quote:We are not north, we are not west. I say it here and I don't mind wherever I am called up, I will tell you. As at today, the position I see coming from the North is more acceptable than that which I see coming from the West-----Ikemba
As it is widely said, in politics there is no permanent enemy. The South-east is forgetting the events of the civil war or rather is pretending to forget it so as to achieve its national interest. In principle, for the Ibo’s to be satisfied with the political events in Nigeria it is really advisable for them to forget the past for now and use any tactics available to get what they want. As Machiavellians propagate, the end justifies the means.
It is actually left for the Easterners to know what they want and what role they want to play in Nigerian politics. This year’s elections have made it clear that the Easterners and particularly the Igbo’s have a very slim chance of handling a principal position in the Nigerian political system.
Should the South-east form Alliance with the North to get what they want? Alliance with the South-west should it be given another chance after the Biafra war scenario, shouldn’t the Easterners negotiate with the North?
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I did'nt see any Machiavellian guile in the position exemplified by the comment above, but rather in the context of AD/Afenifere ethnic display in favor of four more years of incompetence, wickedness, and shortsigtedness, and in light of the apparent leaning of Atiku's North east, the fearless Ikemba again spoke it as he saw it, and left PDP/AD/Afenifere an implied offer from which to bargain, rather, PDP chose to violently rig the east in order to overide our voices as if we did'nt exist, therefore, in cahoots with their local agents (our so-called Igbo/Eastern governors) denied us even the opportunity to participate in our own self determination.
I dont buy this idea that "the Easterners and particularly the Igbo’s have a very slim chance of handling a principal position in the Nigerian political system" That position has typically been used to make us feel that we have to bend over more backwards than others even though we voted Shagari, Abiola, OBJ. I dont buy that idea especially given the extent of forcefully blatant and violent government sponsored rigging that has prevented anyone from knowing how the dynamics would have truly played out in this election.
It is not a bad idea to negotiate with our neighbors, but it is equally not a bad idea that we have to consolidate internally first in order to possess any semblance of respectable leverage, otherwise we would simply remain vulnerable to external political plunder.
So in answer to the implied question Alliance with the North? (or West) I say NO! not yet!!! and when we do get ready, I prescribe what R. Reagan (on nuclear disarmaments) said to the Soviets: "Trust, but verify".
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Personally I will trust an alliance with the north, than any alliance the east will form with the west. History have shown that the west cannot be trusted, whether is the civil war or Awo's Egbeomo oduduwa of 1956. The west have proved time and time again that we can not trust them. I say lets put our differences with the north regarding the civil and work with them where we can to achieve our goals.
Thank you. I can't accept that all the PDP victory is due to rigging. Otherwise there will have been riots by now.
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I rather agree with Ukaobasi, except for the expression "the fearless Ikemba again spoke it as he saw it," used to qualify Ikemba. In fact we all are and should remain fearless, not only Ikemba. We all know that nobody will touch Ojukwu, but we, including himself, should not use it as an aim in itself. We do not gain anything from it, neither among ourselves, nor among other nations in Nigeria. What I see is a free world where everybody has the right to their views. We should express our opinions freely, in Nigeria and in particular in western countries.
We do not need any alliance for the moment. What we need is to make sure that: 1) elections are free and fair 2) the Easterner get rid of those who do not fight for their interests 3) we communicate more among ourselves, in Nigeria, diaspora and between those in diaspora and Nigeria. 4) Make Eastern Nigeria our primary homes.
We should be able to bring everybody to adhere to the instructions of Ohaneze and be able to designate who represent us in the states and at federal level.
To be elected president, the candate has to win in 24 states which nobody in Nigeria will achieve without the East, bearing in mind that the Yoruba will only Vote Yoruba and Hausa Hausa. I am not against any Alliance, as long as it favours the Igbo first, because we have given enough. It is time we receive.
Taiwo and Lanre, We all know that votes have never counted in Nigeria, that is what we should all be working hard together to achieve. The elections have been rigged through the PDP governors who are majority in the country since 1999. Even Afenifere rejected the results.
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Quote: -------------------------------------------------- "No alliance necessary. We can win the East without alliance. Is that not what this election has proved?---Taiwo. --------------------------------------------------
Taiwo: reading from your statement above one would have thought that the Yoruba Afenifere won the East. When did PDP (even with Obasanjo as its presidential candidate) become a "we" (meaning Yoruba) party?
