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BlackPikiN:
See how they can't do without Igbo support meanwhile their online supporters and keyboard warriors are saying/acting otherwise.
How do we reconcile the two?

Fashola in that picturr is saying Ambode is Ndigbo choice. You should read and understand.

He is not asking you, but rather "telling" you, if you know what's good for you, to vote Ambode!

Fashola is not asking you to pick a leader, he and Tinubu has picked one for you and they want you now to fall inline.

If all Ibo population in Western region troop to Lagos and vote Agbaje....he will still come out a looser.

Risk assessment is what win votes nowadays, not population.

Whoever does not know that Buhari will the center is fooling himself. The risk of having a governor propped up by individuals like Obanikoro, and now Ibos, is too much of a mix to tolerate in a state known for progressive thoughts and ideas.

Yorubas have decided on Ambode....AMBODE IT IS!

On matters like this the President's body language and attitude points to his acceptance that oil resource and its revenues are birthrights of Deltans and their acolytes in SE.

Even though he fired Stealer Oduah reluctantly, being a non-Deltan, he will never fire a Deltan, now matter the pressure or severity of the corruption.

He felt it insulting that a Northerner, Sanusi, should question that a Deltan, Diezani, is mismanaging her birthright to oil revenue....its why they kicked him out.

Amnesty regime will stop soon as Buhari take over. Nigerian government cannot be sponsoring and keeping on its payroll terrorists and criminals in any form or shape. The right approach for a criminal is rehabilitation and reimmersion into the labour pool to get a gainful employment and earn living.

No birthright to oil. We are no longer interested in Jonathan stopping corruption.....he can doublebthe efforts in accomodating corrupt officials if he wants. But on May 29th he needs to pick up the pen and sign over government to Buhari.

SeverusSnape:
You and I know Igbos are for Jonathan. No two ways about it.

So I thought, until I read this Ohanaeze news release. It confirms a similar plot during Obasanjo's candidacy. They were outwardly behind Falae and condenned Obasanjo.

After Obasanjo victory they came out and said their votes put Obasanjo in power. If thats indeed true then there's no ethnic group more steeped in betrayal than Igbo.

They are COWARDS, simple!

barcanista:
Obinoscopy thank you. Please help close and delete all the threads that spread rumor about the Principal. May he live long and enjoy GMB's government. Amen

Sai Buhari

Obinoscopy,
Do not close any thread on the topic wiithout first obtaining reports from Sahara Reporter's investigative journalists.

Police is not credible!

They will not decide. They will wait till a winner is declared and then start making noise about the deciding victory coming from Igbo bloc.

Bunch of COWARDS!!

The caretaker com­mittee recently in­augurated to run the affairs of the Igbo apex body Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said that the Igbos have not yet decided on which presidential can­didate to support in the February 14 presidential election.

In a statement issued in Enugu yesterday and signed by the caretaker commit­tee chairman Chief Ralph Obioha, the Igbo apex body said it was yet to be agreed if Ndigbo should be directed to collectively endorse the presidential candidate of any of the two leading political parties, PDP and APC.

According to the statement “since the elected executive of Ohanaeze ceased to func­tion from January 12, 2015 because of the tenure expira­tion and our caretaker com­mittee only inaugurated few days ago, the committee has been in wide and extensive consultation with various or­gans of Ohanaeze.

“This consultations in­clude the Imeobi, the youths and women wings, tradi­tional rulers, Ndi Eze Igbo in Diaspora, Igbo organizations worldwide.

“This consultations have been on since the inauguration of our committee and it will not be long before we will be in a position to issue advice or guidance to Ndigbo on how to vote in the coming elections.”

It however, noted that Ndigbo are concerned with core issues that affect the generality of the people of the South East. It highlighted such issues to include “the right to life and property which includes addressing the menace of cattle herds­men which is a national secu­rity matter.

‘The provision of power generation capacity to enhance the revitalization of our indus­tries, to put our people back to production.

‘The reactivation of Oji River power plant; the exten­sion of the National Gas Link to all South East States.

“The absolute collapse of federal roads, infrastructure in the South East Zone and the need for urgent attention and rehabilitation.

‘The adherence to true fed­eralism and the right to free­dom of religion as well as the removal of all stipulations that prevent private enterprise to strive anywhere in Nigeria.”

shachris:
Good question. Before the market, igbos were the richest people in Nigeria. An instance is the late DIM ojukwu. The father of late chukwuemeka Ojukwu. Igbo were the ones that introduced trading in Oil, which formed bulk of our export, during the British rule. Igbos also engaged in Slave trades with the Europeans. Even though this trade is inhumane, it was bringing in much money at the time, much more than the other regions could afford. The truth is, we built the Nigerian economy.

