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Obstruction of justice by the godfathers and little Commissioner Osunbande

I am tired of this country abeg. Can we have that referendum?

Imagine if Jonathan had gone to beg Governor Dickson not to indict a corrupt Amanyanabo?? We for no hear word about kwaraption. I really thank God for this buhari presidency

omoharry:
Oga tinubu don join the train of restructuring ooo..

Na today? Tinubu that led APC to reject the 2014 national conference when gentle Jonathan was in office because he had an eye on being VP of a messed up country and system. Is it now Buhari and the north is in power that he can do anything? Forget that joker. Let buhari come back first and see how fast he will keep quiet

phreakabit:
Yoruba vs Nigeria (Hausa). . .
The rest of us will just be spectators. Nobody will force our hand into this silly fight.
revenge is a dish best served cold!

Afenifere genuinely speak for the yorubas who truly want restructuring, Tinubu represents the sect of yorubas that are in league with the north and want the country to retain the status quo

Unfortunately Afenifere elders dont have the money or influence that Tinubu and his gang have.

As usual, Tinubu will lead his afonja delegation for a secret meeting with northern elite politicians and try to betray afenifere & his people for a one term Osinbajo presidency and some hefty contracts .

engrchykae:
he is right,from my place.somebody from umudim no matter his age will first take kolanut before the other kindreds.because they are the first born.

Not in my place o! The youngest is the one to serve the kola and picks his own last. The thing is when you are receiving, you must support the plate or tray with your free hand to show that the young person is a freeborn and not a slave.

Na una sabi. My own be say APC must NEVER win in my state. Tufiakwa!!

Its between Chidoka and Obiano or any other.....except the demonic, parasitic APC that seeks to starve people and reverse progress

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Excuzeme:
True federalism is not synonymous with Secession!

Tinubu has always asked for that, from the days of OBJ.

Stewpid BeerFraud Igbo! Loosers!

See primary school sense. Tinubu's strength is built on ignorance and senseless bigotry like this. Tinubu who was the first person to attack the 2014 National Conference and deny South West fiscal federalism because he was hoping to be where Osinbajo is now

Clowns and slaves everywhere one looks

I can't say it enough. Igbos were 200% correct not to vote for APC. Time has shown us to be right in our choice.

There are not enough bullets in the world to stop agitation for secession when you marginalise people like this and make them pay for it

Tinubu is suddenly crying for true federalism again like he was doing years ago

"ABUJA – National Leader of the ruling party, All Progressive Congress, APC,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Tuesday called for true federalism in Nigeria.

He also challenged the Federal Government to devolve power to the component units of the country to pave way for genuine development and growth."

Too much ojoro sense no good

OP- Igboland is the only place in Nigeria where there has never been genocide. Other parts from the north, middlebelt to SW, non-indigenes have suffered murder and victimisation. In the East we don't hate our guests we are umu Chineke

Shawnnn01:
All these because a Yoruba is at the helm. What happened to the times Igbo formed alliances with the north to rule Nigeria ? Did you see the Yoruba whine up n down. Like one person said imagine if it was the Igbo that lost Abiola n his mandate Nigeria will be undergoing another civil war by now. Stop the victim mentality, it is annoying.

Besides whipping up sentiments you havent said anything logical or sensible about my post. Just the usual brainless anti-igbo hate that we truly dont give a rat's crap about to be honest

Sealeddeal:
Your point is sound.
But what is necessary to understood is that PDP has failed to take up the force of opposition and also, there are events you need to consider before you understand the current happenings in Nigeria politics with regards to Igbo common man because there is difference between Igbo common man and Igbo politicians.
When Buhari lost 2011 election, his supporters went on rampage killing people they deemed responsible but GEJ wasted no time but instead brought the northern people into the fold including those that gave him less than 5percent votes. That's what Nigeria presidency demands.
But after GEJ lost 2015 election, the SW APC led touts began the mind game of telling Igbos that they put their eggs in one basket in a quite a manner of conqueror and vanquished thing. APC was supposed to provide National leadership but it turned out to be politics of those that won and those that lost which led to Buhari's appointments and his 5%/97% thing and arrest of Kanu and killing of Biafrans.You don't push anyone and tell the person where to fall.
Politics should not be about winning election but mostly about provision of leadership.
But I must say the Igbo politicians are building bridges. But we the masses don't care about building any bridges. In 2019, we will crush APC in East and bury it.

