The average Nigerian is endowed with dogged, never-say-die, ”it-won’t-happen-to-me”, ”I-will-make-it” attributes.



Lord Frederick Lugard should be shocked (in his grave) to see us still together after 99 straight years of one year, one trouble.He advised the British authorities then, about the near futility of an amalgam he described as mixing oil and water. In Lugard’s own words: ”the north and south are like oil and water – they cannot mix”Now this is going to be a long chronicle of anecdotal records that I will leave to the readers for critical analyses.



The first 50 years (1914-1964):

1. Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), a member of the Tafawa Balewa and Shagari governments – and as such, privy to intelligence reports and sensitive records – had this to say:

“In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force initially with 2,000 soldiers, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the Middle belt,, and that was the beginning of our problems. Anybody who wants to know the root cause of all the coups and our present problems, and who does not know the evolution of Nigeria would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist.“

Chief Akinjide, an insider, continued: “Infact, the so-called Nigeria created in 1914 was a complete fraud. It was created not in the interest of Nigeria or Nigerians but in the interest of the British. And what were the structures created? The structures created were as follows: Northern Nigeria was to represent England; Western Nigeria like Wales; Eastern Nigeria was to be like Scotland. In the British structure, England has permanent majority in the House of Commons. There was no way Wales can ever dominate England, neither can Scotland dominate Britain. But they are very shrewd. They would allow a Scottish man to become Prime Minister. They would allow a Welsh man to become Prime Minister in London but the fact remains that the actual power rested in England. That was what Lugard created in Nigeria, a permanent majority for the North“. “The population figure of the North is also a fraud. The analysis is as follows: If you look at the map of West Africa, starting from Mauritania to Cameroun and take a population of each country as you move from the coast to the Savannah, the population decreases. Or conversely, as you come from the Desert to the Coast, right from Mauritania to the Cameroun, the population increases. The only exception throughout that zone is Nigeria.“

“The British needed the Railway from the North to the Coast in the interest of British business. Amalgamation of the South (not of the people) became of crucial importance to British business interest. He said the North and the South should be amalgamated“.

“What is critical and important are the reasons Lugard gave in his dispatches. They are as follows:
He said the North is poor and they have no resources to run the protectorate of the North. That they have no access to the sea; that the South has resources and have educated people“

“When the amalgamation took effect, the British government sealed off the South from the North. And between 1914 and l960, that’s a period of 46 years, the British allowed minimum contact between the North and South because it was not in the British interest that the North be allowed to be polluted by the educated South.“

Obvious – the Willie Lynch Principle! Divide-and-Rule! Domination.

“I entered Parliament on December 12, 1959. When the North formed a political party, the northern leaders called it Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). They didn’t call it Nigeria Peoples Congress. That was in accordance with the dictum and policies of Lugard. When Aminu Kano formed his own party, it was called Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) not Nigerian Progressive Union. Northern Peoples Congress was, back then, still exists in one form or another in 2011- not without a Northern-prefix! Sometimes, you still read Northern Elements Political Forum! Indeed, these elements have not changed! 50 years later, we are still being confronted with a Northern Consensus Candidate. Northern this, Northern that! Not Nigerian!”The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself”- Lord Lugard in a Letter to his colleague, Walter H. Lang on September 25, 1918.How Federalism was destroyed in Nigeria
By REMI OYEYEMIMonday, April 2, 2012
It was Uthman Dan Fodio, a Fulani and great Islamic scholar who described “Conscience” as “an open wound” that could only be healed by “the truth.” Whatever served as the inspiration for this concept could not be anything other than awesome.The fact that this same Dan Fodio is the great grandfather of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late Sultan of Sokoto and Premier of Northern Region, the man who have played a prominent role in the Nigerian vicissitudes makes it highly imperative that we all open our “consciences” and allow “the truth” to heal them, if Nigeria must be saved.It is important that Nigeria returns to true Federalism if it must survive. In this era when there is clamour for the Sovereign National Conference (SNC), it is important that we try to look back in History and examine how our Federalism was unmade. This is because as the Spanish born American Essayist Geoge Santayana once contended, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In this venture, all of us, regarfless of our ethnic background must allow “the truth” to nurture and heal our “consciences” for the sake of our collective survival as a country.The Nigerian Federalism was unmade via two fronts: (1) Structural or Political and (2) Fiscal or FinancialIn 1952, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sultan of Sokoto and the leader of the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) made the following request to the Nigerian Colonial Seceretary, Mr. Oliver Lyttleton:“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 would be recalled that as a result of the elections of 1954, there were 162 seats in the Nigerian National Assembly. Out of this, the South had 83 seats (51.23%) and the North had 79 seats (48.76%), including the Yoruba people of Kwara. This means that if the Kwara people were not lumped with the North, they would still have less number of seats than 79, since this was based on population.

This shows that the South of Nigeria has always been more populous than the North of Nigeria. But Sultan Bello, as evident from this 1952 request, has a different idea. If one considers his aristocratic background, one would have an understanding of his fear of “pure” democracy. Aristocracy is “the government of a country by a small group of people especially a hereditary nobility” which is “a group believed to be superior to all others of the same kind.”

Thus for the Sultan to seek to dominate by any means necessary, would seem natural to him.

In 1957, he refused the independence of Nigeria because he insisted the North was not ready. But the North was ready when he got what he wanted, and more, before Nigerian Independence in 1960. The British overlords, in order to assuage Sultan Bello’s fears and put Nigeria in his control, created in 1959, 312 seats for the Nigerian National Assembly without any election or new Census. Out of this 312, the North was allocated 174 and the South 138 in the anticipation of the Parliamentary Political System being put in place for Nigeria’s independence. Sultan Bello asked for 50% of the seats in the National Assembly, he got 55.7%. Suddenly, an apartheid system was put in place as the majority South, became the minority and the minority North became the majority.

This is where the future of Nigeria was unmade, and the seed for the destruction of the Nigerian Federalism was sowed. This development gave unburnished confidence to Sultan Bello who declared on October 12, 1960, in an interview with The Parrot, just days after independence the following words: “This New Nation called Nigeria, should be an estate of our great grand father, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South, as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.”

With Alhaji Tafawa Balewa firmly in charge in Lagos, Sir Bello’s confidence became ebullient. To him Chief Obafemi Awolowo has been a thorn in his flesh politically, having mainatained an effective opposition to the feudalisation of Nigeria. Earlier in 1959, he had vowed to make Chief Awolowo pay dearly for forcing him to canvass for the votes of his Northern people. Awolowo had to be caged. Thus in the Daily Times of May 3, 1961, Sir Bello said the following:

“I’m set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century.” In May 1962, twelve months after this statement, the NPC Prime Minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa, acting on instructions from Sultan Bello moved a motion to Declare A State of Emergency in Western Region. Below is an excerpt of Chief Awolowo’s contribution opposing the motion of Prime Minister Balewa on May 29, 1962:

“Not long ago after independence, there was rioting of a most severe nature in the Tiv Division of Northern Nigeria. Several lives were lost, several properties were destroyed, there was arson and a host of other crimes were committed. At that time, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Prime Minister as he is today. He did not think it fit to call this parliament to declare a state of public emergency in the Northern Region. Also in Okrika – there was widespread rioting in Okrika; again, several lives and properties were lost. I understand that this widespread rioting in Okrika occurred twice in the Eastern Region. The Prime Minister and the cabinet did not think it fit on that occasion to declare a state of public emergency in the Eastern Region.

