₦airaland Forum

989900:
One side of the story.

And your point is ?

I don't want to second guess you or make an assumption of what you are trying to say.
Kindly make your point, and lets see if we can have a sensible discussion without sentiments or bias.

shititis:
And Kanu a saint abi.

Actually yes.

A young man who can use only speech, no army , no guns, no bombs, no suicide bombers, to rattle a system, forcing everyone to reflection, nudging everyone into discussing hitherto tabooed word " Restructuring " , is a born leader, a bona fide Hero, not only for the entire Southeast or Igbos, for all of Nigeria.

That Nnamdi Kanu, A young man commanding NO ARMY, has fired NO Single Shot, thrown No BOMBS, just delivering speeches and marching with a bunch of other angry youths( let me add, his constitutionally guaranteed rights) , is drawing heavy handed armed response from the State is sure proof that he is doing something right, something sooooo overdue.

Obviously, the leeches of this nation are responding in the way they are expected to respond.
But , they are on the wrong side of history, as time would inevitably prove.

ClitRaider:
Are you not aware that in 1979, Igbo has only two states, Anambra and Imo whereas Yoruba has four states.
Today Igbo has five states and Yoruba has six states.

Are you not aware that Igbo has six senators in 1979 whereas Yoruba has twelve senators. Today they have fifteen senators whereas we have eighteen senators. Calculate the percentage increase. Let us ask, who has been marginalized?

They will come to us that those Hausas are bad they are not educated, they are Muslims, they want to Islamise Nigeria, they are this and that yet they will go behind to form an alliance with them.
Strategically they have been reducing our economic potential because they have been able to increase their slots in geometric progression and ours is in arithmetic progression. More slots in Federal appointments whereas ours have continued to reduce.

Are you aware that the land mass that makes up the five Eastern states is not up to old Oyo state yet they have been able to create five states out of it.

The first group of people that started trading in spare parts are Yoruba particularly our people from Ijebu-Ode but they have been muscled out of the business.

The idea of Geo-political Zone was mooted by Ojukwu to favour the Igbo. Now through Jonathan conference they said they are being marginalized because they are the only Geo-political zone with five states. Can you imagine that? From two states. That is what I called strategic thinking. Unfortunately, Yorubas that went to that conference agreed with them foolishly particularly afenifere in the likes of Yinka Odumakin, Sen. Adefuye. What a tragedy. Let's ask them, what did Yorubas that attended the conference brought home? The answer is nothing.

The issue of Biafra being championed by Kanu is not by accident, it is a grand design to negotiate for more. Now it is coming out, South East Development commission. Why don't we ask, to be funded by who? If it is agreed they will continue to reduce our economic potential in the Nigerian state.

But, come to think of it why don't you let Biafra be. They are adding no value to us and I can bet you that nobody will miss them. Remember that they fired the first shot that started Nigerian civil war. Killing Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello and some notable Yorubas.
Of recent, Chinue Achebe wrote a book "There was a Country". Accusing Awolowo of committing Progrom. What a tragic write up. The question to ask is who started the war? Can I continue to feed my enemy to have more strength to battle me.

Igbo would never change. Domination is in their blood and they can only be satisfied if they have what belongs to you and you have not
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Yoruba E Ronu yin o.

- _forwarded as copied_

Just imagine.
Spoken like an illiterate.
Again we see why they deliberately do not teach Nigerian history in school.
What a tragedy of a nation.

Throwback:
All because a Northerner and Muslim fairly won an election.

Even the SouthSouth moved on, so why are you stuck on the agony of defeat?

You really think, in your very tiny mind, that all this is about an election , a fair and free one for that matter ?

ChopBellefull:
sorry dear, we cant be slave because of history.. Things change. So we shld eat poo and b subjected to slavery because of history.. Grow up

Don't mind the spineless cowards who rather be better treated slaves than to fight for freedom.

These loudmouths who would neither defend mother, daughter or wife in any circumstances would call themselves men.

Nigeria surely deserved the Buharis, the Abachas and the Bsabangidaa they got as leaders.

mrvitalis:
This is not work 30% of the quoted value please

This is the frued foreigners are using the Lunder money out of Nigeria and our leaders can't even get it

I'm sure banks financied this with out deposit

Tommorrow they will be loot the company and allow amcon to take it over and use our common wealth to pay back the dept

They then move to another company with different names

Wake up Nigeria , wake up

Thank you Bros.