200% correct sir!

Afam4eva:
It has come a time that we need to forego the emotions of the civil war and solidarity with any group and play politics the way the Northerners play or atleast, go the route of the Yorubas. These people have mastered the idiosyncrasies that is Nigeria and have seized the moment to put themselves at a stage that will benefit them. It seems the Igbos are the only majority group that have failed and looking like a minority group by the day. Instead of deceiving ourselves by concocting spiritual alliances with a region known as the south-south or Niger Delta or whatever they want to call themselves these days, our alliances should face westwards and to the north. The people from the south-south are the most ungrateful humans ever to walk this part of the world. How can one explain that a group as big as the Igbo race put all their eggs in one basket for a man known as Goodluck Jonathan who wasn't even an Igbo man and as soon as he lost, his people started throwing abuses at us.

Igbos have always TRIED their best to play politics the Nigerian way. The sad truth is we are seen as a threat by others no matter what.

The Igbos under Zik formed a large part of the NCNC which formed a coalition government with the dominant northerners under the NPC, what happened? The northerners hatred for Igbos and Dan Fodio's ambition to dip the koran in the sea tore the government apart and the north raised a traitor from the SW called Akintola to help realise that ambition. Akintola was a rabid bigot whose hate speeches against Igbos are on Youtube for all to hear. The north using Akintola set the SW ablaze and declared a state of emergency there. It led to civil war as we all know.

Fast forward to Jonathan and the Igbos choice to "put their eggs in one basket" whatever that means. When the APC was being formed did you see any Igbo person on the Board of Trustees? Despite the mumuish devotion of Ogbonnaya Onu and the mercenary antics of Rochas the only Igbo person for a while was a muslim Igbo lady who was married to a fulani man. Did you see any attempts by the rest of the country to show the Igbos what they stood to gain from aligning with the APC? What did we get if not threats and insults. The northerners were reminding us of 1966 while our yoruba neighbours were telling us that their culture was closer to northerners than to ours. Check NL between 2011-2015 and you will see this trend. We had no choice than to go with Jonathan who if we really check him, presented a breath of fresh air from the usually repulsive South-South politician. Jonathan embraced Igbos, winning their hearts and guess what? Northerners and Yorubas hated him for that with all their hearts.

They way I see it, the north will only use the Igbos to checkmate the Yorubas when the Yoruba ambition needs to be smashed (like this period) but they are natural allies in an unwritten turn by turn alliance. I personally have no more faith in this country. The only politics I am interested in is the one that will grant Igbos a restructured Nigeria or a seperate country.

sarrki:
When Akintola's killers got to his house, they couldn't enter because, Akintola was doing it fire for fire, they retreated. His killers now went to get his best friend who he never doubted his loyalty, Fani Power father of that rabble rouser. Fani Power pretended as if he came to visit Akintola and that he was alone, no one was with him. Akintola opened the door for his friend but he was brutally knocked down by the bullets of his enemies......

Pls Ffk, continue your friendship with GEJ, Osinbajo doesn't need you!

See kindergarten lie

Somebody exchanges gunshots with soldiers trying to get him and the next minute he is casually opening door for his friend

pazienza:
How exactly does SW stand to gain from a restructured
Nigeria that would most definitely take away most of Lagos and Ogun relevance and current advantage?

I don't think so, do not listen to what Swners say, look at their actions and the dynamics at play.

Osinbajo if he wins would need Northern support to stay in power and would do everything to appease them, including throwing everybody else under the bus.

I can't even believe that an Igbo man is talking about supporting Osinbajo, it's not a strategic and pragmatic move.

