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Udmaster:
did you escape from imbecility? Abia, Imo, Anambra, Ndoki, ObiIGBO all have crude oil. IMO state have the highest natural gas deposit in Nigeria, Enugu have Coal etc, Ebonyi have the biggest limestone deposit in Ntalaku, Aba and Onitcha have the biggest market in W.Africa. Ebonyi are food basket of the South East, Nnewi have the largest Auto Mobile Industry in W.Africa etc should i go on and educate that your shallow empty Milo Can you called a brain.. NEXT!

Please forgive his ignorance

It was so painful seeing gullible people being deceived with all sorts of propaganda and lies and today they are regretting. So Nigerians you guys have entered one chance

By Babajide Alabi

I read on an online blog last week that Nigerians are patient and tolerant people. To be honest I do not understand how the writer came to this conclusion as he did not give evidence of a study or research to support this. However, I took pleasure in the story just as I did a few years ago when a report classified Nigerians as the happiest people on the planet.

I cannot place these seemingly ‘strange’ virtues, but on second thought one can reason that if not for “patience and tolerance”, many of the so called leaders gallivanting about on the Nigerian political scene today would be cooling their feet in various dingy jails across the country.

According to the writer, we are not only patient and tolerant, we are also forgiving. I tend to believe that what he intended to write was ‘forgetful’ and not forgiving. I reasoned that if not forgetfulness, many Nigerian politicians, rather than being tolerated, would have been stoned to death for atrocities committed against humanity and the nation.

These atrocities range from corruption to mismanagement and assisting the “rape” of the once prosperous country called Nigeria. If not for forgetfulness how can many of the present day political players still be around despite the numerous legendary arrests of some of them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). We easily forget the major newspapers’ headlines in the past “celebrating” these arrests for stealing and funds misappropriation in states or parastatals under their watch.

Simply put, we are not forgiving, but plain forgetful. This forgetfulness is not only limited to individuals, but also institutions within the country. The police can easily be “forgetful.” But there has been no agency that distinctly displays this trait as the EFCC. It has a reputation of “suddenly forgetting” the basis of arrests of some of these politicians. This “toothless bulldog” makes so much noise in effecting arrests but loses its voice in the court.

We cannot be too hard on ourselves as citizens if we forget easily the atrocities of these politicians. If there had been conclusive prosecutions of some of them by the anti-corruption agency (agencies), they would have been taken out of circulation for a long time. Yet, they still roam the streets in their expensive cars, live in their mansions, spend the stolen money to oppress their fellow citizens and also buy their votes. And without any speck of shame we celebrate them as heroes and messiahs.

The confidence of these men and women is so high based on the fact that they are deemed innocent until proven otherwise. They know delivering a guilty verdict on them may never happen as long as they continue to “position” themselves “properly” in whatever government is in power. Unfortunately, in this process, the EFCC conveniently “forgets” what the initial charges against them were.

Nigerians are patient. We are patient as long as the action in question do not directly affect our daily breads. Are we really patient? I will call it the art of being unconcerned with what is happening “around” us but not directly “to” us. But do not make the mistake that a “tolerant” or “patient” Nigerian is an idiot. Of course we lose our cool when you “corner” us to the walls and there seems no way “out”. Anything short of this, we are patriotic, patient and tolerant. You can see this trait in the workers of the state of Osun who despite being owed eight months wages still dutifully report to work on empty stomach.

But do not let us push this too far. In recent times, there seems to be a slight change in our body languages. After the “mass” demand for change and the inauguration of the government of President Muhammad Buhari, we are showing our impatient sides. We are getting really restless and frustrated as we think the “change” light at the end of the tunnel is fast disappearing.

We are beginning to question our sanity while wondering how we believed, wholesale, the CHANGE sound bite of the then opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC). We are asking too many questions than we used to before. We are asking when is the APC-led government going to hit the ground running as promised during the electioneering campaign. We are complaining that four weeks into the government, no major policy announcement has been made. Rather than amuse ourselves with the intra-party fightings and the show of shame in the National Assemblies, we are deeply concerned about the future.

Now we are reflecting on the cautious words of analysts we had shouted down before the elections. These analysts had advised in their wisdom that no change will come to the polity until the present crop of leaders are “retired” from governance. But we did not listen as we “shouted” CHANGE. We refused to accept that merely “mouthing” change does not mean it will happen.

We were sucked in by the sweet-talking politicians who promised heaven in Nigeria. We are regretting “secretly” now that we did not demand for a blueprint for the implementation of the so called change. Instead, we believed the hype and the propaganda that once the “evil” Goodluck Jonathan was out of the way, the change in Nigeria is automatic.

