This is the product of their victory in the civil war: An internal colonialism. The Igbos miscalculated in so many areas ahead of the 1966 imbroglio, the Yoruba willingly aided them, the ND acted out of fear, the MB were forced into a sham Northern homogeneity.

Let the winners enjoy joor!

May Allah grant them Al Jannah Fidaus

True Oga Okupe. GEJ is the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria. Let haters hug transformer.

Good to know

The activities of this man and his ilk up north could disrupt the country's democracy and undermine US interests in the Niger Delta. This is a valid reason for this interraction.

Whatever happens I think the East should be able to absorb the shocks. The doomsday expectations of some persons will be defeated with pragmatic adoption of the Ahiara Declaration- which for now serves as an authentic grundnorm of all Easterners- whether minority or majority. Lol!

c0llynz02: Rivers state alone has Ikwerre, Igbo, Ijaw, Kalabari, Etche, Ogba, Ogoni, Abua, Andoni, Ekpeye, Engenni, Ibani

Fear merchant! Most of those groups you mentioned with the exception of Andoni and Ogoni can be streamlined as Igbo-Ikwerre, Ogba, Ekpeye, Abua, Igbani, Etche and Ijaw-Kalabari, Engenni, Igbani also.

Stop microcising cognisable group classifications.

And deluded yoruba posters swore that no odua daughter can write such when most of them are from questionable paternity due to unguarded philandering and polygamy.

She has just saved her neck from public disgrace in the courts

Look @the lady's conceit and babbling! This is the height of meddlesomeness by a woman who should be raising a family. BTW why is she fixated on the GEJ persona? Why don't she advocate for large scale reforms in the various sectors of the country and even the structure of the federation? Calling for the President's removal by "all means necessary" is a preposterous and radical rant that will bring unexpected consequences.

Madam and your other intellectual grandstandists, I hope you are not paid agents of subversive elements and enemies of Nigeria both within and outside?

Dahomey Amazon: Anambra the light of biafra. Empty roads without markings, Is everyone always on holiday or they moved to more habitable regions

He must have taken the shots on a Sunday or holiday. Anambra is heavily populated. Clean, laid-out streets are the mark of order and sanity. Hope they might have began restoring same in Anambra.

Businessman cum politician Buruji Kashamu was described in former President Obasanjo’s letter as a ‘shameless criminal’ President Jonathan is associating with. Kashamu, who has virtually taken over the PDP structure in the South-west, spearheading the court-ordered removal of the Obasanjo associates in leadership positions in the party, has taken issues with the former president. He also denies being a criminal. He speaks in an interview with journalists.  Anayo Okolie was there..

Former President Obasanjo in his letter called you a ‘shameless criminal’. How do you react to that?
Following former President Obasanjo’s diatribe against the person and office of President Goodluck Jonathan, including my humble self, I have been inundated with calls from family members, friends, business and political associates as to his real intentions. I will situate his vituperations presently.
In the 18-page letter dated 3rd December 2013, Obasanjo called me a shameless criminal. Pray, why should I be ashamed when I am not a criminal or the one being looked for, and he knows! They have called me all manner of names to silence and sabotage me so as to take over the party structure in the South-west in order to work against the government. If Obasanjo could write this kind of letter against his own people, with a view to inciting Nigerians against the man he introduced to them, then it leaves much to be desired. This was the same man who said Jonathan was the only one fit for the job having been cleared by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He told Nigerians to vote him as president because of his unimpeachable character and integrity. It is unfair for him to round to insult the President. He used me to fight Gbenga Daniel and I spent over N3billion to fight his cause and took the PDP structure from Daniel and handed it over to him. He later brought his friend, a 77-year-old Gen. Adetunji Olurin (rtd), to be the governorship candidate. Now, he is casting aspersion on the person of the President and my humble self. Who should be ashamed among us? How many former presidents and heads of state would do this? He thinks he is disgracing his people but unknown to him, he is making himself a laughing stock in the eyes of the discerning. Pray, what is he looking for? Initially, he was given everything he wanted but he was still not pleased. Now that things have changed, he is grumbling.
For me, the old general only sought to exhibit his military training on the element of surprise. According to an ancient Chinese General, Chiang Shang, “The technique for military conquest is to carefully investigate the enemy’s intentions and quickly take advantage of them, launching a sudden attack where unexpected.” But he performed woefully in this task because he failed to observe the condition precedent to using the element of surprise, which is “to investigate”. He allowed his hate campaign to becloud his sense of reasoning and judgment as an elder statesman that he ordinarily should be. He merely ventilated his frustrations over the new political reality that has stripped him bare of any claim to Ogun State and the South-west geo-political zone. Ordinarily, a person of his standing should tower far and above such parochialism. But he won’t have any of such. He would rather eat the fat of the land and still struggle for the crumbs while at one playing the ostrich. If the truth be told, the letter to President Goodluck Jonathan is, to say the least, satanic, self-serving and mischievous.

