₦airaland Forum

ofai:
Atr you minding the nematode? If he is so confident of November 18, why demonising kanu or ipob? I'd it the same "Touts" his party will meet and beg for votes? Nobody is stopping him from voting he should go and vote.

obviously we have nothing but political harlots in the person of leaders in Biafra land but this time they'll all fail.
Its Biafra or Nothing!

DerideGull:
I have concluded that freedom of press is the worst drawback of democracy. To compound the worst situation is the idiotic, ill-educated and silly press. Right to freedom does not come cheap. There are acceptable perils one or group of people had to endure in pursuant of freedom. If the idiotic federal government of Nigeria does not allocate the proper resources to Igbo nation due to boycott of census, I say so be it. The fact you agreed that federal government main objective of nation census is to determine how much hand out it has to give to states raises the stake to fight for independent Biafra where census shall be used to plan and construct the economy of the state rather than handout process. What a goon of a country.

Most idiotic Nigerians will readily render the name of USA in their silly attempt to be clever during national debates. Today, the foolish Nigerians have latched onto phrases such as hate speech and other craps to tickle their moronic fancy. Yet they forgot that when USA was fighting for its independent, all manners of so-called hate speech and outright derogatory derision rained liked heavy rain. British was subject to all forms disdainful name calling and insults. At the end, arguably the world's greatest country was born.
The IPOB does not conduct election in Nigeria and it absolute idiocy to remotely insinuate that Nnadi Kanu and IPOB said election will not hold in Anambra state in particular and entire Biafran entity in general. It is the right of the silly agency responsible for election in Nigeria to conduct one and it is also the right of the electorate to participate in it. IPOB has turned another page of its political arsenal, this time boycott which is an acceptable universal stance against tyranny, by simply requesting the electorate, the Biafrans, not to participate in the election. The IPOB does not want to destroy Nigeria unless Nigeria wants to destroy itself. The need for self determination is and inalienable fundamental right all human beings can exercise.

Let ask the goon that wrote the silly article if Igbo land or Biafra has the type of economic gateway situated in the defunct western region and northern region of Nigeria. Today, there are Lagos and Abuja in the defunct western and northern regions respectively. What such economic gateway had the silly federal government of Niger-Area created in the defunct eastern and midwestern region respectively? For any dialogue to even remotely thought about, there must be Lagos or Abuja in the defunct eastern and Midwestern region respectively. I do not want moronic dingbat to come here lecture me on USA. The south fought with union and since the end of that civil war, the south had produced more Presidents of USA than the union. In addition, the south had the largest seaports and busiest airports when compared with the union. Can this be said about the cesspit called Nigeria since after the civil war? At this stage of things, there no need to spend to much time on reasonability because in Nigeria actions speak louder than thoughts.

Interesting self-contradiction in the bolded. You decry the appeal to Western liberal values of tolerance and inclusiveness and eschewing hate speech. Then in another part of your long verbiage, you appeal to those some Western liberal values in opposing "tyranny".

Mind you, contrary to a lot of the claims I see, Kanu's past utterances and subversive activities would be more than enough to get him prosecuted on incitement and treason even in the liberal West. It's a miracle that the authorities have left him unscathed even as he courts more conflict and repeatedly violates his bail conditions.

I like how you compared 21st century Nigeria with 18th century America. Please, go the whole way. Take up arms against the ruling government as they did against the British. It's not just by internet chest-beating and insults. Deluded, unfortunate souls. What really gets me is despite the fact many of you agitators don't even know the name of your local government chairman in your places of origin or even residence to demand transparent, accountable and competent governance, you think your Biafran rebranding automatically solves all your problems.

