Soludo is rather on the neck of Obi because Soludo wants to become the first Igbo president of Nigeria. Soludo is ready to do anything to get his desire.
That's a governor who looks beyond the nose. He knows that all the ethnic groups in a country can't be equally endowed. He knows that in the developed countries, technology and innovations started in one part of the country but spreads to the other parts.
datola: Kemi really suffered in Nigeria. She was traumatized by Nigeria.
And she is using the experience to gain sympathy and be more popular towards wimming the UK PM election.
Suffered? She attended federal government college, her dad was a medical practitioner, she fetched water with bucket, she feared armed robbers. What she sees as suffering in Nigeria then has been multiplied more than five times for the masses of Nigeria today.
Governor Soludo emphasized on the same thing in a viral video while in the United States that 99.99% of those arrested in Anambra State for commiting heinous crimes such as hard drugs trafficking, kidnappings, armed robberies, counterfeit products, human trafficking, ritual murders, and more are from the South East of Nigeria. Soludo did very well to speak out (BUT some of his irresponsible tribal kinsmen started attacking him online for saying it as it is) so that everyone can wake up because some of the same crimes are being relentlessly done outside Nigeria in multiple countries based on several Police arrests in Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Thailand, India, Ethiopia, Seychelles, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, etc.
There's another video of a young Ibo guy from Isseke in Orlu who said the same thing recently that everyone has ran away from his community to other places and states due to crimes, and just in June 2024, a gang of kidnappers for ransom from the East of Nigeria kidnapped right in Ijebuland in Ogun State, an agribusiness investor from Ogun State in the South West and buried him and another person in a shallow grave.
Just last year in 2024, a gang of kidnappers from the South East of Nigeria origin kidnapped for ransom a Yoruba man who is an investor in agribusiness right in Ijebu Igbo and later killed him then buried him and another person in a shallow grave. The Police investigators later arrested them all (males and females) up to 7 of them from and the videos are still on the Channels Television YouTube channel alongside publications in the print media online. Those who carried out the kidnappings were all Ibos.This is the same thing they have been doing in Yorubaland (Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans and his gang of armed robbers and kidnappers from Anambra) and other gangs for years now which they have exported to Ghana as well which has triggered the anger and massive protests from Ghanaians just yesterday based on the arrests made by the Ghana Police due to the massive crimes they commit for over 15 years now alongside the impostor illegally claiming to be an Eze Ibo of Ghana when he is NOT from a royal family in his village.
Soludo is a noble man who has spoken out in the viral video speech he gave while in the United States that 99.99% of Anambra kidnappings for ransom, armed robberies and other heinous crimes are done by South East of Nigeria indigenes. This was meant to serve as a cautionary measure but NO, some started attacking him for saying the statistics out.
Tinder Swindler, Drugs or Football? It shows a drug trafficker from the South East of Nigeria being interogated in 2014 by a Thailand Police investigator who from the timestamps 5:00 and 9:00 bluntly called out the "I*o" tribe as the BIGGEST CURSE of Nigeria and Africa in that same 2014, because of their many relentless hard drug trafficking and more into Thailand.
This liar in red cap does not even know the difference between Anambra and Imo States. He is talking rubbish.
Shorruup. Your unbridled and increasingly annoying aspiration to become the first Igbo president of Nigeria are becoming unbearable. You sacrifice the reputation of your people in Anambra state, destroy the image of the entire Igbo - all in your desire to become the first Igbo president of Nigeria.
Babangidapikin: They said they want to overall the building to barebone .. Buhari's administration spent $100 million , they're about to spend between $400 million to $500million. Before you know it we might end up spending $1billion maintaining a structure that should have been completely brought down and rebuilt. Why not save $1 billion and build a brand new airport.
Even the USA will not spend a whooping $1billion to build a new airport. Only in Nigeria.
Kay17: The call for "true" federalism is shallow and without content. There are a thousand ways to organize a federation, and there is no blue print from the heavens that dictate how it should look like in a super-multicultural society like ours.
It is amazing that we do not, or rather refuse, to learn the lessons of Nigerian history and overglamourize the 1960s. The so-called regionalism was not as appealing as most people make it out. First, the regions were not working because all the minorities within those regions felt overshadowed. The North was an amalgamation of hundreds of ethno-cultural identities which was more than just Hausa-Fulani; just as the Western and Eastern regions were. The 36 states directly came out of these agitations. The so-called true federalism was unable to withstand the very first challenge to its legitimacy. The country was more divided then than now.
If the so-called federalists read the final report of the Constitution Drafting Committee, they would have known that there was a deliberate step-away from the Westminster system and the confederated federalism because a fragile country like Nigeria requires a strong centre to hold the entire country together.
It is a joke to create a system where the regions or states collect revenue and distribute to the centre - the centre that has massive bills to pay in form of the maintaining a standing military, customs and big public service. if the states fail to pay what will happen? An invasion by the centre? The Constitution of 1960 created the Consolidated Revenue Fund where all the monies of the federation were pooled. Section 140 of the same constitution directed the Federation to pay each region a sum of 50% of proceeds of mining proceeds and rents collected in the region. Section 141 has a sharing formula which is much maligned today for the Federation to pay to each region. Back then, the Federation charged the regions for the costs of administration for collecting customs and excise duties which it set off from their share.
I think the real problem is the poor revenue generation of the states. The states have immense ambitions but no purse to pursue it. The taxes they collect are meagre not as juicy as the income taxes. Maybe, it is high time states be given full tax powers concurrent with the Federation.
