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| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by jomoh: 10:43am On Apr 02, 2015 |
EggovinMma:Don't worry, this regime will never make the same mistake of the previous one by not including a great nation of people from SW. If they should repeat the same mistake, that means they have not learnt from the mistake of their predecessor. No nation should be left out of any serious Nigerian Government especially not one as great as the Nations from the SE and SS. A very juicy and strong position awaits SE and SS. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Chiaka(f): 10:43am On Apr 02, 2015 |
ikwoche:Please leave Ibos out of this, it was all planned out long as it seems. to cripple PDP and forming APC and moving most defecting most PDP strong holds to APC so why the thing take concern Ibos. Anyways Ibo (South East & south south, even middle belt are same people. Work to unite and not separate Nigeria or create factions. work for GOOD change that you preach. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Amaechi5(m): 10:45am On Apr 02, 2015 |
jaytee01:igbo leaders are corrupt and selfish, okay so northern and yeroba leaders are not corrupt and as well are not selfish and maybe that is why the northern and western States looks like Paris and and London. What a dumb comment from you. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by awesomeb1783(m): 10:45am On Apr 02, 2015 |
This is a sensible and realistic post coming from an Ibo man. Pls permit me to share this on other social media. EUROBOMBER: |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by jomoh: 10:46am On Apr 02, 2015 |
Chiaka:I don't get you. Please expanciate. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by megacool360(m): 10:47am On Apr 02, 2015 |
Ralphlauren:Folly indeed! Oga abeg speak for yourself. The Northerners voted against GEJ in 2011 as they've always been voting for their own, yet GEJ did virtually everything he managed to do in his administration in the north and almost totally neglected his region. What yeye forgiveness are you talking about? Like anybody is asking him for one for voting against him? Whatever Buhari likes, he can think. It's a civil duty and one has the choice of placing it wherever one likes. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Chiaka(f): 10:48am On Apr 02, 2015 |
ikwoche:Please leave Ibos out of this, it was all planned out long before now as it seems, to cripple PDP and make APC stronger, defect strong PDP strong holds to APC, keep a few who pretend to still be with PDP until the victory!!! so how come mentioning Ibos now. Anyways Ibo (South East , south south, even middle belt are same people. Work to unite and not separate Nigeria or create factions. work for GOOD change that you preach. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Chiaka(f): 10:51am On Apr 02, 2015 |
jomoh:Its a Proverb. It wont be long you will understand. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by christopher123(m): 10:52am On Apr 02, 2015 |
You made a good point but the roblem are the obnoxious people from south west and how they act... EUROBOMBER: |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by izinbizi(m): 10:52am On Apr 02, 2015 |
elampiro:This is the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Most SE and SS people would rather not vote at all than vote Jonathan, sorry to say but Jonathan was an epic failure. He disappointed even his people. People did not vote Buhari because he is the best, they voted him because they were sick of Jonathan. Jonathan's ineptitude and failure was Buhari's strongest campaign point. Jonathan by his performance campaigned for Buhari. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by awesomeb1783(m): 10:54am On Apr 02, 2015 |
Also no tribe is born to me tribalistic and always seeking for the downfall of the country in the name of biafra. Embrace change and let's build Nigeria together. cobsol: |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Chiaka(f): 10:54am On Apr 02, 2015 |
jomoh:That was what happened with this election!!! |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 10:58am On Apr 02, 2015 |
christopher123:There are obnoxious people from the North, South, East & West. Go figure! |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 11:10am On Apr 02, 2015 |
awesomeb1783:Thank you so much, please share it on Facebook and other social media as much as you can. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by dewale1234(m): 11:11am On Apr 02, 2015 |
macfarland:Lamentations of a frustrated man.... You have an option, RELOCATE!!!! |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by yaskarahyelhope(f): 11:12am On Apr 02, 2015 |
ikwoche:That's Y U people refused giving us our PVCs and lied that it wasn't available. If only our PVCs esp in the north can be given to us. U denied the Christians too their PVCs. Who said this election wasn't rigged for APC? We are peaceful people and do not want any troubles, if not. God bless GEJ, bless Naija! |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by logica(m): 11:12am On Apr 02, 2015 |
EUROBOMBER:You dey answer that m0r0n? Obnoxious people from South West, yet he cannot sit his a$$ in the South East. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 11:16am On Apr 02, 2015 |
izinbizi: |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 11:16am On Apr 02, 2015 |
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| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by jomoh: 11:18am On Apr 02, 2015 |
Chiaka:The only thing I got from your comment was that "those of you still in PDP....". I was never with PDP and will never be. I prefer to deal with individuals than party. But I have a soft spot for APC because they seem to present credible candidates compared to PDP who are mostly criminals and the ones that were not corrupt minded gets initiated. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by dewale1234(m): 11:20am On Apr 02, 2015 |
