I was expecting fact-based responses to this technical dismantling of Alagoa's book but so far it's just emotional outbursts and name calling. It leads me to believe that there is little or no defence to these findings
Ovamboland: Says okoro man from a confused, aimless, leaderless region
At least you did not deny that Tinubu is a curse to yoruba land. A drug addict/dealer, charlatan and leader of touts. No renowned igbo leader is known for being a drug addict and dealer
Tinubu is the biggest curse to Yoruba land since Afonja
What a sneaky, unprincipled and filthy man. The recent revelation that he wanted a muslim/Muslim ticket with Atiku and Buhari is confirmation that the man is scum.
Igboid: AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
“I quickly reminded him that, as at (sic) that date in the United States of America, while the Democrats produced the Senate President, the Republicans (the opposition) produced the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I boasted that ACN was capable of suggesting to him ten names of members from the South West from among whom to choose if PDP would be magnanimous enough to practice democracy the way it was being practised in the USA, from where we imported our presidential system.
“He seemed pissed off and stopped the conversation,” he said.
In the era being referenced by the former national chairman of the defunct opposition party, the controlling party in each of the chambers of the Congress in the United States was in the majority, which wasn’t the case with ACN when the Ila-born politician was making his claim.
He also revealed in the book that their political platforms had their sight on working against the then ruling party.
“In the aftermath of the 2011 elections, many of our people were dissatisfied. Under the PDP, our country has become thoroughly decadent. Those of us who saw the then ruling party as an extension of the military corrupt politics preferred to work with all the major opposition parties which would eventually lead to a merger if we were to uproot the entrenched PDP and its evil tendencies. The first party that came to mind was the CPC which like us, was resolutely opposed to the PDP.
“Immediately after the elections, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila led a team of ACN boys to Bola Tinubu and me to suggest support for Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, a PDP member from Sokoto, to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
In the meantime, President Goodluck Jonathan was pressing for a government of national unity, with a bid of sucking ACN into manipulative extinction.”
Another major revelation from the book is the involvement of a former National Security Adviser and a Sokoto prince, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) in the presidential project of now President Muhammadu Buhari preparatory to the 2011 presidential election against then incumbent Jonathan.
Jonathan defeated Buhari in the contest, before Buhari triumphed in their replay in 2015.
Interestingly, Dasuki would go on to become Jonathan’s most senior security adviser, but also ended up spending 1,484 days in detention, while being prosecuted by the Buhari administration, for alleged corruption while serving in the Jonathan administration.
He was eventually released on December 24, 2019, after many court orders for his released had been spurned by the administration. He was accused of siphoning fund meant for arms to fight insurgency in the North-East.
The author, however, paid the embattled former security chief compliments for his role in facilitating a merger between ACN and CPC in the build-up to the 2011 poll, to defeat Jonathan.
He said, “The reaction of CPC to this letter (to CPC from ACN and published on the same page), began the failed negotiation between ACN and CPC which attracted further intervention by some national leaders like General Babangida, Atiku Abubakar and others.
“This eventually crashed at the threshold of the 2011 presidential elections which President Jonathan of the PDP won again.
“The efforts of the former National Security Adviser– Colonel Sambo Dasuki is worth mentioning in this political bridge-building attempt between ACN and CPC. Dasuki was then in support of Buhari becoming the presidential candidate of the alliance.
“Sambo Dasuki was coming around, begging us, to support Buhari’s presidential aspiration. Nuhu Ribadu, whom we had earlier chosen as our presidential candidate in the ACN, said he was ready to step down for Buhari. He said when he accepted to run, he did not know that Buhari was also interested in running.”
aribisala0: I[b]bos also voted for Nuhu Ribadu did they not?[/b]
If you have nothing sensible to contribute keep your mouth closed
no crack my ribs with laugh abeg
Nuhu Ribadu/Fola Adeola got 299,000 votes in Osun and about 1000 votes in Ebonyi. They won by this same ridiculous margin in every South West state except Lagos so please don't deceive yourself. Yoruba voted for ACN not Jonathan
That thread is AFTER the years of bitter attacks and hate for Igbos from the likes of you . Only one thread where Igbos troll Yorubas in return and you are all still wailing and moaning. You guys were regularly uploading civil war pictures of starving Igbo children because GEJ embraced Igbos. Should we start resurrecting those threads?
Igboid: Often have we heard Yorubas parrot the line that Igbos didn't vote for Abiola in the ill-fated 1993 presidential Election. As is often the case, lies when repeated often enough start taking the veneer of the truth. For this reason was this thread birthed, with the sole aim to separate facts from fictions, truth from calumny and to set the record straight!
The 1993 presidential election was between Tofa of NRC and Abiola of SDP , Tofa had an Igbo from present Abia state named Ugoh Sylvester as the VP, while Abiola had a Northerner from Kanuri tribe of Borno named Knigbe Baba Gana as the VP.
The SE at this point in history had 4 states of Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo, Ebonyi was not in existence then.
And below is the statistical analysis of how Igbos voted.
From the stats above. Abiola got 48.35% of the total votes for a presidential election where an Igbo was a VP to a major candidate!
Abiola even won Anambra state outrightly, and in Abia where the VP to Tofa was from, he got over 40% of the votes casted.
Kudos this is a thorough dismantling of propaganda that was allowed to fester for too long. Next to be demolished soon is the wicked propaganda that Igbos did not fight for the actualization of Abiola's mandate when IBB annulled it
aribisala0: The SE are FREE to do what they like with their votes and no one ever called them out.
What is at issue s calling the Yoruba betrayers for not voting Jonathan in 2015 and talking about betraying he south whilst forgetting that the Yoruba voted him in 2011 Let us all respect each others right to vote as we please.
