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chozzy:
#Stella Oduah Airports.
Only ignorant fools credit the airport terminal projects to Buhari.

I am an aviation person and can tell you Buhari knew absolutely nothing about
how all these new airport terminals projects came about.

The Buhari govt deliberately delayed commissioning to give impression they were his projects.
The new Terminal in Lagos had reached advanced stage since 2015.
The new terminal in Abuja was over 90% completed before Buhari became president.

Stella Oduah during GEJ's tenure struck the deals, did the designs, secured the financing
agreements with China.

OfficialAwol:
Igbo....We are our greatest problem.

So if PDP give Peter Obi from Anambra presidential ticket in 2023, I should not vote for him because of this trash?

And this is irrespective of the fact that he's eminently qualified to lead Nigeria?

AfonjaMuslim:
Some say the building belonged to an opposition (PDP) member.
Could that be a case of giving a dog a bad name to hang it?
Even if it was true, how can the punishment for an attempted sex party be demolition of the building?

jimyjames:
not having enough strength to fight your enemy is not foolishness, it simply means we lack the strength cause we are just one ethnic group against the entire different ethnic groups in Nigeria which completely outnumber us, but we as still fighting in the best way we can for now that's why we have groups like ipob

Fahdiga1:
No sensible person takes Bakare serious anyway. he can continue licking Tinubu ass and Tinubu won't still be president

jimyjames:
the national resentment of the igbo, is the reason the igbo are trapped in Nigeria and suffering all these you mentioned

FarahAideed:
Nonsense!!! Wole Soyinkas generation were handed a working country by the colonialist and all people like him could pass down to his descendants was cultism Terrorism and the ideology of self-centered greed and to make matters worse they have no remorse .. if you look well you will find out he was paid by the draconian APC govt to carry out the staging and photoshoot just for propaganda

Wiseandtrue:
I can see that you are frustrated and pained!

While people are calling out politicians that have failed them, you are bent on shielding a criminal who have left you in that state you are in because of the crumbs from his table to you!

The Northerners (Nigerians) called out Ganduje when he collected bribe stuffed in his babaringa!

South West (Nigerians) praised Fashola for his outstanding performance in Lagos State! It was so great that Lagos State became a blue print for development in Nigeria!

The SouthEast (Nigerians) openly disgraced Ike Ekweremadu when they felt he wasn't representing them well!

When Tinubu with the help of Lagosians fought one state political party during Obasanjo's administration, Nigerians were pleased

So why will anyone hate Tinubu What does the person stand to gain

While Fashola refused to accept life pension, Tinubu was collecting, in his usual camouflaged manner still applauded Sanwo for stopping it (no be eye service be that)

Bullion vans at his home, reasonable South westerners (Nigerians) condemned it but his paid miscreant called it hatred!

He forfeited money made from drugs abroad, and you want this kind of person to become the president

What moral right will he have to correct those into it Or will he institutionalize it the way he did thuggery in Lagos

Limitless72:
After Ironsi was assassinated, Nigeria had;
Murtala Mohammad
Yakubu Gowon
Olusegun Obasanjo
Shehu Shagari
Mohammadu Buhari
Ibrahim Babaginda
Adbulsalam Abubakar
Sani Abacha
Ernest shonekan
Umaru Yaradua
Goodluck Jonathan, et al
As subsequent heads of State. Since what Ironsi did was unacceptable and wrong, why didn't these above mentioned heads of state take us back to regional government, why..?


Can you now see Nigeria have no excuse not to have right the alleged unacceptable wrong of Aguiyi Ironsi? They had ample time and chances but failed to do the right thing


That's how people that sold their vote for #5000 will come out and say "God will punish Lord Lugard"....!

NwaAmaikpe:

Why is Oshiomhole acting like the people's mandate is lost?
The people have chosen Godwin Obaseki...they trumped out in mass and spoke in unison against godfatherism in Edo state through their votes.

Their mandate is not lost because they got the leader they wanted.
The only thing that appears to be lost is baba's oyibo trophy wife.

He should devote this energy in winning her back.

FarahAideed:
Sharap

TruthHurts1:
You mean the OBJ who wiped off Nigeria's massive debt? The one who created the infrastructure for GSM and Broadband internet penetration? The man who met the price of oil at 15 dollars a barrell but didn't over borrow money at ridiculous rates of interest from greedy private creditors?

Are you talking about the Buhari who led Nigeria into one recession and is leading us into a second one?

The Buhari who has increased Nigeria's debt to nearly 100 billion dollars (the worst in the countries history)?

The Buhari under whose incompetent watch insecurity and criminality has flourished?

Blitz888:
Brilliant submission.

Pray tell the role of Akenzua Solomon the then permanent secretary who it was alleged convince Gowon to jettison the Aburi agreement, He later became the Oba of Benin in 1978?

OgbanjeProphet:
God bless you for this.

Deadlytruth:
If it wasn't Ironsi that dismantled the regions with Decree 34, then how come in going to Aburi summit, the first item on the agenda was the abrogation of all Ironsi's decrees?

