President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday said the Igbo should explain what they mean by being marginalized in the country.
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Now,i know he doesn't understand English so pls just tell him to refer to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary to know the meaning of the word Marginalise....





Thank me later

Buhari should tell us why he appointed more Northerners than Easterners

Buhari should tell us why he called SE and SS 5%


Buhari how far 2nd Niger bridge.

buhari made a huge blunder in his response to the question?

On the agitation for Biafra over alleged marginalisation
We have boko haram and then Biafra. Help me define the extent of marginalisation. Who is marginalising them? Why? How? Do you know? … The constitution said there must be a minister from each state. Who is the Minister of Petroleum? Is he not Igbo? Who is the Governor of Central Bank? Is he not Igbo? Who is the Minister of Labour? Who is the Minister of Science and Technology? Who is the junior minister of education?

it is saddening to hear the buhari say that by giving political offices to individuals the district which the individual hails is well treated.

How does giving political offices to selfish politicians benefit the common man, how many of these politicians reach out to their people expect during another election period.

Buhari should be listing possible FG projects that he wants to embark on in the region that will touch their lives.

Moreover, the people have nothing much to show in terms of FG presence in their region for 100years and about 55yrs independence, they also have the right to decide not to be a part of Nigeria.

He should rather call for a conference, where our existence as a country should be negotiated, if after 100yrs, some people call themselves igbos, Yorubas and hausas with their own agenda, one claiming to be superior to another, then Nigeria is a joke.

These ethnic issues and tribalism should be handled seriously else our problems will persist.

pls help me post this on naira land.
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Teddeebear:
buhari made a huge blunder in his response to the question?



it is saddening to hear the buhari say that by giving political offices to individuals the district which the individual hails is well treated.

How does giving political offices to selfish politicians benefit the common man, how many of these politicians reach out to their people expect during another election period.

Buhari should be listing possible FG projects that he wants to embark on in the region that will touch their lives.

Moreover, the people have nothing much to show in terms of FG presence in their region for 100years and about 55yrs independence, they also have the right to decide not to be a part of Nigeria.

He should rather call for a conference, where our existence as a country should be negotiated, if after 100yrs, some people call themselves igbos, Yorubas and hausas with their own agenda, one claiming to be superior to another, then Nigeria is a joke.

These ethnic issues and tribalism should be handled seriously else our problems will persist.

the man buhari is a stain to any form of unity in, Nigeria, so to him appointing people to offices based on constitutional requirements means they are not being marginalized. let me stop here, for now and cool my head,

bonechamberlain:


the man buhari is a stain to any form of unity in, Nigeria, so to him appointing people to offices based on constitutional requirements means they are not being marginalized. let me stop here, for now and cool my head,

how does political appointees touch the lives of the people?

see how David Mark can't win an election in his district after 16years

The issue is FG presence in the region not appointment

As a matter of fact, it saddens me to see a nation of such well educated and industrious people being so easily misled by a few greedy people whose overall interests can only be described as selfish in nature. The anger of the Igbos are genuine, but misdirected. They should hold their governors, senators, and other elected representatives responsible for all the years of neglect of their region. Everymonth, each state receives allocations, taxes, other sources of revenue which most of them are not able to account for. Why can't the Igbos demand what these monies are being spent on, instead of leading baseless protests and further destroying their own properties?
They say they're being marginalized, but so far none has been able to define what they mean by that.

Teddeebear:



how does political appointees touch the lives of the people?

see how David Mark can't win an election in his district after 16years

The issue is FG presence in the region not appointment

if u think there would be any fg presence in the south east under any hausa Fulani leader, better wake up, its a deliberate attempt to make the south east economically unviable. only under an igbo president or a rational thinking Yoruba leader would that be achieved.

Igbos should explain why they are being marginalized but you Buhari is negotiating with boko haram. Sadist president

Teddeebear:



how does political appointees touch the lives of the people?

see how David Mark can't win an election in his district after 16years

The issue is FG presence in the region not appointment

FG presence abi? So who is to be blame? PDP 16yrs rule or APC 6 months rule

destinychildolu:

FG presence abi? So who is to be blame? PDP 16yrs rule or APC 6 months rule

stop being stupid and politicizing everything, is APC a saint Or is APC, FG?

There are issues to be handled face it and stop blame game.

The people who ruled this country under PDP are still detecting things and most of them are in APC today, so Why do folks like you celebrate APC?

starting from OBJ to the least even Ngige now minister, were they not at a point in time PDP members.

Face issues and not baseless arguments

Shioor instead of d easterners nd southerners to hold thier regional govt responsible for their woes,they are blaming pmb.

What did mr cleuless did for that region,despite he appointed pple frm d region into key positions,what diffrence did they make

Nonsense

Teddeebear:
stop being stupid and politicizing everything, is APC a saint Or is APC, FG?

