raker300:
So the niger deltans have been working against the igbos even before independence? Chai!

I told my people not to associate with these folks yet they keep felling sorry for them.

Feeling sorry for who? Very funny. You guys simply wanted to marry niger delta by force because of oil and sea access. The typical man loves himself only so don't deceive yourself that the forced alliance was to help Niger delta. Niger delta saw this on time and properly put the screws on biafra. And till today will not be a part of biafra. Chew on that one.

Wiseandtrue:
It's obvious that this man is tribalistic!
All I can see is his hatred for the West!
He is even trying to pinch the Igbos against the yorubas

A country that needs each other needs not reason like this instead roll out ideas that would work for everyone!

I am out of here!

You are truely wise as only you have seen the way this aboki is trying to cause disunity amongst the south. I thought I was the only one that noticed he claimed Niger delta don't want igbos, igbos don't want yoruba and yorubas don't want igbos but claimed that they all want hausas.
He is just being mischievous and trying to cause disunity amongst southern Nigeria.

This has got to be the most delusional, stoopidest article I have read on nairaland


Someone needs to wake this old maggot up from his delusions.

Observing..........................

well said he who get ear let him hear, an igbo man is a global, enterprising in nature. south east is too small for us.

raker300:
"but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo"

No be me talk am ooo

Na that one touched me. I couldn't have believed it if it weren't coming from a northerner who is neither Igbo nor Yoruba.

Yoruba need another set of leaders. Real leaders.

Those tinubus and co are worthless "leaders"

Nistfrank:
well said he who get ear let him hear, an igbo man is a global, enterprising in nature. south east is too small for us.

South east is too small and at what expense does the North and sw allow you access to their lands?

(1)-This agitation for new Biafra came at a time when the Niger Delta people are agitating for resource control, and at the same time, the South-West, who are more interested in brewing trouble in the country, joined forces with them to change the whole issue into restructuring.

(2)-This agitation for new Biafra came at a time when the Niger Delta people are agitating for resource control, and at the same time, the South-West, who are more interested in brewing trouble in the country, joined forces with them to change the whole issue into restructuring.


I now understand why the yorabas are always branded cowards and betrayers...


PLEASE DON'T QUOTE ME I'M NOT TANKO YAKASSAI!

irepnaija4eva:
During the first declaration of Biafra, it was a public knowledge that when Gowon sent Awolowo to persuade Ojukwu not to embark on secession, they met on the River Niger bridge and discussed. Later on, the media said that according to unofficial report, Awolowo assured Ojukwu that if they seceded, the West would also secede. When he came out, he declared publicly that if by any act of commission or omission the East was allowed to go, the West would follow. This is the public announcement he made and the record is there, which means the West would also secede from the rest of Nigeria. The Igbo believed in him and Ojukwu told all the Igbo to go back to their respective areas. At that time, the Igbo were holding various positions in government, but they all left. When they came back after the civil war, they found that the Yoruba had occupied their positions, and till today, they have not regained such positions, and they will never regain them.



SMH....THIS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED.
NB...NEVER TRUST THE YORUBAS.

From childhood, every Igboman knows a Yoruba man is a backstabber. Some of us ignored such eternal warning
and tried to see things for ourselves and got stabbed immediately too. From cross carpeting to if "Igbos go we will go", it's all
about Awolowo betrayal of trust. Obafemi Awolowo was the epitome of chameleon character (419 scammer pastor Adeboye of today) which has made his people so notorious across Africa as very untrustworthy people.

huptin:
The Igbo's say Yoruba's don't want them to get Biafra, now the Hausa's are saying that Yoruba's are the ones pushing Igbo's towards Biafra, now I am very confused, I don't just know what to believe.

My dear brother, The North have just wake up to reality that Nigeria will soon be no more!!

This oldman is using there outdated tactics Of DIVIDE AND RULE which is vividly noticeable in I. choice.of.words!!!!

They know what restructuring which is better than dissolution means but still there.arrogance is keeping g them away from bowing to the arrangement.

