Last year, i opened a thread where i raised serious issues and the reason why my Igbo brethren should quit politics of hate and play interest rather.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863669/letter-fellow-igbo-brethren

But i was ridiculed, cursed and berated. I was called a saboteur and all sorts of vile names. I even had to enter a war of words with many here in this site.

But, I am happy that some of us who are thinking ahead did not allow the hatred filled souls among us deny the required percentage from our zone. I'm only pained that the Senate President that would have been rightfully ours again is still not coming to us for the second time.

Congratulations to the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

philfearon:
Last year, i opened a thread where i raised serious issues and the reason why my Igbo brethren should quit politics of hate and play interest rather.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863669/letter-fellow-igbo-brethren

But i was ridiculed, cursed and berated. I was called a saboteur and all sorts of vile names. I even had to enter a war of words with many here in this site.

But, I am happy that some of us who are thinking ahead did not allow the hatred filled souls among us deny the required percentage from our zone. I'm only pained that the Senate President that would have been rightfully ours again is still not coming to us for the second time.

Congratulations to the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

Oga wailer, I don't know if you are just seeking for attention or just love to read your own post, whatever, is Okoroawusa not going to the Senate anymore? Was his dubious mandate revoked? Mtcheeeew

Gandollaar:
Oga wailer, I don't know if you are just seeking for attention or just love to read your own post, whatever, is Okoroawusa not going to the Senate anymore? Was his dubious mandate revoked? Mtcheeeew

Don't you know that First timers don't get Senate President?

philfearon:

Don't you know that First timers don't get Senate President?

Yes it's true. So are there no returning APC from SE?

Are there any returning Rep from SE if they can get Speaker

Because its looking like

NE - Senate president
SS- Speaker
SE - Deputy SP
NC - Deputy Speaker

philfearon:
Last year, i opened a thread where i raised serious issues and the reason why my Igbo brethren should quit politics of hate and play interest rather.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863669/letter-fellow-igbo-brethren

But i was ridiculed, cursed and berated. I was called a saboteur and all sorts of vile names. I even had to enter a war of words with many here in this site.

But, I am happy that some of us who are thinking ahead did not allow the hatred filled souls among us deny the required percentage from our zone. I'm only pained that the Senate President that would have been rightfully ours again is still not coming to us for the second time.

Congratulations to the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

^^
This thing above is the reasons I dislike igbos from imo state axis, who suffers from inferiority complex unlike their Anambra counterpart who aren't bothered about what other people or tribe think or Say about their political learning or decisions.




