helinues:
Peter Obi refused to say peem about the May 30 sit at home whether in favour or against..

That's how he has been Cherry picking about issue deliberately.

We dey wait for him to react to any news outside his region this time, him blokos, we go drag am cos he must stop that hypocrisy

Blokos...?

I can't remember the last time I heard that word.

HilcomTech:


The real enemies of Nigeria
Pamdora criminal Peter Obi
IP0B
Ezejwesilly
etc

You forgot:

Simon Ekpa
Rufai Oseni
Aisha Yesufu
Emma Powerful
David Hundeyin
Nnamdi Kanu

and other professional malcontents and rabble rousers.

Faber:
yea he observed it.

He did?

helinues:


Exactly the issue I had. The sit at home should have been voluntarily.

You can't be honoring the dead and be causing more deaths.

The sit at home is an issue they have been shying away from discussing even though reasonable number of them are tired of it.

If we all want the best for Nigeria and SE is still currently part of Nigeria, why should we be allowing such kind of thing to continue happening.

Buhari and now Tinubu seem not to be interested even if they lock up the region for years. When would the real indigenes of the region take back their region from some few miscreants holding her on ransom?

Those who are causing trouble in the region are from the same region, so it's an internal issue

It's because they don't REALLY CARE about honouring the dead.

If they did, they would make it a voluntary thing and build a beautiful war memorial where people can visit on the day and put flowers etc, all on a voluntary basis, as is done in saner climes.

This forced ''sit at home'' is a militant, toxic, malicious, ANTI-NIGERIAN, secessionist Statement of Intent, and they are simply using the civil war dead as a FRONT in their real, nefarious, treasonous agenda.

helinues:


Not like the traders, not like real business people. Would you do because of one sit at home and missed millions in transactions?

I actually have no issue with the May 30th sit at home, it's a day to honor their loved ones .

Security threats won't make the likes of Peter Obi to reside in his home state.

The problem is not about honouring their loved ones.

The problem is about terrorists FORCING millions of people to SIT AT HOME against their will.

It's a direct contravention of their constitutional rights to freedom of movement and freedom of association.

Rights enshrined both in the Nigerian Constitution and the UN Charter on Human Rights.

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state."
"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement

It's actually the crime of FALSE IMPRISONMENT on an epic scale that is being committed in the East by these terrorists.

Why is Peter Obi silent on this FASCIST, UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACT, and is he actually taking part in it?

helinues:
Is he residing in any of the SE states?

His base is Lagos state. Same Lagos they hardly appreciate the progress of the accommodating

Many Igbos in Lagos observe Sit At Home when it happens in the East, in solidarity with their brethren at home.

I'm really interested to know if Peter Obi observed the Sit At Home.

I just want to check something in terms of my choice for president at the next election.

Because the very last thing I wish to do is vote for a secessionist IPOB sympathiser as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, especially after he was heard calling for a religious war.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfhpeA5D2Bg&t=69s&ab_channel=ObjectvMedia

Forget these Americans and their wayo.

Somebody was found guilty of 34 felonies, and was seen walking out of the court and even making speeches abusing the judge and the court.

What kind of nonsense is that?

They are even saying he can still contest the election in November!

It's a total charade and a sham.

One rule for rich white Americans, another rule for blacks and the common man.

Common man or black man, even 1 single felony count, you're handcuffed and bundled into jail from the court.

Scam country.

StOla:
She just wanted to stand in opposition, nothing sensible in what she posited about the content of the renewed anthem, besides the fact that it is an unnessary waste of legislative time by the National Assembly

What waste of time?

How long does it take to ratify an anthem?

I doubt they spent even one hour debating it.

In response to the national anthem change, Oby Ezekwesili posted the now infamous tweet:

''Absolutely incredulous!

“Native Land” . “Tribes”.

In a 21st Century Nigeria, the country’s political class found a colonial National Anthem that has pejorative words like “Native Land” and “Tribes” to be admirable enough to foist on our Citizens without their consent.

It is inevitable that there will be an ideological War between the Political Class and the Citizens of Nigeria.

It is only but a matter of “When?”''

.........


In 2019 Oby Ezekwesili published a statement, following her withdrawal from the presidential race.

In the statement, she wrote:

''I am thankful to all who travelled on this journey with me, who attended our campaign events, who volunteered for the movement, who spread the word and sometimes argued with friends and colleagues, who contributed and invested online and offline. Thank you to the young people who accepted and owned our campaign, to the women – my sisters and comrades – who worked and walked with me, to every believer and supporter from different TRIBES, states, religions and walks of life. You all are champions. Your sacrifices continue to humble and inspire me and I will never ever forget...''

https://www.tvcnews.tv/2019/02/a-sacrifice-for-our-new-political-order-dr-oby-ezekwesili/

So SHE uses the word 'tribe' in her personal conversations and communications, but she turns into SAINT MARY because it was included in an anthem?

