₦airaland Forum

phemmyutd:
I put it to PDP Senators are Coward for not able to ask Amaechi a single Question.
Despite that Amaechi still challenge them and their Hero (GEJ) that he has all the document of allegation with him, and there was no place in the report of the committee, yet all of them are only looking like a cow, can't even challenge any single point.

Seems its only Social Media and Newspaper PDP can Challenge Amaechi, non can speak to his face.... SHAME ON THEM ALL

In Igbo we use to say that "Iru dike na aru nma nko" meaning: The mere face of a warrior blunts the sword of his opponents.

Sweetguy25:
Lol. The devil is a liar.

Amaechi doesn't collect bribes, rather, bribes collect him. Oloshi!

How did Amaechi become governor in the first place? Did money not exchange hands before the court gave a ridiculous judgement in Amaechi's favour and made him governor?

He was previously speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly for eight years. So was he trying to say that throughout those years, nobody bribed him neither did he receive kickbacks from top business and politicians under the corrupt Odili and Obasanjo era?

Does Amaechi think we are fools or what?

Just like Amaechi said, there are many facets of corruption. Sitting in your one bedroom making wild unsubstantiated allegations is corruption.

He must be the bravest person on earth if he was lying but still making such a claim before the watching world. The ball is now in your court to disprove his claim with facts and real evidence rather than relying on conspiracy theories.

Last week some of you predicted how today will never come but it has.

demarc001:
Abeg remind me, Wetin dem dey celebrate?

They successfully proved that his election was fraudulent. That's what they are celebrating.
The same way families of murder victims celebrated when the murderer is found guilty, not because their loved one is coming back to life.

doublewisdom:
All na for show. In his deepest heart , he knows he won't win the election.

That's not the point. You guys are missing the point. It's not about winning or losing. It's about how you won it or how you lost it.
There is no doubt that PDP is bigger than APC in Akwa Ibom in terms of support base and funding but it's better for them to win with a legitimate 500 vote majority than a fraudulent 5K majority.
It's just that these politicians and their supporters vare so addicted to rigging that they will even rig election of which they are the only candidate on the ballot.

divinehand2003:
I think she is from Cross River state

I think that was meant to be sarcastic.

solja147:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/rivers-govt-dissociates-self-from-separatist-protests/

That sounds like Abel Muzarewa's statements.

Scatterscatter:
I still find it difficult to belive these biafra guys are the most gullible set of people in the world. The person they are risking their lives for is based in UK and only came home to gain popularity then he'll return to UK after his release. The same mistake they made is what they are about to make. Ibos' generally act before they think

99% of ANC leadership lives in exile during the apartheid era. Know your history first before commenting.

iokpebholo:
What rain if I may ask?i was at d event right from d airport to jonathan bye pass straight to akamkpa,the weather was cloudy but there was no rain.dnt know where this lie and propaganda dey come from sef.haba

Either you or the reporter is lying or playing politics as usual?
On a Tuesday morning-afternoon? What are you doing following nothing to do politicians about all day, you mean you don't have a job to go to?

cionon:
The punctuation used in the passage is not right. Hence, his conclusion.

Punctuation or no punctuation, the word "petitioner" was their to separate the egg from the chicken. Don't excuse half baked education of some.

Lilimax:
Who are the APC members? Aren't they former PDP members
Abeg, don't becloud your reasoning with party stuff.
APC and PDP are the same.

I cannot remember the likes of Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Tinubu, Fashiola, Onu, Oshiomole and many others ever been in PDP. 80% of those that dominated the so called APC had been in opposition since 1999.

oluvick:
Were they sleeping while he contested the election?

Who is they?
The tribunal, PDP, Petitioner or INEC?

robosky02:
hmmmm
when he was in chealsea i didnt hear this oh

Because he cannot love another man's wife. Now he is no longer at Chelsea. How many Chelsea can still say that they love him still? Lol

verycheese:
The thing is these ugbo people should be granted a referendum, like in the case of Scotland by the United Kingdom. I swear, majority of those flat headed tribesmen will not vote to be seceded. The rest of us will remain Nigeria, if that is the issue. I swear, they r just making mouth, suffer head Na im go kill them. All those your okrika, when e remain only una, how many of una go buy am from the seller. The red mud and gullies gracing your beautiful biafra and all good things that you enjoy here, Na then u go know say day don break. Yeye.