“But, because the Action Group is pursuing the normal democratic processes as laid down in our constitution to oust someone who happens to be a very close friend of the Prime Minister, and also because the AG is looked upon as a moral foe to the NPC, this very far-reaching provision of our constitution is now being invoked, …..It is doing violence to our constitution and doing violence to the construction of words to suggest that what happened in the Western House of Assembly amounts to a state of public emergency.”

On July 16, 1962, exactly 46 days after Chief Awolowo moved this motion and fourteen months after Sir Bello made the statement of conquest of the AG, Chief Awolowo was arrested on the trumped up charges of Treasonable Felony. On November 2, 1962, Chief Awolowo and 28 other members of his party were put on trial. After a hearing lasting eleven months, he was sentenced (September 11, 1963) to ten years imprisonment. This effectively shut down the opposition to the unmaking of Nigerian Federalism which continued unabated.

Thus, why Awolowo was incarcerated, the Northern Peoples Congress led Federal Government embarked on headcount. This exercise was headed by a Briton as Federal Census Officer, Mr. J. J. Warren. The exercise was later cancelled because it was unacceptable. Daniel Agbowu in his book “NIGERIA: The Truth” quoted from M. Crowder’s book, “Story of Nigeria” published in 1966 noting that “The 1962 figures were first questioned in the first place not by politicians but by the civil servant in charge of the Census.”

The Census was re-conducted in 1963 but not without controversy. The figure released on February 24, 1964 is as follows:

North: 29,809,000

East: 12,394,000

West: 10,931,000

Midwest: 2,536,000

TOTAL: 55,670,000.

This was in contrast to the initial figure of over 60 million. Dr. Michael Okpara, Premier of Eastern Region described it as “worse than useless.” Chief Dennis Osadebey characterised it as the “stupendous joke of our age.” Chief S. L. Akintola, revelling in his supposed invulnerability having allied himself to the NPC, which mastermined the incarceration of Awolowo, gladly “accepted the census figures” and said “the figures were accurate.”

Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, encumbered by his involvement in the Balewa government, could not effectively artculate the anger of his people as he pleaded that “all should remain calm” because the Census controversy “might plunge the nation into disaster.” Chief Awolowo was meanwhile effectively out of circulation. Sultan Bello had come out smoking as he threatened that “he and his party were ready for a complete showdown” and “warned all Nigerians” that his “Government has accepted the published figures.” Tafawa Balewa ignored all the protestations and went ahead to distribute the seats in the National Assembly as follows:

North 168 53.8%,

East 69 21 %,

West (Lagos included) 61 19.6%,

Midwest 14 4.5%.

The Eastern Region Soilicitor General, Mr. D. O. Ibekwe “took out a writ in the Supreme Court to restrain the Federal Government from using the 1963 Census figures for delineation of the country.” But the Supreme Court said it had no jurisdiction over the case, thus the unmaking of Nigerian Federalism continued.

Crisis followed that action of 1964 by Tafawa Balawa. In the West, the people took their destiny in their hands to confront the government of S. L. Akintola in an episode ingloriously referred to as “wet e.” The Tiv Riots, simmering since 1960 also came to a head in 1964 in what was called “nande nande” (burning burning) and “atem ityough” (head breaking). The whole country went up in flames which unfortunately, consumed the main actors, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Tafawa Balewa and Chief S. L. Akintola, as the Military ascended the political pedestal to continue the serial rigging of Nigeria’s Federalism.

As at the time the First Republic went up in flames in 1966, there were different constitutions for each region and Nigeria. Each region has its own High Commissioner in London. What does this mean? It meant that every region was in control of its destiny. Most historical analysts believed that General Aguiyi Ironsi who took over the reign of power from the uncoordinated plotters of the coup was the first leader who actually practicalised Unitarism of the Nigerian political space, at least officially.

Reasons for this should not be difficult to decipher given the chaos that ended the First Republic. But this particular act coupled with the fact that in the January 15, 1966 coup led by mainly Igbo officers, Sultan Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa (both Fulani) and Chief S. L. A. Akintola (Yoruba) were killed. But this was reportedly an excuse for the July 25, 1966 coup led by Murtala Mohammed that eventually saw the installation of Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon as the military Head of State.

If the Northern soldiers abhored Unitarism, part of the reason they had allegedly staged a vengeance coup, one would have thought that things would have been different on taking power. But alas, that was not the case. The Aburi Agreement meant to calm the nerves after the 1966 pogrom that would have guaranteed each region the control of its own destiny was violated by the North led Federal Government which went ahead to break Nigeria into twelve states. One region, the North ended up with six states. The three other regions ended up with 6 states in yet another rigging of Nigeria. And then there was the Civil War and the unmaking of Nigerian Fiscal Federalism commenced in earnest.

The Constitution establishing Nigeria stipulated 50% derivation “in respect of any Mineral extracted from that region.” Sub-sections 1,2 3,4 and 5 of the Constitution explained this in detail. But this would not deter the rigging of Nigeria as Yakubu Gowon unilaterally took off 5% oil receipt of the Niger Delta leaving them with 45%. He then proceeded with another Census in 1973. At first, Gowon came out with a total of 79,758,969. The six states of the North got 51 million while the Southern six states were given barely 28,758,969.

“This meant that the population of the North had jumped from 53.6% in 1963/64 to 63.8 in 1973/74 census. The Southern population had dwindled to 36.2% from 46.4%….” The Chairman of the census board late Sir Adetokunbo Ademola said “the figures published by Gowon were not my making.” Chief Obafemi Awolowo, now out of incarceration called the 1973 census a “barren exercise..”

To appreciate the extent of the rigging of the census figures, a comparative analysis of the figures alloted to the North of Nigeria showed that Niger Republic with 1,266,700sq km in land space in the desert has 5,013,966 population in 1973. Chad with 1,259,200 sq km of space had 4,011,856 population in 1973. But the North of Nigeria sharing boundaries with Chad and Niger Republic and with 679,534 sq km of space had 51million! The 1990/91 Census gave the North 47,261,959. Nothing points more to rigging when you look at the 1973 figures of 51 million and 1990 figure of over 47 million. There is no scientific explanation for the reduced difference of almost 4 million.

The Northerners rigged the population in favour of the North and used it as a basis to create States and local governments to the North’s advantage as ameans to siphoning resources to the disadvantage of the South. The Northern Military rulers who created states made sure that the North always had more states than the South as the table below shows:

At the risk of stating the obvious, it is an open seceret that the North has 64 more local governments than the entire South – North 419 LGs to South’s 355. What is obvious is the careless abandon with which money is allocated to the states and local governments of the North such that the North takes home 21/2 times what the former Eastern Region took, and 3 to 4 times what the Western Region took and at times, as much as 10 times what the former Mid-Western Region took.

