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Amah70:
Insincerity is your dilemma. Truth is that old Anambra State has produced Enugu, Anambra and major parts of Ebonyi State;
whereas old Imo state has produced only Imo and Abia states with a tiny portion of Abia state ceded to form Ebonyi state.

Therefore, present Imo State shall yield the major part to a proposed 6th state for the southeast area.
By the way, why will any saner person go for pinching mostly incompatible local government areas from the five southeast States to make a 6th state for the southeast, and in the least populated and in the most economically baren area of the southeast?

Every state has produced a new state in SE except Ebonyi, that's fact! It doesn't bend to your sentiments.
Imo is Imo whether old or new, same with Anambra!

Funny that you are making the last statement, it's ironic when that's exactly the argument SW and the rest of the country are making in saying that SE doesn't deserve a new state.

Goes to show the way the average black man reasons.
He isn't interested in justice, he is only interested in justice when he is oppressed.

I'm from Anambra incase you don't know. Yet I know that a new state in SE for equity and fairness is one that incorporates all parts of SE.
The central SE is far from being resources poor. Infact no part of SE is! This is an area that contains Okigwe( a proper town knocking on City status), Ivo ( an area in Ebonyi notable for granite and other solid minerals), Awgu/Aninri/Ojiriver in Enugu, these are the food basket of Enugu state, Aninri and Awgu produce lots of rice and have rich fertile soils, they are also a highly educated people.
Then you have Orumba south and North from Anambra with big towns like Umunze knocking on City status, Flavour is from this town too!
You have Umunneochi axis of Abia with Isuochi with it's mammoth plethora of heavy weights in terms of rich human resources, their lands are also very fertile.
And what do you mean by saying that they have nothing in common, you are ignorant. They are all Igbos and neighbours and speak similar Igbo Dialects.

BlueIvy04:
Basic Statistics

Name: Southern Nigerian Federation
Population (2022): 97.8M
Area: 208,415 Km2
Approx. GDP (2022): $285 Billion
No. of States: Six

Government Structure

Executive:

Federal Commission

Consists of 5 members: Two from [Yoruba] state, two from [Igbo] state, one from the remaining states. Collaborate to make decisions. Similar to the Federal Council in Switzerland or European Commission in the EU

The Igbo CAN NEVER share a new country with Yorubas post Nigeria.
Affliction can never arise a second time.

Amah70:
Illogical. You will not deviate from the pattern through which the 5 southeast states emerged when a 6th state is to be created for the southeast.

Ebonyi state emerged from Abia and Enugu states after Abambra and Enugu emerged from the old Abambra state while Imo and Abia emerged from the old Imo state. So, even a blind will tell you that a sixth state for the southeast must emerge from Imo and Anambra States or from the 12 local government areas of Imo West Senatorial district.

You are not making sense.
Anambra produced Enugu.

Imo produced Abia.
Enugu and Abia produced Ebonyi.

Going by this, every state in SE except Ebonyi has had a state created from it.
The circle has gone round.

Next SE state will come from all SE states. That's how it's going to be. That's the only state all stakeholders in SE will support.

Chest beaters, always bragging about irrelevant things.

Ebubu2:
All this your shalaye to distract the request for 6th South East state is dead on arrival

That's their way.
Wicked sort of people.

SmartyPants:
Ordinarily, I would ignore posts from animals, but let me indulge you in your foolishness. In your immense inferiority complex, you have reduced the potential for debate to some nonsense about Igbo hate.

If you actually read the post with a functioning brain, you would have deduced that the point is - to eradicate the state system since it is inherently unfair and create equal regions such that size is no longer a factor. Create regions, implement resource control, and let every man be on their own.

Better still, anyone who wants to leave should be shown the door immediately.

You have a foul brain.
The point is that since regions are not going to come back anytime soon, it's only fair that SE be given same number of states as others and size of landmass has never been a determining factor in state creation like your evil Yoruba brain was alluding, because if it were so, the entire SW is not up to Niger state in land mass, so should be reduced to one state, if we go by your moronic logic.

