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Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by AtikuNetwork: 2:31pm On Sep 05, 2020
2023: Why Igbo can’t get the presidency — Sen Kadiri

Senator Alex Kadiri is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress. He speaks with OSARETIN OSADEBAMWEN on the demand for Igbo Presidency in 2023 and the hurdles ahead of that plan and why the minority groups in the country will find it difficult to rule the country.

AGAINST the allegation that the Northern establishment is planning to retain power in the North, the South-East is staking its right to the presidency in 2023 going by the rotational arrangement. Do you think the South-East merits such consideration for 2023?

My belief is that power cannot remain in the North forever. Power has resided in the North for too long. Having said that, I must be frank with you, you are in my house. Nobody gives you power. You go in search of it and fight for it just like Abiola did. The late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola had a long-term plan for the presidency. People did not understand him. He established Concord Newspaper, put people from different parts of the country in charge. That’s how Yakubu Mohammed became the Editor of Concord. Dele Giwa became the Editor of Sunday Concord, and so on and so forth. If you are friend of Abiola living in Kano or Sokoto, Abiola will fly there if you have a naming ceremony in spite of the inconvenience and the bad weather or he will send a ram for the naming ceremony.

He established a football club, the Abiola Babes and was basically funding the Nigerian Football Association (NFA). So, his name was being sung by the people all through the country through his acts of philanthropy, through acts of employment for those who got employment. There were those he gave money to establish their own businesses. He didn’t care if you are Yoruba from Egba or Yoruba from Ekiti, or Fulani from Sokoto. He patronised most people in the country. So when it was time for him to ask for the presidency, his job was easy. He even challenged Nigerians by picking another Muslim from Borno, Babagana Kingibe, as his running mate in a country where we pretend to be more religious than the Pope. Yet, people voted for him. I voted for him too.

Now, whether the presidency goes to the Igbo people in the South or the Ijaw who are also in the south or the Bini who are also in the South, only God knows. I hate this idea of people saying the presidency is now for the Igbo man. I was surprised that a man like Okwesilieze Nwodo, former chairman of a party like the PDP, is saying that if they don’t give the Igbo people the presidency, he would ask Igbos to go and join Kanu in IPOB. That is almost a treasonable statement.

Don’t you now think his comment earns some merit, given the South to North and North to South presidential shift since 1999, especially when the South-South and South-West have produced presidents: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan?

Look, I don’t know if you watched the interview with late Samaila Isa Funtua on Channels Television? It must have been a recorded programme they showed after he died. And he said things that I believe in. Any Igbo man who wants to be the president of Nigeria must come out and work for it.

No Igbo man is going to sit in Umuahia, Enugu or Awka and Nigerians would say, okay it is your turn. When will it be the turn of the Binis? As you know, there are other tribes, very many, in this country like the Tivs. When will it be the turn of these people? Those of us from the Middle Belt, we are beginning to think that in the schemes of affairs, nobody is thinking of the Middle Belt anymore because we are small tribes scattered all over the place.

Some people now feel that maybe the only way an Igala man or a Tiv man or a Berom man can ever ascend the leadership of this country is through the military because when it comes to party, nobody takes us seriously. The Igbo man believes that the Hausa Fulanis have held this position for too long, the Yorubas too have used it but the Igbo man is the greatest enemy of himself.

Why is that?

They are very disorganised. Do you know that when Atiku Abubakar picked Peter Obi as his running mate in the last election, do you know that Peter Obi could not harvest votes from Igbo land to help Atiku win the Presidency? The complaint about Peter Obi in the South-East was very vociferous. Maybe, because the other people have made a promise, as I read somewhere that they had made a promise that the next president of Nigeria is going to be an Igbo man. I don’t know what powers the president has by appointing somebody else from the South-East without the persons from the South-East fighting for this position.

Let me tell you something that is instructive: when Igbos in the North visited former President Ibrahim Babangida recently, he said the Igbos are in every nooks and cranny of Nigeria. They should use their presence in every village to network for votes in addition to the desire to look for money in those places. What Abiola used his own personal wealth to achieve, the Igbos who are scattered all over Nigeria can do it effortlessly if they really mean well for themselves. They’re not doing this.

What could be responsible for this?

