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Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by oduasolja: 2:15am On Mar 15, 2012
... Here is the true account of what took place as taken from scripts
of the discussion between Obafemi Awolowo and Chief Ojukwu (the Ikemba). The
discussion was taped by the Ikemba and the recorder was captured after Enugu
fell. (This conversation has been classified since the fall of Biafra)

On Saturday, May 6, 1967, at 5.15 pm, a meeting began to take place, at the
State House, Enugu, between the then Excellency, Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu (the
Ikemba) and a delegation of the National Conciliation Committee (Committee) led
by the most Honorable Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The Committee was represented by
Professor Samuel Aluko, Chief Mariere, Chief J.I. Onyia, while the Eastern
Region was represented by Lt. Col Imo, Lt. Col Effiong, Lt. Col. Kurubo, Mr. C.O
Mojekwu, Mr. N.U. Akpan, Professor Eni Njoku, Dr. Nwakanma Okoro, Dr. P.N.C.
Okigbo, Mr. C.A. Onyegbale and Mr. Ndem with the Ikemba
presiding over the meeting. The names are listed for the purpose
of verification of facts presented herein below with those of them who may still
be alive.....................

Awolowo: The main concern of these delegates is to ensure that Nigeria does not
disintegrate, and I would like to see Nigeria bound
together by any bond because it is better than breaking the
whole place up because each unit will be the loser for it.
The economy of the country is so integrated that it is too late
in the day to try and sever them without risking the death of
one or both of them. So we have come, therefore, to appeal
to you to let Eastern representatives attend the meeting of
the Committee (ON-GOING NATIONAL CONCILIATION MEETING) I do not want to put
myself in a position where I will be treated as an advocate of the Eastern
cause. Let the Eastern delegates go there, make their case and then as a member
of the Committee I will get up and say I support this entirely. If at the
meeting the East and West present what they want for a new Nigeria whether
temporarily or permanently, and the North says "no, we are not going to have
it", I will go out and address a
World Press Conference and send our case to that body and say
this is what we have done and the North has turned it down.
I will then take any step that is necessary to bring into effect
what we want. The North needed to be in a position of being
presented with the United front of the South.


Ikemba: I started off this struggle in July with 120 rifles to defend
the entirety of the East. I took my stand knowing fully well
that by doing so, whilst carving my name in history, I was
signing also my death warrant. But I took it because I believe
that this stand is vital to the survival of the South. I
appealed for settlement quietly because I understood that
this was a naked struggle for power and that the only time
we can sit down and decide the future of Nigeria on basis
of equality will always be equality of arms. Quietly, I
built up. If you do not know it, I am proud, and my officers
are proud, that here in the East we possess the biggest
army in Black Africa. I am no longer speaking as an underdog,
I am speaking from a position of power. The only
way for the South to present a united front is for the South to meet and hammer
out that united front. It is a point which must be
cleared first before proceeding to make a statement of whatever
it is. That is why to my mind, at the present stage of the
crisis the ideal thing is for the Southern people to meet
in any platform and discuss and hammer out any difference
they might have because I will have nothing to do with the North.
Then going further, it would then mean that to do this the South
to meet; because if we wait for their permission, we will
wait for ever. On the specific question of whether there is
a possibility of contract with the North, the answer is at the
battle field.

