₦airaland Forum

phantom:
the one that serves as a seaport when it rains? say something else please.

this guy want kill me with laughter...

Summary:
Washington wants a regime change!

In the words of Hillary Clinton: “The government of Nigeria has been, in my view, somewhat derelict in its responsibility toward protecting boys and girls, men and women in northern Nigeria over the last years. 

“The Nigerian government must accept help – particularly intelligence, surveillance and recognizance help – their troops have to be the ones that (are) necessary, but they could do a better job if they accept the offers that are being made. Nigeria has made bad choices, not hard choices,” Clinton said.

“They have squandered their oil wealth; they have allowed corruption to fester, and now they are losing control of parts of their (own) territory because they would not make hard choices.”

Dotng:
Fani-Kayode Writes to Osinbajo – What Fellowship is there Between Light and Darkness?


A WORD FOR PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO

I am glad that the APC eventually took my advice and saw the wisdom in not fielding a muslim/muslim ticket for the 2015 Presidential election even though I hear that, right up till the last minute, they almost did.

I congratulate my friend and brother Professor Yemi Osinbajo on his nomination as the Vice Presidential candidate of the APC and running mate to General Muhammadu Buhari.

I have known Yemi for a number of years and I must say that he is not only a very pleasant and civilised person with a warm and gentle disposition but he is also a cerebal lawyer with a brilliant mind. I have immense respect for him.

Yet sadly ever since I heard about his nomination and announcement as Buhari's running mate I have felt nothing but sheer pity for him and a deep sense of pathos. My counsel and words for him are as follows:
Woe unto the children of light that secretly delight in darkness and that seek to thwart the counsel of God for their nation by joining hands with the sons of Boko and the daughters of Haram.

The bible says ''what fellowship is there between light and darkness?'' It says ''what does God have to do with Belial?'' It says ''what profiteth a man to gain the world and lose his soul?''.

A respected Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a devout and committed Christian and an intellectually-sound, well-bred and well educated Professor of Law accepts to be running mate to a closet fundamentalist, a bloodthirsty, cruel and murderous military dictator and a die-hard believer in the philosophy of ''born to rule''? This is serious.

A gifted servant of God who is a favored spiritual son of Rev. Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church Of God has jumped into bed with one of the most notorious troublers of the faith and one of the most consistent enemies of democracy and Nigeria? This is very sad.

Rev. Enoch Adeboye is undoubtedly one of God's greatest and most respected generals on the planet and one of the Church's most humble and best-loved precious gems, yet one of his spiritual sons has surely let him, and indeed the Kingdom of God, down by choosing to play ''man Friday'' and second fiddle to an individual that represents everything that is troubling, unsettling and repugnant to the modern world and to the 21st century? What a tragedy.

A learned Professor of Law and a senior member of the Nigerian bar who is the leading authority on the law of evidence and who has written numerous books on that topic chooses to play number two to a man that failed all his exams at military college and that never went to a decent school or to any university? Jumping Jehoshaphat.

It is only in Nigeria that this sort of thing can happen. Poor Yemi. Look at what the Haramites have done to him and look at what they have reduced him to. Is there anything that these creatures from hell will not do?
Is there anyone that they will not use and is there any norm that they will not defile, pervert, debase, violate and corrupt in their ignoble quest for power and as a consequence of their insatiable lusts and manifest greed?

The truth is that each and everyone one of us, including my friend Yemi, will ultimately have to answer to God for the choices that we make and we must live with the consequences of those choices.

It is no wonder that the Redeemed Christian Church of God has disassociated itself from a false claim that the Church and, by implication, Rev. Adegboye himself, was supporting the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket.

Thankfully they have come out to say clearly and categorically that this is not so. One can always trust Adegboye to do and say the right thing because he is a man that is truly ''after God's heart''.

Yet the denial of an endorsement and tacit support from his Church is just the first of many shockers and unwelcome surprises that Yemi will be served with in the next few weeks. He will get shock after shock and surprise after surprise until the battle is over and circumstances compel him to go back to his very lucrative legal practice.

Yet before he does that he should learn a thing or two from one of his esteemed colleagues and yet another Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, the courageous Pastor Bosun Emmanuel. Bosun said the following words in his famous sermon titled 'The Nigerian Church' which went viral just a few months ago.

He said, ''woe be unto any believer who joins hands with the enemies of God in an attempt to bury the Church and destroy the gospel''. This was a timely admonition and these are strong and wise words from a true servant of God who is under no illusion about what is going on in the politics of Nigeria and who is brave enough to say it as it is.

Yet whether we choose to heed Bosun's words or not I am absolutely certain of one thing: those that have aligned with the servants of satan and the children of darkness and that seek to thwart God's counsel for our nation shall not prevail.

Boko Haram abducted 185 women in Borno state on December 18th and they killed no less than 52 innocent people. Despite that some people are still supporting Buhari and his army of desperate Haramites? What a people, what a country.

Those that say that Buhari has changed simply because he chose a Pastor as his running mate are ignorant. Did he not have a Pastor as his running mate in his last outing in 2011? Did he not still say that it was his intention to ''spread sharia throughout the country'' and that ''an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north''?

Did he not oppose a state of emergency in the north eastern states and say that it was unfair for the military to kill Boko Haram members? Did he not say that instead of killing them they should forgive them, pamper them and treat them in the same way that the Niger Delta militants were treated?