Yoruba NEVER at any time called Ibo betrayers or questioned their voting choices Let the Ibos reciprocate that.
Lol. The nuclear explosion of hatred by Yorubas against Igbos when Jonathan won in 2011 is all over the internet.
joeyfire: Not in my school o. They were all nerds and too serious and bookish
Na fine babes we dey rush those days regardless of their department. Most of the hottest babes were in linguistics or English
110% correct
Female doctors no dey fine and they think every man is after them because of their profession. I blame all the gold-diggers and men of low self esteem for over inflating their ago
Tinubu could not provide Lagos ordinary pipeborne water. His only achievement is making thuggery. Now he is quite old he should have handed over to his political successors instead of doing godfather up and down like agbaya
Abeg....ndi igbo have nothing in common with the ijaws. The ijaws do not want to align with ndi igbo and vice versa. The ijaws would form a country with arewa before they form one with igbos post-Nigeria. They are not hiding this fact why are you looking for them?
AlexBells: There had been serious bitterness between the Igbos and the Ijaws in a deeper looking, I figured out that the Ijaws are the closest related tribe to us.
When we keep trading the war rhetoric, it could all end up dangerously and I don't see the need for us to resort to hurting ourselves, personally some of my best friends and advisers are Ijaws.
In the olden days, the Ijaws loved marrying Igbo women and more than every other tribe the Ijaws as a result of earlier contact to the British kidnapped and sold Igbos into slavery at other times they had enculturated many other Igbos.
The reality here is that honestly if we don't get on in an agreeable ways despite our connections things can escalate.
We should remember that The English are also Germanic but the two nations of UK and Germany would fight the world wars at opposing sides. Igbo and Ijaws maybe related but if not well managed can escalate.
There are three options for Igbos and Ijaw post Nigeria either we all join together in Biafra, we all join together in Niger Delta Republic, whichever country we chose being purely autonomous or we shall both form separate countries while deciding on how to deal with common interest.
Opobo and Bonny, could both be independent city state while Opobo can be Igbo pritectorate, Bonny can be Ijaw Protectorate but if we love these common interest grounds so much we can both forget our pride and form a country together with ensured autonomy or continue staying in Nigeria together.
I believe in Confederate States of AlaIgbo also Igbo Province of Nigeria.
udele1: The elections have just been concluded in Anambra, and the APGA candidate Soludo won.
The 3 main contenders were APGA, PDP and APC. While the APC candidate Andy Ubah, rejected the outcome, PDP congratulated Soludo.
So what really happened in Anambra? Why did APC loose?
Here are the 3 reasons why APC lost. . 1) IGBO SENTIMENTS
Most times we Igbo's make decisions based on sentiments. We are made to believe that APC is a fulani party. This mindset led to what we call marginalization .
[s]When dividends of the political investment in APC is shared, and Igbo's get very little. [/s] 2) APC CANDIDATE
Andy Ubah's failure did not start at the polls, but from within his party.
Anambra have neither forgotten or forgiven Andy Ubah for the politics of thuggery, which he and his brother introduced to the state under Obasanjo.
Chris Ngige who was the governor they kidnapped, would never be alive in APC and allow Andy Ubah Become governor of Anambra state.
So both Ngige of APC and Valentine ozigbo of PDP, would rather have Soludo govern the state than Andy Ubah.
3) APGA IS NOT OPPOSITION
Buhari does not consider Obiano or APGA as an opposition party. Therefore wether APGA or APC wins in Anambra, it makes no difference to him.
Even Soludo the APGA candidate is currently working with the Buhari APC administration.
You scored 2/3. It's not a matter of sentiment. APC was formed on a pillar of anti-Igbo politics and hatred for Igbos as allies for GEJ. APC no like us we sef no like them. Simple matter
ablejesus26: I wonder when all this senseless tagging of Igbos in general with ipob issues will stop here Is it a secret that all might be Igbo but all can never be Ipob.
I have never seen a terrorist group that denies its handiwork. Even a baby would deduce that there killings are not being done by igbo people. It makes no sense
AlexBells: There had been serious bitterness between the Igbos and the Ijaws in a deeper looking, I figured out that the Ijaws are the closest related tribe to us.
When we keep trading the war rhetoric, it could all end up dangerously and I don't see the need for us to resort to hurting ourselves, personally some of my best friends and advisers are Ijaws.
In the olden days, the Ijaws loved marrying Igbo women and more than every other tribe the Ijaws as a result of earlier contact to the British kidnapped and sold Igbos into slavery at other times they had enculturated many other Igbos.
The reality here is that honestly if we don't get on in an agreeable ways despite our connections things can escalate.
We should remember that The English are also Germanic but the two nations of UK and Germany would fight the world wars at opposing sides. Igbo and Ijaws maybe related but if not well managed can escalate.
There are three options for Igbos and Ijaw post Nigeria either we all join together in Biafra, we all join together in Niger Delta Republic, whichever country we chose being purely autonomous or we shall both form separate countries while deciding on how to deal with common interest.
Opobo and Bonny, could both be independent city state while Opobo can be Igbo pritectorate, Bonny can be Ijaw Protectorate but if we love these common interest grounds so much we can both forget our pride and form a country together with ensured autonomy or continue staying in Nigeria together.
I believe in Confederate States of AlaIgbo also Igbo Province of Nigeria
The ijaws want one nigeria. They and Igbos have no aims in common
Politics › Re: Notable Ijaw Scholar's History Book On Bonny Called Out As Fraudulent by nku5: 11:29am On Dec 17, 2021
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