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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 10:28am On Sep 25, 2015
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VirginFinder:


You are a recalcitrant,
semi-literate bastard.

Zik was a figurehead! He had no powers! And he never had a GCFR!
Tafawa Balew was in charge at the time.

Awo:owo on the other hand was awarded a post-humous GCFR.

Cant you google these things to the verify them?

Must you argue like like a moronnn

If Yorubas didnt vote OBJ for a second term, then who did they vote? Cant you just answer that?

Yorubas gained immensely from OBJ's tenure. When will ibos ever have an executive president that they can benefit from? When?
Doesnt that automaitically make you slaves in the Nigerian union?

And yes, OBJ imposed GEJ on sick YarAdua to totally destroy any hope of ibos ever smelling the presidency.

Now that the presidency is beyond reach, you are crying and for the VP seat. But this too will forever elude the ibos going by GEJ's example.

Economically, which ibo man dead or alive can measure up to Adenuga, Otedola, Kola Aluko, Folorunsho Alakija, Elizade, Oyedepo, Adeboye etc etc Too many to mention

See the attention HID's death is getting. Did Zik/Ojukwu's get half as much?

From VP in 1979 to DSP in 2015, ibos are on a gradual decline to outright slavery in the country. I wish goodspeed.

Lest I forget, Saraki quarrelled with his father in 2007 over his sister's ambition to become governor after him. It got so bad, the father had to leave the PDP for him.
Can you now see that you are are a dullard with very small memory?

ibos are the hopeless slaves of Nigeria looking for freedem via Biafra.
Osinbajo will still rule you slaves.

What a hopeless tribe, the ibos!
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Trash!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 10:29am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


IGBOS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE PRESIDENCY OR POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS TO SURVIVE AND EXCEL! 

The Great Igbo Nation have fared far better than the regions of the criminal gang who raped and wrecked this false union to plunge her into the current cesspit.

The calibre of leaders Yorrobers have presented to Nigerians are simply bunch of squandermanias and treasury looters - MKO AbiOLE, Grand Commander of Frustrated Robbers OLEsegun Obj, Thief-nubu, Fashole, ShOLEkan

Wailing bastard, you are a pathological liar!
ibos shameless started thronging Buhari's residence immediately after he became president-elect to solicit and beg for appointments.
Why were ibos wailing that none of them was given an elective position in APC?
The ibos were so pained that a non-ranking ibo APC rep went to court on the matter. What was fighting for? A paltry deputy chief whip!
Didnt he eventually lose out to Gbaja who got House Leadership?

What a shameless,senseless and hopeless tribe, the ibos!

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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 10:30am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, you are a pathological liar!
ibos shameless started thronging Buhari's residence immediately after he became president-elect to solicit and beg for appointments.
Why were ibos wailing that none of them was given an elective position in APC?
The ibos were so pained that a non-ranking ibo APC rep went to court on the matter. What was fighting for? A paltry deputy chief whip!
Didnt he eventually lose out to Gbaja who got House Leadership?

What a shameless,senseless and hopeless tribe, the ibos!

Disgruntled Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions from a lying generation of ritual-killers, I understand your miserable plight as a shameless ass-lickers who stand for nothing.

Read and receive some sense from one of your reasonable folks:

COMRADE ADIGUN wrote on Oduduwa Nation "I always feel ashamed for myself as a Yoruba. Some will ask me why and my answer will be how would a people asking for Regional Autonomy and fiscal federalism be saying that what every Federal Government of Nigeria has been stealing from the Niger-Delta people and the others belong to “us”.The oil&gas from the Niger-Delta do not belong to the Yoruba People, it belong to the people of the Niger-delta, while that of Ondo is the real of that of Yorubas. The ones in Imo, Anambra and Abia belong to the Igbo- Biafrans, while none belong to those who did not have. It is retrogressive for any Yoruba to accept the above dubious situations as pre-condition for them to continue to be Nigerians and be using similar ungodly claims to demand for good governance from a natural resources that is not natural
theirs. If Yoruba must be heroes, we must leave Nigeria as faster as possible and stop antagonizing others that also have indicated they also want to leave."

