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I can't just stop laughing at the way you guys think.

Firstly you accused Tinubu of being used by the North to divide the South and later you also accused Tinubu of nurturing hatred against Igbos to keep himself relevant in Yorubaland!


This is very laughable. You guys arrogate so much powers to Tinubu than he can possibly wield.
How you assume that a private citizen who is not holding any Public office can achieve all these ceaslessly amuse me.


Whether he is anti-igbo or pro-Igbo can best be answered by Tinubu or his Lietenants and their antecedents.

What is the roles of Igbos in a politician being relevant in the politics of Yorubaland even when igbos are increasingly becoming less relevant in the politics of Nigieria?

nku5:
@ the bolded, you butted into my conversation with a hackneyed, straw-man allegation of Igbos "trying to make Tinubu a hate figure" instead of addressing the facts then proceed to answer questions that NOBODY asked you, is that you really don't see the irony or you are just pretending ?

1 & 2. I never mentioned PDP or said they must rule forever so why are you bringing it up when it never arose ? Even if the south has always been politically diverse, the rabid anti-igbo drive that Tinubu has nurtured in yorubaland to stay relevant since 1999 is despicable. It's one thing to be diverse but it's another thing to sow hate and division in the name of politics.

3. You are talking as a Tinubu apostle. So you think Yorubas would not like to control their own ports and have the N1 Trillion annual customs revenue flow straight into yoruba coffers in a restructured Nigeria?

4. God has the final say of course but the same God has a law of sowing and reaping...

This is the mistake you are making, you don't understand the politics of Nigeria deeply as you assume.

1) Dino Melaye was part of the ANC that merged with others to form APC. He actually left the PDP after being rigged out in the primaries for the House of Reps for the 2011 election and crossed to the ANPP,then ACN where he became the DG of Abubakar Audi Campaign Organization for Kogi 2011 election.

2) Smart Adeyemi had joined the APC shortly after the 2015 and was specifically sponsored by certain vested powers in the APC to neutralize Dino Melaye.

3) In Benue State, what happened was beyond Ortom as a candidate, the entire APC structure left APC for the PDP because of the unfortunate Fulani Herdsmen crisis.

4) Unless the receiving party is moribound, it's difficult to decamp to a new party at the 11th hour and be rewarded with their most prized possession. It almost always leads to crisis.

5) If this should happen, it means the party does NOT value loyalty. You will see those who have invested their time, energy and resources (if not well placated) leaving the party or working to undermine the success of the party.

The party needs loyal and committed members to win elections.

6) Presidential election anywhere in the world is not a tea party. It requires a lot of preparations, criss crossing the length and breadth of the country, negotiating and horsetrading with different power brokers.

If you plan to win a presidential election in 3 years time and you are still thinking of whether you should decamp or not, then you have been defeated already.

AK481:
Sen dino malaye 2015
Sen smart adeyemi 2019

Ortom 2019

Some people have invested their time, energy and resources in opposition parties for years, ensured their merger and nurtured the new party to this level but you think that they will fold their arms while a new enterant at the 11th hour will just stroll into the party and be handed the presidential ticket for the party ?


Things don't work like this in real life.

Even at the local level,can you name one person in your State or Geopolitical zone who just decamped at the 11th hour and was rewarded with the Governorship ticket and everything went well and he won!


Such a political blunder will precipitate crisis in the APC that will lead to it's defeat.

AK481:
Sure . Ebonyi state gov ,Engr. Dave omahi needs to decamp now.

Hmn,you people are very funny Sha.
Are you for real?

You said you have problem with Buhari and you expect Buhari to handover to you?

Doesn't it occur to you that Buhari will play a vital role in chosing the APC flag bearer?
Do you know anybody who likes to give power to his enemies?

Ikinternational:
Excuse me, how old is apc? If you remove ex pdp members, how much of the party will be left? Is apc votes in igboland 0%? N if we're being honest, is the igbos problem not with Buhari as leader of the party not the party itself? N using the past 5yrs as evidence, can you honestly say they were wrong?

Btw, Just imagine if the Republican party of America reasoned like you with their black population?

Don't mind the guy.

I have told him the truth several times, Emperor Imes has come about 1500 years ago.
He came as OBATALA in Ile-Ife,S/West of modern Nigeria but he prefers to believe the Arab version of his coming

CharlotteFlair:
Please I like to know more about Imes? What is it please?

You are trying to give answers to a question that was never asked.

