₦airaland Forum

2027: Ndigbo Must Allign With The Center, Igbo Professionals.
...Highlights President Tinubu’s Achievements


A political pressure group, Alliance of Igbo Professionals has highlighted the need for Ndigbo to Allign with the center to guarantee more dividends of democracy from the present government.


Convener of the group, Comrade Ugochukwu Nwosueke, declared this, while highlighting President Bola Tinubu’s legacies in the South East over the last two years. He emphasized the need for the region to align decisively with the centre.


Comrade Nwosueke made the call during a media chat in Umuahia, the capital city of Abia State.

He stated that the challenge before the Igbos is to work towards translating President Tinubu’s administration’s national achievements into regional gains.

“As we approach the midpoint of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tenure, the South East must align decisively with the centre in other to translate the national achievements of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration into regional gains, and by delivering the majority of votes in the South East geopolitical zone for our dear President in 2027.

“My dear Ndi Igbo, the time for token support has passed. The President’s leadership has fundamentally improved our economy, empowered our youth, and begun to bridge the development gap in our zone. Now, we must channel these achievements into electoral victories, ensuring the South East sits at the heart of Nigeria’s renewed hope, as we expect more from the current administration. ,” Comrade Nwosueke saud.


Comrade Nwosueke said that the achievements of President Tinubu’s administration included attracting proposed investments worth $50.8 billion, doubling aggregate national revenues to over ₦9.1 trillion in H1 2024, and achieving a GDP growth rate of 3.4% in 2024.

He noted that the government has recorded a significant increase in foreign remittances, with an estimated $23.4 billion received, representing a 61.1% year-on-year increase.

The Convener of the Alliance of Igbo Professionals also recalled the Compressed Natural Gas initiative, saying it will save over ₦2 trillion per month in petrol imports.

Comrade Nwisueke emphasized that the re-commencement of the Port Harcourt–Maiduguri corridor will ultimately link Aba and Onitsha hubs to northern markets, unlocking ₦50 billion in annual trade throughput.

He also underscored the importance of the South East Development Commission (SEDC), established in July 2024, with a constituted board and executive management team.

“The SEDC’s ‘Triple-R’ mandate (Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, Reintegration) is already off to a great start with steps taken under the able leadership of the commission’s board with its recent MOU signing with the UNDP for a South East Integrated Development Masterplan,” Kalu added.

Comrade Nwosueke also highlighted several other initiatives, including the construction of housing units, fertilizer distribution, and mechanized equipment for farmers.


Comrade Nwosueke appealed to the Federal Government to prioritize several high-impact interventions, including constructing key gas pipeline infrastructure across the South East, supporting capacity expansions at the AHL and ANOH plants in Imo State, and dredging and rehabilitating the Onitsha River.

“To leverage the South East’s comparative strengths and fast-track President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the Federal Government can seize the following high-impact interventions to accelerate the construction of key gas pipeline infrastructure across the South East to spur industrialization in Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia, and Anambra states, ensuring affordable compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and industrial feedstock reach transport hubs, agro-processors, and SMEs.”

He also called for fast-tracking of the Onne container terminal upgrade under the Port Harcourt corridor plan, integrating South East logistics with South-South hubs.

“Identify and develop sea-ports at Bonny/Opobo and Bakassi to relieve Lagos congestion and unlock export pathways for South East agricultural and manufactured goods,” Comrade Nwosueke added.

You have collected you own share frm SW president.
The center will be 2027 with the north no other option

See him face… align with center and even goalkeeper…

NIGGA PLEASE

Why must a region align with the center to get what is rightfully theirs when they can simply demand for resource control and state policing?

Streetinvestor2:
You have collected you own share frm SW president.
The center will be 2027 with the north no other option

kai u have already reached here to continue your bad belle wailing?

From the grapevine, word in the chambers is that Joe Igbokwe is the next INEC chairman.

bentenny:
Why must a region align with the center to get what is rightfully theirs when they can simply demand for resource control and state policing?

it would have been nice to ask Obi why he ran away from the Apga to the Pdp?

bentenny:
Why must a region align with the center to get what is rightfully theirs when they can simply demand for resource control and state policing?

quite obvious that your faculty isn’t in the real world.

Rightfully yours indeed because na your ancestors put the natural resources for ground abi? please go & tell that nonsense to Ben Kalu & Akpabio.

Make sure your man dey there with you when you go to make your request to those honorables, make e record your own vdm moment with em phone.

Burob:
quite obvious that your faculty isn’t in the real world.

Rightfully yours indeed because na your ancestors put the natural resources for ground abi? please go & tell that nonsense to Ben Kalu & Akpabio.

The way and manner you guys at the APC trenches reason sometimes would make me feel there is no exposed person among you!

If there was truly a properly decentralized system of governance or better still,true federalism as supposedly being copied from the Americans,which region or state would even want to contemplate aligning with the center for federal assistance?

