"Baba Awolowo" needs to atone for his crimes even in death. As an untruthful pastor that you also are, you may begin by first asking for your own forgiveness for lying after which you may lead the FORGIVENESS TRAIN for Chief Obafemi Awolowo's forgiveness.

Awolowo did good for his Yoruba people but he was fundamental to the destruction of Nigeria.This is not an accusation, this is a statement of historical fact. The Igbo are diasporic by nature like the FULANI. So if their traveling feet make them beneficiaries of Awolowo's laudable free education program, so be it. Igbo taxes also entitled them to tax benefits which included Awoloso's great free education that was tax funded.

The Yoruba are not great tax, rent, or bill payers still mind you. Awolowo had to pay for it electorally for this when he enforced it against the people's will like Igbo women did against colonial taxation known as ABA WOMEN'S RIOT of 1929. This was long before active nationalist struggle championed by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe even finished his education in America in the 1930s. And about 20 years before Awo earned his very belated degree in law in the 1940s. But the Yoruba were still resisting payment of tax well into independent Nigeria. If you must also know, Zik complained bitterly that the Igbo and other easterners always preferred to pay their taxes to Lagos because it was cheaper there and you could only pay once anywhere in Nigeria in those days.So Igbo money greatly funded Awolowo's Action Group's programmes..

But by the way, who ever stopped the Yoruba from coming to Igbo land to benefit from their business wizardry. Come if you can compete with the masters of the trade. Are the Igbo to blame for your ever insulated traditional nature that makes you to always betray your history of a people who had a very long journey from the near East through northern Nigeria through the Middle belt till you finally settled in Ile Ife through the assistance of a Benin stranger, Oduduwa that had you settled you at Ife by your dubious claim. IFE was the aboriginal land of the Igbo that your ancestors came to share with when they came and became one community until treachery led to its hijack through the instrumentality of Oduduwa who caused a rift between communal brethren under the leadership of Obatala and many more known kings before him and before the arrival of Oduduwa. The present Ooni of IFE at the event remembrance statue erected for Moremi confirmed on national television that Igbo family lines and houses still stand in IFE.

A GREAT HISTORY BETRAYED

But unfortunately, the Yoruba that have the rare privilege of having interactive history across Nigeria's ethnic groups and two global religions of Christianity and Islam, have tragically become insular and too self-focused. They have been further spoilt by nature-assisted closeness to the Atlantic ocean that gave them early access to the White men that made early slaves and also early beneficiaries of educated slaves and also a British decision to make Lagos the capital of British created Nigeria. A decision that further drove the Yoruba into deeper insularity contrary to their long migratory history that had them settling Ife among the original Igbo aborigines with whom they co-habited and became one until the oracle rejected stranger from Benin, Oduduwa hijacked power and leadership that made most of the aboriginal Igbos of Ife to relocate away to found a new town across the Niger rather than stay under a traitorous leadership hijacked from aboriginal Obatala leadership by stranger-dweller of Ife, Oduduwa. This Igbo aboriginals who stayed back continued the fight against the power usurpers and their supporters till they became worshippers of Obatala that have continued that fight of classic betrayal in ritual forms enacted in dramatic forms during their Obatala festivals.

To cover up the lies of their history, those who stayed back in IFE invented a lie that Oduduwa came from heaven to found Ile Ife, just as you Pastor Isaac Awotanmi and the likes of you and your historians have continued to lie in order to alter the truth of Nigerian history as you have just done here. You have not offered any historical fact other than to request that I forgive Awolowo for the crime of providing education and welfare that the Igbo benefitted from as though those were the issues of his many crimes during the civil war that were the chief concern of my piece of writing.

HISTORY AND JOUuRNALISM MANGLED BY THE YORUBA

You want to typically subvert the truth as you people have always done across time in Nigeria from your early access to Western education and from controlling the media that is much like education which the British also gave you through Henry Townsend in Abeokuta. With journalism you have been peddling untrue histories which the just departed Oba of Benin made a palace duty of constantly refuting till he and your also departed Oni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade clashed in a national counter alternative versions of the same history which included Benin swallowing its crime against his son who became great in another land, Ife, requesting his intervention when Benin came to their political and constitutional crisis. The outcome was the offer of Oduduwa's son to Benin that could not integrate well in Benin but put a princess in a family way that led to a child that was never fathered, Eweka, that began a new dynasty in Benin.