Obi1kenobi:
of course, there are predictable responses all over the thread. Never engage or address any substantive issue about the strategy or objectives of a chaotic movement. Just insult, insult, insult, call people "afonja", more insults, call "afonja", insult, insult, insult, call "afonja" etc etc....Even upstanding Igbo citizens who try to call the charlatan to order get insulted. You live in an absolute fantasy land if you think any movement of this sort can succeed without the intellectual, political and economic elite adding their voices. Unemployed touts, hawkers and okada riders will never be the voice of productive Igbos all across the country no matter all the noise-making, chest-beating rallies. But keep on dreaming, sha.

Is afonja an insult?

Obi1kenobi:
Interesting self-contradiction in the bolded. You decry the appeal to Western liberal values of tolerance and inclusiveness and eschewing hate speech. Then in another part of your long verbiage, you appeal to those some Western liberal values in opposing "tyranny".

Mind you, contrary to a lot of the claims I see, Kanu's past utterances and subversive activities would be more than enough to get him prosecuted on incitement and treason even in the liberal West. It's a miracle that the authorities have left him unscathed even as he courts more conflict and repeatedly violates his bail conditions.

I like how you compared 21st century Nigeria with 18th century America. Please, go the whole way. Take up arms against the ruling government as they did against the British. It's not just by internet chest-beating and insults. Deluded, unfortunate souls. What really gets me is despite the fact many of you agitators don't even know the name of your local government chairman in your places of origin or even residence to demand transparent, accountable and competent governance, you think your Biafran rebranding automatically solves all your problems.

Every political stewards hands are stained with corruption. And the rot began from the top. Once the top cleans up, other automatically follow suit.

Stockholm's Syndrome is such a bad thing, man, who did this to you?

I won't respond to your post again. My apologies.

Obi1kenobi:
Another vacuous cretin that talks utter twaddle without following the news.
https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.naij.com%2F1109262-leave-north-urgently-ipob-tells-igbo-people-north.html&usg=AFQjCNEDLTYPf-i3dn1D-9bnf89Y6V0O7Q

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFghVMAc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsunnewsonline.com%2Fquit-order-igbo-ready-to-leave-north-ipob%2F&usg=AFQjCNEsyhNDQCrQHmMNShSd6xGRclPYXg

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFghbMAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsunnewsonline.com%2Fquit-ultimatum-ipob-urges-igbos-to-leave-north-calls-for-referendum%2F&usg=AFQjCNFcY9TCHq3nZHDf1WvRR8M0DgQeBw

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFghhMAk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpunchng.com%2Fipob-backs-igbo-quit-notice%2F&usg=AFQjCNExwCMyeO8hG6feBNkGk9EaQtZysQ

Another cretin too talking about how I'm feeling "wise", "intelligent", "educated" blah blah blah.....even when I've made no such claims. It's like you cretins just read someone who can spell and somehow it muddles up your thick heads and you start exposing your insecurity.

You are not a wise person.
IPOB only told Ndiigbo to leave the North , to protect them, after Arewa youths threatened to do their worst to Igbos resident in the North come October 1st.

It's funny that you dont see any wrong in Arewa youths who gave packing order to Igbos in the North, but would rather vilify IPOB who advised Igbos to return home to be safe rather than sorry.

SMH

THE SENATE ANTI-RESTRUCTURING VOTE, BIAFRA AGITATION AND THE REST OF US.

By Charles Ogbu

This is certainly not the best of time for Nigeria. And most certainly not for the advocates of #OneNigeria as Tuesday's "No Devolution Of Power" vote at the floor of the Senate appears to have finally given a very serious form of institutional credence to the assertion by the Nnamdi kanu led Biafran movement that the Nigeria state is unsalvageable.

But beyond the rhetorics and verbal gymnastics, there are some wildly held opinions which the Senate vote has simply elevated to the status of fact. Here are some of them:

1: It is not the Senate as an institution that doesn't want a restructured Nigeria. It is the North as a region. Sadly, long years of military rule championed by mostly northern military officers have succeded in skewing the political equation of Nigeria in favour of the North. As it stands now, the North is in a default position to hold the rest of the country to ransom and that is exactly what is happening. She gets whatever she wants no matter how scandalous such a want might seem and she ensures that what the other region wants doesn't see the light of day no matter how fair and just such a want might be. Even with the combination of the numerical strength of southern lawmakers, the North still has the veto power.

