₦airaland Forum

Ileke-IdI:
Yet you have no problem using Hausa deragotry terms for Yorubas to insult us. LOL go siddon somewhere jor

I hardly use derogatory words to describe Yoruba or Hausa. Note the "hardly". lol
However, I have NEVER seen a Hausa use derogatory word to describe a Fulani, neither have I seen a Yoruba use extreme words against even Edo people sef talk less of Itshekiri people.
For an Ijaw to use such words against Igbo is very st,upid and self immolating. Any Ijaw that does that is a pig pure and simple. He is his own worst enemy in Nigeria.

^^

, I still want "Igbo presidency".

Johndoe100: This is something I ask times without number mention Rivers state or anything to do with it and these Ibo phucks just swarm the thread.
@OP
No Kalabari are not Igbo (the idea that they are thought to be ibo makes me want to throw up) and Mrs GEJ is Okrika.

Much as I hate getting involved in what people choose to call themselves, I equally hate when someone chooses to borrow a derogatory word from Yoruba Nairalanders to describe his Igbo neighbors. That is very very dumb IMHO.

Since I came to Nairaland, I have not seen an Igbo person join Yoruba folks to call Ijaw "drunken fisherman", or many other countless names Yoruba give to Ijaw because of Jonathan.

You in particular are growing daily in stupidity. The "Igbo" will soon join the Yoruba to put you in your place.
Ezi ohia.

noblezone: Chief Iwuanyanwu,

you tried but as much as the Nothern Leaders are to be held responsible for the violence in the North, the Southern Leaders, especially the South East should be help responsible for folding their alms while their people are being slaughtered like goats.

For your information, the Nothern Leaders are givimg tactical supports to the Islamic Jihardists whose only passion is to see an Islamised Nigeria through blood, what support are you giving for the frredom of our own Nation, where religion is not by compulsion?

Or are you still deluding yourself that Nigeria is "one"?

Nigeria has never been one, is not one and can never be one! As long as we have in Nigeria the violent sects of Islam, blood will never seize to flow.

It is time our leaders come together to put plans in motion on how to move towards our nation of freedom.

Now is the time.

My brother you hit the nail on the head.
I still commend Iwuanyanwu for speaking out though. Never thought I'd see those "establishment" Igbo speak against a system that feeds them. For he to speak like this means that Igbo has started to wake up gradually. I thank God for a day like this!

I try to avoid Anambra threads because I don't want to get involved in some silly local politics. I do enough of Anambra arguments with fellow Anambrarians in our many forums at Yahoo and elsewhere. My experience from those forums tell me that a camel will pass through the eye of the needle before we have a FAIR ASSESSMENT of the Peter Obi administration.

For me, all I do to get to the truth is I call home and inquire of my brothers and relatives about Obi's performance.
From what they tell me, Obi is not a failure, by a long short. BTW they are all Ngige's supporters o (including my humble self in the past). I no longer support Ngige because he has stubbornly stayed in ACN. He is not thinking about the bigger picture, and in his pursuit of personal political relevance at the center, he is introducing a strange party to Igboland. If he leaves ACN tomorrow, I may change my mind, assuming Soludo somehow stays in PDP, or Dora Akunyili never re-contests under APGA.

Methinks that the more BITTER Obi's critics are, the more likely they are supporters of either Ngige, or Uba or so many other countless folks who want to rule Anambra state.
A fair critic of Obi would NOT be bitter, afterall Anambra state is not the person's personal property. lol

I also frown at this idea that Awka must look like Enugu or other state capitals before Obi gets a pass mark.
Even Abakaliki was not developed today. As of the 70s and early 80s Abakalaliki already had roads. Awka was a VILLAGE before 1999. To transform Awka overnight, Anambra would need to be an oil producing state. Even Uyo sef is not that much better in terms of development bearing in mind that Akwa Ibom is a TOP oil state.
For a state with ZERO federal presence and with some of the least federal allocations, the state is not bankrupt and Obi has saved Anambra from reckless borrowing. To me, that is enough achievement.
When you ask some of these critics to pay more taxes now, they will call for your head loudest.
You can't eat your cakes and have it.

Odunnu: Is dame Patience Kalabari?

I think she is even "Okrika". I could be wrong though.

