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Some people will still be calling the Clueless One, the Drunken Master of Otuoke and Doyin Okupe's Jesus Christ their hero, meanwhile they are wallowing in abject poverty, no employment, he did not construct roads for them, not to talk of the hospitals.

PDP, Ipob, pained Igbos, you lots are unpatriotic and should be charged for treason. If we did not vote out the Mandela of Otuoke, Nigeria would have been totally bankrupt by mid-2016 and the second shipment to the carribean sugar plantation would have started.

God bless my Permanent Voters Card.

GreatSE:
A Yoruba man always scavenging the internet to look for any Igbo related news to post in Nl...jobless goon.

Of course we know Buhari will abandon it, the reason we did not vote for him ( and we are proud of it) just as he cancelled the South West railway construction. so NO BIGGIE

Tell that to vanguard.

If your Messiah could not construct the bridge, why should Buhari spend our scarce resources on an infrastructure for 5% of his votes?

As much as I detest strike, it is obvious that Aregbesola is an irresponsible governor, who single handedly ran the state bankrupt with his Commissioner for Finance.

There should be a law banning anybody working in the public service from having a private establishment. Most times, they always divert clients, customers and patients to their private practises. Some even end up using the little resources provided by government for their private practise.

NNEWI—THE recent budget release by the Federal Government was expected to feature some monetary allocation for the construction of the 2nd  Niger Bridge started by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, but unfortunately the allocation for the construction of the bridge is missing. This has elicited torrents of reaction from stakeholders in the Sout-East. Here are some of them.

President of Onitsha Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Uche Apakama, in his comments said, “I just want to believe that the information is not quite true that not capturing of the 2nd  Niger Bridge in the 2016  budget, means it has been abandoned, this is because it will be ridiculous the Federal Government would have forgotten such a sensitive and important project for the people of South East and South South and Nigerians in general.

“I want to assume, a big assumption that it is in the budget, but per adventure is not there, it can’t be explained to anybody, because we do not have the budget breakdown, we just heard about the big figures, we do not have the different allocations, so we do not know the details of those allocations and therefore they should tell us what happened.

“It will be a total disservice to Ndigbo, South South and Nigeria in general to abandon the bridge, I was listening to the Presidents first Media Chat where he asked who are marginalizing the Ibos and how, he asked that question and this issue of alleged abandonment of 2nd  Niger Bridge is one  example  of his government marginalizing Ndigbo, if it is true.

“Abandonment of that bridge is one of the basic and clear instance of marginalization of the Ibos, we have only one access to leave the Ibo land for the West, it takes up to four or five hours to pass through Niger Bridge to enter Asaba approach of the bridge, we are suffering getting down here, to access our home land is almost impossible, very difficult, because of the single lane in the direction of the Niger Bridge as constructed, let us not even say that the Bridge is weak, even the volume of traffic it carries can no more suit the bridge like we have in the festive period of Christmas and New year,” he said.

Apakama, a pharmacist,  also stated that “we have a four year project period, we are waiting and are expected to wait for four years, hoping that in four years time, even though we have questioned the four years project period which is too long to complete the bridge because you do not use four years to build such bridge if it is properly funded, yet they are coming up with the plan of abandonment, if it is PPP funded, that is where Julius Berger will have to source its funds, it can be completed within a forty eight month period.


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“We seem to have been forgotten by the Federal Government in a country that we are part of, what happened last time with MASSOB and IPOB challenges are all part of the problem of marginalization.

In South East, we have a lot of things we are talking about that need to be addressed, we do not have appointments, no problem, we are still surviving, but things that belong to us like this bridge, government must show commitment, and show us that they are sincere about the issues concerning South East and the South South.

“I want to believe that the project is in the budget, if it is not, it is unfair for us not to have that bridge completed, it is unfair that one year will pass again and the bridge is not captured in the budget and therefore nothing will be happening there, it should be in the appropriated budget, it should not be in the supplementary budget, it should be the concern of the Federal Government of Nigeria that South East and South-South are not cut off from the rest of Nigeria.”

For his part Chief Ozoh Anaekwe, a former President General of Onitsha Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, OMATA, said,  “President Muhammadu Buhari has shown Nigerians and the world that he is anti-Igbo with the abandonment of the 2nd Niger Bridge project, I am telling Igbo leaders to rally round and tell the world, especially, Europe and America, the new friends of the present government, the condition President Buhari wants to place Igbo in Nigeria.

“No reasonable and responsible government in the world will abandon a project like 2nd Niger Bridge, if not for the reason of hatred, and not wanting anything good for a particular people, unfortunately the bridge is serving Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba and other ethnic groups, so it is a disservice to the nation and not to the Igbo people if it is abandoned.

“When some people say we did not vote for Buhari, that is why he is anti Igbo, I laugh, how can we vote for a man that does not come to campaign in Igbo land. Since he has been contesting elections, it was only this last one that made him President where he visited one or two South East states to campaign, he has disappointed Onitsha residents on three occasions he said he was coming for campaign and people waited, he never came and did not care to render apology, Onitsha houses all South East state people.

