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When I remember that Yoruba has Femi Adesina, it becomes easier to bear Joe Igbokwe

Who can love someone that is fulani brothers are going round d country killing other tribes but no single persecution.
How can u love someone that is keeping quiet after UAE expose sponsors of Boko Haram terrorist that have kill most of his people especially Muslims in the north but problem they are still supporting him because his a northerner, watch out if a southerner take over that when they will remember to protests and call him names, and wat of d case of wadume d kidnapper kingpin that was responsible for d death of those intelligent policemen by d soldiers. We are seeing all this one side judgement and u are telling us to love buhari. Nonsense pple...

With all deu respect, replying Femi Adeshina is like talking back to a well fed toad. You won't make any sense to a glutton. Femi stands reason on it's head just to defend his eternally blundering master! I don't envy him these days.. Some of us have read him for a long time before he joined Buhari and Inspite of his good essays then, we weren't all that surprised to see him jump ship and join the agitated defense team of the thieving bandwagon of discredited lootocrats. Abati did the same. The Nigerian press that effortlessly churns out dubious characters Iike this is part of the greater Nigerian problem. That said, Femi needs to be reminded that most igbos don't care about what people like him say anymore. It has been proven beyond doubt that this government has declared a war on igbos so....

Our sin is that we didn't vote massively for Buhari in the past. You know what? We do not care! And if you put him up a thousand times more, we will vote him out! Not simply because he is Fulani as rabble rousers will make you believe, afteral Shagari and Atiku was/is Fulani, but because Buhari is a small minded ethnic chauvinist, who regularly drops all sorts of worrying outbursts/threats against the igbos, Christians and other parts of Nigeria! And as a president, has gone on to victimize the Igbo! People like Femi, as erudite as he used to be, who have argued in the past that indigenous people should surrender their lands to the fulanis in order to live, are simply unfit to chastise any group willing to chat a different course of action politically. They lack the locus standi. We know what is better for us more than those who hate us..

BombAttack:
Igbos don't be deceived

They want to wipe out your generations

Just as they are doing in southern Kaduna

Have you EVER seen any of those Unity Beggars

Opening thread to condemn the killings in Kaduna

They are Happy about the killing

and want Igbos to be killed same way

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Just as they do open threads to condemn the killing in the interior north(Borno, Zamfara, Maiduguri, Bauchi, Sokoto etc)

Coronabirus:
Bleep"ng an*mal in human skin. Your people are the most fanatic on earth, always dwelling on propaganda and religious jingoism. You are so blind to see how people are being killed in Zamfara and Katsina but ur propaganda always look upto Kaduna or Benue alone to spread ur sinister. The enemy is common to all and in history Nations are tried with one disaster or the other and shall come and pass; making it or painting it to look religious is absurdity to the highest order and show that u have no concern to humanity!

why he left zamfara and kastina because pple there still love buhari so much that dey can die for him but southern kaduna and benue are not in support of him again

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BombAttack:
Look at this one Nigeria hypocrite

You open 100s of threads daily on this forum to demonize IPOB

But you can't open a single thread to condemn Kaduna killings

If there are killings in Zamfara and Katsina

Why are you not reporting them

Shame on you and your fake One Nigeria

Evil people

How can u see the report when u spend all ur time listening to reports that wash ur sense of decorum and ignore authentic news sources?
When authentic media sources report cases u tag them liars.
We don't need the kind of fake mdia houses u use. Since before independence and few years after BBC Hausa, VOA Hausa, Radio France Hausa, Deutsch Welle Hausa and other local media houses have been reliable source of news for us. We don't peddle or hawk fake news, it isn't in our culture. Check Dailytrust, Daily Post and other non bias media houses for authentic news, we don't allow bigots to feed us with nonsense because we are well informed and know how to accept news!

yahmohy27:
Just as they do open threads to condemn the killing in the interior north(Borno, Zamfara, Maiduguri, Bauchi, Sokoto etc)

Have many thread have you seen on interior north killings

Check, this forum is littered with IPOB and IGBO news daily

If you like no report killings of your people na you sabi

I don't know if any sincere person that would like to support Buharis Government.
Femi Adesina and Joe Igbokwe are Buharis spokesmen. You shouldn't expect to hear the truth from them.

Adesina or whoever is behind this writeup should know that the Great Yoruba race will take its rightful place in the commity of eminent Nations by the emergence of the Yoruba Republic. You can continue to serve your Fulani masters as long as it lasts but we the patriots of the Great Yoruba race will continue to work and plan towards achieving our Republic.

benuejosh:
Buhari is loved by all Igbos and hated by IPOBs.