(Editing suspended here for sleep at 3pm)

Obafemi Awolowo who has become the modern day Oduduwa of Yoruba land has no doubt done selfishly well for his people. But you can never stop me from completing the story. That the same Awolowo was very central to the tragedy that Nigeria is still entrapped in ad a result of his deadly ambitions to govern like Oduduwa. He not only ran down the leading Yoruba leaders of his time in order to better them all evidence contain in his autobiographical book, AWO (1960). This included the dominant politician of the time, the leading Yoruba politician including his political elders and mentors whose names escape me now that were all founders and members of one of Nigeria's earliest political parties, Nigerian Youth Movement, NYM. When that largely southern Nigerian party was killed due to election between an Ijaw man Ernest Ikoli, Awolowo's political mentor and beneficiary, and an Ijebu-Yoruba man supported by Azikiwe was ruined by the intra-ethnic Yoruba politics that had Awolowo disregarding Azikiwe his self-confessed inspirer whom he used to go cover as a journalist when Azikiwe was a national platform speaker with a PhD from America and a honoured and respected member of the leadership of NYM. It was at the NYM that the Igbo-Yoruba relation was ruined because Zik supported a Yoruba candidate while Awolowo supported the candidate of his mentors who was a newspaper business rival of Zik.

When some members of the Yoruba political elites reconciled with Zik at the founding of the NCNC where even Awolowo's respected Yoruba mentor, became a part of. But Awolowo would not be reconciled. After NCNC was founded in 1944, he went ahead to pursue ethnic agenda of turning Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a Yoruba cultural group into a Yoruba only political party with an initial slogan of THE WEST FOR WESTERNER; even when the old western Nigeria include Benin's, Ishans, Igbos, Ijaws, Isokos, Itsekiri, Urhobo s etc. They were defined out Awolowo's conception and execution of the West that is an all Yoruba party, for the Yoruba that introduced tribalism and negative ethnicism into politics in Nigeria. Forca better understanding of this, go an read Zik's profound concern of Awolowo's poisonous politics in his book, ZIK, A SELECTION OF SPEECHES, 1961. You may also read Awolowo's own account in his 1960 autobiography where he confessed to forming Action Group secretly and away from Zik's knowledge when he was away in 1951. He wrote about the tribalistic beginning of AG even with self limp locator pride the same way he wrote his Yoruba political elders and mentors.

It was because that orientation and party could not give him a national lift beyond western Nigeria after he had been its Premier that the expansion of the party beyond Yoruba land commenced. Other ethnic groups in the then West were never made comfortable nor ever felt comfortable as part owners of a region the Yoruba were dominant in population and politics.

Awolowo's desperation to rise above his own self-limiting ethnic creation got him into by first wanting to resurrect a quasi national party, NYM after Zik and its followers its soul by funding and by Zik's popular Pilot newspaper projection, which he failed at. Not even with the repeated effort in partnership with his mentor who returned to Nigeria from abroad after he tratoriously left the NYM and the national struggle, the man to whom Awo ascribe the writing of the NYM constitution to take up a corporate job and later moved abroad.

Awo later joined another national party, National Emergency Movement, NEM which was formed as a national reaction to the colonial killing of the Enugu coal workers where he took up a leading position and function which he betrayed in an anti-party activities. It was while he was in NEM as a top official that Awolowo was simultenously and clandestinely forming his all-Yoruba Action Group party. So it was Awolowo's inability to play nationally that he went ahead to poison Nigeria with ethnic politics in the only party he succeeded with, his ethnic Action Group. To his credit , he grew it sizeable to the point of challenging the other ethnic and regionally and Islamically inspired party on the same evil year if Nigerian politics, 1951, the Northern Peoples'Congress, NPC; AG's twin partner in tribalising, ethnicising, regionalising and even religionising Nigeria by its Fulani trado-religious leader Ahmadu Bello.