Get away you. I can't imagine how wicked and hateful the average Yoruba man is.
Tufiakwa!

Benzigler:
Such an evil tribe, they are nothing but children of hate

It baffles me how they think Nigeria can work with such hate.

SmartyPants:
No, it really isn't unfair at all. If Nigeria was a homogenous entity with no tribal identities, we would objectively look at these states differently.

You would never argue that the south east needs another state when it is comparatively so small. The agitation for another state is therefore objectively unfair and greedy.

But objectivity takes a backseat when ethnic subjectivity comes to the fore.

All of this can be avoided by returning to the regional system.

Going by your demonic Yoruba brain, we can assume that SW should be reduced to just one state since the entire SW can be fitted into Niger state with more space remaining in Niger state.

Objectivity is far from Yoruba brain once you hear Igbo, that's how you all turned against GEJ because he refused to denigrate and marginalize the Igbo.

You chose a backward uneducated man like Buhari to replace GEJ because you were blinded by Igbo hate.

flokii:
One more State for the South East to be funded by who?.. these greedy lots are so comfortable contributing nothing to the centre yet taking the largest share from what other regions laboured to contribute.

South West must get at least 3 additional States before South East will get any extra State.. the injustice can't continue.

Nigeria MUST stop robbing South West and hardworking Yorubas to pay leeches with entitlement mentality. End the injustice now!!

And all the parasitic states from SW including Ekiti, Osun and co are being funded from where?

You see, the demonic innate hate you Yorubas harbour for the Igbo is exactly why Nigeria will never work.
When you are already enjoying lion share at the expense of others, any idea to bring equity by forcing you to give up your lionshare will always be perceived as injustice.

To the average demonic people in that your part of Nigeria, any thing done to bring justice or equity to Igbos is always perceived as injustice.
This was why you all hated GEJ. He refused to be mean to Ndiigbo.
And you all embraced Buhari and sang his praises while Nigerian economy crashed, just because he danced to your Igbo marginalisation tone.

Creamypie:
pls cut from east to make it 6 simple. Them cut Delta and Edo from Bendel. Niger state alone is bigger than the whole 5 eastern states. Make them cut am too nah. Delta na Midwest by referendum vote in 1963. Na Ned nwoko start this nonsense see finish. 2027 he will be political orphan.

Stupid talk.
Your midwest is dead, gone and not coming back.
Anioma made a mistake jettisoning the initial plan to merge with the Eastern region, because you Edoid/Edos promised to hand over the premier of the Midwest to an Anioma son if they agreed to join Midwest.
Anioma will be reunified with SE.
And that will be the 6th SE state.
This way the Edoids in Delta will move their capital to Warri and have what they always wanted, while Igboland balkanization will be reversed. This will also kill identity crisis in Anioma.

Amah70:
LET JUSTICE BE DONE FIRST TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF LOPSIDED ALLOCATION OF STATES IN NIGERIA.

The House needs to first create the long proposed additional state in the southeast area. A sixth state for the southeast has long been proposed to be located between Imo and Anambra States. The ANIM/Orlu/Njaba state proposal is it.

A new state in SE will be one the every single state in SE will contribute to its components.
Only Imo and Anambra will not enjoy what is meant for all SE, so this ANIM whatever, will not work.

It's either a central new state in SE state encompassing all SE states, or Anioma state is created and zoned to SE which is even a better option.
You can't be talking about justice and you are talking about 2 states cornering what is meant for the entire SE.

aspabay:
Employee one person from each region

North will have 19
SW will have 6
SS will have 7
SE will have 5

Yet SE will claim marginalisation.


During GEJ era SS and SE were having all the appointments, where was this olodo native doctor that time. The SW kept quite and strategised on how to get back to the Center.

Victim mentality criers.