Awo: I do appreciate the points you have made, especially the suggestion
the South could take the bull by the horns, convene a meeting
of its leaders and work out its salvation. Well, I must say
that a number of factors have been overlooked in this regard.
I would be quite willing to attend any meeting convened by the
leaders of the South in the South, but it must be realized
that we in the West are in a very difficult position. All the
members of the bodyguard of the Military Governor of the Western
Region were Northerners; there were over 36,000 soldiers in
the whole of the West, most of whom were Northerners, and all of
them carry arms..... I led a delegation to Lt. Col. Gowon on the
7th and at that interview I made it clear on behalf of the West
that if the soldiers of Northern origin were not removed from
the West we would not attend any further meetings of the Ad Hoc
Committee. He said he would do something, of course he did not.
We passed our resolution (THAT THE NORTHERN SOLDIERS SHOULD
BE REMOVED FROM THE WEST) and Col. Adebayo did very well and give
us certain Yoruba officers with whom to go and deliver the
petition to Lt. Col. Gowon. I did give him an ultimatum up
to the 15th of May to remove these Northern soldiers from the
West. Of course, he agreed to remove them by the 31st of May
but the time we returned to Ibadan Northern soldiers had taken
up arms and wanted to kill me, to kill Adebayo and all others.
Just now Adebayo does not sleep in his house. Somebody told
me that he has not been sleeping in his house. I know why they
put two policemen with two rifles in front of my house the other
day. Of course, I rang up and said I wanted them removed. There
were policemen in front of Sardauna's house but they did not save
him. The populace, of course, turned against the Northern
soldiers. I don't know why Adebayo should issue the release
that soldiers should not be taunted. But this is the way we
have been doing our quiet fighting. You are remote from the
West; you have advantages which we do not possess. We cannot
rush without rushing to our death at the same time. We are not
cowards in the West but we have to move cautiously, because if
we do not do that you might not have us alive; you would only
have monuments all over the place.
And I may say in this connection of Southern solidarity -- I am
sorry to go into what has happened in the past -- in 1953 there
was an understanding between the banned NCNC and the banned
Action Group; we entered into an agreement, which I hope we will
use sometime, to the effect that if the North remained intransigent
we would declare a Southern Dominion. This was signed by myself
and Zik and I still stand by it; but we prefer that you should
send your delegates to this meeting, so that we should, known
to everyone, enter into negotiations among ourselves and present
a common front to the North. Then nobody can accuse us of
conspiracy or trying to divide the country into two parts. I
want you to look at it from our point of view. If there were
no Northern soldiers in the West the position would be different.
And even if by the time I return home the Northern soldiers have
gone I still do not want to be accused of perfidy. The issue
at hand is not enough for us to say that we do not like the North.
That is a negative approach. I think a positive approach will
be for us to meet. Unity will last only if it is based on common
understanding among us and the basis will start at this meeting.
As I said before, I want you to give me a chance of meeting
your people regularly. Let us reolve our differences and
get what we want and quickly too.


Ikemba: If the reason is to get a platform for a meeting between the
Southern leaders, I agree very much that we should try and find
a platform and here we seem to be presented with a fait accompli.
The Southern leaders are here now, so the main thing is to go
on and discuss.


Awo: It will be something near fraud for us to sit down here and
discuss in terms of the South especially as this delegation was
sent here by a body consisting of the Northern delegation....


Ikemba: Now coming to the wider question of the East attending, if it
is a Reconciliation COmmittee then it must be reconciling warring
parties. A Reconciliation Committee can not have the parties
within, somehow, it does not work, unless, of course, they have
already agreed on the major issues, because reconciliation
is to stay in the middle of the warring parties. And one thing
is so clear in the Nigerian situation: certainly the North
and the East are warring. For any Reconciliation Committee to
do justice to the East, it should not have Easterners and
Northerners
in it. That is one point. How does the Reconciliation Committee
expect us to go to Lagos ? Can you, Sir, imagine Sir Kashim
Ibrahim coming to the East to meet and discuss ? The critical
point of the Eastern stand is that the East cannot go to any place
where there are Northern troops. That tells his own story.
The North has made it abundantly clear that no association
if they are not controlling the central machinery, is acceptable
to them. Even in the face of the resolutions of the South,
the Emirs, feudalist Emirs, had the audacity to dictate to the
South; first that they will not allow the Northern troops to leave
the West until they are satisfied that the West has got sufficient
troops.

Awo: You have talked about Easterners and Northerners trying to go to
the same meeting and bringing about reconciliation because they
are the two warring parties. I do not think the fight is between
the East and the North alone. It affects all other parts of the
country save that there is no quarrel between the East and the
West and Mid-West. The fight involves all of us. The West
at this moment, has its own complaints against the North. The fact
that we went there particularly so soon after my withdrawal
from the Ad Hoc Constitutional Committee, which I observed was
set up by the Federal Government to wage war against the East
instead of trying to put things in check, must assure you that
we are resolved to find a solution to this.
You have also spoken about Lagos or anywhere in the West as
unsafe for the Easterners to hold a meeting. Nobody can
tell when life will be lost, but I think, speaking the minds of
entire people of Western Nigeria and Mid-Western Nigeria, that if
anybody can at this stage take the life of an Ibo man or an
Easterner, or if any outstanding Eastern loses his life by the
act of someone else, the whole of the Western Region and the
Mid-Western Region will take it as the end of Nigeria. I
can give that assurance on behalf of Western Nigeria and Lagos."


