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@OP.

I was even wondering what took you so long to launch the usual opportunistic, senseless and misplaced tirade.

Look Ogbeni, I doubt anyone would talk if America repatriated an American citizen, suspected of acts of terrorism on US soil, back to America from wherever he fled.

The legality may be sketchy but consensus would be that the development is stilll the internal business of USA and not a matter for international diplomacy.

I.e engagement between a Country and her citizen suspected of serious crime yet jumped bail to flee oversea when precluded from doing such by a law Court.

The US justice system and that of the nation the US citizen was arrested in should fight for that sort of thing. Not the world.

The dumb comparison you make is similar to Nigeria invading sovereign Benin Republic and putting her President in chains enroute to being charged, prosecuted and jailed in Nigeria because our President and his advisors believe he is abetting oil bunkering/smuggling against our nation.

In rush to make everything about you people and your terrorist messiah, you hastily created this senseless thread.

Whereas you should actually spare the forum your pedestrian thinking by ensuring you think exhaustively, even if for hours, before you post here.

FatimaAbubakar:
Isn't it strange? That Venezuelans are happy that a drug president, Maduro has been arrested, but somewhere in Africa, ewedu and ponmo merchants are angry that Maduro was arrested, and has been saying trash about America wanting Venezuelan crude oil. People wen get country dey happy, but people in far away Africa wey the matter no concern dey vex.

Lol "FatimaAbubakar", it is the same way a particular set of people you are affiliated with will predictably jubilate if the US militarily invaded Nigeria to remove "Yoruba President". They have even demanded it and asked for military coup or violent protest to remove "Yoruba President".

That does not mean all Nigerians will endorse or be happy with the development if it happened.

Secondly and most importantly, Soveriegn nation must fight for their own liberation and solve their own internal problems.

That is what they signed up for when they demanded their sovereignty be respected. Nations cannot choose or reject sovereignty when they wish and, crucially, powerful nations like the USA must not be allowed to further dictatorially entrench themselves into the role of being the world's police, judge, jury and executioners.

If the world allows that it means we give up the right to judge ourselves and have instead placed that power in the hands of the USA's outlooks and decisions which emanates from the thinking, motivation and perhaps even hidden agendas of flawed and dangerous men like Trump and his extremist right wingers.

HacheNoire:
Early morning gibberish!

Composed a novel and still couldn’t make sense!

Indeed. Clearly written by the emotional and paranoid lot who have been complaining of marginalisation from the beginning of time.

I have been following this since news broke yesterday and the world has reacted angrily and vehemently against the USA, especially the likes of Russia and China, over this terrible precedent the USA has set that now changes the dynamics of respect for sovereignty of nation and international law with this whole ugly incidence throwing us into uncharted waters.

Britain alway touted to have a special relationship with the USA quickly and rightly distanced herself from the actions o the USA with Prime Minister Starmer speaking to insist the UK had no involvement in the actions of the USA in Venezuela.

America played world police with the power to judge, try and execute/incarcerate the President of a sovereign nation. What now stops any strong nation forcefully entering weaker ones to do as she pleases?

Yet some have to make this scary development about their shops and illegally built properties beig demolished in Nigeria.

Yes OOO. USA, Russia,China and allied forces will nuke Nigeria to address that "marginlaisiation". Some people are really arrogantly self-absorbed and extremely myopic.

I am just surprised article author did not mention the "unjust imprisonment" of "freedom fighter" Kanu since they have made this globally important event, with potentially dark consequences for the world, about them and their imagined/self-created problems.

Trump and his band of extremist right wingers have changed the dynamics of international relations to now make the world more unsafe and some can only come up with this "early morning gibberish!".

Soon as I saw the section below, I stopped reading. Obvious who wrote the article. The bias and purpose of article became clear at that point too.

Some.people have to insert themselves at the centre of everything, to include issues far more globally important than their paranoid delusions, in hope the likes of USA will help them subjugate other Nigerians and hand the keys of Nigeria to them.

