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MeBiafran, To buttress what IG wrote above, my mum is from Nnewi, which happens to be Ojukwu's hometown, and throughout Nnewi, and in my own part also, the first son inherits all (AND I MEAN ALL OF HIS FATHER'S POSSESSION). But the first son can then decide to give away some of these properties if he so wishes. Alternatively, in this present era of wills, the father will normally assign the first son the greater share of his possession, and divide the rest among the other siblings. But if the father were to pass on, without laying down the rules for sharing things out, then the first son automatically inherits them.
I will also repeat my question, which goes thus: Are you really stating that Dim. Emeka Ojukwu is not the first son of Sir Louis Ojukwu?
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MeBiafra where are you, are you dodging the question about Ojukwu not been Sir Louis Ojukwu's first Son. You cannot throw these accusations out there and expect them not be challenged with superior arguments and facts. I still maintained that had it been that the original guys were still around you will be eat crow right now, because of all your lack of facts and inferior arguments.
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You wrote "I think you should take a step back and review your stance. You are making an argument for the treasurer of an organization who never knew how much the organization had and never cared to find out, how smart!! Did it occur to you that by signing the audited statements when he did not know what was in the account that Umeh was being fraudulent? The shame is that Ikemba made public pronouncements based on Umeh’s concocted stories and is now being unraveled in court."
REPLY: Did it also occur to you that a chairman that allowed his National Treasurer to sign something he did not look through, and yet, left him to still carry on as the National Treasurer is an incompetent chairman? Did it also occur to you, that maybe the National Treasurer (Umeh), did something about correcting this anomaly by backing the sacking of Chekwas for USURPING ROLES?
You wrote "You see giving how much influence Ikemba had over Chekwas and everybody, don’t you think the problem could have been solved without a court case that has now thorn APGA into pieces? That is a clear indication of poor leadership and only buttresses my point that the destruction of APGA was the making of Ikemba."
REPLY: We see eye to eye on this particular point. If you remember in one of my previous writings I made it clear that things could have been handled better. However the worst thing for Ojukwu to have done was to give Chekwas a blind covering, especially when his alleged sins were quite damning. Do you know that if Ojukwu had backed Chekwas, then you and I will find it extremely difficult to run for any posts under APGA. We would have had to go "lick Chekwas' boots" with a goat and hope he is in a good mood to pencil us down for any elective posts? I prefer an APGA that guarantees a level-playing field rather than one that encourages boot-licking and excessive IM (i.e grease Chekwas' hands....He's Ojukwu's chosen son and he is EXTREMELY UNTOUCHABLE). Mind you, of recent I'm beginning to have doubts as to how far Ojukwu's influence on Chekwas really was, especially with the sort of insults that Chekwas throws at Ojukwu. So maybe Ojukwu tried other things, and then decided to go public, when he sensed the fruitlessness in handling this case in a more civil manner. Time will tell.
Regarding the last message you sent, this will not be the first time we've read/heard allegations and counter-allegations, and it definitely will not be the last. We are only interested in truths. Infact just recently, another allegation flying around is that Emeka Ojukwu's not the first son of Sir. Louis Ojukwu. TIME WILL REVEAL ALL.
Don't think I'm a fan of Victor Umeh. Infact, I don't even want him as the chairman of APGA coz I don't know him. I prefer a seasoned diplomat, with an unfading will to keep the Igbo lantern burning. Someone that we already know, and not some dark horse.
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I must thank you for your insightfulness and the respectful and brotherly manner it was delivered yesterday. Hope others can emulate this mature approach. The history surrounding your great town is a very RICH one and I’m proud of their doggedness in resisting the corruption that followed the arrival of white men in years past.
But here, "Did it also occur to you that a chairman that allowed his National Treasurer to sign something he did not look through, and yet, left him to still carry on as the National Treasurer is an incompetent chairman?" you tried to pass the buck. The buck stays with umeh and not Chekwas.