Though I cannot speak for other eastern states, I can bet with my life that given a free and fair election in Imo and anambra Staes, that Dr. Izekiel Izuogu and Dr. Peter Obi respectively would have won in those states. If you are in doubt, send anyone of your choice to those states or ask any honest Imonite or Anambrian they will tell you same story. So your bragado is just what it is - bragado.
Bro Ukabosi: Thanks for capping the main reason why Ojukwu made the above statement which Blessing re-posted above. From my understanding of what he said, Ojukwu was not calling for an "alliance." Rather, what he was expressing was disappointment at the Yoruba ruling class represented by the AD for accepting a result that everyone agrees was fraudulent.
However, if I should say, I think we Igbos should not listen to those who tell us because no Igbo emerged as President of Nigeria then we should pack and go to sleep. What we should do is to follow the road-map Sylva articulated and look beyond the set-backs (if indeed one can describe it as such) of today.
In doing this, we must not forget to reconscile our differences FROM WITHIN before looking for outside alliance of any sort from without. There's no doubt that the best platform to do this in the longterm is through the APGA. While we do this, we should be careful that the APGA does not suffer the fate the PDP which was formed by Ekwume and other pominent Igbos suffered when it was highjacted by such characters like Tony Anenih & co.
Finally, no matter what happens, we should not let ouselves be decieved to believe that any other Nigerian nationality will take us serious when we are at each others neck, so the main work must start with ourselves as Igbos. Let no Igbo, irresspective of political inclination (except where it is obvious the person/s concerned are born spoilers) be left out of this process. I believe that if we do what I and others have proposed and will propose, Nd'Igbo will rise to never fall again. For if we did it after the civil war when the world seem to have eclipsed, there's no reason why we cannot do it in peace time.
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quote: There's no doubt that the best platform to do this in the longterm is through the APGA. While we do this, we should be careful that the APGA does not suffer the fate the PDP which was formed by Ekwume and other pominent Igbos suffered when it was highjacted by such characters like Tony Anenih & co.
My suggestion to the above is the following: The objectives(the what) of the Easterners should be defined by Ohaneze and the policies( the how) by the political parties, APGA as of today. Before each election, the names of the candidates for Presidential, Governorship, Senatorial and House of Representive posittions should be sent to Ohaneze for eventual modifications and validation. This means that even if the party is hijacked, Ohaneze will still validate the names of those who will represent the zone. Since it is Ohaneze who calls on who to be voted for in any election, no political party will reject its list, and it will also be in a good position to negotiate an acceptable Presidential candidate from the zone who will not fail Nigeria as Obasanjo did.
quote:Finally, no matter what happens, we should not let ouselves be decieved to believe that any other Nigerian nationality will take us serious when we are at each others neck, so the main work must start with ourselves as Igbos. Let no Igbo, irresspective of political inclination (except where it is obvious the person/s concerned are born spoilers) be left out of this process.
If we undrestand how democratic rule functions and communicate it well to everybody, then there will be no problems. The key word here is communication, communication, communication.
Ohaneze should establish a charter signed and adhered to by everybody, the most important part of which should be to accept any decisions taken by the organization through a free an fair voting. This means that everybody would present their views and visions on any given project and a vote will be carried out to decide which one to follow among all the possibilities. No matter the decision arrived at through voting, everbody should work together towards its realization.
We can apply the same thing among oursleves on this board and that is what mostly democratic countries do. By so doing, we do not need th convince anybody individually, it is over to them to convince the majority that they have good visions for the zone and for Nigeria.
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Back from ROMland. I know its been a long time but I've been having some problems which needed to be solved.
An alliance with the Genocidal Northerners will be suicidal at this moment. We will be better off copying the Ethiopians. I suggest we let the North slug it out with the Yoruba west and then we can decide on which side to go. It is quite obvious that the evil allinace between the Norh and West has been broken.
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I will personally suggest that we first deal with our enemies in Biafra before looking elsewhere. The 6 Igbo governors in the East must first be taught a lesson. Obasanjo should be left for the North to deal with if they have guts to do so.
