Andre Uweh:

^^^Because you joined nairaland less than two years ago.

RICH-BOI:

The Greatest Nigerian to ever live, we miss you Papa. Your legacy lives on in us

Ngodigha1:

I do not know why you lots shy away from talking about the circumstances that led to his disgraceful death. Is it a taboo in Yorubaland to discuss of people who drank poison and died.

alj harem:

Tell us how Ojukwu died of HIV

shame, na Bianca give am or what Andre ?

Ngodigha1:

Monkey, Ojukwu died in the U.K and everyone knows the cause of his death. His x-rays and scans are there for you to see and examine.
But mrs Awolowo, should release the container of the box which awo drank before going to bed.
Your help is required niggi.

alj harem:

Na wa oooo

How does someone all of a suddenly go dumb and go skinny at age 79

you only go skinny if someone a terminal illness and Ohaneze has not told us the cause of his death

HIV is likely because those are the sign.

Go do some research monkey

Ngodigha1:

First class monkey, Ikemba died in a country where people with HIV last very long. If he had HIV, surely he would still be alive till now.
Don't be shy, feel free to discuss what happened to Awo before he breathed last.

alj harem:


Nope , He had Aids since and couple with his old age, he died out of shame.

Awo died with toothbrush in his mouth in the morning. Thus it was clearly a heartattack

Ojukwu died by going skinny all of a sudden (AIDS) and could not talk then died. Why do you think someone would go skinny suddenly

AIDS can kill a person in a range of 1 month-10 years. Depending on his health, food wise and thinking(blood pressure)

Why did Igbo leaders not visit him in London ? Yep the shame

alj harem:


Nope , He had Aids since and couple with his old age, he died out of shame.

Awo died with toothbrush in his mouth in the morning. Thus it was clearly a heartattack

Ojukwu died by going skinny all of a sudden (AIDS) and could not talk then died. Why do you think someone would go skinny suddenly

AIDS can kill a person in a range of 1 month-10 years. Depending on his health, food wise and thinking(blood pressure)

Why did Igbo leaders not visit him in London ? Yep the shame

Aigbofa:

What a fitting casket for a magalomaniac, who had a throne installed in his house. I laugh at people who yap on about his simplicity!

alj harem:


Nope , He had Aids since and couple with his old age, he died out of shame.

[size=18pt]Awo died with toothbrush in his mouth in the morning. Thus it was clearly a heartattack[/size]

Ojukwu died by going skinny all of a sudden (AIDS) and could not talk then died. Why do you think someone would go skinny suddenly

AIDS can kill a person in a range of 1 month-10 years. Depending on his health, food wise and thinking(blood pressure)

Why did Igbo leaders not visit him in London ? Yep the shame

alj harem:


Nope , He had Aids since and couple with his old age, he died out of shame.

[size=18pt]Awo died with toothbrush in his mouth in the morning. Thus it was clearly a heartattack
[/size]
Ojukwu died by going skinny all of a sudden (AIDS) and could not talk then died. Why do you think someone would go skinny suddenly

AIDS can kill a person in a range of 1 month-10 years. Depending on his health, food wise and thinking(blood pressure)

Why did Igbo leaders not visit him in London ? Yep the shame

aljharem:


why didn't he die like a hero ?

Akolawole:
@Ababoy1
I see
I have seen the undertones in your write-up.

You a very good friend, you knew how many times i have been labelled a tribalist e.g

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-7389.0.html

For your sake, this is my view;

Awolowo is a great leader, his thinking faculty towers above his peers. He is NOT a tribalist but he tried to showcase his God given wisdom in Yorbaland before marketing himselfin federal.

I have read all his books and have been previledge to be at Mapo during his campaign, i beg you need to hear him speak.

If he is a tribalist, why did he stop Biafra?.He would have been in Ibadan refocusing Yourbaland.

On paper at that time, Yoruba dont even need Nigeria , is there any region that is better than Yoruba?

He got to the federal house, all his contributions to the development of Nigeria is second to none.

Quotes

OJUKWU : The best president Nigeria never had.

IBB: He is the main issue in Nigeria politics, you are either for or against him.

jibitoye:
Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987).

I will start with a big "thank you" to all those who have contributed to this thread.
It is heartening to note that after all is said and done, there is a political hero whose name has been etched in gold in the annals of Nigerian political history and moreso because their is hardly anyone in contemporary Nigerian politics that can easily be ascribed such political sagacity.

This is however not a time for praise- singing.

I have tried to understudy this icon, and I believe we all agree he could be called that.

Politics is about beliefs. The problem we have in Nigeria is more of the absence or the stunted growth of such core beliefs. Awo’s was of a vision of a Fabian social democracy and he never hid those.
Obafemi Awolowo believed that to achieve greatness as a people, there has to be first, economic emancipation, in education, in health, in the creation of endurable social infrastructure and in empowering the people.
To those who have thought that his claims to these were not true, and this question is frequently asked, we should also ask: what is the goal behind empowerment?
An empowered individual is one who has been equipped to utilise the resources in his environment to aspire for all the chances that life could afford. He was empowered to acquire wealth by virtue of his education, enlightenment and view of the world. He can not be held responsible for utilising those opportunities. And seriously this is the main thing lacking in the politics of reforms being propagated by the OBJ government. Its major thrust is privatisation and we should ask who is going to gain: the big investors (the global multis, their World Band associates and cronies) or the everyday ordinary Nigerians? That is for another day though.

Please let us go back to his recorded feats in Western Nigeria pre-1960 and we would be right to say he made bold attempts to prepare his people for the future. It is only sad that these legacies are eroding now.

That Awo and Zik were political opponents were easily more of a case of disagreements in the politics of the day. These disagreements happen everyday in democracies.

He obviously had his shortcomings and anyone is entitled to either hold him or not on those accounts.
I can not apologise for him, neither does anyone, but to our Igbo brothers, there was a war, and for those who know…. All is never fair in war. Whatever decisions were made during the war could not be eternally ascribed to him alone. There were numerous parties and interests during that war and history will judge all of them when the time of reckoning surely comes.
That war was a big mistake on the parts of its proponents, propagators and its executors. It has not even brought peace almost forty years after the end of it (another is subtly brewing in the Niger Delta).