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Me sef:
OH, HOW I LOVE OBAHIAGBON!

AT LEAST HE WOULD ALWAYS COMPEL SOME OF US TO CHECK OUT THE MEANING OF WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY. I'M NOT SURE HE HAS THE SAME EFFECT ON HIS LAZY COLLEAGUES IN THE HOUSE.

I believe he would have made an impression on them.

Surely they will not inform him when sharing loot but I believe his personality is helping him.

Otherwise dem for don kill am by now for saying the truth.

In PDP internal affairs, the PDP constitution is the will of the many and is the primary law.

In the context of the PDP internal affairs the Nigerian Constitution is a secondary law.

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The man has passion.

The NASS must be a vehicle of social re-engineering indeed.

Soludo for VP.

koruji:
Isn't the onus on you to show where the PDP constitution supports your argument? That's one.
Two, when a party's constitution contradicts the national constitution it becomes null and void. Just like a state cannot make laws that contradict the Federal Law, a party cannot make such laws. Such laws are as good as if they were never made. So, if the PDP constitution contains a law that illegally prevents legitimate contestants from seeking any office of the land, then it is null and void.

The PDP Constitution is not in conflict with the Nigerian Constitution because you do not have to belong to the PDP.
A State Constitution becomes void when in conflict with the Nigerian Constitution  because all within the State have right to live in their State as Nigerians and if the laws of the State tramples on their fundamental Human rights as Nigerians then the law must be changed because most times they have no where else to go.

A political party is a union of people who freely associate based on shared political values. You do not have to be a member, if you do not agree with them then you leave the association and form your own. There is no need associating with people you are meant to agree with only to turn around and disagree with them.

The Nigerian Constitution gives you the right to associate freely, but it is not the place of the Constitution to define how you must relate with your friends. If you join an organisation then you are bound by the rules of the organisation, when you no longer agree with the organisation and you believe that the organisation is trampling on your fundamental human rights. You can only quit.

It is not for you to use the Nigerian Constitution to impose the will of the few over the will of the many.

The Constitution gives Jonathan the right to run for election. He can pursue that right by leaving PDP. If he wants to remain in PDP then he should subject himself to internal PDP rules.

There is a difference between Nigerian Constitution and PDP constitution.

When you join an organisation you have a duty to subject yourself to the rules of the organisation. If you don't like the organisation then by all means quit.

It is like a tennant disregarding his tenancy agreement not to host noisy parties in his flat and claiming that the Nigerian constitution gives him the right to associate freely.

If you do not like the agreement you entered into then quit.

Jonathan should leave the PDP if he does not like the zoning formula.

South Africa works

Under Zuma they effectively hosted the World Cup.

The country is stable and their economy is growing.

What has Jonathan done? Depleted the foreign reserve, depleted excess crude account, promoting corruption.

Zuma was cleared by court of law, and yet you call him corrupt? Is this how you people judge others?

This is why an Atiku that is yet to be convicted by any court of law in the world is being branded corrupt.

Thanks for posting the pictures again though.

Atiku is headed for the Presidency. He is truly Nigeria's Jacob Zuma. And certainly better than the clueless GEJ.

bababuff:
We shall see.

Why did'nt OBJ use his incumbency to achieve 3rd term?

Just like OBJ was stopped, Jonathan will be stopped.

Folks also remember the Atiku has not been convicted of anything.

The Jefferson case said he was going to be bribed. But he is yet to be bribed and hence no crime has been convicted.

If the American court had enough evidence they would have convicted Atiku in absentia.

The man has not beein convicted by any court for anything.

Once upon a time Jacob Zuma was accused of everything under the Sun.
From bribery, to kick backs, to adultry . . . . They even said he had aids.

He stood down as VP of South Africa but eventually became the comeback kid of South African politics by wresting control of ANC from Thabo Mbeki.

Atiku is about to do the same in Nigeria.

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Sorry Jonathan Camp were only celebrating their political defeat 2 days ago.

Emeka Js:
Anyway, you are saying this because you are not an Igbo, we the Igbos have already benefited so much from GEJ since he became Presido, countless things that we have been crying for the Abokis to do for us. Good examples are; Army Chief after 44 years, international airport after 50 years and many more. GEJ 4 live!!!

Sorry before Jonathan became President the CDS was Igbo. His office is higher than that of Chief of Staff.

confetti:
Its a pity men like Ekwueme, Nnamani and Soludo are aligning themselves with men of questionable character all in the name of interest albeit selfish.

