OriOko88: I don't get it. What was he doing in d line of action.. You no carry gun u dey form hard boy in front of unknown gun men and soldiers. What da hell was he doing outside during d shoot out.. It wasnt even a case of stray bullet but a gun shot. Wat was he doing outside.. Why not inside hiding during the shoot out if truly he wasn't amongthe ugm.
RIP bros. The hands that killed you must bear the consequences. One or two men in power in Imo state are like they swore that Orlu must go under the pit in four years. Orlu is not headquarters of Biafra or IPOB.
FrankAkowe: Both Tinubu and Osibanjo should not have declared in the first place.
Neither of them will be elected. Because they betray zoning principles in the southern regions, after asking north to adhere to zoning so that a southerner shall afford to succeed president Buhari, they both refuse zoning in the southern regions because they know it's the turn of the SE region to produce a successor to president Bihari.
Both groups are betrayers. They refuse zoning of APC to the eastern region but ask the north to allow zoning in order to make south produce a successor to president Bihari.
boyfrank: e ne zuzu, keep supporting ndi amusu ipob. This is just the beginning. I will bring the might of the Nigerian army to the east while the north is insecure, so says MNK and his headless IPOB urchins clapped for him. This is it.
Are you not exceedingly stuupiid? Look carefully on the ground and understand that Igbo haters in uniform are unleashing mayhem in the SE, using anything as coverup?
The dead people were never unknown gunmen. They were innocent passersby. A group of people in power in Imo state want to kill and bury Orlu under 4 years.
OdogwuBlog: Peter Obi Gives Out Daughter In Marriage Ex-Anambra governor and PDP presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, gave out his daughter, Gabriella Nwamaka Frances Obi, in traditional marriage on Sunday at Agulu, Anambra State.
Shared By: ILLIKANNU DONALD CHUKWUMA (Blogger Donald)
Okwute Peter Obi, the man to beat by others during the next presidential election in Nigeria if Nigeria deserves good and capable personality to lead it.
This talk of we are not slaves in Nigeria is increasing. The feeling of being in slavery in Nigeria is now also disturbing most of the northern groups. So, are Nigerians so clumsy that they can't free themselves from their few oppressors?
Ayomi90: You wan spoil the flatheadies day, remember na Monday we dey. It's too early.
Negative campaigner for BAT.
You don't understand that no southern presidential candidate can win if the north is supporting a northern presidential candidate. And you create more enemies for BAT in the south. Flaaathead, that's truly you
Lanrelagboi: Days back, the media was a washed with reports that the respected Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse III "endorsed" an APC presidential aspirant Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Then some other reports came denying such endorsement. But what exactly did the Honorable Monach say?
If this is not an endorsement, I wonder what else is but lets say it isn't an endorsement. But this is what the monarch has said and let no one misreport it
According to the Olu: [it's not necessary for Nigerians to see the CV of Bola Tinubu].
No brilliant person would say what the Olu said. He is very dull and incoherent in speech. He endorsed Bola Tinubu; like other dullards and Dumbo's who also endorsed Tinubu to become president of Nigeria in the 21st century.
OyigboUpdate: Ekuke. Was it not what your hunchback leader started. The first death threat to sit at home violators was made by your ekperima hunchback. He left the baton to Simon Ekpa. Simon Ekpa fraction insists on sit at home. Yet you're still here shouting fulani
Igbos survived the civil war, your agents of destruction in the video forcing sit at home in Igbo land is like a scratch on a camel's back for the Igbos.
GeneralDae: Obasanjo was already Political force ( once head of state) in the Nigerian political scene. You don't have many Igbos in the rank of Obasanjo even in 1999. Yaradua happened because Obasanjo chose him.
Anyioku was more of a political force than Obasanjo in 1999.
