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gammarays1:
Raw fact is
Goodluck Jonathan with a strong Northern vp is the solution.

Peter Obi, Wike, SS, SE, Middle belt will embrace him naturally.

Tinubu, SW will have to negotiate for a soft landing as usual and support.

Atiku is a force but his influence will be checkmeted with the non PDP power brokers in the North.

Nigeria is in serious shit anyway. Nothing good about the country.

Nah! SE will not embrace any southern candidate that is not from SE.
Why should we embrace injustice against ourselves?
Even if others deny us justice, why should we help them do that?
GEJ will be pelted with satchet water and booed if he dare comes to SE to campaign for presidency.
After supporting him in two presidential elections, he owes SE support to produce a president of our own and not join ranks with those who sworn to serve us injustice by taking our turn and relegating us to irrelevance.

bjdon:
Osinbajo will loose badly in the SE and may also loose in the SS.
The only candidate APC can deploy is Amachi. He will win the SE and SS, and the middle belt. If the SW play along and support him, he's the next president

When will you guys get it?
SE will not vote for anyother Southern president that is not from SE.
We would rather power stay in the North.

EmemObong03:
Without any sentiment, Tinubu is not marketable.
The best option is for him to step down for the VP Osibanjo which is Nationally accepted and will wrestle Atiku toe to toe

Nationally accepted? Maybe in SS and SW, but definitely not in SE.
The common ground in SE is that we will NEVER vote for anyother Southern presidential candidate that is not from SE.
Instead we will continue voting for the North until SS and SW agrees that fairness is to support SE presidency.

Isiguzoro represents only his pocket.

He is probably waiting for Atiku to come and settle him and his group.
No one takes him and his faction of Ohanaeze serious.
They all kept quiet when Ikpeazu and Ugwuanyi were openly campaigning for a non Igbo aspirant like Wike.
Now they have found their voice.
Chineke kpo ha oku!

subsidywise18:
Even if Obi wins, he would face a house and a senate filled with APC and PDP members all ready to frustrate him well well well.

He is used to that.
As a governor of Anambra, he ruled over a state house of assembly filled with PDP members.
Only a governor or president looking to loot will be looking for a house full of his party men.

Very good bargaining chip in our quest for Biafra of only Igbos.
And a knife straight to the heart of the "Awa Oyel" and "Ibo want Awa Oyel" people. This news go pain them more.

We should discover more.
Enugu, Abia(North ie Umunneochi/Isuikwuato) Ebonyi and Imo(Okigwe) all forming part of the Okigwe highlands are all sitting on humongous amount of shale oil.

The future of Igboland is really bright.
Chukwu reserved the best for the last.

BKayy:
Here they come with the attempt of shifting their shameful slave heritage to the owners of the land.

Cc Ofoigbo, Slayerforever, Igboid
Check this out

What is the picture about?
It has no Caption.

MadamExcellency:
He is Ngwa from Abia Central Senatorial Zone. It not Ngwa from Abia South Senatorial Zone. There are three Ngwa LGAs in Abia Central with other 3 LGAs making them 6 LGAs.

It is not the turn of Abia central by the zoning formula.
Abia North is next in line.
Do you know this?

Moreover, Ukwa East and West are not Ngwa, they are independent groups called Ndoki and Asa respectively, and they as a matter of fact resent Ndi Ngwa.

Ngwa LGAs:

Obingwa
Isiala Ngwa South
Isiala Ngwa North
Aba South
Aba North
Osisioma
Ugwunagbo.

That's 7 LGAs out of 17 in the state.Ngwa people alone can not dictate for the rest of 10 LGAs in Abia.
Moreover, there is also a heavy non Abia Igbo elements in Abia State, and they are not always pro Ngwa.

Imho, trying to destroy Abia zoning formula, will backfire on Ndi Ngwa.

The rotation is Abia North to Abia central to Abia South and then back to Abia North and the cycle continues.
Why change it out of greed for power?

