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Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by tsdarkside(m): 7:55pm On Jul 20, 2015
xtrorse:


I thought you guys hv been showing yourselves online as brave warriors with your stupid rantings. Let me remind you of your mighty Balogun MKO Abiola who was killed like a church rat and your entire race went hiding...
Man up and enter the streets of Lagos and hack down just one Igbo man and see if your entire generation will not go for it. It is a promise...

who are you sef?? you dey craze?? is better you ignore me....you can not handle the darkside.......... angry angry angry angry
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by tsdarkside(m): 7:57pm On Jul 20, 2015
Leadn:


I'm not your average Igbo dude sire... I really don't like dissing folks, but someone come running into my mention spewing thrash, I have to say something too...

uhhh...calling me sir....i was never called sire in my entire life before....everybody hates me...
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by tsdarkside(m): 8:00pm On Jul 20, 2015
Sincere4u:

You were mistaken, that paranoid you quoted called tsdarkside isn't a yoruba but one pathetic and senselessly MAD Urhobo nerd fanning the flames for trouble between the Igbos and yorubas. The guy is so MADE IN EVIL and should be ignored.

Sincere4u,Sincere4u,Sincere4u,,,,,go finger fvck yourself.... grin grin grin grin
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by logica(m): 1:40am On Jul 21, 2015
xtrorse:

who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW.
LMAO. Honestly, it is hard to keep it civil with when you have somebody struggling with mental instability and such. But I will try.

So, "Operation Wet i e" was restricted to the South West. Let's now analyze a few facts:

1. What does it have to do with the South East? This was anarchy restricted to the South West; why was it soldiers mostly from the South East that took it upon themselves to "liberate" the South West? Maybe the poster is not aware that we operated a regional government where each region was to all intents and purposes independent of each other. So, were the South Easterners "big brothers" to the South West? Perish the thought; considering the South West's long history and greater political sophistication. Conclusion: only a madman would think January 1966 coup had anything to do with "Operation Wet i e"; two Yoruba factions were warring and killing each other; it was NONE OF THE BUSINESS of the Igbos.
2. What was Major Ademoyega's involvement in the January 1966 coup? Once again (speaking to the sound of mind), Ademoyega was the last of the recruits considered the "planners" of the January 1966 coup. Questions abound:
Q: What was his role?
A: He was the "coordinator" of the coup. He was the FIRST Intelligence Officer in the Nigerian Army. Without him, coordination of the coup across various regions would not have been possible.
Q: Were there any alternatives to Ademoyega?
A: Long and short answer: there were none. He was the ONLY Nigerian Officer with Signals and Operations TRAINING.
Q: What was used to induce Ademoyega?
A: He was sold the C0ck and Bull story that Awolowo would be installed as president on the success of the coup.
Q: How could Awolowo be installed president and what are the expected preliminary steps?
A: Speaking of standard military strategy, for Awolowo to have been installed president, he needed to be jail-broken from Calabar Prison. If a person is a high-value target, he needs to be safe-guarded before the operations begin.
Q: Was there any attempt to jail-break Awolowo from Calabar Prison?
A: Obviously, no significant operations took place in the whole of the South East; talk less of South South or Calabar Prison.
Q: Why were there only Yoruba and Northern casualties (except for one) despite the proclamation that the coup was precipitated by the South West?
A: I guess the best answer is, this is nothing but "Igbo Logic". Various men (and their wives) in the South West and North were murdered by soldiers of South Eastern extraction; these men had nothing to do with "Operation Wet i e" but they were murdered. It does boggle the mind when anyone (barring mental instability) will connect the pattern of murders to "Operation Wet i e". As a matter of fact, Nnamdi Azikiwe had more to do with the instability in the South West than any of the casualties, but he was conveniently out of the country (never mind that he is a cousin of Major Ifeajuna).
Q: Why did Ademoyega fight with Ifeajuna when they met after the latter returned from Ghana where he fled (familiar isn't it)?
A: Because the former finally realized how much of a f00l he was. He was sold a story (of installing Awolowo as president), and he bought it hook, line and sinker (and maybe even fisherman's arm).
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by Nobody: 5:32am On Jul 21, 2015
logica:

LMAO. Honestly, it is hard to keep it civil with when you have somebody struggling with mental instability and such. But I will try.