According to “Nigeria: The Truth,” since 1980 when the Federation Account was introduced before the 13% derivation was resuscitated, the take home of each region in percentage of the total accrued money is as follows:

North 54%

East 22%

West 18%

Midwest 6%

Not many Nigerians are aware that the Northern Region paid custom duties to the Western Region until 1976, when Murtala Mohammed took over the reigns of Government. Or that as at 1975 when Murtala Mohammend overthrew the Yakubu Gowon administration, the Niger Delta enjoyed 45% rents and royalties? Murtala Mohammed slashed it to 20% (Decree No. 6 of 1975) to assuage the Northern States, before Olusegun Obasanjo, through the Aboyade Technical Commission which recommended the removal of the remaining 20% of the rents and royalties, finally nailed the coffin of the Southern States without any protest from the people of the Niger Delta or other parts of the South.

Since then the North has been having advantages in appointments and resource distribution and have been robbing Peter to pay Paul. Now that the call for Sovereign National Conference is increasing, it is important that Nigerians isolate where the country went off the track and seek ways to retrace their steps as a way of moving forward. The way to go include but not limited to the following: Install True Federalism and allow each region to have its own constitution according to the Principles of Self Determination;

This will put an end to the apartheid system where the minority North is lording it over the majority South.;

This will end the injustice against the South, the goose laying the eggs being deprived of appropriate entitlements to its resources; Allow a minimum of 45% derivation if we cannot go back to the old 50%;

Allow state or regional police force and dismantle the Nigeria Police Force;

Decentralise the Nigerian Armed Forces and allow each region to manage its own defence;

Decentralise power generation; and Let each Region or zone be able to enunciate its own economic plan without the Central Bank being able to overrule them.

EXCERPTS FROM HAROLD SMITH’S CONFESSIONS BEFORE HE DIED 2 YEARS AGO

‘‘Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa. Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern region; strength, intelligence, determination to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life style, great hope and aspirations… the East is good in business and technology, the west is good in administration and commerce, law and medicine, but it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power “at all cost” to the northerner. They seemed to be submissive and silly of a kind. Our mission was accomplished by destroying the opposition at all fronts. The west led in the fight for the independence, and was punished for asking for freedom. They will not rule Nigeria! Harold Smith confessed that the Census results were announced before they were counted. Despite seeing vast land with no human but cattle in the north, we still gave the north 55 million instead of 32 Million. This was to be used to maintain their majority votes and future power bid. He stated that the West without Lagos was the most populous in Nigeria at that time but we ignored that. The north was seriously encouraged to go into the military. According to him, they believe that the south may attend western education, but future leaders will always come from military background. Their traditional rulers were to be made influential and super human. The northerners were given accelerated promotions both in the military and civil service to justify their superiority over the south. Everything was to work against the south. We truncated their good plan for their future. “I was very sorry for the A.G; it was a great party too much for African standard. We planned to destroy Awolowo and Azikwe well, the west and the east and sowed a seed of discord among them”. We tricked Azikwe into accepting to be president having known that Balewa will be the main man with power. Awolowo has to go to jail to cripple his genius plans for a greater Nigeria. ‘’Looking at the northern leaders now , If they have any agenda in Nigeria at all, sadly it is only for the north, and nothing for Nigeria….’’ http://haroldsmithmemorial./tv-interview/

BRITISH RIGGING HISTORY: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b007tyz0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tyz0

NOTABLE ANECDOTES:

“The mistake of 1914 has come to light, and I should like it to go no further!” – Sir Ahmadu Bello, addressing the Congress in Lagos, March 1953 (Quoted by Frederick Forsythe in his book, Biafra)

‘Having abused us in the South, these very Southerners have decided to come over to the North to abuse us… We have therefore organized about a thousand men ready in the city to meet force with force…’ – Mallam Inua Wada, Kano Branch Secretary of the Northern People’s Congress, addressing a meeting of section heads of the Native administration during the imminent visit of a delegation of the Action Group to Kano, May 1953. (Quoted by Frederick Forsythe in his book, Biafra)

“Since 1914, the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite … Nigerian unity is only a British invention” – Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who was reported by the TIME MAGAZINE of October 10, 1960 to have said there was no basis for Nigerian unity and it was only a wish of the British.

“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future”. Sir Ahmadu Bello, Parrot Newspaper, Oct 12, 1960

“I’m set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century” Sir Ahmadu Bello gave an interview to the DAILY TIMES of May 3, 1961

“We do not want, Sir, our Southern Neighbours to interfere in our development… I should like to make it clear to you that if the British quitted Nigeria now at this stage, the Northern people would continue their interrupted conquest to the sea” – Mallam Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, 1947, During the Inauguration of the Richard’s Constitution. (Quoted by Frederick Forsythe in his book, Biafra)

Northern House Of Assembly Proceedings, February-March 1964

Below is an extract from the proceedings of the Northern Region House of Assembly between February and March 1964, less than four years after Nigeria’s independence from the British. I have nothing to add. Read and judge for yourself:

Mallam Muhammadu Mustapha Mande Gyan:
On the allocation of plots to Ibos or allocation of stalls, I would like to advise the Minister that these people know how to make money, and we do not know the way and manner of getting about this business. We do not want Ibos to be allocated with plots. I do not want them to be given plots…

Mallam Bashari Umaru:
I would like (you), as a Minister of Land and Survey, to revoke forthwith all Certificates of Occupancy from the hands of the Ibos resident in the Region… (Applause)

Mr. A. A. Agogede:
I’m very glad that we are in a Moslem country, and the government of Northern Nigeria allowed some few Christians in the region to enjoy themselves according to the belief of their religion, but building of hotels should be taken away from the Igbos, and even if we find some Christians who are interested in building hotels and do not have money to do so, the government should aid them, instead of allowing Ibos to continue with their hotels.

Dr. Iya Abubakar (Special Member, Lecturer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria):
I am one of the strong believers in Nigerian unity, and I have hoped for our having a united Nigeria, but certainly if the present state of affairs continues, I hope the government will investigate first the desirability and secondly the possibility of extending Northernisation policy to the petty traders. (Applause)

Mallam Mukhtar Bello:
I would like to say something very important, that the Minister should take my appeal to the Federal Government about the Igbos in the post office. I wish the numbers of these Igbos be reduced…. There are too many of them in the North. They are like sardines and 1 think they are just too dangerous to the Region.

Mallam Ibrahim Musa:
Mr. Chairman, Sir. Well first and foremost, what I have to say before this Hon. House is that we should send a delegation to meet our Hon. Premier to move a motion in this very Budget Session that all the Ibos working in the Civil Service of Northern Nigeria, including the native authorities, whether they are contractors or not, should be repatriated at once…

Mallam Bashari Umaru:
There should be no contracts either from the government, native authorities, or private enterprises given to Ibo contractors (Government Bench: Good talk and shouts of “Fire the Southerners”). Again, Mr. Chairman, the foreign firms too should be given time limit to replace all Ibo in their firms by some other people.

