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If Ndigbo do not tell Arthur Eze that money is not everything, he will destroy whatever value is left in Igboland. The self-acclaimed Igbo Messiah (Ozo Igbo Ndu) has become a most irritating pain in the neck of Ndigbo. In the past 30 years, Arthur has brought everything he has touched to ruin. Eastern Plastics, Premier Cashew Industry, Anambra Vegetable Oil Products (AVOP), Premier Brewery Limited, Orient Bank and even his own Triax Group of Companies all melted under his cancerous touch. And now, Arthur has turned his attention to Igbo presidency project and the government of Anambra State. Now is the time to tell him to stop!

Anyone who has followed the appalling drama playing out in Anambra State at the moment will not miss the underlying message – mutiny! Arthur is currently leading a rebellion against the government of Anambra State. This is not opposition as we know it. This is an act of rebellion. When a man is puffed up by his belief in his own invisibility, he turns himself into a menace to society. That was exactly what Arthur Eze did when he took 12 traditional rulers from Anambra State to Abuja on an ill-advised mission to create disaffection for the governor of Anambra State at the presidency. Arthur is leading a mutiny against Anambra State. He should be told ‘enough’ by Nigerians who value decency and order in the society. The traditional rulers are the leaders of the grassroots in our democracy. Anyone who successfully turns a sizeable number of them against the sitting government under any guise has masterminded civilian coup plot. That is exactly what Arthur Eze has done. He is hell bent on setting Anambra on fire. He will succeed only if we support him with our silence.

Without a doubt, Arthur Eze appears to have a brutal knee firmly pressed into the neck of Ndigbo. He ridicules our aspiration for the presidency. He spits in the faces of our political leaders at will. He is locked up in a mortal battle with neighbouring villages in Anambra State. He is at war with the novelist, Chimamanda Adichie. He instigated criminal charges against Pius Nweke, the CEO of Best Aluminium, who, unlike him, has created thousands of jobs for the people. He has no respect for constituted authority.

For many decades, Arthur strutted the entire Southeast Nigeria like a winged monster in a Hollywood movie, talking down on his enemies and giving the impression that with money he could buy anybody including one half of heaven. He moves around in the longest and most expensive vehicular convoy in Igboland. He feels that everyone is beneath him. He does not weigh his utterances. At a time when his Igbo people feel entitled to provide Nigeria’s next president, Arthur told them that they were not good enough for the position in clear terms. Only Northerners are good enough to lead Nigeria because they gave Arthur contracts. Nothing is sacred to him.



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But Arthur Eze should be reminded that all his philanthropy does not stretch beyond dashing people money and that begging is not in the DNA of Ndigbo. This is one truth Arthur must be told!

It is embarrassing to see that just because he could sell a few oil wells, Arthur Eze has forgotten the capricious nature of his own culture. He is blind to the fact that a masquerade that turns against its minders in a stab of arrogance risks the humiliation of being deserted at the market square! This is the inconvenient truth we must tell Arthur Eze!

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helinues:
Oledepo can only rant on social media...

Is it only Winners that FG sent the letter to...

They will close the accounts and nothing will happen

Nonsense

So you think, the biggest mistake will be to fight the church.

Sendermac3:
In the eyes of the law, those guys are just like any group of friends meeting each other and not yet law makers until they are properly sworn in. I even understand that their positions have become vacant.

You have said rightly just that Nigeria is a bundle of jokes. In this country 12 is greater than 17. Also in this country minority can impeach a sitting governor. Somebody is certainly beating this drum that they are dancing to.
The plan may be to impeach Obaseki close to election time and may be given security back.
Fear 9ja! The governor has to be very careful.

I can relate with what what you are saying.
Without trying to sound religious but out of experience, please keep praying for your wife. You can't change anybody, only Holy Spirit can.
But inspire of this you will not keep quiet, you must keep pointing them out while praying for God to help her to understand.
May God heal your marriage

squash47:
After this man go dey claim Christian.

Yet, he donated money to a group and he is sounding trumpet.

I think say true Christian's are not supposed to be sounding trumpet if Dem do donation ?


This Bros too dey claim wise man.

While not holding brief for him, I think he made it public so that others can follow up with their donations.
God is more concern with the reason behind an action

Friend22:
What's this one saying?
Somebody is asking and seeking for our God given right to worship guaranteed by the Nigeria constitution yet some bonehead feels we should not talk but tag along like some brainless zombies.

