Me sef:

Exactly my view. Thats what people like tenzor777 refused to understand. Our foundation as a country is faulty and needs to be re-built even if it means all ethic groups go their seperate ways.

Onlytruth:

^^^

Could very well happen but I don't think it would have stopped Igbos leaving Nigeria. And if we succeeded in leaving Nigeria in 1967, we would today be saying a huge "I told you so" to all who didn't join Biafra. You think the Igbo spirit dies easily? By now Biafra would be like Hong Kong, keeping all the Chinese, Vietmanese, Thais and Loasians (Nigerians) out of our clean and decent cities. It would also be the most industrialized and democratic African country.

CILondon:


Only Truth
Read my answer again. I am agreeing with you.

I think Biafra WOULD HAVE SUCEEDED if Ojukwu had held a referendum. The Igbos would have voted 99.999% to join, and the Ikwerre vote and Calabar vote would also have been very high too - probably in the high 70s/80s. Don't forget there was a lot of pogrom going on in the north where Igbos and other south-easterners were getting slaughtered and had to flee back to the south to save their lives.
So the YES vote would definitely have been overwhelming and Biafra would definitely be in existence today.
The ijaws would most likely have voted no, and so would not have been part of Biafra. That's ok - they are entitled to decide their own destiny.
And I do believe that Biafra would have easily been the most economically succesful country in all of Africa - not just west africa

Dede1:


The talk of referendum in 1967 eastern region borders on disingenuous and outright naiveté. The pogrom that took place in northern region was targeted against non-northerners in general and easterner in particular. The stories from the half-dead returnees dotted entire landscape of eastern region and they engendered unforeseen emotions.

It is wise to accuse Ojukwu of certain issues concerning how the war was handled but referendum is certainly not one of them. The government of eastern region was stacked up with the faces across ethnic groups that makeup the region. It must be recalled that it was an Ijo son from Yenegoa that gave the eastern region the name “Biafra”. Many Ijo boys from prominent families in the Ijo land fought the war on the Biafran side till the bitter end.

If Biafra had won the war, this cry of referendum or lack thereof would not have surfaced rather Ijo would have rightfully claimed the position of the Pastor that baptized the nascent country.

CILondon:


Some Ijaws were in favour of Biafra and some were against it. It was therefore wrong to try and force all of them into Biafra without first seeking their wishes in the ballot box.


But the most important point of all, which you overlook is this:
WITH THE BACKING OF THE BALLOT BOX, OJUKWU AND BIAFRA WOULD HAVE BEEN UNTOUCHABLE. GOWON WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIGHT IT WITHOUT SEVERE CRITICISM FROM THE WESTERN POWERS AND BRITAIN WOULD CERTAINLY NOT HAVE ASSISTED GOWON WITH ANY MILITARY EQUIPMENT.

Nobody wants to be seen as the enemy of democracy!

Meldrick:

Eziachi, I expected a brilliant response but I'm dissapointed now let me educate you on on what players in the international community consider before making hasty decisions like the one you are advocating for?

What are their gains and what do they tend to lose? Of course if the loses outweigh the gains they halt.
They will also consider those who might be behind a country like that Cameroon you called small.
Nigeria as a member of the UN cannot forcefully turn down the decision of ICJ because you should be sure bigger nations like America, France and your colonial masters Britain will not allow you chase out Cameroon against the ICJ decision.

You can't be wiser or more brutal than the General, Obasanjo but he understands diplomacy and realizes the fact that Africa is the centre piece of Nigeria's foreign policy. For this he displayed maturity and avoided the inevitable like a harsher and tougher version of what happened in 1967 - 1970. (Of course you will not forget in a hurry)

Eziachi:


Thanks for your so called education, but reading from you so far indicates that you might need the education or medication more than I do. Why do Nigeria need to go to ICJ knowing who is behind Cameroon according to your logic?
What do you call a turkey that accept to organise a Christmas party, knowing that such a party will bring his life to a violent end, but enjoyment and merry for others?

ICJ and UN has passed more 100 judgements/resolutions directing that Israel go back to the original boundary before the 6 days war of the 70s and till this day, Israel hasn’t moved an inch or listen to anyone, instead she is building new settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands and beyond.

Nigeria don’t have to obey ICJ or anybody, and no one will come from anywhere and tell you where you come from and where you belong.
People like you and your sycophant leaders doesn’t waste time in calling yourself the giant of Africa and then an issue came up for the giant to showcase his giant status, all we saw was an action of a wimp of a small ant.