EggovinMma:Sensible post, late but not too late... If we don't forget the ills of the past, we would have no friends (Yoruba Proverb), The igbos have been badly indoctrinated about the civil war and this hatred for the Yorubas and Hausas is causing them more pains than they realise. Imagine not a single Igbo man in the new ruiling party, National Assembly, you can't say that about other regions.. The earlier you embrace realities and learn to move on irrespective your past feelings the better for you... You have confined yourselves into the corner of the minority at least for the next 4 years, anyways, i see some people "borrowing common sense" and learn to see ourselves as Nigerians |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by econity(m): 11:29am On Apr 02, 2015 |
EggovinMma:that will only happen in 2019. APC as majority has no SE senator |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by christopher123(m): 11:43am On Apr 02, 2015 |
EUROBOMBER:https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153258468495229&fref=nf just like this interview and change of tone NIGERIA IS JUST A FARCE, CAN WE JUST GET REAL FOR ONCE AND KNOW NOTHING WORKS HERE STORY CHANGE |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by johnpalmer774(m): 11:45am On Apr 02, 2015 |
elampiro: |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 11:49am On Apr 02, 2015 |
christopher123:In your own interest and for your own good drop this mentality and let us join Buhari to CHANGE this nation to what we want it to be. Also note that while the person voted as President is very key, Buhari cannot do this alone. We all must join hands with him to get this nation working. A tree cannot make forest. A word is enough for the wise. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by shizzleStar: 11:55am On Apr 02, 2015 |
EggovinMma:Yo are a very big FOOL. Senseless iddiot |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 12:03pm On Apr 02, 2015 |
The fool Bad luck Jonathan did nothing for us... And was expecting us to leave the comfort of our home to vote for him. When he's bent on pleasing the north. The fool got what he deserved... |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 12:04pm On Apr 02, 2015 |
[quote author=EUROBOMBER post=32263758]Let me start by saying congratulations to Muhammadu Buhari for winning the presidential election and emerging as Nigeria’s president-elect. I have come to realise that Buhari’s victory is the will of God for Nigeria and so, I have come to accept him as my president. I also want to congratulate President Goodluck Jonathan for being mature enough to accept defeat and concede the election. This man remains one of the greatest Nigerian presidents because he could have decided to set Nigeria on fire but chose the honourable path. I want to also recognise all my fellow PDP e-warriors that stood beside the President. Thank you for your resilience and unflinching support all through the struggle. Also to recognise all the APC e-warriors who fought bravely in support of their party despite all odds and won the battle. MY MESSAGE FOR BUHARI Now that you have become the President, I want to let you know that the change Nigerians really need is not the change of personalities or political party, Nigerians are just tired of the way things have been going in this country. Nigerians are suffering; we struggle to provide basic needs that ordinarily the Government should provide. Thieves continue to steal and get richer while the majority of Nigerians are languishing in poverty. This is the reason why Nigerians have decided to give you a chance; the people believe that God can use you to turn things around in this country that is why you were voted for last Saturday. (1) Fight corruption to a complete halt in this country especially in the petroleum sector. Sanitize the NNPC, ensure transparency and accountability. Nigerians all over should be able to benefit from our God-given resources. A few cannot continue to hold this country to ransom and steal at will. (2) Provide stable and reliable power supply for Nigerians. This will enable SME’s to thrive and encourage investors to flock massively into the country. The cost of doing business in this country is crazy because of high energy costs. We must do away with generators in this country for good Mr President. (3) Please diversify our economy. We cannot continue to depend heavily on oil in Nigeria. Sit down and take a good look at the six geopolitical zones in this country and find a way of harnessing all economic potentials for the good of all Nigerians. Our economy must be less dependent on crude oil. (4) Deal ruthlessly with corrupt persons who believe that they can continue to steal and do business as usual. This is a democracy but Mr President, you are the C-in-C and you have enormous powers at your disposal, please use them! Don’t be like Jonathan who allowed his Government to be hijacked by criminals who looted the nation dry while Nigerians cried. (5) Finally, Buhari could be the man that God could use to finally cement Nigeria’s bond of unity by handing over to an Igbo-Nigerian president after his tenure in office whether 4 or 8yrs. Like the Elder statesman Yakubu Gowon said, electing an Igbo president would heal the old wounds of the civil war. Buhari’s name will be written in gold both in the hearts of the Igbos if he can be the instrument to achieving Igbo presidency in this country. If Buhari, being a Fulani from the North can transfer presidential power to the Igbos after him then he will be like the hinge holding Nigeria together. A WORD FOR THE SE I want to thank my geopolitical zone the SE for standing with Jonathan till the end. Yes, he lost the election but we have made a bold statement that we can stand with you till death when we give you our word. There was immense pressure to abandon the minority Ijaw man and join the majority but we refused and stood with the minority till the very end. We must however join hands with the new president to move this great nation forward. Personally, I have concluded that Nigeria has come to stay since we have survived this 2015 presidential