North East Development Commission bill was passed into law almost before it was even presented on the floor of the parliament. But, a bill to "gift" Lagos state with special status was killed. A bill to set up a development commission for the southeast was equally shut down. Before the adulterated version of PIB was allowed to pass 2nd reading, northern lawmakers made sure that Kano and Kaduna were included as beneficiaries of the Host Community fund even when those two northern states do not produce even one litre of oil.

2:No form of re-organization of the political and economic structure of the Nigerian state a.k.a restructuring, can be effected through the existing constitutional structure. The status-quo is terribly skewed in favour of the only region (North) currently benefiting from it.

The Yorubas want true federalism. The south south want to be in charge of their resources. Igbo elders want a well restructured Nigeria where every region will be able to harness her full potentials and develop at her own pace. Igbo youths, under Nnamdi kanu, is agitating for a total separation from Nigeria because they believe the North which holds the numerical advantage in every facets of state institution here would never allow for restructuring.

Under close examination, the aspirations by the aforementioned peoples/groups are not mutually exclusive but the bitter truth is that no amount of sophistry and beautiful poetry robed in flawless grammar will give us restructuring.

It was the height of naivity in the first place to assume that our Northern neighbours will willingly relinquish the undue advantage their military heads of state gifted them with, without a fight.

The North will never allow for a restructured Nigeria UNLESS she is confronted with an alternative such as a determined quest for a referendum by the other component units.

It is at this point that we must all admit that the leader of Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has been right all along. The action of the Northern Senate caucus has further legitimised the Biafra struggle. Above all, it has buried the argument that the Biafra strong man, Kanu, should use institutionalized politics to push his quest for a referendum.

Contrary to a very popular Igbo saying, what the young man, Nnamdi Kanu, saw while lying down, the elders have failed to see even while comfortably perched ontop of iroko tree.

Our biggest mistake was antagonizing the IPOB leader rather than seizing the momentous occasion his Biafra agitation gifted us with to demand in practical terms, an end to the grave injustices and institutionalized daylight roquery in the Nigerian system.

How can it be that an "Emeka" from Akpugo-Nkanu in Enugu state must score not less than 120 to get admitted into federal govt unity college while an "Ibrahim" from Daura in Katsina state only needs to score 10 to be admitted into the same unity college......in the same country? And paradoxically funny enough, this same Ibrahim will most likely end up as the president of Nigeria even if he decides not to finish his secondary school education while the more intellectually endowed Emeka has less than 1% chance of even getting a job at the end of his academic sojourn??

Why should a state like Kano have the right to operate a parallel system of govt with sharia court (judiciary), sharia police known as the Hisbah working under the office of the governor (Executive) plus another very powerful body known as the Sharia commission (legislature) in the same country where Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, was almost crucified for setting up a security outfit to confront the marauding fulani herdsmen??

Institutionalized injustices such as these should be unacceptable even by the lowest moral standard of natural justice.

The enemies of Nigeria are not those pushing for her balkanization due to entrenched injustices in the system. The real enemies are the beneficiaries of the unjust system who have sworn to allow neither restructuring nor a referendum for us to determine our future. It is very important that we always remember this fact.

The fact that the advocates of restructuring are yet to hit the street in protest over the Senate action is a grave indictment on their seriousness and collective resolve as a group.

One thing is certain, the maintainability of the status-quo IS NOT an option.

Eventually, something must give.

The position of not just the Igbos but every southerner today DOES NOT call for political correctness.

By making a comprehensive restructuring of the system impossible, the North is only making the complete balkanization of the country inevitable.

