Nonybb: The core reasons they are fighting Jonathan is (1) He is NOT a muslim. (2) He is from the Minority. (3) They are rapidly loosing out on National Cake. (4) They Strongly believe they are Born-to-Rule. (5) They felt Betrayed by the PDP agreement to return Power to the core north (remember the christian northerners do not matter here, just them). (6) They have islamic Agenda (7) They convincingly believe that they are the majority and can decide the fate of all. ( The Northern Oligarchy are rapidly pushed out of the Oil Wealth controled by there cabals. Investigation shows that 83% of Oil well belongs to Politicians of Northern extract. (9) They control a huge stake on federal Appointment, as much as in a percentage of 70 and this percentage are fast dwindling. (10) Islamist bitterly detest Kaffirs or infidel to rule them

ilugunboy:

As usual goading GEJ...an Ijaw man but at the same time distancing themselves away from him.

Like I keep saying...the greatest mistake GEJ and his Ijaw crew will be making is counting on Ibos for support when the shytee hits the fan....they will distance themselves as usual while reminding them of past betrayals....

Gorrbachev:

No, you (Ojukwu &minions) tried to steal from Nigeria (Land and oil) but you got Aluued. You can pack and quietly migrate, i swear nobody will stop you.

Afam4eva: What has the deportation saga got to do with Jonathan. Some of you just come out to chat crap just because you have access to internet connection. if anything, the utterances of Dokubo, Clarke and other Niger-Delta leaders will serve a more injurous blow to Jonathan than anything an Igbo man will say. In the same vein, the unguarded statements made by some Northern leaders could also serve as a death pill for whichever Northern candidate that will be presented by APC or any party for that matter. That's the sorry story of our democracy.

Philip Tosin: GEJ may be a good or bad president, I'm not assessing that. But one thing i see clearly is that GEJ is not a smart politician. PDP was formidable in OBJ's tenure, bt nw what are we seeing.. We all know that the north doesn't want GEJ, nw instead of him to play smart and make more friends and supporters, he's busy making enemies even wt his own kinsman (Amaechi). Obviously, he has succeeded in making enemies for himself against 2015 and by his political careless act, he has helped to strengthen his own opposition

Truckpusher: Finally all the political armed robbers are aligning with the so-called progressive party and Nigerians can't still see that this is a grand scale gang up against GEJ's administration and Nigerians because the sharing of Nigeria's wealth the way it's usually done is no longer possible under this man that doesn't talk too much but he is moving despite the too many pitfalls,traps and insults hurled at him and it even got so ugly that even Obasanjo had to mud sling him in other to book his respected place in this den of thieves called APC since he couldn't control the son of an ordinary fisherman after controlling soldiers for years.

GEJ will be vindicated and history will prove him as one of the greatest leader ever.

GEJ wants to change the present structure on ground that doesn't guarantee equal representation hence the call for his head by these mafia that has been holding Nigeria ransom for years and only the blind and gullible will fail to see that truly there is a cabal and now it's no longer as rosy for them as usual they want him out at all cost.

I do not see any APC or anything progressive about them ,all i see are the following :

Good point

Bunch of criminal political elites from the SW with corruption as their way of life if you like hate it, it is the truth

Traitors from the SW and SS who are ready to settle for crumbs and only what matters to them most is their personal interest and once it's protected they'll sell to anybody

Northern Islamaofascist fundamentalists with their born-rule-mentality knowing that their days are numbered as a strong political voice in this country should the national conference become a success

Bunch of political jobbers who wish to flow with this tide and make their own political breakthrough

And finally let it be known that the battle line to reclaim Nigeria from the hands of these mafias,conmen and thieves have been drawn,but the question is whom will you pitch tenth with?

pazienza:


Typical Yoruba justice, kill a group of innocent people for the sins of few that never acted on their behalf. Your day of reckoning is coming.

You must think Igbos are your people that depend on the government to excel, Okonjo was already a shinning star, Nigeria needed her, and not the other way round, deal with that.