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfricansBusiness/message/127

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Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by papatosibe: 3:00am On Mar 15, 2012
And they call him their leader? SMH.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by aljharem(m): 3:04am On Mar 15, 2012
who cares, the past is the past, lets move on
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by papatosibe: 3:12am On Mar 15, 2012
^^^

We care. Odualsojas.

The Ibos have had their 15 minutes of shame, its now our turn to show them how to do it.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by dayokanu(m): 3:14am On Mar 15, 2012
Igbos are never straight forward


Wasnt one of them changing quotes from newspapers on Nairaland just yesterday?
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Nobody: 3:27am On Mar 15, 2012
LMAO @ the topic title grin grin grin grin grin
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by papatosibe: 3:37am On Mar 15, 2012
^^^

Spring semester never finish. What are you doing here? Now go back to those books. I dont want you to end up like Alh haram or SEFAGO.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by bashr8: 5:59am On Mar 15, 2012
history have already judged and put them where they belong, awo died a traitor and by drinking rat poison without anyone knowing of his burial while ojukwu was celebrated worldwide representatives from the united states,ghana,ivory coast and all the who is who in nigeria including the president with full military burial cordinated by chief of army staff himself.only world heroes are celebrated like ojukwu is being celebrated
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Ejine(m): 8:25am On Mar 15, 2012
It's 2012 for crying out loud, people. Move the fucck on already. Jeez!
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Olaolufred(m): 9:34am On Mar 15, 2012
bashr8: history have already judged and put them where they belong, awo died a traitor and by drinking rat poison without anyone knowing of his burial while ojukwu was celebrated worldwide representatives from the united states,ghana,ivory coast and all the who is who in nigeria including the president with full military burial cordinated by chief of army staff himself.only world heroes are celebrated like ojukwu is being celebrated

It is great to me that Ojukwu was given a befiting burial.
Kudos to Obasanjo who restored him removing the tag of rebels placed by the actions of 1967.
I always prefare people who discuss Issues thsn throwing muds. Issues based discussion shows wisdom while the other exposes foolishness. Though you can't see me in person, but I respect people and myself, so I wouldn't want to speak things that culminate in intellectual bereavement.
Having said that, the best reaction to anyone who carries other views is to confirm whether this excerpt is true or false.
In such attempt, it must be proven to be false by either party.
I have started my own researching to comfirm the excerpt, if true, then we can know some truths that could help in the future. The mistakes of the past made Biafra state an abortion.
should that repeat itself again?
Sending abusive messages instead of Issues based discussion is anti-productive. won't help the idea anyway.

However, the Title of the Thread is to some extents malicious.
When presentation is wrong ,it would lose its taste.
The post should be refined by the moderator.

Thanks.

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Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by bestview: 9:57am On Mar 15, 2012
Was it the same Awoalowoa who was a suicide bomber. I mean the one who killed himself with rat poison after he committed treason. grin grin grin grin
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ekwynwa: 10:14am On Mar 15, 2012
Olaolufred:

[s]It is great to me that Ojukwu was given a befiting burial.
Kudos to Obasanjo who restored him removing the tag of rebels placed by the actions of 1967.
I always prefare people who discuss Issues thsn throwing muds. Issues based discussion shows wisdom while the other exposes foolishness. Though you can't see me in person, but I respect people and myself, so I wouldn't want to speak things that culminate in intellectual bereavement.
Having said that, the best reaction to anyone who carries other views is to confirm whether this excerpt is true or false.
In such attempt, it must be proven to be false by either party.
I have started my own researching to comfirm the excerpt, if true, then we can know some truths that could help in the future. The mistakes of the past made Biafra state an abortion.
should that repeat itself again?
Sending abusive messages instead of Issues based discussion is anti-productive. won't help the idea anyway.
[/s]
However, the Title of the Thread is to some extents malicious.
When presentation is wrong ,it would lose its taste.
The post should be refined by the moderator.




Thanks.


Trash
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ekwynwa: 10:17am On Mar 15, 2012
bestview: Was it the same[b] Awoalowoa who was a suicide bomber[/b]. I mean the one who killed himself with rat poison after he committed treason. grin grin grin grin


una go wound pesin with laugh o grin grin grin grin grin

Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Nobody: 10:33am On Mar 15, 2012
Okoros are very stubborn set of humans.So I'm not surprised about oju-iku's cowardice.