1) Was the South ever a monolithic and united political entity? Let's assume that the South was a united political entity, must everybody in the South belong to or support the PDP to prove this 'unity'?

Even in the North all the States have NEVER voted for only one party.

2)Our democracy can only grow when the citizens have plurality of options. The idea that only one political party should continue to win the presidential election doesn't augur well for the country.

Democracy is NOT limited to the 2015 or 2023 elections. It's a continuous process.

Those who are not in power today will be in power tommorow, if only we are patient enough.

3) The Yoruba people know what favour them or not.



4) The Almighty reigns in the affairs of men. He gives power to whoever he wants.

ONLY God can authoritatively says whether Tinubu will be president or not.

nku5:
Trying to spin criticism of Tinubu as an attack on all yorubas by igbos is nothing new Tribal politics has NEVER favoured Yorubas and it never will...

The north has used him to divide the south but he still won't be president.

You are free to say whatever you like.

They are your opinions and NOT necessarily facts.

Osagyefo98:
I won't call you gossip because I hate to see men gossiping.

Women be are understandable but men...No


If I follow your logic which I don't want to I will clearly say Ondo state can't be even at 10 percent called a yoruba State.

What arrant display of arrogance and ignorance!

What if it's the Igbos that copied them from Ikwerres?

No language is inferior to another and no tribe has an exclusive let alone copyright over anyword or language.

You speak your language in YOUR OWN ways and you are asking the Ikwerres to speak their language exactly like you? Are you their God?

Who gave you such authority? Who told you your own spelling is the original?

How did you arrogate to yourselves the power to determine which language comes first and which one is fake and which one is original?

Ikwerres have it's own different dialects and you are insisting Ikwerre must be a dialect of Igbo?

Similarities in language in most cases simply shows a common descent e.g both Igbos and Ikwerre languages evolved from the same sources NOT necessarily that Ikwerre language emerged from Igbo.

If Igbos say Olisa, Ika say Oliseh, Binis say Oosa, Itshekiri say Oritse and Yoruba say Orisha. Who are you to say one is a bastardized form of the other?

Halexgos3:
You are right bro. At least Igbos bear chukwu ebuka , Emeka but ikweres will want to copy that same name but in different styles something like Emeka for Emeke Chima for chinman. Those names are fakes

Nigeria and indeed most African countries have great problems of ethnic tension because of the long lasting legacies of European colonialism which make tribal identities the basis of sharing national wealth, powers and privileges in artificially created heterogeneous countries.
It is the basis of civil wars, political instabilities and corruption in many African Countries.

If individual merits are largely used in sharing national wealth, political powers and privileges in these countries, nobody will give a hoot about tribes.


In Nigeria, the Fulani ethnic group have mastered the art of Statecraft. Even though they themselves are a minority recently settled ethnic group in Nigeria, have succeeded in forging an amalgam of diversed tribes into the largest power block headed by them.

They achieved these between 1804-1903 by conquering different tribes, encouraged them to forgo their tribal identities and embrace a new identity; the Islamic identity which unify everybody in Theocratic States called EMIRATES, many of which are joined together in a Confederacy called the SOKOTO Caliphate.

The British Colonialists met this structure and strengthened it by creating a larger political entity encompassing two thirds of Nigieria called Northern Region and handed it over to the Fulani rulers.

The Igbos on the other hand doesn't have this advantage. Similar tribes like the Anioma, Etche, Ekpeye and Ikwerre suppose to coalesce into the greater Igbo super ethnic group but they refuse to do so and this was magnified by the defeat of the Igbos in the Civil war with reverberating consequences.

However, the nature of life is that you can't always win on all sides. Those who are disadvantaged in one side are advantaged in other areas.

The Fulani have advantages in politics and powers but great disadvantages in education and modern indices of development. The Igbos have advantages in education, commerce and enjoy higher quality of life than most of their compatriots.

Fortunately, everything is subjected to change and things are changing nowadays.

midnighter:
1. I never asserted that the phenomenon is restricted to Igbos.

2. Such phenomena occur among different ethnic groups for different reasons. So for you to single Igbos out for querying this issue in particular doesnt make any sense. If something happens concerning a tribe, the members of that tribe have the right to discuss and talk about it. The occurrence with the north, the Kogi Yoruba, the Arabs and Amazigh, the Arabs and Kurds have all happened for totally different reasons so saying that youre amazed and amused on that basis makes no particular sense.

