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Not the issue! The point is follow due process. Rule of Law demands that you hear one alleged to have committed an offence in the manner prescribed by law for the person to present his side of the story. NJC must first deal with the petition and thereafter CCT if the allegations are found to have substance!

Sad!

An allegation remains one - whether “weak” or not!

Am in the hope SE is thinking about that.

Tehila07:
You're not serious at all. Why mocking Atiku na

Bullseye!

[quote author= post=74680113]THE WISE ONES SHOULD READ AND DIGEST THIS PIECE.
The TRUTH is bitter, but it most be told.............[i][/i]

What we lack in the East is UNITY.
That is the only thing killing our tribe.
In UNITY we stand.
That saying is GOLDEN!
I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Just one month to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary abuse from nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.
Dr Uche......

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.[/quote]Nna!

googlepikins:
Thunder strike your mouth there

It got to you!

StOla:
Why are Ohaneze concerned with what Osinbajo or Tinubu are doing in their Amala and ewedu janjawee.d APC party?

Why not face their party PDP or APGA that they have laboured for, while Tinubu is facing his own party that he has laboured for?

Even in PDP, the Yoruba politicians will certainly contest for the 2023 presidential ticket there, just as Ekwueme contested against the victorious Obasanjo in 1998 and 2002 primaries of the PDP when the ticket was last zoned to the entire South.

Don Etiebet, Alabo Graham Douglas, and a host of other Southerners contested the 1998 PDP primaries that Obasanjo won without any entitlements.

The entire North of PDP have had their turn in 2018, with Atiku from NorthEast defeating Tambuwal of NorthWest and Saraki of NorthCentral.

As per PDP rule, the 2023 presidential ticket will be zoned to the entire South, and the SouthWest and SouthSouth will compete for it, since the SouthEast have chickened out of it and have rather shown interest in being deputy to a Northern candidate in continuation of the legacy of mental slavery and inferiority that their ancestors passed on to them.


As for APC, it will do whatever is good for APC without any regard for Ohaneze or PDP that are irrelevant to the party.

This is bitter but true!

PDP and other APC traducers keep falling for its red herrings! How major an issue is such matter as composition of a campaign committee to winning the forthcoming elections! #chasingshadowslosingvision

Shikini:
Kebbi state PDP chairman Alhaji Haruna Saidu and he hasn't defected

The KAYODE Of a fellow reminds one of Goebbels of the murderously infamous Third Reich. His ilks in Nigeria are Ofonagoro, Chukwumerije, Tony Momoh, Abatan et al

verifiablefacts:
how many votes do those have?

You don’t get it! The tight embrace will guarantee his victory!! I tell you some SE hearts will pound and give when the elections are done and over with!

ibietela2:
But you bought shares in his company? And even the largest shareholder sef

Eyes on the money not the ugly!

Vindictiveness is not good for wellness.

deedy111:
Nosa

Lolzzzzzzz

If you did now you won!

verifiablefacts:
and only SE votes can make Atiku win?

Not when you are a recipient of the tight embrace from the highly respected Learned Silk and Professor! You’ll win!! Won’t you?

goodlifehyd:
The whole SE votes no pass one state for north

Just remember that the embrace is as tight as ever! Prof. held on to The Hope Of The South-East as if his very life depended on him! They will be disappointed!! They will end up more bitter than ever!!! How I wish it was not so.

morisnewrain:
You are a bad man. You get bad mouth sha! "Mr bitumen" lol

Methink not! The point is Nigerians are afflicted with a gross lack of sense of history which was compounded by Obasanjo who scrapped History as a subject from our school syllabus!! My goal was to remind us that Oyinlola’s tenures at governance were disreputable and put it out of his mouth to make such comments!

Printerscanner:
With the 5% vote? Atikuloot and Obituary together with Wike the wicked, even imPatience Jonathan will soon port to APC leaving Saraki and Dino behind.

No blinking! SE impregnable! The embrace remains tight!

The typical Nigerian woman would love to be Dubai bound!

Not on your life! Discretion keeps!! Not now. Maybe after.

The inanity Of the insane.

The Lagos APC Governorship Campaign debacle indicates that much!

Not if your device is Apple though.

That is where Sen. Melaye can have the badly needed solitude to rescue him from the inanities of the insane that had become his trademark overtime!

You need not fear if you are fair!

With no defections from PDP/Atiku quarters? The embrace remains tight!

Atiku’s pedigree belie his ability to fulfil his electoral promises. It matters not what Obasanjo now has to say about Atiku!

What if it was Buba Marwa instead of Tinubu? Marwa succeeded where Oyinlola failed! Mr. “No bitumen”!

Not to worry. No defections in the SE. Atiku’s stronghold is intact. The embrace remains tightened!

John The Baptist went under water for a minute before baptising Jesus? When folks won’t read their Bible and simply do what they find in there they end up badly!

Grizzly arrogant fellow playing God!