Smh

Burob:
quite obvious that your faculty isn’t in the real world.

On the contrary,yours is in a delusional world!

bentenny:
The way and manner you guys at the APC trenches reason sometimes would make me feel there is no exposed person among you!

If there was truly a properly decentralized system of governance or better still,true federalism as supposedly being copied from the Americans,which region or state would even want to contemplate aligning with the center for federal assistance?

Smh

yes o, Donald Trump has shown us first hand.

And why use Yankee as a yardstick, why not Indonesia that your idol Gringory Obi glorifies which the ruling party has been in power for over 20 years.

bentenny:
On the contrary,yours is in a delusional world!

no be talk say ndigbo must align with the center, na your own uncle talk am o.

Please no blame me for your own misery, your uncle say make we align with the center like we did under Pdp.

It is an open secret that u die hard Pdp Obidients no go ever jump, u will capsize with the tattered umbrella in your hands.

Burob:
yes o, Donald Trump has shown us first hand.

And why use Yankee as a yardstick, why not Indonesia that your idol Gringory Obi glorifies which the ruling party has been in power for over 20 years.

Did you read what you just wrote or you are obviously exposing your full ignorance of not being aware that we have been partially practicing a system of governance from America for more than three decades?
The system of governance we run today is that of the Americans which we don't even follow to it's entirety!
That is true federalism!
Abeg get an exposed person from your WhatsApp group to explain it to you and stop wasting their data trying to make no sense at all!
Oh my God😂😂

Where is the centre? When you mention "Ndigbo," are you referring to corrupt politicians like Uzodinma, Rochas Okorocha, and Orji Uzor Kalu, who remain silent and do nothing while their constituents are being murdered?

Please take a moment to reflect. The Chicago landing is part of the Igbo identity.

bentenny:
Did you read what you just wrote or you are obviously exposing your full ignorance of not being aware that we have been partially practicing a system of governance from America for more than three decades?
The system of governance we run today is that of the Americans which we don't even follow to it's entirety!
That is true federalism!
Abeg get an exposed person from your WhatsApp group to explain it to you and stop wasting their data trying to make no sense at all!
Oh my God😂😂

ever heard of gerrymandering? No be my fault say them born u for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Why not Brazillian democracy, why must it be American? Yes I m quite aware of Tafawa Balewa’s trip in the 1960’s to visit President JFK in the District of Columbia.

Burob:
ever heard of gerrymandering? No be my fault say them born u for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Why not Brazillian democracy, why must it be American? Yes I m quite aware of Tafawa Balewa’s trip in the 1960’s to visit President JFK in the District of Columbia.

bentenny see your perfect American democrazy https://www.britannica.com/topic/gerrymandering

Arrant Nonsense! From 1999 to 2025 Igbos aligned with the centre, of what benefits was it to them? Did that give them an additional state to be at PAR with other geopolitical zones? Did it address infrastructural decays in Igbo land? The worst of Igbos are the ones in power and vomiting nonsense. Igbos that once have men of timber and calibre like K.O Mbadiwe, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Michael Okpara, Akanu Ibiam, and others now have mediocres as leaders. Rochas Okorocha who aligned with the centre to bring Buhari to power - How market? I am sure after Tinubu's eight ( years Orji Uzo Kalu would still cry again. All these hungry people parading as Igbo leaders should go and learn from President Tinubu who refused to align with the centre when he was a governor in Lagos state. He created a nich for himself and built his political platform that placed him where he is today. Enough of follow follow and politics without ideology.

Those who have been in alignment with the centre since 1999 only saw their suffering increasing

bentenny:
The way and manner you guys at the APC trenches reason sometimes would make me feel there is no exposed person among you!

If there was truly a properly decentralized system of governance or better still,true federalism as supposedly being copied from the Americans,which region or state would even want to contemplate aligning with the center for federal assistance?

Smh

Imagine what someone from one of the least productive region is saying.

Align with the center when the center gives political appointments to its own people?

Igbo people are wiser please. We will vote who we want to. We don't need to align with anyone

Anambra people know their father when they see him,they recognize Tinubu once they see him as their father,no wonder seyi and Ojukwu resemble each other.Igbo people and their love for Tinubu no be here

tunjijones:
Imagine what someone from one of the least productive region is saying.

Imagine how someone from a supposedly educated and exposed region is reasoning....

bentenny:
Imagine how someone from a supposedly educated and exposed region is reasoning....

Lol.. you are advocating for regional autonomy, I just want to remind you of the unproductiveness of your region. Don't forget you are competing with north east.

I want Reginal autonomy too.

tunjijones:
Lol.. you are advocating for regional autonomy, I just want to remind you of the unproductiveness of your region. Don't forget you are competing with north east.

I want Reginal autonomy too.

Firstly,its regional not 'reginal' autonomy!

Secondly,true federalism is different from regional autonomy!
Federalism has to do with 'state' autonomy which I am advocating!
Know the difference!

