₦airaland Forum

Ofemannnu:
You should be worried about the massive human meat and human parts dealing in Igboland making you and your people flee to the SW.
Every Nigerian knows that human meats are only eaten by SEsterners.

And your evidence?

Suicide go plenty for Ronu camp this night.

Igbo Amaka x 100

AntiMarxist:
Unlike you guys, no Yoruba or any true Nigerian will defend criminality.

Keep it up.

We get enough future criminality by your orcs to make excuses for

Talk about the crime and the criminals plus the menace skull mining has become in that region.

This is not meant to be a Southeast vs Southwest deek measurement thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRiCpE4m9vU?si=k_0BbovJlyARasEx
According to this AIT report, dealing in human meat and human parts is now becoming a daily menace in some Southwest States especially Ogun and Oyo.
Nlfpmod

IjawKimi:
#opinion

Bonny people migrated from Ijaw in todays Bayelsa State.

Their first contact with Igbo language was when they settled in Ndoki area for long, they moved over time from there and finally arrived at Okoloama.

Yes some of their kith and kin were left behind and yes they picked up blood lines from Ndoki due to marriages, because you cant live that long in a place and not intermarry.

But the culture of the Ijaw, which includes spirituality moved with them to Okoloama, which is why when they passed through Andoni and saw the totem of the god they worshipped as the god of war, Ikiba otume gidi, (Ikuba) they seized it as a good omen and took the totem to Orupiri and Bonny main town respectively.

Okpara Ndoki or Ndoli which is usually who these revisionists atttribute Bonnys igbonness was not a King of Bonny, he was a leader among other leaders from Ndoki to Orupiri.

He left Orupiri back to Ndoki when news of his fathers demise came to him, he had to go amd take up his place as a King, for he was a prince of ndoki. Which is why he is Okpara Ndoki.

Opuamakuba and Alagbariya and Asmini were leaders, Opuamakuba being the oldest.

He couldnt continue the leadership at a point and he opted to handover to Alagbarigha who himself was Chief Priest.

Alagbarigha recused himself of the reaponaiblity and it fell on Asmini to lead.

Asimini became as it were the first established King who was the first to use a crown.

He had a son Edmini who also lived with them in Ndoki, and made friends there, when Asmini passed and Edmini took over, he gave his daughter Kambasa out to a prince of Azuogu Ndoki named Opoli to marry.

He did this becaise Opolos father was his friend and to seal the affection he had for his place of childhood upbringing.

Kambasa who before this arranged marriage was ab initio in love with an Ibani Noble Biriye, left to join her husband in Azuogu and had a son named Kamalu for Opoli.

Now Kamalu is an Igbo name and it is obvious because he was Opoli's son.

Kambasa eloped from Opoli's house in Azuogu to meet and live with her Ex Lover Biriye(who was an Ibani man) Herself and Biriye had a son named Papanye.

So Kambasa had two children, Kamalu and Papanye.

Opoli who loved Kambasa so much, followed love and abandoned his home in Azuogu in search of his wife in Bonny.

He eventually lived in where today is now known as Aganya, in Bonny, it used to be Opoli-Ama.

When Edimini died, without a son, and the partirachal men of the time didnt want to make Kambasa a Queem, she, being a woman of coirage who had her waysz seized the Adum-Odu The ivory tusk dedicated to Adum, a part of the Ibani pantheon of gods, a totem of royalty.

This being a significant thing, she was eventually made Amanyana-Orubo(Queen)

At her demise, her son Kamalau, was made King, and two sons after him from his line were made kings(note this was where an Igbo blood got into the kingship of Bonny).

However during the reign of Awusa, a great decendant of Kamalu-Ye-Kambasa, Things got increasingly rough and Awusa was unable to continue the Leadership of Okoloama as it entailed engaging in wars which were very expensive.

At the time, a Young Military Captain, by name Perekule, a Grandson of Papanye-Ye-Kambasa by Biriye (her Ibani lover) was tipped to be King as he had what it took to take in the responsibilities at the time.

The reign of Perekule who was named Captain Pepple by the Europeans, became the era of a new Dynasty.