Lmao. We need facts. Do you have any figures and reports to prove this assertion?

Orikinla:
The Igbos attacking Yorubas are the ignorant intellectual illiterates or Igbo idol worshipers.

In that cass the entire crop of leadership in Ohanaeze is ignorant, illiterate and idol worshippers for their attacks on Yoruba during deportee saga and as well when Ngige contested election undrr APC.

Difference between Buhari and Gej.

Buhari - a cow herder with solid leadership instincts.

Jonathan - a Phd with instincts for boat fishing in the creeks.


Nigeria, bring in the cow herder and send the fisherman back to the creeks!

Ikengawo:
lol, damn, i feel like you're getting too much out of the deal though. Let me sleep with your wife to make it even. With a condom.

Lol....and the usual switch kicks in!
When Ibo looses materials and facts to support spurious claims and defend its position, rather than humbly bowing out he rebelliously returns with a frustrated switch and starts to throw insults .

You will not be a true Ibo if you did not submit to your psychotic instincts.

fr3do:
There will be trouble if Buhari loses, because some of the rams supporting him wont speak for theirselves, neither would they let the polls decide.
Febuari 14! feb 14!, as if that is when our problems will cease.
Simple mindedness!

The decision to give victory to Buhari is made by the "rams". The polls are nothing but ordinary extensions.....inanimate proxies for the deciding "rams".
Without them depositing their choice on Febuhari 14, the poll is meaningless.

Febuhari14 is therefore a milestone to mark the death of reckless leadership and introduce a new beginning in disciplined and purposeful future.

Op,
In whose era were you and the other "chilred" in your community sent to school?

PDP did not expect supporters of Buhari would table a counter charge demanding provity of Gej's credentials.

All of a sudden now members in Gej's own administration are raising heads and giving witness testimony that Buhari indeed satisfied the constitutional prerequisite for educational qualification. Where was Gusau the past four weeks when the controversy raged?

We do not need Gusa's testimony at this point. Cambridge has disposed the controversy properly.

We do need to see Gej thesis.

Also, a new dimension has emerged from the controversy over Buhari certificate.....the Commander in Chief of controversies himself, Femi Fani Kayode is being sued for libel.

My advise to Femi.....do the right thing and mortgage what is left of your political tie to PDP.

Myth: Ibos are owners of the land bought from Yoruba.

Truth: No, Ibos are renting the land. They must pay land rent to govt.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/orji-kalu-is-a-land-use-charge-defaulter-lagos-government/


Myth: Ibos are landlords and Yorubas are tenants.

Truth: Ibos are rent defaulters and in an act of criminality live rent free in Lagos. Yoruba landlords have learnt through painful encounters not to rent to Ibos.

http://www.informationng.com/2014/02/actor-emeka-ike-evicted-from-rented-duplex-over-failure-to-pay-n8-5-million-rent.html

Ikengawo:
Even listen to you. I should deal with your advise so that you can deal with my taking a government position in 'your' land? Who do you think is gaining the most from that exchange? But it's me you want to advise?

Do you even own a discarded plastic bag of pure water on Onitsha Bridge? Go outside in the SW right now and tell me which property of plot isn't Igbo owned and yoruba rented.

While you were collecting files and files igbos were collecting plots and estates in your backyard.

You're making jokes about alaba market. I will tell you now that many of those boys are using alaba money to build palaces in their ancestoral village.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1184743_abiriba1_jpga349bacc5085aa4f5136e738ebf5c5b6
Show me a SW capital that looks as well developed as this village. With your advice and files.

Deal with my scrutiny and continous advisory to you while I deal with your interest for position.

Ikengawo:
An Igbo man has been the governor of Lagos. Go and read the history of the governorship of Lagos.
On top of this Zik has beat Awolowo in his own regional election
On top of that an Igbo man is vying for a seat in Lagos right now


Till this day not a single Yoruba man owns an ounce of grass in the east. So tell me, who should be advising who? You're giving us advice because we're about to partake in governing you?

When Fashola tried to deport Igbos he quickly posted a video apologizing. Go and advise him.

An Igbo man was hand picked to govern Lagos is different from Lagosians elected an Igboman for governor.


In what party did Zik beat Awolowo? Yoruba party, NCNC! Ibo has no known successful political party.


Yorubas organize their lives around possibilities consistent and in harmony with urbanity. No Yoruba in his right sense will choose risks above security. East is immersed in risks of all kinds.

