dinachi:

Every tribe in Nigeria can lay claim to being maltreated and marginalized in Nigeria and they would be very correct the only difference is that my brother the Igbo always want to leave the federation.
Now check this out:

MKO Abiola a Yoruba man was denied the presidency when it was very glaring that he won! Did the Yoruba pull out of Nigeria? No

In 1966 Jan a coup led mostly by Igbos and a few Yoruba ended up killing mostly Northern leaders, their southern counterparts were either tipped off to run away or not harmed at all.
Did the north pull out of Nigeria? No.

Niger Delta people have been crying against exploitation and marginalization since the sixties. Did they pull away from Nigeria? No. Rather they waited until fortune smiled on them and one of theirs emerged the President of Nigeria.

The only people crying about leaving are our people the Igbo, why?

dinachi:

Luckily, many Igbo men and women will never back this Biafra madness. So your little dream will collapse woefully again!
The only problem is that this silly agitation will continue to make other tribes suspicious of the Igbo mans political agenda and therefore a dream of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction pushed further away.

belzabull:
The ND have only been crying about land exploitation and soil degradation and rightly so.

The SE have been crying about marginalisation and lack of federal presence. Now let me test your rationality further.

Every region in the country has 6 states (some 7 in the case of NE) except SE with only 5, why?, any justifiable reason?

A SE student writes post UME/JAMB and is given 250 as cut off mark, (highest in federation)but a northerner writes same exam and their cut off mark is 120, why? why the discrepancy/ discrimination?

FG proposed 3R's post civil war, 45 years and counting I have not seen reconstruction, neither have i seen reconciliation nor rehabilitation. why the lack of FG presence? why the neglect?

Can you now see the grievances? Compatriots been treated like second class citizens

Who is afraid of EQUITY, JUSTICE and FAIRNESS??. Give me these three and I will die for Nigeria. Anything less, the country remains a sham, unity will continue to elude us and clamour for self determination will continue to gather momentum.

fx45:
I'm more interested in a successful Biafra than in any zoo presidency. Who cares about what happens in the zoo? Nobody is pushing for war... We're headed towards a referendum and that would be the decider. A referendum would tell whether the majority is in support of Biafra or not.

I wonder why you're so desperately uncomfortable with the prospects of an emerging Biafra. This feeling of insecurity by the Yoruba nation as regards a successful breakaway by Biafra is disgusting. You guys need to get a life!

dinachi:

There is nowhere in the world you get equity, justice and fairness! You can quote me

Discrepancy in Jamb scores is not only about south east alone the issue involves the whole of south versus north. The idea is to help the north educationally. Personally, I see it as good. We are putting our best brains forward while they are putting their worst

Okay let's say the three Rs have not been implemented. Is is by going to another war that you achieve that?
Yes we have five states. But why are other regions that have six states not agitating to have seven like the northwest? Again is it by agitating for Biafra that we get one more state?

My point is that if we do the agitation a consciously and effectively within Nigeria, we will get ,most if not all these things mentioned above
But the moment we start agitating for Biafra, every other regions will loose their patience with us and because of suspicion undermine our interests

CHESSBOARD:

France never supported Biafra....

bushdoc9919:


Is America homogenous? Canada? Even Russia/the Old Soviet Union?

(Russia today is not homogenous....they have Europeans and Asians)

OreMI22:
[size=15pt]When it comes to BIAFRA, the Yorubas and Hausa/Fulanis are the WORST hypocrites.

They bitterly hate the Igbos and indeed the southern minorities and would want them to leave Lagos etc and go stay in their own country!

But in contradiction to their true feelings, they don't want Biafra because they want to perpetuate their right to collect the lion share of the oil resources sourced from the same peoples land, using the bogus criteria they foisted on the country called Nigeria.

Without oil in Igboland and Southern minorities part of Nigeria, Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani would have long seceded from Nigeria. FACT!

I know just like me, many of our people are not 100% convinced Biafra is the answer, while many others already are.