I fully understand your point bruv but what other options do we have to force our freedom from this sokoto caliphate called a country? I was going to ask you in your other post what our move in 1979 was.
Note I said in my initial post that Osinbajo would FIRST have to APPROACH us for a deal.

The SW has not progressed one bit since 1964. Unless Tinubu has sucked out all their brains they will recognise this is their best chance at simple perks of freedom like actually earning revenue from their ports instead of their sons chasing after containers with sticks and bottles to demand omo nile money

sunnysunny69:
Igbo saw tomorrow and yet put all their egg in one basket voting in block for Jonathan. You benefited nothing from him and allow him pay you for your vote. Still a long way to awakening I guess.

Its not rocket science. Read slowly

NaijaEfcc:
History has vindicated that the political decisions of the Igbo man have always been geared towards Nationalistic considerations rather than ulterior selfish tribalistic motives

Curlieweed:
How exactly (constitutionally speaking) is he going to achieve this? He's going to be heading the executive and not the legislature.

According to the 1999 constitution, the president has the power to send bills to the National Assembly. All he needs to is take aspects of the conference report pertaining to restructuring and encapsulate it into a bill. Section 9(1) of the constitution provides how it can be amended. Shikena!

This is what Jonathan should have started before he was voted out. Osinbajo, the most powerful Nigerian from the SW should know that his region stands to gain the most from this. Thats if Tinubu has not captured his brain completely...

ProWalker:
Now the question is after calling for referendum, what other practical political steps have they taken after the merriment and jamboree where they asked for referendum?
Let your political leaders in Abuja and elsewhere including the governors key into it!!
Start calling all your folks across Nigeria back home, let Nigerians see some semblance of seriousness to your desire

After seeing evidence that our kings, governors, political leaders etc have asked for a referendum in front of the world you are still asking kindergarten questions.

Argue with your keypad I did not start this topic to entertain childish gist. Only serious discussions allowed

ProWalker:
When are your leaders going to make such request formally?
Dont just sit on NL and be asking me silly requests as referendum
You came to NL to be asking foolish question of what Nigerians wants from igbo

Our leaders and youth have already done this. I only answered you because your post about Igbos "deciding"was painfully ignorant

Oya educate yourself-

http://leaders.ng/56-years-after-independence-ohanaeze-ndigbo-says-nigeria-cannot-be-united/

Igbo leaders under the aegis of Ohanaeze Ndigbo rose from a meeting in Owerri, Imo State yesterday with a warning that the unity of Nigeria would continue to be threatened unless justice and fairness were ensured and regretted that Nigeria as a nation had not done well to champion the unity of the country 56 years after independence.
This is as groups comprising civil society, socio-cultural, religious and community based organisations drawn from the South East and South South zones called for an early referendum on the report of the 2014 National Conference.
The meeting which was held at the Imo International Convention Center (IICC), Owerri, Imo State started at about 4pm and rose by 9pm with governors of Imo, Abia attending while the deputy governor of Enugu State represented her state governor while those of Ebonyi and Anambra States took permission.
Other leaders who were present at the meeting included former governors of old Anambra state, Chief Jim Nwobodo, one-time governor of Anambra, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former military governor of old Imo, Rear Admiral Allison Madueke, former Minister of Finance, Kalu Idika Kalu, Colonel JoeAchuzie (rtd.), Prof. Anya O Anya, Prof. George Obiozor, Dr. Paschal Dozie, Chief Simon Okeke, and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo President, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey, traditional rulers from all the states of Igbo land, and a host of others.

ProWalker:
Igbos should actually decide if they want to be Nigerians or Biafrans. It is after such decision you can ask your question

We cannot decide on NL. A referendum like done in civilised places will settle this question of who wants a seperate country, confederacy or whatever.

