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THE ILL-TREATMENT THE EDOS METE OUT TO THE IGBANKES

Igbanke is an Igbo community in Edo State. They are of the Ika people family stock in Delta State, Nigeria, which also constitutes Agbor, and up to the border towns of Alifekede (Ala Ifekede) down to Umunede. Today's Igbanke village is constituted by Omoluah, Obiogba, Idumuiru, Igbontor, Idumodin, Ake, Oligie and Ottah, all of which have different histories of migration. The people have organized various movements to change the name of the town back to "Igbo Akiri", which is its true name.

The government of Igbanke is presided over by Eze, Dei (Dim), odiowere (ndi owere), Ndichie, Dikens (Dike), okhiolors (okenye ulo), and Okhialis (okenye ala). Each of these heads has his jurisdiction. The jurisdiction could be stratified into three: The family level, the clan or hamlets and the villages. At the family level, the okhilor (he is usually the oldest man in the family) presides. At the village quarters, the okhilor is the head, while the eze rules over the entire village. Igbanke is chiefly a patrilineal society and as such its women are seen as performing passive roles. The language spoken in Igbanke is the Ika dialect of Igbo.

1)Most Igbanke indigenes who have Ika ancestral names like, “Emeka”, “Maduka”, “Chukwuka’’, “Chinyere”, “Amaka and “Ogorchukwu etc are often confronted with all forms of harrowing experiences when there are needs to visit our council headquarters, Abudu to process one official documents or the other. We are often denied the issuance of documents like, ‘’Certificate of Local Government of origin’’, Protest Letter’’, To Whom it May Concern’’ etc on the guise that we are Igbos not Binis.

2) Those who have the likes of the Ika aforementioned names, but can speak Bini language are rarely subjected to the above embarrassments and discriminations. This act goes a long way to vindicate our fear that there is a subtle, but carefully planned agenda to make us lose and abandon our ancestral linguistic and cultural heritage.

3) In order to escape from these unnecessary embarrassments, some have no other option left than to change their identity from Ika to Bini names.

4) Today, we, the good people of Igbanke are gradually losing our once envied linguistic and cultural identity.

5) Some of the eminent sons and daughters of Igbanke, whom out of their outstanding contributions to the development of the community, were recognized and given chieftaincy titles had had such titles changed from their original Ika origin to Bini equivalence. For example, few years ago, one of our sons who addressed himself as “Chief Orike-Eze” in Oba of Benin palace was shamefully harassed, insulted and forcefully forced, right in the palace to change the title to its Bini version. According to the palace, the title, “Orike-Eze” had its origin from Ika and Igbo nations.

6) Most times, when we have cause to attend meetings with the Binis in our local government area or senatorial district, deliberations are often conducted in Bini in language without considering the fact that the people of Igbanke in such meeting neither speak nor understand the language. Often than not, when we attend such meetings, we left the venue more confused than we were before we went.

7) In Edo state, Igbanke is only tolerated, not respected, seen, but not accepted. Today, in Edo state, plans are underway by the state Ministry of Education to introduce the teaching of Bini language in Primary and Secondary schools across Edo south senatorial district including Igbanke. Unfortunately, our indigenous language, Ika is not in any way considered qualified and appropriate to be taught in schools in Igbanke. To us, its another deliberate attempt to send our linguistic identity into extinction.

8 ) Our people have also suffered several inexplicable discriminations when it comes to political appointments. During the 2013 Edo state local government elections, one of our sons, Mr. Peter Ikem was refused to contest the chairmanship position in Orhionmwon local government area. Reason? His surname, “Ikem” was an Igbo, not Bini name.

PRAYERS/ RELIEFS SOUGHT
Sir, based on the foregoing, we therefore, solemnly ask for the folling:
1) A local government be created that would comprise all Ika speaking communities scattered in Orhionmwon, Uhunmwode and Igueben LGAs of Edo state. Some of the Ika speaking communities in Edo stateinclude:
Orhionmwon LGA —-Igbanke, Iru, Ohezenaka, Otobaye, Ugbeka
Uhunmwode LGA —– Oghada
Igueben LGA ——- Ekpon

2) Where, for any reason, creation of a local government area that would consist all Ika speaking communities is not in the immediate possible or feasible, we therefore ask that Igbanke be severed from Edo state and merged with our kiths and kins in Ika south local government area in Delta state.
3) The people of Igbanke should be seen, recognized and accepted as Ika people residing in Edo.
4) That Igbanke people, based on our forceful membership of Edo state, reserved the natural and inalienable right to decide, at any time, either to continue our membership with the Binis in Edo state or join our Ika kiths and kins in Delta state.