Well, I don’t know. I’ve tried to look at it but I cannot understand it. My wife is Igbo. So, I have nothing against the Igbo people. The fact of the matter is they don’t mean well for themselves. Their republican and unrealistic approach to issues is not helping them, especially in a complex country like Nigeria where you need to network. Do not wait until the month or the week of the year of the election before you start making friends, hoping to be nominated. Before you can become a presidential candidate a party must field you. Like Ismaila Funtua said in that Channels TV interview, a party will field the candidates it believes may win election for it. It’s not just about fielding Alex Kadiri because I talk too much. How many people will vote for me? It will field somebody who can win votes from Sokoto, votes from Borno, Rivers, votes from Akwa Ibom, Ogun and so on. That’s the only way. How many Igbo politicians have that kind of spread right now? They are running back into their enclave, chanting that the 2023 Presidency is for the Igbo man. That’s wishful thinking. I can’t see them with any strength in APC. I can’t see them with any strength PDP. APGA has been boxed into Anambra State.

Just a few days ago, former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, said that the leadership of the Igbo race has fallen on his shoulder and that of the Chief Whip of the Senate and former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. Which of them, in your estimation can garner votes from across Nigeria as you just explained?

It is one thing to be known as an individual in politics. It’s another thing to be liked by people in politics. Take Rochas, for example, he has schools here and there. That is good. However, if you meet some Igbo people, they will tell you he cannot be the representative of the Igbos. They have their reasons. I don’t know. You take Orji Kalu? Whether we like it or not, he has been to prison and has come out, not for political reasons, do you get my point?

Not really…

In Pakistan, many of their presidents have been to prison and come to become president later. They do it because of political reasons. They are not accused of anything. I hope you can see the difference. Some of this people have commas and full stops in their profiles. Why can’t we have somebody who does not have skeleton in the cupboard from the South-East? Someone has mentioned former governor of the Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo. He is a nice man, but where is his political base, Nsukka, maybe Awka? He is not a politician. He is a technocrat. He is a professor. He is an economist; for all these marks of excellence, I clap for him, (claps). Any Igbo man who wants to be president of Nigeria including Uzor Kalu, Okorocha, even Arthur Eze, their oga pata pata or Ifeanyi Ubah, all of them cannot sell themselves even in the states where they reside. That is a challenge they must overcome.

Let me tell you a funny story, when we were in the Senate, we zoned the Senate Presidency to the South-East. Evans Enwerem became our president. There were all kinds of problems due to issue of certificate or no certificate, even on performance; we put him aside and picked Chuba Okadigbo. Intellectually sound, but he was sleeping on the job; we decided to remove Chuba. We were now left in the Senate with Ifeanyi Araraume, Arthur Nzeribe and Adolphus Wabara, Nnamdi Oreagbuna and some others, we were faced with these choices.

There was hardly anyone to choose from because when you need to know more about each of them, go and meet their Igbo brothers. They know more than you and I will ever know about themselves. So this presidency that everybody is clamouring for, we are heading in the same direction. Are Imo people clapping for Rochas today? The Abia people, are they clapping for Orji Uzor Kalu today? Anambra people, are they clapping for Ifeanyi Ubah? So, there are a lot of problems they have to go back home to sort themselves out first. The ones that have good names and credibility outside have no political tripod on which to stand like I just mentioned, Chukwuma Soludo. That is the problem. So, to say that the Igbo man must become president… who is this Igbo man that will become president, and under which political party?

Are you saying it is not possible for the Igbo man to be president in 2023?

I can’t see the way through. You tell me how? As I just mentioned to you, there is no serious Igbo man in APC. There is Ogbonnaya Onu, Hope Uzodinma but the only person to me is Chris Ngige. He is the one that has the experience; he has been a governor, a senator and now he is a minister. So in terms of experience, he has it but has he got the backing at home? These are the issues. Somebody may drop from America or from Europe or India that we don’t know yet.

You did not mention Moghalu in your list of South-East Presidential material

His case is almost the same as that of Soludo.

Are you saying that no other political party can produce a president outside the APC and the PDP?

It is possible. You saw Ghali Na’Abba, Bugaje, and so on floating a movement now. Normally, when they start this kind of thing, they used to inform me. But do you see any Igbo man there? Have you heard of any serious Igbo man in their midst? That front is basically being pushed by people of Northern extraction who have fallen out of favour with the current people in power. Quote me.