The next step is getting the FG to come to its senses and organise one. Everybody including other Nigerian ethnic groups will be better off and tension will ease tremendously

BlowBack:
osinbanjo presidency will be the weakest and lamest duck presidency ever

boko haram under GEJ will look like boys scout when compared to that weakling

this is the reason i will never support osinbanjo plus the corrupt tinubu angle

I am even more excited at a weak Osinbajo presidency because like a Jonathan presidency we will be able to lend him support on our terms and he will be happy to accept them. This time we will avoid the mistakes we made with Jonathan's government, including that thief Tinubu spoiling the party. My humble 2 kobo

BabaRamota1980:
True talk my brother. Adara fun e!

I encourage all Yorubas to pay attention to what Mayor said. Share this input with others. Ibos are lost in the confusion they have created for themselves. They are probing for ideas and chatter to use in formulating advantages. We help them when we talk.

Emmm bros I agree with you. This thread is about Igbos in Nigeria, not Igbos and yorubas so yorubas need not carry the thread's matter on their heads.

Thanks

BlowBack:
Buhari is finally gone for good and good riddance to bad rubbish.

Osinbanjo, may eventually be confirmed President by the Senate as events unfold and Tinubu may want to exploit federal might to push his stooge into Aso Rock come 2019. Tinubu will settle for characters like El Rufai to be VP to Osinbanjo in order to sway boko votes up north to Osinbanjo presidency.

That aside will the SS/SE ignore this golden opportunity to pour sand-sand inside Yoruba and Tinubus garri just as they did in 2015 with Buhari chanji nonsense?

If you ask me, I will rather vote Shekau than that fake pastor.

Let us teach Yorubas their own treachery and repay them in their own coin come 2019.

If Osinbajo approaches the SE/SS leaders and pledges in writing that he will implement the report of the National Conference Report to restructure Nigeria I would personally vote and campaign for him

Nigeria must decide what they want from the Igbo
By Azuka Onwuka

Before August 9, 1965, the Singaporeans were seen as an irritation in Malaysia. Then Singapore was one of the 14 states of Malaysia. Singaporeans were viewed as arrogant, stubborn, and domineering. While the United Malays National Organisation wanted affirmative action or “quota system” for the Malays, the People's Action Party of the Singaporeans insisted that the best thing for the country was a merit-based policy on all issues, so as to bring out the best in the nation and create a spirit of excellence.
This constant disagreements and tensions resulted in racial riots. It got to a point, the Malays could take it no more. So on August 9, 1965 they convened the parliament, with no Singaporean parliamentarian present. At that sitting, the legislators voted unanimously (126 - 0) to expel Singapore from Malaysia.

When the Singaporeans heard that they had been expelled from the nation, at first they were devastated. But they took their fate in the hands and started building a new nation. And indeed, by applying merit and the pursuit of excellence, Singaporeans built a country that moved from Third World to First World in record time, overtaking Malaysia in all ramifications.
Interestingly, despite this sad way of parting, Malaysia and Singapore have remained good neighbours. In spite of the success Singapore has recorded, it has not made Malaysia not to record its own success.

There are many similarities between the story of Singapore and Malaysia and Igbo and Nigeria. The Igbo are not happy with the quota system policy used in the admission into federal schools and federal positions. They want competitiveness in every sector, which will lead to the best being selected, for the sake of excellence.
The Igbo are seen as arrogant, noisy, domineering, greedy, over-ambitious, to mention but a few. Many Nigerians see them as irritants. They get killed frequently, especially in the North, at the least misunderstanding. Sometimes the cause of the provocation is someone from Denmark, Cameroon or another part of Nigeria.
There are many Nigerians who will easily tell you: “We will never allow an Igbo person to rule Nigeria.” There are many who believe that the problem of Nigeria is from the Igbo, and that once the Igbo are done away with, Nigeria’s problems will disappear.
Given this scenario, the Igbo want a true federal system that will make Nigeria look like what it was before 1966, with each state or region taking charge of most of its affairs and moving at its own pace. Sadly, anytime it mentions restructuring or true federalism, there are forces that resist it vehemently and insist that such will not be allowed.

