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Throwback:
It was certain that the SouthSouth would clinch it.

Despite all the we SE / SS that Igbos have been doing on Nairaland since the days of President Jonathan, na SW and SS turned out to be the better South las las?

After all the propaganda that the SW will be punished for sacking Jonathan, Jonathan dey rejoice with President-elect Tinubu freely.

Amala and Ewedu party as they termed APC, is now the biggest party in the SouthEast.

Because APC lost Edo despite ruling there for many years, they claimed it was a rejection of Tinubu in his attempt to become a national politician.

Was he not a national politician when APC had been ruling Edo state? Was he not a national politician when APC won the national Presidency?

What about now that Tinubu has made himself the President with a minimum threshold in 30 out of 36 states and FCT, while some are stuck with 15 states and FCT?



SouthEast, when will you learn that you hatred will not take you anywhere but down and out?

Are you not down and out now with only deputy Speaker as the office you merit?

Amend your ways so you will not discover oil.

You are so petty and childish, Ahmed Lawan, the outgoing Senate president, what benefits has the people of Yobe gotten from his Senate Presidency?

We Igbos don't fucking care what the corrupt politicians gets or otherwise. We only care about who will come and change the structures of Nigeria for good, the current structure can only make Nigeria worse.

Don't expect much from Tinubu's Presidency, except he will choose to go against the principalities that is holding Nigeria down otherwise he will also perform abysmally like Buhari.

So let it sink in that an Igbo man doesn't hope or depend on government for survival or advancement, our forte is entrepreneurship and skill acquisition.

There are so much money to be made in the private sector in Nigeria ,if you associate with the Indians and the Chinese owners of manufacturing firms in Nigeria, You will never be bothered with the Nigerian politics .

Serves him right, he is a fool

That man should be used as a scapegoat if found guilty, these are some of the money miss road fools that are bringing disrepute to the Igbo nation, what on earth are you looking for in a breast of a married woman when single ladies are all over the place looking for a BIG GOD.

seguntijan:
While the Southsouth helped Tinubu get the required statutory 25% of 2/3rd of states to win the presidency the Southeast vehemently and openly worked against him, and gave all their votes to Obi who promptly lost to Tinubu.

The jungle has now matured. It's time to reap where you sowed, and the Southeast, not retrospective over why they are out of the power equation again, are asking Tinubu to reward them with the Senate Presidency at the expense of the well derserving people of Southsouth for what they call "national unity" reasons.

Didn't they know that there was something called "national unity" before and during the elections? How can you work for Hero Beer and ask MTN to pay your salary? How can you refuse the offer of Unilever shares, go ahead to buy the shares of Next Supermarket, and after Next made a loss, you ask Unilever to deprive their shareholders and pay you their dividends - all because you suddenly remember national unity?

You cry marginalization when nobody ever deprived you of anything you earned in Nigeria, but want to be rewarded with fruits of the labour of the people of Southsouth as if they don't matter or are non-existent as far as you are concerned?

Look at the facts and tell me who deserves to produce the next Senate President between the Southeast and Southsouth:

1. Southeast gave Tinubu 0/5 of their states.
Southsouth gave him 5/6 of their states

2. Southeast gave Tinubu 6% of their votes.
Southsouth gave him 30% of their votes.

3. The Southeast senators that won their seats selfishly worked for themselves only in the election and neglected Tinubu. Thus they had huge numbers for themselves while Tinubu had almost nothing from their places.
The Southsouth senators that won their seats worked for both themselves and Tinubu. Thus they both had huge numbers from their places.

4. The entire Southeast zone gave Tinubu a paltry 127k votes.
Cross River state alone which is not even the highest in their zone, gave him 130K votes, and as a zone Southsouth gave him 800K votes.

5. The trend of APC's votes in the Southeast is falling in every election since 2015.
APC's votes in the Southsouth has been rising in every election since 2015.

