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oluwasegunfummi: We all know lagos is no man's land, I don't know why we yorubas are killing ourselves over this fact.........eko o ni baje ooooo

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Today is another Sunday.....are you paying your friend another visit ?

Let's arrange for a meeting today again....you can send me a PM and I will holla at you straight away.....

Don't be a coward....don't act cowardly today...no one will hurt anyone in the food court of Ikeja Shopping mall...

lakhadimar: Dont mind that fool
It was Lawal Kaita that made that statement and the last time we checked, Lawal Kaita is still a memeber of the PDP. IBB himself is also a PDP starlwart.

What most of these Gej's a55lickers refuse to realise is that PDP is a northern dominated party, more than eleven governors in the North are PDP memebers. The Northerners own PDP.

Jonathan CANNOT win the election without the support of the North and he has no choice than to ingratiate himself before them

They are the most deluded people you can ever think of....

Why would you insult at every opportunity the same people that you need their support by GEJ...calling them the most vile of names?

You can't really understand how their brain functions...

BuddahMonk: is this suppose to be your vote or you ran out of evidence?

abeg use the search button

Am not interested in your clear nonsense...I just want to drum some sense into your head..

These clowns are breaking new grounds in foolishness every day...

BuddahMonk...

Tomorrow is Sunday....why we not hang out any place you pick?

odinma1: When things calm down a bit bro. I want it to be a big tornado on NL.

Please can you forward this picture to Nonye's email account. Thanks bro

Ps. Dont waste your time on customized13. He is a small fish in a big pond. We will be releasing his full details very soon. Pls check your email for the current updates

Anambra Adigo Mma

So this eddiot in the Pic dey chase cheap and dirty girls on that ashewo website?

Though the article below is old.... It's quite interesting and instructive...

THE All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was formed and registered in 2002 as a political party by some prominent Igbo politicians to provide a potential platform for Igbos to negotiate for political power at the centre. Mr. Peter Obi was the first governor elected on the party platform in 2003 and he was sworn-into office in 2006 after a protracted legal battle to recover his mandate from Dr. Chris Ngige of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). APGA which was led by its founding national chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie had late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (Ezeigbo Gburu Gburu) as its presidential candidate in the 2003 general elections.

Several factors were responsible for the choice of Ojukwu then. One was that some other prominent Igbo politicians approached by the party leadership which include Chief Alex Ekwueme, Senator Jim Nwobodo, late Senator Chuba Okadigbo declined the offer of the party’s presidential ticket. Secondly, because of close relationship between Okorie and Ojukwu that lasted for several years, Okorie encouraged Ojukwu into the party where he was chosen as the party’s presidential candidate for 2003. At this point, Ojukwu’s place in Igbo history as Igbo leader helped in attracting Igbo sentiment and emotion to the party then. So there were great expectations from the Igbos that the party will take over at least the Southeast zone which was controlled by PDP in 2003 election. APGA fielded candidates in the governorship and other elections in the five southeast states in 2003 which was the first litmus test of the party’s acceptability, and followership in the zone. Ojukwu came into the party, and pleaded to be allowed to choose Mr. Peter Obi as the party’s candidate in the election. A request the party leadership obliged him as mark of respect. That was how Obi emerged the APGA candidate in 2003.

After the election, INEC declared PDP the winners of the governorship election in the five southeast states including Anambra where Dr. Chris Ngige of PDP was declared the winner. In the presidential election, Ojukwu emerged the third runner up. The battle shifted to the tribunal and court. While Obi was in court contesting the outcome of election result at the peak of the political crisis between Ngige and the erstwhile godfather of Anambra politics, Chief Chris Uba, Chief Victor Umeh, the then treasurer of APGA and Obi’s kinsman on 23 December 2004 in Abuja announced the expulsion of Okorie and other leaders from the party. In what looked like a grand conspiracy, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) quickly recognized Chief Victor Umeh’s faction in 2005, despite Okorie’s protest and public outcry. In 2006, Obi won his case against Ngige and was sworn-in as governor of Anambra State.

Many had thought that Obi, and Umeh would work to expand the frontier of the party beyond Anambra State. But that never happened as Governor Obi extended all the needed support to Umeh to sustain the lingering fight against Okorie over the party leadership for years. At this point, it was obvious to all Igbos that APGA has been reduced to, not only Anambra affair but to Agulu community union. Lest we forget that Obi, and Umeh who is now the longest serving national chairman of a political party in the country since Independence are from Agulu in Aniocha Council Area of Anambra State. The protracted leadership which lasted for almost a decade is a well-hatched plan in connivance with powers- that-be at the centre to kill the Igboness and dream of the founding fathers of the party. Several efforts to resolve the leadership crisis in the party between Umeh and Okorie out of courts by some prominent Igbo persons that include Bishops and others were truncated. With their financial war chest, the leaders continued to have their way in the fight, while the party continued to suffer loss of followership and defeats in subsequent elections in the zone especially in Anambra State.

Ahead of 2007 general election, Abia State governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu saw no Igbo interest or future in APGA. That was how he moved on with his followers to form Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) which won Imo and Abia governorship seats in the election. Even with Obi as the incumbent governor of Anambra on APGA platform, the party did not win a single seat in the 2007 general elections. Ojukwu who was the third runner up in 2003 presidential election, emerged the last in the election. The party did not also win a single elective seat anywhere in the country in the election.