This is to encourage young Igbos post election and
not a divisive post.
Please dont see it as offensive.
We do what we do as a result of who we are!
We are Igbos, and proud of it. No apologies.
Igbos are not united!
Igbos are not united!
It was the same people who sell you the stereotype
that Igbos are not united that came out, to fight the
unity of Igbos at Okota/Ago, other parts of Lagos
and Igbo land in general.
Seeing that their narrative is failing, they are now
selling another narrative. They are saying Igbos are
putting all their eggs in one basket.
How can the whole of the Igbos vote PDP?
Now we are being accused of not being divided
enough to spare some votes for APC. Olee ihe
emere ya adi uwa mma?
A little history will suffice. We are an egalitarian
society. Indirect rule didn't work with Igbos. It
worked well with the North and the South West but
not with Igbos. Warrant Chiefs didn't help matters
either. So really, Igbos are not political lots. Same
reason voter aparthy is highest in Igbo land.
But when we take a political stand, we speak with
one voice. That is who we are.
We have always done. We did it with Shagari,
Obasanjo, Ya'radua and Jonathan. We are doing it
against Buhari.
Make no mistake, we have always put our political
eggs in one basket and that is who we are. That is
why we don't entertain dynasties. The likes of Saraki
and Tinubu and Mohammed won't last a decade in
Igbo land.
We are decisive and courageous. If that is what you
call arrogance, then so be it. But we will never
stand on the fence.
I write this because of the young generation of
Igbos in Nigeria. Go home to your fathers in the
villages and ask questions. Learn how to be Igbo
without being apologetic. The first thing people
notice about an Igbo man is his enterprising spirit.
It is not found anywhere else. Ihe agwo muru
aghaghi ito ogologo.
We can't apologize for who we are. But what we do
not have is the spirit of Nigerian politics. We don't
play the politics of "Master say! Alhaji say!
Everyone is a master in Igbo land. Onweghi onye na
akpanye ibe ya nri.
The Igwe of my community has no more stake in
the affairs of my community than I do. He is more
of a representative of the people to the government
and the custodian of our tradition than a "ruler" in
the real sense of it. That is why we have the
cabinet and elders in council.
Igbo amaghi eze.
It is not a bad thing in a sense that decisions are
collectively taken, from the household, through the
hamlets to the community. It does not make us
lawless lots. The consultative mechanism is our
strength. Igwe bu ike.
This is the singular reason why the Ohanaeze Ndi
Igbo has been able to evolve into that rallying point
for the Igbos like the Arewa People's Congress for
Northerners, Oodua Peoples Congress and the
Afenifere for Yorubas.
Let us all brace up for the times ahead.
Someone who will dislike you will not always need
a reason to. Add the ingenuity and hardwork of the
average Igbo man to the mix, and dislike quickly
turns to hate.
And I understand it. I perfectly do. Its not easy to
like someone who comes back to your land, after
being sent packing just a few decades ago with just
some two pounds and all his properties confiscated
by his hosts.
He comes back and acquires them back hundred
folds, marries your daughters and prospers with
them. Then goes ahead to not only carve
settlements in Ojodu and Ojo for themselves, but is
about to become a determinant to your political
future in a dispensation where you have been
promised a second place.
What they may never know is that the ordinary Igbo
man is not interested in your presidency. We thrive
wherever we go. So when you say we are not
strategizing enough for the presidency, we don't see
it how you see it.
The average Igbo man simply wants a good
environment for his business, and good
infrastructure for a decent life. The things which
"presidency" has not bestowed on any ethnic group
in Nigeria.
The five Igbo states have since 2012 almost
consistently occupied the best positions in WAEC
and produced the highest number of medical and
engineering students in Nigeria.
Check the Igbo business in Lagos, Kano, Maiduguri,
Portharcourt. Most are not based on government
patronage. We make things out of nothing.
Presidency means nothing to an average Igbo man.
The ten poorest and educationally backward states
in Nigeria are within the regions that have held the
presidency within the last two decades.
A good example is the very primary school where
President Buhari cast his vote. It was the closest to
his ancestral home. A "successful" Onitsha business
man who has made money from his trade will know
that the church and the school closest to his home
is the very yardstick to measure his success. He
needs not become president to refurbish them. Ana
esi na ulo mara mma puo ama.
THE CONCLUSION
To the young generation of Igbos, I say to you
today, Quit trying to impress anyone about how
hospitable or detribalized you are!
Nnamdi Azikiwe did it and failed, Jonathan did
everything imaginable, things he did not do for his
native South South and yet failed. If you think you
can please Nigeria, then you have another thing
coming.
Look at Benue people, they received the greatest
visit of deaths from this government. But they'd
rather die some more than let an Igbo man smell
the Vice Presidency. And tomorrow, they will also
tell you Igbos don't know politics. And you will want
to engage them in an argument.
Do not be disturbed when you hear them say we are
not united. We have never been that kind of united
people. Read our history. Even as Igbos were dying
in their hundreds during the pogrom, Gen. Ojukwu,
one of the first Igbo men who realized that this
"forced marriage" can never work was only
"permitted" to embark on the war against Nigeria by
seeking the voice of every hamlet, every village and
every community. He did not take unilateral
decisions.
That's how decisions are taken in Igbo land. We do
no alienate those who are in dissent. We do not
allow one Tinubu to make decisions for some and
another Saraki for others, so that our two eggs are
comfortably placed in two baskets. No! We rise to
the occasion wherever we are, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna,
sokoto. Our spirits communicate with each other
and not with any leader figure and decide what is
best for us. Either you respect us for getting it, or
you respect us for trying. This is who we are, and
we are not changing it soon. We are Igbos. Deal
with it.
Written by Ugo Finian
I will repeat the last line.
WE ARE IGBOS. DEAL WITH IT.

