IPOB: Igbo have never had honest leaders… Zik’s greed landed us in present mess

�by TheCable


The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says Nnamdi Azikiwe’s quest for power and his “greed” to rub shoulders with the western leaders put Ndigbo in the “mess they found themselves”.

Known as the “father of Nigerian nationalism”, Azikiwe was among the leaders who fought for the independence of Nigeria.

Better known as Zik, the top politician commanded respect in his lifetime and even after he died.

But Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman, who admitted that Zik was a brilliant man, blamed him for some of the woes the south-easterners are facing.

He said northern leaders were satisfied with being ruled by the British and were not ready for independence, but Zik was among those who persuaded them to embrace independence.

Powerful said the “unproductive ambition” made the south to end up being led by people whose “value system is irreconcilable with theirs”.

He said while the north was stabilsing its region, Zik was busy dreaming of leading an empire the British built.

Alleging that Igbo people have never had honest leaders, Powerful said the current set of leaders are also driven by the “inordinate ambition” to rule Nigeria.

“Zik, despite his undoubted brilliance, was not a very good politician. He remains till date the only person that led an independence struggle and never got the chance to lead the country after independence,” he said.

“Unfortunately, present day Igbo leaders have continued in that failed politics of Zik. The only way out is to dissolve Nigeria, anything short is cosmetic and will be resisted by IPOB.

“Hausa Fulani caliphates of the North were happy being ruled by the British people and were not ready for independence. It was Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and co that persuaded the north to embrace independence struggle even when it was obvious they never wanted to form a country with the south. This led to the atrocious demand from them which Zik acquiesced to, that the North should be given political power.

“Zik was naive in thinking Britain were going to hand over power to him. Zik’s dream and greed to lead the world’s biggest black nation just to rub shoulders with the western leaders put us in this mess. It was that unrealizable aspiration and unproductive ambition that ensured we ended up being led by people whose value system is irreconcilable with ours.

“The issue is not about Igbo leaders not doing enough to promote Igbo interest, the problem is that Igbo leaders are actively engaged in the undermining of collective Igbo interest. With the notable exception of Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, the rest are mere errand boys for Abuja and the caliphate.”

Powerful said the leadership problem in the south-east started after the Biafra war led by the late Odimegwu Ojukwu.

“From the alleged imposition of the traitor Ukpabi Asika as the governor of the then East Central State, mind you he openly campaigned alongside Yakubu Gowon against Ojukwu, Igbos have never had good honest leaders,” he said.

“They have honest social critics and commentators but rarely good leaders. Every leader you see in Igboland today was placed in office by the caliphate.

“The Fulani caliphate decides who becomes governor, senator, Ohanaeze Ndigbo president general and so on. What you have in Igboland are hungry informants masquerading as leaders. These supposedly Igbo leaders are on record as being the first set of people to condemn IPOB and invite soldiers to come and kill Biafrans.

“Many people don’t know that IPOB has even more significant presence in Igweocha (Rivers State) than anywhere else in Biafraland but you don’t hear Ijaw, Ikwerre Igbo, Ndoni or even Ogoni politicians castigate IPOB the way Igbo politicians do on a regular basis. That tells you all you need to know about where their loyalty lies.

“Yoruba elders never publicly condemned OPC, Arewa Consultative Forum, till date they have not offered any categorical condemnation of Boko Haram and herdsmen but Igbo leaders themselves canvassed for this government to deploy soldiers to the south-east to kill innocent agitators. These same leaders never ran to Buhari to send soldiers to stop herdsmen from slaughtering our people all over Enugu state.

“But when it came to IPOB agitating to free everybody from the Nigerian bondage we all are in, they found the courage to invite the army to invade Igboland. That is why today, we are discussing cows instead of industries, science and technology. We are begging them to stop killing their fellow Nigerians. We are begging them to allow the existence of Nigeria to be renegotiated into acceptable standard of governance to usher in political stability, economic growth and modern development just to say the least.”

One of those rare moments of truth..


Alleging that Igbo people have never had honest leaders, Powerful said the current set of leaders are also driven by the “inordinate ambition” to rule Nigeria.