Similarly, allegations of targeted destruction of Igbo properties and businesses in Lagos and other areas have sparked outrage from Igbo unions and groups. In 2025, demolitions under the guise of urban planning or regulatory enforcement were condemned as selective, disproportionately affecting Igbo-owned assets, with calls for federal intervention going unheeded. These actions are seen by critics as part of a broader pattern of marginalization against the Igbo ethnic group in the Southeast, exacerbating regional tensions.

@OP.

The long and short of it is that Nigerians don't like to read or broaden their knowledge. They prefer second-hand information i.e 'dem say, dem say' or "my friend tell me sey".

Which means that those with a mission to deliberately misinform others, to achieve ulterior motives and hidden agendas, will always profit massively from Nigeria that is essentially a big sea of proudly and unapologetically ignorant individuals.

AderonkeOlaniyi:
Donald Trump, the president of the US made a terrible mistake collaborating with Tinubu's government which is a weak government that has been infiltrated by Islamic terrorists and all sort of questionable characters. The Venezuelan operations carried out is a clear indication that Donald Trump should've struck without involving a corrupt and incompetent government like that of Tinubu aka Amoda Yekini. I believe that the corrupt government of Tinubu must have misled the operations by giving false information, all to sabotage the operations. The United States should carry out the operations again, but this time, they should rely on their own intelligence, and not the sabotaged intelligence of Amoda Yekini.

The USA should be doing as they please in Nigeria, to include assassination of Nigerians, without seeking the approval of the Nigerian Government right?

When they arbitrarily turn their bombs on the SE, which is another terror enclave, I am sure you and your kinsmen will then begin to cry and curse.

HacheNoire:
The way some of you reason at an all time low is astonishing!

You definitely will claim you are educated and civilized.
A sovereign nation should have been invaded?

Look at you cheering on for the invasion that happened in Venezuela.

People like you just give answers to how Africa was conquered.

This is why I will always argue Nigerians are worse than the leaders they claim are terrible. Imagine the terrible, criminal and dictatorially offensive action a supposedly educated and normal Nigerian is demanding against Nigeria?

Anyway, I do not doubt he is one of those who hates Nigeria and an enemy-within to our nation and his fellow Nigerians.

I.e the same lot condemning the "illegal rendition" of Kanu yet demanding the invasion of a sovereign nation that is a contravention according to international law since Nigeria has not directly or indirectly threatened any interest of the USA.

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:
See the kind of thing that impresses you! The leader of a sovereign nation was hardassed that way and all you have to say is USA is powerful!". A country of US's statue harassing the president of little Venezuela, is it something to applaud?

Some of them are an embarrassment and one can only imagine their conduct if in position of authority and power in Nigeria.

Fanboys of abusers of power and unbridled bullies globally yet they will be crying about "dictatorial leaders" in Nigeria when their mindset indicate they will be much worse.

Same Nigerians complaining of Buhari's "illegal rendition" of Kanu from Kenya are clapping at the distasteful antics of USA going to spirit away the President of Venezuela and his wife from their nation as if they are the mandated police, judge, jury and executioners of the world.

LeeSmart:
You this ignorant fellow and Putin's puppet, have u heard of the word freedom of speech before? These are comment that can't be heard of in Russia and China without serious consequences.
The Russia/China u're codedly trying to hype ain't no better. Abeg shift.

Who is a Putin puppet? You are the ignorant chap. An unintelligent one to boot also who has a big problem with reading and comprehending uncomplicated English.

Imagine citing "freedom of speech" when you don't know what that means and entails.

Does it extends to Trump telling the British Prime Minister before world Press that the Mayor of London and friend of Sir.Keir Starmer, i.e Sadiq Khan, Is a "nasty person" at time stamp 0:17 in the video below?

All decent people , which surely excludes you, will be ashamed of this uncouth Bully who cannot respect an elected British Mayor brought into office by stakeholders, i.e Londoners, of which Trump and and American is not meaning they should know their place and respect the democracy of other sovereign nations.

