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The Yorubas, Religion and 2015

By Olugbenga Pelumi.


With keen interest and optimism, Have been following the political proceedings of the country as 2015 moves closer.
What is the ROLE of the Yorubas??
I doubt if any yoruba would contest for the presidential post but they will surely be one of the major factors that will decide the fate of the aspirants.

Hithertho, There are rumours circulating online about a BUHARI/FASHOLA ticket which has triggered debates in some quarters with political analysts suggesting it may spell doom in a circular and religious country like Nigeria.

While I'm an ambassador of equality and equal representation, I will forever be an advocate of a society where competence trumps religion. Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola May Be A Muslim But He Has Never Shown Any iota of marginalisation towards the christians in lagos, south-west and Nigeria at large.

Have spent some quite number of years in lagos and it took me a while to know he is a muslim, Why Because in yoruba land, We prioritize Omoluabi before religion, We're first Omo Karo Ojire Before We're muslims or Christians, We're first decendants of Oduduwa before we're followers of Jesus and Mohammed. This is why most yorubas will vote for competency and not religion.

If APC should field Buhari and Fashola today, I will decide their fate based on competence and not on religion, I'm not saying they will have my vote but what I am trying to point out is that if I don't vote for them, It doesn't mean because they're both muslims. I know some muppets and irrelevant political nit-wits like femi fani-Kayode will say nonsense if fashola is paired with another muslim, His recent tweets are a pointer to this fact.

People like FFK should cover their face in shame. They are a total disgrace to Oduduwas, Under this present administration, the yorubas have been marginalised enormously!!.

Senate president should had been zoned to us but they decided to give it to their ally, We should have been given House of reps speaker as a consolation but they refused to honour and respect the yorubas, they didn't stop there, We've never produced a CBN governor and when it came lacking, We were overlooked once again, Key ministerial posts like Finance, Petroleum, Information were not given to us also, These present folks have said What can we do and the yorubas would say "Eni Bani Ki La Fe Se,Oun Lama Se Han" and This is why I am disappointed in the likes of Obanikoro and FFK. Instead of them to fight for our rights, Let them tell Jonathan enough of this marginalisation, A yoruba should be the one presiding over the senate but they allowed Mark to continue. We can't go through 8years of irrelevance, marginalisation and lack of respect!.

Back to the main point, Yorubas don't practise politics of religion, We don't care who represent us, Let him be a christian, a muslim or even an ogun, obatala or sango worshipper, We don't care. All we care about is competence and leadership qualities.

Hence, If Fashola is paired alongside a muslim for the presidential ticket, You jonathanian propagandist and loyalists shouldn't think you can derail us with religious sentiments, If we want to vote for him, We will vote for him, He is an omoluabi and omo akin, And omo akin no dey do OJO, Em no dey fear!.

2015 will soon get hotter and I'm ready literally, Let all those Jonathan apologists come out from their holes and attack me here for telling them what they don't want to here (They will always meet me at home).

Why should I vote Jonathan.
A man who doesn't respect my root.
I will not re-elect anybody that marginalises my people!.

Mayor of Lagos has endorsed this message!

Omololu007:
the igbos hate we yorubas,dey are even refferin to APC as a yoruba party,I will rather die dan to vote for apga or any omo ibo

Ibos are 45% Lagos, 45% Kano, 60% Abuja, 100% Alaibo.....yet APGA, an Ibo party, has 0% influence in everyone of these locales or anywhereelse in Nigeria.

What's wrong with Igbo

IGBOSON1:
Dude! Just what is it with you and Ndigbo!?

do you know what "ndigbo" stand for?

Ndig - is short for indigene

Ndigbo means the Indigene of Iboland.

Count me in! .

Are you from Anambra?

@patience,

dont bother...we will do it for you!

It is heartbreaking that we the Igbos have become politically irrelevant and directionless. No one is interested in articulating an agenda that will move the zone forward.

