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SOFTENGR:
Why do you choose to display your narrow-mindedness publicly?
Are all igbos PDP?

References:
Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos State chapter, Joe Igbokwe, has described himself as a Nigerian and not belonging to any ethnic group.

Igbokwe, who stated this yesterday at the House of Assembly during the screening of the last batch of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s cabinet-nominees, lampooned those he described as ethnic bigots.

He hinted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was the reason for the attitude of easterners in the state during the last general election.

Lagos should take the lead and be more open to other ethnic groups by giving them political appointments, he asserted.

He said, “I’m proudly Nigerian; I don’t know about east, west, north or south. I have been in Lagos since 1985. My children were born here. It’s high time we started building this country.

“I get angry when people mention ethnicity. A young Nigerian lady was just made a minister in Britain. If I become the president of this country, nobody is going to fill form and put his state of origin. That’s the first thing I will do. It is when you take people for who they are that is when they will release their energy for the good of the country. One day, Nigerians will say, we are all Nigerians.

“The reason for the attitude of easterners in Lagos at the last election was because Peter Obi was on the ballot. If Atiku had won, he would be the vice president.

“If 70 to 75 per cent of a particular people dominate a region, they should be encouraged. If they don’t get council chairman, at least make them deputy. What Igbo people have in Lagos, they don’t have a quarter of it in their land. If you see anybody that is doing well in the South East, he must have a thriving business in Lagos.


https://m.guardian.ng/politics/i-belong-to-no-ethnic-group-says-joe-igbokwe/

samueloduoye:
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, gave Nigerians a clear hint about his intention for 2023 presidential race at the weekend. It has been in the realm of speculation before now, and people had thought the zoning clause will stand against him, even if he declares an interest.

To put himself in the perfect position to contest, he made a case for the abandonment of zoning arrangements for political offices as currently obtainable in the country. Normally, it’s expected that, with President Buhari out, a southerner will take his place. But El-Rufai is striving to change this.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/14/el-rufai-opens-the-battleground-for-2023-presidency/

agwom:
The socio-cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo has warned the Igbo people, especially the youths against heating up the polity by discussing the 2023 presidential election, saying it was too early for such move, even when the 2019 election outcome is still being contested in court. While speaking with Journalists in Yenagoa on Thursday, the Coordinator, Ohaneze youth wing in South South region, Chief Chinedu Arthur-Ugwa, urged the people of the Igbo nation to always seek the opinion of the elders and national leaders of Ohaneze, Chief Nnie Nwodo, before engaging some national discourse.

He condemned the situation where some youths have already moved around endorsing people for 2023 presidency, saying such activities is a distraction to the people of the area. “We want to call the pubic to disregard any statement made by the so called ‘Ohaneze youths’ because they are moving around tarnishing the image of our organization and Igbo nation, that is why we urge Igbo people all over the world to work towards ensuring peace in Igbo land. “We should not talk about politics of 2023 for now, the issues arising from the last election is being contested in court, so we should not heat up the polity by starting another campaign”.

“Igbo youths should not be interested in 2023 politics for now, what should bother us most is the peace in Igbo land, so let’s work towards it and put our house in order,” he said.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/it-is-too-early-to-start-2023-politics-ohaneze-tells-igbos.html

BleedingPen:
http://igberetvnews.com/899234/just-in-ohaneze-blasts-shehu-sani-over-2023-presidency/

BleedingPen:
http://igberetvnews.com/899234/just-in-ohaneze-blasts-shehu-sani-over-2023-presidency/

TSRC:
It is a shame then that biafrans constitute the greater part of your useful human capital in any national endeavour.
Where are the Nigerians?

OfoIgbo:
If Tinubu intends to run, what it means is that zoning is suspended, afterall the only geopolitical zone that has the greatest claim to this presidency is the south east.

I have nothing against El-Rufai running, afterall Tinubu will also be running for it. Igbos will not cede the Southern slot to Tinubu, so El-Rufai is welcome

Tinubu cannot eat his cake and have it. If Tinubu wants zoning, then it MUST be zoned to the south east, otherwise zoning is suspended

Astark:
A Muslim can't take over presidency from another Muslim, if only buhari was a northern Christian then tinubu can aspire to be the president.
Tinubu can't be president not only of his corruption case but because of his religion.

In Nigeria presently we have 6 main positions and Muslims occupy 4 plus supreme Chief judge, federal and appeal heads so Christians can't allow another muslim takeover.

Call me bigot or whatever, that's the truth. Osibanjo is the best candidate for APC, he's a Christian without corruption case, he's a lot younger than tinubu and buhari.I'll vote osibanjo but not tinubu

Nastybrave2016:
“I Am Willing To Sacrifice My Own Blood For The betterment Of Nigeria" - Sowore Makes Bold Statement Days before DSS Arrest!!!







