Enough is Enough.
In 1952, Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa addressed the Northern
House of Assembly thus “The
Southern people who are flocking
into this region daily in such large
numbers are really intruders; we
don’t want them and they are not
welcome here in the North. Since
1914, the British Government has
been trying to make Nigeria into
one country. But the people are
different in every way, including
religion, custom, language and
aspirations, we in the North take
it that Nigeria unity is only a
British intention for the country
they created. IT IS NOT FOR US”.
In the same year, Sir Ahmadu Bello
approached the Colonial Secretary
and said “If you want us (the
North) to be part of this Nigeria
you have in mind, then we want
50% of the membership of the
National Assembly”.
It was accepted by the British and
the 1953 census figures were
manipulated to justify the
concession given. With majority in
the National Assembly, whatever
the North says becomes law of
course the ever vulnerable South-
East and South-South people the
only true Nigerians) would always
be used willingly to ensure the
North is happy.
When in 1956 after the
Northerners defeated the motion
for independence moved by Chief
Anthony Enahoro and were jeered
by their Southern colleagues, Sir
Ahmadu Bello said what kind of
trouble have we let ourselves in
for, by associating with these
southern people. Lord Lugard and
his amalgamation are not for us.
We shall set up our own and
cease to have anything more to
do with the southern people”.
Two days later trouble broke out
in Sabon-Gari, Kano and
southerners, mainly Ndigbo, were
slaughtered. The Yorubas of the
South-West who jeered at them in
Lagos oddly enough were out of
it.
Awolowo reaction to these
happenings was in his ever green
speech excerpts of which is
“Nigeria is only a geographical
expression to which life was
given by the diabolical
amalgamation of 1914, that
amalgamation will EVER remain
the most painful injury a British
Government inflicted on Southern
Nigeria”.
What did Dr. Azikiwe say? Hear
him “Nigeria is now a political
reality, let us bury our differences
and build it together”.
It is instructive to note that Britain
had programmed to grant
independence to the Babel they
created and the North of Nigeria
must be appeased by ensuring
that they the Northerners control
power over the British Babel
called Nigeria. So it came to pass
on October 1st 1960.
Note that the do or die election of
1959 did not give the North the
required majority to form
Government until Eastern Nigeria
of today South-East and South-
South came to their rescue.
Despite that, listen to what Sir
Ahmadu Bello had to say on the
12th October, 1960 (record of the
then PARROT Newspaper of the
same date just eleven days after
independence The new nation
called Nigeria should be an estate
from our great-grand father
Othuman Dan Fodio. We must
RUTHLESSLY prevent a change of
power. We must use the
minorities of the North as willing
tools, and the South as conquered
territories and never allow them
to have control of their future.
Note that Southerners were not
allowed to join the NPC the
political party of the North then.
Students of history would recall
how in 1964 the Prime Minister,
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,
wanted to whittle down Chief
Awolowo’s influence in the
Western Region and found a
willing tool in Chief S.L. Akintola.
The Prime Minister gave Akintola
all the support to recklessly
breach the constitution as it
pleased him.
That gave birth to the crisis in the
Western Region. Operation wet
eee’ followed, leading to the first
military coup of January 1966 that
was quelled by General Aguyi
Ironsi. Then the pogrom of May
29th 1966, then a counter coup in
June 1966 in which General Ironsi
(an innocent man) was brutally
murdered and General Yakubu
Gowon took over. Part of his
maiden speech to the nation was
to be thus Suffice to say, putting
all consideration to test: political,
economic as well as social, the
basis for unity is not there, or it
has been so badly shaken not
once, but several times”.
All of these mayhem, killings,
secession, and civil war were just
because the Fulani leaders of the
North were not happy and they
must be pleased.
So it was in the beginning and so
it is now. Nothing has changed.
On the 15th of September 2010,
the same day President Goodluck
Jonathan declared his intention to
seek the mandate of his party and
Nigerians to steer the ship of
state for an additional four years,
a group described as the
Northern Elders Forum/Assembly,
took an advertorial in a National
daily addressed to the President
and Commander-in-Chief,
captioned As you declare. They
proceeded to threaten him. The
miserable Northern oligarchs and
aristocrats who signed that
advertorial were mostly National
awardees who claimed to be
honest, dispassionate and deeply
care about the continued
existence of Nigeria as one
indivisible, harmonious and
peaceful country.
The same miserable aristocrats
saw President GEJ’s declaration as
ill-conceived, ill-advised and
definitely divisive. That for GEJ to
declare on the platform of PDP (a
Northern party?) heralds a clear
and present danger that would
undermine the peace and
tranquillity of the nation”. That
GEJ’s candidature “would open
old wounds of primitive politics
where sectional ethnic, religious
and other undesirable primordial
sentiments will assume centre
stage with attendant unpleasant
consequences.
The so-called Northern aristocrats
even saw President Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan expression of his
intention as illegal and immoral.
They said quite a lot and warned
the president that the peace,
harmony and progress of the
country or OTHERWISE are in his
hands and he would be
answerable to God and humanity
for his deciding to declare to run
for office of President.
All they said plus the threats of
Junaid Mohammed, Alhaji Yusuf
Maitama Sule, General Aliyu
Mohammed Gusua, Shehu Malami,
Lawan Kaita, Alhaji Atiku
Abubarka, Adamu Ciroma, Prof.
Ango Abdullahi’s and many more
interviews, the threats of the
Director-General of Buhari
Campaign Organization before the
election, that they would not
accept the results of the elections,
if CPC loses are all happening
exactly and nobody is looking in
the direction of these so-called
Northern elders-Tanko Yakassai
and Co., and all those who laid the
foundation for the violence we
are witnessing today.

