edoyad:

i dont have a problem with them shacking up with the girls, after all many Nigerians abroad even end abandoning their sisters with children. Problem is with the stories i hear about them making female employees do outrageous stuff.

ekt_bear:

As history has taught us, if you give the Fulani an inch, they'll take a mile.

Best bet for the Tiv would be to wipe out the Fulani utterly from their lands.

ThiefOfHearts:

My friend go and sit down. Who are you? You really think Im afraid of some random internet no-name that I wouldnt have quoted your comment if it was only meant for you?

Are you the only person to mention the action  of some Naija girls in this thread? Oponu.

ThiefOfHearts:

Did I say your name? It was a general statement. Should I really have to explain this to you?

Calculia:

APGA is the emerging giant in Nigeria political landscape, no doubt. Alot is resting on the performance of Gov Peter Obi and Gov Rochas. Their performance is all the Ideological and internal reform that is speculated the party needs to win even South/south, alongside the Southeast.

ThiefOfHearts:

You people need to stop being daft

There will always be LovePeddlers in any country. Get over it. White men go to Asia all the time for the women yet you dont hear about them using dogs on the employees. Your focus should be on that, what hookers do on their time has NOTHING to do with the matter on hand. Instead of being ashamed of how you';re allowing these albino freaks to be treating you lke slaves, as usual you're trying to blame women.

Will APGA take over South East?

Written by Christian Okeke
Tuesday, 21 June 2011



With the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) now controlling almost all the states in the South-West zone of the country and with the 2011 general election now over, Christian Okeke writes on the future of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), which was perceived at a time as an Igbo party, and the quest by the party to emerge as the dominant party in the South-East political landscape.

Proverbially, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has proven to be a cat with nine lives. This is so as the party has survived long and unnecessary intra-party squabbles which threatened to tear it apart and drown its objectives.  Precisely on June 24, 2002, APGA got registered as a political party in the country with massive acceptance, especially in the South-East zone. It has as its motto: Be your brother’s keeper.   Having been launched, the party did not waste time to unfold its manifesto, adjudged the best among the nation’s political parties at the time. With time, intra-party crisis broke out and began to shake the party’s foundation and threaten its mass acceptance and rising profile.

On January 19, 2003, APGA held its first national convention at the Old Parade Ground in Garki, Abuja. It was, however, a paradox of sort that as the party members swivel in the euphoria of the auspicious event, little did they know that the occasion was going to be the last national convention that the party was going to hold in five years.

The leadership crisis which later engulfed the party was unanticipated, avoidable, ill-motivated and unnecessary. From December 15, 2004, when the leadership crisis broke out till few months ago, it was a conspicuous battle of the titans for the soul of the party, with over 15 court cases filed by the factions led by Chief Chekwas Okorie and Chief Victor Umeh against each other, even up to the Supreme Court.

It was on records that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Umeh-led APGA met on January 11, 2005 and expelled its founding chairman, Okorie, from the party over what it called gross anti-party activities and particularly for attempting to sabotage the election petition filed by the party’s candidate in the 2003 governorship election in Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi.

The Umeh-led APGA, insisting that Mr. Obi won the April 19, 2003 election and determed to reclaim its first governorship victory, threw its weight behind Obi, from the tribunal to the Court of Appeal in Enugu where the court, in its ruling of March 15, 2006, declared Obi the winner. Consequently, Mr. Obi was sworn-in as governor on March 17, 2006, thus making Anambra the first state to be won by APGA in its quest to capture the entire five states in the South-East zone.

The ecstasy was however short-lived as the governor, through what was regarded as “an intricate web of conspiracy by opponents,” was unconstitutionally impeached at about 5.00 a.m. on Thursday, November 2, 2006, by 21 members of the state House of Assembly after about seven months in office.  He was later re-instated as the governor on February 9, 2007 by the Court of Appeal, sitting in Enugu. All the legal battles were for the party to retain its hold in the state.

Be that as it may, it is on records that while expectations were high that the party would maximally utilise its goodwill in the zone to extend its political net to the remaining states with the view to capture them, as well in the next general elections, the continuing leadership crisis prevailed and provided a clog in the wheel of progress for the young party. To that extent, while most supporters were disenchanted over the lingering imbroglio which was uncalled for and contrary to the “Be your brother’s keeper” tenent of the party, others were confused as to which of the factions to pitch tent with.

The brouhaha was so overbearing that efforts were not concentrated on reaching out to the remaining states in the zone and building formidable structures ahead of future polls.



In fact, as the 2011 general election approached, some aspirants, who wished to contest on the party’s platform, were confused as to the faction to be sympathetic to; others who did not want to jeopardise their chances hurriedly approached other political parties to utilise their platforms to realise their political ambition.

As the years ran out, the enthusiasm that greeted the registration of APGA began to wane to the extent that many people at the grassroots lost confidence in the party. The grievance of the once-upon-a-time supporters was understood as no one wanted to identify with a divided house and run into a collapsing roof.

However, as the pendulum swung in the direction of the Chief Umeh-led APGA, steps were taken to attract renowned individuals to vie for the governorship of their respective states on the party’s platform. To that effect, the party ensured the emergence of the following candidates: Owelle Rochas Okorocha, former presidential aspirant (Imo); Ambassador Frank Ogbuewu, former Minister of Culture and Tourism and former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Greece (Ebonyi); Chief Obinna Obidiegwu (Enugu); and Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba (Abia.)