Therefore, we should agitate for a UN sponsored referendum on the Biafra issue .
Northern Ireland fought the British for 30 years for the independence of Northern Ireland, but the referendum proved that majority of the people wanted to stay in the UK. Likewise, the South Sudan's referendum proved majority of South Sudanese wanted to be in their own country.

Therefore, a United Nations sponsored referendum should be the demand to see if majority of our people support independence or to stay in Nigeria.[/size]

[size=18pt]Biafra independence petition:
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https://www.change.org/p/united-nation-council-of-the--manage-a-referendum-in-nigeria


[size=18pt]Please sign the petition and pass it on ![/size]

dinachi:

There is nowhere in the world you get equity, justice and fairness! You can quote me.
Discrepancy in Jamb scores is not only about south east alone the issue involves the whole of south versus north. The idea is to help the north educationally. Personally, I see it as good. We are putting our best brains forward while they are putting their worst.
Okay let's say the three Rs have not been implemented. Is is by going to another war that you achieve that?
Yes we have five states. But why are other regions that have six states not agitating to have seven like the northwest?
Again is it by agitating for Biafra that we get one more state?

My point is that if we do the agitation a consciously and effectively within Nigeria, we will get ,most if not all these things mentioned above
But the moment we start agitating for Biafra, every other regions will loose their patience with us and because of suspicion undermine our interests.

dinachi:

There is nowhere in the world you get equity, justice and fairness! You can quote me.
Discrepancy in Jamb scores is not only about south east alone the issue involves the whole of south versus north. The idea is to help the north educationally. Personally, I see it as good. We are putting our best brains forward while they are putting their worst.
Okay let's say the three Rs have not been implemented. Is is by going to another war that you achieve that?
Yes we have five states. But why are other regions that have six states not agitating to have seven like the northwest?
Again is it by agitating for Biafra that we get one more state?

My point is that if we do the agitation a consciously and effectively within Nigeria, we will get ,most if not all these things mentioned above
But the moment we start agitating for Biafra, every other regions will loose their patience with us and because of suspicion undermine our interests.

dinachi:
I feel a deep sense of grief and bewilderment when I read a lot of misguided comments from my Igbo brothers with some calling for a violent secession from Nigeria. Most of the generation of people making these statement never witnessed the civil war. They did not see first hand the horrors of war. They did not experience the terrific impact of bombs or the loud ear splitting sounds of heavy artillery shells as the explode. Should I talk about the economic impact? How our people were reduced to paupers and had to start from the scratch. How beautiful daughters were forcefully torn from the warm embrace of their families and married off to leprous men in the North just to spite our people. Only a mentally deranged and prone to self destruction individual will ever in his life support a violent secession from Nigeria.

Our problem is not secession. Our problem is learning how to live with other tribes in harmony while doing our businesses. Our focus should be on how to build consensus across the nation for vital political interests.

I laugh heartliy when I see some misguided Niger Delta youths like barcanista and co trying to be clever by half by playing to our sense of entitlement. Speaking from both sides of the mouth about how our people are being pushed aside and marginalized.
Yet these are the same people that effectively sabotaged the Biafran struggle under Ojukwu. These are the same people that lead the enemy in through our backyards and betrayed their so called brothers. Now they have started a new song because their brother Jonathan who performed woefully was booted out by majority of Nigerians.

I want us to know sometime that is historical. The moment an attempt is made to secede, the I jaws will immediately turn their backs and negotiate us away to advance their interests. So we will end up alone fighting the whole of Nigeria and loosing again.

When the chips are down, we are always alone.

Another point to consider is that Nigeria has become too intergrated to break up. Almost every family has in laws across their tribe. How will that be handled?

Igbo are the most integrated people in Nigeria with business interests across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Most of our people will become jobless or stay and be killed the moment a secession is declared.

Those who knew the truth will tell you that even inside Biafra there were still serious cases of tribalism and nepotism, even under the revered Ojukwu. That was why ahiara declaration became necessary to tackle these issues.

Finally, we are not ready militarily and would only be engaging in another massive waste of life if we insist on our ways.
So my people do not be deceived! Our best and only bet is to remain as law abiding citizens of Nigeria while doing our best to continue to be relevant in the scheme of things.
Ka Chineke mezie okwu.