Ofodirinwa: Sounds like your village is miserable because my people have water lol. You should look into helping your people and not limit my contribution because you don't have something.
lol, you think rail is a luxury because you don't live in a society where it exists. I have an uncle who the whole family had to beg to build a toilet. He insisted that it was unnecessary because he didn't grow up with one and there were more pressing things to address. Everyone in town has a two story and shitting in the bush is no longer an option for a married man but he doesn't see it as necessary because he has never owned one. If Imo doesn't get connected to rail Imo will be in 25 years what we think Niger Republic is now.
At a point nowhere in Nigeria had functional rail, so you may have grown up in a world where everyone had 1 leg. But the generation before that every single city we are calling a city was created by rail sea and river. You don't have to believe me but find a functional first world city that isn't rail connected. This is not optional in the modern world.
ebufa: The Anambra State Commissioner of Info has to pick up the pace.........I sense a more energised Soludo of late...even the contrived violence seems to have reduced of late! we want to see more information on the contracts awarded and those in the pipeline! Communication, especially on social media will help to dispel a lot of assumptions about what is happening in the southeast! besides I want to start developing my Awka millinium City plot! More on the positives and less on the negatives...........kudos to soludo on his recent rebirth!
Nchenches: Danger here is if I insist on the truth that it is not the duty of state governmment to build intercity rail lines, your broda govano, Hope Uzodinma, will quickly start to build to build railway line from Owerri to Portharcourt. You are from Awomama, there is no treated portable water anywhere in Awomama, not anywhere in the whole of Imo state. A place without treated portable water belongs to the dark ages villages. Treated portable water is a life saver and number one infrastructure that a gov is supposed to give to citizens. Late Sam Mbakwe did it, but his successors could not sustain it. When you look left or right in any business place in Orlu you will see person from Oru east or west. They don't have roads to move body and commerce about in Orlu because of the development embargo placed on Orlu by governor Hope Uzodinma since 2020. Floods kill people in Orlu due to absence of urban drainage system. You want Uzodinma to build you railway lines to PH or Umuahia.
Some of you are ignorant. So you have not heard of PPP before? must govt build everything? dont you know they can prtner with ready investors to do that why they focus on basic and low hanging fruits?
And talking of portable water, is that not what hope is doing?
RuddyFusion: How is Ikpeazu sure this will be completed by successive administration? Why wasn't this started much earlier in the lifetime of his administration?
Why?
THe project started since 2017. Gains have been made since then on the background that many are not aware of. This is not a project ABia state government can fund, so they needed a financial backbone from banks like AFREXIM and AfDB. They recently got it, so hopefully, before he leaves office it'll commence.
The project is part of Abia 30 years plan.
Concerning the issue of succession. The project is a private driven project and is in parallel with govt operation. No incoming governor can thwart it cause it's backed by law and a law establishing it's autonomy was passed byt the Abia state house of assembly. Also it is a Free trade zone and SEZ too.
Officialgarri: embrace the truth. All the south eastern governors combined including Peter Obi did not have half the achievement of BAT. BAT's legacy is what is keeping Lagos till date and that's why Peter Obi decided to vacate Anambra and live in Tinubu's Lagos
Tinubu can not even lace Umahi's shoes.
If you remove projects in Lagos before TInubu came, he will be empty
Officialgarri: embrace the truth. All the south eastern governors combined including Peter Obi did not have half the achievement of BAT. BAT's legacy is what is keeping Lagos till date and that's why Peter Obi decided to vacate Anambra and live in Tinubu's Lagos
Officialgarri: In 8 years time , you will come back to tell us Ikpeazu is as good and innocent as saint Obi and we should vote for him as president.
If he does well and finish well why not?
Tinubu did not work but because of private investments in Lagos you claim he built Lagos.
Ikpeazu has done noble by planing an economic city in ABia. If Tinubu can lay hold on that to campaign, why won't Ikpeazu when he even has more projects than tinubu?
Qtrpst4: So FG no longer wants to build road in the SE it's now private companies from mtn to this now but when it is the north, they give Julius Berger the contract to build their roads and when we say we don't want nigeria one urchin under Oshodi bridge will say why? No problem, make God help Nigeria if obi no win that thing wey una dey find, una go see am
The ongoing contracts and construction may likely continue, but the management henceforth will be done by EEC. It does not stop the ongoing projects.
Other key roads in the north and West were also concessioned, not only this ones.
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, approved the construction and maintenance of nine road corridors under the Highway Development and Management Initiative (HDMI) under the regulatory guidance of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).
The projects which will utilise the Public Private Partnership Model will generate over N11.54 trillion (N11,543,821,736,086) in the 25 years concession period for the projects.
The highway development project which was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, originally targets 12 road corridors within which there are 13 routes, however three corridors and one route had yet to reach the FEC approval stage.
The projects aim to ensure the management and development of the Nigerian Federal Road Network with the ultimate aim of achieving adequate highway services across the entire network through construction, rehabilitation and management of the road pavement in line with the Federal Government economic reform agenda and global best practices.
The aim of the partnership is to develop and manage the federal road network, thereby supplementing the federal government’s budgetary allocation for infrastructural development.
The Following Roads were approved to Enyimba Economic City.
The 161.2km Onitsha-Owerri-Aba route, which is the 4th route, will generate N706,129,383,000 (N706bn) in the 25-year concession with the private sector investor being Enyimba Economic City Consortium.
Route 9 is the Enugu – Port Harcourt 200km road which also has a 25 year concession term and expected revenue is put at N1,154,416,153,000 (N1.15trn) and the concessionaire is Enyimba Economic City Consortium.
Enyimba Economic City (EEC) is a 9,464 Hectares of Work, Live, Learn and Play Vibrant Integrated City with growth sectors in Industrial Activities, Logistics, Lifestyle Residential, Entertainment, Health/Medical, Knowledge/Tech Hub and Aviation, designed to be The Global Business Hub in Nigeria. It is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) under the Made in Nigeria for Export (MINE) Programme of Federal Government of Nigeria. It has a Free Trade Zone Status.
The Enugu-PH Expressway and the Onitsha-Owerri-Aba Expressway are key roads that's part of the external fence infrastructure of the city, they are very important for the success of the project. It is a big win for Enyimba Economic City for getting the ICRC to hand over the road to them.
The consortium for the external fence infrastructure include Insta – Toll RSA (to build Toll Plazas), Escher Silverman Global UK, CCECC Nigeria and Afreximbank.
Flag Off and Construction may likely start 1st or Second Quarter of 2023 after the flag off (before July).