Red mud or soil is God's creation, if you have issue with that, go and confront God. And why do you want to be married to a red mud man by all means?
Erosion is an environmental problems just like flooding in England. Tsunami in Japan, land slides in Italy and California, Hurricane in the South Pacific, desertification in Saudi Arabia, earthquake in Nepal and California or wild fire in Australia.
Ignorance is worse than all these mentioned.

Alphaoscar:
Fake , fake and fake news. I clicked the BBC link your lying brother shared and nothing and absolutely nothing about your idiotic hero.

Maybe whatever it was you were clicking with does not have a charged battery because of no power for days now. Try again from an internet cafe and report back. Good luck.

omonnakoda:
Well no one has a monopoly on inane carps but I will let that surname barb pass.Take it as a discount.
On subject in your minds they are discrete unrelated events but the bible which you referred to earlier tells us that we all are suffering now because one man and woman ate a fruit they were ordered not to eat.

Cause and effect ,old man!!
Nigeria was a new country just like a new marriage and a coming together of peoples who did not know each other's red lines . Now we know better. Reactions to actions are not always equal.
Yes there was a coup and there was a counter coup .If the first coup did not lead to secession why did the second?

You cannot take the ball away when the game is getting interesting

Anyway old man. History lessons solve nothing. We will always remember differently. I am not opposed to Biafra just do not try violence there can be no winners. I am not one of those who believe Nigeria won the war we all lost.

Like I said the Ibo motivation and approach is emotional and sentimental and ego driven rather than from any serious analysis or strategy.That is not the way to make plans that involves the lives of other people.
Many seem to be preparing for a Biafra that will be enemies with Nigeria,is there an alternative vision. Iboss only think in one direction which is they must avenge their loss of the last war.Pathetic!!

When did I refer to the Bible?
And I have no idea what you mean by this word emotion or emotional you kept banging on about..
Allow Igbos to create their own vision as they sees fit, irrespective of whether it's to your liking and concentrate on hatching yours.
When we needed an expert advice on how to build a new nation, we shall gives you a shout.
Especially coming from a Nigerian of all person.
My reference to the coup was because you called your self Fajuyi and Balewa. If coups should result directly into war., why didn't the 1975 coup and the counter coup of 1976 result into war round 2?
The 1966 coup and counter coup that followed did not start the civil, it was a military business.
What caused the war was the sustained massacre of civilians and and inability of any authority protection.

omonnakoda:
We who lost loved ones is we. The Families of Balewa,Bello Fajuyi is we The Families of those killed in Benin is we. Yes the Ibos bore the greater brunt which is a testament to the pointlessness of the war that THEY STARTED. I am not one for looking back but forward.
If Biafra is to be War is not the first thing to do . Why can't your people think rationally?

Have you established by any credible means FIRST,that the majority of your people agree with Biafra? There is a lot of work that ratiional minds will take at the end of the d ay if and when Biafra occurs are you going to move it too a different location. What Kind of relations will you have with your neighbours. It is only children that cut down trees without considering how and where they will fall. With respect sir,strategic thought is not an Ibo strong point at least in politics

Sorry I did not know that your surname was Balewa and Fajuyi. However, those men did not die from the war. They were unfortunate victims of Nigeria many coup that claimed the lives of others like Murtala Mohammed.

omonnakoda:
I think because the last effort was a war effort many people are of the mindset that war is the only way forward. The other mistake you make is thinking you are the only ones that want to get out.
There is one thing to have a strategy and another to talk. Actioons must serve a purpose and be part of a coherent plan. From all indications Nnamdi Kanu is a noise maker and a charlatan
Perhaps because of the triumphal Ibo mindset you always think there must be winners and loser . It is possible to have a very friiendly and amicable split working to a longer term time table. The political choices the Ibos make show extreme naivety and short term-ism.
Keeping a foolish grudge against Yorubas might be emotionally attractive but is not the right strategy but that is the problem.Ibo are almost always sentimental. The political behaviour over the last 4-5 years calls for much reflection