CONCLUSION
Igbanke is an Ika speaking community in Orhionmwon local government, Edo state
We, the people Igbanke are gradually losing our linguistic and cultural identity as a result of our forceful membership with the Binis through conquest.
If urgent measures are not taken, our linguistic and cultural identity would sooner than later go into sudden extinction. In order to avoid the impending extermination of our race, we therefore, ask that a local government area be created that would consist of Igbanke and other Ika speaking communities in Edo state.
Alternatively, if local government creation is not feasible or possible, Igbanke, should therefore, be severed from Edo state and merged with Ika south local government area in Delta state.


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Deadlytruth:
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What I discover here is that you are not stable. Those Yoruba soldiers interviewed in your links obviously wanted to please igbo readers like you hence deliberately avoided mentioning the fact that Nigeria's 1960 constitution was okay and working fine but that Aguyi Ironsi and the same Ojukwu were the first to mutilate it only for Ojukwu to later begin to seek a reversal to the status quo ante through his Aburi Accord proposals.
. Now you yourself have confessed that many Yorubas fought on Biafra's side. So there were these many Yorubas who fought on the side of Biafra yet you Igbos still so much insult Yorubas and call them names like cowards, saboteurs, etc? Then it means you people are incurable ingrates. On the other hand common sense should have told you that the other few Yorubas who fought against Biafra did it as a matter of personal conviction and not on behalf of all Yorubas as you now want everyone to believe. In fact from my reserch I found out that the Yorubas who fought together with Igbos for Biafra far outnumbered the ones who fought against it. Now, in the philosophy of democracy such should naturally translate to mean that Yorubas supported and defended Biafra. But Igbos have taken the action of a tiny minority of Yorubas as representative of the whole against the majority which were on their side. Is that the kind of tribe you want any other tribe in Nigeria to identify with in future and lend support to in their current quest for Biafra and restructuring? A tribe that will forever remain ungrateful because of the action of one person when even 99 others were on their side? Then something is clearly wrong with those people. I think Igbos urgently need introspection. Even God hates ingratitude.
That means Yorubas are even being falsely accused of scuttling Biafra. Well, that serves Yorubas right because Yorubas always bent too much backwards to accommodate and please Igbos even though they knew Igbos never really loved them. Every tribe has now learnt never to carry another's burden more than the owner, thus each tribe is now back to their tent and answering their father's name. No more Southern interest. All people to themselves!
Let me now cure your Ignorance. Uneme-Nekhua is not a tribe but a single settlement within the larger Edo tribe. I see you have been fooling yourself thinking Uneme-Nekhua is a tribe of its own despite that from the beginning I was proud to state it and explain it to you that I am from Uneme-Nekhua. This is a town located 8km SSE of Ibillo where vehicles enroute Abuja from/to Lagos make an important turn in direction.
..Enahoro -An Ishan himself - working with Igienumah, also proposed the secession clause which was not necessarily aimed at breaking up Nigeria but aimed at helping to instill the fear of the consequences of misgovernance in all our future leaders whoever they would be and whichever part of Nigeria they might come from.
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But your "One-Nigerianist" elites led by Zik denounced these proposals of theirs and called them tribalists for these farsighted contributions that would have forestalled today's recurrent and intractable bloodshed and set Nigeria on the path to world economic and military power status. With that Zik and his ilk set Nigeria on the reverse gear and inspired our young military men with unitary system which got introduced by Ironsi and perpetrated by Ironsi, Gowon, Murtala, OBJ, Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Abdulsalam, OBJ, Yaradua and even Jonathan.
Now be sincere and proud enough to name your own village or hamlet, describe its location as I have done of mine,..
I am waiting.

"If-I'm-not-sure-I'll-make-it-alone-then-let-us-all-stick-together-and-see-if-we-could-make-it-together-in-a-jealous-tribalistic-wicked-painful-way." 

"In one Nigeria we all remain. We will never allow you go..."
- The Notorious Deadlytrash of NL

You can see that you've been largely unstable in your ways. You're seriously experiencing some short-ciruits somewhere in your brain. It was you that mischievously hyped on the January 15, 1966 as Igbo coup. Having exposed your wicked lies against the Igbo Nation you now capitulated with your tail in between your legs.

You remained pained that a great Igbo people could look the enemy's eyes and say "enough is enough" while you and your inconsequential, criminal Uneme-Nekhua people hid under your beds looking for opportunities to trade off the lots of the better South to satisfy your slave masters.

