₦airaland Forum

PhenomenonVFX:
The average daft Igbo believes that all Igbo must think like him. U can see them calling into question the Igboness of active nairaland Igbo like Nobleval and Anambra11. They dont believe that not all Igbo want Biafra.
Cognitive Dissonance.
To these set of daft Igbos, it is either their way or the highway. That is why they will try and insult and oppose any Igbo with differing political views. The same thing they did to Okorocha.
Sensless beings. I guess this is what happens when Upper Iweka touts have access to mobile phones and internet.

Honestly you must be a deranged human. What concerned you if Igbos want biafra? I thought your likes hate Igbos, why are you not happy to see them leave your nigeria? You sound so stupid and incoherent. ..

For your information, the likes of Okorocha are the Igbos sabos

People who should be happy of this because of the hate for biafra would rather be sad. ..what an irony?

Just wait as they will start cursing. ..well, cursing and ranting is part of their daily life after which they will look for a human head for ritual or someone to betray...lol

I wonder if all this pastors still remember "don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers".

AJINATU:
Biafra ba.stard. I have told you to leave the Yorubas out of your madness.

Do you know how low you y1bos have sunk in the Nigerian polity? You are just political pawns for Jonathan.

The las time we checked, Jonathans vice presidential running mate is a Northerner, there are 13 Northern PDP Governors while you ibos have only 3 PDP Governors

you are irrelevant in PDP, you are Irrelevant in APC. you are dregs, scums, the lowest of the low; always ready to lick the a55 of any government in power

If they are all that...why the worry over a scum... you are truly epitome of scum and delusion. .coward

Why can't Buhari simply convert to Christianity and save you people all these ranting and propagand? He can as well change his name to Ebele or Chukwu...it would him a lot better

It is not just only Soyinka, but his tribe including OBJ. Whatever Yoruba support is only what is good...to them that is progressive anything else is hypocrisy

What a people

Yoruba stop bothering yourselves of who Igbo vote. Igbo hate whatever it is that you support just as Yoruba hate everything Igbo support.
It would do the Yoruba and Hausa lot of good to go their seperate way...believe me.

Yoruba stop bothering yourselves of who Igbo vote. Igbo hate whatever it is that you support just as Yoruba hate everything Igbo support.
It would do the Yoruba and Hausa lot of good to go their seperate way...believe me.

Yoruba stop bothering yourselves of who Igbo vote. Igbo hate whatever it is that you support just as Yoruba hate everything Igbo support.
It would do the Yoruba and Hausa lot of good to go their seperate way...believe me.

BabaEleko:
I can't wait for Buhari to put all these criminals behind bars where they belong.

They criminals because they are not Tinubu and Akitu.
They are criminals because they are not from Yoruba and Hausa.
Then I asked, are they stealing Yoruba and Hausa oil money?

If land mass equals to population, then Russia would have been the most populated nation, not China

Again, why can't the Yoruba and Hausa expel Igbo from Nigeria so they won't have to worry themselves again?

If you think GEJ, CAN, and other tribes and people you hate are behind Bokoharam, why not expel those tribes and people from your nigeria and make Buhari your president?

Buhari is the choice of the hypocritical west and north who sees Nigeria as their personal property, while north get head of Nigeria, the west will get the tail. The rest in Nigeria are just a pawn in their chess game...well, at least so they f.o.olishly think.

chigo93:
yes d niger deltans must enjoy their oilwealth,but under gej,d militants have become billionaires,no hospitals across d creeks,d poor farmers are penningless,majority of d nigerdeltans are leaving in squalor,u need 2 see tompolo's house in banana island.Dont be surprise if buhari gets elected and strips dis tompolo off his wealth,then use d money 2 build schools,hospitals 4 d general good of d niger delta people.#say no 2 corruption.

Why didn't the past northern govts and OBJ built those things you list?
Why are you jealous of Tompolo and Asari wealth from their oil Wealth?
Why are you not angry and jealous against the northern and western cabal who have stole the wealth of ND and hold the likes of Tompolo and Asari down?