As far as I know or I can remember, we are the only people that wants to get out and got the scars to prove it.
We you had wanted to get out, which we missed when it happened, please show me the evidence.
Or is it a secret?

omonnakoda:
I am talking of political discipline.
Were you talking out of experience when you talked about 8 survivors of the Red Sea Crossing? Do not be a hypocrite
WE ALL fought that war ,Nigerians

I may not be as old as you but no one no matter how old knows everything.Anyway I am old enough to recollect Gowon and so I think I know enough about Nigeria.

Why have Ibos been unable to organize themselves politically if not for a lack of discipline?
Who are the Ibo political leaders today

The whole Radio Biafra thing is a complete show of indiscipline,meaningless and premature action.Misplaced zealotry which is actually TYPICAL of your folk

Who is we? Majority of Nigerians did not even know that there was a war going on apart from the news from the radio as a reminder.

omonnakoda:
So now you know war is not B ,,??

Brain and not blocos??

The truth is you folk lack discipline ,are overly sentimental and are too naive politically and the other players in Nigeria will always run rings around you.
Instead of dealing with reality you persist in the delusion that you are better than Northerners when all the evidence shows them to be centuries ahead of you in political civilization

I don't think you are in the possible position to talk about lacking discipline or not be because can you say that you are talking out of experience.?
We are not perfect, far from it, but we have actually fought a war.
That's on record. The outcome is totally irrelevant and you haven't. And that's a fact

omonnakoda:

Do you really believe the red sea fable Seriously?

Whether you believe it or not, it's still a historical teaching tool.
After all you believed in gravity eventhough no one has seen it.

omonnakoda:
The problem with the Biafran agitation is that your folk have no plan.Why all these nostalgic talk about arms.Why demonizing Yoruba.Yoruba have no need for you folk in the same country that is the truth.However if you want to break away you must follow due process. That means getting your elected representatives to unite and speak with one voice.How many of your 5 State Houses of Assembly has ever passed any resolution.? At any rate what has been done to test the popularity of the idea objectively among your folk. Certainly 100% do not buy into but are those that do even in the majority and by HOW MUCH. The loudest are not always in the majority.These are things that need to be measured and when others see you measuring these things(There is no law against that) they will take you more seriously. Starting a radio station and calling everyone name is just like drawing obscene graffiti on toilet walls. How many of your senators have voiced an opinion on the subject.
Let us arrive at a point where you can say to the whole world " We have tried to hold a legitimate plebiscite on self-determination and denied by the Nigerian Government" that should be the first step before talking of weapons and war. However if you belief that war should be Plan A then you are in manifest error and very far astray

You are very correct, we have the zeal but little plan. But I can assure you that it's changing, though slowly. In the time past, it use to be regarded as something for the Okada riders and trouble makers.
But now, the middle class are slowly coming in. I was in the US recently for the world Igbo Congress. I must say that am miffed by what I saw. A far cry to what I witnessed in 1999, when I last attended.
The senators or political elite does not count. Do not draw any sort of evidence from their actions or behaviour. They are scared of Biafra more than Nigerians I can tell you that for a fact.
My nephew is one of them. I do know what am trying to say.

theDEVILisHERE:
The older generation fought but stopped fighting
That was their undoing
They should have regrouped, reorganise them selves and relunch their fight again couple of years after their first fight
Remember the saying
"He who flee's from a fight lives to fight another day"
South sudan did this
They sustained their fight for up to 30yr
What was the result
They freed themselves from their oppressors
The ANC of south africa stopped fighting and went the diplomatic route
What was the result
They did not free themselve completly from their oppressors
Same with Ireland
Biafra wants complete and true freedom not some diplomatic type of freedom
This they know they can only achieve by fighting in otherwords taking their freedom by force
The current generation now are fighting the fight their parents didn't succeed in so that their own children will not have to fight this same fight
Because true freedom must have to be achieve for them to live in peace as a people
So the earlier the better

We stop fighting to preserve a human generation to take the fight in another fashion across the finishing line.

