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Alexgeneration:
You think you're wise, but you reek of fooooolishness.

philfearon:
A LETTER TO MY FELLOW IGBO BRETHREN


Another election period looms near, and once again the politics of sentiment and self-inflicted emotional blackmail is on the ride again.
Here i am again, as was the case in 2015, to reason with my people.
Like seriously, truth be told, what have we as a people gained from playing politics of hatred as of recent at the National Level?
Like why is it so hard for us to see politics as just another business where interest and profit alone should be the basis of our political participation?
I thought the Igbo's are highly regarded as business engines that thrives better at commerce and business anywhere? Is there anyone that does business not to make profit but to satisfy his emotional hatred and justify his sentimental stances?
In 2015, even while everything was clear, even while all the signs were still there, a lot of us still went ahead to make a big political blunder based on hatred.
A new alliance was being formed, a call was made to the whole Nigeria, every other region embraced the call except us and the South-South ( and their interest was right, justifiable and nothing less was expected.). Few saw the new horizon and decided to be part of the alliance, but were seen as either being saboteurs or being silly enough not to be sympathetic with their people and join in the struggle of creating more hatred for our supposed political oppressors.
We have supported PDP for 19 good years now at the National level, and what have we gained from it? Every Election year, same bullshit. Same political miscalculation, same mass bereavement of common interest and common sense. Same religious bullshit.
In same period, every Presidential and Vice-Presidential slot was still allotted to every other Geo-political zone, not us, not even once. One would have thought that such amount of Loyalty was at least worth a VP ticket.
But, now that the Igbo's should at least have a shot at the Presidency should the North finish the perceived eight years (8yrs) rule being allegedly denied them, we have again been shortchanged and bribed away with some stupid VP ticket.
The Southwest has ruled, the Southsouth has ruled. Therefore, if the alleged geopolitical quota system is in play, you can therefore agree with me that the Igbo's have a better shot at the 2023 elections for Presidency than any other Southern geopolitical zone.
Though it is a long shot, but sympathizers will be on our side.

Today, it's very easy for most Igbo people to berate the President, call him whatever suits their emotion at the moment, call him a fundamentalist, a religionist, Sharia advocate, the prophesied person that will Islamize Nigeria, the dullard and whatever ungodly remarks to suit our ego.
We have continued to play the victim card, politics of unjustified bias and always blaming everyone else but ourselves. We continue to hate and hate and hate, to what purpose?
What has our hatred earned for us in the past?
What has our alliance in the past earned for us?
Only a madman does same thing in the same way every time and expect to see a different result.
We had the chance to be part of a new alliance, we failed to take it but went on to lament how we were left out in National politics. It didn't end there, many of us still continuously berated, attacked, cursed and wished ill heavily on the government.
They wished the government to fail woefully, but it never occured to them that if the government fails, nothing will run smoothly.
The economic mess the previous government left that slid the nation into recession was managed and the nation is back again, even rated the best economy in Africa as at the last Forbes rating. This is not to say it was easy or that things are much better. But remember, this was most wailers and haters prayers from our side of the divide. They wanted the economy to crumble because of hatred...And for what? Because We lost!!!

Many hate the president with the air they breathe, but they forget that the same man ran with an Igbo person as his VP in 2007 ( regarded by the EU as the worst election in the world then) before deciding to form an alliance with the South-West (Pastor Tunde Bakare) and then Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, the current Vice-President of Nigeria.
Let's say the man got tired of our antics and decided to be business minded with his fourth presidential ambition. He won, and we are still playing victim.

BUHARI BETWEEN 2003 AND 2015

2003
Olusegun Obasanjo   PDP    24,456,140      61.94%

Muhammadu Buhari  ANPP 12,710,022      32.19 %

2007
Musa Yar‘adua             PDP   24,638,063      69.82 %

Muhammadu Buhari  ANPP 6,605,299        18.72 %

2011
Goodluck Jonathan    PDP     22,495,187      58.89 %

Muhammadu Buhari  CPC    12,214,853      31.98 %

2015
Muhammadu Buhari  APC     15,424,921      53.96%

Goodluck Jonathan    PDP     12,853,162      44.96 %

Of the total 73,944,312 registered voters in Nigeria as of January 2018, the North-West geo-political zone = *18,505,984.*
South-East = *8,293,093* registered voters.
South-West = *14,626,800* registered voters;
South-South = *11,101,093* registered voters.
North-Central = 10,586,965 registered voters.
North-East = 9,929,015 registered voters.

There is no single permutation of the 2019 election in which PDP will win. People can go about deceiving who they want to deceive, but the facts speaks for itself.
One thing the ruling party has going for it is that it was formed by a lot of people from different parties and walks of life. All of them are still there, except for those who whöre around, looking for where the next free bread lands. APC has never had it easy, and will never have it easy. This is something they purely understand, but unfortunately we are still to learn.
So should we hopelessly drown with a sinking ship despite many life-jackets being offered to us by the leading party?
There is rumours of Igbo president in 2023 should we support the APC, but again, the sentimentalists are at it again with their 'never trusting' misconceptions.
In the 19yrs of PDP loyalty, did we get a vp slot not to talk of a Presidential slot?