Why can't the North and West expel the East from Nigeria so that they can have no hindrance making Buhari their president?

Why troubling themselves with election when they can easily cave out the East out of Nigeria and make Buhari the Emperor for eternity?

Why can't the North and West expel the East from Nigeria so that they can have no hindrance making Buhari their president?

Why troubling themselves with election when they can easily cave out the East out of Nigeria and make Buhari the Emperor for eternity?

acenazt:
First time am supporting this guys.

I only hypocrisy every where...don't you think just as gay is forbidden so also is a Christian forbidden to an ISIL...
Hate is hate...you might hate a gay just a white might hate a black...nothing different. ..

Always be sure of whose side you are. ..bokoharam is just like ISIL doing what they believe in...do you support them too?

chacoonder:
..Only dumb people like you would do such a thing.

Your likes are dumber for not expelling and divorcing those they hated and those who hate Buhari and love GEJ

Gbawe:
Look,vote whoever you want and stop childishly reminding us of how ethnocentric you and your folks are. You will all be defeated because Nigeria, numerically and ideologically, is bigger than those of you who make it clear you care not for the future of the nation and remain unashamedly devoted to voting for probably the worst president we have had because of ethno-religious bias and your hypocritical hatred of other Nigerians in the North and SW you have no problem making money from but disgracefully take joy in denouncing publicly and at every chance you get. Decent Nigerians are beginning to see beyond your double-standards and hypocrisy. you can live in the North, do business there and build trading empires yet a Northerner is not worthy of your vote. Ditto for the SW. Disgraceful.

People like you are a disgrace to all that is desirable and good about humanity and you will be swept aside by the wind of change decent and focused Nigerians are craving for. I must remind you also that you and others like you will forever be tainted by how you stood on the side of evil and supported the continuation of needless death of your fellow citizens, universally condemned and hideous corruption, cluelessness, criminality and gross misrule because of nothing other than ethno-religious prejudice. Buhari is on his way to becoming President. Look at the world around you to note that you cannot deny a man his destiny when everything has converged to make it his time.

Take your "SS and SE will not vote Buhari" blackmail and shove it up your orifice where the sun does not shine !!! Other decent, moderate and balanced Nigerians are ready for change your voting bloc cannot prevent from happening.

I asked again, why not campaign for expulsion of East from Nigeria so that Buhari can rule over North and West?

The question should be:

What is Buhari going to do for Igbo?

What did the Northern govts do for the East?

OR is it now that Buhari will carry Aso Rock to East?

What about this one...A guy mistakenly commit suicide. Some one advised him to drink some concoction for his stomach. ..And he did and died after 2 day... heaven or hell

mcfynest:
And DO YOU THINK THE DIVORCE IS OK? Or do you think it will be peaceful? We have stayed together 100 years, and we can still work things out if we can change our orientation.

Husband and wife marry and give birth to many children, yet after many years of togetherness, they still divorce. ..how much more when we hate each other with passion

Why are some tribes afraid of GEJ lighting matches he is holding. ..won't it be better to divorce?

We have all seen the bigotry among us.. we have all known how different we are and how we detest the other tribes. ..The best for everybody is peaceful divorce.

You hate me and I hate you....how can we work together for a better day? There is big mistrust...If I may say, Nigerian foundation is laid on mistrust and misgivings.

Divorce is our best bet..

We have all seen the bigotry among us.. we have all known how different we are and how we detest the other tribes. ..The best for everybody is peaceful divorce.

You hate me and I hate you....how can we work together for a better day? There is big mistrust...If I may say, Nigerian foundation is laid on mistrust and misgivings.

Divorce is our best bet..

tonychristopher:
As a matter of serious conversation, shouldn't your first instinct be to answer to the substantive question about projects that Yorubas have embarked on and succeeded in Nigeria and out of the confidence that you derived from having responded properly to the inquiry at hand you can then proceed to asking any questions that you dim necessary.