Please this lie by Yorubas have been bursted years ago.
Can we just stop parading it already?
This is no longer 1960s when you lots had monopoly to media and used it to decimate the Image of Ndiigbo.

https://www.nairaland.com/7846374/unmasking-lies-igbos-dominated-ex-president

Ojuntana:
The joy from our Igbo brothers on the thread though

Just one man claiming to be Igbo brought so much joy to them

There is joy in heaven over one repentant soul.
Mbata is even more than one repentant soul, he is one person they address as "They".

Ndiigbo don't hate or love Tinubu.

Tinubu (Yorubas) and his ( their) Northern bedfellows will settle their matter in 2027 while Ndiigbo observe from far distance.

Leobankx:
And my point still stands, you're a minority in Delta state doesn't mean Delta belongs to the igbos.

Anioma are not Minorities in Delta.
They occupy the biggest land and have the biggest population too.
They host the capital city and are the most educated and influential group in the state.
The Igbo spirit of excellence rests on them and stands them out.

And by the way, no well breast fed Igbo wants anything to do with Minorities, only mentally challenged IPOB and her membership are thinking of such abomination of tying Ndiigbo down to a group of people filled with Igbophobia and Igbo resentment.
Most mentally stable Igbos are only interested in Igbo speaking people scattered in 13 states of Nigeria spread between SE, SS and NC.

Tochitee:
Are you from south south?? I know you people all your life mission is to associate your self with south south people but you will be always be rejected!

You are a jellyfish.
Okonjo Iweala is an Igbo woman.
Proud one for that matter.
What the hell is SS?

Tochitee:
This is h the most stupid statement I have seen this week on this forum! Had he been she’s ibo?? How?tell me one ibo woman that can attain such height ??

She can't even lace Okonjo Iweala shoes.
The joke is on you.

APC ( Tinubu and Buhari) reduced Africa's largest economy to 4th on the continent.
And they are just starting.
Nigeria will be 10th by the time Jagaban is done.

Vuvuzela2:
He wants his medical file transfer from France to Germany

Nnamdipapa:
Was Nigeria working prior to Tinubu? I was so angry with Jonathan's leadership and corruption that I left the country, I was in Nigeria one time during Buharis regime and have not been in since after the last elections.

I love for Nigeria to co-exist as one, to work out our differences and find a way to make things work.
A working Nigeria will be a major contender on the world stage and I believe it is possible.
If we also have to divide, it will have nothing to do with our Nigeria as a country was formed, it will only be because we are too different to coexist in one country but are we telling ourselves the truth here.
There are thousands of ethnic groups in the US and things are still working out fine. During the Jonathan regime when lot of Igbos were given position, I did not hear lits of clamouring for a secession.

If Obi had won the elections and is the President, would you still want the Igbos to separate?

The way you guys are going about it is wrong and will never give Biafra, not today, not in the next 100 years.

We will need the co-operation and support of other southerners like the Yobuas to succeed. We have to carry them along and sell the idea to them. We have to market to them the benefits of a divided Nigeria and not continously antagonise and insults them all the time while still living in their regions.

We will need a political platform to seceed not this Nzogbu Nzogbu tactics Kanu and his minions are using. I know you may be angry at the situations of the Igbos in Nigeria today but we have to learn to channel our anger intellintly rather than lashing out like a recalcitrant teenagers.
Even the SE governors and states are not even united. How do we hope to get Biafra.

If you were angry during GEJ era, it's only because you bought the anti GEJ propaganda the Yoruba and North pushed under APC, which is more reason for me to believe that you are not a person gifted with in-depth analysis of issues.
Nigerian economy was at upward trajectory during GEJ era and no ethnic group were bashed and made mockery of by the government of the day like Yoruba and North have made Ndiigbo since 2015 and counting. None of the two will take the amount of hate and denigration they have dished out to Ndiigbo since 2015 till date from their presidency to officials in government and from government sponsored lapdogs like Reno and Asari!


Nigerian differences, especially the country Igbophobia has no remedy, if you haven't figured this out by now, then you are not rational.
Ndiigbo are ideologically as a people irreconcilable with the rest of the country.
Nigeria can never work, not with the North and Yoruba and support from other components.

