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As an Igbo man, I don't give two flying fuvks which tribe becomes the president in the next century to come. Just give me an enabling environment to do my business.

Buhari should not be surprised that Igbos don't like him.

Igbo enwe eze.

Let them be the Nigerians that can think for themselves!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBItAt2HHM

xynerise:
As an Igbo man, I don't give two flying fuvks which tribe becomes the president in the next century to come. Just give me an enabling environment to do my business.

Very true!!

Guyman02:
Even several Yorubas didn't vote Buhari, they are tired of the pretense and ready to damn the consequences like Igbos

Tinubu and deomelo wee call them IPOB and ask for python dance
Cc immhotep velocity25 sarrki

samsono30:
See this one talking, how did u survive d civil war? was it not grass igbos were feeding on, if not for S/W that accomodated and fed igbos your generations won't have been in existence, even the S/S dealt wit ur grt grand fathers if u dnt knw i am telling this, you can go and ask who fed ur grand father b4 the could survive and dont come here to strart bragging abt what u dont know. Go and read history so u will learn more.

With this disgruntled fallacy you called history. Sir you must certainly need a stringent history class.

Talk about being proud on a crappy statement dude i quoted Just made hahahahaha

ngadaAwo:
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nope they didn't and will never have any regrets on that
an average igbo man does not depend on government for survival
they hustle on their own and make living from their hard works even in an unfriendly hostile situations
that's why they don't give a Flying furck when supporting the candidates of their choice
they do so and damn the consequences because they owe no one any freaking apology and favours.
that's how you behave when you're 100% independent.



my question is can any other tribe boast of such independence from government?

lol tell that to Obi

Psoul:
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.


I will repeat the last line.

WE ARE IGBOS. DEAL WITH IT.

God bless you. You said my mind.

amaniro:
Actually they didn't. Now they've shot themselves on the leg cause Buhari is not going to give them any juicy appointment.

The ones that was given to your region, how did it help your people?

oyebanji44:
it shows that the Ibos had no opportunity in 2023 presidential electi..Eventually ,Buhari's Victory will work to South west advantage..

How has the Buhari's government helped SouthWest since the last four years.

tollyboy5:
I saw you calling someone not Yoruba! Sir with due respect you are a disgrace to the omoluabi s nation. You are part of the people who's brain tinubu bought. Yorubas dont keep anemies or condemn people for freedom of choice. I still love the igbos but would frown seriously on every of their attempt to ride Yoruba of any position in Lagos.
These are the real yorubas, diplomatic without hatred the type I see these day spreach about hate. Stop all this. Don't come here speaking on behalf of Lagos because if you know Lagos and love her progress you won't speak in favour of APC Lagos.

Shut up

N stop foaming from the mouth

If ibgos don't need to support a particular party to be recognize politically them,they shouldn't complain of being discriminated from getting good portfolios in govt.

We don't care about Buhari and his appointments,
We didn't cast our vote based on Tribe or Religious sentiment, beside Atiku is neither lbo or a Christian...in case you don't know, even if Buhari wins five more times, The North will never be a halve way near the development of the Ibo

ngadaAwo:
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nope they didn't and will never have any regrets on that
an average igbo man does not depend on government for survival
they hustle on their own and make living from their hard works even in an unfriendly hostile situations
that's why they don't give a Flying furck when supporting the candidates of their choice
they do so and damn the consequences because they owe no one any freaking apology and favours.
that's how you behave when you're 100% independent.



my question is can any other tribe boast of such independence from government?

You have spoken well bro.

amaniro:
Actually they didn't. Now they've shot themselves on the leg cause Buhari is not going to give them any juicy appointment.

was he giving them before?

You can go to hell with your Buhari. What value has the tribalist added to the Northern masses that have been blindly voting him.

The results of the elections has determined the relationship that got severed and it revealed the real allies/friends.

ngadaAwo:
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nope they didn't and will never have any regrets on that
an average igbo man does not depend on government for survival
they hustle on their own and make living from their hard works even in an unfriendly hostile situations
that's why they don't give a Flying furck when supporting the candidates of their choice
they do so and damn the consequences because they owe no one any freaking apology and favours.
that's how you behave when you're 100% independent.



my question is can any other tribe boast of such independence from government?

which average northerner or westerner depends on govt. Your brain de leak

ebuk4real:


See how daft these people are. Who told them Igbo's are really after "juicy appointments"?

Always shouting marginalisation

See, adopt policies that carries everyone along

Which policy excludes igbo ppl?

and guarantee right to meaningful life and watch them carve a niche for themselves.

It is your ppl that sell then seize land as Per 419

Or give them just four years to stir the ship of this country and see what transformative inclusive governance means...

How many of your states or LGa or constituency have you transformed
You de fine magicso you will fill the whole civil Service with your kinsmen abi

It's the mismanagement of the governance class that makes them agitate for a country of theirs that will make living worth it. Nigeria as it is will NEVER work until we tell ourselves the honest truth...

what is the truth

LukeSavage:
With this disgruntled fallacy you called history. Sir you must certainly need a stringent history class.

Talk about being proud on a crappy statement dude i quoted Just made hahahahaha

Eyah he pain u say dey tell u d truth.

Chukwurah003:
Sometimes we don’t use our heads.

Imposter

Slynation:
For real i hate cowards.... u guys will start something u can't finish, when it seems like u on a losing side, u start shouting, calling lala for help a good example livelymatilda22

Lol..this one is obsessed with me... Those who have been on nairaland for long and knows me, can testify that you are a senseless liar.. You are too small for me to eat.... Call me your master.

Basher8583:
chai See loser academy. Are you guys not tried of losing. see pride ontop serial failure.
lgbo's are the most dependent in Nigeria. they cannot thrive in their region hence the hopping arround to other regions. And thats how your region is so messed up even your Senior citizens are running away. Now does mike Adenuga, Otedolla and Dangote have any property in that hellhole of a region?
And the reason for NO is very Simple.
it is a Counter productive
region with no Longtime viable business profit foreast. And this is because they don't have the numbers and are fraud prone. Ever thought of why the Ember month Security was established in the financial Sector. . . .

People like you make me laugh. The Igbo man is spreading his wings and flying in other Regions. It takes a lot of guts to go to another area with different language, customs and traditions and make a success there. Nobody can do it except Igbos and that's why you people say "they can't thrive in their region"

How can Otedola or Adenuga have have property in Igbo land? Do they know where Igbo land is? But Igbos probably own half the properties in Adenugas local govt.

livelymatilda22:
Lol..this one is obsessed with me... Those who have been on nairaland for long and knows me, can testify that you are a senseless liar.. You are too small for me to eat.... Call me your master.

See this one, stay there and be feeling yourself, The master other people have been calling you, use it and sow kaftan

gidgiddy:
People like you make me laugh. The Igbo man is spreading his wings and flying in other Regions. It takes a lot of guts to go to another area with different language, customs and traditions and make a success there. Nobody can do it except Igbos and that's why you people say "they can't thrive in their region"

How can Otedola or Adenuga have have property in Igbo land? Do they know where Igbo land is? But Igbos probably own half the properties in Adenugas local govt.

So who is a bigger fool here?
lgbos are just plain stupid. The devil that is chasing them far away from home is the one killing the region. And it explains why you loose at everything you compete against.
Region of losers.
Im contesting for president if staff union in my office. Abeg no support me oh. I no wan loose.