Muhammadu Buhari, MB, is now the President; APC the ruling party. Change is here, and we remain grateful to God for the peace in our country, Nigeria. It is time to help, to contribute so that this change translates to good governance which what we all expect from our political leaders, irrespective of their parties. We expect peace and those good things of life which citizens of other nations take for granted, but are luxuries in Nigeria.
This is in spite of the huge wealth the nation has, because our leaders are generally wicked and self-serving. Since after the Nigerian civil war, 48 years ago, leaders have progressively turned the blessings of our national oil wealth to themselves.
While the number of Nigerians who own private jets, luxury yachts, jetties, and huge mansions and estates has increased, citizens have no roads, poor health care delivery, and no water. We live in darkness and heat for most hours of the day due to poor electric power distribution; increasingly we kill ourselves as terrorists, ethnic and religious fighters, kidnappers, cultists.
Businesses and entrepreneurs are dying increasingly, many relocating, banks don’t seem to care- all they focus on is drive for deposits; they get cheap money from overseas and offer same at excruciating interest rates to the people. Everybody is for himself, and no one for the poor and common man.
MB and his party have come with a change slogan in their mouths; we have moved from hope to transformation, and now to change; and as good followers, we are committed to seeing that this change works.
Every politician in Nigeria begins to plan how to win the next elections from the day he is sworn into office. That also offers others, including those in the opposition, to plan to either improve their position in the struggle to gain power and empowerment, come the next polls, which will be 2019 in our case, or take power. This informs the need for Ndigbo to wake up, sit down and plot their destiny in this arrangement called Nigeria.
Ndigbo have since after the civil war majorly and understandably played the politics of survival which drove them to all nooks and crannies of this country, making contributions, rendering services, and adding value. This carries many advantages, as it can be correctly said that any LGA in Nigeria without a thriving Igbo business is a dead end. But the detractors of the Igbo people have turned this against them, portraying them as materialistic, and a people that cannot follow one course of action towards political leadership and rulership in Nigeria. This is a huge and wicked fallacy.
Ethnicity and religion are not bad in principle, the problem is with how man has turned things in our country. Some will want us to believe that ethnicity did not guide their political actions, but that is self-deception.
An interview a former IGP, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomasie, who is the President of the Arewa Consultative Forum,ACF, granted to Sunday Vanguard, published on May 31, 2015, confirms what some already knew: that the North plotted to send GEJ out of Aso Rock, and that it had always been a game of power to the North since 1998. He said: ” I told you then of the agreement in 1998 that brought( General Olusegun Obasanjo) to power.
“The agreement was that it would be eight years each between the South and the North. After eight years, Obasanjo wanted to stop the presidency from returning to the North. These two reasons(for insecurity and the agitation that power should return to the North) compelled us and we met, all Northern NGOs, and resolved that this time around, we had to struggle to get leadership back to the North”. This should open the eyes of Ndigbo to the fact that people who consider themselves stake holders, meet and agree on power rotation; they approve who becomes president and mobilise support to promote their decisions. While others are planning and plotting, Ndigbo are busy making requests and demands without any discernable plan.
Ethnicity and religions play, and will continue to play, key roles in shaping political power dynamics in Nigeria for a very long time to come. The sooner Ndigbo realised and accepted this, and review their collective strategies in national politics and economy, the better for them.
Ndigbo are so afraid of opposition politics, hence they have to run from pillar to post to beg for considerations now and then.
Chief Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State, decamped, just before the April elections, to the PDP, creating problems for his party, APGA, which he helped to nurture.
His successor, Governor Willy Obiano’s visit to MB, to plead for merciful considerations, even before he(Buhari) was sworn in as President, sent conflicting signals of bad politics for APGA.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State dumped the same APGA for a game of possibilities in the APC, a gamble which should not have been, had there been a plan to capture power by Ndigbo.
How many times have the five Igbo Governors met to consider and develop a plan, be it political, economic or developmental for the South East? Since failure to plan, is planning to fail, Ndigbo will continue to miss the mark until they begin to think as a people, develop a plan or plot as a people, and then mobilise support for that plan. They need to work now with their neighbours in the South-South to overcome the pains of the civil war, betrayals, and post-war abandoned property matters in Rivers and Cross River states. Those of them who bear Igbo names, yet deny being Igbo, are victims of psycho-political manipulations. Ndigbo should understand their plight, reach out to them and together begin to play politics of establishment for power.

