THE 1967-70 Nigeria Civil War, for the Igbo was a battle of historic survival against the forces of national darkness that roamed in the form of periodic unrestrained anti-Igbo riots and massacres, and subsequently the chilling pogrom of 1969.

It was not only a battle for survival but for the upholding of the Igbo man’s dignity, which, as previously feared got swallowed up by the events of the civil war. Those who supported Biafra did so not because of the capability of the Igbo to win the war against the World Powers-supported Federal might but for the case of conscience.

The likes of Presidents Houphouet-Boigny of Cote d’Voire, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Omar Bongo of Gabon, Papa Doc of Haiti and to some extent Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, Jomo Kenyata of Kenya, William Tolbert of Liberia, and the French Government of the time did so out of conscience against the forces of darkness that ruled Nigeria at that time. This explains why, even at the final defeat of the Igbo they never abandoned their vanquished friends-turned brothers. Today there are sprawling Igbo populations in these countries with many of them not only becoming full citizens of their host countries, but even playing very important Government roles.

As the Igbo would often say, “no land exists without the presence of the lizard”. So it has become customary to say that no battle takes place without the active roles of saboteurs. The Nigeria civil war, like any such war of its kind no doubt witnessed a number of Igbo citizens playing the Vidkun Quisling role against their own people, sabotaging the survivalist sacrificial efforts of their down-trodden people by supporting the Federal troops, prophesying the doomsday for their people’s struggle for survival.

These people not only celebrated the defeat of their own people but shamelessly rushed to seek Federal Government appointments and contracts while those who sacrificed, endured and survived remained in perpetual penury for decades and for life.

Today, Reverend Ejike Mbaka in the event of General Muhammadu Buhari’s victory presents himself as a champion of God’s prophecy, just because he vaingloriously assumed that his words are the words of God verbatim. But there remain certain clear indices to determine if an event is truly the act of God in the manner a visioner or soothsayer presented it. We know that Ejike Mbaka is from Awgu district in Enugu State and it is not disputable that his people of Enugu State overwhelmingly voted for President Goodluck Jonathan. Secondly, Mbaka should let us know if the massive failure of the Jega’s rigging machine miscalled Card-readers was the act of God. Thirdly, let Father Mbaka tell Nigerians how the God he worships approved the fraudulent permission of under-aged children to vote in the northern part of the country.

For we all know that the God of the Roman Catholic Church of which Reverend Father Mbaka belongs is a just God who hates cheating in whatever form it is presented. Unless Reverend Mbaka is telling us that he has another God other than the one Almighty God we all know and acknowledged.Yes, if the victors said the defeat of Biafra was the act of God, the Igbo could not have denied such a statement, just as the on-going victory of the blood-sucking Islamic State in Syria and the Levante (ISIS/ISIL) and their budding children in Nigeria called Boko Haram could also be attributed to the act of God. Those who truly worship God in truth and spirit through any form or medium truly know that God’s ways are hard to fully predict by mortal man.

For whatever it was worth, the massive Igbo support for President Jonathan was a patriotic call to duty. Yes, President Jonathan might not have met the greater part of our expectations from him as the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But for the Igbo, he wiped out the ignominious tears of second-fiddlers in Federal Government affairs. For the first time since the end of the Nigeria civil war, the Igbo occupied in one stroke the positions of Secretary of the Government of the Federation, two Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces at the same time – the Army and Navy.

At least the second Niger Bridge is presently under construction. Beyond these, the massive Igbo support for the President was a cementing force that eventually obliterated the political cancer of rivalry and mutual mistrust between the Igbo and their South-South ethnic brothers that began with Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Professor Eyo Ita in the 1950s. Today, the contentious State creation agitation by these neighbours of the Igbo from the defunct Igbo-dominated Eastern Region has been resolved with the existing multiplicity of States.

The civil war has come and gone. But could we say that the reason for which the Igbo took up the arms of defence against the Federal Government no longer exists? The Niger Delta militants took up arms against the Federal Government in defence of their rights and have through that experience chiefly identified who their friends and foes are. Have the Igbo actually identified who their friends and foes are in the matrix of present politics?

The historical experience of any people so oppressed like the Igbo, no matter how checkered it might be, fundamentally calls for reflection and in essence a lesson. The emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria most importantly calls for reflection primarily for the Igbo. It is a matter that evidently put the Igbo on the balance of sustained political principle via-a-vis a taciturn principle of progressive opposition or wobbling edifice of political harlotry.