What do must of you Christians take us for?!
Fools?!

I guess if an exam was fixed on Sunday, even your "Almighty GOs" will cry foul yet, we see these Christian bigots flooding every threat that involves muslims demanding for their rights that does not even concern the christians in anyway blabbing nonsense.

What is wrong in shifting or adjusting the time table?

I can see the tolerance now.
Indeed Christians are the most peaceful and tolerant group of persons.

Bunch of bigoted hypocrites!

Please be reminded as I have already stated, that every week has 5 working days including Friday.
Painful as it is to you, you can't undo it. You want to lamely blame WAEC, when the issue is a fundamental one.
Sorry for your pain but it is what it is

I am trying very hard to comprehend this level of ignorance.
Somebody should remind him that every week has five working days including Friday, they can't undo this.
Who God has blessed no man can curse

Maybe if many of us will settle down to read and comprehend then we will know that it's beyond Southwest lands.
When IBB built Abuja from scratch, was it Abuja assets that was used as an exchange?
The interest of all these foreign bodies is not in the land because it is meaningless to them but the resources on the land.
Let's be careful not to fight this with tribalism because you never can tell.

bfire:
It appears Daura is only giving a voice to the North agenda.

Competency is just a vague diversion.

Even with their 'competence' mantra. Are they more competent than the southerner? How many years have they rule this country? Where are we?
The problem is because they have dubiously put themselves in political advantage of numbers.
Educationally, economically, morally the
country is backward.
Let them continue, but someone should tell them that every graph has a declining point

Their covenant and link must be strong, God please help

He is always loving them like a 'son'.

in Nigeria, this is expected

Thothafx:
If you want your news to sell, just add Tinubu.

You have said it all

If you don't know you will not understand

Validated:
Edo is still not Lagos. Papata all riggers will meet their waterloo. There is always a point where impunity is laid to final rest. The police in Minnesota thought they were doing their normal thing until they met George Floyd. Adam Oshomole thought he was doing his normal thing until he met Obaseki.
If APC thinks they can continue their rigging, perhaps Edo will change all that. World over impunity and dictatorship thrives until a small unexpected event toppled such. Perhaps it is time for our leaders to know that they cannot always push their luck so far.
Go ask Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Mugabi, etc. Let APC try nonsense and buy uncontrollable revolution that will sweep everyone and everything away with it.

Don't be too serious with these politicians, they are all the same.

alezzy13:
Well it might be for the overall interest of the party, but it raises important issues:

Does PMB really have the power to unilaterally dissolve a duly elected national chairman and nwc?

Can he 'order' members to drop all pending cases?

Even thou the motions were moved by him, the decision is considered NEC decision.
The difference would have been if he had made those decisions outside NEC meeting.
Nigeria politicians are rubber stamp when president is involved

Teebab12:
hmmm. Does president Buhari have the capacity to stop those numerous court cases?

President is like god to Nigeria politicians because of their greed.
A police officer in USA told Trump to shut up but if that happens here, your very thought is as good as mine.

oluwamile:
.sometimes I watch some people spew rubbish and I wonder if it is hatred or lack of wisdom.
Tinubu who single handedly fought a sitting president,who single handedly funded a political party AD-ACN from 1999-2010,who brought down Jonathan,who made most sitting governor's and ministers who they are today isn't a fool,silent doesn't mean he has run out of ideas,he knows situations like these will surely come forth,but I am sure he knows hw to handle them
Believe it or not,he is the most smartest politician we have in Nigeria today
He is a formidable adversary and a brilliant fighter.

Sure! Many people hate Tinubu or are envying him. Like you rightly stated, I will like to Know any politician in Nigeria that one can compare with Tinubu. Is he more corrupt than any other person in political circles or has any politician been able to lay foundation for a state and ensure his successors build on it.
When peeople decides to play God by saying Tinubu will NEVER become president I laughed because they said worst for Buhari.
If any party presents Tinubu, I will vote for him. Personal opinion!