Since Perekule I, the crown has remained in the Pepple Dynasty which is why the curremt King is Perekule XI.(Eleventh Perekule direct blood to sit on the throne).

It is from this King Perekule that Opubo Annie Pepple House was formed, Opubo was Perekule's Second son.

Perekule created two Chieftaincy Houses for his Sons, Prince Adum-Fubara, and Prince Adum-Opubo

Fubara Manilla-Pepple House
Opubo Annie-Pepple House.

When Both Princes at different times assumed the throne as Kings Perekule II and Perekule III respectively, their Redeemed Slaves (Adopted sons) became leaders of their Houses.

Thus at some point Juojuo(Jaja) became Head of the Opubo House.

Disagreements happened in Bonny as a whole which led to a civil war between dofferent houses, those supporting Jaja and those supporting The Leaders of the Fubara Manilla Pepple House.

At this point, Jaja left Bonny with a good number of Ibani Houses who were supportive of him.

He founded Opubo-Ama(Opobo) which i understand he named in honor of his Boss, King Opubo Annie Pepple, Perekule III of Grand Bonny.

What this means is that though Jaja himself was born an Nkwerre man, he was adopted and properly redeemed as an Ibani man.

And most of the families which left with him were original Ibani families.

The Second interaction of the Ibani with the Igbo language happened as a result of the Slave Trade and Inter Marriage.

If Bonny and Opobo people are Igbo why and from where did we get the Ibani language which is totally different from Igbo but very relatable to Ijaw?

How did we get the Other Ijaw forms of culture and spiritism?

These are the facts that should inform us when Igbo people come up with their unreasonable fallacies.

There are Historian Authorities whose books support this account, The Late. Nathaniel Waribere is one such writer.

The Late. Amaopusenibo Spurgeon Green is another such historian.

The problem we have and which the Igbo people have used to troll us is the many accounts of Europeans who passed this way.

Chimamanda Adichie calls it the danger of a single story.

The Europeans wrote it the extent that they could understand and perceive it, but not being indigenous people, through whom tradition and history would have been passed down from generation to generation, they couldn't have been expected to be 100% right.

If the Europeans could change our names from Perekule to Pepprell and Pepple, Ibaningo to Banigo, Wirikoma to Wilcox, Awusa to Halliday from Holliday(because he was seen as going to his plantation on Holliday after he handed over to Perekule) because they couldn't pronounce the band versions, is it the history that they wouldn't twist?

History is a tale or record from the past, to direct or inform the present and the future about their Root or Ancestors.

Please I might not know it all but am open to correction with respect, I don't need any insults. Imiegbam. (Thanks)

Bonny is Igbo

blacknp:
They did not field a candidate, but they won the election?, Mumu people.

Typical Mumu Pdp runaways turned Obidients.

The question is simple….

Who contests elections in Nigeria?

Candidates or political parties?

I won’t be surprised if those who drink his urine count this as achievement.

They are shallow like that.

Meanwhile, Tinubu is already feeling the hit of the people’s scrutiny of his extravagance while telling us to endure.

Would have been better.

At least we would have been saved from this Tinubu disaster and plague.

dheilaw1:
Peter Obi influence In only one ward out of hundreds. You get sense so?

Don’t mind him, it’s Tinubu’s influence.

He forgot Tinubu was Labour Party Presidential Candidate in 2023.😏

Meanwhile, did you see APC votes?

Besides, Labour Party should challenge the decision and find a candidate to fill in the election the party won.

According to Nigerian Constitution, it’s parties that are voted, not candidates.

So, that’s a Labour Party mandate.

DesChyko:
I guess 'they' need to try harder. Now that the alliance they so much boasted about is lopsided, they're seeking ways to make a return home, albeit, shameful ways.

Edo people saw through the shenanigans, although that was never in doubt. These tribalist should take a chill pill, really.

They cannot be facing inflation and still reserve energy for nonsense. I see this NoNonsense account going the way of Lagospedia. Take note of the government handles promoting their tweets now o, before they deny again.

