Lekan Abayomi, New York

I was born in 1975. I grew up believing that
the Hausa/Fulani of Nigeria were a very
intolerant ethnic group of people.

That the Hausas were so wicked they simply
picked on Igbos in Nigeria living up North
and slaughtered them in droves. And that
the unprovoked massacre of Igbos in the
North prompted the Biafra secession event,
which again resulted in another Hausa
Muslim leadership-led slaughter and
genocide of Igbos in the South.

I believed for the first two decades of my
life that the Hausa Muslims for no reason
despised Igbos so much and that they ruled
Nigeria almost entirely throughout its 50
years post independence, never giving an
Igbo an opportunity to rule.

I associated Military rule and Military coups
with Muslim Northerners.

I even associated the North of Nigeria with
Islam and the South with Christianity.
‘Roughly divided’ between the two, as I
always read in the news.

Little did I know that I was wrong in almost
everything I grew up reading from the
Nigeria predominantly Southern press, and
European media.

They say that had Hitler won the war,
history today would have been written in his
favor. Perhaps the one great mistake the
Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri and all Northerners
ever made was not getting involved in
western media, press and propaganda.


No Beef Till ’66

Igbos draw first blood in 1966

All was going well in Nigeria, post 1960 independence, with Tafawa Balewa, aka, the golden voice of Africa, the Prime minister of the federation, and Nnamidi
Azikiwe the commander in chief and president, till January 1966.

In January 1966 an Igbo Major in the
Nigerian army, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu,
who was born in Kaduna and had such
family affinity to Kaduna, that he was
popularly called, ‘Kaduna Nzeogwu’, a
Catholic by faith decided to embark on a
mission that will change Nigeria’s history
forever.

In the early hours of January 15th, Kaduna
Nzeogwu disgruntled over a list of items with
the ruling political class and with disdain
for certain regionalists, led an army of
fellow Igbo Majors and a Yoruba,
Ademoyega Adewale, in a military coup
against the political leadership of Nigeria.
He and his team of Igbo comrades
murdered Nigeria’s top brass Hausas in that
Coup. Prime minister, Tafawa Balewa, a
federal minister and two top regional
premiers were among those murdered.

Kaduna Nzeogwu’s Igbo squad killed he
premier of the Northern and Western
regions but of course left the Igbo Eastern
premiere alive.

He killed the Finance minister, who was
Nigeria’s #3 man, but left the number #2
man.

The coup started failing when the ethnic
nature of it was noticed. Neogwu confronted
Captain Isong , the second-in-command at
the 1 Recce Squadron, on account of a
rumor that Isong was allegedly spreading in
the barracks about the ethnic coloration of
the unfolding events.

Azikiwe was left alive.

In essence Kaduna Nzeogwu’s coup was not a
coup against the establishment only, but a
targeted ethnic war, waged by himself and
his fellow Igbo patriots against the Hausa-
Fulani, who he grew up and served with.

Nzeogwu assassinated very many top
Northern brass. Included and very
significant was the Sardauna of Sokoto who
was shot dead with his wives too.

In the video below, late Kaduna Nzeogwu
describes how he plotted the coup and killed
the Sardauna.


Wikipedia- The killing of Brigadier Ademulegun’s pregnant wife by led to the suspicion among Yoruba and Hausa that the coupist were common criminals rather than Nationalistic patriots. Brigadier Ademulegun was a Yoruba officer. The premier of the
Northern region was killed, The premier of the West was killed, but the premier of the Eastern region where most of the plotters were from was forgotten. On the Federal level the Prime Minister was killed, the Finance Minister the number 3 man was killed but the number 2 man who “coincidentally” happened to be
from the same region as the plotters “escaped the killing”. The kid glove with which the new leader Ironsi handled the coupist led to the dissatisfaction of northern officers with Ironsi’s reluctance to courts-martial the coup plotters led to the counter- coup of July 29, 1966 which was led mainly by a group of junior Hausa-Fulani officers.

The coup plot failed and just before
midnight on January 16, following a
complex series of events, the GOC of the
Army, General Aguiyi Ironsi, also of Igbo
origin, preceded by a short statement by
acting President Nwafor Orizu, announced
that he was taking over the country
following an “invitation” from the Council of
Ministers.

Brigadier Ademulegun was shot dead in his
bed, head of the NMTC Colonel Ralph
Shodeinde was killed. Ifeajun in high
treachery murdered his boss, Brigadier
Maimalari.