This can be anything but honourable. Sad moment for my country

What a shame? With all these attitude we can't progress beyond this

all of a sudden they realize that there is covid 19

from everything we have come to know about el-rufai and his family, one thing is sure, he did not have emotional capacity to be a good leader

jaxxy:
Yes perhaps bt still obaseki has stood with and even helped Oshiomole to be governor. He deserves better treatment from Oshiomole to be honest. It is quite different from tinubu and Fashola history in origin.

ok. I pray things work out for him. but he ought to know that this is Nigeria and Buhari doesn't seems to be standing by anybody.
if he is unable to us court to stop this, then he may just be rubbish before the week runs out

jaxxy:
Obaseki is in a fashola situation during his 2nd term and tinubu wnated to stop him bt like fashola he will triumph.

the only difference is that Fashola was more matured and diplomatic in both his approach and responses.
the governor would have waited till after he has won second term before ventilating all these.
do you Know that even Oshiomole once played along with late anenih and stabilize his government before taken his stand.
wisdom is always profitable.

for me, wether good or bad the fact that the system recognize the power and authority of every tier is a great lesson to me.
in Nigeria, everybody is always trying to be politically correct.
if you defer on their opinion you are harras and detain. with all these, we can't progress

[quote author=35824L post=90060947]I wish INEC can also deregister PDP.[/quote
]
You wicked o

Expect less at your own peril.

Meaning the general election will also be indirect?
While not trying to make case for godfatherism but the lesson here is that, don't destroy the ladder that lift you up, you may need it to come down.
Simple wisdom would have enable this man to manage whatever was and is the difference between Oshiomole and himself. Fashola did it with Tinubu and was able to finish his second term, they also try stopping him from being appointed as a minister but he also managed the situation.
I am against Obaseki's approach, beside God Oshiomole was reason he is governor today. He should have a reason to be grateful and not plotting national emberrashment for his benefactor.
My long story is; Obaseki is not a wise person. Those hailing him today will stone him once he is out of power. This is Nigeria!

I think the article is also a reminder to Femi Adesina that history has a long shadow because of some of his careless statements to Nigerians.
We are waiting, we will also remind him when the right time shall come

The naming of Professor Gambari as chairman-designate of the steering committee of the Nigeria Delta Summit. Indeed the former External Affairs Minister and one time Ambassador/Premananet Representative to the United Nations would never have known that there was so much animus, antipathy and antagonism towards him from certain parts of the country, if he had not accepted to do the job offered him by President Umaru Musa Yar'adua.

Let's consider some prominent voices that have risen against Gambari's choice and why.

Professor Kimse Okoko, President Ijaw National Congress said Gambari was not acceptable because he had shown clear signs of bias against the region. "We will prefer a neutral person of international repute to chair the summit. We do not believe Prof Gambari is well kitted for the job".

Prominent Isoko leader, Chief James Otobor: "It is politically silly and belittling of the leader of the Niger Delta to say that Ibrahim Gambari should preside over the proposed summit which in the first instance is unnecessary, irrelevant and uncalled for."

What of irrepressible social activist and virologist, Professor Tamunoemi David-West who incidentally was Gambari's cabinet mate in the Buhari regime from early 1984 to August 1985, "It's an insult for him to talk on Nigeria Delta issue...He was with me in the Buhari/Idiagbon government so I knew him very well. He is no doubt a qualified academic but the least qualified to be at the Niger Delta Summit, to chair or coordinate it. He is my personal friend and he knows, but the issue we have at hand is bigger than Gambari."

John Iyene Owubokiri, Cordinator Niger Delta Initiative for Non-Violent change: "The people of the Niger Delta have no confidence that Ibrahim Gambari, a beneficiary of the oppressive abitraryness of the majority tribes over the peoples of the Niger Delta can successfully moderate a summit to the satisfaction of principal stakeholders in the region."

Prof Benedict Ijomah: "Prof Gambari is an illiterate on matters concerning the Niger Delta. He is not schooled in the fauna and flora of the Nigeria Delta ecology, it is not something he understands so he cannot chair a meeting on the region."

Daily Sun columnist, Okey Ndibe, describes Gambari's choice as "cynical", adding about the diplomat: "Whatever his gifts, he is a democratably poor choice to lead any summit on the Nigeria Delta. His apologia for the Sani Abacha regime after the dictator hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists ought to disqualify him."

True, many of Gambari's antagonist have hinged their resentment on the fact that as Permanent Representative to the UN when Saro-Wiwa and others were hanged in 1995, he described the dead as "common criminals", justifying their execution. By this, they submit that Ibrahim Gambari is a Niger Delta hater and military apologist. That conclusion is debatable, but it may be an argument for another day.