That's the pure and undiluted truth, we igbos have not had honest political leaders.

ipob thread

Yanmiri lamentations

I agree with most of the write-up. The only part of the write up I disagree with is

“The issue is not about Igbo leaders not doing enough to promote Igbo interest, the problem is that Igbo leaders are actively engaged in the undermining of collective Igbo interest. With the notable exception of Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, the rest are mere errand boys for Abuja and the caliphate.”

Nyesom Wike who flew almost all the entire traditional rulers in Rivers state to Sokoto to bow before the sultan of Sokoto?

Wike is just another slave same as the other Igbo Governors including that clueless ignoramus in Delta State called Ifeanyi Okowa

Aeyah! No fulani or hausa to blame again?

Seems the scam business is not really flowing again...

BlackMbakara1:
Aeyah! No fulani or hausa to blame again?

Seems the scam business is not really flowing again...

deji17:

Confused ball-less men...just to talk and talk, no action.

gidgiddy:
I agree with most of the write-up. The only part of the write up I disagree with is



Nyesom Wike who flew almost all the entire traditional rulers in Rivers state to Sokoto to bow before the sultan of Sokoto?

Wike is just another slave same as the other Igbo Governors including that clueless ignoramus in Delta State called Ifeanyi Okowa

Is it not the same Wike, the first Governor to ban IPOB activities within his own state?

Gov. Wike bans Biafra protests in Rivers - Premium Times. November 10, 2015

Biafra: Wike orders arrest of MASSOB, IPOB protesters - Daily Trust. January 16, 2016.

There is nothing ipob can say, we will keep blaming Great awolowo. Innocent awolowo that his policy saved our clan from extinction is our problem. Ipob abi wetin dem call una, una just talk for una pocket.

BlackMbakara1:


Confused ball-less men...just to talk and talk, no action.

Why are you calling us ball-less men. Is it a crime to beat our chest and refused to come out when terrorist buhari visited south east?

why are u exposing us! we chose to be chestbeater,pls leave us alone

wizzakosh:
Why are you calling us ball-less men. Is it a crime to beat our chest and refused to come out when terrorist buhari visited south east?

flat.heads are 2nd class citizen" MASSOD

"flat.heads are pigs" pigdiot bleaching cownu

"flat.heads are foolish" Uwazuruike

"flat.heads are jobless" ikpeazu

nah to blame themselves /their elders for their misfortune. .No longer one white colonial. master. nah great Zik now.Igbos are really. IDIOTS/ PIGS.

- Igbo are lazy thinkers, acting strangely - Prof ABC Nwosu

- Ndigbo are not informed, 70 percent don’t read newspaper, listen to radio - Hon. Obinna Nshirim

- Igbo cannot play opposition politics - Ken Nnamani

- Igbo lack of humility has remained a very big obstacle among young Igbo people - Mr Leo Stan Eke

- Igbo are now slaves in Nigeria- 90-year-old monarch, Eze Demond Ogugua

- Igbo have never had honest leaders - IPOB

ipob are VALUELESS lots(Okorocha).Ipob are PIGS/IDIOTS(Kanu the hunch back terrorist),Ipob are CRIMINALS (Obiano),Ioob are TERRORISTS(_Nnamdi).,Ipob are CONFUSED(

deji17:
- Igbo are lazy thinkers, acting strangely - Prof ABC Nwosu

- Ndigbo are not informed, 70 percent don’t read newspaper, listen to radio - Hon. Obinna Nshirim

- Igbo cannot play opposition politics - Ken Nnamani

- Igbo lack of humility has remained a very big obstacle among young Igbo people - Mr Leo Stan Eke

- Igbo are now slaves in Nigeria- 90-year-old monarch, Eze Demond Ogugua

- Igbo have never had honest leaders - IPOB

their piglets are here on nairaland chestbeating that they're the greatest and blaming Awolowo and Tinubu for all those problems.

even Awolowo caused Zik to sell them as slaves to tafawa balewa and Ahmadu bello

deji17:
One of those rare moments of truth..


Alleging that Igbo people have never had honest leaders, Powerful said the current set of leaders are also driven by the “inordinate ambition” to rule Nigeria.

