gidgiddy:
As an Igbo man, I owe you no respect, no apology and no understanding

We are all equal under the law and I have every right to live and operate anywhere in Nigeria within the ambit of the law

That you are an indigene, or claim ownership of an area, is not supposed to mean anything to me, you gave up that right when you signed up to "one Nigeria"

However, if you feel you own Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Mubi or any other area in Nigeria that I operate in, and you wish to regulate how I live my life as Igbo man, that will not work

If you think being indigenous gives you rights over me and you want to claim back your land, then you have to admit that "one Nigeria" is fraud and call for the disintegration of Nigeria

You cannot be talking about 'one Nigeria' and also be talking about regulating how other Nigerians live their lives in your land. So make your choice, one Nigeria or disintegration.

Yes one Nigeria with a Condition that people that lived in an area and inherited it from their ancestors before one Nigeria was agreed are the owners of that place. The way you claim that you own Anambra, Owerri,Abakaliki, Ohafia ,Enugu etc is much the same way other people own Gombe ,Bauchi ,Minna, Lagos, Calabar,Abeokuta, Edo , Makurdi etc.

Just imagine a contract that was done and paid for before was recycled and paid for again as a new contract. Wow Nigerians!!

You are using Wikipedia to support your point. It seems you don't know that Nigeria is a conglomerate of kingdoms. Like Kanem empire, kwararafa empire, Benin empire ,Oyo empire etc. Ghana was just one empire hence it was easy for it to revert to the old name. But Nigeria had like 6 or 7 empires combined which one do you revert to ? Oga go and learn sense.

Brutee:


Lol, don't be ridiculous, how can Nigerian culture be older than Ghana when historically Ghana is as old as Egypt, Nigeria came into being in 1914. Ghana was already an empire way back the 10th century


NB - To those displaying their ignorance under my mention saying Ghana was formed in 1957 bla bla bla. They had the name Ghana before the White man gave them the name "Gold coast" which doesn't have any meaning in Africa language. When the white man left they had to go back to their ancient and ancestral name. Nigerian government must as a matter of urgency reintroduce history into the curriculum. The ignorance about history for many people reeks. It's no longer funny

limeta:
How is that eve possible when you meant to be fasting.
Muslim by the end of Ramadan put on more weight the fasting part seems to only be on their lips and angry faces but the add weight is constant year after year .

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What is it with this goal keeper that they kept using him as number 1. Is it that there are no other goal keeper out of the numerous keepers we got all over ?

Akshow:
I have never seen any set of people more gullible and easily swayed by emotions than logic like the yeeboo people.

Propaganda, fake news, lies, bullying and yet act like the victims.

Make una no even reason an say una go bully yorubas the way you did for the last eight years to hausas. The election saga in lagos is a prelude.

Awon irankiran oshi

How did they bully hausa, you think hausa send them,it is not by shouting and making noise.

mancoconut:
Sharing nationhood with Northerners and their yoruba Muslim lackeys is the strangest and most forced union ever, we share absolutely nothing in common as people. As a matter of fact, I feel more compatriotship with someone from Cameroon, Liberia and even Ghana as an Igbo man than a Northerner from far-flung Sokoto, Kastina etc or a yorubaa entity from Osun, Oyo, Ekiti etc...it's only the core Lagosians from other tribes I can easily bond with when I'm in the diaspora due to the cosmopolitan nature of Lagos.

Honestly the hate and suspicion is just too much among the major ethnic groups in Nigeria, we can't even pretend to tolerate each other at thus point, I really the conversation about seriously restructuring this country once and for all is addressed. I would rather an Igbo man rules me in my tiny 5 state region, at least if he messes up, we can all either all sink together as one people, or rebuild together as one people.

I'm genuinely tired of being called a Nigerian tbh, if there was some way to naturalize with peaceful nations like Zambia or even Namibia, God knows I'll pay any amount to do so.

How come you people don't push for regional government or Biafra naturally or sincerely? You only resort to regional government or Biafra after an event did not go your way.

PotatoSalad:
He's better than the LP guy tbh.
I hope Chimaroke and Ugwuanyi don't use godfatherism to control his govt, since they both lost their senatorial bids.
Hopefully he'll clean up the mess Ugwuanyi made in Enugu since the past 8 years.
Ugwuanyi did NOTHING in Enugu in 8 years.
Don't let his stooge OEPHIUS and media propaganda to deceive you.

So he is better than the labour guy,so it is ok by you that the labour guy was cheated ?

Zeewirld:
...."A lot in common with the Yorubas" .... How Both are miles apart.