“I am calling on the Ministers from South East to resign from Buhari’s government because he does not mean well for Ndigbo and does not love them, after all he did not assign any reasonable position to them, why did he give three juicy Ministries to one person, when he gave South East Ministers that does not in any way affect their lives positively, the ministries he gave them which he is boasting that he has done well for Ndigbo does not add value to peoples life,” he said.

According to him “It is only the lawmakers that will make Buhari to change his mind and continue with the 2nd  Niger Bridge project, the Judiciary is playing along with him, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, President is not interested to defend the Judiciary, he is playing along with the All Progressives Congress, APC, government, he should therefore, resign because he is sympathetic to the present government, he is NBA National President not APC government National President.

“I have no doubt that the present administration will not continue with the 2nd  Niger Bridge project because it was started by former President Goodluck and anything started or done by that administration is either seen as evil or being dismantled and seen as corrupt, even if the bridge is captured in the budget they will not do it, they think it  is Igbo people’s project. “Nigerians and the National Assembly should compel the President to continue the project, it is a Nigerian project not South East project, it was approved and kicked off by a responsible government he succeeded, if National Assembly fail to compel the President to continue that project it means they are afraid of him and that will be disaster for the country.

President of Osakwe Industrial Cluster, a small scale industrial operators based in Awada, near Onitsha, Mr. Johnson Okolo, said that “it has been one calamity or the other since the present government came with its change mantra, even though the South East people did not vote for President Buhari, we still believe that he is the President, we did not march to the streets to protest against his emergence and therefore, he should not work based on the people that voted him.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/abandonment-of-2nd-niger-bridge-south-easterners-react/

Igbos are defending him because they wanted him to run Nigeria bankrupt totally, for them to have their mirage biafra.ud of a country easily.

It's not as if they love the Drunken Master of Otuoke that much or his kinsmen. They wanted to use h to achieve their own objective.

Nothing more nothing less.

BeClever:
Which tax payers.. ..Oyel money.

Who pays tax in this country except civil servants.

See this one.

You ar just just ignoramus. ignoramus. A at today, my region produces is the 2nd highest oil producing. So carry you oyel noise forward jare.

vislabraye:
But who invited the IMF boss ?

Mr Who did.

MTN thinks they are dealing with past govts.

They are in for a mega long thing.

Seems Hezbollah was already setting up a strategic base in Zaria.

This is a typical display of a scammer that they are.

Leave "our daughter in whom we are well pleased" alone.

Your World Bank Economist, an agent of the Neo-Colonialist, brought us to where we are.

Kemi will take us out of the mess your World Bank Eyes Kongba left behind.

1000 Samuels of his cannot run away from God of Justice.

You ate our yam and now you are eating paper that was bought with tax payers money.

Double wahala.

Obiwiz:
Are you a historian? Crude for a 600000 bpd refinery coming from Ondo? How many litres dey inside ground der? Why una dey feel so pained about d suggestion say make everybody stay on dia own? because from d way things dey, I been dey expect una to just vex say make everybody really go dia separate ways, instead of holding onto pseudo-unity like placenta and foetus. Abeg no involve history o. because many of Nigeria history na fat lie. Talk of present.

We careless about the quantity in Ondo. We can easily buy crude oil from any where in the world and be refining for most countries in West Africa.

Obiwiz:
And the petroleum to be refined will be coming from........?
Until you're able to fearlessly say yes to self-determination in the Nigerian State, then all these things you said don't add up. Now, think!

It will be coming from Ondo State and any other place that does not have sufficient capacity to refine it's crude oil.

We said yes to regionalism, but one deranged trigger happy scuttled everything, in.the name of Nzeogwu and his gang. Another beneficiary of the killing spree, in the name of Ironsi, quashed our regionalism and introduced Unitarism, in the bid of igbos to lord it over others, after killing our leaders.

GreatSE:
This is very very pathetic for somebody who is from Osun state seeing Lagos as his enclave.... Lagos belongs to every Nigerian for now, when we take our oil that refinery will go into moribund.

Please take your oil or oyel.

We are the second highest oil producing region courtesy of Ondo State and now Lagos is joining.

Even if we do not have oil, we will be shipping in crude oil to refine for West Africa.

How about that slow coach?

SW is the highest producer of Cement in Africa, courtesy of Lafarge and Dangote.

It is bound to be the highest producer of fertiliser and petroleum products in the next 1 year, courtesy of our investment friendly climate.

It has the gateway of West Africa to Internet access to the world courtesy of our indigenous Glo and Main One companies.

Our car assembling plants are being resuscitated on a daily basis.

The region is the financial capital of West Africa and most likely Africa.

The entertainment capital of Africa.

The media capital of West Africa.

Who God has blessed, no man can curse. They can only be bitter. They know themselves.