The deportees lawyer, an Iboman, has established that Ibos are non indigenes of Lagos and therefore in all matters relating to family roots, even for those born in Lagos, East is home! The Court agreed with him and did not find Fashola was wrong in sending them "home",

Ikengawo:
If you don't like to be insulted keep Igbo out of your mouth and advise your kin. You never see Igbos looking for Yoruba trouble or advising them about what they should or shouldn't do, but every day there's a new article or thread about Igbos should and shouldn't.

You overstepped your boundary when you demand positions to be administrators in Yorubaland.

We must inspect you thoroughly and qualify your merit on character. So far you are found short of the mark. Our advisories to you are developmental.....gaps we discovered and need you to cover before your next assessment and inspection.


Deal with it!

Ikengawo,

You Ibos face in Yorubaland the same acute problem that caused you to abandon your homeland to begin with - population density and saturation!

Everyone of you came to Yorubaland and converged in same trade and monopolized the market to block non-Ibos from competing with you. Well, the market has peaked....no more growth, instead of expansion you are experiencing losses left and right and dwindled economy. To make ends meet your brothers in Alaba, Ladipo, ASPAMDA have gone into crimes.

Ive always maintained the popular belief that Ibos have an enterprising spirit is a myth! Follow this link to read about an Ibo businessman in alaba. Pay attention to his employees, do you see any Yoruba on his crime payroll?


https://www.nairaland.com/2108377/popular-alaba-trader-whoterrorise-lagos#30046803



Also not too long ago an executive leader of the Ladipo market was similarly caught in armed robbery. In fact Ladipo market is a labour pool for crimes and terror.
Read it here. Is this what you call feeding Yoruba?


http://247nigerianewsupdate.co/okoli-ladipo-market-leader-charged-with-armed-robbery/


http://www.nigeriatell.com/news/we-recruit-robbers-from-ladipo-market-suspect



Do you want Mayor to air the source of your income on internet? I have files and files sitting in archive created specifically for occassions like this when you forget your place in Lagos and start to smell yourself.

Ikengawo:
People always feel the need to advise Igbos on what to do politically. Meanwhile their father pays rent to an Igbo man in their father's own state and they're trying to get a job in an Igbo man's company. When I drive through Owerri, Asaba, and Enugu or see the level of wealth and industry in Onitcha, Nnewi, Aba, and PH I have a hard time understand why anyone feels it's Igbos that need advise.

This whole campaign has been igbos should do this and igbos should do that. Meanwhile the only region that hasn't had a bloody or violent election of rally in the past 6 years is the SE, and both candidates (both from other regions) are clamouring for no more important vote than the Igbo one.

Rest jor.

When you express ambition to have more Igbo representation in Yoruba government you open yourself to critical inspection.

The advisory is a part in the inspection package. If it makes you uncomfortable to be under the scope then withdraw your interest for representation.

Mayor will always open posts with advisories on what is good for Igbo and what action we expect you to take.

There are three things to decipher from this article:

1. This is called a "secret" meeting. Really .....what else was discussed that have so far yet to be divulged

2. In 2011, GEJ was a favorite of many Nigerians and is why he won. In 2014, he has squandered his political windfall and become a risk that no one wants to associate with. Nigeria is in crisis mode and we need a rescue, a pastor cannot rescue Nigeria, sound leadership is what we need to bring us back on track. Gej must believe in his own competency and not in the magic that going on his knees before a pastor will win him votes.

3. A new relationship now exist between RCCG amd APC. This relationship has a far more opportunity for building diversity interest and understanding in every region of this country going forward. This is not just a political partnership but it also create direct avenue through which the fears and frustrations of religious diversity can be mitigated for the benefit of growth and expansion.

I said I had three things to say and I kept my word...but I need to ask, why can't Gej go kneel infront of Oritsejafor for laying of hands and blessings? Hath Oritsejafor's hands not washed cleansed in Holiness

The former militant leaders took the position Friday in Government House, Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, at an enlarged meeting that was attended by all the former militant leaders and their followers across the Niger Delta region.

Among those in attendance were, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, leader, Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Victor Ben Ebikabowei, aka, Boy Loaf, and Government Ekpudomenowei, aka, Tompolo.

Also in attendance were the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, and chairman of Amnesty Implementation Committee,
Kingsley Kuku, Bayelsa state Governor, Seriake Dickson and his deputy, President General of Ijaw Youth Council, Udengs Eradiri, among others.

Bayelsa State Government is a sponsor of terror.

@post,
Good idea! Is "General" a name? Why do we keep saying General Muhammafu Buhari?

nedu2000:
Concord newspapers,owned by MKO abiola who happens to be IBB's friend,IBB needed the support of the masses after his coup & where else than a newspaper owned by his good ol' friend MKO (corrupt duo)

Mayor has endotsed this message.