Oh ok , I thought there are somethings you share in common in the south.

mrvitalis:

Has Buhari performance not proven Igbos right ?

Has Elrufai relegation of Christians now proven what Igbos feared ?

But they are northerners

mrvitalis:

Buhari and Elrufai are people we don't like

If Bala Mohammad runs in 2027 watch how Igbos would vote him

So you pick people you don't like and accuse them wrongly just because you don't like them?

mrvitalis:

Igbo nation is built on equity , fairness n justice I think north has that more than Yorubas

Ok then you have to tender apology to our president, Buhari for accusing him of not being fair.

mrvitalis:
I think Igbos have misunderstood the North and I think north has misunderstood the Igbos too

Seems like someone intentionally did that
Outside religion Igbos and north have alot in common

Igbos need to rethink our relationship with the north

Abeg nothing in common . The way you behave arrogantly ,very loud and talk down on people we don't behave like that. You look for money by any means possible without caring about you fellow human northerners don't do that. You said you don't bow for anyone ,you don't believe in kings or traditional rulers. There are lot of differences not just religion. You have more in common with Yoruba people go and settle with them.

Massiveglory:
If Nigeria will come out of this election with any thing to unite about and build on, the mandate of the rightful winner of the presidential must be restored.

This is only means to gather the fragements of our nation which has been scattered.

This is the only means to hold and build on the foundation of our nation which is heavily shaking right now.

Mandate of who ? Is there any mandate for anyone in that election? The election overall was fraud. Who then got the mandate in this fraud election in the first place? The best thing is to do another election.

Massiveglory:
If it is not yet your turn to be there, you will not be there. 

They should ring this bell inside tinubu ears.
The consequences of his desperation is a great fall that will be televised

The same applies to OBI if it is not his turn no matter what Ipob , Obidient do or him going to court,tribunal or churches he won't be president.

heniford2:
That's if Nigeria judiciary work to me e no dey work,😐 will peter obi break Record as the first person to win presidential election through court haa! Only God in heaven that's if he exist will allow that because our judiciary are something else.

Win what, was there any election in the first place to win? This Obi and his followers are selfish and deceptive people. You all complained that the election was not good but you are going to court to declare you winner of an election that is not good. Chai wonder shall never end!!!
Instead of asking the court to compel Inec to conduct another election.

You can only do the occupying in the south east and south, you cant even try it here in the north. It is even good idea,it will expose the fact the Obidient is an ethnic and religion movement because it's only igbo and Christian areas that will try to comply.

Neverslumber:
Atiku knows he didn't win. Obi won, though rigged out.

Obi won how? You think only Igbo and Christian can make Obi president?

deavicky:
if he drinks with his friends, it there mean amaechi is still wrong to say he is a drunk that spends 50m weekly on alcohol. Which made it to look like consume it alone.

Well only God knows, am not saying it is true, what am just trying to say is that it possible to spend such amount in two week especially now that the Naira value has gone further down.

deavicky:
him alone consume 15 to 20 bottles a week or what are u saying.

He said in 2 weeks, ok you can multiple it by 10. Besides he drinks with his friends like he said when he was talking about how Atiku were protesting while he and his friends were chilling.

deavicky:
Meaning he spent 2.6billion in alcohol per year in another 4 year 10.4 billion. Ameachi tell us another thing because you are also part of the people that brought calamity to Nigeria just because of a simple ministerial position.

Go and check the cost of 40 years old whisky then multiple it with like 15 or 20 bottles.

Those Obidient want the court to declare Obi president when the election was not a good election. Now you are going to court to declare you winner from an election that was fraudulent.
The best thing is to do another election if not then let Tinubu be.
You claim election was fraud and you are claiming you won the election, your mandate was stolen blah blah. Was there a mandate in the first place if the election was fraudulent?

olisaEze:
Even if the election tribunal by some miracle all give their lives to Christ and return the stolen mandate, what makes Dino think they’d return it to the PDP and not LP??

What stolen mandate, who stole from who? The election is not an election the best thing is for INEC to do another election or let Tinubu manage it. You want the court to declare Obi winner when the election itself is a fraudulent. You called election a fraud but you want the court to declare you president on the same fraud election.

Respect the elderly ,we got no idea who they were not before we met them.

Freshtruth:
With the lion in charge of guarding the antelopes for the owner the small lions rejoice if you don't get it forget it.

BestMan001:


One of the worst presidents in Nigeria after Abacha

How is Abacha worst? Abacha government was not the worst ,it was better than others.

Angelfrost:


I don't get you chief... Arsenal is suddenly over-superior to Chelsea because of one season?!

