Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has claimed that Igbo are only interested in pulling down people and do not know how to honour their own.
The governor spoke while answering question on Igbo presidency when he met with media chieftains in Owerri, the Imo State capital at the weekend.
Okorocha said that any Igbo indigene aspiring to achieve the feat of being the president of Nigeria cannot rely on Igbos.
The governor said “The Igbo do not know how to honour their own. They rather like to run down any of their rising leaders. The pull-him-down syndrome is high in Igbo land. And it is very unfortunate.
“Anytime I come out to run for the presidency of this country, I will not suffer pull-him-down from the North or from the South West or South South, it is only in Igbo land that I will suffer it.
And they engage in this pull-him-down practice without knowing the overall implications on the Igbos.
so, it will be out of place for an Igbo aspirant at any given period to think that the Igbo will make him president because Igbos do not value their own. They don’t value what they have.
“But value outsiders. It is in their character. It is in their nature.
“Read the newspapers and go to the social media, all the insults and attacks you get are all from the Igbo. They go to any length to run you down without caring about your good intentions and all the efforts being made to see that things work out fine for the people of the area.
“It is a problem. It didn’t start today. Go down the memory lane, you would discover that the pull-him-down syndrome in Igboland didn’t start today.”
“But value outsiders. It is in their character. It is in their nature.
“Read the newspapers and go to the social media, all the insults and attacks you get are all from the Igbo. They go to any length to run you down without caring about your good intentions and all the efforts being made to see that things work out fine for the people of the area.
“It is a problem. It didn’t start today. Go down the memory lane, you would discover that the pull-him-down syndrome in Igboland didn’t start today.”
from dailypost
I think I will go with him on this. The problem of an igbo man is another igbo man so true to that statement. An Igbo man like being a lord and will do anything to silence or pull down anyone aspiring to be great.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that majority of those who accused me here and prayed for my downfall are all Igbo, so you can see it is true.
This is why politically they find it difficult playing good politics. They sabotage genuine effort to liberate them and in most times set up their rescuer. Though we have good and trustworthy Igbo I called defender of the Igbo race.
Taaa kpuchie gi onu!
DeleteEzi bida
I bu onye Tee jay...As in those that prayed for your downfall on a blog as gini kwanu? Don Juan?
Lmaaaaao your zuzubility level di very high lool.
Onye isi nkuka
An Igbo man like being a lord...even you Tee jay ?
Tee jay and Lord in one sentence?
Onye apari
And majority of igbos also supported you. You talk too much guy.
DeleteNo be lie bro...Talk about Nnamdi Kanu here and you will see majority of Igbos calling for his head. Rochas is very right on this.
DeleteTeeJay if you believe then you are guilty of that statement you believed.
DeleteOne thing is that all the tribes have that set of people that want to pull others down .
Of all the people in this world rochas that is robbing the Nigerians is someone that you are supporting his rants?
Guy reasonie ya ofuma. iCHECKie ya ofuma iwota ife m na ekwu.
Tj i disagree with u.the only time an igbo man pull anoda igbo man is when the realize ur motive of aspiring 4 a particular position or thing.you know igbos are smart and sensitive so the hate to be lied to,deceived or for anoda to play on their intelligence.
Deleterochas is being pulled down becus of all the things he has done.he broke the brother code
#onyeaghalanwanneya)
Chike instances abound, though I understand your point and I know all tribe have that set of people but my worries is not other tribe attacking Igbo but why are igbos not united. Rochas maybe a nuisance and one of those pulling Igbos down but that statement is as true as white.
DeleteTeejay, I am Igbo and I dont bash people. Pls dont comment on what u dont know. Igbos bash Rochas and not everyone cos he is an iberiberistic fool. Draining Imo like its his family biz. Besides, yorubas bash us plus Hausas, we cant even get ordinary govt job without being judged and I dont see u complainong or talking about it. Nnamdi Kanu did not have Igbos in mind, which is why we bashed him cos he made many of us outside Igboland esp in the north uncomfortable. He was fighting for himself and not ibos. Infact have u seen or heard from him? Dissapeared with millions of dollars and left his people to die. You people just opening your mouths to yap about something you dont even know jack about. Teejay, you will sound smarter without your dryyyy epistles.
DeleteCocaine sniffer (Okoro awusa) talking and the drunken fellow supporting (teejay...)
DeleteNo one seems to understand this very well. I don't say all igbos in my initial comment. Read the last sentence in my comment above and understand that I said there are good igbos that defend the human race. I am not often worried about the betrayals of igbos by the Hausa or Yoruba tribe but the silence and support of igbos against their own is my bone of contention here.
DeleteDo you want us to go back to history so I can show you it didn't started today. I hope you won't want to know how Nzogwu died, will you? Or even Aguyi Ironsi. The question I am still asking where is the Igbo unity? Who are their mouth piece? I mean no disrespect for my tribe but again I don't shy away from the truth.
