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Akainzo:
You COULD be very correct HOWEVER the crux of the matter is that, PDP did not go to the Tribunal to challenge HOW Okorocha became a governorship candidate rather they were challenging the fact that he won!

APC lawyers were smart in this case as the issue is not whether PDP won or not but that PDP had no candidate. Tell Ikedioha to get Madam Taraba's quality lawyers next time. The courts can't grant or decide on what you didn't bring up for adjucation.

The Muhamadu Buhari's tribunals are setting Nigeria dangerously backward. APC has no prima facie to tell the PDP or even disagree on how the PDP conducts it primaries or challenge PDP's manifestos. The challenge of PDP primary conducts should come from a disgruntle PDP candidate or INEC but not APC or its candidate. It is unheard of that another political party takes another party to court because the opposing party did not like how it conducts its internal affaires or deposits it money in the bank. What is wrong with Nigeria?

@OP

The response could not be more correct. Yari.ba and most Nigerians are the paradox of insincerity.

gretblue:
Inec has no power to disqualify any candidate as inec is neither a court or tribunal inec is just an umpire.the power to disqualify lies with court or tribunal as it has just sent your party packing.in Lai mohamed voice:rebrand or go down.

Mr. Know it all, it seems you forgot that the tribunal is not the final arbiter to electoral litigation.

OrlandoOwoh:
The same "Muhammadu Buhari's tribunal" upheld the election of Okowa of Delta State.

The above is a crap typical of Nigerian who is lost on deductive logic. In legal justice, there must be an establishment of precedence. Okowa case was not from the party of the President-elect and did not bordered on if Okowa was procedurally nominated.

texazzpete:
In rivers state, primaries held but the genuine winner was sidelined in favor of someone else. That way, the court ruling kicking out omehia defaulted to Amaechi as the authentic winner

In this case, it's now clear there were no legal primaries at all to satisfy the constitutional conditions.

The above post is a classical intellectual dishonesty and poses as a real clog in socio-politico-economic growth in the zoo called Nigeria. Omehia and Amaechi case was no precedence to the Taraba State palaver.

kahal29:
The question is......... Did Ihedioha's lawyer raise it at the tribunal? See its ur lawyer's job to explore every loophole in matter to win you ur case. I thank Alhassan lawyer for doing a good job.

The conducts of partisan election tribunals in Nigeria are classical mockery of democracy. Sometimes I am forced to believe the names Africans are called by the inhabitants of other continent's. I guess the court of appeals should save Nigeria from eminent political implosion.

Catabolic:
I have read most of the screaming literature churned out plentifully in
scathing criticism of what has come to be known as Buhari's lopsided appointments. I have always had a strong impulse to bare my mind. But being an Igbo man and having a strong communal identity within my hometown therein, often made my opinion a near suicidal act. It is not always easy to stand singly against a crowd under the firm grip of primordial sentiments. However, the recent article written by Ezugwu Okike which he called: 'Buhari's sin against Nigeria's unity' has filled my heart with concern and is propping me into yet another suicidal adventure (if that's what it is)

The law of choice, priority and preferences (of one thing over another) is, no doubt, part of political behaviorism that most people summarily describe as INTEREST. This interest is always in a "permanent shifting position". What this means, in essence, is that I may like Ezugwu Okike (an ibo), for example, but because he may not satisfy my interest at a particular temporal time, I may go for Femi or Musa (a Yoruba or Hausa) who may fill that "interest void" far deeper than Okike, and vice versa. But, very importantly, I may have to return to Okike to meet another interest, especially since he (Okike) is part of the whole circle of my general interest.

Now, it's because of this science of "meeting the interest" that makes people socialize and politick with one another; serving others faithfully, defending them, decamping or patiently scheming out things in their own eventual advantages. Surely, it's through this complex process of politicking that an Osibanjo could move higher above a Bakare in the "choice ranking", and Amaechi above Bafarawa, El Rufai above Malami and, or an Osita Okechukwu will drop below Rochas, and Ogbonnaya Onu above Ngige, etcetera.