Bunch of bile-filled, greedy, selfish, tribalistic, treacheerous, backstabbing and hypocritical parasites!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 10:31am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:
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Trash!
Wailing bastard, I know that was harsh. Sorry.
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 10:40am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, I know that was harsh.
Sorry.

Frustrated Yorrobber clown, as far as the Igbos are concerned you remain a piss in the wind!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 10:42am On Sep 25, 2015
Kagawa10:

You dey mind @onenaira3!
Who voted Zik to be head of states? None but the british!
Are the British Nigerian? No!
Yet ibo are joyous over someone that aint a president! Lol!

That onenaira guy is a moronn!
Just look at how he is desperately trying to make something of a mere ceremonial president, a figurehead.
Who doesnt know that in a parliamentary system of govt the Prime Minister holds all the power?
Well, being the semi-literate person that he is, maybe he didnt know.
A VP is even far better since he can step into the shoes of the president the moment he becomes unavailable.
Can a figurehead do that?

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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 10:42am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

That onenaira guy is a moronn!
Just look at how he is desperately trying to make something of a mere ceremonial president, a figurehead.
Who doesnt know that in a parliamentary system of govt the Prime Minister holds all the power?
Well, being the semi-literate person that he is, maybe he didnt know.
A VP is even far better since he can step into the shoes of the president the moment he becomes unavailable.
Can a figurehead do that?

Frustrated cretin, stop making unnecessary noise. Far back in 1979-83 an Igboman occupied the post of VP.
So, why fouling the air with your unwashed mouth this morning?
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 10:54am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Disgruntled Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions from a lying generation of ritual-killers, I understand your miserable plight as a shameless ass-lickers who stand for nothing.

Read and receive some sense from one of your reasonable folks:

COMRADE ADIGUN wrote on Oduduwa Nation "I always feel ashamed for myself as a Yoruba. Some will ask me why and my answer will be how would a people asking for Regional Autonomy and fiscal federalism be saying th


Wailing bastard, I thought you said ibos were never interested in political appointments or elective positions? Idddiot!

Comrade Adigun is a nobody. Every tribe has its separatist elements.
You'll be surprised that not all northerners are happy to in the union.
Arent Boko Haram fighting for their own Islamic state? You think they dont have the backing of some northerners?

Even in the US and UK, some groups want out.

So say something else.

Dullard!!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 10:56am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, I thought you said ibos were never interested in political appointments or elective positions? Idddiot!

Comrade Adigun is a nobody. Every tribe has its separatist elements.
You'll be surprised that not all northerners are happy to in the union.
Arent Boko Haram fighting for their own Islamic state? You think they dont have the backing of some northerners?

Even in the US and UK, some groups want out.

So say something else.

Dullard!!

Frustrated disciple of slavery, hate and propaganda, I repeat:
IGBOS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE PRESIDENCY OR POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS TO SURVIVE AND EXCEL!

Confused bigot, your shameless ass-licking Yorrobbers have shown over the years to stand for nothing.

And after 45 years of the Biafran war, your entire Yoruba tribe that is filled with loud-mouthed, 'suffersticated' and diabolic cowards dare not think of it, not to mention trying what a 30 year old Ojukwu did.

Tell your Yoruba bigots to grow some balls and stop ass-licking your Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri slave masters and using some other regions to shield your cowardly mien. It's pathetic!

Scallywag!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 10:59am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Frustrated cretin, stop making unnecessary noise. Far back in 1979-83 an Igboman occupied the post of VP.
So, why fouling the air with your unwashed mouth this morning?

Wailing bastard, where did the ibo man VP end after the coup?
What did he do to be thrown behind bars while his master, Shagari was given a mere house arrest? A man said to have left the govt poorer than he entered it.

Isnt that evidence enough that ibos are mere slaves of the Nigerian state?

From VP in 1979 to DSP in 2015, are you not on a path to outright political extinction?

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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:01am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Frustrated Yorrobber clown, as far as the Igbos are concerned you remain a piss in the wind!

