YourNemesis:
Edo people are soo confused ehn....!
They dont know if they ar Niger Deltans, Westerners, Biafrans or One Nigerians. Or maybe they are just alone and lonely.

Anticabal:
II still do not know why you yoruba muslims are bent on keeping everyone under the control of your fulani master because you know your Emirate have FOREVER kept you under fulani control!

I wonder on what ground must we unite when we share nothing in common with muslims who behead people due to arguement about your mohammed( Donkey piss be upon him).

May the oil that binds nigeria continue to go up in flames!

krazykoons:

all you do is cry over Yoruba Muslims on nl while they don't even know of your existence, your forefather azikwe did all he could to kiss the ass of his Fulani lord,on what grounds did your foolish Dr zik would want to be in a union with the Hausa who on slightest provocation would descend on his people and hunt them like games in the arena.,what about the kano riot 1953.
Between 1947 and 1959 Nigerian nationalist leaders from different regional, ethnic, and religious communities came together in a series of conferences and to negotiate the transition to self-rule and to map out a common future. During these interactions the Northerners declared Nigeria “the mistake of 1914”
This proposal for inclusion of right of secession by the regions in independent Nigeria by the AG(West)was rejected and resisted by NCNC (east) which vehemently argued for a tightly bound united/unitary structured nation because it viewed the provision of a secession clause as detrimental to the formation of a United Nigeria. In the face of sustained opposition by the NCNC delegates, later joined by the NPC and backed by threats to view maintenance of the inclusion of secession by the AG as treasonable by the British, the AG was forced to renounce its position of inclusion of the right of secession a part of the Nigerian constitution.
your mini god or dog ojukwu still came back to contest under a Fulani party after he sacrificed 3millions of his people.
cc Ioannes,coolitempa1

coolitempa1:


Spot on. The ibos forced Nigeria on us but now cry foul because the ineffectual buffoon lost...

YourNemesis:
Edo people are soo confused ehn....!
They dont know if they ar Niger Deltans, Westerners, Biafrans or One Nigerians. Or maybe they are just alone and lonely.

krazykoons:

all you do is cry over Yoruba Muslims on nl while they don't even know of your existence, your forefather azikwe did all he could to kiss the ass of his Fulani lord,on what grounds did your foolish Dr zik would want to be in a union with the Hausa who on slightest provocation would descend on his people and hunt them like games in the arena.,what about the kano riot 1953.
Between 1947 and 1959 Nigerian nationalist leaders from different regional, ethnic, and religious communities came together in a series of conferences and to negotiate the transition to self-rule and to map out a common future. During these interactions the Northerners declared Nigeria “the mistake of 1914”
This proposal for inclusion of right of secession by the regions in independent Nigeria by the AG(West)was rejected and resisted by NCNC (east) which vehemently argued for a tightly bound united/unitary structured nation because it viewed the provision of a secession clause as detrimental to the formation of a United Nigeria. In the face of sustained opposition by the NCNC delegates, later joined by the NPC and backed by threats to view maintenance of the inclusion of secession by the AG as treasonable by the British, the AG was forced to renounce its position of inclusion of the right of secession a part of the Nigerian constitution.
your mini god or dog ojukwu still came back to contest under a Fulani party after he sacrificed 3millions of his people.
cc Ioannes,coolitempa1

SuperS1Panther:


God bless yah.

The current generation of Ipod yoots are mentally lazy to read history. They only listen to the make-me-feel-good lies of their defeated uncles.

They were the ones that rejected secession clause in the constitution.

They were the ones that first fought against the people that announced secession and formed Republic of Niger Delta.

They were the ones that drew the first blood in this country.

They were the ones that dissolved our Regional Govt and forces unitary system on all of us, through Ironsi.

They were the ones that first aligned with the core North betraying the south with Zik forming govt with Balewa in 1960. This is despite all the well documented killings of their people since 1947 in.the same core North.

It is very funny that youths of today always close their eyes to all these or they simply do not know.

irunooboo:
All i know is that biafra is dead and buried

coolitempa1:


The brainwashing Kanu put these guys through is just beyond rationalisation..... ....it is proof that the mass suicide cults such as Jim Jones and David Koresh were no myths....

mayorchelsea:
These answers are crucial in our history and this discussion ;the first military coup in Nigeria was led by who?how many people from his region died in that coup?Who was in support and arrest of the first man to declare his region a sovereign republic?The first military head of State was from which region after a coup led by who?Who introduced a unitary system of government limiting the powers of the regions?

HungerBAD:
When on March 15, the Secretary of the Benin Traditional Council, Mr. Frank Irabor, announced that “the leopard is ill in the Savannah bush”, we knew exactly what had happened to the Omo N’oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa (CFR), the 38th Oba of Benin, who was born on June 22, 1923 and ascended the throne on March 23, 1979.

