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@Nwaka77

You seem to be getting this guy wrong. Read his post very well. He has no problem with where his girlfriend is from. It's just that the way people around him talk negatively about the girl is what got him worried. I heard such rumours too myself. Just didn't bother because i've never been interested in one.

You cant just ignore such things. You need to investigate before you put yourself into something you dont understand.

These's a little bit of Becomrich in everyone of us.

This looks like an old news. Is it not the same amendment to the electoral act that the NASS threw out?

First Poster. where is your link to this news?

lol.

Jarus, You such a nice guy. Not only do you moderate, you also do the humanitarian job of refering depressed people to see a doctor.

A real brother's keeper, to say the least.

alj harem:
calid, thank u that is what i have been telling them

sokoto would survive

we do not want south-west also

yorubas can take there lagos with them

we northerners want to be on our own

True? The SW are a big consumer of your tomatoes. Where are you going to dump your tomatoes if the SW goes?

The students of Mr. Becomrich just keeps increasing by the day.

Mr. Barzini, Alj harem, calid, and counting.

You guys have been 'wonderfully inspired'. keep coming

chyz:
Sorry but there are indigenous Igbos from both Rivers and Bayelsa so you are still killing your argument.

The 'italian' thinks the Niger Delta is composed of his father's compound only.

Looks like someone who is venting his anger of failing Geography class on NL to me

People should learn to distinguish between a party's primary elections and the general elections. These two are not the same level playing field.

The delegates are usually influenced by so many factors that may be unfathomable by the average electorate. 

The thought of writing Atiku off is naive to say the least(I'm neither an advocate of Atiku nor of Jonathan). Whichever of the aspirants gets it right with the convention delegates as a result of hardwork and good persuasion will surely emerge as the party's flagbearer.

Numerous instances in the past, even in Nigeria, have shown that having the popular votes does not always translates into victory in a poll.

There's a thread on this already.

www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-547072.0.html

The North promised to bring forward this consensus candidate of theirs last friday. This is making it the 3rd friday they have promised, and yet failed to come out with something.

Are they conceding defeat already?

^^

wishful thinking.

DapoBear:
Any of us Yoruba foolish enough to vote for a Fulani warlord like Buhari deserve the devastation they will get. The Fulani man is not our brother or friend.

Voting for Fulani is voting for a day 1000 years from now when the Yoruba are known as the Yoruba-Fulani.

Sorry to be explicit about it, but we gotta keep it real.

Very honest comment.

Abagworo:
It is clear that the southeast is the poorest.

The Nigerian government short-changed us by creating fewer L.G.As in the SE. The more L.G.A you have the more allocation you recieve. Our leaders should have spoken against this on the ground that L.G.As should not be based on land mass, but on population.

Under normal circumstances, the SE is supposed to have the highest number of local governments in Nigeria due to it's densely populated geography.

chyz:
May Arewa Republic consisting of only northern states be actualized. All Hail Arewa Republic!

Amen. These rabbits should just leave. Niger will be more than accommodating.

Beaf:
Has your native doctor told you the mysteries the rest of us aren't aware of? That is the only way you can know for definite what is in Okahs memory and how he is using it, all the way in distant SA. Ridiculous.

Can you please explain to me the correlation between Chima Orlu and Justin Malcolm Umejesi?

alj harem:
there is nothing like zik of africa

africa most respected people are

nelson mandela

kofi annan

awolowo ( provided his people free education and etc)

obasanjo (africa most experienced politician )

dangote (richest african)

ajayi crowther (made sense to yoruba and igbo language and wrote the bible in yoruba and igbo language)

Phillip emeguali (african scientist but it is highly debated for fraud and other related crimes)

What is wrong with this Northern rabbit.

Beaf:
No serious person cares about Chima Orlu's ethnic group. Perhaps, his immediate family would feel shame, but nobody really gives a damn whether he is Igbo, Isoko or Hausa.

From Chima Orlu to Justin Malcolm Umejesi, Henry Okah is just taking you guys for a ride. He spews out whatever concocted name comes to his memory.

What Ezeuche is trying to say is that folks are fond of associating Igbo names with crimes, and this is likely one of them. Facebook that name(if it's even not a fictitious name) you'll find that it belongs to somebody who once lived in Ubima, PH, and likely an Ikwerre.

So personally i dont care WTF Chima Orlu is, he belongs to one of those who say they are not Igbo, which is fine by me.

What you can do is search for 'igbira' topics here to see what people have written about them in the past. Like i told you earlier, you should have posted this in culture.

^^

I also grew up in Lagos. I went to primary and secondary with many of them. They usually have some hoods they call 'abule igbira'. I've never dated one myself, but my friend did. The girl wanted to marry early, so she had another guy who she later married. They are usually muslims, except few that may be christians. Like i told you, they are very fetish.

But it depends where your girl grew up, she might be different and nice. You need to go out with her for at least 6 months to know her well, then you can decide to keep or discontinue. Dont allow people to confuse you, she might be good.(i'm sure she's Yoruba-speaking, many of them are).

