₦airaland Forum

Senator Joseph Kennedy Waku is a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who represented Benue North/West senatorial district between 1999 and 2003 in the Senate. In this thought-provoking interview with Saturday Sun, Waku takes a look at the just-concluded primary elections of the PDP and concluded that President Goodluck Jonathan stole victory at the party’s presidential primary election.

Hear him: “What is rigging? Rigging is stealing. It is a polite way of addressing political arrangement as rigging. Rigging is stealing. So, Jonathan Goodluck has stolen the mandate he knew for sure he wouldn’t have won.”

Waku commended former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for his stance over the outcome of the PDP presidential primaries, saying: “I encouraged Atiku not to even congratulate Jonathan because you can’t encourage stifling corruption. Somebody who is absolutely corrupt, then you go to congratulate him for being corrupt? We encouraged Atiku not to. Indeed, we warned him not to congratulate Jonathan because he did not win the primaries. It was full of corruption. How can a president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria induce people? This is the worst presidential nomination that took place in my entire lifetime. This is the worst. Did you see any jubilation in Jonathan’s camp? There was none. They knew what they did. It is a shame, it is a murder of democracy and it is embarrassing. PDP is a corrupt organisation that can never be better until we work hard to rectify it.”

On the expected winner of the forthcoming presidential election, Waku said: “I don’t know who will win. I know that Jonathan will not win, but I don’t know who will win.”
He spoke on this and other sundry issues.

you can read the rest of the interview here if you have time: http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/jan/22/national-08-01-2011-01.htm

Dede1:
I usually do not cross words with sycophants or individuals of regrettable intellect such as you. I am not surprised about your incoherent response because it is laden with insults. But let me remind you that nobody holds monopoly to act of insults.

I guess your actions are very deceitful, disingenuous and outright display of ignorance. You tried to delve into a socio-political area you knew nothing about by throwing incomprehensible question about Igbo unity or lack thereof. If mere political disagreements by insane operatives in a cesspit called Nigeria informed your lunatic opinion about Igbo Unity, it is very human to allow you to continue to wallow in political stupor.

Let us apply a little sense of academia to your lead question of “Can Igbos Ever Be United”? A second grader would discern the poser of this question had previous knowledge of futile attempts to get Ndigbo united. The obligation to proof your intellectual pedigree as you would want us to believe rests on you by rephrasing the question.

You injected the idea of literal and metaphorical bent to this discuss. I shall honestly posit you lacked the inert ability to engage in both exigencies. If you were a novice seeking answers to the unity of Ndigbo or lack thereof, you would have parked you dilapidated self into a cooler while other people proffer solutions. However, the ulterior motive to subject Ndigbo to socio-political scandal spurred your idiocy to append a drivel laden with illogical emptiness as the rejoinder to a silly question worthy not to be asked.

In fact, inquiring from you on how you informed the opinion that insults hauled on this forum is done exclusively by Igbo is akin to putting a question to a goat. Did I read from your gibberish post that your fiancé is Igbo? I thought a goat begets a goat. 

Believe me, you are qualified to be mercilessly insulted for asking silly question and needed to be robotically flogged for the display of delusional idiocy in the public. Olodo!!!

Two things that I know very well:  not all smart people play chess, but no dumb person plays chess. Is Dede1, a fine gentleman, is he a symbol of Igbo's budding democracy. Was Dede1 an unrepentant ethnic bigot  exponent or a man that played to the gallery or it was just a case of political naivety. Oh, no one should hold me on this, but does Dede1 understand the real topic of discuss or is another volture like character that claimed to be applying a sense of academia in rubbishing himself?.

You took this whole issue  and turned it into a debate to display your ignorance. This goes again to show that one of your real big problems  you just can’t seem to stay on point.A question is ask and you jump out of the woodwork to put your on personal spin on it. the real problem here is that you knew there was a lack of unity among igbos politically just like you find in other ethnic groups so it is not exclusive to igbos alone. I expect someone like you who claimed to have a 'sense of academia' should adress the question asked in coherent and consistent manner not delving into so many issues at the same time without addressing non, i ma not surprise anyways, this just shows how crappy is your mindset.  we don’t have in place any type of system to deal with the issues our question raised. I could get totally out of line and suggest that if someone at sometime had lived and travel round the country as you claimed maybe we wouldn’t be having this discussion at all. I could but then I would be just as bad.

