₦airaland Forum

cosby02:
Op Just come out plain. You wana insult yorubas and thats all.

abduljabbar4:
Op you are just trying to console yourself with this rubbish you have written. What makes you think Yorubas are foolish enough to play the yeye politics you people are playing in Nigeria? Anyway, come 2019 you will be forced to vote for another mallam abokki from the parasite region of Nigeria.

realglobe:
Please don't mention FFK and Fayose. Mimiko should take the whole blame. Actually, mimiko failed to deliver PDP to GEJ during the 2015 elections. I knew mimiko will never win this

LoveDecay:
I wish more of them can see it this way.

I get confused every time they say freedom. Today freedom is economic and at this moment Nigeria is the best chance they have ... This entire brouhaha is just crazy

pazienza:
1. Biafra proposes a form of government where each province will have total control of her resources and only contribute to the centre.
In Biafra, smaller groups like Oron, Eket, Andoni can unite and have their own province with full resource control and pay tax to the central government.
There won't be any land use decree.
IPOB had stressed on this times without number. Even Ojukwu Biafra was divided into provinces,with non Igbo speaking tribes having their own distinct provinces with indigenous administrators.
You need nobody to checkmate Igbos under such arrangement.
And moreover, naturally, Igbos exist in clans that do checkmate each other, there have never in history been a period when Igbo groups United to conquer a non Igbo speaking people.

2. Why should the capital location be an issue, since it's not going to be a case where people were milked dry so that FG and go build up Lagos and Abuja?
It will be all province for themselves.
We can apply the three capital system of RSA. The legislative in one Province, the judiciary will be hosted by another province and the Executive by another, all these can be negotiated.

3. This is totally irrelevant. Truth remains that Ndiigbo had never annexed non Igbo lands in the past. Arochukwu was only one that was annexed, but when you factor in the fact that Arochukwu was won by a union of Aro, Ibibio and Akpa( Ekoid) people, then it could hardly be termed annexation.
Ndiigbo are not empire builders. Annexation and expansionism is not our trait. We are republicans by nature.
No Nigerian state government was ever going to approve being part of Biafra, even. Enugu state government denied Biafra. So citing Delta state government response is quite irrelevant to the issue of Biafra. Nobody expected any different response. But IPOB and their Biafran ideology is well received by the commoners in Enu ani, which is why Asaba is an IPOB stronghold.

4. This again is a trivial matter. Each province will have their own language and English as their official language.
English will remain the lingua franca.
But this is quite funny. You are scared of an Igbo national language, but comfortable with an English non African lingual franca.

The scenario you painted of someone being denied position because of ethnicity will not happen with the structure Biafra intends to run on. The provinces will be stronger and more lucrative than the centre. It won't be the case of Nigeria.
Moreover, I personally don't subscribe to a Biafra with Ijaw, Edo and Edoids( Urhobo, Itsekiri, Isoko), when I think of Biafra, I think of Igbo, Igboids and AkwaCross, cos these are people we share similar ideologies with.

Infact, I'm only replying you because you stated that you are from AkwaCross area .
So my use of Biafra during the course of my reply represents strictly Igbo, Igboid and AkwaCross and maybe Ogoni.

5. Igbos are often the subject of caustic attacks by those groups you mentioned, which I personally don't consider part of Biafra.
Go to Ijaw facebook pages, Radio Niger Delta, and even here in NL and see the amount of hatred towards Ndiigbo emanating from those quarters.
How many times have you seen Igbos hurl insults at AkwaCross people? Rarely. Why? Because you hardly get Igbophobia in AkwaCross area. AkwaCross people are all over Aba, they understand the Igboman and the Igbo man understand them, they don't show us hate, and in return we don't show them hate.

This generation Of Ndiigbo know better. We will not allow Igbophobic elements whether from
Ijaw, Edo, Edoids or Yoruba go unpunished. We will reply them with so much hate that even lucifer will marvel. Actions must be met with reactions.
So, if you think we are hurling insults at those children of hate, then you are John snow, cos what you are seeing is only just the beginning.
Peeps must be forced to learn that Igbophobia will not be tolerated by Ndiigbo, simple.
I have no intent of sharing Biafra with those people, it's only natural that they stick to their Arewa masters, you know what they say of birds of same feather.