Speak for your father pls

Femi adesina as spoken in the right word, the IBOP weren't bombing daura people when the president gave them warning which sounded more as a threat to them, how can you want a seccesion by sacrificing your own people for it, to me I think it doesn't worth it, I pray this south easteners come back to their right senses and begin to protect their people

benuejosh:
Buhari is loved by all Igbos and hated by IPOBs.

Says efulefu from Benue who's state is being decimated by fulani herdsmen tacitly supported by the same you r darling Buhari you support, tueh.

Goodyness:
It’s a moral crime to choose Buhari over your people, you own race and blood. You can love Buhari without denigrating your tribe.

Nobody will care if he just loves Buhari without dragging the Igbo race through mud.

A former friend of my is doing this... In fact he stated in on record that he loves Buhari more than the whole of Yorubaland. I just told him that he will weep and crawl like a baby on the day of RECKONING.

PLEASE TALK ABOUT SECURITY , HIGH COST OF LIVING, KIDNAPPING , THE ECONOMY, SOCIAL LIFE OF THE PEOPLE, ABILITY TO TRAVEL ON ROAD WITHOUT FEAR OF BEEN KIDNAPPING, TALK ABOUT THE KILLING SOKOTO JUST 20/10/2021 ON A MARKET DAY OVER 100 PEOPLE KILLED, THE KIDNAPPING IN NIGER SAME DAY AND ZAMFARA ETC..... LEAVING THIS JERKING ABOUT BUHRIST..... ADE PLEASE

Coronabirus:
How can u see the report when u spend all ur time listening to reports that wash ur sense of decorum and ignore authentic news sources?
When authentic media sources report cases u tag them liars.
We don't need the kind of fake mdia houses u use. Since before independence and few years after BBC Hausa, VOA Hausa, Radio France Hausa, Deutsch Welle Hausa and other local media houses have been reliable source of news for us. We don't peddle or hawk fake news, it isn't in our culture. Check Dailytrust, Daily Post and other non bias media houses for authentic news, we don't allow bigots to feed us with nonsense because we are well informed and know how to accept news!

Your people are killed daily and you kept quiet because you are happy with the killings. If you are not happy with the killings why are you keeping quiet about it.

You read authentic news but you believe what that Udele is writing about the Igbos.

benuejosh:
Buhari is loved by all Igbos and hated by IPOBs.

A northerner speaking on behalf of Igbos? That's an insult to the Igbo , Igbo don't pretend we are not like the yoruba's who will prostrate for you in your presence then insult you in your absence, we don't hide our feelings, when we hate someone we tell them to their faces, And it's no secret we hate buhari and we didn't vote him

When I read about ordinary humans like igbokwe, adesina, Lai Mohammed etc who because of money only are agents of the devil not minding that all their words and actions are archived forever

Then someone will say devil doesn't exist, God doesn't exist

Write your own sense to counter his write up.

KINGS100:
NONSENSE WRITEUP

The British must be sitting with popcorn in hand appreciating the crafty wisdom of Lugard in destabilizing this part of the world

In fact the whole European race must be proud of how much they’ve paralyzed Africa

And I thank the blacks too for doing their job in hating themselves, continue killing yourselves.

if we hurry up maybe in a few years the only place you will find an African is in a museum

presidency:
JOE IGBOKWE: WHEN IT’S A CRIME TO LOVE BUHARI, NIGERIA AND IGBO LAND

By FEMI ADESINA

There are millions of us round the country who follow Muhammadu Buhari passionately. Some got enlisted in 1984 when the man was military head of state. Others joined along the line as the principal was Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) in the Gen Sani Abacha years, or when he joined partisan politics in 2002, ran for President a year later, also in 2007, 2011, and 2015, when he eventually coasted to power.

Over the years, some of the Buharists (as we are called), have fallen off, and even joined the opposition. Yet some others have stood sturdy, steady, resolute, as constant as the Northern Star. Stand up and take a bow, Engineer Joe Igbokwe, the man from Nnewi, in Anambra State.

President Buhari is possibly the most credible politician we have seen in the country in contemporary times, with a magnetic pull that draws people to him in droves. That was the point I was making last week in this column, but which an illiterate journalist with an online medium twisted to say I claimed Buhari was better than Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Aminu Kano etal. He succeeded in his mission: generating hateful comments against me, but I leave him to God. For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God to answer for what we have done, including all forms of lie against a fellow man. Our profession, or political and ethnic affiliations would no longer matter then.

We were talking of Joe Igbokwe before the brief diversion. Yes, this man loves Buhari to bits. He loves Nigeria, and he loves his native Igbo land. And you know what? That is now a crime in our country. Igbokwe’s life has been severely and severally threatened, his family hounded, and on October 3 this year, his county home in Nnewi was set on fire.