The present balance of political equation beckons on true Igbo patriots to stand firm and hold the bull of politics by its horn of emerging political challenges. The greatest political disaster the Igbo will attract on themselves is for the crop of her political leaders to aimlessly drift to the soon to emerge ruling APC in the name of being afraid to be in opposition. What is most important for the present political terrain is for both the South East and South-South to further cement the political gains of common solidarity for Jonathan by building a strong force of opposition.

What has become customary in the acquisition of political power in Nigeria today, except for the Igbo, is that ethnic generated conflicts often end in Presidential compensation.

President Olusegun Obasanjo reaped from the blood-watering conflict of June 12 presidential election annulment. President Umar Yar’Adua benefited from the dastard incarceration and eventual death of his senior brother in the hands of General Sani Abacha.

President Goodluck Jonathan invariably reaped from the Niger Delta struggles for economic emancipation. And now, can one deny the fact that General Muhammadu Buhari evidently reaped from the on-going Boko Haram insurgency? What did the Igbo reap from the 30-month long civil war? The Igbo had since the end of the civil war engaged in competitive licking of the political ass of most past Federal Governments except in fact that of President Jonathan. Will this be the case with President Muhammadu Buhari?

Dr. Tony Nwaezeigwe is an acting director , Centre for Igbo Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/igbo-and-the-fallacy-of-mbakas-gods-vindication/#sthash.zJeDQ5l1.dpuf

Abeg who do summary for waec make him help me out....

Over here in hawai,am beginning to think igbo people are the major tribe in Nigeria.

Nigeria have ensured that the civil war is not part of school curriculum,most Nigerians don't know their history.

Bringing up the igbo issues is becoming sickening,let us forget tribe if truly we are one Nigeria. That should only come up,when one want to travel to his/her homeland for a visit.

Ndigbo sorry God will help and provide for you

SUCCEEDED IN SAYING NOTHING !

Isn't this whinning about an election loss getting stale??

GEJ lost, GMB won......get over it pls.

June 12 annulment also seemed like the action to end humanity but here we are.....22 years after.

I too do not see anything like 'God's vindication' of Fr Mbaka's stance......the priest simply spoke like a Nigerian affected by the lack of governance that GEJ displayed. What is it about this betrayal rubbish? Is there no space for independent thought again?

Chekwas Okorie, a qualified igboman also contested.....how many Igbo voted for him?? Is that not the worst form of betrayal going by the writer's logic?

The present balance of political equation beckons on true Igbo patriots to stand firm and hold the bull of politics by its horn of emerging political challenges. The greatest political disaster the Igbo will attract on themselves is for the crop of her political leaders to aimlessly drift to the soon to emerge ruling APC in the name of being afraid to be in opposition. What is most important for the present political terrain is for both the South East and South-South to further cement the political gains of common solidarity for Jonathan by building a strong force of opposition.

[size=18pt] I THINK BUILDING A STRONG FORCE OF OPPOSITION THAT ONLY COMPRISED SE AND SS WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO DO THE MAGIC. THE OPPOSITION FORMED SHOULD BE ABLE TO PENETRATE THE NORTH AND SW AS WELL. THEY SHOULD BEAR IT IN MIND THAT POLITICS IS A GAME OF NUMBER [/size]

Ibo this, ibo that. Hian! Don't u guys get tired ni? You guys just keep wallowing in self pity. Biko let's move on na. Every tribe is important to this country abeg.

Another article from a cry cry adult whinning like a two months old baby,goodluck jonathan that was defeated moved on with his life but some foolish people dey cry than the bereaved.

Let him send this epistle to Rev Father Mbaka Now!


But I bet you this Man would have said AMEN to Mbaka's prayers countless time and now he wants to weather he is a real Man of God ! Seriously I seldomly comment on Pastors thread cos I don't wana compound my SIN



And the simple answer to this Man's trauma is YES MBAKA is a real Man of God! While Transformer is available for haters to hug



Cheeeers

This guy is the director of the centre for Igbo studies in UNN.

Do you still wonder why our university education is crippled. Partly because we have clowns like this spewing rubbish!

Bros, your candidate lost because he is a failure. The worst president Nigeria has ever had! Deal with it and Leave Mbaka out of your mourning!!

mightycrown1:
THE 1967-70 Nigeria Civil War, for the Igbo was a battle of historic survival against the forces of national darkness that roamed in the form of periodic unrestrained anti-Igbo riots and massacres, and subsequently the chilling pogrom of 1969.

