Typical Yorubaman: Ndigbo-obsessed but Yoruba future blind.
Fafesot: Tinubu my man. He's trying everything possible to come out victorious in this battle. All these happenings had been forseen by him since the emergence of Buhari as the president of Nigeria. He may not be a saint, but trust me.. he's a builder. Most people talking him down are quite sentimental,tbh. Sentiment apart, can other candidates match him in terms of productivity?
And let me add this; let animals rule the zoo and human beings should rule in their own Cosmos. I thought they said Nigeria is a zoo. You can't eat your cake and want to have it; not possible.
Insightful comment. They won't support us for our actualization of Biafra. They have a precedent. Did they not fight against us in 1967 and forced us back to Nigeria.
franchasofficia: Tinubu's daughter didn't write this, but one of Tinubu's ardent Yoruba supporter wrote this because it is how most Yorubas think about Igbos in Lagos.
Igbos have been living peacefully in Lagos and contributing immensely to the development of Lagos State. Even Igbos that don't live in Lagos or Nigeria still come to Lagos to invest the money they earned outside Lagos.
At least I have relatives and friends who don't even live in Nigeria but massively investing in real estate, manufacturing, transport, etc in Lagos, but to an average Yoruba person, every rich or successful Igbo person he sees in Lagos was made rich by Lagos lolz.
They are blind to the fact that Igbos made Lagos the commercial center of Nigeria it is today. Observe Lagos between December 20 to January 10 when Igbos usually travel back to Southeast for Christmas, Lagos is always a lonely town during these period simply because most Igbos have left Lagos for festivals in the East. That alone should awaken Yorubas and make them understand that if what they are wishing in Lagos happens, Lagos will become an empty town with little or no economic value.
It is Nigerian federal government that made Lagos what it is today with favorable federal government policies that centered most facilities and infrastructures in Lagos, remove those things and watch people naturally leave Lagos on their own. Or instead, if you are tired of seeing Igbos in Lagos and in other parts of Southwest, why not support Igbos to have their independent country so you can lockup the entire Southwest against these ungrateful Igbos using new immigration policies?
Igbos supported Yorubas during their Yoruba Nation agitation so that it will help make it easier for Biafra too to get out of Nigeria so all man can face their father's house but when Igbos start Biafra agitation, the same Yorubas screaming Igbos should leave Lagos will be the first to be insulting and attacking Igbos verbally for trying to separate from Nigeria, isn't this madness? You don't like Igbos, the simplest thing to do is to support them to go and be on their own so they can go back to their barren, landlocked land and perish to your excitement, but no you don't want that, you want to be using resources from Southeast to develop your region and at the same time screaming for the same Igbos to go back to their region you are using one Nigeria to milk for the benefit of your region.
If you truly want Igbos to go back to Southeast, please support the actualization of independent state of Biafra so that Igbos will leave your region and then you make strict immigration policies prohibiting Igbos from entering your country, that's how other countries do it. North and South Korea did it. US did same to some Islamic countries, Russia is doing same to some countries too. So apply that wisdom so you enjoy your region alone without Igbos.
And lastly, it is not as if Igbos are only in Lagos, even in crises torn states like Borno and Yobe, Igbos are still massively there doing business which made Governor Zulum to become surprised and impressed with Igbos that he specially thanked Igbos for not deserting Borno state because of Boko Haram insurgency but remained to help develop and sustain Borno State economy and he ordered the immediate construction of good roads to all those markets where Igbo traders are doing business in Borno. That's showing appreciation.
You don't threaten investors, you woo them. Buhari and every other government go around the world begging investors to come to their land to invest and do business, that's how its done, you celebrate and treat your investors well and not threaten them always after they have helped to build and develop your land, thats being ungrateful, jealous, treacherous and wicked!
Obviously, you lack the cognitive intelligence to decipher the thrust of his article which appeared in a well-respected international magazine called Foreign Affairs
favor914: The Truth is that 100% guaranteed, Nigeria was here 100 years before you, Nigeria will be here 100 years after your demise.
So why waste your short life on earth chasing shadows?
Be the best you can be Mr Racoon because Nigeria ain’t going nowhere, it is here forever, which is the duration of your lifetime.
After you are 6 feet under resting having completed running your race in the world of the living, of what value will Nigeria be to you?
I call them floundering fathers - not founding fathers!
Racoon: Even the founding fathers of the failed entity later regretted their believe in this so called country they were dying for. Nigeria is a fraud that will self destroy whether this startling reality is accepted or not.