Now they see that we Yorubas are Largely in Support of Biafra the more now because we do not even want the Fucking Resstructuring anymore so he is trying to divide now the United South.

Useless Oldman/thinking with his teeth.

Igbo's and Yoruba's can do it all alone as individual Nation. We need not your useless meat nor beans nor tomatoes from your region to survive. I speaking have once.cultivated tomatoes back in the years and it yielded like no tomorrow without applying fertilizers.

Our land in the South is generally Fertile!!!

We Southerners altogether can not be working and you mofos up there the north taking the Glory.

To Hell With Nigeria and it so called onesss.

Hail Biafra, Hail Oduduwa!!!

dragonking2:
Go and sleep, you guys also claim to be igbos and Jews at the same time. How can your tribe be igbo and jewish

Judaism is a religion. We are Igbos. That is our tribe. But "Niger Delta"?!!. N..gga please! Claim you tribe even if you don't want to be part of Biafra Mr. Chibuike Chukwuemeka Amechi from ND. LOL

The more reason history as a subject should be taught in schools. Everyone with access to the media is making up Nigerian history on a whim

Oyiboman69:
The goals they want to achieve with new Biafra – Tanko Yaksai

dailytrust.com.ng

Jun 4, 2017 2:04 AM

Alhaji Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a former Special Political Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari, spoke on why the agitation of Biafra continued to attract attention, why it is impossible for the Igbo to secede and why they will be better off in Nigeria than Biafra, among other things.



Why is the agitation for Biafra gathering momentum in recent times?

Well, the agitation for Biafra started soon after the demise of Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi. So the name is not new. The only difference is that the old Biafra actually was intended to occupy the whole of southern region. 

It was a scheme for getting the entire southern Nigeria to break away. The intention was to block the North from access to the sea. If that happened, the North would be starved of many things coming from the port, including fuel and imported items we rely upon. So that was the old Biafra. Because of that, when they were preparing to declare Biafra, southern minorities from the present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom led a delegation to the North to plead with General Hassan Usman Katsina, the then military governor of Northern Nigeria, to plead with the central government not to allow Biafran secession to succeed because, according to them, if it was allowed to succeed, they would remain forever as second class citizens in what would be known as Biafra. 

The young men are not agitating for the five Igbo-speaking states to constitute Biafra, rather, they are thinking of the old Eastern Region, with the four minority states, together with five majority Igbo-speaking states. You don’t dismiss idea by a wave of hand. But the practical aspect of it is very difficult because all along there has not been love lost between the Igbo and their minority.

In fact, when Nigeria was to be granted independence and constitutional conference was held in 1957, the minorities in the East complained of oppression and marginalisation by the Igbo. They wanted their interest to be safeguarded in an independent Nigeria. It was agreed that a special arrangement would be made to protect their interest, and it was made with the creation of the Niger Delta Development Authority which was put under the care of Shehu Shagari, who was then the parliamentary secretary to the prime minister.  It was decided that the development of the Niger Delta shall not come from the Eastern Region, even though they were located under the old regional government. 

I don’t think it is possible for the minority to go into any political association with the Igbo.

This agitation started right from the time of Obasanjo, with Uwazurike as its leader. Now, I think Uwazurike has realised that it is an impossible task to realise their dream; that is why he is more or less quiet. This young man, Nnamdi Kanu, was just a broadcaster. I don’t know whether he was under Uwazurike or on his own, but he was not a leader on his own. He was a broadcaster. I believe he got some of their people in the United States, collected their money and set up a radio station, which I think is being broadcast from America and beamed somewhere in West Africa. The boy became popular after his arrest. I think what they are trying to do is to develop the agitation into a political movement and try to gather support from the Igbo and any of their sympathizers.

This agitation for new Biafra came at a time when the Niger Delta people are agitating for resource control, and at the same time, the South-West, who are more interested in brewing trouble in the country, joined forces with them to change the whole issue into restructuring. So there is now a connection between the agitation for restructuring, the realisation of Biafra and resource control. They started during the 1994/95 constitutional conference, where they were holding regular meetings. At that time, every week, the minority from the East would meet with Igbo, and after that, they would meet with the Yoruba. All these three ideas emanated from former Vice President Alex Ekwueme. 