Secondly, if Ironsi didn't dismantl the regions through his Unification Decree, then why did he throughout his May 24 1966 national broadcast keep on referring to the regions as "former regions"? Also, why did he argue in that broadcast that regional system had caused tribalism and had to give way to a system that would engender nationalism spirit in the citizenry?
Why did he change the official name of Nigeria from "Federal Republic of Nigeria* to just "Republic of Nigeria"?
Removing the adjective "Federal" from the official name meant he no longer recognized the regions.

On the Gowon angle: he (Gowon) on getting to power immediately began to reverse Ironsi's demolition of the regions. In fact he had restored the regions and returned their autonomy to them half way but had to halt it because of Ojukwu's intransigence about Biafra.
Mind you in addition that Gowon's states creation was not out of place as the non-wazobians of the three regions had been agitating for their own regions in order to free themselves from wazobia domination.
Moreover, Gowon's states enjoyed autonomy hence weren't really different from the regions unlike the groups of provinces which Ironsi broke the regions into and stripped them completely of their autonomy by unifying their civil services, imposing governors on them whom he asked to be reporting to him at the center thus killing the spirit of federalism in the country.

In further confirmation that it was Ironsi that dismantled the regions, here is a link to an interview granted by Philip Asiodu revealing how Ojukwu told him of he plan of him and Ironsi to abolish the regions within six months of their Igbo dominated government:

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/impunity-killing-nigeria-phillip-asiodu/



Please note where the report reads:

Emeka Ojukwu and myself were very good friends in school, Kings College, Lagos, and Oxford University. In fact when the coup happened, he wanted me to join him in Enugu and I told him that I was not a regional man. And Ojukwu told me ‘we shall abolish the regions within 6 months

NB: Philip Asiodu who made this revelation is an Igbo man and the Sun Newspaper which carries is owned by another Igbo man - Orji Uzor Kalu hence the usual accusation of Yoruba (Western) Press propaganda will not hold water here.

Please also check my next comment below and explain what exactly Ironsi meant with the bolded lines of his May 24 national broadcast if you insist he didn't abolish the regions.

Yujin:
DISTRACTION! DISTRACTION!! DISTRACTION!!!
Focus on the present situation and save yourselves. The vampires from the sahel are doing all they can at present to create division among Southerners so their fulanization can be complete without challenge. I urge all southerners and middle belters to stay focussed on removing themselves from sharing any country with those terrorists. Gideon Orkar was not stupid when he tried his best to cut them off from middlebelt and the south. T. Y Danjuma who participated in the events of the 60s is still alive and he has publicly called for a renegotiation because he knows better. This thread was exhumed to confuse those who don't understand what's happening at present. Fulanis are wiping off communities and taking their lands at present in Nigeria yet they're telling you to be patriotic to Nigeria. They've killed so many farmers and scared others away to cause hunger in the land. Today majority of the people are hungry without food to eat. That's the scorch earth method of weakening your intended targets. Do not listen to any stories they will cook up. After Nigeria is broken, then you can listen to any of their suggestions. That's the only way out.
DO NOT SAY YOU WERE NOT TOLD.

woky:
Ironsi was never among the officers that initiated the 1966 coup

ayokellany:
Ironsi's broadcast to the nation - May 24, 1966.


"The Regions are Abolished': Ironsi's Broadcast to the Nation banning
Political Parties and introducing Decree No. 34, 24 May 1966.



Fellow Nigerians:
During the past two weeks I presided over meetings of the Supreme
Military council and the Central Executive Council at which many
important state matters were considered. . .
It is now three months since the Government of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria was handed over to the Armed Forces. Now that peace has
been restored in the troubled areas it is time that the Military
Government indicates clearly what it proposes to accomplish before
relinquishing power. The removal of one of the obstacles on the way
is provided for in the Constitution (Suspension and Modification)
Decree (No. 5) 1966 which was promulgated by me today and comes into
effect at once.
The provisions of the Decree are intended to remove the last
vestiges of the intense regionalism of the recent past, and to
produce that cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of
the National Military government, and indeed of every true Nigerian,
namely, national unity.
The highlights of this Decree are as follows:
The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number
of territorial areas called provinces
Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It now becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria.
The former Federal Military government and the Central Executive
Council become respectively the National Military Government and the
executive Council. All the Military Governors are members of the
Executive Council. A Military Governor is assigned to a group of provinces over which and subject to the direction and control of the Head of the National
Military Government, he shall exercise executive power. In order to
avoid any major dislocation of the present administrative machinery,
the grouping of the provinces has been made to coincide with the
former regional boundaries. This is entirely a transitional measure
and must be understood as such. The present grouping of the
provinces is without prejudice to the Constitutional and
Administrative arrangements to be embodied in the New Constitution in
accordance with the wishes of the people of Nigeria.
The National Military Government assumes the exercise of all
legislative powers throughout the Republic subject to such
delegations to Military Governors as are considered necessary for
purposes of efficient administration.
The public services of the former federation and regions become
unified into one national public service under a National Public
Service Commission. There is a provincial Service Commission for
each group of provinces to which is delegated functions in respect of
public officers below a given rank. This rather drastic change will
probably involve a reconstitution of the existing commissions, and
the National Military Government reserves the right to do so in the
manner stipulated in the Decree. Until this is done, the present
Commissioners continue to act in their posts. Every civil servant is
now called upon to see his function in any part of Nigeria in which
he is serving in the context of the whole country. The orientation
should now be towards national unity and progress. I expect all
civil servants to co-operate and to consult at all levels, vertically
and horizontally, between groups of Provinces and between Provinces
and the Centre.
People are aware that Study Groups have been set up to look into
various aspects of governmental activity. One of them is concerned
with problem relating to the Constitution........Read More here:

https://www.dawodu.com/irons2.htm

ayokellany:
If it wasn't Ironsi that dismantled the regions with Decree 34, then how come in going to Aburi summit, the first item on the agenda was the abrogation of all Ironsi's decrees?

Secondly, if Ironsi didn't dismantl the regions through his Unification Decree, then why did he throughout his May 24 1966 national broadcast keep on referring to the regions as "former regions"? Also, why did he argue in that broadcast that regional system had caused tribalism and had to give way to a system that would engender nationalism spirit in the citizenry?
Why did he change the official name of Nigeria from "Federal Republic of Nigeria* to just "Republic of Nigeria"?
Removing the adjective "Federal" from the official name meant he no longer recognized the regions.

On the Gowon angle: he (Gowon) on getting to power immediately began to reverse Ironsi's demolition of the regions. In fact he had restored the regions and returned their autonomy to them half way but had to halt it because of Ojukwu's intransigence about Biafra.
Mind you in addition that Gowon's states creation was not out of place as the non-wazobians of the three regions had been agitating for their own regions in order to free themselves from wazobia domination.
Moreover, Gowon's states enjoyed autonomy hence weren't really different from the regions unlike the groups of provinces which Ironsi broke the regions into and stripped them completely of their autonomy by unifying their civil services, imposing governors on them whom he asked to be reporting to him at the center thus killing the spirit of federalism in the country.

In further confirmation that it was Ironsi that dismantled the regions, here is a link to an interview granted by Philip Asiodu revealing how Ojukwu told him of he plan of him and Ironsi to abolish the regions within six months of their Igbo dominated government:

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/impunity-killing-nigeria-phillip-asiodu/



Please note where the report reads:

Emeka Ojukwu and myself were very good friends in school, Kings College, Lagos, and Oxford University. In fact when the coup happened, he wanted me to join him in Enugu and I told him that I was not a regional man. And Ojukwu told me ‘we shall abolish the regions within 6 months

NB: Philip Asiodu who made this revelation is an Igbo man and the Sun Newspaper which carries is owned by another Igbo man - Orji Uzor Kalu hence the usual accusation of Yoruba (Western) Press propaganda will not hold water here.

Please also check my next comment below and explain what exactly Ironsi meant with the bolded lines of his May 24 national broadcast if you insist he didn't abolish the regions.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
If unitary system is not working, they should change it na, why do they keep doing the same thing. Except you wanna argue that naija is still being colonised by proxy.

They should UNUNIFY the system.

This habit of Nigerians blaming Lord Luggard who died many decades ago and now blaming late General Ironsi for their woes and misfortune is really laughable,

Something is not working fix it put it right

At the moment there are widespread protests in nearly all the four corners of the world, but Nigerians will not used this opportunity to protest for good governance and demand for accountability.

mrvitalis:
Ok let's assume igbos made mistakes but are ready to correct it by calling for division in Nigeria ...my deep question is ..yorubas have access to sea , large population and land , educated population ..why don't they want this country to split
Why do yorubas want one Nigeria when it's obvious oduduwa republic would be better ?

This country is not working for anyone ...no one ...why don't we split and save ourselves the stress ..we owe it to our children

candidtalk:
Indeed. Is it then still democracy when there is an openly ethnocentric, distasteful and bullying clamour to force Jagaban out of the race whereas no one else faces similar?

Yorubas should really think. Others, especially Igbos, are saying Tinubu must not run.

Yet same people shouting to demarket Tinubu have no objection to Atiku, Kalu, Obi, Tambuwal, Kwankwaso, Umahi etal contesting.

Whereas Tinubu is by far superior to all those names as far as administrative talent, leadership innovation and vision is concerned.

The more you look at the opposition to Tinubu's candidacy the more you see fear of radical and progressive change (North) and undiluted ethnocentric hatred (SE).

Look around you and note African history. Sankara, Nkrumah, Awolowo and many others, visionaries ahead of their times, were frustrated similarly by enemies of progress.

Wiseandtrue:
Then a question on the table:

Must you be made a president before doing the right thing

Shouldn't a good leader be selfless

Are you saying that if Tinubu is made a president, then this current mal-administration is put to right

Do you think that if Buhari had laid his NEPOTISM on the table before election, he would have your support and that of Nigerians

Tinubu is playing tribal politics and might end up known ONLY at the local level!!!