3. Hausa language is a lingua franca in the north; those tribes have their own native language plus hausa language that they speak on top of it to make communication easier. Down here, English is the lingua franca; we bear English names and speak English to communicate with different tribes even though we have our own native languages so that example bears no relationship with what we are discussing here, like I was saying in point (2)

4. The bolded is exactly my point; we are not experiencing any Islamic hegemony down here, in fact Igbo people are marginalised the most so what is the relevance of that example

Unless youre trying to say that some Igbo people came and dominated Ikwerre people to the point where they couldnt remember their own language again then the example youre giving is totally irrelevant.

Sweet heart, different strokes for different folks. The histories, political evolutions and worldviews of different tribes are different, so what they take to be important will also be different.
It seems Igbos need more populations/lands through irredentism, Hausa-Fulani have gained this large population through a complex mix of cultural assimilation, religion and conquests.

The Yorubas have coalesced into a single formidable group through trade and Empire building.

Before British colonialism, the Igbos didn't build centralized large States. Their level of political organization didn't go beyond the village level. Each village operated independently of the other.

The Hausa-Fulani and the Yorubas on the other had pre-colonial Empires, City States, large kingdoms and Confederations of small States which brought most of their people under centralized political authorities and promoting a sense of nationalism.

1) There are several Nigerian languages that have gone into extinction especially in the North. E.g Tangale and Ajawa languages in Bauchi State, Gamo- Nungi in Bauchi State, Bassa-Gumma in Nigeria Start. These people switched to Hausa Language but it doesn't mean the people disappeared.

2) All over the world new tribes emerged from previously existing tribes.
E.g Seminole tribe of Florida= Native American Muscogees+ Black skaves.

Aja People of Benin Republic= Yoruba+ Fon/Ewe

Ikwerre= Igbo+ Ijaw+ Bini

Itshekiri= Yoruba+ Edo+ European traders


3) We need to do away with the use of ethnic groups as a mean of climbing the social ladder in Nigieria. People should be judged by their individual attributes instead of tribal affiliation.

midnighter:
1. I never asserted that the phenomenon is restricted to Igbos.

2. Such phenomena occur among different ethnic groups for different reasons. So for you to single Igbos out for querying this issue in particular doesnt make any sense. If something happens concerning a tribe, the members of that tribe have the right to discuss and talk about it. The occurrence with the north, the Kogi Yoruba, the Arabs and Amazigh, the Arabs and Kurds have all happened for totally different reasons so saying that youre amazed and amused on that basis makes no particular sense.

3. Hausa language is a lingua franca in the north; those tribes have their own native language plus hausa language that they speak on top of it to make communication easier. Down here, English is the lingua franca; we bear English names and speak English to communicate with different tribes even though we have our own native languages so that example bears no relationship with what we are discussing here, like I was saying in point (2)

4. The bolded is exactly my point; we are not experiencing any Islamic hegemony down here, in fact Igbo people are marginalised the most so what is the relevance of that example

It's the same way you accuse Fulanis of several attrocities even when the perpetrators are Bolewa, Karekare,Nok, Manga or Bachama.

BULLIONVAN4:
But regarding NL, when a thread that has a heading like, a nigerian "ifeanyi okoronkwo" was arrested in india with cocaine" the same people who are saying that ikwerres, aniomas, ndokwas, asabas are non-igbo will start with phrase like "igbos and crime are like 5and 6" "flat head pig disgracing nigeria" "ipob criminals" and so on.


you said that nothing is wrong with someone from a different tribe bearing another tribes name?? anyways i iave no problem with that but my concern is when a criminal is busted bearing a particular tribe's name, it's the people from another tribe will condemn that tribe without finding out if he is from the condemned tribe

Not necessarily sir.
There several thousands of such people in Nigeria.
You see ethnic identities are largely self-identities.
People who identify as members of a particular ethnic group are those who are WILLING to be identified as such. It doesn't matter if it's based on shared ancestries, just by shared cultures ,assimilation or in most cases a mix of all these.

External people can NOT define the identities of any group of people.

Halexgos3:
I can speak Yoruba doesn't mean am Yoruba but when I start to bear Yoruba name my brother something is wrong somewhere

I started taking note of this division from that episode and I have met several people there after whom I assumed to be Igbos but told me they aren't even if they bear Ebuka or Amarachi.

