₦airaland Forum

By John Mkom


JALINGO—A governorship aspirant of All Progressive Congress, APC, in the recent party’s gubernatorial primary election and 17 other members of the party have decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Taraba State.
The aspirant, Yususfu Akirikwen recently staged a walk out of the recent APC gubernatorial nomination alongside two other aspirants at Jolly Nyame Stadium the venue of the APC primary election.

Announcing his defection at a rally of the governorship candidate of PDP, Dickson Ishaku in Jalingo, Taraba State capital, Akirikwen said him and the 17, 000 APC supporters had taken the decision out of lack of internal democracy in APC.
He announce the names of the defected APC members across the 16 local government areas of the state and displayed their membership cards to the public.

“Four of us contested to be the flag bearer of the party in the state, one person out of us hijacked the whole process, we complain to the national secretariat of the party and nobody has ever call us






http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/apc-gov-aspirant-17000-others-defect-to-pdp-in-taraba/

Of course, Buhari does not have the school certificate. His lawyers are using subterfuge to see if they can evade justice.


But the electoral laws (as amended) must take its due course. If the honourable justice disqualifies Buhari, so be it.

They're jokers and shameless. Alex Otti shall win the governorship election. Shame on them.

bigfrancis21:
There is no such thing as 'repentance' from homosexuality. Anybody who claims to have been 'healed' is merely deceiving himself. Truth be told, homosexuality and heterosexuality are variations of human sexuality, which are nature's expression of the ever divergent continuum of human diversity. Extensive research has shown that even so-called gay-to-straight reparation therapy does not work. The attraction of the human body is intrinsic in that you are born with it and it stays with you till you die.

Some people are won't to equate homosexuality to sexual activity, however, just like heterosexuality, homosexual people are attracted to members of the same gender both emotionally and sexually. You cannot change the fundamental part of your human attraction. Do not deceive yourself when you think you are 'healed' of homosexuality. Know this: while you can succeed in suppressing your attraction to the same gender, you cannot eliminate it. Subsequently, you cannot increase your desire for the opposite sex if your sexuality is 100% homosexual, except you are bisexual in the first place. You are not the first person towing this path. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women have towed the direction which you are taking and most have had to learn to love themselves the hard way. You wouldn't think that Kenny Bradmuse, 10 years ago when he married his wife, thought that he was 'cured' of his 'sickness' and the 'issue' was settled once and for all only for him to embrace himself 10 years after, after realizing he could no longer keep deceiving himself?

The environment which you find yourself in might be exceedingly disapproving, however you have to remain strong. Be yourself, love yourself for who you are, and always know that you were created for a purpose for God does not make mistakes.



PS: some of you might not agree with me however it is not in your duty to try to attack me for being liberal and standing for enlightenment. I am a liberal person. If you don't agree with me and wish to slander on in ignorance, don't even bother quoting me. Do some research yourself and get enlightened. This is only a tip of the iceberg.

Reasonable comment. BTW, the guy is merely deceiving himself and he knows it.

GEJ should be bold and arrest all corrupt people. After all, APC supporters have been saying that Tinubu should be arrested if he is corrupt. They should not cry now that GEJ is about to do just that.

GEJ till 2019.

Buhari cannot win. His evil intent on Nigeria won't get any chance to be actualized.

GEJ till 2019.

President Goodluck Jonathan may have been given increased hopes for re-election in the Israeli elections just concluded. This is because the opposition leftist campaign was based on a message of Change akin to APC and also that of frustration with the incumbent perceived poor performance.

The West seem to be aligning with the opposition people just like Nigeria. Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the US Congress was boycotted by the American government. Obama refused to meet with the Prime Minister.

Almost all the political gladiators rallied with the opposition including late decamping of a founder of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party, Likud.

Past military leaders and most intelligentsia supported the opposition for a "change". Worse, reports of corruption came up against the Prime Minister late in the election campaign. Even later, Netanyahu started to sound unsure of victory days to the polls. Yet they rallied their supporters on Sunday at a Central Tel Aviv square.

You could recall that GEJ is a close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu's and even received a letter signed personally by him with the words "my dear president"...


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4637970,00.html

tit:
is that ibnsultan?

Lol.

Alex Otti is the next governor of Abia State. TA Orji and his goons are heading to jail. Criminals.

donpeey22:
All the people saying that Sullivan Chime has performed as governor are deluded to say the least.

That wolf in sheep's clothing has only succeeded in deceiving many gullible people in Enugu state.
For almost 8yrs, Sullivan has been receiving billions of Naira on monthly as allocation from the federation account plus the state's IGRs, multiply that amount by the number of months he has spent in office and then do a thorough investigation of the so called achievements. Any discerning person will easily find out that Sullivan has recorded virtually no achievements to account for the revenues he received.

