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CrimeRe: 3year old girl who was abducted in Lagos, has been found in Ogun by illiad: 8:24am On Apr 21, 2015
Some tribe good for rituals die. I no call una name o before una go dey attack una papa.

All those gbomo gbomo no dey finish for one particular region. As all of una see I no mention anybody papa land o.
CelebritiesRe: South African Fan Threatens John Dumelo On Instagram by illiad:
South Africans and some others like them in nigeria (like HausaFulanis who seize upon any excuse to kill their fellow countrymen) are reasons why Africa might forever remain primitive.
PoliticsRe: Bomb Blast Rocks Postikum, Islamic School by illiad: 7:41am On Apr 21, 2015
abduljabbar4:
Ok! Come and punish us. Online noise makers. I don't care about what a christian sees me as. I only care about doing what brought me to this world and being respected by the community and my fellow muslims.

Case closed.
That's what I am saying. The terror attitude is inherent. So stop blaming people who say you're all terrorists.
RomanceRe: Guys Only!! What Do You Think Will Happen? Ladys Dnt Enter by illiad: 6:10am On Apr 21, 2015
sweetjenny305:
Why won't I like una thing?
Your pic self is over tempting. I already did the geography of your thing from here. Your guy dey enjoy.
CultureRe: Pictures Of Nigeria's Good Old Days by illiad: 5:58am On Apr 21, 2015
nnamokenna:
Stella pomade was very very good initially until the fake/imitation that smelled like kerosene, flooded the market. That was when my mum stopped buying it. But ehn, the thing no dey finish.
Lol
Finish ke, no way. Make una reach 12 for house na six months e go take finish.
PoliticsRe: Suleiman Hashiemu Arrives APC Secretariat by illiad: 2:37am On Apr 21, 2015
If we are to be honest then there is no sense in this. What is there to celebrate? What has buhari done that he is celebrating? What would then happen when buhari does achieve something. Buhari has won the presidential election, that's true but has he done anything for nigerians worthy of abacha's One million man match? Or any sort of celebrations for that matter? NO!

This is sheer senselessness.

Don't quote me if you're a party supporter. Because you have no more sense to reason with. But feel free to quote me if you're a non partisan concerned nigerian. Let's reason this without party or personality prejudice.
PoliticsRe: MASSOB Urges UN To Recognise State Of Biafra by illiad: 2:17am On Apr 21, 2015
CHM11:
Now you have shown that you are a crackhead.

Ask any Rivers man, or Delta man or anywhere you want to call if he/she is IGBO!!...if they tell you 'NO' then shut up and run back to your south eastern states.

Una dey find oil!..hehehehehehehe...make do with the wells in imo!!..

Niger Deltans please see oh

We have not even joined them they are already referring to Niger Delta Land in Rivers state as Igbo Land!!!....

Lagoon is small.........Na inside creek for delta and Bayelsa and Atlantic Ocean en-route bonny island we go throw all of una put!!!...
[quote author=CHM11 post=32934291

I took my time going through your vituperations and found nothing but bitterness. I have no idea why you're bitter. It could be anything. But whatever it is, I advise you channel the bitterness into something productive.

Being bitter about Igbos will rather kill than save you. I once harbored an urhobo friend for years and I can say he wasn't like you.

Now on the issue of Biafra I tried to find and see how it really concerned or affected you but I could not make that connection. Because no matter how Biafra boundaries went it will never include the urhobo tribe. So why are you bitter?

There are Igbos outside the five south eastern states. And when the time comes for boundary demarcation these people will decide their own fate. It is none of our business wherever they choose to be. In fact, we Ndigbo don't really care about how big or small or country will eventual be. All that we desire is a country that we can proudly call our own. And that is BIAFRA.

The people of south Sudan separated and went away from the main Sudan. And shortly after they started fighting but I can tell you that they yet prefer that very south Sudan they're fighting than going back to the bigger Sudan. Having your own country is like have your own house. There's nothing compared to the freedom and progress that come with being on your own.

On the other hand too I think I could almost feel where your bitterness is coming from. It is either because you have a feeling that your urhobo tribe will always be subject to a superior tribe for eternity. And thus you would rather that we all stay together than we leaving and leaving your people at the mercy of the bigger tribes. Another reason could also be of course that you so love the Igbo tribe and would not want them to go, but rather than come openly to plead with them to stay and jettison their Biafra dream, you decided to throw vitriolic tripe at us. Or lastly you could just be one of those fellows who could not stomach the ingenuity of the Igbo man, and are simply bitter to death.

