₦airaland Forum

waternogetenemy: Dat is y we keep telling dem to respect authority. Dey just don't listen, see the mess Soludo and his big mouth got him into. Ekwesili is another one but, She get luck say she is not interested in politics for now.


Soludo should return to his party(pdp) for settlement and return for the APGA primaries. He should embrace GEJ and get cracking becos they have alot of work to do.

danniekute: P D P..POWER!!! IGWEBIKE,UGOMBA 1 OF IGBOLAND.CHIEF DR.ANDY UBAH. ANAMBRARIANS SUPPORT HIM AND U WILL BE GLAD U DID.

waternogetenemy: How can u say Nigeria didn't have a better choice? Nigeria always have a choice. If my memory serves me right, Buhari was a choice dat was rejected.

The problem is mixing sentiment with Politics like i see hear on nairaland. As for wat Anambra needs u and i can't determine dat here on nairaland. That is for teh electorate in a democrat dispensation.

The waqy Ngige was given automatic ticket in APC is in itself equally as undemocratic as the disqualification of Soludo.

Why is ezemo making trouble in APC IF NOT?

funshint: I really feel 'ur pain but who told U̶̲̥̅̊ GEJ was voted in because he was a technocrat?? GEJ was voted because Nigerians didn't hv a better choice. Definitely not Buhari because even APC won't field him in 2015. Ngige is a trained medical doctor, a man with a lot of sense and charisma. He's what Anambra needs... and he'll definitely perform when he gets there by God's grace!!

Dis Guy: why didnt you vote for utomi before?

theoctopus: The good thing now is that this your demand will soon be going solely to the new power sector owners. Happy days ahead!

emiye: He is very right, it is different ball game in the legislative arm , much worse if you are in the opposition

he has only spent two years.

I see you talk about Abike Dabiri, her freedom of information bill failed to scale througgh in her second term of 4 yrars, she spent roughly 7 years to see that bill scale through.

I also think a greater role is the oversight functions of his committee.

Do not also forget he has co-sponsored a bill with some group of senators, the grouse is that he has not single handedly sponsored a bill

djfaithy: well if you understand politics,democracy and the job of each tier of government then you wouldn't have make this kinda comment, meanwhile he can only do little as a senator,HOR or even as a minister,the best way he can impact lives in his state,is by becoming an executive governor,so if voted in and fail to perform then u can say whatever you like, I guess it time you all put sentiment aside about this apc/yoruba/hausa fulani stuffs, ngige is not a kinda man that anyone on earth can control and being a man that would want to remain in power for 8 years, I'm dead sure his first four years will be a blessing to the people of anambra,cuz among all the candidate aspiring for the post,he's the closest to the masses,he knows what your original problems are,just some thought,I'm not an ibo man,but a lover of good things and a big fan of ONE NIGERIA

tonychristopher: Same Awolowo that commuted and comited suicide out of desolation and frustrated

Jomark: ANPP dat he joined nko? Or was he pardoned again? Lol.. Be wise and shut ur trap...the only man that's worthy of my vote is Ngige..shikina...if him lyk make him join calabar party i no care cus no b calabar go com rule wen him wim

REHOZIBAH: Brotherly you obviously have believed the lies told by Ngige's opponents about his performance @ the senate

Being a senator or HOR member is a very difficult job and it involves more than sponsoring bills. Infact if you author or sponsor a bill,the process of getting it listed is akin to doing Cambridge GCE cos you need @ least 1/3 member to sign off on it for it to be read on the floor of the house

If you don't lobby very well, the bill might be thrown out. A bill must satisfy the yearnings of all part of the country and not yr ethnic group alone else it will not fly with other segment of the nation. After that if it passes the first reading, a correction might be forced on yr bill hence you lose the original intentions for it to scale the 2nd reading after which the public might even be asked to make input and all that before it now could go for 3rd and final reading which if successful becomes an act of senate then it requires presidential assent to become a law. In all of these, years may pass by. Infact we have seen several instances starting frm OBJ up till GEJ in which the president will refuse to assent a bill,deliberately allowing it to go stale which after a while the bill dies and then you will have to start de novo(afresh)

