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[quote author=Abugab post=35204565]Op I am sure you can fully understand now what your south-west friend said about the Igbos?
First, let the Igbos first know who they are and thus seek what they need as they cannot go for what they need or want if they don't know themselves.
Subjectivism is the norm in the East.
Utilitarianism and objectivism is for the dogs as far as their lives are concerned.
The supposed mouth piece of the Igbos (Ohaneze N' digbo) is pure for personal gains.
Well, Onu will surely get the sgf and this is because of the merger arrangement between anpp, CPC, acn and npdp and nit because of the support from his Igbo kits and kin.
Onu is more than qualify and has impeccable qualities.

You are right to some extent except for the fact that subjectivism has never been the norm in the east. The ban of d average ibo man is his inability to subject to authorities or even acknowledge them. That's why Ibos does not speak with one voice because everyone wants to have an edge over another.

There’s this friend of mine from the south-west Nigeria who
keeps telling me that an Igbo will never be the president of
Nigeria again. When I probed to know why, he simply says
the Igbos are ‘selfish and self-destroying’. Though we
always laugh over it, there is some truth in that statement.
Our friends from other ethnic groups in the country know
too well the vulnerability of Igbo politicians in a country
where they should have been treated as ‘champions’
because of their unmatched ingenuity.
However, I would like to remind some Igbo politicians who
possibly must have forgotten about what happened when
the position of the senate president was zoned to south-
east by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led
government from 1999 – 2003, during former president
Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure. It is on record that before
Obasanjo ended his tenure, all the states in the south-east
produced a senate president for lack of oneness and
cohesion. Though there were some manipulations from
different quarters which were not resisted by the people of
the zone and became a laughing stock because of
inordinate ambition of some individuals.
It should beat the imagination of the people of the south-
east that former senate president David Mark, from Gboko,
Benue State served eight years without any interlude.
Apparently, Mark could not have been an angel or holier
than his predecessors in the senate, but we never heard of
any senator from the north central who for once, decided to
edge him out, peddled fictitious stories to discredit him.
Having said that, it appears another scenario is
systematically and gradually presenting itself in the choice
of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) by
President Muhammadu Buhari-led government. Since last
week, grapevine had it that Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu was tipped
to serve as the SGF. Since the rumour began circulating,
nothing has been heard of it again. Instead, information had
it that the governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha had
submitted three names to Buhari, and that one of them was
his in-law.
The question I want to ask is when will politicians from the
south-east ever learn a lesson when it comes to issues of
national appointment? When will they learn to support good
materials and by extension, learn to support a candidate of
Igbo extraction that has been deemed fit for national duty?
When will politicians from the South east appreciate each
other and give unalloyed support to a candidate that has no
skeleton vying for higher political, academic or social
positions in the country?
I think it is high time that right thinking politicians of Igbo
extraction showed their support for Dr. Onu as the SGF,
especially now that top leaders of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) are apparently appealing to Buhari to
appoint Onu, who has also served as the first elected
governor of Abia State to that position. The issue here is
not that an Ebonyi indigene had just left as SGF, but the
concern should be whether Onu is fit for such an office? The
answer is yes. Onu is intelligent, a politician with charisma,
reliable and humble.
Even in political circles, Onu is known as a trusted
politician. In fact those politicians trotting and navigating
from East to West and North to South trying to discredit him
are not really his match in politics. When he became the
governor of Abia State in 1991, some of the present-day
politicians were still hustling in some quarters as ‘errand
boys’. Late Professor Chinua Achebe in “Things Fall Apart”,
said: “Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by
a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.” This
should be a message to some Igbo politicians who are
after and against Dr. Onu’s choice as the SGF.
Don’t get me wrong, if people learn to appreciate others,
good will always follow them. The good I mean here is not
converting public funds to personal gains, but it could be in
the form of good health and long life. Politics in Nigeria,
especially in the south east has become something else.
There is no respect and honour to whom it is due. Dr. Onu
is a man of honour in many respects. For instance, this was
a man who never decamped from one political party to the
other because of ‘stomach infrastructure’ which has been
the habit of many politicians. I believe that even without
being the SGF, Onu will still be prominent in Buhari’s
government, but I think honour should be given to whom it
is due. On the other hand, it is believed that the president
would like to work with Onu whom he already knows as a
trusted ally and capable of delivering. Apart from being a
former governor, he had served as the first chairman of the
conference of elected governors, among other positions.