Ronu gang opened burner accounts with Igbo names and opened a Twitter space to rain curses on the Oba of Benin in the name of Igbos.

Now, when the video of ‘Igbos’ insulting Oba of Benin came out, the Ronus were expecting Benin people to react but Benin people knew the game and didn’t even raise an eyebrow; and Ronu gang were devastated.

Just a little hint for you jobbers, the world knows that Igbos do not attack anybody unprovoked; ever.

I am not aware of anything that the Oba of Benin has done to Igbos recently to warrant him being insulted.

The thing is simple, the earlier APC and Ronu gang realized that this is not 1960s when their fathers used Lagos-Ibadan Expressway press to sell fake news and propaganda unchecked, the better for them.

People are wiser now, and have seen through APC and their gang of criminals’ game.

Stop trying to pit Igbos against other tribes in Nigeria, it will never work.

Nothing wey we wan see for Nigeria now wey we never see before.

So, rest!

Scarrr:
Anoda lie cooked frm the East

Considering that the fake marriage Tinubu had with the north has broken down, if you people had any iota of sense, you would have learned to take East and Igbos out of your mouth if you guys are interested in Tinubu’s re-election.

But I guess rationality is a scarce commodity in your camp.

Lol!

I like the kind of opposition the youth is playing now - they are no longer waiting for political parties or one political figure to put the govt on her toes, they are now doing it themselves.

First, it was EFCC handle that was hacked.

Now, they hacked their meeting with potential investors and showed porn, causing the meeting to end.

I love it!

You can call it sabotage but that’s what you get when you think you are big enough to steal the mandate of the people because you can a few debased characters in public positions.

Ndi ala!

LegendHero:
Without the East in 2003, Obasanjo will still win.

Check the votes margin here. Do you want to tell me the South East have ability to churn out that difference to Buhari?

Obasanjo won with 12million margin.

Typical of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway propaganda merchandise.

You have shown us the total result, why not show us the state by state vote tabulation let's the percentage Southeast gave Obasanjo?

And that to the fact that wherever the Southeast goes, the South South and Northern Christians go.

You people don't think

Philipponzaghi:
The resilience of the Igbo people is commendable, but it’s essential to recognize the strides the APC has made in addressing governance issues. Since 2015, there have been significant developments in infrastructure and economic growth that are often overlooked. Engaging in constructive dialogue is key; let's focus on solutions rather than protests. Together, we can build a better Nigeria for everyone!

Strides of APC you say?

What Strides?

Let's have a reasonable discussion like you said, tell us Strides.

The economy has been in downward spiral since 2015.

The ordinary man in the street became more pauperized and can barely feed since APC happened to Nigeria.

Imagine things like garri becoming a luxury. If someone had told me garri would ever sell 4k per paint, I would never believe it would happen in our generation.

And infrastructure?

How has the infrastructures impacted the life of the ordinary man in the street or the Nigerian economy?

I know you will mention Second Niger bridge. Do you think the problem of the man living in Onitsha or Asaba is how long he spends on the Niger Bridge? And not the food in his stomach and money in his pocket?

afube:
You hit the nail on the head.........if Tinubu wants southeast support , let him play grand politics and treat ndigbo like a bride ........Release nnamdi kanu, free eastern ports from exhorbitant shipping and handling charges....................on the area of infrastucture Tinubu has done fairly well but more needs to done. Enugu airport internaional terminal has to be commissioned, gas pipelines needs to be extended to the southeast as well!

Exactly!

Assist in the building of a Seaport in Abia.

Direct International Airlines to open branches in Enugu for Igbos to fly from the East.

Release Nnamdi Kanu to stop insecurity in the Southeast.

Command his Lagos touts to cease all anti Igbo rhetorics and actions.

And then the Igbos will consider doing business with him.

DMerciful:
If it will take the alignment of Atiku and Obi in 2027 to kill APC, so be it.

APC is a satanic party

Power must remain in the south.

If the north is tired of Tinubu, then let them vote for Peter Obi.

But if they can't vote Peter Obi because he's Igbo man, then let Tinubu continue.

Smartcitizen:
After insulting the Igbos in the last election in Lagos and you beat up everything Igbos or that looks like Igbo?


