₦airaland Forum

RTSC:
Yakassai has promised to deal with Yoruba in 2023 for betraying buhari.

In the meantime, the pdp presidential candidate is coming to the east unopposed.

emychukwu:
We do what we do as a result of who we are!

We are Igbos, and proud of it. No apologies.

Igbos are not united!
Igbos are not united!

It was the same people who sell you the stereotype that Igbos are not united that came out, to fight the unity of Igbos at Okota/Ago, other parts of Lagos and Igbo land in general.

Seeing that their narrative is failing, they are now selling another narrative. They are saying Igbos are putting all their eggs in one basket.
How can the whole of the Igbos vote PDP?
Now we are being accused of not being divided enough to spare some votes for APC. Olee ihe emere ya adi uwa mma?

A little history will suffice. We are an egalitarian society. Indirect rule didn't work with Igbos. It worked well with the North and the South West but not with Igbos. Warrant Chiefs didn't help matters either. So really, Igbos are not political lots. Same reason voter aparthy is highest in Igbo land.

But when we take a political stand, we speak with one voice. That is who we are.
We have always done. We did it with Shagari, Obasanjo, Ya'radua and Jonathan. We are doing it against Buhari.

Make no mistake, we have always put our political eggs in one basket and that is who we are. That is why we don't entertain dynasties. The likes of Saraki and Tinubu and Mohammed won't last a decade in Igbo land.
We are decisive and courageous. If that is what you call arrogance, then so be it. But we will never stand on the fence.

I write this because of the young generation of Igbos in Nigeria. Go home to your fathers in the villages and ask questions. Learn how to be Igbo without being apologetic. The first thing people notice about an Igbo man is his enterprising spirit. It is not found anywhere else. Ihe agwo muru aghaghi ito ogologo.

We can't apologize for who we are. But what we do not have is the spirit of Nigerian politics. We don't play the politics of "Master say! Alhaji say! Everyone is a master in Igbo land. Onweghi onye na akpanye ibe ya nri.

The Igwe of my community has no more stake in the affairs of my community than I do. He is more of a representative of the people to the government and the custodian of our tradition than a "ruler" in the real sense of it. That is why we have the cabinet and elders in council.
Igbo amaghi eze.

It is not a bad thing in a sense that decisions are collectively taken, from the household, through the hamlets to the community. It does not make us lawless lots. The consultative mechanism is our strength. Igwe bu ike.

This is the singular reason why the Ohaneze Ndi Igbo has not been able to evolve into that rallying point for the Igbos like the Arewa People's Congress for Northerners, Oodua Peoples Congress and the Afenifere for Yorubas.

Let us all brace up for the times ahead.
Someone who will dislike you will not always need a reason to. Add the ingenuity and hardwork of the average Igbo man to the mix, and dislike quickly turns to hate.

And I understand it. I perfectly do. Its not easy to like someone who comes back to your land, after being sent packing just a few decades ago with just some two pounds and all his properties confiscated by his hosts.

He comes back and acquires them back hundred folds, marries your daughters and prospers with them. Then goes ahead to not only carve settlements in Ojodu and Ojo for themselves, but is about to become a determinant to your political future in a dispensation where you have been promised a second place.

What they may never know is that the ordinary Igbo man is not interested in your presidency. We thrive wherever we go. So when you say we are not strategizing enough for the presidency, we don't see it how you see it.

The average Igbo man simply wants a good environment for his business, and good infrastructure for a decent life. The things which "presidency" has not bestowed on any ethnic group in Nigeria.

The five Igbo states have since 2012 almost consistently occupied the best positions in WAEC and produced the highest number of medical and engineering students in Nigeria.

Check the Igbo business in Lagos, Kano, Maiduguri, Portharcourt. Most are not based on government patronage. We make things out of nothing. Presidency means nothing to an average Igbo man. The ten poorest and educationally backward states in Nigeria are within the regions that have held the presidency within the last two decades.

A good example is the very primary school where President Buhari cast his vote. It was the closest to his ancestral home. A "successful" Onitsha business man who has made money from his trade will know that the church and the school closest to his home is the very yardstick to measure his success. He needs not become president to refurbish them. Ana esi na ulo mara mma puo ama.

To the young generation of Igbos, I say to you today, Quit trying to impress anyone about how hospitable or detribalized you are!
Nnamdi Azikiwe did it and failed, Jonathan did everything imaginable, things he did not do for his native South South and yet failed. If you think you can please Nigeria, then you have another thing coming.

Look at Benue people, they received the greatest visit of deaths from this government. But they'd rather die some more than let an Igbo man smell the Vice Presidency. And tomorrow, they will also tell you Igbos don't know politics. And you will want to engage them in an argument.

