Maobichek:


You wrote the first comment, when countered you then change your narrative. I don't insult people and I have never insulted anyone here on Nairaland, be the person BAT, PMB, GEJ etc. Please read through my comments in my profile to confirm this.

BAT has every right to contest but the man gave example with 1999 where the two major political party choose from South West. There are igbos in APC and PDP who are qualified to lead this country and I believe that Nigeria can do the right thing if we want. OBJ was in prison before 1999 but came out from prison and was made the president, thank you.

If you understand how Nairaland mods work, you’ll see the logic behind me using Igbo politicians instead of Igbo alone.

Mods won’t ban me for using the word politicians with putrid hate and etc in my post. But people know what I’m referring to in that post.

Back to your post, unfortunately people like you are minority among the Igbos, Infact probably 1%. Most Igbos that I know always hate this man and always show it on thread related to him daily. That you want to feign ignorance about this shows you’re not being truthful.

gistray:



Miscreants.


Fuckkk Tifnubu and criminal and his tribe men the traitors, betrayals and hooligans.

You will heal someday.

barcaboi:

Let each candidate step out and stop hiding or attacking others coming out. Stepping down doesn’t mean they’d have all d votes

let me guess the 3 people that would be at the top list of the east for president.
1. Supreme Court governor,
2. Rochas
3. Umahi

Hard fact. As a Yorubaman. I approve this

Tareq1105:


I agree with you totally. S/Easterners are not ready.

As we speak today, no one has come out to express interest while people like Tinubu, Osinbajo, and Fayemi from the South West have been known to be interested.

It is Timidity. Afraid of peedeepee they served meritoriously for 22 years.

Yet they beat chests at every opportunity.

Tufiakwa.

"The National Coordinator, Buhari/Osinbajo Support Group, Ebunola Martins, has said that the next Nigerian President to succeed Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 should come from the South-East region."


God forbid!
The day someone from Southeast becomes the president of Nigeria, it will signal the end of Nigeria for many reasons.

First, ibo presidency will turn Nigeria into foreign import capital of the world-leading to collapse of Nigeria within days. How many of you have been to Southeast between 2000 and today? In 2000, Southeast population was about 15 million people. Today, the population of southeast is between 5 to 6 million people. The cause of dwindling population in the southeast is import by ibos. Foreign import is jobs killer. Anytime you spend $1 importing foreign goods, you killed between 100 to 200 jobs. Foreign import lead to mass immigration of citizens to another country

Second, Ibos president will run an exclusion government. Ibos run government will exclude all citizens from south/South--leading to unrest and military take over In Nigeria.

Third, ibos run government will create many unconstitutional laws in Nigeria to benefit ibos, leading to authoritarian government.

Fourth, Nigeria under ibos president will become Somalia--a failed state. A failed state is one in which the central government lacks power to govern--- leading to emergence of different factions to gain influence. We have seen this in Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen.

Fifth, a southeast presidency will automatically lead to divisions of Nigeria into many countries. I speak to many Nigerians and the general consensus is ibo presidency will never happen in our life time.

PeaceJoyLove:



Leave APC and Tinubu. Go and make your political party work. You didn't work for achieving any success in the party. Rather, you fought the party with your blood. So, stop this game. Go form your party if you dont like the ones around. Leave APC alone. Ha ba!

Funny enough you have no clue of how the APC was formed..

With all this your long grammar (I had to shorten it), you still have no clue..

NA waooooo

mfm04622:


Only with PDP! What has Igbo sowed in APC that APC should reward them with her slot? Igbo should go and meet PDP for the PDP ticket

Joe igbokwe nko??

Very sensible statement to have come from Tinubu People.....Let's give it to the South East and Nigeria will finally have a charted course of direction.

LegendHero:
And what have the said Ibo politicians done to seek the buy-in of Asiwaju? What steps have they taken to negotiate the alliance?

Abuse him daily on the internet with putrid hate?

So Asiwaju will work tirelessly all through his life and hand over his lifelong dream to some hateful beings because he wants to please them or because of what!!

Whether SE get the President or not. This honest Nigerian have won my respect.

It doesn't cost to be honest.


Tinubu have boys that are lgbos still in Buhari govt.

computer0810:

Igbos are useless and foolish, dey can't insult everybody and want same ppl to support them

Igbos don’t wish to insult anybody they friendly people they are just upset the status quo in Nigerian political system.

