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The one that was not saved, what happened to it?

What categorical statement in this write up denied the allegation.

What sort of stup1d and junk journalism is this?

They can do the usual things they are known for:

1. Issuance of lame ultimatum

2. Threatening to run to ICC.

What is Ohaneze waiting for this time around?

THE  pan Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo, said yesterday that it was not surprised at the way the appointments of President Muhammadu Buhari were going, insisting that it had shown the president’s deep rooted hatred for the Igbo nation.
Anambra State president of Ohaneze, Dr. Chris Eluemuno, in an interview at the state –owned Anambra Broadcasting Service Television in Awka, said the situation would still have been the same even if the entire Igbo voted for him.

He said: “I said it during the campaigns that General Buhari does not like Igbo people and it is happening now with all the appointments he has so far made since he came into office on May 29, 2015

“He appointed five service chiefs and there is no Igbo man, even though Igbo have qualified people to occupy the positions.
“His party has completed the selection of principal officers in the national assembly and despite the fact that the speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara made case to apply the federal character in allocating the offices, the president jettisoned it through his intervention and left Igbo APC lawmakers out.

“He also exhibited his vindictiveness during his recent visit to the United States of America, USA, when he travelled with only governors from his party, leaving out governors from the opposition parties.
“He was also quoted as saying that he would favour those who voted for him and our position is that there is no way the president should expect all Nigerians to vote for him in the last presidential election.That statement contradicted Buhari’s earlier stand that he belonged to everybody and belonged to nobody.”

 Eluemuno, who is also the chairman of chairmen of Ohaneze in the seven Igbo speaking states, argued that Buhari had no reason to discriminate against the Igbo because  Igbonation played prominent roles in the development of Nigeria and should therefore not be discriminated against in the scheme of things.

According to him, apart from the Secretary to the Government of Federation, SGF, the remaining appointments are ministers and board members, which constitutionally must go to all the 36 states of the federation, adding that appointing an Igbo minister would not therefore be a favour to them.
On the president’s threat to probe only the Jonathan administration, Eluemuno said it would amount to witch hunt if he limited it to the immediate past administration, advising that the probe should start from the PDP civilian administration that began 16 years ago with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who governed for eight years.

He also advised the President not to jettison the report of the Constitutional Conference convoked by former President Goodluck Jonathan, arguing that the Constitutional Conference report was key to fighting corruption in Nigeria as it contained recommendations that could help him succeed in his fight against corruption in the country.

Eluemunor said the president might also be expecting too much if he thought that he would find angels to make ministers, stressing that as long as those he described as the corrupt civil servants were there, the ministers, no matter their background and integrity would still be corrupt.

 “He should know that those who corrupt the ministers are the top civil servants. They are the ones that show the ministers the way once they are sworn in. If he wants to fight corruption in the service, he should start by cleaning up the civil service,” he added.
He called on the Igbos to brace up to the challenge posed to them by the APC- led federal government.

Source - VANGUARD

Short of words.

I don't want a ban this early morning.

I just dey laugh ooooooo.

The Jungle of Biafra can go, who is holding them?

Aregbe and his APC thugs should know that nothing must happen to this woman.

The woman only said the bitter truth the way they are.

Aregbe's administration is full of fraud, nepotism and wanton waste of public funds.

Tinubu is definitely giving some people the nightmare of their lives.

Tinubu must be larger than life. They have successfully mystified this guy.

modhream:
Heavenly days!
What was the "geopolitical zones" meant to be then,if not federating units?.Do me and yourself a favour,go get a copy of the 1995 Draft Constitution,read,comprehend and digest.But first,empty out all that nonsense they'd fill your head with.
Your region has been at the forefront of making noise about regionalism while Ndigbo has been working to conceptualize,capture it in form and bring it to fruition.Big difference between the two efforts.
Oh,your threat of name calling.......omode shi ni e.I'll let that lie.

The federation units are the states and not the zones. The zonal delineation is just a mere geopolitical nomenclature. Read the recommendations all over again.

