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Politics / 2023 Presidency: North Has A Long Political Alliance With Igbo– Umar, ACF Leader by KillTheZombies: 10:44pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Alhaji Kabiru Umar is an ally of President Muhammadu Buhari and leader of the pro-North Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF). He has been with the president from their days in the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and currently a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview conducted by NOAH EBIJE, the businessman cum politician gave an idea of what awaits ex-military Generals opposed to Buhari’s re-election if he wins a second term in February 2019. He also said the North will rather back Igbo as Buhari’s successor in 2023 because Southeast is regarded as a natural ally of the North in the nation’s political history. You were in the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and today you are an APC chieftain. How has the transition been? I’m in APC because I believe in it. APC is an amalgamation of three parties – ANPP, CPC, ACN and part of APGA; all of these parties are now in power at the centre. I belonged to an opposition party in the past, and I’m proud to say that. So, we’re an opposition bridge that came together and chased the party in power out of governance and I think that is a feat that one can be proud of. I didn’t join PDP when it was quite thick in performing, I did not join PDP, then why should I join it now when for the period they run the country, not that they did positive things, the negative things outweigh the positive things. So what is there for one to follow? I have never been a PDP man ever since the creation of that party. I have never been in PDP and I don’t hope to be. Why do you say so? You see, I’m a Northerner and we are backward in terms of money and education and the only thing we have that we are boastful of is political power, either during the first, second or whatever republic because politics is a game of number. And then during the 1999 political activity, the military made it a point that Obasanjo must be elected and I felt I was too small to change that but I could prevent myself from following PDP because I did not support Obasanjo presidency in 1999 simply because politics is a game of number. Why should we subjugate our right simply because some few individuals made it a point that one of them must be the president because of their personal arrangement. Why should I, Kabiru follow them? From the picture you painted of retired Generals, it appears you are now more bitter by the current alleged gang-up by the ex-military chiefs against Buhari’s re-election in 2019. How bitter are you? The issue of the gang up is selfish, why did they support Buhari in the first place? They supported him because they wanted him to do their bidding. The issue is simple, some of them have oil wells here and there, they don’t want to pay royalty, they don’t do anything. I mean they are supposed to be ashamed of what they are doing. If not that Buhari is even tolerant, he would have exposed them. See what General TY Danjuma said some months ago, he has unfettered access to Buhari or anybody in this country but see the statement he made and where he made it. It was disappointing and then nobody tells him anything. See what happened, late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua mentioned it when a minister visited him and the minister complained about electricity, I remember very well when Yar’adua told the minister that Obasanjo government spent over $600m, and yet there was no electricity, the minister couldn’t talk, never talked again. It was during Obasanjo period that we had the highest top ranking security officers and minister of justice killed in his own domain and nothing happened. I do remember there was one occasion that took place where Wole Soyinka said the killers of Bola Ige were in their midst. He did mention that the killers of Bola Ige were in the gathering, nobody challenged him because those who matter knew it. I think I have to mention names because it happened. Why was Audu Ogbe removed as chairman of PDP because he challenged Obasanjo, Omisore was in prison and he was made the senatorial candidate, Ogbe challenged it, and that was the beginning of his problem, not to talk of the issue between him and Atiku, something of that nature. Anybody in the same group wants their party to win, so there is nothing wrong. But Omisore was in prison and he became a senatorial candidate of PDP and eventually became the senator. You know for Obasanjo to begin to talk to people, I’ve been wondering why people should listen to him. I mean it is disappointing that people are listening to Obasanjo. I think it is disappointing. He said all unprintable things and lots of people are saying that. See what he did to the father of former Speaker of House of Reps, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, Alhaji Alani Bankole when he wanted to contest as governor of Ogun state. The same thing with Ajimobi, Amosun what did he do to them? What did he do to AD then? He made sure that all the governors were removed, when AD said they have no presidential candidate, they voted for Obasanjo but it was only Tinubu that survived. Is he somebody that can