They are Kalabari, simple and short. They can speak both Igbo and Ijaw. People should stop belittling the MIX.
That mix will prove very difficult to resolve should there be a need to define them strictly (for whatever reason).
Left to me, I would recognize as many tribes in Nigeria as possible. People are more intelligent that we credit them.
If there is a need to self identify, I'm sure they would identify with any group that makes them feel safe and at home.
We would not be having this conservation if the Nigerian national ID card and census forms allow people to state their tribes by themselves. The form should ask a simple question: What is your tribe? Don't be surprised to find someone from Kano writing "Kano" as his tribe. He may be Hausa, but his brand of Hausa is not the same as those from Sokoto for instance. lol It changes nothing. The leaders of Nigeria have feared tribal identification as if it is responsible for all our problems.
Methinks that the "lack of" such identification follows a pattern of other "lack ofs" and "don't ask" policy which muzzle accountability in Nigeria, which leads to theft at all levels of government, which then stunts development.

Everybody should be allowed to answer his father's name. Simples.

El Rufai must be laughing his a.s.s off while drinking kunu under the tree in his barren village at Zazau with no access road. lol
Anambra citizens are ALWAYS some of the toughest critics of their governor, and it is VERY GOOD that they do that. It will help to scare away all types of thieves warming up to govern our state. Let us keep things in perspective.

Peter Obi is trying within "his personal abilities". He cannot be what he is not gifted to be by God.
Igbo say that "ebe nwata na ebe akwa na atu aka, nne ya anoghi ebe ahu, nna ya no ya!".

I am a COMPLETE nwa afo Igbo from Nnewi (Anaedo), and I state without fear of equivocation that Anambra state under Peter Obi is not under performing. She can of course always be better, heck, even the the best country on earth can be better!
Let us wait till 2014 to elect that better man to take us to the next level in Anambra state.

Ochichi adighi nfe ma ncha. -Leadership is not easy; it is also NOT for the faint of heart.
Talk and criticisms are always easiest, until one is asked to lead of course!

2014 is almost around the corner. So everyone should take a chill pill.

This would serve as a very cold lesson to all those who pledge to "Nigeria my country, to be faithful, loyal and honest blah blah. ..[size=14pt]to serve Nigeria with all my strength[/size]. . .more blah".
Those who are serving themselves with all their strength will take over to continue where they stopped before she interrupted the feast of thieves!

Onye nwere nti, ya nuru! -he who has ears let him/her hear!

Arunma ntoo!

Ileke-IdI:
I know you mean every word you say, because you're simply ignorant of the issue in America. It's the closest to Jewish blood you'll ever get huh?

OFFTOPIC, Weren't you the one excusing Israel for its mascarre of black youths on another thread?

It could NEVER have been me. I am staunch opponent and critic of mass murder. I would never support mass murder by anyone in any shape or form, even in self defense.

BTW Ileke, I'm working very hard to discourage as many Igbo as I can from buying land or building houses in Lagos.
I may not succeed but I damn well would try.
I gotten some guys to sell their uncompleted buildings in Lagos and have them buy lands in Onitsha instead.

Ileke-IdI:
So you don't even know what you were saying? shocker!

That's what i was disagreeing with, not your endless romance with Lagosian nationality.

What are you talking about?
I mean every word I said - a nation where people are not united by blood or ethnicity, but by shared ideals- yes that is America!

Ileke-IdI:
And trust me dude, in America, they do ask for your "State of residency" which is almost "state of origin", not quite because it can change based upon how long you've lived in that state.

For example: Students who are from a different "State of Resident" pays more if they attend a college/University different from their State of Residency.

So, how does that contradict what I said?
In US, all Igbo living in Lagos today would be Lagosians. Simple.

Ileke-IdI:
bolded is koko, rest is gibberish. What you fail to understand is that Nigeria's "State of Origin" might as well be America's "What's your ethnicity/race?". Both has the same power.

Either way, your point about people not being joined by ethnicity is quite a display of ignorance. No offense intended

Honestly, if we have not been deceiving ourselves by claiming to practice the US style democracy, I wouldn't have even brought the US into this discussion. How can I be comparing Aliko Dangote with a suya maker under the bridge at Agege Motor road? lol There is simply no basis for comparison. One country set out to design a NEW and UNPRECEDENTED system of democracy, and declared E Pluribus Unum (Out of many ONE), and have worked CONSTANTLY towards a perfect union, with no year passing without a solid progress being made; while another is busy lying and deceiving people year after year, with tens of thousands of her own citizens dying almost every year, and no movement forward. Nigeria today is looking like Nigeria of 1964/65 - a cool 48 years late!
So, nne please tell your people in naija to stop deceiving themselves.
Omo Ibo want out.

