all4naija: My take on this issue is that Prof. Chinua Achebe must be suffering from brain problem without knowing it. The fact that he keeps inciting hate and division among Nigerians as an aged man proves just that right. I would advise he goes on a medical checkup for brain problems.

Ngodigha:
While you require not only brain check up but eye, nose, throat, upper limb and lower limb, artery, vein, abdomen, lumber, bladder and gastric check ups, fool.

all4naija: Your overrated Igbo warlord will never stopped deceiving some of you brain-dead youths. Keep walloping in your ignorance and praise your warlord for trying to call you into another hunger war game. DIMWIT!

all4naija: As regard the memoir which people are taking on the ground of reality!

nku5:


How on earth am I supposed to pick anything from Osuji when he rambles endlessly wiithout "connecting any dots". For example see the following excerpt where he tries to fault Achebe's assertion that nigeria's 1st Republic was corrupt -

Achebe talked about the events that led to the war as if Igbo’s were always right and other Nigerians always wrong. For example, corruption is endemic in Nigeria . Achebe gave the impression that this disease of Nigerians did not affect his Igbos. All we need to do if we are interested in actual history is examine the behavior of actual Igbos to see if they, too, were corrupt.

Igbos did not have chiefs and kings; Igbos were a stateless people. Frederick Lugard, the Briton who clubbed Nigerian tribes together in 1914, decided to appoint what he called warrant chiefs in those parts of Nigeria that did not have chiefs. He wanted to rule the country through what he called indirect rule: ruling the people through their chiefs and that way save on administrative cost of running such a huge country, a country about four times the size of England.

Lugard appointed warrant chiefs in Alaigbo. In each Igbo town he appointed a chief and thereafter established what he called Native Authorities where the various chiefs in a district came together to solve their mutual problems. The chiefs acted as courts adjudicating on the people’s customary issues. (Lugard appointed white district officers who had the authority to over rule what the African chiefs did.)

Igbo warrant chiefs were probably the most corrupt set of human beings that have walked this earth! They gave themselves access to many wives, including Being Intimate with the wives of men who brought their issues to their courts. They did nothing for the people without taking bribes from them.

The point here is that right from the beginning of the British era in Nigeria , Igbos showed that they were as corrupt as other Nigerians. When Igbos were brought into the Nigerian civil services, like other Nigerians they personalized their offices and took bribes before they hired people or promoted them or provided any service to the public.

One is not saying that Igbos were particularly egregious in this bribery taking matter; one is just saying that Igbos were as culprit as other Nigerians in the issue"


If YOU will be objective you will notice that he tried to infer that igbos were corrupt like everybody else. While not trying to say igbos are all saints, Osuji hopped like a drunk bull frog from history about warrant chiefs in 1914 to buttress an unconnected point. He writes with flair and confidence in ways that thrill and tickle his like minds and no one else. People I have noticed DON'T READ for themselves but jump on the bandwagon. Bigotry it seems diminishes intelligence and kills even the minimal required attention span

shymexx: Achebe-ism = narcissism and propagandism...

Ozodi Thomas Osuji is an inspiration and a critical thinker, time to be the Yoruba equivalent of this great man...

tomakint:
Ngodigha abeg free that 'babalawo' even if dem reach 1 million 'highly tribalistic Yorubas' they can't cow me ! People like him bring shame to the revered 'Yoruba Race' always gloating over what they know little or nothing about. He keeps shouting 'give me source' and d moment you supply one, his grit-filled brain can't interprete d info before him.Avoid goons like that!

tomakint:
Ngodigha abeg free that 'babalawo' even if dem reach 1 million 'highly tribalistic Yorubas' they can't cow me ! People like him bring shame to the revered 'Yoruba Race' always gloating over what they know little or nothing about. He keeps shouting 'give me source' and d moment you supply one, his grit-filled brain can't interprete d info before him.Avoid goons like that!

Ngodigha:
Shut up your dirty mouth, idiott. You think every yoruba is as bigoted as you, fool.