I visited my ancestral home, Ufuma in Anambra state this past weekend, and once again realised that a lot of Igbos haven’t moved past the bigoted notion they have towards the APC and its candidates.

It was so bad that I almost got cursed by elders in my community when I said the APC and Buhari have a chance of ruling the country come May 29th. They said, ‘How can you claim to be a son of the soil and be supporting that Yoruba party?’

My discussion with the elders and even educated youths revealed that many people from my home town neither support Buhari nor the All Progressives Congress.

Questions that ended up running through my mind were: What is the Igbo agenda in the current political dispensation? Who are those articulating it? Why are Ndigbo reluctant to engage the wind of change currently blowing in the country? What is their reason for the fixation with the status quo?

Many of the people masquerading as Igbo leaders are individuals of questionable character preoccupied with only pecuniary objectives.

The educated youths who even agreed that the current administration had performed below expectation swore that they would rather continue with this administration than vote for the opposition which they see as the enemy.

What crossed my mind after the rants from my village elders and youth was that many have not moved past the hurt from the civil war.

Yes, it is an important part of our national history but isn’t it about time we moved on? Could it be the main reason to like or hate Buhari and the northerners? So, what about Olusegun Obasanjo? What about the Ijaws who took over our abandoned properties in Port Harcourt?

To my mind, and the minds of many young Igbo men, the Ijaw, who colluded with other majority tribes and benefited mostly in the acquisition of properties and wealth in Port Harcourt from a tribe lying helplessly prostrate from a civil war, committed a greater atrocity towards the Igbos.

The Yorubas recently came out to declare that they would not waste their votes for anyone without demanding something in return. Have the Igbo made any similar declaration? What have they gotten from the PDP for the past 16 years to continue to ‘dash’ them votes?

Will the Ijaw presidency guarantee a national redress on the injustice of the civil war and the abandoned property saga? Will President Jonathan, as an Ijaw, a ethnic group that orchestrated and benefited from the abandoned property saga, compensate the Igbo the same way he has guaranteed amnesty to the Niger Delta militants?

Have Ndigbo asked for all of these, especially since a continued support for the south south may jeopardise fresh investments in wealth acquisition in places like Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri, Jos, Bauchi, Zaria, Ibadan, Lagos, Abeokuta and Lokoja?

You will recall that Ndigbo subconsciously redirected their business investments to these new territories as a result of the sense of insecurity following the abandoned property saga. Will they now jeopardise all of these new investments and wealth accumulation in support of the kinsman of the same tribe that stripped them of their old wealth?

Why are we not assessing the candidates on what they can offer the nation as a whole? What plans do they have to develop our textile industry, commerce and our other areas of comparative advantage?

What plans do they have to develop Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi where our industry and entrepreneurship are defined daily? How can we expand the infrastructure and capabilities in these cities and expand opportunities for our creative youth population? Does a leader have to be a Christian or a Muslim to attend to these needs? How come Igbo leaders have been unable to demand and extract some of these promises from our politicians? Must we continue to play the second fiddle in this country?

It is heartbreaking that we the Igbos have become politically irrelevant and directionless. No one is interested in articulating an agenda that will move the zone forward. No one considers why someone as comfortable as Eze Festus Odimegwu will throw his support behind Buhari or why President Jonathan’s kinsmen are beginning to reconsider their support for their son.

What you hear when you travel around the Igbo states are unsubstantiated rumours and unjustifiable fixation over the history of yester-years. I will not join my uncles to continue to bemoan the past. I have chosen to engage the present and project, positively, for the future.

Although it’s no crime for one to openly cherish his candidate, as everyone has the right to vote his preferred candidate, the Ndigbo should advance beyond ethnic and religious bigotry and reassess its strategies strictly against the present realities on ground vis the opportunities offered by all political parties. After all, most of the leading political parties have members spread across the ethnic mix in the whole country.

The civil war, regrettable as it was, is in the past. It is a past that even Nigeria has chosen to pretend never existed. It is a past that the curriculum officials have refused to recognise and approve to be taught to our young people officially. But if we continue to dwell on the past, there is no moving forward for us.

