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Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by Amos1423(m): 8:59pm On Jul 11, 2021
An opinion

Ahmadu Bello seeked secession for the North to have a country of their own, this was the very first individual in the entire state of Nigeria to call for a separate country. Several years after, the north took up the agenda again and this time it was through Muhammad Yusuf the then leader of Boko Haram who started alongside others who felt betrayed by the current system of governance of the country therefore he alongside others began an agitation for an independent state of the north where their people could live breaking away from those who aren't of Islam whom they consider as infidels, instead of the government looking at the cause of the sudden agitation years after that of the northern regional leader, they because of somewhat uncertainty of how the entire country would take it if they came open in support because this is the average stand of a Muslim seeing all having the same faith as himself so as to not pronounce it open as a northen agenda, they choosed to in the night be a friend and the day an enemy of the then sect.

Years after in the east too, the very issue that that ignited the course for Biafria; ethic division, marginalization and favoritism has not been set aside for a true federation therefore just like Ojukwu felt uncomfortable with the Nepotism of the igbo and the entire people of the Eastern region which prompted Aburi accord which was not honoured for Biafra to come, today we have Nnamdi Kanu taking up the course with others before him.

Yusuf was killed but the ideology has kept ISWAP/BOKO HARAM standing.

Even if they kill Kanu today, will ESN and the poor Biafran youths whom have been fed with the knowledge of neglect in their own country fail to rise again?

During the early years of the military Government of Gowon, the northerners were already occupying key position in the country as part of the northernization agenda, the Ibos from the Eastern Region were not too comfortable with this and the spark came when Gowon was appointed as the Head of state although was the highest ranking officer in the northern region but this wasn't the case as they were more far superior officers than himself in the entire state but there was a distrust and agenda for the someone outside the north to not be in the position of power so Gowon was brought in to manage the affairs of the whole country having all the senior officers, the then leaders of the different region; northern, southern, west, answer to him being victims of the decision which the previous government made by centralizing the government. What since that time if I may ask has changed? Is it the domination of northerners in key positions like the police, navy, army, airforce, presidential offices, the port authority?

NOTE: EVEN WHEN AN EASTERNER WAS IN THE POSITION OF POWER AFTER THE COUP CHOSED TO TRANSFER POWER TO THE MILITARY WHICH HAD A NORTHERNER EMERGE AS THE HEAD OF STATE.

everything about secession which also encouraged the war changed when BOOM! crude oil was found in the Eastern region and Gowon understanding the wealth that could come from it pronounced that the Eastern region seeking secession which was what most people in the east started dreaming of before the emergence of the so called oil was pronounced a treasonable offence, Awolowo, a Nationalist who before now fought for the democracy of the country because of how hungry for power he was accepted to be led so long he was honoured as the highest profiled civilian as at that time by a junior under a military government he opposed instead of seeking secession for the Yorubas.

Today the very sad tales we fought in the past because of crude oil and the very reason both the colonial masters and the north are interested in power today is what we are still fighting and would continue to fight leaving the struggle of a non unified merged entity for our children to battle with if we don't sit down as a people of this country to define what a country should be like, funny enough, history has been taken off from our schools curriculum but is it not quite too elusifying of whom or what is promoting the history of the past in the policies of the government even when we were never part of it?

Today we have come to ask for true democracy but the north is still pointing back to the decisions our fathers made which they can't forgive! Guess who the decision makers are? They & their children are the very people who partook in the decision making of yesterday which they have choosen not to forgive always pointing the fingers to past occurrences.

Today a Yoruba man sees an Ibo man as a betrayer cause of the fragmented hatred they were passed on to through frail history by politicians who sees no one with worth other than themselves, their children, immediate and extended families if need be.

An Akwa Ibom man doesn't find an easterner a brother likewise the Ijaw or the Urogbo man.

Theres is today so much division in the country yet our youths who doesn't dream of tasting a better life have failed to understand that life could be more than this if we dropped all the ethnic sentiments of the past aside and choose to forge for a greater and better future which we would own taking power away from the very people that has led us thus far into division and won't stop at it.