philfearon:
Last year, i opened a thread where i raised serious issues and the reason why my Igbo brethren should quit politics of hate and play interest rather.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863669/letter-fellow-igbo-brethren

But i was ridiculed, cursed and berated. I was called a saboteur and all sorts of vile names. I even had to enter a war of words with many here in this site.

But, I am happy that some of us who are thinking ahead did not allow the hatred filled souls among us deny the required percentage from our zone. I'm only pained that the Senate President that would have been rightfully ours again is still not coming to us for the second time.

Congratulations to the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

To hell. Keep your rubbish to yourself.

Ganiyat72:

The likes of Saraki
and Tinubu and Mohammed won't last a decade in
Igbo land.

I had to remove the ramblings & pitiful wailings of a disturbed mind, sorry... But have to ask since y'all are superhumans;

How come Ekwerwmadu is about to embark on his 5th Senate term, when it's already established his community barely benefit from his post all these years.?


Keep deluding yourselves with the republican crap, many SE people will see (some have seen already) through the charade of selfish leaders & make better choices for themselves going forward...

@Ganiyat72,
You have made some valid points, especially in restating what is already public knowledge.
However, answer me this:
1) Who wailed the most about lopsided appointments in this government?
2) Do you sincerely not want an Igbo president?
3) Will you continuously side with something you are not gaining from just because of an overbloated pride?
4) Can you survive as an island?
5) Is politics a game of interest that requires compromises as at when due or a game of hatred?

nwanyionitsha:
To hell. Keep your rubbish to yourself.

You go dey alright las Las.

philfearon:
Last year, i opened a thread where i raised serious issues and the reason why my Igbo brethren should quit politics of hate and play interest rather.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863669/letter-fellow-igbo-brethren

But i was ridiculed, cursed and berated. I was called a saboteur and all sorts of vile names. I even had to enter a war of words with many here in this site.

But, I am happy that some of us who are thinking ahead did not allow the hatred filled souls among us deny the required percentage from our zone. I'm only pained that the Senate President that would have been rightfully ours again is still not coming to us for the second time.

Congratulations to the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

So all you are about is political position in Nigeria?

gidgiddy:


So all you are about is political position in Nigeria?

Everything in life is about politics...and whether or not you want to be involved, it controls everything you do directly and indirectly.

There is no point responding to your wailing but it is very okay for Igbos to be united n vote a single party. In fact it is the right thing to do but you n your father must not wail when Aboki vote a single party too which is APC. You wailing about that translate to you being the biggest bastard on the face of the earth, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Ganiyat72:

^^
This thing above is the reasons I dislike igbos from imo state axis, who suffers from inferiority complex unlike their Anambra counterpart who aren't bothered about what other people or tribe think or Say about their political learning or decisions.




