crates of Hero beer for you Oga Pazienza.

Nna gị mụrụ gị!!!
They are looking for an excuse to kill Igbos, they already have their military stationed everywhere in South East and ready to shoot at sight.
We have no stake in this government, we protested with our ballot papers!!!

We cannot continue like this. The debt that the APC is collecting and looting will be paid by our children inclusive so we can't just sit by and watch them do as they like.

If this will break the contraption, so be it.

Have they not be targeting Igbos before? Are we gonna cower to their bully? If Israel had shown weakness in the face of perpetual hatred, they'd have been anahilated.

There's nothing that the eyes would see that would cause it to bleed. We deserve an honourable peace!

pazienza:
These are reasons why no reasonable and Igbo thinking Igbo man should be involved in the planned protest:


1. You have already been marked as number one opposition to APC.
Once this protest starts, you will be used as the scapegoat by the government to teach others lessons, while others will stylishly rescind and even join in bashing you.
It has happened before. Stay off the useless protest.

2. You stand to gain nothing from the protest. If Tinubu resigns or steps down, you are not 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th in line to take over from him.
You will be stupid to offer Igbo head to be used to break a coconut others will enjoy while you stay sidelined as usual.

3. The protest in the SE will easily be hijacked by questionable characters like Simon Ekpa who is being controlled by external anti Igbo elements within and outside Nigeria. Simon Ekpa and his branch of IPOB are fifth columnists and Trojan horses implanted by enemies of Ndiigbo to destroy our land.
If you stupidly join this protest, Ekpa will make sure destruction and confrontation with Nigerian army happens by unleashing his armed boys to cause mayhem and justify Nigerian army violence on all of us.
Be careful not to start what you don't have control over.

4. SE is not the worst hit by APC failure in governance.
We always knew APC had nothing to offer hence as a progressive race, we have stood as a bastion of stiff opposition to APC since 2015 and have paid the ultimate prize of political exclusion for it while the rest of Nigeria including SS got a fair share of political representation in APC, as they have held both deputy senate and Senate posts so far. APC has made sure they returned our resentment towards them with political exclusion and banishment for us.
We knew APC will fail and are better prepared to endure this reality than the rest of the country who claim to be better at playing politics. There is therefore no need to pretend like we expected better from APC by joining a useless protest.
The whole idea of protest is to register a dissatisfaction because you expected better. This isn't the case with SE, hence the redundancy of a protest in SE. Let those who know how to play politics and expected better from APC do the protest.


5. Sometimes, silence is the best answer or what we call "masterly inactivity". We need to retain tactical silence in Nigeria now, stay off issues, let the "owners of Nigeria " to sort themselves out.
You know the popular axiom of "If you wait long enough by the river banks, you will see your enemies float by".
This should be our plan with Nigeria going forward.


With all these reasons outlined so far, it's now obvious why a protest is not the solution for SE.
Let Tinubu see off his 8years and let Shettima do his too.
Let's work with this mindset. Let's get ourselves prepared to win this economic endurance marathon. We are best prepared to win this torture than the rest than the rest of Nigeria as non of them have had to endure 1/100th of what we endured in Biafra or in post Biafra Nigeria until now.
Don't join them, your reality are not same as theirs.
Cheta na Oke solu Ngwere maa mmili, okoo Ngwere, ogaghi akoo Oke.
Let's put more emphasis on our state governors, if there should at all be any protest, let it be to demand for better utilisation of our share of the national allocation from our governors down to local government chairmen.
Let the Aku luo Uno continue.
Let's find a way to flush those Simon Ekpa terrorists that have besieged our lands in Southern Anambra and Northern Imo out.
Let's return peace to our land, grow our economy. Let's live like FG and Nigeria does not exist.

We can do this Umunnem.

There's need to rebuild those houses.

Nigerians should come out massively to protest.
Don't let anybody gaslight you, only trees will see people coming to cut them and do nothing!

Bring religious sentiments to hold the people down

AlaafinOfOyo:
In 2014 November, I dreamed that Buhari won in my first ever political dream. Last night I dreamed about the planned protest against Tunubu and it was bad ... very bad. I suggest people let this incompetent government be. After all, if the people stood their ground before they stole power, things won't be this bad.

Elections have consequences. They always do. But peace is invaluable, even under a bad corrupt government.