Ehya, pele!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:06am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, where did the ibo man VP end after the coup?
What did he do to be thrown behind bars while his master, Shagari was given a mere house arrest? A man said to have left the govt poorer than he entered it.

Isnt that evidence enough that ibos are mere slaves of the Nigerian state?

From VP in 1979 to DSP in 2015, are you not on a path to outright political extinction?

The Igbos defended themselves against world powers-backed Nigeria with Egyptian bombers, and the war lasted about three years but when the big mouthed Yoruba tribe tried their gra-gra in 1993, it did not even last two days. 

And it took just one Abacha to silence the most successful man from the suffersticated and diabolic Yoruba tribe, MKO Abiola - the Field Marshall of Odua Kingdom and nothing happened. Fact#

Need I remind you also of how a Yoruba Army General, Oladipo Diya, wept like a kid before a junior officer because he was afraid of his life...after wilfully and knowingly plotting a coup?

If you are even worth your silly rantings, you should have installed an Oba in Ilorin. But since you couldn't, you remain a piss in the wind!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:06am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Ehya, pele!

Did you clean your bum-bum after using the toilet this morning and you came here fouling the air with your rotten substance?
C'mon go clean your smelly rear orifice! Dirty swine!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:09am On Sep 25, 2015
onenaira3:


Adekunle that never actually went to battle ground and took the credit of his subordinate as well as your obasanjo that lost over a 1000 men in a day and once again had absolutely no idea how to command soldiers underneath him and had to depend on his second in command to do so? grin grin grin

Go and read Alabi-Isama book, the second in command , for both Adekunle and obasanjo...both were weak @ss f2kers that never knew how to fight nor actually fought...the only thin

Arrant, unsubstantiated, unverifiable and baseless nonsense.

The facts are there. The world knows them.

Adekunle started the merciless massacre of Biafraudians while Obasanjo completed it. They both used Hausa/Fulanis to do the dirty job.

Can any reasonable person dispute the fact that the Biafraudians surrounded to Obasanjo at Amichi?

That you are even using another Yoruba man's words as defence say a lot about your slave status.

Wailing bastard!

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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:15am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:


Arrant, unsubstantiated, unverifiable and baseless nonsense.

The facts are there. The world knows them.

Adekunle started the merciless massacre of Biafraudians while Obasanjo completed it. They both used Hausa/Fulanis to do the dirty job.

Can any reasonable person dispute the fact that the Biafraudians surrounded to Obasanjo at Amichi?

That you are even using another Yoruba man's words as defence say a lot about your slave status.

Wailing bastard!

An entire generation of your forbears were lead to their watery graves at Onitsha in 1967. A Fulani islamist Murtala Mohamed led a 102 -vehicle convoy of you twats to their early graves at Abagana and he escaped with his useless legs blown apart, leaving him limping until he was finished off by Dimka in the street in 1976.

Benjamin Adekunle, the Black Scorpion, ate his own excrement, begging Igbos to pay his medical bill to ease his pains until he chose death in 2014. This is the same Adekunle, the great warrior of Yaribanza people, who mocked the pope, Red Cross, Caritas, World Council of Churches, UN etc.

A new generation of Ojukwu is now poised to kick your behind relentlessly and utterly. If you doubt it enter the streets of Lagos and test your capabilities putting you online reckless rantings to test and see if your entire generation will not go for it. This is no threat but a promise...

Bunch of greedy, parasitic ingrates!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:17am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Frustrated disciple of slavery, hate and propaganda, I repeat:
IGBOS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE PRESIDENCY OR POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS TO SURVIVE AND EXCEL!

Confused bigot, your shameless ass-licking Yorrobbers have shown over the years to stand for nothing.

And after 45 years of the Biafran war, your entire Yoruba tribe that is filled with loud-mouthed, 'suffersticated' and diabolic cowards dare not think of it, not to mention trying what a 30 year old Ojukwu di

Wailing bastard, na by force to secede? Na wa o.

Only a moronn like you will not realise that Yorubas actually run the country.
Why settle for less? We need more space for expansion.

ibos are the slaves looking for freedom from Nigeria. Your freedom lies in our hands. You better be humble and beg for it.
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:19am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Did you clean your bum-bum after using the toilet this morning and you came here fouling the air with your rotten substance?
C'mon go clean your smelly rear orifice! Dirty swine!

