₦airaland Forum

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

AMINDA:
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.

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

gidgiddy:
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

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

sreamsense:
South West is not the one you should be comparing yourself with because they are not your match politically. You should be comparing yourself with north east. South west has formular you don't have when it comes to mounting power at the center, they don't play emotional politics.

Looking at what they did in the past without looking at metrics that made them took that decision can put you into political jeopardy. South west can make south east become president or not, but south east can not determine if south west becomes president in Nigeria. It has been proven many times. So, support Tinubu now or remain politically emotionally inbalance for years

Rexymania:
You don't know everything is selected in Nigeria?

Arkmanbuddy:
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.

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

WizardOfNG:
I am glad you have replied the author of the article, your brother Ugboma Stephen, to show him his views are misplaced and that that he is wasting his own time preaching to you lot.

Don't mind him ojare. He will be okay last last and learn to accept he is a minority amongst his own people with his unwanted advise telling Igbos to desist from playing "emotional politics".

Security an

engrchykae:
you are now the political adviser for the Southeast

sreamsense:
Yes, their suffering is less in context of your expectations. Tinubu is "emilokan" at the center of political relevance in Nigeria who has power to release KANU into your hand tomorrow morning to eat "Okpa" with soak-gaari or Enugu-Abacha (Africa salad) as breakfast before flown back to Abia to meet Otti. However, in context of your narration; KANU is politically irrelevant and his suffering differ even though he is suffering as international terrorist that less political relevant level of his UK lawyers and his skit-playing Nigeria lawyers can not solve. The relevance of Umahi in contemporary politics has attracted many good things to Ebonyi than any other south east.

There is no much difference in terms of suffering contribution as a result of northern and eastern bandit contributions to their regions. Eastern bandits like ipob hs crippled economic relevance of south east to the extent that even the Bokoharam ravaged north east perform better economically than south east in term of IGR and other economic indices.

So sad tht south east is now being subsidized through money that comes from other states like Oyo, Ogun, rivers and even from Bokoharam war torn states. Your being on subsidy from other economically positioned states don't make you realize the damage that eastern bandits have caused eastern economy. Imagine what IPOB has done to the south east forcing them to sit-at-homes on Mondays, only to wake up in poverty and least contribution to Nigeria economy

sreamsense:
Yes, their suffering is less in context of your expectations. Tinubu is "emilokan" at the center of political relevance in Nigeria who has power to release KANU into your hand tomorrow morning to eat "Okpa" with soak-gaari or Enugu-Abacha (Africa salad) as breakfast before flown back to Abia to meet Otti. However, in context of your narration; KANU is politically irrelevant and his suffering differ even though he is suffering as international terrorist that less political relevant level of his UK lawyers and his skit-playing Nigeria lawyers can not solve. The relevance of Umahi in contemporary politics has attracted many good things to Ebonyi than any other south east.

There is no much difference in terms of suffering contribution as a result of northern and eastern bandit contributions to their regions. Eastern bandits like ipob hs crippled economic relevance of south east to the extent that even the Bokoharam ravaged north east perform better economically than south east in term of IGR and other economic indices.

So sad tht south east is now being subsidized through money that comes from other states like Oyo, Ogun, rivers and even from Bokoharam war torn states. Your being on subsidy from other economically positioned states don't make you realize the damage that eastern bandits have caused eastern economy. Imagine what IPOB has done to the south east forcing them to sit-at-homes on Mondays, only to wake up in poverty and least contribution to Nigeria economy

lawani:
The SE is contributing taxes on a per Capita basis more than the NW. The NW should be doing three times what the SE does but they only do like 2.3 or so times. The SE have more allocations only because they have a high number of states per Capita. Compared to the SE, Oyo and Ogun should be two states each not to mention Lagos. If those states were in place, they would be entitled to allocations too. It is not that the SE is the least productive, they have the least population by far is the real issue. GDP and productivity comes from population.

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

Scholes007:
What is emotional politics?? I have most times heard these things with no understanding of what you mean by emotional politics

Arkmanbuddy:
Continue in your foolery. Una eyes go clear.

sreamsense:
Stop looking for unnecessary excuses that do not add up! South East remains least productive even below north east because ipob has crippled the economy by reducing the productive capacities of top companies that still remain in the south east despite fear of ipob and sit-at-homes.Thise that can not withstand such harassment relocated their businesses elsewhere.

What worsen the south east situation is because the eastern bandits specializes in wrecking only Igbo businesses for igbos while northern bandits distribut their wildness that never focus only on their tribes. If not Tinubu that broke the backbones of IPOB while Soludo removes the remains of ipob to burn them; it would have been worse

SisterAnn:
Don't mind the paid agents of APC. We are not kids. Their gaslighting won't work and can never work.

You can see that even with 30 governors, Tinubu is still scared of no one but Peter Obi.

T9ksy:
Easterners' meaning igbo votes is inconsequential in nigeria's politics! It has never been and it's not niw or in the future so you can't dictate to anybody as per politics in this country.

Vote for your choice and others too, will vote for theirs.
Capice?

lawani:
Per Capita is what I am talking about. The NW is three times the population of the SE and they should generate three times the revenue but they are not generating up to that.