Nigeria belongs to the Hausa-
Fulani of the North as Ahmadu
Bello said. They can say or do
anything they please and nothing
would happen. Rather we would
all be scared to death not to
offend their sensibilities by
complaining. Meanwhile not a
single Northern (Hausa-Fulani)
was recorded in history as having
been part of the true struggle for
the independence of the Nigeria
they so ardently love to control.
I read the advertorial of the
Northern Miserable Elders ten
good times and allowed my
thoughts to flow towards their
instinctive directions. I saw, in the
words of Sir Ahmadu Bello, ‘THE
MISTAKE OF 1914′. I saw Chief
Obafemi Awolowo in Hell Fire
crying of his Judas attitude for
betraying Biafra secession
campaign because of ministerial
appointment having convince Dr.
Nnadi Azikiwe and others at the
Constitutional Conference of 1957
in London, to stand with him and
demand that a SECESSION Clause
be inserted in the constitution of
Nigeria (for the independence), so
any tribe that becomes unhappy
with the union could leave, which
failed upon Dr. Azikiwe and other
delegates support, hence the
Colonial Secretary ensured that
the Northern Delegation watered
down such exclusive clause due
to majority representation the
North had in the conference as
1953 census was manipulated in
favour of the North prior to 1957
Constitutional Conference also.
I remembered how Winike Briggs,
J. Umorem and another Niger
Delta people rushed to the North
in 1966 to plead with them not to
break away after Nzeogwu’s
coup.
I remember former Governor Kure
arrogant statement in 2006 about
the South-South daring to dream
of becoming
President of Nigeria. I
remembered the political support
the Ijaws, the Efiks, Ibibio,
Kalabari, Ogoni etc have given to
the North since Dec 1959 up until
2007. And whenever there is a
deadlock, the Ndigbos are forever
ready to compromise and help.
History have the recorded of
arrogance statement of Dr. Dikko
said “Presidency is not for sale” to
Abiola in 1983. History have the
record of the killing of male
children above eleven years of age
with their fathers and uncles in
Asaba on October 7th 1967 under
the instructions of General Murtala
Mohammed who we reverend
with his picture on our national
banknote.
History still have the pogrom of
May 29th 1966, July 29th 1966
and September 29th 1966. (all
Fridays ). First of its type in Africa.
History still have perhaps first
genocide in Africa long before
Rwanda. In fact, how people were
murdered by their best friends in
1967.
Thinking of that advertorial, I felt
Ralph Uwazurike’s was not stupid.
I felt the apparent ‘treason’ of the
Niger Delta militants should be
commended. Thinking of the
Advertorial, I respected the
Yoruba even more as the smart
tribe in Nigeria with a focus on
development for their land and
their people only, I saw the
ignorance of the South East and
the South-South people who, as
very forgiving people with
enormous liberal hearts, would be
prepared to die for a Northerners
who they call their friend and
brother but who sees them as
instruments to be used to acquire
power and then killed them
afterwards whenever they feel
unhappy to do so.
I have been seeing the liberal
minded South East and South-
South people, endowed with
excessive natural and human
resources, but lacking in cohesion
to conspire for power like their
Northern compatriots or the
successful South Westerners, until
this blessed year of 2012. Maybe
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was
right when he said, ”We are
different in too many ways”.
Our sense of Justice is just not the
same and may never be
reconciled; not with the hopeless
Unitary Constitution imposed on
us by Generral Abdusalam
Abubakar. No! We would not
forget the drama when the late
President Yar’dua was ill. I
certainly do not think so!
Lest we forget, since 1966 the
Ndigbos of the South East have
been crying for justice. By 1993
the Yorubas in the South West
joined and started crying. In 1994
and 1995 the South-South people
found their voice and started
crying also. Today, it seems the
Northern ( Hausa-Fulani) also cry
but with the blood of innocent
citizens on their miserable hands.
These are trying times indeed!