But forget that an Igbo in Kano frustrated the coup in North and another Igbo Ironsi in Lagos. You forget that an Igbo military officer was also killed. You forget that the coup was carried out by members from different ethnic groups. You also forgot the man who headed the tribunal set up by General J.T. U. Aguiyi Ironsi was a Northerner in the person of Gowon, as his Chief of Staff, which conducted investigations of the coups of 1966.
Rossikk: Thank you. I am an Igbo person, but I will always tell the truth. I am not blinded by ethnic bias. What confirmed that the 1966 coup was an Igbo attempt to place themselves above other Nigerians was the refusal by the Ironsi regime to arrest the coup plotters, and the total silence of the Igbo intelligentsia in the face of that screaming injustice.
If such a thing happened in the other way round, no Igbo person would accept it. But somehow Igbos expected Nigerians to quietly accept the murder of their regional leaders plus Prime Minister? That says a lot about the narcissism of the Igbo collective.
How did Azikiwe and Nwabueze do this? Please can you show me the section of the constitution that they drafted that made it impossible for any part to leave?
HilcomTech: Are you this DUMB or you are too DAFT to read Nigerian history.
You have your wicked, cunning and greedy Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ben Nwabueze to thank for your inability to leave Nigeria as they were the people who drafted that part of the constitution that made it impossible for any part of the country to break away.
Both Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ben Nwabueze thought the Igbos would be leading Nigeria and made it impossible for others to be able to break free from their bondage not knowing that their people would be the ones the trap would ensnare
The mere fact that you are comparing the GDP of Lagos with Anambra is all that half intelligent needs to conclude that you are totally unintelligent and an irredeemable ignoramus.
Nvestor02: Only tribalism makes Igbo to prefer Peter Obi over Tinubu because Jagaban has 100 times his achievements and also builds up people to continue the achievements that he started.
Igbo have always tried to bring down anyone who is higher than them, and Yorubas has proven that times without number.
The Igbo are out again to bring down Tinubu by force because no Igbo man in the world has ever been blessed like him.
The GPD per capita of Anambra is 1,010 compared to Lagos at 4,012. That shows that there is a good standard of living in Lagos compared to Anambra.
After Ebonyi, Anambra that Peter Lunatic Obi rule for 8 years has the lowest GDP per Capital in the East. Even our Small Osun and Ondo are doing well than that state, not even talk about Ogun and Oyo.
This same tribe hates Awolowo, who doesn't rule their land to the core, but they will praise the failure Azikiwe, who doesn't have half of Awolowo's achievements, even with his federal power.
This same tribe despises Abiola for being a Yoruba and refused to vote for him. , he won by a landslide, and an Igbo man, because of his hatred for Yoruba, refused to declare him as winner and also came to NTA to drag Abiola when he declared himself winner, which led to his death.
Obi has no tangible achievement, He even fought Small, Tiny and weaponless MASSOB for 8 years and never win.
You did not accommodate us. Did you give us free houses to live? You went to war to prevent us from leaving Nigeria and Yorubaland. So forcing us back to Nigeria gives us the right to reside everywhere. Had Biafra survived as an independent nation mismanaged and misgoverned which forced us to migrate to Yorubaland, then your daft assertion that you accommodated us holds true and factual. Other than that you did nothing - absolutely nothing - for Ndigbo.
Ttalk: Yoruba accommodated you after the war, they didn't share your properties as the spoil of war. That is why we have large number of your people in SW despite the fact that Yoruba do not share border with SE states.
You came to SW and find a peaceful environment, you were never killed because of religion, ethnic or trade just like the way you are being massacre in the north, Ghana or South Africa.
You find it easy to occupy executive position and were allowed to contest elective position in the SW while your people enjoy similar privilege in the SW. In fact 90% of your past and current leaders have their education in SW and still have one connection or the other in the SW states, but you taken the love for stupidity, you continuously antagonize their believe, culture heritage and political interest for no just reason but for envy and ego contest.
While you were at that, your political God MNK through his radio Biafra instigated many hatred against Youruba which were pursued by IPOB while your leaders kept quiet. You continued your hatred during endsars and hijacked the movement to destroy Lagos, you are very happy to see Lagos and SW where you made your money go down even if it will cost you great lost.
You called Lagos no mans land but can't do that to Abuja, Kano or PH. You hate every Yoruba politician and protect the worst ones from your region.