When all is said and done, the North will definitely leave them behind, massacre Igbos in the North, loot their hard earned resources and the will come home empty. My only pity is that it will be the poor Igbos that will bear the Brunt of their political prostitution. Imagine Soludo, I can't believe him even with all the knowledge. Indeed, the love of money, power nd pleasure is the roof of all evil.

and who says Jonathan Goodluck is not a man of questionable character?

Now the real politics has kicked off.

Watch Prof Chukwuma Soludo will emerge VP to Atiku.

With that and with the Support of Alex Ekwueme and Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu will soon fall in line and the one after the other the political establishment of the South East will line up behind Atiku.

No be by being the front runner, watch Jonathan Goodluck get the Thabo Mbeki treatment. Remember Thabo Mbeki loose the machinery of ANC to former VP Jacob Zuma while Mbeki was still President? Remember Zuma eventually becoming the President of South Africa?

That card is about to be played out in Nigeria.

Ojukwu, Ekwueme, Nnamani, Soludo, Ben Obi, are political movers and shakers in the South East.

Ralph Uwechue is a toy in SouthEast politics. With time South East Governors will realise this.

Ignore Jonathan, let him keep sharing Nigeria's money in the name of running for elections.

igbobuigbo:
They should expunge Orji Kalu's name for any VP position. He is not fit to lead dogs, let alone humans.

What did you expect from a news report that originated from the SUN?

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This man reminds me of when Emeka Anyaoku was Foreign Minister.

I don't know why whe elect thugs as leaders and now use the gentlemen and real leaders as Cabinet Ministers.

Did Uwechue say anything new? I really don't think so! And I wonder what the whole hullabaloo is about. The new thing is the method Uwechue chose to communicate his feelings. I am disappointed with Uwechue and here's why: Uwechue spoke as if those problems of Ndigbo in Nigeria have been finally resolved, and therefore he is at liberty to peddle his opinions about our past leader. For heavens sake he is the Ohanaeze President and didn't need to educate the whole world about Ojukwu's faults as a leader. He has the ears of all Igbo chieftains and all Igbo. His Job is to work to unite Ndigbo in all parts of Nigeria. He is not doing that.
If he thinks that the tendency to repeat the past mistakes still exist (which I strongly doubt), pray whose job is it to fix it? Is he fixing it by launching attacks on the one individual that strikes fear in the enemy of Ndigbo? So he should communicate those things through the channels of Ime-Obi or Aka Ikenga. He is free to speak as an Igbo person after he resigned his position. It was irresponsible of him to make those statements concerning Ojukwu's personality. Igbo people say that "E Ji egbe mgbo di na nke mgbo adighi we chupu onye iro" (You use both loaded and unloaded guns to drive out the enemy!) Afterall only you know which of your guns are loaded! I'm disappointed in these statements. I am far younger than the Ohanaeze chieftain but I wouldn't make those statements! Uwechue should wait until his term is over before making any similar statements.

The Ohanaeze chieftain may not know it, but Igbo have since learned all the lessons necessary from our war experience, which is why Igbo approach to Nigeria and Biafra today is markedly different than what happened in the past.

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^^^^^

How did we elect a man like Uwechue?

This man is selling out the South East to his South South roots and must be stopped.

How can a man who have no respect for Ojukwu be trusted with the future of Ndigbo?

Uwechue’s bomb on Biafra

• The making of sensational civil war revelation
By ONUOHA UKEH
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Elder statesman and President-General of the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Chief Raph Uwechue, has sensationally revealed, in a book, how ego and quest for absolute control by Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu ruined Biafra.

He said, in the book, Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War – Facing the Future, that Ojukwu adopted a maximum ruler posture, shunned advice as well as believed in his won judgment, factor, which he said, caused the failure of the break away of the Eastern Nigeria.

He said: “By keeping Ojukwu constantly enveloped in an atmosphere of superiority, it made him, as a matter of habit, distrustful and disdainful of other people’s judgment, impatient with their opinions and finally simply authoritarian.”

Uwechue had visited the corporate headquarters of The Sun sometime ago and while fielding questions from a team of senior editors, he spoke about pre-independence Nigeria, the politics after independence, civil war and the country after the war. He had promised to send to The Sun copies of his book: Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War – Facing the Future, a revised and expanded edition of his previous book, Reflection on the Nigerian Civil War – A Call for Realism. The book was reprinted in 2004. True to his promise, the elder statesman sent copies of the book, which turned out to be expository.

