This is in direct response to the assertion by an Igbo man and Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu where he posted that It is too late for the Igbos too pull out of Nigeria. You can find the article here https://www.nairaland.com/4074609/jude-idimogu-too-late-igbo

Before i make my point, it's imperative that i make it known that i'm neither for the breakup of Nigeria nor necessarily for One Nigeria. I think at this moment, i'll swing to wherever the pendulum takes me. I'm saying this because a lot of trolls will leave my message and start casting aspersions on my character. Not that i care anyways.

Now, i have nothing against the distinguished senator (I assume that he is), neither i'm i at variance with the nitty-gritty of his point of view. M only grouse is that he's using those views to make a very general statement about the well being or well without of the Igbo people.

Yes, it is true that Igbos are scattered all over Nigeria, probably more than any other ethnic group. It's also not surprising that Igbos have the largest investments of any group outside it's transient natural habitat. That is why people like the lawmaker can rise to become a lawmaker in a cosmopolitan state like Lagos.

Having said all this, i think it's important that people separate the call for secession or self determination by a lot of Igbos from the economic, social or even political life of Igbos in any part of the world. People have gone ahead to give very absurd reasons why Igbos cannot have a country of the own and i will attempt to state and squash some of this tomfoolery.

Igbos are not united
This music has definitely been released since after independence. It is a song that non Igbo Nigerians have sang to the point that even some Igbos have started enjoying the tune and they join in the folly of hasty lack of common sense and reality. Igbos are not united but rightly or wrongly, they came together to fight the federal government from 1967 to 1970. We hate each other but even after all the destruction in Igboland and lack of federal help, we still managed to pick ourselves up and cleaned our cities to what it is now. It may not be the best out there, nut it's impressive for people who had to start from ground zero.

Even if this assertion of Igbos not being united were true, i don't think it's the business of anybody whether we're going to kill each other in Biafra or not. It's our decision and we don't need the input of anyone that isn't going to be part of the supposed country.

Igbos are spread all over Nigeria
This is another laughable rhetoric that we hear all the time. So, what if there are 20 million Igbos outside Igboland? Arent there Igbos in Ghana, Benin, Togo, China, Malaysia, Brasil, the US and UK? Is there really a need for all Igbos to be in Igboland? Even if they are forced back after the separation, what baring does that have on the topic of discourse.

Igbos own businesses throughout Nigeria
Igbos also own businesses in the countries i mentioned in the previous point. Don't Ghanians own businesses in Nigeria and vice versa? I think this statement is usually more of a threat than a show of concern. What a lot of people who make these statements are saying is that "If you get Biafra, forget about all your properties in Nigeria". This won't be news to a lot of Igbos who experienced the civil war.

Igboland is too small to contain Igbos
This one just made me chuckle just a little bit. It's funny that a state like Lagos contains about 20 million people despite being the smallest in the country but these same people think that a region that is probably 7 times the size of lagos will not contain, at most 50 million people.

Where will people married to Igbos fit in
I think this is the most silly of them all. Anybody who is married to an Igbo person or is an Igbo person married to a non Igbo Nigeria and asks this kind of question, that person should never have gotten married in the first place. While some people marry for love, others want us to believe that they married for other senseless reasons such as the guaranty that they and their spouse will be from the same country.

Having said all this, i think i have to point out that everyone has the right to their opinions just like i have the right to my opinion about their opinions if i find any of them in bad taste.

God Bless Nigeria

Who cares? Nonsense.

OAUTemitayo:
Who cares?
Nonsense.

You definitely seem to care else you wouldn't have spent 30 seconds responding to mt tirade I also care about you in telling you to get the help that you need.

Afam4eva:
This is in direct response to the assertion by an Igbo man and Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu where he posted that It is too late for the Igbos too pull out of Nigeria. You can find the article here https://www.nairaland.com/4074609/jude-idimogu-too-late-igbo

Before i make my point, it's imperative that i make it known that i'm neither for the breakup of Nigeria nor necessarily for One Nigeria. I think at this moment, i'll swing to wherever the pendulum takes me. I'm saying this because a lot of trolls will leave my message and start casting aspersions on my character. Not that i care anyways.