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Who, me, dodge? Are you s.h.i.t.ting me? When all my questions are answered then the only one of yours I’m yet to answer will be swiftly cleared. You keep trying to bring people who are honorable in their debating style in here unmindful had, say, Damian who's reading all these by the way, decided to say something, his is to clear the air by presenting whatever facts he has and never like you who's outrightly clueless and very rude. You continue to miss the mark with your RUDE attitude to every post. You started yesterday's round well but as wont you, somersaulted and ended very poorly. Did it ever occur to you that you it was who first fired off a stupid remark to me? With the exception of weber who’s been a constant uncivilized player, none of those you listed debates like you, you disrespect then cry foul. Regarding my grandfather and dad, I’m proud to say that it was more than a decade after grand’s death that in 1969 my dad invited his maternal uncles and the immediate kindred for the purpose of witnessing the sharing of his father’s estate. My brother, my father is not only a JUST man, he’s a lover. I was in my early teens at the time and I witnessed all these and years later, I marvel at the thought, how one could keep all those things for twelve years after his father’s death whereas most would have embezzled everything in sight within months of their father’s passing. During the sharing, the only stuff my dad as the eldest child got ahead of his brothers was his father’s gun, walking cane and the family house in the village the rest of the things was split equally among his younger ones from four other women with dad picking first on every round! The only estate that was not part of this sharing was the family’s properties (plantation, houses and lands) in the Rivers area that was undemocratically and unjustly confiscated by the awusa lords weber loves to death. Hopefully, he, weber can begin to appreciate why I see the arab/fulani cabal as evil. So my brother, with every and all respect to your dad, what he did was wrong and I’m glad that you too acknowledged this. The biggest house should have sufficed for him. By also grabbing the second house making his total two out of four houses leaving the other three sibling with two tiny (lol) ones, he created bad belly among his sibling. Too unfair and I suggest they (your uncles) sue him (lol) to get respite. Nnaa, hapu Ojukwu, we somehow still care about him but he’s created so much problems in ala Igbo!
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I wasn't trying to pass the buck. What I was trying to do was to point out the fact that an accusation that Umeh was incompetent/fraudulent in signing things, was neither here nor there. And the fact that the same brush employed on Umeh could also be employed on Chekwas who retained (or at least didn't cry foul) the services of a man that signed off things without checking them out first.
Having said that, I'm also very glad to read your last sentence, which shows that Ojukwu is still well regarded in your heart. THAT IS WHAT MATTERS. You know what?? That last sentence is what pisses Igbo-haters off. How much they would have loved it if you'd chosen to humiliate him.
Another thing, when we castigate Ojukwu in the way we've been doing here, you will notice that those that are hurt by such castigations of Ojukwu are your fellow Igbos. Infact, you will be feeling the hurt yourself, as an Igbo man. Now guess those that are always happy when they see Ojukwu ridiculed? Yeah, the OBJs, the Danjumas, the Chris Ubas, the Murtalas, the Bababoyzs. These are the only group of people that derive any sort of pleasure from his castigation, and we mustn't forget that Dim is a symbol in Igboland. He will never accept surrender, and we mustn't accept to surrender. He is human like us, and should also expect him to have humanly instincts, but never give "the enemy" any pleasure by putting Ojukwu down.
Igboland is under threat at the moment, and I believe we will have the victory, if we all stick together. Let's not the "the enemy" any room to exploit. UNITED WE STAND!
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I have been watching this debate from a distance, I have to say that NwaUmunri have made so many valid points. Also I don't know if you can outright say that IG's dad is wrong, it is the system in his town that gave him that right. Yes Our Igbo culture sometimes create double standard. Like not having daughters partake in sharing lands in her paternal village. I remember in my own case when My dad shared his with his only brother he also took that largest largest land as the tasting one. The Ironic thing theirs is that My three auntt came and shared it for them. My uncle who even trained me complained that that tasting one is to large for a tasting one. But my father remained adamant. I had a say i would have sided with my uncle, because he trained me, and even set my father up in Business, yet he got the shaft. Also to watch my aunts to coming and share this lands without even getting one is also unfair, but that is the nature of the beast. So we should be careful when we blame individual without acknowledging the culture that breed that individual. I do agree with IG that in todays world living will can bail many of our daughters out.