This is to encourage young Igbos post election and
not a divisive post.
Please dont see it as offensive.
We do what we do as a result of who we are!
We are Igbos, and proud of it. No apologies.
Igbos are not united!
Igbos are not united!
It was the same people who sell you the stereotype
that Igbos are not united that came out, to fight the
unity of Igbos at Okota/Ago, other parts of Lagos
and Igbo land in general.
Seeing that their narrative is failing, they are now
selling another narrative. They are saying Igbos are
putting all their eggs in one basket.
How can the whole of the Igbos vote PDP?
Now we are being accused of not being divided
enough to spare some votes for APC. Olee ihe
emere ya adi uwa mma?
A little history will suffice. We are an egalitarian
society. Indirect rule didn't work with Igbos. It
worked well with the North and the South West but
not with Igbos. Warrant Chiefs didn't help matters
either. So really, Igbos are not political lots. Same
reason voter aparthy is highest in Igbo land.
But when we take a political stand, we speak with
one voice. That is who we are.
We have always done. We did it with Shagari,
Obasanjo, Ya'radua and Jonathan. We are doing it
against Buhari.
Make no mistake, we have always put our political
eggs in one basket and that is who we are. That is
why we don't entertain dynasties. The likes of Saraki
and Tinubu and Mohammed won't last a decade in
Igbo land.
We are decisive and courageous. If that is what you
call arrogance, then so be it. But we will never
stand on the fence.
I write this because of the young generation of
Igbos in Nigeria. Go home to your fathers in the
villages and ask questions. Learn how to be Igbo
without being apologetic. The first thing people
notice about an Igbo man is his enterprising spirit.
It is not found anywhere else. Ihe agwo muru
aghaghi ito ogologo.
We can't apologize for who we are. But what we do
not have is the spirit of Nigerian politics. We don't
play the politics of "Master say! Alhaji say!
Everyone is a master in Igbo land. Onweghi onye na
akpanye ibe ya nri.
The Igwe of my community has no more stake in
the affairs of my community than I do. He is more
of a representative of the people to the government
and the custodian of our tradition than a "ruler" in
the real sense of it. That is why we have the
cabinet and elders in council.
Igbo amaghi eze.
It is not a bad thing in a sense that decisions are
collectively taken, from the household, through the
hamlets to the community. It does not make us
lawless lots. The consultative mechanism is our
strength. Igwe bu ike.
This is the singular reason why the Ohanaeze Ndi
Igbo has been able to evolve into that rallying point
for the Igbos like the Arewa People's Congress for
Northerners, Oodua Peoples Congress and the
Afenifere for Yorubas.
Let us all brace up for the times ahead.
Someone who will dislike you will not always need
a reason to. Add the ingenuity and hardwork of the
average Igbo man to the mix, and dislike quickly
turns to hate.
And I understand it. I perfectly do. Its not easy to
like someone who comes back to your land, after
being sent packing just a few decades ago with just
some two pounds and all his properties confiscated
by his hosts.
He comes back and acquires them back hundred
folds, marries your daughters and prospers with
them. Then goes ahead to not only carve
settlements in Ojodu and Ojo for themselves, but is
about to become a determinant to your political
future in a dispensation where you have been
promised a second place.
What they may never know is that the ordinary Igbo
man is not interested in your presidency. We thrive
wherever we go. So when you say we are not
strategizing enough for the presidency, we don't see
it how you see it.
The average Igbo man simply wants a good
environment for his business, and good
infrastructure for a decent life. The things which
"presidency" has not bestowed on any ethnic group
in Nigeria.
The five Igbo states have since 2012 almost
consistently occupied the best positions in WAEC
and produced the highest number of medical and
engineering students in Nigeria.
Check the Igbo business in Lagos, Kano, Maiduguri,
Portharcourt. Most are not based on government
patronage. We make things out of nothing.
Presidency means nothing to an average Igbo man.
The ten poorest and educationally backward states
in Nigeria are within the regions that have held the
presidency within the last two decades.
A good example is the very primary school where
President Buhari cast his vote. It was the closest to
his ancestral home. A "successful" Onitsha business
man who has made money from his trade will know
that the church and the school closest to his home
is the very yardstick to measure his success. He
needs not become president to refurbish them. Ana
esi na ulo mara mma puo ama.
THE CONCLUSION
To the young generation of Igbos, I say to you
today, Quit trying to impress anyone about how
hospitable or detribalized you are!
Nnamdi Azikiwe did it and failed, Jonathan did
everything imaginable, things he did not do for his
native South South and yet failed. If you think you
can please Nigeria, then you have another thing
coming.
Look at Benue people, they received the greatest
visit of deaths from this government. But they'd
rather die some more than let an Igbo man smell
the Vice Presidency. And tomorrow, they will also
tell you Igbos don't know politics. And you will want
to engage them in an argument.
Do not be disturbed when you hear them say we are
not united. We have never been that kind of united
people. Read our history. Even as Igbos were dying
in their hundreds during the pogrom, Gen. Ojukwu,
one of the first Igbo men who realized that this
"forced marriage" can never work was only
"permitted" to embark on the war against Nigeria by
seeking the voice of every hamlet, every village and
every community. He did not take unilateral
decisions.
That's how decisions are taken in Igbo land. We do
no alienate those who are in dissent. We do not
allow one Tinubu to make decisions for some and
another Saraki for others, so that our two eggs are
comfortably placed in two baskets. No! We rise to
the occasion wherever we are, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna,
sokoto. Our spirits communicate with each other
and not with any leader figure and decide what is
best for us. Either you respect us for getting it, or
you respect us for trying. This is who we are, and
we are not changing it soon. We are Igbos. Deal
with it.
Written by Ugo Finian
I will repeat the last line.
WE ARE IGBOS. DEAL WITH IT.