This is the situation now.  The issue to be addressed is whether the present Biafra would include the former Eastern Region, whereby the four minority Igbo-speaking states would join forces with five Igbo-speaking states and form new Biafra? That has not been spelt out. The only thing I heard was that Rivers would not be part of the Biafra; I think Akwa-Ibom too. But it is not clear yet whether the four minority Igbo-speaking states have openly declared that they are not going be part of Biafra. This is the immediate challenge the agitators for new Biafra will face. But grant it that Biafra will materialise; everybody is aware that the major ethnic groups in Nigeria are Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. 

The minorities are everywhere and our minorities are not distinct; we are interwoven. Even the North-Central, which is the official area regarded as the Middle Belt, is made up of six states. Four of the six are Muslim majority; they are Nasarawa, Niger, Kogi and Kwara states and the minority elements left in Plateau State, for instance, are themselves fighting one another. In addition, they don’t speak with one another except in either Hausa or English. None of them can speak with the other in their own native language, and all of them were at loggerheads with the Tiv. Initially, when our committee was asked to recommend creation of states, we intended to create Middle Belt state but when the idea was put forward, the people of Niger said they were out of it; the people of Ilorin said they were out of it and the people of Kogi also said they were out of it. So the old Plateau had to be merged with Benue and made one province while other provinces were regrouped.

So, the reality is that the three major ethnic groups, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, need Nigeria. Every one of them needs Nigeria. Let’s start with the Yoruba. Most of the industries are located in the South-West, mainly in Lagos, some in Ogun and some in Ibadan. According to a letter written by the late General Adeyinka Adebayo, the industries in Oyo are owned by Lebanese and Indians, but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo. So the industries that are manufacturing goods in the South-West and some in the Eastern Region have the whole of Nigeria as their market, a market of about 200 million people. If there is no Nigeria, there would not be that market and what would be the consequences of lack of market? 

First, the goods cannot be sold, there will be no production and there will be unemployment, and the people that are employed in industries located in the South-West are largely Yoruba. The day there is no Nigeria, there will be massive unemployment in the South-West. This is apart from the food and livestock they are getting from the North. If there is no Nigeria, they will not get them, and if they are going to import, it will take time and will be costly. By nature, they cannot grow livestock and some food items in their area. The geographical situation in South-West is different from that of the North; the animals they are growing do not enough meat and milk, unlike the ones in the North.

For the Igbo, at present there is no village where there is a flourishing market where you cannot have the Igbo conducting their own businesses. And they are living in peace; nobody is harassing them. They live within thousands of other ethnic groups and nobody is attacking them. It is a well known fact that the business of building materials is surrendered to Igbo people, as well as electrical appliances, fittings and spare parts. Commuter transportation; those luxury buses that are plying our roads from one state to another are owned by the Igbo. The day there is no Nigeria, the Igbo will have no alternative than to relocate to their states. And with the hate speeches being circulated on the social media and other platforms, it is impossible to have a peaceful dissolution of Nigeria.

That is the take on the Igbo and the Yoruba people. We the Huasa Fulani too need Nigeria. I have sat alone, without reading any book and said to myself: “What do we need from Nigeria?” And I have come up with five things we really need Nigeria for. One, we have no way of having immediate access to the sea than from Nigeria. If there is no Nigeria, we have to go to Libya, and there are no enough roads to achieve that. 

Two, we need the current oil revenue. In Nigeria, only six states can survive with the oil revenue they are getting. There are four oil bearing states that cannot survive with the quantity of oil located in their areas. These states are Abia, Imo, Ondo and Edo, they have oil, but it is not as much as they could rely on for survival. But Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom and one other state can survive with the oil located in their respective areas. So, during the first Biafran agitation Ojukwu entered agreement with France whereby he gave concession for the entire oil and gas resources in the Biafran region. If Biafra succeeded, there was no way the Niger Delta people could claim ownership of oil and gas located in their areas. 