The combination of these two ideological twins born in different regions but bound by the same me, myself and I politics of my people first before Nigeria, overthrew the nationalist and pan African politics by which Zik of Igbo extraction had galvanised Nigeria to independence. The TWO OF THREE IDEOLOGICAL TRIUMPH of these Zik inspirer and standard bearer by their own written confessions in their autobiographies, plunged Nigeria on a poisonous foundation of ethnic politics from which Nigeria is still suffering from. An evil performance that repeated itself in the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu driven, but Awolowo inspired APC political formation and electoral victory that was a schemed along the Islamic belt Nigeria from the west to the North held by a political marriage. A repeat of history in sectional politics that had a conspiratorial connivance of a FOUR TO TWO regional defeat of Zik's old Eastern region of the two new regions of the South East and the Niger delta's South-South by the marriage of the two old twin ideological sectionalists now four new political regions. The mess that Bola Tinubu's jagaban violent politics of forceful must-win
has plunged the nation into, is the only way to understand what Awolowo's cantercerous do or die politics was about. It was this type of politics that Zik so warned Nigeria and Awolowo about, and the danger it portended for a young country before and after independence that neither Awolowo nor the nation would harken to that led to the termination of the
FIRST REPUBLIC by military men who planned another coup to secure power for Awolowo by arms and bullets that Awolowo and his Action Group party failed to secure by armed struggle to overthrow the same Tafawa Balewa's government that they were planning from Ghana. For this they went to jail from around 1963 before the younger group of socialist military boys beat their conservative military boys to the coup gambit in January 1966. led largely by Igbo soldiers for Awolowo according to their confessions who was already serving a jail sentence in Calabar.

It is the same Awolowo for whom this was done, for whom Igbo soldiers in a a bid to save a collapsing nation arising largely from the rivalry between Awolowo and his former political lieutenant who had jumped ship to the rival side, Chief Ladoke Akintola. Their rivalry led to the burning of the Yoruba land in their deadly "wetie operations" that involved the burning of the houses of political rivals till it became a wildfire that gave the Yoruba the nickname "the wild, wild west"; for their politics of violence that was another Awolowo legacy that his over promoters always love to be silent about. But about which Zik used every platform to warn about before it went out of hand.

This was the new Nigeria of great hopes and expectations of a newly birthed Nigeria that Awolowo's political war with the North via the agency of his former ethnic-politics deputy, Akintola in a partnership with Ahmadu Bello of the northern NPC to takeover the West of Yoruba land. This was the situation the socialist military sought to save in favour of their supported socialist party, Awolowo's Action Group for which many idealist Igbo socialist middle level soldiers, Majors in the Nigerian army led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna sought to stop and save.

The bigger tragedy of it all was that this socialist group of soldiers that only happen to be bearing Igbo names carried out a socialist or nationalist action based on their ideological persuasion and military defence training and not on their cultural breeding for which they were called IGBO COUP and coupists. The larger tragedy was that a bigger tragedy followed their own killings of the leadership of the leadership of the day which comprised largely of the North, which led to the ethnic genocide of largely Igbo in a pogrom, counter coup and a civil war. The worst of all the tragedies was that the same Awolowo for whom Igbo soldiers sacrificed their lives and not for their own, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe whose government by partnership with the North is being overthrown, were the ones that the same Awolowo recommended extended genocide by hunger throw his proposed policy of STARVATION AS A WEAPON OF WAR for which many Igbos died without sparing the future, the Igbo children killed by malnourishment leading to quashiokor.

So Pastor Isaac Awotanmi, this is the other untold truth of your cultural hero of free education, your "Baba Awolowo" that you cynically asked me to forgive giving Igbos who lived in Yoruba land free education. SO WHO NOW NEEDS FORGIVING from these litany of crimes from an over ambitious desperado of power and violent politics? I dare to rest my pen as I await another attempt to falsify Nigerian history as always.

Mr. C . Ofilli


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Grow some brain

Small small...the truth is coming out

No sense = nonsense

Igbos are the only set of people I know that cry and dwell on the past rather than working towards a better future for their tribes.....

Whether awolowo is right or wrong,he's dead now so what does the future hold for u guys?

The Igbo I know can claim the ownership of anything. They can go as far as claiming that their ancestors founded Washington DC even London.

Igbos wake up and be wise. The power to your freedom lies in the hands of the people you are bashing and dissing words with.

Kinda long but educative, page saved.

