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Remove federal character principle, remove quota system, put resource control, education to be controlled by the states, roads and other devt infrastructures to be done by the states.

Then leave PDP presidential ticket open for every region to contest.

The PDP ignores the fact that zoning was necessitated by the skewed and lopsided political structure created by north through its military dictators to favor only the north politically and economically.
Which southern presidential aspirant can win if north is also aspiring for presidency?

Omoluabi1stborn:


Can the government give us the figures of North East?

Are you in a competition with the north east?
Religion makes human life of lesser value in the north east than in the east.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
I want the president of Nigeria not to send soldiers to the east he did not listen to me when he was abroad. I advise you on two occasions, and that is where he made his big mistake he floated the east with soldiers and police which our not trained a lot of them lost their weapons and ammunition in those areas and Disappeared into the bush. Did some mistake which they made with boko Haram they have repeated it again. It is the weapons for the soldiers and police which are now being used to kill them. If you look at the history this war between the North and the east is even greater than Nigeria. When president buhari went to sign contract with Saudi Arabia that was a red flag, for countries like Israel America Britain Europe including Israel Australia and Canada. Also to crush the Uprising I believe even Iran is also involved in the east. Iran was also supporting alminia which is Christian against Abidjan which is Shiite Muslim. Our president is the one which brought the war front to Nigeria. From domestic has made it into something which is an international conflict

Yes. Presidency of Nigeria is directly spreading the war to all parts of Nigeria, but Jihad is the objective.
The SW is the next target after the SE and the SS.
If not, how could the presidency so hurriedly proscribe a flag waving group as terrorist group but refused to brand killer herdsmen as terrorist group?

Presidency knew that through tagging IPOB as terrorist organization, and sending armed forces to hunt for IPOB members, at one point, the IPOB members will fight back.
That will bring the opportunity the presidency wanted for a Jihad in the east by use of the armed forces.

Who instigated the crisis in the SE? The Islamists governing Nigeria who are looking for ways to conduct Jihad in the SE. They first outlawed IPOB which has its motto as non violence; then started to kill Igbos in the guise they were IPOB members.
At one point, some Igbos pushed to the wall decided to fight back.

The Islamists then flooded the east with soldiers. Most of the soldiers either don’t understand the rules of engagement with unarmed civilians, or they are obviously on Jihad.

onthehill:
Charles Awuzie: Religion in Nigeria Feasts On Poverty And Lack Of Functional Systems In The Country (Photo)

Charles Awuzie, a Nigerian Cyber security expert based in South Africa has stated that religion in Nigeria thrives on poverty and lack of functional systems in Nigeria, IgbereTV reports.

Taking to his Facebook page, he compared the health service he got in South Africa to what is obtainable in Nigeria.


https://www.facebook.com/100000090018585/posts/4839793462700273/?app=fbl

Religion and poverty destroyed Nigeria.
Religion imposes poverty on northern region of Nigeria.
Poverty drives the most educationally disadvantaged Northern Nigeria to aspire to lead Nigeria all the time, in order to control the rich resources of the southern regions.

Leadership by the least educated north implies poverty for all. Poverty breeds secessionist groups. That fear of poverty makes northern leaders deploy military forces against dissenters; the military forces kill civilians and destroy the places they were deployed.
That fuels more secessionist moves. The cycle continues.

[quote author=TripleOh7 post=106615491][/quote]Jonathan completed the political restructuring process his government started. The recommendations were clear.

Jonathan begged a huge crowd of Yoruba in Lagos during the 2015 presidential campaign, to vote him for 2nd term so that he would have a friendlier NASS to implement the recommendations of the 2014 CONFAB, because the National Assembly members then were hostile to the CONFAB.
But Yoruba could not give Jonathan the winning votes he required in the SW states. Buhari won.
Even a dead Yoruba then would know that a president Buhari would not agree to political restructuring of Nigeria. Northern military dictators who created the lopsided political structure purposely did that to make northern region have more political and economic advantages far above the southern regions.

So why did Yoruba support and vote a president everyone knew would not yield to political restructuring of Nigeria?

okeyumez:
Mr Lie is right. Nigerian journalists are copy and paste. No investigative journalism. They write based on speculation and rumors. They don't emulate their counterpart in foreign countries who follows the military to war.
What we have in Nigeria are brown envelope journalists that follows useless politicians around

But the journalists are working under a government led by civilian dictatorship.

ogododo:
https://dailypost.ng/2021/10/10/again-lai-mohammed-accuses-media-of-under-reporting-military-successes/

Is Nigeria at war with another country?

