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[size=14pt]Anambra PDP loses lawmaker, 15,000 others to APGA [/size]

  Written by Sam Nwaoko, Awka   Monday, 02 August 2010

THE lawmaker representing Anaocha/Njikoka/Dunukofia federal constituency of Anambra State in the House of Representatives, Chief (Mrs) Uche Ekwkunife, has defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

Ekwunife led about 1,5000 of her supporters from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APGA, at a ceremony held at St John’s Catholic Church ground, Neni, Anaocha Local Government Area of the state, at the weekend.

Among the large number of defectors were Ekwunife’s supporters in the Progressive Peoples’ Alliance (PPA), the party in which she contested the governorship of the state in February.

Those who left the PPA with her included chairmen of the PPA in 18 local government areas and 326 ward chairmen of the party in a rally tagged ‘’mother of all rallies.’’

Sylvester Okeke, representing Anaocha constituency in the state House of Assembly, also defected from the PDP to APGA.

Ekwunife and Okeke said their decision to defect to APGA was borne out of the conviction of the development efforts of Governor Peter Obi.

Ekwunife apologised to Governor Obi for the aspersions she might have cast on him during the governorship campaigns, saying that “all those were politics, but the truth is that he has done well, apparently because of his background.”

Welcoming the defectors to the APGA fold, the national chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, reassured that the doors of the party would always be open to accept new members.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/9070-anambra-pdp-loses-lawmaker-15000-others-to-apga

ndu_chucks:
@Onlytruth & Beef, sorry I was away on heavy duty millitary duties. Some of us have to protect you people despite the fact that we should be caining you for your various attrocities.

I'm laughing so hard.

Anyone who denies that Biafra was a huge factory of African ingenuity is frankly a slowpoke.

@ Ileke-IdI

I'll share this interesting find:

The bombs were made by a Biafran artificer, Willy Achukwe, whose former trade, it was rumoured, lay in the manufacture of fireworks! Willy's bombs were marvels of ingenuity and even included delayed action devices. Zumbach describes one creation having "a base containing phosphorus suspended in an insulating liquid. A Bickford fuse ran from this compartment through a partition plugged with wax, into a second stage. This compartment contained gunpowder. The third was crammed with scrap metal. Two big nails protruded from the base of the thing. The impact of landing drives the nails into the base of the bomb and pierces the first compartment. The insulating liquid runs out of the resulting punctures and the air gets in. It sets the phosphorus alight, the heat melts the wax and the Bickford fuse detonates the gunpowder."



It goes without saying that no machine guns suitable for aircraft mounting were available in Biafra. However, the Biafrans were masters of improvisation and, following a visit to the government armoury from which he was invited to take his pick of the available equipment, Zumbach returned to the airfield with two antiquated army issue Czech made machine guns. Biafran mechanics soon had the first one mounted in the nose of the Invader with the barrel protruding from the nose. The hapless forward gunner was obliged to crouch in the dim recesses of the nose cone, without any view of the outside world and without any voice communication with his pilot. Again, Biafran ingenuity came to the rescue. A length of cord was attached to the gunner's arm with the other end threaded through to the pilot's station. Zumbach, equipped with a simple home made gunsight, simply tugged once on the cord to instruct the gunner to start firing and twice when he was to stop. A simple solution! The second one was rigged to fire through the open bomb bay.



http://vectaris.net/id307.html

Ileke-IdI:
Do you by any chance know any source where these facts and discoveries were documented?

I'll like to read it from a primary/sec source.

I know I personally saw some of them at the war museum in umuahia. I also saw others like machine guns made in Biafra while growing up in eastern Nigeria. The guns resemble Israeli made Uzis.
You really have to blame Nigeria for not documenting these things. The Biafrans were more eager to pick it the pieces of their lives after the war.

So, your primary source would be the victorious party : the Nigerian government.

I won't hold out hope they'd share anything though.

Ileke-IdI:
Wow, interesting.

If true, were any of these inventions documented in history files?

