₦airaland Forum

joseph6071:
Reno Omokri on his Twitter page uploaded a video of the moment the Speaker of the House of Representative, Gbajabiamila bowed to Bola Tinubu.

He wrote...

"Video of Speaker Gbajabiamila bowing to Bola @AsiwajuTinubu in Lagos. Somehow, I do not think Nigeria will have an Independent Legislature with a Deputy @NGRSenate President who kneels down to General Buhari and a @HouseNGR Speaker who bows to Tinubu #FreeLeahSharibu #RenosDarts"

Source: https://www.musictori.com/2019/06/the-moment-speaker-gbajabiamila-bowed.html

SpecialAdviser:
Nonsense. Igbo this, Igbo that. Anyone that want attention will just call Igbos.

highcollide:
look at this onyeara.

By your moniker. I suspect you're from delta state....

In your full tribe, if you can mention anybody, male or female greater than Okonjo iweala or even chimamanda, I'll deactivate my nairaland account.

Metrixnews:
The Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu has advised Ndigbo not to be too expectant in the APC led federal government, saying the South East region refused to vote massively for the party in the last election.

The former governor dropped the hint at an event in his Camp Neya home in Igbere to thank his constituents for voting him into the Nigerian Senate.

He said: “Our people did not support APC. We did not vote for the president and that is what we are paying for.

“We are not entitled to anything when we did not vote for APC so we cannot ask for the Senate President or Deputy President.

“I am not only a senator for Abia north, I am a senator for Abia and Federal Republic of Nigeria because I was elected to make good laws for the whole Nigeria,” he said.

Source: https://www.abnews247.com/2019/06/dont-expect-anything-from-apc-led-federal-government-sen-kalu-advises-ndigbo/

cc; lalasticlala, Mynd44

ChristianNorth:
Lol.

If una rant finish, na North we go still return to power.

ChristianNorth:
Yes, if Buhari or thiefnubuu runs on PDP ticket. We vote for competent hands not clannishly like Yoruba moslems?

Why did yoruba voted massively for Abiola despite funding a coup, running on a muslim-muslim ticket and a known international thief?

Because they are clannish.

Why did Yorubas voted against a pan-nationalist Obasanjo for Falae, an ethnic champion?

Because they are clannish.

Why did they vote for a known terrorist and dullard?

Because they want thiefnubuu to become President.

If a better candidate runs against Atiku, we would vote massively for him. It has never been about Atiku, it is about competence.

By the way we voted against Atiku in 2007 for Yar'Adua.

dlondonbadboy:
Let's know who and why?

Splashme:
So, what about the South East APC members who have invested heavily in APC and have ambition to contest?

Splashme:
Have you read Senate President's comments about conceding ruling party's ticket to SW because of Abiola?
Such move automatically shuts out all other contenders from other zones

Halopy:
My own question is, should south west always get the presidency on special concessions? Is south east not part of Nigeria, are they not qualified to contest the presidency? Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder and the explosion is minus one day today. Why must the north collectively cede the presidency to the south before the south can produce the President? Why can't anyone from any part of the country contest the presidency and any winner emerges fairly? Why can't we have a kind of whitepaper or some sort of agreement duly consented by every region guiding compulsory rotational presidency between the north and the south every 8years? Why must the south be begging the north before they will ever be allowed to produce the president? Why must the south be compensated with presidency for M.K.O's death. It should be the right of every tribe in Nigeria be it major or minor to produce the president. That's fairness. That's equity. That's Justice. That's what is right.

Donarozzi:
ANIOMA STATE: THE BEST CHOICE FOR NDIGBO

The continued absence of a homogeneous Igbo state on the west bank of the River Niger, had always left the Igbo politically incomplete. This side of the Igbo divide, boasts of great personalities such as Augustine Esogbue the NASA scientist, Mike Onwuejeogwu the renowned anthropologist, Peter Eloka Okocha the business mogul, Sunny Odogwu the insurance magnate, Eddy Okonta the trumpet maestro, Tony Elumelu the dynamic CEO of UBA, Bernard Odogwu the czar of the then Biafran intelligence, Prof. Chukwuma Okonjo, Prof.Pat Utomi, Amb.I .Olisaemeka, Denis Osadebey, and the list goes on.

The political anomalies facing them today, were what their early leaders foresaw and began the campaign for a separate region, or inclusion with the rest of their brothers in the East. Prominent among those leaders of the time were the Late Denis Osadebey and Ogoegbunam Dafe. Their requests were not totally met by the then Nigerian authorities. But, In return Mid-west was offered. An idea that was to be bankrolled from the coffers of Michael Okpara's Eastern regional Government. This financial effort became the corner stone that was to aid an easy agreement between the stake holders in the emerging region, and which saw an Igbo, Dr. Osadebey emerge the premier.

The movement to protect their culture, and the demand for a state, that began with the name Aniocha to Anioma didn't start today. It can be argued unequivocally that the agitation by Anioma Igbos for a state/region of their own was one of the earliest in Nigeria,and by default the earliest within the Igbo nation.

As Ndigbo and Ohaneze Exco move to agree on the location of a state to be created out of Igboland, and as recommended by the rest of Nigeria, history should be born in mind. What must guide us should be the territorial concern of the four cardinal points of the entire Igbo land. There is a need for the Igbo to reclaim her denied political, numerical and geographical space in Nigeria. But, how do we we achieve that? It can't be realized with a parochial approach to our body politic. Ndigbo have to practice informed politics, with vision,sophistication and intellectual flamboyance. The treatment meted to us so far in Nigeria should lively us up to a positive political renaissance.