Some of you need to work at refining your character, knowledge and mind.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVeTUo-oJN8?si=yYDP8i0A7_IrrpJP

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:
Columbia and Mexico are way far bigger problems to US than Venezuela. Maduro is just not a stooge and America has been crying foul since he was elected. This assault is not about drugs but about the control of an oil rich state Period!

Of course I know all you say as correct. Read properly and note there is nowhere I support the actions of the USA or reasons they give for such.

I am merely stating their official reason given. Many other unofficial reasons and hidden agendas exist as is usual with the duplicitously, dictatorial and Machiavellian USA.

Such as regime change to install the Opposition leader to Maduro who promises to privatise Venezuelan sale of oil thus making it commercially 'tradeable' to the benefit of the USA of course.

Another reason is the unbridled hatred USA has for socialism/communism and an enduring dedication to destroying such wherever it is found.

Remove it in Venezuela and the trickle down effect may infiltrate other Latin American nations. At least that is the thinking of the USA.

There is migration of Venezuelans to the USA also and other reasons. Trump loves calling other nations and leaders terrible but the USA is terrible under Trump who is himself a terrible person to boot.

I only responded citing Narco-Terrorism as a major official reason USA states for effecting regime change in Venezuela in response to the ignorant Tinubu, Yoruba and Nigeria-hating poster speaking as if the USA can simply invade Nigeria to effect the regime change he desires for the flimsy reasons he lists below.

kettykin:
This is very good, let those who think they can use judiciary, inec , police, military continue their antics

Orlandoo:
.

See the response I gave to your co-travellers in ignorance above. Seems you people don't understand it is State-sponsored Narco-Terrorism the USA insist it is fighting Venezuela over.

In any case, if you ignorant folks want to childishly reduce this to idiocy level then we all know the region of Nigeria the USA would be bombing now to the ground if this were about inordinately large number of individuals engaged in large scale drug trafficking and smuggling globally.

You lot only demean yourselves and Nigeria in the eyes of the world thinking you are attacking our President.

kettykin:
If you truly believe the occupant of Aso Rock carries no baggage of narcotics allegations ,past or present then by all means, persist in that carefully cultivated, self-inflicted ignorance, mistaking denial for wisdom and illusion for insight.

This is why I specifically made it clear I did not believe you understand the term Narco-Terrorism. Look at the nonsense you wrote above.

Are therd State-backed Nigerian ships the USA are targetting, bombing and destroying based on claims they are ferrying hard drugs towards America?

The USA is waging war against a regime they declared Narco-terrorist and threatening the direct interest of America for christ sake and you here maliciously and ignorantly talking of Tinubu childishly.

What is wrong with you people and this excessive hate you have for Tinubu and Yoruba? Can't you ever talk as if capable of restrained, rational and balanced tbinking?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8484p7ggmo.amp

ElSudani:
Venezuela is a small country of only 28 million people.

Trump is a bully, he is only strong against weaker opponents.

Absolutely. A repellent and nauseating bully for that matter who makes it obvious he loves flexing power against the weak while indulging those he fears.

For example, Trump publicly bullies, demeans and denigrates Zelenskyy yet he is fawning and placating towards Putin.

Check out the video below, especially the comments of mainly Americans and Westerners, to see they despise Trump and know what he is.

Their comments is a sad indictment of how poor the knowledge, worldview and political sophistication of some Nigerians is given how they consider the globally-despised Trump a God, like Kanu, who can do no wrong.

Sad some people that exposed, pragmatically intelligent, progressive, humane and sophisticated Nigerians have to share a nation with.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow_6AbMvipo?si=bRv-qqpv99febc8h

kettykin:
This is very good, let those who think they can use judiciary, inec , police, military continue their antics

Stop the display of ignorance. Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan President, is accused of Narco-Terrorism (assuming you know what that means) directly threatening the interest of the USA.