Ironically, despite this view by many Nigerians about the Igbo, anytime any person or group from Igbo land asks that the Igbo be allowed to leave Nigeria to form their own country, the resistance from most Nigerians is fierce. This reaction creates a contradiction. If the Igbo are irritants and troublemakers, why not expel them from Nigeria the way Singaporeans were expelled from Malaysia? But if you see them as valuable and believe they must be part of the Nigerian state, why not treat them as equal partners in the union? What does Nigeria really want from the Igbo?
Recently news broke that the Department of State Services embarked on a recruitment exercise, with 165 recruited from the North-west. The report said that 51 people were recruited from Katsina State alone, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Director General of Department of State Security, Mr Lawal Daura, while the number of people recruited from the five states of the South-east was 44 and the number recruited from the six states of the South-south was 42.
Compare that with the academic performance of the different zones of Nigeria. The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Education of 2016 produced the following number of applicants from the six zones:
South-east (five states) = 335,883;
South-West (six states) = 320,691;
South-south (six states) = (299,632);
North-central (six states plus the FCT) = 259,846;
North-west (seven states) = 163,240;
North-east (six states) = 96,220;

The six states that produced the highest number of candidates were:
1. Imo – 104,383
2. Delta – 78,854
3. Anambra – 77,694
4. Osun – 72,752
5. Oyo – 72,298
6. Enugu – 69,381

The six states that produced the least number of candidates were:
31. Adamawa – 15,615
32. Jigawa – 12,664
33. Yobe – 10,045
34. Sokoto – 10,006
35. Kebbi – 8,947
36. Zamfara – 5,295

The states that were given a minimum of 130 cut-off mark out of 200 in the 2013 examination into the Unity Schools were:
Anambra – Male (139) Female (139)
Imo – Male (138) Female (138)
Enugu – Male (134) Female (134)
Lagos – Male (133) Female (133)
Delta – Male (131) Female (131)
Ogun – Male (131) Female (131)
Abia – Male (130) Female (130)

For the same examination, the states that were given cut-off marks of less than 50 were:
Borno – Male (45) Female (45)
Jigawa – Male (44) Female (44)
Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35)
Kebbi – Male (9) Female (20)
Sokoto – Male (9) Female (13)
Taraba – Male (3) Female (11)
Yobe – Male (2) Female (27)
Zamfara – Male (4) Female (2)

The six states that scored above 50 percent in the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate of Education were:
Abia (63.94%),
Anambra (61.18%),
Edo (61.05%),
Rivers (55.69%),
and Imo (52.49%).

The states that scored below 13 percent in the same examination were:
Kebbi (12.08%),
Katsina (10.81%),
Gombe (7.41%),
Jigawa (6.37%),
Zamfara (6.23%),
Yobe (4.37%).

These are verifiable results that have remained virtually the same for decades. And they give an idea of the number of candidates that are involved in education from each state and zone as well as their academic performance.

The point of this essay is not that it is only the Igbo that excel in many sectors. Other ethnic groups, especially from the South, also excel. But the focus of this essay is the Igbo. From the attitude of other ethnic groups, it seems that they are comfortable with the status quo. If not, they should not be focusing on the Igbo as their problem.
The call for restructuring of the country has been promoted as the solution to Nigeria’s problem. However, there are strong forces that are hell-bent on ensuring that restructuring of the country never succeeds. They have been erroneously schooled that restructuring will impoverish them.
The danger in this hard line against restructuring is that if restructuring fails, the alternative may not be palatable. Nigeria has moved in a self-destructive path for long. Nigeria has been wallowing in retrogression for long, because some stakeholders are afraid that pulling it out and setting it on the path of progress will cost them their feeding bottle. But nothing lasts forever.

