Sweetguy25:
Non-accidental president for an accidental country? I dey laff

warrior01:
Old man Eziachi, I think it's high time you retired as old age is clearly taking it toll on you. unfolding events even from the inaugural speech have shown that the man is not even prepared for the task ahead. This is the time for reality and not for propaganda. Good night my friend

Demburrows:
op, trying to tell us what we've been hearing,reading the whole day in almost all the media outfit,, pls tell something new.

pazienza:
"Another coup sacked Shagari and the
owners of the coup brought in Buhari to
earn legitimacy because of his personality
and record"

Eziachi, are you trying to say one can build legitimacy through illegitimate foundation?

How can a coup plotter that usurped a democratically elected president and killed our nascent democracy earn legitimacy? If democracy was not allowed to take root, would Buhari be president today? He is now a beneficiary of a system he destroyed and yet you seek to justify and exonerate him, I am perplexed.

Eziachi, I don't want to disrespect you, because
I had utmost respect for a younger pro Biafran you I met when I joined this forum new, but these days you make it so hard not to, with your "mysterious" New way of reasoning.

OrlandoOwoh:
Who says Tafawa-Balewa was not prepared?

Eziachi:

He wasn't. The likes of Shagari sr, Inua Wada and others were well ahead of him in the pecking order in the NPC leadership.
But the grand commander Ahmadu Bello handpicked him.

Emphany:
And the first move he made is to move our defence base to maiduguri I'm sure if Boko Haram starts attacking from the west,he'll move the base again... I guess dat is wat illitrates do.

pazienza:
"Another coup sacked Shagari and the
owners of the coup brought in Buhari to
earn legitimacy because of his personality
and record"

Eziachi, are you trying to say one can build legitimacy through illegitimate foundation?

How can a coup plotter that usurped a democratically elected president and killed our nascent democracy earn legitimacy? If democracy was not allowed to take root, would Buhari be president today? He is now a beneficiary of a system he destroyed and yet you seek to justify and exonerate him, I am perplexed.

Eziachi, I don't want to disrespect you, because
I had utmost respect for a younger pro Biafran you I met when I joined this forum new, but these days you make it so hard not to, with your "mysterious" New way of reasoning.

OrlandoOwoh:

Tafawa-Balewa was the deputy leader of the NPC. When Ahmadu Bellow, the leader of the party was unwilling to leave Kaduna, the lot fell on Tafawa-Balewa to be the PM as the NPC emerged with the highest number of seat.

pazienza:
"Another coup sacked Shagari and the
owners of the coup brought in Buhari to
earn legitimacy because of his personality
and record"

Eziachi, are you trying to say one can build legitimacy through illegitimate foundation?

How can a coup plotter that usurped a democratically elected president and killed our nascent democracy earn legitimacy? If democracy was not allowed to take root, would Buhari be president today? He is now a beneficiary of a system he destroyed and yet you seek to justify and exonerate him, I am perplexed.

Eziachi, I don't want to disrespect you, because
I had utmost respect for a younger pro Biafran you I met when I joined this forum new, but these days you make it so hard not to, with your "mysterious" New way of reasoning.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:


His new found conviction has made him forget what today represents.

Pa Ezeachi, we need your hilarious opinion piece in support of today's Biafran Heros Remembrance Day celebration.

Let's remember our fallen heros and again our two million women and children lost to avoidable starvation (for which they died of hunger and malnutrition) because of "Humanitarian Blockage"

May their souls rest in peace

Eziachi:

I remember Biafra fallen heroes every single day not on any special day. I remembered them every morning as take my shower as I wash over my bullet wound mark on my upper arm.
I remembered them every because my big brother died at Nsukka front without us having the privilege of burying him decently. 13 members of my immediate family died on a single air raid including my two grandparents.
I remembered them every day because my childhood best friend at Bishop Shanahan college whom I joined the Biafra army the same day and fought on the same unit was killed right beside me in Ogoja. And was the one to tell his peasant parents in person that he aren't coming back. He was from a town called Eziachi, that's where my Nairaland name came from.
And I was just 17.

Eziachi:

Buhari as long as I know had a very good record as a minister of Petroleum and as a governor of the old Bauchi State.
Mind you , before the end of the cold war, military rule wasn't viewed in disdain as we view it now, even among the pillars of democracy. All they wanted to know was that you are allied to them against the Soviet block.

Am not begging you not to abuse me if that's what you wanted or it makes you feel better.
In my real life, I often respects those I disagree with their opinions even more. As they helped me to go back on my thoughts, to search myself and see if they got a point or whether am right after all.

My ways of reasoning has not changed really, only that many of you got caught up with the emotions of Nigerian tribal and ethnic hateful politics and were probably too young to go above it.
However, I was not in the same situation, that someone would pull a whool over my eyes based on some sentiments and deliberate character assassinations that wasn't true.

That's why I loved being an Igbo man because our culture dictates that we all should have an opinion and not to follow the whims and caprice of others. Those that doesn't know sees it as being divided, but it's the pillar of what we are as a people. Cheer up. Still one love bro.

Eziachi:

I remember Biafra fallen heroes every single day not just on any special day. I remembered them every morning taking shower as I wash over my bullet wound mark on my upper arm.
I remembered them everyday because my big brother died at Nsukka front without us having the privilege of burying him decently. 13 members of my immediate family died on a single air raid including my two grandparents.
I remembered them every day because my childhood best friend at Bishop Shanahan college whom I joined the Biafra army the same day and fought on the same unit was killed right beside me in Ogoja.
And was the one that have to tell his peasant parents in person that he aren't coming back. He was from a town called Eziachi, that's where my Nairaland name came from.
And I was just 17.

pazienza:


Are you by any reason saying that as long as the colonial powers deem it right, it is right to Usurp a democratically elected government using arms by a select selfish few? Whatever the colonial( Caucasian powers ) say is right is right? Is that the extent you are willing to go to defend Buhari treason?

This is a typical case of White ass licking. Nobody is caught up with Nigerian hateful tribal politics, Nigerian politics has always been hateful and tribal, ignoring it and pretending it isn't so is sheer stupidity.

Nobody assassinated Buhari character, It is true that he committed treason and was a part of the group that usurped a democratically elected president. It is true that he was an autocrat, a tyrant and military dictator. It is true that he was tribal and sectional in his allocation of projects during his stint as PTF head, cornering majority of the projects for the North while almost forgetting the SE.

It is true that he was part of the most corrupt government in Nigeria, the Abacha government, It is true that he believes Abacha was a saint and didn't steal despite myriads of evidence Proving otherwise.

He won't be exonerated simply because you believe that your Caucasian masters supported military regimes then, therefore military dictatorship was right in your narrow thoughts. Some of us still have independent thought process and our sense of what is wrong or right isn't dictated by the whims and caprices of the Caucasian super powers, this to me is what it means to be Igbo. Being capable of independent thought process.