philfearon:

Everything in life is about politics...and whether or not you want to be involved, it controls everything you do directly and indirectly.

.

We wail about Nigerian politics because that's what you are expected to do in you spare time.... .

JoannaSedley:
.

We wail about Nigerian politics because that's what you are expected to do in you spare time.... .

Hahahahahaha... Abi...

Jombom:
There is no point responding to your wailing but it is very okay for Igbos to be united n vote a single party. In fact it is the right thing to do but you n your father must not wail when Aboki vote a single party too which is APC. You wailing about that translate to you being the biggest bastard on the face of the earth, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

I just realised that people talk about you when you are something. Mai abokis voted for a single party and nobody was talking about them rather we have the resident bloodhounds here crawling outta their woodworks opening threads upon threads about Igbos for doing same.
We have our pattern which we have sticked to, it is left for you to use the pattern to your advantage.

philfearon:

Hahahahahaha... Abi...

Sure

We wail hard to destabilize our opponents and next moment we are busy buying and selling. If the wailing is not getting through we throw in Biafra and marginalisation mix and then watch . Oh . Let them deal with it, shebi dem understand politics....kikikiki

JoannaSedley:
Sure

We wail hard to destabilize our opponents and next moment we are busy buying and selling. If the wailing is not getting through we throw in Biafra and marginalisation mix and then watch . Oh . Let them deal with it, shebi dem understand politics....kikikiki

You are funny...

philfearon:

Everything in life is about politics...and whether or not you want to be involved, it controls everything you do directly and indirectly.

Everything is not about politics. The politics of subjugation only benefits one side. Right now, the politics of Nigeria and it's fraudulent constitution that enslaved people

The focus of Igbos should be restructuring or independence, not useless political positions that hasn't helped those who held it in the past

philfearon:
Last year, i opened a thread where i raised serious issues and the reason why my Igbo brethren should quit politics of hate and play interest rather.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863669/letter-fellow-igbo-brethren

But i was ridiculed, cursed and berated. I was called a saboteur and all sorts of vile names. I even had to enter a war of words with many here in this site.

But, I am happy that some of us who are thinking ahead did not allow the hatred filled souls among us deny the required percentage from our zone. I'm only pained that the Senate President that would have been rightfully ours again is still not coming to us for the second time.

Congratulations to the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

Okorohausa can still be Senate president

Thunder fire zombie like you.

gidgiddy:


Everything is not about politics. The politics of subjugation only benefits one side. Right now, the politics of Nigeria and it's fraudulent constitution that enslaved people

The focus of Igbos should be restructuring or independence, not useless political positions that hasn't helped those who held it in the past

We are all political animals. ... everybody is a politician
As long as you are making decisions on two or more issues , you are politcal practioner

gidgiddy:


Everything is not about politics. The politics of subjugation only benefits one side. Right now, the politics of Nigeria and it's fraudulent constitution that enslaved people

The focus of Igbos should be restructuring or independence, not useless political positions that hasn't helped those who held it in the past

You cannot get @bolded by being an outsider in your countries political affairs.

Gforce2019:



We are all political animals. ... everybody is a politician
As long as you are making decisions on two or more issues , you are politcal practioner

Very true!