₦airaland Forum

dayokanu: 2 leaders can only be measured by how they affected their citizens. Show us the things Zik did for anyone anywhere in Iboland thats equal to the free education Awo gave (Something similar runs in the US)

Or any edifice close to Cocoa, House, Liberty Stadium or any infrastructure close to First TV station

At the time Awolowo ruled Nigeria was the major cocoa supplier in the world.

That is the reason your people cant stay in their regions and flee en masse to Awolowos region just to survive

revolt: obviously my point was to profound for u so ill simplify!! Zik may have had his shortcomings but the ideas and ideals he impacted in the regular easterner can still be seen in us today and they include hardwork, self sufficiency, self esteem and free spirit to operate in any terrain, now the great sage also had his successes which uve already stated previously but wht u failed to acknowledge was his terminal shortfalls which include making yorobs dependent on govt, destroying their self esteem by preaching fear of igbo domination instead of promoting competition thus gvn birth to yorobs insecurity and low self esteem!! Not to forget he taught u folks TRIBALISM which he no doubt remains the projenitor!! Thus he made u ppl dependent on handouts and spoon feeding!!thts y without the civil service or govt connection una no fit survive but most notable is the complex and fear of progressives!! See as una rundown eeryfing for our economy , looted civil service and destroyed nigeria!! AWOs legacy indeed!!!!!!

ACM10: You are either blind or you chose to wallow in your idiocy. Since you missed the part of my comment that dealt with the bolded, I may have to increase its font size to make it more visible to your selective blind eye.
[size=18pt]There is no sign that basic amenities like pipe-borne water, good access road and good city planning existed during the time of Awo's premiership. The fact is that there is no basic infrastructure left on the ground for subsequent administations to maintain. They have to build everything from the scratch[/size]

dayokanu: 2 leaders can only be measured by how they affected their citizens. Show us the things Zik did for anyone anywhere in Iboland thats equal to the free education Awo gave (Something similar runs in the US)

Or any edifice close to Cocoa, House, Liberty Stadium or any infrastructure close to First TV station

At the time Awolowo ruled Nigeria was the major cocoa supplier in the world.

That is the reason your people cant stay in their regions and flee en masse to Awolowos region just to survive

antiembezzle: Born liar! You lie whenever your lips move! Where the hell do you think I am? In your flood consumed sw? The year has not even begun and the yorubaland is being devastated by flood and rain storm. The judgement on you guys is natural, spiritual, environmental and mostly, unavoidable. The wickendness of awolowo and your fore fathers are begining to bear down upon you silly lots...

antiembezzle: Born liar! You lie whenever your lips move! Where the hell do you think I am? In your flood consumed sw? The year has not even begun and the yorubaland is being devastated by flood and rain storm. The judgement on you guys is natural, spiritual, environmental and mostly, unavoidable. The wickendness of awolowo and your fore fathers are begining to bear down upon you silly lots...

dayokanu: We know the abokis slaes here. The Azikwes, Ekwuemes, Sylvester Ugo, Okadigbo

