Dr Kitaun:

I concur.

and all of u talking rubbish about Lagerback need to get a dog to screw !

Lagerback was never resposnible for that nincompoop KaHITa's moronic lash-out, was he ?

he held Obasi's leg from scoring ?

he hypnotised Osaze from coming to the field ?

was he foolish to have included Haruna who MISTAKENLY deflected into his own net ?

it must have been Lagerback that instructed TT and MORE ANNOYINGLY ECHEJILE to get injured and in the process wasting our SUBTITUTION OPTIONS ?

I weep for Naija . . .

Kaita should NEVER play for the SE again, but history might make him the gem of the next SE team just the way LUKMAN HARUNA still found his way into the SE after his MEMORABLE bleed UP at EGYPT    

Where is Sagamite to gloat his stewpid mouth off ?  

Beaf:

Jonathan is deeply introverted. He has been so for more than 50 years of his life. What matters most is that he delivers.

Desmond Tutu sounds as out of place as Bakare. Both don't know what they are talking about and should keep out of politics.

pcmecom:

@ beaf and ezeuche

If martin luther king(pastor) never stood up and spoke against racial oppression in america, would it have ended?

RoadStar:

And what is a good end.

RoadStar:

Let us cut the story short.
The biafran war is an open wound.
We should work towards healing the wound.
What initial action do you Ndigbo advocate.

1. An apology from the Nigerian State ?
2. An Apology from all other ethnic groups ?
3. Allow Ndigbo to secede. (Along what boundaries thought) will it include Urobhos, Ijawa, Efiks etc and other southern minorities is likely not attainable.
4. Igbo president ?
5. Igbo should be allowed to murder other tribes as well.
6. Some compensation fee paid to Ndigbo. (who and who would get this money)

Instead of critics making all this noise what will be a starting way foward.
If you do not have any ideas on how the whole situation can be atoned can you let the issue lie.

asha 80:

More like he was saying that to whip up sentiments to garner votes for himself.You think the northern mallams will allow Soludo to become president after the rumor that they feel that that consolidation he engineerd did not favour the north?Let me tell the only igbo person that stands a chance of becoming president of nigeria through election selection is Ike Nwachukwu or Orji Uzor Kalu.

asha 80:

And the PDP politics played in imo state is sickening to say the least.

CoolSunny:

If PDP is losing South Eastern States, then where's the hope of an Igbo President come 2015 or 2019? PDP at least is the machine that can be used to make that a reality. Chances would have been stronger had Soludo won in Anambra. Who knows he may later have become VP or the President? One thing is needful, seeing the future from the present and acting in accordance to realise your long term goals.

Onlytruth:

I guess we both agree that PDP and Iwu did not "allow" Obi to win; he actually won, and hell would have broken lose if they rigged in Andy Uba or PDP. For Soludo, he lost because he is in PDP.
The mistake folks like you keep making is that you underestimate APGA and what it represents. That was the undoing of PDP, LP, AC and PPA. For the first time APGA has earned the respect it deserves.
My only problem with APGA now is that it seems their national chairman Victor Umeh is not as resourceful as the former one -Chekwas Okorie.
That party is beloved in the south east but the party leadership needs urgent reform.

That south east is a PDP region is the biggest myth of the day. South east is APGA, but PDP has been rigging the polls.
Politics is fluid anyway, but APGA will win south east if they play it like in Anambra.

I’ll support Obi – Soludo
From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka
Monday, February 8, 2010


•Prof. Chukwuma Soludo
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) standard bearer in Saturday’s guber polls in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo yesterday surprised the majority of the people of the state who thought he would be heading for the court to challenge the outcome of Saturday’s election when he declared that the governor-elect would have his support.

Making the declaration at a press briefing, Soludo who was adjudged the highest spender in the electioneering campaign stressed that inasmuch as INEC has declared Governor Peter Obi winner of the election despite the grave flaws, he would support him for the future of the state.

“Finally, let me use this opportunity to congratulate my friend, Mr. Peter Obi. In spite of the grave flaws, INEC has declared you the winner of the election. The fight is not about us, but about the future of Anambra State. You will have my support,” he said.