Wailing bastard, sorry for the asswhooping. But I just cant stop.
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:20am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, sorry for the asswhooping. But I just cant stop.

Frustrated Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions, whining, weeping and wailing in perpetuity on account of the unavoidable, impending doom at their doorsteps...
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:21am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, na by force to secede? Na wa o.

Only a moronn like you will not realise that Yorubas actually run the country.
Why settle for less? We need more space for expansion.

ibos are the slaves looking for freedom from Nigeria. Your freedom lies in our hands. You better be humble and beg for it.

You stated that Yorrobbers run the country but just at the mere mention of Biaf... your cowardly tribe whine, weep and wail on every media page with thick mucous dripping down your smelly noses as if your whole essence in life is being taken away from you.

And worst still see how your slave masters treat you:

"And let me tell you that in the event of the breakup of this country, Ilorin and Offa will remain 100 % Northern Nigeria and not one inch of land will be ceded to yorubas".- Junaid Mohammed.
http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/69271-north-ready-nigeria-s-breakup-if-junaid-muhammed.html
Your Fulani slave master has spoken, Yorrobber slaves like your loudmouthed self can only but cheer him. It's your destiny on earth.  grin grin

Your slave masters, whom you shamelessly ass-lick as if without them Yorrobbers are worthless, don't even consider Yorubbish Muslims as equals but inferior beings.  
The same Fulani herdsmen have been hunting Yorrobers for sport for decades. And few days ago about 20 Fulanis had the guts to kidnap Olu Falae (from his farm in Ondo State) and hold him in bondage for a ransom of N100m, and 200 bloody cowards like you in the farm can only but watch and later take to the Internet to rant uselessly.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/how-fulani-herdsmen-abducted-olu-falae/
https://www.nairaland.com/2615875/how-fulani-herdsmen-abducted-olu

dejavski:
Am ilaje and I support BIAFRA... though in a peaceful manner.
I have come to realise that most yorubas are really scared of secession but they won't admit it

Quote me anywhere
tunjion:
The truth is we yorubas should stop opening thread to speak for south south minority.

Biafra from wat i read is not by force. Igbos in Edo such as the igbanke and Ika are Biafrans without doubt.

Other Edo ethnic group might even be rejected by Biafra. Some will end up applying to join.

Sentiment aside, they might feel Hausa and Yoruba will dominate them if they remain in Nigeria
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by uwa1(m): 11:26am On Sep 25, 2015
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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by ArodewilliamsT: 11:26am On Sep 25, 2015
Kastonkastroll:
The tension between us and these strangers is seriously taking another dangerous dimension. let's just go to the boxing ring and fight it out..... I personally can take on 15 to 20 ibos alone. undecided


grin


See this HIV patient wan fight for boxing ring? with that chicken lap you call a fist. Anyway i'm currently working on your pix, so that people will see kpanla fish that want to fight. cheesy

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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:27am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


An entire generation of your forbears were lead to their watery graves at Onitsha in 1967. A Fulani islamist Murtala Mohamed led a 102 -vehicle convoy of you twats to their early graves at Abagana and he escaped with his useless legs blown apart, leaving him limping until he was finished off by Dimka in the street in 1976.

Benjamin Adekunle, the Black Scorpion, ate his own excrement, begging Igbos to pay his medical bill to ease his pains until he chose death in 2

Wailing bastard, I addressed this sometimes yesterday.
Come up, give me something new.
I dont serve my cabbage twice. Go back and read my previous response. It's similar to what you just quoted, though.
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:29am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Frustrated Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions, whining, weeping and wailing in perpetuity on account of the unavoidable, impending doom at their doorsteps...

Wailing bastard, this is part-stale. Try harder! Try harder!!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:33am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, this is part-stale. Try harder! Try harder!!

