FrenchyL: It is too late for that now Sir. Nothing can change now.

Dede1:

Of course, coup plotters usually chose among themselves who will lead. The fact remains Gowon had lied through his teeth that he was not a member of the coup plotters yet the evidence proves otherwise, olodo.

Act of precipitating coup is never legal and honorable act among discipline soldiers. Ojukwu opposed Gowon because Gowon and his clique of undisciplined soldiers from northern region were illegal.

emmke: Oko. I responded only after your eternally hate-filled disrespectful brothers brought my people into the discourse. Like the hypocrite that you are, you conveniently overlooked that. Btw, an okoro man is in no place to tell me which topic i comment on or don't.

Wily+Wily:

PROPHET OJUKWU (PEACE BE UPON HIM) and Moslem Prophet Mohammed, Who is Greater?

oduasolja:

u are a bleeping dummy. Nigeria started as a democracy , what happened to our democracy from which region did the officers that lead the first coup and murdered our prime minister and regional premiers and finance ministers and senior officers from other regions come from ? what was their ethnicity.


so if u want to talk of corruption and lawlessness start with the actions of your people the igbo officers.

stop spewing ur revisionist crap.

Kanto:

@Oduasolja:

you are stinking of ignorance. First of all the first coup planned in nigeria was by Awolowo for which he was jailed in 1963 for treason.
Secondly the wahala that caused the coup in 1966 was in the yoruba region. It was the lawlessness that started in the yoruba region in 1962
leading to the imposition of a state of emergency and then the first election rigging in 1964 and the violence, thuggery and arson that followed that led to the coup. If not for the lawlessness, election rigging, coup plotting by awolowo, violence, thuggery and arson which you yoruba apes introduced into nigeria then there would have been no need for a coup and the nation would have been better for it.

Yorubas started from day one of the first republic to be killing themselves and you should rather be grateful that the january 1966 coup rescued you apes from total self destruction.

So get your facts right before you write rubbish. You guys caused the problems that truncated the first republic and you should accept that responsibility rather than pushing the blame to those who reacted to the problems you caused. Bloody hypocrites.

It is no secret that not only did the yoruba introduce vices such as election rigging, thuggery and arson, Hausa-Yoruba constitute 90% of the federal looters that have destroyed the nation and consigned millions of people to poverty, mass emigration, mass unemployment, lack of basic infrastructure etc. So you owambe cockroaches should learn to keep quiet.

jp philips:

i was glued to the last paragraphs of your post but the first made me puke, do you know that history is repeating itself again?
because ojukwu felt his ambition is superior to all and sundry that has accepted Gowon as president, he reneged, even when his intransigence is pushing the whole nation to mass division along ethnic lines, he cared less.
when his ambition degenerated to an arms struggle, he still didn't care because of what?

that same ambition, intransigence and love for power consumed over 2million lives in estimate yet, he didn't find the dignity of surrendering before Gen effiong came to our rescue, that is the height of insensitivity especially in a struggle that was clearly obvious he will lose.

let me ask you, do you think ojukwu will be asking for regional autonomy and confederation if he wasn't the Gov in the east? 12 states were created obviously he knows he might not be the Gov, to stay in power, he started pushing for regional autonomy to retain his domain of Governance.

Ojukwu an oxford historian is educated enough to realize that his Aburi demands was an act of war

liken it to our present Nigeria, Jonathan was selected to be the vice of yaradua under the same PDP quoter system, he didn't complain, he didn't refuse either, even when the whole, country would have been better off with donald duke.

ok, Yaradua dies, he completes his tenure and refuses the same PDP zoning that produced him to be applied simply because he was power hungry, that ambition alone and the retaliation of the north has cost this great nation over a thousand lives and counting, infrastructures worth billions are destroyed on daily basis because of the ambition of one man.

it didn't end there, the insensitivity,greed and power hunger of this same man is pushing him to come back in 2015, even when the country cut him a slack of a tenure and voted en masse for him, what a political jobber!!

obviously, the lives of Nigerians and biafrans meant nothing to Jonathan and ojukwu, what a shame!!
these are the Ninc0mp00ps you refer to as heroes, leaders etc.
shame on you, these men, are nothing but !d!ots in my books