Do not be disturbed when you hear them say we are not united. We have never been that kind of united people. Read our history. Even as Igbos were dying in their hundreds during the pogrom, Gen. Ojukwu, one of the first Igbo men who realized that this "forced marriage" can never work was only "permitted" to embark on the war against Nigeria by seeking the voice of every hamlet, every village and every community. He did not take unilateral decisions.

That's how decisions are taken in Igbo land. We do no alienate those who are in dissent. We do not allow one Tinubu to make decisions for some and another Saraki for others, so that our two eggs are comfortably placed in two baskets. No! We rise to the occasion wherever we are, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, sokoto. Our spirits communicate with each other and not with any leader figure and decide what is best for us. Either you respect us for getting it, or you respect us for trying. This is who we are, and we are not changing it soon. We are Igbos. Deal with it.

Written by Ugo Finian

I will repeat the last line.

WE ARE IGBOS. DEAL WITH IT.

NkayStory:
These folks called SWs know nothing and are the most deluded group of people in the World..i swear down!!

xelly:
You guys always want to bring trib into everything.

Is there Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo in the ballot? The contest was between political parties, so, why compare sim card and memory card?

Gabriel004:
Same old story. They talk as if they are richer than others.

Gabriel004:
Yes, while igbo that helped Atiku to failure on internet are keeping quiet.

RTSC:
Yakassai has promised to deal with Yoruba in 2023 for betraying buhari.

In the meantime, the pdp presidential candidate is coming to the east unopposed.

obonujoker:
Ogbeni, I'm Yoruba like you... And I can never ever vote for Buhari... He is not worth it... I'm waiting for 2023 when a good person from our SW (probably sowore).. As for Buhari, nothing will change...

NkayStory:
These folks called SWs know nothing and are the most deluded group of people in the World..i swear down!!

Gabriel004:
Ogbeni I did not even vote buhari but sowore. Yet Atiku won in my state ondo. But I am one of the people that voted sowore Cos I hate buhari. But hate when these igbo folks think they know or they are something. All they know to to is come online to gather likes from their fellows. But election comes, they did not come out and want to blame yorubas that voted who they like. I can bet it, 95% of them here did not vote and they are complaining. I will school them. Do you know that PDP got higher vote from yorubas than them. Check it yourself and tell me what is Yoruba fault. I never voted buhari, get that.

Biodun556:
South Easth should learn not to always put all thier eggs in one basket.

They should do away with tribalism.

Saraki took their slot when there was no APC senator from East in 2015. Is the samething repeating itself?

No biafra, No president in 2023 and No senate president. Oma se o!!!

Because they all sleep and face the same direction due to tribalism and religious bigotry.


APC should never and can never present an igbo man for president in 2023 just because the party could not win any South East state since 2015 which is an indication of deep hatred they have for the party.

rainylad:
You must be a primary school drop out who can barely add 1+1 correctly with the garbage you call percentages...My 6year old neice is a million times smarter than you dude and that is a fact.

Only a stark illiterate will claim SW gave PDP more votes than SE....Kindly make do with your childish anti-Igbo rants and leave intellectual narratives for those who can actually think and process numbers accurately.

Brain dead folks who think they have an opinion by polluting my mentions bore me

Bye.

Gabriel004:
You see how dumb most easterners are. You must be one of the Bimbos they talked about. Are you a coward, why running away and not wait to schooled. I am sure your family will be ashamed of you for lacking tactics when arguing or defending. Are you this foolish? See Mumu calling another illiterate. And this one will have boyfriend. The boyfriend must be dumb too. This is the type the goes to special centre to write exam. Your stupidity is stinking. I even thought this one have brain and class to debate. Didn't know I answered most foolish, dull night brain dead bush girl. See how the brain dead girl resulted to insult, no brain to argue. Dundee. Your mention on your father's created forum. Oponu.

rainylad:
Buhari's victory had nothing to do with yorubas,keep dreaming about 2023 President

.Anyone can be president (we do not have a problem with that)as long as it is not Yorubas...We will make sure of that..

Gabriel004:
No be only yakassai, na bakasi. Kindergarten political analyst.

Gabriel004:
Lol, such a dumb analysis. SW vote divided. Do you think if south west wants to give bulk vote to Apc like you guys, do you think Pdp will get that 11 million. Are you this dumb. Anylysis of this election in the south showed you people only contributed 29.7% to PDP. Yes, they lost in southwest but still got 31.2% in southwest. Are you this dull. What has anambra 500 thousand gave him. At the bolded above, that is to confirmed how dumb In reasoning you are. So Lagos that gave close to 600k to Apc is in your father's compound In Arochukwu right. You claimed bulk vote, yet Atiku lost In Osun but still get higher vote than your so called bulk vote in imo, than in Abia and than in Ebonyi. Anambra only gave 524,738 to Pdp while Lagos gave 580,825 to Apc. The percentage Apc got in west is higher that what Pdp got in your so called bulk vote. Even Pdp got higher percentage in the west despite loss than your so called useless bulk vote in the east. I will school you. Your votes are inconsequential, stop hiding under SS to claim bulk vote that is useless.

