Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Prince Tony Momoh, a former Minister of information and a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has given reasons why it will be difficult for Igbos to attain the presidency in Nigeria, citing disunity and their preference for supporting the candidates with huge financial chests during election.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT on why it has been difficult for the Igbos to produce a president since 1999, Momoh said one of the problems facing the Igbo is their inability to be united and queue behind one single candidate for presidential election.
He gave an instance of what happened in 2003 when the late Chuba Okadigbo, who was President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2003 presidential election, visited Igbo leaders in Lagos and solicited their support. According to him, the Igbo leaders who had earlier collected N6m from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asked them to bring N6m before they can give their support to Okadigbo, who is one of them.

“The fact is the Igbos have been in a difficult place since the civil war. They started from scratch after the civil war and they had to reestablish themselves in the Nigerian polity and they had to start moving up slowly in the institution. Many of them their senior people in the Army were no longer there but they have moved in the Army to the highest level, even to the level of Chief of Army Staff” .
“The Igbos are a wonderful people. For instance, at the end of the war, inspite of what you’ve had, they gave you 20 pounds. Every other thing collapsed. Then the Igbos came back to Nigeria and Nigerians celebrated with them and forgot that there was any war . Where they have property, apart from Port Harcourt, people were collecting the rents for them and gave it back to them. But the fact is climbing the social, political and economic ladder takes time” .

“But because of commercial activities, they dominated the economic terrain in Nigeria, the Igbos are the main group of any city in Nigeria. Even in Lagos today, they have Igbos in the House of Representatives” .
“But the Igbos are as disunited as the youths of Nigeria who wants to be president. We were in ANPP. We went to Lagos with the late Chuba Okadigbo who was Buhari’s running mate in the 2003 presidential elections. We met the Igbo chiefs in Lagos and asked for Igbo votes. The chief said we should come back the next day. We came back the following day and he said ‘look at that corner, that is N6m that PDP gave us. Bring us N6m and we will vote for you. I will return the N6m given to us by PDP to them” .

“That is trading and I am not surprised because they are businessmen and they talk business. For you to be talking business, the highest bidder is the person you will befriend. Nigeria will always try to divide the Igbos through financial compromises” .
“ I speak truth to power, issues and institutions. If for instance, you have an Igbo aspiring to be president, you may have about 20 people from the same South-East wanting to be president. The issue is, how can they sit down and say we decide that we want a particular person as our candidate? Nigeria knowing that weakness will cause trouble so that they cannot be united. That is the problem” he said.


Read more https://independent.ng/igbos-are-as-disunited-as-nigerian-youths-on-issue-of-presidency-tony-momoh/

Another useful idiot

Mr Tony, your mumu never do?

Rabbish. How many people are contesting for governorship in ekiti state.
Igbo this, Igbo that.
Keep your presidency to yasef.

This country will start growing the day everybody and every tribe will be treated as one entity, but as long as this present status quo continues, the country will keep on rotating at the initial velocity. And every tribe is sharing in the suffering irrespective of who is the president. Now tell me; who is fooling who in this country?

Don't be brainwashed fellow Igbo. Common Election timetable they couldn't change after all the giri gara drama they used to deceive the weak minded fellows.

Don't follow those fools (Orji Uzor Kalu and Anyanwu)

If Igbo become president,it will be the worst in the history of mankind because those northern politicians will frustrate it and in the end lots of blood will be shed.

BIAFRA is our only hope Nigerian politics is not for us (where IF SOMEONE FROM A REGION BECOMES PRESIDENT, OTHER REGION POLITICIANS WILL FRUSTRATE IT AND THE CIRCLE CONTINUES WHILE THE POOR CITIZENS SUFFER)

You mean nothing has changed in the Southwest despite Obasanjo's eight years as president?

gidgiddy:
Who cares about the useless position of President?

Oga Tony said the simple truth.

Na them

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whr is Tony mumu from?

saaron:
They say age comes with wisdom, but in Nigeria, Idiocy increases with age. Igbos want Biafra! Not the useless Nigerian presidency.
Useful idiot.

yes like saggay like tony momoh

That is nice,and that is the game,

if you want nigerians to like you,just speak against Igbo.

gidgiddy:
Who cares about the useless position of President?

they are focusing on the ibos ,they want to conquer them like they did the yoruba,they are inventing all kinds of tricks

Was it not this guy that said 3yrs of Buhari rule is better than the 8yrs of Obj? Common sense is alien to this Old man. Tufiakwa!

shallysgirl:
Rabbish. How many people are contesting for governorship in ekiti state.
Igbo this, Igbo that.
Keep your presidency to yasef.