Ileke-IdI:
Racial issue is illegal but it's still there. It's silent and it's slowing creeping about.

Race/ ethnicity unites people in America, contrary to what you claim. Minorities in America are more aware of their ethnicity more than the majority groups. Chinese bunch together, indians bunch together, whites bunch together, Latinos bunch together etc. Studies have shown that whites are more likely to give a job opening to another white, even those the white job seeker/ black job seeker have exactly the same resumee.

The only difference between America and Nigeria is that America has an official law, backed by history, to legally punish open act of racism. Hate crime and racial crimes are severely punished, even though the minorities suffer more.

The bolded is the gist. The rest are pure conjecture! hehe!

The issue is the topic of abolishing state of origin, stuff that don't exist in the US that we claim to copy.
What we have here is state of residence which is interpreted as home state. In Nigeria, we are busy lying and deceiving people there. What annoys me most is that the same people who are guilty of this evil are the ones accusing others who are most honest about the problem, calling them secessionists and bigots.
If facing the facts about Nigerian fear of unity is tantamount to bigotry, then I am a very proud bigot.
Either we have a country where people can live and work wherever they like, without being killed or asked to go "home", or we divide the country so that everyone will answer his father's name. It is very simple.
I honestly don't see any true child of God supporting the lie of a country called Nigeria.

Ileke-IdI:
This is surely a joke. OnlyTruth.

Unless you want to play ignorance to racial issue in America. c'mon!

I don't joke about anything America.
All it takes to establish residency in some US states is just ONE YEAR of constant residency.
That is why Hilary Clinton could run for Senate position in New York, though she was from Texas and had lived long in Arkansas. Here, wherever you live and pay taxes is YOUR HOME. Period.

That is part of why I get very angry when people try to compare Nigeria with America.

The racial issue is ILLEGAL and attracts serious legal consequences. In Nigeria, tribalism is practiced openly. lol
So babe I'm serious.

Dudu_Negro: I am sure whoever the house member that first raised the idea during Obasanjo's regime was from the East. No Westerner or Northerner would dare dream of such a bad idea.

We can appreciate why state of origin is not used in America, it's because everyone except the natives originated from somewhere else. The Natives therefore have tribal number and reservation identity they use when filling in demographic info on applications.

In our case, Nigeria is not our origin and we are natives to lands in the country, therefore our state of origin become the native identity. Ibos want to do away with their native identity, I suggest you take this topic to Biafran forums or limit it within cultural section specific to Igbo discussions. This is not a Nigerian issue, it is Igbo ethnicity issue!

One of the reasons I became an American citizen is exactly because of this - a nation where people are not united or joined by blood or ethnicity, but by shared ideals. It is impossible in Nigeria.
Notice that the same people who accuse Igbo of being secessionists and bigots are the ones who also fear Nigerian unity the most. lol
This is the MAIN reason why MOST SENSIBLE IGBO will remain closet secessionists until the opportunity to secede shows up; and it will eventually!

When our people learn that APGA is really indispensable in Igboland as a vehicle for our empowerment in Nigeria, the rest will take shape.
Thank God for opinions like this.
All I know is that APGA remains very much alive, and I'm very confident that SANITY will prevail at last.
We have no choice!

[size=14pt]Obi, Umeh, APGA and South East[/size]

By:
Amanze Ubochi

What is brewing in All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) currently is not in anyway unexpected. Suffice it, therefore, to say that crisis is part and parcel of healthy politics in so far as the major actors in the scene have the competences to turn the so-called crisis into gains. And how can they do that? First, they must ask themselves pertinent questions about where they are coming from, where they are at present and where they are headed.

Second, they must be able to listen to the voices of those they are leading, including those who are not members of their party as the case may be. We shall return to these shortly.

I have taken time to study the recent development involving Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, the National Chairman of the APGA, Chief Victor Umeh and others who are major stakeholders in the party and I have every reason to conclude that the so-called crisis within the APGA is being orchestrated by unseen hands to alter the template with which Obi utilised to make a difference in the governance of Anambra State for about eight years now.