Do you think they will be relevant politically in 2023?

Well, with the way things are going in this country, if they are able to play their cards well, by building a party like the Chinese, which they said is what they are trying to do… I have heard Bugaje’s position paper, they are building from towns and wards. If this thing works and is not sabotaged by the powers that be, if it sails through, that may be a successful outing for everybody. As they are molding this thing now, I don’t see any serious Igbo person participating right now. Can they finish what they are doing now and because they want to bring Nigeria together, go and look for somebody who is unknown and give it to him to become president? It is not possible. It is never done in any country.

What is your honest advice for the Igbo nation?

What they need to do is to widen the scope of their political participation. This mentality of I am richer than you is what is killing them and that has led to many sections of this country hating them. You want to be richer than your neighbour, money all the time. If they can spread out their net, catch more fishes, when the time comes, people would now look at the characters involved and make a choice. When Dr. Alex Ekwueme was the vice-president, in spite of all criticisms about Igbo people, nobody could point accusing finger at him. Nobody that I know appeared in the media to say Alex Ekwueme is a corrupt person. Can somebody like that come out of the South-East? This is the issue. But because of their pursuit of money, they do so many things and people have doubts about them.

For the Igbo people to aspire to be president of Nigeria, they must spread out, make friends from other places, not just making money from Nguru, Sokoto, or Idah. Where they make this money, what is their relationship with the host community? The money they are making should also serve as good avenues to attract votes for the Igbo man. Again, since we are practising democracy, the Igbo man who wishes to be president must belong to a party that is likely to win an election. No party will put up a candidate that it feels may not win any election. It is as simple as that. I wish a woman like Ngozi Okonjo Iweala were a politician. At least Nigerians now know who she is; she has shown us her worth and she is a worthy person across the globe; she needs no introduction. She may not have the funds to play the type of politics we play in Nigeria now, but if that type of person can stand out among the Igbos, it won’t matter whether she is Asaba Igbo, Ika Igbo or Orlu Igbo whatever. When the chips are down from these same Igbo people, you start hearing from them things that you would not want to hear a second time: who is proper Igbo or who is an Osu etc? Such divisiveness at a time when you would need them to pull their strength together! I worry for them. No human dead or alive can take the presidency of Nigeria and give it to the Igbo man. The Igbo man must find space in the existing parties or if he can form his own and attract membership to be able to campaign and win election.


https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-why-igbo-cant-get-the-presidency-sen-kadiri/

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Lamasta(m): 2:38pm On Sep 05, 2020
Its an impossible task which they themselves know...
Becoming a President is not about chestbeating up and down, its about alignment, working with others and getting the numbers not emotional shouting and chestbeating.....

God bless Yemi Osinbajo the future of our country....

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by rationalhuman(m): 2:40pm On Sep 05, 2020
Nigerian System was designed to Favor Islamist while others to work for them. Bitter pill.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by LadyExcellency: 2:41pm On Sep 05, 2020
Unfortunately, Igbo will vote any major political party that has Igbo as a candidate for presidential election.

Not any more, PDP can't take Ndigbo for mumu again. Nominate Atiku or any Northerner and see the death of PDP.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by IamWonderful: 2:41pm On Sep 05, 2020
Poverty capital of the south is on a long thing, they will cry, wail, lament and even mourn, we know care, they keep on supporting PDP.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Bewiseedet(m): 2:42pm On Sep 05, 2020
Igbo presidency will do any different from others.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by helinues: 2:44pm On Sep 05, 2020
Chai, and a region turns themselves into a balm which everyone is rubbing.

Oh lala

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Bannylove13: 2:49pm On Sep 05, 2020
Igbos no fit be aboki or Yoruba wey don bend to aboki...
The Hausa Fulani institute pattern of Nigeria politics is only favorable to Hausa Fulani and igbos don’t play that kind of politics

This is the difference in Nigeria... Since 1967..

Igbos don’t dobale for anyone reason we see those that dobale for idiots as fools empowered by Hausa Fulani to enslave igbos plant emirs and introduce a foreign and useless god to igboland and we abhors such efulefus with passion..