Igbokwe is a nationalist. His education, primary, secondary and even university he had in the Southeast. But since he got posted for national service in Ogun State in 1985, he had remained in the Southwest, identifying with the people, their politics, their ways of life, while not repudiating his love for his roots in Nnewi, and the Southeast generally. No wonder he is popularly called Agbalanze, after that Onitsha cultural association.

When it was not popular for people in the Southeast to follow the Progressives, Igbokwe threw his hat into the ring. From Alliance for Democracy (AD), to Action Congress of Nigerians (ACN), to All Progressives Congress (APC), he stood to be counted. And if you count committed followers of Buhari today, the Agbalanze is in the number.

If there is anything he needs to clarify about government, or our principal, Igbokwe never hesitates to get in touch with me. I give him background information, and he is satisfied.

When some people from his part of the country began to retreat into ethnic cleavages, and wanted the intelligentsia to identify with them, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Drainage and Water Resources made it clear he was a nationalist. And he stood by his conviction, speaking out against separatism and an attempt to balkanize the country. At the risk of so much, he opted for one Nigeria.

Igbokwe loves Igbo land. Yes, don’t we all love where we come from? Shouldn’t we? We should, we must, before we can even be good Nigerians. When strange things began to happen in the Southeast, people being decapitated, public buildings being torched, and security agents being murdered in cold blood, Igbokwe stood against it. Mum was the word from majority of the leaders of the region, but for Igbokwe, the man dies in him who keeps quiet in the face of tyranny. He spoke out.

He kept saying building bridges across the length and breadth of the country was the way to go, particularly for Igbo renaissance. He refused to join those who were retreating into ethnic cocoon, and stood for nationalism. It is either Nigeria or nothing! The man earned earned my deep respect. He stood for what was right, fair and just, for centripetal, rather than centrifugal forces in the country.

On October 3, I was in Ethiopia with Mr President, attending the inauguration of that country’s Prime Minister for second term in office, when we saw the sad news online. The regal country home of Igbokwe in Nnewi, where the man often retires for solitude, and where he had a vast library, had been set ablaze. Whodunnit? You know the answer. Unbridled hatred was on display, and a patriot was paying a heavy price for his convictions. When that magnificent white house erupted in smoke and fire, it was innocence that was burning. Patriotism was aflame, and love for motherland was ablaze. Thy glory oh Israel is slain upon the high places.

Gladly, no life was lost, because the attackers couldn’t lay their hands on anyone. But great was the loss, and I sorrowed for my brother Joe, and his wife (he calls her his crush) Dr Grace. What happened is what evil speaking does to a country. The lies and hate peddled by evil hearts have germinated, grown, and brought forth evil fruits.

You would expect a man who had been hounded, reviled, and attacked by arsonists, to return bile for bile, hate for hate. Threaten fire and brimstone. But not our Joe. What did he say?

“We paid the price for the good of Igbo land and Nigeria...By the grace of God, we will rescue Igbo land. It is my turn today, tomorrow it may be the turn of anybody. We must take Igbo land back from the killers and arsonists.”

I say a resounding amen to those prayers. We must take every part of the country from those who mean no good, concocting sorrow, tears and blood. It is Nigeria or nothing! In brotherhood we stand. No other option is acceptable, not even conceivable, otherwise, we would all lose, cutting our noses to spite the face.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity.

Take a tour to the entire south east roads and if you still stand on your phony write up, then you are most hypocritical being on earth. Centrifugal forces is what that country need since they are so wicked and heartless to deny the masses of basic amenities through their years of looting the country dry

BombAttack:
Your people are killed daily and you kept quiet because you are happy with the killings. If you are not happy with the killings why are you keeping quiet about it.

You read authentic news but you believe what that Udele is writing about the Igbos.

We are not noise makers nor useless protesters. Life is different from movie, when a trial befall on people it isn't easy to manage out of it. We had BH insurgency and it's now limited to only two states with minimal civilian casualties and we shall get out of this with the measures put in place. Should we air everything for u just to show off?
We'll get out of this.

Terrorists are burning East now and the same silence has taken over the zone and this doesn't mean nothing is being done but not enough, now u will learn how difficult it is to manage such disaster!

Icumsa45:
Speak for your father pls

he's not from the south east please

BombAttack:
Igbos don't be deceived

They want to wipe out your generations

Just as they are doing in southern Kaduna

Have you EVER seen any of those Unity Beggars

Opening thread to condemn the killings in Kaduna

They are Happy about the killing

and want Igbos to be killed same way

IgweOfNnewi
Exc2000
Farid24224
blinking001
airminem
helinues

simplyleo
seunmsg
Monogamy
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What is this one saying?