Few more years or even months of fighting would have resulted in world's first successful hundreds per cent genocide.
Ikemba left, so that the issue will no longer be about him, to allow us to recover without having to worried about the possible outcomes his death in the hand of Nigerians would have done to our psyche forever as a possibility, being the face of Biafra.

Moses took the ancient Israel across the red sea but it was Joshua that led them into their promised homeland. Of all the nearly a million that crossed the dry sea bed of the red sea, only 8 out of them entered the promised land.
The war in the 60s wasn't really about freedom, it was mainly about survival in the face of little alternatives, but we knew when to stop. Things are different today and the world is equally different from those of my time.

Observant:
Mr Eziachi I love you (No homo).

Like is said before, Nnamdi Kanu adopted his methods because of the stubborn state of Nigeria where it is aborminable to discuss/ review the contract Nigeria we no enthic nationality in this entitity consented to its formation but fiercely protected by those on the receiving side of it benefits.
He also had to present himself the way he did to gain the trust of his people who have seen people posing as there leader only to sellout .
I am not an active member of the IPOB, though I do listen to radio biafra for comic relief, I can say that behind the crassness of his broadcast lay a very sound and tidy argument for the restoration of biafra and desolution of the geopolitical state of Nigeria.

I can aslo tell from your words that if given a chance at a vote you will definitely cast it in favour of self determination.

I fought and sweated for Biafra as a teenager and lost my innocence as a result of what I saw with my own eyes in the battle field.
Am Still 2000% Biafran. I never wanted Nigeria after 1967, never had a Nigerian passport till date.

But I believed we can still achieve our goal without fighting Yoruba all the time or calling Fulani childish names. Or calling Nigeria a zoo.

Shymm3x:
Please, don't put me in "your" category - do that with zoogerians or whatever they're called, and keep me out of it.

I cosigned ya first post...but now you're letting ya emotions get the best of you.

Do you think his approach is the best approach when everyone with a brain knows that any separatist group aiming for an end result always endeavour to build bridges - not destroy them - especially places like Igboland, without much to offer an external country for support? And how would even be able to achieve anything, even with diplomacy, without external support? Who'll vote for it at the UN security council and general assembly?

Only a rogue and a scam artist will sell a dream by playing on people's emotions, just to enrich himself. And I believe his arrest is another ploy to get more money cos I doubt he's that dumb to what he did without ulterior motives.

I don't do emotion. You have right to disagree with me anytime. We cannot agree all the time.
60s is different from 2015. In the 60s, only legitimate governments sell arms. This days you can buy any sort of arms you want within days, as long as you got the cash to pay for it.
Your opinion on the Chinese is flawed. Biafra don't need Chinese military support, what' I was talking about before is moral and diplomatic support, the Chinese will not support Biafra because it puts at odd with Taiwan in diplomatic circle.

omonnakoda:
Even if he had tact and diplomacy he would stil have lost.

The goat always returns from the market guilty no matter how many times you judge the case,the goat is always guilty

We lost the war because Ojukwu was inexperience, and our leaders were too afraid to tell him, against wise old foxes surrounding Gowon who is worse than Ikemba.

Had Ojukwu made Michael Okpara prime minister and Akanu Ibiam as the president and be just the army commander, things would had been different. Because one of Biafra biggest obstacle then was image of how Ojukwu was portrayed before the West.

The Americans and the British was terrified of Ojukwu as another Castro in arms and Lumumba in brain.

Finally the declaration of the republic by the Eastern House of parliament should had been delayed until 1968/69 because mentally we were ready but materially and diplomatically we weren't.

Shymm3x:
The guy is a rogue.

He's just out there to take advantage of disenfranchised folks - to enrich himself. He's no different from those pulpit pimps selling prosperity via tithes and offerings.

Wait till he tells them to start contributing/paying for his bail.

How did enrich himself? Even if he was, he is better than you rogue rulers directly stealing from your pocket.

modath:
But is the way your bros going about it the right way?

Treason is not the way, he won't get support from even his kinsmen outside the east....