Gabriel004:
You see how dumb most easterners are. You must be one of the Bimbos they talked about. Are you a coward, why running away and not wait to schooled. I am sure your family will be ashamed of you for lacking tactics when arguing or defending. Are you this foolish? See Mumu calling another illiterate.[b]And this one will have boyfriend./b] The boyfriend must be dumb too. This is the type the goes to special centre to write exam. Your stupidity is stinking. I even thought this one have brain and class to debate. Didn't know I answered most foolish, dull night brain dead bush girl. See how the brain dead girl resulted to insult, no brain to argue. Dundee. Your mention on your father's created forum. Oponu.

Starboytwo:
And this one will have boyfriend.... Bros you are hire killer

Gabriel004:
How do you mean sir

SouthEastFacts:
Like I asked before, are you sure you understand numbers?

About 4 million voted in SW but 600 voted in Anambra. SW with 6 states gave a marginal vote of 300k and Anambra, a single state gave 500k.

Who is more strategic.

Starboytwo:
that line is strong ni... I read that line and I was thinking what would be going through that ladys mind like these....Abeg Don't let someone daughter commit suicide on top comment ooo...

Gabriel004:
[s][/s]Stop deluding yourself. Who hold the anambra people down not to come out. How many people voted in the entire southeast. The question is does Pdp has more vote in the west than east or not. Or anambra is the entire anambra?

Biodun556:
South Easth should learn not to always put all thier eggs in one basket.

They should do away with tribalism.

Saraki took their slot when there was no APC senator from East in 2015. Is the samething repeating itself?

No biafra, No president in 2023 and No senate president. Oma se o!!!

Because they all sleep and face the same direction due to tribalism and religious bigotry.


APC should never and can never present an igbo man for president in 2023 just because the party could not win any South East state since 2015 which is an indication of deep hatred they have for the party.

SouthEastFacts:
You are blossoming where? How many yoruba man has landed properties in Kano.

Continue deceive yourself.

You tax us 35% on behalf of the FG. The FG will collect their share, give Lagos their share then share the rest to other states in the country.

We use the other 65% to buy your land and bring our families down and repatriate the rest home. In 50 years, you will understand the implication.

We are not complaining about the tax, at least they are living in Lagos and also enjoying the dividends of that tax

SouthEastFacts:
If you are sensible you would have seen where I wrote, 35% from companies. FG collects company taxes.

If you collect about 5% of my salary and I go home with the rest, it is not a problem to me.

Whether 20% or not, we hold more lands in SW than the vultures can possibly hold in the East and we are buying more.

Console yourself. An Igboman can never dive into business he doesn't know the end.

I am sure you are lying, so I won't respond to you much. We built Sabo Garin in Kano from scratch. What is Yoruba's legacy in Kano?

Even if our land is barren, the waste land can never compare.
Onitsha, Anambra is better than Abeokute, Ogun
Enugu City, Enugu is better than Ibadan, Oyo
Owerri, Imo is better than Akure, Ondo
Umuahia, Abia is better than Oshogbo, Osun
Abakiliki, Ebonyi is the same level with Ado Ekiti, Ekiti


We see our region as village when compared with China but with SW, NEVER!!!

Any Igbo man that enter Lagos, wetin dey go first ask na "Na the Lagos be this?

We are village but Enugu was nominated and accepted along side London, Paris, Barcelona, Athena, Accra into the World Top 100 most resilient cities.

Only 35 cities made that list that year out of over 650 global cities that applied.

SouthEastFacts:
If you are sensible you would have seen where I wrote, 35% from companies. FG collects company taxes.

If you collect about 5% of my salary and I go home with the rest, it is not a problem to me.

Whether 20% or not, we hold more lands in SW than the vultures can possibly hold in the East and we are buying more.

Console yourself. An Igboman can never dive into business he doesn't know the end.

I am sure you are lying, so I won't respond to you much. We built Sabo Garin in Kano from scratch. What is Yoruba's legacy in Kano?

Even if our land is barren, the waste land can never compare.
[b]Onitsha, Anambra is better than Abeokute, Ogun
Enugu City, Enugu is better than Ibadan, Oyo
Owerri, Imo is better than Akure, Ondo
Umuahia, Abia is better than Oshogbo, Osun
Abakiliki, Ebon[/b]yi is the same level with Ado Ekiti, Ekiti


We see our region as village when compared with China but with SW, NEVER!!!

Any Igbo man that enter Lagos, wetin dey go first ask na "Na the Lagos be this?

We are village but Enugu was nominated and accepted along side London, Paris, Barcelona, Athena, Accra into the World Top 100 most resilient cities.

Only 35 cities made that list that year out of over 650 global cities that applied.

Olu20090:
By the end of Buhari's 2nd term, Yorubas will witness the greatest suffering ever seen before.