barcanista:
I don't hate Igbos but there are areas I don't agree on. Sometimes I go extreme which is a shame. Some other times I reat based on the action of some people towards me.

SeverusSnape:
Why is this not on front page yet

ba7man:
Oga, go if you want to go.


I'm not keen on people that get swayed to and fro like palm fronds.

If you stand for somthing, you won't keep falling left and right.

dein77:


You just lent more credence to his decision.

Learn to accommodate people with divergent views.

Curlieweed:
OP,

This post doesn't do a whole lot for your credibility. You can't keep changing your mind every day and expect people to take you seriously. It's naive to expect intelligent people to take you seriously for quitting the "progressive" movement because of a tiff with Gbawe. Is Gbawe the arbiter of "progressivism"?

Again, this incident is symptomatic of a key problem with the Nigerian political culture, namely a dearth of ideology and an excessive reliance on personality cults.

dein77:


Hahaha hahaha. Today na great day.


E go soon reach FP.

barcanista:
1. Switching of Candidate/Party:
I have never been a card-carrying member of any political party. Never! I supported GEJ after he won the PDP ticket in 2011 and thumb-printed for him during the election. As at then, I never really believed in him but was only hopeful, I never believed in GMB either.
During the Stella Oduah saga I was cheer leading for her head because I wanted a better Nigeria-though was still a GEJ fan. I also pledged to campaign against GEJ should the matter be swept. I kept to my word, I was never antagonised by pro-PDP.
July 2014 I was still critical but wanted a #Change to better my life and our lives as Nigerians. I took the APC serious and declared support. Yet I never registered membership. I had supported Kwankwaso because of his deeds in Kano not because I like his name. I never liked GMB as at then because I never believed in him. I created a thread against him but a friend/brother told me to research on him independent of propaganda. I did, and I became is biggest fan. I inherited his NL image management without anybody's contact or soliciting. I never switched to GMB because I didn't believe in Kwankwaso anymore, I did because he was never in the ruling party and he's assertive. Throughout this period, I've never allowed my political bias affect my personal relationship with people. Firefire, Truckpusher and even Donphilopus can bear testimony except they feel otherwise.

2. My Loss For Buhari
As a proud Ijaw supporting Buhari to the bones, I fell out with my brothers and neighbours that interpreted my action to be treachery against the Ijaw aspiration. So many times I do explain to those that grants me audience, and always hopeful the rest understand. I've got threat messages (which prompted me to cry to 8 members of NL "progressive". I had to take down my facebook page and twitter handle. Just of recent I reactivated my twitter. I went through all these because I thought I had backups.

3. Antagonism By NL e-APC
I usually realise that I get tactically attacked by NL APC each time I opined a dissenting view. Some tag it people pleasing, some tag it popularity seeking, some assumed I'm a mole and opportunist. First, I can't be a mole because I don't have APC card neither do we have any APC secret meeting that we hold. I neither leaked any private conversation I have with APC member to anyone in pro-PDP. I challenge anyone to refute this. Secondly, due to my upbringing, I have never been an "opportunist" or popularity seeking. I move as I'm convinced and defy odds. If I ere I retrace, if I'm convinced I'm on the right I hold on. That's me. It is unfortunate that the same people that I think are with me wouldn't want me to speak my mind or rather wants absolute conformity or cult following. The unwarranted insults and denigration of my personality was not a shock but disappointing. The new story is that I am influenced by a lady. Very disjointed assumption

5. Leaving Their Camp:
The support shown by the pro-PDP camp and a section of pro-GMB camp coupled with other factors seriously made me to reconsider my continuous stay in the "progressive" camp. Brotherhood should not be define by just political affiliation, mutual respect and understanding even in disagreement should supersede. Secondly, I see no moral standing in remaining where you are told yoi aren't wanted.

6. Going Against The APC
As said earlier, my support for Buhari is not premised on blind followership. I believe in his ability to lead Nigeria to greatness but I don't believe in his political party men with respect to sincerity and the antecedents of some of them. With the outburst against me on this platform, it begs for lots of question. I henceforth resign my membership as "Nairaland Progressive".