M-16:

gloat gloat
who let the pig's out ? who let the pig's out ? ,HOW many pig's your fada got through your moda , I know your fada have many piggy concubine wives don't he ?, your too many step mama don't like you do they? Don't you hate igbo man, did you ? why did you still want igbo's in the same country with you if they are bad people ,you will live in night mare all the days of your life ,until you psychologically and emotionally leave igbo's alone you bad belle bastard yorubadbelly YORUBADBELLE ; YORUBADBELLE IGBO HATER

inufele2:

You're a cretin! I gave you a serious reply on page 12 and I thought we can have a healthy debate but you disappear only to team up with your flat headed relatives to spew rubbish.
It's obvious you have banged your head either as an adult or as a child otherwise how would a grown up adult not know which tribe and lineage he belongs to?
Several times you've be shouting on many threads that you're Yoruba and your lies have been exposed on several threads to proof that you're a flat headed Igbo. If you are normal why will you keep shouting you're what you aren't? What about so many unprintable posts you've made against Yorubas or are you the Yoruba version of Osuji Thomas Ozuji?
Let me give you a pice of advise go and watch Jackie Chan's movie 'Who am I?' You might get some tips there on how to identify your real self. Omo ale jatijati

inufele2:

Dude on a serious note lets try and be reasonable for once, there was a genocide which is highly regrettable but trying to place the blame solely on Awolowo, Gowon and labelling Yorubas as cowards while placing no blame on the Biafran leaders is not only one sided but insensitive and dangerous for the future generations.

Therefore I will subscribe to aribisalas post below

inufele2:

Page 11 tomakint
I'll soon dig out your anti Yoruba posts once I get the time- if you don't edit them before then

inufele2: Why won't some people stop claiming they are Yoruba when it's obvious they are not!
Esu laalu ogiri oko
Abaniwonran ba o ri da
O ba elekun sunkun k'eru o ba elekun
Elekun n sunkun lanroye n sun eje
Wa lo sile gbogbo awon omo ale yi ki o se won bi ose se n soju.

inufele2:

Page 11 tomakint
I'll soon dig out your anti Yoruba posts once I get the time- if you don't edit them before then

okunoba:
The elder statesman concluded that owing to Ojukwu’s attitude, Biafra failed. He said that the failure was mainly a “political one,” which, according to him, “was, in turn, the failure of the leadership, which firstly, made a wrong tactical choice – outright secession – instead of maneouvring appropriately for vital political alliances within Nigeria and exploiting in that context the numerous weaknesses of its opponents.” He said that by breaking out of the country, “the Biafran leadership abandoned the Nigerian field to those who had then only recently wrenched federal control from the Ironsi government, thus uniting various shades of political opinions in the country behind the new federal authorities, as had never been the case before in Nigeria’s political history, in defence of Nigerian unity.”

http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/paperfrmes.html

*Owen*:


Which is what it is, a memoir! His own personal account of events that occured at that time, as it affected him!! Did Chinua at any point state that all he'd written in the book was all that happened? If any other person had personal experience of what happened during the war, let them go ahead and write their own memoir for Gees sake! Why does Ozodi find it easier to gain popularity attacking people's work other than aiming to come up with his own literary piece that could earn him international applause? Ofcourse he wouldn't do that, as he already considers himself a failure in every aspect of his life.

tomakint:
You make me laugh with ur adultrated sarcasm is it nothing 2 u that Gowon was willin to secede when he returned from Aburi b4 he was convinced by Allison Ayida-led Civil service? What do u now make out from the 'unity' Gowon was pretending to give?

okunoba:
Ojukwu Made Biafra Fail? by naijaking1: 4:06am On Oct 24, 2009
[size=14pt[b]]Raph Uwachue is not just another Igboman who doesn't know what he's saying, the former ambassador is even the President of Ohaneze Ndigbo[/b][/size]. His latest comment about the unsuccessful Biafran attempt to seperate from Nigeria, and Ojukwu's role are surely going to add a new dimension for historians of that era. All said and done, nobody should be surprised that Igbo leaders do challange each other, because at the end of the day, Igbo ama eze


Uwechue’s bomb on Biafra
• The making of sensational civil war revelation
By ONUOHA UKEH
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Elder statesman and President-General of the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Chief Raph Uwechue, has sensationally revealed, in a book, how ego and quest for absolute control by Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu ruined Biafra.

He said, in the book, Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War – Facing the Future, that Ojukwu adopted a maximum ruler posture, shunned advice as well as believed in his won judgment, factor, which he said, caused the failure of the break away of the Eastern Nigeria.

He said: [size=14pt]“By keeping Ojukwu constantly enveloped in an atmosphere of superiority, it made him, as a matter of habit, distrustful and disdainful of other people’s judgment, impatient with their opinions and finally simply authoritarian[/size].”

