Goodluck JonathanKINSMEN of former President Goodluck Jonathan have fired back at the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for describing the former president as weak and incompetent.



The kinsmen under the auspices of Ogbia Brotherhood Youth Council (OBYC), in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday, condemned Kanu for making such disparaging statement against the person of the former president whose administration contributed immensely to the development and stability of the country.

The statement signed by OBYC National President, Dr Laguo L. Gilbert, the group described Kanu’s statements as most unfortunate and therefore advised the public to disregard it.

He warned Nnamdi Kanu “to desist forthwith from linking a man of honour like Dr Jonathan with his directionless agitation.

“Such radical statements remain one of the reasons why the IPOB agitation lacks its required substance.

“The OBYC, however, advises Mr Kanu to learn from the mistakes made by the group in the past and its predecessor, as this will be necessary to implement its vision,” the statement said.

The group maintained that bringing Jonathan into Biafra issues in such cavilling manner would not help or give credence to its deep-rooted rancour.

“Bringing former President Jonathan into its issues in such a disrespectful manner will neither help nor give credence to its rancour. OBYC therefore warns Nnamdi Kanu to desist forthwith from linking a man of honor like Dr Jonathan into his directionless agitation,” the statement added.

It would be recalled that the IPOB leader had reportedly chided the former president for not completing the East-West Road and for doing nothing for his people.

“I love Yar’Adua and Shehu Shagari, Patience Jonathan would have made a better president than Goodluck,” Kanu, had said



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that was expected but the real question should be

where Is BUHARI

Afonjas we carry this matter for there head. I hope Nnamdi kanu will stay out of politics .Igbos have no king so Nnamdi Kanu should remove the title of Supreme leader from his name

Our tongue may be a piece of kpomo but trust me it can destroy everything we have worked for if not bridled.


PS: expect NwaAmaikpe to come through with some comic relief...never take him seriously. Se.un hasn't banned him coz dude is full of controversy and that sells(drives traffic)

More fire please so that he will recieve some sense in tongue management

To be truthful with you all...he did nothing to eastern and beside,we loves him.

kocvalour:
that was expected
but the real question should be


where Is BUHARI

"...He (GEJ) was weak...I wish it was Aunty Patience Jonathan who was in charge, she would have done better..."
~Nnamdi Kanu

How dare KANU talk to Mr president like that

He warned Nnamdi Kanu “to desist forthwith
from linking a man of honour like Dr
Jonathan with his directionless agitation.
“Such radical statements remain one of the
reasons why the IPOB agitation lacks its
required substance.

Shot fired

But iddiots said that Ipob is appendage of PDP. Confused f00ls have started singing another song. Thank God for that his statement.. at least he has cleared the air about PDP and Ipob linkage.

sarrki:


"...He (GEJ) was weak...I wish it was Aunty Patience Jonathan who was in charge, she would have done better..."
~Nnamdi Kanu

How dare KANU talk to Mr president like that

sarrki you no follow people Weh talk say uncle jonah weak, why u wan com counter Kanu now, WHY

Ibos and Kanu in summary equalls 'good people bad leader' if only you understand what i mean.

kocvalour:


sarrki you no follow people Weh talk say uncle jonah weak, why u wan com counter Kanu now, WHY

Don't get it twisted

Uncle Jonah was weak to deal with the thieves that drained us dry

But we can't allow mazi KANU to insult our president

ShobayoEmma:
Ibos and Kanu in summary equalls 'good people bad leader' if only you understand what i mean.

I love my afonja girlfriend so much. My flat-head drives her nuts. I hope to marry her some day.
My good Afonja in-law, it equals not squalls. You are welcome, what are in-laws for?

sarrki:


Don't get it twisted

Uncle Jonah was weak to deal with the thieves that drained us dry

But we can't allow mazi KANU to insult our president

I hope you Dont eat these words some day. U sound so patriotic this night. Keep it up

adonbilivit:
I hope you Dont eat these words some day. U sound so patriotic this night. Keep it up

That's the truth

My bro

No matter what we the citizens can call our leaders names

But not others trying to use their Good will to forment or damaged the name for them

But we won't

...
dont be surprised if you see APC rats coming here to eat their words over JONATHAN THE MOST ABUSED PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY by this same party rats.
...what ever can pit them against NK will make their day!

sarrki:


Don't get it twisted

Uncle Jonah was weak to deal with the thieves that drained us dry

But we can't allow mazi KANU to insult our president

Thus hypocrisy at the highest level.