The first question that came to my mind was whether this was a private or government venture.

With $150m anyone can build 10 or more of what I am seeing in picture.
If that project truly cost $150m, then as a commercial enterprise, it is dead on arrival.
I am guessing that is a govt guaranteed foreign loan , ADB or world Bank financed venture that is guaranteed to go under in a few years, take on more debt , and at the end of day, pushed into Nigeria's foreign loan portfolio as usual.

lexy2014:
what was d foundation buhari inherited: d largest economy in Africa, an exchange rate less than N200 to a $...two years is a milestone. Some people even use 100days. Give buhari 10yeara, he wouldn't do better than what he has done so far. Compare buharis reign 2d time osinbajo was acting president d first time out&tell me u didn't notice a difference. even d forex market reacted. N14trn budgeted in 2 years and little or nothing to show?that's very poor

Thank you.
Buhari has nothing to offer Nigeria, except NEPOTISM, division and confusion, same as he did in his first MissionLESS journey in 1983.

vedaxcool:
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Disenchanted ipob stealing has never been beneficial to any decent human being

Again, resorting to tribal slurs is all your cow brain have to offer.
Not intelligent enough to make a sensible argument?

Do remember the famous words " Abacha did not steal " ?
Hhhm!
I wonder which man of integrity uttered those words .

vedaxcool:
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So you mean the zoo was good to you when gej was feeding you crumbs?

Nigerians were better off during GEJ.
No debate about.
The economy was growing.
The middle class grew and expanded during GEJ.
Mind you, the growth or stagnation of the middle class is the most reliable index of progress.

Now ,coast forward to 2017.
No economic growth.
No economic plans, just patch patch work.
Middle class has almost completely disappeared.
No new investments in the economy.

Why ?
Some fossilized dinosaurs have, in usual fashion, taken us back to the good ol days of the stone age.

Cuteogbus:
Counter Argument Ke.. Who Dey Counter Wetin Mad Man Talk.. You Can't Drag Me Down To Your Extremely Low Level Of Poor Reasoning' Stupid.. I'm Just Trying To Help You Reason.. But It Seems Like You're A Lost Cause. So F**k Outer Here!!!... Dummy! Bye!!!

Lol.
And this is your best?
Ranting and dripping sewage language is your own display of reasoning and intellectual girth ?
So, to you, you have succeeded in saying something ?

Lawd have mercy

There is indeed a dearth of intelligence among the youths in this country ?

ALEGETEMITOPE:
knowingfully that no money is coming to your pocket in this govt. You can go ahead and sow discord you will also reap in due season. Thanks

Much babble, no sense whatsoever.

[quote author=Greenthumb post=60358704][/quote]I call a spade a spade, irrespective of which quarter the busshyte is coming from .

Bigsteveg:
I don't feel sad for him, I pity people like you who use 1k for 1G data defending useless politicians who will crosscarpert and say another thing tomorrow.

Seriously, there a very serious English comprehension crisis in Nigeria.

Which politician did you see me defending on post ?.
Are you not the one who is defending a politician in this case ?

Cuteogbus:
What Is The Truth In His Letter.. Is There Any Phrase That You Can Single Out And Say "This Is Thought Provoking" ?.. What Is The Truth Here? Is It The Calling Of 15million Nigerians Who Voted Buhari Fools (When Clearly Jonathan Gave Them No Choice) Or His Unneccesary Attack On The Office Of The President?. Was It Not Thesame 15million Fools That Voted Jonathan In 2011. I'm A Rivers Man & Let Me Tell You, Jonathan Is A Fraud & A Failure & I'm Glad He's Gone.

Truth Is, Both You & Lare Are Daft!!!

Lawd have mercy !!
And this is your best counter argument ?

No wonder exam failure is a national tragedy.

Greenthumb:
Ever heard the words called 'null, void and of no consequence'? That's what summarises Yinka Lere's letter

Lol.
Any half ret.a.rd can type "null and void " on a computer screen.
C'mon, surely you can muster enough mental dexterity to do better than that.

C'mon sonny boy, I'm quite sure you can do better than that.
Do your parents and alma matter proud.

uridiwan:
hatred will lead you into destroying your generation future. I ask you for the last time kindly tell me any sensible part of your mentor statement.

Again, you have serious comprehension issues.