be trusted? You understand, he can’t be trusted by whatever yardstick. Some Nigerians are saying that the northern numerical strength you mentioned is a fluke because of the allegation that the region often hire people from neighboring countries like Niger Republic to vote in the north. What is your reaction to this? Those who are saying this don’t know what they are saying. The north does not need to bring anybody from anywhere to vote. We don’t have that kind of culture. We don’t have that culture of paying Peter to go and write exams for Gabriel. We don’t have that culture. That culture is alien to the north, that is the truth. How can somebody say northern population is a fluke? As a northerner, I feel bad because it is blackmail. From the first and second republics till date, the north does not have that culture of hiring political supporters from neighbouring countries. One thing is that you cannot differentiate somebody from Maradi in Niger Republic from somebody in the neighbouring communities in Nigeria because they speak the same dialect, use same dresses, and what have you. But to say that we bring people from Niger Republic to come and vote in Nigeria, I think it is an insult to the north. What is your view on the struggle between Igbo and Yoruba for the 2023 presidency? I think that is their own issue, I am just a passenger. However, it depends on the time and the situation. The north has a long political alliance with Igbo. In the first and second republics, there was an alliance between the NPP and NPN, they called it Accord before it was broken. So it all depends on the situation and issues on the ground. Issues on the ground are very important, as well as the quality of the candidate. Whether such candidate comes from South-south or South-east or wherever, quality of the candidate and the prevailing situation will determine whatever… For now, nobody can predict the situation because saying it is one thing and actualising it is another thing. You never can tell what will happen before 2023, I stand to be corrected. https://sunnewsonline.com/2023-presidency-north-will-prefer-igbo-to-yoruba-umar-acf-leader/amp/ 1 Like
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Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 10:39pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
raumdeuter: So yorubas built a bridge for ObJ and then abandoned the 'bridge' and rushed to vote Olu falae of AD who failed at polls because only yorubas voted him? Bwahahahahahaha! You funny die, you dey do IT for Osuofia office? 6 Likes 2 Shares
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Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 10:11pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Oshigun: Your right to lament is sacrosanct, your right to write illegible gibberish is divine, but you will not be allowed to run away from the question. I'll drum the question into your ewedu skull once again..... Tell us how yoruba 'bridge-building' have produced a yoruba presidency since lugard made you Nigerians. We all know how OBJ came to power. So tell us the other yoruba president that came to power by 'yoruba bridge-building' so that we can learn from the 'fountain of yoruba sophistication' and maybe change our corrugated Wichtech roofs to brown zinc roofs in the spirit of 'bridge-building sophistication'. We want to hear proper methodologies not effusive lamentations and emotional rants. We are waiting. 4 Likes 3 Shares
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Politics / Re: Give Me Proof That Igbos Are Supporting Atiku. by KillTheZombies: 10:02pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
If Igbo do not support Atiku na wetin dem gain?/ Are they supposed to support a demented jibril who hates them and sent soldiers to their region to kill their young men? 1 Like 1 Share |
Travel / Re: Where Is Best Place To Resettle Aside From Lagos And Ogun? by KillTheZombies: 9:41pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Op, if you are yoruba and Muslim, Borno state will be happy to welcome you. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 9:35pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
raumdeuter:Your self-deceit is laughable and hilarious. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 9:34pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Oshigun: When I hear yoruba ascribing intelligence to themselves and give lectures about 'building bridges' in order to earn the presidency, I laugh myself to stupor. yoruba 'built bridges' by forming OPC who threatened and killed other indgenes, burning houses and causing riots all over the SW because of the June 12 saga. I guess formation of a violent OPC that post-MKO is what you called as 'building bridge'. You yorubas very good are at being pretentious, you always pontificate and hardly practice what you preach, you only preach to deceive others who have not studied you lots down to protons, neutrons and electrons that makes up the Yoruba being and thought-pathways. Can you tell us in details how yorubas 'built bridges' and became president, even as yoruba voters never voted the only president of yoruba extraction in 1999. I'm waiting for you to confuse yourself in a 'sophisticated' manner. Tell us. 4 Likes 3 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 9:00pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
