fratermathy:
Igbos do not know how to play politics! It's as simple as that. They pride themselves as the smartest people yet can't seem to wrap their brain around Nigerian politics effectively.

DrGoodman:


We did exactly that in 1966-67. What did we get? Killings of Igbo people in Igbo land.

We are not going anywhere until we achieve Biafra. You can come and fight us in Lagos

Afam4eva:
For those who don't understand what Ngige said. He says that politics is a business venture and if you don't invest in a business, you shouldn't expect dividends. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what has befallen our so called democracy. We can no longer exercise our democratic rights without being punished for it.

vantage001:
Igbos shouldn't expect anything because They didn't invest in buhari election.
Donald trump shouldn't work for black americans because they didn't vote for him.
We know which of those two scenarios is likely to happen and which of those two nations is the failed state. Difference between first and third world leadership.
Btw, I hope Ngige knows we still will not support him and his government in 2019.

fratermathy:
Igbos do not know how to play politics! It's as simple as that. They pride themselves as the smartest people yet can't seem to wrap their brain around Nigerian politics effectively.

vantage001:
Igbos shouldn't expect anything because They didn't invest in buhari election.
Donald trump shouldn't work for black americans because they didn't vote for him.
We know which of those two scenarios is likely to happen and which of those two nations is the failed state. Difference between first and third world leadership.
Btw, I hope Ngige knows we still will not support him and his government in 2019.

uch4apex:
The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has asked the South-east to stop complaining of marginalisation by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

He lamented that all his efforts to persuade the Igbo to wisely invest in Buhari’s presidential bid in 2015 failed because of lack of co-operation by many South-east leaders, who threw their weigh behind former President Goodluck Jonathan.

“This is not a question I should answer because I’m a politician. But before these things happened, before the government of Jonathan failed, I went to all the Igbo fora to tell them that the Jonathan government will fall”, he told Thisday.

“I went to our Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo in Enugu twice. They could not even reply to a letter written by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, seeking for a meeting with them”, he added.

Ngige, revealed how he went to Lagos and convened an Igbo stakeholders forum in William Nwodo’s house in Ikoyi, Lagos in 2014, where he analysed the voting pattern in Nigeria and told them that even if they did not want to support Buhari, they should give him 25 per cent of their votes.

“They refused to listen to me, and to make matter worse, there was no voting in most of the areas in the South-east; they just allocated 5 per cent to APC.

“It was that bad, it is too late to cry when the head is off. Politics is business in a way, you invest in business and you reap profit.

“Yes, that is what it is. But all I want to tell you is that we played bad politics; we made a bad investment because they invested in the Jonathan presidency. They invested in Jonathan more than the South-south, where he hails from.

“I am not saying that is enough to marginalise them or not allow them come in but we are there. I will continue to speak for them and when there is anything to be distributed, we will make sure that the South-east gets its own portion. But they will not get excess portion.

Igbos should stop complaining, they didn’t invest in Buhari’s campaign – Ngige

“Even in a family where the head of the family goes to the farm to harvest his yams those who accompany the farmer to the farm get more share.

“When they bring back the yams some of them will be damaged, and the pieces are put out in one section. Then the whole yams are put into the barn and some will be sent to the market for sale. And some will be sent to the family centrally for distribution among the family units.

“Those ones that are in pieces, the extras, will be shared among those that went to the farm. We did not benefit from the extras with people who went to the farm. We didn’t go to the farm in the south-east”, he added.

On what the All Progressives Congress (APC) will be campaigning on ahead 2019, Ngige stated: “Oh my God, so you are in the group of those who are pessimistic, who have refused to see the wonders of this government?

“Well, I’m from the South-east, so when we get there we will show them that first and foremost we have fought corruption to a standstill and that people can no longer steal at will, much less keeping such monies at home.

“The movement was from the bank to the house, but now that homes have been raided, maybe they will go to the farm to keep them. But people cannot steal money because there is no hiding place anymore.

“They cannot steal primitively like it was done before. The poor people of Nigerian are happy about this,” he said.

The APC chieftain said he has no regret for his role in helping to bring Buhari to power, saying if the opportunity presents itself again he will do exactly the same thing.