Nigeria armed forces could have defeated Boko Haram if not for sabotage of the armed forces by Islamists.
Nigeria armed forces invading secessionists in the south are not doing the job of a country’s armed forces as they flout the law on self determination.

This Islamist called Lai Mohammed believes in the use of Nigeria’s armed forces to fight Jihad against some parts of Nigeria

TripleOh7:
Your SW people conspired with the north. Another beer parlor gist.

Name the SW people that you're talking about.

The Yorubas have always been in the vanguard of demanding for restructuring of this doomed nation called Nigeria.

One of the reasons Jonathan lost spectacularly in the Southwest.

The fool thought he could dangle the National Conference before us like a carrot.

He condemned Nigeria's political process... Yet he sat in that senate for 4 years and collected jumbo salary as well as wardrobe allowance, sitting allowance, traveling allowance etc.

All of you supporting these politicians, sometimes, I wonder about you guys. Maybe you are related to these people or something.

You boasted that your Yoruba have always been on the vanguard of political restructuring of Nigeria.

But your Yoruba group teamed up for APC in 2014 with northern groups that resent political restructuring of Nigeria.
Has your Yoruba influenced north in APC to subscribe to political restructuring of Nigeria since 2015?

GEJ tried the CONFAB which ended successfully. But APC’s PMB said he has thrown the recommendations of the CONFAB into a filing cabinet.
Don’t you see how difficult it is for any southern groups to depend on your Yoruba in the journey for political restructuring of Nigeria?

TripleOh7:
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Ask your daddy that. Awon asiwere. Ko were ko were gbogbo.

How many bills did your Twitter senator sponsor when he was senator?

How many times did he even get up on the floor of the Senate to contribute to the discussion at hand?

Ori gbogbo yin yi gutter. Be supporting politicians who have made your lives worthless and meaningless.

E he iya yen, aromo domo yin maaje ninu e pelu. E mura si.

At least he condemned Nigeria’s political process of unitary government system in a pluralistic country.

Your SW people conspired with the north to block the increase in %age derivation for oil producing states during Obasanjo’s National Political Reforms Conference.

The conference for political restructuring ended from there.

ThatFairGuy:
Emboldened!
We've gotten reason to vote you. We'll happily do [/b]

You and who are the we you had in mind?
Ewu Conspirator for political power in Nigeria.

Have you not realized that the previous conspiracy brought chaos to Nigeria?

stinechykee:
And some resident zombies here will always blame Igbos for fighting for their right after glaring injustice mated against Igbos in all spheres of their lives.FG will threat their Fulani Herdsmen people with Carrot while Igbos will be treated with Stick and evil Yorubas and their Housa/Fulanis masters will want Igbos not to stop IPOB/ESN that fight for them.

Buhari is providing the easiest route to disintegration process for Nigeria by sending army to crush the people of the south east.

Nellyvin:
By Punch Newspaper

https://punchng.com/its-ethnic-profiling-to-arrest-chiwetalu-while-gumi-continues-campaign-for-bandits-huriwa-tells-dss/?amp
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Ahmed Gunmi and the bandits are struggling for a Nigeria to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal justice system.

In 2001, Muhammadu Buhari told a huge crowd of Muslim faithfuls in Kaduna that he would not stop fighting until Islamic Sharia criminal justice system is applied in all the states of Nigeria.


One of the earliest demands of the Chief Justice of Nigeria Tanko Mohammed, appointed by PMB, was for Islamic Sharia criminal justice system be included in the 1999 constitution of Nigeria.

TripleOh7:
Awon Twitter senator.

Awon Boko Haram and bandits sympathizer?
Twitter is a mega means to disseminate information. Or do you live in the world of western education is Haram?

ThatFairGuy:
Give us one tangible reason Afonja skull miner, Almajiri, Fulani and all Muslim Terrorist Should vote Ndi Igbo in the forthcoming National election?