By the way, if USA is still debating on the usage of palm oil as feul, and since it has already been tested and proven to work, why can't a Nigerian Geo-Physicist work on it with them?

Anything remotely connected with Biafra was tagged anathema by Nigeria after 1970. Even things that could save Nigeria. Talk of cuttings one's nose to . . .

I didn't know you are still alive. 

tensor777:
^^Horses for courses. I have to say though that tpiah does in fact comment with a great deal of wisdom and insight.

So this is what you justify?  
How can anyone talking about an indivisible Nigeria support anything that animal has to say?  

tpiah:
this is this kind of thing bkbabe keeps pointing out again and again.

You see why I advised you to convene a national conference?

tensor777:
Actually  I don't really have the time and inclination to go into a game of political pointscoring with  well known reactionaries like Ezeuche and Udezue on this forum.

Their views strike a chord with their target audience no doubt but that is because they appeal to base human sentiment as opposed to the intellect.

You would be surprised how little role intellect plays in things like war. Self preservation is the first law of nature and most times it is controlled by base instincts.
People who fight wars act based on "base human sentiment". If that is not the case, Nigeria would not have waged a war against Biafra. There was no reason to. Everything that happened could have been resolved through dialogue.

So my friend, you may have to reconsider.

If Cameroun ever engages Nigeria in a war, intellect may take the back seat. That is why you should listen to my voice of reason instead of foreclosing any chance of dialogue.

,  and please[b] tpiah[/b], please take it easy on Ileke-Idi. She is entitled to wish the best for her people.

She is one decent lady though we disagree sometimes.

tpiah:
THE RANCH IS TOO CLOSE TO THE NIGERIAN BORDER WITH CAMEROON.

end of.

I noticed you were scheming to have Nigeria build similar ranches in other parts of Nigeria. You argued that other states also have similar geographic features.
You miss the point.
The point is how long would Nigeria keep ceding her territory to a foreign country?

Do you think location matters?

I don't. So, you better fix up your country before someone "designs" it for you.

Yea. So everybody calm down. Hold your horses.  

Anyway, to help calm nerves here:


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C’River denies ceding Obudu ranch to Cameroon[/size]


Cross River State Government has debunked the rumour making-the-round that the state would soon lose its prime tourism centre, Obudu Mountain Resort to the Cameroonian government.

Debunking the story in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary(CPS), to the state governor, Patrick Ugbe, the state government said that there was no iota of truth in the report, pointing out that Obudu resort was never part of the settlement deal between Nigerian and Cameroon.

The state government described the rumour as a malicious fabrication to undermine the giant strides being taken by the state government in the tourism industry. The statement noted that the Nigerian-Cameroon boundary in the vicinity of the Obudu Cattle Ranch was clearly defined and falls within Anglo-German pillar 100 and 101.

“The delineation of the boundary line on satellite image map covering the whole boundary length made by the JTT using the agreement does not put Obudu Cattle Ranch or any of its parts in the Republic of Cameroon.
“Also, during the field tracing, the ranch was found to be entirely in Nigeria territory. We submit further that though the Obudu mountain range stretch from Nigeria to Cameroon, the portion of this range in Nigeria is what constitutes Obudu Cattle Ranch,” the statement explained.

Government, according to the statement had upgraded the resort and placed it under the management of African Sun in 2008, in order to reposition it for excellent services. The government condemned the rumour in strong terms, particularly, coming at a time the people of the state were still lamenting the ceding of Bakassi to the Cameroon while warning those peddling such rumour to desist from it.

According to the statement, the state government and the people of the state would resist any attempt to cede any of its territory to any country or state in Nigeria.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/aug/02/national-02-08-2010-021.htm

Ileke-IdI:
That was a very interesting read actually.

. . .I personally want my state/ppl departed from Nigeria, so I understand what you feel.

Truth is NOBODY has forgotten the consequences of the war . . . . NOBODY has forgiven . . . .

lol @ Ileke-IdI

I thought your skin is made of metal. I never knew you were a closet separatist too.