Well, to an average Benin man or woman, such an announcement is well-understood. The Benin people value tradition and culture. And they are proud of it. I am from Ufosu in the Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State that shares border with Edo State, so I should know.

The Oba of Benin is the traditional ruler of the Edo people and head of the historic Eweka dynasty of the Benin Empire.

The services of Oba Erediauwa are well-valued and will not be forgotten. Before becoming an Oba, as Prince Samuel Aiseokhuoba Igbinoghodua Akenzua, he was an outstanding civil servant. He, in fact, rose to become the Federal Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health before he retired in 1973.

Along with others, he attended the Aburi meeting held at the Peduase Lodge where the conflict of Nigeria was discussed between January 4 and January 5, 1967. Aburi is a town in Ghana and a 45-minute drive from Accra, the capital of Ghana.

Those who attended the meeting were Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, Col. Robert Adebayo, Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Lt. Col. David Ejoor, Lt. Col. David Hassan Katsina, Commodore J.E.A. Wey, Major Mobolaji Johnson, Alhaji Kam Selem and Mr. J. Omo-Bare. Others were Prince S.I.A. Akenzua (Permanent Under-Secretary, Federal Cabinet Office.), Mr. P.T. Odumosu (Secretary to the Military Government, West.), Mr. N.U. Akpan (Secretary to the Military Government, East.), Mr. D.P. Lawani (Under-Secretary, Military Governor’s Office, Mid-West) and Alhaji Ali Akilu (Secretary to the Military Government, North.) The Chairman of the Ghana National Liberation Council, Lt. Gen. J.A. Ankrah, declared the meeting open in his capacity as then the head of state of Ghana.

The following was agreed upon: “That Army to be governed by the Supreme Military Council under a Chairman to be known as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Head of the Federal Military Government; Establishment of a Military Headquarters comprising equal representation from the regions and headed by a Chief of Staff; Creation of Area commands corresponding to existing regions and under the charge of Area commanders, matters of policy, including appointments and promotion to top executive posts in the Armed Forces and the Police to be dealt with by the Supreme Military Council. During the period of the Military Government, military governors will have control over area commands for internal security; Creation of a Lagos Garrison including Ikeja Barracks. In connection with the re-organisation of the Army, the council discussed the distribution of military personnel with particular reference to the present recruitment drive. The view was held that general recruitment throughout the country in the present situation would cause great imbalance in the distribution of soldiers. After a lengthy discussion of the subjects, the council agreed to set up a military committee on which each region will be represented, to prepare statistics which will show: Present strength of Nigeria Army; Deficiency in each sector of each unit; the size appropriate for the country and each area command; additional requirement for the country and each area command.

The committee is to meet and report to council within two weeks from the date of receipt of instructions. The council agreed that pending completion of the exercise in connection with re-organisation of the army, further recruitment of soldiers should cease. The implementation of the agreement reached on August 9, 1966, it was agreed, after a lengthy discussion, that it was necessary for the agreement reached on August 9 by the delegates of the Regional Governments to be fully implemented. In particular, it was accepted in principle that army personnel of Northern origin should return to the North from the West. It was therefore felt that a crash programme of recruitment and training, the details of which would be further examined after the committee to look into the strength and distribution of army personnel had reported, would be necessary to constitute indigenous army personnel in the West to a majority there quickly.

As far as the regions were concerned, it was decided that all the powers vested by the Nigerian Constitution in the regions and which they exercised prior to January 15, 1966, should be restored to the regions. To this end, the Supreme Military Council decided that all decrees passed since the military take-over, and which tended to detract from the previous powers of the regions, should be repealed by January 21, after the Law Officers should have met on January 14 to list out all such decrees.”

The decisions at Aburi amounted to, in terms of political and military control of Nigeria, that the country should be governed as a confederation.

Suffice it to say that the vocal military officers like Lt. Col. Murtala Muhammed, Major Martin Adamu and Major Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma did not attend the Aburi meeting. Prince Akenzua along with top permanent secretaries including Alhaji Yusuf Gobir, Phillip Asiodu, Eme Ebong, B.N. Okagbue and Allison Ayida deconstructed in Lagos, all that was agreed in Aburi.

On arrival in Lagos, Prince Akenzua discussed with Gowon and raised objections to what was agreed in Aburi. Gowon asked him to raise a memo which he did. I am sure a copy of the memo is with Gowon today while a copy is in the archives in the Presidency. Civil servants are to be seen and not to be heard and that is why Akenzua never released a copy of the memo to the world.