Before you digress from the nitty-gritty, you must not forget that self-determination remains an inalienable right of any people.

Igbos are not interested in sharing a country with hypocrites in Uneme-Nekhua enclave who are confused about what they stand for. Igbos have nothing in common with you and your inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua people. You're better off in OduaArewanistan republic.

And the earlier you stop lying to yourself and acknowledge the real situation on ground the better for your survival.

Your readership needs your answers to these questions bothering the January 15, 1966 coup which you claimed to be Igbo coup:

1. Explain why Awolowo was spared in that coup.
2. Explain why Enahoro was spared in that coup.
3. Explain why Yorubas like Ademoyega, Fola Oyewole took part in that January coup.
4. Explain why the coupists also killed Col. Unegbe, an Igboman.
5. Explain why the coupists didn't kill Aminu Kano.
6. How many Igbos/Easterners were in Ironsi's brief tenure?
7. Did Aguiyi Ironsi appoint an Easterner to govern the Northern region or Western/Midwestern regions?
8. Did Aguiyi Ironsi move the Federal Capital territory from Lagos to Umuahia?
9. Did Aguiyi Ironsi increase Eastern region from 1 of 4 to 19 of 36 States or even encroached the boundaries of other regions to grab their lands?
10. Did Aguiyi Ironsi overthrow a government and began jailing his supposed enemies?


Taking a critical look at your spicy narration, you still could not cover up the great evils of Uneme-Nekhua clan and their Edo folks which has brought untold drawbacks to the progress of the better South. Your perpetual ass-licking stance still rings aloud in the polity.

You expect the Igbo Nation to pat you and your bloodthirsty Yoruba partners in crime who positioned themselves in airports and railway stations hounding and killing off innocent Eastern passengers.

Aguiyi Ironsi never destroyed regionalism; he merely centralised government to checkmate the anarchy at that time which is purely military way of givernance. All the 4 Regions were intact with fiscal responsibility and resource control until Ironsi was killed by Danjuma and his Northern brothers whom Ironsi entrusted and delegated various government functionaries to.

It was Gowon who abolished the regions in July 1966. But in January 5 Ojukwu pushed for a Confederation which was agreed to and signed by Gowon with the Edo, Yoruba and Northern representatives in Aburi, Ghana. The confederal system of government was
better than the regionalism Yorubas and their Edo cohorts claim Ironsi destroyed.

When Gowon reneged on the Aburi Accord not one Edo elite or the treacherous Yoruba leader stood up to the Nottherners. Instead they colluded with their Northern masters to entrench unitary rule.
Today, the same Yorubas are demanding the restructuring of the country and enthronement of fiscal federalism, the very thing Ojukwu got in Aburi, Ghana about 50 years ago in January 1967, which the Edos and Yorubas helped to scuttle.

https://www.nairaland.com/273382/turn-nigeria-into-nation-federations-18-region-structure-enahoro-2009
This the notorious Enahoro who this confused Uneme-Nekhua minion has been bragging with. This Enahoro was the same hypocrite who colluded with his Northern masters to frustrate the lots of the better South in the 1960s. At just the tail end of his life on earth he began to clamour for restructuring of this country - the same idea he contributed in destroying just to get a few crumbs from his slave masters.

https://www.nairaland.com/3233317/nigerias-present-economic-situation-worse-than-biafra-war-aregbesola

https://www.nairaland.com/3194778/nigerias-sovereignty-negotiable-says-soyinka

https://www.nairaland.com/3190608/afenifere-claims-nigeria-failing-yoruba-nation

https://www.nairaland.com/3160228/unless-restructure-nigeriall-not-know-peace-okorounmu

https://www.nairaland.com/3228027/epic-adivice-pmb-twitter-user-jide-ogunleye-forget-2019

https://www.nairaland.com/3154645/yoruba-elders-accuse-buhari-marginalizing-south-favouring-north

https://www.nairaland.com/3152861/ekiti-drags-buhari-before-us-uk-amnesty-intl

https://www.nairaland.com/3143034/people-todays-event-calls-serious-concern

May 30, 2016: https://www.nairaland.com/3136719/no-confab-report-no-nigeria-falae-insists

A sensible Yoruba, Lawani, calling for the division of the country and the creation of Oduduwa - https://www.nairaland.com/3132453/nigeria-economic-diversification-rhetoric-divide-the-country

Ojukwu came up with the confederation idea and proposed it in the Aburi Accord of January 4 and January 5, 1967, which was agreed to and signed by the parties involved only for enemies of progress - the greedy Edos and Yorubas to push for its non-implementation till date.