Some has sold their cultures heritages and even abuse and question origin just to please the caliphate and enjoy crumb.. some change names and pick up names from tribes distance from theirs in other to please their masters and feel among.. this igbos have refused and sees as abomination...

This humans do this for money fame positions and to be accepted in within circle and this in Nigeria politics is term bridge building grin that will lead to acceptance
Tell me how kerosene and water mix... religion is important part of Nigeria politics especially when it comes to people like KADIRI ..

So till igbos start building big masarachi in every nook and corner of igbo land ...they will be accepted
Till igbos bow to and accept Hausa Fulani politics... they won’t be accepted

This simple reason is why Biafra is awake ... the spirit of Biafra is alive .. because no igbo man ... that know his existence will do the Hausa man bid
Okwzilieze and his fellow igbos within the political setting of Nigeria are asslickers ....but still then , they know the extend they can go ... the igbo in them is more than the human in them...

People like KADIRI can weep up sentiments about igbos loving money more than any tribe except Hausa Fulani

Is there any tribe or people in Nigeria that loves wealth more than the Hausa Fulani ... yet same hold record of poverty in west and Sahel africa..

We know where this noise is coming from... reason why igbos will never be loyal to any Hausa Fulani stooge in igboland

If the presidency will be the sacrifice for Biafra ... igbos will gladly and happily embrace it...

Let hausa Fulani led Nigeria conduct referendum and see with korokore eyes how fast those their useless stooge abandon them .. una think say dem no get sense..

Meanwhile

Apc government is from hell... how a government will exist to kill its citizens with any means possible .. while oppressing those that have survive death..

Apc is evil

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Bannylove13: 2:49pm On Sep 05, 2020
helinues:
Chai, and a region turns themselves into a balm which everyone is rubbing.

Oh lala

This is typical Yoruba brain... the best in Yoruba land.. grin

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Benmob: 2:51pm On Sep 05, 2020
Wat is my own business with south east president becuz is still d same corrupt leaders that will like to come out, since others regions that hv produce president did Nigeria change but it became worst. OBJ(SW) bad, GEJ(SS) worse and nw PMB(NORTH) d worst of all and still county

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by helinues: 2:51pm On Sep 05, 2020
Bannylove13:


Okay

Don't just say okay..

Spill it

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by seunmsg(m): 2:56pm On Sep 05, 2020
Igbos will Atikulate in 2023 as usual. No point blowing long turanshi over an unrealistic idea.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Igboid: 2:59pm On Sep 05, 2020
Lol! "my wife is Igbo" the man said.
Who asked him?
Some Nazis also had Jewish wives/gfs. Gowon had an Igbo gf during the war.
What does his wife being Igbo have to do with anything if not because he is trying to hide behind that to exhibit his Igbophobia hoping not to be attacked by Igbos or any neutral person, because his wife is Igbo grin

Like the Normal White racist that will start with " I have black friends but... " and goes on to make his racist comments.

Mr man, you just parroted what other Igbophobes do. Own it with your full chest, nothing will happen and stop hiding behind your poor Igbo wife who I pity for marrying someone like you who harbour such sinister sentiments for her people, who knows what that poor woman has been undergoing under your roof.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Stalwert: 3:12pm On Sep 05, 2020
Igboid:
Lol! "my wife is Igbo" the man said.
Who asked him?
Some Nazis also had Jewish wives/gfs. Gowon had an Igbo gf during the war.
What does his wife being Igbo have to do with anything if not because he is trying to hide behind that to exhibit his Igbophobia hoping not to be attacked by Igbos or any neutral person, because his wife is Igbo grin

Like the Normal White racist that will start with " I have black friends but... " and goes on to make his racist comments.

Mr man, you just parroted what other Igbophobes do. Own it with your full chest, nothing will happen and stop hiding behind your poor Igbo wife who I pity for marrying someone like you who harbour such sinister sentiments for her people, who knows what that poor woman has been undergoing under your roof.

You see where your problem starts, if you call Nigeria zoo or other vile name by rapist cownu, in your head it is not because you hate the tribes of Nigeria it is because you are objective, when Alex Kadiri says his thoughts of Igbo presidency in your head once again it is not because he is objective it is because he hates Igbos. Such is the shallow reasoning that has not gotten you anywhere.