But there is nothing like executive powers wherein u have yr plan as to how many road u want 2 construct,skools u want to build,salaries 2 pay n all that...you have the federal allocation coming at every month whether you and the president are not in the same party or not....so you can do so much with executive power unlike as a legislature wherein you are only entitled to 1 or 2 constituency projects which you don't do yourself but if lobbied very well might be inserted in the appropriation act/budget but the president can decide not to fund it claiming there is no money or to spite you if you are not in his party

So we must understand the true picture of things before we condemn people

millionaireman: An Igbo, Chief Alex Ekwueme, led the G34 group that was the nucleus of PDP atop which OBJ eventually rode to apex power in 1999.
But before I continue to reply you, are you a political novice in Nigeria?

There was a very very small number of Yoruba people in the PDP in 1999 when the rest of Nigeria had to choose between Olusegun Obasanjo (PDP) and Olu Falae of the other coalition of parties for presidency that year.

The Yoruba did not have to beg any group to make OBJ president. Nigerians made OBJ president with the belief that power sharing among Nigeria's constituent blocks was (and still remains) the only way to have peace and stability in the country.
The alternative is confederation - or endless conflict waiting for the day oil revenues stop coming.

Igbos, Yorubas, Hausa/Fulani, Tivs, Ijaws, Bini, etc., supported and voted for Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, not only Igbos.
Today, there are also Igbos, Yorubas, Hausa/Fulani, Tiv, Ijaw, Bini, etc., who are supporting President GEJ for a second term, not only Igbos.

For your information, GEJ is not Igbo, he is of Ijaw ethnic group in the southsouth, the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria.

ngozievergreen: Chukwuma kaduna Nzeogwu was an igbo man, from midwest. Whats ur problem?

If u exclude tribalism/ethnicity from the civil war and its antecedents, then u are on ur own and on a very long thing.
Even within Enugu state, an Nkanu man might not understand a Nsukka man,so wats all ur point abt owerri not understanding an onitsha? U dont even know how to make analogies..
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Lastly, who exactly are ojukwu's enemies? Werent there the non-biafrans ? That event was called an igbo coup in all literature, it aint my coinage

Billyonaire: Boko Haram killed igbos, now Ngige and Okorocha are bringing Muslim Brotherhood to East. HOW CAN WE FORGET SO SOON?

Bensonn: you will bet your life? Hmmmmn i think you may die of useless bet soon, and i think 'bookies' will like you so much, because you will bet a huge fortune for sometin you are not sure and whap!!! You will lose, didnt you hear that ojukwu joined NPN(shagari party) in 1983 and contested with onwudiwe's NPP(Zik's party) and was defeated by NPP?......didnt you remember that Ojukwu was a BOT member of ANPP(a die-in-wool hausa party) and only left Anpp for APGA a party formed be chekwas okorie for his presidential ambition in 2003? Please and please do not bet on things you are not so sure of, perhaps you are not serious about betting your life...... SMH Ojukwu is my kinsman.

shejane: In any way u look at it, Apga is now a branch of Pdp nd dis Pdp has bully dis co3 4 so long, I love change, let's try oda party mayb den we can now compare, u nev kw until u giv it a try. Dis co3 is nt one nd can nev be one, all igbos leaders ar selfish set of pple, wot peter obi wats 4m jona is 4 him 2 make him a minister aft his tenure as gov. Jus his own pocket nd we ar here fighting each oda ova dem. Wake up

REHOZIBAH: So Ngige,Rochas,Annie Okonkwo,Osita Izunaso are traitors compared with Peter Obi/Victor Umeh/Bianca Ojukwu

If by now you can't dispassionately locate those who should be adequately blamed by Ndigbos for the perennial ways of playing politics of Belly first by mortaging the need to have the best and finest of Ndigbos politically and passively competing with the rest of the country hence attracting real development in the process then too bad!

