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Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by ItzChinnex(m): 3:00pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
SirToby: Your English is as confused as buhari. |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by naijaking1: 3:01pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
Chemcrown: This where you have to reason deeper instead of taking things at face value. They knew Awo's potential, they also knew his ambitions and the plans by the Ojukwu group. What a better way than to mix up the 2, get what you want, give Awo what h e wanted-even temporarily, and then declare victory. So, they "releasesd" Awo, absorbed him into their cabinet, and promised to hand over to him in 3 years, after the violent post war condition of the country is better stabilized for a civilian---that's the lie lie they told him. Then, after 3 years, they will "unconditionally hand over power to him! If that had happened, Awo would have been president in 1973! But you know Awo was never president. 1973 came, and went, Gowon, and his group, invented many reasons why they could not hand over to Awo, it was postponed to the following year. The following year came and went too, and then you know what happened. Awo left the cabinet in frustration, because then he knew cleared that there was no plan to hand over to him. 1975, the real Fulani mafia pushed out their hitherto moderate, but obstructing middle belt clan, and finally clinched power with Murtala Mohammed in power. Now, compared to what Ojukwu, Ironsi, and Fajuyi had planned. Awo would have been president from 1968 if the Fulani mafia had not somehow managed to change to focus from corruption, inaptitude, and tribalism to singling out Igbos as the devil that had befallen Nigeria. Awo will never be president of Nigeria again, never, but we can at least read history correctly. 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by dederocs(m): 3:17pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
I salute you Sir... Great Comrade of Truth and Conscience, may your soul rest on, in Peace. 1 Like |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by GreenCap: 4:28pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
Caseless: greater than 6 (Zik, Bello, Belewa, Okpara, Osadebe and Akintola combined) just 1 man gave these godfathers sleepless nights. they were luring him to join them but he beat them all and they jailed him because they dare not kill him. i prostrate for Awolowo. had Britain not caged him, the likes of Nkrumah and Lumumba may not fit in his shoes. 5 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by selemempe: 5:30pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
GreenCap:awo was a clannish coupist he died of rat poisoning bro...ask osinbajo |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by T9ksy(m): 7:41pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
Chemcrown: fight another day, ke? The cantankerous orangutan-look alike came back to lick the ar..ses of the same people he claimed wanted to wipe his people off the face of the earth. The same people he vowed to only "deal with on the battlefield". 1 Like |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by LBanks(m): 8:45pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
T9ksy: Did your coward Awolowo even have the guts to ginger you guys to mutiny? Even though he didn't like the one Nigeria in the first place he quickly chickened away when he got the opportunity to break free presented to him. Or your coward Ogundipe who ran away even when nobody was pursuing him yet. Oh I forgot, you will quickly give me another excuse that Awolowo was not a military man, weren't there Yoruba military officers as at then? The North alone had more officers in the military than the East as at then, but we were still able to hold the Nigerian military which included both core north, north central and south west for three years and you who chickened out of the fight for the independence your forefather Awolowo so much craved for when the opportunity presented itself on a platter of Gold is here talking trash |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Chemcrown: 8:59pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
[color=#550000][/color] naijaking1: The bone of contention is not whether Awolowo was dribbled or not but is who released Awolowo? Ojukwu or Gowon. And you use 'they' ( So, they "releasesd" Awo, absorbed him into their cabinet, and promised to hand over to him in 3 years, after the violent post war condition of the country is better stabilized for a civilian---that's the lie lie they told him. Then, after 3 years, they...) that suggest Gowon with the northern coupists released Awolowo. Which is what we have been trying to settle. Do you now agree that Gowon, federal government released Awolowo or the debate should continue. Thanks for your time. 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Chemcrown: 9:06pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
T9ksy: Sir, na so the person I quote talk am oooo, say Ojukwu fled to fight another day oooo. I come dey surprise say which fight he fight again. Or che na the one wey he fought against death and death still win am he dey talk about? 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by T9ksy(m): 10:11pm On Aug 12, 2018 |