If it is a demeaning, pejorative colonial word, why the hell do you use it, Oby Ezekwesili?

As your people would say, your hypocrisy wears a hat and carries a walking stick.

Smiling Hypocrite - Oby Ezekwesili

FreeStuffsNG:

This is not a debate. If you read up on what anthem means, you will be better informed.

The Egba nation anthem is over a century old and was composed as far back as 1922, it is older than all our national anthem, not composed by a foreigner but an illustrious Egba son, late Cannon J.J Ransome- Kuti, the grandfather of Fela Kuti and Prof Wole Soyinka. Listen to it below to know that anthem being slow doesn't mean it is European, it's to evoke a rousing feeling of identity and pride.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOYLu3oBflU?si=fGLTMX8pzczZxayr
Before you do anything like this, read up on it so you don't appear like a quack. It's even an offense to tamper with the national anthem, just like the flag and other national symbols.

This thing you posted is not as rousing and inspirational as the anthem.

The main thing is that in AFRICA, the pace of a song does not determine its inspiring effect.

That might be the case in EUROPE, but not in Africa.

IN AFRICA, it can be fast AND inspirational. It can also be SLOW and inspirational.

By limiting inspiration effect to slow-paced music, you are being unduly influenced by European convention.

FreeStuffsNG:
Nice but too fast. Anthems are solemn and rendered at a pace to let each word and line sink deep to invoke national pride and patriotism. That's why it's not tungba

I disagree.

We are not Europeans.

This pace inspires us more than slow.

Instead of feeling the vibe, you're already thinking of how white people do their own, to see if yours sounds like theirs.

Dem jazz you?

Ohhhh....How beautiful and inspiring, with an Afrobeats twist...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQHM5xDqk70&ab_channel=MandaraEntertainment

11Monkeys:
And Tinubu didn't say anything about it.

Tinubu is a sensitive president who doesn’t want to inflame ethnic passions more than they have already been inflamed.

It’s the security agencies’ job to tackle criminality there, which they are doing.

Why isn’t Obi playing his role by asking IPOB to stop oppressing the Igbo people, and forcing 50 million of them to sit at home?

The entire east has been forced by IPOB terrorists to sit at home this week, in direct contravention of their human rights and Freedom of Movement enshrined in the UN Charter.

Has Peter Obi said a word about any of this gross abuse of the human rights of 50 million people in the South East ?

He should have at least commended the commissioning of the Abuja Light Rail.

The man only reacts to negative events.

I don’t want someone of such petty character to be the President of Nigeria.

He lacks the political maturity and sophistication required for such a sensitive position.

Amumaigwe:


Why is it grieving you more than them?

He’s speaking on behalf of the millions of Igbos who want to go outside, but are too scared of IPOB terrorists slaughtering, and eating them.

Quintessence44:


Then Igboland must be the worst region on earth, since 20 million of you fled there to live in Nigeria.

Armaggedon:
why don't you come and do it for them?

Then you keep quiet and allow the governors sit at home in peace. If you dedicate to Nigeria half the way Biafrans love Biafra, Nigeria wouldn't have been one of the worst countries in the world.

Then Igboland must be the worst, nastiest region on earth, since 25 million of you fled there to live in Nigeria.

RaptorX:
Why is the president commissioning flyovers?

Why not?

We are a developing country and the president needs to be seen to be hands-on in that process of development.

Wike is doing an excellent job in Abuja.

Kudos to President Tinubu for putting a competent person in charge of our FCT.

Nigeria we hail thee.

The word “fair” does not necessarily mean “light skinned”, and does not mean that in the quote.

It meant she looked pretty or attractive.

Both the Egyptians and the Israelites were black Africans.

Foreign invasions caused them to depart those regions, and the vast majority of them headed back into inner Africa, and we are their modern descendants.

RoyalUc:
Why don't we look at it this way:

Tinubu is a very humble President

They think everyone reasons like them, with their primitive mentality.

You can see how Obi would have seen it as an insult for him to sit on a small chair while the minister sits on a sofa.

That’s their backward level of reasoning.

Humility is “weakness” to them.

gidgiddy:


Stop unity begging, Lord Lugard cannot come from Europe to give you your country that has never worked since 1960

YOU are the unity beggars.

YOU fled Igboland in your tens of millions to go and live among Yorubas and Hausas, and then you call THEM “unity beggars”?

Explain that one to me!

If you want to secede, it’s not by insulting Nigerians on Nairaland and doing sit at home.

You get your Igbo reps in the National Assembly to table a motion for secession.

Simple!

Ndibunna:



This ain't making any sense.