Abeg shift!

But Arsenal had been superior to Chelsea if you look at overall not just this season, you look back in totality.

phemmyfour:
Arteta will struggle next season. He's enjoying what Leicester enjoyed.

A season where Chelsea, Liverpool n Tot are not in form

A season where even City is below their standard.

Even if Arsenal wins the season with less than 95pts, it's still a poor show

You don change to next season but you were saying by December Arsenal will fall now Arsenal won't do well next season, laugh wan kill us here 🤣😂

amnesty7:
*Rigging claims don’t add up*

By *MAHMUD JEGA* March 6, 2023

A member of the British House of Lords, when told that money is difficult to come by these days, said he is nearly 90 years old but to cannot remember any time in the past when money was easy to get. I have been watching Nigerian elections since 1979 and I cannot remember a time when those who lost the election did not allege rigging and intimidation. For a time, there was hope that President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 concession phone call could become the norm in Nigeria. It now looks like it was a one-off event. Instead, it was Godsday Orubebe’s 2015 attempt to storm INEC’s National Collation Centre that has endured, with Dino Melaye attempting a poor carbon copy in 2023.

The young men and women who are saying on social media that the 2023 election was full of rigging and intimidation, have no personal knowledge of the golden age of rigging and intimidation in Nigerian elections. In this election I saw no reports in the media of thugs snatching ballot boxes and stuffing them. I saw no reports of security agents cordoning off whole polling stations while ballot boxes were being stuffed. There was no story of soldiers scattering voters in any place. Where is the mother of all rigging, when Supreme Court ruled in 1983 that UPN’s Michael Ajasin got 1.2million votes, NPN’s Akin Omoboriowo got 500,000 votes but the returning officer added 1 behind the figure and it became N1.5million?
This year, the President did not declare the election a do or die. I saw no story of armed hooded security agents descending on a state, as in Ekiti in 2014. There was no story of an opposition governor’s plane denied landing rights at any airport. In 2023, we didn’t have a Police Commissioner Mbu denying an opposition party governor entry into his own Government House. Pray, where in Nigeria in 2023 did we have Police Commissioner Tahir Jidda denying Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe entry into Maiduguri and firing tear gas at Zik, even though Borno State Governor Muhammadu Goni stood beside him? Even the party primaries of last year lacked drama, because we saw nothing like the Babalawo who tried to enter the UPN state congress in Ibadan in 1983 with a live tortoise strapped to his waist.

Another youngster wrote on social media that “this generation of Nigerian politicians do not know how to concede, unlike the older generation.” Sorry sir, they actually copied it from the older generation. In 1979, as soon as election results started trickling in, we saw GNPP leader Waziri Ibrahim dashing around to see UPN leader Chief Awolowo and NPP leader Dr. Azikiwe. The three of them, minus PRP leader Aminu Kano who refused to join, appeared together before pressmen, rejected the election results and alleged rigging, even though it was an election conducted by a military government, not like now when APC controls the Federal Government [at least, it used to]. The scene was re-enacted last week when PDP and LP running mates held a joint press conference and tried to present a common front, a case of locking the stables after the horses have bolted.

Anyone who trusts such emergency political alliances has another thing coming. In 1979 the opposition parties presented us with a common front up until the Supreme Court upheld the election result. To our utmost surprise, just before Inauguration on October 1, 1979, NPN and NPP announced an accord where they shared legislative and executive posts between them. NPP got Deputy Senate President, House Speaker and several Cabinet posts, including Zik’s running mate Prof Ishaya Audu who became Foreign Minister, Mrs. Janet Akinrinade of Oyo and Paul Unongo of Benue. Who knows now if someone is negotiating under the table?

Our local and social media activists who are trying very hard to impress foreign election observers and the Western press by citing scattered incidents of election day problems knowing that White people are sticklers for procedure. They insist on correct procedure even if it produces an undesirable outcome. We Africans, who are wiser, usually walk back from the answer to the question. Our politicians’ measure of the credibility of an election is if they win, not whether or not the procedure was followed. If they don’t win, then the election is not credible.

The general African attitude to elections is that the outcome justifies the process. The credible outcome, in African eyes, is usually when the incumbent ruler or party is defeated. Hence, to most Africans, the best elections ever held in Africa were when Morgan Tsvangirai’s party defeated Robert Mugabe’s; when Adama Barrow defeated Yahaya Jammeh in Gambia; when Mohammed Morsi triumphed in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak’s premier; when Jerry Rawlings’ party was defeated in Ghana; when Macky Sall defeated Abdoulaye Wade in Senegal; when Wade himself earlier defeated Abdou Diouf; when Alassane Ouattara defeated Laurent Gbagbo in Ivory Coast; and more recently, when William Ruto triumphed in Kenya despite outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta’s support for Raila Odinga.