The civil war ended 45 years ago and if care is not taken, we may lose out in this current political war. We are losing it already unless we redefine our current priorities from an individual to a group survival and sustaining agenda. For a people so talented and resourceful, this will be nothing but tragic.

The Opinion expressed by Ugo Okeke, the author of the article, does not represent the opinion of Mayor of Lagos.

http://ynaija.com/ndigbo-agenda-match-realities-elections-2015/

waternogetenemy:
MAYOROFLAGOS HATES IGBO BUT YET 99% OF IS THREAD ARE ABOUT IGBOS. U NEED HELP!

Nwafor...why you dey jealous your brother nau, hehn

waternogetenemy:
@MayorofLagos


As long as u dont leave my tribe out of your rabbis mouth, u are in for trouble.


Y not start a thread about ur yoruba tribe on nairaland?


Them take igbo do juju for u?


90% of all your thread are igbo?


Are u mad?

lmao..

hey, mama Chinyere told me when you marry Ibo woman you become Ibo! I'll never forget that.

Are you from Anambra, why you jealous me so much sef?

dmyke:
Third visit in three years! Wow! Congrats!

This Imo people sef. Wetin dey pursue una from una homeland? How can someone be bragging that he is about to visit his own state for just the third time in three years? Na wa o

Imo people are my in laws, so yeah, Imo is my home too since I fvck Imo pouzzzy.

So where are you from?

EggovinMma:
And you are even a grown up , married man with white hairs on your huge blockus.JESUS CHRIST OF NDI ARA!!!!

yes ke, i like how u say "huge blockus'.....and then shout Jesus Christ on top of that! Oouuhh, you should come get some...the white hair, black hair, green hair, red hair, yellow hair, they add flavor and spice.....bend you over, make you holler JESUS CHRIST OF NDI ARA!!

EggovinMma:
Lol.I have noticed you love talking so much about the igbos.



.I understand....

lol......mmmhwa back!

Every where i go i see beautiful women kissing Buhari picture.....i think Nigeria is about to experience the same social phenomenon where, with massive backing from women and professionals across the racial divide, Americans choose Obama as President.

Traditionally in any society women are the ones who shape culture...through the actions of men they bend society to their will.

Buhari kissers speak for many Nigerian women who have chosen to bend our will and make General our next President.

This is not good for PDP.

Redoil:
that letter/editorial was written by a frustrated and stupido claw face man from south west shamellesly using an ndigbo name.

Fool, i say what state are u from? Speak up

We are going home next week, my mother in law is getting recognition from their clan head....she gonna get a title. Im excited, it will be my third visit to Imo in three years. They treat me like Im King..

God bless Imo people, All Anambrarians can kiss mah @$$

God dey o!

By Tiko Emmanuel Okoye
I'm not unmindful of the outrageous things being majorly noised about the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC), Muhammadu Buhari in the southeast geopolitical zone. Some say Buhari is too old to rule Nigeria but this flies in the face of past and present history. Ronald Reagan was 69 years old when he finally became US President after two failed attempts. Nelson Mandela was 74 years old when he became the first elected president of post-apartheid South Africa. And the current president of Uruguay is 78 years old and still going strong.

Some say Buhari has a deep loathing for Ndigbo. That he locked up Igbo political leaders when he was military head of state while restricting their northern counterparts to house arrest. And I ask: was the only individual - Umaru Dikko - he tried to freight back to Nigeria in a crate to face trial a Yoruba or Igbo man?

And were Abubakar Rimi and Barkin Zuwo who were equally imprisoned Yoruba or Igbo men? Others say he displayed his hatred for Ndigbo by sending Igbo youths like Bartholomew Owoh to their untimely deaths. And I ask: Was Bartholomew engaged in the contraband and deadly business of drug trafficking on behalf of Ndigbo?

