₦airaland Forum

kingzizzy:
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

I follow u laugh.

Dem no get sense @ all

Zorbadezinc:
You have said it all. The igbos don’t mean well for themselves

Even the present crop of governors distrust themselves.

The Anambra State Governor is a case in point >>>>


Governor Willie Obiano’s paranoid attitude and his recent display of suspicious behavior has become very worrisome to Anambrarians
in recent times. The governor recently moved out of the Government House, claiming that the place was infested by evil spirits and that his enemies had buried charms inside the grounds. He moved to Onitsha from where he now operates. Shortly afterwards, his wife, Ebelechukwu Obiano invited the Deputy Governor, Dr Nkem Okeke to their hideout in Onitsha where she accused him of planning to kill her husband the Governor, and literally stripped off her clothes to fight him, all this in the presence of the Governor Willie Obiano. The Governor himself was later to inform some traditional rulers that his deputy was plotting to take his life. The Governor has become increasingly isolated with his wife now taking over the functions of running the state.

Recently on The day the Enugu Airport was commissioned, something strange happened.
As the Governors of the South-East and other stakeholders waited at the airport, and having been informed of delay, the host, Gov. Ugwuanyi the hard-working, humane and gentle Governor of Enugu decided, out of courtesy, to take the stakeholder to the Lodge for morning tea.

Inside the Lodge, only Obiano decided to stay inside his vehicle without coming down. Three people were sent to call him, but he declined, saying he was comfortable in his vehicles. Even when he was informed that the stakeholders and fellow governors who had arrived earlier wanted to take the time and discuss issues for the good of Igbos, he still declined. Senator Victor Umeh, the former National Chairman of Obiano’s Party APGA was sent to ask him to come up and join his colleague south Eastern Governors but he still refused.

Obiano departed shortly after he left the lodge for the Airport for the commissioning , even before the official tape cutting ceremony because of his paranoia which is affecting the smooth running of his administration in recent times.

Obiano later told some people that he would never enter inside Enugu Lodge as the people that revealed the plan to kill him at Amawbia Lodge also revealed that Enugu Governor would poison him if he was not careful.

Obiano is a big disgrace

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.

Are u sure ur not a lunatic? So igbos should go for a civil war in asari dokubo's house because he called igbos slaves

The man is jonzzing himself

Who cares about their presidency? Are the lives of previous president's communities better?

Great advice to Igbo nation presidency is not sold on a platter of gold you have to work for it nobody will come to your house and offer you this position and you cannot blackmail the country to have it. This is democracy and is a game of number get people and you have the position

You and your Nigeria are all mad. Give us our Biafra. Let's start building it.

LadyExcellency:
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.

story..watch them.insult you here first.. when their placenta is buried with pdp.

Ayomi90:
If Yoruba is not president Yoruba will be vice which is a win win.

Your Osibanjo is living in bondage a graduate playing a puppet to a primary school certificate holder who's WAEC is in question.

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....

Let ur father win ijn

Mumu!! Weda yoruba, hausa, igbo wins the fact is that u ll remain poor. Ur tribe winning doesnt mean money will enta ur acct.

Poor man

PrecisionFx:
I am sure PrecisionFx's useless father is a lunatic.

So igbos should go for a civil war in asari dokubo's house because he called igbos slaves

Yes. It's obvious the fool is.

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

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Very nonsense talk

jaxxy:
Did I say they are not Nigerians or involved? They are not a geopolitical group/zone. Are u just playing naive or being funny?

Igbo is a tribe just like them too so uve got no point.

4tomandchi:
Your Osibanjo is living in bondage a graduate playing a puppet to a primary school certificate holder who's WAEC is in question.

Same post ur Peter Obi is dying to get. I'll rather be a puppet for someone whom the almighty has blessed than a loser. We love him that way, we enjoyed it, go nd get ur Biafra nd be free from bondage.

This man finish Igbo. This is what we have been telling them on nairaland sir, but they won't listen. thanks for clarifying them once again.

AtikuNetwork:
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/

I had previously wondered why this class of analysis/political interviews dominates discussion forums in recent times?

I wonder no more: It's because the narrative is being thrown into everybody's face, that, "come 2023, it is the turn of the Southeast to produce the President."

Folks, you better expect a lot more like this, as 2023 rolls by.

Good luck, everyone.

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I don’t know why these guys are giving igbos a hard time. You claim to want One Nigeria, but then deny them the right to rule? What type of bull is that?

Realerreal:
Kadiri spoke the truth and pointed out both the strengths and what people hate about the igbos in Nigeria, even before Biafra matter stArted which made people hate igbos even more.
The trouble that ensued after Atiku picked Peter Obi from the igbos was a very shameful thing and unknown to them taught other politicians a lesson. Even Atiku will never pick an Igbo man again you be vice. Watch he will go with south west or south south.

The man mentioned his wife is igbo to tell you he has close relationships with them and have studied their ways of doing things.
For your wife to be igbo and for you to have such bitter feelings towards them tells you how unlikable the igbos truly are.
Even as house girls and boys, igbos are treacherous jealous creatures.
Nigerians will never vote an Igbo person as president.