Why through Ohanaeze? Of what relevance is Ohanaeze to the Igbos and APGA?
Ojoto, It is because Ohaneze is for the Easterners whiile APGA is a national party. Remember that DR Ekwueme, among others founded PDP whose members today disrespect the votes of the Easterners. If the nomination of those Eastern leaders comes from Ohanaeze, such will not be the case, otherwise they can kiss bye-bye to any other representative office in the zone.
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Odili, Could you remind us of the Ethiopian method? Secondly, the Easterners do not need any alliance, what will do through Ohaneze is negotiation, when the time comes.
All, We have no enemies in the East, those governors behave the way they do due to lack of leadership. That leadership should be provided by Ohaneze. We can only deal effectively with people if we have legitimacy and communicate well among ourselves. Otherwise it would be like attacking Iraq with UN mandate.
The first thing to do is for Ohaneze to establish a charter, to be read by all, modified if necessary, approved and signed by everybody including by the present governors. For effective communication aimed at reaching the citizens, Ohaneze should establish offices in the major towns in the East, with the headquarter in Enugu.
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Until the Ndiigbo reversed the outcome of the war the Biafrans lost in 1970 under the leadership of Ojukwu, nobody in Nigeria will take Ndiigbo seriously in any political event.
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Who elected the Ohanaeze to the leadership of NdiIgbo? what qualifies one a member of Ohanaeze and who are the members of Ohanaeze apart Eze Ozobu, Iwuanyanwu and Nwabueze?.
Judgement most start from the house of GOD first, my people should rise up and make sure that the Iwuanyawu's, Udenwa's, Egwu's,Uzokalu's, Nnamani's, Chrisuba's, Mmaduekwe's,Abcnwosu's, Mbadinauju's and Nzeribe's of Igboland are mobbed and killed with tyre hanging on their neck in a manner of peoples justice to bandits and assasins the only language criminals understand in Igboland, this most be done by the people at significant and remarkable placeses like upper iweka rd. junction Onitsha, Ariria market Aba, Nkpor junction, e.t.c, when this is done, the people of goodwill will rejoice and only then can the Igbo get ride of "oli nwanneya" traitors, only then can we stop the collective insult of Obasanjo and his tribe's men, untill then, Tony Bliar sends greetings to obasanjo and pdp over a well "deserved victory"
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OK, Why cut your nose to spite your face? Aint you now recommending barbarism over good judgement? The same thing your tribesmen are quick to accuse the ngbati's of? Just thinking. mmmmmm...
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May I start by advising you to address me by my registered name, that is Blessing and not bro Blessing. I understand the Bro used may represent fraternity as we are all Igbos, but, you can as well use sis or leave it as you see it on the board.
You wrote,
quote:Bro Blessing,
I did'nt see any Machiavellian guile in the position exemplified by the comment above, but rather in the context of AD/Afenifere ethnic display in favor of four more years of incompetence, wickedness, and shortsigtedness, and in light of the apparent leaning of Atiku's North east, the fearless Ikemba again spoke it as he saw it, and left PDP/AD/Afenifere an implied offer from which to bargain, rather, PDP chose to violently rig the east in order to overide our voices as if we did'nt exist, therefore, in cahoots with their local agents (our so-called Igbo/Eastern governors) denied us even the opportunity to participate in our own self determination.
That was a good analysis of the present political situation in Nigeria. But, if you read my post well, you will find out that the Machiavellian used does not refer to the statement made by Ikemba, but, was used in the context of suggesting the strategies to be used by Ndigbo in attaining their goal with regards to the events of the civil war.
quote:In principle, for the Ibo’s to be satisfied with the political events in Nigeria it is really advisable for them to forget the past for now and use any tactics available to get what they want. As Machiavellians propagate, the end justifies the means.
Thanks for your contribution to the thread.
