Coconuthead126: Stop grunting like a pig and answer a simple question you worthless product of gang-rape, abi you dey shame to name your tribe? or are you from that famous tribe with funny Chinese sounding names that produces houseboys, car wash servants and ashawo housegirls that are notorious for disvirgining 1 in every 4 Nigeria boys in their pre-teen ages?
See someone from the tribe of armed robbers calling another person worthless. Dude,you and your people are second class citizens. Everyone stops talking as soon as someone from your tribe arrives, you are despicable. You come from the land of armed robbers, ritual killers, 419ers, drug dealers and kidnappers. You are doomed and landlocked forever. You a tiny dot in a big circle, God cursed you before he created you.
I don't owe you any explanation ewu,but my tribe is far better than your tribe because your tribe depends on my tribe for your monthly allocation. Without my tribe your tribe will die from hunger just like millions of you died during the civil war.
aribisala0: So based on that Logic what is stopping Niger and Mali from sailing Ships through the Niger Delta, past Lokoja all the way to Niger, Mali or Burina Faso
If your ala Igbo becomes a different country how is it different from Mali or Burkina Faso in claiming right to sail up or down the River Niger
argob44: I was taken aback when my attention was drawn to a statement making the rounds on social media credited to my learned friend Festus Keyamo SAN, the Hon Minister of State for Labour, demanding that our party the All Progressives Congress must immediately halt all preparations for the forthcoming congresses and disband the Governor Mai Mala Buni - led National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC).
Mr. Keyamo’s argument is premised on his interpretation of the judgement of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in Jegede Vs Akeredolu.
Most members of the APC accepted the reality of the CECPC as a decision of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the APC with Mr President as leader of the party in attendance.
Party leaders who had reservations about the constitution of the CECPC were informed that the decision to establish the committee was reached only after extensive legal examination of the issues confronting the APC at that time by a body of eminent lawyers in leadership positions in the APC . Barrister Festus Keyamo I am given to understand, was one of those legal luminaries whose stand swayed the President in support of the CECPC option as the only means to save our party from imminent self-destruction. That is why I was taken aback by the quick and sudden volte face of Mr. Keyamo in the face Of Jegede vs Akeredolu.
There is a popular saying that sometimes “where you stand on an issue is determined by where you sit”.
The Buni- led caretaker committee in the determined effort to reposition the party and carry out its difficult assignment, has adjusted the seating arrangements in a lot of states and this may explain the stand that some party leaders will take on this issue. But it is important that we deal with facts and the law.
The Supreme Court ( according to keyamo’s write-up) held that Buni was not a party to the case and so his status was not determined in the case of Jegede Vs Akeredolu.
It is therefore shocking that any legal practitioner will on the basis of that judgement reach the conclusion that the Supreme Court has already decided that chairmanship of a committee constituted by the National Executive Committee of a political party constitutes paid employment or an executive position as stated in section 183 of the constitution.
Almost every convention committee or caretaker committee of every political party in this country that is privileged to have a governor in its fold has been chaired by a Governor, almost every primary that produced our governorship candidates has been chaired by a Governor.
A decision by the Supreme Court that chairmanship of a committee constituted by NEC for a particular purpose can constitute an executive position or paid employment as envisaged by the constitution of Nigeria must be a matter of evidence, and it will have grave consequences not only for the APC but the entire polity.
The convention planning committee is a committee of NEC. Buni was not appointed as executive chairman of the APC, he is our convention committee chairman but because the working committee of the party was dissolved by NEC the caretaker members are to take care of the affairs of the party on behalf of NEC until an executive chairman is elected by convention.
This was carefully spelt out in the NEC resolutions that gave birth to CECPC.
These documents and and others pertaining to Buni, and his lack of remuneration and activities will be evidence before any judicial proceedings to determine the status of the Buni-led caretaker committee.
Any member of the party who is emboldened by Barrister Keyamo’s interpretation of Jegede Vs Akeredolu to challenge the legality of the caretaker arrangement of our party on that basis may do so, but the litigant will of course bear the burden of proof, and the party should be ready to defend its own position based on the evidence.