Don't bring your Biafra worldview and ignorance here. When you people are not demanding the Military oust Tinubu you are busy fantasising over the USA invading Nigeria to effect regime change and install Obi for you.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/nicol-s-maduro-moros-and-14-current-and-former-venezuelan-officials-charged-narco-terrorism

Authoreety:
Yes.... Same here....

I don't even know why northerners thinks they can always manipulate this things

They have no respect for the rest of us and feel Nigeria truly belongs to them.

Power, according to their mindset, is their birthright even as history shows they are the most clueless at using it effectively to the benefit of all despite haven led Nigeria longest ,since our independence, as democratic Presidents and military heads of State.

ogascomax:
Not until South and North arrangements is destroyed Nigeria may not progress as a nation. We need to disrupt that arrangement one way or the other. We need leaders that don't care about region that you came from like Jonathan and Obj. My support is on Atiku a detribalised man..

Tell us what Atiku has done out of power since 2007. Just one will do and I will show many things other proper and fitting leaders have done to advance their community, States and nation out of political office.

When some of you give the excuse of "detribalised" to justify supporting Atiku, even as such is your democratic choice, I personally feel there is dishonesty in your utterance.

This is because if we dispassionately inspect real facts and verifiable history of candidates, as folks from sophisticated nations and electorates of the world would do, for the purpose of discerning who would be a fitting candidate to be leader of the biggest black nation on Earth, then Atiku will not qualify.

What, for example, do you think the British, Ghanaian and even South African electorate would make of a candidate who sojourns permanently in Dubai away from the nation he insist he is best to lead and only show up election years to demand he is made President?

In between the time he is living in Dubai and the date of election, he shows zero interest in the affair of his community, state and Nation he wishes to lead.

These things aren't rocket science bro. Atiku will be a disaster. His history, choices and actions confirm that to dispassionately pragmatic and critical-thinking Nigerians.

lapintoz:
Bros Dee don dey foam for mouth already.....waiting to hit Atiku for dollar cash again. The only difference this time around is that Dele will pay tax on the Atiku money wey he wan chop.

Bros Dee dey naija dey shout dictatorship, one party state up and down, dey abuse PBAT anyhow, make Dele go Russia go abuse Putin like that if dem no go make am fall from 20 storey building window say na slip he slip.....

Continue

Lol. You know him well. An unprincipled, shallow and materialistic human being only interested in money and nothing the progress of his own nation.

This is why many, from Wike to Davido, always find it easy to disrespect him when it should not be so if he is dignified and upright.

ogascomax:
It's normal to lost and to gain votes. I am from South South and I will votes Atiku.

Good luck to you. Tinubu cannot be defeated. What is 'cooking' for Nigeria and what is at stake, per the future of generations unborn, is too crucial for a Northerner, after they had 8 years in power, to return in 2027 whereas the South has only being in power 4 years.

Penguin2:
I don’t like Tinubu but the south must complete its 8 years.

If the north is truly tired of Tinubu, let them support Peter Obi.

And if they insist that they can’t convince their people to vote Peter Obi then let Tinubu simply finish his 8 years make Obi rest.

As southerners, we need to stop letting these guys use our heads and be more politically smart and selfish.

This is how every sensible Southerner should view the matter. We have to be pragmatically intelligent about choices concerning our nation and the future of our generations unborn.

For example. The North turned the forex sector of Nigeria into a glorified scam using bureau de change with political overlords who had access to foreign currency from CBN at official rate, via political connections, they would then sell at massive black market rate profit through the many thousands of Bureau de change they controlled nationwide.

What people do not know is the damage this was doing to the Nigerian economy and the concept of us trading goods and services with the world.

The likes of legitimate Nigerian international businessmen, Nigerian manufacturers who need to import materials, Nigerian importers of economically beneficial finished products, financiers, Nigerian students seeking to study abroad etc, etc, etc were denied Forex because Alhajis have collected them all.

