Neither Ojukwu nor Uzor Kalu were frontrunners in 2003 or 2007. As neither APGA nor PPA had national spread.

Trash theory as usual. Why vote against your own brother for lack of national spread of his party? Is it not all about proving to the world that you love him unconditionally irrespective of the extent of spread of the party featuring him? You think national spread of the party that fields an Igbo candidate will make other Nigerians ever forget the evils Igbos did to them?

Hear what a sensible Igbo man says in response to your kind of moronic apologetics on Igbo folly:

“Shame the living, honor the dead:
Ojukwu led ndi Igbo in a fight for liberation. Nigeria fought Biafra led by a Christian, Yakubu Gowon.

Emeka Ojukwu Jnr, Ezeigbo gburugburu, lost in all the elections he contested in Igbo land. Ndi Igbo being good in rationalisation, will tell you there was no way you can beat PDP. But Buhari has always won massively in the north ever since he started contesting, even with a small party, OBJ inclusive. His people believed in him - good or bad.

Democracy is a political contest, not the selection of the pope.
Ezeigbo Gburugburu lost the house of representative election to PDP in a bid to represent his people, ndi Igbo (now fake Niger deltans). His people shamed him. No votes. They despised him alive. Made him a fool. Ojukwu also lost a senatorial seat in 1983. His people did not vote for him. He didn't know they were Niger delta men in Igbo clothing.

In 2007, Ojukwu got only 155,000 votes nationwide, including votes from ndi Igbo. His people failed him. He didn't have to win, ( i.e. for Igbos to just make a statement).

But then in 2011, one Igbo state gave a Biafra saboteur by tribe over 2 million votes. Who marginalises who? [/b]Who maltreats who? Yakubu Gowon may be a dear son, 'awa' son, to ndi igbo. Buhari fought the war as a soldier [whose only job is obey before complaint] under Gowon. But ndi Igbo hate Buhari for fighting the war. Unbalanced equation. 'Igbo amaghi Eze', they claim, but how come Igbo maa (recognises) fallen heroes. Equation not balanced . Loud mouths, ineffective noise. I only pity for the poor they mislead all the time, who get involved in a 'rag-day' protest.May their souls rest in peace. They never knew what they were doing.”

By Khojo Obinna Nwaeze…..

You can see how it irks a sensible Igbo man that Igbos are now more SSners than the Niger Deltans themselves. This Igbos' wannabe disease is really getting out of hand. I just couldn’t have imagined that an Igbo man is more concerned about the internal affairs of the SS more than the SS people themselves. It smacks of an ulterior motive which is all about oil. Shameless land grabbers and smelly oil thieves. I hope you’ll finally listen to the likes of Khojo Obinna Nwaeze so that one day reason may prevail above stupidity founded on sentiments.

No. No time in history had there ever been more Igbos in Oyo, than there are in Lagos. Oyo was mainland Yorubaland where Yorubas outnumbered everyone else by large numbers. Lagos always was cosmopolitan with multiethnic population. You have no point.

Of course you are an ignoramus when it comes to history. Lagos was initially restricted, in territory, to just the Island to the exclusion of the mainland of today when Ibadan was already the largest city in West Africa. So common sense dictates that Ibadan was more cosmopolitan than Lagos back then. You are devoid of logical analysis.

You clearly need mental examination. You were the one who claimed Zik had problem with minorities, and I showed you that Zik worked very well with minorities in NCNC and in the Eastern region, so Zik supporting an ally Yoruba candidate against a minority candidate that was allied to Awolowo is your definition of Zik being against Southern minorities?

How could Zik have worked well with the Eastern Region minorities at a time he was far away in the Western Region trying to grab their lands and resources through his immoral bid for premiership there? Were the Eastern Minorities living in the Western Region? Or was Zik ubiquitous? You are clearly sick upstairs.
Zik was against Southern Minorities because he demonstrated deep resentment by abandoning NYM when one of them defeated his candidate in the NYM election.
If Zik’s later premiership of the Eastern Region was not oppressive to the minorities, then why did Isaac Boro ever attempt to secede from the Eastern Region immediately Ironsi (an Igbo man) clinched power at the centre? Why also were the minorities demanding the excision of the COR Region from the Eastern Region if they were not being oppressed by Igbos?