The Igbo victim was, Lt-Col Arthur Unegbe.
Also killed was the highly unsung Itsekiri
Finance Minister Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh.
It is important to pint out at this juncture,
that Nigeria had been very peaceful. A
progressive, ethno-harmonious place, with
the only riots of note being some election
turmoil in the western Yoruba region of the
country and Tiv riots in the Middle-Belt.
Up until this time there was no major
Hausa-Igbo beef.

There were episodes pre-independence,
during colonial rule, triggered by the
machinations of colonialism, these included
the minor 1945 Amalgamation riots and the
1953 Igbo Military and political power
predominance riots. The colonialist gave
Igbos top positions in the Military. Indeed,
over all it must be noted that the prime
source of Nigeria’s ethnic disarray is
colonial. ‘Nigeria, made in the UK’, they
say.

Sardauna Was Premiere Of
North Only: It’s Stupid To
Expect Him To Talk Of One-
Nigeria During The Three Region
Federalism That Existed At The
Time

Important to mention that
Sardauna is often
mispresented. Sardauna was
not a leader of Nigeria but was
only leader over the northern
protectorate. So his statements
were about his northern region,
just as at the time Ojukwu
made even more
seditious statements about the
eastern region he presided
over. Sardauna’s utterances
must be listened to in context
of the then true Federation
with three autonomous parts.

Next Blunder- Aguiyi-Ironsi Dissolves
Regions

You see, growing up, I have blamed the
Hausas for so much. May the Almighty
forgive me.

Today the South of Nigeria are heard loudly
clamoring for a return to autonomic
regions. You are want to believe that it was
some Northern Muslim that dissolved this.

No.

The Igbo top commander and now first
military president of Nigeria, General Aguiyi
Ironsi, in a very careless and thoughtless
move, aimed at suppressing the Nzeogwu
ethnic coup sentiment and distrust, in his
brief six months of reign, dissolved the
regions.

So we ask the question- why did Aguiyi
Ironsi dissolve the regions and create a
Unitary republic?

This according to World News.com was ‘in a
bid to do away with the divisive tendencies
of Regionalism.’

At this stage, we can conclude the
following-

1. An Igbo man, Kaduna Nzeogwu embarked
on the first ethnic identifying campaign for
power

2. Same Igbo man, led the first provocative
and very painful attack and assassination
of top brass Hausa men.

3. An Igbo man disrupted our political
beginnings and introduced us to the
military rule aberration.

4. Another Igbo man, General Aguiyi Ironsi
clearly recognized the ethnic danger
provoked by the former.

5. The second Igbo man destroyed Nigeria’s
regional rule and initiated the Unitary
republic.

Evidently, the industrious Igbo
did not like Regionalism, this is
why they (Nzeogwu and Ironsi)
killed the Northern and Western
regional Premiers and
abrogated the three regions,
instituting a one-Nigeria to
enable free Igbo entrenchment
and trade outside the Eastern
region.

Deadly Mischief: A Loaf of Bread Draws
Second Blood

It was in May, during Aguiyi Ironsi’s reign
that the first of what is known today as
anti-Igbo riots occured.
According to the story, an Igbo bakery
made a loaf of bread, depicting Nzeogwu as
the Saint in the ‘Saint George and the
Dragon’ medieval crusader story, from the
7-11th century.

Advance our standards, set
upon our foes Our ancient world
of courage fair
St. George Inspire us with the
spleen of fiery dragons…..
Richard III. act v, sc.3. ”
“ Come not between the
Dragon and his wrath….. King
Lear. Act I, Sc 2 – William
Shakespeare

This depiction was highly provocative to a
welcoming Hausa-Fulani, still licking their
wounds and being hospitable, after an
unprovoked Igbo led military coup and
assassination of their finest.

This also while Nigeria was bleeding from
being thrown into its first military
government era. The military went on to
rule the nation for 13 straight years.

As I was saying, the loaf of bread had
Nzeogwu as Saint George, standing over
and killing Sardauna, who was depicted as
the bleeding dragon.

This triggered the first inter-ethnic crises
in the North. Igbos fled to the East, and
returned only later under guarantee of
their safety by president Ironsi. Some say
mischievous secessionist Igbos orchestrated
the pogroms to get their people home.