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Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Olaolufred(m): 10:49am On Mar 15, 2012
ekwy nwa:


Trash

Not at all.
If it is all trash, then I can question your sence of Judgement.
To me I saw those your strokethrough.
And those you left to be.
If you left some part and still claimed it is trash, how do you judge yourself? I prefare you should have stroken through all.

Can you now think of issues rather than thrashing?
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by EMANY01(m): 10:57am On Mar 15, 2012
The topics heading already tells the story of someone ranting incoherently.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Olaolufred(m): 11:01am On Mar 15, 2012
ekwy nwa:


una go wound pesin with laugh o grin grin grin grin grin



If after all the comedies been generated by your attachments has made our Igbo brothers attained the Biafran sovereignty or made them the president of this nation, it is ok by me.

But Issues are more of realities than fantasies.

I suggest the thread be stopped by the moderator due to lack of coherence by the poster.

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Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by oduasolja: 12:06pm On Mar 15, 2012
bashr8: history have already judged and put them where they belong, awo died a traitor and by drinking rat poison without anyone knowing of his burial while ojukwu was celebrated worldwide representatives from the united states,ghana,ivory coast and all the who is who in nigeria including the president with full military burial cordinated by chief of army staff himself.only world heroes are celebrated like ojukwu is being celebrated

look at this dummy.


awolowo is still revered even in death.

u lot are scum to come up with ridiculous stories.

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Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ekwynwa: 12:12pm On Mar 15, 2012
@ Olaolufred pls face your front joor angry angry

stop snnifing after me, tell me how OBJ restored Ojukwu
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ekwynwa: 12:12pm On Mar 15, 2012
@ Olaolufred pls face your front joor angry angry

stop snnifing after me, tell me how OBJ restored Ojukwu
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Olaolufred(m): 12:44pm On Mar 15, 2012
ekwy nwa: @ Olaolufred pls face your front joor angry angry

stop snnifing after me, tell me how OBJ restored Ojukwu

Not at all by brother.
I just felt it was better to talk Issues than being abusive.
Wisdom is an ability to express your views and still maintaining your self respect and that of the others.
Thanks for being understanding.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Dede1(m): 2:19pm On Mar 15, 2012
oduasolja: ... Here is the true account of what took place as taken from scripts
of the discussion between Obafemi Awolowo and Chief Ojukwu (the Ikemba). The
discussion was taped by the Ikemba and the recorder was captured after Enugu
fell. (This conversation has been classified since the fall of Biafra)

On Saturday, May 6, 1967, at 5.15 pm, a meeting began to take place, at the
State House, Enugu, between the then Excellency, Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu (the
Ikemba) and a delegation of the National Conciliation Committee (Committee) led
by the most Honorable Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The Committee was represented by
Professor Samuel Aluko, Chief Mariere, Chief J.I. Onyia, while the Eastern
Region was represented by Lt. Col Imo, Lt. Col Effiong, Lt. Col. Kurubo, Mr. C.O
Mojekwu, Mr. N.U. Akpan, Professor Eni Njoku, Dr. Nwakanma Okoro, Dr. P.N.C.
Okigbo, Mr. C.A. Onyegbale and Mr. Ndem with the Ikemba
presiding over the meeting. The names are listed for the purpose
of verification of facts presented herein below with those of them who may still
be alive.....................

Awolowo: The main concern of these delegates is to ensure that Nigeria does not
disintegrate, and I would like to see Nigeria bound
together by any bond because it is better than breaking the
whole place up because each unit will be the loser for it.
The economy of the country is so integrated that it is too late
in the day to try and sever them without risking the death of
one or both of them. So we have come, therefore, to appeal
to you to let Eastern representatives attend the meeting of
the Committee (ON-GOING NATIONAL CONCILIATION MEETING) I do not want to put
myself in a position where I will be treated as an advocate of the Eastern
cause. Let the Eastern delegates go there, make their case and then as a member
of the Committee I will get up and say I support this entirely. If at the
meeting the East and West present what they want for a new Nigeria whether
temporarily or permanently, and the North says "no, we are not going to have
it", I will go out and address a
World Press Conference and send our case to that body and say
this is what we have done and the North has turned it down.
I will then take any step that is necessary to bring into effect
what we want. The North needed to be in a position of being
presented with the United front of the South.


