₦airaland Forum

ceejay4real:
Did I hear you say in some weeks time? Latest this Saturday. Dat Ihedioha or whatever he calls himself wld hide his ugly head in shame thereafter. Useless Mbaise man!

Why are u dis useless.!

SaiBuharii:
What is the Hell is happening in the east/south. When did igbos become so desperate for power? Instead of the few ones that have sense to travel back to the east and make things better, they are in Lagos "dragging" Lagos with yoruba people, and saying a yorubaland is a "no man's land", forgetting the best you can do is develop yourself and and your state so you don't have to view yourself as a second class citizen for life. And it makes you wonder if they have plans for their "children children" to settle down in an developed igbo land. Abi why will you vote for or rig for Ochendo - the most useless governor ever, why will you vote against or rig against Owelle - Rochas, your only hope of becoming a president, only igbo man with national appeal. Why will a normal human being vote Wike? What was the logic behind voting for a man that could not do notable projects to improve your welfare - GEJ. See our Lagos sef, wanting to force PDP on us, inspite of the parties failures. It's high time you take a clue from the west. The rate of development is unstoppable apart from Ekiti where their much bragged about professors have become non existent and the number of illiterates that prefer their stomach to their children's future are more...4 years from now they will stiil be in 2015 with Fayose.

It is well!

Have u been to the East before? I guess not, now let me educate u, stop clinging to Lagos like a lifeline, Lagos was and is still being developed by federal might. No other place in the SW is more developed than the East. Take a tour.

Delta and Abia hasn't been released? Well we should know it's Pdp and Apga. How about Oyo, Apc

Nice one, congrats to her.

Gej is a civilized man

magicfingers009:
Loooooool. I can't stop laughing. Hatred, anger and pride has blinded the Igbo race. And you think you do well cos the past administration has allowed your kindred make little wealth in their illegal businesses? 419, drug trafficking, privacy, prostitution, ritual killings, kidnapping just to mention a few. Not to worry, we are in a new dispensation, you guys would flushed out like poo in the toilet.

It's obvious you are the one speaking with hate. In ur dream you think you can wipe out a whole race. Stop hating and work hard, maybe and just maybe luck will shine on you. Being in govt has never benefited the generality of individuals in the rulling region, but "just a few of d ruler's cronies", from every part of the Nation. Now I understand ur beef. Individual economic emancipation is a moving train in the Igbo race, nobody can stop that. It's just like water finding it's natural course, na God o. So deal with it, Inugo.

magicfingers009:
LOOOOOOOOL! You sound pained. The truth is alomo. She has said it all. The igbos continue making wrong allies. Rochas and Ngige saw this a long time ago and tried making amends, but your hatred for Yoruba and Hausa has yet again marginalized you and you kindred.
It has dawn on Nigerians that the population of igbos in lagos is fallacious and overrated.

Its so unfortunate that the igbos would remain politically irrelevant for the next four years as they refused the "Amala and Cow rearing" party cos of pride, hatred and anger.

Shut up and keep serving ur slave masters, ur king is preaching peace u are here blabbing. Why shld I be irrelevant when you will look down south for hand outs, abi u no wan allocation again? Why does Igbo vote so much matter to u, if dey don't matter, Igbo this, Igbo that, are they the reason why, u, yes u as a person don't do well?. I'm glad we spoke with one voice and made our stand known, unlike u that played out the back stabbers that you are. More like, "let's share our votes oh, anyone who wins, we run to him". You shld be ashamed of urself. Your govt must extend a handshake if it must succeed which they are planning already, you are here ranting. Mtscheew

Shut up and think for ur life and leave Igbo matter alone, abi na dem do u wetin dey do u? APC is still a one man party, Tinubiu's. And Igbos don't bow down to one man.

Bombs were dropped here too, what did Boko haram do

Awwwww lovely. May God help us recover everything we've lost, this month in Jesus' Name.... Amen.