The circumstances surrounding Eyo ita saga had been trashed on this forum many times before, go update yourself here: https://www.nairaland.com/2730983/see-no-wisdom-south-south/3

That account was obviously written by an Igbo man, thus not from a neutral party. So it has credibility question. The type I gave you about the face off between Zik and Enahoro was written by one from a neutral tribe. Get it?

You only wish the Efiks hate Igbos like your Igbophobic Edo self do.
But the truth is that the Efik could care less, and are not interested in any cheap blackmail to keep Igbos in Nigeria.

Ironically Efiks and others asked for COR Region and Igbos denied them of it. Yet you assume Efiks would on account of that not have problems with Igbos but continue to love them sheepishly the way Igbos themselves continued to love and form political alliances with Hausa-Fulanis even while being massacred by them on a daily basis. Igbos think everyone else is a foolish and as moronic as they themselves are.

They don't go about dying on top Igbo issues. Your desperation is real. Having failed to draw Ijaws into your petty schizophrenic battle, you have now turned attention to Efiks.

At the mention of any of the evils his brothers did to other tribes, rather than address the issues raised he plays the ostrich by responding with the blackmail accusation of one trying to draw those tribes into battle. Efiks, Ijaws, Ibibios, etc have as from time immemorial always complained of Igbos’ attempt to domineer over them. You are so ashame to have these things referenced. But your blackmail will never work. If you had good relationships with the Efiks, Ijaws, Ibibios, etc, then why did they accept Gowon’s cutting off of them from you parasites? Here is another account of how Igbos have always oppressed the minorities of the SS: http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/the-unknown-victims-ethnic-minorities-1967-1970

Lol! Naso the thing pain you reach? Bini empire remains an empire of blood and Gore that sought to subjugate and rule over its non Bini neighbors. Nothing you say or do changes the above.

Ha ha ha. “Benin Empire remains (present tense)….”. Is Benin empire still in existence? You are obviously behind time. What we now have is Benin Kingdom. Even in pre-colonial times the Bini empire’s onslaughts were all retaliatory and never provocative. However your Nri Kingdom was as well one of blood and Gore domiciled in Anambra hence Anambrarians like you have not been able to give up their old bloodthirsty ways. We still hear of Ritual killings, Baby factories, Otokoto Shrines, etc in Anambra and indeed all over Igbo land even in these civilized times. Cifford Orji eats human flesh. Just recently an Igbo man killed a Bayelsan girl for ritual purposes forcing Bayelsans into a manhunt for Igbos all over the state. None of Edo, Urhobo, Hausa, Ibibio, Anang, Efik, Yoruba, Hausa, etc has ever been in the news of ritual killing in Bayelsa. It has been Igbos alone. The most recent and currently trending Anambarian blood business story is that of Evan the biggest kidnapper in the history of Nigeria. Edo State is one of the three main states which fell victim of his bloody ways. I can’t recall ever hearing any story of an Edo man inflicting Anambrarians with bloodshed in the name of business. If Edos decide to avenge Evans’ atrocities on Igbos resident in the state your likes will be the first to cry betrayal. Shameless blood sucking demons called Igbos!

In 2011, the entire real SS voted for GEJ, likewise SE.
And in 2011, the entire real SS voted for GEJ again, likewise SE. There is a pattern here, and it's not in tandem with NC.

In 2011 every SS state voted for GEJ, in 2015 every SS state also voted for GEJ. Your narrative has changed from Edo voted “marginally” more for GEJ to Edo did not vote for GEJ at all. You are suffering from dementia. However, the truth remains that it was only in Edo that rigging could not take place and results were released that very day unlike the other SS states where results were delayed for three days only for ridiculous numbers and 100% turn out to be reported. Never in Edo!