Having said that, I hope you would learn a thing or two.

As for me, I want to thank God who made me Igbo. And should there be another life I pray he make me even more Igbo. That alone has always been my source of joy and a radiating confidence.
PoliticsRe: MASSOB Urges UN To Recognise State Of Biafra by illiad: 2:12am On Apr 21, 2015
CHM11:
Phillip Effiong, Kaduna nzeogwu etc etc all made their mistakes which cost nzeogwu his life and Phillip effiong his pride as he apologised to gowon when Ojukwu ran away to wherever he ran to after the war.

There is no 'igbo' in my state Delta state. We have ukwanis and some delta ibos who will never agree to be called 'IGBOS'...
The ikwerres don't call themselves igbos

Biafra is a good dream for the igbos, push for it without the Niger Delta. As the Name implies BIAFRA- it also sounds igbotic!...

God bless your country when you have it.
[quote author=CHM11 post=32934291

I took my time going through your vituperations and found nothing but bitterness. I have no idea why you're bitter. It could be anything. But whatever it is, I advise you channel the bitterness into something productive.

Being bitter about Igbos will rather kill than save you. I once harbored an urhobo friend for years and I can say he wasn't like you.

Now on the issue of Biafra I tried to find and see how it really concerned or affected you but I could not make that connection. Because no matter how Biafra boundaries went it will never include the urhobo tribe. So why are you bitter?

There are Igbos outside the five south eastern states. And when the time comes for boundary demarcation these people will decide their own fate. It is none of our business wherever they choose to be. In fact, we Ndigbo don't really care about how big or small or country will eventual be. All that we desire is a country that we can proudly call our own. And that is BIAFRA.

The people of south Sudan separated and went away from the main Sudan. And shortly after they started fighting but I can tell you that they yet prefer that very south Sudan they're fighting than going back to the bigger Sudan. Having your own country is like have your own house. There's nothing compared to the freedom and progress that come with being on your own.

On the other hand too I think I could almost feel where your bitterness is coming from. It is either because you have a feeling that your urhobo tribe will always be subject to a superior tribe for eternity. And thus you would rather that we all stay together than we leaving and leaving your people at the mercy of the bigger tribes. Another reason could also be of course that you so love the Igbo tribe and would not want them to go, but rather than come openly to plead with them to stay and jettison their Biafra dream, you decided to throw vitriolic tripe at us. Or lastly you could just be one of those fellows who could not stomach the ingenuity of the Igbo man, and are simply bitter to death.

Having said that, I hope you would learn a thing or two.

As for me, I want to thank God who made me Igbo. And should there be another life I pray he make me even more Igbo. That alone has always been my source of joy and a radiating confidence.
PoliticsRe: MASSOB Urges UN To Recognise State Of Biafra by illiad: 2:09am On Apr 21, 2015
CHM11:
.
I took my time going through your vituperations and found nothing but bitterness. I have no idea why you're bitter. It could be anything. But whatever it is, I advise you channel the bitterness into something productive.

Being bitter about Igbos will rather kill than save you. I once harbored an urhobo friend for years and I can say he wasn't like you.

Now on the issue of Biafra I tried to find and see how it really concerned or affected you but I could not make that connection. Because no matter how Biafra boundaries went it will never include the urhobo tribe. So why are you bitter?

There are Igbos outside the five south eastern states. And when the time comes for boundary demarcation these people will decide their own fate. It is none of our business wherever they choose to be. In fact, we Ndigbo don't really care about how big or small or country will eventual be. All that we desire is a country that we can proudly call our own. And that is BIAFRA.

The people of south Sudan separated and went away from the main Sudan. And shortly after they started fighting but I can tell you that they yet prefer that very south Sudan they're fighting than going back to the bigger Sudan. Having your own country is like have your own house. There's nothing compared to the freedom and progress that come with being on your own.

On the other hand too I think I could almost feel where your bitterness is coming from. It is either because you have a feeling that your urhobo tribe will always be subject to a superior tribe for eternity. And thus you would rather that we all stay together than we leaving and leaving your people at the mercy of the bigger tribes. Another reason could also be of course that you so love the Igbo tribe and would not want them to go, but rather than come openly to plead with them to stay and jettison their Biafra dream, you decided to throw vitriolic tripe at us. Or lastly you could just be one of those fellows who could not stomach the ingenuity of the Igbo man, and are simply bitter to death.