raumdeuter: That Yoruba vs yoruba candidacy wasn't planned by other nigerians is the biggest lie you'll tell yourself till you grow grey hairs. If it wasn't planned by other Nigerians to pacify you for June 12, then tell us why we've never had a Yoruba vs yoruba candidacy since 1999. Was it a fluke? Laughable yoro-creatures. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 8:38pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Ovamboland: Nobody conceded any right to you. The only time yoruba became president was when yoruba contested against yoruba because other Nigerians allowed it. That's the way it is going to be for the rest of Nigeria's existence. The country no longer owes the Yoruba anything. The MKO saga is over, you can no longer use it to blackmail other Nigerians. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Senator Wamakko Throws Money To His Supporters From His Mansion. Photos by KillTheZombies: 4:56pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
APC politicians and their penchant for using illiteracy, poverty and hunger to perpetuate themselves in power. Their demented zombies are even the worst humanoids. 129 Likes 13 Shares |
Crime / Re: Armed Robbers Kill OAU Student In Hostel (photo) by KillTheZombies: 4:51pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
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Business / Re: Femi Otedola To Sell His Forte Oil Shares by KillTheZombies: 4:15pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Dumbohari don finish this economy. 10 Likes 1 Share |
Education / Re: Pictures Of PDP Nasarawa West Zonal Rally Yesterday by KillTheZombies: 4:00pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Zombies must be 'sifia' pains after seeing the mammoth crowd. Sai Waziri Arewa! Sai Okute Ndigbo! |
Politics / Re: Atiku Admits Lying, Confirms Not Speaking With Col . Sakaba’s Wife by KillTheZombies: 3:54pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Atikulation is a great virtue. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Four APC Leaders Assassinated In Rivers State. Graphic Photos by KillTheZombies: 3:31pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
No tears for them. Zombies are sub-humans. The two APC factions in rivers can kill themselves for all I care. Blaming PDP won't cut it this time. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 3:16pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
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Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 3:14pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
PaChukwudi44: Or kwakwanso...or Dankwanbo. They want to eat their cakes and have it. Their insult against the East is now playing out right before their eyes. 'Yoruba get sense, other southerners no get' 7 Likes 3 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 3:00pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
gurnam: It is not a sermon per se. It is a factoid. Many yorubas like the OP who started the thread are shocked that the East have woken up to yoruba antics. Directing your message to him will be appropriate. Tell him to stop yelling and enjoy the karma that you are about to bring upon yourself. Karma is smiling widely and awaiting you in 2023 if you don't make a detour. 15 Likes 5 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 2:16pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
raumdeuter: Dayo, we've heard these lamentation and chestbeating about your so-called sophistication a billion times. E no change reality. It has become a cliche and everyone mocks you with it. Fact 1. Yoruba waited for the rest of the country to conceed to the presidency to them in 1999. That's why the first and ONLY elected yoruba presidency emerged when all the parties fielded Yoruba. Therefore according to you yorubas are lazy. Na you talk am. No be me. Fact 2. Ekwueme was never defeated by OBJ. Shagari was a figure that midwived 1999 presidency, him and the likes of Orji Uzor persuaded Ekwueme to step down because yorubas were still burning and killing non-indigenes in their region. OPC was founded that period as yoruba militia. Fact 3. The only time yoruba voters ever put anyone in presidency was in 2015 (which was a close call because it was mainly between the North and a Southern minority) just yesterday. Before then, there had been 5 presidential elections and Yoruba voters failed while Eastern voters won. So the facts and factoids do not agree with you that Eastern votes are not needed. Even right there in Lagos, your political Candidates wear more Igbo regalia than agbada on campaign posters they spend millions to print. They seek Igbo endorsement. If Eastern votes are 'useless' that won't be happening. Take heart and watch how the politics go in 2023, if Nigeria is still lucky enough to still remain a geographical expression by then. 21 Likes 6 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 2:01pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
gurnam: Bayo we are talking yoro-presidency. Do you disagree with the factoids I wrote up there or do you embrace the fact about the helplessness of a Yoruba presidency which actually elicited the lamentations from the OP who started the thread to cry about the Igbo sensitization about yoro-presidency? 17 Likes 5 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 1:58pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
