karl max:

Quote from gideon orkar “Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.
 They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south”,

The hausa fulani race would neva take us for a ride again, the middle belt and the south are uniting to save our country to be destroyed by this race,  Can you tell me any country that they rule that is progressing is it sudan,niger or chad?

He was right. And before him Ojukwu. . . 

If only Orkar had succeeded.

We have to get to 2015 first.

Let him deal with his godfather, before he wants to seek the presidency. 

_{With a face only a mother could love.}

jason123:

It's only these three that make sense among them. The rest are suffering from severe inferiority complex.

Stop using a term you know nothing about.

No Igbo feels inferior to anyone. Why do you think every Igbo man thinks of himself as a king? No king feels inferior to a common peasant.

The fact remains that Igbos need to stop thinking of themselves as superior to each other and other groups.

I have never met an Igbo who though he was inferior to anyone. Most Igbos think they can do anything better than the rest.

To be frank, many Igbos have a[b] SUPERIORITY COMPLEX.[/b] Which means an exaggerated feeling of being superior to others. That is something I will admit.

Igbos see Hausa as backwards beast of burden and Yoruba. . . I wont say.

Now stop with your absurd psychoanalysis, because it makes you look like a DUMB ARSE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_complex

isale_gan2:

hmmm.  Have we met? 

You mention my name, beckoning me to reply.

So I should be asking you that question. Have we met?

^^^

Shame on you for being a fool.

alj harem, as you can see, anti-North sentiments is rising in Southern Nigeria.

The Ghost of Gideon Orkar still speaks.

It is only a matter of time.

Ileke-IdI:

Alright.

I think you owe me an apology for your unguarded comment. 

The ghost of Gideon Orkar continues to speak to us.

baksonlee:

Senator Hosea Agboola (Oyo North PDP)  90% confirmed

Wrong!

He will be a first term senator and will not have the clout to win the Senate presidency.

isale_gan2:

Alhaji,
You wanna be a mod? You'll be great at it! You can ban Ezeuche.

EzeUche is eternal. Many manifestations yet still the same EzeUche.

^^^

Well that is your opinion. A simple yes or no would suffice.

More contributions please.

RICHIE BOI:

I think we should hold a referendum in this country between north and south of this country since we cant live as one. But the annoying thing is that this same northerners wont want this country to divide, yet they keep causing mayhem and butchering non-muslims. i think we should go the southern sudan way. thats my 2 cents though.

And that is the right mindset to have.

You foolish people give them warnings that is why they know to flee.

Do Hausa people give warnings? The answer is NO!

I swear Southerners can be stu.pid at times.

Amen!

Ileke-IdI:

EzeUche, if the purpose of this thread is to prove that Yorubas are also being killed, that's just awful. You can never imagine the pain a woman like her would be feeling.

I am not callous. The purpose of this thread is to shed light on those who lost their lives in the North. I have been doing this for a couple of days with Ukeoma Ikechukwu and Obinna Okpokiri.

I do not care, what region the person is from. What matters is innocent Southern Corpers were killed in cold blood! This is what make me mad!   

I feel bad for the mother. His story is very sad.

Omo eni ku san ju omo eni sonu lo, e bami gbe oku re abi kile fe fi se leyin igba ti eti pa

This is the full story.


One of the corps members that survived the attack where over seven of her colleagues met their untimely deaths, Wumi, said Seun was butchered to death by rioters.


According to the female corps member, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday, the corps members became agitated when they discovered that the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission located beside the Youth Corps Members lodge in Giade had been set on fire by the rioters.


“The Youth Corps Members’ Lodge is just a stone throw to the INEC office, so when we saw it on fire, we all ran to the police station for safety. The Divisional Police Officer allowed us to stay. But a few minutes later, the rioters numbering over 300, swooped on the police station, stoned the policemen, overran the station and set it on fire. The rioters had their way because the policemen were only shooting teargas canisters against them. One of the stones hit the DPO on his head and it was at this point that he ordered all of us to leave the station,’’ Wumi said.


The corps members were thus forced out of the police station into the waiting hands of the devil-inspired rioters. [/b]While some, including Wumi, escaped with wounds, seven others including Seun could not make it. They were butchered by the rioters, who were protesting the defeat of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, (retd), the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in the April 16 Presidential Election.


[b]“It was a war situation and all of us were just running at different directions. They were inflicting machete cuts on us. They hit me on the head, on the shoulder and back but I kept on running. But thank God, two men on Okada just emerged from nowhere and confronted my attackers. They pleaded with them to leave us alone but when they discovered that they were desperate to kill all of us, one of them just carried me and put me on the motorcycle and sped off. I was taken to a village far from the war zone,’’ she narrated.


When her rescuers saw that she could die of bleeding, they reported her case to the Emir of the village that assisted her in getting medical attention.


“The emir sent a car to take me to the hospital. [b]But before I was rescued, Seun and others were killed by the rioters in a gruesome manner. Some of them were set on fire,” [/b]she said.


At Lagos , Seun’s mother, Mrs. Beatrice Adewumi, had become apprehensive after learning that corps members were being killed in some parts of the North including Bauchi.


Though her son spoke with her a day earlier (on Sunday), she still called her younger brother, Venerable Samuel Ojo, who is also the Vicar of The African Church Cathedral, College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos to confirm if he had spoken with Seun in recent time. The woman, who spoke with our correspondent at the vicarage of The African Church Cathedral on Sunday amidst sobs, said she did not know that that Sunday was the last time she would speak with her son.