Come to think of it, are we not speaking of the same Buhari who is the only presidential candidate of a major political party in the nation's history that has nominated two eminent Igbo sons as his running mate - Dr. Chuba Okadigbo in 2003 and Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke in 2007?

Is it not this same Buhari, then a lieutenant colonel, that Pastor Angus Okoli, a war correspondent of the defunct Spear magazine, testified went beyond the call of duty to not only provide for the welfare of young Biafran soldiers captured from the Umuleri/Aguleri sector during the civil war but also ordered their release back to their base in "Biafra II" (that part of Biafra that was cut off from the main enclave when the Nigerian Army occupied a long stretch of the Abagana/Nkpor Highway)? Shouldn't a loathing for Ndigbo be made of sterner stuff?

I was stunned by news reports that the Harvard University-trained former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, magisterially declared that there would be no elections as long as Professor Attahiru Jega remains INEC chairman - even after Jonathan and PDP national chairman Adamu Mu'azu recanted and passed a vote of confidence on Jega and vowed that the dates for the rescheduled polls and official handover are sacrosanct!

Makes one wonder why members of our first eleven continue to have a man-Friday mentality and tend to weep louder than the bereaved at the drop of a hat. It is this kind of pedestrian effusion from Ndigbo political elite that makes one wonder if there's more to Jonathan's endorsement than meets the eye!

Many in Igboland ignorantly deride APC as an 'Hausa party' on account of Buhari, but should we then label PDP an 'Ijaw party' on account of Jonathan? Is it right to dub APC a Muslim party when the chairman is a Christian and counts numerous Christians among its members and supporters, and label PDP a Christian party when its chairman is a Muslim and

counts numerous Muslims among its members and supporters? I sincerely believe that those desperately trying to divide this nation along a religious line ought to be truly ashamed of themselves.

Some have opined that voting for Buhari constitutes a movement backwards. If moving backwards means a naira that was at at par with the American dollar, a more stable electric power supply, a more equitable society, a more disciplined society when traditional values meant something, a safer and more secured nation and a time when corruption was less pervasive, then may we ever continue to move backwards, as a way of ultimately leap-frogging back to the future!

Happily, not all our highly illustrious sons have allegedly sold their souls to the devil for an oil block or government hand-me-down. In an essay captioned "The Buhari of my personal experience," Ignatius Olisemeka, a former Ambassador to the USA and one-time foreign affairs minister didn't mince words when he declared that "Of all the Nigerian leaders, with the possible exception of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, Buhari has been the one that has most approximated my dream of what a Nigerian leader should be."

In another widely advertised commentary, Eze Festus Odimegwu, former chairman of the Nigeria Population Commission, ex-managing director of Nigerian Breweries Limited and a close ally of both former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Jonathan, berated Jonathan as one who "sacrificed and was ready to sacrifice anything and everything, anyone and everyone for reelection." He further averred that "It is very clear to the discerning that majority will vote for the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, to save Nigeria from bad leadership and an under-performing administration." Phew!

Truth be told, Buhari may not be a saint. No human being is; even the great Madiba, Nelson Mandela, rightly said he wasn't one but see the stellar legacies he left behind after spending just four years in office. Buhari similarly embodies the new hope for hard-pressed Nigerian masses!

Four years ago, Ohaneze publicly canvassed an Igbo bloc vote for Jonathan. An Ohaneze advertorial glibly disclosed that Jonathan had accepted to use the powers of incumbency to facilitate the emergence of a president of Igbo extraction in 2015 (a tacit agreement that he would spend only one term in office) and create a sixth state in the southeast.

We were also assured that the president would dredge the River Niger and transform Onitsha into a thriving deep inland seaport. Furthermore, Jonathan pledged to build a second Niger Bridge before 2015 and complete the quality rehabilitation of the Onitsha/Enugu and Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressways.

By Chukwujekwu Ilozue
Awka — About 5000 women of Igbo origin met in Awka, Anambra State capital, where emotion was let loose as they decried a plethora of harmful practices perpetrated against women in Igbo land.