If you see yourself as Afonja skull miner, or Boko Haram sympathizer, or bandit or Talakawa almajiri, desire for continuation of equity driven country must make you vote Igbo to succeed PMB.
A country run on inequity inevitably grinds to a halt and splinters. By then your parasitic lifestyle comes to end. See your poor sense of divide and exclude and rule. After all the years of Yoruba and north ruled Nigeria, where is the country heading to? You still gnash your teeth about Nigeria.

Buckeyemedia1:
Then you think you can defeat that same majority by use of force? When it comes to using intellectuality mind over matter, you have already accepted defeat?, when they face you with force, you will also accept defeat.

Are you not ashamed of using force to coerce disagreeing spouse to continue in marriage with you? What sort of parasitism is that?
Even the force you boast of, you don’t have it.

Who expects the National Assembly to agree to division of Nigeria?

These northern people can be so miserably low in Intelligence quotient.

The same manner northern people ask southern people to come to the National Assembly for political restructuring, knowing full well that the National Assembly is overpopulated by northern legislators drawn from the excess number of states proliferated in Arewa by northern military dictators.

seunmsg:
He will not rest until the mission is accomplished. Nigeria need him now more than ever before. He’s experienced, competent, nationalistic, educated and influential enough to lead the country and set her on the path of greatness and shared prosperity.

With Tinubu as president, every region can go to sleep with their eyes closed because a nationalistic leader who will carry everybody along is on the throne. He will unite the country and give every region a sense of belonging. Even Kanu will drop Biafra agitation and accept a role in government once Tinubu strikes a deal with him. Tinubu’s presidency will be a win-win for all Nigerians.

Don’t you deem yourself more qualified to preside over Nigeria, than a sick and octogenarian Tinubu with loads of disheartening allegations against him?

Are you part of the younger generation of Nigerians who remain youths since 1984 when HoS, Muhammadu Buhari told them to prepare for leadership of Nigeria because the youths are the future leaders of Nigeria?

Tinubu is coming back to consign the presidency of Nigeria to another northerner since he does not believe in zoning/rotation of the presidency because it’s the turn of the Igbo to succeed PMB.

ThatFairGuy:
Yet Ekueme contested against OBJ?

Besides no one is stopping Ndi Igbo from contesting. They should f
Gather balls and stop attacking Yorubas[s]

If not that Nigeria’s power brokers then had already decided on rotating the presidency to the Yoruba, how could OBJ just freed from prison and with N20,000 in his bank account, defeat Alex Ekwueme who formed PDP?

If Yoruba support Igbo for president in 2023, presidency shall come to the south.

But if Yoruba want to preside over Nigeria for the 2nd time before the Igbo, north will resist rotation; northerner succeeds PMB.

PeaceJoyLove:
The problem with Ibo is that they want to behave holy holy. No one is saying Tinubu is not corrupt, but stop using other people's crime to justify yours. Let Obi Pandora accept he messed up. Everyone knows Tinubu is not clean. But making Obi look clean and blaming other for your misfortune is not the way forward. This is childish.

I am sure Obi Pandora will get away with this issue too if he was indicted by a Nigerian body. But he is caught by international body, and his political career is dented and over. Leave with it. Jagaban will meet his too. If you can bend him, do so. I want you to stop him so another more qualified candidate can step in. But dont stop him cos Obi Pandora has been stopped. You will only make him more popular through this. Stop him cos it is the right thing to do. Bringing in this case cos of Obi Pandora is childish. Shame on you. Shame shame shame. Bring it on at the time to stop him. I want you to do it cos it will make me happy seeing Jagaban stopped.

What misfortune of the Igbo? Are you stupid to not understand that you are in big trouble and most unfortunate in Nigeria long ruled by only Yoruba and the north?

Now Tinubu Yoruba group begs north to use Rotation to make south succeed PMB.

But Tinubu’s Yoruba group is like not willing to use Rotation in the south because it’s the turn of the Igbo to succeed PMB.

ShophistiWretched, do you think north shall then allow rotation if Tinubu’s group disallows rotation in the south?

Has the presidential campaign of Tinubu started?
If he leads the SW to deny the fact

In 1999, Nigeria ceded the presidency of Nigeria to the Yoruba.
Rotation was in the details
Today, even Yoruba is like they want to preside over Nigeria for the third time while the Igbo is yet to do one.

A condition before the SE governors understand that Nigeria is not a country for the Igbos?

Shame sold in the market place in desperation for one Nigeria because of cheap cash from crude oil.

Why did they not teach the present government leadership that the richest countries in the world have no crude oil?