Three, the North also needs education. Today, in most of our universities the lecturers are mostly from the South - even the students. We need education and we cannot get it without teachers, so we need Nigeria to get teachers from southern part of the country to come and teach us. 

Four, we need the technical know-how the South has. So we need them for that. 

Five, we also need the South for investment. The only northerners that have huge investments are three - Aliko Dangote, T. Y Danjuma and Alhaji Abdulsamad Isyaka Rabi’u. But if you go to the South you will get thousands of them with huge capital. 

So, the three major ethnic groups need Nigeria because everybody is benefiting from Nigeria. For the Igbo, if there is no Nigeria, there will be no market for them to do their businesses. At least if you take the North, you are talking of 55 per cent of the population of Nigeria, which is about 100 million out of the 180 million of Nigerian population. The Yoruba also need market because their industries cannot sell the goods to themselves. By nature, the Yoruba man likes the Hausa man more than the Igbo man and the Igbo man likes the Hausa man more than the Yoruba man, yet the Yoruba are now trying to convince the Igbo to forget aganist the Hausa. 

The Igbo, unfortunately, are lacking in diplomacy. This is the weakness of the Igbo and that is what the Yoruba are capitalising on to manipulate their way of thinking. During the first declaration of Biafra, it was a public knowledge that when Gowon sent Awolowo to persuade Ojukwu not to embark on secession, they met on the River Niger bridge and discussed. Later on, the media said that according to unofficial report, Awolowo assured Ojukwu that if they seceded, the West would also secede. When he came out, he declared publicly that if by any act of commission or omission the East was allowed to go, the West would follow. This is the public announcement he made and the record is there, which means the West would also secede from the rest of Nigeria. The Igbo believed in him and Ojukwu told all the Igbo to go back to their respective areas. At that time, the Igbo were holding various positions in government, but they all left. When they came back after the civil war, they found that the Yoruba had occupied their positions, and till today, they have not regained such positions, and they will never regain them.

https://dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/the-goals-they-want-to-achieve-with-new-biafra-tanko-yaksai/200428.html

give it to him...the man spoke like a patriot n a statesman...

Summary:

The North sees the west as a liability...

Oh Abasi Mbok!

SirJeffry:
From his words, there's surely disunity among the regions of the nation so why the forced marriage?

Of course, there has always been disunity among the Easteners/Southeners.

Biara failed during Ojukwu and will always be dead on arrival. The movement is shrouded in uncertainty. Even the igbos themselves don't trust one another. Let alone the minority regions like Calabar and Akwa Ibom and Rivers. There is fear in some quarters that the Anambrans would want to hijack the Biaran entity, dominate and enslave others.
The supporters are the selfish minority who doesn't know the underlying motive for the movement.

Ojuwku was this close, but he was discovered to be a fraud by his own people. He lost. Uwazurike came on board and used it to bargain his selfish interest with the Nigerian govt, he is now history. Am not surprised with Kanu, he will toe the same path as his predecessors. While the not so smart followers will die for a cause that is not genuine.

Instead of exerting our energy fighting the common enemy - ethnic sentiments, bigotry tendencies, we are wasting it on a selfish course that is not tenable.

I support true federism, not sectional breakup. We are too divided to break up to make up. We can all make Nigeria the country we yearn for.

Long live Nigeria

when the Niger Delta people are agitating for resource control, and at the same time, the South-West, who are more interested in brewing trouble in the country, joined forces with them to change the whole issue into restructuring. So there is now a connection between the agitation for restructuring, the realisation of Biafra and resource control

I'm glad even the Hausa knows how diabolical and untrustworthy yoruba are

ESDKING:
Afonjas are terrible.

On ND issue, majority of ND people of today want Biafra because they have known the truth.

OK, let's assume that ND people don't want Biafra (which is a lie), are they better of in Nigeria ?

Lol..keep telling yourself that. Whatever makes you sleep at night

successmatters:
Eye opener!

This interview has thought me more Nigerian History than any book before. I just became more afraid of the southern minorities again, and for the treachery of the yorubas, no be today e start.