The women at the end of what became a rally of sorts attended by Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, his wife, Ebele, and the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 9, Usman Gwary, was represented by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Finham Adeoye, sought the passage of a Violence Against Person Prohibition (VAPP) bill by the Senate. The bill had passed its first and second readings and referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary on Human Rights and Legal Matters for further legislative work.

The President of the women also known as Umuada Igbo (Igbo Daughters) Dr. Kate Ezeofor, said the group was planning advocacy visits, rallies and meetings to the communities, villages and towns to educate their members on their inheritance rights.

Ezeofor said grassroots mobilization for community sensitization made women to deliberate on family planning, reproductive health and rights and its legal implications.

In his remarks, Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, commended Umuada Igbo for the commitment in pursuit of their rights.

The IPAS Nigeria country Director, Dr. Nihinlola Mabogunje, was represented by Princess Nnenna Emele, the Lady incharge of IPAS- Nigeria in the South East.

Others who spoke on violent practices against women yesterday were former commissioner for education, Dr. Uju Okeke, who represented Anambra's First lady, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano.

The former commissioner for women's affairs in the state, Lady Henrietta Agbata, who is state coordinator, Umuada Igbo commended the women for the unity and IPAS-Nigeria for its commitment on women related issues.

When kidnappers ravaged the South East I know many Igbo Lagosians who travelled to the village to bring their parents to Lagos.

The Igbo Community in Lagos State, popularly known as Ndigbo, says they are not part of the indecent dollar sharing by President Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos State.
At a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday, spokesperson of the Igbo Community, Prof. Chris Nwokobia Eze said the Igbo were aware that some disgruntled elements among them have gone to partake in the dollar sharing but that the majority Ndigbo never took part in the sharing of the dollars and would never be part of it.

“This is not to dispute that various so-called Igbo groups are not partaking in this malfeasance. They are on their own and represent themselves, the few members of their groups and families.

“Millions of Igbo in Lagos are not part of this and we wonder how much it will take to settle all Igbo in Lagos. Those who have partaken in the sharing of dollars and naira are on their own, if we must restate this fact. They should not drag Ndigbo to their illicit business,” said Eze, who spoke under the aegis of the Association for the Defence Of Igbo Interests In Lagos.

He added that “we are concerned that the greedy and selfish interests of some self-serving Igbo masquerading as leaders of Igbo people and self serving groups stand to endanger the Igbo in Lagos in the near future hence we issued this disclaimer.”

At the press conference held in Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Eze said the Igbo in Lagos would vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had done nothing for them.

He said APC in Lagos has shown through actions and deeds that it understood what leadership was all about and had shown leadership in Lagos and made Lagos a destination for all Nigerians, especially for Ndigbo when the Federal Government under PDP had abdicated its responsibility to Nigerians.

“APC government in Lagos has made the issue of security the number one agenda and this has made it possible for Igbo businesses to thrive in Lagos. When kidnappers ravaged the South East I know many Igbo Lagosians who travelled to the village to bring their parents to Lagos. Today, Lagos is the safest state in Nigeria where Igbo sleep with both eyes closed and do their lawful businesses without molestation.

“APC government in Lagos led by Governor Babatunde Fashola fought Ebola to a standstill and effectively stopped the spread to other parts of Nigeria. This led the United Nations to declare Nigeria Ebola free. It could have been worse if not because of this courageous intervention that led the way in curbing this deadly virus in Nigeria.
“APC government in Lagos has created a conducive atmosphere for Igbo businesses to thrive in Lagos, whether it is real estate, commerce, transport, artisans, okada (motorcycle taxis), churches, construction and other professions,” he said.

He added that more than 500 Igbo are working in the Lagos State ministries and Local Governments in various capacities, including the powerful office of Commissioner for Budget and Planning.

“In Abia State, a PDP Governor, Theodore Orji sacked Igbo from Anambra, Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi states,” he said.
Eze, however, debunked the impression being created that Ndigbo were against the present wind of change in Nigeria, saying “we want to correct the impression that Ndigbo are very comfortable with the state of affairs in Nigeria as to oppose the change that is raging all over the country.