However, you need to understand that this phenomenon of people rejecting some tribal/ethnic identities to which other wrongly give them is NOT restricted to the Igbos. It occurs through out Nigeria and indeed all over the world. It never ceases to amaze and amuse me when young Igbos on Nairaland become angry at such rejection (possibly as a form of unpalatable hangover from the unfortunate civil war).

In the North, several tribes exist that we assume are Hausa because they speak the Language and practice the cultures of the Hausa people. These peoples are quick to tell those who care to listen that they aren't Hausas.
However,the division is not a big deal in the North largely because the shared Islamic identity superceed ethnic identity as a password to entering different strata of their society.

midnighter:
Youre welcome.

So can you qualify this?

What was the reason the babe said the other chick wasnt Igbo?

Telling somebody you dont like or are prejudiced against that they are not Igbo is quite different from you yourself proclaiming that you are not an Igbo.

That Osagie troll guy goes about saying that Ebonyi state is not really Igbo; does that make any particular sense to you?

So you need to contextualise this, otherwise its purely just a funny story and not a corroboration of anything specific.

Honestly, I don't understand Naija Youths anymore. They have taken begging online.

Some funny guys now beg on Twitter, Facebook, Nairaland and Instagram asking celebrities (or anyone who cares to listen) to send money to them

Thanks for your matured response.

I am personally interested in the Ikwerre/Anioma matter because of my personal experience. Before entering the University, I used to assume that names and language clearly define one's ethnic group until I met some 'igbo' people with certain encounters.


During my NYSC days in Yobe State, there was one Igbo lady in my flat called Oluchi who was very close and nice to me. I didn't return her gestures because she was too lousy for my liking. There were several other 'Igbo' corpers in that corpers' lodge.

One day, one of the other Igbo corpers called Mercy came to our flat , requesting for a little favour from me which needed the cooperation of Oluchi. This Oluchi embarrassed and disgraced Mercy publicly which I didn't like.

I later went to Oluchi, asking her why she publicly disgraced Mercy, after all they are both Igbos and are supposed to be sisters. She immediately protested, Mercy is NOT Igbo! I said but she bears Igbo surname and speak Igbo. To my greatest surprise, Oluchi said 'the fact that she speaks Igbo doesn't make her Igbo, she also speak Yoruba fluently, does that mean she is Yoruba?

Oluchi went further to tell me that only she and two other people are Igbos and that the rest that we assume are Igbos are only igbos in names but not truly Igbos!

midnighter:
I have no idea. Whats the answer?

That people have crossed over and collected words from each other, especially after being forced into the same country, is not surprising.

The same way many Igbo term Burutai, Abacha, IBB and others fulani men when they are not.

immhotep:
No one can run away from his/her shadow
If Gov Wike contests for presidency in 2023, helinues, afamed and co. will tag him as an Igbo man

cc lzaa gmbuharii metaphysical rekhina

Enu (Yoruba)= Onu (Igbo)
Igiripa(Yoruba)= Dimkpa( Igbo)
Okunrin(Yoruba)= Okoro(Igbo)
Asee(Yoruba)= Isee (Bini)= Isee(Igbo)

Oba(Bini)= Oba(Yoruba)
Bazuaye(Bini)= Bajulaye (Yoruba)
Iye(Bini)= Iya/Iye (Yoruba)
Omo(Bini)= Omo (Yoruba)= Umu(Igbo)

Oliseh (Ika)= Oritse (Itshekiri)= Orisha (Yoruba)= Olisa (Igbo)
Okuta (Yoruba)= Okute( Ika)= Okwute(Igbo).






# My question: which of these language bastardized the other(s)?
Which of them is the original and which one copied from the others?

midnighter:
Itshekiris accept that they are related to Yoruba and Itshekiri language itself is an ancient dialect of Yoruba.

Urhobo/ Isoko dichotomy is an individual political issue; some of them accept that they are the same yet others argue vehemently that they are totally different



Is it that they adopted a language similar to Igbo or that they speak Igbo? So where did they get the quasi-Igbo language from?

Igbo people are naturally disparate; we were just unified recently under the umbrella term "Igbo". The Igbo dialects spoken in part of Enugu and Ebonyi states are completely unintelligible to the average Igbo speaker, yet they still accept themselves as Igbo even though going by your logic, they have even more right to claim that they are something else because the language has almost nothing to do with central Igbo.