Did the spokesman of his party Alhaji Lai Mohammed not say that the proscription of Boko Haram by the Federal Government was ‘’unjust’’ and ‘’unconstitutional’’? How does the fact that Buhari has opted for a Christian running mate change any of these things?

In any case he only opted for a Christian running mate because he was compelled to do so as a consequence of the hue and cry that the prospect of a muslim/muslim ticket had already started to generate.

Are those that cite the fact that he has a Christian running mate as evidence of his new-found love for Christians aware of the fact that during the American civil war a small, ignorant, misguided and deluded group of negro slaves actually fought on the side of the southern confederate forces in an attempt to keep slavery in place?

Did that suggest that the leaders of the southern confederate ‘’secession’’ states suddenly changed their minds and fell in love with the blacks that they had enslaved and treated like animals?

Is Buhari's claim of not being partial to his own hausa-fulani tribe not a little far-fetched? Did he not lead a northern delegation to Alhaji Lam Adesina, the late Governor of Oyo state, just a few years ago when some Fulani herdsmen were slaughtering Yoruba farmers on their own land and ask him ‘’why are YOUR people killing MY people?’’

Apparently Buhari believed that the aggressors that had invaded the land and farms of others and that killed all the occupants had a right to do so simply because they were fulani. Yet some people still claim that the man is not a tribalist.

Ignorance and lack of knowledge is a terrible affliction but in this context it is not only terrible but also very dangerous. Buhari’s choice of a Christian Pastor as his running mate means nothing and changes nothing about him or his entrenched views and ancient mindset.

It rather provides clear evidence of his sheer desperation to win power at all costs and it is a reflection of his obvious and deep-seated deceit. Let the truth be told even though the heavens may fall: Christian Vice President or no Christian Vice President, Buhari's heart remains as dark as ever.

We shall meet him in the field: let God's will be done.

http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/fani-kayode-writes-to-osinbajo-–-what-fellowship-is-there-between-light-and-darkness.104727/

Now that everyone in the labour productive age bracket in Nigeria, at least almost everyone, has some degree or credentials of higher learning, marketing one's achievements and credentials the traditional way has become boring. You cant just walk into a job nowadayd and count on your degree and honors and articulation to speak you into the job anymore, you will wait endlessly for a followup call or email that will never arrive. So there is a new way to convince a potential employer not to ignore you. The style is subtle but its loud!

You harass and throw jabs at the people you want to work for. You bark out loud and humiliate them publicly and reveal how they could be better if only they would change their course of action. You dont offer yourself as the solution for their problem...that would be cheap!

This style of self marketing is what got most hackers hired into top paying jobs as security executives.

This style is what got Doyin Okupe hired into Aso Rock.

FFK is positioning himself for a job in APC's Aso Rock.......the evidence is clear in this article.

Oko Bianca is self marketing by harrassing Buhari and subtly humiliating Osinbajo, whom he called friend and brother.

PDP is weak in West....instead of sending all these freaks out into the field to earn their pay by strengthening the party grassroot and broker deals with the Obas and the Barons in Yorubaland, the President allows them to sit around and play cards and scrabble and harass people while he himself is parambulating around and getting dissed left and right...making his already lack lustre influence even dimmer.

Duru1:
Please do not jump start the fairy tale about what Oyo did to Dahomey because Oyo was at the receiving end. With time, I do know Yoruba story tellers will transform the wresting matches called Kiriji wars into nuclear wars which was fought by Yoruba in their endless dreams.

Duru, Imperial wars in West Africa will forever record Yoruba as a dominant power over neighbouring kingdoms. No one can undo that history, .....not you or anyone, using the power of tongue or the power of pen!

MudRaker:
You are not kingmakers but willing slaves.

really?

1. Everytime a Yorubaman decamps or give hints of leaving PDP, ASO Rock cant sleep.
Example...Jonathan is begging Alao and Obanikoro not to leave. He sent SE Governors to go and prostrate and beg Baba for Yoruba support.

When Ibo, Uzor Kalu, left PDP no one missed him, in fact they didnt want him back and he begged PDP to be accepted back.

Jonathan has not been making the rounds for Eze or Igwe endorsenent in Iboland.....their endorsement is buy one get two free, they come cheap!

2. Ohaneze killed Presidential interest for any Ibo aspirant and told them and their supporters to fall behind Jonathan 100%. You would think Jonathan would have sense to fight in PDP for the nnomination of an Ibo candidate for his VP in 2015,... no??

If Jonathan is clueless is Ohaneze suffering from bipolar that they ignored to obtain a deal for that coveted spot?

Why is Ibo upset that Yoruba outsmart you by locking a deal with Buhari and getting the VP spot in APC?

Were you not invited to join APC merger and you refused? In fact if you had joined maybe Okorocha would have secured enough population backing and delivery in his bloc to convince Yorubas to give him the APC crown....or at worst sponsor him to join the ticket as Buhari's VP, a guaranteed Ibo Presidency in 2023!

3. The stakeholders of PDP are Westerners and Northerners, there is no one Ibo PDP member that is a national force...they are all boyboy.

Yorubas are abandoning PDP, Hausas are abandoning PDP...meanwhile Ibos are killing their own homegrown APGA and decamping to PDP.