It can still be corrected by doing the right thing like this man has said.

jaxxy:


Joe igbokwe nko??

What has been his personal contribution?

Has APC gotten 25% from any South East State in a Presidential election? That is the investment i am talking about.. If South East people don't support the party, why should the party reward them?

In the 2015 election, the Senate President was allocated to the South East, they didn't vote any APC senator! So why should it change if the presidential ticket is given to the South East?

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.

Only useless individuals will sit comfortably behind the keyboard and be claiming what is not there property.
It is the turn of the south and if you aren't lazy, let any part of the south throws the ring in and see who will emerged.
Power isn't given, it's always snatched using the legal and constitutional means and not 5hrouh force from our brothers from that side.

mfm04622:


What has been his personal contribution?

Has APC gotten 25% from any South East State in a Presidential election? That is the investment i am talking about.. If South East people don't support the party, why should the party reward them?

In the 2015 election, the Senate President was allocated to the South East, they didn't vote any APC senator! So why should it change if the presidential ticket is given to the South East?

Show genuine love to the south east and the south east will definitely show genuine love to Apc.

jaxxy:


Igbos don’t wish to insult anybody they friendly people they are just upset the status quo in Nigerian political system.

It can still be corrected by doing the right thing like this man has said.

In politics, it is give and take. If anybody want anything, they will invest in that thing. The Igbo have every right to DEMAND for the PDP presidential ticket based on their support over the years. They can't do same in APC because they have not invested in the party. So, why are the Igbo not demanding for PDP presidential ticket but asking that APC give them her own ticket?

Remember, when APC was formed, they invited APGA to join but only parts of them did, leaving APC to be weak in South East

Ezeego1:


Abeg make person hear word!

Hatred and envy will not take you anywhere.

Atulu!

This is not hatred sir. What is ibo doing with APC? Think sir. What the heck is ibo doing with APC?

APC was formed in 2014 by:
1. ACN led by Tinubu (SW strong zone)
2. CPN led by Buhari (NE strong zone)
3. Aggrieved PDP members (No strong zone)

The main ibo there is Rochas, Ngige, and some other guys.

Ojukwu gave you APGA. So, why did you destroy APGA? If APGA is strong, you will not be begging now. Who killed APGA? Was it a yoruba or hausa or fulani man? The same APGA, you refuse to accept the candidate now. APGA is dead. Whose fault is it?

Cos of your hatred for Tinubu, you aligned with the old PDP. And unfortunately for you, APC won. You bullied the govt and then again in 2019, you brought Atiku amd Peter Obi. You made your choice. And then you lost.

Now, you want to port to the same part you rubbished. You want Tinubu to allow you reap where he sowed cos it is your turn. You are all jokers.

Una never get sense. When you get sense, you will humble yourselves and team up with SW and SS to have a common goal. You are always the spoilers. Everytime, na ibo wahala. Na only you?

Una go carry drugs abroad. Molest girls in markets. Import fake drugs. You all left and abandon to towns to hustle in Lagos. Then you started claiming you developed Lagos. Wetin na? Na only you people? Dem curse you? Dem swear for una?

Una no even dey think. You have very low population. Just one state in the north is bigger than the whole of 5 states in your region. Yet you will be beating chests. Instead of you to team up with other south and Desk a good agreement to habe you on board. You go bully in PDP. You go bully in APC. And then also use APGA threaten una selves. You no dey shame?

You never see anything. If you dont change and let us work together as a team in South, the next 100 years, you will keep crying like babies. Mofos!

Tinubu will rather die than to support igbo president.....

jaxxy:



Show genuine love to the south east and the south east will definitely show genuine love to Apc.

In what way specifically has the FG and APC not shown love to South East? FG has tried to be balanced in all.

With the way their governors are behaving?

LegendHero:
And what have the said Ibo politicians done to seek the buy-in of Asiwaju? What steps have they taken to negotiate the alliance?

Abuse him daily on the internet with putrid hate?

So Asiwaju will work tirelessly all through his life and hand over his lifelong dream to some hateful beings because he wants to please them or because of what!!

So his life long dream is to become president?He should get ready to commit suicide in 2023 ,like his oga that drank rat poison

mfm04622:


In what way specifically has the FG and APC not shown love to South East? FG has tried to be balanced in all.