With all due respect to my learned friend Festus Keyamo SAN, he was merely second guessing the Supreme Court when he gave the impression or suggested, based on his understanding and interpretation of the said judgement, that any legal challenge against Buni, must succeed, no matter the circumstances of the challenge, insisting that mere joining Governor Buni will be enough for any litigation against the APC to succeed.
This is simply incorrect. No two cases are the same. The Supreme Court itself wisely declined to make a pronouncement against Buni on the ground that he was not joined and not heard.
To now conclude that whatever he would say when heard would not amount to anything as judgement must be passed against him is to overlook the age-long admonition of the same Supreme Court itself in the 1987 case of Lawrence V Nnaife that “justice and fairness demand that the ratio of any case should not be pulled by the hair of the head and made Willy- nilly to apply where the surrounding circumstances are different".
Since the surrounding circumstances have not been made known to the Supreme Court for which it rightly declined to condemn Buni unheard, it's preposterous to second- guess the Supreme Court on that.
Let's tread carefully, cautiously. Instead of throwing away the baby with the bathwater, and causing a stampede, let's all support the Caretaker to the point that it births a proper executive council to prepare us for the future, especially the 2023 elections.
In the meantime we must consider our position carefully. We are less than two years away from the 2023 general elections, we have dissolved all our party structures across the states, we are less than a week away from the beginning of congresses to usher in our new working committee.
It has taken us almost a year to get to this point, there is no gurrantee that an attempt to start a new experiment at this point will not result in a political or legal quagmire that will lead to an implosion in the APC.
There is no perfect arrangement in politics. The best course open to the APC is for our leaders to give full support and cooperation to the CECPC to conclude its assignment and usher in a new elected executive for the party.
Let me add for the record that there are issues in the party. Even the registration and revalidation exercise promised by the party in Rivers state has not been carried out and once again members of the APC in Rivers state are being denied forms for participation in our congresses, but problems within the party need to be dealt with.
To throw out the CECPC at this point may amount to self immolation from which we may not recover as a political party.
We must be steadfast and stay the course, there is nothing in the Supreme Court Judgement in Jegede Vs Akeredolu that implies that a Governor cannot serve as chairman of any committee in a political party of which he is a member. The APC CECPC remains on firm ground.
Ofodirinwa: now that your hate as brought you here I want to share this
Panama Canal Width: 150 and 300 metres Depth: 13 metres
Niger River Width: 240 metres Depth: 30 metres
Trade Volume of Panama Canal: Panama canal spans the narrowest part of Panama and connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. One of world's busiest shipping routes, it has historically handled about 5% of world trade and nearly 14,000 transits were made last year.
51 ships cross the Panama Canal daily. Panama Canal is surrounded on both sides by the country of Panama (why no blockade? lol) Panama Canal can take ships 4x the size the ship the any Nigerian port can take.
blues234: This very confused fool will always drag himself to Igbo thread. You no go face your dog business and shut da Bleep up on Igbo issue? Ekpaiton
udele1: With the introduction of ESN/UGM in the south east, alot of igbos who were thinking of investing in the SE had to pause the idea.
Those who already had were negatively affected by the insecurity.
As IPOB wants to introduce the weekly lockdown of the SE, most businesses who were negatively affected by the UGM insecurity will consider relocation from the region.
So as the IPOB that does not provide employment but destroy employment, continue their madness in the East, lagos should expect an influx of igbo businesses.
As soon as they start that, buhari will ensure kanu stays longer to economically destroy the SE region.
This will further create unemployment and insecurity in igboland.
For my lagos people complaining of traffic, you have not seen anything yet.
