Dapson73:



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.

power was given to the yorubas in 1999.dont sugar coat it please

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.

Just as it's only a useless man would want to reap where he didn't sow.

Tareq1105:


So where were the said Igbos when Tinubu was building the party ensuring its success in 2015 & 2019 elections.

It's a case of reaping where they didn't sow. It wouldn't work.

where was obasanjo when ekwueme was building pdp?

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.

You want other Nigerians to allow you the presidency, you want them to vote for you, but your best strategy is to hate and insult them, slaughter their people in your region.

You people are just too out of touch with reality and yourselves to.

Sad.

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.

Just as it's only a useless man would want to reap where he didn't sow.

Some of them joined APC this year and they're asking for the party ticket. Imagine that.

NGpatriot:




It is not your turn and never was?

What you want is Biafra, what your leaders want is Biafra, what ipob want is biafra.

Before asking for presidency, go and unite in your towns and villages, deal with your violent anti-Nigerian terrorists before asking for Nigerians to trust you with that office.

You can not have it both ways.

what northerners(boko haram)wanted was sharia.how did de end up getting the presidency?

Dapson73:



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.

how can it be the turn of the south and still not the turn of the south east?then there is no turn at all

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!!

We don't want the presidency, that's why.

Tinubu can be president, it might even be easier to get Biafra under him.

Ezemust:
what northerners(boko haram)wanted was sharia.how did de end up getting the presidency?

So, you ignorantly think presidency went to the North because of terrorists and you decided to turn to terrorism also to secure the presidency?

Are there any normal thinking and non mentally corrupt people left in igboland or you are all badly formatted and hopelessly done with.

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!!

I would even support an igbo man if given the ticket, but igbo can't blackmail all of us into supporting them. You don't curse your way to presidency. You negotiate and form alliance. You can't use threat and insult to push us into submission of our rights.

NGpatriot:



So, you ignorantly think presidency went to the North because of terrorists and you decided to turn to terrorism also to secure the presidency?

Are there any normal thinking and non mentally corrupt people left in igboland or you are all badly formatted and hopelessly done with.

it's pathetic that the latter is a statement of fact and what's the reality in South East.

They're trying to cut their nose to spite their face.

does he owe igbos any favor?what type of cooperation are u talking abt?

Ezemust:
Only useless people dont know its igbo turn.

only useless poeple don't know presidency is not an opointment but Game of numbers.

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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

TRASH.

Omonigho1976:
Orji Kalu is a Fulani LovePeddler and Obiano has no substance with little or no achievement to back him up. I'll rather prefer a Soludo or Maduka, those two people have no business with gov election they are presidential materials. An okonjo iweala and Kingsley moghalu would excite me in the p race too not all these charlatans that parade arround as eastern politicians and elites

These mentality is why the supposed candidate don’t go far; none can win elections on their own without other regions. Moghalu can’t win even his state. Okonjo can actually do good or go some way.

Tinubu doesn't have democratic credentials

If igbos were to be offered the position of president on a platter of gold i they should reject it and push on with the agitation and a
Separate state, that will by far be a reasonable bargain.

Because if they go for the position of president it'll put the life of their kit and kins in grave danger up North that's if they manage to get themselves in as president. The pogrom will be repeated in a magnitude that has never been seen before.

If igbos were to be offered the position of president on a platter of gold i pray they should reject it and push on with the agitation and a
Separate state, that will by far be a reasonable bargain.

Because if they go for the position of president it'll put the life of their kit and kins in grave danger up North that's if they manage to get themselves in as president. The pogrom will be repeated in a magnitude that has never been seen before.

NGpatriot:



So, you ignorantly think presidency went to the North because of terrorists and you decided to turn to terrorism also to secure the presidency?

Are there any normal thinking and non mentally corrupt people left in igboland or you are all badly formatted and hopelessly done with.

idiot.without bokoharam goodluck will be leaving aso rock in 2019

SpecialAdviser:


I do not care about this news but your comment shocked me. Which Igbo politician is insulting Tinubu bros?

Please help me ask him.

LegendHero:


I mean Igbo populace itself.

You have changed the goalpost. Can you show us proofs of Igbo populace who hate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu?

Ezemust:
power was given to the yorubas in 1999.dont sugar coat it please

No, that guy is fool.
Ekwueme contested against obj in the pdp primaries

What’s so difficult in supporting igbo’s ambition, have we even thrown conscience into the wind? To be sincere, it’s Igbos turn.

Olaolufred:


Sorry Bro.

When I boarded a plane with Nigerian Passport, I am treated a Nigerian.

The assumptions is they are corrupt even if I am a deeper life member who follows Christ and never stole or cheated anyone before.

The reason for this is because I belong to the minute minority.

That is what is playing on here.

Unfortunately, Nnamdi Kanu is only adding salt to an already festering injury.

Making friend out of others is the way forward.

Ofe mmanu, traitors, slaves, cows etc can't make them presidents.

Good evening, I'm only against generalization that Igbo hate BAT. I have been in Nairaland for years and I don't hate ppl because I'm taught not to hate ppl, thank you.

Ezemust:
power was given to the yorubas in 1999.dont sugar coat it please

Nope
Yoruba had already won presidency that was thwarted by an ibo man in person of Nzeribe.
Also every effort was made by another ibo man in person of Ekwueme to stop obasanjo by contesting against hin in the pdp primaries.
That matins if a man is just a disgruntled fool

Qoko:
What’s so difficult in supporting igbo’s ambition, have we even thrown conscience into the wind? To be sincere, it’s Igbos turn.

Did ibo support even obasanjo in 1999 and 2003?,no, they never wanted yoruba man there. Ekwueme contested all the primaries to scuttle obasanjo's chance.
Abiola won an election, it was an ibo man in person of nzeribe that thwarted it.
What nonsense is that foolish matin saying here

Na sango and thunder go fire that ebunola martins for distorting political fact of Nigeria.
1. Yoruba man won presidential election already without real and ethusiatic support of ibos in 1993.
2.ibos used arthur nzeribe to thwart that election
3.1999, pdp primaries, it wasnt as if obasanjo was given a free ticket, ekwueme the main leader of ibo opposed it, he contested the primaries in 1999 and colabo with atiku in 2003 to make sure a yoruba man didn't get the ptesidency.
What an arrant nonsense was the useless never heared ebunola martins talking talking on ariseTV

mightyhaze:
Are u trying to insinuate that Igbos are only fit to be presided over but can't preside? If an inept buhari can be an option then rest assured that igbos have atleast 35million adults that are far better than bughari and who will do much berra than him when picked and given the mantle

The question is who among those 35 million adults is politically accepted enough across the country to win a national election. Politics isn't about emotions nor is it about qualifications. The earlier you guys understand this logic, the better going forward politically.

Misterdhee1:

The question is who among those 35 million adults is politically accepted enough across the country to win a national election. Politics isn't about emotions nor is it about qualifications. The earlier you guys understand this logic, the better going forward politically.

the only obstacle to accepting a qualified person is just hatred.. and if u hate sth ,u don't force yourself to be with it,u let it go.. get it?

So if you consider Igbos good enough to be around and be presided over,you must also accept them when it's time or their turn to take mantle


What was buharis qualification that made him acceptable to even you? Pull that same acceptance on qualified Igbos this time round. No be rocket science,neither is it drone technology