Biafra is more needed than we think.

N u must be drunk to complain of treachery! When my grand uncle of blessed memory.. Adekunle Fajuyi refused to leave his guest n rather preferred to die with him...was he not a Yoruba then? U guys don't even remember his name....just shouting awolowo upandan!!! The point is u guys would always choose to believe what suits ur selfish interest!

beberebe:


Speak for your tribe and not nigerdelta......

...why Niger delta? What did you forget there that you are going back to collect,when rivers,balyesa,delta and Edo don't align with you,you still want the forced marriage can't you see in this respect you are no different from the Hausa,ko le werk, you are Ibo not Niger delta so lets make that distinction clear

Koolking:


Of course, there has always been unity among the Easteners/Southeners.

Biara failed during Ojukwu and will always be dead on arrival. The movement is shrouded in uncertainty. Even the igbos themselves don't trust one another. Let alone the minority regions like Calabar and Akwa Ibom and Rivers. There is fear in some quarters that the Anambrans would want to hijack the Biaran entity, dominate and enslave others.
The supporters are the selfish minority who doesn't know the underlying motive for the movement.

Ojuwku was this close, but he was discovered to be a fraud by his own people. He lost. Uwazurike came on board and used it to bargain his selfish interest with the Nigerian govt, he is now history. Am not surprised with Kanu, he will toe the same path as his predecessors. While the not so smart followers will die for a cause that is not genuine.

Instead of exerting our energy fighting the common enemy - ethnic sentiments, bigotry tendencies, we are wasting it on a selfish course that is not tenable.

I support true federism, not sectional breakup. We are too divided to break up to make up. We can all make Nigeria the country we yearn for.

Long live Nigeria

Haven't you heard that your people are very untrustworthy?
No other people have been consistently labeled untrustworthy in Africa than Yorubas.
How are we sure you are not going to betray us again?
I have dealt with Housas many times, at least you are safe if no religion is involved. For a Yorobaman, it is simply hard to say.

The war has already begun (codedly). It is fundamentally an ecological conflict (war) with ethno-religion undertone. Top men of southern extraction are being quietly assassinated or incarcerated. There is the tendency that that the war chest are being moved to cells in various parts of the southern Nigeria and the middle belt (policy of roadblock removal and the siting helicopter dropping arms in the Niger Delta appear to confirm this). The foolish Southern Nigeria (Yoruba, Igbo, N/Delta, Middlebelter are at each other's throats while the hawk watch in amazement and ready to pounce). I conducted a study (in-depth review of the conflicts between farmers and the herdsmen) which showed vividly that a war is on the horizon but the foolish Igbo and Yoruba are fighting. You cannot fight the war alone and will have yourself to blame when you become slaves on your land.

MetaPhysical:
This thread is new, not even half a page yet and Ibos are already racing off Yakasai's comment to spew hatred. For once, listen to what the man said in this interview, you are behaving in exact pattern the interview was scripted to influence your emotions. Is he god? What makes you believe that these things he said about Yoruba and Akwa Ibom and Cross River people against you are true? Why is he not talking about the various ways in which North has betrayed Ibo or as Sultan of Sokoto recently admitted, "they killed Ibo in North necause they invaded their communities and set up trades and became affluent".

Do not surrender your emotions to his words, stay strong and wave him off. This article does nothing to subtract or add to your struggle, Yakassai cannot move biafra forward or ret.ard your progress. So why respond with hatred to those who you truly need to aid your mission.

This time around make it mission accomplished, not mission impossible!

I understand were u r coming from and I echo ur sentiments. I want u to also understand were ibos are coming from and why they r sentimental to this thread.

The Ibo has known for years that the ND's are betrayals especially akwa-ibom, and it was because of them that Nigerians surrounded the Biafrans from our own backyard which led to the surrendering. At least my dad who was an ex soldier couldn't be biased when he told me one of his war stories back in the day.

Secondly, Ibos also know that Yorubas are 'snakes', sorry to use that word. They cannot be trusted and Ibo know this for years now and learned the hard way. They are even one of the reason why Biafra was declared.

