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@post. If the north and the west had not orchestrated the genocidal killing of innocent igbo families, there wouldn't have been any biafra.

I admire the ogonis, my favorite minorities. I see them as friends both in peace and in war. I might learn your language if i got time on my hands.

@post. You should have taught it igbo from the onset. It would have grown up to be a nice igbo dog. Old dogs cant learn new tricks goes the old saying. Anyway, you need patience and time, it might adapt. lol.

All scammers will eat their rice without stew this Xmas in Jesus' name.

^^^
Not all northerners as hausa. There are over 50+(to be modest)ethnic groups in the north. Hausas are just one of them.

Dude, beware of skinheads.

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The truth of the matter is that most of this northern zoning guys have a plan B in the event of GJ picking up the PDP ticket. This option is to support another party with a northern as it's flag bearer, presumably Buhari or Ribadu.

Speculations that some of the
recently arrived Direct Data
Capture Machines for voters
registration may have gotten
missing in transit has been
denied by the Independent
National Electoral Commission,
INEC. The commission said
yesterday that the speculation
was a mere fiction.
Yesterday, speculations were rife
that some of the machines had
disappeared from the suppliers
in Lagos.
Reacting to the speculation of
the missing DDCMs which are to
be deployed to the 36 states
including the Federal Capital
Territory scheduled in January,
INEC chairman's Chief Press
Secretary, Mr. Kayode Idowu
said that there was no truth in
the speculation.
"It is mere fiction. It is not
possible," Idowu said on phone.
The return of the commission's
chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega
and other officials to the
commission's headquarters in
Abuja after an official tour of
foreign countries sparked off a
buzz in activities.
Expectedly, administrative
activities and logistical
preparations were stepped up
after a lull that followed the
absence of the commission's
boss and key officers.
Meanwhile a 'no parking' order
is currently being enforced within
the premises of the commission.
Sources said the parking
restriction is being put in place in
preparation of the hundred of
vehicles and DDCMs which will
be delivered any time from now.

www.leadershipeditors.com/ns/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20941:edegbe-odemwingie-abuja&catid=16:headline-news&Itemid=102

Are these foregleams of what to expect in 2011?

I hope JEGA and his team are prepared.

The National Convention
Committee of the Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has
cancelled the ward & local
government council congresses
held on the 2nd and the 6th of
December respectively in both
Kwara and Taraba states. In
addition the National
Convention Committee has
dissolved the executive
committees of the party in the
two states with immediate effect.
A statement issued by the
National Convention Committee
Chairman, His Excellency, Dr.
Chris Ngige, after a meeting of
the Committee in Benin City, in
the early hours of Thursday, said
the dates for fresh ward, local
government and state congresses
in the two affected states would
be announced later.
It said caretaker committees are
to be put in place to steer the
affairs of the party pending the
conduct of ward, local
government and state congresses
in the states, in accordance with
the party's guidelines.
According to the statement, the
congresses in Kwara state had to
be cancelled as armed thugs
carted away all the party
registers, which are like the
voter's register and without
which elections cannot be
successfully conducted on Friday
the 3rd of December at the
party headquarters in Ilorin
Kwara state.The matter is
currently being investigated by
the police.
In Taraba, the National
Convention Committee said,
there was no level playing
ground for all the stakeholders
during the congresses of the 2nd
and 6th of December.
The Committee said that since
the ACN is a party that prides
itself on fairness, justice and
equity, the decision was taken to
restore confidence in the minds
of everyone and in furtherance
of the party's ethos.
Meanwhile, ACN's National
Convention, billed to hold in
Benin City, Edo State, on Dec.
16th, has been shifted to Dec.
21st out of respect for Gov.
Adams Oshiomhole, who lost his
wife, Clara, on Tuesday. The
venue of the convention remains
the same.

www.huhuonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2382:acn-cancels-congresses-in-kwara-taraba-shifts-national-convention&catid=89:finance&Itemid=379

lol. The northern consensus candidate wanna-be under fire.

^^^
It seemed the public hearing was a charade after all, since the NASS still went ahead to pass the controversial bill. With the likes of Mark, it appears Nigeria has a long, long way to go as a country.

Just to give the house a review of what went down at the public hearing on this bill organized by the NASS.

jamace:
Did they not say, the bill was going to be put to public debate, to hear from Nigerians before anything else or am I missing something here?