Ikemba: I started off this struggle in July with 120 rifles to defend
the entirety of the East. I took my stand knowing fully well
that by doing so, whilst carving my name in history, I was
signing also my death warrant. But I took it because I believe
that this stand is vital to the survival of the South. I
appealed for settlement quietly because I understood that
this was a naked struggle for power and that the only time
we can sit down and decide the future of Nigeria on basis
of equality will always be equality of arms. Quietly, I
built up. If you do not know it, I am proud, and my officers
are proud, that here in the East we possess the biggest
army in Black Africa. I am no longer speaking as an underdog,
I am speaking from a position of power. The only
way for the South to present a united front is for the South to meet and hammer
out that united front. It is a point which must be
cleared first before proceeding to make a statement of whatever
it is. That is why to my mind, at the present stage of the
crisis the ideal thing is for the Southern people to meet
in any platform and discuss and hammer out any difference
they might have because I will have nothing to do with the North.
Then going further, it would then mean that to do this the South
to meet; because if we wait for their permission, we will
wait for ever. On the specific question of whether there is
a possibility of contract with the North, the answer is at the
battle field.

Awo: I do appreciate the points you have made, especially the suggestion
the South could take the bull by the horns, convene a meeting
of its leaders and work out its salvation. Well, I must say
that a number of factors have been overlooked in this regard.
I would be quite willing to attend any meeting convened by the
leaders of the South in the South, but it must be realized
that we in the West are in a very difficult position. All the
members of the bodyguard of the Military Governor of the Western
Region were Northerners; there were over 36,000 soldiers in
the whole of the West, most of whom were Northerners, and all of
them carry arms..... I led a delegation to Lt. Col. Gowon on the
7th and at that interview I made it clear on behalf of the West
that if the soldiers of Northern origin were not removed from
the West we would not attend any further meetings of the Ad Hoc
Committee. He said he would do something, of course he did not.
We passed our resolution (THAT THE NORTHERN SOLDIERS SHOULD
BE REMOVED FROM THE WEST) and Col. Adebayo did very well and give
us certain Yoruba officers with whom to go and deliver the
petition to Lt. Col. Gowon. I did give him an ultimatum up
to the 15th of May to remove these Northern soldiers from the
West. Of course, he agreed to remove them by the 31st of May
but the time we returned to Ibadan Northern soldiers had taken
up arms and wanted to kill me, to kill Adebayo and all others.
Just now Adebayo does not sleep in his house. Somebody told
me that he has not been sleeping in his house. I know why they
put two policemen with two rifles in front of my house the other
day. Of course, I rang up and said I wanted them removed. There
were policemen in front of Sardauna's house but they did not save
him. The populace, of course, turned against the Northern
soldiers. I don't know why Adebayo should issue the release
that soldiers should not be taunted. But this is the way we
have been doing our quiet fighting. You are remote from the
West; you have advantages which we do not possess. We cannot
rush without rushing to our death at the same time. We are not
cowards in the West but we have to move cautiously, because if
we do not do that you might not have us alive; you would only
have monuments all over the place.
And I may say in this connection of Southern solidarity -- I am
sorry to go into what has happened in the past -- in 1953 there
was an understanding between the banned NCNC and the banned
Action Group; we entered into an agreement, which I hope we will
use sometime, to the effect that if the North remained intransigent
we would declare a Southern Dominion. This was signed by myself
and Zik and I still stand by it; but we prefer that you should
send your delegates to this meeting, so that we should, known
to everyone, enter into negotiations among ourselves and present
a common front to the North. Then nobody can accuse us of
conspiracy or trying to divide the country into two parts. I
want you to look at it from our point of view. If there were
no Northern soldiers in the West the position would be different.
And even if by the time I return home the Northern soldiers have
gone I still do not want to be accused of perfidy. The issue
at hand is not enough for us to say that we do not like the North.
That is a negative approach. I think a positive approach will
be for us to meet. Unity will last only if it is based on common
understanding among us and the basis will start at this meeting.
As I said before, I want you to give me a chance of meeting
your people regularly. Let us reolve our differences and
get what we want and quickly too.


Ikemba: If the reason is to get a platform for a meeting between the
Southern leaders, I agree very much that we should try and find
a platform and here we seem to be presented with a fait accompli.
The Southern leaders are here now, so the main thing is to go
on and discuss.