So, there you go! lol. I understand you more now.  

I've tried to paragraph Udezue's comment below:



"People on here can be quite ridiculous. My belief in Biafra and the right of self-determination has little to do with what mama and dada told me or uncles. My belief in the right of my people as Africans to determine their own fate not wait on Europeans started when I was as young as 16. I've always been passionate about politics and addressing issues of injustice. This is typical characteristic of a very liberal person.

I believe in living and let live hence if any section of Africa or Nigeria views itself as capable of being able to govern itself based on its style, principle of government then they should be given that right.
I am only Nigerian because the British carved out my region like a piece of cake and could have been Cameroun sef if they handed my region to France.

Africans lack a true sense of self respect coz if they don't I think majority will be disgusted at the thought being told to be A,B,C or D by other races. I love history and research hence there is no way I wouldn't have focused on history of Biafra and Africa. At that very young age I knew so much that I challenged much much older Nigerians about it face to face and on the internet and till today not 1 of em knows they were having very intellectual debate and discussion with a highschool kid. Looking at events before, during and after the civil war I have come to conclusion that Biafra remains a just cause worth pursuing.

Southern Sudan have suffered for years and still haven't wavered in their belief to free themselves from the shackles of an oppressive Arabized govt created by the Europeans. You don't need have experienced the Biafra, Rwanda, South Sudan genocide and injustices to believe in or not believe in the movement and ideology. Americans and the govt didn't experience the holocaust yet they are the staunchest supporters of survival of the Jewish state.

I'm in support of the state of Israel just for the simple fact they deserve to live and judging by history they have been through a lot. Nigerians and their mentality are the reasons why the calls for Biafra keeps growing not just among the Easterners born during war but by the ones who were born before and outside Biafra.

Have u ever wondered why children whose parents never even told em about have very strong opinion about it? Truth is that Nigeria with the help of super-power nations may have won the war of weapons but they lost winning the hearts of Biafra. Biafra never die. Nigerian govt destroyed any chance of truly reconciling with the East and Nigerians by their actions keep re-enforcing the belief that Biafra is the better option. Our people tasted that freedom for good 3 years and its hard to turn that switch off.

Biafra functioned as a better state even while under attack, blockader, bombardment, while Nigeria with all the support is still a failed state. What Biafrans achieved be it in technology in the 6 months to 3 yrs is what Nigeria can't even dream of achieving in the past 50 years of existence.

Comparing Biafra to Nazi Germany is highly insulting and ignorant because both are opposite.

Biafra, South Sudan simply want to be left alone to determine their future without further oppression while Germany was waging wars against its neighbors to take over Europe. Biafra will not be paradise on earth but the worst of Biafra is better than the best of Nigeria.

Biafra nation will consist of people with common / similar ancestory. Our laws and ways of governance will structured based on native cultures that are compatible with modern day era. Ex. Idoma, Igala, Igbo, etc share the same market days which are 4 days in a week, 13 months in a year, etc. We already have a democratic system hence under our own pure African indigenous government we will set things up based on our own way not European way.

I like how the Chinese and many Asian nation stick to their own way of life and governance. Only Africans are still dying trying to preserve what their European masters set up at their own detriment. Damn shame."

tensor777:
Then why write down so many words? You honestly think anyone has the time to read that? You just may have wasted your time.

At least now you won't cite paragraphing as an excuse not to read what a Nigerian from one of the biggest tribes have to say about Nigeria.

Please lets not turn this thread into a Igbo Vs Yoruba war thread.

Like I've said before, this possible "tale by moonlight" issue over Obudu would be a non-starter if we had a united Nigeria. We don't. And because of that, how long would it take before a foreign interest cashes in on that internal weakness?
How many other times in the future would they cash in?

Rather than address these question, folks are here yarning dust.

tensor777:
I don't know what you are on about. But in the event that any part of Nigeria is turned into a battle ground the first instinct of any unfortunate civilians living there will simply be to flee for dear life. Especially nowadays with the threat of chemical, biological and even tactical nuclear warfare.

