bender79:
You are not more buhari than me. I've pointed out our weakness, ordinarily should Atiku be rubbing shoulder with buhari at this time? Before Atiku became pdp flag bearer we all wrote him off but right now he is troubling the president and whether we like it or not we have a tough elections ahead. God willing, if we win, APC need to reposition itself and buhari should take full leadership of the party and country at large. My advise

My brother, you dey too serious o...you even missed the joke!

Atiku is being propelled by some vested interests who see PMB as a big threat. But they don't have the numbers. Yea, Buhari made mistakes that came back to bite APC...but the corruption tag on Atiku is still a major factor in this election equation. Many voters are already decided anyway.

If it had been some other PDP presidential candidate without a corruption baggage, I would have been worried.

Nairaland never disappoints! Penny political historians and analysts everywhere...orishirishi!

The election wey PMB don win already...

From what I can see on my tea leaves, you are not a true Buhari supporter!

OBJ deserves every insult thrown at him...an elder statesman that became a nuisance...he will be retired this Saturday for good!

If dem like, make them fight kungfu for stadium, wetin be the big deal! As for me, I don make up my mind long ago...

APC all the way jare!

Sai Baba, four more years!

PDP and Atikulooters go vex like mad!

Baba don win this election by landslide!

PDP built virtually nothing for sixteen years, they now complain PMB's trains are not "bullet spec?"

Sai Baba! Four more years!

Corrupt judges have no business in The Supreme Court. Why is former CJN Onnoghen running "upandan" to stall his trial. I would have gone to the CCT to clear my name if I were innocent.

QuotaSystem:


Hehe grandpa has crawled out of his hideout

Still grabbing broomsticks to float?

It's no longer "Buhari cannot suspend Chief Justice", it's now "Shebi he is still a justice?"...na small small

When Atiku receives his thrashing next week he will still be a retired Kameroonian customs officer so you go dey alright .

Kikikikiki...lwkmd.

I didn't want to join in, but I couldn't help myself...still laughing as I typed this...

PDP supporters and their perennial rants...they did nothing for sixteen years but complain over PMB's completed projects.

Buhari ain't perfect, he obviously makes mistakes. He might probably have early signs of dementia, but I trust him still in the anti-corruption fight!

On the other hand is Atiku, a cold-blooded thief with unhidden contempt for our treasury. Why a sane person would even consider to vote Atiku for any office is beyond belief!

Yea, I'm a Buharideen...Sai Baba, four more years!

FFK is a windbag and a troll...

I'm a Christian and a PMB supporter...Buhari has his weakness, but he is still better than everything PDP offered Nigeria for Sixteen years and a million times better than the current PDP candidate from Cameroon!

Four more years for Sai Baba!

Atiku is a big joke!

slimfit1:
Buhari's team are trying to kill him I know that for a fact. The Islamic agenda continues. Pastor, you better sit down before they smoke you out. Your life and support for Buhari mean nothing to them. MKO died nothing happened, go and get a tour bus and travel around by road or resign. This won't be their last attempt at killing you.

I've seen many silly submissions in this thread, but yours takes the cake!

Buffalo2:
From collapsed podium to chopper crash right? God is really sending "signals" to these politicians

The "signals" you saw didn't come from God; they came from desperate politicians!

Another failed attempt!

deboysben:
Doctor, My 2019 PVC genotype is AA (Atiku Abubakar) While my blood group is O-Positive (Obi- Peter); Am I medically OK?

Doctor: You are not only medically fit, you are fully immune against Unemployment, Poverty, Corruption, Lawlessness, Senseless Killing, Untimely death,

Quack doctor!

Why would a CJN postpone indefinitely the meeting of the NJC in order to shield himself from any discussion of the charges brought against him? Is that not an abuse of his powers as head of the NJC? I'm sorry, The CJN lost the plot when he arrogantly chose to "obstruct" justice...he should resign and spare us this embarrassment of him being "removed by force."

This is what happens to "elder statesmen" with a crooked moral compass. Simply put, OBJ is nothing but an anywhere-belle-face garbed in consummate elegance.

coolzeal:
Are these African countries so dumb that they can't take charge of their corporate affairs in their countries? I think this is self inflicted no matter the consequences to stand up against colonial slavery. African leaders are spineless bunch of corrupt Mafias. The Italian is correct.

It is more complicated! The Imperialists have their foot soldiers (our elite) doing the dirty work within the continent. We are not dumb...not at all! We are only divided, painfully by ethnicity and religion.

The last African Head of State that preached African Unity, single currency and one government faced the full might of NATO, which cost him his life!

Why is Atiku this desperate?

The Italian PM still sees France as a vassal of Rome...

But on a serious note, Africa's former colonial masters still wield humongous influence on the continent...

Abati! Obasanjo's rants are irrelevant! Those who would re-elect Sai Baba have already decided.

You are correct about one thing however: OBJ will "leave town" after Buhari's victory.

The Oba of Benin and The Alafin of Oyo are related by blood...so what's this back-and-forth for?

OBJ's epistles are powered by selfish interests...I no longer take him serious.

gidgiddy:


We have to go with what happend, not what we assume was in Ojukwus head. The problem with Nigerians is that they don't know Nigerian history because it wasn't taught. So they go with what the hear on the social circle.

Gowon and Ojukwu met in Aburi, Ghana, in January 1967. The aim of the meeting was to restore peace and keep Nigeria one. They reached a 12 point decision which both men signed. Gowon came back to Nigeria and broke his end of the agreement abolishing the 4 Regions.