No, he shouldn't have. The outburst was too emotional, I'm sure if he knew the video would go viral like that, he wuda toned down his speech. Forget all the defense, under closed doors he would have apologized to someone, just one person, maybe his most beloved wife or son. Lolz! "My dear, u know dats not me....., I was just angry...., you know these Omo Igbos can push someone to get hbp, na dem cause am...., I'm sorry". Hahahaha. 'cos the oba looks like a lover boi.

SamjohnnyB:
if you didnt play with this as a kid...... you are part of the indomie generation

Lolz, I rem very well then, it was rubber, I could remove the legs and arms, and put it back too.

Ihedioha must win o, I wonder why these results are coming in this late. Imo results. Abi Rochas wants to be funny.

Make una allow dis Koro rest naa, eh. O gini, lolz! He can't move again? I feel for dem o, from Remi harassing him in NASS session to one woman harassing his son etc

Good for our democracy, more states should follow. We need 35%

This is good for Nigerian politics

Why didn't u capture it on video with ya phone. Apc guys are good @ dat but pdp supporters too dey slack.

Can this be 3MB, the median looks it with the campaign posters. But the floor seems not. At what time of day is dis without vehicular movt.

Even the pix he admitted is his, what is he doing in the midst of policemen. We have seen both Ambo and Agbaje's pix today, they were with the masses not policemen. Even BRF doesn't walk in d midst of police like this. So he caused the suspicion if it is mere suspicion.

By Chimamanda Adichie

A few days ago, the Oba of Lagos threatened Igbo leaders. If they did not vote for his governorship candidate in Lagos, he said, they would be thrown into the lagoon. His entire speech was a flagrant performance of disregard. His words said, in effect: I think so little of you that I don’t have to cajole you but will just threaten you and, by the way, your safety in Lagos is not assured, it is negotiable.

There have been condemnations of the Oba’s words. Sadly, many of the condemnations from non-Igbo people have come with the ugly impatience of expressions like ‘move on,’ and  ‘don’t be over-emotional’ and ‘calm down.’ These take away the power, even the sincerity, of the condemnations. It is highhanded and offensive to tell an aggrieved person how to feel, or how quickly to forgive, just as an apology becomes a non-apology when it comes with ‘now get over it.’

Other condemnations of the Oba’s words have been couched in dismissive or diminishing language such as ‘The Oba can’t really do anything, he isn’t actually going to kill anyone. He was joking. He was just being a loudmouth.’

Or – the basest yet – ‘we are all prejudiced.’ It is dishonest to respond to a specific act of prejudice by ignoring that act and instead stressing the generic and the general.  It is similar to responding to a specific crime by saying ‘we are all capable of crime.’ Indeed we are. But responses such as these are diversionary tactics. They dismiss the specific act, diminish its importance, and ultimately aim at silencing the legitimate fears of people.

We are indeed all prejudiced, but that is not an appropriate response to an issue this serious. The Oba is not an ordinary citizen. He is a traditional ruler in a part of a country where traditional rulers command considerable influence – the reluctance on the part of many to directly chastise the Oba speaks to his power. The Oba’s words matter. He is not a singular voice; he represents traditional authority. The Oba’s words matter because they are enough to incite violence in a political setting already fraught with uncertainty. The Oba’s words matter even more in the event that Ambode loses the governorship election, because it would then be easy to scapegoat Igbo people and hold them punishable.

Nigerians who consider themselves enlightened might dismiss the Oba’s words as illogical. But the scapegoating of groups – which has a long history all over the world – has never been about logic. The Oba’s words matter because they bring worrying echoes of the early 1960s in Nigeria, when Igbo people were scapegoated for political reasons. Chinua Achebe, when he finally accepted that Lagos, the city he called home, was unsafe for him because he was Igbo, saw crowds at the motor park taunting Igbo people as they boarded buses: ‘Go, Igbo, go so that garri will be cheaper in Lagos!’