Now, i have nothing against the distinguished senator (I assume that he is), neither i'm i at variance with the nitty-gritty of his point of view. M only grouse is that he's using those views to make a very general statement about the well being or well without of the Igbo people.

Yes, it is true that Igbos are scattered all over Nigeria, probably more than any other ethnic group. It's also not surprising that Igbos have the largest investments of any group outside it's transient natural habitat. That is why people like the lawmaker can rise to become a lawmaker in a cosmopolitan state like Lagos.

having said all this, i think it's important that people seperate the call for secession or self determination by a lot of Igbos from the economic, social or even political life of Igbos in any part of the world. People have gone ahead to give very absurd reasons why Igbos cannot have a country of the own and i will attempt to state and squash some of this tomfoolery.

Igbos are not united
This music has definitely been released since after independence. It is a song that non Igbo Nigerians have sang to the point that even some Igbos have started enjoying the tune and they join in the folly of hasty lack of common sense and reality. Igbos are not united but rightly or wrongly, they came together to fight the federal government from 1967 to 1970. We hate each other but even after all the destruction in Igboland and lack of federal help, we still managed to pick ourselves up and cleaned our cities to what it is now. It may not be the best out there, nut it's impressive for people who had to start from ground zero.

Even if this assertion of Igbos not being united were true, i don't think it's the business of anybody whether we're going to kill each other in Biafra or not. It's our decision and we don't need the input of anyone that isn't going to be part of the supposed country.

Igbos are spread all over Nigeria
This is another laughable rhetoric that we hear all the time. So, what if there are 20 million Igbos outside Igboland? Arent there Igbos in Ghana, Benin, Togo, China, Malaysia, Brasil, the US and UK? Is there really a need for all Igbos to be in Igboland? Even if they are forced back after the separation, what baring does that have on the topic of discourse.

Igbos own businesses throughout Nigeria
Igbos also own businesses in the countries i mentioned in the previous point. Don't Ghanians own businesses in Nigeria and vice versa? I think this statement is usually more of a threat than a show of concern. What a lot of people who make these statements are saying is that "If you get Biafra, forget about all your properties in Nigeria". This won't be news to a lot of Igbos who experienced the civil war.

Igboland is too small to contain Igbos
This one just made me chuckle just a little bit. It's funny that a state like Lagos contains about 20 million people despite being the smallest in the country but these same people think that a region that is probably 7 times the size of lagos will not contain, at most 50 million people.

Where will people married to Igbos fit in
I think this is the most silly of them all. Anybody who is married to an Igbo person or is an Igbo person married to a non Igbo Nigeria and asks this kind of question, that person should never have gotten married in the first place. While some people marry for love, others want us to believe that they married for other senseless reasons such as the guaranty that they and their spouse will be from the same country.

Having said all this, i think i have to point out that everyone has the right to their opinions just like i have the right to my opinion about their opinions if i find any of them in bad taste.

God Bless Nigeria

Very well put. Most of these arguments sound rudimentary. It's as if they only use them as a desperate way to try to convince people. Every ethnic group has those who marry out, who don't live in their native land... and all of the above.

Senseless basic write up by the OP....sounds like stuff produced by a primary one student....

Igbos can go anywhere they like, but they will NOT go with the Niger Delta, because that region does not belong to them.

Eshinwaju:
Senseless basic write up by the OP....sounds like stuff produced by a primary one student....

afonja! Can you put up an equivelent right up? No is the answer, nothing complimentary can come out of ewedu decimated brain.

Rossikki:
Igbos can go anywhere they like, but they will NOT go with the Niger Delta, because that region does not belong to them.

That's not what the discourse is all about. Read again, you this Igbo man.

