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... and I even forgot Barugate!

Submitting the report to Abba Kiyari is like reporting devil to himself

GavelSlam:
Just because you would sell your soul for filthy lucre doesn't mean you must place everyone in your category.

What are you yapping about? Are you already high this early morning?

And who the heck is selling his soul? You or I?

Take a look at below. PMB actually signed off on the restatement. Pls defend!

https://www.nairaland.com/4134266/president-muhammadu-buhari-aware-mainas

GavelSlam:
Hey, stop spamming.

I'm not on this forum to cater for anybody.

I'm here on my own volition.

I've made my contribution on this mater on a thread that I chose to.

Perhaps you don't have any better thing to do with your life.

Stop griping and do your paid job!

You think we don't know.

Defend, I say!

And I am surprised that you believe that no one will know who restated Maina. There are memos, letters and even committees formed.

I'm watching for what is going to happen in the next few days.

Asking Maina to leave is not enough.

Same as asking Babchair to go on suspension. The investigative panel report needs to be dealt with and someone should be answering to prosecution.

GavelSlam:
Who reinstated him?

The president?

None of us can knows who did.

What we do know is that when the president got into the public domain the president acted.

If you prefer to wail, that would be your personal decision.

So far, the president as acted on realising a bad situation.

The point is that the buck stops at Mr. President's table. He appointed all those crooks and action is expected now.

Don't tow the line of, oh no, it wasn't the @resident that reinstated him

And where is @GavelSlam. Come and defend!

Last week it was World Bank focus on my North!

This week, this!

Next week, ??

One week one scandal!

I'm looking for @GavelSlam.

Come and defend your master

GavelSlam:

I will defend the president for making the right decision.
Especially when his detractors are people with a putrid history of larceny and subterfuge.

By the way, he's your master too.

First "right" decision was to restate a criminal and fugitive.

Second "right" decision was to direct that he be sacked after we the public found out. (As yourself how many we have not found out)

We now await 3rd right decision, to identify, apprehend and prosecute all that were involved in the shameful restatement.

That's when I will listen to you Sir

GavelSlam:
Buhari's victory of 2015 really hurts you guys.

Then you guys said he had died in London only for the man to rise from the ashes like the phoenix he is.

You again!


Forget the 2015 election and address your life today.

Is what you are hearing left, right, and centre good for your nation?

Speak out against evil and evil shall not befall you.

GavelSlam:
Afterthought, beforehand, between thought, he has taken the right decision.

Zombie can never change.

Ok let's wait for him to take the next right decision - to fish out and sack those involved. We are waiting

otil1:
Asari said it all..

if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, quite ssurely, it has to be

Buhari, if all around you are thieves (proven) and you now resurrect thieves, who art thou

Asari over to you, told them.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6bGTPRDcE

Watch from 5.36

Asari said it all..

if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, quite ssurely, it has to be

Buhari, if all around you are thieves (proven) and you now resurrect thieves, who art thou

Asari over to you, told them.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6bGTPRDcE

SLIDEwaxie:
It's too early to be crying...

When was it in Nigeria that you got a job without actually knowing someone?


Everything na cabal...

You people are so weak, that it's too difficult for your to let go of your past and just move on..

You just have to keep living by it, despite tendency to only create emptiness!!!

Carbal ko, cardboard ni

Is this what you can contribute to a clear worsening situation, a clear manifestation of undeniable sectionalism by the government of the day?

I'm truly appalled at your attempt to justify or skim through a burgeoning evil made more manifest and brazen by this administration.

Praise those that read the topic before commenting.

Many don't read at all

APC govt., nothing like it ever

People committing suicide like taking ice cream, jumping inside lagoon like it's a party

NwaAmaikpe:



God forbid that this foolish thief be found in this nation's corridors of power.

Let's say he stole (He didn't because of all their efforts, no conviction has been made), he deployed it to create jobs here in Nigeria.

Now, give that fellow a break. You first become a suspect and after conviction, you become a thief or criminal, etc.

Still has been a serial suspect but all came to nullify. Today, there is even no corrupt case against him. Better than Saraki, ypir Senate President. think of it

Clerverly:
Ipob Terrorists, Oya Come and Wail!

Ipob

Ok, are you ok

The attitude to this topic is so wrong!

We need to speak up against evil and not trade blames and curses.

Truth is that the Nigerian army is under serious abuse under current government and they are gradually losing sense of their duty and role in the nation.