It is actually a bit painful engaging with low IQ people like you, but someone has to do the dirty job.

I Really wonder how the thinking pattern of people like you function.

Someone made statements of facts that you obviously disagree with. If you have enough courage and the minimum mental capacity to articulate a counter argument, then the onus is on you to do so.
Very simple.
How does the word " Hatred " come into the picture ?.
In your zombie universe, I guess criticizing an elected public servant, the most important one in this case, is akin to expressing hatred ?

Let me say something to you and all other idiots like you.

To whom much is given, much is also expected.
The presidency of Nigeria is not a family inheritance.
It is a reposed Trust.

The president is a servant of the people on Loaned time.
He owes us accountability, including on his health and ability to perform his functions.

As of today, the people of Nigeria do not know the exact health status of the president.
We don't know what ails him, the prognosis for recovery and fitness for the rigors of his office , and most importantly, how much of our scarce foreign currency reserves is being used and has been depleted thus far to treat the president.
Unconfirmed rumours has it at around $30m so far.
That is an aberration in modern statecraft and democracy.
This can only happen in a society and leadership where integrity has ZERO value.

Rather, on his return from his very secretive and very expensive 107days medical vacation abroad, the gratitude Nigerians got from their president on his first taped broadcast came in the form of threats to his critics and sections of the country.

Obviously , Buhari's second missionless journey into our national politics has shown itself to be another Great Tragedy of Misplaced Trust.
Now, if you tell me that all the above is equal to hatred, then I can be of no help to low IQ individuals.

uridiwan:
Stop acting like a fool I expect you tell us with your co-idiot is trying to tell Nigerians....if truely this lere in any form make sense to you then I pity your children if you got any.

If you can read those very short and concise statements, and yet still demand that others explain it to you, then obviously your situation is hopeless . I can bet anything that you failed basic comprehension in all your exams.

And again, simple elementary logic compels you who disagree with him, to make a FEEBLE attempt to repudiate his statement.
You have not done that.

Now, who amongst us is the m.oron ?

nairanaira12:
Are you saying only big men have the right to talk in Nigeria? You have lost your sense of reasoning.

Do you see how Buhari's zombies reason ?

Bigsteveg:
You just spoke what a fool is capable of saying.
Please read well and interpret the message if there's any, critisizng with sense should always be the thing.
The fact that u a youth see nothing bad in talking without sense scare me more than the man without sense talking himself.
I wish you well

Lol @ sense.

I didn't see you make an attempt to repudiate the points that the man of courage made.

Or did you, Mr. I have sense, miss the points raised by Lere ?
Should I interpret them in kindergarten language or in Zombie-speak for you ?

tommynico:
It's really disheartening to read online the bitter and hateful words being used by both parties. Majority of us ( Yoruba and igbo) have friends from the mentioned tribes, why can't we just see ourselves thesame way we see our individual friends. I know this country can be tiresome and at times confusing due to the decisions and desires of some powerful few but I do believe we can still rise above this negative rivalry and instead compliment ourselves and become better. History as well has given us reasons to be at odds but we have come a long way, even up to the point of intra tribal marriages which have only bonded us together as a sign of prosperity and goodness. It helps no one to hate but it is much more refreshing to the soul to live happily with one another because hatred will only make see the other from the fault side and not the possible goodness in them. Please my dear brothers and sisters from both sides of this widening gulf, we should stop it all before it consume us all, Let those who want to be apart do so with respect to the other group and not with hatred.......

Oga lalastical.....help us preach the gospel please.

Outside of national politics, the Igbos and Yorubas live side by side, share friendships, commerce, intermarry, etc.
Just like brothers and sisters in a family, there are mutual suspicions, but no serious malice.

In federal politics, this is where the daggers come out.
And the reason is not far fetched.
The inverted federal system we run in Nigeria keeps the major tribes, especially the progressive elements, permanently scrambling for crumbs at the center.
Each one sees the otheras a long term threat.
Though each has a slightly different reason for being suspicious of the other, the underlying causes are the same.

sarrki:
That's how stupid and foolish one can be if frustrated

An appointee of a governor

Talking to the president of Nigeria like this

He wants to make name

Lere swerve

Oponu ayirada

For an ordinary citizen, who commands no army, no DSS, to stand up publicly to tell truth to power is a special type of courage that only a few mortals have.

He has my greatest admiration.