Later that year, in July, General Murtala
Muhammed, taking advantage of the
precedent, led a very bloody, 4-day coup
and overthrew the Ironsi Government.

At this stage, Igbos in the north were highly
targeted in outbreaks of ethnic violence.
Thousands were reportedly killed, though
the numbers can not be verified. And this
was the episode of the Igbo exodus to the
South.

I guess we can call this 3rd blood.
Listen To Mischievous
Seditious Igbos Plotting
Similar Provocations On
Radio Biafra Today

Biafra: Nigerian Civil War (1967–
1970)- The Truth

I am not going to get into so much history.
The history, we should all search for and
study.

All I will highlight are the misnomers:
The Biafra dream was not decimated by a
Hausa Muslim.

It was decimated by no other than General
Yakubu Gowon, a Christian Middle Belt
Nigeria, who hailed from Panshin, Plateau
state. Yakubu Gowon was the ‘compromise’
Christian Middle Belt leader put in place by
the North as a palliation after the bloody
years and coups prior.

He was chosen as an attempt in good faith
to foster peace between Nigeria’s ethnic and
religious groups.

It was Yakubu Gowon and his then military
general, again another southerner, and two
time president of Nigeria, southern General
and Christian, Olusegun Obasanjo that
destroyed the Biafra secessionist, treason
campaign.

Since then, no Igbo has held the reigns of
power.

This is of course not surprising, it is the
simple rule of victor over vanquished.
When the Arabs lost in their 6-day war-
attempt to sack European installed Israel in
Arab Palestine, Israel automatically
annexed Arab lands. The Golan heights of
Syria and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
When Japan lost the second world war, it
gave up its right to have a military.

In like fashion, after the Igbo’s first
attempt and bloody coup to overturn the
equilibrium in multi-ethnic Nigeria’s civilian
rule, and after they lost in their second
attempt, the Biafra secession, bloody
campaign, it is not surprising that they have
not yet been put in a position of power,
because the rest of Nigeria for the right or
wrong reasons is afraid of them, maybe.

Time to drop the hatchet

There is no reason for continued hatred
and distrust. Many do not even know why
there exists the bad blood between these two
prominent groups, but obviously some
desperate forces are taking advantage of a
sour history to invoke religious and ethnic
hate and sectarian strife in Nigeria, with
ultimate goal- the disintegration of Nigeria.

Churches being targeted in the North are an
obvious dirty game, being orchestrated
purposefully to invoke sentiment and chaos.

Among those caught planning, arming and
involved in the bombings under the auspices
of Boo Haram, are Nigerians of all ethnic
groups, religions and regions.

In an article I read on

MuslimsAgainstTerror.com , written by Aliyu,
so many Christians and Southerners have
been caught in failed ‘Boko’ bombing
attempts. Some suspect that some extremist
Biafraites with foreign meddlers are
secretly behind Boko Haram, in a new
attempt and sinister technique to enable
secession.

The Igbo’s and the South is as suspect as the
North in this deadly game, and attempt to
provoke discord among ethnic groups. Little
surprise Boko enjoys unbelievable impunity
and success while lacking any clear or
logical manifesto.

No region stands to loose more form Boko
than the North. Recently listed as the best
part of Nigeria to conduct business (10
Easiest States to Do Business in Nigeria),
now tumbling down the corridors of deeper
suffering, poverty, insecurity and at risk of
being cut off from the coast.

As described in Reuters report on the last
Sunday bomb attacks and subsequent
Christian youth rampage in Kaduna, Boko
are being allowed to win in their obvious
goal- to foster sectarian strife and
disintegration in Nigeria. This is all so
senseless.

Are we going to let Boko win? Everybody,
chill!

Now let me give you some teasers:

Do you still believe Nigeria is roughly torn
North and South between Muslims and
Christians, as the colonial media keeps
promoting? You will be surprised to find
that some states up North may even have
more Christians than Muslims.

Do you know that most Yoruba states are
governed by Muslims?

Do you know that the leader of MEND, the
Southern rebellion group, is a Muslim,
named ‘Jihad’, Mujahid Dokubo Asari.

Do you still believe that Nigeria was ruled
most of its years since independence by the
Dan Fodio, Northern Muslim? Will you
experience shock if you read my previous
paper on ‘the illusion of Northern rule’, and
find out that Christians and the South and
Middle Belt have ruled Nigeria the most or
at least as much?

Did you know that the north occupies 80%
of Nigeria’s land mass?