Civilians play more decisive strategic roles in such wars. They negotiate international alliances that influence the supply of arms and other things that decide wars.
You should know that.

9jaganja:
I agree.Unity can not be imposed. Those who say Nigeria is indivisible are being insensitive to the current state of the nation not just igbo land. Anything that affects Igbos should naturally affect Nigerians as a whole. A national conference where kings that are repping their people's opinions is much needed first. A free and fair election isn't the only thing though but it's needed. Peace

That is THE SPIRIT I'm talking about. Thanks.

tensor777:
You are not thinking this through. When war breaks out, the politicians and diplomats take a back seat and the military professionals- who are trained to be totally at home in killing and destruction - take over.
In such a situation the civilians living in a zone occupied by enemy troops would be under clear and present threat of massacre, despoil, and genocide. There is no question of such civilians exercising their political rights in such a scenario.

The same reason for the same civilians to head abroad to shop for arms and diplomatic support for a separate state.
The same reason for alliances to switch sides fast depending on who us doing the most harm to the affected populations.
No, my friend it is you that is not thinking it through.

9jaganja:
Those who want to divide Nigeria should hide their heads. They have showed the basis of their dream lack good reasoning. Those who want Nigeria as one are not throwing away dividing Nigeria but a national conference first will be good. Se if we can agree on terms. We need to try responsible government. This worked for Canada. Provincial government. Where the federal government is just a platform for national security and promotion of unity economically, politically.  etc, but each province controls his own. Every tribe should have their province no matter how small. It will work. Fg can also assist provinces not catching up with others. Everyone must be independent!!

Look dude, the problem we have in Nigeria is that there is this fear that Nigeria will inevitably divide. Believe me I hold out hope that Nigeria will remain one. The structure will change of course. The oneness must be negotiated not imposed.
And when people make statements that Nigeria is indivisible on top of the present state of my region and people, I just laugh. Let's start with free and fair elections first and go from there.
Cameroun is not our biggest problem if we do the right things at home.
Of course they will remain a problem if Nigeria continues wagging war on her own people.

9jaganja:
I said if Igbos enter Cameroon after war. It is going to be under oppressive terms because Eastern Nigeria will be a Prize they won at war. You can't have your own military there remember? So they will basically control the 40million Igbos and it will be genocidal if the Igbos tries to revolt. Either you have Biafra or stay in Nigeria. You can't join Cameroon and think it will be good.

And you think Igbo would just follow Cameroun without any armed guaranty?
If the "hypothetical war" begins, do you think Igbos would just go home and wait?
You are making me laugh so hard.

We are having this conversation at all because of the rumoured interest of the Camerounians in Obudu.
Why should a truly strong and united country hand over any of its territory under any circumstance to a foreign country?
That is the question.

Those who want Nigeria to survive are harping on a national conference, while those who want Nigeria to collapse are busy hiding their heads in the sand.

tensor777:
Well that is interesting. But  I still have to say that those of us, that have a much more multicultural  and multiethnic experience of Nigeria do not share your reactionary views.

Yes, but this group is the biggest threat to Nigeria because they live in denial and tend to sweep everything under the carpet. Problem is that Cameroun can peep under that carpet and make hay with what they find.

9jaganja:
I've never been against a referendum if it unites us or peacefully divides us politically alone. I'm for unity in Nigeria but if majority of Igbos want Biafra so be it. They should call their leaders to order and let each king or queen listen to his or her people, then the king or queen will represent his or her people. First benefits of leaving Nigeria should be well understood by the people so does benefit of staying in Nigeria. Dangers of leaving Nigeria and dangers of staying in Nigeria if any should be discuss. The people should have a chance to negotiate a term to enter or leave Nigeria. It's becoming annoying the way some people whine and cry and verbally destroy Nigeria at every chance they get. This was why Nayer was able to post nonsense here about Nigeria without many rebuking her. Instead Udezue sees Nigeria at war as a way to get Biafra. Forgetting that if Nigeria should go to war and lose eastern Nigeria or any part, the terms Igbos or others will enter in the new country with will be very oppressive. So we need to fight and protect Nigeria first then we can peacefully call a referendum and divide peacefully or strengthen our unity. True federalism is like having your own nation.

