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Royalty83:
Ogbonnaya Onu against Atiku? Pls stop smoking weed. It is clearly not good for your head

Ogbonnaya Onu against candidate X in PDP.

It was before Atiku emerged.

Since Atiku, APC postponed primary to allow them rejiggle that initial play with Onu.

Stand by....

Biafranodogwu55:
How can atiku pick another presidential candidate as vp

Lubbish post from a senseress OP

my brothers in South are too naive.

Philipponzaghi:
The reason Obi was able to cross was because he did not contest in the party primaries. If he had contested and lost, he will not be able to be the presidential flagbearer of any party again according to the amended law.

You better read the amended electoral law to understand all these things.

Electoral laws in Nigeria mean nothing. It takes brute use of power to bend these laws.

You see, when laws are violated there is a consequence to pay. This concept of "cause & effect" validates law and gives integrity.

In Nigeria, when you violate law there are no consequences. Hence the law has 0 validation & integrity.

The amended law you keep repeating are soon to be violated left & right. The reason it was amended to begin with is because politicians lost trust in the original one. This version will soon be obsolete also and give cause to a new amendment. So you should understand that application of law in Nigeria is very fluid, don't stress the form....but do follow the intrigues. I follow intrigues at play, I dont care about the law because politicians themselves lack trust in it.

Philipponzaghi:
Consensus candidate in the mud!

Metaphysical can you see what I told you on the other thread?

Look, let's not muddle things up. Let help organize thoughts here.

1. Does APC need physical presence to screen candidate?

2. I don't know that Jonathan is a candidate of APC. But I wrote last week that he is a smokescreen for someone else, a mystery candidate whom I predicted would be Ogbonnaya Onu.

3. Just because Jonathan is not at screening does not kill the idea of consensus. Jonathan was a rumored consensus candidate, not the endorsed consensus. So no need to jump ahead of ourselves here.

Philipponzaghi:
APC already did their screening and Jonathan is not there.

How can Atiku pick Obi as VP in another party, have you read the new electoral bill amendment?

I think Nairaland now parade kindergartens as political analysts.

How can Obi cross into Labor, without delegates or any grass root structure in that party, and yet become its flag bearer?

Stop wondering how things are possibly done in Nigerian politics. Just pay attention to the intrigues, the law and its agreements mean nothing.

Atiku stands no chance with Tinubu. He knows this. He is working behind the scene to ensure Tinubu does not win primary.

It seems majority of Southerners are happy with the way Atiku killed rotational presidency.
Atiku stole the turn of South. Where is the outrage?

1. PDP Presidential aspirant Peter Obi attended the public announcement and supported Atiku to declare his Presidential ambition.

2. Just few days to PDP primary, aspirant Peter Obi stepped out of PDP Presidential primary and resigned membership.

3. Aspirant Atiku won PDP Presidential primary and was declared party flag bearer.

4. Peter Obi sent a congratulatory letter to Atiku.

5. Aspirant Obi crossed to Labor party. At its presidential primary another aspirant, Pat Utomi stepped down for Obi to win and become Labor party flag bearer.

Atiku has learnt from 2019 not to underestimate APC and its use of incumbent power to sweep opponents away. In particular, APC used cross-party alliance with SDP's Iyiola Omisore to edge Senator Adeleke out of gubernatorial victory in Osun.

SDP, Labor and APGA are strong in South.

Using strengths in Labor (his new party after PDP) and APGA (his old party before PDP), Obi can steer votes to Atiku and run him across the margins of victory should 2019 repeat itself.

Atiku is using one stone to kill two birds -
1. Dilute grass root politics in South so SDP does not become a formidable contender. Infact, SDP introduced Atiku to politics back in 1998.

He is using Obi to throw this kill. Hence Obi's actions lately.

2. Influence APC primary to nominate an underdog candidate.

APC Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu is from NE, same region with Atiku, and an ex-Chairman of PDP under Goodluck Jonathan, who is being wooed to cross from PDP into APC and enter primary race.

Now, Atiku must choose a Christian South for VP. He could end up calling Peter Obi to deputize for him, but he will not do so ahead of APC primary.

Net-Net, PDP is going for NE muslim/SE christian.

What kind of talk is that?
Has APC given presidential flag to Tinubu yet?

Salvador1:
let it be afterall Yorubas build bridge with the north.
Allow Igbo people do the same.