Igbos are United, so United that they coexist in peace in everywhere they live, from Onitsha to Port Harcourt, from Kano to Lagos to London till Japan, there is no known cases of Igbos fighting themselves.

Igbos are so United that an igbo man can stand up and give the whole local government a new road, some build schools, some build markets and some issue scholarships.

Igbos are so United that no other tribe can claim to be more United than igbos.

I dey come

Afam4eva:
This is in direct response to the assertion by an Igbo man and Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu where he posted that It is too late for the Igbos too pull out of Nigeria. You can find the article here https://www.nairaland.com/4074609/jude-idimogu-too-late-igbo

Before i make my point, it's imperative that i make it known that i'm neither for the breakup of Nigeria nor necessarily for One Nigeria. I think at this moment, i'll swing to wherever the pendulum takes me. I'm saying this because a lot of trolls will leave my message and start casting aspersions on my character. Not that i care anyways.

Now, i have nothing against the distinguished senator (I assume that he is), neither i'm i at variance with the nitty-gritty of his point of view. M only grouse is that he's using those views to make a very general statement about the well being or well without of the Igbo people.

Yes, it is true that Igbos are scattered all over Nigeria, probably more than any other ethnic group. It's also not surprising that Igbos have the largest investments of any group outside it's transient natural habitat. That is why people like the lawmaker can rise to become a lawmaker in a cosmopolitan state like Lagos.

Having said all this, i think it's important that people separate the call for secession or self determination by a lot of Igbos from the economic, social or even political life of Igbos in any part of the world. People have gone ahead to give very absurd reasons why Igbos cannot have a country of the own and i will attempt to state and squash some of this tomfoolery.

Igbos are not united
This music has definitely been released since after independence. It is a song that non Igbo Nigerians have sang to the point that even some Igbos have started enjoying the tune and they join in the folly of hasty lack of common sense and reality. Igbos are not united but rightly or wrongly, they came together to fight the federal government from 1967 to 1970. We hate each other but even after all the destruction in Igboland and lack of federal help, we still managed to pick ourselves up and cleaned our cities to what it is now. It may not be the best out there, nut it's impressive for people who had to start from ground zero.

Even if this assertion of Igbos not being united were true, i don't think it's the business of anybody whether we're going to kill each other in Biafra or not. It's our decision and we don't need the input of anyone that isn't going to be part of the supposed country.

Igbos are spread all over Nigeria
This is another laughable rhetoric that we hear all the time. So, what if there are 20 million Igbos outside Igboland? Arent there Igbos in Ghana, Benin, Togo, China, Malaysia, Brasil, the US and UK? Is there really a need for all Igbos to be in Igboland? Even if they are forced back after the separation, what baring does that have on the topic of discourse.

Igbos own businesses throughout Nigeria
Igbos also own businesses in the countries i mentioned in the previous point. Don't Ghanians own businesses in Nigeria and vice versa? I think this statement is usually more of a threat than a show of concern. What a lot of people who make these statements are saying is that "If you get Biafra, forget about all your properties in Nigeria". This won't be news to a lot of Igbos who experienced the civil war.

Igboland is too small to contain Igbos
This one just made me chuckle just a little bit. It's funny that a state like Lagos contains about 20 million people despite being the smallest in the country but these same people think that a region that is probably 7 times the size of lagos will not contain, at most 50 million people.

Where will people married to Igbos fit in
I think this is the most silly of them all. Anybody who is married to an Igbo person or is an Igbo person married to a non Igbo Nigeria and asks this kind of question, that person should never have gotten married in the first place. While some people marry for love, others want us to believe that they married for other senseless reasons such as the guaranty that they and their spouse will be from the same country.

Having said all this, i think i have to point out that everyone has the right to their opinions just like i have the right to my opinion about their opinions if i find any of them in bad taste.