Obi1kenobi:
Another vacuous cretin that talks utter twaddle without following the news.
https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.naij.com%2F1109262-leave-north-urgently-ipob-tells-igbo-people-north.html&usg=AFQjCNEDLTYPf-i3dn1D-9bnf89Y6V0O7Q

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFghVMAc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsunnewsonline.com%2Fquit-order-igbo-ready-to-leave-north-ipob%2F&usg=AFQjCNEsyhNDQCrQHmMNShSd6xGRclPYXg

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFghbMAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsunnewsonline.com%2Fquit-ultimatum-ipob-urges-igbos-to-leave-north-calls-for-referendum%2F&usg=AFQjCNFcY9TCHq3nZHDf1WvRR8M0DgQeBw

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigr-yO5q7VAhUSLlAKHcqVDnIQFghhMAk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpunchng.com%2Fipob-backs-igbo-quit-notice%2F&usg=AFQjCNExwCMyeO8hG6feBNkGk9EaQtZysQ

Another cretin too talking about how I'm feeling "wise", "intelligent", "educated" blah blah blah.....even when I've made no such claims. It's like you cretins just read someone who can spell and somehow it muddles up your thick heads and you start exposing your insecurity.

you are very stupid. Was it not the northerners who asked the igbos to vacate their region first. IPOB only advice them to leave to avoid their blood being shed as usual.

If any igbo man decides to stay in the north after oct 1st and get slaughtered that's his business not IPOBs.

By not knowing this shows how dimwitted you are. If you say you are igbo, please Endeavor to inquire about your ancestry properly. Igbos aren't this stupid.

Just wasted my time and data reading this rubbish.

Islie:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/feature/how-nnamdi-kanu-fell-from-grace/207578.html

What a baseless, useless, senseless Afonja based article....

Islie:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/feature/how-nnamdi-kanu-fell-from-grace/207578.html

What a baseless, useless, senseless Afonja based article....

Obi1kenobi:
Interesting. May I know when you took a poll to determine who are the "tiny few" and who are the "overwhelming majority". You expect productive, enterprising, busy Igbos all across the country who are opposed or indifferent to the agitations of unruly mobs to gather on the streets making empty noise?

the movement of restoring biafra ain't for igbos in diaspora so their support is not needed at all.


They can remain in Nigeria wen the country splits, there's no 2 ways about that.

frleopardo:
you are very stupid. Was it not the northerners who asked the igbos to vacate their region first. IPOB only advice them to leave to avoid their blood being shed as usual.

If any igbo man decides to stay in the north after oct 1st and get slaughtered that's his business not IPOBs.

By not knowing this shows how dimwitted you are. If you say you are igbo, please Endeavor to inquire about your ancestry properly. Igbos aren't this stupid.

“The members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and its leadership worldwide wish to sincerely thank the Arewa Elders Forum, Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying about the need for a referendum to be conducted in Nigeria to decide the fate of the component ethnic nationalities criminally lumped together by the British in 1914"

Yes, because taunting and commending the Arewa Youths for the declaration is only "advising" Igbos to vacate the North for their security and not an extension of the campaign of unruly, crude insolence many IPOB touts have routinely engaged in.

See the cretin calling me a halfwit. The amusing part is the most reetarded of them are the quickest to throw insults about the intellect of others due to their own inferiority complex. You think sharing Igbo heritage with vacuous fucktards like you is something I beat my chest about? I'm not a chest-beating, crude zombie who mindlessly follows charlatans without questions. Whether I'm among 90% majority or a minority 10% in my views, I'll never allow chest-beating, witless clods that embarrass Igbos everywhere with their crudity to speak for me and people like me.

You are content about your present. You are confident about the future of your children. Those are the only two things you are craving to protect. You don't care one bit about the collective destiny of Ndigbo neither are you bothered about the future welfare of their posterity.

Unfortunately for you and your ilks, millions of Igbos (unlike you) are not content with their present circumstances neither are they confident about their children's future.