Your failure toaddress the question at hand before asking your question indicates that you are not a serious interlocutor like Ayo and I say that for the records.Notwithstanding your inability to rescue Ayo from his self-inflicted wound, again typical of a Yoruba man, I will not hesitate to take you to school if you chose to be babysitted for the record, although I will be repeating myself. Now in respect to your specificquestion, what Igbo built that Yoruba destroyed, in a nutshell almost every institution that the white man handed over to Nigeria after our independence Igbos built but because of your sophomoric question I will endeavor to break down what I mean for you. Nigerian railway was built and managed under Igbo minister Dr. Onyiuke and Igbos ran most of the day to day operations and the railway worked, when Yorubas took over the railway after the war they destroyed it.


Igbos ran the military and brought prestige to the Nigerian military because of the caliber of Igbos that joined the military and the military worked then, look at what the military has become. You can mention any ministry before the war that worked and you will see the hands of Igbo in it.During the British/Biafran war Igbos invented one of the most deadly explosives (IEDs-Ogbunigwe)the world have ever known in the 1960s, the Igbos built armored cars, air missiles, assault rifles, gun boats, rocket launcher, rocket propelled grenades and ambulance vehicles. Igbos not only built underground refineries they also built mobile refineries as they lost territories to the federal troops. After the war Awo and his tribal cabal representing the Yoruba conspired and went on a search and destroy mission and methodically combed all the south east and blew up and destroyed all thefactories that Igbo built instead of moving the factories and the Igbo scientists to a federally controlled areaand using their ingenuity to the benefitof the whole nation. For your information ask America and Russia what they did with German engineers after world war 11. Today Nigeria is importing all these military equipments. That is destruction of what Igbos built. In 1972, Professor A. N. Njoku-Obi produced an anti-cholera vaccine recognized by the world health community, Yoruba elites who were running the Nigeria bureaucracy after the war did not want to hear of it, they undermined that project and today Nigeria is importing those drugs instead of being the manufacturer and exporter. That is destruction my friends. In 1974 two years after an Igbo invented the cholera vaccine, Professor F. A. Udekwu and his colleagues performedthe first ever open-heart surgery in Nigeria and Black Africa, did you think that Yoruba elites wanted to hear that, of course not, if I did not tell you now, would you know? Hell no! Today, forty years later Nigerians are going oversees for their heart surgery payinghard currency. That is destruction of Nigerian economy. In 1999 after Obasanjo took office, he destroyed every Igbo business that was importing Rice and Cement into Nigeria before he came into office by granting an unprecedented and probably the biggest sole monopoly ofthe importation of rice and cement to one man called Dangote who became a billionaire overnight. When Igbos where involved in the importation of these items like cement, the price of cement was around N300, now the price of cement is hovering around N1,500 a bag. Go figure that, that is destruction of not only Igbos businesses but Nigeria in general. After Dangote was grant the sole monopoly of importing cement, he complained to Obasanjo that Ibeto cement industry owned by an Igbo which was mostly a repackaging factory was creating an undue competition for his monopoly and overnight Obasanjo used an executive order to shutdown Ibeto cement factory with its 400 employees. My friend that is destruction by any standard. Savannah Bank was established by Jim Nwobodo an Igbo man, Obasanjo closed down that bank and rendered all the employees jobless because he had some disagreements with Nwobodo not because the bank went bankrupt, not because the bank was running a fraudulent scheme, not because the bank was being mismanaged but because Obasanjo like most Yorubas have this visceral hate, wickedness, jealousy and the type of indifference that says why did God create an Igbo in the first place. Again Kunle that is destruction of a unique type. Engineer Ezekiel Izuogo created the V600 car and Yoruba press, politicians, lawyers even Yoruba engineers attacked him mercilessly and frustrated his effort to build the factory in Igbo land, that is one, second when he decided to build the factory in South Africa during Obasanjo’s regime, Obasanjo and his co-haters went and stole everything, the design manual, the engine block, everything necessary for him to carry on his work thereby destroying Izuogo motors for good. Kunle do you still need more examples? Wait I told Ayo that I have more than most of you could imagine. Do you remember Niger Dock Apapa, Dr. Nnamdi Ozobia, an Igbo built it, he built yachts for individuals and ferry boats for Lagos State that plied between Apapa to Mile2. He also did repairs for foreign ships that paid Nigeria hard currency, well here we go again, when Obasanjo came into office he removed Dr. Ozobia in the most ignominious way a pattern for Obasanjo and handed over Niger Dock Apapa to Yorubas. Today Niger Dock Apapa is in ruins, a shadow of its old self. That is destruction of what Igbos built. You have Nigerian Ports Authority, NigerianAirways, you have NITEL that Yorubas burnt down after they ruined it throughembezzlement. Lest I forget what about the mother of all destruction, theindigenization decree of 1972. What the decree did was to hand over Nigerian economy to the Yorubas and they destroyed the economy. The list below is a partial list of mostly British and other foreign owned companies that Igbos were efficiently managing before the war, few of these companies were owned or partial owned by Yoruba.