Igbo started tribalism firstly in the 1940s by claiming d western part of d country is No man's land and fighting to dominate their host. The first coup in Nigeria was carried by them which brought abt killing of many igbos in Nigeria by d northerners.

Tribalism has not started in Nigeria at all...go to d west you will see how they are fighting for their solely selfish interest

Is wrong for Azikwe to contest in d west in all ramification. Awolowo was right for putting them in check otherwise all d dividends gotten by azikwe will be sent to the eastern regions.

this guy don smoke one bag of weed with gegemu soaked water!!!

No bibliography, references et al for all these brazen assertions. The write up is filed with bile and angst against awolowo, granted awolowo started tribalism for the sake of arguments, must you guys perpetuate it. All the write-up is pure horse shit.

Mumu! Igbo means forest in Yoruba...those guys usually came from the forest to attack Ife...and that's why they were called igbo(Forest) people. I guess weed(Igbo) also means those from across the Niger. Mucus filled brain!

Chai! The writer must have been smoking some serious chronic egbo weed when writing this trash, sotay e even begin claim say igbo people be ife 'aborigins'. What a numbskull. Lmao. Na Ugbo people wey dey presentday Ugboland in Ondo South e dey claim as Igbos at Ife. That blunder alone don discredit the author as a nutcase in need of urgent psychiatric help.

Seems like this Awolowo of an enigma will perpetually invoke insomnia in some people, even long after his death. Choi!

ODVanguard:
Chai! The writer must have been smoking some serious chronic egbo weed when writing this trash, sotay e even begin claim say igbo people be ife 'aborigins'. What a numbskull. Lmao. Na Ugbo people wey dey presentday Ugboland in Ondo South e dey claim as Igbos at Ife. That blunder alone don discredit the author as a nutcase in need of urgent psychiatric help.

Seems like this Awolowo of an enigma will perpetually invoke insomnia in some people, even long after his death. Choi!

Exactly! They've now settled in present day Ugboland in Ondo state.

seguun:



Exactly! They've now settled in present day Ugboland in Ondo state.

Are you minding the ignoramus trying to steal and supplant Ugbo people's history? Ugbo (forest) is same as Igbo (central Yoruba meaning for forest) in Ugbo dialect. The bobo wan rewrite hundreds of years old history with the stroke of a pen, just like that?! Why are some of these people like this for goodness sake? If no be land dem dey drag with people, na another people history dem go dey follow the pesin dey drag. Na wah o.

ODVanguard:


Are you minding the ignoramus trying to steal and supplant Ugbo people's history? Ugbo (forest) is same as Igbo (central Yoruba meaning for forest) in Ugbo dialect. The bobo wan rewrite hundred year old history with the stroke of a pen, just like that?! Why are some of these people like this for goodness sake? If no be land dem dey drag with people, na another people history dem go dey follow the pesin dey drag. Na wah o.

Most of them I know are not like this though, I want to believe these terrible ones are those unexposed mofos...I mean Yorubas and Igbos cross marry every weekend.

YORUBAS ARE EUROPEANS WHO MOVED SOUTH WHILE EUROPEANS ARE YORUBAS OR HAUSAS WHO MOVED NORTH. YORUBAS ARE IGBOS WHO DECIDED TO STICK TOGETHER TO BUILD NATIONS CONTAINING HUGE CITIES WHILE IGBOS ARE YORUBAS WHO DECIDED TO BUILD ONLY VILLAGES WITH MAX POPULATION OF 2000 SO THAT THERE WILL BE NO NEED FOR KINGS!. THEY DONT LIKE OVERLORDSHIP, SO LET THE VILLAGE BE AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT EVERYBODY COMES TO THE VILLAGE CENTER TO ARGUE AND MAKE DECISIONS!.


THOSE ARE THE REALITIES!. ALL HUMANS ARE THESAME!

SO, WHICH CULTURE IS OLDEST? YORUBA THEOLOGY SAYS IN THE FIRST ILE IFE, THERE WAS A KING OLOFIN AJALAYE AND THOSE PEOPLE DESCENDED FROM OUTER SPACE. SO I WOULD SAY IGBOS EMERGED LATER. THEY MUST HAVE BEEN REBELS WHO REFUSED TO RECOGNISE KINGS BUT SO FAR THEY DIDNT CAUSE TROUBLE, THEY WERE ALLOWED TO GO AND SET UP NEW SETTLEMENTS!. THEY HAVE BEEN DISCONNECTED FROM YORUBAS FOR UP TO 4000 YEARS I BELIEVE.