And to tell you that he speaks real truth, I challenge you to make an even feeble attempt to repudiate his very simple assertions.

Buhari has no doubt demonstrated that he is the most ungrateful, most dishonest leader we have been unfortunate to have been saddled with.

chinoxstock:
Everybody knows how clueless, useless and hopeless Buhari is.
The wife talked about it and now another woman is saying it. It's funny how only the women around Buhari are wise enough to speak the truth.

Everybody is tired of this useless and cursed administration. Crucifying a woman for stating the obvious is not the answer.

Buhari perform!! Or go and die!

A million likes for this obvious truth.

The funny thing is that During the Yaradua Fiasco, it was also a Woman, Dora Akinyuli of blessed memory, that stood and spoke truth to power, whereas the men were cowering in their closets.

So, maybe it's high time we start looking up to Nigerian women for leadership in Nigeria.

ChangetheChange:
Mum post from a spaghetti brain zombie

Is oooni of Ife a PDP member

Are the various commissioners, special advisers from the APC contolled Lagos State, Oyo state, Ogun State and Osun State who represented their Governors are they PDP members too?

Ur village people have used ur brain to fry Akara and puff puff

Don't mind the retard.
His kneejerk reaction is classic symptom of Stockholm Syndrome.

Ranchhoddas:
You are stark raving mad.
No be only me go see am.

Plaetton
Omohayek
Hopefullandlord

Make una come see Nigerian wonder.

Lol.

rlauncher:
Igbo's appears to us as a people who act before they think. A people who believes violence must first be met with violence. Warmongers. I may be wrong. For us war should be avoided at any cost. That does not mean that we will not stand up to those who may seek to engage us in war. We are not afraid of anyone, and we are always at alert. We will never be the one to initiate war or using warfare or violence of any kind to pursue our agenda. It is not worth it.

My dear friend, please read and reread your post again. Pls.

This is the problem I have with your type.
You are either less than 15 yrs old or simply a liar.

And this is the main reason your masters deliberately refrain from teaching you basic Nigerian history in schools.

If case you are more than 15 yrs old, kindly point to us any instance in the history of Nigeria where Igbos have used or resorted to violence to achieve anything ?
Was it not the Violence and confusion in the West that laid the ground for the 1966 military coup in Nigeria, and the subsequent events that led to the Civil war ?
Was it not the political Violence in West 1983, and the agitation for fall of the Shagari government by non other than Awolowo and his UPN that gave the Buhari the impetus to overthrow the democratic government of Shagari ?
Was it not Awolowo that was the first Nigerian jailed for Treason against his nation, simply because he could not stand being outside of power ?

How many political riots and mass killings have you ever heard or read about in Igboland ?
How many genocides of other tribes or communities has been committed in Igboland since the amalgamation of Nigeria ?

When have the Igbos ever declared war on anyone , group or ethnic region ?

And you have the idiocy, the foul lying mouth , to refer to Igbos as a violent people ?
In what planet ?

This stuuupid, self-deprecating notion that you must stay cool and collected while nonentities, people who should be shinning your shoes, poke your axx, because you want political porridge is very very disgraceful, a nauseating state of mind.

And let me repeat again, that's why you are not Igbo, and do not know what it is to be Igbo.

We don't envy you and your political porridge.
We want to be masters of our destiny.

rlauncher:
Igbo's have collectively failed to develop the east with the little every state in Nigeria have been receiving from the centre, like the Yorubas have been doing over the years.

I laugh when I read stuff like this from a Yoruba, the so-called enlightened and sophisticated people.
I am relieved, however , when I remind myself that people like you cannot possibly be speaking for Yorubas, but for your little narrow minds.

I can bet anything that you have never ever crossed the Niger bridge, otherwise you would never come here to make a fool of yourself.
Now, considering and inspite of deliberate federal neglect since 1970, aside from Lagos, the former Capital and commercial hub of Nigeria, there is no Southwest State that can boast of higher standard of living index or indices than any SouthEast state. Ogun and Oyo states benefit from the proximity to Lagos. The rest are basket cases, just like many other states in Nigeria.

Do SouthWest staes have better leaders and administrators ?
Yes. I concede that.

rlauncher:
Tell me which state especially in the south does not feel marginalized. Yet some states are still making efforts to grow and develop despite the situation.

This is very very laughable ?
Very very.