IGBOSON1: Dude, you're derailing this thread from its original remit! What rock did you crawl out from to respond to a post almost two weeks old? One would have even thought you've had enough time to think over what your response would be, but its the same thrash....the same going round in circles, repeating the same shit with different wordings, and asking the same dumbass questions i've already answered! You come across as being a bit retarded and thick, and the only reason i'm engaging with you on here is so you (including your other monikers and multiple personalities), your impostor partners and Igbo haters don't infect the minds of young, naive Igbos' who may read your bold-faced lies and revisionism and mistake them for the truth! I hate liars and deceitful scumbags and this is why i find you quite repulsive and repugnant to engage!
I can't for the life of me fathom why you lot go to these deceitful and murderous lengths just to try and discredit IPOB and Mazi kanu and 'justify' the terrorist tag your god Buhari and his hegemonic ilk have contrived to pin on them! Till tomorrow, we're still waiting for them to use the same energy and proactiveness they use on Mazi Kanu and IPOB to handle the Fulani herdsmen problem and equally give them the terrorist label they so richly deserve!
If you clamed down and read my last response to your inane rants and lies, you'd have discovered i've already answered the questions you just raised in this last post of yours!
On your idiotic first question on what next after stating 'the Fulani, Hausa and Yoruba hate us.....': nowhere have i stated that the Yoruba hate Ndigbo. If you can find where i said this you're welcome to post it here! Whereas i believe a small but vocal minority of Yoruba have a negative attitude towards Ndigbo.....for historical, economic and political reasons, i do believe a much larger number of Hausa-Fulani (as a percentage of their population) hate Ndigbo and for them there's the extra factor of religion! I can back up this assertion with doumented proof spanning over 5 decades and said proof are already in the public domain!
You go on to ask what shall we do about said 'hate'! You wouldn't have asked that question if you have a working brain! My own position is to support Mazi Kanu and IPOBs call for a referendum on secession! Only discerning minds will know that calling for a referendum on secession doesn't necessarily mean one is 100% in support of it or can't be persuaded to settle for something else! Also, my reason for emphasising on our past relationship and interactions with the Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba were stated in my last post: "Just how TF can any grown ass Igbo man, knowing the history of what we have been through with the hegemonic north in 'one Nigeria' from the 50s to date.....how they have shown in words and in deeds their hatred for Igbos'.....just how TF can anyone interested in addressing how we go forward and prosper as a people not take seriously their negative disposition towards Ndigbo!? Are you fcking kidding me!? It was this same uninterested and appeasing attitude towards the hegemonic north by Zik that made us not know the dangers we were going into agreeing to share the same country with them! At least the then Sadauna was honest enough to acknowledge there were schisms and intractable issues amongst the major ethnicities and regions, while on the other hand Zik wanted them overlooked! Now see where we are today with the loss of millions of our beloved kinsfolk and the undermining of our economic and political interests in 'one Nigeria"!
People are contributing to IPOB of their own free will and this has fckall to do with you and your impostor and 'one Nigerianist' ilk! If you feel your 'one Nigeria' argument is stronger than IPOBs secession argument, then show Ndigbo how this is the case by providing your own funds (whether by contributions of Ndigbo or by federal gov't interventions as we've seen them do for other regions) for the 'setting up of factories in Aba or Onitsha'!
You want to use the Buhari gov'ts approval for GEOMETRIC to operate as 'proof positive' that Buhari is fairminded and 'one Nigeria' presents a level playing field to all regions/ethnicities? If so you're either too naive or just being deceptive, and don't know how a oppressors mind works! Besides, don't you think Buharis' anti-Igbo agenda would have been too obvious if he had refused granting GEOMETRIC their operating license inspite of all the representations and pressure mounted on the issue? The one of the Enyimba Economic City (EEC) is laughable because as we speak NOTHING or next to nothing is on ground in comparison to what was planned! Daura has witnessed more action in 4 years than that useless EEC has seen since its stillbirth was announced! All we've seen so far is hot air and dogo turenchi!
Like i alluded to in my previous post, but for the Nigerian political-economy in place since the late 60s to date, that's been rigged against Ndigbo and disproportionately favoured the south-west and north-west, Ndigbo would have progressed way beyond our present position...even as part of Nigeria! There were many deliberate policies and actions by past and present federal gov'ts that have starved the south-east of investments, projects, funds, and denied us economic enablers and catalysts that could have given the regions economy the needed boost and traction!
Obviously, you have chosen to ignore the fact IPOB has disowned the ekpa scoundrel and distanced itself from his assertions and actions. Can you show us proof that IPOB or Mazi Kanu 'brought in ekpa' as you assert? Can you equally show us proof that autopilots, chinasa nworu, DOS and all the other evil creations of the hegemonic deep-state existed before Mazi kanu was kidnapped from Kenya, and what he had to say about them? You should address these specific questions in your response and not ignore or skirt around them!
You then go on to stupidly accuse Ndigbo of 'excusing poor leadership in the south-east'! This shows you're a shameless liar! Dude, mention the region that holds their political leaders and gov'ts to account more than Ndigbo and equally show us their HDIs in comparison to those of Ndigbo to buttress your assertion!
It comes as no surprise that you're nowhere to be found when it comes to defending Ndigbo against the machinations, lies and derision of Igbo-haters, but eagerly jump out of nowhere when it comes to trying to blame IPOB and Mazi kanu for all the misfortune Ndigbo have faced from the late 60s to date!
U are still saying the same thing this time more lengthier and rephrased.
No solution on the ay forward, but dwelling in the past
I don't even have time again for you. What I want to tell u is that, grow up. COme to your senses and invest in SE. That's what matters
Regarding EEC, i know you are very ignorant so I am not surprised you said nothing is happenning even when last 2 weeks agao they got the approval to take over Enugu -PH road. Your kinds are littered all over Igbo land amplifying bad news and you don't even see the positives going on
Ofodirinwa: Name one state that is getting it right that is not connected to rail. Forget people making noise online, in the SE when it comes to economic activity, it's Aba hands down. After that it's who?
And these states have not even began using it to capacity. Once there is industry in Nigeria on a real scale you will see that industrialists will almost always choose these states. After sometime there will be a very clear difference between industrialized and rural states in Nigeria, and this will be the determining factor. There is no major city, successful city, or modern city on planet earth that is not a rail depot.
We already know what the sea has done for Lagos. So you understand what transport means. Anyone that doesn't start their factory in Lagos is choosing not to because of sentiment and [i]maybe [/i]cost. But there's more industry in Lagos than the whole of the SE, so this tells you something. That sentiment is not enough to make it happen. We have maximized sentiment, it cannot take us further.