I commend your dad and his sibblings for settling theirs amicably, however that is exception than norm in Igbo land. Remember in the old days first son is arrested for the crime of his junior sibblings. So the intricacy of Igbo culture is complicated, so that is why we should take both the good, the bad, the urgly of it all with a grain of salt. You guys keep the debate going, NwaumuNri you may need to read narration by brother Nnamdi Nwuda for Igu Aro in Nri. I you can access it from front page of BNW in writers block just look for Dae Nnamdi Nwuda. NwaUmunri I have to say that you are my brother in-law because my sister in-law is married to a guy from Agukwu Nri.
quote:My uncle who even trained me complained that that tasting one is to large for a tasting one. – Biafra
LOLOLOLOL!!! Igbo sef. Still laughing hard Mazi Biafra over your uncle’s natural reaction to sanctioned injustice.
quote:I do agree with IG that in todays world living will can bail many of our daughters out.
Lest we forget that this so-called “will” is a western culture that is hardly respected in Igboland when the die is cast. Who has not experienced where a dearly passed wishes was usurped on the basis of contradiction to tradition? I’m sure you will agree that no first born son will yield to a WILL that entrusted the majority of the estate to any of his younger ones.
quote:Remember in the old days first son is arrested for the crime of his junior sibblings.
LOLOLOL!! Mazi Biafra, you’re killing me this after noon. Is this really the case then?
And to odogwu nwoke nwa Nri, I’ll keep your counsel in mind as we strut along. All your points are well taken after all our people say; “imi bee wee, anya bee wee” also. What affects the nose equally gets to the eyes also.
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Brodas, I was cracking up also when I read about that "tasting" that went on:-) This is the sort of tasting that compares favourably with the real meal itself.
Biafra, I didn't find the Igu Aro thing under Nwuda, however I saw one under Eze Nri (Enwelana) Onyesoh. Is that the one you mean? There is an Nri man from Enugwu-Ukwu here in London, who is also deeply drenched in Igbo custom. This guy is a dictionary in Igbo culture, a real custodian of the stuff and gets invited to various Igbo functions here in England, and even at times to the U.S to go break the kolanut. It is always a pleasure to be around such guys, coz you learn by the second, and they are usually so jovial and full of deep Igbo wisdom.
Regarding your marital connection you have in Nri, I won't be surprised coz Nri people (especially those from Agukwu and Enugwu-Agidi which is where I'm from) like to marry from within the Igbo clan. But people from Enugwu-Ukwu are more open-minded.
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Now here is Kenny trying to bring in division among brothers. They are obviously hurt by the little brotherly understanding, and they have come out with a new technique, to set brother against brother.
They stayed behind all these while, and watched us fight from afar and had their private giggles at our expense.
Kenny, Yeah, they are no saints, but we cherish them both.
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I may have been too hasty in passing my initial judgement which I shouldn't have done. So here is a substantive reply.
Maybe OBJ was trying to 419 Igbos, but the major thing now is that we 419ed him and Igbos now have a party they can call theirs.
My gut feeling is that Chekwas is not a sabo.
Of course, the powers that be, were always gonna register a party formed by Chekwas than a party formed by Ojukwu (coz of the Biafran label that he bears). But we now have a party. It's now left to us (Igbos) to fashion it the way we want it.
Daalu
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Brother NwaUmuNri Yes your right it was the Agu aro by Eze Nri Onyeso. It was narated by Brother Nnamdi Nwuda. As MeBiafra said Nri is very rich in Igbo culture and tradition, the only place in Igbo land today who have not watered down their culture. Even though Nri People have so many educated elites, still those elites still practice their culture no matter their level.
Brother MeBiafra
I am not kidding you, in the old days when court clerks or Nwa DC used to serve papers, when they come into a family they always pick up the head of the compound if the culprit is not around. As a matter fact the house of the first son is always the first port of call in any compound.
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Biafra nwanne mmadu, Na sooo. I remember when I was growing up, when I was still a child, all my Nri relatives that were grown up kept ramming it into my head that I was an Nri descendant and as such, must make sure not to forget Igbo culture. They told me that the Igbo concept of fairness was absolute. They made me really proud of my Igboness and all things Igbo, and that will explain why they'd rather we chose Igbo brides than anyone else, and they make no apologies about that.