Abeg, go sidon!

NoFucksToGive:
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Enough of politics

Please how much is 12.5 kg gas in your area?

Why 12.5kg?

presidency:
JOE IGBOKWE: WHEN IT’S A CRIME TO LOVE BUHARI, NIGERIA AND IGBO LAND

By FEMI ADESINA

There are millions of us round the country who follow Muhammadu Buhari passionately. Some got enlisted in 1984 when the man was military head of state. Others joined along the line as the principal was Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) in the Gen Sani Abacha years, or when he joined partisan politics in 2002, ran for President a year later, also in 2007, 2011, and 2015, when he eventually coasted to power.

Over the years, some of the Buharists (as we are called), have fallen off, and even joined the opposition. Yet some others have stood sturdy, steady, resolute, as constant as the Northern Star. Stand up and take a bow, Engineer Joe Igbokwe, the man from Nnewi, in Anambra State.

President Buhari is possibly the most credible politician we have seen in the country in contemporary times, with a magnetic pull that draws people to him in droves. That was the point I was making last week in this column, but which an illiterate journalist with an online medium twisted to say I claimed Buhari was better than Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Aminu Kano etal. He succeeded in his mission: generating hateful comments against me, but I leave him to God. For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God to answer for what we have done, including all forms of lie against a fellow man. Our profession, or political and ethnic affiliations would no longer matter then.

We were talking of Joe Igbokwe before the brief diversion. Yes, this man loves Buhari to bits. He loves Nigeria, and he loves his native Igbo land. And you know what? That is now a crime in our country. Igbokwe’s life has been severely and severally threatened, his family hounded, and on October 3 this year, his county home in Nnewi was set on fire.

Igbokwe is a nationalist. His education, primary, secondary and even university he had in the Southeast. But since he got posted for national service in Ogun State in 1985, he had remained in the Southwest, identifying with the people, their politics, their ways of life, while not repudiating his love for his roots in Nnewi, and the Southeast generally. No wonder he is popularly called Agbalanze, after that Onitsha cultural association.

When it was not popular for people in the Southeast to follow the Progressives, Igbokwe threw his hat into the ring. From Alliance for Democracy (AD), to Action Congress of Nigerians (ACN), to All Progressives Congress (APC), he stood to be counted. And if you count committed followers of Buhari today, the Agbalanze is in the number.

If there is anything he needs to clarify about government, or our principal, Igbokwe never hesitates to get in touch with me. I give him background information, and he is satisfied.

When some people from his part of the country began to retreat into ethnic cleavages, and wanted the intelligentsia to identify with them, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Drainage and Water Resources made it clear he was a nationalist. And he stood by his conviction, speaking out against separatism and an attempt to balkanize the country. At the risk of so much, he opted for one Nigeria.

Igbokwe loves Igbo land. Yes, don’t we all love where we come from? Shouldn’t we? We should, we must, before we can even be good Nigerians. When strange things began to happen in the Southeast, people being decapitated, public buildings being torched, and security agents being murdered in cold blood, Igbokwe stood against it. Mum was the word from majority of the leaders of the region, but for Igbokwe, the man dies in him who keeps quiet in the face of tyranny. He spoke out.

He kept saying building bridges across the length and breadth of the country was the way to go, particularly for Igbo renaissance. He refused to join those who were retreating into ethnic cocoon, and stood for nationalism. It is either Nigeria or nothing! The man earned earned my deep respect. He stood for what was right, fair and just, for centripetal, rather than centrifugal forces in the country.

On October 3, I was in Ethiopia with Mr President, attending the inauguration of that country’s Prime Minister for second term in office, when we saw the sad news online. The regal country home of Igbokwe in Nnewi, where the man often retires for solitude, and where he had a vast library, had been set ablaze. Whodunnit? You know the answer. Unbridled hatred was on display, and a patriot was paying a heavy price for his convictions. When that magnificent white house erupted in smoke and fire, it was innocence that was burning. Patriotism was aflame, and love for motherland was ablaze. Thy glory oh Israel is slain upon the high places.

Gladly, no life was lost, because the attackers couldn’t lay their hands on anyone. But great was the loss, and I sorrowed for my brother Joe, and his wife (he calls her his crush) Dr Grace. What happened is what evil speaking does to a country. The lies and hate peddled by evil hearts have germinated, grown, and brought forth evil fruits.