Oga ade, face the man that said the truth about you. And leave ekiti out of your stupidity. Those contesting get their money to spend.

We are taking the president come 2023, that or we break this country nonsense

Cccc

nairavsdollars:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Prince Tony Momoh, a former Minister of information and a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has given reasons why it will be difficult for Igbos to attain the presidency in Nigeria, citing disunity and their preference for supporting the candidates with huge financial chests during election.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT on why it has been difficult for the Igbos to produce a president since 1999, Momoh said one of the problems facing the Igbo is their inability to be united and queue behind one single candidate for presidential election.
He gave an instance of what happened in 2003 when the late Chuba Okadigbo, who was President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2003 presidential election, visited Igbo leaders in Lagos and solicited their support. According to him, the Igbo leaders who had earlier collected N6m from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asked them to bring N6m before they can give their support to Okadigbo, who is one of them.

“The fact is the Igbos have been in a difficult place since the civil war. They started from scratch after the civil war and they had to reestablish themselves in the Nigerian polity and they had to start moving up slowly in the institution. Many of them their senior people in the Army were no longer there but they have moved in the Army to the highest level, even to the level of Chief of Army Staff” .
“The Igbos are a wonderful people. For instance, at the end of the war, inspite of what you’ve had, they gave you 20 pounds. Every other thing collapsed. Then the Igbos came back to Nigeria and Nigerians celebrated with them and forgot that there was any war . Where they have property, apart from Port Harcourt, people were collecting the rents for them and gave it back to them. But the fact is climbing the social, political and economic ladder takes time” .

“But because of commercial activities, they dominated the economic terrain in Nigeria, the Igbos are the main group of any city in Nigeria. Even in Lagos today, they have Igbos in the House of Representatives” .
“But the Igbos are as disunited as the youths of Nigeria who wants to be president. We were in ANPP. We went to Lagos with the late Chuba Okadigbo who was Buhari’s running mate in the 2003 presidential elections. We met the Igbo chiefs in Lagos and asked for Igbo votes. The chief said we should come back the next day. We came back the following day and he said ‘look at that corner, that is N6m that PDP gave us. Bring us N6m and we will vote for you. I will return the N6m given to us by PDP to them” .

“That is trading and I am not surprised because they are businessmen and they talk business. For you to be talking business, the highest bidder is the person you will befriend. Nigeria will always try to divide the Igbos through financial compromises” .
“ I speak truth to power, issues and institutions. If for instance, you have an Igbo aspiring to be president, you may have about 20 people from the same South-East wanting to be president. The issue is, how can they sit down and say we decide that we want a particular person as our candidate? Nigeria knowing that weakness will cause trouble so that they cannot be united. That is the problem” he said.


Read more https://independent.ng/igbos-are-as-disunited-as-nigerian-youths-on-issue-of-presidency-tony-momoh/

acephalous society

dem like quarrel pass fight

COMING FROM A NON IGBO MAN FROM EDO.


THAT IS A VERY TRIBALISTIC HATE SPEECH.


IMAGINE A MAN FROM CALABAR SAYING YORUBA ARE AS DISUNITED AS THE YOUTH.


USELESS BIGGOT!

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Another APC idiot

So?

What's your business with Igbo affairs?

Ezi ofia.

JideAmuGiaka:
Another useful idiot

Naked truth hurts

Sometimes these people holding Nigeria back sound frustrated. Did Buhari not contest against Yaradua from same Kastina state? Falae contested against Obj from same south west. These are not a mark of disunity but when an Igbo is offered a useless VP position and we fail to follow like Zombie these frustrated elders will start their age long rhetoric.

Someone should tell him we were/are united in rejecting Buhari.

Tony is reminding us to pick up stones as per his early promise about APC

saaron:
They say age comes with wisdom, but in Nigeria, Idiocy increases with age. Igbos want Biafra! Not the useless Nigerian presidency.
Useful idiot.

You can never never get Biafra until we say so