From the time of the first coup of January 15, 1966 and Aguiyi Ironsi becoming the head of state to January 5, 1967 of the Aburi Accord is not up to a year! Even if you mischievously used Nigeria Independence day of October 1, 1960 as your base line to January 5, 1967 of the Aburi Accord, what you get is 6 years and 3 months.

So where exactly did you get your fraudulent 50 years that you stated took Igbos to realise the evils of the Unity system of government? You most likely, cunningly
based the date in the region of year 2010. You've failed woefully in Nigeria politics, history and geography. And now in simple arithmetic. Infact you're completely useless in estimating values and indeed poor in Economics.

In 1972 Gowon with the support of Awolowo enacted and enforced the Indigenization decree which led to the collapse of the Nigerian economy.
To add insult to the festering injury a Yoruba man, Olusegun Obasanjo, promulgated the Land Use Decree (now Land Use Act) in 29th of March, 1978.

By the provision of the Land Use Decree of 1978, the inhabitants of the oil producing communities were turned into squatters in their own ancestral homes, as land where oil is explored, produced, transported and stored were decreed to belong to the state long after political independence in 1960. The existence and application of the Land Use Act of 1978 contributed to the present state of neglect, under-development and the insecurity of the region.


Not satisfied with what you've written by yourself about the contributions of Edo elites to the upliftment of this country you dived into a dangerous terrain of eulogising the notorious tribalist in the world - the Yorubas.

It's the same Yorubas who the current Emir of Kano, SLS, expressed in an article that "YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA". He continued, "Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other "nationalities"...
I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys."

Balarabe Musa maintained and stated that, "... the Yoruba political leadership has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude."

As if that wasn't enough, just recently, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, the current Chairman of the Northern Elders Council, NEC, said that the Yoruba tribe are too treacherous to be trusted as they are unstable in their ways. 

Give credit to Nnamdi Azikiwe who engineered the carving out of Midwest from the West, to save igbos in Anioma from the treacherous Awolowo and his Yoruba people.

The Mid-Western Region was a division of Nigeria from 1963 to 1991, from 1976 being known as the Bendel state. Bendel State was divided into Delta State and Edo State in 1991.

It was formed in June 1963 from Benin and Delta provinces of the Western Region, and its capital was Benin City. 

The Edos and Edoids are known for their barbaric acts; not forgetting how they connived with their slave masters and went from house to house fishing out Aniomas for executions. Till date they are still bloodthirsty.

In the Nigeria of today the Edos and Edoid groups are no force to reckon with and are just too insignificant in the larger scheme of things, to exert any influence.

Edos and Edoid groups still exert their pre-colonial subjugation and wickedness as being seen in the plight of the Igbanke people.

AWOLOWO AND ENAHORO 1962 COUP PLOT

"...Chief Awolowo knew the Nigerian political terrain very well, and the personalities, inside out, yet he played a key role in the break-up of the AG.

As if this was not enough, Chief Awolowo got himself dragged into an attempt to change the Federal Government by violent means, at a time when he was leading the fastest growing political party in the country, with a decisive national spread, and considerable support in all the three regions. 

As one of the leaders of the AG who was also a leading actor, deeply involved in the conspiracy with Chief Awolowo and Chief Enahoro, late Mazi S. G. Ikoku, stated in a conference held in Kaduna in 1993, that they were planning the overthrow of the government by force. This confession of S.G. Ikoku has been published in a book titled, Inside Nigerian History, edited by Drs. Bala Usman and George Kwannashie and was published by the Presidential Panel on the History of Nigeria Since Independence, Ibadan, under the chairmanship of Professor Tekena Tamuno. This is how on Monday 7th June 1993, S. G. Ikoku responded to a question on the civilian coup attempt led by Chief Awolowo in 1962 in which he too was actively involved:

“All I can tell you in all honesty is that we were fed up with the way the Nigerian system, the Nigerian state and the Nigerian government were operating, we were deeply committed to a change of government and we saw that waiting for elections would not produce any solution to the problem… 

This is what we did. We started preparations for it and the preparations had gone very far and I believe we would have pulled it off. But unfortunately for us, our leader [Chief Awolowo] was so kind to the Nigeria Police that he had a police informant among his planners and so the police knew every move we were making. And so it was easy to trip us up. Well, after the act, people have been saying, there was no coup because we went to court, there was no plan to overthrow the government. Naturally, if you catch me over a coup plot and take me to court, I have to enter a plea of not guilty, I did not do it. This is normal. But then the whole thing has blown over. We served our term. We have been granted pardon, we have been rehabilitated, our leader even became the number two citizen in the country. I felt it was time to tell the country the truth, so that our history would be correct. So, all I am saying is that, yes, there was an attempt to overthrow the government. Yes, I took part in the attempt. Yes, it failed. ” (Inside Nigerian History, pp. 43-44)

No one, including Chief Anthony Enahoro, has come out to deny this confession by S. G. Ikoku."
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wirinet:
Here we go again with your taking panadol for another man's headache. What concerns you with the ass we lick? Did we come to igbo land to ask for help?