What?

Curious345:
you're indeed so daft and fish brained..

I will not honour with a basic answer.

Leave Nairaland free-mode first, get even if its 100mb, and type this in a Google search engine "" Founding father's/members of APC"..


I owe you a very hot slap for you mumu'ness

Shut up there so igbos are the founding fathers of apc ? With one state (Imo state) then you better vanish here now, ode founding fathers with 5per cent indeed oluku.

mfm04622:


In what way specifically has the FG and APC not shown love to South East? FG has tried to be balanced in all.

There are obviously places lacking. Igbos are not ingrates.

You are a true statesman, you have spoken well. I hope the power brokers will listen to you and do the needful.

A South East presidency will heal many wounds and end the agitation for separation, because it will answer the question of exclusion of the Igbo nation and will bury the suspicion of gang up against the Igbo nation.

Let us do it to save Nigeria from division

When they are not ready...are we going to force them to take by force

Cashsteady:
..






Go meet buhari in aso rock na .shey na Yorubas go give una biafra?

I keep tell them BIAFRA is a pipe dream. Until I see their people currently in Amuwo Odofin area start selling their properties and moving back to the East then I will believe them. The igbo don't know the value of alliance building. There are three major tribes in the country. One tribe is in constant fight with the two remaining tribes guess what the battle is already over. Even the South South people don't like them. They need to do a lot of soul searching.

post=106702405:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary abuse from nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu. 

(c) Dr Uche Diala

This Yoruba man at it again






Enemy of progress

I just took my time to read comments over this topic and honestly I feel disappointed, the South don't seem to understand that the north is playing a serious game with them. The divide and rule game is obviously playing out among the southerners. I don't think an average igbo man hate tinubu as is being portrayed online and I don't think tinubu hate the igbos..... the north are just sowing the hate seed so as to put confusion btwn the South so they can continue to keep a region down.

eeetuk:
"The National Coordinator, Buhari/Osinbajo Support Group, Ebunola Martins, has said that the next Nigerian President to succeed Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 should come from the South-East region."


God forbid!
The day someone from Southeast becomes the president of Nigeria, it will signal the end of Nigeria for many reasons.

First, ibo presidency will turn Nigeria into foreign import capital of the world-leading to collapse of Nigeria within days. How many of you have been to Southeast between 2000 and today? In 2000, Southeast population was about 15 million people. Today, the population of southeast is between 5 to 6 million people. The cause of dwindling population in the southeast is import by ibos. Foreign import is jobs killer. Anytime you spend $1 importing foreign goods, you killed between 100 to 200 jobs. Foreign import lead mass immigration of citizens to another country

Second, Ibos president will run an exclusion government. Ibos run government will exclude all citizens from south/South--leading to unrest and military take over In Nigeria.

Third, ibos run government will create many unconstitutional laws in Nigeria to benefit ibos, leading to authoritarian government.

Fourth, Nigeria under ibos president will become Somalia--a failed state. A failed state is one in which the central government lacks power to govern--- leading to emergence of different factions to gain influence. We have seen this in Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen.

Fifth, a southeast presidency will automatically lead to divisions of Nigeria into many countries. I speak to many Nigerians and the general consensus is ibo presidency will never happen in our life time.

If an Igbo man becomes president. The 1st that will happen is CNN will carry it.

It is Smtn that has Never happened bt should happen for the Good of Nigeria.

It will be exactly like how Obama became president of America. It will echo the audacity of Hope.

It will draw goodwill to Nigeria and belief the Nigeria can indeed change and make a change.


Many Nations will be interested in Nigeria and people will flock in from all corners of the world to see the new president and what he has to offer.

Greatness will be restored in Nigeria as the true Giant Of Africa.

All Nigerians in the diaspora will come back immediately to experience the change in Nigeria.

Nigeria will be known as a fair country where justice, hope and peace is most important.


Nigerians will believe in Nigeria.


Prosperity will begin.

Some people thought Buhari likes ibo. It is a lie. They only want to discourage tinubu. Even if tinubu steps down the fulani caliphate will still choose one of their own


This is just divide and rule tactics and the south are falling for it

Eriokanmi:
Hard fact. As a Yorubaman. I approve this

Hard fact I disapprove this.