It is not the army's job to go after drug addicts. What NDLEA's mandate.

And what they say before they maim and kill their victims speaks volumes. There's so much tribal division and hatred within the rank and file of the army today.

In case you missed it, read below.

She said: “They shot him on the head. He was packing blocks when the army men started coming to his direction. People were running and Sadiq ran too. They told him to stop but he refused. He ran towards the fence and it was while he was standing by the fence that one of them told the other one: “Wait! I will kill him”.

GaggleNSwallow:
Fake news.

What is fake about the news?

Can't you see the link to the source?

Where are the South West youths that staged a welcome rally for the soldiers invasion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6bGTPRDcE

This thread has derailed already

Vivere:
Check my last response to your earlier post. I agreed with you that IPOB was born before GEJ lost the elections. Omenka may have overlooked this aspect. But on NL, the IPOB foot soldiers like to equate IPOB with Igbo. Anyone who is against IPOB is seen as being against Igbo interests, according to them. So Omenka is not far wrong in this aspect.

Yes. Quite so. IPOB projected itself as championing Igbo cause. Meanwhile, they were greatly anti-Igbo in true sense. Often, they don't know.

Thanks

Vivere:
Omenka vs which Igbo nation?? Omenka only faces individuals who toss e-blows in his direction, and he takes them head on. If they happen to be Igbo, so be it. Whenever they launch their attacks first, he simply retaliates and gives them a taste of their own medicine. Now you are claiming Omenka vs Igbo nation. You people know how to form victim, sha.

I don't blame you, though. Na Omenka I blame. He has given you the mouth to talk to him anyhow, because of that message he posted up here. Wubbish!

But Omenka's understanding of the true situation is circumspect.

Equating IPOB to Igbo and claiming IPOB was birthed after Jonathan lost election told me he has quite q long way to go.

Never an easy road.

@Larry,

Yea, I identify with your line of argument, just a little.

The OPC appears to have become more rooted with the Yoruba society, liking up the energy and aspirations of the youths with the Yoruba elite, the traditional institutions and the political elite. -a success story. I agree

Nnamdi Kani and his IPOB; a different story.

But before you heap all the blames on the leadership of South East, I have just 2 words for you to ponder. Just 2:

1. The man, Nnamdi Kanu: did Nnamdi allow himself to be guided by the leadership you have so loftily accused now? Did he listen to their council? If anything, he declared war on them and at home (threat to stop Anambra election, even when we know he can't).

Does it not surprise you that a project such as restoring Biafra has only one man as the supreme leader, no council, no board, no committee? Nna, IPOB bu private business. One man's hustle, take it or leave it.

2. Igbo leaders and what Igbos want: if you are a leader, you will be expending energy promoting and championing what those you lead want. Do Igbos want to breakaway from Nigeria at this point in time? Have we not been through that part before and what happened? Igbos lost all they laboured for and fell from a dominating tribal position to almost obscurity. Just now that we are begining to regain momentum in commerce, transport, education, academia, etc. A rabble rouser who at almost 50 has not built a house in Igboland comes and says let's fight them again.

I'm very disappointed in you that you are comparing Yoruba situation to Igbos. Yourubas have not cut their teeth with war and secession. This is their own morning. You, as an Igbo. Should be extending words of guidance to them as they begin to see what Igbos say 50 years ago.

So instead of advocating for Igbos, to copy Yorubas, Igbos are on a different stage of the journey. Odi tried also and received their comeuppance under a Youruba president. Na today? The middle belt is waking up to know their is no North but fulani.

Igbos should simple lie low, do our trade and wait for all other parts of the country to awaken. We have had the first-mover blues. We shouldn't repeat same mistakes.

Until Yourubas, Ijaws, Effiks, Anangs, Biroms, Miyangos, etc. Etc. The ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria are ready to talk seriously about Nigeria, Igbos should just lie low. After all, statistics have shown na oburo anyi ka oka njo.

So stop griping. Nobody is a coward.

IPOB is out of control and needed to be curtailed. Meanwhile Nnamdi Kanu has done nothing to show he cares about the youth that are dying needlessly, just for him to maintain a particular posture. At the height of Abia crises, Emma Powerful was calling on IPOB units to move into Umuahia to defend Biafraland. Was that not a call for them to go and confront soldiers and die?