If you call Hausas, Fulani slaves, Fulanis cows, Northerners as dumb, call Yoruba as Hausa- Fulani slaves without any Igbo of note cautioning such foolishness, tell me how you would expect these people to support your aspiration? Politics is about building coalition, in APC case they were able to build a winning coalition. Throughout they never denigrated any tribe or religion. In the case of Igbo they remained silent while some riff Raff's appropriated the authority to speak for them and continually condemned APC as a Muslim Brotherhood party and a Northern Agenda to give land to Fulani people. You see why it will be hard to move forward if you do not genuinely build support across all creeds?

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Fleshly: 3:20pm On Sep 05, 2020
Why is everyone trying so hard to be a specialist in Igbo matters? Why is it that many people especially ofemm.anu see Igbos as threat? What is it about an Igbo man that gives ndi afon.ja slesspless night? I know you hate Igbos because we are better than you in everything. But your fixations on the Igbos are becoming disgusting.

Let me tell you all, 2023 is a game that no one can currently predict. If you've been paying attention, you'd discover that the way the cosmic has been moving, it does appear that Ndigbo may be in it's horizon for favor.

When buhari won in 2015 ndi Yoruba were so happy - not because they expected any positive development geared towards nation building from him, but mainly because they believed that his only achievement will be to suffocate the Igbos, and prolly hand power over to them. On the other hand, ndi ugwu and Fulani were happy for Buhari's victory because they believe he is their own and least of all they believe he was going to end northern insurgency. While, the only people truly grieving about Buhari's victory were the IGBOS!

But fast forward to five years after, Ndi ugwu and fulanis are having more insecurities than they ever had in all of their lives. Ndi ofemman.u are becoming even more doubtful of buhari favoring them in 2023 and even their dream of buhari suffocating the Igbos have become at best wishful. As I can confidently say that no Nigerian president has been truly helpful to ndi Igbo apart from GEJ and now PMB. For the Igbos, who may doubt this let me tell you something, Obj refused to make Enugu airport an intl airport. OBJ refused to grant Tinapa in Calabar licence to operate because he was afraid it will drain resources away from Lagos. Obj and others refused any kind of dredging of any river in the lower delta. Needless to say that OBJ also refused to build 2nd bridge. But look who is fixing all these problems, now? It is PMB!!!! Isnt life ironic? So you see? Not as man THINKETH!!

For Ndigbo, I'm not trying to propagate PMB. God knows I hate that man with every shred of passion in me. But all I'm trying to let the rest of Nigerians understand is That Not as MAN THINKETH! 2023 will be a divine project. God took Abba Kyari and Funtua away because the cosmic is rising in favor of Ndigbo. Let me tell you guys something, believe me, the people calling the shots at the aso villa right now are mostly SE/SS ministers and FG appointees. This thing was not even remotely possible when Kyari was still alive. Infact to get favor from the presidency (if you're Igbo) when Kyari was there, boy, you just have to have a northern backing - as Kyari no wan take him ear hear say you be Igbo. But immediately he died, Igbos rose in great prominence in the presidency, and that was when the thought of Igbo presidency became more visible and potent.

The reason you're seeing all these unnecessary talks by dunderheads from Hausa/Fualni and their eternal slaves from the SW is that they want to cower the Igbos spirit to DARE! They are seeing the hand writing on the wall and are very apprehensive. But as a child of God, one thing I know is that whatever God wants to do, best believe no man can stop him!!!

As for 2023, I repeat it still pregnant. So for ndi useless writers and interviewees, you better save those strength, because you will be needing them shortly.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Dikebuka: 3:22pm On Sep 05, 2020
I don't know why they always panick about igbo. When Igbo said they would not participate in the last election..Python Dance was declared on them. When Igbo decide to vote Alhaji Atiku Abubakar ( a complete Muslim northern who have even observed hajj), they complained that Igbo play politics of bitterness.. If igboman push for resource control, they say that igbos will be poor and backward. When its igboman's turn they raise issue of competence. When igboman present a competent candidate they claim he has no political spread. When igboman present candidate with the best spread they talk about building bridge. When igboman build bridge the respond that the igboman have not done enough to show that they want to rule.
When igboman agitates the independence they respond that igboman is declaring war on the country.
When they igboman succeed in a particular area of business, they respond that Igbo want to dominate everybody.