So, you agree that Southern states are especially marginalized ?
HHMmmm!
But Marginalized by whom , and why ?
Isn't that only question worth asking and addressing ?

So, you are saying, like fulanimafia hinted earlier, that politically sophisticated people just relax , keep taking it up in the axx, don't complain, and just manage to make efforts to grow and develop, despite the situation(your own words).
GEEESUS!
Simply amazing !! .

You see, that's why you are not IGBO, and probably can't ascend, even in another incarnation.

What amazes me is that most Igbophobes don't have the faintest idea what it means to be Igbo.

rlauncher:
If a fellow human being is an animal, what are you!

Your soul is is poisoned with hatred. You need to deal with the hatred in your heart.

This is how people who grow up being spoonfed with racism and ethnic hatred among their kinfolk talks.

Deal with the hatred and be free.

Hypocrite.

I guess you are half-blind, and failed to see where fulanimafia first used the word "pig" to describe other people.

Again , go through the entire thread and see that it was fulimafia that first resorted to tribal slurs.
That is his trademark on Nairaland, in case you don't know.

I only served him a small taste of his own medicine, and rightfully put him in the little barn that he belongs.

fulanmafia:
You can only be poked in the *** when you're someone's b*tch

Nobody expected pigs and idiots to understand opposition politics. Nobody.

Opposition to whom or to what ?
Opposition to savages and blood thirsty animals ?

You Have to stand on the same pedestal with someone in order reason or play Democratic politics.

You have never been equal to the task of playing civilized politics.
Politics for you means murder and force, .the primordial tendencies that run through your very primitive souls.

We are tired of having to condescend to accommodate your medieval mindset ilk.
This what you just don't seem to understand.

Now, you mentioned pigs and idiots.
Well, I assume that you award yourself the mastery of politics in Nigeria.
Good for you.
So how market ?
Your region records the LOWEST quality of life indices in the entire Planet.
Well done.

Now, who are the pigs and idiots in Nigeria ?

fulanmafia:
Yet the SW were able to play dignified opposition politics during the Jonathan years when their elders complained of marginalization (to the jubilation of your kind) and successfully strategized to kick out their oppressor? It's typical of failures to blame the tool (constitution) instead of their lack of skill.

Call a spade a spade. You simply lack the strategic capacity to play opposition politics, hence your resort to petty blackmail and childish bid to bring the house down. Amusingly all you've succeeded in doing is further militarizing your region while inching it closer to yet another genocide and mass starvation as your fate seems to be programmed to be.

Arewa is not the reason for your inability to play opposition politics. Face your front.

Oh Bullshyte.
Dignified opposition my axx.

The same dignified opposition means being poked in the axx and not complaining , being hounded and murderd like we have seen from your kin over the political past of this country.

Dignified opposition to you means ingratiating oneself to lazy , wicked creeps with a born to rule syndrome ?
God forbid!
Dignified opposition means bowing to cows in order to catch some droplets of milk ?
God forbid .

Opposition should be opposition.
There is no such thing as dignified opposition.

Baawaa:
We were in Opposition for long in the SW, Our Leader AWOLOWO was jailed, Abiola Election was annulled, he was killed, his wife was killed, his business was killed. Ajasin was put under house arrest, Abraham Adesanya was shot and the bullets went like raindrops, Bola Ige was murdered in Ibadan, our elections were rigged with provoking audacity, Tinubu was attacked politically and almost brought down but we fought without destroying Nigeria. We conquered without silly blackmail!!!!!!

There is a country called NIGERIA and DEMOCRACY has come to stay, if you can't play with common sense, you will just die of hypocritical ranting!

Geesus!!!
Is this a joke

This has got to be the most stuuupid, self-deprecating and self-contradicting nonsense I have seen on Nairaland.

If this poster is serious, he is saying that Igbos should learn the fine art of taking it in axx and keeping quiet, until someday, the molester might simply run out of juice.

Tu Tu Tu Tufiakwaaaaa!

sukkot:
i said it a year ago. nnamdi kanu works for buhari.

plaetton

C'mon old friend.
You're too smart to fall for that nonsense.

Lol.

I must say, there must be something wrong with psyche of the South African black man.
First they were colonised by the Dutch, the Boars, the Indians, .and now the Igbos..
Maybe if they drink less beer, and tame their uncontrollable Labidos, they might actually find time to think, to be a bit enterprising as the roll call of foreigners that take turns colonising them.