₦airaland Forum

2027 Is Coming — Will the South East Still Play Emotional Politics?


Let’s stop deceiving ourselves.

In 2015, we stood firm.
In 2019, we repeated the pattern.
In 2023, we doubled down.

Today, what is our measurable leverage at the federal level?

Politics is not therapy.
It is not activism.
It is not emotional loyalty.

It is strategy.

Regions that build alliances control power. Regions that isolate themselves complain about power.

Now when businessmen like Obi Cubana and Zenco engage the dominant national structure, some people shout betrayal.

But here is the hard truth:
Access determines influence.
Influence determines outcomes.

Security decisions, infrastructure allocation, and human rights protections are shaped where power sits.

If the South East wants relevance in 2027, we must rethink strategy — not repeat sentiment.

Politics rewards calculation, not anger.

The question is simple:

Do we want to feel right — or be influential?

—
Ugboma Stephen
Security and Political Analyst

APC should give us Osinbajo and watch the easterns vote a Yoruba man

Will it be a collective decision

Rexymania:
APC should give us Osinbajo and watch the easterns vote a Yoruba man

APC will not give you anyone Sponsor Osinbajo ticket and support him to win a primary election so you can have him on ballet box No one will get free tickets like Peter Obi, you'll have to show capacity.

Make them play am nau. Decision determines destiny. What you sow is what you reap.

Focus on your region and leave southeast out of your discussion. Tinubu or not SE will survive, they're not interested in politics na business they are focused

Since we are unwise. We will vote SW president aka Yoruba president. And leave our alliance with north in adc because we eat ewedu soup

Abbeytoy:
APC will not give you anyone Sponsor Osinbajo ticket and support him to win a primary election so you can have him on ballet box No one will get free tickets like Peter Obi, you'll have to show capacity.

What capacity? Bribery? I know what you'd say next. Osinbajo should also go and bribe. I know people like you, always negative

With the way Obi Cubana and the chief priest are being attacked by some Igbos, I don't think they've learned their lesson. Nzogbu politics has never and will never yield anything positive for them.

A word, they say, is enough for the wise.

Rexymania:
What capacity? Bribery? I know what you'd say next. Osinbajo should also go and bribe. I know people like you, always negative

Feel free to assume whatever you feel, but there is a reason the constitution said you must contest the ticket... One day you'll all want us to scrap election and just gives it to someone you like.

Rexymania:
What capacity? Bribery? I know what you'd say next. Osinbajo should also go and bribe. I know people like you, always negative

If Osinbajo had won the APC primaries he would have won the elections with a wider margin because of Christians and he would have faced the same challenges that Tinubu is now facing.

Abbeytoy:
Feel free to assume whatever you feel, but there is a reason the constitution said you must contest the ticket... One day you'll all want us to scrap election and just gives it to someone you like.

What's my business? I've given up on Nigeria

Rexymania:
What's my business? I've given up on Nigeria

Best of luck

Abbeytoy:
APC will not give you anyone Sponsor Osinbajo ticket and support him to win a primary election so you can have him on ballet box No one will get free tickets like Peter Obi, you'll have to show capacity.

Which capacity? Bribing delegates with Dollars and then bribing voters with Naira Mr. Capacity . Una dey talk sha , sometimes make una dey pit una thinking faculties on.

USA1975:
2027 Is Coming — Will the South East Still Play Emotional Politics?


Let’s stop deceiving ourselves.

In 2015, we stood firm.
In 2019, we repeated the pattern.
In 2023, we doubled down.

Today, what is our measurable leverage at the federal level?

Politics is not therapy.
It is not activism.
It is not emotional loyalty.

It is strategy.

Regions that build alliances control power. Regions that isolate themselves complain about power.

Now when businessmen like Obi Cubana and Zenco engage the dominant national structure, some people shout betrayal.

But here is the hard truth:
Access determines influence.
Influence determines outcomes.

Security decisions, infrastructure allocation, and human rights protections are shaped where power sits.

If the South East wants relevance in 2027, we must rethink strategy — not repeat sentiment.

Politics rewards calculation, not anger.

The question is simple:

Do we want to feel right — or be influential?

—
Ugboma Stephen
Security and Political Analyst

Please, those that are relevant in Nigerian politics, is their suffering less than those that are not?

If everyone is suffering equally in Nigeria, how is being relevant in Nigerian politics going to help anyone?

The North that was relevant in Nigerian politics for over 40 years is centre of banditry, poverty, Insurgency and educational regression

Unity begging has started. They were arrogant just 3 years ago. What's in it politically for the Southeast to support Tinubu in 2027? Facing pressure from the North, Tinubu arranged a shady theatre yesterday with a Southeastern monarch to lay the grounds for the release of Nnamdi Kanu but it will not be enough. He shouldn't have jailed him in the first place unless he intends to boost his false sense of megalomania by taking credit for his pardon.

USA1975:
2027 Is Coming — Will the South East Still Play Emotional Politics?


Let’s stop deceiving ourselves.

In 2015, we stood firm.
In 2019, we repeated the pattern.
In 2023, we doubled down.

Today, what is our measurable leverage at the federal level?

Politics is not therapy.
It is not activism.
It is not emotional loyalty.

It is strategy.

