But if the Atlanta Conference should hold, and as perceived to be a picnic which would pose no problem--realizing the status quo--that it is going to be a recreational engagement, or perhaps a joint of early morning coffee.

But one thing lacking in this conference is, have the organizers of this conference considered that a whole lot is at stake? Take for instance, the Igbo participants constructively engaged in this conference have no clue what they are really doing when Igbos are being continuously persecuted and singled out from place to place, and from city to city.

So if the makers of this conference, as in Big Steve and Joe Onyeocha are really engaged to perform this task of a one Nigeria, what then do they have to say when Uwazuruike's MASSOB is being sought by Obasanjo's gestapo, while Ganiyu Adams deadly OPC can get away; even though it is well known that Adams is the most wanted man in the nation?

So what is this conference all about? Is the conference being held to addrress the injustices perpetrated on the Igbos? Or is this conference held for the censorship at Nigeriaworld to which nobody could come forth, addressing the ills of a controlled freaked message board? And what was done about it? Precisely, any Igbo who attends this conference is a clear out saboteur.

You all know who you are; and, until you realize the damages you've caused to your own people for a dime, then you would realize where you came from, and it would not be frightening anymore to understand where you were coming from.

It means Obasanjo's inept corrupt regime is normal, and you support his gruesome acts toward the Igbo people.

It means you are going to Atlanta to discuss Nigeria when Uwazuruike is being remanded in custody just for being Igbo. It means all is well with Nigeria when Igbo traders are being harassed and intimidated daily just for their hard work. It means you are going to Atlanta to dine and wine with your enemy who has killed your own people and wants you dead. It means you support genocide. And, finally, it means nothing is absolutely wrong and you don't really care.

But make no mistake about it.

The best name for the Atlanta Owambe is EgbeOmoOduduwa and EgbeOmoEfulefu 2001. EgbeOmoEfulefu refers to the efulefus of Igbo and Minority stock of Biafra and the purported Middle-Belt. Any Igbo who attends the IgboHaters and IgboEfulefu gathering in Atlanta should know that Ekwe Nche and Bakkassi are watching. Agaracha must come back. You may sneak to Atlanta, but you'd better not brag about it to the detriment of Ndi Igbo. You are going to Atlanta to wine and dine with swines of the ofe nmanu stock who hate your people. While Uwazuruike remains kidnapped by Yoruba and Hausa tribesmen, you have nothing about that on your Owambe agenda. You want to be more Nigerian than Nigeria itself. Have you all noticed that one of the "preludes" to Atlanta is that EgbeOmoOduduwa.com is now completely a Yoruba board?

Anyway, I learned from a reliable source that only a handful of people paid the initial $100 that the chop-chop finance committee requested from each suspected attendee. Most of the attendees will be those disillusioned Igbo renegades who live in Atlanta and props from EgbeOmoOduduwa.com, including story manufacturing "journalists," like Laolu Akande and (rather sadly) Rudolf Okonkwo, the Igbo efulefu, who cannot say NO to his master Chuck Odili. Onyeocha and Le Figaro are torn to pieces. They are committed to the Atlanta wayo, but their hearts are in Biafra.

The main reason for the low turnout is lack of confidence and loss of trust. Steve Nwabuzor, betrayed his fellow Igbos and sold his soul to the Yoruba just to gain cheap publicity. As part of the Odudduwa preparation for Atlanta, Aluko and Okunowo set Steve up for a debate he was not prepared for over Awolowo, and they exposed Steve's incompetence. Well, when Aluko, Okunowo, and Akande band against him in Atlanta, or when they start to patronize him like the naïve prude he is, he will know what it means to be a minority even though there are more Igbos in America than members of any other BiafraNigerian ethnic group. Genuine Igbos are staying away from the yeye gathering. But, let the saboteurs know that Ekwe Nche and Bakassi are watching. All the efulefus should read this from Ekenche. The sunshine is on you. Too bad for Steve, Aluko has highjacked his forum and Aluko will use it to perpetrate his version of the SNC fraud and Igbo-hatred.

I see no reason why I or anybody else that wants to shouldn't go to Atlanta. I also can't figure out why a person that did not pay for whatever they will be doing there should be asking Ganiyu any questions or implying mismanagement of funds.

"So remind them my brother what Theodore Roosevelt said. Remind them that “it is not the critics who counts… it is not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled… credit belongs to the man who really was in the arena, his face marred by dirt, sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs to come up short and short again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. It is the man who actually strives to do deeds, who knows the great enthusiasm and great devotion, who spreads himself on a worthy cause, who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and cruel souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Yes I paid taxes in nigeria the last time I visited. I paid at the airports, hotels, gas stations, resturants were I dined, when I bought presents, at the beer parlor, when I paid for those plots of land at Trans Ekulu, e.t.c so you see I do have reasons to call OO's administration to order if I believe they are mismanaging my tax money or worse stealing from me.

Despite their (one Nigerians on the egbeomeoduwa/efulefu.com rantings, which was expected, I think we Igbos (those around Atlanta) should go there (not as participant)and report to us the Igbos who attended that Owanbe party so that we will from thence see them as enemies of the Igbo people. Things have gone so bad in Igboland that we ought not let some ememies within to think we are finding our collective dehuminization as a people anymore funny.

Just to let you know that Biafrans have access to quotable quotes too:

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."
~Plato (428 BC - 348 BC), Dialogues, Apology

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
~Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
~Bertrand Russell

I noticed that some notable people on this board did not tell him as it is, obviously that has encouraged him to continue this nonsense.