Infact when the Europeans were around, they wanted to falsely claim that Nri people were not Igbos. Of course, they were trying their "divide and conquer" tactics, which Nri people adamantly refused to accept. They found it really difficult to come up with a way to deal with umu Nri especially as umu Nri had no army, and they went about their official tasks in Igbo communities with no threat of force whatsoever, so they couldn't exactly give the Nris the Saddam Hussein treatment (if you get what I'm saying). In other words, they couldn't give the dog (Nri) a bad name to hang it. Of course, unlike the Northern emirs who bought into colonialism so easily, the Europeans knew they wouldn't be able to achieve that, through Eze Nri in Igboland. They needed an effective way of keeping control in Igbo areas, so they introduced the warrant chiefs. Other southern groups with either weak chiefs or obstinate chiefs also got the European-supported warrant chiefs. The Igbo warrant chiefs were made to renounce Eze Nri and also to reject the links between their towns of influence and Nri-land. These were the fore-runners of the Chris Ubas i.e the enemies within. Fortunately some of these Igwes are beginning to realize to act more Igbo than they were initially expected to act, which is a bit of a good news, but from time to time, they display the reason they were created by the British. I know we all still remember the show of shame of the Igbo igwes that paid Abacha a courtesy call and asked him to continue forever. BLACK OLD DAYS!!!!!
That's one of the major reason Nri people in the know don't bow to Igwes. If I were to visit an Igwe, I will not bow, coz he is an anomaly in Igbo culture. In the olden days according to tales in Nri-land much of Igbo practised village democracy. The Europeans came in and chose unprincipled people from various communities and made them chiefs over their towns. They will normally avoid choosing respectable and principled people from those communities. They chose just non-entities and those that could be bought cheaply and those with no love for their communities, who don't mind lording it over their communities provided they get some crumbs from their European backers (The names Ojo Maduekwe and Chris Uba keeps coming to mind). If I were to bow to them, then in a way, I will be sanctioning something that is not cultural. Now as custodians of the culture, that will not be a wise thing to do. Not that many Nri people know this though. But some in the know, told me this, and I intend to practise it. I repeat: much of Igboland practised village-level democracy.
Man, there is a lot to tell. I'm just full of things to say, mana nya diba.....
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Your writing is like a good highlife and folklore music to my ears. Our generation have to step up in order to leave something for our children. My grand father's generation made Igbos proud, unfortunately my father's generation robbed us the wrong way, so now is up to us to right this ship. Imagine most of the primary and scondary school standing in Igbo land today were built through communities efforts and Missioneries. Like you said back then there were village deomcracy. The funny thing about this is that most of our forefathers who built those schools were never educated. Then it is those the community educated are the one who planted this cancer eating us in Igboland today.
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Nwaumu nri What you are posting here like bro.IG said is like a sweet song to my soul.The history of Ndi-Igbo will not be complete if Nri is left out. The goings on with my people Ndi-Igbo has broken my heart. Everyday I see dark shadow cast over us Ndi-Igbo, in Nigeria, this shadow is by us and within us, because of greed, disrespect for our elders, all in the name of western culture. Please keep writing, maybe you will touch the soul of some our brothers/sisters to rethink their utterances here. On daily basis we wash our dirty lines here in public, in the name of debate and critizism. May the good Lord help us.