African style, let us walk backwards from the result to the credibility question. First, the voter turnout. There were 87 million voters with PVCs in 2023 election but only 24 million voted, or 27%. Now, the starting point of rigging elections is to take advantage of the number of registered voters. Why leave 63 million blank names on the register if you really desire to rig up results? There is no doubt that the technological innovations adopted over the years greatly helped to clean up our elections. Up until 2007, those absent voters will simply have their votes cast for them by a coalition of party agents, election officials and security officers.

The winner of this election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, got only 37% of the vote, down from the 56% that Buhari got in 2019. Now, while 2019 was a two-horse race between the APC and PDP candidates, 2023 was at least a four-horse race between APC, PDP, LP and NNPP candidates. It was the first time since 2007 that we had more than two major candidates in a presidential election and the first time since 1983 that we had up to four major candidates in such a race.

The top four candidates in this election got 37%, 29%, 25% and 6% respectively. This compares closely with 1979 when Shagari got 34%, Awo got 29%, Zik got 16%, Aminu Kano got 10.28 and Waziri Ibrahim got 10%. The top three runners up in this race got a combined 60% of the vote. That is impressive, but then, they only have themselves to blame that they did not present a united front before the election. They only tried to present a united front to contest the results. It is a case of locking the stables after the horses have bolted. Would they have made 60% of the vote if they had united behind a single candidate? Nobody will ever know the answer for certain.

Tinubu’s party went into this election controlling the Federal and 21 state governments. In the event, he won only 12 states outright. PDP’s Atiku Abubakar also won 12 states, LP’s Peter Obi won 12 states outright [FCT included] while NNPP’s Kwankwaso won outright in one state. So how did Tinubu win the race? Simple. The number of states that a candidate wins outright is important. Equally important is the number of states in which he came second. Also very important is, if he came second with only a narrow margin in most of them.

Tinubu won 12 states outright [Zamfara, Jigawa, Borno, Niger, Kwara, Kogi, Benue, Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo and Rivers]. He came second in 19 states [Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Gombe, Bauchi, Yobe, Taraba, Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa, Osun, Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Imo and Ebonyi]. In many cases the margins of loss were very small, only 3,000 votes in Sokoto, 12,000 in Katsina and equally narrow margins in Osun and Lagos. Very important, Tinubu came second to Kwankwaso in Kano, second to Atiku in most of the states the latter won and second to Obi in Lagos, Ebonyi, Imo and Edo.

This was exactly how Alhaji Shehu Shagari won the presidency in 1979. He won outright in nine states out of 19 [Sokoto, Kaduna, Niger, Bauchi, Gongola, Benue, Kwara, Rivers and Cross River.] He won in Kaduna and Gongola even though his party lost the governorship elections there two weeks earlier, what in those days was called “the bandwagon effect.” Of the remaining ten states in Nigeria at the time, Shagari came second in 9 [Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Bendel, Anambra, Imo, Borno, Plateau and Kano]. Shagari came third only in Lagos, after Awo and Zik. Like Shagari, like Tinubu; you are victorious if your party is either first or second in almost every state.

Allegations that APC rigged the election also falls flat because it lost the biggest states, namely Lagos, Kaduna, Kano and Katsina, even though all of them have APC state governors, all of whom are staunchly loyal to Tinubu. In terms of vote banks, what is Imo, Edo or Adamawa to these states? Why should anyone go rigging elections in some small states when he could rig up figures in the biggest ones and win by a large margin? If they could help it, why should ten APC governors, APC National Chairman and Director General of the APC campaign suffer the embarrassment of failing to deliver their states? Why should Tinubu himself suffer the embarrassment of failing to win outright in Lagos, long alleged to be his political fiefdom?

Allegations that APC rigged these polls do not hold the water of logic. But those making them still have the chance to prove them at the election tribunals. Ajasin managed to prove rigging even in the olden days of analogue collation. It is easier to do so in this age of electronic collation, if indeed rigging took place.

Sir what most people with geniue complaints are saying is the Inec Chairman who promised that real time results from pooling units would be posted. He repeatedly assured Nigerians that and lot of people become motivated by his promise, election day came that was not fulfilled. It is not about who won or not.

bonechamberlain:
so because city scored 6, against man u without Weghorst then it's ok to field a player who doesn't fit into the team.

Abeg your Man U is overhyphed team and also enjoys referees support, that is what has helped them to be 3rd.