Why should Tinubu or anyone else in APC forgo their constitutional right in APC for igbos that made it clear from day one that APC and Buhari are anathema and a taboo in igboland?
Tinubu founded the party with some people , risked and staked his political life and gave so many things for the party to survive, now some usurpers want to come and use some form of pseudo morality and guilt trippping against him
It will never work ! If igbos want Presidency, then they should work for it
jomonic: Yoruba and covetousness for power. Narratives have of late bombarded the internet about how Yoruba shall have the presidency after Buhari. This narrative comes coated in subtle deceit, that the Igbo lost their opportunity by not supporting APC. My own position is that the presidency of Nigeria must be open to all tribes. Yoruba was allowed to produce a candidate for presidency in 1999 in an arrangement where the flag bearer of the two major political parties were both Yoruba. The only way forward for Nigeria at this point in time is to replicate the 1999 scenario. If this is not done it will be better to restructure Nigeria or break up the country. I do not believe that my people can endure this relegation without challenging it. Nigerians should be wise.
Igbos will never blackmail Nigeria to get the Presidency! Never
Herdsmen: Same way tinubu been throwing banana peels .. What happened to akoko ekiti Oye ijebu Ife ipetu.. no be Yoruba land..
Abi presidency no see them help..
Confused human.. Everything start and end with presidency..why presidency people dey suffer pass for the country..
You guys like lying to yourself..
You are not even coherent! Your elders and Kanu have really created a huge problem for you politically! I can’t understand the morality your elders are yapping! The morality I know will not allow a man working in zenith bank to be drawing salary from Union bank. You all are 100% inside PDP but want to have a say with what APC does in 2023 with their ticket.
etebefia: You are the one deceiving yourself, trying to force illiterate Buhari on the Igbos will not work. You people are desperating seeking cheap route to power for the Tinubu camp, it will not work. When you finish watch this 2015 video
I’ve seen the video, now with the fear of God, can you in good conscience claim that the bridge construction is the the same with way it was when GEJ was booted out ?
atiku4President: In 1999 Yorubas reaped where they did not sow politically.They did not vote OBJ yet he won What can you say about that? Can you be a bit reasonable in your thinking. It is not about tribe but issues.
It will simply be a miscarriage of justice if APC should reward igbos with it Presidential candidate in 2023 with their antagonistic behavior to the party
Butterflyleo: APGA is making the reelection of PMB much easier with this move. They will rob PDP of much needed votes in the SE but would not affect anything in the north.
I am laughing here as I imagine the face of that pro biafran in the polling boot casting his vote for an Hausa presidential candidate on the flag of APGA
positivethought: very simple,let the Igbo's ask APC to be categorical n promised the Igbo's the presidency in 2023 n let's see what will be the response!.
Seems you don’t understand the meaning of democracy! Even Buhari cannot be that naive to make such pronunciation without a huge backlash.
It’s the igbos that have to ensure that parties field them and if you didn’t get it in 16 years under PDP with all your loyalty and efforts, I wonder why you think Buhari or APC will hand over the ticket to you with all your antagonistic stand against thr parry using all sort of covert and overt moves to destabilize the government.
Fatherofdragons: All this non entities born and brought up in the south was te with absolutely no knowledge of anything igbo will come here to write shi*t.
This con3 is messed up, I can't wait to leave this hellhole.
I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit.
However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine.
My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'.
REWIND TO 2014. A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance.
'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests. Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.
We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.
Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.
That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did.
Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.
We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.
Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more.
Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.
Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.
It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma.
NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? On what grounds? On what records? On what politics? Is power given to anyone? Is it an appeasement or a gift?
The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested.
Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game.
As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.
For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?
I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.
I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary abuse from nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.
Ka Chineke mezie okwu.
(c) Dr Uche Diala
Yoruba man! Leave us alone, we don’t want nigeria Presidency! We want restructuring
Ogbuefi2020: Afonjas think too highly of themselves. The North will conspire and remove Buhari, stop thinking that you matter and stop bringing agberoism to national politics.
You are thinking like a defeated slave. So you need the north now to help you remove your nightmare? Why not with your 5% ?
Ogbuefi2020: Yorubas are unfit for national politics. They will be sent back to their regional enclave where they have been since independence. The North has successfully reclaimed power capitalizing on their desperation to taste national politics, now they will be chased to regional amala and ewedu politics where they belong
By who ? 5% irrelevant people? You better start learning how to play opposition politics in PDP since you are going to be there for a very long time to come.
The fact that he engineered the rebirth of lagos, opened up hitherto undeveloped places, attracted investment and development and ensured that the vsiosionless PDP never one day ruled Lagos is the reason why lagos is light years ahead of other states today
For your information, Lagos is developing today because it’s the only state never ruled by the useless party called PDP since 1999 and it all boils down to Tinubu political tenacity
wingmanII: [s]Lagos was developed as a federal capital of Nigeria and also being a major commercial city, it is extremely wealthy relative to other states. Any idiot will perform in Lagos. Tinubu is senselessly greedy.[/s]
Freetech: The man you people call drug baron wanted in America who forfeited thousands of dollars to America government had nothing? A former Nigerian senator?Interesting story indeed.
Why can't you people at least tell your people to do in your state what Tinubu is doing in Lagos state. Tell us your state and let us compare development Vis a Vis Lagos state.
If all the governors that have ruled their states have done 1/5th of what Tinubu did for Lagos, all of them will not be running to escape from that shithole region
You have succeeded in ruling yourself out of a pdp presidential candidacy . Maybe you believe APC will continue ruling.
There is a 40-60% chance of an igbo emerging as APC presidential candidate given the moves igbo APC stalwarts like ngige, Kalu and Co are making right now, and given the fact that an igbo presidency is the most natural thing in the world right now and long overdue.
But there is a near 0% chance that a Yoruba man emerges as pdp presidential candidate in the future.
In fact, there is a possibility that fate can throw up two igbo presidential opponents in the APC and pdp.
When you finally wake up from your dreams, you will see that the world is not what you think it is
LadyExcellency: Now I know why Southwest are sticking with Buhari, the dead wood robot, who has no positive policy to contribute in making Nigeria great.
No wonder why the Arewa Youths and Elders are warning Southwest to stay clear of whom they choose for presidency in 2019.
Bigots think other Nigerians are dumb to understand their dangerous dance steps
See how an emotional wreck you are sounding here on this thread.
Control your emotional and you will see that the usual way at quickly resorting to insults can't fetch you anything in Nigeria politics.
Politics › Re: 2023 Presidency: Why Is Tinubu Afraid Of Responding To Saraki's Claims? by gurnam: 5:29am On Aug 27, 2018