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjNLYH23lI

Upritman:
A proscribed secessionist group in Nigeria, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has exposed what it called a plot by the Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr.Dave Umahi to become the running mate to the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023.

In a statement signed by the Group’s Spokesperson, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday, IPOB said the ill-ambition of Umahi for the 2023 presidency was what pushed him into the “deluded and misguided” move to group it in Ebonyi State.

The group also said Igbo governors, from Nigeria's South-east, were "fooling themselves".

“Dave Umahi’s desperate attempt to turn our beloved Ebonyi State into another vassal state is dead on arrival.

“IPOB is on the ground and will never allow it. If his ‘Alice in Wonderland’ dream of becoming Bola Tinubu’s running mate in the 2023 presidential election is his motivation for coming out against IPOB at this critical moment in our history, then he is not only misguided but deluded," IPOB said.

The Group added that Gov.Umahi had always sought to "impress his masters by making grand declarations" against IPOB.

“Sometime in mid-2017 he issued a fatwa against our leader and boasted that IPOB’s rallies would never hold in Ebonyi State,” Powerful claimed.

“How many Fulani governors have come out against herdsmen or Boko Haram? Yet Igbo governors keep on making a complete fool of themselves by attacking IPOB."

(c) https://infoparrotng.com/ipob-exposes-gov-umahis-plot-to-become-vp-to-tinubu-says-igbo-governors-are-fooling-themselves/

hisexcellency34:
Joe Igbokwe has been named as one of the Commissioner-nominees by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu

https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-sanwo-olu-transmit-final-list-of-cabinet-nominees-to-lagos-assembly/

Chiwude:
You'll always remain crybabies and losers. Since your hate on Ndigbo fell on deaf ears, you went full blown bonkers trying to use other tribes to do your bidding.. Warning, never start what you can't finish.
I can see through your deceit now. AFONJA! Keep up the 'We South-South'. Next time, be a man and use your cowardly Afonja tribe rather than hide under the SS.

Chiwude:
How many times have you lots been told that Ndigbo don't give a fuss about your affairs. Toothless lizards forming lion. Which useless oyel are you bragging about? Is it the oyel we have in abundance in our backyard or the useless oyel northerners like Indimi have used to build gold castles in Maiduguri while your lands are no better than polluted gutters, Ogoni comes to mind here.
Don't even talk about the offshore oyel because we know that 60 percent of Nigerian crude oil reserve is domiciled on the coast. Even your so called sea, how has it impacted your lives, do you fish there? Let's say Nigeria is balkanized and you're giving access to use the sea, the Somalia piracy will be child's play compared to the militancy that will rear it's ugly head there. I better become landlocked and be like Luxembourg than to have miles of seashores and end up like Somalia.
Stop feeling important and stop allowing Nnamdi Kanu deceive you people. The Igbo nation no send una, our only concern is our ethnic group whether SE, SS or NC, we don't want to share a country with troublemakers that we have no ethnic affiliation with. If you don't answer Chukwudi, Ngozi or Azuka then find your way. Fight your own survival battle, because we are focused on our own path. Make una park well jare!

banku:
Emeka Ojukwu: The President Nigeria Never Had



Farouk Martins Aresa - November 2010

As we pray for the recovery of Ikemba for the good old days just before the war, the man is a leader amongst equals in and outside the military. It has been said and written many times that we should not wait until a man is dying before rushing them abroad for treatment when we can provide a suitable hospital in each of the six geopolitical zones of the country specializing in different areas. The wear wear and tie of taking them abroad only make their situations worse since they must have some stability to make the journey. Let us hope this is not a goodbye as others.

Children tend to have certain memories adults forget or care little about; and for those children in the Eastern Region then, it was when Ojukwu became a military Governor that he abolished differential treatment on scholarships for non indigenes. Fair to say, school fees in the East was not waived or free for indigene and scholarships had to be reserved. No matter how long it lasted, that temporary relief gave many Nigerians a head start. Yes, Western Region had the same thing in place, but that did not take away the intention of Ojukwu as a dedicated Nigerian.

When Ojukwu had a master, it did not make a difference in what but it came from some far place like Oxford in England when many of his cohorts were happy with high school education. Many of them got to the height of their careers in private businesses and government while this man settled for the Army. In those days, the caliber of children going into the Army was those from poor homes and with no opportunities. Asking us to go into the military is like forsaking your dearest. The only exceptions were doctors and nurses because their humanitarian services were not limited. In the case of Ikemba, we just could not wait to hear him speak wondering about the vocabularies that would come out of his mouth.

It must be quickly pointed out that in the North, the royals go into Army and many of them were highly educated in Arabic. The problem is transferring Arabic training which was geared to prayers into English practical adaptation of everyday life. In other words, most Arabic scholars were Muslims religious men while most English scholars may not even be Christian religious men and women. Indeed, some of those that went into the Army from both the South and North had political power in sight, as some would later say of Ojukwu.