Really!!!!! I do not have to drag the issue of conceptualisation with you, I can assure you we can NEVER agree on that. I am more inclined towards preferring of workable solutions on this thread than banters.

The truth is there should be a melting pot for the noise making, conceptualisation, building alliances with other key regions and the bringing to fruition of such governance system that will unlock the full potential of this country.

modhream:
DAWN agenda that Ondo has never and still don't support till date?.
You must think you're reasoning with a nodcock like yourself,is the DAWN agenda calling for a restructuring of the Nigerian state along regional lines as Ohaneze did or just advocating Western Nigeria economic integration under the platform of one political party?.
Talk of Abacha's conference,you do realize it was Igbo delegates,led by Ekwueme,who agitated for regionalism and came up with current geopolitical zones in current use as federating units,rights?.While the northern delegation,exemplified in Atiku Abubakar and supported by his western in-laws opposed.Come up with another lie.
Then again,I'm quite sure you were in diapers then,only going by a story you've been fed on now.

If you want a discuss, fine, if you want mudslinging and name calling, I will sure give it to you in equal measures, press down, shaking together and running over. Just respect yourself.

Stop lying, SW has always been at the fore front of calling for regional government. That is a known fact in this country. Ekwueme only advocated for the creation of another political zone in the South to be known as SS at Abacha'S organised confab, so as to counter balance th 3 political zones of the north.mhe never clamoured for any regional system of governance.get your facts right.

He only joined, as well as other igbos, the call for regional system of government as early as 2012.

modhream:
E se ma n tan ra yin je bayi,where's the articulated Western position on regionalism aside the usual hot air blown in the media?.
Btw,before you fool yourself further,Igbo stood for restructuring during Jonathan's conference with the exception of Ebonyi state who felt they're not yet at par with the rest of the East.The question one should be asking is,why did enlightened and buoyant Lagos and Ondo states not support this nebulous western stand on regionalism and true federalism?

Lagos talked about the regions not been recognised in the constitution yet, while Mimiko was being playing politics of PDP and APC and he never came out openly to state categorically that they are not in support.

ProfessorPeter:
i am neither a chest beater or a betrayer nor a coward

The you must either be a nyamiri or flat.head.

modhream:
@OP,good morning o.
While your regional and political leaders were busy playing to the gallery,Ndigbo had already come out with a blueprint since 2012.
Once again,I bid you good morning

Which good morning? Read up on the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN).

Regionalism has always been the position of South West from time immemorial --U Abacha'S organised confab, OBJ's own and even thT of Jonathan. Only SW stood for regionalism in the last national conference, while SE suddenly developed cold feet about and only supported the impracticable true federalism. SS was hell bent on resource control, which will always be a hard a sell to a section of the country.

SW is just watching you all to keep dancing in circus until when you are ready to face the reality, while we are forging ahead with the systematic development of our region.

If the 3 of us can agree with some parts of middle belt we can pull the restructuring along regions through. This is our sure bet of getting the best deal for everyone and anyone.

Na lie.

He did not abort any meeting.

There is an obvious crack within the militants. If Tompolo had gone ahead with meeting, it would have been more obvious and clearly shows he lacks the clout he is trying to project.

ProfessorPeter:
a sad end of a Yoruba man who was used n dumped.

Are you a chest beater?

That Nigeria was amalgamated in 1914 and subsequently named Nigeria by Lord Lugard's mistress, Flora Shaw are no more news. This gave rise to a marriage of inconveniences of strange bed fellows that had little or nothing in common. From Ogoja to Saki, Kaura Namoda to Port Harcourt, Monguno to Badagry and Sokoto to Ikot Ekpene -- we have diverse cultures, languages, attitudes and outlooks to life lumped together within a space that is bounded by lines drawn by colonial masters. No wonder a founding father called the nation "a mere geographical expression".