So please forgive the Ibos for being sentimental on this thread. They are just surprised that a Northerner whom has always been known for their lies could come out and speak the truth.

And make no mistake, while most of the things he said is true, many of his assertion are also serious lies and can only mean deception. How can one say Igbos like Hausa? That is a lie from the pit of hell. I mean Igbos are not Yoruba that hide their feels. We make our feelings known.

Buhari was so surprised that he didnt get 1% votes from Igbos. anyi anachi

Super1Star:
As usual some Igbo kids are dancing because of some stupid statements of a lunatic Northern jingoists, that is merely playing on their emotions.

The question the reporter should have asked him is Why is he against restructuring?

the sole reason o prevent disintegration of the country is because they do not have access to the sea. Funny. Does Ethiopia and Switzerland have access to the sea?

They need the South for technical know-how!!!! How daft can this man be. Southerners are going to school and they are busy building mosques, marrying girls at tender age and promoting poverty in their region and he is not even ashamed to state it they need the south for skillful manpower, after 50years of independence and several years of leading the country

See the way he tactically avoided dissecting the North but rather used words to dissect South into different regions.

Why is it that the Fulanis are the only ones ruling the North politically and monarchically, whereas they use Hausas and other tribes in the North for population advantage?

Please why did he avoid calling their killing vampire machine herdsmen trouble makers which have been sowing sorrow tears N blood wherever they step?

Yes, he called the Yorubas trouble makers because he realise we are the only one that has what can be used to locked them down. We demystified their Northern Oligarchy and dismantled it for them with pen and paper, we locked down the country with pen and paper we sent the military packing with pen and paper. They have our fear in their hearts and we do not care.

I mean seriously... The old fool thinks this is 1955.

we are in information age and all stoopid conjecture will only work on biafrans who only act or talk based on emotions and not brain.

Its really high time the clamour for restructuring or outright break up gained more momentum.

The problem is really not the ibos; because it easier to handle them. The real problem is these hausa/Fulani people.
We have to put them where they belong now before they cause any more damage.

I think this old man has some kinda dementia, not only he sounds incoherent he also sounds deluded, paranoid and stupid, he is an old man he hasn't got long to live but he is trying to tell us about the future, the future that will not include him. all I read from his nonsense talk is divide and rule. from his revelations It appears that nigeria as a country was never one or United from the very first day nigeria was invented and will never never ever ever ever ever ever be UNITED or ONE, the divided nigeria is the BETTER! for all ethnics in this SCAM called nigeria. the British are not even interested in nigeria anymore now they are interested in terrorism and selling weapons.

Whenever they hear Biafra agitation, they'll start fueling the emotions of the minorities in the East as if they (Nigerians) have done enough for the Niger Deltans.

Niger Delta Open your EYES.... The northerners don't want you.... They want your sea!!!

This Aboki is just mixing up half truths with half lies to foster illusion. The Hausa-fullani isn't 55% of the population. Not even close. And your minorities aren't so eager for your alliance any more. The North should give up their unearned rule-by-all-means. This is the most backward region in the country crippling what ever progress Nigeria makes.


And no Southern tribe is free in the north. The peace is always mortgaged to political condition. The north has recorded far more killings of innocent civilians in tribal restiveness in Nigeria.

raker300:
"but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo"

No be me talk am ooo

And the rest are owned by the LEBANESE N INDIANS!....
What's this man trying to say .....
That afonjas are parasites in their so called land ?
Abeg no me talk am o ........

Eggcelent:
With Due Respect For Their Ages & Personal Accomplishments, I Will Advise These Old Men To Please Refrain From Some Of These Utterances.

We Should Move On From The Past & Work Towards Building A Better Society For Ourselves & The Next Generation.

Thanks

d past dictates d future ..we must visit d sins and errors of d past

Everyone knows what Awolowo did.

This is common knowledge to Biafrans.

But we Igbos will not turn against Niger Deltans because of this old man

I trust anyone from the East instead of the North or West.