Economics is not about sentiment, it's about physical reality. Where there is sea and rail there is large scale economic activity. Where this is not, it is only the business owners emotions that are keeping him in business there.
You're saying 'build industries'. Understand what that means. Why will I build 'an industry' in Imo when I can build it in Lagos? The one in Lagos will reach the US, Europe, Asia, and the rest of Africa and Nigeria by the time the one in Imo gets it's products to Lagos. Right now you are feeding the SE with northern tomatoes. How many tomatoes can you fit inside a vehicle? How many can you fit in a train? If you send a vehicle's worth and a train worth, how will each medium effect prices?
But instead we want to complain about the cost of living, and hope 'good government' magically takes it away. The only way for an inland city to become a modern city is access to dredged rivers and access to sea. I live in the US. I know what it takes to make a place a modern functioning economy. If you have not seen it before take my word for it.
When i read the first paragraph i did not even bother to read the rest.
Cause there will certainly be no wisdom in it. How can someone say railway is not a priority for Imo when Imo thru FG is seeking to dredge their river into the ocean with plans to build a port. SMH
Nchenches: Hope Uzodinma is already doing campaign to terminate his administration.
A Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma, who cannot build in Mbaise, cannot build in Mbano, cannot build in Oguta/Egbema, cannot build in Isu/Nwangele/Nkwerre/Njaba axis, has devastation and arrested development left in Orlu/Orsu/Ideato areas, but redoes what former governors built in Owerri - all because of bile in him against some people in his federal constituency - he has brought his govt to its one term ending.
Orlu is not the only LGA in Imo state i wonder why u feel so entitled. Even Ohaji/Egbema that brings the most to the table don't feel this entitled
Nchenches: ISAMATA shops, not shops built by Uzodinma government in Orlu. Uzodinma has been on closing down anything government in Orlu, right from his Day 1 as Imo state governor. Uzodinma who converted a huge Cultural centre building in Orlu to a military barracks where bullets fly in the air frequently, who doesn't read what is in Uzodinma's mind about Orlu? Next, he demolished the biggest landmark in Orlu - the gate at Y junction in Nkwume. The gate never obstructed anything.
Rayzoom: You don buy matter! Zombie wey no know him father, bastard son of a harlot, in as much as I cannot determine where you come from I still reserve the right to disassociate myself and my tribe from a bastard son of a harlot impregnated by hardened criminals.
just ignore the guy. his plans is to litter the thread with vileness.
MadamExcellency: Yet it was among the six States with 80% of National Cash Flow. Abia State is among the 6 States where CBN implemented a cashless policy since 2020.
Travel and see.
U dey follow mumu dem dey talk. That one is going to be killed by frustration and high bp caus eof ABia allow am
Ofodirinwa: Abia is the economic capital and engine of the south east. Specifically Aba. Don't mind Frustrated FC
We know the frustrated urchin is an impersonator and not even from SE. We know his agenda and he is failing. All SE states will grow and progress well in the next 8 years. Bookmark it. No matter who wins this election
NwekereNdokl: Abia is the worst and most backward state in Nigeria. Aba is a cesspit of dilapidated roads and filthy environment while umuahia is a glorified village. Abia is a failed state
How would you assess your seven years as Governor of Abia State
The journey to this point hasn’t been very easy, but I thank God. He gave me the strength and resilience to continue to move on and the manifestation of our burning of the midnight oil has begun to show.
Abia State, in terms of resources, is blessed with great people, very honest and hardworking people. The things that our people need to eke out a living for themselves are few, as it were, and we have dedicated all our time this past seven years to create a platform that will enable our people to blossom to their full potential.
I want to say also that the days ahead will be better because we’ve laid very strong foundations for an economically strong, viable and sustainable state. I could say, if I want to be immodest, that some of the steps we have taken are irreversible. I say this because Aba, Umuahia and Ohafia had no masterplan when I came in. But today we are in collaboration with UN-Habitat to develop a master plan for these three cities and indeed we were commended recently through a letter from UN-Habitat for our vision towards ensuring that we bring about structured and organized development for our major cities, and they adjudged these cities as among of the contending cities for most resilient cities in Africa.
Beyond that, Abia had no industrial policy and, when you talk about job creation, you are speaking to industrialization, and if you are talking about industrialization, you must formalize the pattern, you must provide the compass for that process to happen. Here again, for the first time, we have delivered, collaborating with UNIDO, the first industrial policy for Abia State. This government is also bequeathing, for the first time, a long-term development plan, the 30-year plan for the development of Abia State, which, by my calculation, will serve as a compass to guide successive leaders to continue to move in a progressive manner so that we can achieve our goal.
Could you tell us about your Enyimba Economic City (EEC)?
It is part of the critical elements of our development plan. Incidentally, like all transgenerational projects, EEC is something you may not see today. But we are planning a summit in that regard on my birthday, where we intend to talk to our people about how far we’ve gone and the things we have done so far and the promise it holds, provision of 600,000 jobs in the next 20 to 30 years for our people is the clincher. That’s the only way we can ensure that, going forward (in spite of) insecurity, unemployment, economic downturn, (it) will create sufficient buffer to lift our people because, for the first time, through EEC, the Igbo man is going to have a platform from where he manufactures and exports without going to Lagos or anywhere else.
This is what is missing and it has discouraged our people. If you go to the entire South West, its economy is propelled by the hard work and drive of our people. And here, we are saying, how can it be that we have a rail line connecting our state through to Kano from Port Harcourt? Indeed this rail line starts from Abonema Wharf and there’s the Onne Wharf. So, its an irony that we can’t create an economic city that can leverage that existing rail lines for the distribution of goods.
Onne and Abonema wharfs are less than 30 minutes from the location where Enyimba Economic City is being sited; so, we can leverage the proximity of those seaports. Akwa Ibom is looking at Ibom deep seaport, which is about 40 minutes from EEC. So, the only way to think futuristically is to create an economic city and we gave 9,300 hectres of land between Aba and Port Harcourt. Technically, we want to close the economic (gap between) Aba and Port Harcourt so there won’t be any difference. And we have gotten to the point that we are looking at financial closure before the end of this year, which is driven by Afrexim bank.
To do the plan alone, the same people that designed Dubai and Singapore took a million dollars to design EEC. It is the most irresistible project that has come from Nigeria. I’ve been to South Africa, I’ve been to New York, I’ve been to Egypt many times, I have been everywhere, and each place I go, people always welcome it. It is the most viable export free zone from Nigeria. In fact, it is the hope of Nigeria to participate in the Continental Treaty Agreement.