OfoIgbo:
The guy that came second, seems to have an Igboid name

He is from Eleme.
They have mixed Aro and Ogoni origin.
Kamalu ancestors are obviously from the Aro branch of Eleme.

Shebi Ijaw people said Opobo is Ijaw?
It's time to put it to test now.
We will see how well they will embrace a man whose Indigenous language is Igbo dialect as a Governor of Rivers State, on top of Ijaw quota.

Good power play by Wike. Throw the bone to the dogs and see how they deal with it.
Now I'm curious.

LOVEALAIGBO:
This is the glaring fact these bigots choose to ignore! How fair is it that a 100% Igbo territory is cut in two, with the part more rich in hydrocarbons placed in a ethnically heterogeneous state for non-Igbo and Igbo deniers to manage!?

I know most of the people happy with this judgment (besides the non-Igbo in Rivers state) are the Fulani and Yoruba! Now my question to them is…would they tolerate this if a hegemonic and vindictive Igbo-controlled central gov’t took a hydrocarbon rich Fulani or Yoruba land….divided kinsfolk in two (a la Egbema), and then proceeded to place the hydrocarbon rich part of the same village in another state/region to be administered in trust for said Igbo hegemony by Fulani/Yoruba haters and deniers!? The answer to this rhetorical question is either a YES or a NO….no ifs or buts!

It is really a grave injustice and the pains Ndiigbo must bear for losing a brutal war.
We must never forgive or forget those who all connived to deliver this injustice on us.

walefresh3:
See what u call city in iboland... That region is too poor boy...

No single ibo man worth just 1 billion dollars ..

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_5E-S1yr8g

It's actually a good video.
I saw no single mud house.

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Abia and Ebonyi are also rich in shale oil.

Naniboi17:
Anambra does not have gas. Anambra basin is different from Anambra. It's oil that Anambra has. Nigeria has about 207trillion cubic of gas, Imo state alone has not less than 200trillion. Abia also has a small quantity of the remainder portion.

Keep quiet when you don't have the necessary information.
Anambra has large amounts of gas.

https://www.nairaland.com/5616614/5-billion-trapped-under-anambra/1

Waneri:
It all started immediately the europeans created Nigeria..
The Ibo political class who are mostly from the present day Anambra and Enugu decided to make the old eastern region a one ethnic region.
The western region tried the same.. but it failed too resulting to the creation of Midwest region..

In the eastern region .. when they asked the groups who the were the refused to identify as Igbo.. they rather identify as Ndoki (Ukwa), Izon(Ijo), Etche, Ngwa, Ibibio, iwhnuruoha, Efik etc.
But this did not go down well with the Igbo leaders, who actually new if the don't stop them, the east will disintegrate.

There was a new agenda to send some of their kinsmen to igbonize this groups..
The made it possible for them to get jobs at the detriment of the indigenes.
The aim was for the indigenes to become poor as sees the igbos as a group the should imitate.
It worked for a while. But suddenly attracted envy when some of this minority became educated and civilized and attempted to change the status quo which also failed.

This caused the domination of Aba, and Port Harcourt (which was the only Important province and sub province then) by foreigners.
The foreigners also changed some names that did not suit well with them.
Aba being an important city was changed from Abah Ngwa to Abah alone, Ugwulagbo was changed to Ugwunagbo etc
Same thing was done to the Ikwere people.

The civil war served as an avenue for the indigenes that rejected the igbo identity to distanced them selves from igbo.
The Ikwere people decided to return their town names to the original names.
But they unfortunately went as far as creating new names that were neither Ikwere nor igbo in their bid to distanced them selves from igbo.

Igbos should understand that igboid language does not belong to them only..
The Ikwere should also understand that they have been speaking igboid language before the igbos came. Even though they igbos tried to force their own dialect of Igbo on them.

I believe that we are all from the same origin and we are all related.
But we don't share a general name.
Just like Ibibio, Efik, Annang etc the are the same people but they don't have a general name .. same with all igboid groups..