Yoruba do not envy your food, your town or your leaders, if fact, they do not know whether you exist or not but you dedicate all your entire regional life against Yoruba.
You supported PDP and Yoruba supports APC, you were schemed out of the presidential primary while Yoruba fought hard to get that of APC, but you blame your political incompetence on Yoruba
Seriously, you have burnt the bond of relationship that exist between you and Yoruba for life, it's just a pity that innocent Igbo who do not subscribe to the barbaric of many of you would suffer the consequence
Your buyers remorse for voting Buhari can suffocate a healthy man. Take it easy. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Eriokanmi: Is the message not loud enough to the deaf and clear enough to the blind?
Let's see it this way....
Wouid you hire a liar as your manager to run the affairs of your company? Would you hire a reckless man as your manager? If I'm to describe myself in my resume, I'd state my name, my state of Origin ( Lagos),primary school, secondary school and institutions attended.
On Tinubu's Wikipedia page, he only stated that he had his primary education in osun state...where in Osun and in which town?
He claimed he's 70 years old whereas, alhaja his first wife died at 74 in 2018. Does he look 70 to an ordinary tot?
You want to be president but you bought the people's conscience with thousands of dollars...is he father Christmas who wouldn't recover his money in triple folds if he gets there?
Amazingly...amazingly...he's contesting to run under same party he once sugar-coated and sold to us in 2015. I'm one of the victims of the change agenda cos, not only did I carry buhari on top of my head because of lots of lies this man told us about buhari, i also canvassed votes for him. Today, how much is fuel, diesel, that of commodities? Building materials, etc?
Had security improved? What of the economy? How much is dollar today? Education nko? The last time I checked, students have been home for months. UK vasirities even issued circulars that Nigerian students aren't welcome anymore yet, their children are schooling abroad while ours are at home. Some of them have even died already due to the ongoing strike I know of Stephen Ajayi Adeola, the UI student who had been missing since March cos he went to do a menial job at lekki so he'd not be staying home idly.
Any Nigerian youth still supporting this party and their candidate needs to have his/brain checked. Something must be wrong somewhere.
You are right about the killings? But was that the first instance of killings in Nigeria?
richie240: Imagine where Nigeria would've been if some group of soldiers had not treacherously killed the military and political leaders of the north, west and Midwest while protecting ALL of theirs from d same bullets!
Somebody shd tell me where d 'equity, justice and fairplay' is bikonu?
Your statement is pregnant with all manner of takeaways. The same viewpoint was flown after the emergence of Buhari as winner in the 2015 Election. The term WAILING WAILER was coined for Ndigbo. Did the economic hardship and deprivation that came with Buhari’s epic misgovernance affect only Ndigbo? So who is really…really the MUGU?
Kdon2: They will cry when the time comes! Ibos are good in business but bad politicians
" I've always pondered as to why those efulefu majors refused to see tribalism in the 1960s. What is their concern if the western region was burning and Awo was imprisoned? Why couldn't they let it burn or let Ahmadu Bello deal with Awo the way he deemed fit?"
Totally agree with you. The coup plotters intention were to benefit the West and Awolowo who wear under political assualt from the feudal North. Yet when the conflict degenerated into war, the Yoruba turned around to support their hitherto mortal enemy, Caliphate North , to slaughter Ndigbo
alex101: The moral of this whole saga is to mind your own business and never go/come to the aid of those who aren't your tribe's men . Ndigbo should stop acting like they are more nigerian than others. I've always pondered as to why those efulefu majors refused to see tribalism in the 1960s. What is their concern if the western region was burning and Awo was imprisoned? Why couldn't they let it burn or let Ahmadu Bello deal with Awo the way he deemed fit?
Even the Ikemba knows this,,,,,that was why he didn't border trying to save Saro Wiwa's neck from Abacha's noose, inspite of the latter's attempt at reconciliation with Ikemba and Ndigbo in general.
Tour de force piece! Nigeria has finally happened to him.
Adonis86: Ike Ekweremadu is obviously a powerful man. Spending his 20th year in the Senate of which 8 were as Deputy Senate President.
He could have used the time to get Nigeria a world-class kidney hospital but no! He didn't need kidney treatment so it was his least bother.
Things happen and his own daughter needed kidney treatment. As it is with President Buhari and everyone who has held office in Nigeria, Ekweremadu shamelessly took his daughter to UK for treatment where he was going to be attended to by Nigerian nurses and doctors whom Ekweremadu and his gang of politicians chased away with total neglect of the health sector.