Look, l agree with some of the things you said, but disagree with others.

Like I said before, I would want Nigeria to dialogue first and go from there. So we agree there. But, you and I know that it is at best speculative and at worst fallacious to say that easterners would be marginalized in a fabled union with Cameroun.
Cameroun is a nation of 22 million, Eastern Nigeria is at least 40 million. So who would marginalize who?
C'mon dude, you are more intelligent than this.  

tensor777:
The main issue I have with guys like Ezeuche is that they simply appeal to people's base sentiments as opposed to their higher intellect. It also reeks of crass opportunisn for such disgruntled elements here to take advantage of a PURPORTED territorial dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon to propagate their own reactionary separatist agenda.

Nevertheless, the unity and sovereignity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is entirely and utterly non-negotiable. Thus an SNC is completely out of the question

Can you now see why the[b] Nayahs[/b] are here?  

I'm laughing because you don't seem to understand the world we live in now.

The biggest enemies of Nigeria are those who make the statement I highlighted.  And they do so without an answer to the embedded issues. That is why they woke up one day and handed over Bakassi to Cameroun, and they would hand over more territories to whoever is able to wage war on Nigeria.

Well, I've said my peace.

. . . And Nayah, I cannot be intimidated by your voluptuous endowments.  

Your being here is very suspicious.

Someone asked before: What is your mission here?

This Obudu "issue" is a hype, but it could also be a kite.

In my first post here, I recommended that Nigeria should URGENTLY convene a sovereign national conference to found a nation. This is coming from someone who really wants to give Nigeria a chance to survive.

The world is a different place now, and gone are the days when nations kept absolute secrets.

Someone may be toying with an idea, and the Nayahs are here to scope us out.

A responsible country would have done this conference years ago, but in Nigeria, too many people are drunk on the oils of the delta, and there are too many f00ls in that part (some are still calling themselves allies to their own oppressors) to push for this conference.

I would not condemn EzeUche or[b] Udezue[/b] because they articulate embedded sentiments in the East of Nigeria.

The question should be this: Why should such sentiment exist in any part of Nigeria in 2010?

So, I don't like Cameroun (I personally think they are a very wicked people, ask Nigerians in Cameroun), but I won't rush to endorse Nigeria, owning to the treatment the country has metted out to my people since we lost the war.

This conference is really the least of the "worst" that can happen to Nigeria, because we don't know who is casing Nigeria out there. The "owners of Nigeria" make it seem like the worst, but for realists like myself, it is in Nigeria's interest that it happens.

@Nayah

I would introduce myself with two Igbo proverbs (words of wisdom):

When a lion is crippled, the antelope pays him a debt collection visit.

If one collects/fetches ant infested firewoods, the lizard inevitably pays him a visit.

Achuzia spoke my mind, but Nigerians (especially northerners) have twisted expectations from the rest of us.
Now they want zoning to be respected, but use federal character to impose the least qualified Nigerians on us.

[size=14pt]Let the best guy (by qualification and capability) get the job. ALL JOBS![/size]

We can do affirmative action, which normally represents about 10% of a developed country's man-power.

Nigeria is upside down. Our warped type of affirmative action gives 90% of the jobs to the least qualified.

Our kidnappers are being cheated by the system, hence they use their brains to terrorize the rest of us.

This cheating must end. Today.

Zoning was not in PDP constitution — Achuzia



By Chioma Gabriel,Deputy Editor

COLONEL Joe Achuzia, was a major actor in Nigerian Civil War and the Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and a South-South leader of thought. He is vocal on national issues and in this encounter with Saturday Vanguard, he speaks on the recent endorsement of President Jonathan for 2011 by South-South leaders, saying ‘to hell with zoning in  PDP and Federal Character’. Excerpts:

The South-South leaders convened last Monday and gave total support to Jonathan to contest 2011 presidential elections.
Yes, we did.