It's another election period, the calls are going round again.
Let us continue to miscalculate and hate while the rest of the nation seek out means to improve their zones and be fully politically relevant.
We are always seeking for a nonexistent Southern unity, but the SouthWest is APC through and through.
A lot of in roads has been made in the South-South, it's almost as if yet again, the government is not ready for our bouts of yelling and wailing this time around. Take a look above again, we are the zone with the least voting power, yet somehow a lot of people with their twisted minds think business will wait for us.
At least if you are going to wail about being heavily shorted, you should have solid and legitimate reasons to wail. Equity does not help the indolent. Let he who have ear hear.
We can again decide to side with losers and continue wailing for the next four years.
I have said my piece, and you are welcome to hate me. I gave out my last free f*ck in the 2011 elections!!!


Written by a concerned Igbo guy.

PStacks:
Im sure u are one of those that took their bath with salt during the ebola saga.

I am sure MMM made away with your money.


wailers are not hard to spot.

PStacks:
Not just snippets or excerpts. I have taken my time to read Goodluck Jonathans Book, "My Transition Hour".

I have concluded to myself long before Now.

Goodluck Jonathan Is a Hero that should have been but Never Was... sad.

After I read the Book, I understood why Chief Bisi Akande had refered to Jonathan as a 'Kindergarten President'.

Goodluck Jonathan is just a Cry Baby that blames the whloe world but himself for his defeat.

before you read from here to there in the Book, you will hear him rethorically say stuffs like

"In the Interest Of Peace".

Goodluck Jonathan should go and read about great Philosophers and their stand on peace.

Only Ideals look Peaceful, but if you look back in time in the history of mankind, History is violent.

"Ideals are Peaceful, History is Violent".

This was postulation of an American War veteran whom had fought Nazi soldiers deep interior Germany 1948 during World War 2.

Sergent Don Collier A.k.a War-Daddy.

I guess Goodluck never truly knew the full powers behind him being C in C.

Goodluck blamed Barrack Obama.

Goodluck Blamed former Uk Prime minister David Cameron.

He blamed Obasanjo, Blamed Buhari, Blamed The British colonial masters, Blamed the electorate, blamed everybody but himself. Self righteous ex-president.

His book is filled twisted historical facts.

you said you suspected something sinister about the mode and manner Chibok girls were abducted and u sat like vegetable.

Goodluck to me is a Hero that never was...

Elections werent yet over, you had called Buhari to congratulate him.

Jonathan should not pretend Lives were not lost during his regime as president.

as a matter of fact, Nigerian territoraility had never been under such threat as it was under Goodluck's administration.

Goodluck's administration would go down in history as the point in time it was most un-safe to be Nigerian that resides in Nigeria.

Goodlucks Transition Hours is filled with Hate Speeches.

Goodluck should understand that Nigerians voted him out, Not Obasanjo or Obama or David Cameron.

I would have tot our ex-president was already over this but "My Transition Hours" leaves more questions than Answers.

Concerned Nigerian.
OMA.

https://www.omascope.com/politics/goodluck-jonathan-the-hero-that-never-was

teekay213:
22hrs daily powerpls where do you reside?

Lucifer66:
Reading itself is stress.

Alexgeneration:
KING DROGBA



THE NIGHTMARE OF ARSENAL FANS.

Stormyweather:
Lol this one think say na computer village be this o

Edoloaded:
we don't care bro... our eyes don dey open very soon e go clear Una for eye...


both ibos Hausa and Yoruba

Peacecore:
Obj having seen d handwriting on d wall decided align through back door.
Obj:pls two of being Mr president's right hand men,beg him for me
Osinbajo:bt u know u have sinned against Nigerians for endorsing a looter
Obj:I was trying to remain relevant
Amechi:On behalf of d president go,ur sins have washed n sin no more
Obj:d lion of south south!!!
Osinbajo(frown)
Can any tell me d reason for that frowning?
I didn't say it bcoz $16bn power scander o!