In summary, politics demand loyalty, patience, perseverance and dexterity- if you're in doubt, ask the sorry duo of Tom Ikimi and Annie Okonkwo who impatiently stormed out of APC with anger just few months after the formation of the party, despite being instrumental to it's emergence. Needless to say that others who weren't there when this duo toiled expeditiously moved in to fill the voids they created and even reaped from the bounties of their labour.

As for Ibos, they need to understand that politics is not about noisy swashbuckling and ostensible display of acquired resources or disdained intelligence over other tribes- as Achebe conceded against his kinsmen in his memoir "There was a Country ". From what he was saying, being impudent ordinarily attracts malice, much more when a people (referring to Ibos) display it with certain contemptuous disregards to the quiet nature of their various hosts.

Of course, I agree with him; you don't extend a back hand to a man you're expecting to have a gift. The pestle won't enjoy the yam if it either delights in hitting the mortar with contempt or sidestepping it completely. Of what need will it even be considering that the pestle will always be rolled aside with the mortar in perpetual conjugality afterwards.

Buhari cannot be categorically dismissed as being tribalized on the basis of not appointing Ibos in non-ministerial positions. We must remember that the President contested election for a record four times...only winning in his fourth attempt. Have we ever considered that there maybe those who consistently stood with him in all his four attempts: 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015? And we know they're mostly Northerners and few Yorubas amongst which Femi Adesina stands out tallest. Atleast, particularly, this Buhari's first major political appointee has written a thousand pro-Buhari article on Daily Sun since 2002, most of which I read. Do we think they don't deserve to be given priority before and above others who only joined him later in 2015 or never supported him at all. Well, academically speaking, they should not be given any preference. But we are not talking academics. We're talking politics, so they should. Yet Mr President would not totally see it that way.

But assuming the President is biased at any rate, and excusing his trademark inability to conform to political correctness (to the delights of many Nigerians, anyways), can the Ibos beat their chest as being entitled to equal share of the cake in this new government? I don't think so, for such thing can only come as the working of grace. As God himself reckons in John 4:38, "I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." And more like a reminder in Galatians 6:7 it forewarned, "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap." In other words, where a man soweth not he shall not reap except God permits. The Ibos have not sown.

But the Constitution has become their only saving grace, God's permission to reap beyond the sow. Yes, because never has the jurisprudence behind the constitutional clause of "every state a minister" been more clearer than it is today. Without doubt, it is now crystal clear that that provision of the constitution was enacted in order to veritably rescue a self inflicted situation like the one Ibos have unfortunately found themselves. I used the phrase "self inflicted" because I was privileged to witness the aloofness extended to the President during his campaigns in the East, particularly in Enugu. However, as I have said, it seems right to say that the constitution has salvaged what would have been a catastrophe for any ethno-political group that may be either characteristically or mischievously disposed to barking the wrong tree (whether Ibos or not). Otherwise, the provision is also a disenabling tool against any grugding President to engage in the evil politics of winner takes it all.

And left with no other option, President Buhari has ordinarily employed this constitutional grace and averted any further crisis, while equally being disappointingly human. Meanwhile, while the premeditation of this writing is not to totally absolve the President from blameworthiness in his pattern of appointment, wisdom is for Ibos to reflect more on their current political situation (very necessary). Their disposition towards "persecution complex", self righteousness, and more lately, political intimidation of the state are tactics far too lame to form workable solutions. Being a well-received, universally intelligent ethnic group, the Ibos should be more discerning to see their current woes as a result of mere political calculus that went wrong and quickly re-strategize for the coming future; or still, see it as a transient natural phenomenon that rides with the vagaries of politics other than a premeditated undertaking to undermine a "hated race". No doubt, the point of view expressed here maybe desirable, but no matter how agreeable it is, its limited appeal to an average Nigerian is not completely lost considering how our psyche has been inextricably tied to blind tribalism.