6. Again Nnamdi had made it clear he has no political ambitions in Biafra. Even if he does, the kind of structure Biafra intends to run on will make the centre only ceremonial, it won't be same all powerful Nigerian president.
Ndiigbo had no problem with Obong of Calabar rulling the Eastern region house of Chiefs ahead of Eze Nri , Eze aro, Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnewi, etc. We had no problem with Eyo ita ruling the Eastern region , Adaka was voted by Ndiigbo in UNN as the SUG president, we voted a Fulani as the first Mayor of Enugu, we all voted an Ogbia man, GEJ and stood by him when all abandoned him even Ijaw men like Clark abandoned him since.

We are more than capable of voting non Igbos.
By the way, remove Urhobo here, I don't consider them part of Biafra.

7. How exactly are Igbo leaders the most corrupt in the country? What did you smoke?

Are thieves like Ibori, Amaechi, Silva, Abacha, Obj, IBB Igbos? Please don't provoke me with this Igbophobic statement, cause you won't like the outcome.

Biafra will be structured in such a way that government will be too close to the people. No more Abuja jamboree, that alone will curb the excesses of the politicians. They will be under closer scrutiny by their people,and since each province is going to be ran by what they produce, it will force leaders to think outside the box.
The abrogation of the dubious Obj created land use decree will hand the lands back to the natives and the government must serve the owners of the land and not the other way round. All these will change the political orientation and task leaders to be more productive and transparent to earn the people support and trust.

8. Again stop dragging Edoids and Ijaws into this. You gave the impression that you are from AkwaCross area, but so far, you keep raising issues about the Edoids.
Not once have you made mention of the Oron struggle for independence , Obolo and Ibeno struggle for total control of Akwa Ibom coastline wealth, the Ekoid land disputes with Ikwo and Ezza clans of Igbo, the land disputes between Ndokis and Ibibios, these are real issues surrounding the AkwaCross Igbo relationship, instead you are focused on issues occurring in distant non related lands.
Don't give me the impression that you are an impostor claiming AkwaCross.

As for your question on utopia. Biafra will have the richest of human resources in Africa, it will have access to enormous natural gas deposits in Imo and Anambra, Coal in Enugu, crude oil reserves in Imo, Anambra, Ndoki, Etche, Asa. As well as those in AkwaCross area if you guys decide to join the party.
It will also have an enormous patriotic diaspora population spread all over the world ready to come and invest home as well as attract foreign investors, as the Biafran government will create the enabling environment for business to thrive.
The possibilities are endless.
Keeping the country peaceful is equally part of why I don't fancy having the Edoids and Ijaws in the Biafra, as doing that will unbalance things and create chaos.

9. That is just a proposal. I don't consider Itsekiri and Urhobo parts of Biafra, any body that put then on the Biafran map is merely fishing for their reactions.

We don't share same life ideology with those people. I see no basis for unity with them. We can't be running away from a mad house( Nigeria), only to end up creating another mad house in Biafra by inviting bitter people with whom we share little with to form a nation.

When you know you are going to be running your province with whatever you produce, and that there won't be monthly allocation coming from Abuja, you wouldn't be bothered about those creating 1 million provinces for themselves, since they would have to run them with their own resources and not yours.

That's the great thing about the Biafran proposed structure. It eliminates the things that turned Nigeria into a failure.

10. Biafra is not going to be a parasitic state, so there won't be any need forcing any unwilling group into it.
If an ethnic group within the proposed Biafran area votes against Biafra , then they are free to go their way. It's as free as that.

As for electoral manipulation, you can't rig where you are not popular, it will cause chaos. IPOB is too resolute and more than capable of securing the votes and ensuring no such manipulation occur.
The Biafran structure will take care of Igbophobia, by first ensuring that overwhelmingly Igbophobic elements as found in Ijaw, Edo, Edoids don't become part of Biafra.

The total resource control to the provinces and decentralization of the government, that will create will a very weak centre and strong regions will eliminate the. thoughts of phantom Igbo hegemony that exist only in people's mind.

NB: I personally subscribe to an Igbo speaking only Biafra first and foremost, but not aversed to a Union of Igbo speaking people, Akwa Cross( with Andoni of course) and maybe Ogoni too.

mathy001:
See this one. God created Biafra abi na? Mtchewwwwwwww!


You guys can add and divide the whole region. Just leave Urhobo-Isoko outta it.

drss2:
lets see whether d zoo will survive 2018 first cos somtin is telling me dat d calamity, nigeria will collapse by 2019.