Andre Uweh:
I do understand that some Igbo people want power to shift to the north, but the North has had it for more than 35 years and nothing was achieved in those inglorious years. Thank God for Ohanaeze, because those leaders have misled the Igbo.
What Ohanaeze is saying is that power does not rotate between the north and the south, but between the six geo-political zones.
The Ohanaeze executives have had a very careful study of all the presidential candidates for 2011 elections and have come to the conclusion that GEJ is better.
As it is now, 7 out of every Igbo is in support of GEJ.
Here in the U.K, am in constant touch with Imo state PDP chapter as well as the Chairman of PDP UK chapter who is also from Imo state. I know their opinions.
Am in touch with the president of Central backside of Nig in UK (CANUK) who is a friend and also Igbo and I know his opinion and his flock.
Believe me, Ohanaeze is right with the endorsement.

Let's hope that Jonathan wins the PDP primaries.

Andre Uweh:
Thank you my brother, I enjoy your posts a lot. But who are this members of Igbo Political Forum, who elected them to speak for Ndigbo?.

The IPF is comprised of former Vice President Dr Alex
Ekwueme, former Governor
of old Anambra State Chief
Jim Nwobodo, former Senate
President Ken Nnamani and
former CBN Governor
Professor Chukwuma Soludo, and others.

The IPF never claimed to be speaking on behalf of Ndigbo. They are just one of the many Igbo pressure groups who are coming up with different political options that could benefit Ndigbo.

My problem with the Ohaneze's endorsement is that i dont understand how this option will lead to having an Igbo presidency.

The statement made by Uwechue that Jonathan cannot be sworn in thrice does not hold water.

Igbo may not produce a president in 2015, but i want to see maneuvers that will make it a reality in the nearest future.

sunch:
Actually wat i would like your response on is about their bad, good side also their shortcomings of the igbira women

Like i told you before, they are very similar to Yoruba women. In fact, if you meet some, you instantly take them for Yoruba women, except they tell you. So in case you are into one right now, the plus and minus of Yoruba women applies to them. But i think they are slightly more fetish.

Andre, I understand your point. But why did Uwechue not make public that negotiations he had with the Ijaw Political Forum?

I'm really not bothered who the Ohaneze president personally supports. As a person, he is entitled to that.

When the Igbo Political Forum held negotiations with the North, their terms and agreement were publicly known and signed(which Uwechue disapproved of on the grounds that he was not contacted).

My question still remains: What did the Ijaws promised that will lead to the actualization of our political vision as Ndigbo? If there was any, was it's terms clearly spelt out, knowing the nature of the Ijaws?

seanet02:
obj conducted election though shabby, but we still see an Handing Over Ceremony,
IBB was so bad that he can not conduct a successful Primary,
What a Clasisical FOOL and SADIST he is!!!!!!!!!!!

IBB conducted a free and fair primary election which Shehu Yaradua(older brother of Umar Yaradua) won. Abiola bribed IBB, his partner-in-looting, to cancel it. That was why the primaries was done twice.

I had reasons to believe that the
Imeobi was not meant to discuss
anything but to ratify the
endorsement of the president
even before his party adopts
him.  Ohanaeze is adopting him
even before his party. I thought
that was ridiculous. Secondly, the
Imeobi had been primed to give
the present executive tenure
extension.  I thought it was also
ridiculous that all those who
criticised the third term agenda
with the argument that the
incumbent president at the time
should not seek for tenure
extension which would favour
him; we are now part of tenure
extension to favour an
incumbent Ohanaeze President.
For these two reasons, I stayed
away. And looking at the
communiqué and the list of
attendance I got, I am glad I
stayed away from the Imeobi
meeting. I will always wish
Ohanaeze well, because that is
what we have.

As much as i respect Ralph Uwechue as an elder, i think it's time for him to honorably step down as the president of Ohaneze. Igbo deserve better than this. (I'll take my time to study his role in the war efforts where i learnt that he contributed to the sabotage of Biafra). I think this move of endorsing Jonathan, selfishly inspired by Ralph Uwechue, was not done with Igbo interests at heart, but was carried out to avenge an earlier communique signed by the Igbo Political Forum. This is not good enough reason. What is at stake is Igbo interest which is an Igbo presidency. This is more important than any personality clashes that the Ohaneze president may have with his colleagues.

Now my questions are:

(1) What is the sense in endorsing an aspirant even before his party picks him as their flagbearer? 

(2) What if Johny Boy loses the primaries, and what happens to the supposedly 'Igbo' fake endorsement?

I'm beginning to doubt if Ralph Uwechue is a true Igbo man.

rhymz:
. . .exactly my point. . . No matter what anyone thinks IBB has done to the yorubas, we still ve yorubas who will overluk all that vendatta facade and still use their own discretion and not what some vindictive group are spewing alluva tha place. .

It is glaring that the problem of these bunch of folks here is a case of vendetta, which is fine by me and nobody cares.

It is this idea of cowing others by direct threats and intimidation, while at the same time, trying to speak for everybody really baffles my imagination. This politics of do-or-die mentality that has somehow found it's way in the SW must be nipped in the bud.

Ileke-IdI:
Basically any Nigerian that wants to vote for IBB, will. Not just yoruba ppl, individualism takes over.

Very smart girl! Clap for yourself.

Now i know that ezeuche has eyes for what is good.