References and More reading:

Boko Haram: A CIA Covert Operation;
America’s Destabilization Plots Against
Nigeria–GreenWhite Coalition

Nigeria: The Illusion of a North Dominated
Rule

Religious Violence In Nigeria: Boko Haram As
A Tool Of Religious, Political & Foreign
Interests

1966 Anti Igbo Pogrom

Nigeria Muslims Say: Christians Behind Many
Alleged Boko Bombings

http://newsrescue.com/genesis-the-beginning-of-north-south-hausa-igbo-beef-in-nigeria/#axzz3pOkUPdIu

Don't have time to read all this.. Just passing by

Hmmm...


Name checkers association on nairaland, receive sense and move above hate.

Nice piece

Hmm Interesting read..


This is quite revealing

so Yoruba boy, if the problem started in 66 in your own little brain,what of the whole sale killing of igbo people in jos 1945? or when ahmedubello said he doesn't like igbo people on the account of their heard work did igbo people killed anybody that time in 1952? and why is it that you people said that ANIOMA people are not igbo,but you people are quick to call NZOGWU igbo; even when he is from mid-west?

@op I also want to know you mind about the sin of Yoruba people which leads to this quote"We also Captured ilorin,killed their local king and installed our Fulani Emir.We took that ancient town away from the barbarian yoruba&their filthy pagan gods.We liberated all these places&all these people by imposing Islam on them by force. ALIYU GWARZO OCTOBER 2. 2014 @point blank?

What ever you Nigerians like you can do to yourselves.

If you like murder yourselves. Your bloody business.

Biafra, Arewa, Oduduwa, whatever other names, your business.

In my opinion America was founded on diversity and today it is still diverse.

We carry this black mentality that someone else is our problem.

When you fight and break up, we shall see how well you will develop.

I can guarantee you that if Nigeria goes to war, it will not be like the civil war. It will be much worse and expect it to last 10 years this time around.

We are lawless people who quote international laws as if we obey simple traffic regulations in Nigeria.

I'm here to read comments.

newsrecue.com is a blogsite owned by an anti-Igbo Islamic fulani man harun yahya who is a well known boko haram sympathizer. His twitter handle is harun_yahya.

He was the one who popularized the lie that Nnamdi kanu was caught with prostitutes in lagos.
Anyone who knows him should tell him that in this information age lies fall like packs of cards as they are debunked within seconds not after 40 years of saying it over and over again.

I've been seeing this mistake on most sites and internet so let me quickly correct this. As at when Nzeogwu led the coup in 1966, he was not from the eastern region. This information is vital because of those that claimed he never killed anyone from his region. Nzeogwu is from the present day Delta state and as at 1966, it was known as Mid-Westen state, former Western region. And the Mid-West top politician in federal level then Chief Festus Okotie Eboh (Minister of finance ) lost his life in the coup.
Another lie I picked in the write up is the saying that there was no ethnic beef before the 1966 coup. What nonsense! Who told you so?

skak:
Lekan Abayomi, New York

I was born in 1975. I grew up believing that
the Hausa/Fulani of Nigeria were a very
intolerant ethnic group of people.

That the Hausas were so wicked they simply
picked on Igbos in Nigeria living up North
and slaughtered them in droves. And that
the unprovoked massacre of Igbos in the
North prompted the Biafra secession event,
which again resulted in another Hausa
Muslim leadership-led slaughter and
genocide of Igbos in the South.

I believed for the first two decades of my
life that the Hausa Muslims for no reason
despised Igbos so much and that they ruled
Nigeria almost entirely throughout its 50
years post independence, never giving an
Igbo an opportunity to rule.

I associated Military rule and Military coups
with Muslim Northerners.

I even associated the North of Nigeria with
Islam and the South with Christianity.
‘Roughly divided’ between the two, as I
always read in the news.

Little did I know that I was wrong in almost
everything I grew up reading from the
Nigeria predominantly Southern press, and
European media.

They say that had Hitler won the war,
history today would have been written in his
favor. Perhaps the one great mistake the
Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri and all Northerners
ever made was not getting involved in
western media, press and propaganda.


No Beef Till ’66

Igbos draw first blood in 1966

All was going well in Nigeria, post 1960 independence, with Tafawa Balewa, aka, the golden voice of Africa, the Prime minister of the federation, and Nnamidi
Azikiwe the commander in chief and president, till January 1966.