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Okwy: Not so fast brother. I understand the JUSTIFIED pain and anger that Igbos at home and in the diaspora feels about the "daylight robbery" (according to Izuogu) that we have once again been subjected to called "election" in the east. But to do what you suggested as the solution will be as Addy rightly observed to cut the nose to spite the eyes. Instead of killing this or that person, what I would suggest as the LONG-TERM solution is ISOLATION. By this I mean that we should apply the people's right to choose as the Yorubas did when they effectively used enlightening information and good judgment to ISOLTATE the likes of Jakande, Adedibu,Onagoruwa & others who supported the Abacha junter. Its same method they also used in the recent election by voting out such Yoruba turn-coats like Adesanya, Adebanjo, Adefarati and other so-called defenders of democracy who thought Obasanjo being Yoruba and a member of the ruling PDP makes his government any better than that of Abacha that could do ANYTHING to reamin in power. It is same method the ordinary Yoruba on the street used to send the afore-mentioned Yoruba TRAITORS into PERPETUAL OBLIVION is what Igbos have to do with those equally Igbo TRAITORS you mention above. Anything short of this will not serve the Igbo any good in the LONG-TERM
This is the way we can do it:
- COMMUNICATION: we should use every means at our disposal to inform our people of their rights and the LONG-TERM effect of not voting for someone because he/she has or gave them money or material things.
- ORGANIZATION: we should make the Ohanaze the people's organization and not the elite caricature that it is today. To achieve this, Igbos at home and in the diaspora should use meeting forums such as village 'Umunna' meetings, 'Town Unions,' Age Grade groups' and 'nzuko UmuIgbo' in every nook and cranny of the world where Igbos are settled to disseminate good manners and character and pool resources together to empower our people and the eastern region. When this satelite organizations are strong and verile, they will become a truly PEOPLES' Ohaneze. But whether we need an umbrella Igbo socio-political organization that can articulate Nd'Igbo's economic and political visions and idealogy is not questionable.
- CODE OF CONDUCT: we should start from the day our children are born to teach them the vitures of honesty, good behaviour and respect for Igbo norms, culture and language. Because if you take statistic of most Igbos who are leading us astray today, they are either Igbos born and raised outside Igboland or those who have lived in other parts of Nigeria (especially Yoruba and Hausa land) and have been made to believe that to be a "good Nigerian" you either have to be a BAD IGBO or deny your Igboness completely. So to change this trend, we have to start from day one to teach our kids the importance of being proud of their language, culture and tradition and to be ready to defend their Igboness no matter the temptation from their local peers.
- INVESTMENT: most importantly, those of us who are blessed with either knowledge or wealth should do well to invest them in Igbo land. Because as long as there are employable Igbo youths who cannot find a place to earn a decent living like their Hausa or Youba counterparts (this is not to say that these people dont take craft), they will always become instruments which the likes of Nzeribe and co would use to buy and sell votes and terrorize innocent Igbos and Igboland.
For the uptenth time I repeat that our salvation lies in the way we go about sorting and solving our INTERNAL problems. Should we resort to any panic meassure to outroot our enemies from within or rush to embrace our competitors from without, we we will come out more worse than we are today.
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Nwa Aro, After going through the new posts on this thread, namely that of blessing, okwy and yours, I have decide to start commenting on the yours. You must have read blessing's post before writing yours and I am sure you understood what he was saying. According to blessing, since we do not indicate our titles(Mr, Mrs, Miss, or whatever), we should use the names as they had been registered. I agree with him. Then you started yours with "okwy, Not so my brother" and a little further you wrote of code of conduct. This is where I disagree. The first thing I did was to look at when you, okwy or Ukaobasi registered on this board. From there, three of you haven registered before me, then a disagreement in the past became the only plausible explanation. If I am right, then I suggest that we forget the past and make a fresh start.
All, Our problems are complex, I can't detail them now, but i will be able to do it little by little.
DEFINING OUR PROBLEMS Our problems stem from bad definition, due to manipulation, antagonization and inability to call a spade a spade. What I am saying is that people make us believe that our problems are caused by Eastern leaders or Obasanjo. If we agree with the above and try to solve them from that point of view, we will not get anywhere, bacause that is not the cause of our problems. It does not mean that the Easterners and Obasanjo are innocent or that we should not criticise them, but what they do is minor with respect to those caused by the west.
If we can give our opinions on what the Eastern leaders do, what Obasanjo does, then we should equally talk of what Britain, France or America do in Africa. After all, western countries are said to be free countries where everyone can express themselves. We hear their views on the TV, radio, newspapers, internet messageboards, etc. So we should do it freely because it is our right. It does not mean that you won't see somebody we might try to intimidate you, but it is over to you not to allow such to happen. If we express ourselves freely and communcate among ourselves, our problems will be half solved, the rest will be taken care easily.