So, you see, my friend, there is no longer a place for the status quo. And rest assured that there won't be any war because it takes two to fight. And IPOB is not ready for any arms struggle. Not in this generation, and not as long as NK is still alive.

eodavids:
My bros, are you Onye Igbo?

If you are one, good.
Perhaps you really meant what you typed up there. But you should have a rethink.

Why?

Because the security, safety, survival and general welfare of Ndigbo should should be our priority now, not playing the secession politics that is capable of endangering the general welfare of Ndigbo.

Let someone tell Nnamdi Kanu that what he is doing will not give Ndigbo Biafra. Rather, his actions will alienate Ndigbo from their entitlement as the third most populous Tribe in Nigeria.

Let not Ndigbo, who hitherto were known for wisdom and bravery become foolish because of Nnamdi Kanu.

Majorities of respondents are truly ignorants and nonentities. Abusing someone who tries to let them see the reason why IPOB and Kanu are making mistakes.
Anyway, the project is intresting but dead a long ago.

paschu:


Delusion (or reality-denial) remains an incurable disease until the poo of reality hits the fan. Keep deceiving yourselves. Sit secure in your ivory tower of intellectualism postulating how the interest of the tiny few is superior to the will of the overwhelming majority. Time will tell who's right or wrong, who failed from grace and who rose to it- you or Kanu.

No revolution has ever been supported by the elite;

Obi1kenobi:
Interesting self-contradiction in the bolded. You decry the appeal to Western liberal values of tolerance and inclusiveness and eschewing hate speech. Then in another part of your long verbiage, you appeal to those some Western liberal values in opposing "tyranny".

Mind you, contrary to a lot of the claims I see, Kanu's past utterances and subversive activities would be more than enough to get him prosecuted on incitement and treason even in the liberal West. It's a miracle that the authorities have left him unscathed even as he courts more conflict and repeatedly violates his bail conditions.

I like how you compared 21st century Nigeria with 18th century America. Please, go the whole way. Take up arms against the ruling government as they did against the British. It's not just by internet chest-beating and insults. Deluded, unfortunate souls. What really gets me is despite the fact many of you agitators don't even know the name of your local government chairman in your places of origin or even residence to demand transparent, accountable and competent governance, you think your Biafran rebranding automatically solves all your problems.

I guess you are watching what the so-called liberals are acting out in Wash, DC and entire USA where the liberals, the so-called media and crocked establishment were defeated in presidential election by a businessman who is a political novice called Donald Trump. They have called him all sorts of names, go to courts and reinvented Russia. By the way, the use of boycott as political weapon is not an exclusive domain of the so-called western liberals.

I have no intention to compare 19th century USA with 21st century Nigeria but it sucks if the former seems to have done better than the later given the time span. The plank of taking up arms is where I beg to defer from you. Things have to be done in a more intelligent and civilized way than idiotic way as most Nigerians tend to gravitate. In the most recent times, USSR and Czechoslovakia maturely and amicably disintegrated without a shot fired in anger. I do not see any reason Nigeria's disintegration should go the route of war. You rightfully stated it is 21st century Nigeria and the world expects Nigerians to behave like 21st century humans.

It is not crime for any section of the country decides to leave the unholy union foisted on Nigerians by the idiotic colonialists.

Obi1kenobi:
of course, there are predictable responses all over the thread. Never engage or address any substantive issue about the strategy or objectives of a chaotic movement. Just insult, insult, insult, call people "afonja", more insults, call "afonja", insult, insult, insult, call "afonja" etc etc....Even upstanding Igbo citizens who try to call the charlatan to order get insulted. You live in an absolute fantasy land if you think any movement of this sort can succeed without the intellectual, political and economic elite adding their voices. Unemployed touts, hawkers and okada riders will never be the voice of productive Igbos all across the country no matter all the noise-making, chest-beating rallies. But keep on dreaming, sha.

...with IPOB a tribe that was a thinking one, intelligent,intellectual came to an end and was replaced by useless flat headers with mob brains...suegbes!