Today, we have received approval from the Federal Executive Council concessioning the A4 Road between Aba and Port Harcourt-Enugu to EEC. We have contractors that are ready to do that road; so, it is no longer in the hands of the Federal Government. And just the other day, somebody posted to me the official number plate by Road Safety. So, some of the vehicles of our businessmen who will do business here will bear EEC. We are looking forward to when, before the exit of this administation, we will do ground-breaking and then construction will effectively take off. But, before that, so many tenants have indicated interest that they want to build health city, an education city, wharehousing and logistics in EEC. I participated in all the meetings.
What I see of this environment tomorrow will change most of the states in the South East and South South; what I see will repatriate effectively the efforts, sweat and hard work and wealth of our people. I am happy that I am associated with it. Life-changing projects are usually not quick fixes, but every leader must dredge up sufficient courage to see this kind of long-term vision, invest in it, embark on it and then ensure that you push it forward, even when you are no longer governor, for the benefit of our children. If we don’t succeed with EEC, we will be running round in circles. It’s unfortunate, but that’s the truth.
Because population is growing geometrically, the only way we can stop the slide in our economy is to make sure that we do that economic city so that we can provide jobs quickly and suck up the various capacities and energies of the young ones we have, almost about a million, people involved in garments and leatherwork here. If you calculate 250,000 people in Ariaria, Ahia Ohu (New Market), Shopping Centre, Ngwa Road axis and then multiply it by four, four apprentices, this is nearly four million people. And these are hardworking people. You don’t even see them. They don’t have time for crime because some of them will be sewing shirts from morning till night, all through, their wife will just give them food right there in their shops. They sleep there to continue the following morning, especially as December is approaching.
I’m happy and excited that this has happened; let me pledge that I feel encouraged. Our foot is already on the throttle and we will fire on until the end of our time here and, God blessing us, we will be able to also hand over to somebody who can continue along this trajectory for the benefit of our people.
The problem we have in this part of the world is continuity. What have you put on ground to ensure the person who will succeed you will complete Enyimba Economic City
The leadership recruitment process is a very big problem; it’s part of the problems we have because our leaders are very emotional; they respond to impulses that are not deep-rooted, impulses that are personal, that have no connection with the needs of the people. So, when they react to all those, they miss the mark. The second reason is that you see how long it took us in Abia to think of a long-term development plan. I have spoken the way I did because I am speaking to people like you who understand. It is better for me to campaign with the newly completed Azikiwe Road, than to campaign with a long-term development plan, whereas, the long-term development plan is the software that drives development.
But the Aba man will be happy that I did Azikiwe Road. In other places, a leader can just come and say, ‘I gave you long-term development plan, for that, vote for me,’ and they will see him as somebody who has achieved something. What I’m coming to is the fact that some of us who push towards having a hand in who succeeds us have a good reason. For me today, my confidence in pushing for a successor is that I will hand over this long-term development plan to the successor and I will extract an agreement with him that he will flip through and read it and push it and develop Abia along that trajectory.
If I succeed in doing that, I don’t need any other thing. But, otherwise, somebody in my position could be looking for a successor because he wants somebody to cover his back, he wants somebody to do this or that for him. You know, reasons that are not tied to creating a better life for our people. These are the two major reasons. Every leader should have his reason dovetailing from what he thinks is good for the people.
Beyond that, there are a few things that I have earned as governor. One of them is that Abia is one of the few states where there is no problem between successor and predecessor and we have managed our relationship. This is not to say we don’t disagree, even husband and wife disagree. We are in a place where, whatever thing it is, we find a way to resolve it because we create our red lines and we create our green lines and we do not go beyond none of that.
I have also lately extended it to all my predecessors. I call them on phone and they come to see me and I go to see them and all of that. So, I have earned that. I will expect my successor to also carry on along that line and not to destabilize the political environment. I inherited a few projects from my predecessor: the International Conference Centre, and I completed it; ASUBEB building, and I completed it; JAMB building, and I have paid all the money that is required to complete it; I inherited a new Government House, I am working hard, I am believing God that I will also complete it. I can tell you that, around January, February, in fact, my pledge to Ndi Abia is that I will sleep there.
Like I said before, this EEC project, we have no option in the matter. In the first place, why did I bothered to send 30 young people to China to go and learn how to use machines to make shoes? Because I know this is where I met my children, using hand to cut leather. As the chief marketer of ‘Made in Aba’, I could not speak to consistency in quality, I could not speak to speed, I could not even speak to how long it would take to provide 1,000 pairs of shoes. How do I solve the problem, should I leave them in the 21st Century using their hand to cut leather, using hurricane stove to warm leather? I said, No, the best thing for me to do for them is to introduce them to the way it is done now and so we have elevated our standard, our processes and procedures for shoe manufacturing.
If we don’t talk about EEC and push it, even in the next administation, how will the incoming administration provide 600,000 jobs that will be able to match and outspace the population explosion that is imminent? This population will effectively double in the next 15 to 20 years. This is why I said it is existential and it is contending that as part of our trajectory for development in the next 30 years. It is also going to be contained in my handover note, but the most impetus that is driving the EEC is beyond one man, because I was able to get the House of Assembly to give me a law that gives EEC some quasi-autonomy; its like a small state in a state; it’s like Vatican in Rome. They have all their things. It’s not a place where a local government chairman will come in and begin to give orders. It’s a prerequisite, otherwise you won’t have the foreign investors to come. That’s why I go everywhere with them and I usually deliver the lead speech. I make sure that part of what I must say within the first five sentences is that there’s a law establishing it, that puts it beyond my own control. Unless they are doing something that is undermining the peace, security and stability of my state, otherwise, they are in a place where nobody can take control over them. The private sector entity that is pushing EEC has sufficient muscle to push it through, irrespective of the reluctance or whatever the man who is coming will think. These are the three double-locks that I think will make it a project that will remain on the front burner.
Your passion for the EEC is very infectious, but there is the problem of insecurity. How do you plan to get around it?
Let me start by saying that I’m a firm believer that security is of the Lord, but South East has been described as safer than most regions, irrespective of what anybody wants to say. Even within South East, they have regarded Abia as an oasis in the desert. I’m careful about choosing my words, especially to avoid me appropriating the glory that should go to God. But let me say we understand our security challenges and we read it well. However, because we don’t have sufficient control, like many other states, we are constrained to make all kinds of makeshift arrangements. We understand what the security situations are and we can protect not only Abia State but also EEC. The security challenge is germane. It’s a concern for Nigeria. In Abia, we have a way of tracking what is happening in our various communities and we understand what is happening; we follow up and deal with it. And we have had an average of about 65-70 per cent chances, if you commit violent crime here, you will be caught, if it is not that day, a week after.