AWOLOWO DOES NOT NEED FORGIVENESS BECAUSE HE DID THE RIGHT THING. HE WAS NOT IN ZIK'S PARTY, SO WHY WILL HE SUPPORT ZIK? IT WAS ZIK THAT SHOULD HAVE SOUGHT ALLIANCE WITH THE ACTION GROUP AND CONCEDED PREMIERSHIP OF WEST TO THEM OR TO A YORUBA IN NCNC BUT RATHER ZIK ATTEMPTED TO BECOME THE WESTERN PREMIER EVEN AS HE WAS JUNIOR TO MANY YORUBAS!. THAT TO ME WAS NOT SMART. ZIK WAS A JUNIOR MAN IN ALL RESPECT TO MANY YORUBAS BACK THEN. THERE IS YORUBA NATIONALISM AND UNDER THAT. THERE IS IJEBU, EGBA, IJESA ETC. SAME WITH IGBOS! TO THINK WHAT ZIK TRIED WOULD HAVE WORKED IS VERY SILLY INDEED! HOWEVER YOU CANT BLAME NON NCNC MEMBERS, FIND THE NAMES OF THE NCNC MEMBERS IF THEY EXIST AND BLAME THEM! FACT IS THEY DONT EXIST! NCNC NEVER HAD MAJORITY.

LET EVERYBODY MAINTAIN THEIR LAND AND QUIT TRYING TO ASSERT THEMSELVES OVER OTHERS. THAT WILL ENSURE HARMONY. WE NEED A LEVEL OF NAZI IDEOLOGY TO MAINTAIN HARMONY. YORUBA LAND IS YORUBA LAND WHILE IGBO LAND IS IGBO LAND. HAUSA TOO. INSIDE YORUBA, YOU STILL HAVE IJESA, IFE, IJEBU ETC. BOUNDARIES ARE VERY IMPORTANT.


ON THE CIVIL WAR. THE BIAFRAN LEADERSHIP WAS WRONG TO MOVE TROOPS INTO THE MIDWEST AND WEST THAT WERE HITHERTO SUPPORTING AND REFUSING PASSAGE FOR THE NIGERIAN ARMY! PEOPLE CHERISH THEIR LANDS. NIGERIA IS NOT US. THIS IS A CONGLOMERATION OF TRADITIONAL STATES THAT ARE DISTINCT. THE CIVIL WAR WAS BETWEEN HAUSAS AND IGBOS AND IF BIAFRANS HAD NOT OVERPLAYED THEIR HANDS BY INVADING THE WEST TO COLONISE THEM, BIAFRA WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED, NORTH WOULD BREAK UP TOO EASILY BUT BIAFRA BUNGLED THAT OPPORTUNITY. HOW CAN IGBOS ATTEMPT TO COLONISE YORUBAS? IF YOU REASON WELL, YOU WILL REALISE, THAT WAS AN EFFRONTERY ON THE PART OF BIAFRA!


SO AWO IS NOT SORRY AND DONT NEED TO APOLOGISE TO IGBOS OR ANYONE. IF YOU WERE HIM, YOU WOULD DO THESAME.

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AmuDimpka:
"Baba Awolowo" needs to atone for his crimes even in death. As an untruthful pastor that you also are, you may begin by first asking for your own forgiveness for lying after which you may lead the FORGIVENESS TRAIN for Chief Obafemi Awolowo's forgiveness.

Awolowo did good for his Yoruba people but he was fundamental to the destruction of Nigeria.This is not an accusation, this is a statement of historical fact. The Igbo are diasporic by nature like the FULANI. So if their traveling feet make them beneficiaries of Awolowo's laudable free education program, so be it. Igbo taxes also entitled them to tax benefits which included Awoloso's great free education that was tax funded.