As much as I agree that every tribe in Nigeria, have problem, yet i expect , my impatience, the arm-chair critic, I say with avoidance of doubt and with strong conviction that the present you are the dumbest person i have ever come across in this forum, but thank goodness i know all igbos are not like you.  The yam is yours, farm is yours, you have fertilizer, best of farm implements, the reason why you would fail is because you all never wanted to succeed, so prove us wrong and pleeeeaasee succeed in uniting Igbos politically. No dumb person sits in in here but not all the smart ones are part of the process. talking of my ethnicity here you go again of what relevance is it to this discussion if you re so dumb that from my name you can tell, then go and hang yourself. Jaki

Dede1:
This incoherent piece of crap did not address the issue which you raised. By the way, are Ndigbo disunited? If so pal, can you please elaborate in a concise prose? Believe you me; you deserved to be insulted based on this drivel you posted. You alleged that Igbo on this forum are the exclusive bunch that hauls abuses to the northerner[/b]s. May ask how you arrived to such repercussive exigency since contributors do not the flash their ethnic identity when they post.

I[b]f you have issues with the Ndigbo, I suggest you step onto the plate and bring it because Ndigbo are capable of taking constructive criticism and detest this illogical jargon you posted.

Of course there is cross section of not-too-smart individuals in any given ethnic group. Having said this, [b]Ndigbo had nothing to prove to anybody in Nigeria but only ask to be given the same opportunity to compete or be granted the same level playing ground as given to everybod[/b]y. Since the inception of the cesspit called Nigeria, have you ever heard about Ndigbo rampaging in Igboland thereby destroying properties or business of their fellow country men because of secular differences? You cited Ezza and Ezilo crisis as an example in your regrettable crap. I guess you were stark blinded to uncountable land and territorial disputes that occurred all over the communities in Nigeria.

I have traveled to almost all party of the colonial contraption called Nigeria and what I observed shall remain with me. Since you are self-acclaimed expert on Igbo Unity or lack thereof, can you educate us on the instances of disunity among Ndigbo?

By the way, your handle name did not indicate your ethnicity.

I argue with the stationary, not to be confused with Stationery. I mean the anchored, immobile & unmoving with an unintelligent mind
Anchored, immobile & unmoving in a literal & metaphorical sense.

I suppose you can be viewed as Stationery of a kind I that arguing with them because I am, like one can be seen as, an idiot attempting to apply emotional sense to an impassive world. So i suggest when dealing with whatever daily frustration you have, most dumb people like you greatest & most ubiquitous tool since the hurled rock has cast their way, have found themselves starting to resort to using threats.
And for for you to come here and begin unintelligently putting down your high school theories of logic confirms how really slowpoke you have been in addressing issues that affect your egos and went further to show your inability to understand simple english. Did i raise the issues so that i can address them myself or so that people that understand the issues, not self acclaimed intelligent ethnic bigots like you can atleast constructively address them.

if asking questions, i deserve to be insulted as reiterated in rubbish above i wonder where your claimed tolerance go? Did you really read my original post? did you see the word politically there? so why is your primitive brain not able to give meaning or understand the post?

I am busy at work now i will post the rest later when i get home. mumu

@miss cork or whatever you call your name. I understand that when your mother was in the business of prostitution God worked out miracle for you to be born b4 she got infected by the popular thing. Now that you are managed to be raised by philanthropist, you don't know how precious are fathers and mothers are to their children thats why at every slightest opportunity you insult them. Now i will not insult your mother because she had enough of life already as for father, you don't know who fathered you for sure either the short term customer or overnight we don't know so lets keep that aside.