We have profiled most of our criminals; we have a digital data of some of the people we are looking for. If something happens, we know one or two or three people we will query first. This is saying there is room for improvement, we can do better and I expect whosoever coming to improve on what we have done so far.
When they mention your name, people don’t really believe you have achieved much in office. Would you say that people play down on your achievements?
That’s true. People don’t really want to acknowledge it. People don’t want to even give me credit for what I have done.
Why?
Partially, it is my fault. I am a teacher and, if you are a university lecturer, your only duty is to teach, research and write papers and publish them. You don’t need to tell anybody when you are writing; when it is time for promotion, all you need to do is to forward your papers. The assessment will be made without you lobbying or promoting yourself. That’s my background. When I came, I had two issues. The first one, there was much to be done and I needed to roll up my sleeves and I began to work immediately. At first, I needed to keep my vision clear and steady, find a way to pursue this vision in the midst of a badly corrupt and reluctant civil service. At that time, I had 13 court cases; some of my detractors and some of my political enemies thought that Abia was their birthright. They had access to social media; they also had access to regular media. So, they were spending huge sums of money every month on propaganda: once Ikpeazu or Abia’s name comes up, they attack it, and it continued. I didn’t want to bother myself with them.
However, I quickly ran to my people here; my style has a way of appealing to my people. There is no inch of road today in Aba that you put your tyre that doesn’t have my signature, from Park Road to East Street, everywhere. In fact, at a point, the ordinary problem of water took 10 palliative interventions, and you couldn’t solve it. That’s why, today, if you ask me my greatest achievement in road construction, I will not mention it in terms of the number of roads or kilometres, I will say, ‘I started rigid pavement before others did it.’ And it has caught on to the point that, some weeks ago, a church invited me to inaugurate a road they did through self-effort and it was rigid pavement and they said the reason was because I taught them.
The hallmark of leadership is to be able to innoculate those that are following you. I’m known in this country for putting a pocket square in my pocket; go and see how many people in Abia are today putting pocket squares. For 60 years, nobody did road around Ngwa Road axis, but I have done six roads there. The people were forgotten; the last time I went there, young people in this Aba removed their trousers and came out naked. If Aba people want to celebrate you, at times they do that kind of thing. The time Enyimba FC won CAF, we saw many naked boys on the streets here. If they do it, what they’re saying is, ‘See, we’ve given you our life’.
I monitor projects. At times, I leave here (Governor’s Lodge, Aba) by 11pm, 12 midnight and go and stand alone on the streets and I talk to everybody. Remember, we have gone through Operation Python Dance here, they thought heaven would fall, but it didn’t consume us. People planned at that time to burn Ariaria (International Market), but it didn’t work. We’ve gone through #EndSARS, our own was not as bad as other places. At some point, we had to come out and say to them, ‘Please let us not do this, nobody will help us’. At that time, I was beginning to look at what N50 million would do for me, because a tonne of asphalt at that time was about N26m to N30m, but now its about N72m. So, I had a bill of N100m, I would be looking at asphalting three kilometres of road. But it didn’t pay me well as an individual. Today, let me challenge you people, please, ask my people to give you my inaugural speech and then give you my list of achievements. I have checked almost all the boxes, because I have my inaugural speech off hand. I can re-write it. I have checked all the boxes, but that is not even the strength of what we are doing. The strength of what we are doing is that there’s a complete integration in our interventions.
IGBOSON1: I see you've added more claptrap to your post since first repying earlier on!
Dude, you're all over the place with your argument (and in your case, i use the term 'argument' quite losely) neither sticking to one position or giving cogent reasons for said position!
If you don't 'care about who likes or hates Igbos' is it then any wonder you're placing blame for insecurity in the south-east at the wrong doorstep!? If you don't know what ailment you have, then just how TF can you fix it.....you'd just be chasing shadows and blaming the wrong persons for your travails! In any case, i'm not surprised at the kind of infantile arguments you come up with as one has to sound really stupid to see black and try to 'argue' that it's white! You have a mission on this and other Igbo threads, and my own mission here is to expose your 5th-columnist status!
Just how TF can any grown ass Igbo man, knowing the history of what we have been through with the hegemonic north in 'one Nigeria' from the 50s to date.....how they have shown in words and in deeds their hatred for Igbos'.....just how TF can anyone interested in addressing how we go forward and prosper as a people not take seriously their negative disposition towards Ndigbo!? Are you fcking kidding me!? It was this same uninterested and appeasing attitude towards the hegemonic north by Zik that made us not know the dangers we were going into agreeing to share the same country with them! At least the then Sadauna was honest enough to acknowledge there were schisms and intractable issues amongst the major ethnicities and regions, while on the other hand Zik wanted them overlooked! Now see where we are today with the loss of millions of our beloved kinsfolk and the undermining of our economic and political interests in 'one Nigeria'!
I believe the major reason the hegemonic north despises Ndigbo -apart from the religious aspect- is that we are a never-say-die people who love a challenge and have the drive, tenacity and staying power to take advantage of opportunities at our disposal to progress economically and do well for ourselves, and they find it hard to compete! The core north has a different worldview and values, and would usually come second place to the Igbo in any competing educational, economic and political environment! The hegemonic north was never comfortable sharing the same space with Ndigbo because of this and this could be seen in that infamous interview the then Sadauna gave where he disparaged the Ndigbo proclivity to strive for success wherever and however they find themselves! I believe part of the reason we have found ourselves holding the short end of the stick in 'one Nigeria' is because of this attitude our elite have to be so trusting, naive and think everyone else values life and the principles of fairness, equity and justice like we do! This is our achilles heel!
Dude, if you're looking for who to 'bring progress the south-east or Alaigbo', why TF are you looking in the direction of IPOB!? With that your 'one Nigeria' mindset, don't you know the south-east and Alaigbo have existed in your 'one Nigeria' since 1960 and IPOB was formed just a little over a decade ago!? So for half a century, Ndigbo have been doing things your 'one Nigeria' way....with no IPOB butting in to dagbaru proceedings! So where then is the El-Dorado.....the 'miracle' transformantion of Alaigbo? Did we attain uhuru before IPOB appeared on the scene? Was there peace, harmony, justice and equity between Ndigbo and the hegemonic north and their southern partners!?