The Premier (Alhaji the Hon. Sir Ahmadu Bello, K.B.E., Sardauna of Sokoto):
It is my most earnest desire that every post in the region, however small it is, be filled by a Northerner (Applause)

Alhaji Usman Liman:
What brought the Ibos into this region? They were here since the colonial days. Had it not been for the colonial rule, there would hardly have been any Ibo in this region. Now that there is no colonial rule, the Ibos should go back to their region. There should be no hesitation about the matter. Mr. Chairman, North is for Northerners, East for Easterners, West for Westerners, and the Federation is for us all. (Applause)

The Minister of Land and Survey (Alhaji the Hon. Ibrahim Musa Cashash, O.B.E.):
Mr. Chairman. Sir, I do not like to take up much of the time of this House in making explanations, but I would like to assure members that having heard their demands about Ibos holding land in Northern Nigeria, my ministry will do all it can to see that the demands of members are met. How to do this, when to do it, al1 these should not be disclosed. In due course, you will all see what will happen. (Applause)

Culled from M. O. Onyenakeya, Igbos in Nigerian Politics, pp.30-32

NORTHERNISATION POLICY AGAINST OTHER Nigerians : Ahmadu Bellohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&v=8y1Zpk4DrlA&feature=share&nomobile=1

The second 50 years (1964-2014):

The foregoing precipitated all sorts of crises which eventually chrysalized into a military coup and 13 straight years of military rule (1966-1979).

The military rule continued uninterrupted for another 16 straight years (1983-1999)

During this period, as reported by Remi Oyeyemi (above), the structure of Nigeria was tweaked and tinkered with, to skew things more in favour of the north.

Please note: The South had 3 regions before the coup of 1966, to the north’s one. Western, Midwestern and Eastern Regions.

Aburi accord is as follows:

•“Members agree that the legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government should remain in the Supreme Military Council, to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided that where it is possible for a meeting to be held the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence.
•Specifically, the council agreed that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic, and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporation must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.
•The regional members felt that all the decrees passed since January 15, 1966, and which detracted from previous powers and positions of regional governments, should be repealed if mutual confidence is to be restored.

The following are the delegates at the Aburi Conference:
•Chairman of the Ghana National Liberation Council -Lt.-General J.A. Ankrah-Chairman
•Lt.-Col. Yakubu Gowon- Head of State
•Lt.-Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu - Governor Eastern State
•Major Mobolaji Johnson - Governor Lagos State
•Lt.-Col. Hassan Katsina - Governor Northern State
•Lt.-Col. David Ejoor - Governor Mid-Western State
•Commodore Joseph Edet Akinwale Wey - Governor Rivers State
•Colonel Robert Adebayo - Governor Western State
•Alhaji Kam Selem
•Mr. T. Omo-Bare

Others as follows:
•N. Akpan Secretary to the Military Governor-East
•Alhaji Ali Akilu Secretary to the Military Governor-North
•D. Lawani Under Secretary, Military Governor’s Office-Mid-West.
•P. Odumosu Secretary to the Military Governor-West
•S. Akenzua Permanent Under-Secretary-Federal Cabinet Office

In response to the accord, the federal government promulgated Decree No. 8, which was mainly an embodiment of the accord. The accord finally broke down because of differences of interpretation on both sides. This led to the outbreak of Nigerian Civil War. http://www.dawodu.com/aburi4.htm

PREAMBLE:The Fulani’s fear of Uthman Dan Fodio’s dream
Posted: March 28, 2010 – 01:00
http://saharareporters.com/article/fulani’s-fear-uthman-dan-fodio’s-dream
“The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself”- Lord Lugard in a Letter to his colleague, Walter H. Lang on September 25, 1918.
“Under the circumstances of what has been happening in Plateau State, some people just have to die……Any society that refuses to be just and fair shall become a jungle where only jungle justice shall operate……… Indeed, majority of our killings were carried out in areas where there was strong government presence.”
Mallam Sale Bayero, Fulani leader and secretary Sultan’s Farmer/Cattle Rearers Conflict Committee boasting as he justified the massacre of the Birom people while protesting the arrest of the Fulani murderers in Plateau State of Nigeria, quoted in THE SUN NEWS of Friday, March 12, 2010

Some time towards the middle of the second decade of the 1800s (1815 AD or thereabout), Uthman Dan Fodio was reported to have had a scary dream about his Sultanate empire that he had just built. This dream was said to have saddened him that the empire he had spilled so much blood to build would only lasted 200 years. As a courageous warrior that he was, Dan Fodio was reported to have summoned the will and interpret the dream to make this prediction about the future of his Empire.

According to informed sources as reported by Adewale Adeoye in The Nation of March 14, 2010, this fear of the realization of Dan Fodio’s dream was what informed the hurried movement of the Capital of Nigeria from Lagos to Abuja. The report said inter alia:

“The source hinted that in the 1970s, Northern leaders of Fulani extraction had met and resolved that the capital of Nigeria be moved from Lagos to Abuja, in anticipation of the prophecy of late Uthman Dan Fodio. He said the meeting was
propelled by the dream the then Sultan of Sokoto had that he saw his offsprings, in years to come, being requested to obtain visa permits before entering the Southern part of the country….”

There are a number of deductions that could be made from the above:

a) That the entire Nigeria was and is still regarded as part of the Sultanate Empire of Uthman Dan Fodio.
b) That this is why the Fulani have been exuding this arrogant attitude permeated with the “BORN TO RULE” mentality.
c) That this is why they have always ruled Nigeria as if we are in the middle ages and consider the wealth of Nigeria as theirs to dispense as they see fit.
d) That the recent liberation struggles in Birom, Niger Delta, and the rest of the South, west or east is being seen as the beginning of the end of the Sultanate Empire by the Fulani people
e) That the Fulani people have been scheming and preparing to get ready for when they would leave or be chased out of Nigeria.

It is this writer’s view that there is nothing wrong if the Fulani have to pull out of Nigeria to sustain and maintain the remnant of their Sultanate Empire. It would definitely serve all concerned very well. But this writer is not convinced that the Fulani would let go very easily, regardless of their palpitation about the dreams of Uthman Dan Fodio. They are going to fight hard. Anyone familiar with their trickery and how they subdued all the fledgling Hausa States one after the other, using Hausa masses against their kings would agree with this writer.

To this extent, I disagree with Lord Lugard that the Fulani (let us leave the Hausa ethnic nationality out for now), “has no ambition.” The Fulani has ambitions and great ones at that. The Fulani ambition is to always rule others whether they (Fulani) have the capacity to do so or not. The Fulani liked and still likes his empires, at least that of Uthman Dan Fodio had been in place before Lord Lugard ever was born.

It is this inherent ambition that forced the Fulani to develop the methodology to use religion to mobilize the Hausa critical mass against their own Hausa rulers and replaced them with blue-blooded turban-carrying Fulani rulers as Emirs across what used to be Hausa kingdoms. As time goes on, the Fulani sought ways to modernize its means of extending the frontiers of the Sultanate and refined its tool that was used against the Hausa Kingdoms in preparation for the conquest of the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.

What the Fulani came up with was a different brand of what they did to the Hausa kings and empires. The Fulani concluded that because of cultural and religious factors, it would not be easy to use the critical mass of other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria to be able to supplant the leaders of these ethnic nationalities. So, the Fulani to sustain its ambition to rule and dominate, cultivated corrupt satellites in every ethnic nationality in Nigeria while politically annihilating the true leaders of other ethnic nationalities.

In 1957, during the heated battles for self government and independence, Sir Ahmadu Bello referred to Nigeria as “The mistake of 1914.” To correct this “mistake” a meticulous plan to dominate the future Nigerian Armed Forces was surreptitiously embarked upon while the British was helping out on the political front manufacturing Parliamentary seats for the North against the South of Nigeria. Thus, barely six months after independence, Sir Ahmadu Bello was able to say with confidence in the Daily Times of May 3, 1961, the following:

“I’m set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century.”

