My final take is that what we need in Nigeria is thus, a “General” Buhari as anti-corruption Warrior.
http:///s1475fa0d191214en_ng

The fact that Mr. Fowler could be dumped in such a manner and replaced with little known Mr. Nami is embarrassing to Tinubu and his boys. How they respond to this apparent smack in the face and an attempt to cripple his presidential ambition even before it kicks off remains to be seen.

http:///s72f21e95191209en_ng[img][/img]

...
Looking through your eyes

I searched for your soul
.....
http:///s5a75b65191207en_ng

As DSS Rearrests Sowore, Should Vice President Osinbajo Resign?

http:///s64a8529a191206en_ng

http:///s2f442289191201en_ng
Birds of all kinds will end up landing. We have just finished the Nunc Dimittis and it’s time for Dino to leave the stage.

Goodbye Dino and welcome to land, a hot and lonely land.

[img][/img]
Shut Up! Buhari Is Not Behind The Ordeal Of Allen Onyema Of Air Peace

http:///s1ce40010191125en_ng

[img][/img]

If the chicken's egg cracks the palm kernel, the grinding stone is put to shame.

Igbos are the grinding stone in the PDP and should never be put to shame, again. Tufiakwa!

http:///s76d7a1f0191121en_ng

[img][/img]
In every media campaign of misinformation and outright lies, therefore, IPOB craftily works on triggering the emotions of Igbos. If they are not warning us that the Yorubas will betray us, they are raising a false alarm on the onslaught of Usman dan Fodio army from the north. The real danger of succumbing to IPOB’s fear mongering is that after a while, the immersion in our tribal loyalty makes the activities of every other tribe not just alien but close to incomprehensible

https://link.medium.com/54hjGjDGGW

This week, Ohanaeze Youths met Buhari and demanded the 2023 Presidency.

I will suggest these next steps

**Tell Nnia Nwodo to stop acting like Nnamdi Kanu
**Educate our brothers & sisters to leave emotions at home and think with their heads while in Nija political jungle
**Stop deploying the defeatist tendency of labeling Igbos that refused to buy into the flawed and sinking ticket of Atiku-Obi as paid agents
**Most importantly, stop talking and start working for 2023

The Yorubas have tightened their grip on Southwest for the APC to the extent that they are confidently talking about their intent to go for the Presidency in 2023. Read more

https://churchill.blog/2019/01/06/is-igbo-presidency-in-2023-already-a-pipe-dram/

As we remember the Biafran heroes this 30th of May, 2018, it is important to emphasize that the path to Igbo Renaissance is not in any frivolous “sit-at-home” orthodoxy. The Renaissance of Biafra in Nigeria should simply not be ”hoped for,” as those who are “sitting-at-home” want us to believe. It should be sought through the reassertion of Igbo political and social consciousness in the midst of ever-growing integration in Nigeria. So, IPOB and the promoters of their ideas are once again demonstrating their incapacity to grasp the difference between symbolic and institutional power by simply ‘siting-at-home’.

Let’s face the fact: The political weight and muscles that IPOB carries today bore little resemblance to what it had once been. The reason is simple: Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB, and their backers lack political competence. They do not know who they can and cannot control; they failed to access the timing of taking actions like “ordering” a boycott of the Anambra governorship election; they failed to identify key allies, but, rather, aligned with wrong political actors like FFK and Fayose who were detrimental to pushing their agenda forward.

Rather than overwhelming its opponents, therefore, IPOB ran aground be its own arrogance, naivety, and miscalculations. Like a fowl that dug out the blade that killed it, IPOB, by their recourse to constituting themselves to public nuisance invited the Nigerian military that ended up quenching the thirst for power in their dry throat. The absence of a plan B by IPOB exposed the un-pragmatic routine of a leadership most of whom are still stupidly urging us to ‘sit-at-home’ and remained resolute on “Biafra or death” nonsense.

Talking about death, if the political leaders in Igbo land and the federal government taught any lesson to the IPOB, it is apparent that nothing was learned. IPOB accumulated a significant political capital amongst Ndigbo, which arguably could have been spent on a durable goal of establishing long-lasting political institutions in the Southeast. But IPOB believed, wrongly, that the balance of power between them and constituted authorities is static. As a result, when the political wind shifted, Nnamdi Kanu was blown away with the battered leadership of IPBO, leaving the followers scattered and lost.