Awo: It will be something near fraud for us to sit down here and
discuss in terms of the South especially as this delegation was
sent here by a body consisting of the Northern delegation....


Ikemba: Now coming to the wider question of the East attending, if it
is a Reconciliation COmmittee then it must be reconciling warring
parties. A Reconciliation Committee can not have the parties
within, somehow, it does not work, unless, of course, they have
already agreed on the major issues, because reconciliation
is to stay in the middle of the warring parties. And one thing
is so clear in the Nigerian situation: certainly the North
and the East are warring. For any Reconciliation Committee to
do justice to the East, it should not have Easterners and
Northerners
in it. That is one point. How does the Reconciliation Committee
expect us to go to Lagos ? Can you, Sir, imagine Sir Kashim
Ibrahim coming to the East to meet and discuss ? The critical
point of the Eastern stand is that the East cannot go to any place
where there are Northern troops. That tells his own story.
The North has made it abundantly clear that no association
if they are not controlling the central machinery, is acceptable
to them. Even in the face of the resolutions of the South,
the Emirs, feudalist Emirs, had the audacity to dictate to the
South; first that they will not allow the Northern troops to leave
the West until they are satisfied that the West has got sufficient
troops.

Awo: You have talked about Easterners and Northerners trying to go to
the same meeting and bringing about reconciliation because they
are the two warring parties. I do not think the fight is between
the East and the North alone. It affects all other parts of the
country save that there is no quarrel between the East and the
West and Mid-West. The fight involves all of us. The West
at this moment, has its own complaints against the North. The fact
that we went there particularly so soon after my withdrawal
from the Ad Hoc Constitutional Committee, which I observed was
set up by the Federal Government to wage war against the East
instead of trying to put things in check, must assure you that
we are resolved to find a solution to this.
You have also spoken about Lagos or anywhere in the West as
unsafe for the Easterners to hold a meeting. Nobody can
tell when life will be lost, but I think, speaking the minds of
entire people of Western Nigeria and Mid-Western Nigeria, that if
anybody can at this stage take the life of an Ibo man or an
Easterner, or if any outstanding Eastern loses his life by the
act of someone else, the whole of the Western Region and the
Mid-Western Region will take it as the end of Nigeria. I
can give that assurance on behalf of Western Nigeria and Lagos."


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfricansBusiness/message/127



The poster of this shamefully concocted crap should be stoned. The weight of iniquity and undeniable idiocy coupled with inherent tribal bigotry had driven some Yoruba maggots to lala land.

Oduasolja, I know you are irreparable numbskull that tend to flaunt ignorance in the public. Please when next you chose to do ignorant dance, have the audience to be completely made up of your fellow peeps.

It is funny you cull a crap from Dawudo.Com, probably concocted by usual suspect named Nowa Omoigui and have the audacity to claim it was from a recorded tape captured by the Nigerian vandals after the fall of Enugu. There was nothing meaningful about Biafra that fell into the hands of the vandals during the civil war.

Are you so dumb you could not discern the so-called National Conciliation Committee (Committee) led Awolowo had no single person from northern region on the team? Yet a malnourished gull such as Oduasolja had the gut to post the junk with a purported team of “National Conciliation Committee”.

For the sake of posterity, I read names such as Effiong, Kurubo, Akpan and Ndem (Ibibio, Ijo, Ibibio and Efik) who allegedly represented eastern region or Biafra. I wonder why loudmouthed nitwits such Oduasolja would insinuate that Biafra was Igbo affairs.

Anyway, this is the fault of Awo and UPE. Some dingbats such as oduasolja, dayokanu, Ileke-IdI and Olaolufred should have been pushing wheelbarrow in Alaba Market instead of knocking away on a keyboard.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Dede1(m): 2:20pm On Mar 15, 2012
Even the drunken soldiers from northern region knew the western and midwestern regions could not kill a housefly if left to punch their respective feather weights. Yet loudmouthed ingrates would boast about wrestling matches baptized as kiriji wars and the gallantry of one incompetent commander named Ben
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ekwynwa: 2:56pm On Mar 15, 2012
Olaolufred:

Not at all by brother.
I just felt it was better to talk Issues than being abusive.
Wisdom is an ability to express your views and still maintaining your self respect and that of the others.
Thanks for being understanding.