My question is what do they actually want from the igboman.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Igboid: 3:23pm On Sep 05, 2020
Stalwert:


You see where your problem starts, if you call Nigeria zoo or other vile name by rapist cownu, in your head it is not because you hate the tribes of Nigeria it is because you are objective, when Alex Kadiri says his thoughts of Igbo presidency in your head once again it is not because he is objective it is because he hates Igbos. Such is the shallow reasoning that has not gotten you anywhere.

If you call Hausas, Fulani slaves, Fulanis cows, Northerners as dumb, call Yoruba as Hausa- Fulani slaves without any Igbo of note cautioning such foolishness, tell me how you would expect these people to support your aspiration? Politics is about building coalition, in APC case they were able to build a winning coalition. Throughout they never denigrated any tribe or religion. In the case of Igbo they remained silent while some riff Raff's appropriated the authority to speak for them and continually condemned APC as a Muslim Brotherhood party and a Northern Agenda to give land to Fulani people. You see why it will be hard to move forward if you do not genuinely build support across all creeds?

Stop talking nonsense.
As far back as 1960s, Ahmadu Bello was already making videos where he demonized Ndiigbo.
The entire Northern assembly had a plenary session where the agenda was to demonize and legalize hostility towards Ndiigbo.

Akintola had already made his "Yoruba Ronu" speech where Ndiigbo were again demonized as early as the 1960s.
In all these, you can not for once find a tape where Ndiigbo made speeches demonizing others, instead we focused on how to elevate our selves. Perhaps this was the mistake of our forebearers.

Nnamdi Kanu have not said to other Nigerians what they have not said about Ndiigbo 50yrs before.
And even Nnamdi Kanu doesn't spare Ndiigbo in his criticism or use of harsh words.

Nigeria is a failed cursed state. Igbo presidency will do nothing for Ndiigbo other than earn bragging rights, seeing as it has not lifted Yorubaland or Arewa from trenches of Third World status.
Don't kill yourself over Igbo presidency. The orientation of Igbo nationalists like myself is that Igbo presidency if it comes is well welcomed since it would piss so many Igbophobes off, and if it doesn't come, would also be a win, since it would prove Igbo One Nigerianists stupid and swell the ranks of Igbos who want no part in Nigeria.

The Igbo will always choose Biafra over Nigeria, and should Igbo presidency of Nigeria not emerge, the more Biafra as a viable alternative becomes marketable among Igbo elites spread around the globe.

No shaking, it's either we win, or we win.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by alwayslearning9: 3:24pm On Sep 05, 2020
Well.. I think it's all about timing

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Anago55: 3:29pm On Sep 05, 2020
Lamasta:
Its an impossible task which they themselves know...
Becoming a President is not about chestbeating up and down, its about alignment, working with others and getting the numbers not emotional shouting and chestbeating.....

God bless Yemi Osinbajo the future of our country....
. Igbos have voted for your ancestors twice,1999 and 2003

what were the alignment you made in 99 that made the country to"dash"you guys the presidency and igbos are not doing it?

school me on that

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Lamasta(m): 3:34pm On Sep 05, 2020
Anago55:
. Igbos have voted for your ancestors twice,1999 and 2003

what were the alignment you made in 99 that made the country to"dash"you guys the presidency and igbos are not doing it?

school me on that
Its not about shouting marginalization up and down its about aligning with the winning team and stop playing the victim card if it doesn't favour You..

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Whiteangel1234: 3:35pm On Sep 05, 2020
grin grin Presidency only favour same selfish politician who rise ethnic card for political gains. Presidency no concern me again this period nah economic power we dey EBUTE IKE

I will compaign for Igbo presidency if I get direct link or contact with the aspirants until then nah siddon dey look

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Anago55: 3:38pm On Sep 05, 2020
Lamasta:

Its not about shouting marginalization up and down its about aligning with the winning team and stop playing the victim card if it doesn't favour You..
. Which winning team did the Southwest aligned with in 1999 to merit the presidency?

if you cannot answer this question, don't bother mentioning me because I won't clap back

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Lamasta(m): 3:43pm On Sep 05, 2020
Anago55:
. Which winning team did the Southwest aligned with in 1999 to merit the presidency?