. No, Igbos believed that any rational being would chose a progressive brilliant PhD holder over a retrogssive barely educated former military dictator. We just didn't realize how silly people can be.
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The real South did not realize how silly the fake Southerners could be until they preferred an alliance that would throw up an illiterate feudalist in the person of Tafawa Balewa over that which would have thrown up their own brother Azikiwe who bagged a PhD from a prestigious American University.

What trait of progressivism was in Jonathan? What was the progressivism in a man who, like Azikiwe, endangered his own home region’s interest in pursuit of the convenience of the Northern Oligarchy who ironically have been responsible for his own people’s impoverished state? Of course Igbos would prefer such a reincarnation of Azikiwe on whom they still shower the accolades of being a “nationalist”. Igbos chose GEJ because he was a blind nationalist exactly in the mould of Azikiwe.
What is the brilliance in a Jonathan who insisted on sending the report of a restructuring focused confab to the anti-people National Assembly dominated by the members from a part of the country that is openly opposed to restructuring? What is brilliant in a Jonathan who argued initially that the problem of Nigeria has nothing to do with the structure but with corruption which once killed, all other things will fall in place? What is the brilliance in a Jonathan who, despite being aware that even the universal democratic consensus benchmark of 66.67% is difficult to attain, went to the opening ceremony of the 2014 confab and publicly advised the delegates to use 75% as benchmark for consensus? What is the brilliance in a Jonathan who, for a confab supposedly aimed partly at addressing the roots of inter-tribal and inter-ethnic resentments and clashes, decided to handpick over 50% of the delegates from professional bodies like NMA, NBA, Army, political parties whose membership is very fluid hence do not represent any permanent interest, etc? Even Abacha who was a military man and partly illiterate made sure that delegates for his 1994 constitutional conference were chosen through democratic means from each and every federal constituency. Paper qualification is not synonymous with brilliance. What is brilliant in a Jonathan who, as vice president to Yaradua and despite holding a PhD degree, prevailed upon freedom fighters (Niger Delta Militants) to accept from Yaradua an Amnesty Offer which defined them as criminals in need of State Pardon? What is the brilliance in a Jonathan who could not realize that acceptance of Amnesty Offer meant that the Niger Delta can’t afterwards sue the FG for violence on them (in the form of operation crocodile which you ignorantly mentioned) after once accepting that they are criminals enjoying the forgiveness and magnanimity of the FG? What is the brilliance in a Jonathan

APC only rules in Imo, and that was only possible because Rochas rode to power through APGA and then decamped to APC thereafter and he did so before the 2015 elections.

But after defecting from APGA to the APC Rochas still won the governorship election in Imo State clean and square. So your theory fails

The rest of SE is free of APC. And it's not going to change, as you would soon learn in coming Anambra elections.

APC is swelling daily in the Sad East and it is obvious that some states there will fall in 2019. Anambra elections is not likely to be won by your beloved PDP any time soon.

Either way, in any presidential election, APC would always struggle in SE, if the candidate running for them is not from the true South or is running against a major candidate from true South.

From the above we can now deduce logically that once APC features someone from your “true” South it will win in the Sad East? Then that means your hatred for APC is inspired by tribalism and nothing else. Is this not a vindication of my stand that Igbos introduced tribalism into this country and have always been the most tribalistic people? You can’t really hide who you are. You may pretend much but your utterances occasionally give you away.

Well, yet again we see the entire SS working in tandem to achieve an objective, ie to deliver GEJ and Edo sticking out again like a sore thumb in her non conformity.
You can only rig where you are popular.

