edlion57:
Na them.....' armed with pen ' don't be surprised der might don even use the money do party...owambe

viceldo:


please drop this ideology......meant know harm

1freshdude:


My name is 1freshdude, I'm not fresh and I'm a certified mo.ron

pchukwudi:
Could you just read your bolded conclusion again and tell me how it makes sense in the context of your own narrative?

If Zik could not stop Biafra, what sort of dull historians could think that the man who could not stop his own son from joining the army when he was barely a man, could suddenly stop him from doing one thing the vast majority of his people had mandated him to do within the context of 1967?

Until you realize that 1967 Biafra declaration was more of an ideological reaction than a premeditated choice prior to 1967, you'd keep missing the point.

The structure of today's Nigeria (which, by the way, was implemented shortly before the war in order to subjugate the old Easterners) is a world apart from what it was in 1967 - just 7 years after independence. So quit interpreting the actions/reactions of 1967 from the lenses of 2017.

It does not make sense.

obiezed:

Lol,I didn't mention all this because it was impertinent to the discussion, not cos I don't know it,
No matter what is said,you would see as a proud man,but you never met the man,I did way before his death,he was confident in his abilities yes,but proud or arrogance is not a word to describe DIM,intact he was a happy go lucky type of individual who loved a good laugh,even with someone who was young enough to be his son.

obiezed:
You may choose to see pride, others might see courage and confidence,
BTW,the Aburi videos actually prove that they were not intellectual equals not by a long shot,
Also, if he was ''proud'' as you say,he would not have joined the army as an ordinary recruit after having obtained his Masters from Oxford.that is not the attitude of pride but of selfless service.I dare you to try it and have secondary school dropouts telling you to frog jump and sit on your head,I doubt with your humility,you would last one week,yet he pulled thru to become the first indigenous Quartermaster general of the Nigerian Army.that takes character and discipline

modik:


Crying louder and more bitter than the bereaved is never a befitting approach to your monologue.

How to go about it is in every lips. Both the high and the downtrodden.

1. Restructuring of the country or

2. Referendum for the people to decide their own fate.

We can't, and in all fairness, nobody can live in the past.

So spare your needless advise for now and watch as nature takes its course. You can defy this advise only if you have the power to stop the Rising of the Sun tomorrow morning!

Goodnight.

donborg:
killing and chasing a group of people from your land is not d same thing as invading a group of peoples land and killing them in their own land. d legitimacy that gowon needed to invade and kill in our land was if ojukwu should stupidly break d law by seceeding (which is an act of war). hassan katsina actually dared him to seceed at aburi and he foolishly obliged because he is a warmonger

pchukwudi:
No authority has the legitimacy to deprive indegineous people the righr to self determination. No law under the sun is superior to the need for preservation of lives (even if it means bearing arms to preserve those lives).

If you cannot understand those two points, then keep on fanning the embers of anarchy.

modik:


Is marriage by force?

pchukwudi:
You are lying.

Ojukwu did not declare the civil war. Gowon did. Ojukwu merely declared the independent state of Biafra - and the West was NOT part of the terriotry.

The Biafran army that moved towards Lagos was led by a Yoruba man, and Ojukwu's aim was to liberate the West from nothern domination. He thought you guys would stand up for yourselves in the West the way he was doing in the East. But obviously he over-estimated your folks.

EastGold:
This shortingo dey do best man