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frond: I am just wondering while my fellow Anambrans should support Prof Soludo at all. Really we have a very short memory. How are they sure that this man will deliver? This man destroyed our banking system to the foundation. Common man on the street lost a lot of money on the financial markets because of this man. He consistently lied to national assembly about the situation of things, giving false hopes to the investors.In other clime this man should be in jail without the possibility of parole. Are we so forgetful? O my people wake up! Fraudsters are the most intelligent people. When an average person commits a fraud he/she will be caught at no distant time, but intelligent people know how they cover their trails, that it would take experienced investigators to catch them. American prisons are full of Yales and Havards graduates convicted of frauds. Pro Soludo has nothing to offer. Be not deceived he has no tracking record. If you disagree with me do a little bit of research on this. The people that vetted him was aware of this and had access to information we didn't have. We should praise APGA for this loathe decision.

so who should we vote Mr righteous?

Soludo should hurry up. There is no time left. He needs to put structures in place. If GEJ thinks he can influence Anambra election like he does south south, he must really be clueless. Anambra politics is bigger than GEJ, he will burn himself if he ventures, as for Peter Obi and APGA, the future will judge. With Soludo we will witness the Rochas okorocha scenario where the people's choice won.

idumuose: Obiageli...nsi,Obiageli otolo.Am sure Ɣ☺u are one of the
saboteurs during the civil war.Mind your Language.Obiageli afo anu.

don't be mistaken, obiageli is more yoruba than awolowo. ignore her name. She does not even know the meaning

I will never support Ngige, he is not ambitious for my liking. To think he got his popularity by building tiny roads and paying salaries is nauseating. I would rather an Andy Ubah than Ngige and if Soludo does not contest, Andy Ubah has my support!

Anambra people should know if Soludo does not contest. Andy Uba is the next governor, Ngige has lost his appeal he would have used to match his rigging machine not to add to APC

homesteady: HBD Sir!!
May GOD give you more power to deal with Amachi!

This comedian is getting funnier by the day.

seanet02: . Please stop crying.
You are clogging Nairaland with your soludo nonsense.

Shut up your stinking mouth. This thread was never about Akala, Tinubu, Fashola etc, neither is it about APC or yoruba so what are you doing opening the thread fool.

Very brilliant article, at the end we can all agree Soludo must never quit the race. Both Peter Obi and Victor Umeh will never realize what this move will mean for them in the future, ndigbo may even treat Joe Igbokwe better than them. They are about to become both politically and ethnically leprous