Having said that, I hope you would learn a thing or two.

As for me, I want to thank God who made me Igbo. And should there be another life I pray he make me even more Igbo. That alone has always been my source of joy and a radiating confidence.
PoliticsRe: MASSOB Urges UN To Recognise State Of Biafra by illiad:
[quote author=CHM11 post=32934291

I took my time going through your vituperations and found nothing but bitterness. I have no idea why you're bitter. It could be anything. But whatever it is, I advise you channel the bitterness into something productive.

Being bitter about Igbos will rather kill than save you. I once harbored an urhobo friend for years and I can say he wasn't like you.

Now on the issue of Biafra I tried to find and see how it really concerned or affected you but I could not make that connection. Because no matter how Biafra boundaries went it will never include the urhobo tribe. So why are you bitter?

There are Igbos outside the five south eastern states. And when the time comes for boundary demarcation these people will decide their own fate. It is none of our business wherever they choose to be. In fact, we Ndigbo don't really care about how big or small or country will eventual be. All that we desire is a country that we can proudly call our own. And that is BIAFRA.

The people of south Sudan separated and went away from the main Sudan. And shortly after they started fighting but I can tell you that they yet prefer that very south Sudan they're fighting than going back to the bigger Sudan. Having your own country is like have your own house. There's nothing compared to the freedom and progress that come with being on your own.

On the other hand too I think I could almost feel where your bitterness is coming from. It is either because you have a feeling that your urhobo tribe will always be subject to a superior tribe for eternity. And thus you would rather that we all stay together than we leaving and leaving your people at the mercy of the bigger tribes. Another reason could also be of course that you so love the Igbo tribe and would not want them to go, but rather than come openly to plead with them to stay and jettison their Biafra dream, you decided to throw vitriolic tripe at us. Or lastly you could just be one of those fellows who could not stomach the ingenuity of the Igbo man, and are simply bitter to death.

Having said that, I hope you would learn a thing or two.

As for me, I want to thank God who made me Igbo. And should there be another life I pray he make me even more Igbo. That alone has always been my source of joy and a radiating confidence.
PoliticsRe: Bomb Blast Rocks Postikum, Islamic School by illiad: 12:12am On Apr 21, 2015
abduljabbar4:
I have said my own. No bastard can look at me in the eye and insult my religion. Imagine somebody like you that nobody respects on nairaland trying to tell me what is right and what is wrong
You're a qualified terrorist. That's the exact attitude needed to blow up people. So stop wondering why people believe that half the Muslim population are terrorists covertly overtly or prospective.
PoliticsRe: Bomb Blast Rocks Postikum, Islamic School by illiad: 11:26pm On Apr 20, 2015
abduljabbar4:
Listen, YOU ARE COWARDS cos you cannot insult muslims the way you are doing on the internet. On the other side, whether I'm an educated muslim or an illiterate the fact is we both worship Allah whom you are insulting. Even the illiterates know that those terrorists are not practising Islam in anyway. Prophet Muhammad is the last prophet and after him nobody gets a message from Allah but how many times has Shekau been claiming to speak with Allah?
Lack of tolerance is what is killing Islam. You're already sparing for war and calling another man coward because he expressed his opinion. That's exactly what's killing Islam.

If you have to be the one to fight for your 'God' then your god is simply useless, and a creation of man. But if on the other hand your God is the maker of heaven and earth, the beginning and the end, the Almighty, then who the Bleep are you to fight for God?
PoliticsRe: Bomb Blast Rocks Postikum, Islamic School by illiad: 11:07pm On Apr 20, 2015
holatin:
I will deactivate my account any day you make senses, CU's this writeup is a post by a clueless,indiscreet, pointless,dumb and silly kid with a bigotry mind.

less I I forget MAYBE THE QURAN ALSO TOLD US TO BOMB OUR MOSQUE OR TRAINING CENTERS TOO.

your post makes me puke, am out of this thread
But the truth of the matter is that muslims are bombing everyone and everything around the world.

