naijaguy123456:
It’s like saying Nigeria will have an Albino President. Ibo President is impossible.

PHAYOL81:


Nobody is scared of the Igbos. Igbos didn't build bridges but they want to use the ones others build to cross the sea. It would have been possible if they play their game right but they haven't. They have even resorted to blackmail because they would never love to stoop to get what they want.
Even in the advance country, you campaign, beg, cajole and make promises to get the numbers behind you but here, you're creating enemity while at the same time, demanding for support. Who does that? That's akin to telling the people they are dumb and shattered that you can control them into submission. Thta's not who the Yorubas are and I'm sure that's not whom the Northerners are.
You can always punched your SS

Apawicked:
Mr man which bridge did you build in 1999 that two Yoruba men one from prison fronted the major party. Which bridge did you build then? Talking about building you will think its something sensible not knowing that they mean Igbos should have pretended and support a collosal failure like Buhari for 2023 ambition. What a way to build bridge, the bridge ushering terrorists all over the world in to Nigeria.

Apawicked:
Mr man which bridge did you build in 1999 that two Yoruba men one from prison fronted the major party. Which bridge did you build then? Talking about building you will think its something sensible not knowing that they mean Igbos should have pretended and support a collosal failure like Buhari for 2023 ambition. What a way to build bridge, the bridge ushering terrorists all over the world in to Nigeria.

PHAYOL81:


1999 ain't that far away youngman so why the querry? Obasanjo found himself at the primary against an Igbo man and won, all thanks to the friendly hands he extended to the necessary ends. He won the opportunity to represent the party by the ballot. The baton wasn't given to him on a platter of gold, he fought for it at the primary. Fight for your chance at the primary too to test your popularity in any of the party.
The other party was created by the Yorubas and sponsored by most of those who were behind the NADECO agigation, so it was no brainer that the candidates they pushed forward was a Yoruba even though that in itself went through the primary. Remember that this was a year the country returned to democracy so not many parties were allowed to form especially as we practised two-party system in the last republic.

So, Obasanjo didn't become the president because all the country agreed it has to go to the Yorubas but because the Yorubas played the politics right to convince others that they were to be voted in. Nobody's stopping the Igbos doing the same too. Go to the primary in the two biggest parties, appeal to others why you should be pushed up as the candidate and the job's done. BUT IF YOU THINK APC WILL JUST TELL ORJI TO START PRINTING FLYERS, YOU'RE JOKING!

nairavsdollars:
Igbos once ruled Nigeria..Nnamdi Azikiwe and Aguiyi Ironsi

Apawicked:
Ekwueme contesting against OBJ is just to fulfill what the constitution requires in having primary election and prior to that PDP has chosen OBJ as its candidate. I'm not here to argue with you or type long words with you but bookmark this:

If Nigeria is still in existence by 2023 you will beg restructuring and Igbo presidency which might be late by then

Apawicked:
Ekwueme contesting against OBJ is just to fulfill what the constitution requires in having primary election and prior to that PDP has chosen OBJ as its candidate. I'm not here to argue with you or type long words with you but bookmark this:

If Nigeria is still in existence by 2023 you will beg restructuring and Igbo presidency which might be late by then

PHAYOL81:


Did Ekweme contested? Yes, he did. And Ekweme got votes too but because OBJ has most friends rooting for him, he won. Ekweme didn't leave that ballot with no vote which is to tell you that he had people who wabnted him to win too. So, how's that an agreement?

loopman:


If there is any region that you should use Biafra to blackmail, the South West is the last region you can use that with.