The PDP candidate, however, stated that they were not unaware of the unhidden hostility of INEC towards his candidature, adding that intelligence report came to them of INEC’s decision to return Mr Obi.

According to him, “we were never under any illusion as to the breadth and depth of the obstacles on our way. The fear of Soludo on the political saddle was palpable and the high-level conspiracy to stop Soludo was also very evident. INEC as the umpire never hid its hostility towards us as well as the fact that it was an interested party to stop Soludo. We received the intelligence report of the ‘decision’ to ‘return’ Peter Obi.

“Throughout the campaigns, we called for a free, fair and credible election. We even suggested the adoption of Option A-4 as we remain convinced that we will win landslide in any free and fair election in Anambra State.
“What happened on the 6th February portends ominous note for our democracy and adds another dangerous dimension to the rigging process. The voters register was fraudulently manipulated to exclude hundreds of thousands of voters who have valid voters card.
“Furthermore, in most places the voters’ register used at the polling booths were different from the ones displayed or given to the political parties.

Even people who had verified and confirmed their names during the display of voters register could not find their names at the polling booths. We are convinced that this manipulation was systematically designed to rig us out as the problem was most pronounced in PDP strongholds.
“We saw tens of thousands of our supporters stranded in every local government. We earlier complained about this fraud and we were assured that anyone with a valid voters’ card will be allowed to vote. We told our supporters but they were utterly disappointed. INEC officials confirmed to some of our associates that they came to Anambra with a mandate to ‘return’ APGA, and their brazen activities left no one in doubt.

“The brazen manipulation of voting and closing times, selective choice of which results to accept and which ones to cancel, and outright manipulation of the results in many cases designed to achieve the objective left the election results a charade. There was no voting in Obosi (a stronghold of PDP with about 45,000 registered voters); ward results in Aguata were cancelled and several manipulated to achieve set objective; the electoral officer for Idemili South local government admitted at the state collation centre that the result for Action Congress was inadvertently bloated by 10,000 because she was ‘sleepy’ and yet it was accepted; Onitsha South and Anaocha were a huge joke.
“There are serious concerns about the results in all the local governments. What happened in Anambra is what a friend has described as ‘administrative rigging’. Hundreds of thousands of people who turned out to vote and with their valid voters’ cards were disenfranchised. Can this be described as a ‘free and fair’ election? Curiously, all those on record to have dismissed the process as neither free nor fair during the voting have made a U-turn to hail it because the outcome is favourable to them. Was the first reaction a dummy to conceal the orchestrated plan?

“To the millions of Anambra people who are sad because they see the potentials for their brighter future being delayed, I ask you to cheer up. May we all keep our eyes on the ball. Despite the seeming temporary setback, I still have an abiding faith in the Anambra project. I strongly believe that 40 years after the Nigerian civil war, Anambra’s renaissance is inevitable. I believe that politics remains the only veritable avenue to ensuring enduring democracy and development. I have stepped out and will devote the rest of my life to public service.

“We remain deeply grateful to the President, Vice-President, the state governors, members of the National Working Committee and leadership of our great party, PDP, the leadership of the National Assembly, members of the campaign organisation and the election committee, our numerous financiers and stakeholders, our numerous friends and well-wishers, and millions of supporters. The road ahead is long, and by the grace of God, we shall overcome. The struggle for a better Anambra State and Nigeria has only just begun.
“This experience has among other things revealed to me how desperately Nigeria needs fundamental electoral reforms. A situation where INEC determines whether and where voters can exercise their right to vote as in the case of Anambra cannot augur well for our nascent democracy. Together, we can fix this problem”.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan nonetheless praised the conduct of the Anambra polls, saying "this was an indication that the electoral reforms of the present administration were beginning to have an effect on the nation's political culture."

But voter turnout was extremely low, according to INEC figures. Just 301,232 of 1.84 million registered voters took part, a figure partly explained by so many names being missed off the electoral register, local election observers said.

ELECTORAL REFORM NEEDED

Ngige rejected the result, while Soludo described it as a charade marred by "brazen manipulation." But he accepted defeat.

"Let me use this opportunity to congratulate my friend Mr Peter Obi. In spite of the grave flaws, INEC has declared you winner of the election. The fight is not about us but about the future of Anambra state. You will have my support," Soludo said.