Do you recognize the one below

https://i55.tinypic.com/11lo3zc.jpg

Real-Mccoy:
The IBB presidency plot • South-West's hidden agenda By AMOS DUNIA, Abuja Sunday, September 19, 2010 Before Wednesday, September 15, many political watchers and self acclaimed pundits had predicted that former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida who is desirous of becoming the president in 2011would eventually back out of the race as he did in 2003 and 2007. However, contrary to the expectation of his withdrawal from the race, Babangida on Wednesday at the Eagle Square in Abuja formally declared his intention to contest the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before a large crowd of supporters whose magnitude would have baffled the campaign organization of President Goodluck Jonathan. The development came against the backdrop of allegation that the presidency made desperate moves to scuttle the declaration following the marching order that was given to the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday night to move forward its earlier scheduled National Executive Committee meeting for Thursday to Wednesday to coincide with the planned declaration by Babangida. The idea, it was gathered, was to ensure that PDP NEC members who were expected at the IBB rally would not be able to do so as their attention would be focused at the NEC than the declaration owing to the crucial decisions that were to be adopted at the second highest decision making organ of the party. Sensing the harm the deft move would have caused his carefully planned declaration, the former president was believed to have protested the rescheduling of the PDP NEC which he noted was deliberately skewed to scuttle his programme. Babangida was quoted as having told the PDP leadership that in spite of carefully chosen date and time for his event and having put the party on notice, it would be wrong for the leadership that had promised a level playing field to want to allow itself to be used by equally interested party in the race. Based on the protest, the National Working Committee had to readjust the time by about two hours to enable some interested members of the party to attend the Eagle Square presidential declaration. The event eventually kicked off and attended by some prominent politicians from the South West, South East and states from the northern part of the country where he is expected to have some stronghold. Aside from the open campaigns, General Babangida is believed to be more engaged with quiet and underground campaigns that seem to be achieving better results for him particularly in the South West and South East geo-political zones. For instance, one of the IBB's campaign coordinators in the South West states and who was the coordinator of Afenifere in Europe Otumba Kole Omololu, said that the outcome of the forthcoming PDP Presidential primaries between Babangida and President Jonathan would shock most Nigerians. Omololu further said that contrary to the propaganda against IBB and the use of state apparatus to coerce people, Babangida has greater popularity in the South West. He said that the greatest undoing for the President Jonathan's camp is the belief that former President Olusegun Obasanjo who he said cannot win an election in the South West except through coercion has a hold on delegates from the South West following the attempt to manipulate and coerce South West PDP governors to adopt President Jonathan. This was further confirmed by an aide to one of the PDP governors in the South West who told Saturday Sun that having being forced to adopt President Jonathan in the open, majority of the PDP South West governors merely adopted what he described in Yoruba as; "Demo ni mo wa" which literally translate to; "You can see my hand but certainly not my mind." According to him, the Yoruba people are conscious of the fact that former President Obasanjo has never and cannot do anything for the interest of the Yoruba and not in a position to represent and carry along the South West people genuinely as he would only hide under the pretence of national interest while deep down, it is known that all his actions are usually based on self. The aide to the governor further said that so many people particularly the governors believe that Chief Obasanjo's present support for President Jonathan is to enable him actualize his failed third term in office which was later nailed by late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua who ensured that Obasanjo did not remain as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, a development Obasanjo did not find funny. The South governors were believed to have expressed reservation over the fact that Chief Obasanjo merely coerced them into adopting President Jonathan without negotiating anything in return for the South West as required in political horse trading. They equally noted that but for Chief Obasanjo who is the main person urging Jonathan to run, the president would not have wanted to do so given the fact that the dicey issue of zoning was canvassed for by the Southern states and was accepted by the North. It was gathered that a Yoruba group analyzed the two main contestants and arrived at the fact that the administration of President Babangida benefitted the South West than any other government in the country since independence except for the annulment of June 12, 1993 election in which the winner late Chief Moshood Abiola was denied victory. The meeting agreed that during Babangida's era, the West had the most powerful ministers and the Secretary to the Government of the Federat[b]ion. The list included, Chief Olu Falae, Prof. Olikoye Ramsome-Kuti, the Health Minister, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, the Minister for External Affairs as well as Prince Bola Ajibola who served as Attorney General of the Federation [/b]and Minister for Justice. The Yoruba group equally recalled that the South-South people had never agreed to support the South West politically citing the instance of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo that needed the assistance of the Niger Delta people but was not only abandoned but betrayed. Furthermore, the group x-rayed the issue of credible, free and fair elections during which it agreed that if it is to be achieved in the country, President Jonathan as an interested participant in the election cannot guarantee such a desire by Nigerians which they noted is key to the survival of democracy in the country.

dayokanu: We know the abokis slaes here. The Azikwes, Ekwuemes, Sylvester Ugo, Okadigbo

Do you recognize the one below

https://i55.tinypic.com/11lo3zc.jpg

I.Joan:
Really sad

I don't understand french so I didn't get their excuse for destroying that place

Panter215: Please I do not understand what these guys annoyance are but see no justification for these kind of actions. I saw them vandalize our flag and to me this is a treasonable offense. I hope the president pressures his Senegalise colleague to track down each of the persons involved in the shameful event including the cameraman and return them to Nigeria for further investigation on their level of involvement.

Abrantie GH: What are they doing in Senegal in the first place?

Duru1: I am upset because the protesters did not employ the services of AK47. After all, the Sultan of Sokoto is calling the government to grant amnesty to Boko Haram.

temmytanny: the last thing Americans will do to their National flag,THEY WILL NEVA LET IT TOUCH THE GROUND,SHAME!!!!!