Bros, leaf mata

JUSTICE4Nigeria:
Nnamdi Kanu vs Gani Adams; The Idiocy of a People

By Larry Iloh

Over the weekend, the news was all over the place that the Alafin of Oyo, arguably the highest traditional institution in Yorubaland, has bestowed on Gani Adams the title of Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland (the war Lord or field marshal of Yorubaland). The last person that held that position was late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, the Nigerian president that never was.

So, who is Gani Adams and what does he stand for?
Well, I did not know so I googled him. And according to Google, "Gani Adams is a political and social activist. He is a faction leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress, a SECESSIONIST organisation based in Nigeria, which supports a sovereign state of the Yoruba people". So, the new field marshal of the Yoruba people is a forty-something year old man who champions the secession of the Yoruba people from Nigeria. He was in and out of prison for organising Yoruba youths against the annulment of June 12 1993 election, which the man he now sits on his title won. His organisation, OPC, wants Oodua republic. Since his new title, there has been a litany of congratulations to him from friends and foes alike from the Yoruba people. He is now their traditional warlord.

Now, turn to Nnamdi Kanu and his Igbo folks. He is doing the same thing Gani Adams did. He is championing the struggle for a sovereign state of Biafra. He is up against the militocratic regime in Nigeria, which treats Igbo people as a conquered people after the war. Kanu wants freedom for Ndigbo. This was seen as treason and terrorism by Buhari govt.
They threw him into detention on trumped up charges. This Buhari govt breached due process and refused several court orders to release him. Even when they eventually allowed court bail under impossible conditions, the govt still sent the military to invade his home and kill some of his supporters... Kanu has been missing since that invasion.

And what did the Igbo leaders and high chiefs do? Like cowards, they cowered; they proscribed Kanu's organisation. Went on global campaign to kotoo Kanu and his organisation, called Kanu a boy (it is only in Nigeria they call a 50 year old man a boy). Then went to Buhari to lick his ass and showcase to the world how idiotic they can be.

Yeah, 'Buhari spoke frankly', they said. He told us we are not marginalised because he gave us 4 substantive ministers. We shouldn't mention the absence of Igbo man as head of any security agency because it is a no go area. If he stopped the money they are stealing from oil, he would look into the East West Road, the 2nd Niger Bridge, the dilapidating Enugu International Airport, bla bla bla. Meanwhile, the govt continues to borrow money to invest in the North. The world bank continues, under govt instruction, to focus on developing the North. No mention of Kanu or any of his political detainees in kuje prison. No mention of those unarmed youths murdered by the Nigerian army in Abia state. No mention of the Fulani herdsmen who are killing local farmers and villagers at random in Igboland. No mention of any reparations for Biafrans for the destructions and deprivations they suffered during the war, and the institutional neglect of the South East by Nigerian govt after the war. Instead, they must unite to demonize any agitation for Biafra...

Tomorrow, we cry marginalisation. Who will even waste time to listen to us, when they know that Igbo leaders are wimps?
Shame on you, Igbo leaders and governors... 'Idiots of no comparison'

Well done, Alafin of Oyo and Yoruba leaders. Congratulations, Gani Adams. The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland!

Larry Iloh
18/10/2017

I have visited your blog and read the writeup.

You should be thanking me.

South East loses again, to you, because it's not President of South East extraction this time 2019?

What everybody forgets is that conferment of Presidency to any zone or region does not automatically translate to progress in that zone or region. Jonathan ruled for 6years and Bayelsa and entire South South remained as if he never came. Buhari is President for 2years going to 3. The poverty index of North East??

And again, sometime you have that exalted office but your not in charge. Igbos have been severally accused of being the ones that ran Jonathan's administration. Buhari just told South Easterners that they were more favoured than the North in his administration and nobody has successfully challenged that assertion.

So, what am I saying? Igbos are in good hands in Nigerian politics. There is a silent dichotomy of politics that has Igbos split between those in homeland (5 state) and those across the Niger _Delta Igbos and Rivers Igbos. They were made to deny their Igbo link as part of divide and rule brought by the war. Today mainland Igbos 'accept' that those our brothrs are not Igbos because it pays politically.

So whatever you give to Kachukwu, Amaechi, Nwike, Okowa, etc. Igbos still come and say, but you have not given us.