In January 1966 an Igbo Major in the
Nigerian army, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu,
who was born in Kaduna and had such
family affinity to Kaduna, that he was
popularly called, ‘Kaduna Nzeogwu’, a
Catholic by faith decided to embark on a
mission that will change Nigeria’s history
forever.

In the early hours of January 15th, Kaduna
Nzeogwu disgruntled over a list of items with
the ruling political class and with disdain
for certain regionalists, led an army of
fellow Igbo Majors and a Yoruba,
Ademoyega Adewale, in a military coup
against the political leadership of Nigeria.
He and his team of Igbo comrades
murdered Nigeria’s top brass Hausas in that
Coup. Prime minister, Tafawa Balewa, a
federal minister and two top regional
premiers were among those murdered.

Kaduna Nzeogwu’s Igbo squad killed he
premier of the Northern and Western
regions but of course left the Igbo Eastern
premiere alive.

He killed the Finance minister, who was
Nigeria’s #3 man, but left the number #2
man.

The coup started failing when the ethnic
nature of it was noticed. Neogwu confronted
Captain Isong , the second-in-command at
the 1 Recce Squadron, on account of a
rumor that Isong was allegedly spreading in
the barracks about the ethnic coloration of
the unfolding events.

Azikiwe was left alive.

In essence Kaduna Nzeogwu’s coup was not a
coup against the establishment only, but a
targeted ethnic war, waged by himself and
his fellow Igbo patriots against the Hausa-
Fulani, who he grew up and served with.

Nzeogwu assassinated very many top
Northern brass. Included and very
significant was the Sardauna of Sokoto who
was shot dead with his wives too.

In the video below, late Kaduna Nzeogwu
describes how he plotted the coup and killed
the Sardauna.


Wikipedia- The killing of Brigadier Ademulegun’s pregnant wife by led to the suspicion among Yoruba and Hausa that the coupist were common criminals rather than Nationalistic patriots. Brigadier Ademulegun was a Yoruba officer. The premier of the
Northern region was killed, The premier of the West was killed, but the premier of the Eastern region where most of the plotters were from was forgotten. On the Federal level the Prime Minister was killed, the Finance Minister the number 3 man was killed but the number 2 man who “coincidentally” happened to be
from the same region as the plotters “escaped the killing”. The kid glove with which the new leader Ironsi handled the coupist led to the dissatisfaction of northern officers with Ironsi’s reluctance to courts-martial the coup plotters led to the counter- coup of July 29, 1966 which was led mainly by a group of junior Hausa-Fulani officers.

The coup plot failed and just before
midnight on January 16, following a
complex series of events, the GOC of the
Army, General Aguiyi Ironsi, also of Igbo
origin, preceded by a short statement by
acting President Nwafor Orizu, announced
that he was taking over the country
following an “invitation” from the Council of
Ministers.

Brigadier Ademulegun was shot dead in his
bed, head of the NMTC Colonel Ralph
Shodeinde was killed. Ifeajun in high
treachery murdered his boss, Brigadier
Maimalari.

The Igbo victim was, Lt-Col Arthur Unegbe.
Also killed was the highly unsung Itsekiri
Finance Minister Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh.
It is important to pint out at this juncture,
that Nigeria had been very peaceful. A
progressive, ethno-harmonious place, with
the only riots of note being some election
turmoil in the western Yoruba region of the
country and Tiv riots in the Middle-Belt.
Up until this time there was no major
Hausa-Igbo beef.

There were episodes pre-independence,
during colonial rule, triggered by the
machinations of colonialism, these included
the minor 1945 Amalgamation riots and the
1953 Igbo Military and political power
predominance riots. The colonialist gave
Igbos top positions in the Military. Indeed,
over all it must be noted that the prime
source of Nigeria’s ethnic disarray is
colonial. ‘Nigeria, made in the UK’, they
say.

Sardauna Was Premiere Of
North Only: It’s Stupid To
Expect Him To Talk Of One-
Nigeria During The Three Region
Federalism That Existed At The
Time

Important to mention that
Sardauna is often
mispresented. Sardauna was
not a leader of Nigeria but was
only leader over the northern
protectorate. So his statements
were about his northern region,
just as at the time Ojukwu
made even more
seditious statements about the
eastern region he presided
over. Sardauna’s utterances
must be listened to in context
of the then true Federation
with three autonomous parts.