The Aburi agreement states that Gowon could not make any structural change to Nigeria unless all 4 Regional Military Governors of the time agreed with it.

By breaking the most important part of the Aburi agreement, Ojukwu had no other choice than declare the Eastern Region a separate country and this led to war.

Gowon caused the war by going back on an agreement he signed in Ghana.

I regard your first paragraph as obiter dicta.

The Aburi Accord was a lot more than "structural changes;" and yet you deemed it "the most important part...": a very convenient unwarranted assumption.

Decree 8 was promulgated on March 17, 1967 to give substance to the Aburi Accord, Ojukwu rejected the decree. Col. Hilary Njoku and some senior eastern army officers advised Ojukwu to accept it, Ojukwu refused. About a week later, senior civil servants from all the regions (including the East) were meeting in Benin City to further refine points of disagreement after Aburi. On this very issue, Ojukwu even met with Colonel Adebayo, Commodore Wey and Mr. Tim Omo-Bare at Onitsha. At a follow-up meeting in Benin scheduled for March 30, Ojukwu was absent for "safety reasons." From the foregoing, negotiations were still ongoing in good faith! The FG and other regional Governors were still willing to resolve the issue and avoid war!

In any case, on March 31, and in bad faith, Ojukwu issued the Revenue Collection Edict 11 of 1967, which basically took complete control of all revenues from all sources in the eastern region, including Oil ["Resource Control"]. Ojukwu followed up by promulgating legal education, statutory bodies council, court of appeal and registration of companies edicts. He seized federal assets and parastatals in the east and revoked the authority of the Federal Supreme court as the final court of appeal for eastern Nigeria.

On April 22, after an SMC meeting, Lt. Col. Gowon responded to Lt. Col. Ojukwu by imposing economic sanctions on eastern Nigeria.

So when exactly did Gowon make structural changes to the Federation and renege on "the most important part" of the Aburi Accord? I reiterate, Ojukwu and the East had already decided on Biafra long before the Civil War began.

seguntijan:
He is the architect of Nigeria's problem. First coup caused the unrest we have in the country till today. Hausa had always trusted Igbos before then and vice-versa, Ahmadu Bello chooses him as his close aide but unfortunately he killed Ahmadu Bello, and other prominent Nigerians that actually fought for our independent. If the founding fathers of Nigeria had stay longer, they would have been NATIONAL PLAN, because they knew exactly what they needed and why they fought for independence.

Till today we don't have that national plan, and what do you expect of a house built without drawings and plans? we will just end up wasting resources, time, and unrest will be experienced.

This man killed Nigeria of our dreams.

Truth be told, there was nothing rosy about Nigeria then. The coup was long overdue but was cynically executed. Nzeogwu was a nationalist, a true believer in the prosperity and development of Nigeria. However, Nzeogwu was betrayed by co-conspirators who were apparently "tribalistic" in the execution of the coup in the South. In any case, it would be more accurate to assert that Nzeogwu was let down by comrades who were loyal to the NCNC! These traitors spared Ironsi and NCNC politicians but dispatched every perceived enemy of NCNC. Yes, some would object that Okotie-Eboh too was killed, but he was deemed "too close to Balewa!" The coup in and of itself was not the problem; its execution which manifested in selective killings was the disaster.

gidgiddy:


Not true. As I said before, every country in West Africa went through a coup in the 60's, but the did not fight wars over it. Why was that of Nigeria different?

Even if we say that Nzeogwus coup was selective in who it targeted, Nzeogwu and his fellow coup plotters were already in jail. Those who conducted the counter-coup did far worse than whatever they blamed Ironsi or Nzeogwu for doing or not doing.

But when it comes to the civil war, it was not Nzeogwus coup or the killing in the North that caused the war.

What caused the war was Gowons inability to implement the Aburi agreement he signed in Ghana with Ojukwu


If me and you sign and agreement not to fight each other, as long as certain conditions are kept, if you go and break those conditions and we fight, who started it?

Ojukwu and The East already had their minds made up after the pogroms...Aburi Accord was a convenient excuse. Why didn't Ojukwu iron out whatever disagreement he had with Gowon on the implementation of the Accord. Why did he arrogantly go all out for secession? Why didn't he stick with diplomacy if he was truly sincere.

gidgiddy:
I wonder why some people keep saying that Nzeogwus coup caused the civil war? That's like saying that the wright brothers are responsible for airplane crashes for inventing the airplane.

The civil war started 18 months after Nzeogwus coup so that was not the cause. Personally, I condemn coup plotting, particularly the one against a democratically elected government and Nzeogwus coup should be condemned

But this false narrative that Nzeogwus coup was responsible for everything wrong with Nigeria today must be debunked. Every country in West Africa, with the exception of Cameroon, went through a coup in the 60's and 70's.

Ghana went through coups, but they did not fight and the Regional structure did not change. Ghana is today the success story of West Africa

The reason the civil war was fought was because Igbos refused to willingly sumbit to Northern domination like all other regions did

It wasn't a "false narrative." Yes, "Nzeogwu's coup" set us on the path of war...selective killings in the coup and Ironsi's conduct thereinafter led to the counter-coup and Igbo killings in the North which precipitated the civil war! Where then is the false narrative?

A super crook for President? Lailai, perhaps the "prophet" didn't see clearly! I will laugh very hard at this thread when PMB beats Atiku black and blue in FeBuhary.

This confirms my fears: Atiku could have been involved in many of the violent attacks in the North!

Is there nobody in the South to take this job? Haba! Na only Northerners waka come?