You were there too?

I was and we agreed that he should contest the 2011 election on the platform of the PDP, the political party we all belong to.
You are a member of PDP too?

I’m a founding member of PDP. I didn’t just join the PDP. I was there from the onset alongside Dr. Alex Ekwueme and other founding members.

In other words, you understand the controversy of zoning, whether PDP has a zoning policy or not?

I don’t know of any zoning in PDP. I was in Jos, Plateau State from the very first national  convention of the party. I was at the first primaries of PDP because I was managing a candidate who wanted to contest Presidential election. Philip Asiodu was an aspirant and there were many others including Abubakar Rimi who wanted to run for President.

Everybody was given the room to lobby for it and we lobbied. It was the high powered lobby that produced Obasanjo as the Presidential candidate of PDP. Nothing like zoning was mentioned during the primaries and it was not in our constitution. You can ask Okwesilieze Nwodo because he was the national  Executive Secretary of  PDP and knows about these things.

He took the minutes of everything that was said. Zoning was not in out constitution or in black and white so to say. There was no zoning in PDP. I was there and I managed a candidate and that issue never came up. I don’t know at which point it became a policy of the PDP.

Besides, zoning creates room for underdevelopment. The best are not considered in a zoning arrangement.

But several references have been made to Article 7, subsection 2(C) of the PDP constitution.

Achuzia, Zoning was not in PDP constitution

Like I said, there was nothing like that in the party constitution at the beginning. What was meant by zoning wasn’t the way they were talking about it now. The most alarming part of it is that this issue is practically a PDP affair and not a national issue. There are so many political parties in Nigeria and they don’t have the same constitution.

I don’t see why because of Jonathan’s interest, zoning all of a sudden became a national issue. Zoning was first mentioned during the time of a former head of state that died when he was confronted to change the constitution. This was as a result of the North having everything at that time, every position was going to the North and so, the South-South demanded for zoning then as a means of equalising things.

But it was rejected and after the rejection, they finally agreed on this six geo-political zones  arrangement. So, the zonal arrangement is for the purpose of bringing certain groups including the minorities into the scheme of things.

It was revealed that PDP has always had zoning since 2001 in their constitution?

This was after Obasanjo became President but even then, it was not written. So, all the hullabaloo about zoning heats up the polity for nothing.

Don’t you foresee a situation where this will cause problem in the future?

Then, let them call a national conference of ethnic groups that make up Nigeria so that this will be debated on and resolved so it will get into the Nigerian Constitution. Every party has the right to put into its constitution what it wants. Some political parties don’t even have the strength to control one state, talk less of 36 states. A political party constitution is not something that will derail the peaceful existence of Nigeria.

So, you don’t think Jonathan is being misled to contest elections next year?

Jonathan has the constitutional right to vie for an election. It’s also everybody’s right. What PDP is doing is an in-house arrangement. It is not the constitution of Nigeria.

But it is believed PDP will produce the next president and that is what the noise is about.

If they believe PDP will produce the next president, what is the point of the other parties? Then, let everybody join PDP instead of talking from the sidelines because zoning is only within the PDP.

There have been speculations that INEC would de-register weak parties and Nigeria may eventually opt for a two-party system.
Look, INEC will only register what the constitution authorises it to. It cannot just wake up and say that there will be only one party. It’s what the constitution says that INEC will do.

So, the South-South endorses President Jonathan?

As far as I’m concerned, Jonathan should go on. If I were Jonathan, I will go on. If I fail in the end, so be it but it is better to try and fail than not to try at all. If you remember what Awolowo said, if  he becomes president for one day, it is something. Now, you can imagine being a president for one year or more. Jonathan should not take everything being said about him contesting seriously. Who are the people who are saying it?

So, between Ogbulafor and Nwodo, who should be taken seriously on zoning?