Its like a football team, every member of the squad had varied abilities but and make mistakes that often cost them goals. But that doesn't mean that they cannot still jointly go to their opponents side to amend the mistakes by scoring a beautiful goal of their own.
You people callously use the word treason. What he is doing is nowhere near treason both in theory and in practice.

theDEVILisHERE:
You have to understand something
Diplomacy will never get you your freedom in this current situation
There is too many vested intrest for diplomacy to work currently for any set of people
Any country/nation that wants to get their freedom have to stand up and fight for it
Peaceful diplomatic means will only waste your time cause it will definately not happen (at least not for the next couple of yrs)
Fact is
Throughout history no set of people have gotten true freedom by diplomatic/peaceful means
It has never ever happen
If you are not ready to die you are not ready to be free
The people who put you in bondage didn't do so diplomaticaly or peacefuly
Why then should you follow such a path
Scothland, chechnya, catalonia and taiwan are not ready for true (emphasis on true) freedom
When they are
They will drop that diplomatic and peaceful path and do what they are supposed to do
Which is to fight
You fight not just for fighting sake
You fight because people who are holding you down will not let you go till you fight them
That's how its done
The ipob and their leadership know this
That is why their method is yielding results ( as you can see from the momentum the movement is gathering)
No modern approach (what ever that means), no diplomacy, no subtle method, no beating about the bush
Just riseup and fight for your freedom by any and every means necessary
Or else
As the popular saying goes
"You're on a long tin"

My generation did the fighting and died for you already, now is the time for diplomacy. If you doubt me, ask the Sein fenn in Ireland or the ANC in South Africa.

chrisbaba1:
Spoken well. This is what should have been the basis of the struggle. Too late now, the distrust is rife. As a matter of fact Nnamdi single handedly pushed the dream decades farther than it was. You cannot resort to inciting violence and call other people names and expect support, Biafra now is like a goat in the embrace of a python, the more violent the struggle, the tighter the squeeze. The biafran trumpers are not looking anymore than rebels now, seems the Nigerian Govenment has strategically kept mute giving biafra enough freedom to indict themselves the more.

Nnamdis arrest will yeild one thing and one thing alone, silence! For DSS to pick him up they have kept tabs on him, all the donations he must have embezzeled maybe, How he became a citizen maybe, threat of being charged for treason maybe......

All these things are clear to see, but the hatred is to strong for the average biafan to strategically plan his actions for self actualization.

There are no such thing as too late in a struggle.
Jomo Kenyatta and his Mau Mau did not say it was to late, when they had a crack down by the British colonialists.
What they did was to change their tactics. The problem of Biafra independent lies squarely not with Nigeria per say, but with the Igbo elites, who are v ery comfortable with Nigeria but very terrified of being isolated from their fellow gang members from the rest of Nigeria.
They are the one sabotaging Biafra secretly.

Like criminals, they preferred being in the midst of their gang members rather than being isolated on their own with their own people.

jatthobber:
Any wise igbo man(no disrespect) should know that Biafra died and was buried 48 years ago. .‎

Any human with any semblance of brain know that independent agitation especially the one that gulped almost 4 million lives will only sleep for a while but will never die.
Only Nigerians with their heads buried in the sand hoped that Biafra will be dead. Realities differs.

nzechidi:
Arresting NNAMDI KANU is the beginning of actualization of united state of Biafra.... Take it or leave it

I hope you are right. But I don't think so. It will serve him and Biafra better to be outside than inside.

chrisbaba1:
Even asari dokubo is calm now. Nnamdi is a coward, hiding in england enjoying the peace and money from gullible sponsors. If he means the struggle he will relocate to Nigeria, but he is not even an inspiring figure neither is he charismatic, just a man filled with hate, greed and a desire for relevance.

Im sure with the dss he has had enough time to weigh his options. If he continues, his case will be forwarded to the british who will charge him for treason and inciting violence, jailed or returned to Nigeria where he will spend enough time in Jail.

You don't know what you are talking about. Nnamdi Kanu is anything but a coward, unless you have no idea what the word means.
His methodology is what I disagreed with. I wished that Biafra has hundreds of him.