Obi1kenobi:
“The members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and its leadership worldwide wish to sincerely thank the Arewa Elders Forum, Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying about the need for a referendum to be conducted in Nigeria to decide the fate of the component ethnic nationalities criminally lumped together by the British in 1914"

Yes, because taunting and commending the Arewa Youths for the declaration is only "advising" Igbos to vacate the North for their security and not an extension of the campaign of unruly, crude insolence many IPOB touts have routinely engaged in.

See the cretin calling me a halfwit. The amusing part is the most reetarded of them are the quickest to throw insults about the intellect of others due to their own inferiority complex. You think sharing Igbo heritage with vacuous fucktards like you is something I beat my chest about? I'm not a chest-beating, crude zombie who mindlessly follows charlatans without questions. Whether I'm among 90% majority or a minority 10% in my views, I'll never allow chest-beating, witless clods that embarrass Igbos everywhere with their crudity to speak for me and people like me.

What were you expecting IPOB to do? To start crying over the ultimatum?

The Arewa Youths felt they had an ace to play with their ultimatum order, IPOB had to win them in the battle of wits by telling them that Ultimatum order was rather playing into IPOB hands, rather than stopping Biafra agitation like the arewa hoped to achieve with the ultimatum.

Ultimately, it wasn't IPOB who threatened to unleash their worst against Igbos in the North, and it wasn't IPOB who told the Arewa to do so.
How exactly you hope to turn logic on its head by blaming IPOB for the Arewa threat is a food for thought for sincere minds.

Obi1kenobi:
“The members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and its leadership worldwide wish to sincerely thank the Arewa Elders Forum, Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying about the need for a referendum to be conducted in Nigeria to decide the fate of the component ethnic nationalities criminally lumped together by the British in 1914"

Yes, because taunting and commending the Arewa Youths for the declaration is only "advising" Igbos to vacate the North for their security and not an extension of the campaign of unruly, crude insolence many IPOB touts have routinely engaged in.

See the cretin calling me a halfwit. The amusing part is the most reetarded of them are the quickest to throw insults about the intellect of others due to their own inferiority complex. You think sharing Igbo heritage with vacuous fucktards like you is something I beat my chest about? I'm not a chest-beating, crude zombie who mindlessly follows charlatans without questions. Whether I'm among 90% majority or a minority 10% in my views, I'll never allow chest-beating, witless clods that embarrass Igbos everywhere with their crudity to speak for me and people like me.

So commending the northerners for seeing the need for referendum is the same as supporting them in asking igbos to leave? Abi?

I've told to stop impersonating igbos. Please face your coward tribe. Igbos are not stupid.

Once of the things I hate the most is having to engage someone who is not mentally smart. It is quite stressful and energy - draining for me

frleopardo:
So commending the northerners for seeing the need for referendum is the same as supporting them in asking igbos to leave? Abi?

I've told to stop impersonating igbos. Please face your coward tribe. Igbos are not stupid.

Once of the things I hate the most is having to engage someone who is not mentally smart. It is quite stressful and energy - draining for me

Yes. Commending the Northerners for their threatening declaration and linking it to the IPOB agenda is basically supporting the departure of Igbos from the North which was my original claim that you're trying to twist. It's simple deductive reasoning and implied meaning. Not my fault you're a half-witted cretin and the simple logic is lost on you.

Of course, half-wits find intellectual discourse "draining". No surprise there. Next time, find your fellow touts to engage with at your intellectual level. You'll find it less "draining". Ewu.

Obi1kenobi:
“The members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and its leadership worldwide wish to sincerely thank the Arewa Elders Forum, Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying about the need for a referendum to be conducted in Nigeria to decide the fate of the component ethnic nationalities criminally lumped together by the British in 1914"

Yes, because taunting and commending the Arewa Youths for the declaration is only "advising" Igbos to vacate the North for their security and not an extension of the campaign of unruly, crude insolence many IPOB touts have routinely engaged in.