The Yoruba are not great tax, rent, or bill payers still mind you. Awolowo had to pay for it electorally for this when he enforced it against the people's will like Igbo women did against colonial taxation known as ABA WOMEN'S RIOT of 1929. This was long before active nationalist struggle championed by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe even finished his education in America in the 1930s. And about 20 years before Awo earned his very belated degree in law in the 1940s. But the Yoruba were still resisting payment of tax well into independent Nigeria. If you must also know, Zik complained bitterly that the Igbo and other easterners always preferred to pay their taxes to Lagos because it was cheaper there and you could only pay once anywhere in Nigeria in those days.So Igbo money greatly funded Awolowo's Action Group's programmes..

But by the way, who ever stopped the Yoruba from coming to Igbo land to benefit from their business wizardry. Come if you can compete with the masters of the trade. Are the Igbo to blame for your ever insulated traditional nature that makes you to always betray your history of a people who had a very long journey from the near East through northern Nigeria through the Middle belt till you finally settled in Ile Ife through the assistance of a Benin stranger, Oduduwa that had you settled you at Ife by your dubious claim. IFE was the aboriginal land of the Igbo that your ancestors came to share with when they came and became one community until treachery led to its hijack through the instrumentality of Oduduwa who caused a rift between communal brethren under the leadership of Obatala and many more known kings before him and before the arrival of Oduduwa. The present Ooni of IFE at the event remembrance statue erected for Moremi confirmed on national television that Igbo family lines and houses still stand in IFE.

A GREAT HISTORY BETRAYED

But unfortunately, the Yoruba that have the rare privilege of having interactive history across Nigeria's ethnic groups and two global religions of Christianity and Islam, have tragically become insular and too self-focused. They have been further spoilt by nature-assisted closeness to the Atlantic ocean that gave them early access to the White men that made early slaves and also early beneficiaries of educated slaves and also a British decision to make Lagos the capital of British created Nigeria. A decision that further drove the Yoruba into deeper insularity contrary to their long migratory history that had them settling Ife among the original Igbo aborigines with whom they co-habited and became one until the oracle rejected stranger from Benin, Oduduwa hijacked power and leadership that made most of the aboriginal Igbos of Ife to relocate away to found a new town across the Niger rather than stay under a traitorous leadership hijacked from aboriginal Obatala leadership by stranger-dweller of Ife, Oduduwa. This Igbo aboriginals who stayed back continued the fight against the power usurpers and their supporters till they became worshippers of Obatala that have continued that fight of classic betrayal in ritual forms enacted in dramatic forms during their Obatala festivals.

To cover up the lies of their history, those who stayed back in IFE invented a lie that Oduduwa came from heaven to found Ile Ife, just as you Pastor Isaac Awotanmi and the likes of you and your historians have continued to lie in order to alter the truth of Nigerian history as you have just done here. You have not offered any historical fact other than to request that I forgive Awolowo for the crime of providing education and welfare that the Igbo benefitted from as though those were the issues of his many crimes during the civil war that were the chief concern of my piece of writing.

HISTORY AND JOUuRNALISM MANGLED BY THE YORUBA

You want to typically subvert the truth as you people have always done across time in Nigeria from your early access to Western education and from controlling the media that is much like education which the British also gave you through Henry Townsend in Abeokuta. With journalism you have been peddling untrue histories which the just departed Oba of Benin made a palace duty of constantly refuting till he and your also departed Oni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade clashed in a national counter alternative versions of the same history which included Benin swallowing its crime against his son who became great in another land, Ife, requesting his intervention when Benin came to their political and constitutional crisis. The outcome was the offer of Oduduwa's son to Benin that could not integrate well in Benin but put a princess in a family way that led to a child that was never fathered, Eweka, that began a new dynasty in Benin.

(Editing suspended here for sleep at 3pm)

Obafemi Awolowo who has become the modern day Oduduwa of Yoruba land has no doubt done selfishly well for his people. But you can never stop me from completing the story. That the same Awolowo was very central to the tragedy that Nigeria is still entrapped in ad a result of his deadly ambitions to govern like Oduduwa. He not only ran down the leading Yoruba leaders of his time in order to better them all evidence contain in his autobiographical book, AWO (1960). This included the dominant politician of the time, the leading Yoruba politician including his political elders and mentors whose names escape me now that were all founders and members of one of Nigeria's earliest political parties, Nigerian Youth Movement, NYM. When that largely southern Nigerian party was killed due to election between an Ijaw man Ernest Ikoli, Awolowo's political mentor and beneficiary, and an Ijebu-Yoruba man supported by Azikiwe was ruined by the intra-ethnic Yoruba politics that had Awolowo disregarding Azikiwe his self-confessed inspirer whom he used to go cover as a journalist when Azikiwe was a national platform speaker with a PhD from America and a honoured and respected member of the leadership of NYM. It was at the NYM that the Igbo-Yoruba relation was ruined because Zik supported a Yoruba candidate while Awolowo supported the candidate of his mentors who was a newspaper business rival of Zik.