The victors know themselves and the vanquished know themselves too.

All those one nah slogan.

Proudlyngwa:
Does anyone take uwazurike serious?
I thought the election was about electing Governors and senators in biafran states.
Elections in BIM positions with fredick fasheun and asari dokubo as international observers,what of shekau.

The planned prayer, fasting and election into the offices of the Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, has been postponed indefinitely.

Announcing the indefinite postponement of the programme to newsmen, yesterday in Owerri, Imo State the leader of the group, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, explained that the shift was to enable them make adequate consultation.

“The shift in the date for the fasting and prayer session, as well as the planned election, which more than 100 clergymen from the South East and South South geo-political zones are expected to participate, would enable BIM to make adequate consultation,” Uwazuruike explained.
Reiterating that they need to make adequate consultations and preparations before the next date for the event, Uwazuruike also promised that the programme would be made public.

Fielding questions,  Uwazuruike said, “The theme of the prayer session, Give us Biafra, still remains unchanged, while Apostle Gregory Ashiegbu will anchor the prayer for us.”

Explaining what the election into BIM positions was all about, Uwazuruike said it would be different from elections recently conducted in Nigeria, adding that it will be an open ballot system unlike Nigeria’s closed ballot system.

He said that the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, and Dr. Fredrick Fasheun, the founder of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, were expected in Owerri,  for the event.

BIM had earlier announced that it would  hold  a three-day prayer and fasting, beginning from today, ahead of February 22, 2016, elections billed for Ikemba Ojukwu Memorial Library in Owerri.

It had named a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Samuel Aniebonam,  chairman of the electoral body

Ariani:
No, they should stay put in SW and North, learn how to speak Yoruba more than Yorubas, and Hausa more than Hausas.

They should be singing of phantom Nigeria unity, and keep dancing to Kumbayaya until all is well.

It is silly to seek for dissolution of Nigeria, the wisest thing should be to embrace Nigeria while on their knees and even in the midst of hatred and envy.

They should just learn to be humble and accept their place in the grand scheme of things, they should learn to sacrifice all, including their lives and life savings and investments at the altar of Nigerian unity.

To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done.

God bless Nigeria.

Are these people alright at all?

Cursed be the day Lord Lugard lumped us with ''these things''.

Igbo traders in the demolished Owonifari market, Oshodi, have continued to claim that the demolition of the market was part of the plan targeted at getting rid of Igbo in Lagos.
In a chat with Tribune Online, some of the traders failed to see any rationale behind the demolition in spite the state government's repeated claim that the exercise was carried out to give room for more infrastructural development on that axis.
The claim by the traders came barely 24 hours after traders under the Igbo Traders Congress demanded for N20 billion from the Lagos State government for properties lost to the demolition.

A trader, who identified himself simply as Uchena, bemoaned the fact that in recent times, the state government and other leaders in the state had been showing some signs it had something against the Igbo.

"Last year, an Oba said Igbo would drown if they didn't vote for APC. Months earlier, former Governor Fashola sent many Igbo back to the east without any reason, now we have this demolition. All these are clear indications we are being deliberately hunted down," he said.
The claim of N20bn damages by the traders came hours when a group of Igbo claimed that they were being deliberately dealt with by the government.

The traders said the state government breached the court injunction against demolition, saying the body was heading to court to seek compensation against the goods lost to the demolition.

He said the markets accommodated about 5,000 traders while the government only provided slots for 600 traders at the new Isopakodowo market.

Lalasticlala and Mynd44 FP plz.

We all need to assist these soldiers to bring their predicament to the attention of the press and Military HQ.

Shameless old man.

I only pity the people calling this man that does not want to respect his old age ''daddy''.

Is that not the same guy that defrauded his people with Biafrau.d passport and imaginary Biafrau.d Airline?

We are gladly waiting for Feb 20.

I hope the gully eroded part of the land of the dawning sun will not be filled up with body bags of rebels.

No one is against creation.of Biafrau.d but you must go through the proper channel.

Anarchy will begat Anarchy

Madness will definitely begat madness too.

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Billygee2u:
I am wondering,maybe the doom prophecy corncerning Nigeria is about to manifest.

If kanu is arrested, Nigeria will burn. The Lunatic Bleaching Yellow Pawpaw aka ''our Dilector'' was arreested and heaven did not fall.
If kanu is not released within 2weeks Nigeria will boil. The Messiah of Alaigbo was not re;leased and nothing happened.
If Kanu is not released by December 31st Nigeria will be no more. Today is 11th of January and the noise making Toothless Lion of Biafra is still inside the DSS cage and the world is moving on.

If he dies, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. The worst that can happen is some of you will escort him to either heaven or hell.

Let him die first, then we will take him serious.

He was wishing death on other ethnicities and that same death shall visit him first.

For now, he is still alive, let him keep enjoying the FG's free watery beans. He is one of the favoured few that Govt is feeding for free.