When the Supreme Court judgment that removed Senator Andy Uba as governor of the state for Obi to complete his tenure came, many had thought that there would be a change in governor Obi’s non-challant attitude towards growing, and expanding the party beyond his immediate interest and that of his kinsmen. But nothing of such happened as Obi continued with the shrinking of APGA, and taking advantage of Ojukwu’s association with the party to promote his political interest. After 2007 elections, the petition of Mr. Azuka Okwuosa the APGA candidate for Anambra South senatorial zone brought about the nullification of Senator Ikechukwu Obiora of PDP’s election on the ground of massive irregularities. In the re-run that was conducted thereafter, despite that Obi was the incumbent governor, Okwuosa lost the re-run election to Obiora again.

In 2010 Anambra governorship election, Obi’s slim victory was not made possible by the sentiment that APGA is an Igbo party or the bandied last wish of Ojukwu, but by the default of the electoral commission, regarding voters’ register. Again during the 2011 general elections, despite that Anambra State is being controlled by APGA with Obi as governor for years, and Umeh as national chairman of the party, APGA failed to win even one of the three senatorial seats in the state. Obi and Umeh’s senatorial zone which is Central was won by Dr. Chris Ngige of the defunct ACN now APC. The defunct ACN which Obi and his supporters have continued to label as Yoruba/ Hausa party won six House of Assembly seats in Awka, Anambra West, Nnewi South, Idemili North, Idemili South, and Onitsha South, and one House of Representatives seat in Idemili North and South Federal Constituency. Today, Obi is the only sitting governor in the country that his senatorial zone is occupied by the opposition party.

This was despite that fact that it was in the same 2011 that APGA adopted President Jonathan as consensus candidate of the party. It is obvious to all and sundry that the two chieftains are more PDP than Jonathan and Bamanga Tukur today. So where is the Igboness in Obi’s government, and his acclaimed performance since he came into office? There is no doubt that Governor Rochas Okorocha’s victory in Imo State in 2011 was not because of the sentiment that APGA is an Igbo party, but because Imo people at that time wanted a change, and Okorocha as a personality was the best alternative available to them. When Okorocha saw no Igbo future politically with the manner the affairs of APGA were being piloted, he left the party for a national party where Igbo political future can be realised and sustained. Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Orji saw the mess and clannish politics in APGA when he stopped over in the party, and quickly moved over to PDP ahead of 2011 general elections.

For almost eight years in office now as governor, Obi has failed to conduct council elections. What is he afraid of and what has been happening to the council funds? So where is the Igbo sentiment in a party that has been reduced to town union to hoodwink some people ahead of November 16 governorship election in Anambra State. If APGA is still truly the Igbo party it is supposed to be, why hasn’t the party taken over control of Southeast zone since 2003? Why are Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu states still controlled by PDP, while Imo is under APC? So where is the Igboness in APGA when all the prominent Igbo politicians in Nigeria today are in PDP or APC? APGA has always been a fall back or last resort for politicians that could not realise their ambitions in PDP or APC.

What makes APGA an Igbo party when the top officials used the party machinery to stop Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, a good son of Igbo land from contesting APGA primaries for the forthcoming governorship election, using President Jonathan to sell dummy to the people? When has President Jonathan become Igbo leader to decide who should contest APGA primaries? That is the height of hypocrisy and political subterfuge to impose a godson on Anambra. What makes APGA Igbo party when Anambra North traditional and political leaders chose Dr. Chike Obidigbo, and Governor Obi rejected him, only to handpick and push forward his anointed godson, Mr. Willie Obiano as the party candidate? APGA as of today is Agulu People Grand Alliance. Their obvious desperate push ahead of the November governorship election in the state is clear. How has the Igbo factor in APGA impacted on the life of an average Igbo man politically, economically and otherwise?

Tolexander: imagine!

He took away any semblance of political party with his death but left his manhood to live on!

O mase o!

Obi and Umeh to all intent and purpose reduced APGA to a town union organization of the Agulu people.

Tolexander: ah ah ah!
But they fielded a presidential candidate in the 2003 election!

that party don tey o!

Before they realized that supporting any big man controlling Abuja is far more rewarding financially than presenting a presidential candidate.

Ojukwu would have keep the party alive....he took away any semblance of political party with his death

The present leadership are not pretending about their intentions and objectives....

Tolexander: what is now the difference between the former APGA members now in PDP and Peter Obi that has vowed to be vigorously involved in the return of GEJ, a PDP member to Aso Rock?

Very clear if his party has a presidential candidate, he won't support the candidate. What antiparty is greater than that?

APGA will never field any Presidential candidate....not now......not ever.

They will always support any Presidential candidate of any party in power....be it APC or PDP.

dozzybaba: Even before today. Igbo NLders have always maintained that we were never defeated. If the renegotiation didn't happen, guerrilla tactics would have been deployed against the British-backed vandals.

Those that were defeated know themselves, infact they are slaves, infact they are the cradle of Islamization and slavery aka Abeedism in yorubaland--illor..

You guys do this for fun and we are used to seeing you do this

dozzybaba: Show us Ojukwu's surrender papers.

Lmao so it took you guys over 40 years to come up with this new twist....

GEJ is really giving you a whole new vista

dozzybaba: Biafra was never defeated. Ojukwu the paramount leader didn't sign any surrender paper.

That is new tale you heard today during that rally.....

Am sure we are going to be hearing that from you here for a very long time...

NgeneUkwenu: APGA Is PDP and PDP Is APGA!

So no defection here! J[b]ust change of camp! Ndi ara[/b]!

You couldn't have put it better..

It's shameful....

Men and women lined up and paraded like common miscreants and then referred to as prodigal sons and daughters....well what else can we add.

APGA as a party to be taken serious need to do away with some opportunists that constitute it major part.