Some Yorubas in the past have quibbled about preciselywho owned what but not on the point of whether Yorubas ruined all the companies that they acquired by the force of the indigenization decree. My response is that the issue has never been about who owned what, the substantive issue was and is that Yorubas ruined, defrauded, liquidated and destroyed all the companies they took over after the war regardless of who owned them before the war even including their own companies that they started but could not manage. For your information that single act of indigenization decree is largely responsible for our economic state of affair.“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State.Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. •Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. •Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State •Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State •Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State •Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State •Wema Bank Plc,

GOD bless you for this info. ..

gratieao:
Yoruba Incompetency destroyed Nigeria.
Nigerian’s problem is not bribery, not corruption not even greed rather our fundamental problem is incompetence. 

Definition
Competent corrupt societies are societies that have the in-built mechanisms to self-correct and self-adjust because the fundamental foundation of those societies are situated on COMPETENCE 

Incompetent corrupt societies are societies that do not have the in-built mechanisms to self-correct and self-adjust because the fundamental foundation of those societies are situated on INCOMPETENCE


Enter Yoruba Incompetence:
The presence of the Yoruba in this whole cesspool will once and for all prove my point that incompetence of the crippling order is responsible for Nigerian malaise rather than Bribery, corruption or greed.

It is easy to make the argument that the reason why the north was incompetent was because they were not well educated, that majority of them had only high school education, that they were naive young men and ill-informed.

Only when you discover that the northern leaders understood their shortcoming and literally handed over the running of the government to the Yoruba to handle the day to day operation of the government and the Yoruba could not do any better than the Hausa.

I will like to state without fear of contradiction that Yoruba has well educated people in every field of endeavor-engineering, law, economics, name it, they have people there but that is where the credit ends.

The understanding was that the educated Yoruba was going to help the ill-prepared north to administer the affairs of the country by complementing the north that was mainly in the military. 

In order words, the Yoruba supposed to take care of the administration, economy, the technological innovation and development of the country into the 21st century.

What Yoruba proved unequivocally, at least we have more than forty years of history to support it, is that acquiring education to PH.D level does not automatically make you a competent person.

One cannot question the educational achievement of the Yoruba because they are one of the most educated groups in Nigeria. The question that Yoruba has to answer is what went wrong?

What did they do with their education when it came to managing Nigeria?

The Yoruba had the education, the engineers, the architects, the lawyer, economists, technologists, the numerical numbers, the ministers, directors, the medical doctors, the high positions, the unrestricted authority, the power, you know what?

The Yoruba had cart Blanche. They even had total control of the communication media.

As established above the Hausa needed the Yoruba given the fact that they got into power ill-prepared, they hoped that the Yoruba will use their education and intelligence to help navigate the ship of the country.

As history has shown, the Yoruba dropped the ball big time and are still dropping it as we speak.