We cannot deny the fact Africans have allegiance to their ethnicities first, before the nation. They see the ethnicity as the identity and history bestowed on them by their ancestors and the nation has secondary. This is also obtainable in Europe and Asia. We should therefore not see such view as being primordial. Our pride in ancestral lineage and differences should have been harnessed to give birth to national pride as seen in most European and Asian countries. This is not the case in Nigeria.

The strong allegiance to our ethnicities and fight for ethnic supremacy, dominance and relevance led to the early mistakes that were witnessed within the first decade of independence of this nation, that was tagged "Giant of Africa" but as refused to live up to its full potential due to mirads of problems confronting it as a nation. It is also on record (an irony though) that the period of fastest developmental growth witnessed in this country was within the first few years of independence of tis nation, when we were still operating the regional system of governance. There was healthy rivalry and collaborations between the regions that were in existence then.

These are all man made problems, that can be corrected by sitting down as a nation and collectively fashion a structure of governance that will make this nation to be what we can all be proud of and what we can be wearing in our heart as a thing of pride. The problem has gotten to a level of secession cries, blackmailing of Federal Government right left and centre, cries for resource control etc

The truth is are we not going to witness the same problems confronting Nigeria today if our various cries are achieved? Will good leaders suddenly become good ones, will corruption suddenly just die a natural death, will embezzlement of public funds just stop, will nepotism just come to an end? I do not believe this will be the case.

It is also on record (an irony though) that the period of fastest developmental growth witnessed in this country was within the first few years of independence of tis nation, when we were still operating the regional system of governance. There was healthy rivalry and collaborations between the regions that were in existence then.

This bring me to the question of the best restructuring that might best suit the country and how do we structure?

The 36 states structure cannot sustain through federalism and the bicameral assembly is too expensive for such a nation as ours that is facing dwindling income. We need to do a way with both as a matter of urgency.

In my own opinion, we need to take the following steps, if truly we want to bequeath a nation we can all be proud of to future generations:

1. Let there be a call for inclusion of referendum in our constitution. This is achievable if we set our heart to as a people.
2. After this, let there be a call for Sovereign National Conference. The attendees must be elected by the people based on ethnicities with UN invited as a moderator or an observer.
3. The country should be restructured politically with Central, Regional, States, Municpalities/LGs/Counties as this units of governance.
4. The Central Government should have a President with a unicameral house. The presidency should be rotated among the regions on a stipulated number of years basis.
5. The Central Government should only be concerned with Defense, Immigration, External Relations and Federal Judiciary and Police/FRSC.
6. The Vice president should be another region or the 5 regional heads apart from the region where the central president is from can double as VPs.
7. The regional government should have Regional Heads and unicameral house. Each region should have the right to determine the number of states and Municipalities/LGs within each region.
8. Regional heads liaises on behalf of the region with the Central Govrnment, while the state Governor liaises on behalf of his state with the Regional Government and the Municipality/LG chairman does the same with the state.
9. Every region should be in control of its resources, policing, educational, health, ports, judiciary, social work, transportation system, work force etc.
10. Regions should hold at least 70-80% of its income generated and the remaining remitted to the Central Government for covering of the operational cost of the Central Govt.
11. Resource allocation could be re-distributed among the states within a region based on whatever criteria the region decides among themselves
12. Based on this successor this, a gradual drifting towards secession can be achieved without any rancour, animosity or war.

With this I strongly believe, we can bring governance closer to the people and make our politicians and leaders more accountable.

Others are free to make their suggestions and let us all think out of the box to solve this quagmire we have found ourselves. If the elderly ones refuse to change the country, we the youths can galvanise ourselves, gain the momentum by demanding for what we think should be the best political structure for this nation.

Seems this explosion now have a pattern in sequential order:

Church to mosque to motor park to market.

Who is financing this blood sucking demons? The northern leadders should take their share of the blame, the past president that failed to nip the problem at infancy has his own share of the blame and the muslim world that failed to denounce the group at the begining, until the tatble turned should also take their share.

Born to wail.

Story.

He remains the ojuju of calabar of any loud mouthed chest beater. He shoots anything walking or dead.