6. Southeast has not forgiven APC for the loss of the presidency by their "son" Jonathan when they defeated their beloved PDP in 2015.
The Southsouth have moved on, forgotten about 2015, and are embracing APC. Their body language suggests that they don't want to be in opposition anymore.

7. According to the present trends, with the Senate Presidency, the Southeast will still NEVER vote for APC in the future. Their unwarranted hatred for the party is too deep.
According to the present trends, with the Senate President, the Southsouth have a chance of becoming another APC stronghold in the near future.

If politics remain a game of numbers, why should APC deprive the Southsouth zone which is becoming a fertile land for them to garner higher votes in the future, of the Senate Presidency in order to placate the Southeast which is determined to remain a political desert that irrespective of how much they are appeased, cannot yield the party any useful number of votes going forward?

All these epistle on top
of who becomes the Senate president or whatever, the country is heading for a doom and non of the negative indices is of serious concern to your likes, just who becomes what.

Let me confidently inform you that no Igbo man cares about who becomes Senate president or Speaker of the house, we are honestly not after those irrelevant titles that will have no meaningful impact on the lives of an average man on the street, only our corrupt politicians might be disturbed by that. If you set up another election today and field Tinubu, the Igbos will still vote overwhelmingly against him time and time again, and we owe no one any apology for that.

What Nigeria needs now is an energetic and decisive leadership, and I can tell you that Mr Tinubu cannot deliver that because just like every mortal,he has passed his prime, so we all just need to fold our hands and watch the drama that will unfold. I am not wishing for the worst but just have it in mind that Tinubu's government will witness more external influence manipulation of governance than that of Buhari, that should be where your headache will be coming from not if Igbos will get SP or Speakership, we fucking care less about those frivolities.


" No nation can progress if its POLITICS is more profitable than its INDUSTRIES. In a country where those in government are richer than ENTREPRENEURS, they manufacture poverty"

jconsulting:
I don't understand all these nonsense, Do you expect Obi daughter or Abure daughter to be in transition committee, so all those south south people are not ok enough, a beg park well, when Obi find his stolen manhood he can appoint anyone he likes

You market real estate properties, yet you are a bigot, some of you don't even know where to draw the line. Continue....just dey play

Arsenal will be trophy less till the next 10 years. Yeye club and players

FreeStuffsNG:
Hmmm. This is very serious and all the Yoruba leaders must listen to them before these Yoruba youths take laws into their own hands.

Unfortunately, this is the fallout of the most toxic form of divisive tribal/religious campaign by Mr Obi and the uncouth Igbo online/real life mob of Mr Obi who curse, cyberbully, mock and criminally defame Yoruba and their elders/leader which is totally alien to Yoruba culture.

I respect the view of these Yoruba youths and I hold a different opinion once expressed here https://www.nairaland.com/7612989/lagos-guber-plight-igbo-law I got backlash from my fellow Yoruba who believe they have had enough.

I know that most Yoruba hawks do not want to hear or accept because they want the Igbo out and sent back to Igboland after the manner the Igbo hated, mocked and disrespected the Yoruba during the 2023 elections.

In my opinion, the SW states must collaborate by reciprocity. Your Igbo state of origin must have given same opportunity to Yoruba in their land before you can get any opportunity in Yorubaland.

Southwest states must give jobs , land cofo, political apoointments, admission, contracts etc to ONLY indigenes of states that have given same opportunities to the Yoruba living in their land.

Our resources and opportunities in Yorubaland are finite and the more others come in and are given, the more the Yoruba may likely resent such a system.

Only those states that can collaborate with us by reciprocity genuinely desire our progress.

If we do not do something fast about our all comers approach to opportunities in Lagos and SW that gained currency since 1999, there will be a more serious violent form of this current problem in the future.

States are subnational level of govt and their 1st priority is to their own people.States are not for all comers. It then means if you now want to give opportunities to Igbo, you need to give only to indigenes of SE states giving your indigenes and the Yoruba living on their land same opportunities. That is a sustainable way unless we want xenophobia in Yorubaland.