Example....Peter Obi, Uzor Kalu.

4. Why is Jonathan the one running around trying to hold the party together, what the fvck is Nnamadi Sambo doing?

Sambo cant do anything! His popularity in North is local to only Kaduna and in just one constituency.

So then who is going to deliver the North to Jonathan....is it going to be Peter Obi? Hahahahaha, I laugh in fura de nunu!

Dude, you are already in restraints and slaving to Yoruba but yo dont know it. Tinubu is about to even turn the knot tighter and introduce IGR in Abuja when Buhari and Osinbajo ascend that throne.

Ibo will be mules in Abuja the same way Tinubu turned you all into economic mules to produce and sustain local govts in Lagos State.

Bloody national slaves.....sweating and slaving for Yoruba in Lagos, slaving for Ijaw in Port Harcourt, slaving and loosing for Jonathan and Sambo in Abuja, slaving and dying for Hausa in Kano.

Ooh, you all love to hear me talk, I delight in running my tongue! ...

Ill be right back, Adadigbo, Chinyere wants me to cuddle and kiss her....

Qelvin:
go and reclaim Ilorin first from your Fulani masters or even Lagos from your Igbo barons before we can take you ''serious''(a word that is so far-fetched with yorubas this days)

the meaning of the word "baron" is lost on you. You see it in use and adopted it....unfortunately calling an Iboman in Lagos a baron is as much as calling the musician Prince a Duke of Edinburgh. Who dash monkey banana?

Williamso:
These are the kind of topics that should be closed!!! All they do is generate interethnic hate!!! Seun and co., where are you??

closing this topic does not stop Asari from throwing out more ethnic hate...neither does it stop boko calling for ethnic wipe out.

Before daybreak news papers will be filled with fresh prints of hate speeches criss-crossing the political landscape. .....and you know where they are archived?

Nairaland!

what do you want Seun to do to his archives, wipe them out? Shyyyyte!!

FreeGlobe:
so this is yorubas comeback after being shut out of all juicy positions in this govt? lol. epic fail. Yorubas will never smell aso rock again anytime soon. Osibanjo will become another bakare after February. When you are marching across don't bring a certain Gen oladipo diya along. I don't like the sight of old men crying to me

Mwanyim, so you dont want to see Diya..hmmm, okay no problem, I wont bring the crying General with me.

Adekunle relocated not long ago, let me go find Adekunle's new area code....be right back!

yeye person, you need to face your front!

DeLaRue:
The problem here is that you assume the SW has any sense of connection with other regions in the southern part of Nigeria My feeling is, it doesn't.

There is almost zero political, historical, economical, social, military brotherliness between the SW and other ethnic populations located in the Southern part of the country. Ties with Edo is even remote these days. Itshekiri, perhaps, but they are very small anyway.

Maybe due to the economic power of Lagos, Yorubas generally haven't felt the need to look beyond their region in most situations. When they do, at least in the political arena, it seems they probably find it easier to relate to Northerners. There's usually too much baggage in the relationship with people east of the SW, that most SW politicians just don't bother.

We all happen to be located in the Souther part of Nigeria, but get it off your mind that somehow, that makes us brothers in arms or some kind of natural allies.


Just my view.

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superstar1:
we have always been ruling them by our proxies that were tutored here.

The new phase we just entered into, is the phase of neo-colonisation of their enclave by using our proxies, born and bred in SW.

They ain't seen nothing yet.

We shall strangle PDP out of SE and their only choice will be APC and an impotent APGA.

MudRaker:
This is just the beginning.

I have warned of this ungodly alliance going soar between the north and southwest.

Just as the southwest are considered unreliable and untrustworthy by all Nigerians including the north, anything short of a Buhari win will be met with serious repercautions and consequences by the north on the Yorubas.

Civil war part 2 as I have always predicted will be fought in the Southwest and north.

The resounding stupid1ty of the southwest in aligning with the north for their quest to see power return to the north at this critical junction in our polity with all manner of violent and sectional rhetoric backed with outright terrorism and blackmail from the north is enough to ensure that the north does not smell the presidency in another 20 yrs least. Going by their blind support for Buhari based on their hatred for Jonathan, the southwest is throwing away the serious crimes committed by these northern politicians on innocent Nigerians.

Trusting that there is a living God, the souls of all those killed by the northern caliphate through their bokos in the northeast and Fulani herdsmen in the middle belt shall be paid with Yoruba blood who naturally ought to know who our true enemies are today in Nigeria.

Happy genocide.

so you all finally admit that YORUBA IS THE KINGMAKER IN NIGERIA!

We decide where power goes.

fvk Ibo.....we have given power to Hausa/Fulani, go and quench!

MudRaker:
First of all, introduction, I AM NOT IGBO.

Empire building no be omonile or Agbereo work.

Cowards

You can be a bush man or an hottentot for all I care....
Yoruba is coming to colonize and rule Iboland.

The Osus that escaped Iboland for solace and comfort in Yorubaland shall return as Kings over the land.....courtesy of Oduduwa! They are in training....they speak Yoruba but they are not of our race and dont have anything in common with us...but they have been grromed in our political intrigues.

Join them or get out of the way, who cares who you are?

MudRaker:
Forget story.