Chemcrown: @ bolded..........................abi o, jare!!! When there is no shred of evidence to buttress their phantom claim they still persist in regurgitating the same fallacy. Same way they now call yorubas, "afonja slaves" simply because SOME yorubas decided to align with the north for once in our over five decades of existence as an independent nation. Meanwhile, there exist incontrovertible evidence that their mischevious fathers have always been willing to lick the fulanis' backsides right from the 1st republic when am american-trained doctor opted to lick a mere grade II teachers' ar..se. Even after the supposedly genocidal war, the fulanis waged against them during the Oil/ It is FACTUAL also that these same fulanis have been slaughtering their kinsmen up north like 'roaches even before we got independence yet it was their leaders that were busy shouting "One Nigeria" like inebriated newts whilst other regional leaders were pleading caution. However their new singsong now, is "afonja slaves". It is highly impossible to argue or debate with a CLONE who has been classically CONDITIONED. 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by eodavids(m): 4:40pm On Aug 13, 2018 |
Strikethem: To say Igbos hate Baba (late) Awolowo is over generalization and unnecessary. Awolowo remains an erudite leader, whose love for his people is worth imitating. Awo was firstly a Yoruba, then a Nigerian and had to take the interest of the Yorubas at heart. This he did very well in addition to being an elder statesman in the larger Nigeria. Its only Igbo politicians that aim at being "elder statesmen" to the detriment of their people. But, that is not the best because charity begins at home. So my man, We Ndigbo loves Awolowo because to an extent, he was a better politician than many Igbo politicians of that time. When Pa Awo was giving free education to the west, Sardauna was doing something equivalent to the North: the Igbos got virtually nothing to boast of as an equivalent incentive to their people. Fast forward to 2018, Awolowo's legacy still speaks of better things than the greed and lack of foresight prevalent in Igboland. For instance, IGBOS HAD ZIK OF AFRICA BECAUSE HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE CHAMPIONED A COURSE TO HELPED "AFRICA". BUT HE WAS IGBO FIRSTLY, THEN AFRICAN. WHO CAN SHOW US WHAT TANGIBLE INCENTIVE NNAMDI AZIKIWE (ZIK OF AFRICA) GAVE TO NDIGBO IN COMMISERATE OR EQUIVALENT TO THE FREE EDUCATION HAD IN THE WEST, OR THE GIGANTIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF SARDAUNA IN THE NORTH? So please, it is wrong of you to assume Ndigbo hates late Awolowo. Rather, we loves him for his erudite and foresight inspired kind of leadership. The mischief makers of our people can only envy Awolowo, for his achievements. Not hate him. 3 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by jyz200(m): 12:24pm On Aug 20, 2018 |
phase1:ok sir |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by orisa37: 1:37pm On Aug 20, 2018 |
Nairaland.com should please print this in a Book for us to buy for our Children to read. 1 Like |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by orisa37: 1:43pm On Aug 20, 2018 |
Olodumare will bash you like an Aheist. You will be bleeped off by Satan in Hell. |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by orisa37: 1:46pm On Aug 20, 2018 |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by orisa37: 1:56pm On Aug 20, 2018 |
Awo's Spirit is Sovereign. |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 3:44am On Nov 12, 2018 |
Roger3D:But Ojukwu's proposals at Aburi summit was a military government with a very weak centre? If Ojukwu a military man could later think it, then it means it was actually possible. Moreover, was Ironsi even supposed to govern at all let alone all this talk about the right method he could only govern with as a military man? Wasn't he supposed to just hand over to Dipcharima in accordance with the provision of the independence constitution he, on his inauguration day as Army GoC, took a solemn oath of office to defend and protect at all times and in all circumstances? 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 3:47am On Nov 12, 2018 |
tishbite41:Enahoro and some others were not in Eastern prisons, but the same order released all of them together with Awolowo. Now, who between Gowon and Ojukwu could have given an order that would be carried out in all regions of the country? 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 4:02am On Nov 12, 2018 |
phase1: And you believe Ironsi took power legitimately? For your info, as at the time Awolowo was released (August 2 1966 - just three days into Gowon's tenure), the idea of Biafra had not crossed Ojukwu's mind hence relationship between Ojukwu and Gowon had not deteriorated to the point where Ojukwu would antagonize Gowon hence disobey his order. Biafra controversy between Ojukwu and Gowon started in May 1967 i.e. nine months later. The same order which released Enahoro and others jailed in non-Eastern prisons also released Awolowo. Now, who between Awolowo and Gowon could have given an order that would be carried out in all regions back then? 1 Like |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by vincixpresso: 4:18am On Nov 12, 2018 |
tyson99:The oduduwa republic would have been great by now |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 4:29am On Nov 12, 2018 |