You would expect a man who had been hounded, reviled, and attacked by arsonists, to return bile for bile, hate for hate. Threaten fire and brimstone. But not our Joe. What did he say?

“We paid the price for the good of Igbo land and Nigeria...By the grace of God, we will rescue Igbo land. It is my turn today, tomorrow it may be the turn of anybody. We must take Igbo land back from the killers and arsonists.”

I say a resounding amen to those prayers. We must take every part of the country from those who mean no good, concocting sorrow, tears and blood. It is Nigeria or nothing! In brotherhood we stand. No other option is acceptable, not even conceivable, otherwise, we would all lose, cutting our noses to spite the face.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity.

I don't think Joe needs this lengthy nonsense. The last time he was complaining about how he has never been invited to meet Buhari who he is willing to sacrifice his life for, while charlatan like FFK who has been on Buhari's case for as long as when? Got invited. Femi, the least you can do is facilitate a way for Joe to physically leak Buhari's arse in person like he's been fantasizing for so long. Again, he doesn't need this lengthy rubbish to make him happy.

Falseprofet2:
You can't love Nigeria and support Buhari with all the insecurity happening

A govt first role is to secure life and property

I see joe igbokwe regaining his senses if tinubu fails to win apc ticket

When you say the government's first role is to secure life and property....what do you mean?

Are you excusing state governors and LG Chairmen in the ultimate task of security of lives and properties? Do you know how much security votes these guys receive monthly?

When all of this nonsense by IPOB was brewing, SE governors were busy playing politics and eulogizing Nnamdi Kanu.

Joe Igbokwe is no one's problem. Make everybody face their problem, and leave Joe Igbokwe alone.

Leadership is at its weakest level in the SE at the moment.

janedonez:
Femi Adesina, please leave God out of the insincere activities going on in this country, for you to say God will judge all those who lie and are lying brings to fore that you are living a double life, what fascinates me is how you struggle to use the holy scriptures to back up your false postings.
No one hates Joe Igbokwe, but as in every human settings, respect your lane and there won't be any clash.
Let me ask you, are there no other persons from other regions who are members of the Lagos state Exco, how often do they deride their kit and kin to get attention or positions.
You just need to call a spade a spade.

Femi Adesina is damn right.

You will be making yourself a big liar by saying that Joe Igbokwe isn't hated in Igboland.

Joe Igbokwe has not in anyway derided Ndi Igbo by choosing to stand with Buhari and Nigeria.

You can't dictate to him where to stand as far as issues of succession are concerned.

As I am, I am Igbo but I nor dey wan use ear hear 'succession'. I do not subscribe to the ideologies, modus operandi and activities of these so-called secessionists...does that mean I am deriding anyone?

Why would people go about causing tension and fear, and preventing others from going about their lawful businesses in the name of a sit-at-home order? Who is giving the order? Do you know what constituted authority means? Does it mean that if these secessionists, by chance, succeed in getting their own country, anyone who disagrees with their programs or policies gets maimed or killed? Or their properties gets destroyed and razed?

Anyway, I nor blame them. The governors of the SE are incurably weak. They are, in fact, sissies.

This is just a case of one Judas Iscariot defending another betrayer of his tribe. Joe had it coming. Can a man fight members of his household and still expect to live amongst them? He should support the devil if he likes but the way the both of you take delight in selling your people cheap to curry the favour of your paymasters and lords is highly reprehensible. People have been deeply unhappy since this current mistake of a president came on board. Insulting your people willy nilly in the face of hunger and poverty trying to sell what is unsellable is a no-no.
Yaradua a core Fulani man was president but he never sowed the seeds of division and nepotism which the current mistake has sown and is now trying to sink the entire nation. Everything you see going wrong with this country is a result of the actions and inactions of this current administration. I only pity whoever is going to be the next president. He is going to have a herculean task of uniting a deeply divided and broken country.

benuejosh:
Buhari is loved by all Igbos and hated by IPOBs.

Ooh! Now Igbos love Buhari. But u have been singing Igbos hate Buhari. Confused soul

THIS DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT IGBOS YORUBAS FULANIS LIVE MISERABLE LIVES IN THE ENTITY CALLED NIGERIANS IGBOS ARE NOT THE REASON WHY YOUR RESERVES ARE EMPTY YOUR COUNTRY IS IN DEBT, FOOD STUFF IS HIGH, YOU LACK GOOD ROADS ELECTRICITY AND HEALTH CARE, UNEMPLOYMENT, BANDITRY, KIDNAPPING, ASSASINATION ETC BYOUR REAL PROBLEM ARE YOUR TERRIBLE LEADERS

I'm utterly disappointed in both the author and the character he wrote about.