So I guess there has to be something inherently wrong with either the religion or the people practicing it or both.
PoliticsRe: Seven Killed, Scores Missing As Gunmen Attack Villages In Taraba by illiad: 10:52pm On Apr 20, 2015
When I pointed out the other day that HausaFulanis are worst Animals than the AmaZulu. A lot of the animals from that animal kingdom came attacking me but that did not even pain me what pained was for some miserable yorubas to come and be attacking me on behalf of their slavemasters.

I hate all those who take life but I hate those who turned blind eye too.
PoliticsRe: Chukwumerije, A Man Of Noble Values – Buhari by illiad(op): 9:38pm On Apr 20, 2015
ShowYourCertificate:
Yea. Chukwumerije is now a progressive in his dictionary. Jonathan is now a hero in his dictionary. The decision of FG not to evacuate Nigerians yet from South Africa is now a commendable action in his dictionary grin
The thing is that when a man is not in power he sees government activities from the perspective of a football spectator. But the moment he is in power or about to like in the case of buhari he begins to see government actions from the perspective of a player in the field of football.

You know to the football spectator every ball near the goal is supposed to be a goal but of course the players themselves know its always a fifty fifty chance.
PoliticsRe: Chukwumerije, A Man Of Noble Values – Buhari by illiad(op): 9:29pm On Apr 20, 2015
Dannyset:
The rate at which some people on here will commit suicide on Buhari matter enh, no be here ooo! Just wondering how they would live in this coven of hate for more than 4 years.
For some of you suffering from pathological paranoia, anything anyone says that's not praise singing buhari is translated to hate.

That's really pathetic.
RomanceRe: Why Do Girls Carry Big Handbags.....?????? by illiad: 9:23pm On Apr 20, 2015
The bigger their bag the bigger their problem baggage.
PoliticsRe: Chukwumerije, A Man Of Noble Values – Buhari by illiad(op): 7:41pm On Apr 20, 2015
ShowYourCertificate:
Buhari is now sounding like the PDP grin
Like he'd updated his vocabularies?
PoliticsChukwumerije, A Man Of Noble Values – Buhari by illiad(op): 7:27pm On Apr 20, 2015
Chukwumerije, a man of noble values – Buhari

President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari has described the death of Senator Uche Chukwumerije as a diminishing blow to the generation of true progressives in Nigeria and the African continent.

General Buhari in a condolence message stated that eulogised Senator Chukwumerije was a Pan-African par excellence.
Chukwumerije , until his death. The Senate Committee Chairman on Education died on Sunday

Bemoaning the demise of the lawmaker , the President-elect said “As a man of my own generation, I observed the progressive political activities of Uche Chukwumerije and admired the Pan- African interests and national patriotic zeal which dominated and dictated major part of his actions and pursuits”.

He recalled that in the Second Republic, Chukwumerije’s parted ways with the ethnic and regional politics of that era to identify with Mallam Aminu Kano, the leader of the masses (Talakawas) and this “marked him out as a worker for national unity and a man of noble values.”

“As a media practitioner, Chukwumerije was a professional who did his job with passion and conviction in all positions he held. I was not surprised he was a leading voice in the Senate for twelve years, where he had been serving the Federal Republic till death came calling.”

The President-elect noted that Comrade Chukwumerije, as he was fondly called by admirers, lived an active life and never sat on the fence on any national issues.

“Senator Chukwumerije has played an exceptional role in the business of legislation in the country and we will all dearly miss him as an outstanding politician and an elder statesman.
“I sincerely condole with his family and friends, especially his constituents in Abia North senatorial district, the people of Abia State and members of the National Assembly,” Buhari said.
Source:
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=115510

