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kosoko00:
Thank you for this simple but powerful comment here. Wish most of these folks running overseas will understand how simple but really deep ur opinion here is, which is actually a major recipe to living fine and very comfortable in Nigeria

legitnow:
Igbo and Ijaw, like old times before oyinbo carry yoruba and hausa scatter scatter come Biafraland.

Moneywomen17:
obasanjo is not Yoruba candidate he is a bastard Yoruba so technically u voted for an hausa Fulani candidates coz obj lost in the Sw to olu falae who was actual Yoruba candidate

deedeedee1:
Wow! What a funny world. So ibos did not vote for Abiola and they have been shouting that Yoruba people betrayed the South. Hypocrisy! These people have always hated Yoruba people. The hate is in their blood. Yoruba people must be careful and stay away from them.
Wow! Unbelievable!

Misterdhee1:
Lol. He did all these nd still lost right?

gurnam:
I will tell my father at home to shut up too

Misterdhee1:
Part of what? Mention them nw. Gej had access to more funds nd spent 5 years summersaulting on our collective intelligence as a tribe. His only success in SW was enriching Kola Aluko, Gani Adams nd some Royal Majesty in exchange for fake blessings

gurnam:
Upon all your epistle, how does this affect your life? Explain in brief

Misterdhee1:
Lol...You're ignorant...I guess ur own Dubai was built in 4 years.

Buhari is constructing: Ilorin- ogbomosho, Lagos-ibadan, Abeokuta-Lagos. Did the Apapa turf. Already started the ibadan-Lagos railway project. Please, tell us one single project ur ALMIGHTY GEJ did nd completed in 6 years in SW.

Misterdhee1:
Including tricks like the massive infrastructural development going on in the region?

Throwback:
That you don't regard it and it does not resonate with you, shows that you do not even deserve the democracy that allows you to be wailers.

On any June 12 public holiday, go and force private corporations and government offices to open in the SouthEast.

Did the termination of democracy in 1993 not affect the democratic governors in the SouthEast?

Did it not affect SouthEast state legislators and federal legislators who were already in office before the annulled presidential elections?

Did Ezeife in Anambra and Nwodo in Enugu remain in office as democratic governor after Abacha took over, because June 12 annulment only affected Yorubas?

That you so easily abandoned the struggle that was national and made it a Yoruba problem, and embraced military dictatorship, is why every other tribe took the back seat to allow only Yorubas contest the 1999 presidential election.

Does Sallah public holiday resonate in the SouthEast that is Christian? Do you force yourself to work even when your employer says you should stay at home for Sallah?

gurnam:
If you want to press Ibo mumu button, just massage their ego about Biafra and show them a rendition of the 2nd Niger bridge you will build for them

NwaAmaikpe:




Nnamdi Azikiwe was the biggest dreamer of his era.
He wanted to be seen as a Nationalist at the expense of his people.
He was blind to the reality on ground that Nationalism can't exist in Nigeria.

This mumu would have been more celebrated if he first sought to be Zik of Onitsha first before aiming for Zik of Africa.

You gotta start from the roots first.
Ahmadu Bello cared about his people first.
Obafemi Awolowo also.
But oga forgot that charity begins at home and wanted to care for all of Africa.

I strongly believe there's power in Names because many years later, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan made the same mistake Zik made probably because of the Azikiwe in his own name.
Neglecting his people in the South and living to please the Northern Elite.

Right now, I don't care to know what car he drove, because his actions and inactions completely drove a people many miles backward.

Throwback:
Dude if you claim that you were part of any protest at all in Enugu, then you must have been a union member who found themselves alone without any support from the residents of the state.

I insist that Enugu that I watched live on the news, was as normal as Monday workday,

and I still insist that Sullivan Chime ensured that the Sit-At-Home strike was totally not adhered to in Enugu state. Or you think I just mentioned Enugu and Sullivan Chime specifically, even after you had claimed to have been involved in the strike in the same Enugu?

When I tell you I saw something live, please believe me because I am like an Elephant that never forgets. I will never need to lie about an historic event just to win an online argument.


https://news.ghanamma.com/2012/02/16/removal-of-oil-subsidy-in-nigeria-the-only-way-forward-gov-sullivan-i-chime-of-enugu-state/

Who born school children well to go school in Lagos during a sit at home strike with street protests?