There were many questions we wished to ask but dared not for the fear of being labelled anti-progressives. There were doubts on our minds on the modalities of the “new change” but we could not put them into words.

Nigerians now have idea of what change will be. We have seen the “colour” of the change as we struggle to accept that in this dispensation the players will fight, kick, bite, back stab and cut the limbs of “friends” who stand in their paths to power. They have shown that they belong to nobody but themselves. And we have realised that the APC is not a saintly party after all. We see the cracks widening everyday as these strange bedfellows are bringing out their knives and stabbing each other in the back.

We have seen the vulnerability of APC in government. Nigerians thought they voted for a party that would be a model for other ruling African political parties. What they have now is a party that has been thrown into confusion from the start. Is this the beginning of the end of the change revolution? Or simply put, has Nigerians been short changed? Only time would tell.

Let those in Ekwuluobia confirm the news first. Meanwhile, thanks to Nnamdi Kanu for resuscitating that Biafra brotherhood spirit. We don't need need book haram prisoners in any Southern state even in the South West especially Ekiti. Once again, thanks you guys for the good news

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Nice development

Clerverly:
Is either you are a camouflage illiterate or or. You simply don't want want to learn. The position has been that Wike cannot unilaterally sack the Local govt Chairmen without recourse to the Law courts. So where is the diatribe here?

Continue in your shamelessness. Aturu

Hmmm.... The renaissance of true brotherhood in Eastern Nigeria and Biafrain General. Kudos to you guys

Lol.... Laughing at all APC emergency commentators. Shame on all you guys

Clerverly:
Good, if it was from the Court! At least that has been the argument of the Progressives here.

For showing up her after all your diatribes about the fraudulent election, I can now confirm you're shameless

Lol

Kudos to Nigeria 's only true president; Goodluck Ebele Jonathan . The man is truly a hero

Kolade354:
He promised us Constant Power Supply within 4 years and yet Power problem is not solved! Just Go and Enjoy your Loot before I Order Sango to Strike you with Thunder.

Is it not the Sango that's already dealing with you that you can send to another person? The funny thing is you're not even fit to kiss Gej's shoe. Mumu

They didn't give the approval but they all shared the money. Believe these politicians at your own peril. Thieves

Welcome to the change folks; Tinubu followers how market an?

They promised change; from bad to worse and gullible Nigerians voted them in. Why the complains and grinding of teeth now? We should all get used to the the change as promised by the President Buhari

T b Joshua, my man any day

If only APC had supported Gej in the fight against terrorism, Boko Haram would had been history. God bless the PDP for this and for Lie Mohammed, e no go better for am

stigman:
Check all the pix, check the right side down, u will see the phone then check the one showing when they were leaving

What you posted proves nothing. If you check the pix very well, you will notice there was someone else sitting there with white shirt backing the woman and another one at the northern end busy with the computer.

Please, the Moderators should lock or close this thread if the op cannot provide a substantive video or pix of the man and his family stealing his phone. We should all please not condemn but give the family the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise by the Op. Nigerians can do anything just to tarnish someone's image and the next person might be you.

Voting this dullard was one of Nigerians greatest mistake. Please well meaning Nigerians should go and beg Gej for his forgiveness cos we have really entered not one but double chance

Those guys must be Yoruba guys

Op, the pictures you posted proves nothing. We didn't see any phone being charged or the man stealing it. Better still remove the pix if you can't come up with something worthwhile. Thanks

But you didn't show us the man stealing the phone or do you have a grouse to grind wit that family? Post the video or pix of the man stealing the phone cos you Nigerians are terrible and can do anything to spoil someone's reputation

Lol..... @ emergency columnist that doesn't even know the history of the former Eastern region and the Eastern assembly. Abeg, let me cross my lovely legs and enjoy this ignorance show. Oya Op, tell us more

Na wao! Is that not a case of crying more than the bereaved? You want to go and liberate someone that has sworn to live and die a slave of the Hausa- Fulani. Next time, the Yorubas don't need your messianic liberation, they are very very ok with their brothers from the North. No wonder Jesus wept on their behalf and said it is finished!

Thank God we still have some sane people in the U.S.

My Yoruba friend once called and advised me never to trust a Yoruba man and that's one advice I will never forget.

So so loving this wonderful change atmosphere from the north. Oga Tinubu how far? Seems you're losing so far

The change conspiracy continues..... Tinubu how far?