GeneralDae: South East should not be given the ticket on a platter of gold. If the south easterners are serious then we need more prominent south eastern politicians to take politics seriously, to build bridges and political structures over years like Nnamdi Azikiwe of old. No one is stopping the south east, they are the ones who have hindered themselves. Also, they didn't handle the IPOB thing properly. IPOB was supposed to be just a PDP tool to push Buhari to the edge but Nnamdi Kanu eventually went out of control, almost pitching the south east against Nigeria. That was a bad political strategy from the PDP. Good idea but not properly implemented.
How much did Obasanjo and Yar'Adua fight together with their respective regions before both were made president of Nigeria? The SW region was even against Obasanjo. Obasanjo was freed from prison to become president, while most of the north didn't even know that Yar'Adua would become president. Yar'Adua hardly campaigned to be made president. Zoning for the presidency between the north and the south played crucial role in making both OBJ and Yar'Adua president of Nigeria.
You now want to shift the goalpost in the middle of a football match to ask the SE people to fight for presidency. It's not going to be like your imagination.
Khaleepha5681: Osinbajo is plan B to TINUBU. You don't expect SW to put its eggs in one basket.
Even Tinubu himself is a betrayer of the southern regions, as he knows that it's only by zoning of the presidency to the South that can make him win Nigeria's presidential election, as he asked for the presidency to come to the South, yet, he refused zoning in the southern regions, knowing full well that it's the turn of the SE to produce a successor to President Buhari. So, it's betrayal from Tinubu and another mother of betrayals from Osinbajo.
Osinbajo betrayed both Tinubu and the SE as he jumped in for presidential race. He knows it's the turn of the SE to produce a successor to President Buhari, because his SW region has severally produced President and HoS for Nigeria, as well as an Interim President.
Zoning for the presidency has been it since 1999. OBJ, Yar'Adua and Jonathan clinched the office through consideration for zoning. OBJ was in prison and never crisscrossed Nigeria before he was considered by zoning and made president of Nigeria.
Yar'Adua did not even plan to become president, hardly campaigned for it. Jonathan became president through consideration for zoning. The SE presidential aspirants don't have to criss-cross Nigeria before they can be also considered through the zoning principles for one of them, preferably, Peter Obi, to succeed President Buhari.
Anthonyoz: As I saw the phyton ,so many things ran through my mind ,kill it or save it , because I haven't killed eke idemilli before and the owner of the trap won't kill it either talk more of eating it , then the only option left was to save the phyton or it leave it to die they ,so I choose to save the phyton then the question is how .
But thanks to natgeo wild ,I have watched wild life consevertion documentaries ,I decided to save the wild phyton because of my childhood memories of nature ,I was hurt of not seeing butterfly and caterpillars as I used to , no thanks to human encouragement ,so I decided to borrow a leave from those saving wildlife I had watched it scary for I haven't touched a Snake before but I summoned the courage to try , so find a knife and a rag useed to scare animal and pests o covered the phyton head and grab it and began to cut those net ,it wasn't easy as the knife was discarded and blunt.
You knew it: this python does not harm anyone in Igboland. Igbos neither kill nor eat it.
But, Tinubu, you started the division when you knew that it is because of zoning that you can win Nigeria's presidential election, but you refused APC zoning in the southern regions because it's the turn of the SE to produce a successor to President Buhari.
If the least of those Kano people joins the presidential race, he/she will beat Yemi Osinbajo due to the skewed and lopsided political structure of Nigeria favoring the Northern region.
But Osinbajo is joining the race because he knows that its the turn of southern Nigeria to present a successor to President Buhari.
In that southern Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo knows that his Yoruba SW region has presided over Nigeria for about three administrations in 12 years. Osinbajo knows that it's the turn of the Southeast to present a successor to President Buhari. Osinbajo is going for equity without clean hands: that's the beginning of his failure in his bid to succeed President Buhari.