[b]You see what you're doing? You are blaming IPOB for the evil machinations of the bigoted Buhari admin' and their hegemonic northern partners which has seen them illegally rendition Mazi kanu from Kenya....stall the judicial process since they know they don't have a judicial leg to stand on.....and then brazenly disregard a legally binding court order that has given Mazi kanu his freedom and instructed he be released forthwith! While this intransigence by Buhari and his evil partners was going on, a plan was then set in motion to try and 'factionalise' IPOB (this was when we saw the emergence of sponsored dingbats like the ekpa bastard, chinasa nworu, DOS, autopilots, etc) and this was when we started reading of conflicting interests within 'IPOB' and well as reading unreasonable statements/tweets from these compromised scumbags about sit-at-home (which IPOB have said severally has been called off) Biafra, etc! IPOB have released a statement saying the ekpa scoundrel is not one of them and doesn't speak for them! Equally, Mazi Kanu and IPOB have sued for peace in the south-east region and condemned any form of violence in their name! IPOB has equally said they have not said elections shouldn't hold in the region! Given all the aforementioned, it's then a wonder how anyone with a working brain can't see the obvious hand of the deep-state...the Buhari gov't, and their hegemonic partners in all the bloodshed and insecurity going on in the south-east![/b]
It's NZOBGU-NZOGBU and not NSOGBU-NSOGBU! The literal translation of nsogbu-nsogbu would mean for instance a group of angry young men, moving forward energetically in a dancing fashion, and stamping their feet on the ground in unison as they vigorously sing 'trouble-trouble...enyimba, enyi'! Does that even make sense!
Ndigbo have always tried to do things by the book in Nigeria! We have always wanted to treat others fairly even as we expect to be treated fairly ourselves, and this is in keeping with our Egbe belu, Ugo belu..... philosophy! However, like i alluded to earlier, there are some who don't go by this maxim and would much rather cheat others while they take more than their fairshare in politics, economy, and the distribution of our commonwealth! You could see Ndigbo showing this sense of fairness and justice in the way we stuck up for and supported our Ijaw neigbour for president even though this would have worked against our political interests! You could equally see injustice being visited on us on many occassions: Ibeto/INNOSON/Air-Peace travails; stealing hydrocarbon rich parts of Alaigbo and placing in other regions/states to be manged and enjoyed by others; denying Ndigbo (purportedly a 3rd leg of the tripod) any commanding presence in the security architecture of the country; depriving Anambra of its 13% derivation payments until Obiano had to go to Abuja to kick up a fuss; the refusal by some to acknowledge it is now [i]Igbo lo kon; etc![/i] We hate injustice....whether it's being visited on us or anyone else, and we're fiercely protective of our freedoms as well!
Nobody needs to lecture Ndigbo on how to be economically and politically strong! In a fair and just society (which Nigeria is not), we would do well and compete with the best at the top! However, in a country like Nigeria, where the system is rigged against us and we see the other two legs of the tripod trying to undermine our political and economic interests at any given opportunity, there's little else one can do besides fight ones corner! It's this fighting for what's ours that has rubbed some up the wrong way and they are determined to bring us down a peg or two to the 'enslaved/3rd-class' status they feel is appropriate for us since they reckon they are the 'victors' in the '67-'70 uncivil war and that Nigeria belongs to their hegemonic ass!
U are just going round and round the circle. Okay fine, Fulani, Hausa and Yoruba hates us.
What then
Please tell me the way forward. I am waiting
U guys just rant about problems without solution.
My dear all the money you guys are contributing to IPOB can successfully set up a factory in ABa or Onitsha.
De Prof. Barth Nnaji is building a power plant in Abba and FG has granted him all the necessary approval. Abia is doing Enyimba Economic City and FG has granted them all approval. NA only brainwashed IPOB people thinks FG is slapping down all investments in SE.
Guys, wake up and smell the coffee. We've been left behind in terms of infrastructure and industrialization. De Michael Okpara will be crying in his grave
Quit this despondent and defeatist mindset and roll up ur sleeve and get to work.
Igbos must rise and live and invest in their land, and may God help who tries to stop us. He will reget he ever did.
That's my f***king concern not this junks u wrote here.
Now u are trying to exonerate IPOB from the violence going on in SE. How pathetic. U talk about auto pilot, who brought in Simon Ekpa? Was it not Kanu and his IPOB minions? Where did the autopilot came out from?
I thought you are wise as much as you wrote.
AS far as I am concerned, no nation or tribe can stop a determined 50 milion people (Igbos). Get this into your skull and do the right thing.
This was how we excused poor leadership in SE, excusing their poor leadership for FG.
Maybe the next thing you will write is to educate me on how Igbos can not invest in SE cause the FG bars it. Mtchweee.
IGBOSON1: The bolded caught my attention….everything else you wrote is wishy-washy claptrap!
Who brought about the existence and acceptance of IPOB and preceding secessionist organisations that came before them in the south-east…..Ndigbo or the evil hegemonic Nigerian state who, since the late 60s, has embarked on a hateful and vindictive campaign of marginalisation and sabotage of Igbo interests both in the region and nationally!? Those bold enough to give you reasons for their hate will tell you ‘Ndigbo sent Nzeogwu, et-al, to murder their leaders while leaving ours unharmed’!😳 In essence, telling you THE UNCIVIL WAR HAS NOT ENDED! Now which people, who don’t consider themselves to be enslaved, will accept to continue shouldering such blame!?
The problem with people who reason like you is that you always start the story halfway….and even the one you tell from the halfway point is usually a tissue of lies, half-truths and revisionism! It was Philip Effiong, while signing papers that signalled the end of the uncivil war, that said something to the effect that if the issues that brought about the ‘67-‘70 hostilities are not resolved, that Nigeria could witness a reoccurrence in future! Emir Sanusi also argued along those lines as well when he stated (and i paraphrase here) that the children of Ndigbo who didn’t witness the war could rise up against the Nigerian state if issues of perceived injustice and marginalisation against them aren’t addressed! Till tomorrow, those issues haven’t been addressed as the Nigerian state refuses to confront its demons but rather prefers to either use bullets to try and cow agitators into submission or sweep any thorny and intractable issues of nationhood under the carpet and pretend not to notice the elephant in the room!
You think Ndigbo love confronting the murderous Fulani controlled Nigerian state!? You think they don’t like peace!? IPOB and MASSOB had existed many years before the coming of Buhari and Uzodinma, and during this time the south-east region was adjudged as the most peaceful in the country! To any inquiring mind, that should point to the fact that these secessionist organisations are peaceful! But not you and your type! As far as you’re concerned, IPOB woke up one fine morning like that, and out of the blue just decided to ask for secession….and because they don’t like the faces of Buhari and Uzodinma, they also decided to pick up arms and start murdering, butchering and cannibalising themselves….something they’ve NEVER been known for! Your problem is that you’re reading the story as narrated by the very same animals responsible for what has and is happening in the south-east today!