Isn't it ironic, you say In this modern age of information no sane person can be forced into in a relationship he/she isn't interested in, it at the same time you are claiming to forced into a relationship with Nigeria, and asking for freedom. are you claiming to be insane?

You people with your director have insulted everybody that disagreed with your hate filled messages. This is a statement from IPOB insulting a whole former governor and a leader of akwa ibom state.

It was this insultive statement from IPOB that necessitated your sister to open this thread to apologize on behalf of igbos to Obong Victor Attah and the people of Akwa ibom state.

What kind of busybody or insanity is this? Are you that slow to term blabbing and supposedly educated to mean insulting SS leaders? Something must definitely be wrong with your thinking faculty.

Indeed, when a people out of cowardice pledges allegiance to slavery, the choice of freedom of expression becomes an aberration! 

I'd advice you go examine your mental state for immediate cure.

Stop exhibiting slave mentality because you dread to be left behind with your Fulani masters in OduaArewanistan republic. You don't expect the Igbo Nation to continue to subsidise the vassalage, delusion and obliviousness of Itsekiri people.

If Itsekiris are worth reckoning with they would be up and doing challenging the evils in the land and the marauding herdsmen who maim and kill Delta indigenes for fun. But they would rather lazy around strategising on how to frustrate and betray their Delta counterparts for a morsel of bread.

Do well to channel your negative energies towards your masters who have been plundering your land for decades to better their greedy elites, region and religion.

It's only cowards that leave the substance to chase shadows.

And for the records, Igbos are not interested in Itsekiris. Itsekiris should take their frustrations to OduaArewanistan republic and leave Igbos alone.

Deadlytruth:
No genuine Urhobo person would deny Bini Origin. Only an Igbo man disguising as Urhobo would do so out of ignorance or mischief. However you have refused to answer my questions on why Zik and Igbos wanted a unitary and "detribalized" Nigeria against the dictates of his Anthropology profession. Is it that you have no answer to it but quietly acknowledging that Igbos were never sincerely pursuing a just and equitable Nigeria but a "One-Nigeria" where they'll rip all others off?

Highlight the meaningful contributions of Uneme-Nekhua people to the progress of this country.

Enumerate the inputs any Uneme-Nekhua elite to the Nigeria Independence.

Mention the Uneme-Nekhua elites who attempted to salvage this contraption from heading to the rocks.

Explain how the Uneme-Nekhua elites have countered the maiming and killings of your kinsmen for fun for decades by the marauding herdsmen.

Try and engage the stuff between your ears for a good result this time around and stop being clever by half.


HOW NIGERIA'S BREAKUP IN 1966 WAS SCUTTLED BY MIDWESTERNERS - Umaru Dikko
https://www.nairaland.com/233153/north-would-have-regretted-nigerias-break-up-in-1966-Umaru-Dikko

HOW ABURI ACCORD OF JAN 1967 WAS SCUTTLED BY MIDWESTERNERS, LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR - Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole
https://www.nairaland.com/2854914/why-fought-side-ojukwu-biafra-fola-oyewole

THE ACTION OF ENAHORO IN SCUTTLING THE CONFEDERATION PLAN - Tanko Yakassai
http://nigerianpilot.com/restructuring-calls-fears-igbos-yakassai/

FEMI ADESINA - Friday March 02, 2012
"...As his earthly remains are interred today, it is tragic that Nigeria is still submerged in the morass that Ojukwu already identified about 45 years ago. Today, bombs go off like firecrackers in the country... [size=13pt]Didn’t Ojukwu warn of these landmines ahead? Were all these issues not already settled at Aburi?[/size] Foremost journalist and media administrator, Akogun Tola Adeniyi, in a recent media interview, explained the Aburi Accord this way: “Let every region be semi-autonomous and develop at its own level.” Yes, that was the spirit and letter of Aburi, but which sadly became a road not taken. And is that not why we are still suffering today, living in a rickety and decrepit country that can burst at the seams any moment? I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country. Pity. But whether we like it or not, there’s no way we won’t return to Aburi. Willy-nilly. I only hope it will be sooner than later, before Nigeria goes to grief. On Aburi I stand.