Doing muah muah to Atiku a$$ is not building bridge. That's slaving, like Tinubu.

. A socio-political activist, Reno Omokri has attributed the victory of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar at the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primary elections to “Northern solidarity”.


DAILY POST recalls that Atiku was endorsed by some Northern stakeholders prior to his victory against the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.

According to a post on his verified Facebook page, Reno explained that Atiku emerged winner of the presidential election following the decision of Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State to step down for the former Vice President.

Wike had supported the presidential ambition of Governor Tambuwal in the 2019 presidential election against Atiku.


Reno stated that the South needs to learn from the North on how to play such politics.

He wrote, “The South has a lot to learn from the genuine brotherly love and unity displayed by Northerners.

“Consider that though Wike backed Tambuwal against HE Atiku in 2019, the same Tambuwal has turned around to back HE Atiku against Wike in 2022. Northern solidarity! It is something that the South lacks.

“Tambuwal has shown that Northern solidarity is thicker and stronger than financial solidarity”.

Reno lacks perspective plenty of times.

Wike supported Tambuwal against Atiku in 2019.

Tambuwal, supported Atiku against Wike in 2023.

This is betrayal, not solidarity.

Obi is the Ibo version of Tinubu when it comes to kissing Northerner butt.

Atiku Abubakar wins PDP primary. Ive been reading commentaries from my Southern brothers and it"s appalling to see the resignation and acceptance of defeat by North.

This thread is very relevant, the question of why Southerners defer to North and will not take any step in it's own benefit but prefer to wait first for an approval to be issued from North is still very valid to ask.

When North says NO, Southerners fold in and abandon whatever position they hold. When North says YES, Southerners acknowledge and still accept the conditions from North for which the YES will apply.

Just because Atiku won stole PDP nomination, many Southerners are already eyeing him as next president, campaign has not started and election is not yet here. You can read commentaries and see the sense of loss and admission of Atiku as next ruler.

You Southerners why do you believe sharia North is your lord and master in this Nigeria, why not exercise your right to independence, why not reject the Atiku win?

.Abdul-Ahmed Mustapha

This guy does not qualify for Lagos Governor seat. Im glad he was blocked.

He should go to zamfara and contest.

RevDesm0ndJuju:
Who are you demanding the bolded from?

Igbo tier monarchy is here to stay because they get stipends from the federal and state purse.

Also, I don't know why you igbos are fond of comparing yourselves to the Great Greek City states.

At best, Igbos not having a king wasn't a declaration of equality among noble freemen but rather a slave state that formed and rejected kings to rule over them out of their bitter history of enslavement under the Awusa kings that migrated with their Igbo slaves (Hebrew) from Egypt.

The igbos got to these parts of the world when they accompanied the expelled black Pharaohs of Egypt as their slaves. These black pharaohs were the ones who founded the once thriving Awusa kingdoms. By either the magnanimity of the Awusa overlords granting them freedom or runaway slaves ,the igbos will later settle down in the present SE Nigeria .

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RevDesm0ndJuju:
The only way to unify the igbos is either via an external force colonizer (which Colonialism and post 1966 Nigeria did) or under a brutal tyrannical Igbo authority like what we saw in Ojukwu's Biafra and present day Igbo states were their governors act like tin gods and forgot they were elected under civilian democratic process.

Tyranny is the only language the Igbo understands and so that is why their supreme leader still holds much sway from the dank cells of DSS.

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AntiMahdi:
A vassal slave region is not allowed to produce a king for itself.

The Igbo lived under the shadows of their powerful neighbours in the form of the Oba of Bini kingdom and the Igala of Idah kingdom

This is the only reason they were not allowed kings to rule themselves and not some bs republican form of govt.

See the latest pretender to the throne of OSU land

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RevDesm0ndJuju:
Its only in Igbo land that you will hear the phrase "autonomous community".

In every useless village that they now declare as a kingdom complete with a fake King, you must find one or several autonomous communities.

I prodded further on what is behind this crase called "autonomous community" and found out that in all their fake kingdoms which is basically a village of not more than 20 square kilometers, disputes led to hamlets seceding from their fake kingdom .

These disputes range from land disputes, to squabbles on who to occupy the useless throne to even issues relating to women among the useless king and his equally useless chief over widows.