The memo dated January 8, 1967 began with: “Your Excellency, in view of my discussion with you last night, I am raising this memo in the interest our fatherland, Nigeria”. Akenzua traced the long hard road that Nigeria had travelled and stressed on the need to keep a United Nigeria.

He said in the memo that Gowon had given too much away in Aburi and that it would lead to the destruction of the country. He further added that Gowon had “legalised” total regionalism which “will make the centre very weak.” Akenzua alluded in his memo that a weak centre would lead to confederation and total disintegration of the country. It was the memo that prompted Gowon to summon a meeting of the secretaries to the military governments and other officials which was held in Benin City between February 16 and 18, 1967. If you look at the minutes of the Benin meeting presided over by Mr. H. A. Ejueyitchie, Secretary to the Federal Military Government, you will discover that it was a total rejection of what was agreed upon in Aburi. The Benin meeting interpreted in its own way the agreement reached in Aburi.

Till today, both sides (Gowon and Ojukwu till he died), interpreted what was agreed upon in Aburi in their own ways. One of the problems at Aburi was that a portion of the meeting was not recorded. The military excused the civilians at a certain stage during the meeting and it was alleged that during this informal chat that Gowon made certain commitments to Ojukwu especially on full regionalism.

Even till today, judging by the decisions reached at the last National Conference, we are still arguing on confederation or federalism.

As long as Nigeria remains one under federalism, the memo of Akenzua which was a wake-up call on Gowon and his efforts later will continue to be appreciated in no small measure.

The nation remembers and the nation appreciates.

http://www.punchng.com/biafra-memo-akenzua-aburi/

coolitempa1:


The brainwashing Kanu put these guys through is just beyond rationalisation..... ....it is proof that the mass suicide cults such as Jim Jones and David Koresh were no myths....

krazykoons:

all you do is cry over Yoruba Muslims on nl while they don't even know of your existence, your forefather azikwe did all he could to kiss the ass of his Fulani lord,on what grounds did your foolish Dr zik would want to be in a union with the Hausa who on slightest provocation would descend on his people and hunt them like games in the arena.,what about the kano riot 1953.
Between 1947 and 1959 Nigerian nationalist leaders from different regional, ethnic, and religious communities came together in a series of conferences and to negotiate the transition to self-rule and to map out a common future. During these interactions the Northerners declared Nigeria “the mistake of 1914”
This proposal for inclusion of right of secession by the regions in independent Nigeria by the AG(West)was rejected and resisted by NCNC (east) which vehemently argued for a tightly bound united/unitary structured nation because it viewed the provision of a secession clause as detrimental to the formation of a United Nigeria. In the face of sustained opposition by the NCNC delegates, later joined by the NPC and backed by threats to view maintenance of the inclusion of secession by the AG as treasonable by the British, the AG was forced to renounce its position of inclusion of the right of secession a part of the Nigerian constitution.
your mini god or dog ojukwu still came back to contest under a Fulani party after he sacrificed 3millions of his people.
cc Ioannes,coolitempa1

Ioannes:


thank you for telling them the truth. we know them for their expertise in distorting history and bending the truth to suit their whims.

I guess hatred for the Yoruba people gives them a sense of purpose in life.

’The 1966 Coup plotters planned to hand over power to Awolowo. People were told that it was an Igbo coup but that is not correct. The plan of the coup makers was to release Awolowo from jail and make him their leader.’’ -Odia Ofeimun Private Secretary to Chief Awolowo, on the 20th Anniversary of the Passage of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sunday Guardian May 6, 2007.

ugohemma:


i copied this from an excerpt from an article written on Friday, January 16, 2009

krazykoons:

all you do is cry over Yoruba Muslims on nl while they don't even know of your existence, your forefather azikwe did all he could to kiss the ass of his Fulani lord,on what grounds did your foolish Dr zik would want to be in a union with the Hausa who on slightest provocation would descend on his people and hunt them like games in the arena.,what about the kano riot 1953.
Between 1947 and 1959 Nigerian nationalist leaders from different regional, ethnic, and religious communities came together in a series of conferences and to negotiate the transition to self-rule and to map out a common future. During these interactions the Northerners declared Nigeria “the mistake of 1914”
This proposal for inclusion of right of secession by the regions in independent Nigeria by the AG(West)was rejected and resisted by NCNC (east) which vehemently argued for a tightly bound united/unitary structured nation because it viewed the provision of a secession clause as detrimental to the formation of a United Nigeria. In the face of sustained opposition by the NCNC delegates, later joined by the NPC and backed by threats to view maintenance of the inclusion of secession by the AG as treasonable by the British, the AG was forced to renounce its position of inclusion of the right of secession a part of the Nigerian constitution.
your mini god or dog ojukwu still came back to contest under a Fulani party after he sacrificed 3millions of his people.
cc Ioannes,coolitempa1