Williams3093: Heads of State and Presidents of Nigeria Since Independence till date and their Zone
By Onyeke Ejike
1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | 1960-1963 - North East 2. Nnamdi Azikwe | 1963-1966 - South East 3. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi | 1966 - South East 4. Yakubu Gowon | 1966-1975 - North Central 5.Murtala Rufai Mohammed | 1975-1976 - North West 6.Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo | 1976-1979 - South West 7.Alhaji Shehu Shagari | 1979-1983 - North West 8.Muhammadu Buhari | 1983-1985 - North West 9.Ibrahim Babangida | 1985-1993 - North Central 10.Ernest Adegunle Shonekan | 1993 - South West 11.Sani Abacha | 1993-1998 - North West 12.Abdulsalami Abubakar | 1998-1999 - North Central 13.Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo | 1999-2007 - South West 14.Umaru Musa Yar’Adua | 2007-2010 - North West 15.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan | 2010-2015 - South South 16.Muhammadu Buhari | 2015 - 2023 - North West
In the past 62 years of leading Nigeria post independence, the North through military heads and democratic presidents has led this country for 39 years. By the time Pa Buhari completes his tenure in 2023, the North must have led Nigeria for 40 years why the South has only led the country for 23 years. And I ask, should the North be in the ballot come 2023 presidential election?
This question brings us to issue of zoning. Zoning is always a beloved topic every time election is around the corner in our various locals, states and in the federal government. But in one way or the other, the greedy politicians who selfishly think leading is their birth right always find a way to subvert the interest of the less represented group. I say the interest of the most represented group because often time, it’s not because the marginalized group is the minority but because they have been intentionally removed from the spheres of influence and power even when in many cases, they are the powerful. This is not even my pain. My pain is the silence and should I say cluelessness and unpatriotic nature of the representatives of the marginalized. For instance those in the opposition party PDP who seems to have been bribed or cajoled into throwing the party ticket open because they may not have been able to build up a good argument for a Southern PDP presidential candidate.
Zoning may not be a constitutional provision in Nigeria but a social contractual obligation. According to social contract principle, we all agreed to come together to rest our political power in one man or group of men to represent our interest not merely according to the provision of the law nor the predispositions of gods but by the rational moral principles tending to the social good otherwise called the COMMON GOOD.
Although laws are explicit social contract such as that of the American constitution constituted by Americans from the circumstances of their co-existence, we cannot depend wholly on ours that was not entirely the dictate of our people hence do not always represent our whole experience as a conglomeration of nations. I hope the 2014 confab features zoning/rotational leadership from federal to local government. This is because it is rationally justifiable that there be an equal representation of all regions in the constitution of the government that manage the affairs that concern them and that entails rotational leadership.
Judging from our differences, this rotation should not only feature the North and South in the general perspective but the six constitutional geopolitical zones that make up this country. Hence, if we want to salvate this country, we must ensure that every zone in the country is always equally represented to give them a sense of belonging.
If someone from the South East is the president today, not only should a Northerner be the Vice, but a Northerner from the zone that should present the next president so that whoever becomes the Vice today will be someone who is expected to take over the presidency after the current administration. This will give room for the incoming president who was the vice to learn the problems of the the current administration and plan on how to salvage it with his team. If this is untenable, the vice should at least come from the zone that is least represented. That being the case, the Chief of Staff must be from another zone different from that of the president and vice, and the Secretary from another zone, the Senate president from another while the Speaker of the house should likewise come from the sixed zone in the light of the federal character principle.
But in a country filled with greedy and self centered politicians, the interest pf the public and the common wealth is not as important as their personal interest.
With the presence of the North in all sectors of the government in the current administration, they should not be in the ballot for the presidency come 2023. A Northerner should be a vice this time but not the president no matter the circumstances because the other region, the South has got credible candidates to succeed pa Buhari.
In the south, the South West and the South South haven been in power recently should give way and political support to the East for the sake of national integration as the East has not test power since the first republic. After the East in the South, the East in the North is expected to take over as they too have not tested power since independence.
In a Nutshell, Atiku Abubakar, Saraki, Bala Muhammad, Bello Yahaya and Aminu Tambuwal should Jettison their presidential ambition. They could pursue anything else for the sake of justice, and should support the South - the south east.