Members of the public and
other stakeholders had
mobilized to the venue of the
hearing to boo and jeer at the
promoters of the amendment
largely described as over-
regulation of the parties during
the question and answer session.
The hearing was characterized by
booing and jeering of
proponents of the bill by
members of the public mostly
women who mobilized to the
venue of the event. The deputy
speaker, Hon. Usman Bayero
Nafada, who is also Chairman of
the House Committee on
Constitution Review, had to
intervene before normalcy
returned to the hearing.
The Deputy Speaker told
participants and the audience
that the situation was almost
turning into a war zone “but we
are expected to only listen and
allow stakeholders to make their
submission after which we can
study and work on that
submission. ”
Every other stakeholder at the
hearing with the exception of the
lawmakers opposed the bill

www.thewillnigeria.com/politics/6724-NEC-Membership-Stakeholders-Boo-NASS-Critics-Are-Ignorant---Mark.html

deji2009:
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thanks for the response. The make is DELL. I cant get the model. The OS is windows XP. The screen is ok, only it tends to boot, and will continue repeating the process without starting.

It is better you allow them to offer any advice they have for you publicly, so it can be scrutinized by members of the house, before they scam you privately. Be warned.

Who gave you an invitation to come to bahamas? Is he a citizen of bahamas, or a nigerian?

Pls my system refuse to boot, what do i do?

I wonder the kind of law makers we have in Nigeria. Anyway, there's a 0.000000001% possibility to find a honorable member of the PDP. I can not still fathom why these people would still go ahead to pass this bill after there was a resounding NO by members of the public at the public hearing organised by this same NASS.

I know that Jonathan who can stop this madness would be happy with the recent development. The only hope we have now is stopping these self-serving legislators is through the courts. I hope that the likes of Olisa Agbakoba, a champion of the masses, will take the NASS to the cleaners at the courts like he's always done recently.

I wonder what Nigeria did to be punished with these sets of people in government.

chyz:
No. no Igbo VP we've been playing that role for too long and have not yielded any fruit.It is time to try something new. Ekwueme should know better.He got screw twice for this same move,once in the 8projects's-ce in the 90s by the same north.

I dont think that is quite correct. Igbos have only produced a vice President once, and you think that the change Igbos need is to get an interior minister? I dont really get this Ekwueme screwing part. How did he screw up? In the 90's he was gunning for the presidency, not for a VP.

Have you heard of atiku or IBB
screaming for fairness for the
Igbo before now? No. Now all of
a sudden they've become
Igboists.

IBB had worked with notable Igbos during his tenure.

.You read about the
tightening on immigration in the
news papers every week. Atiku
will kill this motion.The census is
coming up soon and also 2015
is closer than what it seems.Atiku
will make sure he prevents
anybody from stopping there
brothers from chad,niger,and
cameroon from coming in and
voting and starting violence
when needed. He definitely is
not going to allow any census to
be recorded based of ethnicity(I
think we both know why).

You and I know that the hausa-fulani are not the biggest ethnic group, but that figure can not be changed for now, at least not by Jonathan. He doesn't have the balls for such.

@chyz. The plans for that airport has been in the pipelines since 2003 with all its architectural designs mapped out. It was only awaiting the release of funds. There's nothing extraordinary about this.

What else has he done? Remember, his home state already has 2 federal projects.

chyz:
So what exactly are you suggesting?

I dont think this Jonathan option is the best for Ndigbo in the long run. I've not seen anything that Jonathan has done that is out of the ordinary. Let's push one of our own into the presidential villa-a place where nobody of Igbo extraction has lived for over 19 years, yet we're one of the dominant ethnics. It's about maintaining our relevance as one of the tripod. Others are playing dirty to be there, which shows that it's important to be there.

The long and short of it is that the Ekwueme option of aligning with the north to produce an Igbo VP is the best for Ndigbo now.

chyz:
Bros, a mind is truly a terrible thing to waste. First of all that we Igbos need is a fair amount of Federal allocations(not just money). This wish has already been initiated by GEJ. This should be the first thing on your mind. If GEJ provides for us what we've been fighting for.