IPOB has now dissolved into a sedimentary group of activists’ content with issuing empty threats and impotent “sit-at-home” directives. The present situation calls for a rethinking of the balance between pomposity and durable goal. ‘Sit-at-home’ is not a durable goal. IPOB’s sit-at-home directive is not reinforced by any analytic substance; there is no institutional leverage; no real power; no reinvigoration and therefore no real path to Igbo Renaissance.

This is when one would have expected the remnants of IPOB leadership to immediately hit the restart button, change strategy and begin a pragmatic politics. The latest “sit-at-home” “order” amounted to nothing more than running in a vicious circle. The dangerous thing about the ‘success’ of these ‘sit-at-home’ fantasy world is not that it is inconsequential; it’s that it seduces Ndigbo that are dissatisfied with the political process in Nigeria to believe that they are making an impact.

The path to Igbo Renaissance is Love, Not Hate. If we allow fear to take over our minds and thought, the result will be breeding hate and more fear. The bad news is not that IPOB failed, but that many Ndigbo are still refusing to learn, even the hard way, the importance of politics by still championing the headless “sit-at-home” mantra. A movement based on bigotry and intent on stirring ethnic-religions discord could offer no answers to the challenges facing Ndigbo that are resourceful and outgoing.

I suggest that before IPOB makes a real comeback aimed at Igbo Renaissance, as I hope they will, they should bear in mind that what Ndigbo need now is hope, not fear. They should thus renegotiate the tension between reckless, self-expression and strategic action. IPOB should be ready to adopt a dual orientation towards both symbolic and institutional powers. They have to show a pragmatic understanding of politics.

Engaging in “politics” is sometimes dismissed as a soft skill, but gaining support is an art, involving the ability to justify an agenda, establish credibility, appreciate what the other party is looking for, and remaining politically astute. Unfortunately, IPOB failed woefully by refusing to engage in “politics”. They got it wrong by focusing on chaotic energy in an attempt to be wielding the symbolic power of the anger in the street. That strategy failed. IPOB and their promoters should, therefore, start afresh by first hitting the restart button.

After hitting the restart button, they should stop promoting a narrow goal of “sit at home” and praying to God as an honor to Biafran heroes. It is a goal that suffers from blurriness, incompleteness, and arbitrariness and leads to depression when such hopes are dashed. That’s not political competence. Political competence is the balance between the single-minded pursuit of the lone ranger and the warm reach of the consensus builder. “Sit-at-home” without the support of any political structure with real power in Igbo land is frivolous.

Finally, IPOB’s fantasies regularly collide with reality, and so far reality has a perfect winning percentage. Nnamdi Kanu constructed a fantasy version of himself and then attempted to live it. He forgot that life does not always imitate art. The continuous recourse to a frivolous “sit-at-home” protest still proves that IPOB cannot articulate a new and pragmatic agenda for Igbo Renaissance. ‘Sit-at-home’ is like punching the head of a palm nut, hurting yourself, only to come back and punch the same palm nuts, aggravating the wound.

A true honor for Biafran Soldiers who fought gallantly during the civil war is a paradigm shift to a Renaissance with political goals that will refresh and perpetuate Igbos through education, proactive political engagement in such a manner that will ensure that Igbos grows and thrives in an open Nigerian society. The Biafran heroes are making an impassioned plea for all who care about the future of Igbos to not just ‘sit-at-home’, but to promote Igbo Renaissance by standing up, showing political competence and building bridges in order to make Igbos better off in Nigeria.

Together, we can.

On Twitter @churchillnnobi

Federal Nigerian troops walk along a road near Ikot Expene, Nigeria, to the frontier with Biafra, a few miles away, on October 13, 1968. On the roadside, two emaciated Nigerian boys slowly die from starvation and malnutrition. Biafra was a breakaway state within Nigeria that fought a war for independence from 1967 to 1970, ending after years of fighting and a crippling blockade by Nigeria resulted in the deaths of between 500,000 and two million Biafran civilians by starvation

Because that's what 95% of us will end up doing.

As we sit around and drink beer on May 30th, transform the bars into a discussion war room. Find out what’s going on in our state houses. Do you know who is representing you at the state house? You have kids that are in secondary school, but do you know what the government policy on education is? Find out why those who are asking you to close shops and offices are not equally asking you to vote these people out.

