₦airaland Forum

42Gideon:
Can someone just mention one state that's save in this country?

Lagos.

ebufa:
we know the source of our problems in the east............it emanates largely from a certain mindset from another ethnicity! change from your sophistry, it is destroying the nation. development is not a zero-sum game, a winner takes it all attitude will leave groups despising the nation!

You are the one making spurious allegations.

Na red cap chief sef.

Penguin2:
Rubbish propaganda pushed by opposition parties.

Trashy talks

I like to tell stories with timelines.

Another by Chukwunonso Nwokocha:
RELIGION AS A TOOL OF POLITICS:
THE ANAMBRA EXPERIENCE.

That is why Muozoba (2003) pointed out that religious rivalries in Anambra
State is the cause of the political imbalances and instability in the State’s polity. No wonder,
the 2006-2014 administration of Mr. Peter Obi were characterized by series of religious
irregularities, fanaticism, and religious dictatorship.

Another one feom Nairaland .

Penguin2:
If you had a little bit more thinking ability than you currently have, you would have known that wasn’t me conceding that Peter Obi discriminated against Protestants.

If he did, you wouldn’t be their spokesperson, they would have spoken out themselves.

But spoiler alert, our mind is already made up for Obi. So nothing you and your ilks say now will change anything.

So tell them in your WhatsApp group that you people should find a way of marketing Tinubu because de-marketing Obi will always be dead on arrival.

The bad news is that Anambra’s homogeneity and unity, which have been a remarkable pillar of the people’s progress for several decades, are now heavily threatened—thanks to Obi’s emergence as governor. Once known as “home for all” in the footsteps of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe who was Nigeria’s very accommodating first president, the state now provides the worst theatre of sectarian politics. Catholics and Anglicans are embroiled in politics of supremacy. Realizing that Catholics are in the majority in the state but the state chief executives have hardly come from within their fold, Obi has persistently played on the fear of domination. He has thus dragged so many priests and religious into the murky waters of Nigerian electoral politics. Yet, the Vatican has since the pontificate of John Paul 11 banned priests and religious from politics. Obi has manipulated the fact that a member of his family is a priest and another a nun to portray himself as pious. The governor habitually says the Rosary and other uniquely Catholic prayers in public places so as to grab attention.


May God forbid that Anambra may well be on the way to becoming Africa’s Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is where Catholics and Anglicans have for several decades engaged one another in a fight to the finish, and until the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, in Belfast, the relationship between Unionists and Republicans was very hostile, with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) launching attacks against British interests and the state. It will be most unfortunate if any person should, for whatever reason, return Anambra State to the awful days of debilitating sectarian politics in Igboland when Catholics and Protestants were at each other’s throats. The Catholic faith was introduced in Eastern Nigeria about 127 years ago by priests from Ireland, a country which waged a long and painful nationalist war against British imperialism. The Anglican faith, on the other hand, was introduced from the United Kingdom. It is easy now to see that the Catholic and Anglican priests took their nationalist war from their home countries to Eastern Nigeria.

To end the increasing religious cauldron in the East, Ukpabi Asika, then the East Central State administrator, decided in 1970 to take over schools built by Christian missions which he believed were serving as vehicles for religious intolerance. We deeply regret that Governor Obi does not care taking Anambra to the pre-1970 era in a desperate attempt to enjoy the support of the church with the larger number of followers.

Admittedly, Obi’s parochial politics should not have come to serious-minded people as a surprise. No sooner had he assumed office as Anambra State governor than he signalled he would play politics of divide and rule. In an effort to de-legitimise the government of his predecessor, Dr Chris Ngige, Governor Obi started the propaganda that all the roads Ngige built for the three years he was in office were in his native Idemili area. The governor knew very well that this was far from the truth, but he stuck to it. The whole idea was to set up the Idemili people against the rest of the state. It failed.

With the November 16 gubernatorial election approaching, our governor has pulled another parochial trick. He says his successor should come from the northern senatorial zone, arguing that his position is informed by equity because, according to him, governors have come from the other senatorial districts. Mr Obi is eager to ignore the fact that at no time have people from any part of the state failed to participate in the gubernatorial contest as candidates; and he is also enthusiastic to gloss over the fact that Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first premier of the Eastern Region, hailed from the northern district, just like Asika, administrator of East Central State.


