He is so wrong. One man can't dictate for tens of millions of others. A day will come and things shall make way. The ND needs the Igbos and that is the truth that is glaring for us all to see. We had better seized this opportunity and chart our future. No one will come and do that for us!

Agumbankembu:
Malami swore no amount of agitations Nigeria can lead to restructuring.
Even if I drop the issue of Biafra, I want someone to stand up and say this is how we will press on till Nigeria is properly restructured.

People only remember Niger Delta and restructuring when they read Biafra and IPOB.

These are the same people that TU Face wanted to lead in protest, and others went behind to collect N500 to do "I stand with Buhari" on the same day.


Nigerians think they are doing me. Hehehe, more and more talents are leaving this country per day.

As for Niger Deltans that remember to pay allegiance to Niger Delta only when they hear Biafra, issa nice thing oh, continue.

The problem is that there is no single INDIVIDUAL who has the charisma and quality in our region that can SPEAK and others will FOLLOW!

Kathmandu:
The truth is ND is composed of different ethnic group and lumping them all into Biafra without due consultation will result in anarchy and failure.


Every major Ethnic group there should chart its course on which side it wants to belong instead of bringing them in through propaganda.

The Ijaws are the major players in ND so if they can get their acts right other small riverine group will queue behind them.



The only thing that binds the whole Eastern region together is that the Marginalisation from the centre is affecting them all

Over the years, the struggle for self-determination of the Niger Delta has flipped for multiple times on different fronts but all have had if not similar but a very closely related demise. From the times of Adaka Boro through Ken Sarowiwa (both of blessed memory) to the times of the militancy struggle, all of which had one peculiar thing in common which is the deliberate and intentional slaughtering of the men in the struggle and/or their subordinates at the expense of the struggle. Sadly NOTHING much can be said to have been achieved in that regard.
My region boasts of billions of dollards of reserves of natural gas and crude oil which does not translate to the expectant living condition of the common man, neither does it reflect in a single perspective on the average Niger Deltan. With the billions of reserve lying within and out of our shores, the Niger Delta would have been an envy of the rest of Africa but what we have is a large expanse of murky dirty filty landscape covered and littered by shanties unfit for humans. Communities with crude oil underneath their lands are even living in worse conditions. This is the sad story of the Niger Delta.

The men who have recently been involved in whatever title they called it in recent times have all backed out. A lot of people are of the opinion that the likes of Asari, Boyloaf, Ateke Tom, Governor, Niger Delta Avengers, and their likes have been duly rewarded for their struggle and settled excellently well. I cannot say anything in that regard because I have never been an arms bearer, let alone be involve in the freedom fighting crusade, neither do I have any access whatsoever to any of the aforementioned groups or individuals (yes, there are a lot of people like us), and thus have NEVER benefitted in any single drop of oil the flows from my backyard. It then seemed as though the self-determination was never about a group of selves but rather a unit of self!

Who then are we the Niger Deltans, who are we? Do we have to take up arms before we can have a sip of our God-given resources? Why has Nigeria programmed the people of the region to resort to violence if they want to at least lead a fabulous life? Why do Emirs in the far North have oil wells in the tropics where I have to cut through bushes to reach when I want to farm (but the Emir only sees it on a map) while my Uwema and or Oda/Abuan (Community Chief and or King of Abua) have no knowledge as to when the wells in his domain were snatched away to a Northerner, why

We have tried our best by using force but what has been learnt is that force may not give us a peaceful happy ending. Even the bible says “come let us reason together”. It is time to reason together. What the Biafra sit-at-home day has impressed in my heart is that anything is achievable without the sound of a single gun. So what options do we have? Because as far as I am concerned, Nigeria being composed as it is remains a contraption of injustice, therefore equity and fairness will forever remain in the realms of our imaginations.

On the inclusion of our region with Biafrans, for those who may not be aware, the contraption Nigeria was initially composed of 3 regions viz the Northern, Eastern and Western regions. Now the Eastern region was a composition of all the south-eastern states and southern states. It was officially divided in 1967 into three new states which were Rivers State, South-Eastern State and East-Central. But these were originally a region bound by unity, language gradiation and sharing (what a word means in one dialect would mean some other thing in another dialect, same word), culture values, same food, trade and commerce. But Nigeria came and began to split us all apart.