My thoughts too.. Nigeria will never allow igboman rule but they should allow them go. They can corner niger delta to stay back but let igbos go. They no fit Nigeria and Nigeria no fit them

Ayomi90:
Stay there be asking if it is developed, ur states are not liveable for you yourself talkless of other ppl from other regions, you see the reason why majority of Igbo's left their states nd living in SW or North. Every Igbo man dream is to go to SW or North coz their home isn't liveable.

Is sw developed?
Have you not seen many times
South Africans and a lot other Africans insult Nigerians online..
How poorly developed the nations cities are
Oga
This nation is abysimally underdeveloped
I think
Most of you that comes here
Boasting of sw.
Havent traveled around the world
To see how a developed nation
Is meant to be

The one good things the igbos are good at doing is hating.

They hates themselves and they hate others.

showafrica:
My thoughts too.. Nigeria will never allow igboman rule but they should allow them go. They can corner niger delta to stay back but let igbos go. They no fit Nigeria and Nigeria no fit them

When Moses went to pharaoh
And told him to let my people go
He refused
Even with plagues ravaging Egypt
Pharaoh still held on

But when the Lords time came
Pharaoh could not stop it

They will hate the igbo man
But God will always fight for him
When the time comes
Nothing will hold him down
Absolutely nothing

Lost everything in the war
Today God has come through for him
Whom God blessed
No man
No Jupiter
Or anything can curse him

God has been the igbo mans help
If not that God is with us
Our own for done be


If God be for you
Who can be against you?
Whether in heavens on earth or beneath the earth
Can be against him

Ayomi90:
Am a proud one sef.

you think and talk like them....it's from your writing that I knew

Nigeria can never move forward with this kind of mindset of politics, tribe, religion. through out the write up no mention of science, technology nor even all round developments. Nigeria is finished.

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

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.

unable to apply sense will make you reason the way you do .are you telling g us what the man said is sentimental ? But it is senseless on your side by not having good evidences to oppose his claim but turned it to personal Insult as usual .If moral and sense of reasoning can be uploaded upstairs You need to apply for it.

Burruchaga71:
Trash as usual.. Mumu

i believe thats what u call your parents.....

I am not surprise....thats what your likes do on social media...it is not hard to know a person that has absolutely nothing upstairs....pap brain....

They hide behind their phones. And be throwing some weak punches.... Omo iran jati jati....

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

Very honest analysis l must say.

Again, the quest for independent and Biafra agitation weakens lgbos political strength.

Many young lgbos don't really believe in Nigeria.

djon78:
Is sw developed?
Have you not seen many times
South Africans and a lot other Africans insult Nigerians online..
How poorly developed the nations cities are
Oga
This nation is abysimally underdeveloped
I think
Most of you that comes here
Boasting of sw.
Havent traveled around the world
To see how a developed nation
Is meant to be

They compare themselve with my village and roll out drum to celebrate their development.

Nigeria is generally backward. That's the honest truth.

Dikebuka:
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.

nobody declear python dance on igbos because they said they will not participate on election. Namdi kanu collected money from Atiku and sold all of you to him. The idiot said igbo will not participate in 2019 election but after he collected the money he told all of you to vote for Atiku. That was the time people realize that his Biafra agitation is just a business venture and also he showed the whole world that an igbo is cheap and he can do anything because of money including selling his people.

rationalhuman:
Nigerian System was designed to Favor Islamist while others to work for them. Bitter pill.

Stop saying nonsense, abi typing nonsense.

Then let them have Biafra

IamWonderful:
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.

igboland poverty capital of the south ? you dey smoke omo? enjoy your hallucinations!

We dont need any other thing from APC whether igbo, yoruba or hausa. Apc is a plague to nigeria. How do you explain removing fuel subsidy & increased electricity tariff + #50 stamp duty charge on every inflow and outflow in this covid period that many people lost their job? Osinbajo has no moral or character. As a so-called pastor what has he done to better the lives of Christians being killed in southern kaduna? What about all the excessive tax that his economic committee has imposed on nigerians? One would think that a pastor would behave like Jesus and shepherd the flock as he is in position of authority, but like Rehobam he has decided to chastise his people with scorpions instead of whip used by his predecessors.
BTW am sure am average igbo man like most nigerians would not care which tribe ruled Nigeria if they can have basic infrastructure which we pay for from taxes.
Also the igbos are the only ethnic group that have integrated totally into the nigerian system. There is no place in nigeria that you would not find substantial amount of igbos. Anywhere they find themselves they try to make it as comfortable as it can be. That's why in places like Jos, Nasarawa, Kano, Kaduna, maiduguri you see good houses built by igbos where they drill borehole and give free of charge yo their hausa neighbours who then sells it (mairuwa) to others (now who loves money more). Nigeria is still a country because of the igbos. If the igbos behave like other tribes nigeria would have been story.