PoliticsRe: Starving Rivers Pensioners Cry Out To Amaechi To Pay Their 3 Month Arrears by illiad: 7:03pm On Apr 20, 2015
Lol
Amaechi don use am sponsor apc finish
CultureRe: Pictures Of Nigeria's Good Old Days by illiad: 3:34pm On Apr 20, 2015
Redman44:
Nice thread. Please let's add our own pictures of buildings, products or people that bring us memories of when we were growing up. I have the pictures pf JET Cream and Stella Pomade. Did you use these two body enhancement products? Stella Pomade had a nice aroma cool cool cool. Lovely body cream. JET was good too and I used it in secondary school. What do you think?
Lol
Those kerosene creams. I used Jet in primary school then. All your body would be shining like roasted chicken after rubbing them.
PoliticsRe: Gov Kwankwaso Cautions APC Over Zoning Policy by illiad: 3:24pm On Apr 20, 2015
Naughtysite:
This your English..
Lol!
The guy wanted to sound intellectual, but he forgot to ask google how to put the words they gave him together.
PoliticsRe: Gov Kwankwaso Cautions APC Over Zoning Policy by illiad:
Apc tink say na beans to be ruling party. Na now una go see say its much more easier to be in the opposition and criticize everything the ruling part does.
PoliticsRe: TINUBU Hijacks NASS Positions; Oyegun, Others Kick- The Capital.ng by illiad: 2:04pm On Apr 20, 2015
Some people would be surprised at how tinubu would be sidelined by northerners. Una never see anything
RomanceRe: Guys Only!! What Do You Think Will Happen? Ladys Dnt Enter by illiad: 1:59pm On Apr 20, 2015
sweetjenny305:
Lwkmd
Next time read signs before you enter the post says Guys Only. Looks like you like our thing too much?
PoliticsRe: Xenophobia: Nigeria Gives South Africa 24hours Ultimatum. Threatens Action by illiad: 1:47pm On Apr 20, 2015
We can deal with them if we all agree
PoliticsRe: Who Will Swear In Nyesom Wike? by illiad: 1:46pm On Apr 20, 2015
Don't you worry. He will be sworn ill just as Ambode would be and all the other governor elect. As rivers state is is how nigeria would be should apc behave like amaechi
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Agenda In Buhari's Administration, By Prof. ABC Nwosu by illiad(op): 1:35pm On Apr 20, 2015
otemanuduno:
Sermon!!! Yawns and leave thread*
Please go and modify your quote. You don't have to quote the whole interview. Learn to be mobile
PoliticsThe Igbo Agenda In Buhari's Administration, By Prof. ABC Nwosu by illiad(op): 1:08pm On Apr 20, 2015
The Igbo agenda in Buhari administration, by Pro. ABC Nwosu

on April 19, 2015 at 12:29 am in Politics
By Olalekan Bilesanmi

Prof. ABC Nwosu  was Political Adviser to the President and later Minister of Health under the Obasanjo administration. In this interview, Nwosu speaks on the just concluded general elections, the performance of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the polls and the fate of the Igbo under the incoming administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).


Prof ABC Nwosu

You were strategic in the mobilization for your party, the PDP. With the way the elections went, what would you pin-point as the most singular reason why your party lost the elections?

The election is being analysed by a core central PDP group – those who are committed to PDP. I look back to the advertisement in 1998 in the national dailies that announced the coming into being of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. And I saw my name there, and I saw the names of these other people there too. We are the core PDP. We have been there all through and we are still there; we will never leave.

There are three things that are coming to us.

 

Three things coming to you like what?

The PDP made many mistakes that could have been avoided. But, these mistakes have been there from day one in 1998. And the main mistake was that of lack of transparent primaries and internal democracy.

The second being lack of designing of effective mode of funding of the party that would guarantee internal democracy – the will of the people.

The third and, perhaps, the most important is that the PDP was a party created with a soul – the manifesto.

 

These three things may make sense if, particularly, the last one had been adhered to fully?

Many of the people who flooded  the party because the party was a winning party and the party was even more intent on becoming a mega party, came in and didn’t even know the manifesto. The manifesto had in it key things like equity which was what made it possible to push for power-shift. It was that equity that said you must have democratic dividends, that is, the people must have something in return for their support of the party through good governance.

Key people in developing this soul left, or were chased out, or were frustrated. Some, like Chief S.B Awoniyi,  Dr. Chuba Okadigbo are dead. Some have left the party. You can see that some former chairmen have even left the party for APC.

So, this is the analysis we are now looking at. As Chinua Achebe wrote, and I quote: “to know from where the water started to enter the pumpkin”, so that we can then come to rebuild.

The analysis is with an intention to rebuild and rebound because a strong PDP, a rebounding PDP, an opposition PDP, is good for Nigeria.

 

How does the party hope to engage that transition of a ruling behemoth to an opposition party?

I come from a town that has produced most of the transporters in Nigeria. In my family alone, we have Ekene Dili Chukwu, Izu Chukwu, Chidi Ebere. And they write on their vehicles: “The down fall of a man is not the end of his life”.

It is good in the recovery of the soul of PDP.