United Kingdom went all the way to South America and fought a bloody war with Argentina over Falkland in the 80s because of few British bloods still occupying the land that rightly belongs to the Argentines. But in your case you handed over ancestral Bakassi people just like that because you are obeying ICJ and then had the gut to say that Nigeria is indivisible.
I think you need reality check.

nex:

For those who have been calling for the split up of Nigeria, I will tell you that when a mad man supports your point of view, then it's time to start thinking straight.


Before Ghaddafi made this statement, several quarters had already confirmed him as a mad man. Ghaddafi has a plan to rule the whole of Africa as a king. Since the mid 1990s Nigeria has been the main obstacle to that plan. THE MAN IS MAD!!! How can one same man be calling for the unity of the entire Africa as one country under his rulership, then the very same man is calling for the splitting up of Nigeria? We all saw him at the Arab League where he attacked the King of Saudi Arabia and claimed that he was the King of Kings of African Nations simply because he was made the Chairman of the AU.


Most Nigerians think within the four walls of their bedrooms.


Have you all forgotten that Asari Dokubo was sponsored by Ghaddafi to receive training in terrorist camps in Libya?


Is it not possible that now when Ghaddafi has seen that the Niger-Delta conflict has ended, he's hoping for a new conflict in Nigeria?



I'm really amazed that people really think that 150 million people splitting up 920,000 km2 of land will not cause the greatest conflict the earth has ever seen.


Look at the Ezza and Ezillo people in Ebonyi state, they are not fighting because they want to form their own individual nations, they are fighting for land.



There is no Lebensraum in Nigeria so the people will continue to either travel out or fight. Imagine telling the Fulani cattle rearers that they need a visa and a payment of import tax to bring down their cattle and feed them in the South during the harmattan. Then we'll all know what really cause the Uthman Dan Fodio Jihad.

nex:

For those who have been calling for the split up of Nigeria, I will tell you that when a mad man supports your point of view, then it's time to start thinking straight.


Before Ghaddafi made this statement, several quarters had already confirmed him as a mad man. Ghaddafi has a plan to rule the whole of Africa as a king. Since the mid 1990s Nigeria has been the main obstacle to that plan. THE MAN IS MAD!!! How can one same man be calling for the unity of the entire Africa as one country under his rulership, then the very same man is calling for the splitting up of Nigeria? We all saw him at the Arab League where he attacked the King of Saudi Arabia and claimed that he was the King of Kings of African Nations simply because he was made the Chairman of the AU.


Most Nigerians think within the four walls of their bedrooms.


Have you all forgotten that Asari Dokubo was sponsored by Ghaddafi to receive training in terrorist camps in Libya?


Is it not possible that now when Ghaddafi has seen that the Niger-Delta conflict has ended, he's hoping for a new conflict in Nigeria?



I'm really amazed that people really think that 150 million people splitting up 920,000 km2 of land will not cause the greatest conflict the earth has ever seen.


Look at the Ezza and Ezillo people in Ebonyi state, they are not fighting because they want to form their own individual nations, they are fighting for land.



There is no Lebensraum in Nigeria so the people will continue to either travel out or fight. Imagine telling the Fulani cattle rearers that they need a visa and a payment of import tax to bring down their cattle and feed them in the South during the harmattan. Then we'll all know what really cause the Uthman Dan Fodio Jihad.

tensor777:

^^
There will be no unilateral movement of any section or region out of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Such a thing is entirely non-negotiable.

tensor777:

^^
There will be no unilateral movement of any section or region out of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Such a thing is entirely non-negotiable.

SeunOsewaIsDiot:
Lazy hausa fulanis and yorubas don dey avoid Nigeria division since 2010. Can you imagine those bastardized morons doing everything possible to to gum themselves with the great Igbos

Yorubafather:






Both Yoruba and Fulani can't survive without the Great Igbos

HenryWilliams:


That's why igbos are littered all over the country.. like bed bugs.. economic migrants.. more than half the population found outside their enclave.. can only prosper in other regions except theirs .
All hail the "great' eboes

Yorubafather:






Both Yoruba and Fulani can't survive without the Great Igbos

SeunOsewaIsDiot:
Lazy hausa fulanis and yorubas don dey avoid Nigeria division since 2010. Can you imagine those bastardized morons doing everything possible to to gum themselves with the great Igbos