Next Blunder- Aguiyi-Ironsi Dissolves
Regions

You see, growing up, I have blamed the
Hausas for so much. May the Almighty
forgive me.

Today the South of Nigeria are heard loudly
clamoring for a return to autonomic
regions. You are want to believe that it was
some Northern Muslim that dissolved this.

No.

The Igbo top commander and now first
military president of Nigeria, General Aguiyi
Ironsi, in a very careless and thoughtless
move, aimed at suppressing the Nzeogwu
ethnic coup sentiment and distrust, in his
brief six months of reign, dissolved the
regions.

So we ask the question- why did Aguiyi
Ironsi dissolve the regions and create a
Unitary republic?

This according to World News.com was ‘in a
bid to do away with the divisive tendencies
of Regionalism.’

At this stage, we can conclude the
following-

1. An Igbo man, Kaduna Nzeogwu embarked
on the first ethnic identifying campaign for
power

2. Same Igbo man, led the first provocative
and very painful attack and assassination
of top brass Hausa men.

3. An Igbo man disrupted our political
beginnings and introduced us to the
military rule aberration.

4. Another Igbo man, General Aguiyi Ironsi
clearly recognized the ethnic danger
provoked by the former.

5. The second Igbo man destroyed Nigeria’s
regional rule and initiated the Unitary
republic.

Evidently, the industrious Igbo
did not like Regionalism, this is
why they (Nzeogwu and Ironsi)
killed the Northern and Western
regional Premiers and
abrogated the three regions,
instituting a one-Nigeria to
enable free Igbo entrenchment
and trade outside the Eastern
region.

Deadly Mischief: A Loaf of Bread Draws
Second Blood

It was in May, during Aguiyi Ironsi’s reign
that the first of what is known today as
anti-Igbo riots occured.
According to the story, an Igbo bakery
made a loaf of bread, depicting Nzeogwu as
the Saint in the ‘Saint George and the
Dragon’ medieval crusader story, from the
7-11th century.

Advance our standards, set
upon our foes Our ancient world
of courage fair
St. George Inspire us with the
spleen of fiery dragons…..
Richard III. act v, sc.3. ”
“ Come not between the
Dragon and his wrath….. King
Lear. Act I, Sc 2 – William
Shakespeare

This depiction was highly provocative to a
welcoming Hausa-Fulani, still licking their
wounds and being hospitable, after an
unprovoked Igbo led military coup and
assassination of their finest.

This also while Nigeria was bleeding from
being thrown into its first military
government era. The military went on to
rule the nation for 13 straight years.

As I was saying, the loaf of bread had
Nzeogwu as Saint George, standing over
and killing Sardauna, who was depicted as
the bleeding dragon.

This triggered the first inter-ethnic crises
in the North. Igbos fled to the East, and
returned only later under guarantee of
their safety by president Ironsi. Some say
mischievous secessionist Igbos orchestrated
the pogroms to get their people home.

Later that year, in July, General Murtala
Muhammed, taking advantage of the
precedent, led a very bloody, 4-day coup
and overthrew the Ironsi Government.

At this stage, Igbos in the north were highly
targeted in outbreaks of ethnic violence.
Thousands were reportedly killed, though
the numbers can not be verified. And this
was the episode of the Igbo exodus to the
South.

I guess we can call this 3rd blood.
Listen To Mischievous
Seditious Igbos Plotting
Similar Provocations On
Radio Biafra Today

Biafra: Nigerian Civil War (1967–
1970)- The Truth

I am not going to get into so much history.
The history, we should all search for and
study.

All I will highlight are the misnomers:
The Biafra dream was not decimated by a
Hausa Muslim.

It was decimated by no other than General
Yakubu Gowon, a Christian Middle Belt
Nigeria, who hailed from Panshin, Plateau
state. Yakubu Gowon was the ‘compromise’
Christian Middle Belt leader put in place by
the North as a palliation after the bloody
years and coups prior.

He was chosen as an attempt in good faith
to foster peace between Nigeria’s ethnic and
religious groups.

It was Yakubu Gowon and his then military
general, again another southerner, and two
time president of Nigeria, southern General
and Christian, Olusegun Obasanjo that
destroyed the Biafra secessionist, treason
campaign.

Since then, no Igbo has held the reigns of
power.