At last, you will lose the one Nigeria you ere humiliating people for.

Muslim votes.

But Muslim can’t succeed Muslim PMB in Nigeria equally divided between Moslems and Christians.

See house.

Little wonder Soldiers from the north now burn decent houses in the east.

michlins:
You stole 13%, even they give you guys 100% you will still loot it.

But it's ok to shout at least it will give your people someone else to blame other than your irresponsible governors.

Shey your son was the president for years but not a single significant project was started and completed in your region but that is not a problem.

Nddc and ministry of Niger Delta commission together can't commission a significant project after awarding trillions of naira contracts.

But it's ok to blame the federal government

Negative propaganda.

The 50% was what the SS leaders demanded at the National Political Reforms Conference of then President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The SS and the SE were of the same demand then.

But the SW teamed up with the north and refused the 50% demand.

The SS and the SE withdrew from the conference; that’s how the conference emded abruptly.

onumadu:
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Governor-Nyesom-Wike-of-Rivers-State-and-his-Delta-State-counterpart-Ifeanyi-Okawa-at-the-government-house-Port-Harcourt-on-Monday.-Photo-Dennis-Naku.-696x343-1.jpg

I have this nagging feeling that this is mere grandstanding, positioning for 2023 PDP presidential zoning going on now.

Anytime persons who never associated with Igbo or South east start dressing in Igbo attire, you should smell a rat.


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211008-WA0012.jpg

See Kalu doing his own positioning, in Igbo attire of course. lol

What is smelling rat in a Chibuike Amaechi or Ifeanyi Okowa dressing in Igbo attire and asking to be Igbo president of president?

Odili from Rivers state was stopped by Obasanjo, El-Rufai and the then EFCC chairman from becoming PDP presidential candidate in 2007, because Odili is Igbo.

Good move, though belated.

Arewa refuses restructuring of Nigeria politically after Arewa used its military dictators to sew new states and local government areas like seeds in the old northern region purposely to draw cheap cash from crude oil from the south to the northern region.

Arewa draws excess number of Reps from the states to the Nass. Each time the south asks for political restructuring, north tells the south to come to the National Assembly for political restructuring, knowing full well that the Nass is overpopulated by northern legislators.

presidency:
Series of reactions have typically attended the October 1 broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark the 61st anniversary of our Independence Day. These include the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. That’s democracy in action, with its propensity and predilections for freedom of speech.

My motive in this piece is to consider parts of the broadcast that look into our very essence, our raison-d-etre as a country, and how the ties that bind can be further strengthened. Okay, let’s go.

“Fellow Nigerians, the past 18 months have been some of the most difficult periods in the history of Nigeria. Since the civil war, I doubt whether we have seen a period of more heightened challenges than what we have witnessed in this period.”

Factual. Straight as an arrow. Deadpan. Our President is not one to mince words, speak facetiously or tongue-in-cheek. He says it as it is.

We have, indeed, passed through the most challenging of times in the past 18 months: security-wise, economically, socio-politically, and in many other ways. Life has descended into the Hobbesian state of nature; nasty, brutish and short. But God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy. We are still here, standing, hoping, trusting. Better days will come, and are, indeed, coming. Challenges are meant to be surmounted. Accepting that they are real is the first practical step to combating them. The Buhari administration is not glossing over our issues, but is rather facing them squarely. And that is why #We Believe. Some governments lie to their people. No, not the Buhari government.

“In the last four months, the gallant men and women of the military and security agencies have made tremendous progress in addressing these new security challenges. We are taking the fight to our enemies from all angles, and we are winning.”

God bless our troops! From the air, the land, the waters, they are defending us, routing out the evil and wicked. They pay heavy prices, even the ultimate sacrifice, but they keep at it. Nigeria must be free, and must be at peace. By force! We appreciate. We are winning all the wars, we are not looking back. With the banners before us, we are sure of victory. I say it again: God bless our troops! Amen.

Believe this President when he tells you that “in line with section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the security and welfare of Nigerians continue to be the prime focus on which programmers and projects of our government revolve.” When Muhammadu Buhari tells you something, you can take it to the bank. Believe!

Some people incite violence through words or actions, thus exacerbating the security challenges we have. You wonder where they are from, and why they would further stoke a burning fire with incendiary materials.