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Etiaba's father, not mine By Okey Ndibe VIRGINIA Etiaba appears beguiled by the false glow of being identified as Nigeria's first female governor, but she is a pathetic usurper and poor advertisement for Nigerian women. Nigerian women are every bit as capable as their male counterparts to take on the burden of governance, but they hardly deserve the sad brand of pioneer that Mrs. Etiaba represents. In permitting herself to be smuggled into office through a process tainted with illegality, judicial impunity and legislative legerdemain, Mrs. Etiaba has brought a dampening pallor to what might have been a moment of gender triumph. Etiaba has herself to blame for consenting to be cast in a political drama calculated to truncate democratic ethos. When a renegade group of Anambra legislators, obeying marching orders from the presidency, unconstitutionally announced the impeachment of Governor Peter Obi and asked Etiaba to take over the reins, she initially rebuffed them. It was a wise, principled and morally intuitive response. It was also an admirable act of moral courage. Had she sustained it, she would have served notice that she was possessed of a moral fiber that could withstand all the blandishment and lure of power and its trappings. Alas, Etiaba's moral compass served her for less than twenty-four hours before she flung it aside and shamelessly sneaked back to the soiled altar to present herself for investiture. It was a treacherous act by a woman who ought to have known better. How could somebody who spoke such moral vigor so insouciantly betray her ideals? What actuated this sordid volte-face? Was it greed, or else some other frailty of character? Whatever the source of her bizarre, baffling and tragic choice, Etiaba has now more than earned the opprobrium of all decent people. She has squandered her moral capital in pursuit of ephemera, a deal with the Devil itself. Has she clinched the title of first female governor in Nigeria's history? History, I hazard, is likely to remember her as Nigeria's first female double-speaking, back-stabbing gubernatorial opportunist. And also as the first woman to prove that, when it comes to blindly grasping for power, Nigerian women may be as adept as their men. Not exactly the kind of exemplar with which morally steadfast women would wish to be encumbered. Her sponsors, those drumming the tragic music to which she is dancing, may deceive her all they want, but Etiaba will make a poor candidate for public adulation. On the heels of her assumption of discredited office, Etiaba went calling on President Olusegun Obasanjo at his mischief-manufactur ing redoubt called Aso Rock. She was escorted in by Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba, Obasanjo's erstwhile factotum on "domestic" matters, a man the president intends to "select" into office as the next governor of Anambra state. Like the president, Uba is beset by deep ethical deficits, one evidence of which is the scandal of his illegal conveyance on a presidential plane of $170,000 in cash into the United States. Uba is also widely seen as the real mastermind of the 2003 abduction of then Governor Chris Ngige. Many regard him as the author of the three-day orgy of destruction that swept through Anambra in November, 2004. Etiaba came across as ignorant of the terrible symbolic significance of her visit to Obasanjo, and in the company of the execrable Uba. Emerging from the meeting, she spoke to the press about the purpose of her visit in accents that further betrayed her vacuity. The Vanguard of November 15 carried the headline: "Uba, Etiaba, Obasanjo in loyalty talks". A sub-headline read: "I have come to pledge my loyalty to Baba, says Etiaba". Emerging from the meeting, Etiaba told reporters that her governorship was "the will of God." Hear Etiaba: "How I became governor is the act of God. It is God's making. I am a child of circumstance. Truly, how I became governor, only God can tell." Then she made the obligatory noise about "moving Anambra forward" and her determination to institute "good governance." On the prospect of her own impeachment, Etiaba said she "never prayed for that" (as if Obi knelt down day and night to importune God for impeachment) . She also reached for the language of maternal sentimentality: "I intend to work with (the legislators) for the smooth development of the state. They are my children. They will understand me...I will work with them as a mother and children for the progress of Anambra state." This kind of prattle only goes to prove that Etiaba is gifted in the deployment of wooly reasoning to justify a manifestly odious choice. In scandalizing God's name, she also demonstrated a facility for cloaking perfidious conduct with the mantra of divine determinism. Her invocation of God's name could be dismissed as, well, silly conceit. But what conclusions might we draw from the explanation she offered on her visit to Aso Rock? She was quoted in the Vanguard as stating: "I came to pledge loyalty to the president because he is the father of the nation." Etiaba's parley with reporters revealed a disturbing poverty of judgment on her part. Since when did the constitution or political convention require that governors pledge loyalty to the president? I don't recall that she once conveyed the same pledge of fidelity to the people of Anambra state. In fact, her willingness to grovel before Obasanjo points, directly