Everyday, I see youths come out to talk politics while referring to history and the what occures in the past without referring to what motives which the politics of our yesterday was introduced instead they aim to be like them, to appear with big agbada while having their fellow countryman hold for them, an umbrella without a moment of thought of leadership is all about or what is expected of his office to do ofwhich the next man close to him could ever live more if presented with open opportunities of equal standard to strive, if the next man can ever have an idea to bring together two entity and make up an innovation putting up his country flag as a sign of honour and gratefulness for opportunities the country has presented him, no! Everyone wants to be honoured, everyone wants to receive special treatment at the banking hall while others are treated with disdain.

the big unanswered question I always ask myself is: WHEN WILL WE POINT TO THE FUTURE? WHEN WILL WE EVER HOLD OUR LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE WHEN WE NOTICE THEIR DECISION DOESN'T POISE BUT A BAD FUTURE FOR US AND OUR CHILDREN? WHEN WILL WE HAVE A DREAM OF OUR A COUNTRY WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE AND LITTLE BY LITTLE START DEMANDING FOR IT?

It is quite becoming an impediment that the walls of the country is only being held by the elites of the society who has all their investment in all nooks and crannies of the country, to them the need for the country to stick together is quite understood but for the poor man in the street of Lagos who wakes up everyday to find himself in a political discourse at a newspaper stand, what do you think would be his reason for the country not to break where everyone would return to their own region and live amongst their own people with common heritage and history?

Would the reason rather be the hope to secure a better healthcare when he is old? Would it be abounded opportunities accorded to his children through better policies of the next government who would take up power after the next elections which would produce someone who could set aside bigotry, tribalism, ethnicity and uses same way he sees a tiv man whom is a Nigeria to see a Yoruba?

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Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by Jones4190(m): 9:02pm On Jul 11, 2021
Ipob is gone and gone forever
Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by Coldshisha: 9:04pm On Jul 11, 2021
cool



Great men like Awolowo, Tinubu, Fela and Davido understand the concept of "we rise by lifting others", or the concept of "you are only successful when you have a successor"


Awolowo , Fela, Tinubu, Davido spent their hard earned money on building proteges and helping countless successors to be leaders like them

Nnamdi Kanu was a megalomaniac, egocentric, one man mopol ruler



.

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Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by Simplyleo: 9:26pm On Jul 11, 2021
Who gives a fvck whether or not ipob pigs continue screaming biafla or death?

The useless albino monkey in dss cage should rot there.
Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by HONESTFACT101(m): 9:33pm On Jul 11, 2021
Simplyleo:
Who gives a fvck whether or not ipob pigs continue screaming biafla or death?

The useless albino monkey in dss cage should rot there.
simply leo gives a fvck if not he won't be seen in all Igbo threads spewing trash
Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by oluztx: 9:36pm On Jul 11, 2021
Amos1423:
[s]An opinion

Ahmadu Bello seeked secession for the North to have a country of their own, this was the very first individual in the entire state of Nigeria to call for a separate country. Several years after, the north took up the agenda again and this time it was through Muhammad Yusuf the then leader of Boko Haram who started alongside others who felt betrayed by the current system of governance of the country therefore he alongside others began an agitation for an independent state of the north where their people could live breaking away from those who aren't of Islam whom they consider as infidels, instead of the government looking at the cause of the sudden agitation years after that of the northern regional leader, they because of somewhat uncertainty of how the entire country would take it if they came open in support because this is the average stand of a Muslim seeing all having the same faith as himself so as to not pronounce it open as a northen agenda, they choosed to in the night be a friend and the day an enemy of the then sect.

Years after in the east too, the very issue that that ignited the course for Biafria; ethic division, marginalization and favoritism has not been set aside for a true federation therefore just like Ojukwu felt uncomfortable with the Nepotism of the igbo and the entire people of the Eastern region which prompted Aburi accord which was not honoured for Biafra to come, today we have Nnamdi Kanu taking up the course with others before him.

Yusuf was killed but the ideology has kept ISWAP/BOKO HARAM standing.

Even if they kill Kanu today, will ESN and the poor Biafran youths whom have been fed with the knowledge of neglect in their own country fail to rise again?

During the early years of the military Government of Gowon, the northerners were already occupying key position in the country as part of the northernization agenda, the Ibos from the Eastern Region were not too comfortable with this and the spark came when Gowon was appointed as the Head of state although was the highest ranking officer in the northern region but this wasn't the case as they were more far superior officers than himself in the entire state but there was a distrust and agenda for the someone outside the north to not be in the position of power so Gowon was brought in to manage the affairs of the whole country having all the senior officers, the then leaders of the different region; northern, southern, west, answer to him being victims of the decision which the previous government made by centralizing the government. What since that time if I may ask has changed? Is it the domination of northerners in key positions like the police, navy, army, airforce, presidential offices, the port authority?