The argument for Anioma state is far more superior than any other in Igboland. The area and its people, have since the creation of modern Nigeria been repressed,with non-Igbo leadership hoisted on its people. There is an historic precedent to this, dating back to centuries of hostile invasions and forced acculturation by the ancient ruling houses of the then Benin Empire.

One of such legacies was the Ekumeku war of resistance, fought against the British for over thirty years by the Anioma Igbos, and which Benin had to do with the colonial policy at that time. Moreover, there have been attempts throughout history by external political forces to re-invent a different ethnicity for the people, or re-baptize them with names foreign to the Igbo lexicon.

The climax came in 1995,when the present monarch of Asaba,Eze Prof. Chike Edozien, warned that any more move to rezone them outside Igboland would be resisted. Last September,an Anioma organization cried out on the gradual erosion of their culture,and vowed to enthrone the study of Igbo language in secondary and post-secondary institutions.These statements were instructive, and did actually go a long way to silence the pundits that have always assigned Anioma people to a different origin.

Concerning the new state, my take is that Ndigbo should unanimously accept the submissions of the Anioma delegates to the Abakaliki hearing, and concede the new state to them. Apart from the political emancipation of the people,a viable state would be found in Anioma. Our Urhobo brothers and others would happily want to go back to their "Core delta".

In the event of a new state conceded to them, the Anioma people will have their God given right to occupy the Government House Asaba. Having done so, a homogeneous Igbo state, and an extended Igbo political territory would have been established comfortably on the western flank. This would cover 97% of our north western border in the present Delta state, leaving perhaps Igbo akiri (Igbanke) for Edo state for another time.

Politicians from the South-East needed not to be reminded about the geo-political benefits of such a state. Though most indigenes of Anioma are counted as ethnic Igbos,but an Anioma state will make that enumeration more incisive. It is noteworthy that Oshimmili local government Area of Anioma zone lies within Anambra River basin. The area noted for big crude oil reserves. Again, there is a population explosion in Igbo land, east and west,but an Anioma state would help to break the mental barrier,and afford more movement and co-habitation of one people.

The Ohaneze youth Council speaking through their leader Nnamdi Nwokocha, have thrown their weight behind the choice of an Anioma state. He went further to compare the case of Anioma to the lose of Southern Cameroons by the then Eastern regional government.,and warned those responsible to opt for an Anioma state without further delay.

Chief Iwuanyanwu, Joe Irukwu and the South East Governors should peep through history. The Anioma people have always stood by us when it mattered, and this is the time to pay them back by conceding the state to them. Such a state when created, of course, would have some parts of Anambra state annexed to her. And which history would record as an emancipation gift from a big brother.

And for my message to those who dispute the Igbo wholeness of Anioma : the name "Anioma" can only point to one direction. The complete survival of Igbo language,custom and tradition in this area, was made possible by the presence of Igbo aboriginal groups. For a group of non-Igbo speaking migrants or refugees, to have founded an area,and yet loose their language is simply a hoax. Such a thing could only take place if there was,on their arrival, an existing, larger Igbo population.

(written by Ossie Ezeaku, March 2006)

Puouzoma:
Following the latest bad blood existing within the All Progressives Congress(APC),which was occasioned by the zoning pattern of the Party in the 9th Assembly, where the Southeast zone was completely relegated to the background,news filtering out of the Presidency, looks to be quite favorable to Abia State.

From reliable feelers,the President is said to have pencilled Abia State to have two Ministerial nominees.

It could be recalled that, during the Presidential election campaign, the President had promised Nigerians that he would in this second tenure run a large cabinet that would seek to redress earlier cries of non-inclusion by certain political constituencies and persuasions in his first term. The foregoing goes to tell why Mr President is expanding the number of Ministerial hopefuls and taking nominees from each State, making the number of States 36, including 1 from each Geopolitical zone,which brings the number to 43 when the FCT is added. To me,the number 43 is not too big for a nation with our numerical strength.

Our sources,also, revealed that the President has duly taken 2 Abia sons for the position of Minister. Despite the present ding- dong moves on the appointment of SGF,there is no gainsaying the fact that,barring any last-minute changes, Ebonyi State is set to land the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) job. From all indications, former Governor and immediate past Minister of Science & Tech., Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, is good to go. There are some who,even from a kilometer, could read the body language of Mr President. Such people insist that Dr Onu is the man;of course,all things being equal, as they say in Economics.

Hon. Emeka Wogu, the former Minister of Labour and Productivity in the Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Administration, is said to have been tipped for Trade and Investment ,while the Abia APC Deputy Governorship Candidate in the just-concluded 2019 election, Rt. Hon. Martins Azubuike is said to have been tipped for Ministry of Justice.

In keeping with his promise, that he won’t have a Super Minister,one holding more than one portfolio as we saw during his first tenure with Fashola and Rotimi Amechi,President Muhammadu Buhari will now have an Attorney General in the person of Barr. Abubakar Malami and a Minister for Justice , Rt. Hon. Martins Azubuike.

With all the above, Abia State is in a jolly good position to play very outstanding roles in the politics and Administration of President Buhari's second coming, as Hon. Wogu and Hon. Azubuike are seriously pushing, using all arsenal to make it a reality. What is now left is for Abia people to get their acts together in order to ensure that this great opportunity and moment do not elude us. From all indications, Abia APC will be rewarded for their performance in the 2019 general election.

MetaPhysical:
Has SW occupied SGF since we started this new republic in 1999? I dont think so.

I wonder if thats why Buhari is retaining Fashola in cabinet.

sharpden:
Source: https://politicstimesng.com/beware-of-another-civil-war-ohanaeze-ndigbo-warns-nigerians/