If you do not know him, as a cheat beater from the land of the dawning sun, Never pray to meet him. Lmaooooooo

kelvin100:
How can one be senior to another appointed on the same day?

There is a registration book. Who ever registers 1st in civil service automatically becomes the senior of the next, even if the difference in time is 1minute.

That is the rule in the book of Civil Service called General Order.

Gondonu:
When the alleged forgery case of Buhari certificate was ongoing,was it followed up with such speed as in this case? No! Nigeria is a shit hole.SMH

Who was in power? Is it not your Jonah,daft?

He could have followed through with the prosecution if truly he has his facts. Or he developed cold feet because of his inability to point out to any publication that earned him his PhD and that would have exposed him as a fraudulent person?

owobokiri:
Very free and fair. For instance, almost 3 million votes were cast in Kano with no single void vote! Most of that number dominated by underaged almajiris . . Atleast the dogs and baboons were spared.

Liar and remixer of facts.

It was Enugu state that had no void vote.

Tell another lie l.

How can people that are meant to be making laws for us be forging rules that are meant to be used for their own election?

If they had their way, they can even forge INEC Acts.

Shameless group of people.

It is only toddlers or embryos as at 1993, that will always say 1993-1998 were not one of the darkest moments of Nigerian history.

Abacha no try at all!!!!! Mere mention of the guy's name in your house can land you in prison. I doff my heart for the likes of Pa Abraham Adesanya that survived 4 assassination attempts on his life, courtesy of Abacha's death squad led by Sergeant Roger.

We have come a long way, though we are still very far from there.

Sensible enough.

No one has a monopoly of violence. The aftermath of trouble making shall be on troublemakers land. A word is enough for the wise.

Let militancy start in ND, courtesy of Tompolo and his thugs and let there be a repeat of Odi in the magnitude of Bornu.

Where is SHekau today? I hope the case of Tompolo will not be the same.

The truth is, Tompolo and the people hyping him can bring it on. What i will frown at is the cry of genocide.

This a totally flawed propaganda write up.

1. What is the gain of the Oyes programme as at today? It was an unsustainable programme. Our leaders should learn to build institution and not people. Building an institution involves building a framework that will make it difficult for the incoming government to scrap, based on the benefit to the people. The same way he cancelled Oyin Corps, that is the same way the next government will scrap his OYES.

2. How can you even refer to Opon Imo as an achievement? It is nothing but a conscious effort to defraud the state. What value has that white elephant project added to the state, apart from enriching the cronies of Mr Governor?

3. Diversification into which agriculture? Is it the payment for tractors that were never delivered to the state you want to talk about or the father christmas Aregbe was doing by doling out money to farmers without any appreciable impact in the state. Just tell me the value added in this agric sector?

4. Another msinformation. Aregbe did not start the school feeding. It was OBJ's programme and Osun was one of the 6 project states. The programme commenced under Oyinlola and it was continued by him. He cannot take glory for what he did not start.

5. Uniform harmonization -- he harmonized the school uniform and we cannot identify the different schools again, What a very sane harmonisation process!!! Are we in a communist state? He only harmonised the school uniforms for his own personal gain. If not his own gain, for the gains of his cronies then. How can only one person be the sole manufacturer of the school uniform for students in the entire state, thereby creating a monopoly. How are we sure such contractor does not have a percentage he or she is remitting back to the appropriate quarters on a regular basis?

6. He collected loans from banks and as well as bonds, sukkuk etc. The funds he raised were meant to start and complete the projects he highlighted to do. Why are all those projects abandoned? what happened to the raised funds?

In conclusion, Aregbe systematically ra.ped Osun State and his people. He should please mention projects he actually started and completed, apart from noise making and propaganda that characterised his somewhat abysmal performance. He single handedly wrecked the state. His Commissioner for Finance is a major accomplice and the chief engine room for the wrecking of the state.

Nigeria will surely get better.

God will help PMB.

As for wailing wailers, you still have 46months left for your continuous and sustained wailing.