Igboid:
Exactly! Zik and his ibo people opted to concede power to the North to retain them in their dubious Nigeria agenda. The same north that have been killing ibos in their own region since the 40’s. One then wonders why Zik and his people were so keen to have the north who openly expresses their hatred for them in the same union? Zik and his people were so desperate for One Nigeria and equally unequivocal in their desire to have the north who despised them in the union

By conceding power, Zik showed genuine interest in Nigerian unity and not a desire to Lord it over others.

This is in direct variance to those who scream "one Nigeria" while refusing to relinquish power as a means of making the one Nigeria agenda an attractive option for those who scream " self determination".

It underlies the treachery behind the agenda of those who hoard power together and yet desire unity with those they seek to rule over.

The North has been killing Yorubas way before the coming of the colonials. Yoruba blood flowed during Fulani conquest of Ilorin, and continues to flow whenever there is riots up North, as the North consider Yoruba Muslims as inferiors and their Christians same as any other Nigerian Christian.
Why then was Yorubaland eager to render herself as launch pad to the North invasion of Biafra?

OmoAjowa7:
Bobo yi ti ya were de bi wipe ara re lo tun ba soro

Ataaro lo ti wa n bi bayi ooo. L'emi re, ajagun yi.bo ni ooo

Alainikonse...Atoole....Aburo Ojuku..

Poweredbreww:


The boy na same person as pazienza. He promised to leave nairaland cos they ban there Biafra shit, the mofo quickly registered a new handle to continue his foolishness. Na result of being jobless be dat. Lol

OmoAjowa7:


I know nah. For mutombo mind, he's the best thing to happen to shitgboland since hoe.dumegoo
Oooohjukoom

Noticed how he replied with the "cool" emoticon when his fellow yoghurt boy hailed him

Poweredbreww:


Lmaoo. The weyre get time to repost same crap everywhere. Na so so mouth den get, he was boasting that nairaland will crumble when they all leave cos of there biashit, he deceived other flat head to leave and the weyre quickly register a new handle. Just like Dilector that told them to use biashit passport but he dey use UK/Naija passport. Gullible souls

SaffronSpice:


1.Your points are indistinct.
There was nothing like divisions in the Nigeria Army before the civil war. When did Yoruba claimed not to be a part of Nigeria?
Get this - what I mean by neutral is,Yorubas officers were not responsible for the coup(except for Adewale Ademoyega); although some Yoruba men were killed,Yorubas didn't join in the pogrom that followed.Those two incidents that Yorubas were unconnected to gave birth to the civil war,so why should they be roped into the squally sh!tstorm that followed.

Diademk07:


You're speaking trash man!

Were you also chasing the enemy from the midwest while you destroyed and pilage Bini lands, killing and raping the Auchi brethren as well as appointing your kinsman, Okoro to govern them?

Did you expect us to lay low and allow you to have access through our land after all your stupid and greedy exploits in our neighbouring region?

You're an eediot and a clown!

Igboid:

1. Even a regional government would require an over all head.
2. The North would want to impose her own handpicked rulers on Yorubas, after all this was what happened between the Northern backed Akintola faction and Awolowo.
3.An Arewa-Odua country would have meant that the North would rule the New country permanently on the basis of population,and any resistance on the part of Oduans to this would have led a brutal military action against Odualand.
4.There was no Niger Delta in the Eastern region. What we had was provinces. Igbo only provinces and Non Igbo provinces with Igbo admixtures.
5.The East refused to be balkanized, because the centripetal forces in the region was greater than the centrifugal forces. The opposite of this was true for the Western region. The minorities political and their traditional rulers were unequivocal in their demand to leave the Western region,the political will was there, this wasn't same in the East.

Igboid:

1.starvation gets to children faster than adults. This is no rocket science. They. were unable to fend for themselves, and hence depended on adults who were already starving themselves , the crumbs they were getting were simply not enough. Children are more prone to PEM than adults.

2.The food were actually poisoned by Nigerians:
"A report by a team of experts (chemist, microbiologist, pharmacist, micro-chemical analyst, and expert in forensic medicine) led by a United State Senator, Charles Goodell who visited Biafra and examined samples of food, confirmed that food items, especially salt, powdered and evaporated milk smuggled into Biafra by Nigeria, were poisoned with arsenic and cyanide (US congressional Record, 1969, P.4374".
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/2/25/who-cares-about-biafra-anyway-pithis/
Biafrans were well capable of providing their own food by buying from
Outside and from relief agencies. But with Nigeria's extermination intent unhidden, it would have been plain stupid for Biafrans to accept food touched by Nigerians. 3.We wanted our food coming direct from relief agencies not having contact with people with genocidal
demonic intent as championed by Enahoro and Awolowo.

Develpeast:

using your own school of thought:
1.The Yoruba's were not part of the war. Adekunle and Obasanjo were Hausas?
2.Who gave gowon the idea of stopping food supply to the east?
who was the highest ranking officer in gowon's cabinet?
3.where did all the armour came in?
Don't give me that trash saying that yorubas were part of Nigeria and couldn't do a thing about it. Easterners were part of Nigeria when Ironsi was allowed to be bundled by the northern soldiers in Fajuyis house. Since we were all part of Nigeria, why didn't they fight to stop their head of state from been bundled?
I don't engage in this kind of arguments but do not raise wet points again

OmoAjowa7:

Bobo yi ti ya were de bi wipe ara re lo tun ba soro

omoajowa7 post=:


Ataaro lo ti wa n bi bayi ooo. L'emi re, ajagun yi.bo ni ooo

Justiceleague1:
iwò nkò,ta ni e ba sòró? Iwò atì taní wa nibi?