To make sense today of the sacrifice endured by Biafran heroes to bring honor to Ndigbo in the past, we should come together and rebuild shattered lives of our present day brothers and sisters. As you drink beer and eat goat meat at these joints, resolve that the mass movement and energy in the streets of Aba and Onitsha MUST be mobilized into a powerful political force that should ensure that elected public officials are delivering the dividends of democracy. Do this and you will gladden the hearts of the fallen heroes and heroines.

You have nothing to lose by thinking for yourself rather than allowing the irrational thinking of those who are “forcing” you to close shops and offices render opaque the Igbo DNA in you. What do we want to achieve by sitting at home? Use the invisible currency of the anger on the street and mobilize the voting public or spend on policy reform at Awka, Umuahia, and Owerri? Define a clear objective. Time is a scarce resource, and failure to use the sit-at-home time efficiently will only cause more damage to the bottom line of your brothers and sisters. So, don’t just sit-at-home and drink some beer on May 30th, think!

In a treacherous Nigerian political terrain, embarking on a journey without a map is akin to a ram going to a head-fight without a skull. Even with a map, you still need to know the contours and other geophysical attributes of your domain in order to navigate the challenges you will encounter in the course of the journey. Ndigbo have a saying that, if a child is not well prepared and mature enough to seek what killed his father, what killed his father may kill him, too.

Some of the consequences of embarking on a journey without a map are that your trails will be lined with thorns rather than roses; your vision will be blurred rather than clear, all of which could make your journey endless. In the case of IPOB, the interesting outcome of attempting to navigate the complex Nigerian political terrain without a map was getting stuck, only to be rescued by your uncles you once characterized as “saboteurs”. The first lesson for IPOB: a newborn child does not throw his father up and a boisterous show does not imply knowledge.

Talking about noise, it is an irony that Nnamdi Kanu, who is meant to be Odimegwu Ojukwu reincarnate, landed in the tummy of FKK, who in an attempt to belittle Ndigbo once claimed to have slept with Ojukwu’s wife. What a journey, what an embarrassment. I hope that by now, my IPOB brothers would have admitted that they were heading in the wrong direction after watching the IPOB leader run into the arms of the Yoruba tribe they characterized as “betrayers”. Second lesson: during a famine, you will be forced to eat what you earlier said you disliked.

So, what should you do when you realize that you are facing the wrong direction in the course of a journey? Keep wallowing in the wilderness? Turnaround? Ask for direction? I guess the Chinese proverb “to know the road ahead, you need to ask those who are coming back”, is a good start. Where will IPOB find those that are coming back? In history books, oral and written.

The Pan-Africanist writer and historian, Prof. John Henrik Clarke, wrote that even though history is not everything, it is a starting point. He referred to history as a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. This history, he stated, is a compass we should use to find ourselves on the map of human geography.

Using a compass to navigate your way to a destination is not a dumb luck. It is paying attention to a wonderful tool of science. If the brains behind IPOP had paid attention to the history of Biafran Civil War or the history of the last two independent countries in Africa, Eretria, and South Sudan, they would have realized the folly in a headless ram initiating a head-fight. As such, they should have started by drawing a map, even if it is a sketch.

Without a clear map, one will certainly not know where he or she is. To think that an Independent State of Biafra is in the best interest of Ndigbo in Nigeria is still puzzling to me. To imagine that an independent country could be realized by going to an International Court of no consequence even to countries that obey laws was an illusion. It is also laughable and an act of lazy analysis to compare the EU or Scottish referendum to the realization of Biafra. Without any political backing, therefore, it is a big joke to be calling for a referendum on social media.

Here is a fact: no matter how long one travels in the wrong direction, getting to the right destination will remain elusive. The navigation to any destination should truly begin in the hearts of the voyager. This is the most important map of all. Where is the heart of Ndigbo? If we generate a heat map of Ndigbo, what will be the spread of our data matrix on the map of Nigeria?

If those behind this journey without map had measured the footprint of Ndigbo in Nigeria, they would have realized that the fastest way to get to the top of the mountain is to climb down. Because more than 60% of the heat map of the heartbeat of Ndigbo in Nigeria are outside the domain of the enclave of Igbo states, any map of our domain should be boundless.