See the cretin calling me a halfwit. The amusing part is the most reetarded of them are the quickest to throw insults about the intellect of others due to their own inferiority complex. You think sharing Igbo heritage with vacuous fucktards like you is something I beat my chest about? I'm not a chest-beating, crude zombie who mindlessly follows charlatans without questions. Whether I'm among 90% majority or a minority 10% in my views, I'll never allow chest-beating, witless clods that embarrass Igbos everywhere with their crudity to speak for me and people like me.

Chukwu biko!! You just finished the guy!

I don't like Buhari to be honest, but I want him to come back and come back healthy to tame this Kanu once and for all. Baba will lock him up and hold the keys in his pocket and nothing will happen . All these ipobs are just noise makers. When e red na ICC they go they call up and down.

I have watched thier videos and truly we can see the composition of thier members. The toutish and illiterate Igbo that lack the capacity to critically and logically think

A "leader" that spews hatred so easily and agitates for violence...another idi amin? ....okay, so let's say they get their Biafra nation, what next? Which way forward? What has been gained, what has been lost? Hmmm...the kind of spirit pushing this man ehn. He should sha try to secure the release of the people that followed him to prison because it looks like he has forgotten them

Nnamdi Kanu can only fool the unintelligent

The man is as stupid as they come

Just like it has always been in the course of history; when the Government creates a vacuum of poverty and Unemployment, mad men exploit it to their own advantage

Which liberationist from Jesus, to Mahattma Ghandi,
to Nelson Mandela, to Martin Luther King ever used hate speech in their message

Just profile anybody who likes the man; they mentally blind Ibos who also hail idiots like Apostle Suleiman, FFK and Ayo Fayose


Please Note: The education in the SEast is low making them susceptible to undue manipulation

THE SENATE ANTI-RESTRUCTURING VOTE, BIAFRA AGITATION AND THE REST OF US.

By Charles Ogbu

This is certainly not the best of time for Nigeria. And most certainly not for the advocates of #OneNigeria as Tuesday's "No Devolution Of Power" vote at the floor of the Senate appears to have finally given a very serious form of institutional credence to the assertion by the Nnamdi kanu led Biafran movement that the Nigeria state is unsalvageable.

But beyond the rhetorics and verbal gymnastics, there are some wildly held opinions which the Senate vote has simply elevated to the status of fact. Here are some of them:

1: It is not the Senate as an institution that doesn't want a restructured Nigeria. It is the North as a region. Sadly, long years of military rule championed by mostly northern military officers have succeded in skewing the political equation of Nigeria in favour of the North. As it stands now, the North is in a default position to hold the rest of the country to ransom and that is exactly what is happening. She gets whatever she wants no matter how scandalous such a want might seem and she ensures that what the other region wants doesn't see the light of day no matter how fair and just such a want might be. Even with the combination of the numerical strength of southern lawmakers, the North still has the veto power.

North East Development Commission bill was passed into law almost before it was even presented on the floor of the parliament. But, a bill to "gift" Lagos state with special status was killed. A bill to set up a development commission for the southeast was equally shut down. Before the adulterated version of PIB was allowed to pass 2nd reading, northern lawmakers made sure that Kano and Kaduna were included as beneficiaries of the Host Community fund even when those two northern states do not produce even one litre of oil.

2:No form of re-organization of the political and economic structure of the Nigerian state a.k.a restructuring, can be effected through the existing constitutional structure. The status-quo is terribly skewed in favour of the only region (North) currently benefiting from it.

The Yorubas want true federalism. The south south want to be in charge of their resources. Igbo elders want a well restructured Nigeria where every region will be able to harness her full potentials and develop at her own pace. Igbo youths, under Nnamdi kanu, is agitating for a total separation from Nigeria because they believe the North which holds the numerical advantage in every facets of state institution here would never allow for restructuring.

Under close examination, the aspirations by the aforementioned peoples/groups are not mutually exclusive but the bitter truth is that no amount of sophistry and beautiful poetry robed in flawless grammar will give us restructuring.