rather than obliquely, to the illegal process that contrived the absurdity of her claim to be a governor. My suspicion is that, when Etiaba spoke so expansively about God's will, she rather meant Obasanjo's will. Her aggrandizement of the president is in keeping with a reprehensible practice among Nigerian politicians. Obasanjo is called Baba (as if he were some fabled Mediterranean potentate) or father of the nation. Such apotheosis of a man of limited imagination has bred a cult of the personalization of power. The subjection of Obasanjo to this sustained flattery has created, in a man with no sense of irony, an idea of himself as nothing less than a god. Hence the impunity with which the president has assaulted, and continues to assault, noble ideas as well as sacred ideals. Etiaba's desperate latching on to this contemptible culture speaks volumes about her sense of responsibility to the people of Anambra, the only sovereigns who ought to count in any legitimate governor's calculations. Properly understood, Obasanjo is the father of Iyabo and Gbenga and his league of other children. Nothing in his office empowers him to be any other Nigerian's father; he is certainly no father of Nigeria. At any rate, there are good fathers and atrocious fathers. A good father exudes love. He is associated with such ideals as equity, prudence, self-control, and a high sense of responsibility. He seeks always to bequeath salutary values to his progeny. That's the caliber of father that I had. Would Etiaba step forward and assert that the present occupant of Aso Rock is a model of irreproachable conduct? If Etiaba is beset by amnesia, then perhaps she needs to answer pointed questions. How did her so-called father respond when, in 2003, the Uba clan arranged the abduction of then Governor Chris Ngige? The answer is that he shielded the criminal masterminds. Was the president roused out of his nonchalance when, months later, thugs (who were escorted by the police) laid siege on the state? No. When Etiaba met her "father," did it occur to her to ask him why nobody was ever prosecuted for that three-day reign of terror? How many inches of federal roads has her so-called father tarred in Anambra? She must have read how Emmanuel Uba, the man Obasanjo desperately wants to wangle into the Anambra governor's office come 2007, flew to the United States with a huge stash of dollars stowed away to treat himself to another $100,000 car and to buy $45,000 in equipment for the president's farm. Did Etiaba muster the courage to ask "the father of the nation" why he and his lieutenants continue to luxuriate in wealth while the masses wallow in abject destitution?
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A part of me identifies with the sentiment in the article that you posted, but I still feel it is much better to have an APGA govt in Anambra state (no matter how crude we think it is) than a PDP-led govt.
What matters is 2007. If Anambra is APGA-led at this point, then they have a chance of reducing (or even forestalling) any PDP magomago in the election. Of course, it will be nice to know that Etiaba is aware of all these dynamics, and not just climbing into the hotseat with an empty head, and drawing Igbos back by decades on account of her lack of sound judgement. Let's just hope she knows what is at play. I will reserve my judgement for the moment.
I also think if Ojukwu and Etiaba had maintained that Obi should remain, that we will presently have a PDP/Balonwu led govt in Anambra. That was OBJ's target. He wanted either a PDP govt in Anambra or a situation whereby it will be suitable to declare a state of emergency in Anambra. So the "tactical withdrawal" made by Ojukwu was obviously unexpected by the OBJ camp, and it will make their decisions that little bit harder, and gives APGA more room to manouvre in. Presently, APGA can still choose an APGA man as the deputy govt, who can take over if Etiaba is "impeached" based on the report of the investigation ordered by the pro-impeachment assemblymen. But I'm worried they haven't yet chosen an APGA stalwart as a replacement deputy. They must never allow PDP to bully them into choosing a PDP deputy governor.
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These foolish IGBO are quick to forget that BABA is a product of Nigerian Army based on COUP and COUTER COUP. He sends out fake messages to see loyalties. He creates bad situations to guage competence. After casualties, deaths and lose of faith, then he picks his real front man.
What I am saying here, IMO is riped place to toy with. The Udenwas,iwuanyanwu, chikwe, and the man nzeribe.
All these big names are there for themselves on selfish interests.
This reminds me of a commecial that used to run in NYC when I was a student at Columbia university. There were two electronic stores THE WIZ and THE TOPS. It went like this
No body beats the wiz in low prizes. The other responds, We are TOPS on top of the prices. We TOP all prices. The WIZ responds. No TOP can beat the WIZ.
But do you know that both are bankrupt and out of business?
These hired guns in IGBOLAND will all go away with BABA
"""""..These leaders who spoke to Elendureports. com wondered why Obasanjo would insist on choosing Governors for Ndiigbo...""""" These guys are not IGBO representaives. I will like to say that they are working for themselves and making names for themselves. These guys are already pre-disposed to usages in monetary forms.
