₦airaland Forum

Skyclub14:
The weyre don run..once they want to drag you to start arguing about Biafra don’t go that low with them because it will look as if you are believing the Biafra ..their format don cast for my side lol

Skyclub14:
If you are yoruba and you are advocating for an igbo man to be president of Nigeria … if that happens as a yoruba man just carry your bag and move abroad to live (I feel you even live abroad right now because if you live in Nigeria right now you will not spill that presidency should go to SE) , because if you don’t live these ibos you are seeing now are the number 1 enemy of Yorubas in Nigeria ..I am akoko edo from edo state so I have yoruba names,I know the mix feelings I get from ibos because they think I’m yoruba ..igbos will finish yoruba if they become president..people that are not president yet and they can confidently tell you right now that they own lagos …

DubaiLandLord1:
Is this also Oba Alaafin Ladigbolu I?

LegendHero:
Lol.

Youths on Instagram just like catching cruise. They will abuse all politicians like that so don’t think it’s only limited to Tinubu.

If they upload pics of Atiku too, youths will also abuse him online.

Youths have seen that their only power is social media, so they are using it to vent. Vast number of those guys don’t have voters card, even those that have it won’t vote on Election Day.

Ballack1:
And who is the original owner of Benin?

caracas:
Same elrufai that posited that igbos own Lagos.....
Same elrufai that gave us the statistics of igbos owning more than 70% of the land in Abuja.....Elrufai hates igbos but can't help but attest to the fact that igbos are the greatest black race on earth....

Jerryherd:
Secondus and Atiku are going to wreck PDP

Taraba APC Stakeholders hold Congression for Tinubu.

mbaise1000:
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What matters most here should not be where the author came from or his tribe, I think that the most important thing here is if what the author said are the truth, and I think that's what we should look at, let's keep an open mind and look at these things one by one

Wiseandtrue:
Few paid urchins disguising as indigenes, you mean

And someone was wondering why Yoruba was not on the powerful\brave ethnic group

plaindealer:
I though Trump was coming to Nigeria to give them their biafra village?

ipob terrorist and unknown gunmen can not catch a break sha..

Eriokanmi:
hmmmm

LordVoldermort:
Yorubas didn't play any damned role in the victory of Nigeria during the biafra war, just stayed neutral like a typical Coward.

ChoCho54:
I didn't read the epistle by the OP. But one thing I know is that Peter Obi is the only ex-governor without corruption garb hanging on his shoulder.

January 14, 2021

2023: Towards a president of Igbo extraction

By Fredrick Nwabufo

SIR: If the 2023 presidency is relieved of competition and minimised to an ethnic contest, then we are consciously backtracking to the mistakes of 2015. Ethnic considerations brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power. When leadership is robbed of progressive competition, competence is impaired. We will keep chasing the will-o-the-wisp of progress as a country for as long as the tribe of a citizen matters more than his antecedents, competence level and abilities.

’’Turn-by-turn’’ presidency will only yield ‘’turn-by-turn’’ misery. Nepotism here thrives largely because a leader selected on the basis of where he represents generally seeks to protect the interest of that base he feels solidified his claim to power. It is the reason Buhari shows exceptional consideration for his ‘’political base’’. In fact, one of the murmurs among members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – the president’s party – is that Buhari and his camp commonised the contributions of the southwest to his electoral victory in 2015 and 2019. The president feels strongly that his victory came by the hands of his fanatical followers in the north.

So, we are only reinventing a broken wheel by putting more premium on where the next president should come from rather than on ‘’what he had done, what he is doing; his leadership qualities, academic background, mental state and health condition’’. And with the entitled perception that ‘’it is our turn; the president is our brother’’, nepotism is systematised.

Really, why should a leadership position that defines and determines the future of the country be ethnicised? Why is there no campaign for the basics of leadership? Why is there no clamour for the qualities, the credentials and competence level the next president of Nigeria should possess?

Why is it always about ethnicity? Really, we are doomed to have a reprise of the indomitably failed Buhari administration, if we persist in the pursuit of ethnic-based leadership.