When some members of the Yoruba political elites reconciled with Zik at the founding of the NCNC where even Awolowo's respected Yoruba mentor, became a part of. But Awolowo would not be reconciled. After NCNC was founded in 1944, he went ahead to pursue ethnic agenda of turning Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a Yoruba cultural group into a Yoruba only political party with an initial slogan of THE WEST FOR WESTERNER; even when the old western Nigeria include Benin's, Ishans, Igbos, Ijaws, Isokos, Itsekiri, Urhobo s etc. They were defined out Awolowo's conception and execution of the West that is an all Yoruba party, for the Yoruba that introduced tribalism and negative ethnicism into politics in Nigeria. Forca better understanding of this, go an read Zik's profound concern of Awolowo's poisonous politics in his book, ZIK, A SELECTION OF SPEECHES, 1961. You may also read Awolowo's own account in his 1960 autobiography where he confessed to forming Action Group secretly and away from Zik's knowledge when he was away in 1951. He wrote about the tribalistic beginning of AG even with self limp locator pride the same way he wrote his Yoruba political elders and mentors.

It was because that orientation and party could not give him a national lift beyond western Nigeria after he had been its Premier that the expansion of the party beyond Yoruba land commenced. Other ethnic groups in the then West were never made comfortable nor ever felt comfortable as part owners of a region the Yoruba were dominant in population and politics.

Awolowo's desperation to rise above his own self-limiting ethnic creation got him into by first wanting to resurrect a quasi national party, NYM after Zik and its followers its soul by funding and by Zik's popular Pilot newspaper projection, which he failed at. Not even with the repeated effort in partnership with his mentor who returned to Nigeria from abroad after he tratoriously left the NYM and the national struggle, the man to whom Awo ascribe the writing of the NYM constitution to take up a corporate job and later moved abroad.

Awo later joined another national party, National Emergency Movement, NEM which was formed as a national reaction to the colonial killing of the Enugu coal workers where he took up a leading position and function which he betrayed in an anti-party activities. It was while he was in NEM as a top official that Awolowo was simultenously and clandestinely forming his all-Yoruba Action Group party. So it was Awolowo's inability to play nationally that he went ahead to poison Nigeria with ethnic politics in the only party he succeeded with, his ethnic Action Group. To his credit , he grew it sizeable to the point of challenging the other ethnic and regionally and Islamically inspired party on the same evil year if Nigerian politics, 1951, the Northern Peoples'Congress, NPC; AG's twin partner in tribalising, ethnicising, regionalising and even religionising Nigeria by its Fulani trado-religious leader Ahmadu Bello.

The combination of these two ideological twins born in different regions but bound by the same me, myself and I politics of my people first before Nigeria, overthrew the nationalist and pan African politics by which Zik of Igbo extraction had galvanised Nigeria to independence. The TWO OF THREE IDEOLOGICAL TRIUMPH of these Zik inspirer and standard bearer by their own written confessions in their autobiographies, plunged Nigeria on a poisonous foundation of ethnic politics from which Nigeria is still suffering from. An evil performance that repeated itself in the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu driven, but Awolowo inspired APC political formation and electoral victory that was a schemed along the Islamic belt Nigeria from the west to the North held by a political marriage. A repeat of history in sectional politics that had a conspiratorial connivance of a FOUR TO TWO regional defeat of Zik's old Eastern region of the two new regions of the South East and the Niger delta's South-South by the marriage of the two old twin ideological sectionalists now four new political regions. The mess that Bola Tinubu's jagaban violent politics of forceful must-win
has plunged the nation into, is the only way to understand what Awolowo's cantercerous do or die politics was about. It was this type of politics that Zik so warned Nigeria and Awolowo about, and the danger it portended for a young country before and after independence that neither Awolowo nor the nation would harken to that led to the termination of the
FIRST REPUBLIC by military men who planned another coup to secure power for Awolowo by arms and bullets that Awolowo and his Action Group party failed to secure by armed struggle to overthrow the same Tafawa Balewa's government that they were planning from Ghana. For this they went to jail from around 1963 before the younger group of socialist military boys beat their conservative military boys to the coup gambit in January 1966. led largely by Igbo soldiers for Awolowo according to their confessions who was already serving a jail sentence in Calabar.