But Ekweremadu did not go with his daughter alone, he took along a boy who was suffering hardship and pains from a Nigeria system which, Ekweremadu helped to damage. Ekweremadu wanted to harvest this boy's kidney to save his own daughter. As fate will have it, tests performed on the boy showed his kidney was not a match for Ekweremadu's son.
Ekweremadu began to make arrangements to return the boy to Nigeria and obviously take another one to the UK. But the boy tasted and enjoyed the good life in the UK something Ekweremadu and his band of bad and failed leaders deprived him of in Nigeria. The boy saw electricity 24/7 (powered by gas from Nigeria), he did not need to start 'I better pass you generator' or he sleeps in darkness to the joy of mosquitoes. He saw how clean and beautiful the hospitals were different from the mortuaries will call hospitals in Nigeria and absolutely for free. He saw how efficient the metropolitan police were securing the neighbourhood and not the Nigerian police starved of funds by Ekweremadu and gang! The boy enjoyed rides on clean and efficient public transportation (buses, trams, light rail, underground tube, trains, boats etc) and not the okada, Keke and endless trekking in Nigeria. The boy was awed by the beautiful landscaped, trash free and green environment and not the filth he is used to in Nigeria. The boy saw food everywhere. He saw beautiful schools from nursery to reception to primary to secondary all the way to high school absolutely free. He saw that his dream of university education will be realised even if he has no money for fees and ASUU will not truncate his dream in the UK. The boy saw unemployed people paid benefits by the government. The boy saw, enjoyed and liked the UK better than Ekweremadu's Nigeria!
The boy decided he was not going back to Nigeria damaged by Ekweremadu and his gang. The boy ran to seek refuge from the metropolitan police. In Ekweremadu's Nigeria the police would have arrested the boy and dropped him in Kuje prison where for the next 10yrs he will still be on 'awaiting trial' roll. If the boy tried to talk he will be summarily executed and his body paraded as an armed robber gunned down by the 'gallant' police. Ekweremadu and his gang are above the law in a lawless Nigeria they have created.
Unfortunately for Ekweremadu, the UK is not Nigeria. He has exchanged his posh mansion in a highbrow neighbourhood in London for a police cell where he is being schooled in the act of rule of law something he is obviously lacking in his nearly 20yrs as a law maker and legal pundit.
Ekweremadu will have his day in court.
His victim will now enjoy life in the UK because it's easy to prove that if he returns to Nigeria Ekweremadu and his goons will go after him!
If Ekweremadu had done his bit to fix Nigeria, all this drama wouldn't have happened.
Ekweremadu and his likes who think they can do well when Nigeria is sick have just found out the bitter truth - no one will prosper better than Nigeria. If Nigeria fails, we fail with it. Let's understand that our fate is tied to Nigeria's fate. If we rise, we rise together and if we fail, we also fail together.
I agree with you. That’s why we are asking for restructuring so that Lagos State can control it resources and Alaigbo can also control its own resources.
kingthreat: Tinubu's Lagos is greater than the entire alaigbo
sreamsense: Majority of them are self-inflicted and avoidable war and troubles; but due to stubbornness, greediness and arrogance of many of your forefathers you brought needless destruction upon yourselves undermining your enemies. You read stories of all these attrocities and yet many of you never learnt anything from them which make Ipob/esn begin self-inflicted destruction, killings and violence into Alaigbo in the name of fighting for imaginary Biafra. For how long will you keep being bittered and angry?
Diplomacy and dialogue remain vital weapons to resolve issues. Learn from yorubas how they have used these tools to resolve different challenges that could have lead to war since independence and co-habit with their hosts peacefully. Boasting and fighting with your hosts should always be avoided to avoid needless war. Ipob/ESN kills, destroys and damage properties of Igbos more than destruction that comes from outside. Life is short, be happy, forgive, get rid of bitterness and move on with your life.
Why did you post the picture of Biafra kids suffering from the effect of economic and food blockade by Nigeria during the (Northern) Nigeria-Biafra War? What is the relevance? What point are you trying to make? [quote author= post=113966372]May God answer dem prayers oooo.
A picture speaks more than a thousand words. And 2 pictures?![/quote]
How can Nigeria be great again when Nigeria has never been great before? Or am l missing something. [quote author= post=113962658]Nigeria will be great again in our lifetime.[/quote]
Nnamdi Kanu is the least problem of Nigeria. If ten percent of Igbo political elites voice out the marginalization and injustices post-Biafra Nigeria has meted out to Ndigbo, Kanu would not have found a listening audience in Ala-Igbo What have you done to fight the suffocation of Ndigbo in Nigeria?