The outcome of the 2015 result will see Goodluck returned as President.

The north will riot but will take their anger on Tinubu's people both in the north and in their own backyard in the southwest.

The Yorubas will lament their plight on their masters just like the Beroms and Tivs are currently fighting their once close allies.

The Yorubas will dare to secede. Goodluck will quickly agree to their demands and the state of Odua will be created. Before long the core north will see it as an opportunity to cash out from Nigeria since they have vast amounts of newly discovered oil in the Chad Basin area of Borno where the insurgency is going on. They will want to drag the middle belt with them but does guys will say no. The north will after 2 yrs decide to invade Oduastan in order to establish access to the coast for goods and their oil exports.

Yorubas will be too chicken sh1t to resist and will invent a lie for restoration of Nigeria as a guise to their caputilation to the north.

.....lmao! In the next few years you all are about to witness in Nigeria what Oyo did to Dahomey. We shall colonize SE and impose Governors and Ezes hand picked from Lagos to sit over you and rule you Oduduwa-style!

You never jam....

Arewa Youth Integrity Forum is a phantom socio-ethnic group raised for the purpose of formenting division.

This group does not exist in the registry of Arewa interest groups kept in Arewa House Kaduna.

PDP and their bs....

NIJJAking:
The yorubas should be careful and watch the consequence of their actions on the future of the nation. The hausa fulani have ruled this country longer than any other tribe in the history of the nation and its they who have brought us to the present problems we face as a people. Yet the south west want to deliver us into long years of slavery by handing power so early to this northerns. Once buhari get power when he is through , he is surely going to organise a coup and hand power to a northern military officer to take the south on a long years of dramatic power play , in which hausa fulani will rule for long years to come.. The yorubas need to wise up.

please give us a chronological list of rulers of Nigeria and their terms and we see if your claim about Hausa/Fulani having longest run is true or not.

I guess Babangida is Hausa, right? Gowon is Fulani, correct? Abacha is hausa/fulani, no be so?

Onyeoshi!

FreeGlobe:
You wish... lmao. And Yorubas don enter one chance with osibanjo.

thats Nigeria's future President. You better tell Ohaneze to collect all the red hat Igwes and Ezes into a minivan and head on to Ogun state to pay homeage to him. If you hope on a future VP position to Osibanjo....the negotiation and jockying for the post start now....not in 2023!


Meanwhile, i saw you stating somewhere here that you are from Anambra. Is this true? Im waiting for 2nd Niger bridge to complete so I can march my soldiers across and wipe out that entire land. I guarantee you!! you are heading back to obodo Congo!

Look, this boy called Obanikoro needs to get his @$$ seated quietly before he ends up missing.

Obanikoro is intoxicated by his administrative stint at the Ministry of Defense that he thinks he is above the Oba and doesnt need the palace blessing in his political ambition. He is bitter at his loss, he thinks the primaries is the source of his problem. His problem is a long course.

Oba Akiolu already told GEJ he does not want to see the munchkin's face. So how in his mind does he think Abuja will allow him to win the primary in a state they want badly to bring to their party fold and at which no political party is ever successful without the Oba's endorsement?

He already upset the Oba...now he is getting ready to upset his sponsors. This Obanikoro dude is getting ready to commit suicide!

phantom:
the following post is from a friend on facebook and is directed at our kinsmen,the igbos! enjoy!!!
N/B: i highlighted some important points


I will start this write-up with the analogy of the broken down clock for the sole reason that I do not intend this post to be an avenue for stereo-typing the igbos, but as an avenue for we from the South East region to tell ourselves some home-truth (like every race or ethnic group does from time to time) and stop what seems to be an exercise in self ridicule. Now, to the analogy of the broken down clock:

A broken down clock we all know cannot be relied on for telling the time of the day, especially for those who know its state of function. But regardless of that state of function, we all know it has its fingers pointing at some random time, which is usually the time at which it broke down. Lets just say for the sake of this write-up, our clock broke down at exactly 4 o' clock.

A stranger who comes into the house at time of say 3.55 (am or pm), 4.00 (am or pm), 4.05 (am or pm) would see the clock as still correct, or even accurate if he came in at exactly 4.00 (am or pm), but the owner of the house knows the true state of the clock, and the stranger would need to stay longer to know the clock is truly broken down. But the truth is, as a time piece, I was correct twice for the day. At every other time, it was on the WRONG side of time.

In Nigeria, we have many people who analyse like broken down clocks. They seem to be correct not because they possess sterling analytical power, but because the situation which serves their myopic view speaks for itself. Once their position is on the wrong side of the argument, they cannot be fixed. We have them all over Nigeria, from those who rightly presently demand GEJ to be sacked at the polls in 2015 (but for some reason, supported a moribound Umaru Musa Yar Adua to rule Nigeria from his death bed), to those who called for GEJ's impeachment (but threatened the coporate existence of Nigeria should OBJ be impeached, remember OPC's famous "impeach OBJ, impeach Nigeria declaration). Yes, I know, many of them are "making sense" now, and are "gbaming", mass "liking", and high fiving each others' write-ups, but we who live in the house know their "broken down" antecedents, and I know they will be the new problem should an APC leadership begin to derail, should they take over in 2015. But for now, the broken down time piece is telling the correct time, and I hope the clocks that are working correctly will be there to tell the time when real time goes past the hour. It is these people that will eventually save the nation from itself.