Per the bolded, some of the idiotic essayists seem to forgot the context on which they write just like deluded artists fail to understand the canvases on which they draw. This was exactly what happened in the 60s Nigeria when most dingbats in the zoo protested on the imaginary domination of the country by Ndiigbo. The loud cries from certain well-placed individuals in the society spurred riots and chaos. It even created theme in 1966 known as ARABA. It became so bad that it led to the civil war. Since after the civil war, the statues quo had remained that Ndiigbo had do hop three times more than any ethnic group in Nigeria to make sense in relevancy. Look at the JAMB intake cutoff mark, Ndiigbo had be placed in the bracket that only a satan with good head can scale it. Yet when the need for the use of such highly acquired education is needed, the choice of so-called priority and preference seemed to favor the dunces. Why would anybody with correct head wonder about the depthless pit of crap called Nigeria? It defies deductive logic for any reasonable person to question the intent of certain group of people to bail out from inconsequential cesspit called Nigeria.

kahal29:
Note:

The APC based its petition on two grounds one of which is non conduct of primaries by the pdp.

There was no conduct of primaries by APC in Imo State yet the Muhammadu Buhari's tribunal upheld the election of Okorocha. In fact, the report reaching us had indicated that Okorocha's son in-law was named not nominated as APC candidate Imo State. Nigeria is a joke and it seems worse everyday.

Most Chelsea players are moronic self-indulging players. Handful of them cannot play for my high school coach. In fact, their style of play is non-objective.

How could the dumbass like the group of people he personally gunned down in July, 1966? It is a shame he even nursed the idea of campaigning in Igbo land. If Igbo land is in USA, the scumbag would have been dead or resigned to a wheelchair.

maxti:
I won't waste time exchanging words with you.

. ... my candid advice to all agitators of biafra. Instruct all igbos in all part of Nigeria to close all their business and return home for at least a month. All senators and house of reps members should do same. If you guys can do this, then I know you are serious

I would not like the scene of exchanging words with you because you have no words.

Jorussia:
This is one the reason i want to propose a referendum because i am very confident that majority of Igbos ,will say yes to Nigeria. You guys(Biafra agitators),ground of agitations is primarily hatred for pmb,which to me will not be enough to convince majority of igbos the need for Biafra.

Why would I hate the so-called pmb? I do not think the so-called pmb will succumb to the calls of referendum because he has been a sore loser at the polls and surely will not get a second chance with the referendum for Biafra.

Truthpallbearer:
Biafra Republic: A Myth or Reality, By Adedayo Osho


On Friday 6th of November 2015, South-East largest city, Onitsha witnessed thousands of anti-government demonstrators, primarily under the aegis of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB staged Million Man March protesting the continued detention of their group leader and managing director of Radio Biafra: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.


This is not the first time a separatist movement like IPOB would assemble in Nigeria. In the early years of political independence, Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro had declared Niger Delta Republic. The struggle only lasted for twelve days. Agitation for Biafra Republic, which is currently gaining traction was first championed in 1967 by late charismatic leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu- the Ikemba II of Nnewi.


Fast forward to four decades after the end of civil war in 1970: West Africa tiger, Nigeria faces security challenges along its three dominant ethnic/geographical line. Resilient killing of civilians by Boko Haram in the North; Clandestine proliferation of light arms by the Oodua Peoples' Congress in South-West; and the insufferable propaganda employed to dent the country's image by Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra in the South-East.


Scotland and Spain's Catalonia experience provides modern reference point for federal government on how best to handle secessionist agitation by Ndigbo. Dragging South Sudan which has now slide into a war-torn zone inside the case at hand, leading forces for Biafra must consider the brutal consequence of power rivalry. This is not intended for insult on ground of leadership incompetence. Ongoing political rumble between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President turned-rebel leader, Riek Machar offers secessionists anywhere in the world a lesson on how manufactured nations bicker with power. Since large swathes of Niger Delta will be merged along with the long anticipated Biafra Republic, if any coming to being, our cousins in the coastal region need start raising dialectical questions on power sharing/allocation under a refurbished nation.


I advise my Ndigbo brothers to wear the garment of civic and pursue their course with subtle nobility. Rather than resort to violence or propaganda, the place of strong advocacy for referendum remains their golden alternative.


For instance, In January 2015, the company GFK Ukraine, a member of one of the largest international companies in the field of marketing research, GfK Group (Nurenberg, Germany) conducted a survey in the Crimea. Results of the survey showed that about 93% of Crimean residents support the reunification of Crimea with Russia, voted against only by 4% of respondents. "Do you support the reunification of the Crimea to Russia?"