“If not for this government, the government of Muhammadu Buhari, government of change, Nigeria would have been worse than Venezuela.


http://www.championnews.com.ng/igbos-stop-complaining-didnt-invest-buharis-campaign-ngige/?shared=email&msg=fail

Okoyiboz3:




You disgraced moderator with the scruples of an alley cat, On 27th of August 2011, you made the comment below. I wonder how you manage to sleep at night with your atrocious history.




Please, go through this thread below. Igbo posters were calling Yoruba leaders names because they met GEJ in a civilised manner to complain about deliberate sack of yorubas and replacing them with other ethnicities.

https://www.nairaland.com/745731/yoruba-marginalization-elders-met-jonathan



The problem of Igbos is that they cannot survive without the Federal Government. Their support for GEJ over Buhari was a political miscalculation due to political illiteracy. Over the years, they have supported other people even to the detriment of Igbo candidates. That is why Ojukwu couldn't get 3M votes from Igbos when he contested Nigeria's presidency.

gberra:
History tells us you abandoned your properties in Lagos & fled to your villages like the speed of Usain Bolt. The Biafran Army were not several kilometers as close to Lagos before the NA smashed the biafran's skulls.

In summary, There had never been a fight in Lagos & there will never be.
You can imagine how Igbos romanticize Lagos like an Aba Made prostitute.

Igbos are Stupid

odomanis:


Igbos did not vote for Buhari because they know that he hates the Igbo. Buhari got an opportunity to proof the Igbos wrong,what has he done with it but confirm that he actually hates the Igbos. Igbos were actually right in not voting for him. Have you wondered why the Igbos gave more votes to OBJ/ATIKU against BUHARI/OKADIGBO ? Have you also wondered why Igbos gave more votes to Yaradua against even Ojukwu ? It was not because of where Buhari comes from or his party or even GEJ. Igbos do not love GEJ more than OJUKWU but, they feared what they will go true in the hands of Buhari. You can confess that they were actually right with their fears.

Talking about wrong politics, did the southwest support OBJ emergence in 1999 ? The southwest didn't vote for OBJ then,did that make him exclude the southwest from the scheme of things ? Did that make you call the southwest unintelligent politicians ? Why say so about the south east now ?

Please stop supporting evil as, what goes around comes around.

vantage001:
Igbos shouldn't expect anything because They didn't invest in buhari election.
Donald trump shouldn't work for black americans because they didn't vote for him.
We know which of those two scenarios is likely to happen and which of those two nations is the failed state. Difference between first and third world leadership.
Btw, I hope Ngige knows we still will not support him and his government in 2019.

Afam4eva:
For those who don't understand what Ngige said. He says that politics is a business venture and if you don't invest in a business, you shouldn't expect dividends. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what has befallen our so called democracy. We can no longer exercise our democratic rights without being punished for it.

vantage001:
Igbos shouldn't expect anything because They didn't invest in buhari election.
Donald trump shouldn't work for black americans because they didn't vote for him.
We know which of those two scenarios is likely to happen and which of those two nations is the failed state. Difference between first and third world leadership.
Btw, I hope Ngige knows we still will not support him and his government in 2019.

ideologies:
you are talking trash, with all the senate presidents Rep speakers Igbos have produced what has it added to the live of the common igbo trader at Alaba or Aba market. Nigeria will only move forward when we stop playing politics with everything

uzobaby:
Nigeria is practising another type of democracy. ..since when has it been mandatory to vote a particular candidate so as to enjoy the rights of being a citizen. People should not be chastised for voting for their choice ...since Daura has not turned to Dubai. ..Ngige you are O.P

ayindejimmy:


What's happening to Obamacare?
Trump will first do what made his supporters vote for him before remembering any blacks

vantage001:
Igbos shouldn't expect anything because They didn't invest in buhari election.
Donald trump shouldn't work for black americans because they didn't vote for him.
We know which of those two scenarios is likely to happen and which of those two nations is the failed state. Difference between first and third world leadership.
Btw, I hope Ngige knows we still will not support him and his government in 2019.

Paretomaster:



Despite that, the SE is still being carries along.. ..and for ur info, if u like don't vote them, ur vote is inconsequential.. .

He never said SE won't benefit from the Govt, but they should stop crying more than the berieved.

If u don't want to be part of NIG, Pls move and Stop waiting for our blessing. .