But, lets leave those alone for now, its time to address those who seem to be on the wrong side of time.........
Now, we are all aware that GEJ has the most ardent support from the South East. On the surface, that is not a bad thing, everybody has a right to support a candidate of his own choice, and GEJ has the constitutional right to contest, but the reason behind such quickly betrays a sense of hatred, fear and insecurity around such support. The strong emotion with which they respond to their fellow south-easterners who try to be different betrays the ultimate fact that they are really neo-phytes when it comes to reading the political terrain.

These people are so locked in 1966, they forget they are falling into the same mistake of the Northern avengers of 1966, who thought they were doing justice to alleged Igbo domination, but ended up ruining Nigeria and the North even more. These people were seriously calling for devolution of powers and resource control, but do not realise that 2 southern Presidents (one from the Niger Delta) have failed to bring about a satisfactory form of federalism, now they seek to dominate that centre which they alleged to hate so much, when they had ample time to pursue their legitimate interest.

You claim GEJ has done a lot for the igbos more than any President. Well, in terms of appointments, he may have, and there is a psychological feeling about occupying a post whose elusion is thought to be a conspiracy of some sorts, but that is where it ends. It doesn't put food on the table of the average Igbo man more than it does for the Igala man or Jukun woman. And the Airport? [b]Thanks, but apart from that, what else? PTF did much more when oil was less than $20 a barrel. Much more for the common man, the 90% who probably will never use an airport. Roads in the South East remain deplorable, and the Second Niger Bridge is now so notorious a project, any Leader who wants to do the igbos "longer-throat" just needs to say "second Niger Bridge" and he will get our ears. [/b]Remember GEJ said he either completes the Second Niger Bridge by 2015 or he goes to exile. Does it look like all the sand and run down facilities in that area will suddenly become a bridge in 2015? And must it always be about roads and bridges? Dem born us born cement and concrete? What has he done for health that the igbos can shout alleluyah in particular? What about electricity? Does the East have more power supply than the rest of Nigeria? Are Igbo business-men selling more goods more than ever before? Are we buying agricultural produce cheaper than the rest of the country? Is Abakaliki rice more plentiful now than before? Why are our expectations so shallow?

You argue that he is one of us, that he is Igbo. I have never seen any argument betraying more confusion than this. GEJ is not Igbo. He is not even IJAW. He is an OGBIA man, an ethnic group of about 250,000. He has no Igbo name given to him from birth. AZIKIWE is a PET NAME given to him by his mother, because he smiled like the then famous Nnamdi Azikiwe. I had a school mate of COMPLETE Igbo blood in my days in UNEC whose nick-name was ABACHA simply because of his mannerisms. His birth certificate had no Abacha written on it. Meanwhile, it may interest you to know GEJ never took the AZIKIWE name seriously even while he was Governor of Bayelsa and Acting President, but I guess because of people like you, his sudden adoption of the name yielded dividends, and is about to yield further dividends because you cannot see beyond your nose.

Then the second name EBELE. Some un-informed people have called it EBELE-CHUKWU in the past. Well, that is wrong. It is actually EBELEMI, a full nomenclature in OGBIA language. So before you campaign, at least get your facts right.

Another argument, is that we the igbos need to be at peace with our neighbours. I say, it is fine to be at peace, but not to the point of black-mail. Peace without Justice is peace of the grave-yard. [b]Yes, we have a right to support our neighbours, but some of us can also remember that those our neighbours who we desperately want to be at peace with, actually had a voting pattern in the past which was automatically against any candidate who came from the South East. Go and check your records of voting patterns from 1979 elections to 2011. I wont go into the various avenues at which we were sabotaged during the unfortunate civil war. And the abandoned properties nko? Have they given us back? Even the Late Ken Saro-Wiwa, an Ogoni man (our neighbours) "occupied" a house "abandoned" by an Igbo-man when the civil war started. So, how exactly do you define living in genuine peace? Only when it benefits one person? Yes, by-gones should be by-gones, but my common sense still remains. If you want to dig up the role of the Hausas in that event, then let us complete the whole process, then the Efiks and Ibibios will also remind us (the Igbos) of the atrocities we committed against them as well.[/b]

It would have been different if it was a Murtala Mohammed contesting (the man who was responsible for the execution of almost 2,000 unarmed civillians in Asaba during the civil war), or if Buhari had any specific war crime to his name. But that is not the case. In politics, the duration of friendship or enmity is not permanent. What is permanent is INTEREST.

My arch-enemy of yesterday can become my friend today if I rightly identify my interest. Its for this same reason:

1. The Germans and the Jews (Isrealis) are friends and vital business partners today, despite the fact that the Germans gassed 6 million jews to death, with the intention of wiping them off the planet.

2. The Americans fought a bitter war of independence with the imperial British. Today, their alliance is one of the closest and most reliable on the planet.

3. England and France fought a war that lasted 100 years (yes 100). Yet today, one of the most technologically advanced tunnels connects both countries.

I can go on and on and on about how enmities of yesterday have become formidable alliances today based on common sense and identification of objective, legitimate interest. So don't go about calling an Igbo man using his common sense an EFULEFU. You are the one who is lost in the past.

hahahahahahahahaha.....