Since 1999, no single Igbo states has given a political appointment to Yoruba whereas a state like Kaduna has done so. We should collaborate by reciprocation with Kaduna by giving their indigenes jobs over indigenes of a SE state for justice, equity and fair play.

Igbo should not cheat Yoruba and Yoruba should not cheat Igbo.
check my signature for free stuffs!

Trash as usual

lhordspy:
Some people still dont get this. Maybe because they are very new to Nigeria politics or first time voters.

During the Presidential campaign. The candidate of the Labour party, Peter Obi exploit and explore our diversity, he capitalise on our religious differences in particular to instigate hate among the the two major religion we have in Nigeria. CAN, PFN turned themselves into a political group. Especially General overseers, they turned the altar into a political stage to preach politics and propagate hate against Muslim candidate.

Peter Obi's victory in Lagos during the presidential election wasn't just from the igbos but from the brain clouded, emotional religious sentimental yoruba christians who were sold with the Jihad bullcraps. After the victory, instead of building more bridges with the people that voted against Obi. The southe@sterners, feeling pompous and inflated came with the campaign of 'taking over lagos' . .. They ran twitter spaces, host interviews aided by their propaganda media house, AriseTV, scribbles and tweets were churned out about how they will sack all the obas and takeover the whole place.

How can you expect the yorubas who sided with you against their tribesman, Tinubu in the presidential election to feel about it? Happy that you want to takeover their ancestral land and mock them with it in return, just like you use the word; 'Afonja ' consistently to make mockery of our loss in Ilorin.

Sanwo Olu victory is not coming as a result of tribalism. The yorubas fought together as one again, and they won. Different yorubas from different religion, political parties, and across all board left our differences asides at the corner, came together to 'rescue ourselves'

At first it was cruise, then it became aggressive, now it is uncontrollable.. Cant even be tamed nor can they reason well. It is all noise, zero thinking and strategy. The Obidient movement is turning out to be a curse to Peter Obi and the hardworking innocent igbos who committed no crime but paying for the sins of the headless mob.

Trash as usual

Bobloco:
But an "Igbo man" defeated the all mighty Jagaban in the same Lagos State


Hmmmmmm!
The truth is, When I look at individuals like Bayo Onanuga, FFK, Dele Aleke, MC Oluomo, Festus Keyamo and realized that they are the mouth piece of Tinubu.... I weep for this country

It will only get worst

Very very worst, they all thought that getting the president from your region is the best thing that can happen to a man, let them take a cue from Buhari, after all the fanfare in 2015, the most terrorised and impoverished Nigerians today are from the North West.
Nigeria is broke and is seriously in need of quality leadership to lift her up, all these clannish and ethnic mindsets can only take us backwards the more.

riverbird:
If the igbos don't want to learn the easy way them am afraid they have to learn the hard way but the good thing is that at the end they will surely learn.
If you out all igbo investment that is in Lagos together it is more than enough to develop Thier region, am not saying Thier region is underdeveloped but common there are some risks you don't take no matter how safe it looks, how can I invest 50 billion in another man's place?

Poverty and clannish mentality, so you are wiser than Dangote that invested over 20 billion USD in Lagos, or is he Igbo too?

olatade:
All these igbos, what is your own and lagos state sef? There is voting going on in your states but you all chose to make so much noise about lagos.

But when it comes to Ground rent tax for Igbo houses and their Personal Income Taxes, they will pay to Lagos state.

Some of you are educated illiterates.

Loserpool

Just look at what a Moderator pushed to front page. I don't know how many times we will drive this message home to these guys. An Igbo man doesn't care who becomes whatever, we only want intelligent leaders that can turn this country around for good, you can be Nupe or Chamba we don't fucking care.

This one is here ranting about who becomes Senate president, the past Senate presidents are they not people's relatives? How has that changed their lives.