IPOB should make a heat map of Ndigbo in Nigeria and distribute it to all their followers and sympathizers. The intent is for them to stare at the spatial distribution of the heartbeat of our brothers and sisters anytime they get that strange feeling of destroying the “zoo”. By so doing, they will realize that destruction of the “zoo” is like committing suicide.

The struggle to ensure an equitable Nigeria, essential to the vibrancy of Ndigbo should not be about changing the map of Nigeria. Rather, what is needed is mapping a change of the way we assert ourselves in our domains irrespective of whether it is in Lagos or Kano. My duty is to bring Ndigbo out of this lethargy of always seeing themselves as poor victims that are being trampled by every other tribe in Nigeria. Not everyone is trampling on us. We are champs.

This botched journey should be a lesson that an old woman that provokes a fight but is not pushed to the ground, will provoke again. It is hoped that the voyagers have discovered that Biafra is not and should never be all about them. From here, it is hoped that they will learn to be who they are meant to be in the first place - ordinary mortals with no superior powers. When a black ant bites the buttocks, it learns common sense.

Before IPOB, there was MOSSOB. Like Uwazurike, like Nnamdi Kanu? Time will tell. After this distraction from what the focus of Ndigbo should be in Nigeria, there is currently a pause, a space. In that space lies our freedom to choose how to respond. How should Ndigbo respond? Push for restructuring of Nigeria state? Look inwards and develop the Igbo States? Or Both?

I am happy to hear that Ohaneze will attempt to “convince” Nnamdi Kanu of the need to push for a restructuring of Nigeria rather than acting like a turtle that geared up beside a river that swallowed an elephant as if it will fly over it. To succeed, however, Ohaneze should let the experience from IPOB’s journey without map shape their approach in agitating for restructuring.

As the call for restructuring garner momentum, Ohaneze, just like IPOB, should know that some renegades in the zoo that made the most out of the captivity of Nnamdi Kanu, will be key players. They should know that it will take the cooperation of the dissatisfied ethnic nationalities and different interest groups in Nigeria to make headway with restructuring. As such, Ohaneze should be careful in their actions, not to destroy the bridges that will be crucial in crossing the shark infested rivers of a restructuring. A word is enough for the wise.

In the final analysis, the need to have a map before embarking on any checkered political journey in Nigeria, including restructuring is very crucial. The concept of ebule ji isi eje ogu (A ram goes to fight with its head), without a strategy, even with courage, is outdated and folly.

You can email Churchill at Churchill.okonkwo@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @churchillnnobi.

As I bent down to tie one of my 17-year-old shoes, I heard the voice of the Lord, loud and clear, saying; you must not be terrified about this parable of 1 wristwatch and 2 shoes. Rather, you should testify this Epistle from God to all Nigerians. Do not be afraid, you are the oracle – Peter okwute.

So, it came to pass that God commanded all imams and men of God; take this third letter of Saint Peter, sorry Senator Peter, what’s wrong with me, President, Peter… whatever, just take this letter to all the churches and mosques. Say unto them, go yea into the high mountains and announce to Naija people, the coming of a 2-shoed messiah on good governance.

The Lord said you should look at my shoes closely. I bought that shoe for $49.99 at Marks and Spencer near the banks of Agulu Lake, finish. That is the epitome of simplicity and good governance. Behold, Senator Peter Obi, the economic messiah will accelerate economic development and boost local shoe production in Aba by mandating all Nigerians to go shoeless.

When God created Adam did He provide shoes for him? Even if we need to wear shoes, why should we have more than one? Is the purpose of a shoe not to protect the leg from being hurt? Why do you think I campaigned for the re-election of shoeless President Joe? The answer is simple: to save money for Nigerians. The level of corruption in Nigeria has made it very imperative that we should be electing only shoeless politicians. Forget about our wives, like mama Patience.

Just in case you don’t know, I lease an apartment in the dilapidated Osborne Towers Ikoyi, close to apartment 7B dash-dash. To demonstrate my cost-cutting ingenuity, I pay a chicken change of about ten million Naira (only) a year. I don’t even live there and I don’t need it. If you doubt, ask EFCC. It is just for my wife and children, even though they don’t need it too. That’s why you should trust me as the best brain in Nigeria when it comes to economic management.

When I boasted in the Lord that I spent N2.8 billion on schools in Anambra State, I forgot to let you know that the money was used to buy over the Anglican and Catholic churches. That was the smartest covert political operation in Nigeria. In the process, I demonstrated my good governance credentials by re-establishing the churches, not save Anambra citizens, but to rule the state.