Prior to the 2011 elections, the major loss for APGA in Abia State, according to pundits, has to do with the failure of the governor, Theodore Orji to defect to the party. After weeks of intrigues and political horse-trading, the governor jettisoned all entreaties and rather pitched his tent with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he believed his political future would not be drenched by the unpleasant rain of political miscalculation. That decision dealt a big blow also on the expectation of many citizens and residents of the state who had prayed for the governor to embrace APGA as a way to consolidate on the gains of the party in the zone and also give a boost to the dream of making the region an APGA stronghold.  Having lost the bid to convince Orji to join the APGA, the hurdle was set for the party to contest against the ruling PDP, the battle it sadly lost.

APGA also lost in Enugu and Ebonyi states despite the political heavyweights which it paraded as candidates. Again, the losts was largely attributed to the inability of the party to build political structure, strong enough to dismantle those of the incumbents.

In Imo, the reverse was, however, the case as APGA’s candidates Okorocha with his overwhelming influence defeated the then incumbent PDP candidate, Ikedi Ohakim. The victory did not, obviously, come without initial state party chapter’s squabbles that resulted in the earlier suspension of the party’s candidate Okorocha.



The truth which remained sacrosanct is the fact that in all APGA’s successes, the influence of its national leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu has been a strong factor. The former warlord, Ojukwu, seen as a symbol of Igbo strength and courage still commands huge respect in the entire South-East. Throughout Igboland, his acceptance was yet to dwindle significantly and it was his involvement in APGA, in addition to his numerous pleas for his kinsmen to join “the movement” that has so far sustained the party.

That also determines how far it can go in the future.

Pundits believe that both the governors of Anambra and Imo states, Mr Obi and Owelle Okorocha hold sway as to what will befall APGA in future polls, depending on their performances in office. Political analysts have argued that except Obi and Okorocha succeed in turning the lots of their respective states around, the dream of APGA capturing the entire eastern political landscape would remain a mirage.

In fact, it was in line with this argument that anxiety mounted within the APGA fold and beyond when cabinet members in Obi’s government started to resign their appointments in turn. The resignation had been adjudged as rejection of the government.

To worsen the situation, the lingering strike by a section of the workforce of the state, including the medical workers, has remained like a dangerous whitlow against the APGA government in Anambra State. Such strike was part of the reasons the people of the state in 2003 voted out the then governor, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, with his rather ‘alien’ Alliance for Democracy, (AD) in the state.

By and large, for the fortune of the party to improve in future elections, it is the expectation that the party starts to lay the foundation with immediate effect. This it can do by persuading its governors to deliver dividends of democracy to the people of the state, especially the grassroots.

It is clear that for this to come, the people must feel the impact of the government and note the difference between its ideologies and those of the previous governments in the state. Except this is done, it would be childish to anticipate that the electorate will cast sympathy votes for the party in the next general election.

There is no doubt that one of the hurdles which the party is likely to face in coming years is to upstage PDP’s structure in Enugu, Abia and Ebonyi States, especially if the governors perform well. To that extent, it will obviously prove difficult for APGA to capture the states, except, perhaps, through divine intervention.

To achieve result, it is instructive that the aggrieved stakeholders in the party come together to work for the progress of their party. This, of course, is the time for angry party-men in APGA to bury the hatchet and chart a common front in the South-East. But will APGA ever succeed in controlling the entire five states that make up the South-East zone? Only time will definitely tell.

~Bluetooth:

Did they declare such when iboland was hot in the days of osisikanku ?

ezeagu:

Wouldn't that be awkward seeing as Bonny and Opobo fit that description but are separated from the mainland Igbo by Ijaw and Ogoni speakers?

tom28:

Somebody told me about this incident that happened in Aba some few yrs ago.
There was this white american guy walking down the street and he had an Ostrich neck and he was wearing a huge T-shirt five times his size and along came this igbo guy with a barrel chest laughing at this white guy and saying thus." oyibo man see ya long neck!" and the white guy go very red in the face walking up to this igbo guy with a barrel chest and threatning him with his tiny hairy fist saying,"i am gonna rip up your ugly black face u pouch m0nkey!" and the igbo did nothing but just walked away laughing in an embarrasing way.I have white ppl handing insulting igbos in their land and besides there was an unconfirmed report we heard about an indian slapping one of the Governors from the eastern part of the country.So the guy saying that it cant happen in igbo land is talking out of his Bottom.A white man would even use a horse whip on an igbo guy and get away with it.

alj_harem:

go to this thread if u have time, this was when i finished ezeuche about yoruba ghana benin togo

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-595370.224.html

ezeagu:

How many expatriates are there in the southeast compared to the delta?

jason123:

Mister Man, who are the Ewes? Ewes are Yorubas.

Proof: from a GHANAIAN WEBSITE

The Ewe people inhabit the territory equivalent roughly to the south-eastern quarter of Ghana and the southern half of TOGO. The EWE country is bounded by the rivers MONO and VOLTA and extends from the Atlantic coast inland up to about latitude 7. 6’N. in the east and latitude 7. 20’N. in the west. Across the south eastern boundary line a related people – the FON of BENIN (formerly DAHOMEY).The EWE people have not always lived in their present home. Their traditions recall a migration from the east – more precisely KETU a YORUBA town in modern BENIN. KETU is also called AMEDZOFE or MAWUFE in the accounts. KETU was founded by the YORUBA people by the fourteenth century at the latest. In it lived besides the forebears of the EWE, the YORUBA and the ancestors of the AJA, FON, and GA-DANGME. It was the expansion of the YORUBA people that pushed the EWE and related peoples westward

http://www.torgbuijames-ocloo.org/The%20Ewe%20People%20I.htm

jason123:

Prove it!!!                                        

honeric01:

Now, this is not funny again, they are increasing and recruiting more poor youth, YOU SEE WHAT POLITICIANS have caused this country?

Angry, hungry bitter youth running rampage?