Other than normal beer parlour yarns.
Can you provide just one verifiable document by a neutral party that proves that Ndiigbo ever tried to Igbonize non Igbos in Eastern region?

Do you really know how Igbo society works?

CeoMYN:
Look at you far away in the South East talking about my own people.
Rest

You can't speak for them. ONELGA is one. You can't divide us with your antics. ONELGA says no to Biafra. Rivers State says no to Biafra.

Go and rest in your South East. You are making too much noise for people who don't care about Biafra.

Attache by force.
ONELGA is ONELGA.
Egbema is Egbema, Ndoni is Ndoni, Ogba is Ogba.
Ogba says no to Biafra? Good for you.
Stay in your lane and let Egbema, Ndoki and Asa be.

Ndi Uchu!

CeoMYN:
You are the one not contented with your South East states. Leave my Rivers State alone.

So, being a member of a Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani/Urhobo sociocultural group automatically changes my tribe. Wow!

There is nothing like Igbo in my state. Focus on the growth of your South East states, Mr. Orator.

Rivers State does not belong to you.
It belongs also to the Igbo natives of Egbema, Ndoki and Asa in Obiigbo and ONELGA.

You have not the right to dictate for them or anyone else.
Stay in your Ogbaland and let them alone.
States are not ethnic nationality. Be contented with your small Ogba.
Ohanaeze Ndiigbo is not a socio cultural organization only. It's an Igbo apex organization and one can only be a member if one is Igbo.

Ekealterego:
Bayelsa was created for Ijaw and some minorities.

IYC is a political franchise.

All the governors of Rivers state from 1999, all have Igbo and Igboid names.

So Ndoni, Egbema etc do not speak an Igbo dialect?

Guy, go and face your 4 Ijaw LGAs in Bayelsa and stop grabbing lands.

GEJ is not even an Ijaw man.
He is from a minority ethnic group called Ogbia.

CeoMYN:
Stick to your South East states. You are not the orator of the people you just mentioned.

There is nothing like Igbo in my state.

You are not okay.
We have people from those parts ably represented in Ohanaeze Ndiigbo.

Stick to your small Ogba!
Egbema, Ndoki and Asa are in Rivers State, and they are proud Igbos.
Now move on!
Be contented with your small Ogba and stop looking to dictate for others.

CeoMYN:
We know that we are minority in the country nah. It's not news to me. Oga, let people declare for themselves. You are not their representative.

Stick to your South East states.

You should stick to your Ogba.
Ndoki, Asa and Egbema people in Rivers remain proud Igbos.
Move on. Rivers is not your father's property.
Stick to your Ogbaland.

CeoMYN:
Ogba is now small Ogba. These people you called will speak for themselves too. Focus on your South East states.

Come and take our lands nah. Funny man.

You are not Okay.
Egbema has always spoken for themselves.
They are Igbo!

Ndoki people in Obiigbo and Asa in Obiigbo are Igbos just like their cousins in Abia state.
Concentrate on your small Ogba.
You have as much right in Rivers State as the Igbos (Ndoki, Asa and Egbema) in Rivers State.

And yes! Ogba is a small minority group, know your place.

ArewaNorth:
I won't lie for money talk less for free. Try to verify if those people were not part of Balewa administration and prove me wrong not just by quoting some years out of their 6yrs administration.

You are a liar and I have showed you the list of people with those posts in Balewa government just before the war.

CeoMYN:
Go and tell any Ikwerre, Ekypeye and Ogba that they are Ibo. Focus on your states and leave my Rivers State alone.

Your brain is touching.
Ndoki and Asa in Oyigbo are Igbos, likewise Egbema in that your ONELGA.
Stay put in your small Ogba and stay off Igboland.
Igboland is in Rivers State (Oyigbo and Egbema are parts of Igboland).

IDENNAA:
There is something disturbing I see in these Ijaw that isn't found in other ethnic groups.