I know Igbos very well because i schooled in the East UNN to be precise and when you are talking of backwardness go to Ebonyi you will see it. I went for night vigil in the church we were surrounded by armed robbers. in another instance the whole city of Abakaliki was held to ransom by these armed robbers they were going from bank to on Sam Egwu formally Ogoja Road. In Ishieke Campus where my girlfriend was and i used to visit her every weekend killings were rampants and you're talking killings in the north. I don't for once subscribe to the killing of human beings no matter what happened. In 2008 Ezza and Ezilo people clashed which  has claimed more than 600 lives with property worth more than N1 billion destroyed are these abokis NO of course they are Igbos. But what continue to amaze is the way you igbos think  that killing is only in the north and therefore all northerners are killers, dumbs, ignorants and illiterate and i know i have seen the worst illiterates in the east during my stay there as a student and please if people are talking of intelligence don't even think of igbos being the best because like in every other tribe there are brights and dullards igbos.

I brought this topic, i went to service my car and there was an Igbo guy there and was asking the same question i asked and he said so many bad stuff about Igbos , which i don't intend to pass those info here i my fiance who is an Igbo and she could not provide an answer. Its surprising to see how unintelligent igbos are full on this from instead of addressing the issue raised, you are busy insulting people thats further reveals how insensitive you guys are. there is no day on this forum that Northerners will not be either ridicule or insulted and many of them start insulting people here. I STILL ASK CAN IGBOS EVER BE UNITED?

Lanrefemi:
@Silami:

Pls what's the essence of this thread?
Is your tribe united? I strongly doubt it.

Silami can you relate to this verse :"You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye"

If you had taken time to read my original post, you wouldn't have been asking this uninformed questions. What baffles is the inability for igbos to absorb criticism.

Are Igbos on Nairaland Mature at all? just asking sha

excanny:
@OP

I feel sorry for whatever Igbo girl that is getting about to get married to you(that is if you are not lying). It's hell living with a clueless human, not to talk of a clueless goat.

Ok i get you. you're clueless goat but it really amazes me because i know goats  are kind of sharp to an extent. I don't think you should be a goat, '=i'll suggest you choose alade,

Andre Uweh:
@ the op and his fellow simpletons, this should be your headache.

what about these ones, can please answer the questions asked: CAN IGBOS EVER BE UNITED? YES OR NO

udezue:
Silami, get your stupiid moronicc self outta here.

Aljharem, is nothing but a not-so-smart person and engaging him any talk is a waste of breathe just like you seem to be.
AljHarem claims to be Igbo hence there is no need for me to educate him. You are telling me to school him on shyt he can find all over the internet? You must be a dunce just the rest of your cattle herding ppl.

. haha here u go again it seems you still don't get the questions. I will try to learn igbo so that will make it easier for me to communicate with not so intelligent people like you! How can one be so dumb to the point of not being able to answer elementary questions? I don't think Alj Harem will stoop so law to the point of you schooling and i don't even advise him to teach you either because the frustration of teaching you, will resulted to him caning you. please when will your master settle you? i don't think you are matured enough to be settled yet. I'll advise that you go to bed now so as not to be late to the shop tomorrow  morning. poor apprentice.

“Any sign of disunity that is made public concerning Ndigbo is not good news. We would want such matters concerning our people to be settled within our fold and not to be treated publicly like this one.

“We are not taking sides but this is creating bad impression about our people. It shows there is open disunity. And it is not good for those involved and Ndigbo generally, hence, we want a situation where a level of understanding should be reached on this matter.” President-General of Ohanaeze, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue.

What i am saying just confirmed by your ow!

^^^^don't mind these dullards that think nobody is as intelligent as they are. i hate tribal bashing but this just getting too much, lol

ai ba su kadai ne masu baki ba. muma yakamata murika responding ai shegune iskanci ma ai ba fi mu ba kawai don muna kyale wa ba wai ba muda baki ai. idon suka zage mu ma mu zage su yan burauban shegu.

udezue:
I am not surprised this freak Alj harem will show up to make silly comments. Carry your gworo eating almajiri self and discuss issues concerning Kanuri and other useless muslim groups in your domain. As "united" as you are you have remained the most backward good-for-nothing heap of cow dung in Nigeria and Africa.