Obasanjo had earlier denied introducing you to the presidency. What is your reaction?
Chief Obasanjo denied introducing me to the Presidency. But can he deny that we wined and dined together in the past? Can he deny knowledge of my closeness to his daughter, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, especially during the events leading to the 2011 general elections? Can he deny that he introduced me to some leaders of the PDP in the South West, such as the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade; his Agric counterpart, Dr. Adesina Akinwunmi; and Engr. Segun Oni, among others, as his political son in whom he is well pleased? Can he deny that he did introduce me to the former acting Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, and other officials of the PDP-led Federal Government during the events leading to the 2011 general elections, especially as it relates to Ogun State and my role in the whole scenario? Can he deny that he openly praised me to high heavens at various public foras and rallies, including during the reception I organised for the former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye (JMK)? Why is it that it is now that he is calling me names and blaming the Presidency for condoning me? What offence have I committed? Is it because I refused to allow him to hijack the party structure so that he can use it to achieve his invidious motive against President Jonathan? Is it because he has now realised that he has lost the platform, which made him relevant in the politics of Ogun State and the South-west? Isn’t there a sense in the assumption that the reason for this unwarranted attack is to portray the Jonathan administration in bad light and discredit its foot soldiers, particularly in the South-west?

But you had a relationship with former President Obasanjo?
Let me state from the outset that anyone who knows former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s antecedents would not be surprised at his calling me names. Ask Otunba Oyewole Fasawe. Ask Chief S.B. Oluwalogbon. Ask Chief Bode George. Ask Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The list is endless. Be that as it may, I am not ashamed to say ex-President Obasanjo was my adopted political father and I was also his adopted political godson. I was one of his foot soldiers and partners. We planned and executed many things together. When it was convenient for him, I was his right hand. I teamed up with him against former Governor Gbenga Daniel; fought the latter to a standstill; took the party structure from him and handed it over to Chief Obasanjo. I worked with him (Chief Obasanjo) to produce the platform that his anointed candidate for the 2011 general elections in 2011, Gen. Tunji Olurin. It is common knowledge in Ogun State and the South-west that Obasanjo and I were inseparable until recently. These are facts that are in the public domain and cannot be denied. So, if he now turns round to be calling me names, then it should be clear to all that it is all politics. The truth is that I have not committed any offence and nobody has ever requested for my extradition. If there is anything to the contrary, I challenge Obasanjo and his cronies to produce it or forever remain silent.
Even when they have refused to see or hear; I yet refer them to the Interpol report, which exonerated me of any wrongdoing, both locally and internationally. It is dated 4th March, 2008. The Interpol in the six-page report, signed by ACP Haruna H. Mshelia for the Commissioner of Police (Interpol), particularly at Clause XI says, “That contrary to the allegation, the suspect was not found to have engaged in fraudulent/clandestine activities as all records were checked both locally and internationally and all our probes were returned negative. The suspect was never declared wanted or convicted either in Nigeria or anywhere in the world.”
It went on to say in Clause XVI of the report “That all our letters written to Interpol London, Lyon, Washington and Cotonou relating to enquiries on criminal/drug/conviction records of the suspect were returned negative to the effect that the suspect was never convicted of such offence in their territory.” The NDLEA in a counter-affidavit in one of the cases I filed in the courts to clear my name said, from their records, I have never been involved in any crime.
Again, in an 11-paragraph filed by the Office of AGF and dated 16th September, 2010, in the suit I filed against it at the Federal High Court, it stated that, “No request for the extradition of the Applicant was made on the 20th day of July, 2010 or on any date to the Respondent or to any Federal Agency by the United States Government or any other country...The Respondent or any of its officers or any agency of the Federal Government has not received any request from any country for the extradition of the Applicant for any offence whatsoever.” These are documents that are already in the public domain. They can be accessed in various court registries.

But I recall that the same former President Obasanjo ounce alleged that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had criminal issues in America and could no longer enter that country. The former vice-president has visited America many times and even have an institution, a university, where he is partnering with America. If you have been cleared over this alleged criminal records as you said, have you visited that country to convince all doubting Thomases?
You know I challenged them and the so-called extradition order in court as I indicated earlier with documents, and I won. Ounce you do that, they would not even give you a visa and I have never bothered to apply for one.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/kashamu-obasanjo-s-letter-is-satanic-self-serving/166610/

Read my lips: GEJ, by consensus, will get an additional two years extension. With this tension and possible break up of Nigeria will be averted.

God bless GEJ-the patriot and those who read his mind like Ike Ekweremadu. His intention has always been power without bitterness thru a single term of six years. Conservatives opposed it. He also suggested a confab as a way out of Bh and other national crisis- again- pessimists opposed him.