His supporters are always quick to tell us how he did road projects, and I dare ask, do roads in Enugu state stop at Independence layout, GRA, Uwani, and few other parts within the state Capital which he partly did? Are there no roads in Abakpa, Emene, Achara layout etc? Not to talk of the many rural roads that are in pitiable conditions?

From what you wrote it's clear that you hate Chime for reasons known to you. Chime may not have turned Enugu to an Eldorado but he's performed. In fact, he's the best performing governor in the whole of Nigeria, even much better than Fashola. I'm not from Enugu but I've visited many parts. Chime is a great achiever.

The best is Chime of Enugu then Willie of Anambra, followed by the fraud Rochas.

The worst governor in the whole of humanity is TA Orji. The other geriatric from Ebonyi did little.

nwadiuko1:
orji will rather die than see that

So be it. Abia is going to APGA. Dr Alex Otti is the consensus candidate of the people. Go to Abia streets and villages and see how everyone eagerly awaits to vote for Alex Otti. Compared to the curses heaped on TA and his handpicked Ikpeazu.

Raiders:
Abia is pdp and pdp is Abia. PDP is going to win all the elections in Abia because pdp has done a very job in Abia so we are all going to vote for PDP again like we did in the last elections

You are not ashamed to say that the useless and criminal TA has done well. Desist from this blatant treachery. I'm a PDP supporter but Abia PDP is useless.

Note this, T.A. Orji is a crass disgrace to the Igbo race.

APGA has locked down Abia State governorship election. Neither PDP nor APC has any chance.

Meanwhile, 85 - 90% of Abia is for GEJ.

bigfrancis21:
You made a true observation. I have researched and devoted time to this issue in the past and believe me, Igbo language is no way dying. When you go to the east, Igbo language is still very strong and it still baffles me where UNESCO got their 50 year extinction period forecast from. In the next 50 years, the millions of Igbo-speaking children in SE, SS and outside Igboland would be in their 50s and still speaking the language, where then does the 50-year forecast come from? A language is said to be extinct if there are no native speakers of the language even if it has 2nd-language speakers i.e. Latin Language has no native speakers but is spoken liturgically in masses in Catholic churches.

Now, majority of non speakers happen to be those born and raised outside Igboland but I have noticed that most of these people pick up the language as they become adults, and this explains why it is rare to find an Igbo adult who doesn't know how to speak Igbo. I know and have seen many non-speakers as children/teenagers who are fluent speakers today as adults. One notable experience is my UNN experience. Every year, UNN admits a fair share of Lagos-brought up JAMB candidates of Igbo origin who understand but speak a little Igbo. These are people their parents send to the east for university experience to be able to pick up the language. I had many as friends and classmates in my first year and by their 3rd/final years, most of them were speaking Igbo. I would express shock when they spoke fluent Igbo and they would laugh it off. I, myself, am equally an example too. I spoke English as a child but picked up Igbo in my university days and today speak fluent Onitsha, one would even think I grew up in the village. In Igboland, you might be excused for being unable to speak Igbo as a child but Igbo culture and assimilation in Nigeria doesn't permit that for an adult, except you're based overseas.

This is one aspect about the Igbo people that I would like to see us correct - the language part. There are parents who make efforts to ensure that their children speak the language, notably, parents living abroad. Visit youtube and you'll see videos by Igbo parents on their kids living abroad speaking Igbo. The language is still very much alive, especially if you take a tour in Igbo speaking areas of SE and SS. There will always be Igbo language speakers, with the non-speaking children making up the majority of 5% non-speaking population, a figure that reduces as those children grow up to be Igbo-speaking adults.

As for the Edo lady comment, I did my secondary school in the east (Owerri) and I remember at least 10 non-Igbo classmates (4 Edo, 5 Akwa Ibom and 1 Yoruba) from my secondary school who speak Igbo very well, more than me at that time. And they all did Igbo in WAEC in SS3. Some foreigners come to Igboland and learn the language (especially Hausa, Edo and Akwa Ibom with Yoruba showing the least interest) and some don't. In the reverse, Igbos born and raised in the east who go to the north or west to study barely learn the dominant language there.

As for the 'akpa ego' comment you mentioned, one thing you should know is a living language is one that adopts new words and drops obsolete ones. 'Akpa ego' is becoming an obsolete word (only used in villages) for N200 and 'Nari Abuo' being the modern Igbo word for N200. A language which does not adjust its vocabulary with time is a dead language. The same happens in English, French, Spanish e.t.c. There are several old English words such as 'thou', 'art', 'thy', 'wench' etc. which are no longer in use today which when you speak to a modern English speaker they would look at you lost in confusion. Take for example, walk up to any English speaker today and say, 'o ye eorþbuend, where art thou wench?' and they would look at you like you are speaking a foreign language, yet the same sentence was perfectly understood 200 years ago. The only recognizable English word by today's standards in that sentence is 'where'. In the same vein, Igbo language is dropping some old forms and adopting new forms. A few of such old forms no longer in common usage today are 'mgba' (woman as in mgba eke, mgba afor), 'Uru' (as in Uruagu, Urukpaleke), 'ifite'/'ihite' etc.