No nation does that sort of sabotage to itself but Nigeria and I have not even talked of the damage fuel subsidy etal were doing.

For sure a Northern president, while fuel subsidy is too far gone to be reversed, may seek to reverse floating of the Naira so Northern Bureau De Change, and the stupendous billions they were making at the expense of millions of Nigerians, begin to flourish again.

This is one of many, many things I can mention that would show any wise person a Southerner must remain in power beyond 2027 so the economic liberalisation of Nigeria continues and gets the chance to reach a stage the regressive North cannot truncate to then succeed dragging us back 20 years.

Nigerians need to be wise. It is not about revenge against Yorubas and Tinubu. It should be about adults having the clarity of vision to understand the paramount issues are about our generations unborn who deserve a Nigeria that is like Singapore etal to proudly call their nation of origin.

Pacesetter123:

Lol. The entire nation knows Momodu is a nauseating political jobber and rent seeker. He is exactly the sort ruining Nigeria.

His claim to fame is running around after rich people and famous socialites with a camcorder and microphone (Ovation magazine) as direct confirmation, even though cruel, Wike was completely right about Uncle Dele.

He is the sort of anti-Nigerian traitor from the South who happily queue behind Atiku, Malami and Fulani dollars even if that comes at the expense of the regression of Nigeria. His sort owes nothing to Nigeria or even his own generations unborn.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDW3DchAfMs?si=C7l1ZPj6tPdBjRiX

Utomi is showing he is progressive while Momodu as usual, and as Wike condemned him, confirms he is an 'alatenuje' psycophant seeking Atiku dollars never mind the damage a Northern Presidency will do rescinding the monumental gains made under PBAT.

The unspoken truth of Nigeria we all know is that our nation hardly develops under Northern leadership. We are in a democracy. So therefore the North cannot be denied power even if majority of Northern leaders are regressive.

What must however happen is that South must get her 8 years in a 16 year cycle and not 4 years for the North to then get 12.

We can lie to ourselves but truth any dispassionate economist, home or abroad, will reveal is that measures and reforms Tinubu has put in place will set Nigeria on the path of development that will see us begin to work and succeed more like developed nation.

They are measures and reforms no Northerner will ever put in place because they are all socialist in mentality and believe in living on government stipend, patronage, paraststal positions, subsidy etal. Never innovation, entrepreneural capacity, SME proliferation, optimal use of science and tech, diversification of the Nigerian economy away from dependence on crude etc, etc.

Kemi Adeosun, former finance Minister under Buhari, even confessed a few days ago that every Minister in Buhari's cabinet knew fuel subsidy was killing and bankrupting Nigeria yet there was nothing they could do about an issue only the President could move on. We all saw PBAT remove subsidy from day one.

Developments like fuel subsidy removal directly confirms my point. It is therefore crucial if the North will get her 8 years to regress Nigeria then South must get her 8 years too to reverse the regression and record some forms of progress and forward movement for Nigeria. That is how it should work.

We all know the Southerners mainly behind Atiku and why. I.e the lot known for politics of hate, bitterness and vindictiveness


Ultimately, once we gain regional autonomy and the Presidency is a ceremonial office, the North can be life President of Nigeria.

Till then, South must insist on her 8 years same way we know the North, even if they have to slaughter all of us to gain such, will never play with there 8 years in power or allow the South hijack it.

Southerners like Momodu seeking Fulani President only 4 years after Buhari left office are traitor to Nigeria and their own generations unborn.

Ebubu6:
They shouldn't have created that SEDC.

It has simply turned to South East's corruption pit, for the Elites.

They should have just allowed us let the poor and rich be suffering together.


EFCC should prosecute SEDC

That's my take

Was it not virtually all Igbos demanding SEDC for decades and crying marginalisation over the existence of NDDC as you do everything?

A listening President, whereas other looked away, to include GEJ your "Igbo President", delivered what you asked for , with financing, and you are now saying the bolded.