phase1: For the first bolded, are you referring to the same Zik who publicly declared he was more than ready and willing to pay the ultimate price to see the sustenance of 'One-Nigeria' which was clearly a British intention? The same Zik who also sought and got the help of the British to threaten with treasonable felony charges the likes of Awolowo and Enahoro for seeking to have secession clause in our constitution? You must be very naive. For the second bolded, it wasn't the British that shut you Igbos out of power. Zik who occupied the second position in the first ever power structure we had in this country was an Igbo man. But if you are referring to the position of Prime Minister, it was still the fault of Zik who rejected the proposed all-south coalition that would have made him Prime Minister in exchange for the Hausafulani-Igbo alliance which turned him to a figurehead ceremonial president whose only lawful duty was to commission incinerators and public toilets and also to acknowledge cheers from school children matching on independence day anniversary celebrations. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 4:36am On Nov 12, 2018 |
Djinja: Awolowo was detained by Zik's political associates from the core islamic Hausafulani North as against Gowon's Christian Middle Belt. 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 4:46am On Nov 12, 2018 |
chikarism: Nzeogwu the only honest and frank member of the plot didn't insinuate let alone say so in any of the several interviews he granted to the press before his abrupt death the following year. Secondly, Awolowo was known all over as the most consummate and an unrepentant federalist. So how could a set of coup plotters whose self confessed mission was to replace the existing federal arrangement with a unitary one have rooted for a federalist like Awolowo to head their unitary government? Were those coupists, some of whom were even university graduates, so daft not to see the ideological contradiction in such plan? This story of "the plan to make Awolowo the Prime Minister" was an afterthought fabrication aimed at mitigating the openly tribal execution pattern of the coup. 6 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 4:50am On Nov 12, 2018 |
PrecisionFx: How could a set of coupists planning to replace a federal arrangement with a unitary government have rooted for the most committed apostle of federalism to head the unitary government? 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 5:01am On Nov 12, 2018 |
phase1:Your inclusion of Zik among those not ready to wait for Northerners is the single most powerful evidence here that all your accounts of history are flawed. Zik was rather the only Southern who, with his kinsmen's support, decided to wait till the Northerners became ready to join the South for Independence. If the British had wanted to hand over power to the North by all means as you seem to suggest, then why did they conduct an election which they knew the South was poised to win if their MPs were combined? All this theory about the British's predetermined plan to hand over to the North is a fabrication aimed at covering up for Zik's and Okpara's naivety and poor discretion of going into alliance with Jihadists in rejection of the proposed all-south coalition that would have either broken the North away from the South or led to the quick attainment of Nigeria of our dream. 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 5:44am On Nov 12, 2018 |
emmanuelex1:Neither am I Yoruba. But what exactly would have been Ojukwu's reson to kill Awolowo at that point in time? Or do people just kill people for the fun of it? And you think Ojukwu would have been foolish enough to kill Awolowo in Calabar prison for no reason hence reinforcing the public hatred Igbos were already exposed to courtesy of the cold blooded killings of leaders of all other regions by Igbo majors in the Army just shortly before then? You think the killing of Awolowo by Ojukwu wouldn't have generated deadly reprisals against Igbos living in the West? That the killing of Akintola went down well with Yorubas did not mean Awolowo's murder by Ojukwu would have been taken lightly by Yorubas as Akintola was more or less an outcast in their eyes. Ojukwu knew quite well that the killing of Awolowo would have generated anti-Igbo backlash among Yorubas to the same or greater magnitude than that which the killing of Ahmadu Bello generated against Igbos in the North. As at when Awolowo was released, Ojukwu was not yet antagonistic to Gowon to warrant the argument that he could have resisted Gowon's order. The same order which released Awolowo also released Enahoro and the rest who were not in Eastern prisons. So who could have given such an order between Gowon and Ojukwu? 4 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 5:52am On Nov 12, 2018 |
LBanks: Ojukwu so much believed in army seniority sanctity but could not impress it upon Ironsi his brother to punish young army officers who had carried out very cold blooded murder of officers far senior to them. Ogundipe probably avoided taking over because Ironsi and Ojukwu had before then made nonsense of seniority as already explained above. 