Number 2 above, Nnamdi Azikwe, was never Head of Nigeria's government. Tafawa Balewa was.
Realists: Fundamental human rights to be voted for & to vote, is an inalienable rights that can be denied to mankind.
If PDP chose to Atikulate because of $ 10,000.00, at the convention, I pray history writers will be fair to Northerners & write the truth that some hungry southerners choose money over national interest.
It's also an inalienable right of regions that formed a country to sit on a conference to agree on a political structure and governance system to serve them in the country.
Military dictators from one part of a country do not restructure a country politically, supervise a constition to legitimize the skewed and lopsided political structure they created, then the same soldiers impose the constitution upon the people and country. But that's exactly the political restructuring and military constitution that northern Nigeria used its loyal military dictators to do to Nigeria, which grossly tilted political representation and presidential election process in favour of Fulani-controlled northern region of Nigeria. The day the northern politicians agree to political restructuring of Nigeria democratically, zoning or rotation of the presidency between the north and the south shall be stopped.
Inalienable rights ke. The skewed and lopsided political structure denied some Nigerian groups the inalienable right to get one of their members to be elected president of Nigeria.
Williams3093: Heads of State and Presidents of Nigeria Since Independence till date and their Zone
By Onyeke Ejike
1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | 1960-1963 - North East 2. Nnamdi Azikwe | 1963-1966 - South East 3. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi | 1966 - South East 4. Yakubu Gowon | 1966-1975 - North Central 5.Murtala Rufai Mohammed | 1975-1976 - North West 6.Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo | 1976-1979 - South West 7.Alhaji Shehu Shagari | 1979-1983 - North West 8.Muhammadu Buhari | 1983-1985 - North West 9.Ibrahim Babangida | 1985-1993 - North Central 10.Ernest Adegunle Shonekan | 1993 - South West 11.Sani Abacha | 1993-1998 - North West 12.Abdulsalami Abubakar | 1998-1999 - North Central 13.Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo | 1999-2007 - South West 14.Umaru Musa Yar’Adua | 2007-2010 - North West 15.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan | 2010-2015 - South South 16.Muhammadu Buhari | 2015 - 2023 - North West
In the past 62 years of leading Nigeria post independence, the North through military heads and democratic presidents has led this country for 39 years. By the time Pa Buhari completes his tenure in 2023, the North must have led Nigeria for 40 years why the South has only led the country for 23 years. And I ask, should the North be in the ballot come 2023 presidential election?
This question brings us to issue of zoning. Zoning is always a beloved topic every time election is around the corner in our various locals, states and in the federal government. But in one way or the other, the greedy politicians who selfishly think leading is their birth right always find a way to subvert the interest of the less represented group. I say the interest of the most represented group because often time, it’s not because the marginalized group is the minority but because they have been intentionally removed from the spheres of influence and power even when in many cases, they are the powerful. This is not even my pain. My pain is the silence and should I say cluelessness and unpatriotic nature of the representatives of the marginalized. For instance those in the opposition party PDP who seems to have been bribed or cajoled into throwing the party ticket open because they may not have been able to build up a good argument for a Southern PDP presidential candidate.
Zoning may not be a constitutional provision in Nigeria but a social contractual obligation. According to social contract principle, we all agreed to come together to rest our political power in one man or group of men to represent our interest not merely according to the provision of the law nor the predispositions of gods but by the rational moral principles tending to the social good otherwise called the COMMON GOOD.
Although laws are explicit social contract such as that of the American constitution constituted by Americans from the circumstances of their co-existence, we cannot depend wholly on ours that was not entirely the dictate of our people hence do not always represent our whole experience as a conglomeration of nations. I hope the 2014 confab features zoning/rotational leadership from federal to local government. This is because it is rationally justifiable that there be an equal representation of all regions in the constitution of the government that manage the affairs that concern them and that entails rotational leadership.