In one line says the entire SS working in tandem blah blah blah. But in a next line he says Edo is stciking out blah blah blah. Then what does the word “entire” mean? Poor comprehension again. Edo conforms to what makes sense and not what is being done on sentiments. When the true South wanted an all-South alliance at independence Igbos stuck out like a sore thumb and went with the Arewa. When in 1975 the true South brokered a Southern alliance to dislodge Hausa Fulani, Igbos once more stuck out like a sore thumb and went with Arewa again. When the genuine South all supported MKO the Igbos, in their character once more, stood out in non-conformity and voted for Arewa as usual. In all these cases the true South candidates were obviously better and more brilliant than the Arewa candidates whom Igbos always ironically preferred. When the true South united as NADECO to sack Abacha an Arewa, Igbos like Chukwu Merijie, Arthur Nzeribe, Daniel Kanu through the instrumentalities of ABN and YEAA as expected stuck out like sore thumbs once more rallying for Abacha to stay put.

Akwa Ibom remains a PDP controlled state, likewise the rest of SS, and that won't change anytime soon.

Find below links to stories of the gale of defections that have hit Akwa Ibom PDP and smell the coffee. It was the same way you boasted that Nigeria remains PDP/GEJ controlled and would not change anytime soon. But on being hard hit by the contrary reality you began to ask for Biafra.

http://punchng.com/500-pdp-members-defect-to-apc-in-akwa-ibom/
https://www.naij.com/1095796-three-ex-lga-chairmen-dump-pdp-apc-akwa-ibom.html
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/defections-hit-ibom-pdp/
http://www.thekillerpunch.com/scores-pdp-members-defect-apc-akwa-ibom/
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/02/23/akwa-ibom-pdp-lawmaker-defects-to-apc/

In this particular link below Franklyn Isong, an Akwa Ibomite, admits that PDP is endangered in the state. I guess a confused and pained Igbo like you from the Sad East knows the situation in Akwa Ibom more than Isong a native of the state.
http://www.naijaperminute.com.ng/2017/03/25/defection-pdp-dies-akwa-ibom-franklyn-isong/

APC has not made any impact in SS whatsoever other than the operation crocodile they instigated in the creeks.

Like I have always maintained, you are ignorant of what constitutes impact in the SS which is more about a fundamental change that has to do with a return of the oil wealth to the owners. APC has set out to achieve this by the modular refineries policy and the implementation of UNEP Report. PDP, even under Jonathan, vehemently rejected these two policies. Operation Crocodile enjoyed the endorsement of elders and leaders of the SS because it was in response to the activities of NDA which was a politically sponsored group of boys masquerading as militants. But PDP massacred innocent women and children in Odi, Gbaramatu, Oporoza, etc all in the SS. And in your confused and persecution complex stricken mind, that is an impact.

So I should discard Dokubo utterances and accept your schizophrenic rantings?
Biafrans have no problem with muslims, we only have problems with muslims tied to apron strings of Sokoto calibrate and who are intrinsically Igbophobic.


Dokubo is himself tied to the apron strings of Sokoto Caliphate hence he accepted Yaradua’s permanent suite offer in a five star hotel in Abuja to the abandonment of his boys in the creeks suffering to eke out a living. Dokubo did not visit Kanu in detention when even Fayose, a Yoruba man, did. Dokubo was quiet while FFK, another Yoruba man, spoke daily against Kanu’s detention. The truth remains that it takes an Igbo man with a third eye to see that Yorubas are even more accommodating to them than the SS which they have ironically been trying to stick to like leeches. Your eyes will become open to the futility of your courting of the SS by the time we refuse to vote for any Igbo candidate who may emerge in 2019 or beyond. For the two times Azikiwe contested the SS of today voted against him massively. It will play out again and again. Keep dreaming that the SS has suddenly developed love for you on account of your selfishly motivated support for Jonathan. Sensible Igbos who have understudied the disposition of the SS towards the Igbo race have been warning and trying to educate your likes that the SS really has no love for Igbos but you people would not listen. You will again cry of betrayal when they prove it in the future elections.