Of course Igbo people were not responsible for the cost of garri. But they were perceived as people who were responsible for a coup and who were ‘taking over’ and who, consequently, could be held responsible for everything bad.

Any group of people would understandably be troubled by a threat such as the Oba’s, but the Igbo, because of their history in Nigeria, have been particularly troubled. And it is a recent history. There are people alive today who were publicly attacked in cosmopolitan Lagos in the 1960s because they were Igbo. Even people who were merely light-skinned were at risk of violence in Lagos markets, because to be light-skinned was to be mistaken for Igbo.

Almost every Nigerian ethnic group has a grouse of some sort with the Nigerian state. The Nigerian state has, by turns, been violent, unfair, neglectful, of different parts of the country. Almost every ethnic group has derogatory stereotypes attached to it by other ethnic groups.

But it is disingenuous to suggest that the experience of every ethnic group has been the same. Anti-Igbo violence began under the British colonial government, with complex roots and manifestations. But the end result is a certain psychic difference in the relationship of Igbo people to the Nigerian state. To be Igbo in Nigeria is constantly to be suspect; your national patriotism is never taken as the norm, you are continually expected to prove it.

All groups are conditioned by their specific histories. Perhaps another ethnic group would have reacted with less concern to the Oba’s threat, because that ethnic group would not be conditioned by a history of being targets of violence, as the Igbo have been.

Many responses to the Oba’s threat have mentioned the ‘welcoming’ nature of Lagos, and have made comparisons between Lagos and southeastern towns like Onitsha. It is valid to debate the ethnic diversity of different parts of Nigeria, to compare, for example, Ibadan and Enugu, Ado-Ekiti and Aba, and to debate who moves where, and who feels comfortable living where and why that is. But it is odd to pretend that Lagos is like any other city in Nigeria. It is not. The political history of Lagos and its development as the first national capital set it apart. Lagos is Nigeria’s metropolis. There are ethnic Igbo people whose entire lives have been spent in Lagos, who have little or no ties to the southeast, who speak Yoruba better than Igbo. Should they, too, be reminded to be ‘grateful’ each time an election draws near?

No law-abiding Nigerian should be expected to show gratitude for living peacefully in any part of Nigeria. Landlords in Lagos should not, as still happens too often, be able to refuse to rent their property to Igbo people.

The Oba’s words were disturbing, but its context is even more disturbing:

The anti-Igbo rhetoric that has been part of the political discourse since the presidential election results.  Accusatory and derogatory language – using words like ‘brainwashed,’ ‘tribalistic voting’ – has been used to describe President Jonathan’s overwhelming win in the southeast. All democracies have regions that vote in large numbers for one side, and even though parts of Northern Nigeria showed voting patterns similar to the Southeast, the opprobrium has been reserved for the Southeast.

But the rhetoric is about more than mere voting. It is really about citizenship. To be so entitled as to question the legitimacy of a people’s choice in a democratic election is not only a sign of disrespect but is also a questioning of the full citizenship of those people.

What does it mean to be a Nigerian citizen?

When Igbo people are urged to be ‘grateful’ for being in Lagos, do they somehow have less of a right as citizens to live where they live? Every Nigerian should be able to live in any part of Nigeria. The only expectation for a Nigerian citizen living in any part of Nigeria is to be law-abiding. Not to be ‘grateful.’ Not to be expected to pay back some sort of unspoken favour by toeing a particular political line. Nigerian citizens can vote for whomever they choose, and should never be expected to justify or apologize for their choice.

Only by feeling a collective sense of ownership of Nigeria can we start to forge a nation. A nation is an idea. Nigeria is still in progress. To make this a nation, we must collectively agree on what citizenship means: all Nigerians must matter equally.

