A Popular Social Media broadcaster and Comedian Ada Jesus is currently down with stroke and has been advised to go and plead for forgiveness from Chi Marine Temple whom she had provoked and dared on several occasions on Facebook to do his worse, that he is fake and can’t do her anything.
However because her strange ailment has defied medical treatments she has been taken to the shrine to plead with the Asaba based spiritualist by her family members to make him revert all the curses he casted on her by appeasing his Alusi..
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, yesterday, said an urgent devolution of power and restructuring of the polity has become imperative, if the country does not want another civil war.
The forum raised the alarm that the country is fast becoming a failed state, under the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government.
The PDP governors expressed worry that all fault lines and differences in the country have been stretched to the limit by the present administration.
The opposition governors stated this, in a communiqué issued at the end of their meeting, in the Benue State capital, Makurdi. It was read by Tambuwal, who is the chairman of the forum.
The meeting was attended by Governors Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Sokoto State; Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia State; Udom Emmanuel, Akwa Ibom State; Douye Diri , Bayelsa State; Samuel Ortom, Benue State; Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State; Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu State; Nyesom Wike, Rivers State; Seyi Makinde, Oyo State, Darius Dickson Ishaku, Taraba State; Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, -Adamawa State; -Godwin Obaseki, Edo State and deputy governor of Bauchi State, Baba Tela.
Also in attendance were the PDP National chairman, Uche Secondus and the Board of Trustees (BoT), Walid Jibrin
The PDP governors said the country is dire need of a government at the federal level “to avert the looming disaster.”
According to the governors, the alleged incapacity of the APC led administration to govern has resulted to “ethnic and tribal tensions, religious divisions, and various forms of social and political cleavages.”
They added that it is alarming that “security of lives and property of Nigerians are no longer guaranteed under the present government as a result of leadership incompetence and mismanagement of the nation’s affairs “
They noted “that the APC has been unable to even have a democratically-elected National Executive Committee as required by the Nigerian Constitution. A political party that operates by military fiat with an appointed and unelected Executive Committee at all levels from ward to national, has no business running the affairs of our country.
“APC cannot deliver democracy to Nigeria; even to constitute a Board of Trustees has been an impossible task for the party since inception.”
They noted that “it is imperative for the country to take advantage of the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution to decentralise the security architecture and involve states and local governments.
“We call on the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission to send a new Revenue Allocation Formular that allocates more resources to states and local governments to Mr President for the National Assembly’s action.”
”It’s very very strange that the Fulani’s in Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Benin Repoblic, Cameroun, Nigeria and Across the Sub Sahara See themselves as Brothers, But the Delta Igbo doesn’t want to be called igbo nor see themselves the same as the Onitsha Igbo. This same division is found in Rivers State where the Ikwere Man who’s language is igbo would discriminate against the Obigbo cum Aba Man.
The Enugu Man is called Onye WAWA in a name that describes him as inferior from other Igbos, not forgetting the Racist address of Nsukka Man “Nwa Nsukka”, Not also forgetting the cheapening reference to Nwa Abakaliki. This has to be addressed and the unity of the igbo man upheld.
NO IGBO MAN IS MORE IGBO THAN THE OTHER
I see this as a major issue and it’s working against the “igbo Man”
Ndi Igbo, let’s become one first and other things will follow”
Kola nut By Odogwu Eze Mustang Where we raise the kolanut made by God.They raise the bread made by man. Then we declare “He who brings kola brings life”They too declare “This is the bread of life”. We offer thanks,They offer thanks. We offer wineThey offer wine Then we bless the congregationThey too bless their […]
My Obsession and indignation with the Nigerian system stems from the prolonged marginalization of Ndigbo. As a child of nine, I witnessed the civil war and also noted the conditions for the truce which culminated in the return of Ndigbo to Nigerian with the refrain ‘no victor, no vanquished’. Within a short while, however, the intent of our oppressor downed on us.
As a seemingly defeated people, we tried to play the balls as they came, hoping that God would touch the minds of the Nigerian Authorities over our plight. But things got unbelievable when Hausa religious leaders under the aegis of religious fundamentalism would instruct their adherents in their Friday Mosque prayers to have their pound of flesh on Ndigbo to appease God. They believe that such would lead them to heaven. As a resulting, scores of Ndigbo would be massacred in parts of the North and their properties looted and destroyed. This became a recurring occurrence as even the securities sent by the Federal Government often took active part in the exercise. Investigations later revealed that Northern Politicians were privy to the instigation of the Alamajiris who they use to settle scores with whoever they had differences with. To avoid public resentment, the mangled remains of victims were buried in mass graves under the cover of the night. The few lucky escapees would later be apprehended on the way and the same glory treatment meted out on them. In some cases those who managed to find refuge in Police stations were also killed there as was the case of Gideon Akaluka who was beheaded in Kano Central Police Station.
The security of life and property of Ndigbo in Nigeria was no longer guaranteed. The defeated Igbo elites turned the other side to avoid blackmail as supporters of Igbo.
But someone has to carry the cross; someone has to bear the brunt; someone has to make the sacrifice. I decided to do it, not for any other person but for my children. There lives and properties have to be secure in a country they call their own. The person killed in Kano, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Jos or Sokoto, through organised religious riots could be any body’s child, brother, sister, husband, wife or relative. Life is important and highly cherished. Since Nigeria, after thirty-five years of the civil war could not guarantees the security of lives and properties of Ndigbo, the only available option was Biafra. This I did.
The name Biafra is abhorrent to our oppressors. It is a taboo. It is viewed with jaundiced eyes. ‘Who is the rat talking about Biafra? Ralph who?’ they asked. And before the blink of an eye, various raids ensued. Arrests, detentions and murder of Biafran protagonists commenced. But instead of dousing the agitation, it ignited it. Professor Chinua Achebe told me that one with God is Majority. I am guided by that dictum. I am not afraid as God has always fought just wars. Ours is a war anchored on non-violence, it is God’s war.
Where we raise the kolanut made by God. They raise the bread made by man.
Then we declare “He who brings kola brings life” They too declare “This is the bread of life”.
We offer thanks, They offer thanks.
We offer wine They offer wine
Then we bless the congregation They too bless their congregation
We call on our Ndichie and #worthyAncestors; Okeke,Okafọ, Okonkwo, Okorie, Igbokwe, Odenigbo and Igbokenyi, in “the communion of the living and the dead” to partake in our kola,
They too call their #Ndichie, and ancestors; St. Peter,St.Cyprian, St. Caro, St. Mark and Kizito to partake in their rite, in “the communion of the living and the dead”
Then we break and eat the concecrated kolanut,
They too break and eat their consecrated bread.
For this #task we chose our men folk They too chose their men
A properly consecrated kolanut is the true #HolyCommunion
Yet many of you fail to see that WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE TIME BEGAN! and they can only walk in our shadows!
They took what is ours and made it look like theirs, yet in their envy they call us EVIL, we who welcomed them into our homes. They #enslaved the #minds of our children and set them against their fathers.
Now our children no longer know who they are; the firstborn creation of Chukwu Okike, a Noble race, Freemen, priests, priestesses, all have lost their place in the light.
We descendants of #Ndigboo-the ancients, we are the light of the world.
BT Afrika 