I guess the so-called Emma Powerful was wrong on his unguarded utterance about Zik. Zik never wanted Nigeria but a Confederation. It was the British that egged Awolowo and Bello to sue for federated Nigeria. Durining and even after the struggle, British citizens wrote flowering attributes about Awolowo while writing scathing remarks about Zik. Azikiwe was not British trained and wanted USA style of social reform for Nigerians.

deji17:


Is it not the same Wike, the first Governor to ban IPOB activities within his own state?

Gov. Wike bans Biafra protests in Rivers - Premium Times. November 10, 2015

Biafra: Wike orders arrest of MASSOB, IPOB protesters - Daily Trust. January 16, 2016.

Funny enough, same IPOB miscreants will bad mouth Obiano, Okorocha, Ikpeazu for the killings of their fellow miscreants in those states but Okowa and Wike whose states killings took place are never mentioned or bad mouthed

Yyeske:
Funny enough, same IPOB miscreants will bad mouth Obiano, Okorocha, Ikpeazu for the killings of their fellow miscreants in those states but Okowa and Wike whose states killings took place are never mentioned or bad mouthed

you scoundrels will be handled by God the way these people you mentioned are handling their states. Type Amen. Zoogeria

DerideGull:


I guess the so-called Emma Powerful was wrong on his unguarded utterance about Zik. Zik never wanted Nigeria but a Confederation. It was the British that egged Awolowo and Bello to sue for federated Nigeria. Durining and even after the struggle, British citizens wrote flowering attributes about Awolowo while writing scathing remarks about Zik. Azikiwe was not British trained and wanted USA style of social reform for Nigerians.

No I beg to differ, He is 100% right. Nigeria was never meant to exist in the first place, that is why you have places like Sabon Gari, it was Naive Azikiwe that brought about this abomination, he was never a politician, he just found himself im company of Hebert Macaulay, who knew what he wanted and the best way to achieve it, but unfortunately he died, then suddenly Zik found himself at the head of the movement, Zik in his naive mind had to accept those who were less qualified than him to head the country, even his statements sometimes betrays his foolishness, ie let us forget our differences
and be united, or something of that nature, only for him to be corrected by Aminu Kano that he should not say that, and instead he should say "let us understand our differences". Azikiwe is just a big fool.

deji17:
- Igbo are lazy thinkers, acting strangely - Prof ABC Nwosu

- Ndigbo are not informed, 70 percent don’t read newspaper, listen to radio - Hon. Obinna Nshirim

- Igbo cannot play opposition politics - Ken Nnamani

- Igbo lack of humility has remained a very big obstacle among young Igbo people - Mr Leo Stan Eke

- Igbo are now slaves in Nigeria- 90-year-old monarch, Eze Demond Ogugua

- Igbo have never had honest leaders - IPOB

End of discussion

CrtlAltDel:

End of discussion

Who will know Igbo better than Igbo themselves?? And we are not talking about ordinary Igbos but notable Igbos with name and address.

CrtlAltDel:

End of discussion

always twisting facts and putting words into people's mouths, I for example, I am always following events that happen in the zoo called nigeria and I know that nu Jupiter prevents Buhari from winning the next elections, to me, it is good because he must deal with you nigerians, so that you will use think long and hard before voting for anybody and vote based on facts and manifesto instead of sentiments. All you nigerians are politically naive.

dudebuck:
you scoundrels will be handled by God the way these people you mentioned are handling their states. Type Amen. Zoogeria

Head to the nearest well and jump in

Yyeske:
Head to the nearest well and jump in

mpki arusi

deji17:


IPOB: Igbo have never had honest leaders… Zik’s greed landed us in present mess

�by TheCable


The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says Nnamdi Azikiwe’s quest for power and his “greed” to rub shoulders with the western leaders put Ndigbo in the “mess they found themselves”.

Known as the “father of Nigerian nationalism”, Azikiwe was among the leaders who fought for the independence of Nigeria.

Better known as Zik, the top politician commanded respect in his lifetime and even after he died.

But Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman, who admitted that Zik was a brilliant man, blamed him for some of the woes the south-easterners are facing.

He said northern leaders were satisfied with being ruled by the British and were not ready for independence, but Zik was among those who persuaded them to embrace independence.