. An intelligent person would have tried to counter the serious points raise alj harem instead of insults. incase the points were not clear let me try putting them in form of questions:
1. what defines igbo culture? 2. what is Igbo? 3. Do igbos have kings or similar language? 4. do igbos have reasons to unite. I am sure with your primary education you will be able to answer these questions if alj harem was too sophisticated for you.

@ alj harem don't mind them i still need answer, which they don't have and so decided to go into insults.

@omongbatim The dimmest sense i have ever seen, the senate president, heads the NATIONAL assembly mark the word national not igbonal I think your sense, thats if you have one should tell you that he is heading the Federal legislatures not IGBO and if he is elected in the hallow chamber of the national assembly occupied by the federal legislatures coming from all over the country why should your ill-informed analysis hold here, this just revealed your ignorance filled mind.

^^^^^I think this is the only sensible answer i got. But my question is will an igbo president be booted for non performance?

wesley80:
Now dat u've apologised, Y not go look for some toys to play with or gossip with your mates? Or u cld just let Alhaji rock u in his arms till u fall asleep. This is no place for infants to try out their debating skills ok? Now be a good girl and run along.

I am glad that you have accepted your place in the kingdom of vultures, so i know whom am responding to. from now on insults and dullards' like comment of yours are welcome. and your illiteracy level does not even allow to differentiate between genders? Seun please let there be literacy section for these kinds so that they can get educated and examine before being integrated into the forum proper,

jason123:
@ op

To be honest, NO ONE KNOWS! Btw, if my earlier post was insulting, then, my bad

Jason you are cool man it was not. I was just asking out of curiosity, but  this nairaland so one should be ready to get insulted by both human and animal like brain.

wesley80:
@OP,
Oh my, Did I piss u off? So sori I made a mistake, my post shld have read; Do u think it is appropriate for a Northern Dim witted Semi literate Goat Herder to open a thread like this? Just correcting my post sha!

. sorry sweeri didn't know that an illiterate vulture looking like you gets upset easy, i am truly sorry.

jason123:
You dey look for trouble oo! but seriously, you are a northerner so why should you be concerned about the igbo or the south? T[b]he igbos are uniting [/b]along with the WHOLE OF THE SOUTH. FROM THE SW TO THE SS TO THE SE!!!Just telling you sha.

'I dey lough' Uniting to unplug Nwodo? My wife to be is an Igbo so i care that's why i asked. infact i asked her same question but she couldn't answer me.

wesley80:
@OP
Do u think it is appropriate for a semi-literate non-Igbo to start a thread like this? Just asking sha!

do you think it is appropriate for an illiterate like you who doesn't understand or have any meaningful contribution to this thread to read it? just responding sha.

I am asking this question because of what is happening in that region politically. Let me just give some instances here

1999-2007 the office of the Senate president was zoned to the Igbos and how many did we have? you do the math
2007-till date the office of the PDP chairmanship si zoned to the same Igbos how many already and still counting,  Is it that there is no unity or trust among the igbos? and how are we sure if they have the presidency, they will  not go the same path? just asking sha.