I give you an example. About four years ago, when I was living in France, I nearly lost my life, among other reasons, for trying to set up an IT company in Nigeria. As we all suppose to know, you cannot do any business without studying your market. During that process, I learnt that the implementation and maintennce of Information systems in the University of nigeria is done by two companies: British and French. The person who gave me the information died accidentally. My phone calls and mails to and from Nigeria were intercepted and blocked by French intelligence. In France, a circular had been passed not to give blacks jobs in IT. But I was not looking for a job, but to create some. The British are not very different. America's intervention in Iraq shows those who are not living in the US what their policy is about.
So, the problems I encountered in Europe had not been caused by Udenwa, Nzeribe, Nnamani, etc. Obasanjo was not the cause either. They had been caused by the Eurpeans who want to cause mass exodus, antagonize the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba so that Nigeria will not be able to unit and do those jobs themselves.
This is where the Easterners come in. They have the potential of revolutionizing that country. So the west feel threatened by the Igbo. Everybody knows the role of the Easterners during the fight for Nigeria's Indepenence. Do not think that Britain have forgotten. Do we leave foreigners hijack Nigeria and then attack Udenwa? My answer is No. Do we leave them and attack Obasanjo? My answer is NO. Do we leave them and attack okwy or Ukaobasi because they disagree with us? My answer is No? The solution is comminication, communcation, communication. The problems is that foreign countries disorganize Nigeria/Africa, try to frustrate those in Western countries who could be helpful in Nigeria/Africa. They would tell you that Udenwa did this or that. Obasanjo did this or that. We know all those things but what they do not tell you is that everything they do is based on lies, manipulation and antagonization of black people.
So, I will not accuse anybody in the east or any Nigerian or any black or any human being unless I have an irrefutable proof of his/her culpability. I will equally like to hear the person defend his/herself and take into consideration the environment under which he/she was operating. But through communcation, we will find ways out. The solutions to our problems exist.
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Some of the things you say about foreign countries acts is nigeria is well known but those countries actions are based on agreements with the African ruling class. The ruling class invites these foreign countries to Africa (i.e the current US army trainees in various parts of nigeria and of course the warships in Warri waters) and sign agreements with them as such the foreign country is only protecting its investments. Since these African rulers SOLD OUT, you/we need to hold them responsible for actions that can be considered UNPETROTIC by most Western nations. Your business partner's/friend's death from auto accident could have been prevented if the nigerian leaders hadn't SELL OUT the interest of you and I for personal gain.
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Thank you indeed for according me the benefit of the doubt in regards to proper form in addressing others on this board. Correction is henceforth accepted with appreciation and equal apology to you and others for previous cavalier misapplication.
Regarding my interpretation of and response to your initial posting, I have this to say:
You started with a quote from Ojukwu in which he seemed to be explaining somewhat defensively why he felt a greater affinnity to the North's position toward Igbos vis-a-vis that of the West.
In your follw-up however, you totally ignored the fact that Ojukwu was responding within a context and in a broad brush you equated his personal inclination under the given context to represent the general South-eastern pulse as reflected in the following comment:
quote:The South-east is forgetting the events of the civil war or rather is pretending to forget it so as to achieve its national interest.
An assessment that makes South-easterners appear selfish and shortsighted, and one which sets up an expectation for a contrast by you between what South-easterners are currently doing, and what you are about to suggest they should be doing. This anticipated contrast subsequently fails to materialize in the following statement below:
quote:"In principle, for the Ibo’s to be satisfied with the political events in Nigeria it is really advisable for them to forget the past for now and use any tactics available to get what they want.
Rather, in the concluding line if anything, the statement:
quote:As Machiavellians propagate, the end justifies the means.
only goes to reinforce the initial assessment that:
quote:The South-east is forgetting the events of the civil war or rather is pretending to forget it so as to achieve its national interest.
A regrettable and somewhat heavy laced assessment in my opinion, if derived merely from the clear and unequivocal opinion expressed by Ojukwu.