I thought you pple said that PDP and Jonathan was the one sponsoring him.

Pple just hate truth.

For Gods sake

Just say it the way it's.

Jonathan allowed himself to be bullied by this Northerners.

IT IS TIME NNAMDI KANU DISASSOCIATE HIMSELF FROM THESE PDP GOONS.

FAILURE IS THEIR NAME.

KANU IS NOT HERE FOR PDP SALVATION. HE HIS HERE FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE OPPRESSED.

GEJ WAS TOO WEAK FOR MY LIKING. DAT WAS Y THEY REMOVED HIM.

Booked

sarrki:


"...He (GEJ) was weak...I wish it was Aunty Patience Jonathan who was in charge, she would have done better..."
~Nnamdi Kanu

How dare KANU talk to Mr president like that

Yet your ewedu brains where at the forefront of taging IPOB, a GEJ/PDP group.

una don finish?
just observing...
fireworks expected next few days

Tribune is owned by Afonjas

Well done Joe Igbokwe.

We shall keep educating these bigots till they grow some brain.

Ndigbo in Nigeria: History is my witness by Joe Igbokwe.

A few days ago a friend, patriot and a committed Nigerian, Emmanuel Majebi reminded me of the tragedy of looking the way and keeping quiet by men who should know better in times of crisis. He reminded me of the calamity that will befall a society or nation when real men choose to be neutral in times of great moral crisis. He reminded me that evil triumph in every society when good and thinking men do nothing. Hear Emmanuel: "The story is usually told of how Years after the devastation of Germany in WW2 ... There was a meeting of German eggheads ... And the question was how did it come to pass that a nation that produced Great Thinkers like Friederich Nietzsche. Karl Max ...Albert Einstein....Bruno Bauer. Friederich Engels... Etc ..etc...get seized and goaded into ultimate destruction by a looney like Hitler... Who was not even originally German but Austrian!!!! The thinkers came up with the conclusion that complacency and indifference until it became too late ... Was the main cause!"
A.J.P Taylor captured it succinctly when the German war machines crumbled in 1945 when he said: "The real problem of German history is why so few of the educated recognized Hitler as the embodiment of evil."
The blame was put squarely on the inability of the German political class and the elite to rise up to the challenges of Hitler and his collaborators. The consequences of their inability to call a spade a spade resulted in the death of 20 million people and the massive destruction of property worth several billions of dollars. The rest is now history!
Before 2015 and after the 2015 general elections I had a running battle with the some Igbo writers and opinion builders both at home and abroad on the choice of words they throw to the public space. I reminded them those of them living outside Nigeria that they creating millions of enemies for our people living and doing businesses outside Igboland. I was abused as a sellout, a saboteur, and betrayer. Nnamdi Kanu's Radio Biafra was there and is still there as I write this spewing and spreading hate, ethnic bigotry and primordial tendencies with reckless abandon.
I did not see Ohaneze, Ndigbo Lagos, Aka Ikenga and other Igbo political class rising up to say enough is enough. The brigandage continued unabated until the Arewa Youths of the North responded in their way a few weeks back and hell was let loose.
Yes, the Arewa Youths flouted the Nigerian Constitution by asking Igbo to quit their territory. Yes, the Arewa youths took laws into the hands. Yes, the Arewa Youths response was reckless and totally unacceptable but has anybody taken mental notice of the abuse and uncensored choice of words used on the person of the President and Northern Nigerians by some Igbo at home and abroad? Why did our leaders keep quiet in the face of these provocative statements and abuse? Why did they not care about others in Nigeria? Why did it not bother them? Why was Nnamdi Kanu not called to order? Did they address any press conference calling for the censure of hate speeches and abuse of others who are different from us?
The same Igbo leaders who could not speak when elders are supposed to speak were the ones visiting Nnamdi Kanu in prison taking pictures with him. Now, what signals are we sending to other Nigerians who are not Igbo? Can you see what I am seeing? Can you add two and two to get four? Can you see that Arewa Youths ran away with the thinking that those who are abusing and cursing them got an endorsement from Igbo leaders? The evil spirits visited in the night and the child died in the morning and you are still waiting for the proof of what happened. What the Arewa youths did is to practice what political scientists call the balance of terror, a balance of abuse, the balance of hate, a balance of ethnic bigotry and balance of primordial sentiments.