YOU ARE A VERY BIG LIAR.


The bad blood will continue till you know it's not the best thing for everyone.

We will work with the north come 2027.

I'm not Yoruba nor a Tinubu supporter.

I'm sure you are new to Nairaland.

slivertongue:
Obi tried over here. He wasn't as popular as Atiku or APC yet he garnered votes at shortest notice.

Add the one they rigged

LegendHero:
In politics, the North is a better ally to the South West than the Ibos.

An alliance with Ibos is not beneficial to the Yoruba. What will you bargain with? Numbers or influence?

Lastly, South is just a geographical expression, there is nothing similar in Yoruba and Ibo people culture. We have always bicker amongst ourselves since the 1960, so if we share anything in common, we should have used that to resolve the differences.

This is why I shudder at you folks that support Tinubu.

You people's intelligence and foresight is so acutely limited.

If you don't think an alliance with the East is beneficial to the Yoruba, how did Obasanjo win his reelection in 2003 when the north abandoned him and voted Buhari?

Iceberg3:
You are very correct about this... If there's one thing I like about the Tinubu,it is his taming of the north and putting them in their place,one thing GEJ couldn't and didn't do.
I have been advocating for the entire south and the good people of the middle belt to rally round Tinubu and support him...to support him if he chooses to contest 2027..

But penguin2,the problem ain't the Igbos,the problem is the ways of your fellow yorubas who have become abominable southerners.
The yorubas stake holders have one way or the other chosen to be enemies to other southerners...
I mean,why do we log on here and everyday,you see the likes of Helinues legendhero mccullum goodnewsforlife spagettiluv ttalk flokii (especially this one) hotfreeze yarimo raskymonojendor yorubanibaba hitlerwasright muchado FreeStuffsNG seunmsg adolfhitlerxxx maasoap (this one seems to have been touched that he now attacks Tinubu 😁) and lots lots more attack the Igbos,attack abia state and gov....they even the attack to that south African girl who abandoned the beauty pageant cos they saw chidinma on her name! I read when one was fooling himself to a south African lady and the SA lady told him that there ain't Nigerian embassy for Igbo or yoruba or Hausa but a Nigerian embassy for ALL NIGERIANS!
Very shameful.
The recent protest was staged by northerners who are very disgruntled with tinubu's govt and sowore and the Igbos kept themselves out of it but these same yoruba people still went ahead and tried in vain to heap the blame on the Igbos!
Seunmsg did so on here! Same with Helinues.

In the south west,Lagos for example,the Igbos are mainly into petty and other forms of trading but when you go to the fed govt agencies like the NPA,CUSTOMS,NNPC,DPR,PPPRA,PPPMC,NIMASA,...the bulk of the work force are quota system Hausa Fulanis! I know this cos I'm a seaman.
But yet,yoruba people will still not leave the Igbos alone.
The north is rattled so much right now and are seriously planning against tinubu and we in the south should be making plans too but the only plans being made is yorubas planning "Igbos must go".

It would be disastrous if for any reason,the north get their hands on power again,it will be very disastrous for us all and make no mistakes,I am not Igbo

I'm not Yoruba.

And not a Tinubu supporter.

Just being objective.

senatordave1:
The north did not team up or rig anything sir.the north will never vote an Igbo over a Yoruba,it is that simple..obi even struggled to win SS

Yes, for the north, rather a Yoruba goat than an Igbo genius.

Well, I hope they are enjoying the consignment they ordered.

And talking about Obi struggling to win South South, you mean including Wike's Rivers result ab?

Saintinoo:
What an Igbo man see sleeping, other Nigerians (Yoruba and Hausa) cannot see even if they climp am iroko tree.

They rather gaslight the Igbos and accuse of trying to rope the North into protesting and destroying their lands. When not even one Igbo man or woman is leading the so called protest. Most times, I ask myself if Yoruba people are actually humans, what sort of hatred and envy for a particular tribe.

For their information, the Igbo tribe will keep soaring and going high while they die of envy.