The writer would like readers to pay due attention to the words used by Sir. Bello, in this quote. He used the word “conquer” not negotiate. Ahmadu Bello executed this desired conquest of the West as he had planned. Though, it backfired temporarily as it consumed him a number of years later, but the Fulani sentries in the Caliphate Armed Forces euphemized as the Nigerian Armed Forces along with its surviving civilian wing have adopted Sir. Ahmadu Bello’s method of propping up political, economic and religious satellites in all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria to be able to maintain control from Abuja, Sokoto and or Gobir, the birthplace of Uthman Dan Fodio.

It would be alright, if the Fulani could live with others as others are willing and prepared to live with them in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa, at least. In Nigeria, there has been more than 100years of evidence that various ethnic Nationalities have accommodated, loved respected and cared for the Fulani in their midst. There are abundant evidence that the Fulani have been treated as fellow human beings and accorded the same rights that the host have always enjoyed.

But it is very unfortunate that the Fulani has not had the same “live and let live” approach to other ethnic Nationalities in Nigeria. The Fulani concept of living is that others have to die, so that the Fulani may live. As far as the Fulani are concerned, other peoples of other ethnic nationalities are second rate slaves to be used, dumped, maimed, raped or killed for the good of the Fulani man. The Fulani see Nigeria as his great grandfather’s inheritance to be toyed with as he wishes and as he wants. This attitude of Fulani makes him believe that he has to rule wherever he is, regardless of his comparative intelligence and capability to that of his host among other reasons.

Presenting a paper reviewing Paul M. Lewis’ book Ethnologue: Languages of the World, (16th Edition), to a study group in Philadelphia recently, Professor Wola Awoyale, a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania noted that the Fulani are recent immigrants in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Benin Republic, Guinea, Senegal, Niger, Mali and Sudan. The Fulani symbol is turban, flag, alukimba, mosque and book. The Fulani are “a very creative” people who are often very “tight-lipped, silent and secretive” in their approach. They are very “mistrusting, calculating and patient.”

The Fulani are described as “cold blooded and ideological.” They are “ascetic, reclusive and tough-minded.” The Fulani places premium on the role of the mosque in its culture and this is why in all of Nigeria, a Fulani would not be a part of Jamaa (the congregation) where another man of different ethnic stock is leading muslims in prayers.

The Fulani language Fulfude with its variations in Fulah, Pulaar and or Pular is very highly priced. It is their weapon to discuss in secrecy and manipulate and carry out their machinations. The Fulani will freely learn the languages of others as a means of infiltrating them for economic, political and religious advantages while rarely speaking Fulfulde in the presence of others.

In an interview by The Nation, of Baba Oluwide, a former economic consultant to the United Nations (UN), it was reported inter alia:

“To him,(Baba Oluwide) the frequent clashes ‘reflects a reawakening of consciousness among nationalities which territories were forcefully taken by the Fulani’ adding that it also ‘signifies the collapse of the Fulani Empire.’ He said the ‘main cause of the downfall of the Fulani Empire’ was the defect inherent in their political and social perspectives which he says celebrates lack of tolerance for diverse culture and a resentment of pluralism of ideas.”

This writer, in disagreeing with the interviewee, would not be so swift to sing the dirge of the Sokoto Caliphate or the Sultanate. While one may agree that there is “a reawakening of consciousness among nationalities which territories were forcefully taken by Fulani,” there is still the need for the ethnic Nationalities in Nigeria to remain vigilant. It is one’s view that the battle to overthrow the yoke of the Fulani political imperialism/neo-colonialism, economic exploitation and religious extremism is just about to begin.

While it may be true that the Fulani is being haunted by the dream of Uthman Dan Fodio and are making preparations for the D-Day when they would leave Nigeria or chased out, it would amount to political suicide for the oppressed and enslaved ethnic nationalities in Nigeria to go to sleep, waiting for the time when the Fulani would voluntarily leave Nigeria. There may be eventual negotiations, but this writer doubts it giving the characteristics of a Fulani man.

It is one’s view that freedom is not cheap and neither is it free. There is always a price to pay for one’s freedom. The Fulani is willing to loot, maim, and kill to hold on to its empire. This suggests that to take it from them, all the ethnic nationalities have to be prepared for every eventuality just in case words and negotiations would not solve the problem.

It would be recalled that the Fulani embarked on ethnic cleansing of the Jukun ethnic nationality in Taraba State in the 1990s. The Fulani are vociferously claiming the ownership of Idi-Araba and yelled “barao, barao, barao” meaning “thief, thief, thief” on the then Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu in his own State. The Fulani started war on traditionalists in Shagamu in Ogun State over the celebration of Oro Festival. The Fulani have tried to reduce the Tiv’s population by extermination during the First Republic. The Fulani have tried to emasculate the Katafs in Kaduna before. The Fulani tried to cleanse Zakibiam of non-Fulani blood. The Fulani have been killing owners of the land in Iseyin and Shaki in Oyo State. Media reports noted that scores of owners of the lands in Oyo were left “dead, maimed or raped.” The Fulani are determined to wipe out the Birom people of Plateau from their ancestral lands. The Fulani has just recently killed a policeman in Ekiti State after wounding the owners of the land. The Fulani has an Emir of Ilorin, a Yoruba town. The Fulani is determined to have an Emir of Jos and possibly Enugu too, very soon

The Nation, in its report of March 14,2010 also noted the following:

“In many West African countries, clashes between nomadic Fulani and indigenous communities are well known underlining the fact that the challenge is a sub-regional phenomenon. In Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Togo and Niger, frequent clashes between nomadic Fulani and land owners constitute a major security problem for national and regional governments. In the Chad basin, clashes between Fulani and Shua Arabs have led to thousands of deaths, reliable sources claim. Many of the clashes were between indigenous communities and Fulani herdsmen accused of trespassing on native lands and in many cases, attempting to take over the lands by force of arms.”

This shows that the Fulani has a character that is antithetical to the hopes and yearnings of other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria and around West African sub-continent. They are used to taking things that do not belong to them by force. Exploiting the oil of the Niger Delta in the way and manner it had been for this long is not out of character for the Fulani. Spending the national resources to which they contribute next to nothing like a drunken “gambler” is part of the Fulani nature. The Fulani has no capacity to be compassionate where his interests are at stake. Thus the murdering of a Ken Saro Wiwa here and a Dele Giwa there, or another Akaluka here and Oluwatosin there means nothing to the Fulani. It is just a way of life.

The essence of bringing this to the attention of the world, especially the ethnic nationalities in the bondage called Nigeria is to let them know what they are engaged with in the struggles to be free and have self determination. The Fulani is not prepared to negotiate if he is going to lose out. He will fight very ruthlessly.