Ijaws are independent people. There are many Igbophobic voices there which as expected, tripled after the civil war, following the Lagos-Ibadan propaganda machine, but it wasn't so in the era in discuss on this thread. Many Ijaws were Igbophilic and some too were Igbophobic, and both sides are entitled to their opinions. And we know that you, as an Edo, is in no position to speak for Ijaws.
But one thing is constant, no Ijaw person is harbouring any feeling of cheap hurt or blackmail to keep Igbos in Nigeria, only frustrated Edo and Yoruba people have such intentions.


Neither is a pained Igbo like you in a position to speak for Ijaws. However the presence of indigenous Ijaws in my state gives me the authority to speak for them unlike you whose state has no indigenous Ijaws. The other tribes in your state are Igalas, and you are permitted to speak for them alone and never Ijaws.
Ijaws in Bayelsa recently declared war on all Igbos for the ritual killing of just one Bayelsa girl by an Igbo guy for money rituals. It was nothing but an indication that they had for ages been nursing pent up resentment against Igbos but just used that occasion as an opportunity to express it. So I don’t understand the Igbophilia you credit them with.

Well, court judgements had nor settled the Warri issue, neither would it settle Gelegele issue.
If the court judgment had favoured Urhobo, it still would not have settled it as Ijaw and Itshekiri would not have accepted it. Had it favoured Ijaw, it would have as well not settled it because Urhobo and Itshekiris would not have accepted it. So there is no way it would swing without it being rejected, hence the verdict just has to be established on the superior evidence which for now seems to be on the side of Itshekiri. However Urhobos have kept hope alive and seeking to unearth superior evidence which could later tilt the verdict in their favour.
The court judgment between Benin and Gelegele was based on the examination of evidences among which are the fact that Gelegele is situated on the shores of a river called Benin River from time immemorial, that axis of the coast where Gelegele is located is called Bight of Benin. The Ijaws have continued seeking for superior evidences which may later tilt it in their favour. It is as simple as that. Every tribe believes in the Judiciary and its processes. Only Igbos don’t, hence they allege fraud when it doesn’t favour them but hail the ones which favour them.

Lagos was the capital territory, developed with wealth from all. It's only right that all Nigerians resident there be afforded equal opportunities.


And the Yorubas once demanded that the federal capital be shifted away from Lagos probably to the East. At least that would have made it possible for other parts of the country to equally enjoy being developed with wealth from all, thus the equal opportunity you now seek. But Igbos led by Zik, in their usual rabid quest to grab other peoples’ lands and resources, resisted Yorubas because they wanted Lagos declared a no-man’s-land. So whose fault therefore that Lagos alone came to enjoy the wealth of all for too long? You people are always blaming others for the consequences of your greed and stupidities of the past. You never take responsibility for your actions. Why?

. If Zik and Ndiigbo talking on this is equivalent to land grabbing, then let it be.
Of course it was a land grabbing attempt and nothing else. Thank God you have for the first time admitted that Zik was nursing a dubious agenda.

Igbos live peacefully in Lagos as with all other non Igbo lands we occupy. Never in history had we sought to fight indigenes in their lands.
Igbos who live in other lands don’t fight the indigenes directly for their land. They do it with a lot of tricks and underhand methods. They first of all start claiming it is a no-man’s-land, and much later they start inventing stories that those people are their cousins.

On the contrary, Oba attacked all, left and right. The only provocation needed was the people rejecting demands of tribute to him.
Would you mind posting a link to substantiate this claim which is rather a product of your Edophobic imagination?

All Oba’s wars were retaliatory and never provocative. The fact that kings of Urhobos, Isokos, Aniomas, Itshekiris, etc all regard the Oba as their father till tomorrow is a living testimony that the Oba never oppressed neigbouring tribes. You may be surprised to know that till today no king’s coronation process in Urhoboland, Isoko land, Itshekiri, etc is assumed completed prior to the arrival of delegates from the Oba’s palace. They themselves, out of their own free will, give very high regards to the Palace in Benin. The Oba does not force them to do so. In fact in some kingdoms they wait patiently for Oba’s delegates to arrive before starting their coronation at all. When the Olu of Warri recently died shortly after the death of Oba Ewuare, Itshekiris waited patiently for over a year for a new Oba to be chosen and installed before they started even their burial rites for the Olu of Warri let alone choosing a replacement for him. If the Oba had oppressed these tribes over the years do you think they would have all been treating the Benin Stool with all this awe and immense respect till today? Go tell any Itshekiri, Urhobo, Isoko, Ishans, and Afemais that there is any record of them being attacked by any Oba in precolonial history and see if you will have a nice time with him.