One incontrovertible and unimpeachable fact is that there are three major ethnic grps in Nigeria: Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani! Now of this tripod, two have produced presidents or head-of-state….MORE THAN ONCE, with one of them even having had a go more times than one cares to remember! Now in a fair and just society (which you’re implying Nigeria is, as you see no reason for the Igbo to agitate), one would expect the ‘favoured’ two to join hands with the marginalised one and choose who they’d prefer as president from that region/ethnicity! But as we speak, the have both greedily elected to throw fairness, equity and justice out the window as they try to scheme, bribe and threaten their way into Aso Rock! Do you think the other two would have tolerated such a travesty of justice from the third leg had they been similarly treated and cheated out of producing president/head-of-state for more than half a century!? It’s not even as if the greedy two are prepared to allow a free and fair contest! As we speak, they’re engaged in all manner of subterfuge and illegality to try and steal the election! This can be seen in all the goings on with PVC collection in the south-east and Lagos!
Forget empty and meaningless soundbites and platitudes alluding to a nonexistent ‘unity’ and ‘nation’….there’s nothing like a nation called Nigeria! It’s just a mere geographical expression and a forced union of unlikely bedfellows! If someone, through their actions and utterances, let’s you know they have no regard for you and see you as 3rd-class citizens that should queue up behind them, then it’s time to ask yourself some hard questions on whether it’s really worth continuing to share the same country with these people! Their negative attitude and view of Ndigbo will NEVER change, and even generations down the line, they will still continue to blame Ndigbo for the Nzeogwu coup and continue to rationalise their hateful actions based on this! If this is the country you want your offspring to inherit, then i’m afraid you’re nothing but a ‘happy slave’….one prepared to offer his head to break the hard coconut of Nigerian ‘nationhood’ and ‘unity’ while others enjoy the benefits!
You are still repeating the same boring lines, fulani hate Igbos, yoruba hates igbos, bla bla bla.
I said I DONT CARE ABOUT WHO LIKES OR WHO HATES IGBOS. I ONLY CARE ABOUT HOW IGBOS WILL MOVE AHEAD DISREGARDING THEIR HATE.
U can't tell me that IPOB has brought any progres to SE. or AlaIgbo. U know u can't tell any sensible Igbo that
I don't have a problem with what they are agitating for, I only have a problem with how they have now decided to go about their agitation (this day we don't even know who is IPOB or who is not). What they are doing is bringing ANarchy to our land and will leave holes for termites to get in and eat up what we have left.
When you do nsogbu nsogbu finish you will be drawn back to the realization that the only way to stand strong is if you are either politically or economically powerful. If you have neither of them, nothing you do or says matters or would be taken seriously. U can of course keep using ur self to sacrifice to catch the bullets of illiterate soldiers. But that won't give you Biafra.
I do not believe in negotiating from a place of weakness. I believe in holding all your cards and calling your own shots.
SE and Alaigbo must start from now to build an economic powerhouse in all the SE states and AlaIgbo (SS inclusive) by investing massively into SE and growing our economy. In doing this we raise our bargaining power.
Going to shout Biafra without any of the two things I've outlined is putting the cart before the horse.
And Again I do not believe we need Biafra to build a better Igbo land. We only need a better Igboland that will thrive anywhere and in any country. I do not believe Fulanis or Hausas are powerful enough to keep any Igbo man down. I have never believed that, we are the ones apportioning too much power to them.
IGBOSON1: IPOB haven’t been blamed on this thread in a while so i suppose you felt it needful to try and find a way to sneak in a ‘honourable mention’ even if there’s no nexus between IPOB and any insecurity/criminality in the state!
Mention how IPOB are ‘criminals’ and how they ‘prevented Anambra from going far’!? Just what are those indices/metrics that support your claim?
A lot of you are on here for the sole purpose of trying to ‘justify’ the terrorist tag the despot wickedly pinned on IPOB, and make it look like Ndigbo are joining bigots, hateful impostors and gullible Igbo to buy all the lies churned out against the organisation and Mazi Kanu by the hegemonic propaganda machinery! This is the same useless Buhari gov’t that, as we speak, are yet to designate Fulani herdsmen as terrorists even though they have been recognised as such internationally!
Buhari sits by and allows criminality to fester, not just in the south-east (that was adjudged the most peaceful region in the country before his arrival in 2015) but all over the entire country, and a large part of this criminality is caused and driven by his murderous kinsfolk masquerading as ‘security personnel’ and ‘herdsmen’! You never mention this existential threat we’re faced with courtesy of the sahelian invaders…all you’re interested in is trying to keep the IPOB blame flame alight! Upon all the SHIT going on in your country, all you can think of is how to blame IPOB….a organisation that would not be existing today had we all been in a fair, equitable and just country!
Saying IPOB's actiities have not deprived investment from SE shows how amazingly naive you are.
It saddens my heart that some people in our midst who are Igbos is destroying Ala Igbo.
This is the President of African Export–Import Bank (AFREXIM), Dr. Benedict Okey Oramah who is from Anamrba State. Listen as he revealed the sad reason why Anambra lost billions naira investment to Ogun State.
Just for a moment imagine what this coud;e done to the economy of Onitsha and Asaba. But because of some illiterate Nwa Boi who has this utopia that they can gain independence by attacking security outfits and personel in AlaIgbo.
Tomorrow we will say there is no job, but we are using our hands to destroy.
I am sure eve with this damning revelation, some fools will still not be moved. They will still go on.
IGBOSON1: You people prattle on and on about IPOB ‘criminality’ but have NOTHING to support your lies besides social-media gossip, conjecture, beer parlour talk and the lying words coming from the Fulani controlled Nigerian army/police!
Your criminal Nigerian army went out in the cold light of day to murder policemen in their bid to free a Fulani terrorist (Wadume); they have been implicated in the attacking of settlements in the core north and middle-belt that are predominantly Christian; no less a person than TY Danjuma has called them out for colluding with terrorists; it’s known that the evil Nigerian army has taken in ‘repentant’ terrorists; you ‘loving and just’ Nigerian army attended the Endsars protest at the tollgate a few years back….murdered a few innocent NIGERIAN youths, and denied everything without even batting an eyelid; etc! This is the flawed and bigoted nature of the Nigerian security bodies and you want us to take their word as gospel!?