There is dagger in men’s smile,” that is how
William Shakespeare captured a similar plot as
this in his days. Though this Anambra situation
seem insignificant and indeed many would
rather play it down, but the deft shafting of
Prof. Chukwuma Soludo in his quest for the
Anambra State top job portends deep-reaching
augury not just for the individual in the mix of
the shenanigans but for the entire Igbo race.
In other words, the back-stabbing and
emasculation of Soludo in his quest to lead
Anambra is a knife in the back of Ndigbo. But
the stab is deeper and more injurious because
it is obviously self-inflicted.
There is no doubt that Professor Chukwuma
Charles Soludo is the man to beat in Anambra
State’s governorship election coming up in
November. Former governor of the Central
Bank of Nigeria, CBN, who acquitted himself
most remarkably well on the job; a first class
scholar and an economist of international
renown Soludo lost narrowly to the incumbent
in the last election in 2010 flying the flag of
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This time,
the political calculations in his party has
changed and the new powerbrokers of PDP are
out of his league and they seem easily
discomfited by his intellectual prowess, self-
assuredness and the strong Igbo libertarian
world view. It was apparently long decided that
not only that the now tenuous umbrella of the
PDP would not provide him cover, his
contesting the Anambra guber would be
inimical to PDP’s interest.
APGA-cadabra Having determined that, Soludo
was promptly nudged out of PDP as a first
step, he was then lured into the supposedly
Igbo party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance,
APGA. Having been reassured, he promptly
purchased APGA nomination form for N10
million and was fine-tuning strategies for
participating and triumphing in the primary
when his detractors moved again. The fear of
Soludo must be the beginning of wisdom for
the PDP hawks. He was reportedly approached
to jettison his quest for the top job but he
insisted on going through with it having gone
so far. But not wanting to leave anything to
chance, a jankara screening committee was set
up by the APGA hierarchy whose primary
target was obviously Soludo. Pronto, Soludo
and some unknown quantities had been
screened out; they are not fit to contest even
in the primary. How is it that someone who
was corralled into joining APGA and who was
promised a fair shot at the contest? Someone
who had bought nomination forms for such
huge amount and who had started setting up
campaign structure is suddenly not fit to
attempt the primary?
Of course we are not told why he is not
eligible apart from the mutterings from some
quarters that he had declined to join earlier
when he was approached and that he came
around too late. But they forgot that until a
few weeks ago, APGA had been a banana case
running from one court room to another. It
can even be conjectured that Soludo was
instrumental to the rapprochement in APGA or
that APGA was reconciled for the sake of
arresting Soludo’s ambition. It does not
require a pundit to see that the race for
Anambra’s number one job is a three horse
one between Andy Uba, Chris Ngige and
Soludo. If PDP would grab Uba and APC flies
with Ngige, why would APGA shun Soludo if it
is not a marionette dangling from another
man’s strings? If the APGA clowns fool
themselves successfully, do they by any chance
imagine that they can fool the generality of
Ndigbo who had hoped that they had a party in
APGA? Which of those motley fellas they have
pre-qualified will expect to beat Uba or Ngige
in any election in Anambra State?
APGA’s nunc dimittis The PDP will take no
prisoners in this Anambra election having
serious implications for 2015. It would not
brook to share its glory in a southeast in which
Anambra is the most strategic. On the other
hand, APGA’s loss of Anambra would mark its
demise and the passing into history of a once
upon a time Igbo party. Maybe it is just as well
that APGA should die because it never served
the Igbo cause for which it was supposedly
founded. It will be trite to say that APGA
finally sold its wretched soul and litigation-
wracked body for a pot of porridge; it is quite
self evident now what we had only conjectured
all this while.
Just because we are traders does not mean that
everything we have is for sale. Some things are
supposed to be priceless, only to be nurtured
and preserved for national pride, for posterity
and for collective edification and well-being.
But the leaders of this APGA – the incumbent
governor of Anambra, Mr. Peter Obi, the
chairman of the party, Chief Chekwas Okorie
and all the other dramatis personae in this
farcical epic will have to answer to the Ndigbo
and her posterity for they rode on our back;
they will have to answer to history some day
when all this hurly-burly is done.
It will be recorded that at this critical juncture
of Igbo history, they failed us; at their moment
in the sun when they had the opportunity to
stand up for Ndigbo, to uplift them, to help
them reclaim their dignity and manhood, they
chose to trade it off.
Though Soludo may have been killed
politically, it is only a momentary setback. In
fact this deadly blow could serve as a wake-up
call for him to begin anew; change his
template, review his strategy and return to the
arena. The entire world beckons, Nigeria calls
and Igboland yawns for an authentic, honest
and fearless leadership. It may well be
providential that APGA would achieve its expiry
date soon. Away with the imp, away with the
ogbanje party; this rascal abiku has served its
inglorious time, it must move on into its pre-
destined oblivion so that Ndigbo may begin to
pick the pieces of their political lives. There is
need to find a new, genuine Igbo voice, a new
Igbo spirit and a new Igbo body that will
negotiate our place under the Nigerian sun
standing on our feet, using our head and not
our stomach.

http://omojuwa.com/2013/08/anambra-guber-who-killed-soludo-by-steve-osuji/

[quote author=Rhino.5dm]I hope you guys can pull out this. I believe Soludo shouldn't waste his time in court or seeking for legal redress, rather he should look for a dormant party and play the underdog from there.[/quote]I for the first time agree with you on nairaland but Soludo will never be the underdog in the election, he currently has the clout to win the Anambra election based on his person and considering the controversy hanging around the neck of Ngige his would be main contender. I think if Soludo makes this move now other than when APGA deals another blow to him in the primaries (assuming he wins the case) he would have more time to consolidate. That is added go the fact that Anambra people who dislike Peter Obi will vote him to punish him and his choice - especially the civil servants who determine Anambra elections unlike the false opinion that it is the uninterested traders

while am in support of Soludo's action, I'm afraid of what will happen in the APGA primaries even when he wins the court case. He should head to another party in time. Peter Obi should be shamed of himself

Gbawe: The predictable d1ck comparison of the insecure and inadequate vagrants. What would a thread like this be without this insecure clown showing up talking about Akpabio, Obi, Chime et al. Go and open a thread for those folks and leave others be.

shut your mouth. Mods should ban this shameless old emotional bigot for name calling. I am entitled to my opinion and I will not let you spread your useless APC propaganda here. go kill yourself

With the propaganda tendencies of our SW people and Chief Liar Gbawe, you would think Amosun is the first to do this, even a thief like Peter Obi has better taxis not to talk of Chime, Akpabio, Amaechi etc

muhehehehehehe

[quote author=Red_Mullet]Politics in Nigeria is not a game of emotion the way you people have been playing it on this forum...it is a cold... bloody ...brutal and merciless game where the best don't always get it...