Agbayas behaving like kids.

Iam interested, your analysis is good, I am a punter and have won a lot of money from betting.
Your strategy is worth giving a trial, but have it mind that nothing is perfectly sure in betting.

Beremx:
lol abeg don't make me laugh. What a comment! 😂😂😂.
FYI, I was born, bred and still living in Lagos. What am I going to see that I haven't seen before Ogbeni?

Are you replying the "Olodo", that is how most Tinubu urchins reason, poverty induced bitterness, to them the world starts and ends in Lagos.

femisplash:
This Gazette always following Tinubu everywhere with bad belle. However, Tinubu reiterated the law of harvest. Ibos should have learnt lesson from Sai baba.

Please, which lesson if I may ask?

astonished:
I always tell people, if Atiku win this election, Nigeria will break within 3 months,

If you think southern Nigeria can withstand another Fulani ruling us after 8 years of Fulani regime which cause lots of agony, and full of nepotism, barbarism.

This time around 98% percent of big big southern politicians will give go ahead, since they can't get the power & there will be unity in the south, not even military weapons can't stop it,

Endsars will become child play, and all southern will come out with their full chest to demand for real independent country from the hand of oligarchy who

Oga, nothing is happening if Atiku wins, there is nothing like Southern Nigeria, You guys only use that narrative when it suits you.

Let God anoint who will win the election.

Lalar27:
Reality is already facing the guy he knows he have bleeped up
Let him wait till TINUBU becomes president next year and see how all the property he have in Lekki will all be seized plus wife and children oooo jagaban will show him hell
He will be barnised from Lagos and sent to wartorn Biafraland as purnisment

Omo, see people mindset.

Anybody that supports Tinubu on this is an irredeemable fool, this goes to show that more misery awaits those that cheers him up now.

Before any reasonable President can even think of removing petrol subsidy completely, he/she needs to first get the true figure for the cost of subsidy on PMS, then effectively bring down cost of governance by at least 40% by merging Agencies and MDA's, sponsor an executive Bill that will prune down jumbo pay for Lawmakers and other politicians, block all loopholes for corruption. All these are achievable if the resolve and the will is there.

Petrol subsidy is the only thing that the poor and the down trodden are benefiting from Nigeria presently, every other benefits has been cornered by the minority elites.
Just imagine earning 60k salary and having to spend over 45k on transportation to and from workplace monthly, because for sure PMS will be above 500 naira per litre after full subsidy removal, so for those in Lagos, from Mile 2 to CMS bus stop will be like 600-700 naira, from Oshodi to Obalende will be 1000 naira or more.
Let some people continue to support nonsense.

Las Las the breakfast will reach everybody.

This is what many people failed to understand, most South Western States have over bloated workforce, simply because the Yorubas likes civil service job (no pun intended) while on the other the Igbos prefers entrepreneurship.

So situations like this will always be the case because wage bills of most States in the region is far higher than whatever they earn leaving little or nothing for capital projects, that is why some states in the South West have debt burden that will take over 50 years to clear.
During Peter Obi's regime in Anambra, he pruned down the state civil service workforce by over 40%, so many people were abusing him then but he stood his ground, today Anambra has one of the leanest workforce in Nigeria,that is responsible governance.

SugarGirl44:
Just shut up bloody chest beater, if not...if not...yen yen yen.
I thought y’all have always boasted to be the highest people remitting to the country, but now that the stats has busted your lies, you’re shifting goal post.

If another stat is conducted, this new lie of yours would still be busted.
Apart from the okirika pant and bra plus other dustbin items and fake products y’all import, which is even detrimental to the naira btw, you guys are totally useless. Your forte is crime, just stick to it.

Your shame would be revealed when you get your biafra, that’s when you’ll know how much of empty barels you guys are.
I can’t wait for that to happen.

Who unleashed this dog?
Please take your negative energy somewhere else, you are knocking at the wrong door.

madapcmod:
Mental health is real.