I have never seen an Ijaw made a reasonable and logical statement or decision...look at Boro , Asari Dokubo etc. The ones that are sensible and reasonable are the mixed one who are part Igbo or other tribes.

If not , how can anyone call Boro a hero after reading all the atrocities he committed in old Rivers and his own brothers interview. Boro was a northern puppet who acted exactly like these primitive bunch of Ijaw minions on NL.

I actually don't care about Ijaws.
I'm more concerned that IPOB and MNK ever conceived the idea of having us and them in same country.
It betrays their ignorance and a complete embarrassment to all sensible Igbos.

Boro represent everything about Ijaw, it isn't a wonder he is seen as a hero.

ArewaNorth:
Being logical by stating the actual year which I didn't outlined can stop the fact that those people were in those positions at that time. Nevertheless, appointments were never the issues but the selective barbaric gruesome murder of other Nigerians. They thought North won't have big men again not knowing that we always and will always have series of big men.

You lied about those appointments to paint Ndiigbo bad.
Why do you lots go this far to demonize Ndiigbo, why?
The post is talking about posts held by Ndiigbo before Balewa death and that's exactly what I answered.
You can verify all I wrote there. I got all the info on the internet.
Ndiigbo will surely get a country of our own one day, so that we can finally build a wall between us and your hate.

ArewaNorth:
President of Igbo extraction is always rejected not just because of who to control as u allege or who can't be controlled. Presidency in Nigeria is all about trust, fairness and justice.
OBJ, GEJ and PMB were/are never controlled by any group of people. Do u really know how powerful is that seat? Nobody can even think of dictatung someone on that seat, it is too mighty for that game.When GEJ was President he made this appointments:


1. SGF: Anyim Pius Anyim.
2. DG, DSS: Ita Ekpenyong.
3. CBN: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi(Replaced with Godwin Emefiele)
4. COS: Mike Oghiadomhe.
5. Acct Gen. Fed: Jonah Ofunia.
6. Chief of Army Staff: Azuibike Ihejirika.
7.NIMET; Anthony Anuforom.
8. NNPC: Andrew Yakubu.
9.NIMASA: Patrick Apobolokemi.
10. PENCOM: Chinelo Amazu.
11. FERMA: Chukwu Amuchi.
12. DPR: George Osahon.
13: BOI: Evelyn Oputu.
14. Nig Content Dev. Agency: Ernest Nwampa.
15: CPA: Dupe Atoki.
16. NCC: Eugene Juwa.
17. NAMA: Nnamdi Udoh.
18: NCAA: Engr Akikuotu.
19.FAAN: George Uriesi.
20. NCAT: Capt Chinere Kali.
21. SEC: Aruma Otteh
22. Sovereign Wealth fund: Uche Orji.
23.NAFDAC: Paul Orhii.
24. FIIRO: Mrs G N Elemo.
25.Maritime Agency: Joshua Ekpo.
26: NRC: Seyi Sijuade.
27.Nig Tourism Dev Corp: Sally Nbanefor
28. Budget Office:
Bright Okogwu.
29. NERDC: Godswill Obioma.
30. NEXIM: R R Oriya.
31. SON: Joseph Odumodu.
32. NBC: Emeka Nkem MBA.
33. ITF: Longmas Wapmuk.
34. NUC: Prof Okojie
35. NESREA: N. S Benebo
36.MDG Office: Precious Gbenro.
37. Surveyor Gen.: Peter Chigozie
38. Statistician : Yemi Kale.
39. Acct Gen Fed: Jonah Otunla.
40. Auditor Gen Fed.: Samuel Yonongo.
41. NOA: Mike Omieri.
42. NAN: Oluremi Oyo.
43. NEPC: David Odelugba.
44. Emeka Eze.
45. IGP Police: Solomon Arase.
Etc.