You know when we are crying on top of our voices for the best candidate to be voted during election, it will seem as though we will be the ones to suffer most if his government turns out a disaster but that's far from the reality.

The reality is that good or bad government, the Igbo man will always be good.

If economy good, we lower prices of our goods.

If economy bad, we high the prices of our goods.

So, good or bad, the Igbo man will never be the worst hit.

So, if Nigeria like make them get sense.

With the #EndBadGovernance protest officially concluded, it's time to talk about why the Igbos shunned the protest; an act some were already looking for how to turn it against the tribe.

History and experience has taught us that for everything happening in Nigeria, the Igbo man would always be judged differently. Yes, it's not the metrics and yardstick used in judging others that are used in judging the actions of Igbos in Nigeria.

In 2003, Ojukwu contested presidential election but Igbos left him and voted Obasanjo. Do you know what the rest of Nigeria said? They said, "look at the people asking for power, they can't even vote one of their own, how do they expect others to vote for them?”

Similar thing was said in 2007 when Buhari ran with an Igbo man as running mate but Igbos shunned him and voted Yaradua, a Fulani, who had an Ijaw man as running mate. Other similar instances abound.

Now, fast forward to 2023, and Igbos voted en masse for an Igbo man and the rest of the country were like "see people that want other tribes to vote for them, they voted only for one of their own and gave him 99% of their votes." It mattered less to people like that that the reason the tribe voted that way for Peter Obi was because of his competence and not because he is Igbo.

If you want to know if you Igbos vote their tribesmen only, tell your party to give their presidential ticket to Rochas Okorocha, Orji Uzor Kalu or Hope Uzọdịmma and see how many votes they will get from Igbos.

Then to APC....

When the cult that call themselves APC came together in 2013, Igbos were the first people to reject the party and even went ahead to tag it a "Muslim party" and made the party an anathema in the Southeast and other Igbo states of Rivers and Delta.

When they eventually handed their presidential ticket to Buhari for the 2015 general elections, the Igbos saw even a stronger reason to reject the party and refused to vote the party in 2015. Buhari won anyways.

Now, after Buhari was sworn-in in 2015, he went on a personal vendetta against the Igbos and Southeast, probably for not voting him in the 2015 elections or for rejecting him in the two times he ran with an Igbo man. But despite all Buhari did to the Southeast, the region never stopped making it known to him, at every chance they got, that they don't like him and nothing will ever make that change.

In keeping to their hatred for the APC and and Buhari, when the 2019 elections came, the Igbos once again refused to vote the party and chose to vote for Atiku of PDP instead and thereby rejecting APC the second time.

It’s imperative to state that the Igbos’ rejection of APC is not driven by mere hatred. No. It is actually driven by the fact that tribe does not believe in anything the party represents.

They didn’t believe that Buhari was a better candidate than Jonathan in 2015 and they were proven right as the 8 years Buhari spent in power can best be described as years of holocaust and waste.

Then the 2023 elections came….

As the disaster APC foisted on Nigeria in 2015 was rounding off in 2023, the Igbos once again warned the rest of Nigeria of the disaster it portended to rrtain APC as a party in power not to talk of the candidate they presented.

When the elections came, the protested again and rejected APC the third time and gave their votes to someone they believed was the best candidate on offer, they even gave him 99% of their votes, but others thought otherwise and conspired to get Tinubu declared.

Now, why did Igbos reject Tinubu and APC? Because they don’t believe in him. So, when eventually he took power and started failing woefully, Igbos were not disappointed because they already knew what the outcome would be which was why they rejected him at the polls. Now, since they were not disappointed, they were not angry and therefore saw no need to protest.

But not so with those who voted and those who joined in conspiring to get Tinubu declared because he “built lagos and tamed the atlantic” or maybe because they would see a goat from another region rule Nigeria than an Igbo genius, they had hopes, they actually Tinubu would “assemble best brains” and “renew their hope”. So, when the disaster set in from his very first day in office, disappointment is not enough to described what they felt.

So, it is this second set of people that, for whatever reason, believed Tinubu had the capacity to do anything good in Nigeria that were disappointed, and their disappointment turned to anger and frustration and then they saw the need to protest.

