Ndigbo writers in some mass circulation papers in Nigeria make monumental mistakes when it comes to the national question. They talk about igbo pogrom of 1966 as if it was an isolated case. Were the Northern political and military leaders including some in the West not wiped out on Jan 15 1966 night of fury in which the mastermind were the Southeast officers? President Azikwe, we were told, was out of the country on medical consultation, Osadebe was left undisturbed in Benin while Dr Okpara was left to entertain the visiting Archbishp Makarious of Cyprus at Enugu
Now as in mathematics so also is in real life phenomena that to each action is a reaction. Naturally, a reaction can be much more or much less than the action unlike in the realm of mathematics where they are equal and opposite! Now they teach their children that they had been cheated, humiliated, maimed and annihilated by the ensuing genocide without properly balancing the education
(I) They never write on how much effort and concession were invested not to make the East declare seccession.
(ii) They never acknowledge that a second opinion or an alternative option was never allowed to germinate in the Eastern Region of pre-May 1967?
(iii) The killers of Sardauna ,Balewa, Akintola et al were never put on trial?
(iv)They never publicise the ill-fated 1966 decree 34 of Gen Aguiyi Ironsi that put a death knell on federalism in one fell swoop? The plan had been to install Col Ojukwu as Governor of Northern Nigeria and rotate the others
There had been no consultation prior to the promulgation of the ill-fated Decree 34 and the impression was that the East was about to take over Nigeria. This was the main genesis of the regrettable progrom
Mr Nwazurike, the now celebrated leader of MASSOB, from Onuimo, Imo State, was only seven(7) years old when the civil war ended in Jan 1970. He even aspired to become Eze Gburugburu after Ojukwu's demise
During the 2006 National census when many igbo youths failed to register, claiming to be Biafrans, nobody cautioned or counselled them. At the end the count South East was the least populated of the six zones which makes additional 6th State on request to be arithmetically untenable.
Only Ndigbo can explain why they allowed political contractors to take over the whole of South East in 2014/2015 and demystified forever the acclaimed republican status of the Ndigbo by voting Ebele en mass against all rules of elementary logic. They have now succeeded in raising legions of strait-jacket hate writers and commentators on virtually all national issues. They see all issues from the warped prism of Biafra. The critical question is whether Nigeria needs Ndigbo more than Ndigbo needs Nigeria? The answer obviously tilts to the latter. There is no amount of solidarity of block voting pattern that can endear the south-south to favour any permanent alliance to south-east in preference to Nigeria. There is an over riding need for more soul searching in the South East. JetawoGS

My people my people, how low have we sunk. We need to unite in order to assert our dominance in the scheme of things once more. Long live igbos, one love..

Igbo must leave the Zoo

Igbo must understand that they can not gain anything in spreading hated words in order to archive certain agenda .The issue of marginalisation could be solve without violent. They just need to see themselves as Nigeria with their whole heart .

Who made the OP an expert in Biafra affairs. Most of your opinion are speculative and not from facts. The Decree 34 where you hinged your argument is still in place today. We are still operating unitary government with the powers concentrated at the center. Why should all the states queue every month to share resources not generated in their regions. Col D S Abubakar was governor in Anambra State. Anthony Onyearugbulem was governor of Ondo State. Buba Marwa was governor of Lagos State. Is that not decree 34 in operation. After the war, the federal government gave every Igbo twenty pounds irrespective of how much they had in the account. Same government banned the importation of second hand clothing. Not long afterward, same federal government promulgated the indigenization decree. Did you expect the Igbo to buy into the plum conglomerates with twenty pounds. I'm against the present day noise and method of pursuit for self determination but I fully support devolution of powers and resource control. There can be something akin to United States pattern in Nigeria.

1966 coup was never an Ibo coup.. Below are the names of the coup plotters..

1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu(Delta Igbo)
2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba) author of "Why we struck"
3. Capt. G. Adeleke(Yoruba)
4. Maj. Ifeajuna(Igbo)
5. Lt. Fola Oyewole(Yoruba) author of "The reluctant rebel"
6. Lt. R. Egbiko(Esean)
7. Lt. Tijani Katsina(Hausa/ Fulani)
8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan(Yoruba)
9. Capt. Gibson Jalo(Bali)
10. Capt. Swanton(Middle Belt)
11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Urhobo)
12. Lt. Dag Warribor(Ijaw)
13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Hausa)
14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Tiv).

Looking at the above list... tell me how did 1966 coup become an ibo planned coup? That an ibo politician wasn't killed doesn't make it an ibo coup.