--culled from www.thisdaylive.com/articles/a-case-for-ogbonnaya-onu-as-sgf/213186/--

egift:
You missed it bro. What fuels arms uprising is some stubborn folks feeling they have the right to take actions that bring destruction to everyone else. Refuse to seek peaceful solution to problems and the end of the day millions more of the living are killed for the few that were hurt earlier. The consequenses of their actions are usually bigger that the problems they laid claim to pick up arms.

If 10 people get killed for instance, will taking actions that kill 50,000 of your own people appease you for the 10 people you lost earlier. And who gave you the right to cause the death of those 50,000 people?

To every one of your problem, there is a possible solution - throwing bombs at it is not a solution.

How does killing millions of Ndigbo stop the problem of lack of jobs, poverty, good governance, infrastructures, quality education, electricity, hunger, etc.

I've been following your analysis and it's obvious that you are being bias. Inasmuch as I agree that violence is not the best way out, I must confess that the ibos have had enough. It's either the main issues are tackled head on or we might just continue to deceive ourselves that all is well in this unholy union called NIGERIA. The only way we can live as one is to give everyone a sense of belonging.

They recruit for Zenith Bank. it's a consulting firm that recuits for Zenith Bank plc. Wishing u d very best.

The wise ones will learn from dis story while d over sabi fellows will be busy criticizing and arguing about its originality and authenticity. Whether it's fiction or real just learn 4rm d moral of the story. #chikena!

Be @ alert

A political juggernaut with a difference.

I think some disgruntled elements are trying to frustrate the ex-militants for their selfish interests.

Let love lead the way.

She is a woman that knows her onus

ijustdey:
The case begins tomorro and let see how AIT will come out clean and prove their case to logical conclusion because they just mess up with the wrong person

Just wait and see what would happen. AIT will surely come out unscathed.

It won't be that easy o!

omenka:
Imagine the kind of country Jonathan is handing over. He's so bitter about his rejection at the polls and is doing everything imaginable to punish Nigerians for the wise choice they made.

Now, look at this man and tell me you really think deep down United Nation would tinker with an idea of making him a special envoy to whatever....

I told people all those talks about giving him an appointment by a world body were just gimmicks to placate the fella knowing fully well how intolerant of defeat some African leaders could be. The imagined without such innuendoes, the dude could simply turn around a say he rejects the outcome of the polls, throwing yet another country in the world into a state of complete chaos and humanitarian disaster.

Shame on Jonathan.
Shame on PDP.

You just sounded like a FOOL!

omenka:
Delusions of grandeur. Who needs such a thing in their midst?

It seems the latest trick from PDP and her supporters is posting rubbish themselves on their social media platforms and then attribute it to hackers and tacitly blaming APC for it. Idiotic blackmail I must say.

PDP is already dead, no point killing it any further.

You just sounded like a FOOL! why would Orubebe post such and then come out to deny it.

ollah1:
There's a clause and that is if he plays. He is yet to feature in any match this season so barca ain't paying Arsenal the funds.

Pls get your facts right..the clause states that " However, despite not playing in the Champions League for
the Nou Camp outfit, Arsenal is still entitled to the deal as
originally agreed as it is not determined by playing time."

clips 4rm nollywood

Obj shud not have been allowed access in the first place. once the President is seated no one shud be allowed in. Old fool!

Some people will never change...a leopard can never clean her spots

Flets:
If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country. 

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.

While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investment will seize in all sectors.And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc. 

Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.

Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished. 

And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?

And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face


Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?

The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.

Nigerians.... Be Warned!!!

WORD!

clemz88:
Jonathan is working. Making women proud since 2009

GEJ till 2019

He has every right to live his life d way he deems fit..so u guys should give him a breathing space joor