That's an aside. Igbo presidency will take a little while, but it will happen. And anytime, we don't make it, don't think all is lost. It will happen

IkpuMmadu:
The Yoruba nation has been consistent in their demand and calls for restructuring, thereby setting the tone for the 2019 electioneering campaigns. Security reports must have informed Buhari that the South West are inclined to dump him in 2019 for another candidate. Hence, his parley with the governors and politicians from Igboland.

Down here in the South East, no collective political strategy. Governor Dave Umahi says he doesn’t know what restructuring means and so Ebonyi State doesn’t want restructuring. Also, Governor Rochas Okorochas of Imo State said that the nation doesn’t need restructuring but repackaging. Aha, whatever that means.

On the sideline, Chief Nnia Nwodo led Ohaneze Ndigbo is busy speaking big grammar about restructuring and all that while I learnt he is also negotiating a vice president slot for the South East. So, for all the so-called ‘political sagacity’ and ‘wisdom’ of Nnia Nwodo, the best he can settle for is a VP slot. What about having someone take a shot at the presidency?

https://etimes.com.ng/the-south-east-chidiebere-okere/

Dear @Omenka,

Your writeup would appear well argued and presented to the undicerning.

A lot of your implied conclusions about the absolute zero value of IPOB ideals to the greater Igbo goals stand right.

But here is where you failed. IPOB was not born after Jonathan's loss.

You wrote:
It is this unbridled hate and anger some opportunistic layabout in London saw and took advantage of, exploiting it to the fullest. Alas, IPOB was born![quote

Ipob existed long before that and had been active through Radio Biafra. You propably started to hear mcu of IPOB from the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu. Many opinion holders believe that the version of Namdi Kanu and his IPOB that really became a central issue arose President Buhari govt's arrest and prosecution of Nnamdi Kanu.

So that said, from you quoted knowledge of Igbos, I expected that you would know a little more than equate Igbos to IPOB. This is the greatest failing of your sermon. I can tell you that up till date, IPOB has not succeeded in winning the support of Igbo elites, Igbo businessmen and traders outside Igboland, who practically worry more about their thriving investments than what IPOB demands; and the Igbo academia. So whose view does IPOB represent? IPOB does not represent the Igbo view. If you care little more, you will notice that IPOB is dominated by illiterate and unskilled artisanian and unemployed youths, who as you rightly poited out, "have nothing to lose"

I made bold below some you 'wild' generalisations.

Hear this, that Jonathan lost is of no matter to the Igbo politicians many of whom have jumped into bed with APC since the dawn of this administration. Talk about Jim Nwobodo, Ken Nnamani, even some governors. On record, no Igbo politician has insulted Buhari.

So, what am I saying, giving IPOB a centrepiece in Igbo narrative is a complete misunderstanding of the Igbo journey. IPOB is a misadventure, promoted to limelight by crude and poor handling by the central government and truth be told, serious minded Igbos in energy, transport, hospitality, commerce, academia and politcs don't really care about IPOB. Today, I won't know how IPOB has become more relevant than MASSOB, or Biafra Zion Movement or, I don't know, there is another Biafra Zion smthn... there are so many of them. Truth is any serious minder government have basically ignored them. Ignore tham and they don't get noticed.

I hope you have picked a thing or two.

Thanks


author=omenka post=61466648]Good morning all.

I come in peace.

I'd begin this with two quotes.

Israelmore Ayivor once said..



George Bernard Shaw said..



These two quotes, in a sense, sum up the political blues emanating from South East Nigeria.

Nigeria is such a fascinating place and there is no other place in the country where you find such beguiling political nuances than in the South East, alot of which sprang to life just after the declaration of the results of the last general elections.

It was a chain reaction initiated by the loss of their preferred contestant, Goodluck Jonathan, and catalysed by their collective hatred for the person, tribe and religion of the victor, President Buhari, and those they perceive were associated with his victory namely Bola Ahmed Tinubu in particular, and the South West in general.

No sooner did he take the oath of office than they swarmed him with a torrent of unprintable insults and at best, criticisms, none of which came anywhere close to constructive. They jettisoned all courtesy typical of normal human engagements and delved right into a fray they created in a most sordid manner.

These folks who were having such a fantastic ride with President Jonathan for over five years and literally asked anyone who dared to grumble about being left out or shortchanged to "stick it up their assses" suddenly remembered they've been "marginalised" since the Big Bang!