History have recorded that never
has a seat of Head of State been
so embarrassed for tribal reasons
apart from the emergence of
President Jonathan. History have
recorded that those who never
really fought for the development
of Nigeria but have enjoyed her
more and held her captive for so
long, are today in the fore front to
hijack mantle of leadership or
rather threatening to break up
falsehood Nigeria, which their
past leader seems to despised in
the first place.
Oh Lord, I could write a book on
this “let’s open old wounds”. Who
inflicted the wounds? Who was
wounded and still being
wounded? Can we count how
many times innocent blood
particularly that of Ndigbo have
been shed in the North since
1949? For reasons nobody has
explained till today, and nothing
happens except panels of inquiry,
reports and then silence.
Have we forgotten what
happened in Odi, Choba
communities respectively when
the allegation was that the people
there killed by members of the
Nigerian Armed Forces and Police
Force? Youth Corpers were killed
in the last Presidential election
and Soldiers are being killed in the
North all these ugly trends have
been happening with auspices of
so-called Northern cabals now
and nothing have happen. I do
not want to hear that it is
religious. Lies! That is the opium
they use. It is political. If a Hausa-
Fulani like Buhari rigged massively
and won, there would have been
peace though.
How come there was no riot
when late president Musa Yar’dua
won the hopeless election of
2007 against the same Buhari? In
2003, he planned a mass action
and ex- President Olusegun
Aremu Obasanjo wrote him a
stern letter of warning of
treasonable felony and he rather
resorted to the Court of law
alternatively.
If the Hausa-Fulani wanted a
National Conference, it would be
held. If they wanted true
Federalism, so it shall be. The day
they decide that Nigeria would
become a Dubai, so it shall be.
Until then, we all must wait, be
killed whenever they need to
appease their knives and now
bombs.
We say nothing, do nothing all
because Nigeria matter most to
us.
At times like this, we must
remember the words of our true
Elder. The Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi
Azikiwe, frustrated by the
activities of our Northern in 1964,
had this to say If this embryo
republic of ours must
disintegrate, then in the name of
God, let the operation be a short
and painless one”.
And in the words of President
Goodluck Jonathan “ENOUGH IS
ENOUGH!”

^^^^^^^
Credited to Ibrahim Bunu.

Wow, I'm speechless
Truth is until we sit down and talk this bad blood will always be there

I think it's plainly evident we have little in common with the North. I wish they'll have another Ahmadu Bello to agitate for their seccession from this doomed union. So sad and unfortunate that we're held prisoner by their power drunk ruling class who genuinely believe they own the country. Sadder still is the failure of the South to break this strangle-hold by advancing common goals and interests.