It was not only a battle for survival but for the upholding of the Igbo man’s dignity, which, as previously feared got swallowed up by the events of the civil war. Those who supported Biafra did so not because of the capability of the Igbo to win the war against the World Powers-supported Federal might but for the case of conscience.

The likes of Presidents Houphouet-Boigny of Cote d’Voire, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Omar Bongo of Gabon, Papa Doc of Haiti and to some extent Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, Jomo Kenyata of Kenya, William Tolbert of Liberia, and the French Government of the time did so out of conscience against the forces of darkness that ruled Nigeria at that time. This explains why, even at the final defeat of the Igbo they never abandoned their vanquished friends-turned brothers. Today there are sprawling Igbo populations in these countries with many of them not only becoming full citizens of their host countries, but even playing very important Government roles.

As the Igbo would often say, “no land exists without the presence of the lizard”. So it has become customary to say that no battle takes place without the active roles of saboteurs. The Nigeria civil war, like any such war of its kind no doubt witnessed a number of Igbo citizens playing the Vidkun Quisling role against their own people, sabotaging the survivalist sacrificial efforts of their down-trodden people by supporting the Federal troops, prophesying the doomsday for their people’s struggle for survival.

These people not only celebrated the defeat of their own people but shamelessly rushed to seek Federal Government appointments and contracts while those who sacrificed, endured and survived remained in perpetual penury for decades and for life.

Today, Reverend Ejike Mbaka in the event of General Muhammadu Buhari’s victory presents himself as a champion of God’s prophecy, just because he vaingloriously assumed that his words are the words of God verbatim. But there remain certain clear indices to determine if an event is truly the act of God in the manner a visioner or soothsayer presented it. We know that Ejike Mbaka is from Awgu district in Enugu State and it is not disputable that his people of Enugu State overwhelmingly voted for President Goodluck Jonathan. Secondly, Mbaka should let us know if the massive failure of the Jega’s rigging machine miscalled Card-readers was the act of God. Thirdly, let Father Mbaka tell Nigerians how the God he worships approved the fraudulent permission of under-aged children to vote in the northern part of the country.

For we all know that the God of the Roman Catholic Church of which Reverend Father Mbaka belongs is a just God who hates cheating in whatever form it is presented. Unless Reverend Mbaka is telling us that he has another God other than the one Almighty God we all know and acknowledged.Yes, if the victors said the defeat of Biafra was the act of God, the Igbo could not have denied such a statement, just as the on-going victory of the blood-sucking Islamic State in Syria and the Levante (ISIS/ISIL) and their budding children in Nigeria called Boko Haram could also be attributed to the act of God. Those who truly worship God in truth and spirit through any form or medium truly know that God’s ways are hard to fully predict by mortal man.

For whatever it was worth, the massive Igbo support for President Jonathan was a patriotic call to duty. Yes, President Jonathan might not have met the greater part of our expectations from him as the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But for the Igbo, he wiped out the ignominious tears of second-fiddlers in Federal Government affairs. For the first time since the end of the Nigeria civil war, the Igbo occupied in one stroke the positions of Secretary of the Government of the Federation, two Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces at the same time – the Army and Navy.

At least the second Niger Bridge is presently under construction. Beyond these, the massive Igbo support for the President was a cementing force that eventually obliterated the political cancer of rivalry and mutual mistrust between the Igbo and their South-South ethnic brothers that began with Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Professor Eyo Ita in the 1950s. Today, the contentious State creation agitation by these neighbours of the Igbo from the defunct Igbo-dominated Eastern Region has been resolved with the existing multiplicity of States.

The civil war has come and gone. But could we say that the reason for which the Igbo took up the arms of defence against the Federal Government no longer exists? The Niger Delta militants took up arms against the Federal Government in defence of their rights and have through that experience chiefly identified who their friends and foes are. Have the Igbo actually identified who their friends and foes are in the matrix of present politics?

The historical experience of any people so oppressed like the Igbo, no matter how checkered it might be, fundamentally calls for reflection and in essence a lesson. The emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria most importantly calls for reflection primarily for the Igbo. It is a matter that evidently put the Igbo on the balance of sustained political principle via-a-vis a taciturn principle of progressive opposition or wobbling edifice of political harlotry.