It is the same Awolowo for whom this was done, for whom Igbo soldiers in a a bid to save a collapsing nation arising largely from the rivalry between Awolowo and his former political lieutenant who had jumped ship to the rival side, Chief Ladoke Akintola. Their rivalry led to the burning of the Yoruba land in their deadly "wetie operations" that involved the burning of the houses of political rivals till it became a wildfire that gave the Yoruba the nickname "the wild, wild west"; for their politics of violence that was another Awolowo legacy that his over promoters always love to be silent about. But about which Zik used every platform to warn about before it went out of hand.

This was the new Nigeria of great hopes and expectations of a newly birthed Nigeria that Awolowo's political war with the North via the agency of his former ethnic-politics deputy, Akintola in a partnership with Ahmadu Bello of the northern NPC to takeover the West of Yoruba land. This was the situation the socialist military sought to save in favour of their supported socialist party, Awolowo's Action Group for which many idealist Igbo socialist middle level soldiers, Majors in the Nigerian army led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna sought to stop and save.

The bigger tragedy of it all was that this socialist group of soldiers that only happen to be bearing Igbo names carried out a socialist or nationalist action based on their ideological persuasion and military defence training and not on their cultural breeding for which they were called IGBO COUP and coupists. The larger tragedy was that a bigger tragedy followed their own killings of the leadership of the leadership of the day which comprised largely of the North, which led to the ethnic genocide of largely Igbo in a pogrom, counter coup and a civil war. The worst of all the tragedies was that the same Awolowo for whom Igbo soldiers sacrificed their lives and not for their own, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe whose government by partnership with the North is being overthrown, were the ones that the same Awolowo recommended extended genocide by hunger throw his proposed policy of STARVATION AS A WEAPON OF WAR for which many Igbos died without sparing the future, the Igbo children killed by malnourishment leading to quashiokor.

So Pastor Isaac Awotanmi, this is the other untold truth of your cultural hero of free education, your "Baba Awolowo" that you cynically asked me to forgive giving Igbos who lived in Yoruba land free education. SO WHO NOW NEEDS FORGIVING from these litany of crimes from an over ambitious desperado of power and violent politics? I dare to rest my pen as I await another attempt to falsify Nigerian history as always.

Mr. C . Ofilli


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This post is filled with Lies and unwarranted stupidity.......Like 1929 Aba Womens riot and Awolowo doesnt mix. Delete this trash immediately

1966 Coup: “The Igbos Now Vindicated And Exonerated”

26th February 2016 News, Politics 1 Comment
1966 Coup: “The Igbos Now Vindicated And Exonerated”Olusegun-Obasanjo



Let the truth be told. The People involved in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:

1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)

2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”

3. Capt. G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).

4. Maj. Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).

5. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.

6. Lt. R. Egbiko (Midwestern Region – Ishan).

7. Lt. Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).

8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).

9. Capt. Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).

10. Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).

11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).

12. Lt. Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)

13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)

14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).

The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
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Yoruba – Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if u have any. History will always tell us what happened.

1. Azikiwe defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria (present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming Opposition, rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.

2. Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba control of the media for decades.

3. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.

4. Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.

5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.

6. As Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic divides. 9. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and co to overthrow General Ironsi.

7. In order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West (Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to join the North in fighting Igbos.

8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.

9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.

10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.

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Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than acfinancial destutute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba

12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .

13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.

14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.

15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.

16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.

17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.

18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.

19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.

20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.

What is ur sincere opinion?

The OP is high on some very potent weed. This post is clearly a glimpse of a very disturbed mind.

FOCUS ON GETTING BIAFRA WITHOUT GETTING PEOPLE KILLED! THAT WOULD BE BETTER!.