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bigfrancis21: Chuka Edozie aka Lynxx, the Igbo rapper.

another one.
we no dey carry last.

hehehe

bigfrancis21:
I don't blame you though.

you are a guy right?

bigfrancis21: Rap singer, Tinie Tempah(Chukwuemeka Patrick Okogwu)

Asaba brother. haha.
We no dey carry last

bigfrancis21: Blair Underwood, an AA of paternal Igbo ancestry.

He's not Igbo. He's AA.

Ikengawo: lol at sophistication.

The SW functions as so. Nobody wants anyone to be seen as bigger than them. It's very true that if the yoruba are given power, they will turn against whom ever the yoruba in power is unanimously. They don't like seeing the advancement of people like them and the more like them you are the more uncomfortable they are with your success.

This is why the focus is on Igbos and not Fulanis or Hausas. They would rather the Fulani and Hausa succeed because they are strange and distant. If Igbos and Ijaws start to shine they will feel insecure and begin attacking.

The hard part about this mentality is they themselves are too afraid to be the change they want to see. They won't start something, they will do it after someone else has done it and proved it can be done, but when it's time to celebrate they will claim that they did the entire thing themselves and did it the best with no objective means of showing this.


Instead of Ekiti or Osun leading Imo, Anambra, Abia and Delta in education, they will simply say they are the 'most educated tribe' and begin attacking the states that are leading.

Instead of producing their own Achebe, they will write 150 articles trying to breakdown his character despite the fact that he's one of the only africans that have not only outdone the continent, but the rest of the human race that are in his field.


They will also start propping false 'competition' against the person that's 'winning'.

suddenly Dbanj sells as many records and draws the crowd that Psquare does
suddenly Omotola is equal in pay popularity and importance to the movie industry as Genevive Nnaji
suddenly Tinubu is equal to PDP in influence and power despite the fact that he could only deliver 1 state in the federal election, and lost Ondo state to an igbo man headed party that was tried of tribal politics.
suddenly Ibadan is Enugu
suddenly, realizing the entire region is a slum, they're all from Lagos and nobody else can be a Lagosian despite the fact that the governor is from Ekiti and the state has had 2 igbo governors a bini and up to 4 northerners.
suddenly Nollywood is 'igbo' and Yorubawood(?) is equal to it.
instead of being accomdating, they'll claim it
instead of being sophisticated, they'll claim it
instead of being industrious, they'll claim it.



this is crab in a bucket mentality. If you put a group of crabs in one bucket, and one starts to climb out, the rest of the crabs will pull him down.

Believe me, I have an equally extensive list of things i like about the yoruba and I respect them as a people and culture immensely, but im constantly disappointed but their crabs in a bucket mentality and obnoxious belief that other southerners are the enemy. I wouldn't be this critical if i didn't respect them but how is a person supposed to respect a group of people who see the massacre of igbos in biafra by northerners and feel that this was a good thing? or a funny thing?

again it's very easy for the rest of nigeria to see where the problem is coming from.

wow Ikenagwo this is flawless and on point. Your analyzes agreed and even expanded SLS observation. Kudos. What opened my eyes in the whole pull down mentality you spoke of was the uyo thread and the Enugu international airport thread. Just a glance on both threads will open anyone's eyes on what you speak off. kudos dude.

@OP
it's tribalism, nothing more, nothing less. since the first day of GEJ administration both north/west have tried to frustrate the poor man out. They barely gave him a chance. They insulted him everyway imaginable . insulted his wife and even took it up a notch by insulting his little children. I'll understand the insult on his children if they were grown ups and in politics of Nigeria but they are not. I don't understand what's constructive when GEJ is addressed a retard, clueless, lazy fisherman, etc. His wife is a sheppotamus, his children are fatty, his son a pig, etc. SMH. even if we move out personal attacks and move into politics, they criticize him when he does well, criticize him when his wrong, criticize him when he makes the right choice. They accuse him of problems he had no hands in; they blame him for everything, including the mess Nigeria is, as if his 2 years can fix 50 or so years of neglect caused not by him but by them. I pity GEJ, I honestly do. If this was a normal nation i would have been an advocate for GEJ to forget his 2015 ambition, go home and be with his family, because based on the hatred against him by North/SW his life might actually be in danger. But Nigeria isn't normal, whether or not his life is in danger, a man shouldn't be persecuted simply because of his ethnic/region background. I'm all for GEJ running for 2015. This is bigger than him imo.

I never thought I'll ever see this four come together in this lifetime. I get fasheun and al-mustpha coming together; I get umuzurike and dokunbo coming together but not all four. hmm

I'm trying to understand the reason for the jubilation. Is this supposed to be achievement?
Majority of Asaba has been lighted up since 2008. This is not new and it's not lacking in many states in Nigeria.

mtcheww that's phyno.
Blogger tell us another story.

Didn't APC claim they are "progressive" and that PDP is a killer party? Now biko nu, why is a self claimed "progressive" party seeking to align with a "killer party" and "un-progressive people".
That jigawa governor gave APC the right name. A bunch of desperate power hungry politicians.