This is of course not surprising, it is the
simple rule of victor over vanquished.
When the Arabs lost in their 6-day war-
attempt to sack European installed Israel in
Arab Palestine, Israel automatically
annexed Arab lands. The Golan heights of
Syria and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
When Japan lost the second world war, it
gave up its right to have a military.

In like fashion, after the Igbo’s first
attempt and bloody coup to overturn the
equilibrium in multi-ethnic Nigeria’s civilian
rule, and after they lost in their second
attempt, the Biafra secession, bloody
campaign, it is not surprising that they have
not yet been put in a position of power,
because the rest of Nigeria for the right or
wrong reasons is afraid of them, maybe.

Time to drop the hatchet

There is no reason for continued hatred
and distrust. Many do not even know why
there exists the bad blood between these two
prominent groups, but obviously some
desperate forces are taking advantage of a
sour history to invoke religious and ethnic
hate and sectarian strife in Nigeria, with
ultimate goal- the disintegration of Nigeria.

Churches being targeted in the North are an
obvious dirty game, being orchestrated
purposefully to invoke sentiment and chaos.

Among those caught planning, arming and
involved in the bombings under the auspices
of Boo Haram, are Nigerians of all ethnic
groups, religions and regions.

In an article I read on

MuslimsAgainstTerror.com , written by Aliyu,
so many Christians and Southerners have
been caught in failed ‘Boko’ bombing
attempts. Some suspect that some extremist
Biafraites with foreign meddlers are
secretly behind Boko Haram, in a new
attempt and sinister technique to enable
secession.

The Igbo’s and the South is as suspect as the
North in this deadly game, and attempt to
provoke discord among ethnic groups. Little
surprise Boko enjoys unbelievable impunity
and success while lacking any clear or
logical manifesto.

No region stands to loose more form Boko
than the North. Recently listed as the best
part of Nigeria to conduct business (10
Easiest States to Do Business in Nigeria),
now tumbling down the corridors of deeper
suffering, poverty, insecurity and at risk of
being cut off from the coast.

As described in Reuters report on the last
Sunday bomb attacks and subsequent
Christian youth rampage in Kaduna, Boko
are being allowed to win in their obvious
goal- to foster sectarian strife and
disintegration in Nigeria. This is all so
senseless.

Are we going to let Boko win? Everybody,
chill!

Now let me give you some teasers:

Do you still believe Nigeria is roughly torn
North and South between Muslims and
Christians, as the colonial media keeps
promoting? You will be surprised to find
that some states up North may even have
more Christians than Muslims.

Do you know that most Yoruba states are
governed by Muslims?

Do you know that the leader of MEND, the
Southern rebellion group, is a Muslim,
named ‘Jihad’, Mujahid Dokubo Asari.

Do you still believe that Nigeria was ruled
most of its years since independence by the
Dan Fodio, Northern Muslim? Will you
experience shock if you read my previous
paper on ‘the illusion of Northern rule’, and
find out that Christians and the South and
Middle Belt have ruled Nigeria the most or
at least as much?

Did you know that the north occupies 80%
of Nigeria’s land mass?

References and More reading:

Boko Haram: A CIA Covert Operation;
America’s Destabilization Plots Against
Nigeria–GreenWhite Coalition

Nigeria: The Illusion of a North Dominated
Rule

Religious Violence In Nigeria: Boko Haram As
A Tool Of Religious, Political & Foreign
Interests

1966 Anti Igbo Pogrom

Nigeria Muslims Say: Christians Behind Many
Alleged Boko Bombings

http://newsrescue.com/genesis-the-beginning-of-north-south-hausa-igbo-beef-in-nigeria/#axzz3pOkUPdIu

This is apt,and accurate.... Should be move to the front page....

The IGBOS should learn from those they offended,ask move on, they should stop playing the victim card, because they are the culprit..

Kestolovee95:
newsrecue.com is a blogsite owned by an anti-Igbo Islamic fulani man harun yahya who is a well known boko haram sympathizer. His twitter handle is harun_yahya.

He was the one who popularized the lie that Nnamdi kanu was caught with prostitutes in lagos.
Anyone who knows him should tell him that in this information age lies fall like packs of cards as they are debunked within seconds not after 40 years of saying it over and over again.

There is no lie in his narration, the earlier the accept your misdeed, the better...and was NK not caught with a Prostitute??

Your distorted narrative is misleading and an evil attempt to generate fused and cause national disharmony.

Stop this stupidity and save yourself from life long disgrace.