In the event that Nigeria collapse today, the SW is the only region in Nigeria that can quickly start as a new country with minimal disruption to the society, it’s the ONLY REGION in Nigeria with both sea and land borders

Please stop the nonsense as the Igbos will the biggest losers if Nigeria collapse judging by how they’ve heavily invested their lives in other regions

Apawicked:
Who was the face of APC before thier primary in 2014? Did others contested against Buhari? Did they contest because they have a chance against Buhari? They did to fulfill what the constitution requires since everybody knows Apc flagbearer would be Buhari.
I understand that when it comes to Igbo affairs most Yoruba people lose their senses

bolaayenimo:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Junaid Mohammed, elder statesman and Second Republic lawmaker, has faulted the claim by another elder Statesman and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, that other Nigerians should drop their presidential ambition and allow the Igbos exclusive right to the Presidency in 2023.

Clark in a statement last weekend had said it was uncalled for and hypocritical for Northern politicians to argue that there was no rotation of power between North and South, as President Muhammdu Buhari presently serving his second term if office, rode to power in 2015 based on the arrangement.

He also asked Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to forgo his rumoured presidential ambition, saying, it was the turn of the South-East zone to produce the next president in 2023.

However, speaking in an interview with Daily Independent, Junaid who described the principle of zoning as a tragedy for Nigeria, said it is unfair for an elder like Chief Clark to be advocating that other Nigerians should be barred from aspiring for the highest office in the land in a democracy.

“Clark should tell us how he came about that. Who told him that and where did he learn his own politics? On what basis is the 2023 presidency their turn? If he says it is their turn, when will Ijaws have their turn? They forget that the Igbos were there when Goodluck Jonathan was handpicked by Obasanjo and made the president.

Is E.K Clark a special prophet of God to know that it is their turn? By the way, if he is saying nobody should contest the election except the Igbos, how come when the election was contested by other people in the past, he did not make any comment? Some of these politicians in this country are such a disgraceful lot. They have no respect for truth and they seem to forget history.

“This is not NDDC we are discussing here, we are talking of presidency from 1999 till date. If you say nobody should contest except the Igbos, when people come out to contest, let him go and tell INEC not to register them or he should go and unleash the terrorists in the Niger Delta to go and shoot everybody who dare to contest or go and join IPOB to start threatening people”.

He also said it will be difficult for other political parties to support Igbos in 2023 as they themselves did not support others in previous elections.

When the Igbos are expecting to have unchallenged race among themselves, how come in previous elections, they did not vote for other parties? They didn’t vote for PDP and they never voted for APC . And now they expect that somebody will now come and vote for them . if you want peoples support, you should also support them.

“But if you don’t support people and you think you can blackmail them into supporting you, let’s see how they will fare. Afterall, EK Clark, Ohanaeze and others are now threatening to sue Buhari , let them go to court and see what happens. Let’s see who will deny those who don’t want Igbo presidency the right to vote.”

https://www.independent.ng/why-igbos-wont-have-exclusive-right-to-presidency-in-2023-junaid-mohammed/

EMMY76:



Very funny man igbos have been voting for all the nigerian presidents since 1999 except buhari who has never hidden his deep hatred for igbos.

Apawicked:
if you know all these why do you get agitated at the mention of Biafra?

PHAYOL81:


You forgot things easily. Prior to 2014 primaries, AD never had a Yoruba candidate they could put forward so they decided to merge because they don't want the party to go absent on the ballot for another presidential election if they want to gain the needed popularity. When APC was formed, the candidates that went to the primaries were Atiku, Saraki, Buhari among others. I think Saraki stepped down in the dying minutes as were a couple of others. Buhari was voted in not hanpicked hence the reason why the runner up, Atiku, decided to jump party in order to stand a chance at another polling booth. You should know the rest now.

PS: I'm doing this narative because I realised that you're fed that some certain people were handpicked for the candidacy.

MajesticKris:
Why are they scared of igbos

donbachi:
I dont see an igbo president come 2023..they are their own nightmares.

bolaayenimo:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Junaid Mohammed, elder statesman and Second Republic lawmaker, has faulted the claim by another elder Statesman and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, that other Nigerians should drop their presidential ambition and allow the Igbos exclusive right to the Presidency in 2023.