If the way you've gone berserk on this forum lately represent the outlook of the average and majority of ibos..am afraid to announce to you that you still have a lot of shock effect in stock for you...as long as you believe that GEJ have your interests protected.[/quote]Nonsense, keep your advice to yourself

what can I say, Peter Obi is a fraud and the worst thing to happen to Anambra history. Am sure this whole thing will have a ripple effect on him. As for APGA, enjoy your self destruction

This is what you call a brilliant and neutral article. Segun Adeniyi has always come across as a brilliant mind no wonder Yaradua employed him. I always wonder why GEJ chose the savages Abati and Ima Niboro previously over him allowing the APC to mess his administration up. I still maintain that the detribalized Yorubas (though few) are the most and only brilliant.

Nairaland Admin,
Its high time we started bringing your hypocrisy and bias to you. I have complained about your bias for APC 'positive' threads flooding your homepage in split seconds against others and allowing the negative ones die of irrelevance again, against others.

Now the Mod's (OAM4j) has taken it upon himself to take every ethnic thread against FFK to the ethnic section i(n split seconds too, because of the low traffic there) but this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1406809/halt-attack-yorubas-groups-warn has remained in the politics section since yesterday. Perhaps you should explain to us what's political about this thread. This bias must stop!

[quote author=I-pledge]some people claim that APC is indebting southwest,thanks to you...


Osun state is 34th in federal government allocation,and the governor keep on commissioning project everyday...please when was the last time any project commissioned in BAYELSA[/quote]We are not deceived by commissioning projects becoming the new parlance of APC to defraud the masses. where are the proofs or the projects only being commissioned in Tinubu's bank account?

njideoby: But I didn't see her it was mentioned that Soludo went to beg this mushroom notice-Me political party for candidature.

Anambra people too rejects a divisive and faceless party. Anambra north ke, Anambra north ko. Make we see road

All these Ngige nay APC goons all over nairaland.

Clerverly: You are too emotional with this your Soludo. Take it easy Adanne, Soludo is gone and not to come back politically. Inugo? maka onwe gi!

taaaaaaaaaaaa, get away

plaindealer: Yes, primaries like GEJ dictating who to lead you and killing your best hope right before your korokoro eyes by remote control all the way from Abuja. See ya life, you people don suffer.



Talk about ibo on ibo political cannibalism..

Btw, thanks for the Amala shout out. Amala politics is delivering and commissioning projects everyday so Long Live Amala politics.

commissioning projects looks like the new fraud catch phrase for APC goons after eko oni baje failed no be only project, what of projet

emiye: APGA's decision on Soludo is a done deal, If he moves to another party now, surely he will not only look like a political prostitute, but a very cheap one at that.

From PDP to APGA to party XYZ in a space of 1 month

There is NOTHING wrong with him leaving for another party. Both Rochas and Senator Chris Anyanwu amongst both did same previously and all won. Soludo needs to become a politician. If he was really convinced about being governor, why allow a bunch of party men to abort his conviction not even at primaries level. Like someone said, its better for him to contest and lose, this is his last chance he has considering the level of support he had now.

agbameta: Illiterate, they conduct primaries only when there is or are challengers for the same positions, not when there are no primary challengers. Right now in ANAMBRA under APC, there is no need for any primaries because one of the candidates willingly pulled out for the best and strongest candidate so there is absolutely no need for any primaries unless you want the primary to be between Ngige and Ngige.....


Are you a learner? If fact, you are a learner....

You people can keep your amala politics in the south west. Igbos are Republicans and we practice primaries as a required Democratic norm.

[quote author=re@lchange]well you obviously have not conducted an opinion poll round Nnewi and environ lately.
as the elections approach, and with this Soludo nonsense, his appeal increases
one month in politics is like for ever
never say never[/quote]Yes, Ifeanyi Ubah will win only Nnewi of course and that is less than 20% of electorates. PDP is more popular on the ballot than LP or APC. I have told you, Andy Ubah may be your next governor if Soludo does not contest. just watch