I am first an Igbo man, all other factors are secondary.

Unity is not by force.

Unity comes with reason but in the case of Nigeria no single reason.

Unity by blood no
Unity by reason no
Unity of purpose no
Unity by ethnicity no
So what's the essence of the unity.

I might agree if you say unity by corruption and looting.

SO WHY ARE YOU SETTLED IN THE NORTH AND WEST IN YOUR TENS OF MILLIONS?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE AMONG PEOPLE YOU HATE AND CANNOT STAND?

If you feel this way, you should not be in their land in such huge numbers.

You should be in UMUAHIA, ENUGU, ONITSHA, AWKA, ABA, AND ABAKALIKI.

You don’t even need a new country to actualise your sentiments.

It’s called voting with your feet.

YOU ARE FREE RIGHT NOW TO DEPART EN MASSE, since you are not compatible with them.

So what are you doing on THEIR land, yet you are complaining loudly about them every day?

Who sent you there?

gidgiddy:


A very small price to pay for freedom from a British colonial contraption. The world is big place and Nigeria is just one country

Thank you sir.

After all the whole world is just waiting to receive and welcome an ethnicity of drug dealing, narcissistic African malcontents in their tens of millions.

Keep fantasising rubbish.

Since the world is a big place, why did you settle in the north and west in your tens of millions when you could have moved out into the “big world out there”?

gidgiddy:


There are millions of Nigerians in USA,UK, Canada and Europe, but you have Nigeria

But cannot understand there may be millions of Igbos in different parts of Nigeria, but Igbos have their own seperate country?

NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL.

If you people secede from Nigeria, which is a treasonous and traitorous act, you will be DEPORTED EN MASSE from Nigerian states BACK to Igboland.

In your TENS OF MILLIONS.

You will become FOREIGNERS AND ILLEGAL ALIENS in every Nigerian city and state, and required to show your residence permit to every police officer on request. You will be Hounded out by Nigerian police and people.

You cannot eat from two plates.

Woe betide you if you are in the North. Those ones that have been waiting to drive you away since, you now declare SECESSION and think they will just let you sit down there with them? 15 million of you?

Mr Man, if you think you will secede and still be rolling around in Lagos, Abuja, Kano in your millions as it is now, you are the most deluded people on the face of the earth.

Islie:


https://punchng.com/first-anniversary-ghana-is-now-richer-than-nigeria-says-bismark-rewane/?amp

RIWANE IS A ROTTEN LIAR FROM THE PITS OF HELL.

Where the hell did he get those FAKE GDP Per Capita figures?

NIGERIA’s GDP Per Capita is over $2,500 as any Google search will show you RIGHT NOW.

Where did he get $1,110 from?

He sat in his house and calculated it from his nyash?

WHAT SORT OF NONSENSICAL, BLATANT LIE IS THIS?

nabiz:
Fulanis are just a tool under a win win agreement. The original people that want your country are someway stractegising

And who are those people?

Britain?

Arabs?

Who?

nabiz:
how was once great Egypt destroyed. Could they have believed that one day that great country will be scattered around the world or exterminated.

But Egypt was big for thousands of years before they fell to foreigners.

Nigeria has not even been around for 200 years, yet you think we are about to scatter.

How?

Those Fulanis are only as powerful as the president allows them to be, bro.

When OBJ was in power, what could they do?

Even Tinubu is handling them small small.

nabiz:
original inhabitants of Egypt has been scattered all over the world by Europeans, the same thing with the original Israeli. If the indigenous Nigerians don't fight to protect their land the same faith will befall on them. Gradually hausas are going. What was the ratio of hausa to fulani during the era of usman compared to now. Fulanis are trooping into Nigeria daily without documentation.

They are destroying Nigeria so that you will japa. Instead of Nigerian to stand and defend their country they are running away from their country. Continue running away. One day you will have no place called home. Your children will be scattered in all nations without a home. To conquer a nation is a gradual process and it has started in our era. I dont know why indigenous Nigeria should be so foolish to allow minor group that if put together is not up to a state to destabilize and destroy their nation

Which Fulani is destroying where?

You sound VERY paranoid.

Nigeria has 240 million people, but you think Fulani will drive us all out?

How? With some illiterate herdsmen?

Dude, stop listening to Kanu, Ekpa, Emma Powerful and all these funny characters.

Those guys are just using you people to cash out. 💰

ShenTeh:


I agree with you 100%

I maintain that it is gerontocratic nostalgia that our leaders are suffering from. They miss the national anthem that they sang as children and want to use their political power to bring us to their past.

Changing Nigeria's name to something more indigenous would have been a better nationalist move.

These are consequences if electing aged people into power.

The problem starts when you come to deciding what that indigenous name will be.

You know how we are.

I don’t need to explain.