Many more instances like this were commonplace all over the SouthEast and SouthEast (while Lagos, Ogun Oyo, Kwara, Kano, Kaduna, Abuja, Jos were at a total standstill), who reduced the protest to a Yoruba and North protest, and for which till today, everybody except you have continued to label it a political protest by Yorubas and Northerners against the favourite Son of the SouthEast and SouthSouth.

tallestcash:
Ipob pigs and Biafra goat hatred and envy for YORUBA is the key factor behind Igbo setback in governing the affair of the country

ogene007:
How has Ndigbo not producing the next President become a setback? What did OBJ's 8 years in power do for the average Yoruba man? What had the over 30years of leadership by the North done for the average northerner? People who think that their region need to produce the President inorder for them to advance suffer from mental poverty. Ndigbo is rooting for a restructured Nigeria where there is a level playing field for competition. Ndigbo do not need the Presidency more than the rest of the country needs an Ndigbo President. The indomitable spirit of an average Ndigbo person ensures that he will ultimately emerge as the MVP(most valuable player) in any environment with a level playing field. The late Saudana of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello attested to this ability inherent in an average Ndigbo person, hence his hatred for Ndigbo. We are proudly Igbo and it is in our DNA to prevail no matter the stumbling blobks deliberately put on our way.
Nigeria's problem is that of a faulty structure that continues to throw up mediocres who come in to mismanage the country. Highly productive and competitive countries have structures that allow only their best to manage their countries while the reverse is the case in Nigeria. Our GDP is in steady decline while population is spiralling out of control. The rest of the world in the next two decades oils have done away with fossil fuel and what becomes of Nigeria with say over 500 million population. You guess is as good as mine. You don't need a rocket scientist for you to know that the nation will go bankrupt as we continue to depend on sharing the national cake. The cake is already shrinking.
The way forward is to restructure the country along the lines of fiscal federalism so that the states can effectively compete against themselves. Any state that chooses to mismanage their affairs will face the music alone. How can you put bicycles ahead of Ferraris with institutional roadblocks to ensure that the Ferraris will not over take the bicycle. How can such a system compete in an ever increasing competitive global environment. If we continue this way, I forsee a not too distant future when Nigeria will be going cap in hand to go and beg Ghana, Senegal, Benin Republic for aids.
The only way forward is a restructured system that replaces the present nepotistic system with a meritocratic one.
So, Ndigbo is not your problem. Your problem is the Hausa/Fulani political establishment who feel that the present structure is advantageous to them even if the majority of their people are living far below the poverty line. They are the people referred to as the Caliphate who insist on maintenance of the status quo. The Caliphate have always seen the SW as a willing tool to be used and what PMB has done by this his political opportunistic declaration is no different from their age long strategy. The Caliphate will dispense of Tinubu and the SW after they have achieved their 2019 gosl. It is left to be seen if the SW we be wiser this time around.

fyneguy:
A BIG FAT LIE

Throwback:
I reckon that Ebitu Ukiwe, Aikhomu and Akhigbe are Yorubas who were deputies to Northern military dictators?

Observe carefully that I used the words North/SouthEast alliance to include all possibilities which included association and voting as reflected in the 2nd republic.

When Azikiwe chose to form an alliance with the North and NPC to be a junior member and ceremonial president, when he could have formed an alliance with the West and AD to be the senior member of the alliance and become executive Prime Minister.

Awolowo would have accepted the offer if he was in an alliance with the North like Azikiwe was, but Azikiwe had the opportunity to be prime Minister in an alliance with AD, as no single party, including the Northern NPC that had highest number of seats, had exclusive majority to form government alone.

You say it is laughable that I accuse you of political arrangement with the North, yet you think the SouthWest is best described as such when we were in the opposition in 1960 and 1979 to a political arrangement of the North/SouthEast?

Obasanjo's failure to do what is right and noble, has now presented Buhari the opportunity to take such glory.

Throwback:
I was expecting you to say the bolded, but you forgot that many like you claimed Yorubas championed the protest of 2012.

So were the NLC and TUC presidents (Abdulwahid Omar and Peter Esele) Yoruba?

Is it only Yorubas that live and work in Lagos or Ojota?

Or have Igbos not tirelessly claimed the Yorubas opposed subsidy removal in 2012 and protested in Ojota?

You see how you just disgraced yourself for nothing?

I used your own argument to disgrace you so effortlessly.

And I'm sure you were not blind to my mention of Yoruba civil rights activist and academia, and even politicians I never mentioned like the Afenifere organization, and other senior Yoruba Labour activists who were not the president of the central Labour Union but were presidents of specific unions.

I hope you remember activists like Gani Fawehinmi, Beko Ransome-Kuti, Wole Soyinka etc who were always at the fore front of such protests during the OBJ years.

While the likes of Ankio Briggs suddenly lost their activism when their Son was in power.

We watched everything live, and we saw how the SouthSouth and SouthEast detached itself from the rest of Nigeria in a struggle that was national.

Till today, even Igbos on this forum claim it was a Yoruba and Northern protest, so I don't know why you are trying to revise an history that was televised?

Throwback:
I don't need to show you what I watched live on TV.

Maybe you were living in Cameroun when NLC of Oshiomhole and Civil Rights activists always protested every fuel price hike that Obasanjo and the likes of Gauis Obaseki and Funso Kupolokun of NNPC, always managed to engineer as a better alternative to fight bunkering of petroleum products earlier designated for Nigerian cities into other West African states. Or all his attempts to deregulate the price of petroleum products that resulted to higher pump prices.