 Most Hausa that are in the know will tell you that it is true that Yoruba are well educated but that they are as incompetent as the north is. What called the competence of the Yoruba into question was that from the day Yoruba occupied the center stage in piloting the affairs of the country, the country did not progress an inch from where Yoruba met it rather the country regressed and lost everything that Yoruba touched or managed.

Yoruba simply ravaged, pillaged and looted every government ministry, department, agency, business, cooperation, you name it.

Gowon’s administration was considered corrupt because of the wanton, unmitigated, unrestrained looting and corruption of the Yoruba that was recruited to help run the country. It is a known fact that Yoruba thought the north how to be corrupt.

Monkey see and monkey do. After watching the Yoruba pillage and loot, the north figured that that is normal and that that is how educated people behave and they joined the bandwagon.

So you have now two tribes with the biggest population that see the looting and destruction of everything they touch as business as usual and Nigerians are wondering what is wrong with the country, why is the country so corrupt. The country is corrupt because Hausa and Yoruba are incompetent to manage the affairs of the country.


The consequences of the North’s incompetence was critical because if the north were competent, they could have taken care of the country by themselves or alternatively checkmated the Yoruba once they starting looting, but because the north did not know any better they simply joined.

The way it happened was that as the north was siphoning and looting directly from the federal treasury to themselves, the Yoruba were busy sucking the life out of all the MDAs and the businesses and cooperations from the fallout of indigenization.

Interestingly enough Hausa did not bother Yoruba and Yoruba did not bother Hausa, each party was busy minding their business to the detriment of the whole country. Exactly the symptom of incompetence, you see, incompetence does not ask questions or get inquisitive because it does not know what to be inquisitive about and even when it asks a question and gets an answer; it does not know what to do with. This explains the widespread of bribery and corruption when you have Yoruba and Hausa neck deep into it.


Another case of incompetence displayed by north was when the Yoruba proposed for the indigenization of foreign companies. It is my belief that none of the northern military leaders had ever heard that word INDIGENIZATION before or understood what it meant.

In the first instance, the presence of the northerners incooperated Nigeria was minimal to none, so the north had no comprehension of the ramification of such policies, another evidence of incompetence rather than corruption from the onset.

If the north was competent and understood the implications of such policies, they could have objected on many grounds, unfortunately they did not know any better to checkmate the looting Yoruba rascals.

Having demonstrated that the Yoruba failed to lead notwithstanding their education, the question is what is the difference between the leaders of countries like South Korea, Brazil and India that succeeded in the face of challenges and the Yoruba leaders that failed?

The fact that Yoruba cannot claim lack of education, they cannot claim lack of opportunity and they cannot claim that they lacked the unrestrained authority to act, the only thing that the other leaders have that the Yoruba lacked is competence.

The way it works is that the absence of competent creates a vacuum hat is quickly filled by the ills of societies like bribery, corruption, greed, crime, murder and so on and so on.

To further drive the point home, can anyone recall one single Yoruba official that has done something so noble and honorable to improve the lot of the whole nation rather pursuing self-interest that Nigerians could look back and sing his praise?

The answer is no, but I will like someone to proof me wrong. That is a proof of incompetence first before corruption.

As a matter of fact you can trace the origin of all the millionaires from Yoruba and Hausa to one corruption or the other or government contract.

Fighting corruption in Nigeria is like fighting Hausa and Yoruba and I think that that is a daunting task.

The simple fact that after Yoruba took total control of Nigerian economy and they could not improve the socio-economics and technological development is a sign of nothing but incompetence. 
The injection of competence in Nigerian system will see a gradual improvement in accountability and progress.
Typical example is that Hausa and Yoruba have gone in and out of ministerial positions for decades without anything to show for it and that is why no one can remember their names or what they did but when you mention the name of people that have demonstrated competence, people remember them and what they accomplished, people like Charles Soludo, ObiageliEzekwesili, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dora Akunyili and Dr. Bert Nnaji to mention afew.
 Notice that these folks did not have unrestrained authority, they did not have cart blanche but were able to make a different despite the challenges just like the leaders in South Korea, Brazil and India. What do they have in common? Competence.
I could go on and on but I believe that the point has been made that the problem ailing the country is not bribery, corruption or greed rather that our fundamental problem is incompetence and that only competent people can tame the pillaging and looting going on now and most importantly that Yoruba and Hausa must join the builders rather than looters of the system.