There is one funny Senator who talks about the mismanagement of our diversity as a country, yet he daily uses foul language against those in leadership. He stood surety for someone bent on dismemberment of the country, and when that one vanished, and he should have been cooling his feet in prison, the Senator still spews rubbish. Chief ‘mismanager’ of our diversity. And the President had words for him and his ilk, who exist round the country.

“We are ready to arrest and prosecute all persons inciting violence through words or action. Our resolve for a peaceful, united and one Nigeria remains resolute and unwavering...

“The seeds of violence are planted in people’s heads through words. Reckless utterances of a few have led to losses of many innocent lives and destruction of properties.”

How very true! The reckless utterances come even from the pulpit; from apostles, pastors and bishops. From the mosques; from sheikhs and mallams, from the newspapers, radio, television, Internet, everywhere. From the very old, the young, male, female. They just say incautious, thoughtless, imprudent things that swell up, and lead to violence, sorrow, tears and blood.

Yes, a government must work for harmony, amity and concord in the land. But when these characters would not relent in being ‘opposite people’, what should be done? The President addresses it in the broadcast. “Our hope is not to fight for peace. We can always settle our grievances without spilling any blood...We shall continue to work on dialogue based solutions to address legitimate grievances. But we remain ready to take decisive actions against secessionist agitators and their sponsors who threaten our national unity.”

True. Government must have biceps. It must be strong, and show strength. Otherwise, it will be taken for a ride, and soon, will become a king sitting on an empty throne. We must embrace peace and dialogue, whatever our grievances. All of us do have these things that rile, vex and outrage us. You have, I have. Is the next thing then to upset the applecart? No, blessed be the ties that bind us, and those ties should remain resolute, unwavering. “Nigeria is for all of us...and its ultimate success can only be achieved if we all come together with a common goal of having peace and prosperity for our nation.”

Other weighty matters that the President touched on include the fact that Nigeria does not start and end with the Federal Government. “This country is a great collective where Government at all arms and levels as well as the private sector, and more importantly individuals, have a role to play.”

He stressed that security is a bottom to top undertaking, in which we must all join hands together. That is why it is amusing to see people deliberately light fire at their communities, wards, local councils, states, and then call on Buhari to come and put out the fire. It doesn’t work that way. Security is a bottom to top undertaking. And unity is a collective resolve.

Two more points, and I’m done. Nigeria must go beyond a never-ending potential for becoming a great nation to an actually great one. Many presidents have said it. Shehu Shagari. Olusegun Obasanjo. Umaru Yar’Adua. Goodluck Jonathan. But here we are today, still just a country with potentials. But I tell you, under Muhammadu Buhari, those inherent capacities and capabilities are being unearthed, utilized, and we are on our way there. It’s just to stay focused, and we’ll get to our Canaan, flowing with milk and honey.

Finally, my brethren. President Buhari said a lot has been achieved in the past six years on many fronts: in infrastructure, social care, governance, Nigeria’s image and influence in Africa and the international community. He added: “But critics misdiagnose incremental progress as stagnation. Since coming to power, this Administration has tackled our problems head-on in spite of the meager resources. No government since 1999 has done what we have done in six years to put Nigeria back on track.”

Bull’s eye! And I challenge those who kept us in the slave market for 16 years, and threatened to keep us cabined, cribbed and consigned for 60 years, to controvert it. I join Minister Raji Fashola, SAN, to challenge them to show us one major road project they started and completed in 16 years. One major bridge, rail project, airport they built, despite the humongous resources at their disposal. Let them speak up now, or forever hold their peace.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

Military forces worldwide are established for the purpose of warding off external aggressors.
A distorted political structure, constitution and drive for Nigeria to be governed by sharia criminal laws are political issues to be tackled by politicians.

Armed forces are brute. They don’t solve political problems.

You must be like Saddam Hussein’s Chemical Ali who would not tell his boss that Americans are capable of conquering Iraq.
You tell the president that Nigeria’s armed forces can force Nigerians to succumb to use of brute force of the armed forces to subdue the tens of millions of Nigerians who refuse the skewed and lopsided political structure, unitary government system in a plurally religious and ethnic country like Nigeria. All these are to enable you earn the crumbs from your master’s table .

Tell your masters to first denounce Islamic Sharia criminal justice system, disband the Boko Haram military wing for enforcement to rest of Nigeria.