Look, regional self-rule is the inevitable future of Nigeria. Obvious your leaders are wicked kleptomaniacs who care little for ordinary Igbos, same as the leaders up North dont give a toss about talakawas and almajiris,.

If you ordinary Igbos recognise this then that is your cue to begin focusing on how to get humane, selfless and caring folks into your leadership cadre instead of obsessing about Yorubas and Yoruba land 24/7.

You cannot turn around to begin crying, after you have disturbed Nigeria about Biafra and self-rule for more than five decades, about the mess your own leaders are making of the SE when they have been given the freedom to lead you.

Shimbo96:
I guess MADAMVANESA doesn't have anything to say about this or this is TINUBU fact again. Y'all should be fair with your criticism and stop acting like Tinubu is the cause of your generation sufferings.

Precisely. Broadly, every progressive Nigerian agrees that greater regional autonomy, that aids self-paced development of regions 'one Nigeria' cannot impede, is the way forward.

Tinubu provides that yet some want to now blame him for the wickedness of their own kinsmen leaders who prefer to loot funds meant for regional development rather than use such to develop ala Igbo.

I don't know if there is anything in this world these people won't blame Tinubu for. With their focus totally on Tinubu and Yoruba, their leaders are looting their commonwealth mercilessly because Igbos are too busy hounding Tinubu and Yorubas rather than holding their leaders to account.

Blakhorse:
Another mad man ranting out of context and absolving the agency of accountability

That dude has issues. What Tinubu is doing is the best. Nigerians will tell you they want restructuring, resource control, fiscal federalism etc.

What moves us towards those demands if not giving regions the money and freedom they need to gain independent and self-paced success and development devoid of 'one Nigeria' impediments?

Must Tinubu liberate regions, financially and politically, to then be held accountable for Igbos or any other failing to utilise tools of development properly and looting such instead?

Tinubu has done his job as President. We all asked for regional development commissions, and the right to lead ourselves, as a precursor to regions taking full responsibility for their own independent growth and developing.

The issue is that some are just so filled with hate to the extent they must blame.Tinubu for everything when it is logical to expect supposedly responsible adult leaders to be be able to use regional development funds for what they are meant for.

delpee:
[b]I'm from the SW. There's nothing wrong with me wanting to know what progress they have made so far. [/b]Their success will make a huge difference.

I know about DAWN commission. If SWDC works with their masterplan, they'll do well.

My bad. My sincere apologies. It makes sense now you want to know the progress the SWDC is making as a Yoruba person and direct stakeholder in the affairs of the SW.

Thought you asked because you are from that region malevolently obsessed with Yorubas to the extent that if asked about 20 Street execution in Anambra they begin quoting crime in Yorubaland from 1920 to date.

You want Biafra yet you keep migrating permanently, in thousands daily, out of the SE to different regions of Nigeria.

Someone should make it make sense because it seems some people reason very aberrantly in comparison to normal folks.

delpee:
NEDC has been functioning well. At least we've seen the commissioning of schools and other infrastructure. The others should do the same to make life easier for their people.

Waiting to see the impact of SWDC.

Na SW dey give una life? Why not focus on holding your own leaders accountable?

Be rest assured the DAWN-backed and directed SWDC, as Amotekun is the best regional complementary security force to the NPF in our entire nation, will be the best regional development commission in Nigeria. Take that to the bank.

APCNig:
Dem go still blame Tinubu for this

For sure. As is to be expected from those who automatically blame others for problems they cause themselves.

Look at the excuses from them below already. They asked for regional development commision for decades. All Presidents ,bar Tinubu, ignored them.

Now, courtesy of PBAT, they have SEDC funded by the FG and led by Igbos. The new excuse is that regional development commission Igbos themselves pleaded for relentlessly, and are now in full charge of, was established for "politics".

Na real wa for some people and I wonder what new excuses they will come up with when the regional development commission of others begin to shine and deliver.

slivertongue:
The commission weren't established for development but for politics