The present balance of political equation beckons on true Igbo patriots to stand firm and hold the bull of politics by its horn of emerging political challenges. The greatest political disaster the Igbo will attract on themselves is for the crop of her political leaders to aimlessly drift to the soon to emerge ruling APC in the name of being afraid to be in opposition. What is most important for the present political terrain is for both the South East and South-South to further cement the political gains of common solidarity for Jonathan by building a strong force of opposition.

What has become customary in the acquisition of political power in Nigeria today, except for the Igbo, is that ethnic generated conflicts often end in Presidential compensation.

President Olusegun Obasanjo reaped from the blood-watering conflict of June 12 presidential election annulment. President Umar Yar’Adua benefited from the dastard incarceration and eventual death of his senior brother in the hands of General Sani Abacha.

President Goodluck Jonathan invariably reaped from the Niger Delta struggles for economic emancipation. And now, can one deny the fact that General Muhammadu Buhari evidently reaped from the on-going Boko Haram insurgency? What did the Igbo reap from the 30-month long civil war? The Igbo had since the end of the civil war engaged in competitive licking of the political ass of most past Federal Governments except in fact that of President Jonathan. Will this be the case with President Muhammadu Buhari?

Dr. Tony Nwaezeigwe is an acting director , Centre for Igbo Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/igbo-and-the-fallacy-of-mbakas-gods-vindication/#sthash.zJeDQ5l1.dpuf

He just blasted yorubas for not gaining anything from Jonathan and still giving him 40% of their votes

Mbaka is a clown. He once boasted that Chimaroke Nnamani will not get re elected in 2003, but Chimaroke got re elected. He( mbaka) was busy endorsing Emeka Eze then.

GEJ loss has nothing to do with the political reverend father ranting.

stronger:
This guy is the director of the centre for Igbo studies in UNN.

Do you still wonder why our university education is crippled. Partly because we have clowns like this spewing rubbish!

Bros, your candidate lost because he is a failure. The worst president Nigeria has ever had! Deal with it and Leave Mbaka out of your mourning!!

His article is in order. You are the one the need to look at yourself in the mirror, and ask your reflection why you can't entertain opposing views.

pazienza:


His article is in order. You are the one the need to look at yourself in the mirror, and ask your reflection why you can't entertain opposing views.

I actually don't have a problem with opposing views. Just take some time to read his article again. Absolutely shallow stuff, based on fallacies, unproven allegations. . just pure watery stuff. If you read it again and you still don't notice his rubbish, I will point out one a few to you specifically.

stronger:


I actually don't have a problem with opposing views. Just take some time to read his article again. Absolutely shallow stuff, based on fallacies, unproven allegations. . just pure watery stuff. If you read it again and you still don't notice his rubbish, I will point out one a few to you specifically.

Please, do point them out, I can't see any.

With the level of hate u are displaying, I predict hypertension for u bro.

See, get over it...buhari has won, mbaka's prophecy has come to pass. Wetin remain na for u to enter lagoon and drown your unnecessary hatred with u

Kia dis people ll continue whinning till 2023 I swear and u can't rule Nigeria if u pple keep reminding us abt Civil war.

Rubbish, I won't be suprise if d same author of this article ll be quee up at s synagogue waiting for TB joshua s prophecy.

Gej has lost deal wit it, stop irking our ears wit dis ur market women analysis

I smh for some hediots, god y did u bestow such weighty stupidity on these group of saTANOID

Nigeria is not one and can never be, believe or disbelieve it is a fact that can never be changed.

Medley:
Over here in hawai,am beginning to think igbo people are the major tribe in Nigeria.

Nigeria have ensured that the civil war is not part of school curriculum,most Nigerians don't know their history.

Bringing up the igbo issues is becoming sickening,let us forget tribe if truly we are one Nigeria. That should only come up,when one want to travel to his/her homeland for a visit.

are we really a “one Nigeria?“

You want us to forget our different tribes, how possible will that be when what it takes me as an Igbo man to get employed in federal government job is not what it will take an hausa/fulani guy to get the same job.
I have to write & pass all kinds of exam & interview while all my northern brother have to do is to speak hausa & show that he “attempted“ the exams, not that he passed.

Take the just concluded election for instance. The north had a diffrent set of rules both in registration & PVC collection. Down south under age voters are not allowed to register but up north underaged not only registered but they went ahead to vote. Kwankwaso came open to say they used almajeries (children) to vote out GEJ. Imagine if such happend in the south.