We said it! Soon as Ibo and Ohaneze realize they are about to be swallowed up by the grave they dug for their enemy they will wise up and start sponsoring writers and freelancers from the academic and professional field to preach a sober message. They wouldnt come out and say we are sorry for our mistakes but they will send foot soldiers out to spin a message of self reflection and humility to ndigbos admonishing them to save their necks from the impending doom and join the enemy camp.

bloody COWARDS!!

Tell the writer of this message to come back with his message next year after amala and ewedu people in union with supporter of APC and cow people have put Buhari and Osinbajo are in Aso Rock.

bloody f00ls!!

Bianca Ojukwu, widow of late Biafran hero, Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu has revealed how Igbo leaders looking for political favors shed tears on her late husband's grave. 

According to NATIONAL MIRROR, Mrs. Ojukwu blasted Igbo politicians for using Ojukwu’s name to win elections only to abandon him and his party, All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.

"A lot of people have been using Ojukwu’s name to make money and even build companies. Some people visit Ojukwu’s burial ground to weep because they want political power and tonnes of handkerchiefs, which they used to wipe their tears to attract sympathy, litter everywhere. They do this to deceive people they are members of APGA; but when they get their desires they will say APGA is an empty shell and that Ojukwu is dead".

"Even the man in Imo State who came crying to Ojukwu pleading when every party rejected him, has today gone to APC claiming that APGA today is an ethnic party", Mrs Ojukwu said. 

She added that no Igbo leader except Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has ever done anything to remember Ojukwu after his death. 

"I want to challenge them to show me what they have built in the name of my husband, but they have used his name to establish beer companies", Bianca added. 


http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/how-igbo-leaders-cry-at-ojukwus-grave-for-political-favors-bianca.103383/

arresa:
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saTANic lamentation. We know where you belong so who gives a shitttt about your saTANic verses... Worry about your Jonadumb if you really care and worry less about about #GMB15.

We know all the endless and meaningless essays on NL = Fear and anxiety per your impending doom and Jonadumb's exit back to otuoko or >>>>Straight to jail...

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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has asked all politicians of Igbo extraction not to join the 2015 presidential race if President Goodluck Jonathan decides to seek reelection.

The Chairman of the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Anambra State chapter, Mr. Eluemunoh  said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Awka.


He said  the Igbo people were satisfied with the Jonathan’s administration and would support his reelection bid, if he indicates interest to do so. Eluemunoh said Igbo people had benefited more basic infrastructure and political appointments in Jonathan’s governemnt than any other administration since Independence.

“Any government like Jonathan’s administration that shares national resources equitably needed to be encouraged to stay in office and perfect the administration programme to a logical conclusion.

“It is on this stance that I commend the president and pledge our loyalty to him. I urge any Igbo man nursing the ambition to contest as president to drop it now, for us to speak with one voice.’’

Eluemunoh said: ‘’Any Igbo man who works against the president would be fighting the Igbo race because for now the Igbos have no national political platform under which they should contest.

“How do you present a candidate when our own brother is there? Ohanaeze has said we will pull our support for Jonathan now and in 2015, so, there is no vacancy in Aso Rock.

“Ohanaeze is the voice of the Igbo nation. We cannot fight anybody, we cannot bite anybody but we can embarrass you as an Igbo man if you contest.

“We resolved that we should allow our own brother to go for second tenure. Who else can do better than what Jonathan is doing for the Igbo people.”

He also commiserated with the federal government and the judiciary over the death of Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, who died on May 4.



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/drop-2015-presidential-ambition-ohanaeze-urges-igbos/177992/

No fewer than 1,000 corpses of Igbo people are awaiting clearance in various mortuaries in Lagos State, the President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the state, Chief Fabian Onwughalu, has said.

He blamed the development on the Federal Government’s ban on inter-state movement of corpses in the country.

The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Khairu Al-Hassan, announced the Federal Government‘s decision at a meeting held at African House, Government House, Kano recently.

He said it was part of the means the government is exploiting  to curtail the spread of the disease in the country.

Bemoaning the plight of the deceased and their relations, Chief Onwughalu said:  ”As I am talking to you now, there are over 1000 dead bodies of Igbo people waiting at various morgues only here in Lagos State for movement to their homeland.

”The ugly development has serious effect on the families of the deceased because in Igbo land, we believe that the moment a late family member is buried, the pains of losing him will gradually fade away. But in a situation where you keep the body of a deceased family member unnecessarily, the pains will be increasing.

“The Federal Government should rescind the decision or decentralise the authority.”

Asked what the body was doing to address the problem, he said: “At the highest level, we believe there are consultations going on. But we are worried that it is taking too long to yield fruits.”

He added that the sole authority vested in the minister to give clearance to bereaved families before they can take their dead relations home is fraught with bottlenecks that cause untold hardship for the people. He described the process as a violation of the Igbo culture.

To enable bereaved families take the corpses of their  members home for burial, he advised that “the Federal Government should authorise other government health officers and doctors to issue certificates to bereaved families to enable them carry the remains of their deceased ones home for burial.

“If the authority to issue certificate is decentralised such that federal health centres and teaching hospitals would be able to attend to bereaved families and give them certificates within a short time, it will enable our people to convey the remains of their beloved ones to their ancestral homes in line with the traditions of their people.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/1000-igbo-corpses-await-clearance-in-lagos-mortuaries-ohanaeze/

The emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan and a former military Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari (retd), as presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress respectively have set the stage for a political war among various ethnic and cultural groups in the country.