No pun intended, but I would want to draw out a trend among the Jews today. Jews are known travellers and well-scattered all over the world today, with a population of 14 million however, only about 5 million speak the language as native language with majority of the speakers in Israel and with about an extra 2 million second-language speakers living in Israel. Majority of American Jews, British Jews, e.t.c hardly speak Hebrew but English yet Hebrew language isn't considered to be going extinct.

So next time, before you think of opening another thread like this or letting the issue consume much of your thinking, always remember that the non-speaking trend by foreign-born Igbo children barely continues till adulthood. In that sense, the language is still very much safe.

This your article is well researched and enlightening. Bravo!

sankky:
I hope theres proof for this and not just bare-faced lies


Abians have started rejecting the attempts to bribe them with morsels of food and little cash by visionless and planless Guber candidates of the APGA and PDP parties. They are demanding for each candidate to lay down his plans for Abia because Abians are not beggers.
The shocker has just begun.

Labor party all the way.
visit www.emekaotimbagov.com to see the Abia state of your dreamse

You better join the winning team. Alex Otti is the next governor of Abia State. APGA all the way. Stop deceiving yourself with an unknown also-ran.

joeyfire:
The two worst governors in the history of this country are mbadinuju and lucky igbinedion

You forgot the father of worst governors, TA Orji of Abia State.

Buhari is a perpetual bad market to vast majority of the Igbos. This is due to his records as a war criminal during the Biafra war. Also due to his extremist utterances in time past, not forgetting his dictatorial record. Igbos are a very liberal lot. They can't fathom a dictator as a positive change agent.

Those Igbos supporting Buhari are hypocritical. They are doing that either because they lost out in other political parties or they are plain gullible...deceived by APC forceful propaganda.

This article is so true. Liar Mohamed is so loquacious.

It's a truism that APC is an alarmist and reactionary party. But it's working for them.

God go still help GEJ win and complete the transformation agenda of Nigeria.

AllBusiness:
[size=20pt]Are you dumb to realise in GEJ statements that he's struggling with Guilty-Conscience?[/size]

Which guilty conscience? GEJ simply advised OBJ to respect himself as a former president. Have you been hearing Shagari, Abdulsalami, Gowon, Babangida all making negative statements every other day?

OBJ needs to respect himself.

BashMe1:
sharap dia, wat do u kno'? small boy

You lack home training.

GEJ is right. OBJ needs to respect himself.

TA Orji is the most corrupt, incompetent and criminal governor ever in the history of humanity.

Vote Dr Alex Otti for Abia Transformation. APGA.

GEJ till 2019

Alex Otti till 2023... in Abia

datguru:
Let political sentiments not deprive us of our common sense of reasoning. Which one is legal money ? How much do you think the president or even the governors earn to own a private jet? Going legally by there salary alone, none of them not even GEJ can afford that.

Who does not know its stolen money by tinubu and ameachi ?

Don't mind these APC followers, they're all either sentimental based on tribalism and religious bias or the plain gullible ones.

UrennaNkoli:
At least its done with legal money unlike the ones owned by jonathan and his gang of robbers.

Legal money??

It's baffling how some people have blinded themselves to clear deceit and double standard just cos they hate. Stop the hate and ask questions. Where did the billions APC is spending coming from? PDP outlined their money and the donors for all to see. That looks like the way forward to me, transparency.

Some people are just following APC sheepishly...to the slaughter.

MarchForward

Bizinton:
[size=14pt]MARCH4CHANGE[/size]

March! Nigeria Marching Forward.

No backward change and no febuhari.

GEJ till 2019.

The security of life and property is important given the angry posture of APC -Association of Political Criminals. The security movements across the country is to forestall any disturbances by the wicked and aggrieved APC cabal.

GEJ till 2019

GEJ rocks.

yemi221:
John kerry is 71
John macain is 78
Joe Biden is 72

So what are you saying.

Who among them won a presidential election?? John Kerry lost to Bush during Bush re-election, John McCain lost to Obama. Joe Biden hasn't run for president, he's Obama vp.

So what are you saying??

GEJ till 2019. The youth have decided.

SailorXY:
the almajiris need the job & education more sir

You're very hilarious.

Bruteforce1o1:
You are the one embarrassing yourself. The guy is spot on, if you claim your population is 45%, are they all eligible to vote? Do you even know the meaning of been eligible to vote? So all the 45% population age is more than 18 years? I am ashamed on your behalf......

If there are 100 people in Lagos state and A group make up 45%, while B group make up 65%. Then if you want to take out those that are 18+ years old, you'll still arrive at 45% from A and 65% from B in a population mix. That's how it is.

I don't know if you get the simple logic. The point of argument could be that Igbos may not vote commensurate with their population strength.