“We want to debunk the sentiment that Ndigbo have been bought to sabotage the change that is raging all over Nigeria today. We want to warn that it is wrong to bandy Igbo alongside the greedy tendencies of some traders of fortune who are doing money business with the name and fate of Ndigbo. Ndigbo are not hatchet people. Ndigbo are not Judases. Ndigbo are not money lovers that could be persuaded to sell their mothers for money.

“We are all for change and Ndigbo will maintain significant presence in the change movement sweeping all over Nigeria today. We urge Ndigbo in all parts of Lagos, who are living in Lagos because other parts of Nigeria are not offering them what Lagos is offering them, to vote for APC to consolidate their interests and gains in Lagos,” Eze stated.

This is what Afenifere should be doing..but we thank God for Falana jumps starting the grievance against Mbu.

ochejoseph:
Sad!!!

By this action this man (most likely a family man) has used his hands to remove the feeding bottle from the mouth of his Family! Its a shame!

But as Usual we expect APC and their youths who hardly ever use their Brains to blame this On GEJ

We won't be surprised because they also blamed GEJ for Lai's excessive dependence on Pampers and Tinubu's chronic Mouth Odour!

Nigeria is a great Country!

Of course GEJ is to blame. Do you think this will happen under Buhari?

Okwori12:
Am beginning to wonder if TINUBU is the owner of lagos.. If it is political them I don't know, but from the list I saw today, most Lagos state government property are now own by TINUBU. Report says that TINUBU own 75% of lagos state properties.

This is a ripoff! Tinubu has stolen Ibo properties in Lagos...this is totally unacceptable! Only Ibos can own 75% of Lagos, anyone else making such claim or ascribed such ownership is a thief!

No wonder Ibos call him thie.fnubu......now i see why!

if Igbo gave their full support to the Hausa-Fulani to complete the remaining four years of what would have been Yar'Adua's and the North's eight years, in the next presidential election (2015), the Hausa-Fulani would support an Igbo presidential candidate. And the Hausa-Fulani have never broken their words to the Igbo.

For a non-Igbo it is perhaps difficult to understand the deep-seated, almost visceral, general dislike Igbo people seem to have for presidential candidate and former military strongman General Muhammadu Buhari. Actually there is a long list of grievances Igbo can point to about Buhari, and you have to go back in history to know them.

The problem with Nigeria, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu once said, is that the mediocre people are ruling the intelligent people. The Igbo emerged from the 1967/1970 civil war to meet a federal government strategy to marginalize and emasculate their leadership. .

The Igbo have a justifiable dread of Nigerian military officers who were natives of Northern Nigeria and who participated in the civil war. These officers and their rank-and-file soldiers had carried out mass rapes and sexual enslavement across Igboland during the civil war and at the war's end; many of these soldiers had looted vehicles and other property as they overran Biafra. Then, finally, the Igbo, the Igbo business and political leaders, lost all their cash holdings as the Finance Ministry of Chief Obafemi Awolowo awarded them the grand sum of 20 Nigerian pounds per man for any amount of money owned in Nigerian banks prior to the war. It was akin to what Swiss banks did to Jewish survivors of the World War 2 Holocaust. Talk about Gowon's Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation!

When the military government, led by Muhammadu Buhari took office, he visited all the states in Nigeria so to say, introducing himself to his subjects. He went to the 17 states, including Rivers and Cross River, that shared borders with the two Igbo states, Imo and Anambra. The message could not be louder, he had a thing against the Igbo. Imo (today's Imo and Abia) chiefs then decided they would not come to welcome him, but were pressed to change their minds by the military governor, then Col. Ike Nwachukwu. One of Buhari's first policy decisions as approved by the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC), which had only one Igbo representative, in those days usually a mid-level naval officer, was to summarily move the site of the proposed petrochemical plant to Onne, where it now sits, and which was the originally proposed location, and which made more sense economically and logistically. I said the Igbo were lucky not to have that great environmental pollutant of an industry at their backyard.