Deluded cretin, you still remain shameless ass-lickers!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Tex42(m): 11:34am On Sep 25, 2015
Kagawa10:

Awolowo had no contract of agreement with any stinking ibo to support them! He has the right to choose whoever he wants to support!
As a matter of fact, the decision to support the North was made easier once the greedy coward, Ojukwu invaded Ore, Auchi and Benin which were all neutral grounds!
So, don't blame Awolowo, blame your coward hero for betraying Yoruba by invading our land!
OK I have read ur rants, can u move on now!...

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Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:35am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, I addressed this sometimes yesterday.
Come up, give me something new.
I dont serve my cabbage twice. Go back and read my previous response. It's similar to what you just quoted, though.

Deluded cretin, your lying generation of ritual-killers stand for nothing!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by laudate: 11:39am On Sep 25, 2015
Godwin Alabi-Isama has dual heritage. His mother was a Yoruba woman from Ilorin, while his father was from Utagbo Uno in Delta State.

The Tragedy of Victory by Godwin Alabi-Isama :

Alabi-Isama’s Tragedy of Victory is perhaps the first book that I have read with five forewords. The first is by Nowa Omoigui, a US-based MD and an acknowledged military historian. The second is by the Emir of Ilorin, the paramount ruler of the birthplace of the author’s mother. The third is by Major General Adeyinka Adebayo who recruited Alabi-Isama into the Army. The fourth and, in my view, the most informative , is by General Yakubu Gowon, Alabi-Isama’s Commander-in Chief during the war. The fifth is by Madiebo, the Commander of the Biafran Army. Strangely, the fourth and fifth forewords are deliberately omitted in some print versions!

.....In a country where one’s fortune is often shaped by accident of birth, Alabi-Isama‘s dual ethnic parentage turned out to be of mixed blessing. He was born and raised by a Yoruba Muslim woman from Ilorin in the geopolitical North. His father, a Christian from Utagbo Uno in current Delta State, died when Alabi-Isama was virtually a toddler. So Alabi-Isama grew up as Abdul Rahman Alabi, a Muslim from the North. This northern affiliation aided his smooth enlistment into the military as the strict education requirement was relaxed for northerners.

.....However, the doubt about his ‘northern allegiance’ crept in early on in his career when he, in a Mosaic-like move, facilitated safe repatriation of several northern-based soldiers of southern origin to the South to escape this 1966/67 mayhem. With this act, he became a ‘marked enemy’ of some northern troops, and so he relocated to the Midwest. .....

As a federal soldier, when he was captured by the Biafran army, he was just re-kitted and recruited into the seceding army instead of being killed; his most likely fate if he had been identified as a ‘northern’ soldier. He later deserted the Biafran Army and rejoined the federal side, after which he was wrongly jailed at Kirikiri maximum prison for suspicious treasonable activities.

This ‘illegal’ imprisonment also turned out to be a saving grace as he could have lost his life along with several federal troops who perished while attempting to cross Asaba River under the command of Murtala Mohammed 2nd Division during the war. However, the shifting allegiance finally caught up with Alabi-Isama as it appears that he eventually paid the price for ‘disowning the North’ as his military career cratered. At age 37, he was ultimately dismissed from the Army as a one-star general under his course-mate, the three-star General Danjuma, as the Chief of Army Staff.

The central objective of the Tragedy of Victory is to give a detailed account of the activities of the 3rd Marine Commando Division (3MCDO) that the author claims was largely responsible for winning the war. He also debunks the alleged inaccuracies in Obasanjo’s book.

According to the author, he had twin crowning moments during the war; the first as the architect and executor of the strategy for capturing Port Harcourt from their Calabar base and the other as the architect of the ‘Pincer Two’ strategy that Obasanjo dubbed ‘Operation Tail Wind’ used to end the war. For the first achievement, Adekunle, the then 3MCDO Commander, endorsed this ‘wandering Israelites- in-the wilderness’ strategy of attacking Port Harcourt from the ‘480 Km’ base in Calabar, instead of Adekunle’s original strategy of doing so from the much closer Bonny that is 80km away. For the second achievement, while Alabi-Isama had been transferred out of 3MCDO by Obasanjo who replaced Adekunle as its Commander, author claims that Obasanjo eventually employed[i] ‘Pincer Two’[/i] strategy that forced Biafran surrender, but not before his costly misadventure in Ohoba.