Clark in a statement last weekend had said it was uncalled for and hypocritical for Northern politicians to argue that there was no rotation of power between North and South, as President Muhammdu Buhari presently serving his second term if office, rode to power in 2015 based on the arrangement.

He also asked Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to forgo his rumoured presidential ambition, saying, it was the turn of the South-East zone to produce the next president in 2023.

However, speaking in an interview with Daily Independent, Junaid who described the principle of zoning as a tragedy for Nigeria, said it is unfair for an elder like Chief Clark to be advocating that other Nigerians should be barred from aspiring for the highest office in the land in a democracy.

“Clark should tell us how he came about that. Who told him that and where did he learn his own politics? On what basis is the 2023 presidency their turn? If he says it is their turn, when will Ijaws have their turn? They forget that the Igbos were there when Goodluck Jonathan was handpicked by Obasanjo and made the president.

Is E.K Clark a special prophet of God to know that it is their turn? By the way, if he is saying nobody should contest the election except the Igbos, how come when the election was contested by other people in the past, he did not make any comment? Some of these politicians in this country are such a disgraceful lot. They have no respect for truth and they seem to forget history.

“This is not NDDC we are discussing here, we are talking of presidency from 1999 till date. If you say nobody should contest except the Igbos, when people come out to contest, let him go and tell INEC not to register them or he should go and unleash the terrorists in the Niger Delta to go and shoot everybody who dare to contest or go and join IPOB to start threatening people”.

He also said it will be difficult for other political parties to support Igbos in 2023 as they themselves did not support others in previous elections.

When the Igbos are expecting to have unchallenged race among themselves, how come in previous elections, they did not vote for other parties? They didn’t vote for PDP and they never voted for APC . And now they expect that somebody will now come and vote for them . if you want peoples support, you should also support them.

“But if you don’t support people and you think you can blackmail them into supporting you, let’s see how they will fare. Afterall, EK Clark, Ohanaeze and others are now threatening to sue Buhari , let them go to court and see what happens. Let’s see who will deny those who don’t want Igbo presidency the right to vote.”

https://www.independent.ng/why-igbos-wont-have-exclusive-right-to-presidency-in-2023-junaid-mohammed/

Apawicked:
your memory is failing you. Which party did Atiku join in 2014 after failing against in the primary against Buhari? Atiku didn't go anywhere, he knew Buhari was the candidate for Apc and has no hope of clinching that ticket whatsoever. Atiku never expected to oust Buhari as APC candidate not to talk of defecting to another party to vie for the presidency in 2015. Everybody in APC were ok with Buhari as its candidate

gawu1:

Scared of igbo! How? The obvious thing we all know but some of chose to ignore sometimes is what he just said. Was there any time contention of post of presidency ever being exclusive rights of any particular group of people? The constitution do not agree with that neither did effort to entrench it conventionally has succeeded. From 1999 to date everybody from everywhere contested for the position and therefore 2023 cannot be an exception.

If really the likes of Clerk love to see igbo presidency, they should have told them the truth that it is not by threat, intimidation, blackmail, hate, name calling that will come to fruition. Cajoling through political discussion, alliance, friendship, calculations, bridge building, talks, hand stretching etc are the way out.

When apc was formed, hardcore igbo alarmists contested against every igbo man who showed interest in joining the party; we all know how Okorocha became okorohausa. Most igbo even declared the party an Islamist party no real igbo person should associate with. Because of Buhari, A sizeable numbers went as far as saying none should join the party.

Today, the same people who couldn't hide their disdainful behavior against the party and it leadership want that same party and it leadership to hand to them automatically it presidential ticket. They want Buhari and those they call Islamist to trust fully support them without question. Why should Buhari supports them? Why should those they have tagged illiterate almajiri support them?
Understandable if Igbos ask pdp and it supporters /members across the country to support them. But to say apc, Buhari, the illerate almajiri they so much hate with passion must support them is over stepping up their boundary.