Enter the Hausa Incompetence:
Contrast the success of competent corrupt societies with the failure of incompetent corrupt societies like Nigeria. I defined earlier an incompetent corrupt society as a society that lacks the inert mechanism to self-correct and self-adjust for the betterment of its society or a house without a grown up. 

Since after the war Nigeria has been living the life of an incompetent corrupt society that lacks the necessary capacity, ability and skills to self-correct in order to carry out a task of improving the lot of Nigerian. 

It is important to note that after the war the north held sway, they had total and absolute control, they had total freedom, they had no opposition because the opposition had been decimated.

 Igbo was leaking its wounds.

The north had the freedom to take the country in any direction they chose without opposition, to make Nigeria in its own image, if you think about it, they sure made Nigeria in their image, squalor, illiteracy, ignorance, crime, death, murder, hopelessness, stagnation, disillusionment, indiscipline, disaster, unfulfilled dreams, indifference, neglect, over-night millionaires and billionaires, disappointments, bribery, corruption and greed became the new normal, the question is what happened? 

What happened was that the British helped to institutionalized Kakistocracy and incompetence prevailed over competence and became the order of the day if you ask me? 

As we will see, the north exhibited incompetence of the highest order with its attendant corruption and blight without the necessary mechanism to self-correct and self-adjust.
Even before the north got power, they knew that they were ill prepared for the responsibilities, when they got the power, they had no clue what to do with, they did not know what military and political power were used for, they became confused, they became a sitting duck, they became rudderless, even when they were advised, they could not use the advise because they did not have the requisite ability and skills to judge the advise right or wrong. 

When they delegated responsibility they lacked the ability to evaluate what the result should be, for that reason it was difficult for them to request for any feedback when they had no clue what the feedback is supposed to look like. 

If they cannot tell difference between what they are looking for, how can they check mate bad behaviors from good? 

This is incompetence not corruption. Before the northern military took power, literally, everything in the system was working, education, health, water supply, electricity, road infrastructure, Nigerian railway, ports authority, national shipping line, the business and commerce industry were all thriving. It is pertinent to note that the north did not meet the systems in their primitive stage, they had systems that were working, as a matter of fact Nigeria experienced incredible economic expansion immediately after the war in part because the Igbo land was militarized and unbeknownst to the leadership the army spent majority of their salaries in Igboland which managed to keep the Igbo economy afloat and plus other foreign investment into the country.

 When the demands of leadership came knocking on the door of the northern leadership, what answered and opened the door was abject incompetence, absolute intellectual vacuity, visionlessness and hopelessness. 

The leadership was found to be inadequate, unsuited, devoid of those qualities requisite for effective conduct or action and not possessing the necessary ability and skills to carry out the tasks of leadership. What was most disturbing was that the northern leadership knew it, the British masters knew it, the Igbo knew it, the Yoruba knew it, the world knew it and the British went ahead anyway to convince the north that they can lead the country even over the objection of the northern leadership that they cannot. 

The manifest absence of vision, objectives, direction, hope and the cluelessness of the northern leadership created a vacuum that laid the foundation and fertile ground for unbridled bribery and corruption to breed, fester and multiply.
This is incompetence not corruption. 

The absence of competence is our problem. When the northern leadership was found vacuous, opportunist and schemers filled the vacuum they found with their whims and caprice and the north could not self-correct or correct others because they did not possess the requisite elements of competence. 

This is incompetence not corruption, though corruption later filled that vacuum that was created but it did not come first, it came second after it discovered that competence was not home. 