7. My Commitment To My New Found Love and Smear Campaign:
I recognise the smear campaign against my person but I will not be moved because they are all driven by emotions and not facts. I hope however that it doesn't affect the relationship I have with some friends. The Goodluck Jonathan's government that I've been very critical of may not be the best, but the fact that I enjoy the freedom to criticise his policies without receiving so much hatred from his supporters and even earned their respect in disagreement shows that there is hope as against the "progressive" camp. Democracy is built on freedom, especially freedom to air our views without fear or favor. Absence of this makes whatever we do or assume a hogwash.
Henceforth, I shall be critical of the APC and all those big wigs that goes about with broom shouting #Change when their own house is on fire. My criticism will no longer be one sided any longer. He that is to come to equity must come with clean hands. I will support publicly good policies of Jonathan's administration and criticise when necessary. Ditto APC

Finally, I apologise sincerely to all those that may feel let down by my decision. I apologise to those that will unfollow me after reading this, but my sincerity in this is absolute. My happiness is important, and a better Nigeria built on sincerity, acceptance and understanding is paramount. Progressiveness is not when someone shouts change, progressiveness is when someone lead a life of #Change.

I appreciate Aanumama, ibnsultaan, dein77, Jmaine, firefire, jaybee and all those that supported me one way or the other during my trying times. I owe you all sincere gratitude.

God Bless Us All
Nigeria Shall Be Great

meforyou1:
Nneoma, are you ignoring me now or what? Hope you went to Arondizuogu when last you went home and see the fraud your brother okorocha is unleashing on my people

Whynotthetruth:



It really baffles me how people find it too convenient to always respond to divergent opinions with insults and derogatory statements... the singular reason I stopped reading press release by Lai Mohammed because it is always ridden with abuses, insults and derogatory words...
Where is our morals and values?

koboko69:


anti party activities is not welcomed sir. Will u be of the same opinion if Sincere9gerian created similar threads to stylishlishly rubbiah APC. abeg shift

meforyou1:
Barcanista, good you are back, thanks to Seun.
As for me, I know you are nobody. And the PMs you sent to Gbawe are clear and concise, you are a political prostitute. U come here, write one thousand senseless words and argue like a child, and go behind sending PMs to nairalanders soliciting for job and security. Security, as in you are a chief of staff to a governor or what?
Ever since you scanned and posted your state of origin certificate to prove you are from okrika, I have realized you are the lowest of the low. Nothing different from berem who has abandoned her cotton business to engage in ePrrostitution.
And I said earlier,you and gbawe, and ilugunboy and the other Mumu eggheaders with a thousand monikers, are all bafoons

Masifa1:
[s][b] The biggest problem for you people in that country is how much you let Political parties decide literary everything. From who they nominate to who they appoint as ministers or whatever. One can say the same happens in America but at least Americans care about their people and dont just steal public funds and get away with it. Remember that from the level of LGA Chairman there's a certain amount of responsiblity to all public offices but do you people ever complain about those ? Just how much do you think ALL LGA chairmen in Nigeria have stolen combined over the last 10 years? not to mention the Reps and Senators with their inflated pays. Honestly i don't think Buhari can fight corruption that easily especially when corrupt officials are his check and balance in the National Assembly but at least we can start somewhere i guess.

If you Progressives want to be better than pro PDP guys (whom are outright ridiculously stupid for even supporting PDP as a party after all they've done) you MUST learn to stop excessively defending and supporting everyone in APC. What would you people do if you didnt have a Fashola/Kwankwaso/Ameachi or any other Governor that actually does good in their states? And you know two of those were previously in the PDP huh? Kwankwaso has always been a PDP man and yet he was elected in Kano (a state that hates PDP) simply because they grew up beyond party worship and chose a man that they knew will benefit their state as an individual. The fact is anything that any politician in Nigeria does that even remotely qualifies as progress is an Individual effort because last time i checked Nigerian Political parties have absolutely no stance on Issues or Policies or anything at all. Have they even reached that level anyway when they both cant fucking get a reasonable level of infrastructure going in most of their states talk more of Health Care policies, Job creation plans, Women empowerment policies etc.[/b][/s]

Rilwon:


Why should it beon FP?

agabaI23:
I have waited for this day and I am happy it came to be. You are one a few I could debate with reasonably who will not see a white piece of ankara call it red strap from the evil dibia's loin.