Federal Government was perfidious and duplicitous on Aburi. It is still the same way today. That is why as Nigerians, we are most times disillusioned, dismayed, dispirited, dejected and depressed. When will change come to this land? Our hearts are getting weary.

Last December, I wrote that Ojukwu should be buried like a hero. I’m glad at the rites of passage so far, culminating in the interment today. Yes, bury him like a true hero. An icon, an avatar, deserves no less. This generation will surely not see another like Ojukwu. He fought not only for his own people, but for a true federation founded on justice, fair play, equity and rectitude... Adieu the Ikemba, the Eze Igbo Gburugburu. May your soul rest in peace. Ka nkpur’obi gi zue ike n’adukwa."

- Femi Adesina, current special adviser on media and publicity to PMB
Source: http://www.euphemiaudanoh.com/2016/06/federal-governments-violation-of-aburi.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&m=1


RevDesmond.Juju post:
"When the struggle was on they were busy doing ashewoe conductor for their sisters and aunties in Europe.

Forget Edo people generally.

They were the ab0kis of the old Bendel.

After Delta was carved out they have remained permanently in the bronze age."


Rev.DesmondJuju post:
"Those who live in glass houses dare not throw stones.

Your women are disgracing African women in Spain and Italy. And una don begin enter Dubai to do ashewoe work

Edo girls are in brothels in Mali of all places.

School una no gree go again. Handwork una no gree Learn. Nah to go obodo oyibo dey do ashewoe work or if nah man to do ashewoe conductor.

Who no get sister go claim asylum dey draw welfare. Una guys dey Germany dey wait collect 700 euros per month, dey marry una grand mama or dey retail drugs for less than minimum wage. single hustle una no get.

At least Yoruba boys dey hold credit card runs, ibo boys dey ship in winter for Europe but wetin una dey do? Nothing!

Biggest pay check for edo  nah either ashewoe madam by selling your own sisters into sexual slavery or una boys go find una granny marry.

If I speak lie make I die.

I jam una for Niger border in 2007 where I went on a 5 country tour. Nah so Niger border guards dey use una dey do Yeye.
I entered the immigration hut to stamp my passport and when the Niger immigration man insisted I give him something before he gives me back my passport I holler for the ediot in pidgin. That is when your edo sisters and brothers struggling to pass common Niger border enter Burkina Faso knew I was Nigerian and from ND. See begging for money to drink water. I told them to go back that the desert is no joke and that since they intend passing through Mali to Europe via Algeria they should know there is a war in South Algeria

Them no even send me. Their eyes where set on Europe. No education, no skill whatsoever but them won enter Europe. I prayed silently that I hope the desert kills them or the Islamists in Algeria kill them all and if they escape that they drown in the Mediterranean sea.

Edo dey fall hand no be small.

Any time I enter Europe and I hear an edo ascent I deny 9ja. But if I see these same useless Tajus here on NL I go see holler dem but as for una no way.

You edo people need to be banned from travelling abroad"

wirinet:
Good, then you igbos should leave others alone and resolve your Biafra issues. Stop attaching South South to every statement you make concerning south east, and stop insulting south south leaders that refused to be coarsed into your biafra ambitions.

Mr Itsekiris, stop insulting the sensibility of Igbo Nation with your wild allegations. Igbos are not interested in lazy bigots who are barely surviving by constant ass-licking of their slave masters.

In this modern age of information no sane person can be forced into in a relationship he/she isn't interested in.
Face OduaArewanistan republic where you're highly needed and leave the Igbo Nation alone, including those in SS.

Right now and here provide such evidence of where IPOB insulted SS leaders.

wirinet:
Igbo man, it is you people that drag other people into your matter. That is why the OP who happens to show high intelligence opened this thread. She is advicing you to stop dragging other people into your matter.
Nobody is contesting your inalienable rights to self determination, but you can not also determine the rights of others to how they wish to determined themselves.

Fight for your Biafra in a sane and logical way, you will be surprised on the number of people that will support you.

The Igbo quest for nationhood is strictly for hardworking achievers and goal-getters. Igbos therefore don't need Itsekiris. Itsekiris are better off with Yorubas in OduaArewanistan republic.

No sane man can be coerced or dragged into a union or relationship which he detests. If there's nothing you learnt in school you should at least know that you've got freedom of association. Go utilise yours.
Leave Igbos alone and go take care of your home problems and the marauding herdsmen pillaging, ravaging and raping your country people.

wirinet:
Who is demanding a referendum? Why should an igbo man or woman for that matter demand for a referendum for another tribe? Are the various tribes o south south incapable of demanding for a referendum for themselves? If biafra is not for igbos alone, show me one minority tribe that has indicated an interest to join biafra.