So, in case you have been wondering why Igbos refused to join the #EndBadGovernance Protest and many other stupid protests before it, or you are part of those that wanted to accuse Igbos of keeping quiet while the rest of the country was trying to fight against bad governance, know it today that Igbos started protesting against APC and their bad governance since 2015; and had the rest of the country agreed with us then, APC wouldn’t have taken root at all and we wouldn’t be where we are today. But no, they chose to call Igbos “wailing wailers”.

Who is “wailing” now?

Good morning to the rest of you if you have finally woken to the evil that APC is which the Igbos saw as far back as 2015; and if you still haven’t woken up, continue to sleep well.

Penguin is a bird of reason!

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senatordave1:
Very true.Tinubu is Nigeria's greatest politician

Please don't overrate him.

If not that the fear of the Igbo, Peter Obi, made the north team up to rig Tinubu in, he would have been beaten silly in the last election.

Thank you!

humilitypays:
Bro, the op is completely correct in his write up.


Without El Rufai, Tinubu wouldn't have emerged APC's Presidential candidate to start with. And if Tinubu had failed to emerge, APC would have scattered and Atiku would have probably won because most Northerners would have voted Atiku while Southwest would have remained neutral reducing Obi's votes.


And after El Rufai helped Tinubu get the APC ticket, Tinubu deceived him into thinking he was going to be his key man in his government if he wins the election, so he used El Rufai, Buhari, Bello, and all the Northern Governors to rally votes in North and to work on Mahmood Yakubu whom they instructed to work with Tinubu, thinking they were going to be the ones to control Tinubu's government until Tinubu eventually dies like Yaradua for the power to completely return back to North where they would sit Shettima down and tell him what they want.


But it seems Tinubu acted all his script, both his pretense to be sick and fronting El Rufai as his key man. I must tell you, Tinubu is so good in politics.


But they got the shocker of their life when Peter Obi pulled the highest votes, they had to quickly shutdown iREV to finish the job because initially they saw Obi as no threat while they focused on Atiku, surprisingly to them Peter Obi pulled a surprise with his election figures such that they had to hurriedly work on Mahmood Yakubu to shutdown the iREV portal.

Thank you for trying to help him.

You know it can be very frustrating when you see how shallow and shortsighted a lot of Nigerian youths are, and these are people who claim to be educated.

Little wonder they keep voting for ijiots and expect them to perform miracle and wonders.

Ojiofor:
I disagree with you!
Peter Obi have to play sophisticated politics like Tinubu and Yoruba folks and align with Atiku and the North and take power away from Tinubu just like he did to GEJ.It will be sweet if Tinubu and Yoruba ACN camp have a taste of their own poison.

What assurance do you have that after Atiku's tenure, they will hand power to Peter Obi, an Igbo man?

See, if we take emotions away, we would realize that this people have been our problem for so long. In 2019, we saw Imams preaching against Atiku's ticket just because Peter Obi was his running mate.

What makes you think such people will hand over to Peter Obi?

Or when Atiku's tenure is over, they will come up with a different machination.

They got themselves injured, let them lick their wounds without any body's because we can't trust them.

Chinkoalhaji34:
Checkmate? More like checkmated his own chances!

Peter Obi should be focusing on how to checkmate his own party crisis first before trying to checkmate the North. All this talk about helping or not helping is just noise.

The North is not the problem here; it’s his inability to hold a party together that’s the real issue. If he spent half the energy he uses in making noise on actually uniting his followers, maybe we would have seen some real progress.

Instead, what we see is a man who jumps from one party to another like a kid in a candy store, thinking he can still be taken seriously.

At this point, na him dey checkmate himself, and it's clear he’s only helping his own downfall.

If only you could read.🤦

NaMe4:
The era of 'Kaduna mafia' was mainly during military regime and probably, early periods of this democratic dispensation.

Many have aged and passed on.

Moreover, the dynamics of politics in Nigeria has drastically changed especially with the merger of ACN, ANPP and CPC over a decade ago.

How many of them have died?