82% - fully support
11% - probably, support
2% - do not support
2% - probably, do not support
3% - hard to say.
Forbes business magazine writes that one year after the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, poll after poll shows that the locals there — be they Ukrainians, ethnic Russians or Tartars are all in agreement: life with Russia is better than life with Ukraine.


It need be emphasised that self-determination is strongly supported by United Nation UN itself. There's no gain in painting a bad image of one's rivals in an attempt to convince admirers. That courageous man, Nnamdi Kanu and his co-travellers should be informed that slaves who devised slanderous concoctions as a means of gaining freedom from their master will only extend their years of stewardship.


I'm aware that those who harp on secession does owing to political marginalisation and domination my powerful groups, but then, for true Biafranism to manifest, Ndigbo needs the backing of many of their political leaders who are wary of their pocket and the benefits accrued to a larger political territory: Nigeria.


Adedayo Osho is a political analyst and freelance writer. He holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science & Education from University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Email: oshoadedayo7@yahoo.com Twitter: @Jahpolitical

Per the bolded, the Yari.ba chap seemed deluded and cheap on intellectual facts. Why the reference of South Sudan? There are many successful breakup of countries with the resultant nation states not sliding into civil war. There were USSR, Czechoslovaks, India, etc that grew into multiple nation states with flourishing economic and political outlooks. Please Mr. essayist, everybody is difference. Anyway, I am not surprise at your misguided rant hence University of Ado-Ekiti spoke volumes.

shamack:
Funny hungry ppl,,,,if asked why did u want Biafra?


They will say because biafra is our land and ojukwu died for biafra


Why cant you work for the betterment of Nigeria?


Tufiakwa Nigeria is a Zoo with sensible animals,let us go to our own biafra london where we can loot anytin lootable


Hungry ppl

Did you ever inquire from your forbearers why they wanted Nigeria? How could anybody work for betterment of any country that have you as a citizen?

If Daura Dumbass a.k.a Muhammadu Buhari wants to flood Biafran land with bread and honey tomorrow fine, however the water had already gone under the bridge. It is Biafra today, tomorrow and forever.

HopeAtHand:
The Ikwerres and Ekpeyes were never an Igbo speaking group.Its not like you lived in Rivers state or you are an Ikwerre..you are simply relying on lies told you by desperate Igbos looking to create a non-existent brotherhood with Ikwerres.

I'm not saying there are no shared words or traditions, neighbors everywhere in the world overtime share some words and form of tradition but saying Ekpeye and Ikwerre speak Igbo as their lingua is an attempt at mischief.

Please and please do not twist issues because of oil.

Why are the Ikwerre not have names such Waribo, Kurubo, Ehaghara, Agbanifo, etc?

scholes0:
I agree that the Igbos might have lost some prospective land as a result of punitive action from the Nigerian state in the aftermath of the civil war (Hydrocarbon rich land for that matter), ESPECIALLY In Oyigbo and Egbema. But no further. Although East Central state and Rivers ate were both created before the civil war began, not After.

The unnecessary boundary adjustment was punitively carried out after civil war.

scholes0:
Do you think oil production wells were already that well known at the time? Infact production from Oloibiri which was the country's first commercial oil well peaked in 1964. Even today, we are still adding more and more oil production sites. So if a huge field is discovered somewhere in Ogun in 2018, Ondo might suddenly cry foul and say the land used to be theirs? Even if it wasn't
What I was trying to say is that before these two states, most areas were already administered under divisions. Ikwerres, Ekpeyes, etc were under the Ahoada division, not under the Owerri/Imo division

Lack of sincerity and intellectual dishonesty which are spurred by tribal hatred resign Nigeria to backwater grade. Oloibiri was shipping crude oil from 1956 to 1960 primarily by Shell D'Arcy later Shell British Petroleum Company (SBPC) via contractual agreement. The first Nigerian shipment happened in 1961. What you enormously termed as Oloibiri commercial oil well peaked in 1964 was after Owaza oil fields came in production.