Indeed, the 199-page book told the story of the first military coup in the country, the second military coup, the crisis after the second coup, the meetings to forestall a war, the secession of the eastern part of the country and the efforts to end the war. The book also has two epilogues, where the author analysed the fall of Biafra, in the topic: The Genesis of Failure and also there is the examination of government structure, in the topic: An Elastic Federal Union.

Reading Chief Uwechue’s book, we found The Genesis of Failure very interesting and, therefore, decided to reproduce it. The chapter talked about the things, in the author’s opinion, caused the failure of the Biafra Republic. He pointedly laid the blamed on Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who led Biafra. He said that Ojukwu lacked tact, never took advice, suffered what could pass for inferiority complex and was power drunk. In the opening paragraph of that chapter, Uwechue said: “It is a sad but instructive irony that Lt. Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, one of Africa’s one-time most brilliant political promises, was the man that led his own people with such a lack of ingenuity into what was clearly a foreseeable disaster.” He said that the personality of Ojukwu robbed off negatively on Biafra, adding: “It can be said for the Nigerian Civil War that the personality of Odumegwu Ojukwu more than any other single factor determined much of the course and certainly the character of the end of the Biafran adventure.”

The elder statesman said, in the book, that Ojukwu was ambitious and, therefore, paid attention only to the “politics of the war” instead of the security of the people he led. He said that owing to Ojukwu’s interest, two wars were fought with the territory of Biafra then: “The first was for the survival of the Ibos as a race. The second was for the survival of Ojukwu’s leadership.” He said that Ojukwu was more interested in the survival of his leadership at that time, which, he said: “Proved fatal for the Ibos” during the war.

The Ohanaeze chieftain said that if Ojukwu were smart enough to understand the politics of alliances in the country, Biafra could have survived. According to him, there was an opportunity for Ojukwu to align with the Western Region then, but he did not see the necessity for that. He said that this opportunity came when the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was released from prison by General Yakubu Gowon and he declared: If “the Eastern Region was pushed out of the federation, Western Nigeria would quit the federation as well.” According to him, Ojukwu should have taken that declaration as a cue and wooed the Western Region.

Uwechue said that another opportunity also came the way of Ojukwu to forge an East-West alliance when Awolowo visited Enugu, as Gowon’s emissary. According to him, what Ojukwu needed was to bring Awolowo to his side, but he did not utilize the opportunity and ended up describing the meeting as “ill-conceived child.”
He had revealed: “When on 7th May 1967 the Yoruba leader (Awolowo) came to Enugu at the head of a reconciliation committee, Ojukwu had a handsome opportunity to play his card. He missed. Dr. Michael Okpara, who still enjoyed popular support in Eastern Nigeria and whose friendship with Chief Awolowo had sustained the UPGA alliances, was not even invited to meet Chief Awolowo. After a hurried reception, Chief Awolowo’s delegation left Eastern Nigeria.”

He said that Gowon, understanding the way alliances worked in the country, had wooed Western Nigeria, first by releasing Awolowo from prison and second, by not only offering him an appointment, but also making him the highest civilian in the government as the vice president of the Federal Executive Council. According to him, by this appointment, there was an “unspoken understanding that Nigeria was his (Awolowo’s) as soon as the war was over and the army withdrew.” He said that this cemented the relation between the Northern Region and Western Region and, therefore, left the east in the lurch.

Uwechue said that within Biafra, Ojukwu alienated talented Igbo, using iron hand to establish his authority. Towards this end, he said that Dr. Okpara, former premier of Eastern Nigeria, was jailed as well as others. “These political figures were to remain out of favour and far from the corridor of power, except for their occasional utility as window dressing, such as posing for photographs with General Ojukwu or flanking him on ceremonial occasions,” he wrote.

He said that the same thing happened in the army, as Ojukwu suppressed officers and, therefore, had a “timid army tamed to unquestionable obedience.”

The elder statesman said that Ojukwu had the opportunity of using the diplomatic front to sell Biafra, but that instead of doing this he shunned advice, especially on the need for compromise. He said that when the war dragged, many eminent Igbo advised Ojukwu to asked for a confederal nation, which would keep Biafra within Nigeria and also give it adequate local autonomy, but this was not only rejected but also those who suggested it were witch-hunted.

He said: “The climax came on 7th of September 1968, just before the OAU summit meeting in Algiers. A number of anxious Ibos, including Dr. Azikiwe, former president of Nigeria, Dr. Michael Okpara, former premier of Eastern Nigeria (Biafra), Dr. K. O. Dike, former rector of Ibadan University and myself made a formal recommendation in which we told General Ojukwu that as Africa was sympathetic to the Ibo cause, but at the same time opposed to secession, he should use the opportunity of the Algiers meeting to seek OAU guarantee for a confederal arrangement, such as was agreed at Aburi (Ghana). General Ojukwu not only rejected this advice outright but also asked some of us to recant or resign. Dr. Azikiwe left Paris in disgust and went to London in voluntary exile. I myself chose to resign.”