So, "Operation Wet i e" was restricted to the South West. Let's now analyze a few facts:

1. What does it have to do with the South East? This was anarchy restricted to the South West; why was it soldiers mostly from the South East that took it upon themselves to "liberate" the South West? Maybe the poster is not aware that we operated a regional government where each region was to all intents and purposes independent of each other. So, were the South Easterners "big brothers" to the South West? Perish the thought; considering the South West's long history and greater political sophistication. Conclusion: only a madman would think January 1966 coup had anything to do with "Operation Wet i e"; two Yoruba factions were warring and killing each other; it was NONE OF THE BUSINESS of the Igbos.
2. What was Major Ademoyega's involvement in the January 1966 coup? Once again (speaking to the sound of mind), Ademoyega was the last of the recruits considered the "planners" of the January 1966 coup. Questions abound:
Q: What was his role?
A: He was the "coordinator" of the coup. He was the FIRST Intelligence Officer in the Nigerian Army. Without him, coordination of the coup across various regions would not have been possible.
Q: Were there any alternatives to Ademoyega?
A: Long and short answer: there were none. He was the ONLY Nigerian Officer with Signals and Operations TRAINING.
Q: What was used to induce Ademoyega?
A: He was sold the C0ck and Bull story that Awolowo would be installed as president on the success of the coup.
Q: How could Awolowo be installed president and what are the expected preliminary steps?
A: Speaking of standard military strategy, for Awolowo to have been installed president, he needed to be jail-broken from Calabar Prison. If a person is a high-value target, he needs to be safe-guarded before the operations begin.
Q: Was there any attempt to jail-break Awolowo from Calabar Prison?
A: Obviously, no significant operations took place in the whole of the South East; talk less of South South or Calabar Prison.
Q: Why were there only Yoruba and Northern casualties (except for one) despite the proclamation that the coup was precipitated by the South West?
A: I guess the best answer is, this is nothing but "Igbo Logic". Various men (and their wives) in the South West and North were murdered by soldiers of South Eastern extraction; these men had nothing to do with "Operation Wet i e" but they were murdered. It does boggle the mind when anyone (barring mental instability) will connect the pattern of murders to "Operation Wet i e". As a matter of fact, Nnamdi Azikiwe had more to do with the instability in the South West than any of the casualties, but he was conveniently out of the country (never mind that he is a cousin of Major Ifeajuna).
Q: Why did Ademoyega fight with Ifeajuna when they met after the latter returned from Ghana where he fled (familiar isn't it)?
A: Because the former finally realized how much of a f00l he was. He was sold a story (of installing Awolowo as president), and he bought it hook, line and sinker (and maybe even fisherman's arm).

N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.


"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.

YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido 
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
   * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
    * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
    * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)...
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/


REMI FANI KAYODE, AKINTOLA, AWOLOWO, WESTERN REGION AND THE CRISIS THAT TRUNCATED THE FIRST REPUBLIC

These captains of the “tribalism industry” have good incentives to always omit the causes of the January 1966 coup preferring instead to dwell only on the coup itself. The reason  is simple;  It was  in their own  Western region  then known as the “wild wild west”  that  election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other  forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness that occasioned the January 1966 coup  took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.

Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi  Awolowo became embroiled in a protracted crisis. By 1962 the crisis led to sustained violence and acts of lawlessness with law makers engaged in vicious physical combats in the Western regional parliament. Amongst serious injuries and other damages, the mace of office was broken.  The federal government intervened to curb the lawlessness and violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointing Dr Moses Majekodunmi as interim premier of the Western region on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of lawlessness. Following an alliance between Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Ladoke Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Ladoke Akintola.

By 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed.  By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government   and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).


In 1964, federal elections became due. As usual ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Remi Kayode and Akintola’s campaign was as usual almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, it was massively rigged in the Western region. Indeed deputy premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections.  Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.

Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.

The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966.
At the same time that the Western region was aflame the Eastern region was calm and democratic. Unlike the Western region there were no cases of election rigging, thuggery or other such acts of lawlessness in the East. In the North there was sporadic violence in the TIV division which was put down by the military.