Kanto:

@Oduasolja:

you are stinking of ignorance. First of all the first coup planned in nigeria was by Awolowo for which he was jailed in 1963 for treason.
Secondly the wahala that caused the coup in 1966 was in the yoruba region. It was the lawlessness that started in the yoruba region in 1962
leading to the imposition of a state of emergency and then the first election rigging in 1964 and the violence, thuggery and arson that followed that led to the coup. If not for the lawlessness, election rigging, coup plotting by awolowo, violence, thuggery and arson which you yoruba apes introduced into nigeria then there would have been no need for a coup and the nation would have been better for it.

Yorubas started from day one of the first republic to be killing themselves and you should rather be grateful that the january 1966 coup rescued you apes from total self destruction.

So get your facts right before you write rubbish. You guys caused the problems that truncated the first republic and you should accept that responsibility rather than pushing the blame to those who reacted to the problems you caused. Bloody hypocrites.

It is no secret that not only did the yoruba introduce vices such as election rigging, thuggery and arson, Hausa-Yoruba constitute 90% of the federal looters that have destroyed the nation and consigned millions of people to poverty, mass emigration, mass unemployment, lack of basic infrastructure etc. So you owambe cockroaches should learn to keep quiet.

lagcity: Why are Igbos insulting Gen. Gowon? It is because of Gowon's mercies that your parents made it to puberty. Gowon could have wiped you all out after the surrender. Igbos, pls stop this nonsense.

oduasolja:

you cunning igbos will always try to absolve yourself of responsibility even when caught red handed.
was the western region the only region in crisis. was it not the north/east federal govt coalition in your bid to undermine the action group opposition that created the rift in the party. first you split the western region , then u created an internal rift in the action group and then u later declared a state of emergency , just to undermine awolowo .

read awolowos response to your rubbish accusations and learn.

"I beg to move the following amendment to the motion already proposed by the Prime Minister:

"To delete all the words of the motion after - That - and substitute - "This honourable House declares that having regard to the provisions of Section 65 of the Constitution of the Federation of Nigeria a state of public emergency does not exist."

"May I draw the attention of hon. members to the provisions of Section 65 of our Constitution. It is not usual for members to read the constitution unless occasion such as this arises or some other incidents, which affect us occur. Section 65 reads:

"65(1) Parliament may at any time make sure laws for Nigeria or any part thereof with respect to matters not included in the legislative lists as may appear to parliament to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of maintaining or securing peace, order and good government during any period of emergency."

"The section 3 - (3) In this section "period of emergency" means any period during which (a) the federation is at war; (b) there is in force a resolution by each House of Parliament declaring that a state of public emergency exists; and (c) there is in force a resolution of each House of Parliament supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the members of the House declaring that democratic institutions in Nigeria are threatened by subversion.

"That is the section, Mr. Speaker, and I hold the view very strongly - and that view is in no way shaken by the speech made by the Prime Minister that the step which the Federal Government now proposes is uncalled for and unwarranted.

"The first question which any reasonable person ought to ask himself is this. Is there a state of public emergency in the Western Region

That is the most important question, which the Prime Minister and the cabinet must ask themselves. I submit with great respect that a state of public emergency does not exist in Western Nigeria.
"Not long ago after independence, there was rioting of a most severe nature in the Tiv Division of Northern Nigeria. Several lives were lost, several properties were destroyed, there was arson and a host of other crimes were committed. At that time, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Prime Minister as he is today. He did not think it fit to call this parliament to declare a state of public emergency in the Northern Region. Also in Okrika - there was widespread rioting in Okrika; again, several lives and properties were lost. I understand that this widespread rioting in Okrika occurred twice in the Eastern Region. The Prime Minister and the cabinet did not think it fit on that occasion to declare a state of public emergency in the Eastern Region.

"But, because the Action Group is pursuing the normal democratic processes as laid down in our constitution to oust someone who happens to be a very close friend of the Prime Minister, and also because the AG is looked upon as a moral foe to the NPC, this very far-reaching provision of our constitution is now being invoked, only in respect of what might be described as squabbles inside the chamber of the Western House of Assembly. It is doing violence to our constitution and doing violence to the construction of words to suggest that what happened in the Western House of Assembly amounts to a state of public emergency.