Thus my opening commentary: "I did'nt see any Machiavellian guile ..." A commentary which in light of the absence of contrasts at the appropriate transitions, was merely intended to dissociate Ojukwu's clearly articulated personal opinions rendered in his quote, from any subsequent conclusions endorsing the Machiavellian ideal.
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Quote: -------------------------------------------------- "Then you started yours with "okwy, Not so my brother" and a little further you wrote of code of conduct. This is where I disagree. The first thing I did was to look at when you, okwy or Ukaobasi registered on this board. From there, three of you haven registered before me, then a disagreement in the past became the only plausible explanation."---Sylva. --------------------------------------------------
Sylva: You got it all wrong. My addressing Okwy "brother" had nothing to do with Blessing's correction of Ukabobasi when the latter addressed her as "Bro." It was just used as I often address some people and some forumites do address me sometimes. It is just a fraternal gesture which means nothing more than that. In any case, since Ukabobasi who irrenously reffered to Blessing as "bro" instead of "sis" (I guess Blessing was conplaining of her sex being misunderstood or wrongly addressed) has been humble to apologise to Blessing, I think that the case died there and should be left out of this thread henceforth.
On another note, I dont remember having a "disagreement" with you. Besides, whether we disagree now or in the past, as long as it was/is civil it is NORMAL. Afteral, isn't that why you are Sylva and I am Nwa Aro? Thirdly, no hard feelings meant in my "code of conduct." contained in my last post. If you read my post in its entirety, you will see that the "code of conduct" epistle was not addressed to anyone on this board in particular, rather, it was my way of explaining why some Igbos behave unIgbo as they do and in effect profer what is expected of a true Igboman/woman.
Now to the issue in discourse,
Quote: -------------------------------------------------- "So, the problems I encountered in Europe had not been caused by Udenwa, Nzeribe, Nnamani, etc. Obasanjo was not the cause either"---Sylva. --------------------------------------------------
Though Ednut has properly addressed your lodsided argurment of blame-the-west for all of Africa's problem, I decided to use the above quote because I want to let you know that your problem in France had everything to do with both Udenwa (assuming you come from Imo State) and more to do with Obasanjo as the head of your country's government for close to four years without having any physical development to show for it and yet you want us to exenorate him and hold the "enemies" from without Africa responsible for our problems.
Here is how both Udenwa and Obasanjo has more to with your problem than the French: for instance, if Imo State had the infratructures - I mean modern telecomunication network, good roads, electricity, etc. as comparable to that in a little village in France, then you wouldn't need to go to far away France to start your IT company. On the contrary, as a good and home-loving patriot (judging from your posts) if those things were in place in Imo State, then you and others like you are likely to stay in Igbo heartland to exploit your talent and in the process create the much-needed job I mentioned in my last mail. Same apllies for Obasanjo as Nigeria's president. If he was a true patriot as he make gullible Nigerians to believe, he wouldn't allow only French and British companies to monopolize the computing department of one of Nigeria's best institute of learning like UNN. Afteral, there are Nigerians who can compete and out do those French and British so-called IT specialistsif given same incentives. The question is why are they ( the Nigerians) being denied their right in their country or origin while foreigners have a field day in their backyard? Would the French or English government do same against their own Nationals? Luckily, your story has already answered the question to the contary. So by SELLING OUT as Ednut rightly opined, if Obasanjo were to be a western leader, he would have lost his right to lead by that singular act at UNN. But the fact that he has done far worser things in every sphere of Nigeria socio-political and economic life and is still there and seems to want to die in office shows that he was/is not there for you nor I. Will you or anyone in good conscience blame that on the OPPORTUNISTIC Westerners?
Bottomline: our problems in Africa started with people with lost mind, confused brain and inconsiderate heart that go for "leaders therein. So if a Westerner sees these lopholes and tap them for their selfish ends as they are oft to do, we really dont have to blame them. Instead of doing so, if we Africans (in this case Nigerians) can be honest to ourselves, we ought to hold SELL-OUTS like Obasanjo who would do everything to protect the lives and properties of outsiders in order to be seen in the west as 'statesman,' while he uses every crude and devilish tactic to kill and maim his country's citizens. For as far as we know, neither the names of Tony Blair nor Jaque Chirac nor George Bush were on the ballot papers Nigerians were given to elect their president on the 19th of April, so why s
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