if you cannot answer this question, don't bother mentioning me because I won't clap back
Oga stop beating round the bush we are talking of Igbo presidency not South West we have built bridges in the past that's why we are fully involve now.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Nobody: 3:43pm On Sep 05, 2020
Let them not support Igbo president first ...that's even my prayer

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by nakaman: 3:50pm On Sep 05, 2020
wouldn't it be better, we just pick any prominent person from each tribe in Nigeria put it a box and pick @ random.
more like a rule by raffle it will even save campaign money.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by November1857(m): 3:50pm On Sep 05, 2020
helinues:
Chai, and a region turns themselves into a balm which everyone is rubbing.

Oh lala
Shut up! Abi na IBO be Fulani's herdsmen and banditry where dey kill his people like chicken in mildle belt.

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by kingzizzy: 4:00pm On Sep 05, 2020
These people keep make me laugh. The Northerners keep saying "Igbos should build bridges", "Igbos should reach out", "Igbos should work for Presidency"

But despite Fulani herdsmen slaughtering people across Nigeria, they saw nothing wrong in electing a Fulani man President in 2015 and 2019

When it comes to an Igbo man becoming President of Nigeria, Nigerians will write long list of what Igbos must do.

But when it comes to a Fulani man becoming President, not only will there be no list, the fact that they are killing people everywhere wont even matter

Lol

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by TheChameleon: 4:03pm On Sep 05, 2020
Rubbish...you wouldn't be just slaves to Aboki.

You're even slaves to everyone.

Asari Dokubo called you Ijaw slaves. You all cowardly hid at home.


Bannylove13:
Igbos no fit be aboki or Yoruba wey don bend to aboki...
The Hausa Fulani institute pattern of Nigeria politics is only favorable to Hausa Fulani and igbos don’t play that kind of politics

This is the difference in Nigeria... Since 1967..

Igbos don’t dobale for anyone reason we see those that dobale for idiots as fools empowered by Hausa Fulani to enslave igbos plant emirs and introduce a foreign and useless god to igboland and we abhors such efulefus with passion..

Some has sold their cultures heritages and even abuse and question origin just to please the caliphate and enjoy crumb.. some change names and pick up names from tribes distance from theirs in other to please their masters and feel among.. this igbos have refused and sees as abomination...

This humans do this for money fame positions and to be accepted in within circle and this is Nigeria politics is term bridge building grin that will lead to acceptance
Tell me how kerosene and water mix... religion is important part of Nigeria politics especially when it comes to people like KADIRI ..

So till igbos start building big masarachi in every nook and corner of igbo land they will learn to plAy politics of acceptance...
Till igbos bow to and accept Hausa Fulani politics... they won’t be accepted
This simple reason is why Biafra is awake ... the spirit of Biafra is alive .. because no igbo man ... that know his existence will do the Hausa man bid
Okwzilieze and his fellow igbos within the political setting of Nigeria are asslickers to igbos ...but still then , they know the extend they can go ... the igbo in them is more than the human in them...

People like KADIRI can weep up sentiments about igbos loving money more than any tribe except Hausa Fulani

Is there any tribe or people in Nigeria that loves wealth more than the Hausa Fulani ... yet same hold record of poverty in west and Sahel africa..

We know where this noise is coming from... reason why igbos will never be loyal to any Hausa Fulani stooge in igboland

If the presidency will be the sacrifice for Biafra ... igbos will Gladys and happily embrace it...

Let hausa Fulani led Nigeria conduct referendum and see with korokore eyes how fast those their useless stooge abandon them .. una think say dem no get sense..

Meanwhile

Apc government is from hell... how a government will exist to kill its citizens with any means possible .. while oppressing those that have survive death..

Apc is evil

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by Bannylove13: 4:06pm On Sep 05, 2020
TheChameleon:

Rubbish...you wouldn't be just slaves to Aboki.

You're even slaves to everyone.

Asari Dokubo called you Ijaw slaves. You all cowardly hid at home.



Yoruba gibberish.... very senseless rant

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Re: Senator Alex Kadiri: Why Igbo Can’t Get The Presidency In 2023 by fergie001: 4:09pm On Sep 05, 2020
Thank you, Senator Kadiri

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