Judging from our differences, this rotation should not only feature the North and South in the general perspective but the six constitutional geopolitical zones that make up this country. Hence, if we want to salvate this country, we must ensure that every zone in the country is always equally represented to give them a sense of belonging.
If someone from the South East is the president today, not only should a Northerner be the Vice, but a Northerner from the zone that should present the next president so that whoever becomes the Vice today will be someone who is expected to take over the presidency after the current administration. This will give room for the incoming president who was the vice to learn the problems of the the current administration and plan on how to salvage it with his team. If this is untenable, the vice should at least come from the zone that is least represented. That being the case, the Chief of Staff must be from another zone different from that of the president and vice, and the Secretary from another zone, the Senate president from another while the Speaker of the house should likewise come from the sixed zone in the light of the federal character principle.
But in a country filled with greedy and self centered politicians, the interest pf the public and the common wealth is not as important as their personal interest.
With the presence of the North in all sectors of the government in the current administration, they should not be in the ballot for the presidency come 2023. A Northerner should be a vice this time but not the president no matter the circumstances because the other region, the South has got credible candidates to succeed pa Buhari.
In the south, the South West and the South South haven been in power recently should give way and political support to the East for the sake of national integration as the East has not test power since the first republic. After the East in the South, the East in the North is expected to take over as they too have not tested power since independence.
In a Nutshell, Atiku Abubakar, Saraki, Bala Muhammad, Bello Yahaya and Aminu Tambuwal should Jettison their presidential ambition. They could pursue anything else for the sake of justice, and should support the South - the south east.
Northern presidential aspirants who want to be on the ballot are from PDP. They want to start the history of political leadership of Nigeria from 1999, instead of from 1960. Thus, the tell the foxy story that the last PDP president of Nigeria was from the south, therefore a northerner shall be the next PDP president of Nigeria - Tambuwal and Co. Story. North has ruled Nigeria for nearly 70% of the time between 1960 and today.
Tinubuadvocate: So ? when a member of house rep said north is very peaceful now... We are calling on international agencies to withdraw their support we dont need any aid from any international organization.
These Plateau and Beneue states wailing frequently have more than 20 million people. But there are sovereign countries with less than 200,000 people at the UN.
If Plateau and Benue push for independence from the same Nigeria harbouring the oppressors of Plateau and Benue people, who is going to stop them?
Onyiiobi7735: The North is paying very heavily for the fatal mistake made in 2015 and 2019,but don't be surprised that come 2023,many there would still collect 1k to vote in another human catastrophe.
The SE has joined in the suffering. It has been a wish for many northerners.
They brought Islamic sharia criminal justice system which brought Boko Haram and its offshoots, the bandits.
dre11: Foreign missions in Nigeria and other international bodies have tightened up security alerts for travels in the seven states making up the North West...
The 68 people abducted by the attackers are still in Nigeria with their hostages takers, more than 7 days after the attack. Only in Nigeria can the abductors not traced.
It's like a business incoporated with high profile persons on the corridors of power in Nigeria.
ignis: Peter Obi is the best candidate PDP can use to counter Osibanjo. If PDP dull and present outdated candidate like Atiku again, they will have to sit on the opposition bench for another 8 years.
Meanwhile,
Kitikiti! Katakata!
That's what is happening in Tinubu's camp due to Osinbajo's declaration
Peter Obi is the man to beat. Peter Obi has the capacity to change the course of Nigeria for good.
Akinsete19: I thought they claimed that poverty has been reduced drastically, how come Osinbajo still promise to lift 100 million people from poverty?
The trick man carefully put "will CONTINUE to provide employment for 100,000,000 Nigerians."
As if their government was able to provide employment even for 50,000 Nigerians during his 8 years tenure as VP. As for fighting insecurity, he knows that insecurity shall assume hydra-headed format with him as president of Nigeria.
Politics › Re: We Will Not Comment On Uzodinma’s New Position On Us ― IPOB by onuman: 11:15am On Apr 19, 2022
