Yungmil:
Lazy dream. Igbos are not united

kettykings:


Is it Nigeria that is United?

kettykings:


Is it Nigeria that is United?

DeViNe007:
On what basis,should the country zone the president of the country in year 2023,to AN UNGREATFUL,MALICIOUS AND HATEFUL TRIBE THAT ITS REGION CONTRIBUTED NEXT TO NOTHING TO NIGERIA.
THE ENTIRE NORTH=70% FOOD&RAW MATERIALS,THE SOUTH WEST=70% TAXES,THE SOUTH-SOUTH=90% FOREIGH EXCHANGE EARNINGS,SO WHAT DOES THE SOUTH EAST CONTRIBUTE TO THE COUNTRY? OR IN OTHER,WHAT IS THE BENEFITS OF THE SOUTH EAST TO NIGERIA OR AS THEY CALL IT(ZOOGERIA)?

Simplyleo:

You are a patriot.

North = food & raw materials
South west = 70% taxes on goods and services
South south = forex earnings
South east = ?

DeViNe007:
On what basis,should the country zone the president of the country in year 2023,to AN UNGREATFUL,MALICIOUS AND HATEFUL TRIBE THAT ITS REGION CONTRIBUTED NEXT TO NOTHING TO NIGERIA.
THE ENTIRE NORTH=70% FOOD&RAW MATERIALS,THE SOUTH WEST=70% TAXES,THE SOUTH-SOUTH=90% FOREIGH EXCHANGE EARNINGS,SO WHAT DOES THE SOUTH EAST CONTRIBUTE TO THE COUNTRY? OR IN OTHER,WHAT IS THE BENEFITS OF THE SOUTH EAST TO NIGERIA OR AS THEY CALL IT(ZOOGERIA)?

Kosiso12:
2023: "Nigerians Should Support The Emergence Of Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction" - Igbo Leaders

Igbo Leaders have asked other ethnic nationalities and zones to support the emergence of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023.

The leaders noted that this should be as a matter of justice, equity and fairness because in the history of Nigerian democracy, the Igbo who are one of the tripod of the country has not produced a President.

The Igbo Leaders made this known in a communique issued after the 5th World Igbo Summit held from January 2, to January 4, 2020 at Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State.

Igbere TV gathered that the event was attended by eminent sons and daughters of Ala Igbo.

Among those in attendance were Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Navy Commordore Ebitu Ukiwe(Rtd), former Chief of General Staff, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, former Senate President and Secretary to the Federal Government, His Excellency, Ambassador George Obiozor, former Ambassador to the United States of America, His Excellency, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former Governor ofAnambra State, His Excellency, Prof Okwesilieze Nwodo, former Governor of Enugu State, Prof Chinedu Nebo former Minister of Power and Vice-Chancellor, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Federal University Oye Ekiti, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria etc.
The keynote address was delivered by His Excellency, Ambassador Humphrey Orjako, former Permanent Representative of Nigeria to United Nations and other International
organizations at Geneva and Ambassador to Switzerland.

The Summit noted as follows;

