₦airaland Forum

Mynd44:
So Ekiti should have the same number of representatives as Lagos right?

Or okay, if you mean region, the NC should have the same as NW right?

These calls for federalism are not the way it goes. If you do not have the population you cannot call for the same representation as those who have double or triple your population.

barcanista:
Nigerians sha... I always insist that you can't have unity in the face of Injustice. That is not possible

ZKOSOSO:
Let's drift the argument a bit towards the contribution of each state to the federation account. The North virtually contributes nothing. Absolute ZERO. Just a giant parasite of ingrate magnitude.
It's painful when u see how the leadership of the country is tilted to empower only the hausafulanis. Checkout the nos of reps in non hausafulani part of the North . It's made to be so smaller that keep them as slave or puns in their chess game of politics.

The country needs to be dissolved.
I pray it happen in my lifetime.

abduljabbar4:
I honestly don't know the population on rivers state but I believe katsina and kaduna are more populated. I'm not saying that I know. You should also learn to consider the size of the states

Mynd44:
Of course.

When we have politically motivated tribal bigots like you running amok.

kcpragmatik:
I'm an Igbo man, but to be honest the Igbo drew the margin themselves.. NAIRA.

barcanista:
I have been to Nassarawa and Abia states, there is no way anybody can tell me that Nassarawa is more populated than Abia state. The last census was a charade.

pazeinza:
The ibos have been marginalised, right? What about the Junkuns, Efiks, Kamberis, Bacchamas, Tivs, Momoye, Shuwa Arabs, Higgis, and all other members of the more than 250 ethnic groups In Nigeria? I guess they are all irrelevant

barcanista:
By region I mean North, West and East (going back to the default). The region can create as many states and sub-groups as they like within themselves. But they must have equal representation in the central parliament.

barcanista:
If calling for equality makes me a bigot, then I owe you no apology. In fact, it won't stop me from making case for equity

barcanista:
I have been to Nassarawa and Abia states, there is no way anybody can tell me that Nassarawa is more populated than Abia state. The last census was a charade.

barcanista:
If calling for equality makes me a bigot, then I owe you no apology. In fact, it won't stop me from making case for equity

pazeinza:
WE KNOW YOU ARE NOT A BIGOT, WE ALSO KNOW THAT YOU ARE MAKING CASE FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY IN NIGERIA

WHEN WILL THE SHUWA ARABS BE RECKONED WITH IN NIGERIA? THEY HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN ANY POLITICAL POSITION EITHER BY APPOINTMENT, ELECTION OR SELECTION.

WHY IS NIGERIA MARGINALISING THE SHUWA ARABS

barcanista:
Who drafted the constitution? Was it divinely given to us by God?

internetpirate:
Igbos are a majority tribe! Look through reality not a haze of insecurity! He was comparing commensurate to expected population size!!!

Mynd44:
The problem with this module is that it will not work.

Nigeria has way too many tribes to have three groups. Do you even know what will happen during elections?

Take Lagos as an example. You can say it is a primarily Yoruba state and bla bla bla but even within the people who claim ancestry to Lagos, there are the Egun, Ijebus and Aworis. And all three are always arguing about who gets to get what position which is why you have silly issues like Ambode is from Epe Or Obanikoro is from Ikorodu etc.

Now you want to group Bayelsa with Anambra. If you don't know, Anambra is a state with strong cultural backings and have come to see themselves as the "Pure Igbos". You will simply have Anambra Indigenes edging out everyone else.

You yourself have thrown insults at people of Igbo descent and you did seem proud to do so maybe not deep down but due to political interests so just imagine you guys in the same region.

pazeinza:
WE KNOW YOU ARE NOT A BIGOT, WE ALSO KNOW THAT YOU ARE MAKING CASE FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY IN NIGERIA

WHEN WILL THE SHUWA ARABS BE RECKONED WITH IN NIGERIA? THEY HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN ANY POLITICAL POSITION EITHER BY APPOINTMENT, ELECTION OR SELECTION.