There was Owerri Province which included Port Harcourt and beyond and around such as Ahoada. However Owerri division came after military regime under Ironsi. Yet there was nothing such as Owerri/Imo division.

SmartMugu:
Who carries what in their head? Where did you come from and what are you talking about?
Who is we? Biafra? What states make up Biafra? And what's the proof the states agreed to it?
Lost. What is this person saying?

What if they chose Republic of Adam? Must Adam be part of the geography that became Nigeria? Biafra could have come from Fernando Po for all I care.

Tkester:
Crap!

It even crapper when one indulges in intellectual dishonesty.

NOBODYY:
If the youthful Radio Biafra family does believe they are from Biafra, this would mean that they are Cameroonians and Equatorial Guineans and can only take their grouses and demands of a return to their ancestral home and creation of a related state to these countries and to the UN with the proper geographical location in these Nigeria’s neighbour's territory

This report questioned whether Odumegwu Ojukwu knew Biafra was not in Nigeria’s current territorial boundaries when he selected that name.
Pro-biafra agitators should properly trace their roots based on accurate geographical locations and take their plight to and desire to restore “Biafra” to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

Naming of the country Biafra has nothing to do with what later became the contiguous of Nigeria. It is a waste of your time to prove otherwise. It is even funny that some people claim Benin or Bini when in fact what was known as Benin via Portuguese was not Benin. Most Africans are lost on the originality hence my quest to have Republic of Igbo land.

maverick24:
Sometimes I just wonder the level of pride and self-appraisal being exhibited by these so called descendant of Israel. Empty barrel makes d loudest noise. Get over your fake achievements please. I personally don't care if SE secedes....please do the right thing by intensifying on positive campaign to enhance advocacy from the UN and the whole world will support you by way of referendum not by inciting your tribe against others. Please you people are free to air your grievances instead of demonising and blaming everybody else but yourselves for your woes. You people suck with your online ranting

The above post was born on presumptuous articulation predicated on ill intentions. It is known fact to any born Nigerian that Yoruba had picked up arms against Ndiigbo when they have no business doing so. If your forbearers had the same mindset about the need for self-determination as you have expressed in the above post, Yoruba of yesteryears will not have joined northern region in a war against Biafra.

Appleyard:
Stop all this skirmishes and engagement crap excuses. Let common sense play out reality here! Was there war in Vietnam? Yes! Did the US got involved? Big time, yes! Now, unto you and Mazeltov: what was the US objectives in entering the Vietnam war? How else do you determine success or measure achievements in relation to aims and objectives?

U.S. objectives and concept of operations [are] to
prevent communist domination of South Vietnam; to
create in that country a viable and increasingly
democratic society, and to initiate, on an accelerated
basis, a series of mutually supporting actions of a
military, political, economic, psychological, and covert character designed to achieve this objective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_the_United_States_in_the_Vietnam_War


Questions; was the US able to achieve any of the above aims and objectives in Vietnam? Was it able to prevent Saigon's day of reckoning with Hanoi? so what do we call this: success or loss? Achievement or failure? Because the following facts beg for answers:

1. American soldiers served on active duty in the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1975 with 58,220 killed and 75,000 disabled. Over half the American soldiers killed were under 21 years.

2. 5 men in Vietnam who were killed were only 16 year of
age.

3. The oldest man killed in Vietnam was 62 years old. As of January 2004, even till date, over 1875-2500 Americans are still unaccounted for in Vietnam.

4. Total tonnage of US bombs dropped in Vietnam far exceeded the ones dropped in Italy, Germany and in Japan, in world war 2.

5. The war cost over 140 billion Dollars (even as at that time)


6. With no victory in sight, by 1 April 1973, U.S. forces were out of Vietnam (except for a few embassy guards and attaches) and 587 POWs had returned home (about
2,500 other Americans remained missing in action).

7. Because of the war, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in November 1973. It limited presidential power to deploy U.S. forces in hostile action without congressional approval. Nixon characterized the Paris Peace Agreements of 1973 as "peace with honor," but primarily they allowed the U.S. military to leave Vietnam without resolving the issue of the country's political future - the main reason why they went there at the first place.