The other person is theV0ice and I have told him I am expecting to receive into the visible change fold

1. I have to apologise for not being there with you when it mattered most. I was on the road the most of yesterday and saturday was my pool day. I would have liked to be among those who was there for you but then, thank God for the colleagues

2. You are welcome to visible change group

3. This is a real TSUNAMI in nairaland's APC camp and a bigger tsunami is awaiting you guys as you all will begin to see the truth in the gang up against the performer though not perfect and yet so far the best we have.

4. Barcanista, you are a brave man. It takes a man to do a man's job.
5. Welcome

berem:
Don't you think you deserve to be ignored? between you and bloodykiller,i dunno who is more deranged and obsessed with me. You have almost inflicted virus on my mentions disturbing it since yesterday...

please leave me alone!!

btw i am still in Owerri

kaboninc:
Barcanista bobo...that's your stand!

Now My Take!

As far as am concerned, today has witnessed two IMPORTANT event worth mentioning!

First, Obasanjo tore his membership of a party on whose platform he rose to become President of Nigeria simply because of a common disagreement! Barca bobo, do you know of any world leader today that will go to such an extent of publicly shredding the membership of a party who he once rode to power for 2 years? Remember he accused GEJ of anti-party activities. But of late, he has been seen to court and sleep with the opposition. Nobody, with such exposure does that. That's to tell you the mindset, thinking pattern and thought process of those you call your friend.

Secondly, you Barcanista left the retrogressive fold and joined the real progressive group with the interest of Nigerians at heart. The leader of this democratic, all-embracing, party is no other person than Goodluck Jonathan. I assure you that you'll be treated like a MEMBER of this party! You're welcome indeed.

I remember during the march for nPDP. Governors Mu'azu and Sule Lamido were amongst the 'aggrieved' who felt short changed and needed their grouse to be sorted. Even at the heat of it all, because they had the interest of the party at heart and knew what it means to be a member of a family, because they had contributed their time and resources to build a party, because they have actually committed themselves to the growth and development of the party and wouldn't see it just collapse, they stayed on trusting the processes and mechanisms for true reconciliation. At the end it paid off!

How about the others, Amaechi of Rivers State was for 8 years the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and rode on the party platform to become Governor even when the same Obasanjo tried to stop him from contesting using his own cousin. Today he has bitten the hands of the feather that fed him.

What about Wammakko of Sokoto? And in Kwara State, and that disgraced old man of Adanmawa State, Nyako?

All these men by defecting have shown their true colour. For daring to speak your mind, you were used as a test case. Like I said before, keep your friends close and your ENEMIES CLOSER!

Kenai:
Another Cramjones on the loose.
"My stand". Why not "My take"?
Writing useless autobiographies nobody cares about, and signing it off with their names. Talk about self esteem issues.
I guess it's an APC thing.

When this clown was dining with the so-called progressives, leading the way and getting torn to shreds by Datolee while they stood by like cowards and watched on in horror, they called him their hero.
When the same buffoon was attacking his fellow Southerners and making a complete bum of himself just for Buhari, he was an agent of Change.
When he threw himself infont of a train the day he killed his own credibility by defending that video about Buhari excusing press oppression, he was a beacon of light and a symbol of progress.

But today, he is a TANoid, a fool, an attention seeker and a self-serving brown-noser currently about to face the gallows at the hands of his strange bed-fellows. Oh noes! He ain't progressive no more.
This reminds me of that fictional story about that guy who funded military coups only to get served in the end when his election was annulled by the same military. Uh-oh, wait, that story wasn't fictional after all!

Barcanista is now a bat - Rejected by the mammals and rejected by the birds.

Sincere9gerian:
What is going on here? Someone should update me a beg

ShehuAba:



I beg to disagree sir. In politics there's what is called loyalty to the party and failure to do so usually leads to anti party.

You think a politician who knows what he's doing will come out publicly to ridicule his party without been talked to except you're an OBJ.

Or why do you think people who're less superior to obj has the guts to slam him for anti party.

If barcanista has any thing tangible against his party, there are better ways to so, coming out publicly to degrade a party he so much loved was and will still remain his greatest undoing.

berem:
Ifeanyi, how body?
well, you now have barcanista in your camp. that calls for celebration.

SeverusSnape:

Because it deserves to be...

Sincere9gerian:
What is going on here? Someone should update me a beg

idu1:
he's a mole.