Patience in her Twenties...


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiDZsdTG02g

BY RICHARD ANYAMELE

President Goodluck Jonathan and General Mahummadu Buhari will soon know their fate, but the truth is that Jonathan’s (South-south) rule is as good as over. In 2011, Igbos voted Jonathan en masse and many were deluded to believe that after him, it would be the turn of Ndigbo. How some Igbos bought the cheap ploy beats imagination but even now, many still hold that after Jonathan, an Igbo man would move in.

In 2003, when Buhari first made his appearance for the presidency, some of us argued that the future of Igbo politics was on hand and that Igbo leaders should discuss with the PDP and ANPP on power rota­tion. Others argued that such was anachronistic, that qualifications (whatever that means) should de­cide who rules. But, only greed and sycophancy spoke thus. More than less, Nigerian politics is balancing ethnic, religious and class inter­ests. No one needs recall the MKO Abiola/Kingibe Moslem/Moslem ticket because it did not test the cause/effect equilibrium.

When we argued in 2003 that 2007/2011 had come, Ohaneze dis­missed it off hand and so President Jonathan/PDP coasted home with­out any commitment on the future of Igbo presidency. Even now, the 2015 presidential election in partic­ular is lost and won without Ndigbo as crown prince but this high place of honour can still be protected as the fair due.

Sixteen years since the return of partisan politics in Nigeria, the highest post Igbos have held is Senate president; i.e., Number Three. The South-West has held President, Speaker (Number Four) and now poised for Num­ber Two. The South-south has Number One; the North-East Number One and now enters the North-West.

Ohaneze talks about cargo air­port in Enugu and Federal roads that Jonathan failed to build and believing that if he assures them now, they would endorse him shows the level of political imma­turity and culture of quick profits dominant in the region.

As 2015 is playing out, Yoruba leaders are thinking of 2019 and beyond. Ohaneze leaders seem short-sighted and lack political strategies that look far ahead. Politics is give and take but Igbo politicians are ever caught in nar­row interests so that the big pic­ture eludes them completely.

Among Nigerian politicians, Buhari is one man that consid­ers others more than average. Since 2003, he has maintained he would run one term only. Many may say he is a politician and would change his mind at the end of one term but one thing I can say for sure is that Buhari is one politician who would support a Nigerian president of Igbo ex­traction on the basis of equity.

After Obasanjo’s eight years and Jonathan’s current six years and another four years if he can, it will be difficult to persuade the North to relinquish power to the South (East) after just one term.

Buhari’s sense of fairness is incomparable. While other for­mer heads of states collect N300 million yearly allowance, Buhari requested and gets N30 million in­stead. I make bold to say that 2019 and beyond is now and the best bet for the Igbo in the national power equation is Buhari. If the matter is presented to him now; not after the elections, he will give it fair hear­ing.

Injustice rules the nations be­cause it is tit for tat everywhere. There is no way Igbos will push Jonathan now as in 2011 and ex­pect support from the North in future national political contests. Politics is mathematics and strat­egy rolled into one. If one miscal­culates, that is it!

Dr. Ekwueme midwifed geo-politics and rotation. Obasanjo killed the idea and Jonathan now oversees the final burial. Yet, the loser is the Igbo nation more than Ijaw or the Niger Delta, for, at the end of the day, both zones will be marginalized after the marriage of the North and the South-west. And while the South-south has been there, same cannot be said of the Igbo nation. And, what a pity for a people that used to be at the commanding heights of Nigerian politics!

It is not enough for Ohaneze to withhold endorsing Jonathan. That will not give Ndigbo a fighting chance in the future power game.

It does not lie with Obasanjo to help Igbo presidency, or with Jonathan, because the south is one when it comes to that. There is no law that says the three southern zones must share rotational power equally or one after the other. It is same for the North. Northern zones will broker deals with the south and vice versa. If Buhari wins and later steps down, there is no law that says the south-west should not push for the presidency and they will and which is already playing out.

From Zik’s time to now, Ndigbo have paid their dues and practised statesmanship at its best.But, no one gives you power and no one gives up power like that. Jonathan will not give up power unless he must, that is, his time expires. All over the country, the roads and the faces tell their stories. For one oiled face you see, 100 wrinkled faces are fixed at you; for two per­sons that speak well, twenty speak ill. In fact, for one PDP member that praises him, two are bitter with President Jonathan.