GEJ'S SERVICE CHIEFS WERE:
1. Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Alex Badeh; 2. Chief of Army Staff, Major General Kenneth Minimah;
3. Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Usman Jibrin; and
4. Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Adesola Amosu and u still think that others controlled him? Think again.
The event of 1966 was the main reasons why Igbo will hardly be trusted with power anytime sooner because when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!
Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!
Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.
To make it worse, Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it and let the coupist left unpunished. Honestly, those officers set a bad precedent to the entire Igbo despite having handful of good people who are capable of making this country better if given chance to rule.

Chief of Naval staff in 1964-75 = Commodore J.E.A Wey.
He isn't Igbo.
Chief of Army staff in 1963- 65 was John Alexander McKenzie. Ironsi took over in 1965.
IG of police in 1964-66 was Luis Edet.
Infact Mike Okilo in 2007 was Igbos first ever IG of police in Nigeria.
Internal Affairs minister in 1966 was Shehu Shagari, he replaced Usman Sarki.
Tafawa Balewa doubled as Prime minister and External affairs minister in 1964-66 cabinet.

The Minister of Education in 1964- 66 was Richard Akinjide.

Many of you only major in spinning lies against Ndiigbo.
It will never be well with you lots.

Bkkay.
I hope you didn't miss this thread.

While Akintola was used to destabilize the Western region by Balewa and Saraduna. Adaka Boro and Harold Biriye were chosen for same role in the East.
And they only succeeded because of lack of attention to details by first of all, Zik and Okpara. Then later by Aguiyi Ironsi.

The modern Igbo generation must do better.

ThickSharon123:
It isn't Nigeria history, it is Ijaws who made him a saint and are pushing it. No one takes him in high regard. As one said in their Facebook, "Anything that destroys Igbos, Yoruba's or Hausa all major tribes," would be a pride to Ijaws and you wonder how this people would govern the people under them if they have their own country.

They are celebrating the same Sani Abacha who killed Saro Wiwa in their groups, just because Bayelsa State where they get the opportunity to lord over other minorities was created by Abacha and I'm sure that they are also happy that Wiwa who had become a torn to the flesh of Ijaw hegemony and nepotism in the old Rivers State was finally out of the way.

That's how these people reason.
Including them in Biafra was the chief reason I gave up on IPOB and MNK.
Because it shows lack of attention to details and history, and such mistake display lack of capacity and preparedness.

This topic remains relevant.

Parachoko:
I don't have the time to read your wailings.

If you want to cry because of Ijaws and Adaka Boro, that is your headache. You are an Ibo man, I do not owe you any explanation about an Ijaw man.

Adaka Boro is not just an Ijaw Hero, he is a Hero of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

That's why federal institutions are named after him.

Nothing will change that.

He will be celebrated as usual next month.

You don't get it.
No one cares about who you choose to celebrate.
After all, Abacha is also an Ijaw hero.
Our own duty here is to point out the atrocities of Ijaw so called heroes.

Parachoko:
Outsiders can't tell us who our Hero is

If you like, write a one million page article, nah you sabi.

Person from far away place no fit tell Ijaws who is a Villian and who is a Hero.

You are not entitled to your own facts, even if you have right to choose whoever you want as a hero.
You have not provided any facts to counter the argument backed by facts raised against Boro here.

Ijaw nation have a knack for calling charlatans their heroes.
Harold and Boro called Balewa and the North the saviors of Ijawland.
Currently I just read a thread on Ijaw Facebook, where Sani Abacha is being hailed as Ijaw hero by Ijaws.

DLionheir:
You are right. History seems to label him a saint and freedom fighter. But most communities in present Rivers and Bayelsa where he carried out his brutal killings will disagree.

Boro used his lies that Igbos were marginalizing oil communities in the Niger-Delta to implement northern agenda in the eastern region. When late Sadauna said he'll drop the koran in the atlantic ocean, he was being metaphorical. He meant he had stooges in the persons of Boro and Biriye.

https://www.nairaland.com/6612331/ijaw-nationalism-boro-biriye-biafra

True.
When in truth, crude oil has not even started yielding revenue for Eastern region at this period in history, and crude oil were already being explored at Igboland as well in Afam ukwu and Owaza!