Obj sacked the political high ranked military officers and killed the rest because he was a blood thirsty coward, and was scared of those men toppling his government, he didn't do it for anyone. Yes Obj is a selfish Yoruba tribalist whose selfish interest often overide his tribalist, but his tribalism part is still there, nevertheless.

Billyonaire: APGA Chairman captures a little of the history of OBJ when he was in power. GEJ is making sure that the cabal who has been controlling Nigeria is shown the way out of political relevancy. Whether they are in PDP or APC.

What Jerry Rawlings did in Ghana with a gun is, what GEJ is doing in Nigeria, without a gun. I wish Nigerians see the vision. We do not need these career politicians sit on our natural resources anymore.

Congrats to GEJ for being a silent Lion, Congrats to GEJ for being humility personified, Thank You GEJ for freeing Nigeria from the Cabals.

By 2019, they will totally lose grip of the steering of Nigeria, giving chance to Young Educated Nigerians to have a chance.

shymexx: Typical. Very crude and medieval in their thought process.

Since when did an Ijaw man become Igbo and what has the letter got to do with Igbo's?

These clowns just take their victim mentality everywhere...the most bigoted people on the planet.

TribalEAST: The OJUKWU that fled to ABIDJAN to cool-off with chilled palm wine and roasted isi-ewu when the heat of the war was much is thesame ojukwu they are worshipping.

Who will worship the 3million women and children that died in the heat of the war started by the fleeing coward?

Stop blaming awolowo cos ALL IS FAIR IN WAR.

re@lchange:


just like we cannot understand how awolowo could starve millions of kids to death
yet he is still worshiped like a god in yoruba land.
olorun maje!

noblezone: The clock is ticking and Nigeria is heading for disaster.

Finally,
Amechi has joined the APC, which was why he shunned the meetings of South East and South South governors.

Oshimole has opposed the national conference and has recently appeared on a "Movie" Tilted "Go and die"!

Okorocha has become silent for now after his bid to hijack the APC leadership in Imo State has failed.


The interest of the people must come first.
Our leaders must ask for our aspirations because they represent us.

Those among us who betray our aspirations as a people must know that history will not be kind to them.

We are at a threshold of history: Nigeria to be or not to be.

Our region is suffering because we have refused to understand Ngieria.

Awolowo left a legacy for the West, Bello, left a legacy for the North, and my question is: what legacy did Zik leave for us?
We cannot be more Nigeria than other Nigerians.

We must watch these men!

bloggernaija: Widow or no widow.
The instructions/rules/ law was simple enough.
Why can't Nigerians obey simple instructions?
Why do we behave like animal?

From overloaded lorries,
To drunk unlicensed driver,
To roadside traders encroaching on the highway ,
Siren blaring bigman aka stupid politicians.

The next minute ,they will start complaining about bad government disregarding the fact that the government is mirroring our own personal bad behaviour.

Poverty is not an excuse.
Neither should the law develop eyes because she is a WIDOW.

The government is doing the job it was elected to do and our
Uncivilised people are talking about MERCY .
Yes ,the language was bad
But he had to personally set an example.

MY TAKE IS THAT NIGERIANS ARE SO ISED TO LAWLESSNES THAT IT HAS BECOME THE BEW NORMAL.

NOW FOR THOSE WHO ARE IGNORANT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE WESTERN REGION AND THE MIDWEST,
WIDOW OR NO WIDOW,
THIS WOMAN HAVE BEEN CHARGED TO COURT ,HEAVILY FINED AND HER GOODS SIEZED .
WHEN DID IT BECOME A CRIME TO ENFORCE THE LAW?