If Ekwueme says Jonathan took Igbo nation for granted, Obasanjo says the man bit the hand that fed him and Babangida tells us that Jonathan’s government is report­edly more corrupt than his, no one can dismiss the charges as ranting of ants or conspiracy borne of in­jured vanities. Incidentally, the three Nigerian former leaders are PDP fathers. So, we see disillu­sionment coming from within and without.

General Gowon said in 1970 that there was no victor, no vanquished. The world held its breath to see if Nigeria would survive the peace. We have, but Igbos have paid unfair political price. Today, the North has Gowon, Shagari, Bu­hari, Babangida and Abdulsalam as living former heads of state. The South-west has Obasanjo and Shonekan. The South-south has Jonathan while the Igbo nation, one of the three main pillars of Ni­gerian nation and nationalism, has no one to stand for the race at the highest political level. Does this not call for urgent reprieve?

National power game is no sentimental affair. Whether the South-south returns South-east goodwill tomorrow or not is a mat­ter of conjecture but what is not in doubt is that Igbos will need the South-west and the North to oc­cupy Aso Rock in the future if the race thinks seriously in that direc­tion and the time to start cultivat­ing cross border goodwill is now.

Ohaneze is too compromised to rise to this challenge. It is left to Ekwueme to invite two Igbo lead­ers from each of the five states and take Governor Rochas Okorocha and Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu to present Buhari the Igbo declaration: Igbos did not survive Biafra to become seventh class citizens in Nigeria. We want equity. Have our votes now and promise us our chance next.

The North is not going to stay out of power for twenty years, and retired generals are not going to watch their own beaten a fourth time. The 2015 presidential race is over and the next contest is being negotiated. Today, not tomorrow is time to start building the bridges – for many bridges must be crossed to get there!

.Anyamele writes from Lagos.

The Igbo Internet thugs who campaign for Goodluck Jonathan are an utter disgrace to humankind. They are, indeed, a strange species of homo sapiens. Maybe, they are a hybrid of homo erectus and home sapiens! Their actions are hardly compatible with those of people who have what the French calll’amour propre, self esteem or self worth.Femi Fani-Kayode

A little over a year ago, Femi Fani-Kayode wrote a series of horrible articles well circulated in the media against the Igbo. Falling short of calling for Igbo extermination, Femi confessed his great admiration for Adolf Hitler’s Mien kempf,probably the most racist book in world history. All manner of people who called themselves Igbo Internet warriors were calling for his head. You would naturally expect them to kick against Jonathan’s recent appointment of Femi Fani-Kayode as the director of media and publicity of his reelection campaign, thus becoming the face and voice of the president, an Ijaw who has strangely been portrayed as an Igbo. But far from taking exception to this sacrilege, the self-styled Internet warriors, whom Oby Ezekwesili memorably calls Internet thugs, are rather now in cahoots with Femi! They quote him approvingly every minute. Why? Femi has a huge propaganda budget! Most of these Internet warriors are on his payroll, and their principal duty is to besmirch the integrity of Muhammadu Buhari, apart from raising cudgels, knives, daggers and guns against thoughtful Igbo people who raise questions about the propriety of their action. The Great Zik of Africa was fond of describing such irresponsible characters as knaves.

The knaves enthusiastically circulated a forged hospital document alleging that Buhari has prostate cancer. Just before this forgery, they reported online that Buhari had fainted at a campaign rally and was rushed to a hospital even when the same characters were commenting on Buhari’s ongoing campaign stumps in different parts of the country!

As Jonathan was about to visit Onitsha last week, they circulated a picture of a bridge under construction somewhere but mischievously claimed that it is the so-called Second Niger Bridge which becomes relevant to the president only during electioneering campaigns. The essence of circulating the false picture was to deceive their own Igbo people into believing that work on the mythical bridge had taken off in earnest.  How some Igbo Internet fraudsters could have the courage to “419” or swindle their own people in broad daylight in order to please an Ijaw president and turn round to claim that they are the champions of Igbo interests remains one of the greatest mysteries of our time. It is revealing of the kind of ethics of the government in Abuja and their supporters all over Nigeria. It is also revealing of why some people in Nigeria and elsewhere think that the Igbo have too many Judas Iscariots, too many people eager to kill even their own family members for a mess of porridge.

On a personal note, I am deeply worried about the enthusiasm of a couple of professionals and Pentecostal pastors in this forum to indulge in this fraud in the name of politics. They need be reminded in public that certain actions of theirs do cause tremendous and eternal violence to their personal and professional reputations, to say nothing about their supposed religious callings. They are advised to read up the idea of the scandal of perception in Catholic theology. Put succinctly, their utterances and actions as ordained ministers of God or equivalent could cause some believers to lose faith in God.

C. Don Adinuba.

May his soul rest in peace!