I'm out.

No further comment

My brother, many are mad but only few are on the streets.

But one can't help it anymore, is it only me? Or has anyone else noticed that the number of online attackers that was raised by the APC on this forum is unprecedented.
Any little mention of Obi caught stealing a cube of Maggi years ago,fiamm!!! All the monikers will attack the thread, it is even becoming predictable.

No issue based campaign, no zeal to market their preferred candidate to the undecided voters and persuade them to vote their candidate, just the same old rhetorics.
This election should kuku come and go make we rest.

franchasng:
The kids on Nairaland won't understand

My brother that is it, it seems negative minded people are constantly on the increase on this forum and it hurts.

While most of us here are getting connections and making money, some foolish bigots are here getting tutored in foolishness.

franchasng:
Most Southeast guys don't send money directly to their parents or relatives in Nigeria, they sell the hard currencies to their Igbo friends and relatives into importation and they use it to pay for goods abroad instead of sending directly, so most Igbo Diaspora remittances return back to Nigeria as goods...while the importers send naira to their relatives. This is one major reason FOREX outflow restriction by CBN under Buhari govt. didn't affect Igbo importers and other Nigerian importers who know how to connect to Igbos abroad.


Lastly, a lot of Igbo guys abroad are dissatisfied with Nigeria's current situation under APC/Buhari and many have stopped investing back home, another reason for low remittance from Igbos abroad.



The whole world know that Igbos make up the highest population of Nigerians living abroad, even in strange countries you have never heard before except maybe online lol, you too know this.

You are very correct, infact I only got the opportunity to meet up with a distant relative that has been in the States for long, and he has paid over 40k USD to my suppliers in China so far this year, while I sent the naira to his building projects at Owerri,
most big auto parts importers at Trade fair market are using that method for their payments.

If not for Nigerians abroad, by now naira will be struggling with Zimbabwean dollar in terms of lost value.

And for the irredeemable ethnic bigots up there saying trash about South easterners, if not for Igbo diasporan remittance, this country might have been hit with violent protests from every corner,considering that NNPC has not been remitting much this year. Then imagine combining that pressure on our foreign reserve with so many Igbo importers seeking to buy the green back from the black market, by now USD will be over 1500 naira at the black market, and so many imported goods will be way above the reach of the middle class, including the smartphones that they are typing those trash with.

This is business, I am opening 5 POS points next year, any cash that I get from my other shops goes straight to the POS business. 10k withdrawal is 5h, 20k is 1k, 2023 will be lit.

EtinosaDLaw:
Because PM NEWS IS OWNED BY BAYO ONANUGA, a spokesperson for the urinating machine. THAT'S WHY!

Thiefnubuu controls the media, he controls what you see here daily (including Nairaland). Nigerians have to do their best to resist this man. You can imagine, even Buhari, as wicked as he is, he's also working against Tinubu's emergence because be knows that old devil better than us. Nigerians, SHINE YOUR EYES O!!!!

You are absolutely right, but they underestimated the power of the social media.
The present generation are not like theirs, when one Yeye editor will pen down some jargons and publish and people will buy the newspaper and swallow the rubbish article as the fact.

The likes of Bayo Onanuga and Dele Alake are actually envious of Nduka Obaigbena's achievements in the world of journalism.

The work of a good journalist is to constantly seek for facts and ask questions, and that is exactly what Rufai Oseni of Arise Tv is doing irrespective of the person involved, he is actually doing well in his chosen career.

SmartPolician:
How much Tinubu dey pay this mvmv writer sef?

For Tinubu to be a frontrunner in the presidential election of over 200 million people, it shows that something is fundamentally wrong with the black man.

Don't mind him, some people are senseless,he is into media business and instead of trying to market whom they paid him to market,he is denigrating his potential future clients.

In a few months time, the general election will come and go then people like them will go back to the trenches.

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