They found an enthusiastic ally in a sly character called Fani Kayode and he has been doing such a plumb job making sure they fortify their hate for the aforementioned people, he himself a very bitter loser. Most surprisingly, this was the same man whose head they called for just a couple of years earlier for criticising their conduct in Nigerian politicospare.

It is this unbridled hate and anger some opportunistic layabout in London saw and took advantage of, exploiting it to the fullest. Alas, IPOB was born!

This brings me back to both my opening quotes.

Now, if not for reason of sheer hatred, how in God's gracious name did a people who pride themselves as some of the most educated and enlightened people in the continent allow a character that,

1. Has no known educational exploits,

2. Has no known literary exploits,

3. Has no leadership experience,

4. Has no known sustainable means of livelihood...

take on such gargantuan responsibility as secession?

Upon this premise, the second quote is MOST APPROPRIATE.

Nnamdi Kanu would have remained the unknown and insignificant spec in the universe he was had the "losers" not bore such morbid hatred for their supposed enemy.

Some people argue the president lit the torch of their anger by the "5%" comment. Pray tell, would this be the first time someone made such comment? Didn't Jonathan make similar comment when he was the President? The "igbos are the backbone of my administration" comment, remember that? How many people from the North or South West huffed and puffed about it despite its impropriety?

Now, someone tell me, exactly what advantage has IPOB conferred on the South East since the beginning of their belligerent campaign?

Have more projects gone to the South East?

Have more FDI gone to the region?

Have their governors become more alive to their responsibilities?

Have more appointments been given them?

Do Nigerians love them more?

IPOB has but one agenda alone, chip away at the progress Ndigbo have made over the years in every endeavor they've embarked on individually and collectively.

When I look at what these guys are doing to their brothers, i shudder in disbelief.

Take the small town of Makurdi for instance. The most popular "supermarkets", D. O. Brothers, Togos and Nobis, are owned by Igbos. They own the biggest shopping plazas, Ndupet, Merit, O. G. Winners, Tonimas, etc. They are the biggest wholesale distributors of beverages (OFICON). Etc.

I can only imagine what's going on in such big cities as Kanu, Kaduna, Lagos, Abuja, etc.

What strategy of relocation does IPOB have for these people.

You know what they say about "a man who's got nothing to lose"... A most dangerous man. With no known means of livelihood or investments anywhere, Nnamdi Kanu fits the bill for such a character.

Cornered, bruised and humiliated, they've decided inflammable propaganda is the best way to go. The outbreak of Monkey Pox and the military medical outreach presented them with the opportunity to take another pound of flesh out of "their people" (I put it this way because I believe Neither the president nor the soldiers lost a thing from the events of the last one week, rather, school children did).

But for this silly hoax, one would have thought these people who profess to be very educated and enlightened didn't know we have professional doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, etc, in the military!!

How sad.

How an enlightened people could believe a government intent on depopulating them would go about doing so under the full glare of the public using such overt means as injection beats me. More disturbing is the fact their leaders have chosen to keep mum over it.

Let it be known to all who care to listen, the Federal Government of Nigeria won't be blackmailed into treating any particular group of Nigerians "differently".

Maya Angelou once said "Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet." That held true then, it holds true now, and it will for centuries to come!

Just like Boko Haram, IPOB has succeeded in bullying into silence moderate and sensible Igbos, but just like my friend on facebook, Gozicon Munachi, it is time for these moderate elements to grow some balls, step up to the medium and salvage what is left of the political and moral patrimony of Ndigbo. Failure to do this would have very far reaching self inflicted negative consequences.

The FFKs of this world would hardly make any difference should things deteriorate any further even though they play very critical role in their escalation. Folks like him have the noose around their necks already, and would do whatever it takes to make sure that noose comes off, it doesn't matter how many lives they sacrifice in the process, just as long as it isn't their family members'.

Even the all knowing and "omnipotent" Ohamadike was nowhere to be found when shiit hit the fan. He still isn't!

This day, I extend a hand of friendship to my Igbo brothers. We may disagree on a whole lot of issues, but we could always do so with mutual respect and courtesy. I hardly agree with whatever folks like Truckpusher or Tonyebarcanista say, but we respect some unwritten rules of engagement. I believe we can at well do the same.

Let us make the most of the union while it lasts. The only people that stand to benefit from the chaos that might ensue from our constant bloodbaths are the elites. If you ask me, they represent our common adversaries irrespective of their tribe, political inclination and religion.

Thanks and have a productive week ahead.[/quote]