Two weeks ago, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, met his seemingly impossible bail conditions within 48 hours. When the bail conditions were made public, the belief of many was that no serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would want to associate with him. But the South-east caucus of the Senate met and quickly chose one of them to stand bail for him. All other conditions were also swiftly met.
If those conditions were given in December 2015, no Nigerian Senator would have wanted to be associated with Kanu. Since his coming into office, Buhari has continued to display a type of croynism and prebendalism that have never been witnessed in Nigeria. And the worst beneficiaries of these are the Igbo. He has been making it clear by his words and actions that the North and the Igbo are not equal partners in the Nigerian project. He has been distributing Nigerian resources and appointments to his kinsmen and region as if they are his personal property. This brazen nepotism has made even the fiercest Igbo critics of Kanu’s call for secession to develop sympathies for Kanu.
Nigerians must decide what they want from the Igbo. It is either they want the Igbo in Nigeria as full citizens or they want them out as non-citizens. As the English say, Nigerians can’t have their cake and eat it!

http://punchng.com/nigeria-must-take-a-decision-on-the-igbo/

deji15:
Did you read this part in the same report? Olodo.
The contract was awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) in September 2013 but couldn’t take off due to paucity of funds.

Your hero could not deliver, that is why the FG is going back to it. Olodo
Here is another one:

https://www.nairaland.com/3704147/jubilation-electricity-restored-ogwashi-uku-delta

Chai!!! So you have agreed that the project is ongoing so why did you try to pass it off as completed ? Dishonesty or ignorance?

If you like copy and paste worthless links till your fingers turn blue to cover your shame, you cant cover the ingratitude and bitter bigotry you have become known for

But emmm...this one you are posting Link about electricity in Delta state dont you know that BEDC is not a government owned entity anymore you talk about shame but are the most shameless, call someone olodo but don't know discos are private companies touting it as Buhari's achievement

I am done with the ignorant clowning. Argue with your screen. Tomorrow na work abeg

deji15:
Here is another one reported by your Biafuro newspaper.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/east-west-road-fg-begins-works-on-oron-calaba-section/

" The Federal Government has set up a team of experts to study the design of section five of the East West road dualisation project from Oron in Akwa Ibom State to Calabar, the capital of Cross Rivers State"



See your desperation to answer me is making you look more and more clownish and uneducated bros

So design study is now equal to providing water for Osun state after 50 years

Ol boy go educate yourself a little www.bpp.gov.ng stop goofing around

deji15:
You no just get shame at all at all.
See another one...

https://www.nairaland.com/3779591/jubilation-excitement-greet-news-calabar-itu#56203182

So your comeback is a Nation Newspaper hack job on a PROPOSED project?? Yet you get mind dey talk about shame

Such clowning surely must get boring for you at some point

OAUTemitayo:
You must be high on skunk. What project did Jonathan finished in South West?

Sigh.....abeg go and acquire some knowledge of recent history www.bpp.gov.ng

deji15:
You take your own advice. Stop clowning. Buhari is rehabilitating roads abandoned by your IB hero. All you paper achievements is DOD.

Even Buhari has just commisioned the Otuoke water project that their "son" failed to deliver. Shame no dey catch una at all. And this was a time when Nigeria enjoyed oil boom, no be now wey oil money don fall yakata, yet the man still dey manage give una road under 2 years of his administration. But ya bloda wasted the countries resources for 6 years with next to nothing to show for it .

SMH

A project that GEJ STARTED but out of a fair heart soft pedalled on to give priority to SW and the north is what you want to use to score a cheap point. See real ingratitude and rank pettiness on display

You want to compare Otueke water project to the level of Jona built infrastructure that will be enjoyed by future SW generations.

Read up and quit clowning

deji15:
But why are you complaining about Buhari then? He gave you sensitive Ministries such as the same Science & Tech, Industry and Trade, Labour and Productivity, etc. The 2nd Niger bridge construction is ongoing. The Enugu - Onitsha road abandoned by Jonathan for 6 years is back in construction, ditto with Enugu - Aba - Portharcourt. Why are you still crying marginalisation?

Enough clowning for one evening. Go here and see the massive level of infrastructure that GEJ gave SW between 2011 -2015 before bigotry and spirit of betrayal embodied by Tinubu overwhelmed goodwill and common sense www.bpp.gov.ng