Itsekiri man, you always want to show yourself on Igbo/IPOB matter.

You need to know that self-determination remains an inalienable right of ANY people. You've got freedom of association and so channel your negative energies towards Nigerdelta republic, OduaArewanistan republic or Nigeria.

Stop creating unnecessary attentions for yourselves.
Igbos don't need you and your people.

shaqhead:
I admire your courage to take up your folks who will rather peddle insults than engage in intellectual discourse on such a matter!

There was a BREXIT recently and not one insult was peddled. No one set up a pirate radio station to insult everyone imaginable- even those that will be instrumental for pushing for a referendum for them that want to seceed!

When you have insulted even World leaders, n u still want them to speak up for you? Wrong!

There are Hausas/Yorubas/other tribes in their numbers (E.g Soyinka) who left to them will gladly let the igbos go but to them EVERYBODY is an "animal in a zoo"!

There are Igbos in their numbers who dnt believe in this agitation not because of the fear of a repeat of the Civil war but because of the way it is mishandled with this puerile disposition to its conversation!

The annoyin thing both on and offline is whenever some1 expresses a contrary opinion, all they got is slurs in their arsenal waitin to deploy!

How has that helped the cause?

How has all this help to galvanise HOME support for the agitation talk more of international support?

Isnt it time this folks take stock of the non-effectiveness of this modus operandus?

Like I once asked a fellow who went mute on this:

What is the total population of the US gay population? How dd dt community gain legislative endorsement?

Simple, they made friends in every sphere influence e.g sports, movies, presidency e.t.c and this engineered an open conversation about their position!

Biafra is dead on arrival if the agitators cant even make us have a civil and open conversation about Biafra! This is the first step not this "playing the victim emotional rhetorics" we hear every now and again! By this I mean is there a broad based support even from their elders and elites? This are the folks that bring about a mainstream conversation about Biafra not all this old boys tying biafra wrapper?

Brexit ddnt just happen....there was a CONVERSATION then CONSIDERATION before CONSENSUS was achieved...this took time!

To all those thay think if it gets bloody it wl get easier i want to remind you that we are in the 21st century not just PERSISTENCE will win BUT INTELLIGENT PERSISTENCE and that's is not seen ir heard from them.

If you still think bullets puncturing monalisa on walls will get you out of this zoo, i wl advice you to go read about the Tamil Tigers who have been at it for 30years plus and they havnt gotten an inch closer to their aim!

Lastly Let me say that if it was the yorubas who were agitating by now they wd have gotten their way or wd have been pretty close without the needless bloodshed! I say this not because I dnt believe the Igbos are not capable of taking this route but because I believe the whole agaitation has been hijacked and the restructuring they seek should start from within them!

Welldone Adaure4ever!

IF IT WAS YORUBAS WHO WERE AGITATING BY NOW THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THEIR WAY... WITHOUT THE NEEDLESS BLOODSHED!
- shaqhead

This lie is highly insidious to ignore before another shaqhead picks it up and repeat same...


Igbos don't need Yorubas and their cotravellers in any capacity. Yorubas who cannot even cater for the downtrodden in their midst have no good advice to offer Igbos.

Rather than keep pokenosing into Igbo quest for nationhood the 'Biafr* is dead soothsayers and sorcerers' of Yorubaland should channel their energies towards saving their land and people from the Fulani marauders who have been pillaging, tramping, and ravaging Yorubaland for decades.

Yorubas should first find a purpose to live and then find an idea they can live and die for.

In the1960s, immediately after Nigeria's independence, the SW region was aflame with Awolowo vs Akintola political fight which blossomed into the 'Operation Wetie' with great arson, maiming and wanton destruction of lives and properties.

Remember that soon after the civil war you lots connived and robbed Easterners of their hard earned money in banks and gave £20 to only those who could prove they had bank accounts.

Yorubas used the stolen funds to buy up the numerous companies established by the colonial masters, looting the companies and rendering them bankrupt. And that was the beginning of the collapse of the Nigerian economy. Till date the Nigerian economy is yet to recover from Yoruba sheer recklessness.

If Yorubas are unfortunate to have their own country the Muslims and Christians, Ijebus, Ibadans, Ekitis are more likely to live like cats and mice. Many Afonjas are ready to betray their people to their Fulani masters for a pot of porridge.