“He called me on Sunday and said I should please tell one of our distant relations who is a lawyer to get a job for him as he was scheduled to complete his service year in June. I did not know that that would be the last time I would speak with my star. Seun had made a lot of promises to me. He said I should not worry that he would take good care of me.


“Each time he came home from school for food and money, he would call me aside and say, ‘Mummy, don’t worry, I know that you don’t have money but please try and finance my education, I will soon complete my education and after graduation, I will take very good care of you.’ I didn’t know that that promise would not be kept. They have killed my hope, they have killed my shinning light,” the woman who was surrounded by relatives and her brother, Ojo, cried.


Beatrice said she retired in 2009 from the service of the Lagos State Government. She pleaded with the NYSC to release the corpse of her son to her.


“My brother spent over four days before he could get the NYSC Bauchi to confirm his death. But please tell them to give me his corpse because in our tradition when you say somebody is dead, we must see the corpse. Omo eni ku san ju omo eni sonu lo, e bami gbe oku re abi kile fe fi se leyin igba ti eti pa (It is better to lose a child to death than to say a child is missing, please give me his corpse or what else do you want to do with the corpse after you have killed him,)” she said to no one in particular.


Seun’s sister, Ruth, also said that the family would miss the deceased in so many ways. “Seun suffered; many times he would go and do odd jobs to complement the little money our mother could give. He was determined to succeed but see how some senseless, uneducated and barbaric people just killed him. Government should scrap the NYSC. They should compensate my mother because she sacrificed a lot to see him through the university,” Ruth, who is a trained hairdresser, said.


Speaking on the trauma the family had gone through since the young man was killed on Monday; Ojo expressed bitterness at the inability of the NYSC to inform them about the death. This, he said, further traumatised the family as members were left in the dark concerning his whereabouts.


Narrating the event that led to the death of Seun, Ojo said Seun called him around 10am on Monday, April 18 to pray for him as there was a crisis in Giade.


“I asked him what the problem was and he said the rioters had attacked the INEC office and they were on their way to the police station because their lodge was not far from the place. I said he should not worry that we would be praying. But when I called him back, he said they were already in the police station. I was happy but when I called him back around 1pm his mobile phone was dead. I became apprehensive.


“We started calling all his friends and other people from our church that were posted to Bauchi. Nobody knew anything about his whereabouts. Some of them gave us the number of the Bauchi State Coordinator of the NYSC, that of his personal assistant and the Zonal Inspector of Seun’s local government. We tried all the numbers but nobody picked it. It was not until Thursday that the personal assistant to the coordinator picked my call and confirmed that Seun was no more. What the NYSC did was not fair. We were traumatised and subjected to emotional trauma between Monday and Thursday last week,” he said.


The angry cleric said if not for God and his faith in Jesus, he would have gone on a vengeance mission, because according to him, there was no reason why corps members should be attacked because of election.

Chyz back off!

EU, US Condemn Electoral Violence in Nigeria

BY EMEKA AGINA

The Heads of Mission of the European Union  and the United States of America in Nigeria have condemned the violence surrounding elections in Nigeria.

Looking ahead to the remaining elections, the world leaders in statement by the British High Commission in Nigeria also called for  an end to all acts of violence, asking  all  Nigeria’s leaders to act responsibly, to respect all electoral procedures and democratic processes, and to pursue any legitimate challenges peacefully and within the rule of law.

“We have closely followed events in Nigeria during the election period, including by supporting international and domestic observers nationwide.

“We congratulate the Nigerian people on their commitment to democracy. We welcome that independent observers have commended significant improvements in the conduct of the election, and we look to the electoral authorities to address the deficiencies and concerns which they have identified in a timely and transparent manner.

“We are disturbed at and condemn the ongoing violence surrounding this election period. Looking ahead to the remaining elections, we call for an end to all acts of violence, and for all of Nigeria’s leaders to act responsibly, to respect all electoral procedures and democratic processes, and to pursue any legitimate challenges peacefully and within the rule of law.

“We underline that the lives and livelihoods of Nigeria’s people must be respected, and that those responsible for violence must face due process and be brought to justice.

“This is an important moment for Nigeria. It is vital that the entire election process meets the expectations of the Nigerian electorate”  ” the world leaders said in the  statement.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/eu-us-condemn-electoral-violence-in-nigeria/

Ileke-IdI:

And they said religion had nothing to do with this.

They also say the riots were only aimed at the Northern PDP elite. Liars. . .

The FG need to return the man's body to his mother in order to give him a proper burial.

I was going to say something about this crime, but I promised to forsake such rhetoric.

alj harem:

why the insult

Because the fool was ridiculing Igbo corpers who lost their lives in the North, forgetting that Corpers from his own state of Ekiti were also killed.

It is a shame that the guy is blinded by tribalism.

We were all impacted by this travesty. No mother should go through this.

Round II

Fight! 

vladimiros:

^^^^^ Philip effiong?

Yes, a proud Ibibio from Ibiono Ibom and Biafran. Well let us not derail this thread.

^^^

Well I thank God for people like this man.

You should know who he is don't you?

vladimiros:

yes , cus am half efik half ibibio and hate being seen with the igbo  when people talk about dividing Nigeria on NL

Haven't we heard this before. I am half Ibibio, but I am a proud Igbo. But I recognize my family comes from Ikot Ekpene and they were pro-Biafra.

^^^

That is horrible!

jason123:

The point is, they were provoked while we were operating regional government, so what did you expect
Let's not derail the topic, please.Okay, the East, satisfied?

You already derailed it, by mentioning the Nigeria civil war. Do not mention something if you do not want to defend you accusation.

Why is GEJ taking so long to execute these rioters?