Regions that build alliances control power. Regions that isolate themselves complain about power.

Now when businessmen like Obi Cubana and Zenco engage the dominant national structure, some people shout betrayal.

But here is the hard truth:
Access determines influence.
Influence determines outcomes.

Security decisions, infrastructure allocation, and human rights protections are shaped where power sits.

If the South East wants relevance in 2027, we must rethink strategy — not repeat sentiment.

Politics rewards calculation, not anger.

The question is simple:

Do we want to feel right — or be influential?

—
Ugboma Stephen
Security and Political Analyst

We would do exactly what South West did in 2015

This is like asking is tomorrow will still come...

Rexymania:
APC should give us Osinbajo and watch the easterns vote a Yoruba man

Give us...Give us...

Give us Biafra

Give us presidency

Give us Nnamdi Kanu

Give us Peter Obi

Give us Rivers

Give us Benue

Give us Delta

Give us the whole South South

Give us...

When will this mentality change umunnem?

Rexymania:
APC should give us Osinbajo and watch the easterns vote a Yoruba man

You lot love foooooling yourselves thinking you're fooooling anyone. The Osinbajo that you lot started calling fake pastor the moment rumors came out that he was to be anointed by buhari? You switched the moment a stronger Yoruba candidate (Tinubu) came up, because you felt it would be easier to override Osinbajo to push your tribesman into power. You lot are hilariously predictable.

sweerychick:
Focus on your region and leave southeast out of your discussion. Tinubu or not SE will survive, they're not interested in politics na business they are focused

They're not interested in politics, but wail the loudest when it comes to politics. Do you guys listen to what you usually say?

Streetinvestor2:
Since we are unwise. We will vote SW president aka Yoruba president. And leave our alliance with north in adc because we eat ewedu soup

Alliance with the north? You have alliance with the north? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

AMINDA:
Unity begging has started. They were arrogant just 3 years ago. What's in it politically for the Southeast to support Tinubu in 2027? Facing pressure from the North, Tinubu arranged a shady theatre yesterday with a Southeastern monarch to lay the grounds for the release of Nnamdi Kanu but it will not be enough. He shouldn't have jailed him in the first place unless he intends to boost his false sense of megalomania by taking credit for his pardon.

Shhĥh. Don't say it too loudly, or you'll blow your cover of pretending to be a northerner.

mrvitalis:
We would do exactly what South West did in 2015

And you'd lose...and wail later...as is tradition.

TokoEkambi:
Shhĥh. Don't say it too loudly, or you'll blow your cover of pretending to be a northerner.

Mammoth crowd at the "grand reception" of Kano governor into APC. We understand why the unity begging is now on overdrive. Maybe if you beg harder, the Southeast just might consider.

AMINDA:
Unity begging has started. They were arrogant just 3 years ago. What's in it politically for the Southeast to support Tinubu in 2027? Facing pressure from the North, Tinubu arranged a shady theatre yesterday with a Southeastern monarch to lay the grounds for the release of Nnamdi Kanu but it will not be enough. He shouldn't have jailed him in the first place unless he intends to boost his false sense of megalomania by taking credit for his pardon.

So you think Kanu did nothing wrong? Do you also think Ekpa and Adeyinka Grandson also did not do anything wrong?.

lawani:
So you think Kanu did nothing wrong? Do you also think Ekpa and Adeyinka Grandson also did not do anything wrong?.

What about Sunday Igboho that has now been pardoned. Did he do anything wrong or not? Southern unity una!

AMINDA:
What about Sunday Igboho that has now been pardoned. Did he do anything wrong or not? Southern unity una!

So all persons that asked for secession verbally should be arrested? Igboho was wanted for nothing more than illegal possession of arms for which he was tried in Benin republic and acquitted.
Sunday Igboho did not do anything wrong. Mention the wrong things that he did. I don't see him as doing anything wrong and I believe reasonable people including Igbos know Kanu did many things wrong.
When was it that there was southern unity that you are talking about? There has never been southern unity in the country or Northern unity.
Mind you, I am not an APC member or Tinubu supporter, what I want is for the country to be peacefully divided.

TokoEkambi:
And you'd lose...and wail later...as is tradition.

It is better than help to vote in those who has destroyed Nigeria

lawani:
So all persons that asked for secession verbally should be arrested? Igboho was wanted for nothing more than illegal possession of arms for which he was tried in Benin republic and acquitted.
Sunday Igboho did not do anything wrong. Mention the wrong things that he did. I don't see him as doing anything wrong and I believe reasonable people including Igbos know Kanu did many things wrong.
When was it that there was southern unity that you are talking about? There has never been southern unity in the country or Northern unity.
Mind you, I am not an APC member or Tinubu supporter, what I want is for the country to be peacefully divided.

You're not a Tinubu supporter indeed. Own it with your full chest. No one will beat you. The only reason you think Sunday Igboho is innocent is because he's a Yoruba like you.

Okoroawusa:
Give us...Give us...

Give us Biafra

Give us presidency

Give us Nnamdi Kanu

Give us Peter Obi

Give us Rivers

Give us Benue

Give us Delta

Give us the whole South South

Give us...

When will this mentality change umunnem?

You don't know everything is selected in Nigeria?