In order words the north being in charge is like having no grown up in the house and the rascals came in and ransacked the house. What is most heart breaking is the fact that the northern incompetence knew no bounds, the least that could have been expected from the northern leadership was taking care of northern citizens, favoring them and raising their standard of living relative to the rest of the country but that did not happen.
The fact that they could not do it is incompetence not corruption. 

The northern leadership could not improve the education and literacy, health -infant mortality, water, road infrastructure, economics and the overall wellbeing of the northern citizens. 

The question is whether the failure of the northern leadership to improve the lot of the northerners was deliberate? 

The answer is no but more of the manifestation of incompetence and not corruption. They were clueless which is equal to incompetence. The north today has the highest illiteracy rate in the whole world, infant mortality, blindness and myriad of other problems. The north is worse off amongst the whole groups in Nigeria in all indices used to adjudge standard of living. 

The welfare of the north could have been more worse if it were not for the work of non-governmental organizations from the southern part of the country that provide preventive and palliative services in place of the total absence of government services.
Folks have always wondered why Nigeria is in this state of anomie, all I ask is for folks to look to the north and they will find the answer.

Folks should ask the question, how can the north do for the whole nation what they could not do for their northern people, the saying that you cannot give what you do not have, the north could not give that which they did not possess and that is competent service.

Ladies and Gentlemen, what I am contending here is that what the northern leadership demonstrated was not bribery, was not corruption or greed, what they demonstrated was peter’s principal at work which was basic incompetence because it is evident that as much as one will agree that the north had a reason to hold malice against the east, there was no evidence that they extended that malice to their northern brethren, nor was there evidence that the leadership hated their citizens, so their failure to take care of the welfare of the northern people and to make them better than the rest of the nation could only be seen as innocent and inert ignorance and not corruption. 

Their failure to understand what leadership is all about and failed to make the connection between leadership and the people. 

In case some of you have forgotten, let me remind you of what incompetence is all about: being Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application, Devoid of those qualities requisite for effective conduct or action, and not possessing the necessary ability, skill,etc. to do or carry out a task". 

I want the reader to pay attention to the words "unsuited, devoid, and not possessing and that will capture the crux of my argument. You have to be devoid of something serious to fail in everything. That north is simple and short not suited for the purposes of leadership and that is why they can not stop all the bad things that are happening.
There were plenty of evidence that the north in most part were innocent and not corrupt nor were they inclined to bribery until years later when the leadership vacuums they created were filled by others who were equally as incompetent as they were. 

The north did not start out not to bring the dividend of their leadership to the people, ironically they did not even try because they did not know how to try or what to try or do, they were super-morosed, and they simply vegetated throughout their leadership reign. The lack of performance on the part of northern leadership was not intentional because they just did not know how to perform anything. They had no expectations either from themselves or from others, they were satisfied with where they found themselves, complacency became the order of the day as they knew no better, as they could not see beyond where they were standing, evidence of incompetence not corruption. 

As far as they were concerned everything was normal, they did not know the difference between performance and none performance, when they allowed some ideas and projects to be executed, they were unsuited and were devoid of the abilities and skills to grasp what exactly the ideas and projects were supposed to accomplish in the scheme of things, the final result and output supposed to look like. They heard the words but did not comprehend them, so whether a project was done half way, well done or not at all did not matter because the skill to do the evaluate did notexist, particularly when the highest level of education attained by almost all the northern military boys at that time was secondary school obtained from mostly moslem school.

You are a good writer. ..I will be glad if you can write a book on this and find more history to back it...you have said all that need to be said...thanks. ..truth is as pure as gold...thanks again

They only like to hate, yet they can't stand on their own.. lazy tribes. Divorce us, they won't, their only plan is to hold us down...ranting and cursing are the only things they know best...
They have the country and ND oil wealth for decades, yet they couldn't achieve anything, they couldn't stop corruption. ..now they are ranting here and there Igbo Agenda, Igbo Agenda. ..they marginalize us, yet the accuse us of everything bad in Nigeria. ..

Surely we must be special to keep them sleepless night and restless each day...lazy hating and cursing bunch..tufiakwa