8. Without U.S. air and ground support, South Vietnam's military defenses steadily deteriorated. In the spring of 1975, an NVA thrust into the Central Highlands turned into an ARVN rout.

9. On 30 April, as NVA and Vietcong soldiers entered the city, the last remaining Americans abandoned the U.S. embassy in Saigon in a dramatic rooftop evacuation by helicopters.

10. The war ended in victory to North Vietnam taking over and ruling the whole nation, even as it is to this day. And not a single jot of the aforementioned US objectives was realized regarding Vietnam.


Now back to the question: was the vietnam mission a failure or success? In the light of the above naked truth, can it be justified as " mission accomplished" or "mission failed", @Missy89 and co?

Even common sense and Most scholars conclude that the Vietnam War was a tragic event whose costs far exceeded any benefits for the United States of Awarnation, except the concepts of aims & objectives have lost it's true meaning in relation to achievement and success.

Even the NYT did not disagree:

https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/record-war.html

And many more knew it to be so.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/40-years-later-will-end-games-iraq-and-afghanistan-follow-vietnam-playbook

It is an intellectual dishonest to quote from nytimes which was against the USA military involvement in Vietnam. Political liberals in USA were one reasons among reasons behind the USA military fiasco in Vietnam.

McTobe:
well u have the right to your own opinion but saying that Russia can't compete with USAF is a fallacy and u know it. if we are to go by military hardwares Russians are better, since we the two sides have not been on a face on collision in a major war we can't judge for sure the morale of their fighting forces but as far as hardware is concern US will keep wondering.

Must Russia and USA faceoff in military combat to determine which had better military hardware? In most instance where combatants are equipped with military hardware from Russia and USA, it is safe to say that your suggestion that Russian military hardware trump that of USA is pure fallacy.

400billionman:
What will Otedola and Ifeanyi Uba do ? Only rent tank farms.

Buhari the business killer.

More money for NNPC boys. NNPC refineries are unprofitable. Lets see how this goes.

He is not only a business killer but also an anti-fraudulent impostor

This shows that APC has used the years of frustrations at the polls to perfect the means of corruptible machination to defraud the zoo called Nigeria. The Daura Dumbass called Muhmmadu Buhari had hinted he wants to become the Minister of Petroleum which is a deviant in executive presidency. In addition, the Bahuri wants to eliminate the middle men which makes investigation of crude oil fraud very interesting because there are many leads and some willing to compromise. If the dumbass from Daura eliminates the middlemen, any investigation of fraud in crude oil sales will be limited to one source which can disappear in a hurry. A man from Britain said that if power tends corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely. No human being is infallible. If I may recall, Muhammdu Buhari joined the Nigerian army on the trail of corruptible practices led by Tafawa Balewa and NPC.

nigerianvenom:
Nobody is against biafra agitation, I've always said that.
But trying to force others to join u doesn't make sense. That there is agitation in bayelsa doesn't mean the ijaws are the ones agitating for that.
We've seen several of such pictures from Germany, russia, scotland and others, does it mean that those countries are the agitators?
Common sense should tell u that.
TonyeBarcanista

The thought process of most Nigerians on NL reflects the one held by their so-called leaders hence Nigeria becomes a cesspit. Per the bolded, one wonders how pro-Brafrans are trying to force others to join. It is either the poster of above crap is a stark ignoramus or ignorant of the word, force.

biafranqueen:
Thanks for being honest. No doubt so many in the so called "South -South" will never want to continue in Nigeria. Yet and still we have to think strategically. The path of least resistance is to actualized the 5 Igbo states. After that is solidified we support our brothers to join us with a referendum. We must think outside the box this time. We still have to deal with the current Igbo leadership, they know they will no longer have a job and will be our biggest foes.

There is nothing like current Igbo leadership. It is the Republic of Igbo land or reconfigured Biafra to include all Igbo land and neighbors who want practical freedom and growth. Biafrans have not forgotten about Bakassi as it will negotiate with the Republic of Ambazonia.

Lordave:
Isaac Adaka[ Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa won't be happy with this

The duo have regretted been associated with Nigeria in their graves.