raumdeuter: Mr Dayo, if you like revise history and lament till you quench. You and I know that the permutation do not favour a Yoruba president before Eastern presidency. If Yoruba cannot wait and tries to play a fast one thinking they are smart, East no go vote yoruba and north go vote north. You know it, I know it. You will not get the satisfaction of eating your cake and still having it after insulting the east. Take this message to the bank. It's a blank check. 28 Likes 8 Shares |
Romance / Re: Nigerian Men, Please Stop Showing Us Your Dick All In The Name Of Urinating. Pix by KillTheZombies: 1:43pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
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Politics / Re: Fayose's Aide Exposes How VP Osinbajo Touched The Breast Of A Trader by KillTheZombies: 1:38pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
madone: See as you dey lament, You go just die throw away, yet osinbade go continue to dey rock big boobies this christmas. No go die for nothing. 5 Likes 3 Shares
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Politics / Re: Fayose's Aide Exposes How VP Osinbajo Touched The Breast Of A Trader by KillTheZombies: 1:36pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Osinbade is always in love with the boobies. 1 Like 3 Shares
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Politics / Re: President Buhari’s 2018 Christmas Message To Nigerians by KillTheZombies: 1:35pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
But you dumbohari went to London to claim that Nigerians are criminals, Nigerians are useless, Nigerians are lazy. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Gusau-Zaria Road Blocked As Thousands Protest Killings In Zamfara by KillTheZombies: 1:26pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
Thank Allah, Zamfara will vote against dumbohari. Atiku is already on ground there. Zamfara is atikulate. 21 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 1:00pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
lionjungle3000: They think they are smart. They were banking on the distrust between the East and North to smuggle themselves into Aso rock. Yorobba mode of thinking in HD: 'we will never vote IBO, but because north and east have squabble, the IBO will prefer to vote for us again after voting OBJ. IBO no get sense but we are smart and sophisticated' 24 Likes 5 Shares
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Politics / Re: 2019: Igbos reactions to Yoruba 2023 Presidency dream Is Pathetic & Pitiful by KillTheZombies: 12:52pm On Dec 24, 2018 |
life2017: Demented yoro-lamentations. You Yoruba always think you are wise and others are stupid. Buhari and Atiku are both from the north and fulani. The fundamental thing is they are both fulani. Nigerians and Igbos also did the same for yorubas after they cried for years about MKO's murder. Two parties fielded two yorubas OBJ and falae, even Alex Ekweme who was supported by the likes of Shagari for presidency was begged to step down for OBJ Yoruba presidency. Now tell me why you ingrates can't do the same for Igbos but rather taunt them and tell the whole world how you'll always stand against Igbo presidency after their votes delivered a Yoruba into presidency in 1999? They have woken up and are very much alive to your shenanigans, and will play your brand of 'sophisticated' politics which makes you think you smarter than everyone else. FYI, the SESS (old East) always vote in the same pattern since independence because they think alike. There will be no division in the way the SE and SS votes because of yorubas who even treacherously voted against the SS in 2015. You can bank on that. You want the solution to the problem? Field two Igbo men in the major political parties, Yoruba should then vote Igbo the way Igbo have voted for yorubas and north since 1970s till date. No Igbo man tried to play spoiler when yorubas were asking for pacification over MKO in 1999, if yorubas don't believe in the equity of having Igbo leadership then they can as well forget about the presidency too. Until they decide to come to equity with clean hands. THERE WILL BE NO YORUBA PRESIDENCY TILL THE EAST TAKES IT'S RIGHTFUL TURN. EXCEPT A NORTHERN PRESIDENT DIES AND A YORUBA VP ASSUMES LEADERSHIP. IT'S A SUREBANKER! Eyes don open. 54 Likes 9 Shares |
Politics / Re: Akpabio Orders Forceful Pulling Down Of Entrance Gates Of G.O.A Int'l Stadium by KillTheZombies: 4:45am On Dec 24, 2018 |
omotoniwa: Did he build it with his father's money, yorozombie. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Remembering Nwayereuwa, Nwannedia, Ikonnia & Nwugo Of Aba Women Right (Pics) by KillTheZombies: 4:13am On Dec 24, 2018 |
Hmm Ishilove they hail IBO women, what happened to her pact with yorubas and Sai barbarians? Just thinking aloud. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: “igbo People Stop Demonizing Our Transporters” (MUST READ!) by KillTheZombies: 4:09am On Dec 24, 2018 |
Why are they demonizing British airways, arik and other airlines that have hiked their fares from london-lagos. Na ibo get that one too? |
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