MarvellousGod: I wonder why people are always tribal when it comes to this...why do you look at different parties without the persons involved? ? Na party go lead us abi human beings? Ngige is better than Obiano in all aspects, had I been at home I would hv voted him..it's high time we looked beyond parties and pay more attention to the individuals involved. .

ikeyman00: @@@@@@@@@

u could say that again!!

let them know!

kawkab: Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was shown this after on African Independent Television launching APC in Rivers State. He was the special guest at key note speaker at the event. He used the opportunity to lam-bast the PDP and federal government picking holes in the policy and implementation and also used it as a forum to justify his stands against the Jonathan administration.

He did not also fail to criticize key political stakeholders in Rivers State, claiming that they are playing "stomach politics" and that they are driven to team up with the federal Government against him by hunger. He kept making reference to a former deputy speaker; but it was not clear whether he was refering to Austin Opara or Chibudom Nwuche - both former deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

While Rotimi Ameachi may be on point on some of the things he mentioned; they way he is going about it is disturbing; because you can't be claiming to be a member of nPDP or PDP and at the same time be openly advocating for another party even as the Special Guest at their launch and outing; I don't think that if Rotimi Amaechi is the PDP national or State chairman, he would condone this from another person.

Please nairalanders what are your opinions as regards this.

99cent:

let's be honest with ourselves. yorubas are the most progressive in naija.
u will not see many hausas and igbos marrying each other.
but there are many yoruba-hausa marriages. and also many yoruba-igbo mariages.
ur also most likely to find muslims and christians represented most evenly among yorubas.

infonubia: Read this article by Priyadarshi Dutta of the Niti Central. It is a response to Jacob Nwadibia's statement on the Goa government move to deport Nigerians living in the city illegally. It also addresses the recent killing of a Nigerian in India and the subsequent violence that followed.

This is Nwadibia's statement:



Dutta definitely raised some undeniable points. Read the response and share your thoughts.


Nwadibia warns that one million Indians living in Nigeria might be thrown out on the streets if 40,000 Nigerians living in India are ill-treated. Recently, a Nigerian national was murdered in Goa; which the State Government claims was result of turf war amongst drug peddlers.

Some 200 Nigerians also living in Goa blocked roads and indulged in unruly violence. The Goa Police now wants to evict all foreign nationals (not Nigerians specifically) living illegally in the State. This has provoked Nwadibia to demand an eye for an eye. This is not really the first time any foreign national got murdered in India – or in any other country. But that never provoke diplomats to become Ghengiz Khan or Halaku. Indian students occasionally get murdered in the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Some of them are actually victims of racism. Several nations in the world launch drives against illegal settlers. But diplomats do not bay for blood over it, but call for calm.


Nigerians murdered in other countries: Only last month a Nigerian student, Gabriel Soriwei was mowed down by a car in northern Cyprus. The woman driver of the car was detained and released three day later. But the Nigerian High Commission in Nicosia and Nigerian Embassy in Ankara have done precious little for justice to Gabriel. In August, Nigerian Stanley Eteimo, who had got engaged to a Cypriot lady, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Hotel Cratos, Kyrenia in northern Cyprus. It was possibly a hate crime that authorities maintained was a suicide. Nigerians have been killed in Malaysia, Thailand and elsewhere. But nobody has threatened those nations.

The Russian incident: Recently Moscow Police detained 16 Nigerian students (former terrorists) who were engaged in hooliganism in Nigerian Embassy in Moscow over non-payment of financial grant to them. It was the Nigerian embassy which called up Police finding themselves in a tight spot. The Nigerian embassy accepted the fact that the event brought calumny. It even postponed the Nigeria-Russia Business Forum saying the event organised by Nigerian embassy would lack credibility.