It was Gowon that encouraged and elevated village heads to the level of other traditional authorities outside Igbo land so as to have a form of indirect control over the OSU populace .

Now their nollywoid will not let us rest with all their cringe royalty fantasy films on a nonexisting Igbo royal blood line.

The Igbo is in constant war with himself .

They have no loyalty to a greater Igbo body

They have no loyalty to their state

No loyalty to their Local Govt

No loyalty to their village

No loyalty to their hamlet

No single loyalty to their extended family

It is only their personal selves they serve.

They are doing Biafra or death struggle even in their village .

Useless Osus

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princeabdul:
Good day sincere patriots, please take your time to share and show your grievances, every lives matter regardless of tribe ,faith and race. Harira was gruesomely murdered by IPOB terrorist alongside her 4 children in broad daylight in Anambra state , please let’s continue to demand for justice, injustice is like a stray bullet it doesn’t discriminate .

Is it Fatima, or Harira? What is the woman name sef. Let this woman rest in peace abeg.

May her soul rest in peace with her pikin dem...leave dem alone to rest in the Lord.

The harlot don receive kickback from Atiku now. He vacated for Atiku.

This Peter Obi is like harlot. Left Apga to Pdp, then to Sdp. Very confused fella. Soon as Jonathan cross to Apc to receive Buhari anointment Peter Obi sef go cross enter Apc. Dey watch wetin I talk now.

LeoDeKing:
The issue is, this drum of War should be clearly defined. Stop involving other regions into it, not everyone is interested in war.

Clarify what you mean by "involving other regions".

Every region is a victim of Arewa atrocity. So your response is confusing to me. Please outline what the other regions are.

KingOfAmebo:
This was exactly how the Civil War that claimed the lives of over 1 million Igbos started and it was Championed by the coward named Ojukwu who later ran away, This one is currently Championed by a monkey named Nnamdi Kanu who unfortunately cannot run away this time. Let it be known that Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB terrorist have started a war against the Fulanis, expect a retaliating attack on igbo's in the north just as in 1967 prio to the Civil War.

Nigeria's division has started, expect heavy bombardment down East after the killing of Igbo's up North after this wickedness by IPOB..Civil War 2.0 loading, The Fulanis will retaliate.

Do you think you can defeat Igbo in a one-on-one war?

If Yoruba abstain, SS abstain, middle belt abstain....you believe Arewa can defeat Igbo?

LeoDeKing:
I'm 100% sure of this.

Killing an innocent pregnant woman with her 4 kids? For what?

Fulani enter village in South and burn a whole community while people sleep. Charred bodies of babies in their mothers arms is all left.

What was done to the mthfckng herders? Nothing.

Abeg park to side. Just say rest in peace and keep stepping, no lament abeg.

Tinubuadvocate:
You have started you this boy.

Ssshut up! . Ive been good to Tinubu, so be good to me.

It was not immediately clear what happened to the plane, which had damaged wings, as accounts differ about its fate. Some commenters said it crash-landed around 8:33 p.m., while others said it was being towed to a repair workshop near the airport.

Hold on!!! It had "damaged" wings, and towed to a "repair shop" ke?

Do you mean to write "towed to salvage yard"?

WesternOligarch:
People are just outraged because the killers are from another tribe......if Fatima was living in core arewa land she'd have been long killed by bandits who are her kinsmen or Boko Haram.

True word.

I agree with Gov Soludo. Northerners are not targeted. There is insecurity and everyone is game. It is a case of been in wrong place at wrong time.

Southerners have been killed, kidnapped, beheaded in the course of insecurity in North West and North East. Can we call it targeted killings?

Northerners are just groping for excuse to single out SE for military siege.

Stormtrooper11:
Firstly, I condemned her killings. Secondly, Deborah is a northerner from Niger state that doesn't mean she deserves to die. What OP and some northerners are decrying, is the total silence of the media space because of possibly the religious affiliation of this woman.

Are you aware that fulani bandits are still kidnapping, raping and killing farmers in Yorubaland? But when was last time you saw it reported by media?

Buhari and Pantami threatened to shut down any media house that reported fulani atrocity in Nigeria.

If fulani atrocities against Southerners cannot be carried in media, why should atrocities against fulani in South be reported in media?

May the soul of the departed and her children rest in peace.