The last time I checked, all the vultures that make up that evil circle are still very much around; from retired generals to northern intellectual.

And no, party mergers did not diminish their role. They remain relevant irrespective of which party is in power.

Caveat: There's need to state that by 'north' here, I am referring to the northern mafias, Kaduna Mafia if you please, who have over the years constituted themselves as kingmakers of Nigeria whereby only the person they approve of can become president of Nigeria whether from their northern region or the south. So, by north, I'm not referring to the entire region nor the poor northern masses who are mere victims of the machinations of this mafia over the years.

Now that we have stated that, let's into the meat of this piece.

Any critical follower of politics in Nigeria will know that the high turnout of protesters in the north in the recently concluded #EndBadGovernance Protest was engineered by this northern mafia as a way of registering their frustration at how powerless they've become since they conspired to hand power over to Tinubu; maybe because they thought he was frail and might go the Yaradua way but man seems to have gotten new life since he was sworn in. The north has never been as powerless, politically, as they are now, and it seems Tinubu is bent on making sure he breaks their hold on Nigeria which was used to making them think they own the country. They are afraid of this happening but I think it's too late for them already.

Many may not have realized the game the north wanted to play in 2023 but I will mention it.

In 2023, this northern cabal wanted to retain power in the north through Atiku and the plan was to ensure that they make rubbish of the APC ticket to prevent a strong candidate from emerging so that Atiku's path will be smoother. This is why they wanted to useless the APC ticket by announcing Ahmed Lawan as consensus candidate. They knew nobody would vote Lawan which would leave Atiku as the most manageable option. But something happened.

Throughout their years of calculations and strategy before the 2023 elections, they never envisaged Peter Obi. They never knew that a certain Peter Obi would go to a different party and take the eastern and northern Christians votes they were banking on for Atiku away from him.

When the Peter Obi wave became too much and the north saw that the Atiku project will no longer work, add Wike and his Asoebi boys’ shenanigans too, they were now faced with a choice of either allowing Peter Obi ride on his wave to victory or ‘deliver’ Tinubu. They chose Tinubu instead. Yeah, I said they chose Tinubu because what happened in 2023 elections wouldn't have happened if these 'owners of Nigeria' were not in support.

Obasanjo knew what he was talking about, and the people he was referring to when he wrote his open letter endorsing Peter Obi in 2023.

Why did they choose Tinubu?

Many factors contributed to them choosing Tinubu. First, Peter Obi is an Igbo man, a tribe they are scared of allowing get power for whatever fear they harbour. Again, Tinubu’s Muslim Muslim ticket, which was specifically chosen to deceive them and it worked, making them think they were doing Allah’s work by choosing Tinubu. Similarly, during campaigns, Tinubu seemed he was nearing his death. So, their calculation may have been that if he goes the way of Yaradua, then power will return to the region faster.

All these and other factors made them decide that Tinubu should have it and instruction was given as such which is why a character like Mahmoud Yakubu could do what he did because he was acting on instruction from his superiors already; that’s aside the money that may have exchanged hands also.

All of this is why the north feels Tinubu owes them.

Now, why are they angry? You might ask.

1) Subsidy: Since Tinubu took power, he removed subsidy. When they talk about the vultures that were benefiting and feeding fat on subsidy payments, believe me when I tell you that most of them were northerners. Tinubu’s removal, or redirection, of subsidy payment has taken feeding bottle off their mouth and they are fighting back.

2) Exchange Rate Unification: It’s common knowledge that northerners dominate the Bureau De Change market in Nigeria with claims having been made in the past that these men used to source their dollar directly from the CBN and resell at Black Market rate to make excessive profit at the expense of Nigerians. The exchange rate unification has taken food from a lot of northern Alhajis who are the real owners of these businesses.

3) Appointments: The north spent 8 years defending Buhari's nepotistic appointments and justifying them with the most irrational reasons ever heard. What they never imagined is that a time would come when they would be the ones crying against another person's nepotism. Yes, Tinubu has broken every nepotistic record set by Buhari with nearly 80% of the appointments he has made since he took power going to the Yoruba, and the north considers that an affront. They feel they deserved more from Tinubu for 'helping' him to power. Again, they feel only one of theirs can dare to be nepotistic as Buhari was. How dare a southerner?