The only language the Fulani understands is war and conquest. All you need to do is just listen to Mallam Sale Bayero in the quote above. Listen to the post-humous voice of Ahmadu Bello echoing from the grave as he uses the words “ruthless” and “conquer” in speaking about his supposed fellow countrymen. Listen to Mallam Bala Garuba in the West African Pilot newpaper speaking of “conquest” of his supposed countrymen. Listen to Mallam Falalu Bello (MD, Unity Bank of Nigeria) threatening “there will be no real peace in this country moving forward,” because he feels the Fulani has no control over the resources and means of others. Listen to Balarabe Musa making a case for permanent rulership of Nigeria by the Fulani. Listen to the Bala Usman of this world as to why no one of other ethnic nationality should be allowed to rule Nigeria. Listen to the silent yells of Maitama Sule making the same case. Yes, the nightmare of Dan Fodio’s dream may hang like a noose around the Fulani’s neck, but the Fulani would never give up without a fight.

The Hausa people are still wondering how they have become so slavish to the Fulani. They are still wondering how their very valuable heritage has been polluted and dumped for that of the Fulani settlers. The Hausa are still wondering how the great histories of their forefathers have been supplanted by that of the Fulani to whom they have shown great love and hospitality.

Every ethnic Nationality in Nigeria needs to be aware that the Hausa people are very confused right now. Some of their elites have been incorporated by the scheming and secretive Fulani. The Fulani are very few in numbers and they have brainwashed the Hausa people to believe that their (Hausa) destinies are tied together with that of the Fulani because of Islam. The Fulani use the Hausa numbers as a buffer to perpetrate Fulani evils in Hausa name. What they have done to Hausa people is to make them believe in the Fulani as the path finders for them (Hausa).

Now, it is the Hausa who is used to fight the Fulani fights and battles. This is what Sir. Ahmadu Bello, taking a page off the book of his Fulani great grand father, Uthman Dan Fodio, has also done with other minority groups in the North of Nigeria, using them as tools for the Fulani conquest of Nigeria. As pointed out above, this trick has been extended to all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria and as such one could find among them corrupt leaders who hold allegiance to the Sultanate rather than their peoples.

This writer has his doubts if the Hausa people would ever wake up. Even, if and when they wake up, the benefits of greed and the unabated appropriation of resources for which they have never labored out of the Niger Delta and other parts of Nigeria would still guarantee the Hausa – Fulani cooperation.

The minority ethnic nationalities in the North are waking up. They are realizing that they are slaves in their own lands. They are just realizing that they have been fighting the battles of Fulani to their own and their peoples’ detriment. They have just realized that cows are much more treasured by the Fulani than the Birom mothers, Tiv wives, Jukun sisters, Igala children, Nupe brothers and Kataf fathers.

The Fulani is a fiercely ambitious man, contrary to what Lord Lugard is trying to make us believe. The Fulani would plunder, loot, rape, maim and kill in pursuit of this ambition. The Fulani would take advantage of the weaknesses of his host and supplant him and appropriate his wealth and means. The Fulani for the last 200 hundred years has been at loggerhead with every known hospitable host of his, not just in Nigeria but in West African sub region. The Fulani ambitions are intolerant of the existence and well being of others. This is where one could agree with Lord Lugard – that the Fulani is “seriously diseased” and “a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself.”

The ethnic nationalities in all of Nigeria still stand a good chance to be free. That chance would fizzle and dissipate without standing firm, strong and willing to make the necessary sacrifice that would be required. It is time to repel the Fulani imperialism and or neo-colonialism. It is time to reclaim our freedom and rights. It is time to seek any means necessary to be free from the bondage called Nigeria. Cows could not, should not, would not and must not be more important than our daughters and sons, brothers and sisters as well as our mothers and fathers.

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FACT, apart from Jonathan, No one has ever RULED NIGERIA if he is not military or LOYAL to Hausa-Fulani and Hands power back to them (eg GOWON who was overthrown, and OBJ who handed over to SHAGARI AND UMYA). No southern CIVILIAN HAS EVER RULED Nigeria (Abiola would have been the first but he was murdered). AND NOTE: No coup by a non HAUSAFULANI has ever succeed without being quashed….ALL COUPS by HAUSA FULANI have ALWAYS succeeded…for lenghty years.

EXCERPTS FROM HAROLD SMITH’S CONFESSIONS: ”The north was seriously encouraged to go into the military. According to him, they believe that the south may attend western education, but future leaders will always come from military background. Their traditional rulers were to be made influential and super human. The northerners were given accelerated promotions both in the military and civil service to justify their superiority over the south. Everything was to work against the south”….

Alhaji Lawal Kaita a prominent member of the ACF did make the following statement in October of 2010; “anything short of a Northern President is tantamount to stealing our presidency. Jonathan has to go and he will go. Even if he uses incumbency powers to get his nomination on the platform of the PDP, he will be frustrated out” “The North is determined, if that happens, to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan or any other Southerner who finds his way to the seat of power on the platform of the PDP against the principle of the party’s zoning policy.


If anyone cares (and I think that anyone should care), the rest of the article can be found at the source below

http://oregie./2013/10/02/nigeria-why-we-must-talk-a-no-holds-barred-compendium-by-henry-omoregie/

This narrative is quite chilling. Arguably, the reason why Nigeria still exists is because it affords the political class the means to loot and enrich themselves corruptly. To face the truth and convene a SNC, is like taking the food off their platter.

whirlwind7: This narrative is quite chilling. Arguably, the reason why Nigeria still exists is because it affords the political class the means to loot and enrich themselves corruptly. To face the truth and convene a SNC, is like taking the food off their platter.

I totally agree, quite chilling indeed. Never read any article about this entity called Nigeria that is stuffed with much details as this one. I decided to post so our Igbo and Yoruba brothers that keep cyber fighting on this site, to enable them know who the real enemy is. Also after reading this article, anybody in their right minds would see reasons why secession was imperative.

A nation built falsehood! Time has revealed the hidden secrets and history will be corrected with a SNC.

We can't continue like this, if in trying to have peace via dialogue it ends up costing us the oneness of nigeria, then I must say we were never meant to be in the first place!

I must confess dat this article is an eye opener to all of us. More reason for us to appreciate GEJ's bravery to convene what he called National Dialogue.
Little will one wonder the reasons for sudden outbourst from certain quaters, ("The North is not afraid should Nigeria breaks up". Did GEJ say so?
But I pray our Southern reps to d dialogue, irrespective of the geo-zone they represent, should unanimously voice out our mind, (we want to seced in peace should our demand for equal right and justice not met).
I fore-see Nigeria heading for SNC as an outfall of this dialogue.

This is Quite Explosive

Effwazobia:
Chief Akinjide, an insider, continued: “Infact, the so-called Nigeria created in 1914 was a complete fraud. It was created not in the interest of Nigeria or Nigerians but in the interest of the British. And what were the structures created? The structures created were as follows: Northern Nigeria was to represent England; Western Nigeria like Wales; Eastern Nigeria was to be like Scotland. In the British structure, England has permanent majority in the House of Commons. There was no way Wales can ever dominate England, neither can Scotland dominate Britain. But they are very shrewd. They would allow a Scottish man to become Prime Minister. They would allow a Welsh man to become Prime Minister in London but the fact remains that the actual power rested in England. That was what Lugard created in Nigeria, a permanent majority for the North“. “The population figure of the North is also a fraud. The analysis is as follows: If you look at the map of West Africa, starting from Mauritania to Cameroun and take a population of each country as you move from the coast to the Savannah, the population decreases. Or conversely, as you come from the Desert to the Coast, right from Mauritania to the Cameroun, the population increases. The only exception throughout that zone is Nigeria.“

The Message Oga Musiwa has been preaching since Genesis albeit with a kind of paranoia. But I am beginning to get it. We really need to talk.