Igbos were not given much positions under GEJ, we just were carried along and given a bit of equity which obviously angered the Yorubas because these set of people are only at peace when the Igbo are unfairly handled. "How dare GEJ treat Igbos with justice and fairness in a country they inherited as loot of war post 1970", this was the driving factor for the unending calumny and propaganda they poured on GEJ government to bring it down and people like you without independent thought process bought into their propaganda and turned against GEJ because you were desperate to be labelled "detribalised".
You might need to read this thread:
https://www.nairaland.com/7846374/unmasking-lies-igbos-dominated-ex-president
Because you seem to be a victim of Yorubas propaganda against GEJ treating Igbos fairly.
As for USA, the dynamics is not same as Nigeria.
USA is a conquered territory for all Caucasians so they had an us Vs they ( the Indigenous Ameridian tribes) mindset.
In Europe where the whites had to deal with only themselves, they couldn't all live together in same country. Europe is divided into tiny countries because each ethnicity there wants independence from each other. San Marino of 32,000 people doesn't even want to be part of Italy.


If Obi had won the elections and restored equity to the polity, jailed all Yorubas like Oluomo, and Onunagu, Oba of Lagos who openly bash Igbos or make provocative remarks against Igbos and still walk around freely, and get the country back on trajectory of sustainable development like GEJ was doing, maybe I might be inclined to give the country a chance while working on Igbo independence like Quebec is doing in Canada or Catalonia in Spain.
I wouldn't be so caustic towards the country, but would still want Ndiigbo out, because Obi will not be there forever and when he leaves, the Yoruba and North ( a Pharaoh that doesn't know Joseph) will be back and it will be another round of retrogression with Igbophobia promoted to national anthem again.

As for SE governors working together, I don't know what you mean, we have SE governors forum and they seem to be working well, they have also figured out a template on carrying everyone along in rotational Ohaneze presidency giving everyone a sense of belonging.

GBTYO:
All Cho Cho and no action


Dem tie your leg for tree outside your yeast?

Who is holding you from leaving Nigeria ?

Start by permanently relocating to that your cursed village before we can take you serious

PS: if you go , you won't be missed.

Why the bitterness?
Ndiigbo have nothing in common with your Yoruba people.
We reject any union with you, your Muslim brothers up north and your sidekicks down in SS.
We want out of the failed British experiment.

It doesn't have to breed hate!

Like someone already said, Nigeria fought to leave British empire yet many Nigerians are lawful citizens and residents in UK.

Wanting a free space with national boundaries free from your Yoruba and other Nigerians doesn't mean we hate you.
It means we know that ideologically, we are irreconcilable and can't share a progressive country with you lots..
You all (Minorities, North, Yoruba) deserve each other, while Ndiigbo deserve a break from you all. Perhaps you all deserve a nation without Ndiigbo too, it goes both ways you know.

Make all man bear his father's name. Your threats and reverse psychology is like water off the back of the duck for Ndiigbo.
We have seen your worst in 1967-70, and have seen even more between 2015 till date. Called 5% by hypocrites filled with Igbophobia who preach unity of oppression and injustice, dot in circle, python dance, next to nothing political representation and appointments by hypocrites who want to build a country in injustice and hate.

But you haven't even experienced our revenge yet. Or you think there wouldn't be a pay back? If you continue forcing this dead failed country on Ndiigbo, one day the wheels of power will turn in our favour and you will regret why you share this space with Ndiigbo, you might end up begging for disintegration then yourselves.

Nigeria has ran its course. It has failed beyond reasonable doubts.

Nnamdipapa:
Same way Canada was formed. Same way many countries were formed.

Are you saying recognized as a sovereign country?

You have taken too much of Kanu and IPOB's Kool-aid.

Canada is working for the citizens, so they might not need to care about the origin.
Nigeria is a failure, a disgrace with no remedy.
It only makes sense that rational beings want out and questions its formation and sustainability.