3 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Nobody: 8:03am On Nov 12, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: Deadly Truth, Ur speaking outta gross ignorance. This lie has expired, all sane people (especially we the youths) in Nigeria now knows the truth n have long accepted it. Federalism was not ended by General Aguiyi Ironsi, Rather it was ended by General Yakubu Gowon wen he created states. From the day Ironsi became the head of states until he died, We still had 3 regions n each region semt 30% of their generated revenue to the Centre n kept back 70% to develop their region. Aguiyi Ironsi brought all military n police sectors to the full control of the central military government in order to be able to maintain peace in the country for the time being. Aguiyi Ironsi never touched resource control until he died. Aguiyi is well educated unlike Gowon, Abacha, Buhari, Babangida etc that are on the other side so he will never be idiotic like them n end regional government n resource control. From 1914 till now, The eastern region was at least 2 - 3 times wealthier than North n SW combined together, Mo sane IGBO man would sacrifice regional government n bring together resources of the igbos to share wit Hausa n Yoruba who were making very little money (only Palm oil gotten from eastern nigeria made more cash than ALL the revenue Yoruba region were utilizing at the time. Wake up from this stupid sleep, General Aguiyi Ironsi never ended regional gov't n resource control, Gowon did. |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by 7lives: 8:51am On Nov 12, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: Don't mind them, they think they can fool everybody. 4 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by 7lives: 9:01am On Nov 12, 2018 |
PrecisionFx: Even the whole world knew that it was the era of the cocoa wealth. The wealth and the advancement of the West was the reason your fathers cornived with the North to have the minorities cut out as the mid west. Thank God Abacha complete the job by carving out the mid East out of the dubious Eastern Nigeria 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 10:02am On Nov 12, 2018 |
PrecisionFx: First and foremost, your reply above deviates totally from the content of the post of mine which you quoted. I asked how a set of coupists desirous of unitary government could have rooted for a federalist to head it. You left this and went into Ironsi controversy. However, if you insist Ironsi did not abolish the regions, then could you kindly explain what exactly the man meant with each of the bolded in his May 24 1966 national broadcast which goes verbatim as follows: "Fellow Nigerians: During the past two weeks I presided over meetings of the Supreme Military council and the Central Executive Council at which many important state matters were considered. . . It is now three months since the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was handed over to the Armed Forces. Now that peace has been restored in the troubled areas it is time that the Military Government indicates clearly what it proposes to accomplish before relinquishing power. The removal of one of the obstacles on the way is provided for in the Constitution (Suspension and Modification) Decree (No. 5) 1966 which was promulgated by me today and comes into effect at once. The provisions of the Decree are intended to remove the last vestiges of the intense regionalism of the recent past, and to produce that cohesion in the governmental structure which is so necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of the National Military government, and indeed of every true Nigerian, namely, national unity. The highlights of this Decree are as follows: The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number of territorial areas called provinces. . . . Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It now becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria. The former Federal Military government and the Central Executive Council become respectively the National Military Government and the executive Council. All the Military Governors are members of the Executive Council. A Military Governor is assigned to a group of provinces over which and subject to the direction and control of the Head of the National Military Government, he shall exercise executive power". As for resource control; recall that he also centralized the civil service which is the institution the regional governments used as tool to generated their revenues from the resources within their respective domains. How could a region whose civil servants were now answerable to the centralized national government be said to have still remained in control of her resources and revenues generation from those resources? 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Awolowo's Letter From Prison To Aguiyi Ironsi Pressing For His Release by Deadlytruth(m): 10:26am On Nov 12, 2018 |
That Ironsi himself declared in the speech above that by his decree the federal military government (i.e a decentralized military government) had become converted to the national military government (a centralized military government) meant that he himself acknowledged that he had successfully operated a federal (i.e. a decentralized) military government from the day he took over (January 17) to the day he made the broadcast (May 24), thus for nearly four months. So the argument that Ironsi's military junta couldn't have operated as a decentralized government is a ruse and contradicts Ironsi's own words in that broadcast. Secondly, the political crisis that provoked Ifeajuna's coup all stemmed from the gross abuse of power by the Balewa-Zik controlled central government in the sense of election rigging in broad daylight, census rigging and re-rigging of the rerun, disobedience to court orders, etc. Therefore whoever really claimed he was sincerely on a mission to correct the problem should have even weakened the powers of the central government. But Ironsi ironically further strengthened the centre. It all showed that he didn't really intend to address the problem but to finally execute a long planned selfish agenda in favour of his Igbo tribe. 3 Likes |
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