Lastly,no state or region in Nigeria is unproductive as you are ignorantly positing!

Try to read more for better exposure....not everything should be centered around religion and ethnicity!

bentenny:
Why must a region align with the center to get what is rightfully theirs when they can simply demand for resource control and state policing?

remain there

Toosure70:
remain there

Ok...you have been noticed!
waka pass!

bentenny:
Firstly,its regional not 'reginal' autonomy!

Secondly,true federalism is different from regional autonomy!
Federalism has to do with 'state' autonomy which I am advocating!
Know the difference!

Lastly,no state or region in Nigeria is unproductive as you are ignorantly positing!

Try to read more for better exposure....not everything should be centered around religion and ethnicity!

And in your head you think states like Ebonyi and several states in the north can generate funds to finance themselves in the next 20 yrs.

That your approach is not practicable.

And the regional misspelling was a typo and I am sure you know that.

And FYI, I never said any region is unproductive, what I said is that your region is less productive as compared to other regions. Read to understand please and not to attack.

I don't say I no go dey argue with anybody for nairaland again. This boy whey dey folo me talk anyhow like this fit be one 19 old boy for Aba....

Burob:
yes o, Donald Trump has shown us first hand.

And why use Yankee as a yardstick, why not Indonesia that your idol Gringory Obi glorifies which the ruling party has been in power for over 20 years.

seems like you are a new recruit, please what is your tout ID number

tunjijones:
And in your head you think states like Ebonyi and several states in the north can generate funds to finance themselves in the next 20 yrs.
That your approach is not practicable.

😆😆
Firstly,in your untrained head,you assume I come from the SE region!
Secondly, whether there are states that can or cannot generate the required funds should be should be the least of your problems!
The solution to Nigeria problem in my opinion is the full implementation of federalism!
If Federalism was practiced to it's entirety,by now States should would be ran independently rather than depending on the center!
Every state will develop at their own pace instead of the 'feeding bottle' federalism that is being practiced in Nigeria!
As for the approach not being practical,that's your opinion which you are entitled to!

tunjijones:
And the regional misspelling was a typo and I am sure you know that.

You obviously don't read your comments before submitting!
That's why you are decorating your comments with hilarious typos!
There is nothing wrong in admitting you made an error but do so with humility because you talk as though your ego was bruised!

tunjijones:
And FYI, I never said any region is unproductive, what I said is that your region is less productive as compared to other regions. Read to understand please and not to attack.

😆😆
This was from your previous comments...
👇👇

I just want to remind you of the unproductiveness of your region.

You are quite honestly a prevaricating fellow!
Firstly,you assumed my region which I never told you....then claimed it was 'unproductive' but when exposed,you recanted!
Now you are still making the same error by referring to regions as less productive!
Why are you approbating and reprobating at the same time?
I believe you should be the one to read your own comments before hitting the submit button!
Stand on your points and stop going off tangent!

tunjijones:
I don't say I no go dey argue with anybody for nairaland again. This boy whey dey folo me talk anyhow like this fit be one 19 old boy for Aba....

😆
I would urge you to stick to the subject matter and engage reasonably instead of acting like an infant in an old man's body!

Finally,it's hilarious but welcoming that you switched to a language you seem to be quite comfortable with!

bentenny:
😆😆
Firstly,in your untrained head,you assume I come from the SE region!
Secondly, whether there are states that can or cannot generate the required funds should be should be the least of your problems!
The solution to Nigeria problem in my opinion is the full implementation of federalism!
If Federalism was practiced to it's entirety,by now States should would be ran independently rather than depending on the center!
Every state will develop at their own pace instead of the 'feeding bottle' federalism that is being practiced in Nigeria!
As for the approach not being practical,that's your opinion which you are entitled to!


You obviously don't read your comments before submitting!
That's why you are decorating your comments with hilarious typos!
There is nothing wrong in admitting you made an error but do so with humility because you talk as though your ego was bruised!


😆😆
This was from your previous comments...
👇👇

You are quite honestly a prevaricating fellow!
Firstly,you assumed my region which I never told you....then claimed it was 'unproductive' but when exposed,you recanted!
Now you are still making the same error by referring to regions as less productive!
Why are you approbating and reprobating at the same time?
I believe you should be the one to read your own comments before hitting the submit button!
Stand on your points and stop going off tangent!


😆
I would urge you to stick to the subject matter and engage reasonably instead of acting like an infant in an old man's body!

Finally,it's hilarious but welcoming that you switched to a language you seem to be quite comfortable with!

Guy, I am supposed to read all these hogwash??

tunjijones:
Guy, I am supposed to read all these hogwash??

Read ke?
Can you read anything that's not in pidgin?😆

specialmati:
seems like you are a new recruit, please what is your tout ID number

my number, your own dey miss?

gidgiddy:
Those who have been in alignment with the centre since 1999 only saw their suffering increasing

That means suffering of Igbo people increased cuz they aligned with the centre since 1999 via Pdp..