All those protests were championed from Lagos, with very active participation of Yoruba activists and academia. Even Ogun state residents also ensured that the state was locked down to comply with the no movement policy of those Sit-At-Home strikes.


In fact, I remember specifically that for the 2012 protest, some news stations were reporting from Enugu, where Gov. Sullivan Chime took it upon himself to ensure that the state workers did not comply with the Labour unions, while there was no sign of protest at all.

News footage from Bayelsa did not even show that we were in the same country with that state. Everything was going on normal, while those interviewed all said Labour and Civil Societies should show more understanding to the federal government.


Yet when the victory of N85/Ltr was achieved from N140/Ltr, it was a victory for the whole of Nigeria.


That was when I knew how badly the "our son" mentality that was so evident in that 2012 protest, had eroded the Nigerian unity to criticise and challenge a useless government.

Throwback:
Why is June 12 rubbish?

Did the annulment of that election not eventually affect all the states of the federation who already had state governors and state legislators already discharging their duties? Did the annulment not affect all the federal senators and representatives who were already in office before that presidential election?

Was it only the SW governors and SW state/federal parliamentarians that were sacked from office due to that annulment?

Has your bitterness that shall so remain got you any leverage in Nigeria?

That you majorly did not vote for Abiola who was a Southerner, but chose to vote for a Northerner because an Igbo would be the vice president in the typical fashion of North/SouthEast master-slave relationship that has existed in all democratic governments since 1960, did not mean Abiola should have been robbed of his victory after duly winning.

Did that robbery not affect every democratic structure in Nigeria?
Did the struggle that ensued from the annulment not help restore democratic structures in every part of Nigeria, including the SouthEast in 1999?


Will you force the federal and state government establishments and private corporate establishments that all exist in the East to carry out official duties on a federal public holiday?


Do you think your opinion is relevant at all concerning a federal public holiday?

If a trader chooses to go to his shop on that day, it would not be anything new for a self employed entrepreneur to make his daily living as there has never been a curfew or restriction to movement on a public holiday. So you can choose to make some quick bucks that day.

It is within your rights to celebrate any regional or state only public holiday. SouthWest governors have proven overtime that they understand the powers that the constitution already affords them to declare a state wide holiday, hence many Western states had routinely declared public holiday for June 12.

The big question you should ask yourself after honest introspection, is what has stopped the SouthEast governors from having the courage to even declare May 30th as a Remembrance Day public holiday, to be celebrated within the state and by extension, the region?

Why has the constitutional authority in the SouthEast not considered it worth celebrating, unlike the SouthWest governors who never wasted time to celebrate June 12 right from 1999 when we began this current democracy?

Throwback:
Mind you that 2012 was not the first time Nigerians would protest oil price increase since the current democracy.

The factual news well reported from the SouthSouth and SouthEast, showed that the populace had no sympathies for labour and civil societies, regarding the strike and protest against the 2012 fuel price hike and subsidy removal.

You might have been personally disgusted with GEJ, but to say many Igbos were disgusted by GEJ is belied by the support he always had from Igbos on most social media and socio- political gatherings.

Throwback:
More than 4 different oil protest and strikes occurred under the OBJ regime.

The SouthWest was not relaxing in their homes while others were protesting, rather they were leading the protest.

spyder880:
Still working......

CecyAdrian:
Like you even care one bit for those killed! Bloody hypocrite.

Throwback:
Two totally different things.

Let the Biafrans I saw on the news who were students of Unilag and were recorded saying that what nonsense name is Maulag or Moshood, that they don't want such a rubbish name, let them also protest about a holiday that is not within their power.

Can one protest a holiday that the federal government has mandated?

Hypocrisy is when all Nigerians protest oil price increments during the OBJ regime, but some suddenly embraced such increases without a protest, because their son was the president, as though the SouthWest that championed all the similar oil protests during the OBJ regime did not know he was their son.

Oye0404:
We too like awoof, what if the tanker explodes and roast them all??

skedman:
you are a big fool . The richest man is a muslim
The muslim are more united than the christains
The muslim are one and they respect thier religion so well and wont entertain any nusiance who dont respect is religion to ridicule is relgion
The muslim dont worship money
so the better for you to under stand that fact.

Enuguboy4nsk:
I have gone throughout the whole of major places in Igboland... I can confidently say that Enugu-Abakaliki road is the best in Igboland... any objections to that?

and it was built by Goodluck Jonathan

Ijebulogic:
What a Pity. In the 21st Century where the future King of England chooses to marry a black woman, some Africans in the jungle are still worrying about "Tribe" . The word "tribe" itself connotes limiting your exposure and intelligence to the confines of where you and small fraction of the world's population originates from. My family includes beautiful sons and daughters from 4 geopolitical zones in Nigeria all intermarried and living as one in peace. We don't understand all this backward "tribe" warfare...we rather unite and succeed in business and life beyond the geographies that we were born. As for you...you have made your choice..good luck!