The greatest strength of the Tragedy of Victory is the richness of its illustrations. The breadth of its war pictures appears to be unmatched in any of the existing literature on Nigerian civil war. Alabi-Isama should feel exceedingly proud for being able to preserve these photographs, especially since they were taken at the time when computerized digitalization of images was a rarity. Equally noteworthy is the superb prowess of the author in recordkeeping, which made his detailed accounting appear as if the war has just ended. The discussion of the strategies and tactics employed in prosecuting the war should provide valuable insights for military strategists and scholars. The author persuasively argues his case on why his recollection should be considered more credible than the ‘fiction’ presented in My Command. The ample evidence he provides via photographic images makes the arguments in the Tragedy of Victory more compelling. On the flip side, there are noticeable shortcomings that could dumb down the value of the book.

First, the publisher did not do a masterful editorial job, given the plethora of spelling and grammatical errors that are avoidable in this era of computer-aided word processing tools with spell-checking functionalities. Furthermore, the arguments in the book are too repetitive to dampen enthusiasm quickly. In fact, a more careful editing with a view to eliminate these redundancies could possibly cut the tome by half without any significant loss in substance. Finally, several claims in the book stretch credulity. To illustrate, the various specified distances such as the 480-km Calabar to Port Harcourt are mindboggling unless they describe the typical non-linear movement of troops between locations. If this is the case, it ought to have been pointed out.

Looking into the substance of the contentious issues raised by the author vis-à-vis My Command, one is still not convinced that all the facts are fully disclosed. Rather, it appears that the truth is somewhere in-between these contrasting depositions. To start off, one recurring theme that runs through Alabi-Isama book is his contention that Obasanjo is an egoist who arrogates to himself the undeserved credit for the war victory while disregarding the contributions of others within and outside his Division. It is difficult to argue with this conclusion after reading My Command. Obasanjo can be likened to a closer of a baseball game who provides the save that preserves the lead, and secures the win. He could not claim all the glory.

However, like Gowon pointed out in the foreword, Obasanjo’s role could also not be diminished as the Commander who received the surrender instrument from the Biafran Army. Pertaining to the non-acknowledgement of the contribution of others, Obasanjo‘s behavior, selfish as it appeared, is not inconsistent with what other contemporary war heroes have done.

The information about those who were in the trenches with Generals Schwarzkopf and Petraeus is not a public knowledge either. On another issue, Alabi-Isama argues convincingly on the salutary roles played by the 3MCDO ladies in the prosecution of the war and disagrees with Obasanjo’s decision to disband the unit. However, the author is silent as to whether these ladies also served as ‘comfort girls’ for the division’s officers; a development that would certainly undermine discipline and justify Obasanjo’s action.

While the author disputes the widespread looting allegation made by Obasanjo, he concedes that there were refrigerators, air conditioners, TV sets and similar pricey gadgets in the trenches of 3MCDO troops and that these items were being used as footstools for their waterlogged foxholes.
http://www.peoplesdailyng.com/tragedy-of-victoryi/
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:42am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Deluded cretin, your lying generation of ritual-killers stand for nothing!

Wailing bastard, that's another stale one.
Try harder!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:43am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, that's another stale one.
Try harder!

Frustrated Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions, your cowardly tribe stand for nothing!
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by VirginFinder: 11:49am On Sep 25, 2015
xtrorse:


Frustrated Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions, your cowardly tribe stand for nothing!

Wailing bastard, come up with something new.
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by SUBWAY101(m): 11:52am On Sep 25, 2015
ArodewilliamsT:



See this HIV patient wan fight for boxing ring? with that chicken lap you call a fist. Anyway i'm currently working on your pix, so that people will see kpanla fish that want to fight. cheesy

Amadi collins, you are making noise.
Re: Hoodlums Shut Down Alaba International Market On The Orders Of Tinubu's Daughter by Nobody: 11:52am On Sep 25, 2015
VirginFinder:

Wailing bastard, come up with something new.

Frustrated Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions, your generation of shameless ass-lickers stand for nothing!

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