Uwechue had visited the corporate headquarters of The Sun sometime ago and while fielding questions from a team of senior editors, he spoke about pre-independence Nigeria, the politics after independence, civil war and the country after the war. He had promised to send to The Sun copies of his book: Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War – Facing the Future, a revised and expanded edition of his previous book, Reflection on the Nigerian Civil War – A Call for Realism. The book was reprinted in 2004. True to his promise, the elder statesman sent copies of the book, which turned out to be expository.

Indeed, the 199-page book told the story of the first military coup in the country, the second military coup, the crisis after the second coup, the meetings to forestall a war, the secession of the eastern part of the country and the efforts to end the war. The book also has two epilogues, where the author analysed the fall of Biafra, in the topic: The Genesis of Failure and also there is the examination of government structure, in the topic: An Elastic Federal Union.

Reading Chief Uwechue’s book, we found The Genesis of Failure very interesting and, therefore, decided to reproduce it. The chapter talked about the things, in the author’s opinion, caused the failure of the Biafra Republic. He pointedly laid the blamed on Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who led Biafra. He said that Ojukwu lacked tact, never took advice, suffered what could pass for inferiority complex and was power drunk. In the opening paragraph of that chapter, Uwechue said: “It is a sad but instructive irony that [size=14pt]Lt. Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, one of Africa’s one-time most brilliant political promises, was the man that led his own people with such a lack of ingenuity into what was clearly a foreseeable disaster.[/size]” He said that the personality of Ojukwu robbed off negatively on Biafra, adding: “It can be said for the Nigerian Civil War that the personality of Odumegwu Ojukwu more than any other single factor determined much of the course and certainly the character of the end of the Biafran adventure.”

[size=14pt]The elder statesman said, in the book, that Ojukwu was ambitious and, therefore, paid attention only to the “politics of the war” instead of the security of the people he led. He said that owing to Ojukwu’s interest, two wars were fought with the territory of Biafra then: “The first was for the survival of the Ibos as a race. The second was for the survival of Ojukwu’s leadership.” He said that Ojukwu was more interested in the survival of his leadership at that time, which, he said: “Proved fatal for the Ibos” during the war.[/size]

The Ohanaeze chieftain said that if Ojukwu were smart enough to understand the politics of alliances in the country, Biafra could have survived. According to him, there was an opportunity for Ojukwu to align with the Western Region then, but he did not see the necessity for that. [size=14pt]He said that this opportunity came when the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was released from prison by General Yakubu Gowon[/size] and he declared: If “the Eastern Region was pushed out of the federation, Western Nigeria would quit the federation as well.” According to him, Ojukwu should have taken that declaration as a cue and wooed the Western Region.

Uwechue said that another opportunity also came the way of Ojukwu to forge an East-West alliance when Awolowo visited Enugu, as Gowon’s emissary. According to him, what Ojukwu needed was to bring Awolowo to his side, but he did not utilize the opportunity and ended up describing the meeting as “ill-conceived child.”
He had revealed: “When on 7th May 1967 the Yoruba leader (Awolowo) came to Enugu at the head of a reconciliation committee, Ojukwu had a handsome opportunity to play his card. He missed. [size=14pt]Dr. Michael Okpara, who still enjoyed popular support in Eastern Nigeria and whose friendship with Chief Awolowo had sustained the UPGA alliances, was not even invited to meet Chief Awolowo. After a hurried reception, Chief Awolowo’s delegation left Eastern Nigeria.[/size]”

[size=14pt]He said that Gowon, understanding the way alliances worked in the country, had wooed Western Nigeria, first by releasing Awolowo from prison[/size] and second, by not only offering him an appointment, but also making him the highest civilian in the government as the vice president of the Federal Executive Council. According to him, by this appointment, there was an “unspoken understanding that Nigeria was his (Awolowo’s) as soon as the war was over and the army withdrew.” He said that this cemented the relation between the Northern Region and Western Region and, therefore, left the east in the lurch.

Uwechue said that within Biafra, Ojukwu alienated talented Igbo, using iron hand to establish his authority. Towards this end, he said that Dr. Okpara, former premier of Eastern Nigeria, was jailed as well as others. “These political figures were to remain out of favour and far from the corridor of power, except for their occasional utility as window dressing, such as posing for photographs with General Ojukwu or flanking him on ceremonial occasions,” he wrote.