At school, Anioma and Igbo days are celebrated differently for political reasons that dont hold water. I have met plenty of people from Delta who just call themselves "Delta Igbo" from Ibusa, Kwale, Agbor. What is your point exactly

This matter is NOT peculiar to the Igbos, it happens all over Nigeria.


Many Danladi Ayuba, Ibrahim Umar, Abu Hashidu or Tanko Doma that you call Hausas are not Hausa.

There are many people from Ogori-Mangogo LGA in Kogi State who claim their aren't Yorubas but bear Ademola, Adeleke or Ogundele as surnames.

BULLIONVAN4:
Assuming someone bearing "chibuike amadi" is convicted in fraud, will you say he is ikwerre or igbo(assuming his state/lga of origin is not mentioned)

What makes a word Igbo?

If Igbo speak their language, it's Igbo and if Ikwerres speak their language, it's Ikwerre language.

Both Bini and Yoruba languages share some words e.g Iye, Oba, Omo, Ogedengbe (Ogedegbe) etc but you will never see either Bini or Yoruba people claiming exclusive right over these words.


If an Edo man is bearing Akerele ,Taiwo, Ogun, Tayo,Omonoba, or A(k)pata , these names will be Edo names but if Yorubas bear the same names, they are Yoruba names.

obiekunie2:
Oga pls stop this your long grammar!

no body is dragging your ikwerre with you!

all we are asking is - PLEASE DEVELOP YOUR OWN VOWELS AND CONSONANTS AND STOP ADULTERATING AND ABUSING THE IGBO LANGUAGE!

YOU CAN GO TO THE NORTH OR EVEN TO CHAD AND BORROW THEIRS BUT LEAVE THE IGBO VOWELS, CONSONANTS AND DIPHTHONG ALONE!

waka! una no wan waka! comot for road! una no wan comot for road! haba!

Long time bros.

We have missed your matured contributions on Nairaland since Okorocha's issue.





On the Ikwerres matter, do you honestly think the people don't know their history?

From my little research on the topic, the Ikwerres' desired to be seen as a separate ethnic group even before Independence in 1960 and not after the civil war as many Igbos on Nairaland like to paint it.

They submitted memoranda to the Willinks Commission on the fears to the minorities and were part of the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers (COR) movement in the old Eastern Region agitating for a separate region for the Non-Igbo people of the Eastern Region.

Abagworo:
Ikwerre originated from Igbo not quite long ago but has developed a unique identity that separates it from Igbo. Congrats Wike but extend your develoomental projects beyond Port-Harcourt urban.

This is an intellectual forum sir and not a tribal/clannish blogsite.
People from all over Nigeria and indeed all over the world come to this forum.




We have passed that your level of reasoning sir.

Osagyefo98:
Mind Yorubaland.

Distance from Yorubaland to here is very far.

This is a publication by Simeon Nwakaudu, the Special Assistant to the Governor of Rivers State.

There's nothing concerning Afonja in this matter.

Success1020:
Afonjas and division. What is Ikwerre ethnic group? You see them wearing Igbo custome and Igbo unique staff inscribbed "Dike Oha."? Is "Dike Oha" a yoruba phrase to you? Anumanu

I know Igbos will bring this issue.

1) No ethnic group have a copyright over ANY Language.

2) All over the world, there are examples of different languages that share striking similarities to the extent that they may become partially mutually intelligible e.g Portuguese and Spanish, Yoruba and Itshekiri.

3) No language is inferior to another. Similarities doesn't mean that the languages are bastardized forms of another.

4) Languages evolve over time. E.g Afrikaneer in South Africa evolved from Dutch, English, Zulu and traces of Xhosa.

French evolved from mixture (creole) of Latin and ancient languages of Gaul. Before 1700s, French used to be a pidgin of Latin

Osagyefo98:
Ikwerre ethnic nationality should bring their intellectuals and well versed linguistics and develop a highly structured language for themselves....


They should seat and fathom out a standard, structured and well organized Ikwerre language devoid of any form of Igbo language....

By so doing the sweetness of the language will be explored and transported worldwide to who cares to Listen....


We have has so many scholars who developed languages and the languages are still in use today because even before it gets to the 12th generation the language will be fully assimilated.


For Instance DIKE can be rephrased in Ikwerre language as HAJE........but not banking on already existing Dike to bastardized it as DIKNE...This is purely rubbish and timidly done, so the intellectual needs to step up their games...

Meanwhile Congratulations on your new title as your project speaks boldly for you.....but projects without the people is useless...