No doubt, APGA’s journey over the years has been tortuous. Or if you like, the journey has not been without issues. For example, even during the tenure of the pioneer Chairman of the party, Chief Chekwas Okorie, there were issues that tended to tear the party apart, but reason prevailed and made it possible for the party to be retrieved from the hands of those who were out to drive the death nail on the head of APGA. Incidentally, all these were happening while the spiritual leader of APGA, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu was still alive and active in the party.


Is it, therefore, a surprise, that what we are witnessing today in APGA is taking place no sooner Ojukwu died and was buried than the actors resumed their duty? Back to the posers I raised earlier regarding APGA leaders asking themselves some pertinent questions as to where they are coming from, where they are at present and where they are going, I have every reason to believe that they have not been able to do so since the demise of Ojukwu. Perhaps, all the bottled up grievances which some of the APGA leaders are harbouring now would have been taken care of had they returned to the drawing board to review the fate of the party after Ojukwu.

To me, after Ojukwu’s death, I did not expect those who know the role he played in the party while he lived to go to bed. And if you ask me, that is allowed in politics and what that means, by extension, is that those who want APGA dead know when to strike. And have they not? And that also brings us to the second poser of whether the APGA leaders are actually listening to those they are leading on the one hand, and on the other, what the opposition is saying about the party.

One may want to argue that the party met recently in Enugu, but was the parley called before insinuations of “face-off” between Obi and Umeh or after it has gained momentum? The answer is that, the meeting held in Enugu on May 26 was simply an attempt by some persons to further undermine the overall interest of the party.

Why do I say so? Such a very important meeting should have been at the instance of the APGA National Working Committee (NWC), in which case, the NWC would have been mandated to sensitise members on the need for such an assembly. That the NWC was sidelined before such a very important meeting was summoned means someone somewhere is mid-wifing mischief and I think anybody who means well for the party should point that out for condemnation.

Yes, Obi was at the meeting as well as Ojukwu’s wife, Bianca and others like Dr. Tim Menakaya, Chief Patrick Onuoha, can they in all honesty say the Enugu meeting was called in line with the constitution of APGA?

If they go ahead with the implementation of the resolution they reached at that meeting, will it not compound the already precarious situation in the party? And how can one explain the comment recently attributed to the leader of Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB),Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, suggesting that he would strip Umeh naked in public for making “uncomplimentary” comments on Ojukwu which only Uwazuruike heard?

The MASSOB leader had said: “We warn Chief Victor Umeh to desist from dragging the name of Ojukwu in the mud. In as much as we are not interested in Nigeria, we will not fold our hands and allow anybody to degrade Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s family.

“Chief Umeh has no right whatsoever to stop or persuade people not to attend a meeting in Ojukwu’s house. Ojukwu is highly revered in Igboland, his image and personality should not be dragged into selfish and rancorous politics.

“The APGA National Chairman should stop using Alhaji Sani Shinkafi to insult Ojukwu’s family or we shall strip him naked and ostracise him for dragging Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s family name in the mud.”


One should also recall that on the day the meeting was held in Ojukwu’s house Bianca did threaten to “render Umeh a general without troops” if the National Chair fails to accede to certain conditions. And you ask yourself the usefulness of comments like these at a meeting where the essence is to chart a way forward in the interest of all.


Would anyone, therefore, be surprised that Shinkafi described Uwazuruike’s comment as irresponsible and least expected of one aspiring to leadership position. Shinkafi had said: “The statement credited to Uwazuruike is unfortunate. I have never wanted to join words with Ralph Uwazuruike, but for clarification sake, Uwazuruike is not a card-carrying member of APGA, so he cannot question my authority as the National Secretary of APGA, either indirectly or directly.

“If Ralph Uwazuruike wants to do that, let him go to his village in Onu-Imo and pick the APGA registration card and be registered as a bona-fide member of the party before he starts challenging my authority as the National Secretary of the party. I have never for one day insulted or attacked the family of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu. I am part and parcel of that family for almost a decade now.”

I want to make one point very clear to Uwazuruike and his cohorts: “APGA is not an Igbo party neither is it a regional party but a National party. APGA is not a family party, it is our party. I can challenge anybody in Igboland that the party is a national party.

“By the provisions of the 1999 Constitution as amended, it is clearly stated that before a political party is registered it must have its National headquarters in the Federal Capital Territory, it must have a national spread and it’s officers must also reflect the National character. So if you feel that somebody from the north is a nobody, you are making a mistake, and if you are in the South East to claim APGA you are ignorant.”