"I was present there myself, and when I left that chamber, those who were outside the chamber did not even know that anything was happening inside the chamber. Ibadan is peaceful - the whole of the Western Region is peaceful. It is true that the newspapers have been exaggerating the situation in the Western Region, the Prime Minister himself has lent his support to this exaggeration; he cancelled all his engagements - whether they existed or not I do not know, the governor-general was suddenly summoned back from his holiday in Nsukka to come to Lagos even when there was no deterioration in the situation in the Western Nigeria.

"I maintain that this is a calculated, premeditated attempt on the part of the Prime Minister and his cabinet to try, if they could, to castrate the AG, to disturb the welfare of the people of Western Nigeria who have always been looked upon as the foes of the NPC.

"May I say that I can understand the yearnings and the wishes of the NCNC and the stand of the NCNC in this matter. Every political party wants to be in power - we want to be in power here in the centre one day, and by the grace of God we will. But the NCNC wants, naturally, to fish in troubled waters. If I were in their shoes, I would think that no occasion is more favourable than now to have a dissolution of the legislature of the Western Region, because this dissolution now would mean a split in the votes of the Action Group. It might be that by such a split, they could sort of fluke in and form the government of Western Nigeria. In any case, whatever happened after that dissolution, the NCNC would not be any worse off than they were before, namely to be in the opposition - that is the worst that could happened to them. But there is a chance - the off-chance - that they may just manage to win.

"Therefore I can understand the action of the NCNC in this matter, because that is the party in opposition in the Western Region. The NPC has no foothold in the west, and it is doing its very best to find a foothold in the Western Region.

"There are a number of persons who call themselves NPC members for Ibadan, but they are by themselves, they have some following of a type among people who live in Mokola, Ibadan, that is to be understood; but the NPC as such has no following in the Western Region, and it is the NPC dominated Federal Government that now wants to impose its rule on the people of Western Nigeria, simply because there was what the prime minister called the uproar in the chamber of the Western House of Assembly - not an uproar in Ibadan as a whole; not an uproar even in Ogbomosho the home of Chief Akintola who is involved in this matter, not an uproar in Ijebu-Remo; not an uproar in Ikorodu; not an uproar anywhere in the Western Region. The prime minister thinks that this very far-reaching provision of the constitution should be invoked merely to save a friend!

"Secondly, what is a public emergency

continued
http://www.waado.org/nigerdelta/FedGovt/Federalism/emergency_rule/western_region_awolowo.html

lagcity: ^^^^
Sorry, bro. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. But talk true, you people owe Gowon and Effiong.

Why the lies bro? MKO didn't run away. He declared himself president in Lagos and was arrested. Was he arrested in Cotonou? But the funny thing is that when Yorubas were being shot on the streets of Lagos, Igbos who had no cause to fear still ran away to the East. Una too dey fear I swear.

Kanto:

@lagcity:

Biafrans do not share the same world of cowardice with owambe cockroaches like you who run away before any war has even started. Go and ask your nigerian army wimps and they will tell you what they went through in biafra. They died like flies and were bogged down for 3 years inspite of all the weapons they had. Biafran soldiers dealt with them so much that they prayed for the war to end and were overjoyed when it ended.

War is not a tea party but a pathological coward like you will never know that because you will run before the fight. That is why june 12 came and all you ugly stinky owambe cockroaches fled into exile because you know that you will be crushed and smashed in just one week.Thankgod that your people choose to run because none of you typical bedwetting cowards would have survived beyond a week.

As for Gowon, he and his people are already endangered species and the next decade might not meet any of them alive. I dey laugh o!

oduasolja:

you went to steal ijaw oil and minority land you are claiming you are fighting for freedom.

if it was all about freedom , please explain why u stinking theives murdered hundreds of minorities who did not support biafra.

u are a bunch of opportunist theives, that are running around trying to appropriate other peoples lands so you can feed yourself.since your overpopulated land can not sustain u, since you all breed like rabbits . thats why u fucking parasites are ready to beg and dance and prostitute with anybody that will feed you.

not to long ago you were begging the north to form one Nigeria so that you can feed off their land.
then you arrogrant rats decided to bite the hands that feed you , and then they chased you away from their land. then u decided that was ur opportunity to steal minority land and oil for urselves, since of u fucking rats cannot survive on your overpopulated land. fucking stinking rats, nobody needs ur nonsense. u dont feed anybody . and nobody needs u .

if this country breaks up , u better be ready to go on your own. cus i dont think anybody will feed u .