OmoAjowa7:


Wow! and you tried with your Yoruba ooo. Quite impressed. Seriously

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Justiceleague1:


ehen,so u nø know say i belong,u nø know say i be benin boy?.....now gettout lolsss

OmoAjowa7:



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Laaaaaaaaaaaaal....e say na benin

Be proud of your red cap and your wrapper...Omo Ebonyi

There is nothing wrong in being chitgbo...chitgbos are successful people

Justiceleague1:


omoajowa7,lets be serious for once,we all know this place is full of impostors like that biafrau.d heel and ur best friend ooooni but i can never in my life deny my tribe or where i come from. I am from oredo/esan north east LGAs Edo state. I had all my education there and in lagos. I am not that shekurekure u associate with me here....come on,man,why would i claim another state..God forbid,stop it otherwise u would be lying against me b4 God.. I am in support of ipob cos of the ideologies of economic and social emancipation and freedom they stand for. I have long rejected this kind of nigeria where i will have to go to abuja every month ending,cap in hand,knees knocking begging for what belongs to me..where abuja will have to determine my destiny for me..tufiakwa.. U are afonja (no pun o ) and i know u guys so much desire same.....buh anyways,u can continue with ua chitgbo dance...and that shukure kinikon...na ua headache o.. Now,again,lo n behold... gedda4q

OmoAjowa7:


Eheeeen so you had your education in Lagos and you still hate Yoruba.



Nothing spoil tho Your type plenty

SaffronSpice:

1." Before the war Biafra was not only self-sufficient in food production, but the area exported some items to the rest of Nigeria. Proteins, however, have always been a problem, with 80 per cent coming from northern Nigeria and Europe".
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/2/25/who-cares-about-biafra-anyway-pithis/

2.The poisoned food were not gotten from the Nigerian Gov.;they were smuggled into Biafra.
Here:"The smuggling of food from Nige- rian-held territory into Biafra has been discouraged severely by both armies. Only a trickle of food reaches Biafra from this route anyway, but some of the smuggled food was found to contain poisonous ingredients. Deliberate poisoning of food supplies was suspected first in 1967 when several deaths were thought to be caused by toxic foods. Of 1487 samples of salt--the principal item being smuggled in--which were tested by Biafrans during the last part of 1968, 20 samples contained toxic quantities of arsenic and 50 contained cyanide."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/2/25/who-cares-about-biafra-anyway-pithis/.

3.Neutral observers were present.

SaffronSpice:

1.With the East out of the pic., the rotation of power btw the North & West would have been easy.
2.It would have been met with stiff resistance like what happened after the example you gave.
3.You can't say with oracular precision what would have happened in the aftermath.
We can only post what's in line with our different stances.
Any form of military action on any of the remaining regions after a part of the country seceded would have toppled what's left of Nigeria.
4.I meant the geographical region called Niger Delta.You mean there was nothing like that?
5.The will was there in the East too.The MidWest agitators only took advantage of the division in the West btw Awolowo & Akintola.A plebiscite was held in the MidWest.Why wasn't a plebiscite held in the East for the minorities to choose for themselves even though the NCNC supported the creation of the MidWest?
This means they were muzzled.The demand was for a COR state and not Calabar.

SaffronSpice:

I'll be brief.
Call my attention to anything you perceive to be a lie.

1.Ademoyega acted on his own.He did not rep. Yoruba.
Mention any of the coupists who indicted Western officers,those they fingered,where & when they agreed to stage a coup with them and not all these turncoats who fought with the Biafran Army the other guy posted.Am expecting it.

2Consolatory blame game.What led to the first coup was the 1965-1966 electoral crises btw the NNA and the UPGA after the latter decided to boycott the elections.
Mind you, the UPGA comprised NCNC and a weak AG(because Awo was in prison).You know the majority in the NCNC.The timeline underpins this point since the first coup took place in 1966.

3.Boro was and remains an hero whether he was an elected official or not is beside the mark.He spoke for the people.I mentioned him because unlike Ojukwu he saw the need for secession not after a counter coup and pogrom.
Did Ojukwu mention Biafra after the coup was successful?When Ironsi promulgated the infamous Decree 34?
But after the counter coup and pogrom,he realised he was in a forced marriage with Nigeria,no?
Not all the ethnicities in the East wanted to be a part of Biafra,neither am I of the Illusion that they enjoy being in Nigeria.

Igboid:

1.Who deliberately poisoned the food being smuggled in from Nigeria to Biafra to discourage food getting into Biafra in order to ensure their starvation policy succeeded haven blockaded the region?
They were deliberately poisoned by Nigerians to discourage smuggling.
2.Biafra was not getting its protein from the North and Europe free of charge before the war, she was importing them with her money, and should the North had refused to sell, without the blockade, she could easily import from Cameroun, Europe and anyother part of the World.