It is revolting that presidency in Nigeria is designed in such a way that every ethnic group, particularly the predatory political class, sees it as an entitled offering that must be acquired for the sake of promoting individual and sectional interest. The base mindset of — ‘’it is our turn to take a crunch at the cake, so pass it!’’ If ethnic-based presidency is so important to us, why can we not fragment the centre and return power to the federating units? So, every group can decide how to bake and eat their own cake.

On January 6, some Igbo political leaders emerged from a meeting and asked all political parties to zone the 2023 presidency to the southeast. Among these Igbo political leaders were a former governor who took a hiatus from prison and a former senate president facing corruption charges. I was startled. Who among these ones is fit to be president?

To make it clear, the ‘’struggle’’ for 2023 presidency by some southeast leaders is not in the pursuit of the Igbo interest. Rather it is in the pursuit of the interest of the ruling elite of the region. The overarching interest of the Igbo is a restructured Nigeria where every region can grow at its own pace.

No political party should cede 2023 presidential tickets to the southeast on the basis of nothing but ‘’ethnicity’’. The process should be competitive to allow the best minds to take charge of the country – even if candidates from the southeast are specially considered. There should be less emphasis on ethnicity and more stress on competence, credentials, antecedents, and ability for leadership.

And even if the south-east gets a go at the presidency, the next president should not be from the pool of the perpetuators of the region’s underdevelopment.

Fredrick Nwabufo, fredricknwabufo@yahoo.com

January 13, 2021

The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Lagos International Airport, has arrested three suspects all males with 137.8 kilograms of cocaine.

All the suspects were caught on the 6th and 8th of January 2021 with the illicit drugs neatly hidden inside hair relaxers, embroidery tailoring materials and shirts packaged with carbon and other oily substances to avoid being detected by the scanning machines.

The suspected drug traffickers whose names were given as Okeke Uchenna and Azubuike Jeremiah Emeka were caught by officials of the agency during the inward clearance of Ethiopian airlines from Brazil while Abdul Musa, a freight forwarder was nabbed while trying to export Cocaine to India through the cargo warehouse of the Skyway Aviation Handling Company, SAHCO in Lagos.

According to the NDLEA Airport Commander, Garba Ahmadu, at a news briefing, the suspects were arrested with 13kg, 117kg and 7.8kg of cocaine respectively.

Ahmadu stated that Okeke Uchenna was a second-time offender and also a fugitive wanted by the Federal High Court Lagos for jumping bail for a drug-related offence in 2014, adding a bench warrant had hitherto been issued for his arrest.

The NDLEA Chief described the seizures as significant because of the quantity of the drugs seized, adding that 13kgs, 7.8kg and 117kgs was significant based on the mode of transport.

In 2020, the NDLEA Lagos airport commander said the command made a total seizure of 3413.463 kilograms of illicit drugs comprising Cocaine, methamphetamine, cannabis sativa, just leaves, ephedrine and psychotropic substances.

A total of 60 suspects were arrested comprising 52 males and 8 females and were all charged to court and arraigned for prosecution and 44 were convicted.

According to Ahmadu: “The break down of drugs seized are; Cocaine 51.404(1.51%), Cannabis sativa 103.84(3.04%), Methamphetamine 19.935(0.58%), Ephedrine 19.811(0.58%), Khat leaves 2993.350(87.70%), Psychotropic substances, Tramadol 158.632(4.65%), Diazepam 42.0(1.32%) and Nitrazepam 24.491(0.72%) bringing the total drug seized to 3413.463(100%).”

“I want to thank the Management of the NDLEA for leading the command and partnering with the UK border force, British National Crime Agency which paved way for the creation of Joint Border Task Force Project, JBTF. A project responsible for the transformation of the NDLEA MMIA command into a model office equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and up to date trainings of officers in line with international best practice.”

Ahmadu noted that the successes were achieved through the selfless sacrifice exhibited by the officers and men of the command even in the face of serious dangers and challenges.