Alusi Okija: The answer is simple;

Yoruba people are snakes. If the Igbos go to war with Cameroun tomorrow, best believe that the Yorubas would be in Cameroon offering tactical support. All they want to see is the downfall of Ndi Igbo.

Even the hausa man would be quick to apologise abd say it was because of this or that.... If you ever are in a fight and a Yoruba man is near you, kill the yoruba man first before you continue your fight. Atimes I woulder if those tribal markson their faces affect their brain. >:9

Kanto: These dirty and ugly yoruba cockroaches introduced the vices and wahala that ruined the nation from the first republic. together with the hausa they make-up 90% of the federal looters wrecking the nation. Except they are gassed to eternity the nation can never make progress.

Kanto:

@jp philips:

i actually enjoy the ignorance and cowardice of people like you because it stinks to high heavens: Have you ever heard the word the right to self defence? Well that was what Ojukwu exercised and he had the God given right to do so when his people was faced with a pogrom and gowon the head of state whose duty it is to protect lives and property did nothing about it. Even a goat, if you push it to the wall it will turn back and fight you. Gowon had no right to be talking of one nigeria when thousands of people were massacred under his watch. I know that typical cowards like you will rather surrender to be butchered rather than exercise your fundamental right and fight back. Ojukwu like a real man fought for self defence and the nigerian army payed dearly for almost 3 years to the extent that were all celebrating when the war ended.

My prayer for you is that your people should face genocide so that you can surrender yourselves without a fight to be butchered.

No tribe in nigeria can face a gang-up of the rest of nigeria like biafra did and survive even a week, if any of you can i challenge you to declare war and see how you will be crushed in less than one week. The yoruba owambe cockroaches will even run away like they did over june 12 before any war has started.

All through human history there have been countless wars fought by those who exercised the ultimate right to fight for self defence and what they beleive in and we are proud of the biafran war and the heroic resistance against a gang-up of 246 ethnic groups against a few and yet could not prevail for 3 years. it should be a lesson to those who want to learn.

At the end of the day ojukwu has been vindicated as the whole country is now crying to have a sovereign national conference. Today there is boko haram wanting to islamise the whole country. No matter how fools like you try to ignore the truth it is catching up with you by groups like boko haram and their islamisation agenda and even gowon knows the truth but is too ashamed to admit it.

This is just the beginning.

ojukwu's finger prints are all over kaduna nzeogwu's coup, you seriously don't think it is a coincidence that such hit pulled by his kinsmen could be largely successful without the blessing of an influential one of them highly placed in the army that was functioning like a cult? the same force of coincidence that spared the eastern top guns?

you could remember that the pogrom started in the army where some people thought it was a mere rival military cult skirmish, the westerners did not spare the ibos either

it is commonsensical to assume that ojukwu a historian from oxford is aware of the UN resolution on genocide enacted shortly after the second world war. a tool that could bring gowon to justice if he really cared about the ibos, the irony was he exploited that tool when his people were starving and used same tool to call for truce after he left on exile

ojukwu's father was one of the few Africans that enjoyed royalties from British oil companies in the late 50's a feature people like me thought he could have explored to use the British influence to put gowon on a tight leach a move that could have saved countless igbo lives,
it is no news that he pulled the same strings during the hunger era of the war.

ojukwu's agenda at the aburi conference has no single ibo interest, by bamboozling gowon to ratify confederation is an act of WAR an oxford graduate should know better.
how it saves the pogrom is what eludes Albert Einstein.

if the hit in the army had succeeded, the ojukwu boys could have been in total control of the army, since his father has the biggest economic interest in the country, oil and gas not excluded, the smart historian could take a political stage. does the picture fit? army plus economy equals, that reminds me, till death, he remained a political figure, what happened to Nelson mandela's heroic style?