The Lord said you should see me as a political genius. I re-engineered these churches to lay down the cross and pick up the sword. Forget about the old doctrine that the existence of the church is meant to glorify God. The existence of the church in Anambra according to the gospel of Saint Peter Obi is meant to keep me happy. The good governance legacy I left in the state has enticed men of God to lay down their bibles in lieu of Benjamins from Government House Awka.

If you doubt, ask my former boy, Governor Obiano. He has been using that single strategy to hold onto power by doling out millions to churches under the cover of maintaining schools. As the political power struggle for the 2017 election in Anambra State heats up, I have initiated moves to use the churches in my back pocket to settle scores with that ingrate. The bishops I gave billions of Naira in the last three years of my administration have agreed to convince their diocesans to pull the rug under that champagne Governor that build bridges for car-less Anambra citizens. He has been wasting state resources on aides. A smart Governor does not need aides.

Just before you start distorting and gossiping about this parable of 1 wristwatch and 2 shoes in 17 years, the Lord is warning all Nigerians that gossip is cancer in the body of Christ. James said the tongue is a fire (James 3:6). So my quest for political power should not turn Anambra State into a gossip mill. This is the command from God.

The Lord has given me power over Governor Obiano and Victor Umeh. The Lord has commanded Ndi Anambra to stop supporting the clown, Victor, wasting money on long red caps and feathers. The Lord said I should not forgive Governor Obiano and Victor Umeh. Rather, He as commanded that the gospel of Christ be used to make me the Senator representing Anambra Central.

The good Lord said I should warn all Nigerians not to own more than one wristwatch. Why would you keep a watch at home? Whose time is it keeping? As a matter of fact, you don’t even need a wristwatch. How do I know? I know because I am a philosopher from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where as a student, I invented the old fashioned way of telling time by simply looking at the location of the sun.

This parable over wristwatch is an Act of an Apostle. Don’t mind those mischief makers circulating my pictures with different expensive watches in social media. The good Lord has commanded me to tell you that those watches you saw were borrowed from the galleries. I have since returned them to keep the Covenant I made with God.

Now that I have finished tying my shoes, the Lord whispered to me to command you to go back and look at my pictures from the talk on The Platform Program. Look closely at my dress. See how simple I am? I have been wearing that dress now for over ten years, even before I became Governor of Anambra State. The color and simplicity is a hallmark of good governance.

By the way, I heard that one Kemi, an ordinary Finance Commissioner that was elevated to an office bigger than her by Asiwaju questioned my credentials. Kemi that does not know the number of shoes, pieces of jewelry and watches in her wardrobes. Good-for-nothing, wasteful economic light-weight. How could Kemi forget that I am the only wise man from the east? Did I intimidate her? That’s how they messed up the corruption-free vibrant economy my shoeless President built.

So, whenever Mr. President is done with working from the “other room”, Pastor Osinbajo should tell him that the Lord has sent his chosen one, the shoeless economic maestro, the chameleon from the tribe of Arewa, the apostle that lies with sincerity, the I was that I am. Let Kemi remind Mr. President that I single-handedly transformed the economy of Anambra State to the Dubai of West Africa. What else are they waiting for?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, unless the remnants of this battered Nigerian economy are entrusted into my safe hands, this current recession will not cease until the second coming of the Lord.

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to Saint Peter Obi. Mr. President, in waiting.

You can email Churchill at Churchill.okonkwo@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @churchillnnobi

In a piece titled, “Democracy In Nigeria: How Do We Break These Curses?” published June 30, 2010, Mr. Igbokwe gave a narration of how Chief Obafemi Awolowo “cursed that this generation of Nigerians may never see true democracy in our lifetime.” He then concluded by asking “how do we break these curses to move forward?”

Mr. Igbokwe should be informed that what Ijeoma Nwogwugwu did in her piece “Tinubu’s God complex,” is the first step to breaking the ‘curses’ (if there was any) and moving Nigeria forward. Nigerian democracy cannot be built on the backs of the likes of Asiwaju, Buhari, ACN or CPC that cannot conduct an ordinary primary election at the ward level.

see details from the link below

http://www.thediasporanews.com/Africa/Nigeria/76.html