What is the way forward

I hope d midlebelt is not included in dis north u guys are all talkin about.

Nice write up and it made me speechless

''Our lives begin to end the day that we become silence about the things that matter''(Tupac).@op God bless you for this breath taking write up.

Unfortunately, the North has found willing slaves in Yorubas. I really don't even mind a yoruba succeeding GEJ, but a Northerner? God forbid! Thank God we from the SE, the SS and the Middle beltans have seen through them.

Funny how bigoted moderators quickly hide posts that declare the harsh truths that do not support their attempts to rewrite history. The mods are afam and ikenna the new guy who says no tribalism but he left the original post which is the foundation of the bigotry but would rather hide my well-articulated post. Well, you can rewrite history, simple!!

CyberG: Funny how bigoted moderators quickly hide posts that declare the harsh truths that do not support their attempts to rewrite history. The mods are afam and ikenna the new guy who says no tribalism but he left the original post which is the foundation of the bigotry but would rather hide my well-articulated post. Well, you can rewrite history, simple!!

Eeyaa. Its because you are a known die hard tribalist which makes most of your posts biased. Try posting with an unbiased mind sir for once. Thank u

CyberG: Funny how bigoted moderators quickly hide posts that declare the harsh truths that do not support their attempts to rewrite history. The mods are afam and ikenna the new guy who says no tribalism but he left the original post which is the foundation of the bigotry but would rather hide my well-articulated post. Well, you can rewrite history, simple!!

There is nothing bigotted about the OP. We peddle that word a little too easily. Everything stated in the OP is backed by plain, verifiable, historical fact. I don't know what you posted that was hidden, but if your antecedents is anything to go by, it was probably well deserved.

I am an unapologetic Igbo but with an accodating mind for all tribes and religions--insofar as people dont bring pains to their fellows in the pursuit of their own ends, then I dont care so much about where they come from or who they call their own God.
Our history as a nation is replete with awful and recurrent annals of Igbo pains in this marriage called Nigeria. Out of this pain they've once sued for seccession using the strongest of means, war. Some other tribes dismissed this with the stereotype of over-zealous ambition and greed. Am not a very strong voice for Igbo seccession (though if that be the honest solution then so be it). I think that before seccession is procurred we must first sit down and analyze and agree on the terms of our co-habitation even as children of the same lineage. The most fundamental problem with Nig is that of lack of Social Contract between its constituents. ONLY seccession wouldnt solve all our problems.
The geographical print we see to make up Biafra contains a lot of small but very important voices. And I tell you these voices arent sure for one bit of their fate in a marriage gone into with Ndigbo and that's why they're yet to lend their support, and that's what has stalled the agitation.
What will be the fate of a man from Ikwerre, Agbor, Asaba, Etche, Elele, Opobo, Oyigbo (Asa), etc. These ones are even the Igbo speaking SS. Then what about non-Igbo speaking Ijaw, Okrika, Igala, Ika, Ibibio, Efik, Anang, Kalabari, etc. We must ask and answer these questions.
If you'd agree with me then you'd realize that this too isnt far from the case with Nig as a whole. We all that make up the constituent must reach a social pact that is just, fair, progressive, modern, and durable.
God Bless Nigeria and Nigerians.

Obi1kenobi: I think it's plainly evident we have little in common with the North. I wish they'll have another Ahmadu Bello to agitate for their seccession from this doomed union. So sad and unfortunate that we're held prisoner by their power drunk ruling class who genuinely believe they own the country. Sadder still is the failure of the South to break this strangle-hold by advancing common goals and interests.

are you southerners cowards? the ball is with you guys now, a president and COAS, if you want to leave then do so!! or must you always get the permission of the same north you are complaining about before you take care of your own interest?