Please note that the revenue from raw materials cannot beat the tax to be collected from 200m strong productive economy.
Crab mentality!!
"Crab mentality, also known as crabs in a bucket mentality, refers to a way of thinking where people try to pull down or discourage others who are trying to achieve success or improve their situation, even if that success doesn't negatively affect them." Courtesy of AI.
Betwwen 1967-1996, military dictators from Northern Nigeria created a skewed and lopsided political structure for Nigeria through proliferation of mostly non viable states and local government areas in the old Northern region, supervised a constitution to legit the political structure, and devised a quasi unitary government system for Nigeria. They even established quota system for admissions to federal government institutions. All boiled down to: you can't grow unless I grow at the same time with you. Crab mentality. Beginning 1999, the same constitution was raped when 12 far north states started to adopt unconstitutional sharia criminal justice system. Islamic extremists emerged thereafter and say they are fighting for a country to be governed with Sharia criminal justice system. Insecurity from that with its accompanying mass poverty has enveloped Nigeria since then.
You still want to hold on to the political status quo? FYI, in all the developed countries of the world, industrialization started from one part of each of the countries and quickly extended to other parts of the country. But Crab mentality rules for Nigeria. No amount of proceeds from crude oil, gas, gold and other natural resources can stop mass poverty and insecurity in Nigeria governed as it is today.
"This arrangement, upturned by the military after it hijacked power in January 1966, is what the Patriots seek to restore."
Nigeria is the only country in the world where military dictators from one region created its political structure and supervised the country's constitution - no consultation of the country's people through a referendum on the political structure, constitution and governance system.
A shortwhile ago, a former deputy governor of a state in the Southwest region said if president Tinubu does not restructure Nigeria politically to true federalism before 2027, Tinubu with his presidency shall be victim of Nigeria's fraudulent political structure and quasi unitary government. system in a multi ethnic and multi religious country.
ISWAP can't be in that region without tacit support from politicians and religious leaders in the region who adopted unconstitutional Islamic sharia criminal justice system in the far north states of Nigeria. ISWAP's only objective is ger a Nigeria to be governed with Sharia criminal laws, like the Taliban of Afghanistan did in Afghanistan.
ElSudani: What are the institutions being destroyed? We need explanation not blanket statements that are only meant to grab headlines.
The Comptoller was to be succeeded by an Igbo lady next on line. To avoid the lady, Tinubu had to extend the appointment of his tribesman whose tenure is about to expire. You got it?
But who will tell the truth that at the root of this is the adoption of unconstitutional Islamic sharia criminal justice system by the political and religious leaders in the 12 far north states of Nigeria beginning 1999? Since then, Islamic religious extremists took to war to make Nigeria become an Islamic Republic to be governed with Sharia criminal justice system.
Spilling of bloods of innocent people was more important to Hamas than recovering the so-called occupied lands from Israel. Typical of Islamic Jihadists. If not, Hamas would have let millions of Arabs into Israel on October 7. Next thing would have bern two state solution peace talks.
Botragelad: Islamists are doing what they do best, parading and mocking hostages. Yet some countries and idealists still push for a Palestinian state. After all this, does anyone really expect Israel to willingly create and hand over a state to terrorists?
Hamas and their Islamic jihad group cling to the hostages because it’s their last desperate shield. But in the end, when Israel finishes this, we’ll see who the biggest losers are.
Well, Hamas people did wrong in entering Israel on that Oct 7, but terrorism in a group of people is groomed by too much suppression of a people by the stronger group or groups.
Godfullsam: where did you get that information from?
by the way, is ibadan in the south east?
You people don't see Nigeria as one country and is never gonna be a nation, in view of your clutching tight to stranger-indegene phenomenon in Lagos built with oil revenues and taxes from all the tribes of Nigeria.
But because of proceeds from crude oil in the Niger delta region, you people clutch tight to one Nigeria. Hypocrisy.
You want to eat your cake and have it. You want one country Nigeria, but non Yoruba tribes must remain strangers in Lagos. Typical mindset of one with inferiority complex.
raddyworld: Yimu If they reject him you will jubilate but when they support you bring in your hullabaloo. Do u think everyone is full of hatred? So you expect a saint man to rule Nigeria, a country with corrupt leaders and followers. Corruption doesn't works easy for leaders if not for the wicked followers that help them to perpetrate the evil. Tell them to reject bribe they will say..they need to play smart.
What us Yimu? They write in English language here. A most hateful person is one who loves the political status quo in Nigeria to continue beyond 2027. Remove ethnoreligious bigotry and see better
2027 is still far, yet all we hear is Tinubu politics of reelection. Hunger is dealing with the masses that are literally being fried like fish in hot frying pan.
Even if all the 36 state governors and Wike endorse Tinubu, it's going to be Tinubu/APC versus Nigerian voters in 2027.
Awuuu. RIP. You didn't know that it is a religious war, a Jihad sort of, cllandestinely supported by millions of people in the Sharia states who took to Sharia criminal justice system? It's a war without ending unless the Jihadists won Nigeria for a country to be governed with Sharia criminal laws. Exactly like what the Taliban spearheaded, fought for years until they won Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and decreed Islamic sharia criminal justice system for everyone in Afghanistan.
givedemwotowoto: Extreme hardship and insecurity everywhere meanwhile the head of government is playing politics of reelection.
Reelection campaign is foreign reserves increased by Tinubu government. As if the hungry or sick people in Nigeria will eat foreign reserves to survive.