SUNDAY PUNCH enquires showed that while some of the groups have taken decisions to queue behind either Jonathan or Buhari, others are in the process of taking decision on whom to support.

This is happening even as some of the groups have, however, chosen to be neutral.

Buhari is the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate for the February 2015 election.

He defeated four other APC aspirants: Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Rochas Okorocha and Sam Nda-Isaiah to clinch the party’s ticket at a national convention/primary that held Thursday in Lagos.

His victory sets him yet again as the number one challenger to President Goodluck Jonathan, who on Wednesday was formally handed the Peoples Democratic Party flag for the 2015 presidential election without having to contend with any opponent in the party.

The Ijaw National Congress told SUNDAY PUNCH it would support President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid for a second term in office. It said its decision was based on the performance of the President.

The INC spokesman, Mr. Victor Borubo, said the congress had compared Jonathan’s performance with that of past presidents and came to the conclusion that he (Jonathan) deserved a re-election.

“Apart from the fact that President Goodluck Jonathan is a son of the Niger Delta people and we will naturally vote for him, he is the only President that has been so criticised and yet did not harass anybody or send assassins against anybody,” Borubo added.

The Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, is however queuing behind Buhari. The convener of the group, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, urged the electorate in the North to vote for the APC candidate.

He observed that while the PDP schemed out other presidential aspirants in the party in favour of Jonathan, a candidate of northern extraction emerged from an open process in the APC.

The Second Republic federal lawmaker, who stated that he was not speaking for the North, said Nigerians now had the option to choose between the status quo or vote for a change in the country.

Mohammed said, “There are only two candidates in this (presidential) contest in 2015 – there is Goodluck Jonathan, who is incompetent, and there is Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who is not only a former Head of State but also a complete personification of integrity.

“What this means is that Nigerians now have a very clear choice: If you don’t like what is in this country in terms of the national economy, insecurity, corruption at all levels and decadence in government, then you have a very clear-cut choice.”

Similarly, a pan-Yoruba association, Afenifere Renewal Group, said it was solidly behind whoever the APC fielded as its presidential candidate.

Speaking with one of our correspondents, the Publicity Secretary of the group, Mr. Kunle Famoriyo, said, “We have a soft spot for the APC as progressives, considering the work they are doing in the South-West. We can rightly say the APC is our adopted party. A majority of our members are in the party and we support our members who want to contest for public positions, majority of whom are in the APC.

“The APC primary was a step forward for Nigeria’s democracy from the point of view that the election of Buhari was transparent. It marked a new dawn in the way we select people who are to govern in us in Nigeria, because it was done in the presence of everybody. People were able to see that there was no imposition,” he said.

The Publicity Secretary of Afenifre, Mr. Yinka Odumakin on Friday, however stated that the group would meet to decide which presidential candidate it will throw its weight behind in 2015 election.

“We will look at where both presidential candidates (President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari) stand on the issue of federalism which is at the core of what the Afenifere group advocates. Afenifere is concerned about the restructuring of this country,” the Yoruba group spokesperson stated.

Also, the Coordinator of the Federation of Middle Belt People, Mr. Manasseh Watyil, told one of our correspondents that the organisation had yet to take a common stand as regards who to support in the 2015 presidential election.

Manasseh said the organisation would be having a convention from December 27 to 29 to decide on a particular candidate.

Similarly, the pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, stated that it had not decided yet on which presidential candidate to support.

The National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Osita Oganah, stated that the group was only interested in good governance and that the decision to support either the PDP or the APC will depend on who emerges as the running mate of Buhari.

“I have to let you know that at the moment, our support goes to President Jonathan. Jonathan has been doing well for the Igbo

“Yet, we will wait to decide who we will finally support in the 2015 presidential election,” he said.

In the same vein, the President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Mr. Legborsi Pyagbara, said MOSOP was still consulting on whether to support Jonathan or Buhari.

Pyagbara, who spoke through his Media Assistant, Mr. Bari-ara Kpalap, maintained that MOSOP’s consultation would cut across all spheres of Ogoni people and added that the position of the body would be made known at the end of such consultations.

But even as some groups take a definite stand, a northern pressure group, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, has said it will rather remain neutral, and not support either of the candidates.

The National President of the group, Yerima Shettima, said it had listened to several manifestos and wanted to be careful to avoid aligning with a party or an individual whose antecedents may serve as a red flag.

Asked if any of the candidates had sought support from the organisation, Shettima said, “All of them, including the APC, the PDP and those parties that are not considered popular have sought our support.”

According to him, the group has been meeting with candidates from several parties.

“We are in Kaduna and we have been in several meetings to consider everything. Soon, we will make our position clear to Nigerians,” the AYCF president said.

The Yoruba Unity Forum is another group that would rather remain neutral. It said it would not have a preferred candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

The Chairman of the forum, Bishop of Akure Diocese, Anglican Communion, Bolanle Gbonigi, told our correspondent in a telephone interview that since the forum was not a political party, it would not be in tandem with its mandate to back a particular presidential candidate.