Teejay please where are you that someone will be praying you fall from?
DeleteYou're delusional sha, hope in your fogged mind you know that this is just a blog, and no one gives a shit about who you are?
Its like you people that take this blog to be some thing other than a place for entertainment, don't have a life outside here, or you have shitty lives.
Pitiful.
Teejay, you are very correct on this. For those of you who disagree with him, let me give you an example. Why is it difficult for Igbos to have a consensus candidate for president? Look at when Igbos were given the chance to have Senate president, how many times did it change hands? From Okadigbo, Anyim, Ken Nnamani, etc. David Mark was Senate president for how many years? When Ojukwu contested for prèsident, how many Igbos voted him? Instead they took monies from a Obasanjo to destroy their own candidate. I can give many examples. Fine, not all Igbos but majority of them.
DeleteBut the same Igbo people made him a two-term governor.
DeleteAs a governor, what has he done for the Igbo nation to compel them to vote for him as president?
DeleteWell I'm of Igbo extraction and I don't see any sense in Nnamdi Kanu's agitation....if I did I would support him 102%..that's why this country will never progress....because we base our decisions on religious and ethnic sentiments instead of reality....I will never fall into that category and if by my comment I belong to the "pull him down syndrome " category then so be it!
Delete@Reasonable doubt did you ask who are the people that want to pull me down? Are you not among those that said I won't last on this blog before being disgraced? You think I didn't remember? You all gave me six months to one year that I will be caught in scam. So what does that mean to you? Should I munch your comment and show you?
Deletestella release my comment at Teejay.
DeleteReasonable, don’t worry if your comment isn’t released. Teejay is just trying to feel like a star yet he is not close to a cloud. But it seems to me that the ultimatum given to you cane out positive.
DeleteRochas, you're a bloody awusa liar and a poor history student. Have you forgotten how the Ndi-igbos fought blindly along late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and other leaders in the past? Indeed, you can not classified yourself quality to rule Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteYes..we shall continue to PULL you down Sir....Because your name is "@OkoroHAUSA"
ReplyDeleteYou have been bought.
We dash you to them, this time,free of charge
Thank you Father for this new life given to me to comment ...
How una dey,my people?
@GALORE
Orubebe is back.
DeleteThat man bu ezigbote onye mgbu
Where have you been??
DeleteGalore galore.
DeleteExams don finish?
Galore,welcome
DeleteI got back from imo state yesterday and I understood why this man is called a 419. Thing is that imo state people are waiting for him and his son-in-law come 2019. Oga ma na agbara ka agbara....
DeleteEayaaa
ReplyDeleteOh please my governor biko zip it.how can we not pull u down after the sufferness,The bad roads,the death etc ? Didn't igbos support u in 2011? Biko don't make me remember my mums shop..mtchew
ReplyDeletecome and be president..double mtchew!
This guy is just looking for cheap sympathy.. the question should be why wouldn't Igbos pull him down?
ReplyDeleteHe
Is the most terrible Governor Imo has ever had. That state is sooo much in debt and yet we don't know what he is doing with the money.
The guy is just a big foool
I don't think Igbos do that a lot. The only thing is that an Igbo man cannot be ruled with fist hand even the poorest ones too. They cherish respect like no other. You respect them, they support you with the last drop of their blood. You dare show an inch of disrespect, no matter how small, they will pull you down by any means.
ReplyDeleteAn example, was Ojukwu pulled down by any means? How can you come out openly and say your people are only good in Igbo smoking and you expect them not to pull you down.
The Igbo's and hausa's have a bit of common trait here, you don't mess with the masses especially verbally and expect any support.
Another example, that useless actor, Kenneth Okonkwo who was loved and cherished so much, came out openely to say 'Igbos will remain in the darkness if they don't support Buhari'. Tomorrow he will be the idiot to come back and say we don't support our own. Where do you want the support to come from? From the darkness
I swear down. Was having this same conversation yesterday. Igbos are majorly impossible to be honest.
ReplyDeleteNonsense Okorocha that pulled us down and sold us free, is talking about pulling down. You have not seen anything yet, let your tenure end first. Imo people are waiting for your family. All the properties you acquired in Imo will be pulled down. It is only then you will understand the meaning of pulling down.
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DeleteYou are correct sir. Since I left the east and started mingling with other tribes,I saw a lot of difference. All my Igbo friends were all in competition with me but now my other tribe friends are so different .
ReplyDeleteHe is right. Go and see how the northerners uplift themselves. Using employment as a case study.
ReplyDeleteI am igbo and i will never support oklohausa, he won't even win in any igbo state. Iberibe mmadu
ReplyDeleteMen like Peter obi or even ekweremadu will get the full support of umu igbo and not the hated oklohausa.
ReplyDeleteIv have had two Igbo tenants. Never again. Oppressive set of people. I like peace and quiet.
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