Uwechue said that Ojukwu saw himself as a supremo during the war and only trusted his own judgment. In trying to explain why this could have been so, he said: “To this special development of his ego and the feeling of self-sufficiency was added the confidence acquired from an Oxford University milieu and from the fact of his father’s great wealth. Back to Nigeria, Ojukwu soon joined the army, where, as an officer, he got more accustomed to giving orders and receiving prompt obedience than meeting opposition and arguments.” He said that Ojukwu found himself always at the “giving end” rather than at the “receiving end,” adding: “By keeping Ojukwu constantly enveloped in an atmosphere of superiority, it made him, as a matter of habit, distrustful and disdainful of other people’s judgment, impatient with their opinions and finally simply authoritarian.”

The elder statesman concluded that owing to Ojukwu’s attitude, Biafra failed. He said that the failure was mainly a “political one,” which, according to him, “was, in turn, the failure of the leadership, which firstly, made a wrong tactical choice – outright secession – instead of maneouvring appropriately for vital political alliances within Nigeria and exploiting in that context the numerous weaknesses of its opponents.” He said that by breaking out of the country, “the Biafran leadership abandoned the Nigerian field to those who had then only recently wrenched federal control from the Ironsi government, thus uniting various shades of political opinions in the country behind the new federal authorities, as had never been the case before in Nigeria’s political history, in defence of Nigerian unity.”

OBJ's 3rd term agenda was on track untill the moment it came to actually cast the votes, a lot changed. 3rd term agenda crashed. I see Jonathan crumbling like a pack of cards in the 11th hour.

At the most deciding moment, the South East Governors who will be going for their 2nd term in office will remember that if Zoning is upheld and IBB is elected to power then there is a chance that some of them will play very crucial roles in whoever will emerge in 2015 since they the SE Governors will be completing their two terms in office by then. At that point these Governors will uphold their future over whatever pact they currently have with GEJ.

Ignore all the psycophancy and the milking of GEJ going on.

At that moment Gov Sylva will jump ship so that Jonathan will stop controlling him, Oyinlola will remember that IBB was his man in the Army and this whole noise will come down crumbling. Isa Yuguda will at that time remember that he can not take a direction different from the will of the rest of the political establishment in Bauchi and then Nigeria will make history. Unsitting an incumbent President for the first time.

I see the Thabo Mbeki treatment in the ANC on the way. The question is, who will be Nigeria's Jacob Zuma of the PDP?

Obiagu1:
@ beaf, when did OBJ leave office?

Ignore the fool

This is how he goes on abusing others based on half baked knowledge

chyz1:
I don't get it. Is it that these group of igbos are weak or what? They don't know how to deal with these kidnappers/robbers? I think the best thing to do is send some Igbos from Anamba or Imo to that area of Abia state to whip those people up very well.

Osisi now has AK47s and General Purpose Machines he inherited from his apperentice under Ateke Tom and you are talking sending people to whip them up.

Terrorism is now spreading in the South and we need a strong leader who will call these terrorists bluff.

@OP

Am beginning to rethink the amnesty programme and whether enough thought process went into it.

It is clear we now have a loop where every thug can now cause more violence just to get into the amnesty programme.

very unfortunate.

Ndigbo do not need an Ateke Tom, nor a Fara Dagogo, nor a Henry Okah, nor an Asari Dokubo.

Anybody who has information about Osisikankwu should pass it to the police or at least share the info on the internet so that this thief can be arrested.

We will wish him luck and hope for the best for Nigeria

Nigeria is not only Nigeria when certain people win elections

If majority do vote IBB then that is the voice of the majority and must be respected.

The same goes for Jonathan.

onye_okwu:
sharrap silly naughty woman am not even sure if you re igbo
bleep out of here and stop sowing seed of discord among the igbos
i wonder who dash u igbo name sef

what was ur previous name?

Bannom or Nsiman carry on so that Jonathan will keep paying you with our common wealth that he looted.

Why do you think you need two names anyway?

banom:
IBB paid internet posters, continue, after all, you have already had a shot at thge loot.

Jonathan paid internet posters continue defending the indefensible afterall you have collected your share of the loot.

because Saraki and IBB are not Hausa-Fulani