1. For Nigeria’s survival, the country has to chose from three options:
i. To retain the dysfunctional status quo
ii. To balkanize the country through a rash of successions
iii. Reset or restructure the country to its federal origin
2. The Igbo have cause to lead the campaign for a restructured Nigeria.
3. That the restructuring process should start with the restructuring of the social, cultural,
political and economic systems of Alaigbo
4. The need for future Igbo generations to internalize our own narrative of how we got
where we are and where we wish to go.
5. In the history of Nigerian democracy, the Igbo who are one of the tripod of the
country has not produced a President.
6. The urgent need to resume the outreach programme to other ethnic nationalities and
zones of the country with a view to achieving support for the Nigerian President of Igbo extraction and restructuring of Nigeria.
In view of the foregoing, the Summit resolved as follows;
1. Ndi Igbo should pursue both restructuring of Nigeria and emergence of Nigerian
President of Igbo extraction as both are not mutually exclusive
2. Other ethnic nationalities and zones, should as a matter of justice, equity and fairness,
support the emergence of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023.
3. The leadership of all political parties, should as a matter of justice, equity and fairness,
cede the nomination of their Presidential candidates to the South-East.
4. That the President-General should in consultation with Ime-obi constitute a Pan-Igbo organizing Committee to develop and pursue a sustainable strategic plan of action for the “handshake outreach” across Nigeria.
5. The handshake programme should cumulate in a grand finale during which the harmonized positions of the alliance zones would be adopted and publicized as a basis of a joint bill of the people to the National Assembly to pass into law and use as a document for convoking a national conference for restructuring.
6. The alliance zones would use the harmonized positions to commence the arduous task of lobbying and working with politicians, political parties, interest groups and other stakeholders to come on board the movement for restructured Nigeria.
7. On its part, Ohaneze Ndigbo will sustain a vigorous publicity, press campaigns,
sustained education and mobilization of the electorates and encourage peaceful mass
rallies in support of the restructuring project.
8. In pursuit of these demands and rights, all these resolutions will be done in accordance
with the principles of municipal and international laws and best practices.
9. The Summit thanked Gregory University, Uturu and the Conveners for their immense
contributions and service to the Igbo nation.

Source : http://igberetvnews.com/1225594/2023-nigerians-support-emergence-nigerian-president-igbo-extraction-igbo-leaders/

Yungmil:
Lazy dream. Igbos are not united

Kpoikpoi:
I have never seen a group of people continuously begging to be elected into a political office before, these people have no shame.
They beg for everything, they beg for Biafra,they beg for presidency and they even beg Niger Delta to join them in Biafra, what is the desperation about?
I personally will never vote for a criminal to become the president of this country so please stop begging because we know you are all criminals.

Simplyleo:

You are a patriot.

North = food & raw materials
South west = 70% taxes on goods and services
South south = forex earnings
South east = ?

DMerciful:
Human capital. SE run the economy!

omoalaro:
Wow, this surely is one of the best written opinion I have read this year.

post=85511534:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now after election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. We heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

We really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

We have learnt not to bother ourself anymore to avoid unnecessary arguements with nonentities
As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it..

Ka Chineke mezie okwu

DMerciful:
Human capital. SE run the economy!

Aufbauh:
Expensive joke abi?

DMerciful:
Human capital. SE run the economy!

post=85511534:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now after election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. We heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

We really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

We have learnt not to bother ourself anymore to avoid unnecessary arguements with nonentities
As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it..

Ka Chineke mezie okwu

Simplyleo:

A very big joke.

They say they are the best and most intelligent, yet to become "ordinary" president, na wahala. The same seat abokki and afonja have been tossing between themselves.

I still don't know how that can happen. Is it the "illiterate almajiri" or the "conehead afonja" that will now cast vote for the owner of 98% of the universe? Have they finished insulting Buhari and tinubu? Has Nigeria transformed from a zoo to a country?

Abi to be elected na by force?

Simplyleo:

Just running the economy?

I think is more than just running the economy.

They own 98% of the universe.

IduNaOba:
Support the emmegence of Igbo president on what basis
Merit.
Pity
Just to fulfill all righteousness??
As far as I am concerned... Nwanne let's get that seat when we have put our home in order.

DeViNe007:
On what basis,should the country zone the president of the country in year 2023,to AN UNGREATFUL,MALICIOUS AND HATEFUL TRIBE THAT ITS REGION CONTRIBUTED NEXT TO NOTHING TO NIGERIA.
THE ENTIRE NORTH=70% FOOD&RAW MATERIALS,THE SOUTH WEST=70% TAXES,THE SOUTH-SOUTH=90% FOREIGH EXCHANGE EARNINGS,SO WHAT DOES THE SOUTH EAST CONTRIBUTE TO THE COUNTRY? OR IN OTHER,WHAT IS THE BENEFITS OF THE SOUTH EAST TO NIGERIA OR AS THEY CALL IT(ZOOGERIA)?