Amount (N)             (‘000,000)    North          South
1 Ayo Fayose             1,200                          X
2 Adenike Grange          300                          X
3 Joshua Dariye            700           x
4 Saminu Turaki        36,000          x
5 Orji Uzor Kalu           5,000                         x
6 ames Ibori               9,200                         x
7 Iyabo Obasanjo             10                         x
8 Lucky Igbenidion        4,300                        x
9 Gabriel Aduku              300                        x
10 Jolly Nyame             1,300        x
11Chimaroke Nnamani    5,300                        x
12 Michael Botmang       1,500                        x
13 Roland Iyayi             5,600                        x
14 Nyeson Wike             4,467                        x
15 Kenny Martins              774                        x
16 Babalola Borishade     5,600                        x
17 Boni Haruna                254        x
18 Femi Fani-Kayode        250                         x
19 Ibrahim Dumuje            774        x
20 Bode George                100                        x
21 Rasheed Ladoja          6,000                        x
22 4 Zenith Bank Managers 3,600                      x
23 Nicholas Ugbade & Co    5,200                      *
24 B. Sokan & co                636                       x
25 Ransome Owan & co      1,500                       *
26 Tom Itseghoghi & co     15,000                       *
27  Albert Ikomi                    43                       x
28 Yuguda Manu Kaigama            17           x
29 Chief Joe Musa                  1,012           x
30 Dayo Olagunju                     479                       *
31 Hamman Bello & Co            2,500           *
32 Innocent Chuka Okwonkwo      145                       x
33 Ceciia Ibru                      160,200                      x
34 Dr. Bartholomew & 4 others 187,000                     x
35 Raymong Obieri                131,800                     *
36 Sabastian Adigwe              277,300                     x
37 Okey Nwosu                       95,000                     x
38 Francis Atuche                    80,000                      x
39 Adamu Abduallahi                15,000         x
40 Attahiru Bafarawa                15,000         x
41 Francis Okokuro                    2,400                      x
42 Charles Sylva Opuala             2,400                      x
43 Osa Osunde                        55,000                      *
44 Oladele Shitu                          139                      x
45 Sunday Akinyemi                      90                      x
46 T. Taniyi & Co                      3,000                       x
47 Adeniyi Elumaro &Rakiya           405                       *
48 Erastus Akingbola                 27,000                      x
49 Sani & co                             1,500           *
Total number of cases                                  10        39
Total amount (in Naira) due to North=73,771,000,000
Total amount (in Naira) due to South =1,098,524,000,000
Total amount (in Naira) under prosecution for Nigeria =1,172,295,000,000
Percentage amount due to North =6.29%
Percentage amount due to South =93.71%
Totals =100%

Amount (N) (‘000,000) North South
1 Ayo Fayose 1,200 X
2 Adenike Grange 300 X
3 Joshua Dariye 700 x
4 Saminu Turaki 36,000 x
5 Orji Uzor Kalu 5,000 x
6 ames Ibori 9,200 x
7 Iyabo Obasanjo 10 x
8 Lucky Igbenidion 4,300 x
9 Gabriel Aduku 300 x
10 Jolly Nyame 1,300 x
11Chimaroke Nnamani 5,300 x
12 Michael Botmang 1,500 x
13 Roland Iyayi 5,600 x
14 Nyeson Wike 4,467 x
15 Kenny Martins 774 x
16 Babalola Borishade 5,600 x
17 Boni Haruna 254 x
18 Femi Fani-Kayode 250 x
19 Ibrahim Dumuje 774 x
20 Bode George 100 x
21 Rasheed Ladoja 6,000 x
22 4 Zenith Bank Managers 3,600 x
23 Nicholas Ugbade & Co 5,200 *
24 B. Sokan & co 636 x
25 Ransome Owan & co 1,500 *
26 Tom Itseghoghi & co 15,000 *
27 Albert Ikomi 43 x
28 Yuguda Manu Kaigama 17 x
29 Chief Joe Musa 1,012 x
30 Dayo Olagunju 479 *
31 Hamman Bello & Co 2,500 *
32 Innocent Chuka Okwonkwo 145 x
33 Ceciia Ibru 160,200 x
34 Dr. Bartholomew & 4 others 187,000 x
35 Raymong Obieri 131,800 *
36 Sabastian Adigwe 277,300 x
37 Okey Nwosu 95,000 x
38 Francis Atuche 80,000 x
39 Adamu Abduallahi 15,000 x
40 Attahiru Bafarawa 15,000 x
41 Francis Okokuro 2,400 x
42 Charles Sylva Opuala 2,400 x
43 Osa Osunde 55,000 *
44 Oladele Shitu 139 x
45 Sunday Akinyemi 90 x
46 T. Taniyi & Co 3,000 x
47 Adeniyi Elumaro &Rakiya 405 *
48 Erastus Akingbola 27,000 x
49 Sani & co 1,500 *
Total number of cases 10 39
Total amount (in Naira) due to North=73,771,000,000
Total amount (in Naira) due to South =1,098,524,000,000
Total amount (in Naira) under prosecution for Nigeria =1,172,295,000,000
Percentage amount due to North =6.29%
Percentage amount due to South =93.71%
Totals =100%