Obi1kenobi: I think it's plainly evident we have little in common with the North. I wish they'll have another Ahmadu Bello to agitate for their seccession from this doomed union. So sad and unfortunate that we're held prisoner by their power drunk ruling class who genuinely believe they own the country. Sadder still is the failure of the South to break this strangle-hold by advancing common goals and interests.

keep dreaming man when oyel money is still flowing so u tink dey will leave their source of wealth like dat wow u must be daydreaming.and ofcourse dividing dis country is not d solution cos those same dishonest thieves are still going to be ruling d divided countries and in d end their will be no change.and moreover if any part of d country wants secession i think d igbos ought to be d last cos it would not favour u a bit without oyel money and a landlocked biafra with millions of igbos in other part of d countries with wealth and investment it wont really favour u guys and u wont want a repitition of 5euro policy so d only solution is for us all to shun tribal and religious sentiment and fight against those cabals in power against our development in dis country including gej,obj,buhari etc dats d only solution at hand but secession na longting so enjoy d fresh air gej promised since he has joind those cabals in looting d country dry those dat he ought to prosecute pension thief come to mind.

steve10: What is the way forward

This is the way forward: www.nairaland.com/1248907/preparing-east-post-nigeria-future

ninja4life: keep dreaming man when oyel money is still flowing so u tink dey will leave their source of wealth like dat wow u must be daydreaming.and ofcourse dividing dis country is not d solution cos those same dishonest thieves are still going to be ruling d divided countries and in d end their will be no change.and moreover if any part of d country wants secession i think d igbos ought to be d last cos it would not favour u a bit without oyel money and a landlocked biafra with millions of igbos in other part of d countries with wealth and investment it wont really favour u guys and u wont want a repitition of 5euro policy so d only solution is for us all to shun tribal and religious sentiment and fight against those cabals in power against our development in dis country including gej,obj,buhari etc dats d only solution at hand but secession na longting so enjoy d fresh air gej promised since he has joind those cabals in looting d country dry those dat he ought to prosecute pension thief come to mind.

Alright then. What is stopping you Nigerians from eschewing tribal sentiments like you suggested. Let's get real, that is not going to happen. Secession is the way. Don't let Biafra's access to water disturb you and your oyel comments shows how different Biafrans are from Nigerians - we know we don't need oil to survive. You want oil, get it front the Niger Deltans and let the Biafrans go. Let us bother about how we would leave Nigerian level of economic underdevelopment, don't let that bother you.

Obi1kenobi:
History have recorded that never
has a seat of Head of State been
so embarrassed for tribal reasons
apart from the emergence of
President Jonathan. History have
recorded that those who never
really fought for the development
of Nigeria but have enjoyed her
more and held her captive for so
long, are today in the fore front to
hijack mantle of leadership or
rather threatening to
falsehood Nigeria, which their
past leader seems to despised in
the first place.
Oh Lord, I could write a book on
this “let’s open old wounds”. Who
inflicted the wounds? Who was
wounded and still being
wounded? Can we count how
many times innocent blood
particularly that of Ndigbo have
been shed in the North since
1949? For reasons nobody has
explained till today, and nothing
happens except panels of inquiry,
reports and then silence.
Have we forgotten what
happened in Odi, Choba
communities respectively when
the allegation was that the people
there killed by members of the
Nigerian Armed Forces and Police
Force? Youth Corpers were killed
in the last Presidential election
and Soldiers are being killed in the
North all these ugly trends have
been happening with auspices of
so-called Northern cabals now
and nothing have happen. I do
not want to hear that it is
religious. Lies! That is the opium
they use. It is political. If a Hausa-
Fulani like Buhari rigged massively
and won, there would have been
peace though.
How come there was no riot
when late president Musa Yar’dua
won the hopeless election of
2007 against the same Buhari? In
2003, he planned a mass action
and ex- President Olusegun
Aremu Obasanjo wrote him a
stern letter of warning of
treasonable felony and he rather
resorted to the Court of law
alternatively.
If the Hausa-Fulani wanted a
National Conference, it would be
held. If they wanted true
Federalism, so it shall be. The day
they decide that Nigeria would
become a Dubai, so it shall be.
Until then, we all must wait, be
killed whenever they need to
appease their knives and now
bombs.
We say nothing, do nothing all
because Nigeria matter most to
us.
At times like this, we must
remember the words of our true
Elder. The Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi
Azikiwe, frustrated by the
activities of our Northern in 1964,
had this to say If this embryo
republic of ours must
disintegrate, then in the name of
God, let the operation be a short
and painless one”.
And in the words of President
Goodluck Jonathan “ENOUGH IS
ENOUGH!”