Do you know what was kano or the borno empire/caliphate ? Do you how many people live in an empire? How many people from across Africa and the world kano attracted? Kano was known ,visited, people settled there , I doubt ur village even appeared on a map . Stop smoking weed northern Nigeria is populated for a reason. Maybe the figures are kinda exaggerated but definitively not how u think.open a book

We actually have known about this. In the south west, we know very well that the real enemies of this country are the cow people (Fulanis). They have become nuisances in every village that accommodates them within the southwest. They are armed robbers on Lagos - Ibadan express way killing innocent people. They are armed robbers between Oba-Akoko and Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, killing innocent travellers. In some villages in Ekiti State; they are their now, but eyes are kept on them now by the people.

@Op, for digging this explosive and revealing article out, may the Good God of heaven continually bless you, bless me and others who believed that our one and only enemy remains the Hausa/Fulani oligarchy till eternity! Even though facts like these are not totally strange to me the more reason I am a big FAN of Kaduna Nzeogwu and his revolutionary troop for ridding us of that bloody sadist and potentate called Ahmadu Bello! Also great thanks to Dim Emeka Ojukwu for his unalloyed resistance! Peace

CAMEROONPRIDE: Do you know what was kano or the borno empire/caliphate ? Do you how many people live in an empire? How many people from across Africa and the world kano attracted? Kano was known ,visited, people settled there , I doubt ur village even appeared on a map . Stop smoking weed northern Nigeria is populated for a reason. Maybe the figures are kinda exaggerated but definitively not how u think.open a book

May you DIE in your ignorance you Son of Belial!

tomakint: May you DIE in your ignorance you Son of Belial!

biafran u are the one ignorant here.

cameroonpride dont take tomakint,
when naija break are u going to add biafra to cameroon.
Dat we be great collabo.

The SW knew this from time immemorial and has been waging a strategic battle ever since .but for the gra gra without thinking from our southern neighbours (who are already captive of the same oligarchy they love to hate), this problem would have been fixed a long time ago .
But as an odualand nationalist ,I am quite surprised that deep thinkers like Awo and others in the AG could not decipher that Nigeria was going to become a calamity.
In hindsight,I think those early political skirmishes before independence were enough evidence to pull the western region out of Nigeria .
It would not have been easy but getting words on the street would have been enough to mobilise the people .
A few action on imperial interest would have solved that problem .

bloggernaija: The SW knew this from time immemorial and has been waging a strategic battle ever since .but for the gra gra without thinking from our southern neighbours (who are already captive of the same oligarchy they love to hate), this problem would have been fixed a long time ago .
But as an odualand nationalist ,I am quite surprised that deep thinkers like Awo and others in the AG could not decipher that Nigeria was going to become a calamity.
In hindsight,I think those early political skirmishes before independence were enough evidence to pull the western region out of Nigeria .
It would not have been easy but getting words on the street would have been enough to mobilise the people .
A few action on imperial interest would have solved that problem .

I don't know if I agree with the first bolded part. What would be the gra gra? Are you referring to the Igbo's attempt to secede (an action you seem to be supporting on the second bolded part), or our being vocal about our hate for Nigeria? There is no reason to start attacking Igbos on this thread. Clearly the article depicts who the real enemies are in this country

can d mods move dis article to d fp..d south has been a slave to d hausa-fulani for a very long time bt d day ix cumin wen d south wil b liberated.,tank God for gej.i hope dt d south will be united for once especially d igbos n yorubas to send dis mercenaries bak to futa jallon

cashkid is back: can d mods move dis article to d fp..d south has been a slave to d hausa-fulani for a very long time bt d day ix cumin wen d south wil b liberated.,tank God for gej.i hope dt d south will be united for once especially d igbos n yorubas to send dis mercenaries bak to futa jallon

God bless you for the bolded my brother. That should be the ultimate goal and not attacking one another

Effwazobia:

God bless you for the bolded my brother. That should be the ultimate goal and not attacking one another

dis ur article is jst an eye opener,hw i wish d whole southerners cud see d handwritins on d wall

cashkid is back: can d mods move dis article to d fp..d south has been a slave to d hausa-fulani for a very long time bt d day ix cumin wen d south wil b liberated.,tank God for gej.i hope dt d south will be united for once especially d igbos n yorubas to send dis mercenaries bak to futa jallon

LOL...the Yorubas joining the Igbos to fight the North...not in this lifetime friend.

Crying over a spilt milk.

Effwazobia:

God bless you for the bolded my brother. That should be [b]the ultimate goal [/b]and not attacking one another

To do what?

Is it to take control of the entire Nigeria or to break the amalgamation of 1914 and go back to Southern Nigeria?

stayreal:

To do what?

Is it to take control of the entire Nigeria or to break the amalgamation of 1914 and go back to Southern Nigeria?

Any of the above. Let's tell ourselves the truth here, no single group can do it alone against the Fulani's

Effwazobia:

Any of the above. Let's tell ourselves the truth here, no single group can do it alone against the Fulani's

Why are you scared of the Fulani? Did the North beat Biafra alone? Did they not need every other tribe in Nigeria (middle belt mostly, yoruba, bini people, some ijaw, etc) and the Egyptian Air Force to win?

Why continue to fight and die for Nigeria...a dead white man's creation? The recreation of a Southern Nigeria will not solve the problems between the West and the East. If anything it will lead to talks again of Igbo Domination propaganda. A better option is for the South to split into 3 or 4 different countries. Tell yourself the truth.

stayreal:

Why are you scared of the Fulani? Did the North beat Biafra alone? Did they not need every other tribe in Nigeria (middle belt mostly, yoruba, bini people, some ijaw, etc) and the Egyptian Air Force to win?

Why continue to fight and die for Nigeria...a dead white man's creation? The recreation of a Southern Nigeria will not solve the problems between the West and the East. If anything it will lead to talks again of Igbo Domination propaganda. A better option is for the South to split into 3 or 4 different countries. Tell yourself the truth.

Nwanne let me start off by saying that I ain't scared of no Fulani. Now, let's say that we form our own country in the East, and the West forms a country, and the North Forms a country, and the Middle belt forms a country, what exactly are you going to do with the South South? Remember the South South consists of more than 30 ethnic groups. My maternal home is Ikot Ekpene (Anang) and I've got Anang relatives that can't stand their Ibibio neighbors. Mind you that these neighbors are not even up to 20 minutes apart from each other in the same state of Akwa Ibom . Then an hour away from Ibibio (Uyo) is Ogoja Akamkpa in Cross River, and those two can't get along. Do I need to remind you of Okrika and Ikwere (who are Igbos by the way). Let's not even mention Delta that is surrounded by all kinds of ethnic groups. Delta state is more complicated because you've got a significant portion of the indigenes that are of Igbo extract that don't consider themselves Igbos. These folks speak Igbo as fluent as I do, bear Igbo names, and yet they claim they ain't Igbo. Then the most complicating aspect is that their Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko, and Itsekiri states men will always deny them and remind them that they are Igbo. They are also crying about marginalization. This is why we might never see a Delta state governor from Delta Igbo. With all the black gold in that South South region, it would take a miracle to pull all the ethnic groups apart. It would just be a disaster. What groups are going to lay claims to the oil, and which ones are gonna let go off that oil? Then you can't just spin-off Igbo, Yoruba, Middle belt, and core Northern countries and leave the folks in the South South together, they will also want to be spun-off. Nwanne from your post above, you are presupposing that the groups in the South South would like to live harmoniously with one another. My point is that it would be a nightmare to pull Nigeria totally apart. There are waaay too many damn groups. It would take a miracle. But this much I know, cutting the Core North and Fulani off would be a much easier task.