EasternVoice: That the fool Nnamdi Kanu has been caught. It gave well meaning Ndi-Igbo great joy.
NB: If you want to be unfortunate this Sunday afternoon, quote me!
You must be a Yoruba man. The North did not cause the misfortune of Ndigbo because Biafra would have defeated North one on one. It is fools like SW that aligned with the North that won the war. Yoruba won the war for Northern Nigeria. Ojukwu that campaigned for Shagari was different from the Ojukwu that fought for Ndigbo as Military Governor of Eastern Region. The former was a private citizen while the latter was a public officer with power and authority.
Salewa95: Just like Ojuku of unblessed memory betrayed 3million deceased by campaigning for a hegemony that caused their misfortune few decades back. di The highest betrayal is licking the ass of the people that slaughtered millions of your people.
Here is Ojuku campaigning openly for Shagari in 1983 like a true slave!
Is Lagos no longer part of Nigeria? Or is Lagos a city in independent Yoruba nation called Oduduwa Republic?
Mandate2023: Another miscreants ipigs sported......ondo and lagos r still same south west that's If am from ondo as ur shrinking brain suggested
He should have relocated to onitsha or any developed whatever part of south east too and again I am very comfortable and I have no house abroad
Meanwhile there's nobody in alaigbo that tinubu is not better than yet u fools come here everyday to insult him....u don't seems to practice what u preach dumb head
Beginning from the deadwood in Aso rock and those supporting him, calling him Darling Daddy here and there despite his visible failures in every sector of the Economy of this great Nation.
Ddokie: What is the foundation of the agitation in the first instance? Marginalization. An average Igbo man feels so marginalized (for good reasons) that he prefers to be in his own country.
The Obi candidacy has become an avenue for Ndigbo to see if they can be properly integrated in the affairs of the country.
Depending on the outcome of the elections, Ndigbo will either fuse-in better into the country, or be almost totally cut off (in psyche) from Nigeria.
ScamHunter: Why won't it fade off? Will an Igbo man like Obi, Amaechi, Okowa or Ogbonnaya Onu be there and Igbo or former eastern Nigeria is marginalized? Ndigbo just saw in Obi, and the coming election, an opportunity to build a working country based on equity. You cannot tell a man from Calabar, Port Harcourt or Akwa Ibom that it is one Nigeria, yet you intentionally make sure that seaports in his locality must not work because you want to put Igbo at a disadvantage and you expect the Igbo not to agitate. If Obi wins, it's a win for Nigeria because it will enthrone merit instead of the mediocrity Nigeria has become known for for 50 years. The Biafrans have merely been silenced by the majority of people who see the possibility of a viable country with an Obi presidency. I doubt they'll be quieted if that venture fails and Nigeria enters another cycle of looting, cluelessness, and banditry as exemplified by PDP and APC.
Obi is not just a movement. He is hope for a solid foundation for the future. If the thieving class is perpetuated, I weep not for what their incompetence has already done, but what would befall the country. ISWAP is there on one hand, Fulani militia on the other, bandits are there and then IPOB agitation. All these are consequences of ineptitude of a crooked ruling class that the two crooked parties represent. How would such a country survive.
Its the same IPOB youths that just keep shouting his name up and down. He is not known in the North at all. No one knows him. He cannot get 25% of votes in any northern state. His party has no candidates in the North. They don't have any state chairmen, local government chairmen or even ward members.
No credible politician is associating with him. No one knows him in Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun and Oyo. He is little known in Edo and Delta. He couldn't even get a Northerner as placeholder. He had to use the only non-Igbo supporting him, who happens to be a discredited politician like Doyin Okupe.
No momentum anywhere. Everything is online and he would not get 2 million votes in the real election. He is just being supported by IPOB members who use cyber bullying as their tactic.
stainedanisus1: Asiwaju, the Lion of Bourdillon . This man carefully masterminded the defeat of a ruling party. That is why Meth addicts hated him like he's the architect of IPOD terrorism. He is so present almost on every news
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. Ndigbo should stop acting like they are more nigerian than others. I've always pondered as to why those efulefu majors refused to see tribalism in the 1960s. What is their concern if the western region was burning and Awo was imprisoned? Why couldn't they let it burn or let Ahmadu Bello deal with Awo the way he deemed fit? 