I'm not a Kanu fan , but Kanu is not your problem. Tinubu, Buhari, APC, are your problem, Nigeria is a problem to Ndiigbo.
Nigeria will have to die for Ndiigbo to thrive.

Nnamdipapa:
That is the history of how the country came to be and I have little interest in that with my article.

Every country has its own history . The reality is as at now 2025, Nigeria is a country among others.

If you want to agitate for a secession, you are free to do so but not acknowledging Nigeria as a country or bringing up the history of how the country was formed is totally irrelevant.

I assumed you went to school right?

His point is valid.
Nigeria was formed without votes from the people.
Bringing up the history of how Nigeria was formed at gunpoint and how its unity can only be enforced by gunpoint too is important and very relevant..

You are the one playing the ostrich.

Nnamdipapa:
I am Igbo from Nibo in Awka South, Anambra State. I reject Biafra and I want to be a part of Nigeria.

There!. It is not only your opinion that counts. There are millions of educated and successful Igbos like myself who want to stay in Nigeria. Your opinion is not greater than mine in Igboland.

Your opinion is valid but is a minority one in Igboland.
Most Igbos have rejected Biafra ( which is a multiethnic Frankenstein monster with Igbo resenting minorities that is doomed for failure), but majority of Igbos still believe we need an independent Igboland separated by national boundaries from Yoruba, North and Minorities.

Any Igbo who doesn't see that Unity with North, Yoruba and Minorities in same country will not yield a progressive country is either selfish ( ie his life sustainability is hinged on continued existence of Nigeria) or he is just ignorant of factors at play.

Nnamdipapa:
Nigeria and Britain are two different countries. This article is about citizens living in one country.

What citizen?
Ndiigbo don't want to be citizens of same country with the rest of you.
Just as Nigeria didn't want to be part of British empire.
Association by force is the real witchcraft and hypocrisy.
You can't be forcing your dead country called Nigeria down our throats and wonder why we resent both you and the country.
Are you for real?

The amount of hate Yoruba have poured on Ndiigbo between 2015 till date will not go unreplied by Ndiigbo.
The payback will be in many folds.
The Igbo are unrepentant bunch. We haven't even forgotten Biafra that happened decades ago.
You will pay for this hate and acts of wickedness anyday the wheels of power turn. You will, if not you, your children will.

REDshouse:
All this hatred is here online ... In the real life I have never witnessed this hatred from them...

I disagree.
It was offline that a Yoruba Lagos king threatened to drown Igbos in lagoon if they don't vote "Yoruba" aka ApC candidates in Lagos elections.
We witnessed the harassment of Igbo voters in Lagos in 2019 and 2023.
Ndiigbo will get a nation devoid of resentful non Igbo groups in Nigeria, today or tomorrow.

REDshouse:
and you will go as far as Onitsha because you want to buy common bolt and nut ...bro let's try to appreciate each other ...

Like Yoruba adage says

Fi otun we osi Fi osi we otun ni Owo fin mo.

We need each other to live and to grow

Ndiigbo don't need to be in same country with Yorubas.
The hate is too much.
We are not compatible and basically not same people.

This woman should be imprisoned.
This is how they contaminate Igbo genetic pool with alien undesirable genes from hostile lands.
This is how you will see a supposedly Igbo man, who reasons and behaves not like an Igbo would..

Imagine contaminating Igbo gene pool with Yoruba genes, this woman is a wicked.

Uchasa:
Keep on crying. My guess is that you're neither from Abia nor an Aro man.

You are not even Igbo or from SE.

imiski:
I live in Jedidiah estate in Enugu state, and my line of work has taken me around the southeast, almost every nook and cranny. Believe me when I say Igbos are chest beaters. They are online billionaires.

I appreciate you are creating your own happiness.😀

Makswell:
Do you have a reading problem? The guy was defending minorities and telling you how they used to own Arochukwu and you're saying that he is simping for minorities lmao.

Minorities never owned Arochukwu..