Have you wondered how it would look when Soludo(even if he is not in APC) is speaking in his oratorial majesty alongside Fashola or Rochas marshalling arguments with Rauf Aregbesola both of who are visionaries,or a Dora Akunyili articulating policy statements or even an Oby Ezekwesili innudating the senate with her World Bank Development Economics experience?? but your present leaders don't want that to happen NOT because they love you more but because they hate independent,clear-headed and brilliant thinkers

That is why they continue to be led by 4th tier leaders who though are stupendously rich but are deficit in legacy-seeking mannerism

REHOZIBAH: I hope Ndigbos don't get stucked in the mud of inaction with this dilly-dallying owing to politics of Ph.D(Pull Him Down).....this mindset of making people scapegoats due to ethnocentric mannerisms will do u a great harm.

Now you people are stucked as to what to do going forward about Anambra....GEJ has shot down your Soludo,Peter Obi/Victor Umeh/Bianca Onoh have emerged to be solely pursing their selfish and stomach interests alone,Andy Uba is known to be permanently tied to the apron-strings of OBJ and was a known captain of the illegal 3rd Term bid and circumventing Alex Ekwueme's Presidential ambition.

Ngige on the other hand is a bridge-builder and an independent fighter who would not hesitate to call out any attempt to lord things over him by any Godfather yet he distinguished himself earlier in the midst of the massive persecution against him when he was governor

Ndi Anambra every politics is local....Vote massively for Onwa and if the need arises to vote GEJ based on what you think he has done,then do so....each election is mutually exclusive of each other

I know y'all have a emotional attachment to APGA but with the current turn of events amongst its promoters,can u trust the party

Donchyke39: http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/19873-ojukwu-would-have-been-the-first-to-join-apc-okorocha.html

hillsate: It is a very big shame that this is what we celebrate as advancement.
Having an international airport that is only used for brain drain is not what we need now.

The only way Jonathan can prove to nigerians that he means to achieve anything is when he addresses POWER. Every other thing else is what any average president can achieve.

0monnak0da: Most Ibos in Lagos Like Most Ibos in Nigeria and Like Most other Nigerians do not OWN homes ANYWHERE.
Very few Nigerians own homes. SO there is no need to deceive ourselves.
Spare us the chest beating. There are hundreds of Ibos in rural Epe,Ikorodu and Badagry growing ugwu and planting cassava. They are hardworking and decent BUT they do NOT own any homes anywhere.They are poor like MOST Nigerians. Nothing special about Ibos . They sell Gala,pure water LaCasera,ride okada and do "conductor" just like other Nigerians

ngozievergreen: are there not igbo indienes of delta? What are u smoking?

If he were not igbo, y was it labelled an igbo coup? Moreover,
The name chukwuma nzeogwu does it sound yoruba to u. Kaduna was a name given to him in d north cos he was born there.

If u dont know these simple tnz, what else do u know?

0monnak0da: Many are there because their land is unbearable . Some are Osus who can become anonymous in Leh -gus and escape Osu discrimination but the bottomline is Ibos do not like to be at home.Can you live in Iboeland

Asoozy: Aww... How very magnanimous of Nzeogwu, so much so that he killed Yoruba leaders too. I suppose he was trying to save us from ourselves too.

How interesting that he felt that he had to kill us to save us. A very kind man he was.

ngozievergreen: am sure of 1966.
When the northerners were at a cold war with the south. When the north saw d south as conquered territories, yorubas were the most vulnerable, were used by northerners as scum bags.
They wanted to continue conquering and assimilating yorubaland to d north beyond kwara. That was d wish of Ahmadu Bello.

And chukwuma kaduna nzeogwu decided to fight d northern leaders for dem. While he left d southern assignment to his aides.