There is also the saying that it is not falling that is the problem, it is getting up each time you fall. And there is a firm resolve in many of us who formed the PDP, not for the Jollof- rice that we want to eat, but to give Nigeria a platform that should guarantee good governance and democracy dividends for the governed.

Many of us are still there, from across the country.

And we are determined, resolved that we would not be found leaving the PDP and that we would rebuild. This, many of us felt, many years back, five to six years back, when we formed the PDP Reform Group.

I was key note speaker at the summit of the group.

We got suspended and expelled from the party.

And then the president ordered that we be recalled.

Many of us are there.

Two have become governors on the platform of the APC.

Those ones I respect because they found something wrong with the PDP.

Those people who are in PDP today, if APC wins it tomorrow, they jump at it. Labour party wins it the next day, they follow immediately. Those, for us, are good riddance.

 

There is something that some of us felt and still feel, regarding the PVC and the Card Reader. From the way the PVCs were distributed and the way the voter register was remoulded, it appears as if there was a deliberate attempt to ensure a preponderance of voters in the north than the south. A zone like North West, without rejudice to its seven states in the desert, has 17.5m voting population which far outstrips what you have in the South-South and South- East combined, and, yet, looking at population distribution across the world, coastal areas are always more populated than desert land. Would you say something was wrong with the way INEC went about it all.

I said in my last outing concerning Professor Jega and it was clear.

I didn’t join those congratulating Jega.

I was clear that Jega did a botched job.

And that if the elections were held when he proposed that he was ready, it would have been a disaster for this country.  For him to have claimed that he was ready when he knew, between him and his God that he was not, he would have plunged this country into a crisis of unimaginable proportions.

But you know what?

 

What?

The elections have come and gone.

General Buhari has received a general mandate.

I am in complete support of the post election behaviour of President Goodluck Jonathan.

I think Nigeria has had peace and there is nothing like post election violence anymore.

In my life, I have never been involved in nit-picking. If I were to be involved in knit-picking, it is intriguing that the old Eastern Nigeria did not vote.

How do you mean?

They didn’t vote for the president elect.

They completely excluded themselves from the mandate.

If I were involved in knit-picking, I would wonder how it was that PDP people are accepting defeat and congratulating the APC winners and say let us go on with governance.

But funny enough and to tell Nigerian the type of mentality of the APC leaders, any where PDP won, the APC is always showing itself as terrible losers.

The margin of votes in Rivers State didn’t near that of Kano, or Kaduna or Katsina, and yet, the Vice President in Kaduna, said congratulations.

But the people in Akwa Ibom, Anambra, are complaining.

I would urge everybody to stop the politicking, it is over.

The electioneering is over.

General Buhari has received a mandate that enables him to form a government.

He does not need a government of National Unity.

 

But President Jonathan was a major proponent of a Government of National Unity?

Anybody who jumps into the Buhari administration from PDP for a ministerial or any appointment is a cheap opportunistic politician.

Buhari should just go ahead and form his government that would deliver good governance.

And it is the duty of every Nigerian to hold back, get back to his inner self and his party and see how we can support him across board.

If the President-elect Buhari introduces any policy that is good for Nigeria, he should be supported, across party line, that is the way we can progress.

And speaking of that, what can make Nigeria progress are those decisions reached at the National Conference.

 

What are those?

True and fiscal federalism, special funds for development of our mineral resources, sovereign wealth fund.

Not every time you go at the end of the month to share the crude oil money until it is a zero sum account.

These, I think, are the things we should start telling the president-elect that will be good for Nigeria.

And if he introduces those policies including even a new constitution that is good for Nigeria that guarantees equity, development, there is no reason why we should not support him for the benefit of all Nigerians.

 

On the issue of government of national unity, this syndrome of winners take all has its own demerits?

President Jonathan has already said it all. You form a government of national unity only when you don’t have a strong mandate like Shagari in 1979.

You saw the situation when Shagari won and the 12 2/3 that required a government of national unity. It was good for Nigeria.

But you also saw quickly how the NPP-NPN accord broke down.

That was the only civilian regime we had. When President Obasanjo came as a civilian, it was not a mandate as clear as this. We were just coming out of military rule.

But I think the government of national unity contributed to our problems in the PDP as a party.

Really!  How?

In the process of that, key persons were from AD and I think the intention was also to diminish the opposition.