4) Politically: Politically, Tinubu seems to have succeeded in keeping every member of that evil circle away from his government like the likes of Elrufai, and they are not happy they are not inside. If anything, the reason somebody like Elrufai supported Tinubu was because he wanted to be Vice President. But with Tinubu shutting him out now, he has seen the pathway to his presidency dimmed which would delay, or kill, whatever agenda they want to achieve with power which they fail to achieve with Buhari.

5) Restructuring and Regionalism: If there’s anything the north hates, it’s the idea of Nigeria being restructured and the country going back to regionalism which they feel would greatly put them at a disadvantage as they are the biggest beneficiaries of the current dysfunctional structure. Now, during campaigns, Tinubu never said anything about restructuring but since he took power, we have seen documents flying around in the media space on how Nigeria is to be restructured with even a proposed return to regionalism. The presidency has never disowned this document which has heightened the fear of the north that their greatest fear might end up happening from someone they thought had no interest in that without realizing that they were simply played. Or maybe they have realized.

In a nutshell, the north was beaten at their own game in 2023 and now they are looking for a way out.

In looking for this way out, they have started fraternizing with Peter Obi to try to convince him to be Atiku’s running mate in 2027 so that Atiku can hand over to him after 4 years.

But I write this to tell Peter Obi to never make himself available for such deal in 2027.

In 2027, the north must choose between Peter Obi or Tinubu.

If they fear Igbo man so much that they cannot allow him get to power then I don’t mind Southeast voting for Tinubu to continue in power. And once Tinubu gets his second tenure and has nothing to lose anymore, he would finish off everything he has eyes on - to ensure Nigeria is completely restructured with a return to regionalism.

So, in conclusion, in 2027, the north must choose between southern candiates and no southerner, not much Peter Obi, should help save them from the misery they got themselves into by themselves.

I’ve seen early signs of them trying to throw the Jonathan joker in 2027 but that’s story for another day as we watch events unfold.

Pengiun is a bird of reason!

One million red flags in one report.

First, the report is from Nation's Newspaper who would do anything to manufacture imaginary crisis in Ohaneze.

Second, the Omenazu guy is obviously a Wike lackey seeking to take hold of Ohaneze and use it to run Wike's errands which is why Ime-Obi, in their wisdom, stepped down the approval of his nomination.

For the record, Ime-Obi has the powers to reject anyone nominated by a state chapter to fill in their position in Ohaneze.

That Ime-Obi raised no objection on Iwuanyanwu's nomination does not mean that it must not raise objection on Omenazu's nomination.

If anything, the fact that Omenazu has ran to Nations Newspaper to try to create the imprrssion of an imaginary crisis in Ohaneze and accuse the group of marginalization already justifies why he is not the character to lead Ohaneze.

And I hope when that when elections come in January when it will be the turn of Rivers to produce the President General of Ohaneze, that he would still not get it.

Lastly, I thought Ronus have spent their entire existence swearing and arguing that there are no Igbos in Rivers, what would they say now that their darling Nations Newspaper is reporting of how a Rivers man is laying claim to the presidency of Ohaneze?

Abi na Ijaw man wan be president of Ohaneze?

It's good to always see every of your lies fall like a pack of cards by itself in your very presence.

Ikwerre is Igbo; and not in a million years would there be a change in that no matter who disagrees with that and no matter how history is distorted.

PDP is a party of jokers.

They asked State chapters to give them names of those who played anti-party in the last election? Imagine the joke.

So, they expect Rivers State Working Committee that is in Wike’s pocket to submit Wike’s name as one of those that played anti party?

Those vagabonds will rather submit Uche Secondus, Austin Opara, Lee Maeba’s names.

Now, what will NWC do if Rivers SWC doesn’t submit Wike’s name? It would therefore mean that Wike did not play anti party abi?

You see why I said they are jokers?

But I say it again, you see the way Wike was embarrassed at PDP convention in 2022, the embarrassment that awaits him will be louder.