@OP i think the reason why you don't have a husband, is because of your status picture. You love diamond and also expect a husband, by the way describe yourself in two sentences. might consider helping out lol

INEC machine rejects Obasanjo’s fingerprints
From MOSHOOD ADEBAYO, Abeokuta
Monday, January 17, 2011

It was a frustrating moment for former president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday as his attempt to register in the ongoing voters’ registration was thwarted by the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machine.

Obasanjo who arrived his Ward 11, Ita-Eko, Abeokuta, the state capital at about 11.53 a.m. in company with his wife, Bola had after several rejections of his fingers by the machine offered to come back for the exercise after an overseas trip.

However, the former president who had to wait patiently for about an hour succeeded in registering after an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Information Technology expert arrived the scene at around 12.45 p.m. and performed the registration.

Even with the presence of the INEC officials and the IT expert, the registration took about 20 minutes for the process to be completed, while the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Martins Okunfolami and other INEC officials made frantic efforts to register the former president.

Before his eventual registration, when the first DDC machine failed, the INEC team, led by the REC changed its scanner and used two different ones which also disappointed them. Fielding questions from journalists, Obasanjo cautioned Nigerians against castigating INEC over the shaky start of the exercise. According to him, it was normal for a new programme such as the DDC technology-driven voters’ registration to experience challenges at initial stage even though he stated that it was too late to call for extension of deadline for the exercise.

“Whenever you are starting a new programme like this, it’s likely to have hitches until everybody masters it. Today is the second day. I believe that by the middle of this week, both the people who are carrying out the registration, the technicians, the INEC at the highest level will be able to make this work smoothly.

“So, I don’t believe that we should now start to castigate and to condemn. If, of course, by the middle of the week it’s not working as it should be, we will all see and then those who designed it would have to advise us how we can go about it. But for now, I believe let’s regard this as the hiccup of a new process.” “Let us not prejudge them, let’s give them time to think and rethink if rethinking is necessary,” Obasanjo said.

“Nigerians, be patient and let us all be determined to get ourselves registered. I have said I’m travelling tonight to Cuba, when I return; I will come and sit down here until I am registered. And as I said jocularly, if it is blood that is not running in my vein, I will go for blood transfusion to make sure that I can be registered,” he added.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/jan/17/national-17-01-2011-001.htm

D-sense:
@Silami
Is your name Salami or Silami . . .Just curious and suspecting you have forgotten the spelling!

Not my name but my NL ID SILAMI not SALAMI, lol

^^^^ that has been corrected, honestly i did not notice, but what do u have to contribute to the topic? thanks for the observation little baby, lol

Mygoldie:
atleast you've accepted you made a grammatical error, i'll stick by that.

Oh i see sticking to your ignorance and childishness?

the northern governors traded their own tickets for GEJ. most of them will not be reelected comes April because they did NOT represent the wishes of their people. if GEJ manages to win april election many of them will become members of his cabinet shikenan

Mygoldie:
wetin na by force to speak english?
abeg speak pidgin jor, before you go torture my eye with your grammatical error horror.

* my bad for the spelling error, but that doesn't change the fact that you're still in primary 5! not old enough to know JAMB questions,

D-sense:
OP.
We chase women because we want to hump them!

. one of the reasons

Atreides:
@OP,Jamb question. Oh wait,you're prolly not old enough to take Jamb anyway.

I am sure you heard the word JAMB from your oldest(not your immediate one)  brother. I f not how can you, being in primary 5 know JAMB question, busy body.

I am sure you need some English tutoring to able to know when you are referred to and when some one is referring to himself. My advice is this don't skip your English class next time. small girl