Alariwo2:
up intil yaradua, religious and tribal sentiments weren't this pronounced
GEJ ignited tribal politics by calling igbos the backbone of his government. what about others?
GEJ started religious politics too by kneeling for pastors all over the counry. How many imams have you seen Buhari visit or bow to

GEJ spoilt so many things in this country to be sincere. His wife started the whole politics of hate igbos are embracing now
such a pity we can"t turn back the hands of time.

Everyone is aware and alert now.. no going back

[b]Even if others forget so easily, I seriously cannot.

It all started with Yorubas jealousy for the Igbos which innocent Nigerians where not aware of but came into limelight in 2015. Even majority of the Igbos where not even aware that such jealousy and hatred for them by the Yorubas ever existed.

I can understand that GEJ could not hold his contentment with the Igbos achievements, support and fruitful contribution to his government and thus expressed himself in that manner to acknowledge the Igbos. How is he wrong? How is he bringing in tribalism in appreciating the Igbos who are not even his ethnicity?

Meanwhile had it been we(Igbos) know that this simple compliment will bring out the devil from our so called brothers from the west side, we would have advised Gej against such move but when a time of something has come it will surface itself. I believed it was exposed BC God allowed it. We know better now thanks to Yorubas.
We are proud of Gej and Nigerians knows that the Igbos did a great job in his administration.

You can continue your jealousy and hatred, we can see how the Yorubas are failing upon themselves in buhari's administration. From post-election fake promises of osibanjo the ceremonial Vp, to the clueless kemi ; the minister of finance, to fashola the rocket science minister that can't implement his criticism to another in power sector.

Even fashola in the cause of covering the shame and hatred for the successful government of Gej attributed the 7% per year increase rise of the GDP of Nigeria to increased oil price, while is clear as heaven that oil was contributing below 18% to the GDP of Nigeria as 2015 statistics has shown.

Is just an accrued shame for the Yorubas that should have proved their worth of their so over bloated acclaimed sophistication in buhari's administration even if buhari is the one being clueless. It doesn't warrant them to be clueless too. Maybe buhari will also compliment them one day for sharing the idea of cluelessness with him.

I believe God knows the best for all this to happen. We are wiser and more knowledgeable of some hidden facts.
Shalom!!
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Alariwo2:
we've always faired fine even before the whites landed on our shores
we are smart, industrious, intelligent and very good traders. we also have ports (air and sea) unlike the igbos
that is why they are so dependent on Nigeria and do attache by force with SS

it's like yoribas are even the ones at loss with this fvcking union called Nigeria

annayawchee:
For nigeria to be great again, we have a lot to resolve, we need to put ethnic and religion affiliations apart and work together, also vote for a candidate not becaus he is a Christian nor from the east but because he has alot to offer but its all a fairytale, it can't happen here.

NgeneUkwenu:
Shameless Ipob Yoots!

It is no longer about Biafra, it is now About Atiku

Before you start talking like your afonja brothers...
Read section 1 of my disclaimer.
And besides which candidate are you putting forward?
Because I know you will kindly go for tinubu acn faction of the apc party instead of buhari cpn...

Oh! I forgot, you are waiting for the gworo chewing oral b advertiser in person of BAT to defect and open another party so you can satisfy your curiosity... Lol

Buhari must be watching him closely so advise him to thread with caution to avoid KANU treatment...

It must be painful being an afonja and a zombie at the same time

Funlordjnr:




Shut up!

annayawchee:
Nigeria is not working,the old cargoes taking power cycle continues.... The youth are no longer the leaders of tomorrow oo..... I stand with any other politician apart from this old cargoes who brought us to this level we are today......... Or let nigeria split

Ultimatesammie:
The point is its really no one's business, we've all said things dat we wud like to take back maybe he said it in d spur of d moment think he wouldn't win.

Exactly how the afonja reasons....
So much talk no action, always speaking from both sides of the mouth....
Yorubas selling their pride since time immemorial

ayindejimmy:
Kudos to you that do everything you promised to do.

Even Trump us gradually reclining on his promises.
Last time I checked, it's his Green Card and his choice to do whatever with it.

I'm just surprised it's becoming a trending issue among ipods

jaymichael:
Southern alliance has happened before and it worked. The whole south allied and voted for GEJ. How he singled out the SW for insult and abuse is what I can never figure out. While a particular group was the "backbone" of his administration, the SW and their leaders are "motor park touts"

ImperialYoruba:
Southern alliance ke? With who? What is there in SS/SE to ally for? Name three top assets you have which cannot be found in Yorubaland, and I will name ten advantages in our favor that you lack.

Alliance ko, reliance ni.... Suegbe!