Nwodo has already said they have war as their plan b. Let the war begins.

ODI444:


How? Educated me

Officialgarri:

No, I want it to fall on a saviour. I don't care if he's from Cameroon

LaboPolitics:
The same Junaid that once threaten yorubas that they will allow them take back Kwara from the Fulanis and made them cry like babies some years ago.

He is now a hero to yorubas because of his anti-Igbo sentiments.

Whatever happens, I'm very much sure yoruba won't be president in 2023, even if it means making the neccesary sacrifices.

Their vulturistic appetite to reap from another man's misfortunes will be properly tamed in 2023.

gawu1:

Scared of igbo! How? The obvious thing we all know but some of chose to ignore sometimes is what he just said. Was there any time contention of post of presidency ever being exclusive rights of any particular group of people? The constitution do not agree with that neither did effort to entrench it conventionally has succeeded. From 1999 to date everybody from everywhere contested for the position and therefore 2023 cannot be an exception.
If really the likes of Clerk love to see igbo presidency, they should have told them the truth that it is not by threat, intimidation, blackmail, hate, name calling that will come to fruition. Cajoling through political discussion, alliance, friendship, calculations, bridge building, talks, hand stretching etc are the way out.
When apc was formed, hardcore igbo alarmists contested against every igbo man who showed interest in joining the party; we all know how Okorocha became okorohausa. Most igbo even declared the party an Islamist party no real igbo person should associate with. Because of Buhari, A sizeable numbers went as far as saying none should join the party.
Today, the same people who couldn't hide their disdainful behavior against the party and it leadership want that same party and it leadership to hand to them automatically it presidential ticket. They want Buhari and those they call Islamist to trust fully support them without question. Why should Buhari supports them? Why should those they have tagged illiterate almajiri support them?
Understandable if Igbos ask pdp and it supporters /members across the country to support them. But to say apc, Buhari, the illerate almajiri they so much hate with passion must support them is over stepping up their boundary.
Nwodo has already said they have war as their plan b. Let the war begins.

proeast:
Lol, Mr. Man, it is in your own best interest to support Igbo presidency. The choice is all yours, if you like apply common sense work with the Igbos to ensure we are fully integrated by supporting their quest for presidency. When Igbos believed in Nigeria, the country was making giant strides but when we were sidelined, everything went to the dogs.

Many Igbos are apathetic to the Igbo presidency issue because they've lost interest in Nigeria. If guys are wise, this is an opportunity to make them have a rethink.

Look all around Nigeria and you will see chaos and disorder. We are the glue holding the country together, if you believe that Nigeria will survive 2023 and beyond with another Northerner or even SW in Aso rock then you're deluded.

proeast:
Lol, Mr. Man, it is in your own best interest to support Igbo presidency. The choice is all yours, if you like apply common sense work with the Igbos to ensure we are fully integrated by supporting their quest for presidency. When Igbos believed in Nigeria, the country was making giant strides but when we were sidelined, everything went to the dogs.

Many Igbos are apathetic to the Igbo presidency issue because they've lost interest in Nigeria. If guys are wise, this is an opportunity to make them have a rethink.

Look all around Nigeria and you will see chaos and disorder. We are the glue holding the country together, if you believe that Nigeria will survive 2023 and beyond with another Northerner or even SW in Aso rock then you're deluded.

Apawicked:
your memory is failing you. Which party did Atiku join in 2014 after failing against in the primary against Buhari? Atiku didn't go anywhere, he knew Buhari was the candidate for Apc and has no hope of clinching that ticket whatsoever. Atiku never expected to oust Buhari as APC candidate not to talk of defecting to another party to vie for the presidency in 2015. Everybody in APC were ok with Buhari as its candidate

candidtalk:


Lol. Mohammed is addressing Igbos and their doomed ambition and this one is hyperventilating shouting Yoruba this and that.

Watch Yoruba man become President in 2023. I will personally escort you into exile in Togo then.