₦airaland Forum

Guyman02:
Meanwhile Ifeanyi Ubas TAN has several Bill Boards showing roads built by GEJ and why Nigerians must vote for him in 2015. I wonder how he travels to his village in the East if it is through the roads on the bill board.

Deltagiant:
The earlier the young generation start using their brains the better they can improve on their common senses. Intelligent historians have tried to piece the Ezechima puzzle and concluded that it was a reverse migration that began in Igboland. Please, ask yourselves the following questions:

1) Chima was the first Obi of Onitsha, why is it that all his immediate children that succeeded him bore Igbo names: Obi Chimaukwu, Obi Chima efi, Obi Oraeze. Even when it is very practical these kids were born in "Benin" outside Igbo speaking land by a supposedly non_Igbo speaking Chima?

2) How long did he and his entourage trekked from Benin to Onitsha to have lost their Benin language?

3) They stopped in Obior, Obampkpa, Issele ukwu etc, very good. Were they losing the Edo language at each stop in these towns and to whom?
How many months or years would it take you to lose your own language, if at all possible?

4)A story corroborated by even the Edo website was that Chima and his followers were also having problem with the Oba because of the shrine of the Ezechima people. The name of this Shrine was and is still called UDO. There is no Udo and there is no Onitsha, it is their symbol that they have carried for ages. This said, UDO shrines can only be found in Igboland in places like Onitsha, Nnewi, Ekwulobia, Ogidi, Ukpo, Abagana etc. My question here is: what was Ezechima and his followers doing with the Udo shrine in far away Benin? Where did they get it from?

6)At the same time that Chima was reported to have arrived at the place called Onicha in the 15th century, another strong historical figure called Chima from Ohafia in the present Abia state (Orofia in Anambra dialect) was establishing towns and villages in neighboring towns around Onicha. He established villages in Ogidi, Abagana, Ukpo, Abatete, Nimo and so many. The eldest man in Orofia village of Abagana is always given the title of CHIMA. So, my question is: who is this Chima? Some historian are now begining to theorize that it could be the same man from Ohafia who travelled to Benin and returned back after so many years of sojourn. Thus the reverse migration hypothesis that is fast gaining ground.

Please, i need only mind boggling responses.

Collynzo28:
Mumu what has this got to do with the great Ndigbo?
Virtually all his spokespersons are Yorubas.

iwonbaoko: I am sorry but your information is out of date. Onitsha is now the largest market in the Milky Way. This is where NATO comes to buy Humvees and Chinooks

Remarkable: Come on, don't fall for that boy's intentionally selective crap...

Even if GEJ did all the stuff he highlighted, he will still have things to site that GEJ hasn't done in other aspects of socio-economic infrastructure etc...

A fair assessment of the president will be to compare what he has done for other geo-political zones...
The federal roads he has fixed/completed in the SE, is it less than those completed in the SW? SS? NW etc?

it sure would have been good to have a refinery, but was the SE the only zone overlooked in citing a refinery?

There was a thread sometime ago sincere Nigerian opened about the things GEJ has done for the SE, those don't count?

Even if it seems like crumbs, how much did the SE get under past administrations? and isn't APC threatening to keep the SE aside if it gets into power for not supporting it?

if not GEJ, then I ask you, Manny, who then?

maestroferddi: We are in democracy and the rules of engagement is different from what obtained during the military era.

Most of you guys are yet to shed the carry over mentality of the military days.

For you to taste power in a ballot-based democracy, you must ride on the goodwill of other players in the political scene. Whether you accept it or not, Jonathan holds the levers of power at the moment. It will be foolhardy for the Igbos to allow themselves to pander to the whims of enemies who remain envious of the gains the Igbos have made under Jonathan's administration by following an amorphous opposition and end up getting stranded midstream.

vanbonattel: An ijaw betrayer is always better than an Hausa fulani and yoruba killer.

Chiwude: Which useless 90% will vote for Jonathan. Nwokem speak for your household and not Igbo in general. Let me tell You: the day any major party fields an Igboman for Presidency then you will be shocked to see your paymaster GEJ lose the S/E. Afterall has he - Goodluck - not tasted power? Have the Ijaws nay Niger-Delta minorities not tasted power? What else do they want. Apart from the so called ministerial positon, what else have we gained from GEJ's government. Even in that sector we received insults from the presidency. The sacking of people like the former minister of Power, Stella Oduah and Festus Odumegwu of the NPC just because some Yoruba's and Kwankwaso wanted them out. Even in the military and paramillitary do we currently have any serving Head of even a division after the unjust sack of Ihejirika. In the economic aspect what have we gained? The Enugu Int'I Airport is not even 50 percent completed. Do we have good Federal roads in the S/E. The Enugu - Onitsha road is the worst in the federation. The Enugu - P/H road which was only given a patch work is now filled with holes as big as a mine field, just as it were before. The Owerri/Aba road - which was part of the original Onitsha - Owerri - Aba road awarded by Obasanjo - was long abandoned, before Rochas started the Owerri section of that road. The Oguta sea port project has been abandoned while the Onitsha port is no better than a glorified warehouse. Even when the FG was siting state for the construction of refineries the S/E was ridiculously bypassed. Non oil states like Kogi and Lagos were chosen ahead of Imo and Abia. What have we gained? Nothing. The only think I think we have gained is being used as a sacrificial lamb for the Goodluck presidency by enemies of Ndigbo. Massacres and killings have been carried out on our people living in the north as revenge against Goodluck. Whenever GEJ fails to do anything meaningful, the Yoruba quickly blame us - as if Jonathan is an Igbo. For me, any Igboman that sell us for a pot of porridge is destined for a very big calamity and curse to his lineage. Haven't we supported Goodluck enough? We've supported him even when the chips were down. Despite not antagonistic during the fuel scarcity era, Ndigbo suffered more than other tribes during that period. How many tribe travel home in bulk during the festive period if not Igbos? Many of us who traveled home for the Christmas holiday couldn't return back to our base till February, some person had to sell off valuable properties before they could leave the village. Have we not reciprocated him enough (at least for the burial of Eze gburu gburu Dim Ojukwu). If Goodluck means well for us, then he should shed his Political ambition and pick an Igboman - from Anioma or Obigbo, I don't care, as long as he has Igbo blood flowing in his vein - for Presidency in his place. Afterall all the civilian Presidents that have ruled this country from the days of Balewa have all been hand-picked.

Faun: So, na so the thread take kpai?

capricon: You are very correct about the Anambra superemacy. Its so sad

chinolization: Even you? Okay we shall see..

chinolization: How can I be tipsy and at the same time making sense? I am not drunk at least wifey is a witness..

Faun: I'm not following Chino and his foolishness. I will never post negative pictures of Anambra. I'm not an i..d.iot.
What I'm calling on Chino to do is post the El Dorado pictures of Anambra that make it the greatest state in the world, since he spends a great deal of his time denigrating others.
He even attacked Spyder880 here, telling him to stop posting pictures of Anambra if they're more than 3 months old, yet that picture of Zenith bank (with the Guinness advert and Peugeot 504 car) is 3 years old.
He's about to be disgraced on this thread if he fails to deliver.