It was when the Arewa Youths reacted the way they did that Igbo suddenly remembered that they have investments worth trillions of Naira outside Igboland. It was then that former Governor Kwankwaso reminded Igbo that they are occupying the size of South East in the North. It was then that it dawned on Igbo and other Nigerians that we need one another. It was then that we started looking into our Constitution. It was then that Igbo leaders started speaking out. It was then that they realized that hate speech can cause war because war starts by hot exchange of words. It was then that it dawned on Igbo that while it is easy for Northerners to quickly vacate the South East it may not be too easy for Igbo to move their physical assets out of the North. It is impossible. It was then that we realized that nobody has a monopoly hate language.
We are gradually witnessing what happened in Biafra from 1967 to 1970 when patriots and genuine Igbo leaders who offered alternative views to Ojukwu then were branded as saboteurs and tied to the stake and gunned down. Zik, C C Onoh and Professor Enegere of the University of Nigeria Nsukka confirmed this to me. God forbid. We are in the age of ideas and the age of learning. May the voices of the uneducated, unlettered, and the uncivilized in Igbo land do not swallow the voices of reason, hope, truth, and life. Before the declaration of Biafra on 30th of May 1967 at the then Eastern House of Assembly all the bonafide leaders in Igbo land were seated. More than 80% of the people in that hallowed Chamber rose up for Biafra and it came to pass.
Now if we want Biafra again 50 years after everything must be debated, Mark my words. Let us call for the debate and let the intelligentsia and those who can add two and two together to get four go to speak for Igbo land. A lot is at stake in Nigeria, and I do not want Igbo to lose again.
I agree 100% that Igbo have suffered systemic, organized, structured and official marginalization in Nigeria but let us go into constructive and civilized engagement to redress the imbalance. For us to do this we need to play better politics by working with other Nigerians. I have a reason why Igbo should see Nigeria as their country. There is no other country in the world where the Igbo language is spoken. Yoruba have three million of their kinsmen and women in Benin Republic. The language spreads to Liberia, and even up to West Indies. The Hausa-Fulani have their kinsmen and women in Mali, Niger, and even up to Saudi Arabia etc. If there is serious crisis in Nigeria they can move. Igbo have no outlet anywhere in the world. You cannot plant and another will come and harvest. You cannot build and another will come and occupy.
Now what is the way forward? Igbo should stop persecution complex, marginalization complex, defeatist syndrome, leadership complex, and what Prof Ozodi Osuji will call selfish sense of superiority and paranoid grandiosity. We can do better than this. Nnamdi Kanu' Biafra project will not fly in the 21st Century. Igbo must see Nigeria as their own where they have invested trillions to build. We are all Nigerians. Given my experiences in Nigeria and Igboland we may not be able to live as one in one country. I am a living witness of what happened when Enugu was carved out of the old Anambra State. I am a living witness how Ebonyi State always join the North when issues concerning South East are put to vote at the National Assembly. I am a living witness when former Governor Orji of Abia State sacked all civil servants from Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi and Enugu from the State civil service. Catholic Diocese of Ahiara Mbaise cannot accept the man is from Anambra State as their Bishop. An Anambra man Mr. Cletus Ibeto who bought the Nkalagu Cement Factory cannot start operation because the bigots feel an Anambra man cannot buy and own Nkalagu Cement Factory. This is the country the small boy Nnamdi wants me to be part of. Let common sense prevail even though I know common sense is not common. Case Rested!
Joe Igbokwe

He warned Nnamdi Kanu “to desist forthwith from linking a man of honour like Dr Jonathan with his directionless agitation

Heart attack for my igbo Jewish alobam.

I wonder how Christian igbos would feel about this.

sarrki:

Don't get it twisted
Uncle Jonah was weak to deal with the thieves that drained us dry
But we can't allow mazi KANU to insult our president

But you guys used to insult Jonathan before

Was it not Afonjas who called Jonathan a kindergarten President

ESDKING:
But iddiots said that Ipob appendage of PDP. Confused f00ls have started singing another song. Thank God for that his statement.. at least he has cleared the air about PDP and Ipob linkage.

Cocunut fall on you- pon pon.

Sense fall on you- pon pon. .

Today has really been a terrible day for igbo Jews.