That was not good for Nigeria.

With benefit of hindsight, it also led to bloating up of the Federal Executive Council, FEC.

The constitution says 36 ministers, one from each state, so, whether you vote for him or not, you are already having government of national unity.

But then we went ahead and started taking ministers from zones, so instead of having 36, we had 42. That increased the cost of governance enormously; and it created a behemoth called the PDP which in time had to implode. And it has imploded.

A new reformed PDP when it rebounds will be worried about things like the cost of governance.

 

You are a strong voice and a strategic one at that from the South-East.  In the context of national politics, how would you situate the Igbo  and the outcome of this elections?

Igbo intellectuals, politicians and strategic thinkers are meeting, quietly.

I am involved in some of the meetings.

There are four things that we have agreed to do.

That the Igbo vote represents, as one of us put it, Igbo fears and the Igbo hopes for Nigeria.

And everybody is now coming out united.

Therefore, there is absolutely no regret in the way the Igbo voted.

The second thing agreed upon, for want of better word, that it would be inelegant for the Igbo to be trying to jump into this bandwagon of congratulations and crossing over and seeking to say what can you give, don’t forget us, like a governor told a governor elect.

You are not important we are talking about the nation. The Igbo have made up their minds that what they want in Nigeria is good governance. They had congratulated themselves that they have lived under non Igbo presidency for this long.

Whether the president was from the North, West or South-South, the Igbo made a living and so what is there is that we just want good governance.

The third point is that the constitution already guarantees that the Igbo cannot be excluded because of several provisions; provision that each state must produce a minister; the second guarantee is the provision of Federal Character in everything.

So, all we want is peace and good governance that are conducive to groups actualizing their potentials.

The final one is that the Igbo have said what is really their interest in Nigeria and core interest: Is it for Nigeria to break up?  The answer is no.

Is to dominate other Nigerians?  The answer is no.

Then they have come to the realization that it is to live in peace with other Nigerians but exercising their full citizenship rights which entitles them to contest for presidency, contest elections where they live and work and contribute, because they have a basic philosophy in Igboland which is that wherever an Igbo lives is his home.

He should make it his home, contribute to its development, welfare and wellbeing.

So, all these are being aggregated and you will find that a new Igbo will emerge.

But I am telling you not to expect the Igbo to come out soon. But whenever they finish, they will come out and nobody should be afraid of them.

Their definitions and strategies are good for Nigeria but they believe that they should be given a chance to govern.

Politics and politicking are over.

The president elect should be sworn in, he should be given time to unveil his policies, he should be given time for his policies to take root. They will not interfere, impede or criticise beyond the normal. There will be nothing personal about it all. There are some fringe Igbos who are saying you should not have cast your votes in one basket. Those are the market masters in politics so that if ‘is’ does not go, ‘was’ will go. That is how we say it in Igbo. So, you cast your vote for ‘is’ or ‘was’, so that if it ‘is’, you get, if it ‘was’, you get. They don’t look at it that ‘is’ is the correct grammar and therefore, we will cast out votes. They are there in every group.


Source:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/the-igbo-agenda-in-buhari-administration-by-pro-abc-nwosu/
BusinessRe: Mtn Office Shut Down In Benin City Over South Afria's Killings (photos) by illiad: 12:01pm On Apr 20, 2015
If others will agree with me then we should all converge on shoprite and stop them from doing business for just one day. We don't have to loot like the south Africans do but just block their entrance, no going in no coming out.
Foreign AffairsRe: See What South Africans Had To Say Concerning Xenophobia by illiad: 10:22am On Apr 20, 2015
abduljabbar4:
Truth be told what took them there? After 50 years now they will say that they developed south Africa. Can't they stay in their places like others do?
The point is that you HausaFulanis are
pure animals that can't be raised to the
status of human beings except by the
yorubas who have consistently kept us
in a union with barbarians. But God is
paying you back in your own very coins.
The murderous religion that you foools
are practicing will eventually annihilate
you all.
How is your north now? Are your emirs
not been murdered in company of their
entire family? Now you animals will
have to watch your backs even in your
damned yoga class which you called
mosque. That is your reward and its
coming in hundred folds.
The Zulus like I said are a better fellow
than HausaFulanis because they kill
not their country men but those of
other countries. But you animals on the
other hand are a curse unto yourselves
and your damnation is here already.

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