Typical Biafran illiterate. Do you know that the Niger Delta has the most weapons right now after the Nigerian army? We can also buy as much weapons as we want with our oil money,meanwhile Biafra will be struggling with starvation as usual. Please don't forget how millions of your people starved to death last time. Next maybe 15 Million will starve .Money una no get yet you're talking about fighting Niger Delta. You can't fight the person that is feeding you. Don't worry, we will soon commence the building of a massive wall to stop parasites from the East from getting into our rich Niger Delta while Fulani and Yorubas will be finishing you people from the other side.
Madmohamed419: Niger Delta is too small for Biafra we could have finished you and Nigerian thanks to criminal Britain .Russian and other wold power. Can you imagine if they will leave us whit you alon we will just send only two battalion to finish Niger Delta for just too weeks. We will give you people Israel treatment to their Arab nebbor. Jus play the world will not abandon you people in messy of Biafra. No body born by a woman can stop Biafra Asses to the sea. Get that into your empty head. If anybody try to try it sorry is the name of that person we wil you brutal force against that person the one the world never see before.
Niger Delta Republic is not an Ijaw dream,please delete this post immediately. There are other big tribes in the Niger Delta like the Ibibios, Efiks, Annangs, Ikweres and so on. I am beginning to believe that this post was written by an IPOB person to cause disagreements between Niger Delta people.
Ebitimi44: If there is anything both the Yorubas and the Igbos have in common, it is their clear disapproval of the Niger Delta Republic but Niger DeltaRepublic is the brainchild of the Ijaws and older than both Biafra and Oduduwa and as such we MUST stand our ground.
There are three major tribe in Southern Nigeria, Igbo, Ijaw and Yoruba and anyone who thinks the Ijaws shall join their dream Biafra or Oduduwa Republic is only Dreaming, it is quite funny how the Igbos wish to have their heartland in one Republic of Biafra and the Yorubas have their heartland in one Republic of Oduduwa but selfishly attempt to break Izon Land into two by not assimilating all of Ijaw land either into Biafra or Oduduwa as such that only Niger Delta Republic or Izon/Ijaw Republic can solve the puzzle of putting all of Ijaw land into one Republic.
I might respect both Yorubas and Igbos but annexing Izon land into their Dream Republic is quite confrontational, the minority Ijaws in Western Nigeria is forced to use Oduduwa Anthem while Nigeria still exists and each time the Igbo side try to drag us into the Biafran struggle when we had made it clear even before the emergence of Biafra that Niger Delta Republic is our trademark.
IPOB people have always been unintelligent, meanwhile they think they're very smart. Ask yourselves, why didn't Biafra use this UN nonsense when Nigeria blocked all access to sea during the civil war and nearly 6 million Biafrans died of hunger and starvation thereby forcing the useless Biafrans to surrender? The South South will build a big wall around it's borders and block all access to sea,if Biafrans die of hunger again then that's their problem. We don't owe you anything. I'm sick of all these IPOB fools always talking like Niger Delta people owe them. You must learn how to survive on your own if you want to be a sovereign and independent nation.
Abasman008: So I'll go through so posts and you will see people who should be building peacful coexistence saying that if the SS (when it becomes a Nation) denies SE (also of the latter)route to sea because it cuts through it's territory on both sides, that they (SE) will take it by force. It's silly when instead of trying to help Each other leave this mess people tend to nag mouths and empty threats to anyone they meet... If this thing is to make sense we need to start building relations.
Facts are facts our internal waters are ours as far as the flow in between us... Allowing anyone pass is subject to the flag country, while the ships country obeys it's home countries orders ,it's subject to flag countries laws and cromes comiiteco enroute is punishable by the flag country... Meaning if you have gay sailors and we don't allow that in our country, we have the right to stop and arrest the sailors .. it's the rules guys . So if you are planning to be recognized but the UN which holds isreal(shalom!) In high esteem, then you should be ready to go by the rules. This ain't about mouth threats and what you will be when what you have not seen comes. It's about being peacful neighbors and probably Visa free ones .
Politics › Re: Why Igbos Cannot Accept That Fact That Igboland Is LANDLOCKED (evidence) by Ekpeitit(m): 12:27pm On Jul 30, 2021