The points which Shinkafi has made are too germane to be ignored and that is why Obi and Umeh should, once more, rise to the challenge of rescuing APGA from the hands of killjoys who want to see the party dead.

In fact, before contemplating another major meeting involving all stakeholders in APGA that is deemed constitutional, Obi, the NWC led by Umeh and the governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, should meet first and look at what is happening in the party now for the way forward.


If Obi is deemed a superstar in terms of his performance in Anambra as governor, the same credit should also go to Umeh and his NWC. The same thing is also applicable to Okorocha’s Imo. Therefore, this is not the time to recall who did what or not. The issue now should be how to tell those who have been striving to kill APGA that they have met another brick wall.

I know it may seem too hard for some Nigerians to digest and accept, but Ojukwu was by far a true NATIONALIST NIGERIAN than all the pretenders, from Murtala Muhammad (who wanted to secede the North first after the July 1966 coup) to Obasanjo who stole the show from every true nationalist, and almost stole the title of "father of modern Nigeria".
The truth is that Nigeria has been a country of great tragedy because she somehow kills and subdues her truest nationalists and promotes fakes and lairs.
Nigeria somehow managed to redeem some of her betrays of true nationalists by giving Ojukwu a burial which it never even gave to dead president Yar Adua. So, that shows that some Nigerians still understand what Ojukwu really was.
The man was forced to fight in defense of his people. No more, no less.

Now @OP, I hope you can now see that Ojukwu was only being himself when he joined the NPN. He did it, not for personal gain, but to go back to his nationalist basis.
I have to agree with ndu_chucks on this one.

I also need to make one more observation/submission about some facts in Nigeria.

The pre-civil war Nigeria was vastly different from the post civil war Nigeria.
Before the civil war, Nigeria had peace and justice and even-development in all parts of Nigeria. There was no containment policy against us then, hence the Federal government built the Niger bridge (one of the most impressive bridges in Nigeria of those days), and other federal roads. There was no federal discrimination against Igboland then, hence the Eastern economy was adjudged among the fastest growing in the world then.

Now, let me tie it to language.

Most Igbo children born outside Igboland then were able to speak English, plus whatever local language where they lived, PLUS IGBO. Ojukwu was a typical example. He was born in Zungeru in the North, he schooled in Lagos, he never even lived long in the East before he became military governor of the East. But guess what, he spoke English, Hausa, Yoruba and fluent Igbo (Nnewi accented Igbo).

The same story applies to other Igbo like him in those days. But alas these days, an Igbo kid born in Lagos will speak English, and even Yoruba, but can't speak Igbo. Soon sef Igbo kids in Igboland will start speaking Yoruba and Hausa just because they would need to live in Lagos or Kano to survive.

Umunna, onye obula chekwaa ezigbo echiche maka ihe a.(my kinsmen, let everybody put on his thinking cap).

We must focus on the REAL ISSUES, not chasing shadows.

If Jonathan fails to give us DIRECT international airport and building us a second Niger bridge (or even tearing down current bridge and building another), then I would have no doubt in my mind that he betrayed us who voted him. He would have continued that policy; there is no other way to look at it. The buck stops at his desk whether he likes it or not. Our job is to get our thieving brothers who are there feathering their PERSONAL nests to speak up first, after which we would know who betrayed us.

Okay, I need to make my own submission again.

I observe that some of our people are calling for the promotion of Igbo language as our most urgent need. I agree only by about 30%, and I will explain. Our language is very important and can be revived, but only by DEVELOPING IGBOLAND ECONOMICALLY. Without economic development, our people will continue to leave Igboland in droves, abandoning it and even introducing foreign language there because they are training their kids to LEAVE LATER.
Even in my town of Nnewi, I've started to see children who can't speak Igbo. Guess where most of them will end up? Outside Igboland of course! So, if we want our people to speak our language, we must guarantee them economic survival even while speaking the language, which means while staying home in the East.

It is all about economic survival folks! lol

But, how do we develop if we lack DIRECT international access? Methinks it is like a man trying to run the 100 meters dash with bricks tied to his legs. You may succeed at last, but you will lose your language and everything cultural because you need to go to areas that have that access and the economy it brings. Simple logic.