you ve got no issue to talk about bro grin

how did OBJ restore Ojukwu
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Olaolufred(m): 4:06pm On Mar 15, 2012
ekwy nwa:

you ve got no issue to talk about bro grin

how did OBJ restore Ojukwu

I am sorry.
I will get back when I have facts to talk to you.
Don't want to talk more without it.
Thanks.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by oduasolja: 4:13pm On Mar 15, 2012
Dede1: Even the drunken soldiers from northern region knew the western and midwestern regions could not kill a housefly if left to punch their respective feather weights. Yet loudmouthed ingrates would boast about wrestling matches baptized as kiriji wars and the gallantry of one incompetent commander named Ben

AND HOW DID U FARE IN UR WAR ?

WERE U NOT CRUSHED

DUMMY.

WAR IS NOT ABOUT PHYSICAL STRENGTH , ITS ABOUT FIRE POWER and fire power alone. if u dont have the firepower , dont talk.

ur stupid son was bragging about having the largest army in africa and boasting about meeting the north in the battle field. when he should have utilized awolowos advice of open and forthright dialogue.

well he got the war he wanted , had his people decimated, then ran off to ivory coast to "seek peace".

oh well.

my point is , you numbnuts should stop blaming awolowo for leading u to war. when its clear that ur boss ojukwu miscalculated.

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Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ak47mann(m): 4:21pm On Mar 15, 2012
That AWO that try so much to taste that presidential seat but never did,cus of shame he took his own life but he was evil coolThat AWO that try so much to taste that presidential seat but never did,cus of shame he took his own life but he was evil
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ak47mann(m): 4:24pm On Mar 15, 2012
ojukwu for left that monkey to rust inside prison that will help a lot...
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by LogicMind: 4:41pm On Mar 15, 2012
Yorubas call black white and white black.
Even from your propaganda post, it can be seen that Ojukwu was being straightforward and awolowo was trying to do wuru wuru deals: asking for meaningless meetings, begging to be understood, formulating endless excuses, making empty promises etc.
The snake.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by Dede1(m): 4:47pm On Mar 15, 2012
oduasolja:

AND HOW DID U FARE IN UR WAR ?

WERE U NOT CRUSHED

DUMMY.

WAR IS NOT ABOUT PHYSICAL STRENGTH , ITS ABOUT FIRE POWER and fire power alone. if u dont have the firepower , dont talk.

ur stupid son was bragging about having the largest army in africa and boasting about meeting the north in the battle field. when he should have utilized awolowos advice of open and forthright dialogue.

well he got the war he wanted , had his people decimated, then ran off to ivory coast to "seek peace".

oh well.

my point is , you numbnuts should stop blaming awolowo for leading u to war. when its clear that ur boss ojukwu miscalculated.



Dummy, I do not how many times you need to read what Ojukwu said to be able to comprehend. He never said anything about defeating the northern region but defeating Nigeria.

I hope your psychotic head would pardon you to realize eastern region was considered overmatch to northern region and, in fact, western and mid-western region combined. Baring the unconditional assistance Nigeria received from Britain, USSR, Australia, Egypt, United Arad League, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Dahomey, Biafra was set to wipe the floor with Nigeria.

You must be dunce to think Biafra was crushed. I look at it that first round went Nigeria and its allies but second is going to be deferent story. Biafra really gave it the aggressors and was gallantry in defeat.

As far as I am concerned, Awolowo was as infinitesimal factor in the civil war. He played his part as an infantry water boy did too. Talking about infantry water boy, there were many of them during war.

Even next year, Ndigbo are capable of standing up to/against any ethnic group in Nigeria. It has been proven.
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by ak47mann(m): 4:51pm On Mar 15, 2012
Logic Mind: Yorubas call black white and white black.
Even from your propaganda post, it can be seen that Ojukwu was being straightforward and awolowo was trying to do wuru wuru deals: asking for meaningless meetings, begging to be understood, formulating endless excuses, making empty promises etc.
The snake.
thank you!! at list is not only me that noticed it from the reading...
Re: Awolowo Asked Ojukwu To Be Open And Forthright . But Ojukwu Was Trying To Do Wuru Wuru Backroom Deals by dayokanu(m): 4:56pm On Mar 15, 2012
All these mouth Igbos are making, Dont let a certain black scorpion hear ooo


Cos na 2million people go suffer am as usual

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