God Bless Nigeria

Proudly igbo
Proudly a biafran.
Expect a pack of suprise from ipob (Nigerians aka zoo)

God bless u Op...
u will live to see the actualization of Biafra.Amen

Rossikki:
Igbos can go anywhere they like, but they will NOT go with the Niger Delta, because that region does not belong to them.

Even at thag , what concerns on who igbos want to go with Why can't you concentrate on who you want to go with and leave others for their choices Diabolical demonic people

Afam4eva remain blessed

Rossikki:
Igbos can go anywhere they like, but they will NOT go with the Niger Delta, because that region does not belong to them.

afonja! You should be more concerned about romancing your monumental amala/ewedu in your brown roof republic rather than biafra and nigerdelta because nigerdelta remains an integral path of biafra.

truth4u:

Even at that , what concerns you on who igbos want to go with Why can't you concentrate on who you want to go with and leave others for their choices Diabolical demonic people

It concerns me if you are looking to steal a part of the country which does not belong to you. You will not be permitted to do that.

Afam4eva:

You definitely seem to care else you wouldn't have spent 30 seconds responding to mt tirade I also care about you in telling you to get the help that you need.

You are the one that need help.
I can't wait for the mumu in Abuja to grant you your Biafra
Nonsense.

OAUTemitayo:

You are the one that need help.
I can't wait for the mumu in Abuja to grant you your Biafra
Nonsense.

I never said that i was looking for Biafra, so this your statement reinforces my earlier assertion that you need help.

I wish the Ipob and their leader are talking about developing and moving their region forward.......the Igbos need someone that really have their interests.

If I were to be the one I would think of creation of wealth and development first then agitation can be after.

frankdoz23:
afonja! You should be more concerned about romancing your monumental amala/ewedu in your brown roof republic rather than biafra and nigerdelta because nigerdelta remains an integral path of biafra.

Oil thieves forming oppressed people. The Niger Delta people have repeatedly said they want nothing to do with you. But you keep try to force them to join you as "brothers". But they are not your brothers. You only want their oil.

Rossikki:


It concerns me if you are looking to steal a part of the country which does not belong to you. You will not be permitted to do that.

This is not in the topic. Igbos love themselves and hate those who try to divide igbos who live in any state they like.

Rossikki:


Oil thieves forming oppressed people. The Niger Delta people have repeatedly said they want nothing to do with you. But you keep try to force them to join you as "brothers". But they are not your brothers. You only want their oil.

Igbos love themselves

Igbos are United and we will leave Nigeria

OAUTemitayo:

You are the one that need help.
I can't wait for the mumu in Abuja to grant you your Biafra
Nonsense.

The mumu in Abuja?
Classic

We now have a mumu in Aso rock

Rossikki:


Oil thieves forming oppressed people. The Niger Delta people have repeatedly said they want nothing to do with you. But you keep try to force them to join you as "brothers". But they are not your brothers. You only want their oil.

Oil in oyibo, ukwa East, ukwa West, oguta, Egbema, can comfortably improve Biafra earning.

freshvine:


Oil in oyibo, ukwa East, ukwa West, oguta, Egbema, can comfortably improve Biafra earning.

Oil and gas is not available in the east in commercial quantities otherwise it would have been exploited decades ago. The East only grows yams and udala, or agbalumo as Yorubas call it.

Following..

Thumbs up to the op.

OAUTemitayo:
Who cares? Nonsense.

e pain am die. ...face front ....who call you. ..

Rossikki:


Oil and gas is not available in the east in commercial quantities otherwise it would have been exploited decades ago. The East only grows yams and udala, or agbalumo as Yorubas call it.

How stupid. pid can you be. The area I mentioned have over 60 oil Wells together and the best grade in the world.

How stupid. pid can you be. The area I mentioned have over 60 oil Wells together and the best grade in the world.

OAUTemitayo:
Who cares? Nonsense.

e pain am die. ...face front ....who call you. ..

X

Afam, this is a classic coming from you.

So apt and direct.

Good one.