That is why I keep trying to teach my people to think STRATEGICALLY.

The people that deny us DIRECT international access know what they are doing. They are trying to force us down and hopefully for our language and self identity to disappear over time. It was part of the policy of containment after the war. They basically gave us two options: either leave Igboland, or lose your identity (either of which they hope would make us a less powerful tribe in Nigeria).Folks they know what they are doing!
That is why I'm VERY angry at our representative and politicians because I believe that most of them are educated.
When we must have either gotten them to act, or chased them out of Igboland, only then would we get those developments that would allow us to survive WHOLE AND INTACT in our corner of Nigeria.

Here I stand!

noiseless: You are right most of them are doing that because their congregations lack the understandings of what should be their collective priorities, and how to go about it therefore their religious,union and community leaders then take advantage of the situation and leave them with backwardness and hoplessness. But once the awareness is created with some sort of watchdog available to monitor anyone with a responsibility to serve the community, then it's a step in the right direction, but at this moment what is need is for the people to realise that they have the power and encourage them to believe in that power, which they even gave us names like IGWEBUIKE,OHAHBIKE,AZUKA & IKEORAH, so when it's clear to those users and looters that people are no longer in slumber they will either change or be shamed.

Thank you my brother. This is a very wise statement!

achi4u: I think our immidate problems are lack of co-opreation amongst igbo states,what happen to southeast economic summit?
what are our governors do discuss at their southeast governors forum.

Is there any law forbiden igbos to come together and build international airport,second niger bridge,interna'l trade fair center,rail system...just act like an independent country?pls help me out.

*i only learn about biafran war after reading the book of Major Gen Madu Ebo.

Very good question, because one has to ask the right questions to get to the right answers.

The answer is that some of them are forbidden by law openly, while some are forbidden by an unwritten law which every Nigerian president has implemented since 1970 (which is part of why Igbo want to produce a Nigerian president); for example, you should not (or even must not) build "federal projects". It means that even if you build an international airport today there, if the Feds don't approve it (which they would likely not to due to whatever they fear about us) then, the project would become another TINAPA. Nobody wants to waste his money. The second Niger bridge is more of a funding issue (for SE) because no SE state will like to shoulder the cost burden. You raised a good question about why the SE governors are not cooperating to develop such projects. Well, to get to the answer, you have to go back to the intentions of those who initiated state creation in Nigeria in 1967. Their intention was obvious -to divide the East politically, making it difficult for our people to unite around any agenda. They masked this intention by doing same to other parts of Nigeria, but those of us with eyes to the ground are not deceived one bit. lol The first state creation was a MILITARY STRATEGY. The same division of the East has now spread to all parts of Nigeria, making Nigeria one of the most divided countries I know.

Now, the only short-cut out of this problem was supposed to be by joining the so called "national party" (PDP), but alas it appears as if this national party is only interested in sustaining the undeclared subjugation of Igboland. Notice that they have somehow refused to create more states in the SE to balance the geo-pol regions, even though the PDP has maintained a constant dominance of the center, and SE since 1999. They have ZERO interest in building those things, and are simply dangling them to our faces every election year. This is the main reason why I don't like PDP.

Our chance of coming together to build things for ourselves lie in joining a party that MUST CONFRONT the "national party" by whatever means necessary to give us our fair share of development and dignity in our corner of Nigeria.

We must always connect our misfortune to political events on the ground.
We cannot plant yam and reap cocoayam, or sow corn and reap banana. Our unity must begin with joining a LOCAL PARTY that understands our needs and NEVER mortgages them by joining any "national party". I personally believe that Fashola of Lagos would never have achieved much if he is in PDP. This my view may be controversial, but I plead that our people start to connect their problems/solutions to REAL political events, else, we can never get out of our problems in Nigeria.

Beaf: Thanks a lot, bro.

I really applaud the spirit of this thread. It's ideals are farsighted and really encouraging, I have to plot a way to do this for the SS too. Lol!
If all regions are able to form grassroots pressure groups, we would soon ram the voice of the man on the street through the ears of the man in Abuja.
So far, I gather that the purpose is to:

1. Sensitise the grassroots.
2. Campaign for certain developmental projects.
3. Keep the eye of a halk on elected local/regional representatives.

It is the only way to bring about meaningful change to the people and once again, I applaud and encourage it. At some future date, people like me would be most interested in keying in.