Mr Clement Udegbe, a legal practitioner, wrote from Lago
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/ndigbo-its-time-to-wake-up/#sthash.PMHmjnu1.dpuf

PointB:
Op,
Well said. It is easier to build than to destroy. The semi-literate, brainless one is on a long thing if he doesn't fulfill his campaign promise. He's still in Thief-nubu pocket in the main time, while Maiduguri has been completed taken over by terrorist who NOW use artillery!

barcanista:
Babe don't be deceived by Buhari fan boys. Do you think the wife of a corrupt general (that was accused of stealing $2.8b in 1977, N25b during Abacha's tenure and the man that said Abacha wasn't corrupt) will wear "Aba made" watch? This is a woman whose kids are in choice schools in the Uk, this is a woman that donated over a hundred and thirty million naira to IDP in Adamawa state. This is a woman that is a "beautician" and a woman whose husband has vowed not to declare his asset public.

Pls don't be deceived, Buhari is a con artist

Muhammadu Buhari Is Our Candidate- Nairaland Progressive by
barcanista(m): 7:44pm On Nov 16, 2014
Members of the Progressive Caucus on Nairaland unanimously endorsed General Muhammadu Buhari as their sole candidate for the 2015 Presidential Election. The caucus made the endorsement on Saturday, 15 November and Sunday, 16 November 2014.
General Muhamadu Buhari, a Presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressive Congress is favoured to win his party's December 10 Primaries and go on to defeat the incumbent President Jonathan of the People's Democratic Party in the February 14th Presidential poll.

He was a former Military Chief that has served Nigeria in various capacity including Military Governor of defunct North West, Petroleum Minister, Chairman NNPC, Military Head of State for 20
months and Executive Chairman of defunct PTF. As a public servant, he distinguished himself as an incorruptible administrator,a gentleman of repute, a disciplined officer and a patriotic statesman.


The endorsement also serve as a message to the APC leadership, conveying acceptance of Buhari by the Progressives and informing the party that the Daura born General is the best man for the job, and the right man to dislodge President Jonathan and the PDP
from Aso Rock in 2015.

AskProf:


And you forgot:
IGP - North,

Defense Minister - North,

NSA - North,

Chief of Defense Staff - North...

WombRaiders:


Citizen of Gbese Land

WombRaiders:
The new trend among the elites is to go Oshiomole.

[s]The Ooni of Gbese land otherwise known as the state of osun, AregbeRascal was spotted heading to Pakistan to finalize the details in his latest endeavour to buy a new wife. Aides close to Odenni Rauf have confirmed this latest venture and have ensured Osunnites that their new first lady will be the most "sophisticated" first lady and will not dissapoint Osunnites. The aide also assured Osunnites that once the new first lady arrives she is bound to improve the State coffers as tourist will flock Osun from all over the world. Speaking further, the aide stated; "you know our governor is the best and everything he does is the best and in the best interest of Gbese land". He later confided that the Ooni had to secure a total of 25million dollars for the bride price alone from bank loans. This figure he stated does not include an additional 5 million which will be used for the wedding ceremony and other logistics to secure Osun a new and befitting first lady.

Details emerging[/s]

okiezman:
he didn't betray ND just that he focused on the amajiris and still at the end he was betrayed by them

ilugunboy:


One of the chief architect of the GEJ hate and tribally charged campaign that is supposedly in a position to lead the opposition is already trying to warm his way to those that matters in APC just to retain his last minute appointment Sec position.

Gbawe:


You are insane and belong in a zoo. Usman is addressing your kind with the part in bold below.

after1:


Its the same PDP hopefornigeria. They are just sore losers and crying more than the bereaved. The Ijaws are not crying but some hate filled people are the one crying all over nairaland.

ojobekehinde:
It is too late,damage control

Twistaray:





The Igbos felt bad that the Ikwerres that sold them lands looked the other way, while the Ijaws claimed those lands, It was shortsightedness on the part of Ikwerres, they were so fixated on being a part of the the New Rivers state that they were too eager to please the Ijaws the Lords of the old Rivers state and the favorite of the Odua-Arewa gang up then, little did the Ikwerres suspect the Ijaws long term plan.

The Ikwerres for a short term gain, abandoned their brothers( Igbos of SE) and ultimately shot themselves on the foot. Now they must share PH with Ijaws, if peace is to reign in Rivers.

nonaira:


You mean the work of Alabi Isama that adekunle took credit for? You mean the only general known to be demoted from his rank during a war? You mean the general that was no where in site in all the cities they claimed he took but rather he stole credit from his troops men after hiding away in lagos? You mean that coward that loud mouthed but couldn't back it up? That one?


A statement from Alabi-Isama about Adekunle, the loud mouth.

Stern reporter Randolph Baumann spoke with the General of the Nigerian front troops.