Indians in Nigeria a settled lot: In the present case in Goa, it is true that a Nigerian has been murdered. The guilty must be brought to book, whether he is an Indian or a foreigner. But simultaneously it has also emerged that the victim dealt in drugs. He was no software engineer, no medical practitioner, no trader or earning his livelihood by any honest means! But the Nigerian High Commission in India seems to be in denial. Will Nwadibia tell us that what are the professions of the Nigerians who created a ruckus in Goa? What brings so many Nigerians to Goa in the first place? Majority of the Indians in Nigeria whom Nwadibia threatens are living in that country for long. Whatever might be their citizenship, they are living legally in Nigeria. They run businesses or work in offices. They have their families in Nigeria and even own property there. Many of them are actually born in Nigeria; and belong to every age group. But the profiles of the Nigerians who live in India are vastly different. They are mostly young, male and living either alone or with friends. Some of them came on student visa but now expired. Most of them have no credible profession to pursue.

Indians in Nigeria not into crime: Not more than 10 Indians citizens are lodged in jails of Nigeria, Benin, Chad and Cameroon combined (vide MoS, External Affairs Reply in Lok Sabha August 7, 2013- “Indians Languishing in Prisons Abroad). But around 500 Nigerians languish in various Indian jails, a fact finding team led by a prominent Nigerian lawmaker recently found out. Around 1000 Nigerians are lodged in various jail of China. There are 800 Nigerians in Togo, a small West African nation of 7 million. Drug peddling is a common charge against them in any country. Is this merely a result of discrimination against Nigerians by all these countries, and magnanimity by the Nigerian authorities towards foreigners? No the Nigerian High Commission is acutely aware of these facts. But I leave it to readers’ judgement why they are silent about it.

Nigerians found dealing in narcotics: Is it merely anecdotal that Nigerians in India deal in drugs? No. As per the records of the Narcotics Control Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, 223 foreign nationals were arrested last year on charges of drug peddling. Out of them 67 were Nigerians, more than any other nation except for Nepal (72). Those alleging that the bias against Nigerians stems from racial prejudice against the Blacks should explain why it does not extend to other Africans in India? It is because no other African nationals have such antecedents in India as Nigerians. India was a vocal critic of Apartheid Policy in South Africa. It conferred upon Nelson Mandela, the highest civilian award of this land Bharat Ratna in 1990. As a school boy, this writerwrote a letter to Nelson Mandela admiring his struggle and wishing him early release. In the 1950s and 1960s India had helped Nigeria in Railways sector. Indians are one of the most accommodative people over the millennia.

Nigerian drug peddling a longstanding issue: The Goa murder has brought the drug peddling issue to a head. But drug peddling by Nigerians in India is an old problem. It is on record that Late Ajit Panja, as MoS, Finance replied to a Parliamentary question put by Krishna Kumar Birla in Rajya Sabha on August 30, 1988. Panja acknowledged that reports received and seizures made indicated that Mumbai was increasingly being used as a transit point by Nigerians in their drug trafficking activities. Some of the Nigerians nationals arrested for drug trafficking were found to be students. Panja also informed the House that Government of India and the Government of Nigeria had signed a joint declaration on October 21, 1987. It was intended to ‘extend cooperation to each other in suppression of drug abuse and prevention of drug trafficking’. The number of Nigerians arrested in 1986 and 1987 for drug peddling were 22 and 46 respectively. It has risen to 50, 75 and 72 in 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively.

The joint agreement has proven to be a dead letter. It is something both the Governments are aware of. So let us not compare Indians in Nigeria and Nigerians in Indians.

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rosebowl01: These crimes are not committed by Nigerians. It is only a particular group of people, from a particular region, who speak a particular language that engage in these things. The Nigerian diplomat should not threaten Indians living in Nigeria because we would oppose it. He should only threaten the ones living in the region of the rising messed up sun. That is even if there's anybody willing to risk his life to live there in the first place.
Stop disgracing this country!

Smooyis: If only Mr president can be like Coach Garba. If only he can harness the potentials in Nigeria by drawing great minds from the nooks and crannies of Nigeria into his Executive team, then Nigeria will be celebrated as its been done to the golden eaglets. Not until then shall will be proud of Mr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as our president, just as everyone is proud of Coach Garba and his boys for their sterling performance which made them world champions.

eye4eye: This can't be accurate. Nigeria and Ghana should be in top five.