oh!! i forgot to add that he wasn't a member of the supreme military council which robs him the right to decide for them who should be the next head of state.

lastly

my heroes don't run, i will chose a hitler anyday over a gallant soldier who forgot his purse on the last plane from Uli enroute ivory coast,

my heroes die in the struggle for what they believe in, for one that has wasted so much lives and took to his heels? hell no!!! he doesn't qualify, i believe he will learn a lot from real heroes in the great beyond.

adieu!!!! Emeka
can u pass the coffee please.

nsiadi: its difficult to say if illiteracy that prevented gowon from imbibing d spirit of Aburi has left him. Its not enuf for him to shed crocodile tears. He shd openly confess his sins or die with those sins. I hope the misfit suffers more b4 joining his ancestors

Kanto:

@duasolja:

you have jumped from the truth of the humiliation that your western apes region destroyed nigeria to topics that makes no sense. When you lose the argument you resort to long stories, but i am ready for you and will put you dirty hypocrite in your place.

Crude oil is important only for parasitic apes like the yoruba region that cannot survive without it. During the constitutional conference the Igbos supported resource control but you parasitic yorubas joined the north to oppose resource control because you cant survive without another mans resources. Whereas the niger-deltans and the Igbos have always advocated leaving nigeria, the Yorubas never do because they cannot survive without the oil that is not even in their geographical region. Even the north recently said they wanted to leave nigeria and the next thing afenifere started begging them not to leave because it will end your parasitic dependence on oil money. You can now see how yoruba cockroaches are number one parasites because of crude oil.

If you were not that ignorant, you would have known there are 3 oil producing states in Igboland, but who cares about oil.It is only you dirty yoruba cockroaches who continue to oppose resource control and insist on one nigeria because without being a parasite on crude oil you cannot survive.

You dirty cockroaches caused the whole problems in nigeria that derailed the nation. So shup-up and go to sleep. Ugly and dirty yoruba cockroach. Dont forget to take a bath.

nsiadi: its difficult to say if illiteracy that prevented gowon from imbibing d spirit of Aburi has left him. Its not enuf for him to shed crocodile tears. He shd openly confess his sins or die with those sins. I hope the misfit suffers more b4 joining his ancestors

igbo boy: [size=16pt]Na wa o my fellow igbos is the name ojukwu more powerful than Amadioha, Anayanwu, even more powerful than ogbanje, dibias?

I am asking because the name ojukwu have been giving Yoruba people (the olodo-wa stocks) some serious sleepless nights in NL....

Na wa o..Ojukwu for your mind o, only u dey create fear fear for olodo-wa peoples mind. Imagine wetin amadioha coultn't do OJUKWU did..

Igbo Kwenu, Kwenu, Kwenu, KWEZUONU...





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T9ksy:


Which ojukwu are you referring to? Are you perchance talking about the same ojukwu whom, a yoruba general sent

packing out of his little hut in fear, that he has to dress like a transvestite with all his full grown beard (as he was in such a

hurry) in the middle of the night?

Yeah right, ojukwu's name is giving yorubas, sleepless nights. Whatever makes you sleep better at nighttime.

Kanto: These dirty and ugly yoruba cockroaches introduced the vices and wahala that ruined the nation from the first republic. together with the hausa they make-up 90% of the federal looters wrecking the nation. Except they are gassed to eternity the nation can never make progress.

gabychuks: I can't but help recognize the fact that another term for COWARDICE is YORUBA. With the wild-wild-west u rended the country ungovernable and thereby led to the military intervention by some brave and intelligent soldiers (including yoruba officer that have been thought proper thinking by the Easterners among them) the same Yoruba cowardice that always pride themselves as d most respectful tribe, a young Officer in d person of DIM Ojukwu went to Awolowo as an elderstatman, only for the old fool to assure him of his total support and also to pull out and create an Odudua Republic if need be. For him to now play out his Cowardice to turn his back against the same person that he has promised and be the Brain behind Gowon and his cohorts. Its just a pity that up till today an average Yoruba man still remains a COWARD