When the Buhari government in 1984 issued a decree banning Africa's first private university, Imo Technical University, the measure outraged a lot of people in Igboland. Many people in the East believed Buhari wanted to crush the attempt by Igbo to escape the trap of quotas placed on qualified Igbo seeking admissions to federal government-run Nigerian universities. Despite information that most members of the AFRC favoured the continuation of the university which had just a few months earlier received the backing of the Supreme Court, Buhari signed a decree literally behind the backs of the other members of the ruling Council. Buhari cited copycat universities as the reason for his action. Imo chiefs sent a plea through Military Governor Ike Nwachukwu for Buhari to ban the others and leave Imo Tech alone. This was a university backed by a consortium of American universities, including Rice University, Houston; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Worcester Polytechnic; and Illinois Institute of Technology. The national newspapers in their editorials condemned the move to ban the university. Insinuating that the university was being sponsored by the CIA, Buhari's decree stated that no foreign institution or persons can sponsor or contribute to any university in Nigeria. Tell that to Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his American University of Nigeria, Yola.

The Igbo have very powerful reasons to dislike and mistrust Buhari. But I say it here that although Buhari may have had some deep-seated animus for Igbo, he is not the same man he was as a hot-headed, inflexible 40-year-old in 1984. During his short political career, he has had to endure the backstabbing, the double-cross, the insults, betrayal from his fellow Northern politicians. He has learnt to be cautious in his dealings with his fellow Northern leaders. He knows many of them don't like him.

I remind the Igbo that the politicians of Northern Nigeria have always aligned with the Igbo. The Northern People's Congress and the National Council of Nigerian Citizens aligned to form the two civilian governments of 1960 to1966. The Northerners did not break the alliance. The civilian government came to a bloody end because of the action of five junior army officers, four of them Igbo and one of them Yoruba. But no Igbo politician had any inkling of the coup that these misguided young men carried out that was not only a disaster for the Igbo who were basically already in control of the country, but led to perhaps a million dead Igbo by the time the ensuing civil war was over.

The young generation of mediocre leaders, the kind of people with little intellectual ability, empowered financially since the civil war by Nigerian military dictators, insisted on supporting Dr. Jonathan, and chose not to see that if Igbo gave their full support to the Hausa-Fulani to complete the remaining four years of what would have been Yar'Adua's and the North's eight years, in the next presidential election (2015), the Hausa-Fulani would support an Igbo presidential candidate. And the Hausa-Fulani have never broken their words to the Igbo.

The Igbo must come to terms with the situation. Not only would voting massively for Buhari help build an alliance with the Hausa-Fulani for the future, Buhari's victory would also help the Igbo economically, and a good economy is their lifeblood. Here is why. Industry has practically vanished in Nigeria and millions of educated Igbo are languishing, unable to find gainful employment. The incompetence and greed of the people in Jonathan's government have meant that the disposable incomes of many Nigerians have fallen, and the effect is now worsened by the decline in the value of the naira in the foreign exchange market. .

The Igbo have to do a trade-off here. They can continue living under the maladministration of Goodluck Jonathan or they can return to the table to re-negotiate with their previous allies of the Hausa-Fulani and elect a man who can and has shown that he can root out corruption and heal the giant of Africa under a civilian system with its checks and balances. In the same vein, I urge Muhammadu Buhari, in the company of some of his fellow Northern political leaders, to sit down in a conversation with authentic Igbo leaders, sooth the hurts inflicted on the Igbo over the years, and begin a new chapter of what previously was a fruitful relationship between two of the biggest tribes in Nigeria.

Ramadhan is coming up soon...
they need to start now teaching big boy when he sees the sun is up in the sky his feeding bottle will be up there with it. The bottle comes down when the sun comes down.

EUROBOMBER:
This is your hypocrisy which I am trying to point out to you and thank God you know its true. This is the essence of the thread.

What is WASC?