Well, Your army chiefs were not wise enough to stockpile and hoard foreign weapons in enough quantity to repel the British forces. You were caught napping.
From where and whom were they supposed to have got the foreign weapons to fight the foreigners? You are indeed sick!

Aro confederacy put up a greater fight than your pathetic empire against the British. You were fast track bullies cum minorities.

Who knows Aro confederacy? So you people operated a confederacy prior to colonization and yet after colonization you ironically became die hard advocates of unitary system disguised as one-Nigeria quest? Can’t you see that most of the utterances that keep coming from you lend credence to the perception that Igbos actually knew in the background that unitary system/One Nigeria was retrogressive and ruinous but kept on rooting for it just because it was the appropriate system through which to actualize the Igbo agenda of domineering over the country and and oppressing all other tribes and grabbing their lands and resources in post colonial Nigeria?

Enahoro and Akenzua supported Gowon invasion of Biafra, they served in different capacities in Nigerian army. So yes, Bini had to be passed through by Biafrans enroute Lagos, the headquarters of Arewa-Oduanistan military complex that invaded Biafra, you were not innocent.


So Enahoro and Akenzua were Army officers? You are really a Biafra. The military complex was Arewanistan-Biafran in composition hence the war was between these two blocs. The coalition government that preceded it was as well Arewanistan-Biafra in composition. The fact that your very decision to invade Benin led to the downfall and defeat of Biafra is was an indication that Edo was innocent. After colluding with Arewanistan to jail Enahoro, you wanted to enslave his people again through an expansionist quest led by Ojukwu. Biafra!

Biafra lives. The testament to that fact is the fact that you are here convulsing over Biafra. No one fights against the dead, they are harmless.


Biafra lives? The biggest joke of the century. Why drag the SS along if Biafra actually lives? What I am “convulsing” over is not Biafra but my SS which they are dragging along with it without our consent. Of course a SE limited Biafra is dead and buried. We all know it. Leave the SS off it and you will get it immediately. Smelly oil thieves and dirty land grabbers!

Those Ojukwu stopped from secession were still the ones that some of their people gave Biafra it's name, died for Biafra and gave up their thrones instead of betraying Biafra.
Who are you, a bitter Igbophobic Edo man to speak for them?


So you now agree that Ojukwu stopped Ijaws from secession? I thought you said Ojukwu was justified on the strength of the “fact” that they did not consult themselves before attempting it? Inconsistency and incoherence! If the Ijaws died and gave up their thrones for Biafra, then how come it failed woefully? And who are these imaginary Ijaws by the way?

Same Edo and Yoruba beings too scared of running an independent nations of their own, that they would rather dissipate energy on keeping Igbos in their cursed colonial entity than spend time looking for ways to champion their own independent nation.
Igbos preached one-Nigeria and introduced unitary system because they were so scared of federalism which would have even meant staying on their own within Nigeria and with little support from other regions. How can the same Igbos now be boasting of being able to stand on their own entirely outside Nigeria without the SS and her oil? Right now other parts of Nigeria harbor and take care of over 65% of all Igbos with the rest 35% at home not finding it easy. So how possible is it that they will stand alone outside Nigeria if the SS with her oil and other resources does not go with them? If you are sure you can survive alone outside Nigeria, then stop dragging the SS along. Simple! But you really can never.

The dead ones are bitter Edo and Yoruba beings making up cheap blackmails to keep Ndiigbo in a country they failed.