Ganduri:
“In 2014, we said we would change Nigeria but we did not say we will do it in four years," Fashola said.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) promised Nigerians would witness change but never said the agenda would be attained within any time frame, according to Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola.
Fashola made the clarification yesterday at the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 campaign in Ikeja, Lagos State.
“In 2014, we said we would change Nigeria but we did not say we will do it in four years. This election therefore is a choice between going forward to the next level or backward because the work has already begun,” Fashola said.
While explaining the reason Nigerians should vote for Buhari, the minister also denounced the previous Peoples Democratic Party-led government. “Since I became a minister, the president has never interfered in what I do. He has never lobbied me for contract and I can assure you that it is like that with other ministers,” he said, asking: “The oil revenue the former government took advantage of, what did they use it for?”
He continued: “We have watched what happened in 16 years of nothing to show. Some people are trying to rewrite history now. You don’t sack a good employee. If they are living in delusion and say it was good governance, why did they lose the job? In 2017, the budget on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was cut from N30 billion to N10 billion. You know who was presiding (then).
“Buhari has inaugurated an infrastructure development fund to ensure that Lagos-Ibadan, Second Niger Bridge and Abuja to Kano Road would never suffer funding problem again. Just yesterday, the two contractors on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway got a total of N15 billion to continue the work. The same thing is true of the Ikorodu-Sagamu Road. That road, for 16 years, was nothing to write about.”
Fashola urged APC members to shelve their grievances, following the party’s contentious primaries, and work together to win the general election. “I urge you to vote massively for this government because the former government must not come back,” he told supporters.
He also assured the people that the presidency would shift to the southwest, if Buhari wins the polls next year.
But a group, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), thinks Nigerian’s should take Fashola’s words with a pinch of salt. It cited a recent claim by the minister that the electricity sector in the last three years witnessed a major boost, concluding that nothing could be further from the truth.
“We could equally decipher the contradiction in Mr. Fashola’s claim of what was met on ground and successes recorded in his own analysis of general breakdown with the media. In the same report, he claimed that the generation his administration met on ground was 4,000 megawatts which was increased to 7,000 megawatts, while transmission was increased from 5, 000 megawatts to 7,000 megawatts within the same period under review. Now, the question we should ask is how could transmission be 5,000 megawatts when all that was generated was simply 4,000 megawatts? This underscores our belief that the honourable minister was only being clever by half by using fictitious figures to further confuse Nigerians as against the reality of their day to day life experience.”
According to a statement by CACOL’s coordinator of media and publications, Adegboyega Otunuga, on behalf of the organisation’s executive chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, “Whereas, some areas may be enjoying a flurry of power supply for reasons not completely far from prior arrangement or greasing of the palms of electricity distribution officials, the strategic and widespread research conducted clearly shows that greater emphasis has been put on power generation far more than on transmission and distribution, thus wasting much of what was generated.”
Meanwhile, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association Olisa Agbakoba has dismissed claims that the Buhari administration would give Nigerians a better deal. At an ARISE TV morning show yesterday, he said the president’s campaign manual lacked policies to get the nation working.
“It’s a handout. It’s not a political document. It has no conceptual overhang. The one for Atiku is 80 per cent. It’s got the right stuff in it. It needs more work, but it’s a working document. It’s something I can live with. I see nice things there. It’s a conceptual framework that creates micro-economic stability. It’s got all the nice indices in it. On evaluation, it is clear that the economic blueprint unveiled by Atiku addresses national needs than Buhari’s economic plans,” he said.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/11/21/we-promised-change-not-four-years-says-fashola

OladimejiRufai:
Mr. Okpara Iberibe should keep quiet!!!

All nonsense!!

I just like the way Peter is handling the issue. feeling proud of what he has got...

And this jude too is talking

Who was Jude before Lola came into psquare's life and helped them upgrade

I am certain he was still living the life of fighting danfo conductors over 10 naira change then.

Fvck all tribalists.... I mean all racists and tribalists

I am still waiting for the time one family member will show up to terrorize that Igbo wife I want to marry

When I am through with him or her...

if it is a man, his p*nis will grow longer than both his legs

and if it is a woman, her vagina will grow wider and deeper than a community borehole

NONSENSE!!!

DDeliverer:
Lol..This jibril story really pain you.

ZombiePUNISHER:
I'm sure he is an APc supporter
That's how they are programmed to carry religion on the head...

Instead of opening threads on Gandollar and OshomOLE

Kenekingisback:
Useless APC members...

See Aregbe with his HND insulting Madam Iweala (pg.61)

BankeSmalls:
If diversity will make us look like you, pls keep it in your region

jrusky:
Pls this is unfounded thrash talk. Lagos dont go tribal way in as far the peeson is a Yoruba indegene it doesn't matter in Lagos.

Beside is Tinubu indigene of Lagos? No. He is from Iragbiji in Osun state.

Ambode is from Ondo state. So this talk is thrash but mind you all you my tribe I know you will all jump here and started saying Lagos is no man's land madness you are deceiving yourself.

Lagosian embracing everybody does not make them stupid or meant their land is no man land they were just playing mature politics and Yoruba as a tribe I respect a lot because they see themselves as one. So get that fact or bust it. Yoruba don't have Osu in their midst I respect them a lot for that and that is how a race should live in harmony. God bless.

*Mind you im not apc and I would never be but not being apc fan does not mean I should reason like a slowpoke. I'm not here to stand for anyone I'm here to speak the truth I don't care who is involve because I know I have pour salt on my people wound again this morning and their BP will explode soon calling me names*

Polchiz:
You are simply suffering from chronic igbophobia.

It is not your fault anyway, hatred for igbos is carefully and deliberately embedded in your gene from birth.

Mynd44:
I always knew the nonsense of Fani-Kayode, Fayose and Nnamdi Knau will come back to haunt the PDP