NOTE: EVEN WHEN AN EASTERNER WAS IN THE POSITION OF POWER AFTER THE COUP CHOSED TO TRANSFER POWER TO THE MILITARY WHICH HAD A NORTHERNER EMERGE AS THE HEAD OF STATE.

everything about secession which also encouraged the war changed when BOOM! crude oil was found in the Eastern region and Gowon understanding the wealth that could come from it pronounced that the Eastern region seeking secession which was what most people in the east started dreaming of before the emergence of the so called oil was pronounced a treasonable offence, Awolowo, a Nationalist who before now fought for the democracy of the country because of how hungry for power he was accepted to be led so long he was honoured as the highest profiled civilian as at that time by a junior under a military government he opposed instead of seeking secession for the Yorubas.

Today the very sad tales we fought in the past because of crude oil and the very reason both the colonial masters and the north are interested in power today is what we are still fighting and would continue to fight leaving the struggle of a non unified merged entity for our children to battle with if we don't sit down as a people of this country to define what a country should be like, funny enough, history has been taken off from our schools curriculum but is it not quite too elusifying of whom or what is promoting the history of the past in the policies of the government even when we were never part of it?

Today we have come to ask for true democracy but the north is still pointing back to the decisions our fathers made which they can't forgive! Guess who the decision makers are? They & their children are the very people who partook in the decision making of yesterday which they have choosen not to forgive always pointing the fingers to past occurrences.

Today a Yoruba man sees an Ibo man as a betrayer cause of the fragmented hatred they were passed on to through frail history by politicians who sees no one with worth other than themselves, their children, immediate and extended families if need be.

An Akwa Ibom man doesn't find an easterner a brother likewise the Ijaw or the Urogbo man.

Theres is today so much division in the country yet our youths who doesn't dream of tasting a better life have failed to understand that life could be more than this if we dropped all the ethnic sentiments of the past aside and choose to forge for a greater and better future which we would own taking power away from the very people that has led us thus far into division and won't stop at it.

Everyday, I see youths come out to talk politics while referring to history and the what occures in the past without referring to what motives which the politics of our yesterday was introduced instead they aim to be like them, to appear with big agbada while having their fellow countryman hold for them, an umbrella without a moment of thought of leadership is all about or what is expected of his office to do ofwhich the next man close to him could ever live more if presented with open opportunities of equal standard to strive, if the next man can ever have an idea to bring together two entity and make up an innovation putting up his country flag as a sign of honour and gratefulness for opportunities the country has presented him, no! Everyone wants to be honoured, everyone wants to receive special treatment at the banking hall while others are treated with disdain.

the big unanswered question I always ask myself is: WHEN WILL WE POINT TO THE FUTURE? WHEN WILL WE EVER HOLD OUR LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE WHEN WE NOTICE THEIR DECISION DOESN'T POISE BUT A BAD FUTURE FOR US AND OUR CHILDREN? WHEN WILL WE HAVE A DREAM OF OUR A COUNTRY WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE AND LITTLE BY LITTLE START DEMANDING FOR IT?

It is quite becoming an impediment that the walls of the country is only being held by the elites of the society who has all their investment in all nooks and crannies of the country, to them the need for the country to stick together is quite understood but for the poor man in the street of Lagos who wakes up everyday to find himself in a political discourse at a newspaper stand, what do you think would be his reason for the country not to break where everyone would return to their own region and live amongst their own people with common heritage and history?

Would the reason rather be the hope to secure a better healthcare when he is old? Would it be abounded opportunities accorded to his children through better policies of the next government who would take up power after the next elections which would produce someone who could set aside bigotry, tribalism, ethnicity and uses same way he sees a tiv man whom is a Nigeria to see a Yoruba?

https://www.facebook.com/100060025962178/posts/211065010904363[/s]/?app=fbl

Divisive post. I can tell you are a yorubaa because you can't even spell Biafran tribes name correctly, something many yorubas do because you don't know us.
Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by Realtalk20: 10:15pm On Jul 11, 2021
Simplyleo:
Who gives a fvck whether or not ipob pigs continue screaming biafla or death?

The useless albino monkey in dss cage should rot there.
Talkative 56 comments in one day grin
Poverty is a terrible thing . It can turn a man to a talkative grin
Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by Built2last: 10:25pm On Jul 11, 2021
no
Re: Secession: Will The Arrest of IPOB Leader Bring An End To Secession Demands? by udele1: 10:36pm On Jul 11, 2021
It wont, but it will stop the biafran FENDI fraud.

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