It was the height of naivity in the first place to assume that our Northern neighbours will willingly relinquish the undue advantage their military heads of state gifted them with, without a fight.

The North will never allow for a restructured Nigeria UNLESS she is confronted with an alternative such as a determined quest for a referendum by the other component units.

It is at this point that we must all admit that the leader of Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has been right all along. The action of the Northern Senate caucus has further legitimised the Biafra struggle. Above all, it has buried the argument that the Biafra strong man, Kanu, should use institutionalized politics to push his quest for a referendum.

Contrary to a very popular Igbo saying, what the young man, Nnamdi Kanu, saw while lying down, the elders have failed to see even while comfortably perched ontop of iroko tree.

Our biggest mistake was antagonizing the IPOB leader rather than seizing the momentous occasion his Biafra agitation gifted us with to demand in practical terms, an end to the grave injustices and institutionalized daylight roquery in the Nigerian system.

How can it be that an "Emeka" from Akpugo-Nkanu in Enugu state must score not less than 120 to get admitted into federal govt unity college while an "Ibrahim" from Daura in Katsina state only needs to score 10 to be admitted into the same unity college......in the same country? And paradoxically funny enough, this same Ibrahim will most likely end up as the president of Nigeria even if he decides not to finish his secondary school education while the more intellectually endowed Emeka has less than 1% chance of even getting a job at the end of his academic sojourn??

Why should a state like Kano have the right to operate a parallel system of govt with sharia court (judiciary), sharia police known as the Hisbah working under the office of the governor (Executive) plus another very powerful body known as the Sharia commission (legislature) in the same country where Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, was almost crucified for setting up a security outfit to confront the marauding fulani herdsmen??

Institutionalized injustices such as these should be unacceptable even by the lowest moral standard of natural justice.

The enemies of Nigeria are not those pushing for her balkanization due to entrenched injustices in the system. The real enemies are the beneficiaries of the unjust system who have sworn to allow neither restructuring nor a referendum for us to determine our future. It is very important that we always remember this fact.

The fact that the advocates of restructuring are yet to hit the street in protest over the Senate action is a grave indictment on their seriousness and collective resolve as a group.

One thing is certain, the maintainability of the status-quo IS NOT an option.

Eventually, something must give.

The position of not just the Igbos but every southerner today DOES NOT call for political correctness.

By making a comprehensive restructuring of the system impossible, the North is only making the complete balkanization of the country inevitable. .

paschu:
REFERENDUM

One person, one vote!

And you think a referendum can't be rigged?

Priest69:
And you think a referendum can't be rigged?

Chukwu biko! I don talk say I no go laugh today, but....

PFRB:
No revolution has ever been supported by the elite;

All, I say it again all revolutions are planned, executed and maintained by elites from the English revolution, the French revolution, the Russian revolution, the Cuban revolution.

Kings and Pawns - that's if you know who the kings are and who the Pawns are.

paschu:
You are content about your present. You are confident about the future of your children. Those are the only two things you are craving to protect. You don't care one bit about the collective destiny of Ndigbo neither are you bothered about the future welfare of their posterity.

Unfortunately for you and your ilks, millions of Igbos (unlike you) are not content with their present circumstances neither are they confident about their children's future.

So, you see, my friend, there is no longer a place for the status quo. And rest assured that there won't be any war because it takes two to fight. And IPOB is not ready for any arms struggle. Not in this generation, and not as long as NK is still alive.

My friend, it is good you do not abuse people like the others.

My concern is on the safety and welfare of Ndigbo, not that I am comfortable with the status quo

Really? Can you point out the abuse? Okay I get it. Seems you are not used to being spoken to directly. Sorry for my direct and politically incorrect talk.

eodavids:
My friend, it is good you do not abuse people like the others.

My concern is on the safety and welfare of Ndigbo, not that I am comfortable with the status quo