There are issues to be handled face it and stop blame game.

The people who ruled this country under PDP are still detecting things and most of them are in APC today, so Why do folks like you celebrate APC?

starting from OBJ to the least even Ngige now minister, were they not at a point in time PDP members.

Face issues and not baseless arguments

Ok. Let's face the issue.
News flash. There is no FG presence in my home town in the West too.
Does that mean we too some be autonomous?

...infact, it's ridiculous, igbo is like an echo in a speaker, just say one word, they repeated it several million of times. ojukwu is the first to put the word marginalized on their head! and they shouting marginalization since 40 years! today kanu call nigeria zoo! they were shouting zoo! they don't even realise that if nigeria is zoo, they were among the beasts in the zoo!

ayindejimmy:

Ok. Let's face the issue.
News flash. There is no FG presence in my home town in the West too.
Does that mean we too some be autonomous?

the issue on ground is multifaceted, this agitation didn't start today, tribalism is the major issue we have to face, imagine buhari calling you 5% and says you deserve 5% benefits from his tenure.

is he the president of Nigeria or the president of North and West?

GOVERNOR GODSWILL AKPABIO SPEAKS ON BIAFRA AND GOWON WITH THEWILL NEWS

THEWILL: You have been very vocal lately in dismissing and trashing the then federal military government’s post-civil war efforts at the 3 Rs: Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation. What don’t you agree with?


AKPABIO: As a young man, you definitely will not understand me. But I was a victim of the Civil War. I was one of those who suffered the pains of the war. I was born sometime in 1962; the civil war came really into our area in 1967. So, I was probably five or six years old during the war; and if I had been around nine years, I would probably have been conscripted.

I saw parents throw their children into pit toilets because they did not want their positions to be made known to the enemy. I saw devastation; I saw kwashiorkor; I saw hunger; I saw thousands of people and bodies littered everywhere and smelling while vultures had a field day every day. I saw houses destroyed; I saw families scattered such that till the end of the world, they can never gather themselves together again. There were children who were shipped away to Gabon, and they can never come back to Nigeria again because they were small. How would two-year-olds and three-year-olds ever know where they came from? They are now proud Gabonese and I don’t think Nigerians are even asking questions.

So, during the Silverbird Man of the Year Award, there were pictures that were shown of the Civil War. Somebody, sitting by me, who is from the West, was asking if those things were acted: the Kwashiorkor-ridden children with their swollen tummies, ugly shapes and bony structures because of hunger and starvation.

The then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon attempted to explain that he tried everything to avoid the scenes that were being shown on the screen, that he did not want the war. The other person who could have answered him, unfortunately, that is Emeka Ojukwu, is dead. He said he tried everything to stop the war from breaking out but it’s only Ojukwu who could have answered whether he equally did his part in avoiding the war.

But something struck me: it was said that Gowon should be commended for initiating the three Rs: reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction. And I asked a very simple question, that I came with a written text but I wasn’t going to read it. I thanked Silverbird for the award; and I said I did not want to criticise my leaders because I am also now a leader. But I asked to be allowed to ask a question: how come reconstruction started in the West when the war was actually fought in the East? They started the Third Mainland Bridge, the National Theatre, the international airport, and so on, in the West, while the war was fought in the eastern region. And if we really wanted to ensure total reconciliation, how come every account holder in the eastern region was given only £20? It did not matter whether your father had £10,000,000 or £50,000,000 before the war; you were given just £20. It was a take it or leave it situation. If your family survived and there was an account holder alive, he/she went to the bank, and collected just £20.

Could £20 pounds solve the Kwashiorkor that we were seeing? Could it reconstruct the houses that were burnt? Could it produce food? A lot of other things happened that I did not mention on that occasion. Don’t forget that it was shortly after the war in 1971 that the policy of indigenisation started, where most of the foreign industries and companies were sold to Nigerians, and the war-ravaged eastern regions, which include the entire South-South and the rest of them, could not buy, because no one who did not have money to even feed or clothe himself would have had money to buy any industry. So, I was just wondering, as a young man, if that was true reconciliation, because one would have thought that the government would have gone to any extent to give them more money so that they could truly rehabilitate themselves.

They needed money from reconstruction, and I would have thought that reconstruction would have also started from the East. I just asked because we were lucky to have the persona dramatis of the war right in front of us: General T. Y. Danjuma, General Yakubu Gowon, General Buhari and others. It is very rare to see three former heads of state in just one place, so I had to ask.

I said also that it is important, even for the current-day leaders, that we continue to take actions that will unite Nigeria. And we should purge ourselves of actions that tend to cause pains to Nigerians. For me (Akpabio), I believe that because of certain policies of the federal government after the war, the war did not cease in the eastern region until about 30 years after the war.

https://www.nairaland.com/1457961/gov-akpabio-akwa-ibom-state