There was this aunt of ours that told us if she had known that Ojukwu was going to be the rebel leader, she had the power to crush the little kid with her foot on his way to primary school in those days. She never suspected that the little tiny kid would become Ojukwu the war hero to many of us. The way she talked, you would think she had that power herself. Ojukwu later gave us his own story about growing up in Lagos and how he had to be sent home to Nnewi because he was behaving badly with difficulty identifying with Igbotic ways.

Don't blame our aunt, she must have heard us singing the praises of Ojukwu just before the war as secret lovers of that young handsome man.

We used to listen to Radio Biafra and sometimes got carried away with Ojukwu propaganda.

You come by road we finish una

You come by sea we finish una

You come by air we finish una

What did we know until Ojukwu bombed Rowe Park and our eyes become wide opened that this war was for real and could have taken many of us as it did many people that lost their lives as the war itself progressed or degenerated.

The man Ojukwu hardly talked. In those days, men that attended universities had so much knowledge, only God has more. The fact that he was a soldier did not diminish any of his polished or imagined sophistication. So it is strange that some of us will grow up to disagree with this man in any area of his philosophies. Could that be the same Ojukwu or we just grew up and become educated like him?

Our point was made when he took those soldiers to Aburi. It was a mismatch from the start. An Oxford educated hero taking some soldiers to Aburi. We actually forgot that he was a soldier too or refuse to accept that he belonged in that khaki uniform. Even when we see him as a military governor, this one has a touch of class and decency. If it has to do with his father and upbringing, children like us cared very little about those. The man himself is a dignified hero.

As we waited for the result from Aburi, we knew he had them by his fingers. When they brought the agreement to bureaucrats they yelled and threw their hands in the air. He had them real good. It could not be implemented as it stood and had to be renegotiated. He must have known that he took advantage of their soldier mentality and low caliber of class and education. On Aburi we stand, declared Ojukwu.

Therefore no matter what our differences is with Ojukwu later in life, that awe we had for him never disappeared completely because it actually inspired many of us as children. Some of us rationalized that if Ojukwu had not gone into politics after he returned from exile, he could have remained bigger than life. When he returned, Lagos was at a standstill no matter what part of Nigeria we came from. Everyone wanted a glimpse of him. He remained majestic, quiet and thoughtful or so we imagined.

So the first mistake was joining the National Party of Nigeria. Though many of us might have been greatly disappointed, we still gave him the benefit of doubt. That was, if he had not agreed to their terms he would still be in exile. Knowing Ojukwu as we did some thought that would not be him. Nobody dictates to Ojukwu. No way!

As Ojukwu went further into politics, he fell from grace of a national hero loved or respected for his stand no matter which part we sided with during the war to a regional hero. Even then, there was no agreement on him within his region. In retrospect, many wondered if it could have been better for the Igbo Nation if he had accepted compromised Aburi agreement instead of insisting on everything.

Farouk Martins Aresa November 27, 2011
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/odumegwu-ojukwu/emeka-ojukwu-the-president-nigeria-never-had.html

NASTYNASOSO:
A Nigeria President of Igbo stock will favour the North… – Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has said that ‘a Nigeria President of Igbo stock will largely favour the North with huge dividends of democracy.’
Ohanaeze youths made this known on Saturday in a signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzor The statement said “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has taken the lead in building bridges across the six geo-political zones, through aggressive persuasion on some aggrieved northern groups and leaders, who felt marginalised in the President Buhari regime or schemed out of relevance and importantly have viewed Southwest alliance with the North as a farce. “We have concluded arrangement to play hosts first class traditional rulers, opinion leaders, prominent northern groups and Arewa youth leaders to re-align and build confidence ahead of 2023 Presidential election without any political affiliations or party. “North has been the traditional partner in progress since 1960s with the old Eastern Region, until there was suspicion brewing between the years created by artificial barriers which this move and series of consultations will automatically restore. “Hopefully will restore the North and Old Eastern Region alliances, then the insecurity in some quarters will be flush into the dustbin of history. “Old Eastern Region alliance with the North through proper understanding and cooperation, will produce one of the present Southeast Governors and one present Northern Governor, or former Vice President or former Governor or Senator, depending on the choice of the North, will pair ahead of 2023.
“We are extending hands of friendship with the Coalition of Northern Groups and Arewa Youth leaders, to build a united front and alliance that will hold the two regions together as partnership, as we had in 1960s. “History will always repeat itself, as traditional partners in progress, a Nigeria President of Igbo stock will largely favour the North with huge dividends of democracy.” Vanguard

gidgiddy:
Breaking away doesbt happen by magic. Before you even talk about breaking away, there has to be some agitation on the ground for it. I dont see any agitation for a Niger Delta Republic

The only agitation in Nigeria for a separate country is that of Biafra