He however said the forum would meet to discuss the emergency of the two presidential candidates of their respective parties, noting that only after could the forum offer a formal reaction to the development.


http://www.osundefender.org/?p=199913

Collynzo9:
Here was I thinking there was nothing like suffering in the South West. I thought you guys said Osun state had the lowest poverty rate in the country?
No wonder they use free school meals to attract children to schools, parents started sending their children to school not for the education, but to get their only meal of the day.

This is as bad as it gets.

in a part of the report it said the childrrn are helping their parents put food on the table. This a moral we find missing in SE where children kidnap and sell off their own parents to enrich their pockets for lavish lifestyles.

.....Ohanaeze and all Igbo leaders should condemn this enslavement of Ndigbo through this over-bloated and fraudulent construction of a bridge and must demand immediately the cancellation of this PPP Design, Finance, Build, Operate and Transfer model .

Jonathan led Government should takeover the responsibility for the full construction of that bridge, and settle off the fraudulent consortium. This fraudulent 419 2nd Niger Bridge should be revised for a full scale Federal Government Built arrangement before another scandal erupts.




Read more here

http://dailypost.ng/2014/12/18/obinna-akukwe-fraudulent-construction-2nd-niger-bridge-another-419-igbo-nation/

Too lengthy to post.

please notice the reporters are all Ibo, not Yoruba....so do not derail the thread.

Elaborate Nature Of Funerals In Igboland

Matthias Nwogu, Mike Ubani, OBINNA OGBONNAYA, Okechukwu Obeta

— Dec 20, 2014 | 1 Comment

Elaborate burial rites often follow the demise of relatives and loved ones. However, how much could be said to be enough for such ceremonies? MIKE UBANI, Enugu; OKECHUKWU OBETA, Awka; MATTHIAS NWOGU, UMUAHIA and OBINNA OGBONNAYA, Abakaliki, write

Pa Uche Nwankwo, a native of the ancient town of Arochukwu in Abia State, died on June 24, 2013, at the age of 76. He had six children; four males and two females. The four male children of the deceased are successful businessmen while each of the two daughters got married several years ago to equally successful businessmen.

Ironically, when Pa Nwankwo was down with pneumonia, the eldest son recommended that he be given traditional medicine which proved ineffective at every attempt. Though the remaining children sent money home for Pa Nwankwo to buy conventional medicine, but in totality, the money was awfully inadequate to buy the requisite drugs.

Expectedly, Pa Nwankwo’s health went from bad to worse. And the man died. His corpse was deposited in the mortuary of a private hospital in Umuahia, the Abia state capital.

And following Pa Nwankwo’s death, his six children came back home to arrange for his burial. Significantly, there was a consensus that Pa Nwankwo would not be buried until a magnificent as well as expansive house that would be a cynosure of all eyes was built in the village. The cost of erecting the building was conservatively put at N20 million.

The children also agreed to raise another N20 million to take care of other burial expenses, including the purchase of a state-of-the-art casket, sewing of uniforms, buying of assorted food items, drinks, souvenirs, hiring of the best musician in town etc.

This is not an isolated case. In almost all parts of Igboland, the living spend lavishly to bury their dead ones. Even if the deceased was a pauper, all the traditional burial rites – which are extremely, elaborate, expensive and complex must be observed to the letter.

It is very expensive to bury loved ones, especially parents in Igbo land. In order to accord a father or mother a befitting burial some people even go to the extent of obtaining loans from bank or from friends and or sell their family land to raise enough money for the funeral.

http://leadership.ng/features/396437/elaborate-nature-funerals-igboland

Jakpon:
MayorofLagos, dropping it like its hot

How is chinyere? My regards to her

lmao.... . Chinyere is in kitchen preparing amala and ewedu for us to eat.

quid:
so igbos have been feeding yorubas in Lagos for so long.

...and you shall continue to feed us cost free, until you decide to go back to village to feed yourself. As long you are in the city, you remain our mule. Simple!

Qelvin:
we are still on the same page, you are the very grass we trample on

Really??

isnt that same fantasy that Orji Uzor Kalu believing he was the landlord of his stable? Then the baron locked him out. Right?

What did the mule do to get his stable back? Do you recall, or should i refresh your senses?

How about Ladipo? Mules that enrich Mushin local govt.......and when they were locked out of their stables.....do you remember what they had to do get back in it?

How about ASPAMDA and the mules in that sector? They thought their stsbles belonged to Federal Govt...until the land barons locked them out.

do you recall their episode?


Did not Mushin put a jockey to control the excesses of the Ladipo mules? They threatened they will stop carrying us on their back. The baron told them to go back to their village....then they sat down and accepted their babaloja.

how quick you freaks forget your role in Lagos.

you are an economic mule....enjoy your stable for as long we shelter you in it.....we control your stay in it, not you. We own the land, you own the burden.

understood?

bloody mule!

Qelvin:
we both know even Shekau dares that name Ihejirika ; thus the reason why conspiracy theorist tried to ruin his image... meanwhile was it not the son of a famous General from your tribe who had this butt perforated with bullets by insurgents while he was fleeing from battle? remind me of his father's name again...?

he had bullets in his arm and stomach. Again, you confuse galant soldiers with fleeing Ojukwu.

two different people...one was brave and took bullet in front, the other was afraid and fled even begore bullets were fired.