But he remains my hero- patriotic, transformational leader, tazarce!

They can initiate all the homongous projects so long as they freeload from south oil money. Their 1966-70 civil war victory gave them unfettered access to petro dollar that was never so in the era of Ahmadu Bello. And control of military and bureaucratic apparati. Gdluck to them on the new bridge.

There are four basic things to consider in that letter: 1) The messenger 2) The message 3) The purpose 4) The Medium

In three of these, the letter is dubious and stands discreditted. But on the 2nd- the content, I think most of the issues raised are factual. Let the President clear the air without sentiments.

But as for the Messenger: I see no reason why a kettle should call a pot black. Obj supervised unresolved murders- Marshal, Ige, Dikibo etc. Corruption was rife and many state investments sold to his cronies.

What is the purpose? It is about 2015. African ex-leaders have a vainglorious disposition to power. He wants to anoint a fresh candidate- this time, a northerner!

Is the medium right? No. He went public- social media on a sensitive national issue. Why didn't he confer directly with the President? And yet he went to Kenya to join him. Politicians and their back-stabbing shenanigans..

Will he resign for who? You haven't shown us the alternative. Namadi Sambo has long been discreditted by the north?

Obj's disappointing letter is coming as an outcome of the secret meetings he held with the rebel govs. The question is whose interest is he pretending to serve in all the allegations he made in that letter? If GEJ is forced out of power, who will replace him and will that resolve the country's myriad problems?

2015 is very pregnant..

These are the sort of distraction and intimidation being faced by our President, yet self-serving hypocrites like Obj have the temerity to question his leadership.

I pity GEJ, I pity his people. If he is eventually forced to balk under these pressures, he would have become the most traumatised, and unsettled President Nigeria ever had. Smh

Talk is cheap. What would it had changed about the poor leadership Nigeria has received over the years? I think whatever snubb my President got was a collective national embarrassment for the country's failings and not about GEJ. The earlier you get it that Nigeria has long gone to the dogs and merely patching up, the better!

Why post an old story now? Try as you can you won't succeed in denigrating the President.

I hope all these people know the implications of their utterances and plans to force out Jonathan. This issue I am afraid has gone beyond mere principles and ideas to serious issue of national survival. By the time the rest of the country feels the impact of loss of revenues they will know that we have not advanced to the realm of idealism.

Pls let Jonathan complete his two terms for peace to reign- already the country has reached her nadir.

Let the trouble makers be told that if Jonathan is out of power, there may be a cut in oil supplies. So let's not sacrifice national survival for cheap political blackmail.

And this Odua of a man who gave birth to the yoruba nation must be a libidinous dinosaur below?

And to think that the bloke emerged from nowhere with cock and earth to commence creation, gives him the status of a genius.

Let me check if he also failed to the Afonja some balls!

Our land devastated by civil war has yet to be reconstructed. We need a Marshal Plan in the East not Lagos where Gowon's 3Rs commenced!

Above all, FG should build for us because we don't want to be accused of planning secession. That is why the Imo Airport the only such wholly built by the indegenes was handed over to FG to inspect. We don't want you sniffing around us all the time because of your morbid fear of our 'secession'- which our right under international laws. So let FG build for us!

plaindealer:


FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.DFG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG.FG>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Can you people do anything without the FG?

You forget that they are near homogenous and therefore are a nation.

The Nigerian crab struggle has not helped homogenous and progressive groups like Yoruba and Igbo to attain their full potentials. Under their new nation, the Igbo will attempt to restore communal life, peace and order.

Read Ahiara Declaration-that is the basis of a future Biafra. Most of this crop of leaders will not even qualify in Biafra or will be held seriously accountable because there will be no free oil money to share and steal.

Above all, there will be no more Hausa Fulani ethno-religious massacres!

Is Nigeria a nation? Go and look at xteristics and definition of a nation. The sacrifices of Ojukwu is as much as Mandela. Igbo and Easterners lost more souls than SA blacks. Yet Ojukwu came back from 13 years in exile by Hausa Fulani military, preached peace and reconciliation and urged Igbos to reurn to Nigeria.

Do you think Igbo have no right to self determination?

BluIvy:

No he does not, and history is the witness. Mandela fought to build a nation not for his Xhosa people, Ojukwu fought to break a nation, for his ibo people.

Always my leader. Ride on sir!

Progressive and civilised societies never lay claim to a single progenitor. The British and Americans are descendants of various traditions of Normandy, Celt, and Scotts. Even the Chinese do not lay claim to a single Hun tradition.

Same with the African indegenous peoples of Ndigbo. There were several iron-working civilizations that existed thousands of years. Areas such as Nri, Nsukka, Igbo-Ukwu and Aro lay credence to the development and spread of Igbo areas.

What is this watery bunkum on how a single man gave birth to millions? Or who appeared with a cock and sand to create earth and started life!