I told you that the only authority on this issue is Nwodo because he was the Executive Secretary of PDP then and took the minutes of the meetings of all discussions held. He was there. He has the records and took all the information. Zoning was not there. It was a later development.

When you look at the 2011 general elections, what do you see?

Knowing the type of person Professor Jega is, I will say it will be a credible election. That’s number one. Secondly there is no election you will carry out in this country where somebody will not claim that he has been cheated. So, consequently, the important thing is to be able to hold the elections and no heads will roll.

What advice do you have for Nigerians as 2011 approaches?

My advice is that Nigerians should not take a fire-fighting approach towards the elections because that’s what I think they are trying to do. They should give Jega opportunity because I don’t see any credible voters register. Any voters register that comes out in six months is just as good as using the old voters’ register. If Nigerians insist in this fire-fighting approach, they should be able to accept whatever comes with it.

If Jonathan wins or anybody wins, that person cannot stay more than four-to-eight years.

I want to make an observation.

What?

Should the table turn in future, I hope those saying that Jonathan should jettison zoning and contest will not turn around to begin to clamour for zoning?

How? The issue is, if Jonathan goes in and wins, he should put this zoning to rest by calling a national conference. Two things must be removed from our constitution: zoning and federal character. If we want a true democracy, zoning and federal character must go. Federal character was as a result of the North claiming they were behind in education, they were behind in so many things.That was what brought about federal character. Zoning was a cry by the minority that this thing must reach them.

How would you feel if for instance, one of the Northern states where there are only cattle rearers and shepherds has its turn to produce the President should zoning continue? How would it look if a cattle rearer becomes the president one day when there are educated people around?

So, that is your point of argument?

Yes it is. I’m not saying the Northerners are not educated but what I’m saying is that only those who are qualified should occupy certain positions. This is politics and it is a game. Even in political education, they will tell you that not everybody is capable of leadership.

Those who are capable of governance should go for it, not those who are not but who get forced into it as a result of zoning and federal character.

Federal character  or zoning doesn’t favour anybody except the under-developed. A developed community wouldn’t mind who comes out as long as he is qualified to rule. We don’t need zoning. We don’t need federal character.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/07/31/zoning-was-not-in-pdp-constitution-%E2%80%94-achuzia/

Pafuri

Obviously you are a Ghanaian??

I can understand your illogic , afterall Nigeria is to blame frankly.
I personally never took the much talked about Ghanaian anti-Nigerian proclivities seriously until I experienced it first hand from two separate Ghanaian in the US.
One of the guys was so funny and secretive in laughable ways, and it never made sense to me at all until recently. He told me he was traveling to Ghana on a vacation, but when he returned after about 3 weeks, he unwittingly dropped a verbal hint that he visited Nigeria and was there for longer than he was in Ghana. When I prodded him further to tell me where he visited in Nigeria, he flatly refused to tell me!
I was like "dude you went to my country, and spent two whole weeks, but you can't even share your business moves with me", he remained stoic and would not tell me! I prodded him further through jocks, banter and all, he remained unmoved; he just kept grinning.

Now, imagine what this type of a guy would do to me in Ghana!
The other guy did something similar. That was when I started believing the story about Ghanaians. Your brother is very willing to scour the length and breath of Nigeria, but can't even share information about my country. How can this type of a guy share anything about HIS COUNTRY?

I will personally go to Innoson (the man and the plant are in my home town) to implore him never to step out of Eastern Nigeria. He has all the most important things he needs to succeed: Land, skilled manpower and political support from the state governor who I suspect will push this company to become a regional and national asset like GM, FORD and CHRYSLER in the US. I really believe that this company cannot survive outside the East. There are many auto parts manufacturing companies and research institutes in the East to support this company. The Nigerian market should remain his immediate focus.

Ghana should fish elsewhere.

Any Nigerian company with specialized operations will face a certain cup of Hemlock if they ever locate in Ghana at early stages.?? ??

I see some Ghanaians here yarning dust.