How can dead people be able to make up blackmail? It seems in Biafra republic of the five tiny erosion ravaged states dead persons will rise from their graves to run the affairs. You are confused. Just leave the Southern minorities alone and go to your doomed Biafra Republic where the likes of Evans the Kidnapping kingpin will rule.
It was Igbos that failed Nigeria courtesy of Zik’s and Ironsi’s quest for unitary system and Ironsi’s introduction of military rule.

So Buhari, even with the hindsight of the distribution of PTF projects under his watch during Abacha regime that discriminated against true SS and SE is the one that would give better offer to true SS and SE than GEJ? You are truly schizophrenic.


And you thought that the Jonathan who could not even account for funds allocated for projects would serve the SS better that the Buhari who really carried out the projects save for the distribution? You also believe that the Jonathan who; with the hindsight of his rejection at the polls and subsequent pogroms on his victory by the Core North in 2011, voted N500bn (a whopping one eight of the entire national budget) for building Almajiri schools in the core North whereas he could not commence the Second Niger Bridge and did not vote any meaningful fund for NDDC and Niger Delta Ministry; was better for the SS? You are a confirmed case of dementia.

The shame is on you. Nemesis already caught up with Edo, which is why she had been reduced to minorities amongst minorities in Nigeria. And even in the most Igbophobic of Nigerian condition, Igbos would always be represented more than Edos.


Which nemesis is in being reduced to a minority? Was Edo ever a majority? I maintain that you are sick. It is Igbos nemesis caught up with in all ramifications as follows:
They rejected Federal capital because they were aiming at Lagos occupancy but now they have no federal presence and for that they cry of marginalization.
They hated and oppressed Southern minorities in their quest to please their Arewa friends, but today Arewa has so reduced them to irrelevance that they now seek the support of these minorities to fight back to relevance.
They assisted Arewa in hounding Yorubas to jail but later came to Yorubas seeking wartime partnership to fight Arewa back, but Yorubas dumped them in the lurch and Arewa pummeled them badly.
In their quest to please Britain and Arewa they crushed Ijaws’ attempt to secede, but soon afterwards Arewa came calling with weapons of war. They ran to the same Ijaws for partnership but they were dumped heavily and Arewa pounded them with Britsih support.
And the worst of all is that a majority tribe which once bestrode the political landscape like a colossus has become so politically irrelevant that it now seeks relevance by attaching to a group of minority tribes which were themselves very irrelevant initially. You have become a rag-tag majority.

GEJ showed genuine interest in SS project, under his reign, people like Minimah were elevated, Yaradua subsidy project and Amnesty programs were continued, which benefited many SS people, peace returned to the creeks, the East-West road project was advanced, SS had a feeling of being part of Nigeria, it was really a psychological boast for the whole region.


The SS question is not about any of these you enumerated above. Such considerations are the standards of the SE who love positions, money sharing in the forms of subsidy, etc like they did in the first republic when they sold out the genuine Southern interest to the Northern Oligarchy for ministerial portfolios and an inconsequential fihure head post of Governor General whose only constitutional duties were the commissioning of public toilets and incinerators. The SS question is fundamentally about returning the oils wealth to the people through direct or indirect restructuring. Jonathan was negatively disposed to that Amnesty offer is pure rubbish as it defined freedom fighters as criminal in need of state pardon. But right now the modular refineries policy and UNEP Report implementation by the Buhari Regime directly addresses the fundamentals of the SS Question. The East-West Road and many other roads even within the Sad East are receiving attention. We don’t want a phsychological boost. Only Igbos believe in such. What we need is a concrete addressing of the resource control we have been fighting for. With resource control each SS state will not need the president to do for it any of these “achievements” you listed above for GEJ. The mere fact that that Igbos still believe that it is the duty of the FG to construct roads and bridges in states, give amnesty stipends to people over their own resources, boost a false sense of belonging to the centre, etc means that they are not truly in support of restructuring which the SS wants. Their thoughts are poles away from ours. To Igbos it is all about having their man at the centre not minding if the centre is overwhelmingly stronger than the federating units. The SS is not for that at all.