She go vote for husband naa, she no wan be first lady? Lolzz dats if she is the 1st wife o

Ur one vote, don't rub it in.
All these ngba.ti ngb.ati claiming Igbo everywhere. And who told u Igbos adopted Agbaje, they are all the ones adopting us now o, if u don't know, because of votes. I saw one that used his abbreviation which is IBO to campaign. I laughed. Bros take am easy, nobody is fighting them, we are here for our business as u rightly said and it's two yorubaz fighting themselves (Jimi and Ambo). So it's none of our business. But they keep going from one Igbo group or the other looking for support.
The oba made a statement which is very bad and they have all come out to condemn it, so let their fight continue, none of anybody's business.

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Good

This man has spoken well, well rounded, no sycophancy to any of the parties mentioned or sulking up to curry favor or biased in any way

Assassinate you because you are so relevant to their winning the elections ba. Kwakwakwakwa. Why didn't Patie give you her number directly when you requested for it. Father were nwayo, we Igbo Catholics are ashamed of you now for this unclad masquerade dance. Biko mechinata, sir. Respect sir. Meanwhile GEJ till 2019. We can't go for gmb, tufiakwa!. Give your advise to Gej, to correct certain things in his govt, he has a listening ear, if you have any, not canvassing vote for gmb in the SE. It's dead on arrival. Ngige and few apc guys in SE are smart in this their alliance with you, but it won't work, let them try harder next time with an acceptable candidate. Onwedi ebe eji ejide Nwoke mua anakpo gmb aka. Hahahaha

IYANGBALI:
keep decieving yourself. DSTV wants to make money and for dem to have ignored you guys means you are a bad market for them

So who keeps Nollywood afloat for them? You are the one deceiving urself, this channel technically will be the second or even fourth or fifth for us! (when you add other new AM stations- Entertainment, family etc). You can practically learn the Igbo you want from there. We are not bigots, we carry everyone along in our dealings, so act in English. Deal with it. No comparison

deflover:
this robbers no get sense.....if you rob finish how you want escape.......lekki phase 1 is a well planed area.......na toll gate una wan pass abi na back to epe wey traffic go hold u for road abi dem wan use the lagoon take escape.......some missions are just not the right mission to go.....they will all be killed

All be killed ke, pple wey don escape thru water, read the whole gist, some other poster gave more insight. These robbers are not smiling these dayz

IYANGBALI:
more people?how many are you people that you came here bragging of giving them a boost?

Lolz! See as dat one pain u, we are not much, but we are more than u and well represented round Africa where Dstv operates. It might also interest you to know we have a higher number of people with disposable cash! Infact almost everybody can afford and patronize them. Go and get detailed demography of their patronage. Ask the Telecom giants too. So don't sit in front of ur system and just hate. No be we cause am, Osinachi. Hahahaha. I commiserate with ur misery

God is using it to teach them a lesson and how to love His creatures. I see it happen a lot. So if u don't want to marry from there, don't hate. Lolzz!

deeplow:
No disrespect to the igbos. I love igbos. Truth be told, there aren't enough content to air. There is an igbo channel on startimes, and they barely have anything interesting to put on, and it is characterised by repititions. If dstv were to eventually open an Ndigbo channel, I am sure even igbos will get bored after a while.

Popular Igbo Nollywood actors have to forget all the pure English movies they act in. Promote their culture to the world. Most Indian actors speak good English, but they still stick to their language in movies, and theybare respected everywhere. Every week, at least 15 yoruba movies are released, Even though half of them are nonsense, it still gives room for options. Igbos should release as many as possible too.

I would be glad, if they can work on this, and produce plenty many Igbo movies. Maybe from there, I will learn enough Igbo to woo Chinweizu(my life long crush).

I'm Igbo but you spoke well without bashing, that's the pure truth. Albeit I have watched one recent Igbo film, "Nkoli Nwa Nsukka", very interesting, more of that should come up. Ka Chineke mezie okwu. Though I trust my people, the Igbo channel will give them a boost, more people will see Igbo movies giving more commercial value.