The thruist of this piece is the dimension added to the controversy last weekend by notable Niger Delta activist, Comrade Joseph Evah. When I read his interview published by SATURDAY SUN, I had a good laugh. Yoruba people say nagative things often comes with some form of hilarity, and this is what I found in Evah's words as follows. "Jonathan (Vice President) cannot be talking of Gambari who insulted Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ledum Mitee as common criminals. For such a man to chair the committee is absurd. I thank God that all Niger Delta leaders have told him they don't want any summit and they don't want Gambari. If they hold the summit in places like Port Harcourt or any other Niger Delta state, and Gambari enters the hall as chairman, some of us will slap his face regardless of the presence of soldiers. Gambari cannot hold a summit in that name of the Niger Delta. Even if I have the opportunity of meeting Gambari, I will slap his face."

Are you letting out a guffaw? Yes, isn't this side (unidentifiable word), despite the very serious nature of the issue at hand? Evah almost broke my rib as I read the interview. Imagine (unidentifiable word) Evah, with his muscular Niger Delta arms giving an aging Prof Gambari a slap? The man will not only see stars, he will see an immeasurable company of angels. And all that at the venue of the summit that will attract international attention. What poor publicity for Nigeria and the Arewa people whose son have been so assaulted in the process of a national assignment, how will they feel? Won't we have another immediate strife on our hands?

Now, this question, is Prof Gambari qualified to chair the steering summit of the committee? Eminently so. The political scientist has made name as an academic, administrator, diplomat and peacemaker. But must he chair the summit in view od tje dust that has been raised since his nomination by the federal government? The answer is no. It is not do or die. The Yoruba have a saying, "You are not welcome in a town and you raise a song, who will chorus it for you?

If Niger Deltans, old and young say they do not want Gambari chairman of the committee, is it by force that he must still preside?

The decent and honourable thing was for the man to have declined serving immediately he saw the frenzy and hullabaloo generated by his nomination.

Another lesson that we should learn from this development is the veracity of the saying, "Old men have long shadows". About 13 years ago, Gambari felt he was doing his representative as Permanent Representative to the UN when he defended the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and others by the Abacha regime, now the chicken has come home to roost.

Must he call Ogoni leaders "common criminals" as he is quoted to have said? "When you are sent on a slave errand, do it as a freeborn" is another Yoruba saying.

Gambari enslaved himself to please his paymasters. Now, 13 years after, the shackles are still tied around his neck, threatening to asphyxiate him. What an eternal lesson for fawning bootlicking grovellers to learn. Old sins indeed have long shadows.

We have heard of slaps that hit the national limelight in the country. In the second republic, one governor of the South-South a dirty but resounding slap, and the much younger deputy rolled his sleeves, folded his trousers and proceeded to give his boss such good biding that it took security detail of the governor to separate the combates.

We saw same in both the last Senate and House of Representatives, leading to the suspension of belligerent lawmakers. If Prof Gambari eventually chairs the Niger Delta Summit against good advise, and Comrade Evah carries out his threat, it will indeed be a slap that will ricochet not only nationally but internationally.

Note: This article was first published on July 12, 2008 in the Saturday SUN Newspaper

Esseite:
I think their schools are a bit special since its concentrates on basically religious teachings, these schools already exist, they only need to be going home to their parents everyday after school.

That is the aspect where their leaders should shoulder the blame. Why build schools to teach religion?
The only reason I'm concern about this is because they rob their problems on other people. If they shoulder it alone then, good luck to them. Thanks all the same I appreciate your time.

Esseite:
The current Almajirai system needs to be abolished and parents take charge in caring for their children, almajirai schools can be set up if it's that important same way regular children go to school daily and return to their parents...

The current practice gives parents the ability to shed their responsibility thereby giving birth to more and the cycle keeps repeating itself since they dont have to bother on upbringing or the kids whereabout who mostimes end up on the streets jobless.

I agree with everything that you postulated except alamajari school. They don't need any special school, government should build schools, equip them and probably make it free and compulsory.
They brought it upon themselves. I presently struggle both to pay school fees and feed my children but begging has not been an option for me. In the south people pick and sell firewood in other for their wards to have education. Everyone needs help only a beggar amplifies his own.