Of all the regions, the western region was torn the most by crisis and acts of lawlessness which eventually occasioned the coup. If the leadership of the Western region had played by the rules and avoided the infighting, the election rigging, the thuggery, the  planning of a coup in 1963, the  arson, the mass murders and other  such corrupt acts and vices  many of which were being  introduced for the first time  in Nigeria  and which incidentally continues to haunt the nation to date, there would have been no coup and Nigeria would no doubt have immensely benefited from  a  functional democracy  devoid of election rigging, thuggery and violence as it obtains  in many progressive nations around the world.

The leadership of the Western region in conspiracy with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello are singularly responsible for the events and crisis that truncated the first republic and ruined the nation.

Those who carried out the coup choose to act out of genuine anger and frustration at the carnage in the Western region.  Whatever the demerits of the coup, It is obvious the coupists had nothing to gain other than the patriotic urge to end the corruption and lawlessness that had taken hold of the nation particularly the Western region.


Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are  some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers  who peddle  the propaganda  of  colouring  an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals  very similar to that of  Flt Lt  Jerry Rawlings  in a tribal garb. In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings led a coup that eliminated three former heads of state, top military officers and top members of the judiciary. Not one of those killed was from Jerry Rawlings Ewe tribe, but Ghanaians didn’t spew tribalism into the coup and Ghana is better for it. With too many vultures and opportunists...preying on tribalism in Nigeria the story was bound to be different and thus a coup driven out of patriotism and obvious anger at the state of affairs was reconstructed as an Igbo coup and the worms were let out from the woodwork.


JANUARY 1966 COUP

Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January coup. His book ‘Why We Struck’ gives insight into the coup’s antecedents; planning; modus operandi and partial success. Any study of January 15 that ignores Ademoyega’s book is incomplete.

In a September 5 2010 interview with ‘The Nation’ newspaper, Matthew Mbu, then a Junior Defence Minister, narrated how, at an Air Force base in Kaduna on an official assignment on 5 January 1966, he was bluntly told by Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun that the military was going to sack the government. Ademulegun made no bones about their plan to shoot key members of the political class, notably Chief Okotie-Eboh, the Minister for Finance.

... the killing of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe is attributed to his possession and non-surrender of the Lagos armoury keys to the plotters.
As professional soldiers the plotters knew this. Going by the accounts of Ademoyega and Gbulie who wrote ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors,’ what the plotters desperately needed were armoured vehicles to consolidate their gains in Lagos on January 15.

In page 60 of his book, Ademoyega mentioned Unegbe as one of the officers he and his colleagues had marked down for arrest.

Northern officers and men were involved, especially at the execution stage. Max Silloun, the military historian, mentions them in his landmark online article ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2.’ It can be accessed from most search engines. Prominent among these Northern officers was the then Lieutenant John Atom Kpera who later became the Benue State governor in the Babangida regime. Kpera participated in the coup under Captain Ben Gbulie, Nzeogwu’s right hand-man in Kaduna. (See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

Although Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18). Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’ There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.


http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by HungerBAD: 6:48am On Jul 21, 2015
Is Alexander Madiebo still living?if yes. Where is he now? done Google search on him and the answer was not given.

I just ordered his book "The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War" from Amazon minutes ago. I also bought " Why We Struck" by Ademoyega,from the MM2 last year on a visit home.

I want to read The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War, before i will start making informed analysis.

And why did Philip Effiong say,Ojukwu was a dictator, you know. It wasn’t always easy or safe to oppose his ways or his will. The best one could do was to point out the dangers to Ojukwu. But if you didn’t know when to stop shooting your mouth he could quite easily throw you in detention?

The Biafra story is a complicated story. I have been reading different books, from different versions about the war and still, its not clear to me why that war was even fought at all.

Let me keep gathering all my books together, maybe one day they will make sense to me.
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by Leadn(m): 7:46am On Jul 21, 2015
tsdarkside:


uhhh...calling me sir....i was never called sire in my entire life before....everybody hates me...


Lol... Not everybody sire.
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by logica(m): 8:51am On Jul 21, 2015
xtrorse:

Blah blah blah...and more blah
Has anybody noticed how this, character just posts loads of copy and paste junk that never really address questions raised in the quoted post?

OK, let me make it short: How did "Operation Wet i e" concern or involve Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and Anuforo who were the foremost planners? Was it because they loved the Yorubas so much and had to act on their behalf? And in so doing murder Yorubas like Ademulegun, Ademulegun's pregnant wife, Sodeinde, and Northern soldiers like Maimalari?