One of the Gov. Candidtaes told me that his opponent thinks that he is the only one who has ABUJA CONNECTION. This is HUGE EGO at work. At the expencce of our progress !!!
KEMA in not the only one who can get connected to ASO ROCK and get things done
Obasanjo Meddling in Imo Governorship Race
Written by Jonathan Elendu Wednesday, 29 November 2006 Wants Festus Odimegwu as next Governor...
President Olusegun Obasanjo is actively involved in the process of choosing the next Governor of Imo State. The President, at a meeting recently, directed Gov. Achike Udenwa, Ohaneze chieftain Joe Irukwu, and two others to ensure that Festus Odimegwu becomes the next Governor of Imo State.
At the said meeting between the President, Irukwu, Udenwa and two others, Gov. Udenwa informed Obasanjo that it would be an uphill task considering that Odimegwu hails from Orlu, the same Senatorial zone as he, Udenwa. The President had earlier directed the leadership of Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to submit a list of three Governorship candidates to him.
Festus Odimegwu was until recently a staff of Nigerian Breweries Plc. He was in the forefront of the tenure elongation project of the President. Because of his brazen and open association with the botched ambition of Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo, Odimegwu was removed as the managing director and chief officer of Nigerian Breweries Plc. Shareholders and customers of the company had protested this attempt to subvert the Constitution by Odimegwu and other Obasanjo supporters.
It is generally believed that the President is trying to find employment for Odimegwu by giving him the Imo State Governorship ticket of the PDP. The President had in the past directed the leadership of the Imo PDP to submit to him a list of three governorship candidates. The list which was submitted to him is said to have included former minister and long time friend of the President, Kema Chikwe.
Another friend of the President that may be compensated with the Imo Governorship seat if Odimegwu becomes a hard sell is Charles Ugwu. Ugwu is an industrialist and former President of the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN). Ugwu was another proponent and campaigner of the failed third term project. He is yet to publicly declare interest in the race.
The mood in Imo State is that Festus Odimegwu is not an easy candidate to sell to the people. Apart from the fact that he comes from the same Senatorial zone as the incumbent Governor, he is described as a “man who does not believe in God.” According to people who know Odimegwu, he is not a Christian. To counter this, Odimegwu is said to have gone for confession at a church in Orlu on Saturday and the next day participated in Holy Communion.
Odimegwu is also described as a very arrogant man who considers himself an intellectual superior to most people. According to a source, “Odimegwu will be a disaster. I promise you he will not last three months as Governor. The man will be impeached by the House of Assembly because he will insult all of them and tell them he is the only smart one.”
We have also confirmed that all the Governorship candidates from Imo State held a meeting with Pres. Obasanjo at Abuja on Sunday, 19th November. The aspirants, who flew into Abuja in a chattered flight, were not able to reach a consensus as to who the candidate would be. Kema Chikwe, according to our sources, did not attend this meeting and was described as being furious when she found out that such a meeting held without her.
Pres. Obasanjo is said to have promised his former adviser on domestic affairs, Andy Uba, the Anambra Governorship seat. Andy, whose younger brother Chris Uba is reputed to have single handedly thrown Anambra State into chaos that cost many lives and destruction of properties estimated at billions of naira is not a popular candidate. Yet, potentially opponents and Anambra State politicians have resigned to the fact that Andy will be the next Governor of the State.
This meddling of the President in the politics of Igbo land has become a source of concern to many Igbo leaders who view Obasanjo as not having respect for Ndiigbo. These leaders who spoke to Elendureports. com wondered why Obasanjo would insist on choosing Governors for Ndiigbo. “Have you heard that Obasanjo is choosing Governor for any state in the North? Why is he not doing the same in Lagos? The man still has a civil war mentality and unfortunately our people are encouraging him to do this just for power,” lamented one of the l
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It is unfortunate what is about to happen in Imo state.
The key date is 2007. I will not be in support of any Igbo state agreeing with any electoral manipulations as was the case in 2003. Any Igbo state that allows this wanton imposition of present day warrant chiefs on them without to whatever (AND I MEAN WHATEVER) it takes to remove such an individual. I really do see 2007 as a year of destiny for the Igbos and it is left to us to banish this nonsense forever
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