Powerful said the “unproductive ambition” made the south to end up being led by people whose “value system is irreconcilable with theirs”.

He said while the north was stabilsing its region, Zik was busy dreaming of leading an empire the British built.

Alleging that Igbo people have never had honest leaders, Powerful said the current set of leaders are also driven by the “inordinate ambition” to rule Nigeria.

“Zik, despite his undoubted brilliance, was not a very good politician. He remains till date the only person that led an independence struggle and never got the chance to lead the country after independence,” he said.

“Unfortunately, present day Igbo leaders have continued in that failed politics of Zik. The only way out is to dissolve Nigeria, anything short is cosmetic and will be resisted by IPOB.

“Hausa Fulani caliphates of the North were happy being ruled by the British people and were not ready for independence. It was Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and co that persuaded the north to embrace independence struggle even when it was obvious they never wanted to form a country with the south. This led to the atrocious demand from them which Zik acquiesced to, that the North should be given political power.

“Zik was naive in thinking Britain were going to hand over power to him. Zik’s dream and greed to lead the world’s biggest black nation just to rub shoulders with the western leaders put us in this mess. It was that unrealizable aspiration and unproductive ambition that ensured we ended up being led by people whose value system is irreconcilable with ours.

“The issue is not about Igbo leaders not doing enough to promote Igbo interest, the problem is that Igbo leaders are actively engaged in the undermining of collective Igbo interest. With the notable exception of Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, the rest are mere errand boys for Abuja and the caliphate.”

Powerful said the leadership problem in the south-east started after the Biafra war led by the late Odimegwu Ojukwu.

“From the alleged imposition of the traitor Ukpabi Asika as the governor of the then East Central State, mind you he openly campaigned alongside Yakubu Gowon against Ojukwu, Igbos have never had good honest leaders,” he said.

“They have honest social critics and commentators but rarely good leaders. Every leader you see in Igboland today was placed in office by the caliphate.

“The Fulani caliphate decides who becomes governor, senator, Ohanaeze Ndigbo president general and so on. What you have in Igboland are hungry informants masquerading as leaders. These supposedly Igbo leaders are on record as being the first set of people to condemn IPOB and invite soldiers to come and kill Biafrans.

“Many people don’t know that IPOB has even more significant presence in Igweocha (Rivers State) than anywhere else in Biafraland but you don’t hear Ijaw, Ikwerre Igbo, Ndoni or even Ogoni politicians castigate IPOB the way Igbo politicians do on a regular basis. That tells you all you need to know about where their loyalty lies.

“Yoruba elders never publicly condemned OPC, Arewa Consultative Forum, till date they have not offered any categorical condemnation of Boko Haram and herdsmen but Igbo leaders themselves canvassed for this government to deploy soldiers to the south-east to kill innocent agitators. These same leaders never ran to Buhari to send soldiers to stop herdsmen from slaughtering our people all over Enugu state.

“But when it came to IPOB agitating to free everybody from the Nigerian bondage we all are in, they found the courage to invite the army to invade Igboland. That is why today, we are discussing cows instead of industries, science and technology. We are begging them to stop killing their fellow Nigerians. We are begging them to allow the existence of Nigeria to be renegotiated into acceptable standard of governance to usher in political stability, economic growth and modern development just to say the least.”

Don't blame Zik because his children (Nigerians of today) chose to fritter away the inheritance bequeathed us.

igbodefender:
Don't blame Zik because his children (Nigerians of today) chose to fritter away the inheritance bequeathed us.

But the same Youth are ready to exhume his corpse, then stone him

igbodefender:
Don't blame Zik because his children (Nigerians of today) chose to fritter away the inheritance bequeathed us.

But the same Youth are ready to exhume Zik corpse, then stone him

deji17:


But the same Youth are ready to exhume Zik corpse, then stone him

I tire o.

dudebuck:
[s]always twisting facts and putting words into people's mouths, I for example, I am always following events that happen in the zoo called nigeria and I know that nu Jupiter prevents Buhari from winning the next elections, to me, it is good because he must deal with you nigerians, so that you will use think long and hard before voting for anybody and vote based on facts and manifesto instead of sentiments. All you nigerians are politically naive[/s].

Biko, what has this thread got to do with PMB & the Zoo