Execellent write up, Obi I also want u to know these.Patience is not the ability to wait, Its the ability to put on a good Attitude while waiting,what is where the Ibo/Biafra Nation got it all wrong.

Igbo people forgiving? Buhahaha.

Economy almajiris that must leave their region to feed, forgiving?

Obi1kenobi:
I think it's plainly evident we have little in common with the North. I wish they'll have another Ahmadu Bello to agitate for their seccession from this doomed union. So sad and unfortunate that we're held prisoner by their power drunk ruling class who genuinely believe they own the country. Sadder still is the failure of the South to break this strangle-hold by advancing common goals and interests.

Your wish should have been travelling back in time to dissuade Azikwe from campaigning and supporting the removal of secession clause from our constitution, the north has never masked their hatred for Igbos or southerners, in fact in the 1940s they slaughtered Igbos like ram, but Azikwe infinite greed and quest to rule over Nigeria were the sources of suffering of millions down south.

I still wonder why most of you blame northerners as one nigerianist while you absolve Azikwe of his disposition towards the same goals.

Ereolamide:

Your wish should have been travelling back in time to dissuade Azikwe from campaigning and supporting the removal of secession clause from our constitution, the north has never masked their hatred for Igbos or southerners, in fact in the 1940s they slaughtered Igbos like ram, but Azikwe in his infinite greed and quest to rule over Nigeria were the source of suffering of millions down south.

I still wonder why most of you blame northerners as one nigerianist while you absolve Azikwe of his disposition towards the same goals.

Thank you, they prefer blaming Awolowo while we know the greatest betrayer was Azikiwe. from 1940 to 1967 this man called Azikiwe watched the humiliation of Igbos but what he cared about was power.

Q#1: How did Azikiwe support the removal of secession clause from the constitution?

Q#2: Was Azikiwe or Britain in charge of deciding what is allowed and disallowed in the constitution?

Q#3: If Awolowo who canvassed for the inclusion of secession clause was sincere and serious about this issue, why didn't he insist on separate independence for Western Region so as to avoid a future situation where Yoruba was incapable of liberating themselves in a problem-riddled post-independent Nigeria?

Q#4: If Awolowo canvassed for the inclusion of secession clause in the independent constitution which was rejected by the British colonists, why didn't he support the secession of Eastern Nigeria in May 1967 which implemented and birthed his rejected prophetic recommendation?

Q#5: Why the contradiction in passionately seeking for secession clause in 1956 and passionately fighting against the same secession when it came to pass in 1967?

Ereolamide:

Your wish should have been travelling back in time to dissuade Azikwe from campaigning and supporting the removal of secession clause from our constitution, the north has never masked their hatred for Igbos or southerners, in fact in the 1940s they slaughtered Igbos like ram, but Azikwe infinite greed and quest to rule over Nigeria were the sources of suffering of millions down south.

I still wonder why most of you blame northerners as one nigerianist while you absolve Azikwe of his disposition towards the same goals.

Now listen

When God said in Genesis, "let us create man in our own manage and likeness,they were actually referring it to the white men.,creating the white me..

If I may ask

Who else created us?, because these people are far so much above us in everything.

Why?

Utanisco:
Now listen

When God said in Genesis, "let us create man in our own manage and likeness,they were actually referring it to the white men.,creating the white me..

If I may ask

Who else created us?, because these people are far so much above us in everything.

Why?

White man DNA is recessive. They will die out in several generations if they don’t mix their DNA with the Black man. Their pineal gland is also calcified from birth. Go find out the consequences of that.

Horeshit revisionist history. What a waste of a read!