If you want to get to know the devil of Africa, just ask for Adekunle. He is the man who is responsible for the death of 100,000 Ibo people”. The man who provided this tip to Randolph Baumann, the Stern reporter, was Mister Ikpa, the official representative of the Republic of Biafra in Lisbon. Mister Ikpa knew even more: “Adekunle does not like journalists. He had a man from
England who disagreed with him shaved bald, do an hour of push- ups, and write one-thousand times: I am a crappy Englishman and don’t have a say in Nigeria”.

royal231:


I hear u... the emir of illorin na from where.... anu mpama

ekenedegreat:
Is he a known figure like ojukwu?

Major Adekunle, 28-years old, General of the Nigerian troops on the South front sat enthroned behind the General’s desk of the Shell administration, which he had made into his main station when he took the Ibo-city by storm on May 18. Now he stated: “I am convinced you will report objectively and keep to our orders.” We confirmed that.

“Okay,” he beamed, “the Germans just know how war works.

Tonight there is a front-party in my headquarters. You will come! An order is an order!”

This interview with the most important man in the Nigerian war took place at night. Whisky and beer were abundant, uniformed go-go girls played DJ, Adekunle danced and petted his mascot, a small mountain goat named “Ojukwu”.

ekenedegreat:
Is he a known figure like ojukwu?

ekenedegreat:
story for the baboons!! We knw the truth there's no strongman in yerebaland.

STERN: What are your troops doing when they march into a townvaround Port Harcourt, an area where most of the farmers are not Ibos?

ADEKUNLE: We aim at everything that moves.

STERN: Small children tend not to stay put for very long.

ADEKUNLE: I know. I have two myself.

STERN: What will your troops do when you get to the Ibo heartland, that is, to the place populated by Ibos only?

ADEKUNLE: There we will aim at everything even if it is not moving.

STERN: Are you racist?

ADEKUNLE: You should know exactly where racists are. There is no such thing as racism in Nigeria.

STERN: But why are you refusing to discuss this war with a European?

ADEKUNLE: Let me tell you something: When the Russians surrounded Stalingrad did you request a land corridor from them so as to better feed your soldiers who were stuck in the pot there? Of course you didn’t and I can tell from your face that you think the thought of a land corridor to bring in food for the captured
German soldiers in Stalingrad is a bad joke. Me too. Where and when, …………., was there a war in which the loser was re-nourished one more time before the final loss? Why are you just calling for a land corridor for Biafra? Why aren’t you calling for a land corridor
for the Viet Kong? I have to declare: You Europeans are simply not competent!

STERN: What is happening to the European Humanitarian Assistance programs which were authorized through your government?

ADEKUNLE: In the section of the front that I rule—and that is the whole south front from Lagos to the border of Kamerun—I do not want to see the Red Cross, Caritas Aid, World Church delegation, Pope, Missionary, or UN delegation.

STERN: Does that mean that the many thousands of tons of food that are stored in Lagos will never get to the refugee camps in your section of the country?

ADEKUNLE: You are a sharp one, my friend. That’s exactly what I am saying.

STERN: But you said yourself that most of the refugees in the part you captured are not Ibos.

ADEKUNLE: But there could be Ibos among them. I want to avoid feeding a single Ibo as long as this whole people have not given up yet.

STERN: Do you sometimes feel sympathy for the Ibos?

ADEKUNLE: I have learned a word from the British, which is “sorry”! That’s how I want to respond to your question. I did not want this war but I want to win this war. Therefore I have to kill the Ibos. Sorry! The End.

ekenedegreat:
Nobody in the history of yereba or in the nearest future that will be like ojukwu. This is a man that fought and withstood the ZOO (nigeria) britain,egypt,former soviet union for 3yrs with his own locally made weapons. Infact no yereba monkey will ever be like him!!

ekenedegreat:
Nobody in the history of yereba or in the nearest future that will be like ojukwu. This is a man that fought and withstood the ZOO (nigeria) britain,egypt,former soviet union for 3yrs with his own locally made weapons. Infact no yereba monkey will ever be like him!!

Duru1:



It takes one dullard to recognize the stupidity in another. You and your forbearers have been his tutors and bearers of falsehood. I guess you can lead him by the nose and tell him about the infamous tax collectors.

ekenedegreat:
This is a typical yerebaman for you they have degree in ranting but cowards inwardly. You and your useless oba akilu or whatever are no match to any igboman. You pple hate igbos with passion to the extent that if is possible, you pple would have send igbos packing but, the day yerebas tries it is the day we will tell you pple that lagos is a NO MANS LAND keep calling them slaves while they plan on how to be NO MANS LAND governor one day.Disgusting monkey!!!