The OP was probably a toddler in 1999.


Indomie Generation distorting the political History of the 4th Republic!

Afamed:
Keep quiet, if it's purely zoning, Alex Ekwueme wouldn't have contested PDP primary with Obj . I guess you were not aware, Ekwueme constested the primary with Obj

The guy is most likely a young man just graduated from school without sound education dabbling into political issues that's way beyond his understanding.

Area4Area:
In fact when I read that post, how it's natural for the SW and SS to support the SE and they should nominate 5 people from the SE of their choice, I just started laughing because it's obvious that the person behind that moniker reasons like a kid. I mean see him ordering people around, he cannot nominate the 5 persons but wants others to do it for him.

RTSC good morning sir.

RTSC:
Useless idiot supported by Yoruba crooks who will never win southern votes in any federal election for the foreseeable future.

This post is borne out of a complex and dangerous mix of ignorance with Tribalism.

1) Lagos wasn't created by the FG as a commercial capital. Lagos EMERGED over time as the commercial capital due to it's Geographical location, History and Leadership.

2) Lagos has been an important Maritime city for at least 400 years, long before the creation of Nigeria



3) Kettykin probably doesn't know that the FG has moved it's Secretariat and the HQs of nearly all it's agencies to Abuja since 1991.
4) The FG offices in Lagos State are actually branch Offices or at best Zonal Headquarters. These kinds of offices are also in all the 36 States capitals/Zonal Headquarters. E.g every State have CBN and Federal Secretariat branch Offices.
Some FG parastatals also have Headquarters in other States. E.g the Apex Military Institution and industry in Nigieria (NDA and DICON) are in Kaduna State. NPA is in Lagos because of it's Maritime status.

5) Most of the Embassies of Foreign Nations are in Abuja.
They are however at liberty to set up consular offices anywhere they prefer in Nigeria. It's not the business of Nigerian FG to decree where they should set up their consular offices.

6) Most of the FG Landed properties have been privatized or slated for privatization.

7) Conscious and deliberate efforts by the FG and concerned States' Governments are needed to decongestant Lagos through PPP intiatives.

New Seaports should be built along the Coastal States. Super Highways to and from these Seaports should be constructed.

9) Heavy duty industries should be set up in all the 6 Geopolitical zones, utilizing the readily available resources in these regions accompanied by grade-A road networks, standard Housing facilities, sophisticated Healthcare facilities with efficient Transport system, reliable portable water supply, regular electricity supply and stainable waste disposal mechanism.

These will stimulate the economic growth of these zones and discourage unhealthy rural-urban migration to Lagos.

An irredeemable tribal bigot spotted.

SarkinYarki:
Typical of most people of Afonj extraction

And why not?

I thought you people are sponsoring Atiku orTambuwal in 2023?
Leave the Yorubas to pursue their political ambition.

kikake:
But why would a normal Yoruba scheme to succeed PMB after Yoruba ruled for 8 years since 1999?

The attempts by Igbo people like you especially in Lagos to turn Tinubu to a hate figure create a seige scenerio in the minds of many Yorubas. It will only make more Yorubas to close ranks and rally round behind Tinubu.

nku5:
That's the last thing Tinubu and his touts want. Without the divide Tinubu would be irrelevant

You don't get it.

The parties will not gamble with a candidate that will guarantee their losses.

joshuanwankwo:
under both just like 1999 both parties field southwesterners (falae and obasanjo) 2007 both parties field north westerners (buhari and yar adua) so 2023 southeastern turn shouldn't be any different cos we re igbos by the way re u not aware that wen apc and pdp choose southeasterners our minds wuld be at rest unlike an igbo v another tribe, there is chance another tribe can get d position and apc shouldn't complain of members

apc should choose okorocha and pdp should choose ekeremadu dat way it wuld be a thing of ease to southeasterners

The PDP hierrachy are not fools. They know that if they give their presidential ticket to the SE in 2023, they have already lost before the election start.

No party want to lose so easily and willingly.

omenka:
One doesnt have to be CREATIVE with the TRUTH and FACTS. They've got to be stated as bluntly as possible.

I ask again, WHY IS PDP TREATING NDIGBO WITH SUCH HATRED AFTER THEIR TWENTY YEARS OF UNPARALLELED LOYALTY TO THE PARTY?

Igbos deserve the PRESIDENTIAL TICKET OF THE PARTY THEY'VE WORKED SO HARD FOR, they should be given it!