Until all NIGERIANS live under the same law, we cant claim to be in one nigeria.

pazienza:


Please, do point them out, I can't see any.

okay.. .

mightycrown1:

Today, Reverend Ejike Mbaka in the event of General Muhammadu Buhari’s victory presents himself as a champion of God’s prophecy, just because he vaingloriously assumed that his words are the words of God verbatim. But there remain certain clear indices to determine if an event is truly the act of God in the manner a visioner or soothsayer presented it. We know that Ejike Mbaka is from Awgu district in Enugu State and it is not disputable that his people of Enugu State overwhelmingly voted for President Goodluck Jonathan. Secondly, Mbaka should let us know if the massive failure of the Jega’s rigging machine miscalled Card-readers was the act of God. Thirdly, let Father Mbaka tell Nigerians how the God he worships approved the fraudulent permission of under-aged children to vote in the northern part of the country.
See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/igbo-and-the-fallacy-of-mbakas-gods-vindication/#sthash.zJeDQ5l1.dpuf

Just look at the paragraph above! The irresponsibility in it stinks!

(1) The fact that the people in place where Mbaka comes from voted "massively" for Jonathan, how is that an indication that Mbaka's prophesy was false? What kind of warped logic is that? On the contrary, doesn't this even justify the fact that a prophet is not welcome in his home?

(2) This clown calls the card-readers rigging machines? What do the card readers do? How are they used to rig? Card readers are used for accreditation and when they failed, manual accreditation was done. So how exactly are the card readers rigging machines?

(3) The last point on under-aged voters is so pedestrian. We've known about the issue of under-aged voters for years. Agreed? So if I was in the PDP and I suspected that the APC was gonna use MANY under-age voters, I'd simply arm my PDP agents with cameras so as to get SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE! Do you agree? Now, up till now, we have only seen maximum 3 pictures of under-aged voters from the North. THREE! THREE! SO on what basis are they shouting that there was widespread under-aged voting. Please how can there be MILLIONS of under-aged voters and we could only see THREE pictures? HOWWWW?? If a vulcanizer on the road says this, wouldn't you expect better from a so called director in UNN??

I have picked three flaws from just ONE PARAGRAPH!

Campaign after election

I don't know why some people/group of people are so selfish...
Any little thing you will be hearing Biafra this, Igbos that, now the myopic SS relative are being drawn into this madness...
When have you heard the anthem that the Yoruba nation cryout they are being sidelined therefore wants to cede from OUR Nigeria to form a separate nation?? I believe with this i speak for the North central and the Northern region too.

Outside the shores of Nigeria, we are seen and treated as Nigerian not Ibo or Hausa or Ijaw or Yoruba tribe..

Going back to the events that led to the civil war when the premiers were being killed; Amadu Bello gone, Ladoke Akintola killed but Nnamdi Azikiwe managed to find himself in Ivory Coast, was there a fuss?

Or have you forgotten so soon that during the 2011 elections, SW brothers voted massively for their SS brother irrespective of the antecedent but the picture painted for people..
So because 2015 election didn't go your way is now a foulcry from our 'SE' brothers...
In the last 5 year plus that GEJ was the C in C, why didn't you cry foul that his administration sidelined the SW and left the NW ravaged by insurgent only to wake up 6weeks before 2015 election trying to quell what his predecesor did perfectly for his kinsmen granting them amnesty and monthly allowance; he (GEJ) coming to the SW to distribute foreign currency to converse for re-election,
What level of impunity...

Abeg woo ju oo
I'm from the wide west so no dey talk rubbish, this is one naija, pray we get it right and move forward to attain greater heights together as one.

Just remember that the powers that make can also mar...(2010-2015)

U can call it crying or whining but all i see is SE getting ready 4 opposition politics. Wen SW turned pepertual complainant under jonathan it was not crying and whining abi? Beware of deadly millitants now in Rivers HOA. Dnt kum preaching "move on" sermon cos boko haram and saharareporters are being replicated now in SS and SE.

Politics is all about diplomacy, building bridges and alliances.
The way the Igbos are going about this whole post election matters and making ridiculous statements is like finding oneself in a pit, and you continue to dig deeper with a believe you will dig your way out.
That is pure lunacy!
It's high time the Igbos race sit themselves down and look at themselves in a mirror.
And get on with the program instead of being a perpetual spanner in the works of Nigerian progress.