Bros, So you really think that only GEJ has the God-given special powers to do this.

why
would there be need for an Igbo
president in 2015 if GEJ is getting
things done? Now if he's not
then thats another

What's the guaranty that all these are not for getting votes, and that they'll continue after he gets into power. See, there are deeper issues. Why are the northerners dying to always have power? Why are the likes of Clark solidly behind Jonathan, to the point of breaking all rules, if producing a President wasn't that important? Bayelsa is to have a federal university and a refinery courtesy of a six-months' taking charge at Aso villa. What has Jonathan done for the SE? Enugu airport? Were there not plans already for that? Dont let us sell our birthright for a meal of porridge.

Also let me give you something
to thing about, IBB has
threatened to leave the PDP
along with many other
northerners if the zoning
agreement isnt met.What makes
you think that they(northerners)
cannot do the same think en-
masse when the time approaches
for an igbo presidency?

Go and read properly why IBB is threatening to leave PDP if Jonathan wins. It's because of the likes of Jonathan who never respect laid down agreements. He wrote to Nwodo requesting him to implement the principle of zoning as agreed upon in the party.

Ekwueme will go down in history as the most important sage the Ndigbo nation has produced after Zik of Africa. When such a man calls me to advice me, i'll leave everything i'm doing to listen to him. The sagacity of this elder statesman is unparalleled and not found among commonplace men. If we allow folks like GJ who never respect agreements to bastardize the rotation principle that Ekwueme and other Igbo intelligentsia worked out under the late Abacha, we have given room to the conspiracy against us never to produce a President again in Nigeria.

That guy is probably the only person that Bankole fears in the NASS. Though brute in his approach to things, the likes of Melayes is what we need to save us from the evil plans of milking Nigeria dry by the so-called legisla-thieves. Imagine what it will be like having like 10 Melayes in the house. lol.

Jarus:
Now I see our arguments converging.

Both I'm not from Ilorin, I'm from Offa, which is 100% Yoruba, as is the case with all other communities in Kwara South.
Ilorin is not the only town in Kwara, although it is by far the largest and most important.

It is only Ilorin that has a debatable ethnicity, Kwara South is indisputably Yoruba. The Nupes, Barubas of Kwara North are not in any way Yoruba. The Kwara central and Ilorin is mixed, but largely Yoruba too. So I'm not sure a Nupe man(they have also produced governor - Shaaba Lafiaji 1991-1992) or a Baruba man(Bio, current sporst minister, Farooq Kperog, NVS writer are Baruba) will agree with you that Kwara is a Yoruba state. But given the fact that other tha the SW states, no state is 100% a single tribe in Nigeria, we can loosely call Kwara by the majority tribe, a Yoruba state.
Being quite conversant with Kwara, your guess is not exactly correct.
This is the mindset:
KWARA SOUTH(purely Yoruba): Prefer SW
KWARA NORTH(Nupe, Baruba etc): Prefer NC
KWARA CENTRAL(debatable history, between Yoruba nd Fulani): Almost 50-50 preference. Some will tell you they are not Yoruba but Fulani even if his/her name is Bukola or Toyin and can't speak a single word in Hausa, not to talk of Fulbe. Some others wil tell you they are Yoruba. But politically, majority prefer North.

I think this is one of the reasons why Kwara and some states in Nigeria are lagging behind in development on a daily basis. There's no way you can loop people who have different ideologies and political destiny together, and expect them to move as one. This is one area where the past military juntas did a very crazy job. Personally, i'm a advocate of boundary adjustment(it may not be a creation of new states), but there should be a kind of referendum in which people will be asked where they want to belong to, after which, they'll be group into their chosen states. The nupes for example might what to join the majority nupes in Niger state. The okuns in Kogi may want to join the predominantly yoruba Kwara south, etc. This will give folks like Saraki an opportunity to be in Kwara or be absorbed in other fulani communities.

All the energy spent in pursuing one litigation after another in the interest of PDP zoning is fighting a losing battle and a waste of time. If these northerners really want to stop Jonathan, the only way to do so is at the primary elections. Normally, i would have expected them to use all those energy and monies spent in courts to reach out in galvanizing more delegates to their cause/candidate so as to know who is on their side and who isn't before the d-day on january 15.

The Sarakis have never denied having Yoruba blood. Their explanation had been that their Yoruba side is matrilineal, while the patrilineal ancestry is fulani.

Olusola saraki is even a member of the ilorin emirate, which is a part of the Sokoto caliphate-a fulani empire.