Igbo Kwenu!

Thanks bro.

One of these days, you will be formally invited to join the movement that will bring out true change.
Try to organize SS if you can. We need to corner the grassroots!

odumchi: The first question I'd like to pose to you all is: what do you guys think is the most urgent problem in Igboland?

Ajuju mbu m choro iju unu bu: gini ka unu chere bu nsogbu kachasi mkpa na ala Igbo?

In my humble opinion, the most urgent problem in Igboland is LACK OF DIRECT INTERNATIONAL ACCESS.
Lagos state under Fashola is building a SECOND international airport at Lekki.
There is a reason why everybody is flocking to Lagos.
Give us international airport; give us freedom to solve ALL OTHER PROBLEMS!

APGA should not join any merger with any party. They should stand alone.
All these merger talks are irritating.

1025: my own is, any arrangement to stop pdp is welcome. even if boko haram will merge with other terrorist networks, i am not worried. i will vote for any party that is not pdp and i won't care who the other party presents.
we need to stop pdp by all possible means.

Chyz*:
Goodnews.They should leave. I would respect them for that unlike the Igbo politicians in the group who are always willing to piggy-back ride off of PDP instead of standing their own ground. I hope it would end here. Let the party collapse completely inless they start detaching themselves from PDP.

hehehe! My brothers I share your feelings.

I've been livid with rage at our politicians for representing themselves instead of our interests, and PDP is the party of ME FIRST, SECOND and LAST. They have ZERO Federal infrastructure to show us after being in PDP since 1999.
Our people are the most traveled Nigerians, yet we lack a functioning International Airport in SE.

Sooner of later, our people shall rise and chase those thieves out of our land!

When we began this journey, we decided to shape our movement in a tranformative and different way.
Movements that seek to change the status quo are always targets of ambient forces trying to retain the status quo.
After 6 months of constant design work, I concluded that what we want in this movement is not a spear because spears are tactically strong weapons, but strategically weak weapons. Notice that a spear can be broken very easily. Also notice that the head of the spear can be taken out and the spear becomes irrelevant afterwards. Again notice that a spear can only kill one at a time, and most importantly spears cannot bring down trees or large obstacles and barriers.

So, I set out to design a CHAINSAW style of leadership/movement.

Every Igbo person, or Eastern Nigerian or Nigerian (if they want to join later) form a tooth in the chain. Each tooth is connected to the next tooth by the force of universal truth and justice. Even the darkest forces of the universe cannot stop this train, because no one owns it!

FACE: Bless you. I should point out that what you call conspiracy theories and fear mongering may not be entirely baseless and might be from personal experiences and facts on the ground. They might just be their reactions to situations they found distasteful, just like you reacted during the occupy period.

I am sure that when you were eager for Nigerians to hit the streets, you went ahead and showed your support regardless of whether area boys and extortionists were also going to join the protests.

I am not saying that you should participate in something, regardless of the characters of your associates or their ideology, but you have to realise that they have the rights to express their fears and convinctions as long as their views and opinions do not set out to disparage others or to preach the hatred of other people. In other words, everyone's rights must stop where the next person's rights start.

Thank you my brother FACE!

Umu Igbo, please be proud to fight for your interests in Nigeria!
Never allow anyone to blackmail you or force you to start dancing to the sounds of the Nigerian cacophony.

Onye na amaghi ebe mmiri bidoro maba ya agaghi ama ebe o kwusiri!

When we fix Igboland, the rest of Nigeria may copy from us if they want. Their fate does not necessarily tie with ours. If that were the case, there would have been at least ONE FULLY FUNCTIONING INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN SE NIGERIA. There is none, and nobody is fighting for us to obtain that except ourselves.

So, let us focus on our interests in Nigeria. Ubochi isi, ka anyi kpukwuo ma afuonu! -the day we barb the head, we also barb the beard! Okwu Igbo.

Onye ga enye anyi International Airport, so that we stop dying on the roads to other regions just to board an international flight? Umu ibe, that is one (if not the most) urgent task at hand! Our empowerment begins with international access.

Here I stand!

While reading where Gov Chime of Enugu State was declaring APGA dead in SE, I suddenly remembered this thread!
How can any PDP man in SE shamelessly show his face in SE, when we have none of the Federal projects in SE.
Even the Enugu International Airport is almost a scam (from the pictures of work going on there).