election. Let us also build good bridges with other geopolitical zones so that we can produce Nigeria’s president after Buhari. No zone can produce the president alone in this country; you need the support of at least four zones to produce the president! Let us also eschew bitterness and drop all these talk about Biafra; we are Nigerians and we have everything to gain in this country if we can play our game well. A WORD FOR THE NIGER DELTA Thank God we can now say that Nigeria has produced a president for the first time from the minority in the person of Goodluck Jonathan who is about to leave office. I can understand the pain/anger because of the outcome of this election but the truth is that what has happened is the will of God for Nigeria; I see the finger of God in all these. This is Buhari’s time to rule this country; he is a man of destiny. He has come just at the right time to save this country from gliding into abyss. Stop calling the Yorubas traitors and all that. Remember that the Yorubas overwhelmingly voted for your son in 2011 and rejected this same buhari. Check the figures and see that buhari was soundly rejected by the Yorubas in 2011. All Nigerians believed that Jonathyan would be a Messiah that would come and turn things around in this country; this was a man who had no shoes to go to school, who was from a poor background. Nigerians voted massively for him only to be so disappointed that he has not been able to make their lives better. Things are much more difficult for Nigerians now than when Jonathan took over. This is the reason why the Yourubas have rejected Jonathan this time. It is not out of hatred or gang-up but because he has not performed well! Same story about most of the MB and that is why Jonathan lost the MB. Nigerians never had it this bad, state Governors are owing salaries for months, people are hungry, unable to pay school fees and unable to meet their basic human needs. How foolish can a Government be? Imagine someone that wants to come for a second term and civil servants were not paid their December salaries to celebrate Christmas! This is just unbelievable! It was in December last year that I began to question this Government in my mind but I still continued my relentless support on Nairaland for Jonathan. I saw my relatives who were Civil Servants going hungry during the Christmas celebrations, some could not even purchase new clothes for their kid, how painful! As for me, I will do my very best in my own little capacity to support Buhari in changing this country for good. If things should continue the way they were going under Jonathan I wonder what the future of our children would be to be honest. It is God that has pushed out Jonathan not Nigerians because of all the prayers and crying that has gone up to him. Let me also use this medium to appeal to all reasonable Yorubas on Nairaland to prevail on their people to stop opening funny threads about Igbo this Igbo that just because Jonathan lost. The APC people should stop opening threads to tell other Nigerians ‘Ntorrr’, we should move away from such pettiness and mediocrity. A WORD TO THE CORE NORTH And to the core North, let this election be a lesson and a reference point. A southerner sitting as president presided over his own defeat, accepted the results and went ahead to congratulate the winner from the north. In 2011 when Jonathan defeated Buhari, he refused to concede defeat but shouted that the election was rigged when we all know that he was defeated by Jonathan then. Nobody is burning tyres on the road in the South, nobody is burning Mosques, nobody is burning houses/cars and nobody is going about killing Northerners. Should the Northerners lose elections in future we expect them to accept the results and not disturb the peace. Jonathan has set a very good precedent not only for Nigeria but Africa. [/quote this is the best comment ever i have read..really u are a worthy nigerian.God bless your hustle now and forever.i think for the igbos they should unite and stop the issue of superiority amongst them.for instance.Anambra people thinking they are are superior to those from Enugu and Ebonyi. that is not acceptable and cant lead the people to greater heights.God bless igbos and NIGERIA |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by nduchucks: 12:22pm On Apr 02, 2015 |
There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to rebuild broken bridges. Shettima's point is well taken. It is no secret that many Igbos, probably millions of them live in the North and the vast majority of those who voted there, overwhelmingly voted for Buhari. Similarly, a substantial number of Igbos in Lagos and other SW states voted for Buhari. The leadership of our Igbo people is what is lacking, shallow, and essentiallly unsophisticated, as far as political calculations go. We must replace the old coots who run the SE governments with young, exposed minds who are ready to accept Nigeria as their country. The old coots who are still fighting the civil war in their heads must be replaced ASAP. I salute Okorocha and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of our Igbo people who voted for change. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by Nobody: 12:25pm On Apr 02, 2015 |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by aj1802001: 12:39pm On Apr 02, 2015 |
mainman7:I really feel sorry for you and your way of life. what is the concern of Igbos with Boko Haram who are not a threat to their commerce and livelihood? we could have sold them arms but there is no evidence that attests to that. We have always thrived no matter the adversity thrown at us and still shine no matter what. Suck on that. |
| Re: How The Igbos Worked For Buhari's Victory -shettima by morefire: 12:55pm On Apr 02, 2015 |
EUROBOMBER:I have no doubt whatsoever that if you wrote this then you are a very intelligent human being. I say a prayer for you today from the bottom of my heart that God will bless you more and more cheers |
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.He better leave it the way jona left it, only in papers