[size=14pt]He said that the same thing happened in the army, as Ojukwu suppressed officers and, therefore, had a “timid army tamed to unquestionable obedience.[/size]”

The elder statesman said that Ojukwu had the opportunity of using the diplomatic front to sell Biafra, [size=14pt]but that instead of doing this he shunned advice, especially on the need for compromise. He said that when the war dragged, many eminent Igbo advised Ojukwu to asked for a confederal nation, which would keep Biafra within Nigeria and also give it adequate local autonomy, but this was not only rejected but also those who suggested it were witch-hunted.[/size]

He said: “The climax came on 7th of September 1968, just before the OAU summit meeting in Algiers. A number of anxious Ibos, including Dr. Azikiwe, former president of Nigeria, Dr. Michael Okpara, former premier of Eastern Nigeria (Biafra), Dr. K. O. Dike, former rector of Ibadan University and myself made a formal recommendation in which we told General Ojukwu that as Africa was sympathetic to the Ibo cause, but at the same time opposed to secession, [size=14pt]he should use the opportunity of the Algiers meeting to seek OAU guarantee for a confederal arrangement, such as was agreed at Aburi (Ghana). General Ojukwu not only rejected this advice outright but also asked some of us to recant or resign. Dr. Azikiwe left Paris in disgust and went to London in voluntary exile. I myself chose to resign.”
[/size]
Uwechue said that Ojukwu saw himself as a supremo during the war and only trusted his own judgment. In trying to explain why this could have been so, he said: “To this special development of his ego and the feeling of self-sufficiency was added the confidence acquired from an Oxford University milieu and from the fact of his father’s great wealth. Back to Nigeria, Ojukwu soon joined the army, where, as an officer, he got more accustomed to giving orders and receiving prompt obedience than meeting opposition and arguments.” He said that Ojukwu found himself always at the “giving end” rather than at the “receiving end,” adding: “By keeping Ojukwu constantly enveloped in an atmosphere of superiority, it made him, as a matter of habit, distrustful and disdainful of other people’s judgment, impatient with their opinions and finally simply authoritarian.”

The elder statesman concluded that owing to Ojukwu’s attitude, Biafra failed. [size=14pt]He said that the failure was mainly a “political one,” which, according to him, “was, in turn, the failure of the leadership, which firstly, made a wrong tactical choice – outright secession – instead of maneouvring appropriately for vital political alliances within Nigeria and exploiting in that context the numerous weaknesses of its opponents.[/size]” He said that by breaking out of the country, “the Biafran leadership abandoned the Nigerian field to those who had then only recently wrenched federal control from the Ironsi government, thus uniting various shades of political opinions in the country behind the new federal authorities, as had never been the case before in Nigeria’s political history, in defence of Nigerian unity.”

http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/paperfrmes.html

all4naija: We are saying the memoir is fictitious and is meant to divide the people while he fails to explain to people his warlord role in recruiting child soldiers. Whatever, stop exonerating your old troublemaker writer of his error here.

Ngodigha:
Except Fela, Soyinka, Tomakint, Gbawe and Gani Fahweimi and Okunoba and Olabukola.

Dede1:


As my Igbo ancestral straits would I allow me to say, Lt Col. Ayo Ariyo, Wole Soyinka and Ijabu Ode cocoa farmers assoc\Agbakoya are the greatest Yoruba person(s) that have ever walked the surface of earth.

From the above list, the only characters worthy of such compliment are Soyinka and Tomakint.

ilugunboy: Soon Chief Ralph Nnwuche mother will be Yoruba...

T9ksy: That my dear "Prof", is your da.mn bigoted opinion but fortunately no yoruba "shoin of the shoil" gives a rat's ar.se for them so you

know what you can do with it.

inufele2:

You're a cretin! I gave you a serious reply on page 12 and I thought we can have a healthy debate but you disappear only to team up with your flat headed relatives to spew rubbish.
It's obvious you have banged your head either as an adult or as a child otherwise how would a grown up adult not know which tribe and lineage he belongs to?
Several times you've be shouting on many threads that you're Yoruba and your lies have been exposed on several threads to proof that you're a flat headed Igbo. If you are normal why will you keep shouting you're what you aren't? What about so many unprintable posts you've made against Yorubas or are you the Yoruba version of Osuji Thomas Ozuji?
Let me give you a pice of advise go and watch Jackie Chan's movie 'Who am I?' You might get some tips there on how to identify your real self. Omo ale jatijati