WHY IS NIGERIA MARGINALISING THE SHUWA ARABS

pazeinza:
WE KNOW YOU ARE NOT A BIGOT, WE ALSO KNOW THAT YOU ARE MAKING CASE FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY IN NIGERIA

WHEN WILL THE SHUWA ARABS BE RECKONED WITH IN NIGERIA? THEY HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN ANY POLITICAL POSITION EITHER BY APPOINTMENT, ELECTION OR SELECTION.

WHY IS NIGERIA MARGINALISING THE SHUWA ARABS

pazeinza:
So because the ibos are a majority tribe they should be given a special treatment right? But i thought he ws talking about equality

The Shuwa Arabs should be neglected

The Bacchama should be abandoned

The Kemberi should be forsaken

so where then is the equality when the minoritites arent attended to?

Mynd44:
According to the OP, they are in the North hence are Hausa/Fulani

barcanista:
[s]The Shuwa Arabs can settle their differences with their Fulani brothers. We in the Lower Niger we have our own groups Urhobo, Ijaw, Igbo, Esan, Ogoni, Isoko, Efik, Ibibio etc and we will solve our internal challenges. We are talking of balance of regional representatives[/s]

barcanista:
[s]Why do some of you feel threatened whenever it has to do with a United SS/SE? FYI the days of acrimony between some SS and the Igbos is OVER! The Ijaw Youth Council that has always held to an unfavorable belief against the Igbos since post 1970 had to go to the Igbo nation to apologise in February 2015. In fact, everyone is talking unity.

My guy the so-called Igbo dominating threat is a staled one. Very staled! And my past perception towards the Igbos is also staled and denounced. Stop crying more than the bereaved. I insist on Eastern region, you should leave us to our troubles. Have you heard of "Lower Niger"? Go figure...[/s]

pazeinza:
So because the ibos are a majority tribe they should be given a special treatment right? But i thought he ws talking about equality

The Shuwa Arabs should be neglected

The Bacchama should be abandoned

The Kemberi should be forsaken

so where then is the equality when the minoritites arent attended to?

barcanista:
You don't know but you "believe" already that Katsina and Kaduna are more populated. This is a clear case of blind argument.

PapiWata:
Ultimately, the "Sudan Solution" will be applied to Nigeria. Let the Izon, the Itshekiri, the Urhobo, the Ogoni and the Ilaje enjoy in full measure the crude oil that lies under the soil of their ancestors, leaving the rest of the nation to look inward for their own resources to sustain the new countries that will devolve when drunken Lord Lugard's failed experiment at tribal unity is finally flushed down the toilet of history.

The west of Nigeria can reap handsomely from its bumper cocoa harvests, in its revived role as an agricultural breadbasket. The north, with its 100 zillion imaginary occupants, can certainly thrive on her legendary groundnut pyramids as it did before crude oil was discovered in the far away Niger Delta, and the East whose inhabitants rank among the most academically brilliant on Planet Earth, can become the Silicon Valley of Africa, where technological innovation creates wealth on a scale never before imagined.

There is nothing wrong with going separate ways for all the ill-fitting pieces of Nigeria's current jigsaw puzzle. Let it go. Just let it go, y'all.

barcanista:
Why do some of you feel threatened whenever it has to do with a United SS/SE? FYI the days of acrimony between some SS and the Igbos is OVER! The Ijaw Youth Council that has always held to an unfavorable belief against the Igbos since post 1970 had to go to the Igbo nation to apologise in February 2015. In fact, everyone is talking unity.

My guy the so-called Igbo dominating threat is a staled one. Very staled! And my past perception towards the Igbos is also staled and denounced. Stop crying more than the bereaved. I insist on Eastern region, you should leave us to our troubles. Have you heard of "Lower Niger"? Go figure...

barcanista:
The Shuwa Arabs can settle their differences with their Fulani brothers. We in the Lower Niger we have our own groups Urhobo, Ijaw, Igbo, Esan, Ogoni, Isoko, Efik, Ibibio etc and we will solve our internal challenges. We are talking of balance of regional representatives

lekkie073:
no sir, but does that mean because it doesn't favour some ppl, then it must be amended? Unless the northerners think the way the bosniaks thought, there can never be such amendment

QuotaSystem:
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

- Thomas Jefferson