AdolfAboki:
I have no mouth, and I must scream,
The agony of Northerners cries out to Harlan Ellison
Cyberdreams...
A traitorous path of silence, unforgiven sin,
Knives deep in throats, gory scenes..
Shall the South the graveyard of the North be?
Shall the North the darkness of the South see?
Our corpses are filmed in televised glory
Skulls mined, shards of razor, floor bloody
Torrents of pain, but media at ease, no worry
Northerners deserve no pity
Northerners deserve no mercy
The grave is her city
Relationship is messy
Hence, no report on Vanguard
Not up to our standard..

Let them rift in spirals,
Along the razored edge...
The story shall go no viral
On Punch or The Nation I pledge..

And here live..
Mark ThisDayLive,
On our honor we stand,
To gag, we strive
Let your tears tear the tethers of time
Or break the firmament of space,
On our honor, we stand,
To gag, we strive..

I am a vengeful agent
I spun perceptions like the spider on the web
The matrix is my domain
This reality doesn't rhyme because I construct the line
Because I decide what is real.
Because I decide what is true
Because I decide what is rhyme.
Your tears bleed down..
Your voices lost in the quantum void..
Call me the black hole,
Call me Nairaland...

Hahaha, poor Almajiri voices!
Bother me not with your voices!
Times are hard, to hell with your losses..
We have no free time to report the crime..
You cannot afford Premium Times!

You're doomed to the matrix laws..
For you have no Guardian, therefore, no cause!

No Gazette... But caskets full of our voices...
Buried with us...

Should the Igbos and other Southerners pen a poetry of Northern atrocities since 1945 till date, it will take over 20 pages on this forum.

Cry me a river.

[[s]quote author=AlexReports post=113149715]Members of the incorporated trustee, Legacy Transformation Initiative (LTI) have called for the adoption of the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as the All Progressives Congress (APC) consensus candidate ahead of the ruling party's 2023 presidential primary election. The eclectic group consists of intellectuals, professionals, politicians, businessmen/women, and entrepreneurs drawn across the six geo-political zones of Nigeria.

Speaking at the briefing in Abuja, Ibe Aniemeke Lawson, national coordinator of LTI, said:

“We are essentially a pressure group and a policy formulation and ideation hub, a place where policies and policy prescriptions of governments across sectors are x-rayed and debated altruistically to produce the best positions of government policies- devoid of the frills of politics.

“We called this press conference as patriotic citizens to inform Nigerians of our activities as a non-governmental organisation and a passionate appeal to the conscience of our fellow patriots i.e. the APC’s national delegates.”

“Dear distinguished delegates, history beckons, and “It is Time” to be part of it by unanimously adopting Professor Yemi Osinbajo (GCON) as your consensus choice before the convention or unanimously vote for him as the presidential candidate of the APC in the party primaries given his proven capacity to lead; especially in this challenging time, we find ourselves as a nation.

“It is imperative to state that in the course of our functions, we have been able to interrogate the profile of the various individuals jostling to be APC presidential candidate through this process of intellection over months of rigorous review, in-depth research, and study on the qualities, capacities, capabilities of these aspirants from available public records on them. “While it has been a tedious, rigorous process and challenging task, one factor that has remained central to the empirical and peer review processes we engaged is that all the aspirants we have x-rayed in the APC are eminently qualified to vie for the exalted office of the presidency of our dear country, Nigeria.

“However, the vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (GCON), stands out. He emerged as the most suitable, experienced, and capable to be entrusted with the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “From the outstanding records and the collective experience of Professor Yemi Osinbajo (GCON), who has actively participated at the apex of both the private sector and the public sector; with notable and measurable impacts that bestride these positions and remarkably, devoid of the stigma of corruption that hovers like a halo over public officers.

“Definitely, undoubtedly we are convinced if chosen as the candidate of APC that he can defeat any candidate in the general elections. “A vote for him or his adoption will be the highest form of patriotism expected of any citizen of this country. “History will be kind to you and your generation for rising above the usual primordial sentiments that have been a common feature of our electioneering process and which have bedevilled our political/economic landscape to make the right choice.”

https://www.abujapress.com/2022/05/group-calls-for-adoption-of-vp-osinbajo.html?m=1[/quote][/s]

Brother Alex, please bring us news with substance.

If a policy advisory group have to introduce itself to public it is not a true policy ideation base.

Policy pressure groups are discreet, they are "discovered" by public, not "introduced" to public.