Effwazobia:

Nwanne let me start off by saying that I ain't scared of no Fulani. Now, let's say that we form our own country in the East, and the West forms a country, and the North Forms a country, and the Middle belt forms a country, what exactly are you going to do with the South South? Remember the South South consists of more than 30 ethnic groups. My maternal home is Ikot Ekpene (Anang) and I've got Anang relatives that can't stand their Ibibio neighbors. Mind you that these neighbors are not even up to 20 minutes apart from each other in the same state of Akwa Ibom . Then an hour away from Ibibio (Uyo) is Ogoja Akamkpa in Cross River, and those two can't get along. Do I need to remind you of Okrika and Ikwere (who are Igbos by the way). Let's not even mention Delta that is surrounded by all kinds of ethnic groups. Delta state is more complicated because you've got a significant portion of the indigenes that are of Igbo extract that don't consider themselves Igbos. These folks speak Igbo as fluent as I do, bear Igbo names, and yet they claim they ain't Igbo. Then the most complicating aspect is that their Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko, and Itsekiri states men will always deny them and remind them that they are Igbo. They are also crying about marginalization. This is why we might never see a Delta state governor from Delta Igbo. With all the black gold in that South South region, it would take a miracle to pull all the ethnic groups apart. It would just be a disaster. What groups are going to lay claims to the oil, and which ones are gonna let go off that oil? Then you can't just spin-off Igbo, Yoruba, Middle belt, and core Northern countries and leave the folks in the South South together, they will also want to be spun-off. Nwanne from your post above, you are presupposing that the groups in the South South would like to live harmoniously with one another. My point is that it would be a nightmare to pull Nigeria totally apart. There are waaay too many damn groups. It would take a miracle. But this much I know, cutting the Core North and Fulani off would be a much easier task.

I must say your analysis portrays you as a very ignorant person.

These resentments you mentioned amongst SS people exists even within the so-called homogenous SW & SE, These resentment exists in the SS not because they hate each other but because of the pattern of assemblage into the respective states ie political inconvenience.

What this SNC tend to address is a scenerio where each of these ethnic groups (small or large) would be in their own STATE to manage whatever resource found therein and develope @ their own pace, while being part of their REGION (with a regional premier) which would function as the FEDERATING UNITS.

So my friend, if you don't have a proper hingsight other than this beer parlour analysis, just sit back and learn from posters with higher IQ and with more informed opinions.

ijaw citizen: I must say your analysis portrays you as a very ignorant person.

These resentments you mentioned amongst SS people exists even within the so-called homogenous SW & SE, These resentment exists in the SS not because they hate each other but because of the pattern of assemblage into the respective states ie political inconvenience.

What this SNC tend to address is a scenerio where each of these ethnic groups (small or large) would be in their own STATE to manage whatever resource found therein and develope @ their own pace, while being part of their REGION (with a regional premier) which would function as the FEDERATING UNITS.

So my friend, if you don't have a proper hingsight other than this beer parlour analysis, just sit back and learn from posters with higher IQ and with more informed opinions.

Well Mr. High IQ you can call me ignorant, you just straightened my point that Nigeria would be hard to split up. Thanks for that. You can keep living in denial. I am talking from personal experience here, most groups in the SS can't seem to stand each other .I am glad you pointed that out too. Now you seem to believe that the reason is due to "pattern of assemblage into the respective states", which is ok by me. That's your point of view. By the way I am all for true federalism. I hope the SNC will lead to that. Can you ever post a comment without insults? Just take a chill pill and read through your posts and see how pathetic they are. You can still argue your points effectively without insults my brother

I've always known this but it's good you brought this out so that people can get informed.

Effwazobia:

Well Mr. High IQ you can call me ignorant, you just straightened my point that Nigeria would be hard to split up. Thanks for that. You can keep living in denial. I am talking from personal experience here, most groups in the SS can't seem to stand each other .I am glad you pointed that out too. Now you seem to believe that the reason is due to "pattern of assemblage into the respective states", which is ok by me. That's your point of view. By the way I am all for true federalism. I hope the SNC will lead to that. Can you ever post a comment without insults? Just take a chill pill and read through your posts and see how pathetic they are. You can still argue your points effectively without insults my brother

Once again your argument that ethnic groups in SS can't stand each other is nonsense & faulty. There are Igbo groups fighting themselves today in SE, there are Yoruba groups fighting themselves to in SW, over the last ten years till today, we don't hear of ethnic groups in SS fighting each other. You lack proper comprehension for you to think that I'm straightening any of your rubbish, read my post again and see how shallow your commprehension level has become.

So take your pathetic beer parlour rubbish outta here. You're the one in need of medical prescription. Quit your alcoholic lifestyle & that beer parlour you've made your official quarters, clown!

bloggernaija: The SW knew this from time immemorial and has been waging a strategic battle ever since .but for the gra gra without thinking from our southern neighbours (who are already captive of the same oligarchy they love to hate), this problem would have been fixed a long time ago .
But as an odualand nationalist ,I am quite surprised that deep thinkers like Awo and others in the AG could not decipher that Nigeria was going to become a calamity.
In hindsight,I think those early political skirmishes before independence were enough evidence to pull the western region out of Nigeria .
It would not have been easy but getting words on the street would have been enough to mobilise the people .
A few action on imperial interest would have solved that problem .

my frend ure very stupid for makng such a coment.if ure nt cut in d web of fulani rule y did u join dm in fightng.nw ure d same hypocrete alieyng wit dm aganst gej nd u hav d guts to type trash.continue lickng dia ass we wil se were ur so cald intelgence wil lead u habitual hypocretes

I see no difference between snc and national dialogue as long as no-go areas do not exist among issues to be discussed,just as the chairman of the committee as said.its just a mere case of nomenclature.the snc people are calling for is here.after this dialogue,the next thing should be alignment of like forces and groups who share similar interest,then referendum by various groups to determine which political direction each group wants to move going forward.southeast and southsouth should take this dialogue seriously as this is an opportunity to decide what they want and they can make their decisions irrespective of whether northern groups partake in the national dialogue or not.besides,the dialogue is for ethnic nationalities and has nothing to do with state boundaries which are political creations.the Igbo,yoruba,ijaw,hausa and other ethnic groups should be equally represented at the conference.

igbeke: I must confess dat this article is an eye opener to all of us. More reason for us to appreciate GEJ's bravery to convene what he called National Dialogue.
Little will one wonder the reasons for sudden outbourst from certain quaters, ("The North is not afraid should Nigeria breaks up". Did GEJ say so?
But I pray our Southern reps to d dialogue, irrespective of the geo-zone they represent, should unanimously voice out our mind, (we want to seced in peace should our demand for equal right and justice not met).
I fore-see Nigeria heading for SNC as an outfall of this dialogue.