{"id":1733,"date":"2019-01-06T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsonline.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2019-01-06T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:11:11","slug":"the-hopelessness-of-buharis-igbo-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2019\/01\/06\/the-hopelessness-of-buharis-igbo-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"The hopelessness of Buhari&#8217;s Igbo supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photo Credit:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Asukwo\/Bussiness Day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Odumodu Gbulagu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I marvel at Buhari supporters generally, but I marvel at the folly of his Igbo supporters.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t support him because of his achievements, (they can\u2019t even name any) rather they support him because they were bought to divide the vote of their kinsman Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>APGA as a party is at the forefront of Buhari campaign with \u201c4 is better than 8\u201d mantra, yet they claim they have a presidential candidate.<br \/>\nIs their candidate who has never tasted power go for 4 years?<\/p>\n<p>Many of them gullibly say they are supporting Buhari, as he will handover to an Igbo man in 2023.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a pipe dream for them!<\/p>\n<p>How can a man who openly called you a 5%er in an international television interview give you 2023 Presidency?<br \/>\nA man who swore not to treat you like other parts of the country and made good his threat?<\/p>\n<p>A man who unleashed terror in your land, and murdered in cold blood budding young men and women, whose crime is peaceful protest?<\/p>\n<p>A man who never deemed it fit to appoint any of your kinsmen to head any of the security apparatuses of the state?<\/p>\n<p>A man who excluded Southeast from the rail projects, even when the zone is going to be part of the loan repayment?<\/p>\n<p>A man who never deemed it fit to include your people in even the board of EFCC, if the Senate didn\u2019t halt it?<\/p>\n<p>A man who blocked many genuine and legitimate business means of our people?<\/p>\n<p>A man who has never hidden his hate for your likes?<\/p>\n<p>Apart from these things I listed, what are Buhari\u2019s achievement and records in southeast in particular and Nigeria as a whole?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing but nepotism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, bigotry, terrorism, hunger, poverty, to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>Ruling party that campaigns with promises of what they will do and not what they have done, and you think they have anything for you?<\/p>\n<p>No matter how you want to spite your brother, your collective enemy will never love you.<br \/>\nHe will only use you to achieve his aim and dump you when he is done.<br \/>\nThat has been the practice and it will never end anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of 2023 Presidency to Ndi Igbo, just as it was promised to the South-West by Buhari, is a hopeless hope!<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who think you are spiting others by supporting Buhari; the rain doesn\u2019t fall on one Man\u2019s rooftop, but on every Man\u2019s rooftop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit:\u00a0Asukwo\/Bussiness Day By Odumodu Gbulagu I marvel at Buhari supporters generally, but I marvel at the folly of his Igbo supporters. They don\u2019t support him because of his achievements, (they can\u2019t even name any) rather they support him because they were bought to divide the vote of their kinsman Peter Obi. APGA as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6928],"tags":[7324,13845,13846,8630],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-buharis","tag-hopelessness","tag-igbo","tag-supporters","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The hopelessness of Buhari&#039;s Igbo supporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2019\/01\/06\/the-hopelessness-of-buharis-igbo-supporters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The hopelessness of Buhari&#039;s Igbo supporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo Credit:\u00a0Asukwo\/Bussiness Day By Odumodu Gbulagu I marvel at Buhari supporters generally, but I marvel at the folly of his Igbo supporters. 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