This latest "On your face" post on this board about this conference by Rudolf is an outright insult! on all well meaning Igbos on this board. It is also an affront to the ideology of this board, which the whole world knows is the actualization of Biafra.

Rudolf are you waiting till Ekwe Nche writes you a personal letter.

Idi kwa eqwu! You are just an American version of the current Biafranigerian politician!

I have to say that I will be the last person to disrespect this guy seeing that he is a bit older than I imagined, as long as he respects himself and his Igbo heritage, and as long as he remains Igbo first and nigerian or whatever second. From reading his limited bio from where you got the picture, one comes away with the impresion that he owns a lot more to nigeria than to biafra, and as such one can see why he is a one nigerian in spite of what his people have gone through and are still going through, thnx to the collective jealous and hate of the rest of the nation.

I say, if you no wan meet with the Nigerians make you go meet your fellow Igbos. Ah! na abomination be that. How I go talk that one?

You just wan sit down for computer dey call everybody moron, efuluefu, kiniko, kiniko. As if to say they go stop being moron because say you call them morons.

If you wan make change, make you begin to get off your butt and go meet them.

Jabotinsky abandoned his literary career to travel all over the world and preach his message for the creation of the state of Israel. He raised money. He gave lectures. He listened to those who said it could not be done. He noted their fears and he answered to them. In Poland, he convinced a rich Jewish man to fund the struggle even when the rich man did not totally identify with his cause. He set out goals. He established strategies. He worked tiredlessly for what he believed. All over Europe he was opposed by Jews who were in favor of assimilation rather than the establishment of a Jewish State. He did no lose his temper. He did not go about calling all Jews morons and idiotic idiots. He spent his time working hard to prove the non-believers wrong.

For me, I no say I be cockroach, I no see how I go dey innocent in the gathering of fowls. All of history, e never happen before. And I know say e no go begin now.

My only concern be say, make no one just sit down for home come dey stare and dey type. Sometimes, e good make we get involved. Make we take it to the street where dey action dey. No be for this www.com

I don talk my own be that. I no say, as soon as I turn my back, the name calling go continue. I go come back come read am.

I don't know what you've set out to achieve by displaying somebody's photo in this thread. Even if you cloned the hair with the white background or the guy's white shirt, the fact remains that the bloke will get a telling off if he writes c**p. I for one will see to that.

I only deal with issues. It does not matter to me how old or how ugly the person I am debating is. I am sure that concept is alien to your Agbalagba-is-always-right upbringing. I am Igbo. We are different.

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Damian

However, I was told by a reliable source that, the funds, as I write, were handed over to Ebe toward his continued propaganda in Nigeria. Now that Ebe is in Nigeria, Joe Onyeocha and Big Steve are wholly responsible. They are the ones to answer the questions you posed, not me.

I know COLO is the host but how Ebe came from nowhere to handle financial matters of the conference is now beyond my reasoning, as far as the conference is concerned.

It goes to underscore that you tone down the language of abuse/disrespect on persons you've never seen or even spoken at length with.

Again, your intimidation from a 1" by 2" portrait tells me you'd scram at a life size. Yet you trumpet war songs from every thread. Boyz and Gelz, integrity and might is not in one's age or physical size - but in quality of discourse that tells all about maturity.

Although some of you are pint sized and write BS always, I still respect in some areas. That is why I don't give back in same token.

Now, give Big Steve all that is due him - he has eloquently come across with what he passionately believes in and does that with admirable consistency. Although some may not agree with him all the time (I certainly do not at all times), give him much respect and credit for his eloquence, consistency and a very keen interest in the overall Nigeria plight.

It is for such virtues that I will go to Atlanta to meet with and network with Nigerians in the US Diaspora who have over the years expressed a true concern for Nigeria (no matter how screwed). And if invited, to the WIC in New Orleans.

Rather than condemn the Atlanta Conference purely out of vindictiveness from perceived mistreatment at the Nigeriaworld.com, challenge yourselves and go there to increase the quality of dialogue over the Nigeria state. That is what some of you did when President Obasanjo visited with Nigerians in Atlanta - you snuck in there with your real/no names and thought you were not seen. But would dare not admit over this messageboard or be labelled a "Sabo".

Bollocks Ikpatt, bollocks! I'd said you can use the clone feature in a photo suit and colour the hair grey, if big Steve writes c**p, he'd get a telling off. I'm sure he knows it too.

You further wrote:

>> you trumpet war songs from every thread. Boyz and Gelz, integrity and might is not in one's age or physical size - but in quality of discourse that tells all about maturity.<<

Goodness gracious !! Did you read Biafra, Damian or my entry on this issue. I think it is Kunle and yourself that are fascinated by somebody's portrait. I'm not because I don't know the guy.

And again,

>>Now, give Big Steve all that is due him - he has eloquently come across with what he passionately believes in and does that with admirable consistency.<<

Big Steve like the rest of you hypocrites in that place could be described as anything but consistent. If you go back to the Awolowo thread: he'd started off accusing me of revisionism and damaging Yoru-Igbo bridges, but towards the tail of the thread he really got vile and vicious and expressed his hitherto repressed anger by digging the dirt on Bolaji Aluko-- It was very personal!

And your conclusion:

"....I will go to Atlanta ..... And if invited, to the WIC in New Orleans...Last week, I was in Memphis and later in Mississipi - "