Any Igbo you care to ask (and i don’t mean naive ones like you…that’s if you are Igbo) will readily tell you this present Buhari junta is the most anti-Igbo government EVER, and one of the manifestations of the hatred Buhari and his hegemonic ilk have for Ndigbo shows in their TOTAL absence in the command of ALL military and paramilitary bodies, as well as security bodies like the DSS and ministry of defence….does anyone really expect such a setup to care and speak up for Igbo interests!?
I have always conceded that some Igbo elements may have been involved in the attacks on police personnel and formations, and this was the obvious fallout of the many years of state sanctioned murder that went on in the south-east which the rest of Nigeria either IGNORED or treated with levity! It’s also possible some of those attacks were false-flag operations…part of the wider plan to try and implicate IPOB as ‘terrorists’! I do not support extra-judicial murder in any shape or form, but if you push a people to the wall…murdering them in cold blood and implying they can do nothing, eventually the siblings of those murdered will damn the consequences and fight back! None of us knows how we’ll react if our brother, sister, cousin or child is a victim of state-sanctioned murder (God forbid), but i can assure you the reaction will not be rational…especially when you’re being laughed at and mocked on social-media for your loss! In any case, the key thing to bear in mind is that IPOB didn’t sanction or send anyone to go kill any Nigerian security personnel! The only time IPOB were involved in any fight with Nigerian security forces was when the evil Fulani army came for them thinking it was business as usual and still open season for killing ‘nyamiris’! This started in Imo….Orlu to be precise, and i think IPOB also went to assist in Obigbo when the pogrom-loving Fulani army of Nigeria were carrying out a similar killing spree there! In both cases, the army showed up to ‘help’ their criminal herdsmen/terrorist cousins engaged in a fight with Igbos’! This is the same useless army that NEVER bothered showing up when Uzo-Uwani and Nimbo were attacked and when there was a prison break and a staccato of shots heard at Owerri that lasted for nearly an hour!
You talk of withdrawing your support for IPOB when they formed ESN, but omitted to mention what led to its formation and how the useless federal and state gov’ts in the south-east were either unwilling or unable to put a stop to all the attacks in the south-east by Fulani herdsmen/militia/terrorists! Keep your useless ‘support’….no one needs it!
Uche Mefor is a embittered fool who was in it for what he could get out of it! IPOB is better off without him! Since he left, the challenges and problems confronting Ndigbo for which IPOB was formed still persist, yet he has gone quiet….most likely he’s been bought by the evil hegemony!
If you’re observant you’d have noticed ALL these idiots purporting to be IPOB factions and who claim to speak for IPOB (the ekpa dolt, DOS, chinyere abi na chinasa nworu, autopilots, etc)….ALL of them were formed after Mazi Kanu was kidnapped from Kenya! They are all creations of the Fulani-controlled Nigerian state and they doing exactly what they were formed to do….create a sense of insecurity in the south-east to try and turn the hearts and minds of Ndigbo and the int’l community against IPOB and make it look like the organisation are ‘unreasonable terrorists’! You can now begin to understand why they don't want to obey a court ruling and release Mazi Kanu.....his release will put a spanner in the works of their nefarious and clandestine antics in the south-east! They need him out of the way so they can continue to capitalise on the sit-at-home threats of the ekpa bastard!
False-flag operations are carried out in the south-east in which high-profile crimes are committed or high-profile individuals are murdered as the masked murderers, wearing IPOB insignia, declare into the camera that they’re ‘fighting for Biafra’ or they claim to be IPOB/ESN! Only a naive person would not recognise the set-up! Dr Akunyili, the INEC official, the murdered soldiers who were filmed, and this recent one of the beheading of the LG boss….all these were carried out by the same group of deep-state actors! These vermin are non-Igbo and it would be near impossible to apprehend them because they’re holed-up in army and police barracks in the south-east! I suspect some of them are ‘repentant’ terrorists too!
On numerous occassions IPOB as well as Mazi Kanu have called for a stop to insecurity in the south-east....incase some emotionally misguided Igbo elements are engaged in fueling insecurity in the name of IPOB and Kanu! You conveniently overlook this because it doesn't feed into your 'IPOB and Kanu are bad' narrative!
A lot of Igbo are too naive and trusting to recognise what’s presently going on in the south-east regarding the presidential elections: PVC collections....this also includes Lagos; sit-at-home (which IPOB have said numerous times has been called off); and high-profile murders in the region! All this is aimed at trying to negatively affect the support from Peter Obis’ support base and hopefully affect voter turnout in the region on election day! The animals who has previously focused all their attention on trying to implicate Mazi Kanu and IPOB as ‘terrorists’ have now got an added reason for causing bloodshed and mayhem in the south-east: the upcoming presidential elections!
One thing that is assured is that if, by Gods grace, Peter Obi wins and they don’t manage to manipulate the outcome of the election, i can assure all reading this that all this criminality, murders and silliness presently being witnessed in the south-east will end…highest two weeks after President Obi is sworn into office! Ndigbo are generally peace loving and law abiding citizens and it would be shown when peace returns to the region once again and the south-east resumes its position as the most peaceful region in the country! This madness came with Buhari and Uzodinma, and it will leave with them!
Actually your submission is the naive one.
Read "Why Nations Fail" and you will see why you should not allow an organization like IPOB/ESN thrive in SE today.
the most important message SE needs right now is the message of reorientation and admonishing our people to invest home and lets build a better economically viable SE.
Nothing else matters now.
If IPOB is not doing that, they are only contributing to the restivity of SE and that is the last thing we want now.
I don't care about what have been done to the Igbos, for now, I only care about what Igbos can do for themselves to build a better Igboland
Abagworo: Abia is one of the best performing States in Nigeria with probably the least poverty incidence by every standard. It is also the most secure State in the Southeast witnessing FDIs more than most Nigerian States . This politics of lying against reality because of ulterior motive and use of media influencers to present negative image of a performing Governor was what led Imo State that enjoyed unmatched development under Okorocha to be handed over to foolz who know nothing about governance and in the process taking a hitherto most peaceful , fastest growing, free education oriented and tourist friendly State to one of the riskiest places to be in Nigeria. I remember how they bastardized the real estate industry that was booming and condemned the booming hospitality industry claiming it attracted love peddlers to the State and saying that the only real development is building of factories. Today no sector is booming and still no new factories. Abia people should thank their Governor for making their State the safest in Southeast, promoting their booming fashion industry, building key infrastructure and attracting FDIs in these hard times. Nobody can do it all but we must strive to criticize in truth not baseless insinuations.
Politics › Re: Few Pics From Imo State by NwekereNdoki: 3:18pm On Feb 12, 2023