Over the radio today, I heard some rather embarrassing comment from one caller who claimed to be from Rivers State. He spoke with antagonism and anger as to why Igbos would make Port Harcourt businesses grounded yesterday during the sit-at-home exercise and I asked myself why he and his family members do not own businesses. If you refuse to fix it, others are fixing theirs and your refusal/hate cannot stop the world! We have to keep up and compete so as to be able to rub shoulders with others and have the voice to speak and be heard. We cannot be cowards and want the best, who would give it?

As it is now, if my brothers want to insist not to be a part of the future with Biafra, I would ask them who in the south-south is a Niger Delta Nationalist whom we can look up to and follow and your guess is as good as mine. As for me, instead of sitting down doing nothing, I would rather take pride in voting for a referendum for a better future for my people. I believe a process has begun without the sound of the barrel!

TonyeBarcanista:
He was...

Member, PDP 1998-2006

AC Governorship candidate, 2007 election (Rivers state)

Worked with Amaechi government, 2008

Returned To PDP, 2010

Defected to Labour 2014.

Labour Party Governorship candidate, 2015

He is the son of the Amayanabo of Kalabari Kingdom.

BEFORE YOU ACCUSE him of political philandering, ALL politicians worldwide are guilty of it including Donald TRUMP, Hilary Clinton, Emmanuel Macron etc.

Trump registered for the first time in New York as a Republican in July 1987, only to dump the GOP for the Independence Party in October 1999. He joined Democrats in August 2001, and in 2009 he left the party to return to Republican. After just 2 years in Republican, he left the party in 2011. In April 2012, Donald Trump returned to the Republican.
He made a total of FIVE switch.

And who asked you?

Unbelievable

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ProWalker:


Even ijaws don't have regards for Ibos
With your Biafra, everyone now see you as a political liability to be avoided in public

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Ijaws are united in love with our Igbo brethren in Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom and other hamlets where igbos exist in the South

darediamond:

The North Is Gradually Going The Way of there Useless dead son ABACHA again whom they themself killed to avert the War Afonjas would have brought over to there land!!!!

O.P.C was not established to Police Yoruba land like Bakasi oo Abokis remember.
Do not try to overthrow Osibanjo oo.
Your military migth is nothing before us if we turn to become Wild.
Who ever is reading should tell AREWA to watch it now.
You are nearing that same road again all you Northern Elites. Hmmm
Did "Nigeria"Military defeated Agbekoya?

Afonja is ranting.

Seenyo:
Ethnic f.ucktards! How come ur candidate FAILED a whole 3 previous times?.....foooooooools!

e pain am

Lol, see this Afonja slave.

Oblang:


Na u go know person wey dey pretend...u think dem be like u wey go nearly nack ur head on the wall whenever u hear any1 speak against ur beerfraud....

E de pain dem scarra! No mind their pretense!

Bobby808:
Those people get shame for body? Afonjas na some kind of people. Nothing dey pain them.

Lol, I'm a proud Ijaw IPOB member!

ProWalker:


You ipob have no principles, the only thing you are concerned about is shouting Biafra all day on nl.
You've managed to relegate a whole major tribe to nonentity in Nigeria that no one regards, even the ijaws have more clouts now

At the bolded, we have been a determining factor of naijiriya from time immemorial.

Afonja will die today oooo. After all their bragging that Tinubu made Bubu president, ehhhhhhhhhhh.

We are sorry, our Hausa/Fulani masters. We don't know what got into us to claim that Afonja Tinubu made god-Buhari President. Please don't be angry with us as we will forever remain your humble slaves

Na dem

Zombies sad to see this.....

Ortom the change agent. Pls ride on, your good works speak for themselves..

Thank you Jonathan for this indisputable feat! I remember many years ago when I was travelling by bus for an interview from Port Harcourt to Lagos, I was at Ore hold-up till the end of the interview session. Thank you for giving us a better lease of life. You resurrected the railway, now I can get my goods for peanuts transported to my base here in Port Harcourt from Enugu. God bless you sir.

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