To state the obvious, the people of Anambra have never cared about the senatorial districts of candidates and governors. What has always mattered to our people is the record of each person in question, and not primordial sentiments. Governor Obi’s campaign to have someone from the northern senatorial district (read Omambala or Anambra culture area) as the next governor is merely targeted at one person: Senator Ngige. Obi wants Ngige to lose all moral and psychological right to contest the governorship since he is from the central part of the state. But the people have not been impressed.

The supreme irony is that the Obi strategy of ensuring that the successor is from the Omambala area is backfiring. William Obianor, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate handpicked by the governor and a retired employee of a bank where Obi was the chairman, is unknown even among his kinfolk. So many people prefer Dr Chike Obidigbo, the successful manufacturer from the area who has been chosen by the Maxi Okwu faction of the party as the authentic APGA candidate. Worse is that there are millions of Anambra people who despise the mentality of “we-against-them” which the governor is encouraging in APGA members in the four Omambala local government areas, thus making members in the other 17 LGAs in the state seem to band together against them. In other words, Governor Obi has unintentionally succeeded in setting up APGA politicians in Omambala culture area against the people of the whole of Anambra State.

Governor Obi inherited the leadership of a most united and homogenous state. But he has through electoral brinkmanship decided to make the people be as parochial and clannish as any other state in pre-bendal Nigeria. May God save Nigerians from their rulers.

•Akudike, an engineer with Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, wrote from Anambra State.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/09/26/divided-anambra-gov-obis-legacy/

Anambra state and miscreants is like sugar and ants.

Na their work.

In the east.

Nothing you won't see.

PotatoSalad:
Fun fact: Peter obi chased away touts from upper iweka. The area was so safe that I used to pass through it some evenings during my unnecessary waka from school to awka.
The touts came back when obiano became governor and still there now. Good luck passing there around 7pm and you be jjc...boys ga eme gi iwa.

Will you stop the lies.

Touts have never, NEVER departed Onitsha and its environs.

You guys lie as if yout life depends on it.

Anambra and agbero na 5 and 6.

Penguin2:
Better than Muslims.

Or would you compare discrimination to death?

As a Protestant, I would rather be alive and be discriminated against than be dead.

You see you haven’t made sense?

Im glad you accept Obi's discrimination of other Christians.

In Lagos, all are welcomed.

Obi discriminated against protestants.

All my boys are ballers.

helinues:
Another set of victim mentality.

Can't Obi also be his vice?

You know those guys are dumb.

kponkedenge:
Lol, you guys are jittery because you know Kwankwaso's presence in this race smells big problem for Tinubu.

I hope Kwankwaso doesn't budge, let him test his popularity.... Let's see how good he is.

Never been a problem.

Kwakwanso's presence sheds Atiku's NW votes whilst Ganduje mops up for Tinubu the others.
In SE, the initial calculatuon was it wouold be lost to Atiku, but now, it's drained by Obi.

All looking good.

Kwakwanso should combine with Tinubu.

He knows he'll get a fair deal.

Another deliberately missing headline.

FORMER.

Brexxit:
But the owners are chilling in Asian prisons.

Shh!

Don't loud it.

E go don humble by now.

12 years no be joke

Obi cannot deny this.

Nigeria ahould issue a travel warning.

That means he's one of them.

Since when did Ipob speak up for someone?

Imposter syndrome

Na dem.

They've abandoned FFK, Reno etc.

Surely, they'll abandon Hundeyin.

But una wan kill Buhari.

You see am?

an0daGuy:
Obi has had nothing to do with any Biafran agitation. He’s not going to Biafra meeting to discuss with them. He’s not going to ipob meetings to have words with anyone. He’s never had anything to do with massob. He’s never called for secession.

He’s working hard to be the president of a dying nation. So why then shouldn’t he put on the coat of arms attire?

Or are you now going to say that because he’s an igbo man he shouldn’t have anything to do with the Nigerian presidency?

But isn't that the same reason you beat Ekweremadu?

an0daGuy:
He came here and told igbo elders that he was visiting them as a solidarity gesture towards biafrans but when they asked him why he was wearing Nigeria coat of arms he said he is a servant of the Nigerian zoo government.

Oya remove the cloth naw, him nor wan gree comot am

Na why dem tear the cloth and him chop beating ontop

Very good.

Now, would Obi be allowed to use this same coat of arms of Nigeria?

an0daGuy:
Yes oh. We igbos abandon and exile efulefus and never do wells in our society no matter who they are.

We even beat up some self like in ekweremadu’s case when he went to Germany to talk rubbish that year

Remind us what was the rubbish he said again?