So, what was the purpose of defining "Operation Wet i e"? Does that answer the question of why Igbo soldiers were the foremost planners of the January 1966 coup?

According to official police report of the coup’s investigation.

In August 1965, three officers, Major Okafor, Major Ifeajuna and Captain Oji who were already dissatisfied with political developments in the Federation and the impact of these developments on the Army, held series of discussions between them about the matter and set about the task of searching for other officers who held views similar to their own and who could, eventually, be trusted to join them in the enterprise of staging a military coup d'etat.

In September 1965, Major I. H. Chukwuka of Nigerian Army Headquarters Lagos was persuaded to join the group of conspirators, followed in October 1965 by Major C. I. Anuforo, also of the Army headquarters.

Major Chukwuma. Kaduna. Nzeogwu was brought in around that time through the efforts of Major Anuforo, an old friend of both Majors Nzeogwu and Okafor. Major Nzeogwu in turn secured the support for the plan of Major A. Ademoyega who had worked with him in the Nigerian Army Training College Kaduna.
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by Nobody: 9:10am On Jul 21, 2015
logica:
Has anybody noticed how this, character just posts loads of copy and paste junk that never really address questions raised in the quoted post?

OK, let me make it short: How did "Operation Wet i e" concern or involve Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and Anuforo who were the foremost planners? Was it because they loved the Yorubas so much and had to act on their behalf? And in so doing murder Yorubas like Ademulegun, Ademulegun's pregnant wife, Sodeinde, and Northern soldiers like Maimalari?

So, what was the purpose of defining "Operation Wet i e"? Does that answer the question of why Igbo soldiers were the foremost planners of the January 1966 coup?


N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.


"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Parasitic ingrate, it's time you reevaluated your reasoning faculty and silly ways to see the extent of your cerebral palsy and blindness occasioned by the overdose pills of treacheery and tribalism you have taken from your bigotic forbears starting from Awolowo. 

For repetition sake you can find sources of my previous posts as quoted therein: 

* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by  Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.

* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2

* 'Nigeria’s Five Majors’ - book by Ben Gbulie

* Major General Alexander Madiebo - excerpts from his interview with National Mirror
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/13104-blame-gowon-and-awolowo-for-biafra-genocide-general-madiebo

* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega 

* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108

* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.

 * Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. 

* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)

* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

* http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and it will go a long way in restraining you and your lots from embarrassing your 'sophisticated' tribe in the public domain, in this age of information technology. 


Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.

At the time of the coup, the Igbo by virtue of hardwork were dominant in Nigeria. About 70% of the officer corps of the Nigerian  army were Igbo, the federal civil service had a large Igbo retinue, the first indigenous permanent secretary  Mr Francis Nwokedi, the first president of the Nigerian stock exchange Sir Louis Ojukwu, the first indigenous general officer  commanding the Nigerian army General  Aguiyi  Ironsi,  the first indigenous Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan  professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike,  the  first Vice  Chancellor of the University of Lagos professor Eni Njoku, the second president of the Nigerian senate  Nwafor  Orizu, first governor General of Nigeria  Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe  amongst so many other top scale posts  in the public and private  sector were held by the  Igbo. Two of Nigeria’s four regions namely, the Midwest and Eastern region were controlled by Chief Dennis Osadebay and Dr Micheal Okpara both Igbo.


YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido 
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
   * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
    * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
    * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)...
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by babadee1(m): 3:02pm On Jul 22, 2015
fr3do:


If Biafrans leave, do you expect the Urhobos, yorubas and Ijaws to remain with the Hausa-fulanis and kanuris?

Yes I expect every other tribe to stay as one Nigeria. Not everybody wants to break up the country like you, even many Igbos don't want Nigeria to break up.
Re: Court Determines Suit Between Nigeria, Biafra On Sept 22 -daily Sun by Nobody: 11:38pm On Nov 09, 2015
egift:


All well-meaning Ndigbo are distancing themselves that hate filled contraption, yet you are still getting drunk in that radio coolaid.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2644398_cknqalcwwaatba_jpegef13d1fafdfea81e9482276749a28ee4

Here is the fraudster enjoying The Donations - will his minions are drowning in Poverty.
Don't tell me you did not see the Hausa attire he is wearing grin grin grin grin

RadioDirector my foot.


Useless,brainless and nonsense particles .....

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