Yorubas are just too scared of Nigeria's disintegration because they will lose their object of unity - The Igbo Nation. And being a tribe of anger, hate and propaganda, they would soon channel that hatred towards each other as in the days of old in the Kiriji wrestling match.

Mallam Adamu Ciroma had this to say about Yorubas incapability to live in harmony with themselves:

"By the time the Europeans came, even the Yoruba people, did not even learn how to live with each other, they were fighting and all over the north, they were fighting everywhere, there were tribal wars."
I just remember only recently the Yoruba leaders said they want to break, break from where. The Yoruba are probably the people who economically enjoy Nigeria more than anybody, economically. So why are they going?"

When a people out of cowardice pledges allegiance to slavery, the choice of freedom of expression becomes an aberration! 

According to Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, the Chairman of the Northern Elders Council, NEC, the Yoruba tribe are too treacherous to be trusted as they are unstable in their ways.

Here's what Balarabe Musa has to say about Yorubas:
"... the Yoruba political leadership has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude."

Remember what SLS stated about your cantankerous tribe, "YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA".

"The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention...

When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.

Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which failed to meet minimum requirements for registration, but was registered all the same to avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-registration, given the area-boy mentality of South-West politicians. Having rejected an Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election as a fraud in court, we now find a leading member of the AD in the government, a daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador, all appointed by a man who won the election through fraud...

For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated this country with stories of being marginalised and of a civil service dominated by northerners through quota system. The Federal Character Commission has recently released a report which shows that the South-West accounts for 27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the civil service leaving the other five zones to share the remaining 70%. We find the same story in the economy, in academia, in parastatals. 

Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba complained and complained of marginalization. Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit the South-West after June 12, the rest of the country forced everyone out of the race to ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often against the best advice of political activists.

Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other "nationalities" that they ( who after all lost the election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has made such utterances.

To further show that they were in charge, they led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu, murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened. In the violence that followed, they killed several Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to respect the culture of their host communities. This would have continued were it not for the people of Kano who showed that they could also create their own Oro who would only be appeased through the shedding of innocent Yoruba blood. 
I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys."

Deadlytruth:
Really?! Igboid that exited after contradicting himself by first claiming that it was Ojukwu that released Awolowo and later claiming that Awolowo was released by the North to crush Biafra? And Mr. 666 who has not been able to really address any issue raised but has kept on shedding crocordile tears about Zik's prophesied NPC-NCNC-Biarewanistan Republic?
Secondly, how many times have we too told you ibo lots, that Eastern Region ended years ago. You stand by your Bleep self..stop shouting Eastern Region and dragging Bayelsa, River, Akwa Ibom and Cross River to una bullshit.

Can you see your hypocrisy above? So you did not even notice the various comments in which your own brother Mr. 666 has kept on tying Edo/Delta together as Midwest in his claim that we alone were able to stop Igbos, Yorubas and Hausa-fulanis from exiting Nigeria in 1966 and also killing Aburi Accord of ibos in 1967? You must have selective sight.
Well, all Edolites and Deltans are both Benin Kingdom emiigrants thus you can't really separate them. Moreover Edo is not asking for secession let alone drag Delta along. Neither is Delta asking for any and dragging Edo along. But the Eastern minorities have no common migrational origin with ibos yet ibos are even the ones dragging unrelated peoples into their biafra shit. Very pathetic hypocrites!

Miserable devil's incarnate from Uneme-Nekhua criminal clan, do well to provide such posts where I hyped on the so-called Zik's prophesied NPC-NCNC-Biarewanistan Republic. You really clueless on what to write and so decided to concoct some more lies to attempt to deflect the impending doom at your doorstep.

The Notorious Deadlytrash of NL, stop forming any familiarity with anything Igbo. You're not needed in Igbo gathering. Edo was simply used to complete SS. Edo is geographically and culturally not SS. Edo is more or less SW.
Edo and Yorubas can be considered one; joined together by Oduduwa who sent his son Eweka to bring Ife superior civilization to the Binis.

Pvt.Parts post:
"You must be a yoruba bini armed robber.

I am from Delta and Urhobo.

Edo has better chance joining kogi than Delta abi you don forget why we wanted to split from old Bendel before?"

kropotkin2:
You can only rant on the internet. Your fate will still be determined till your very last breath from Abuja

You and your deluded generation of backst*bbers shall continue to whine, weep and wail on every available media page at the mere mentioning of Biaf... or NK till you meet your Waterloo...sooner than later.

kropotkin2:
Ok o. Just don't start anything you cant finish. Nigeria will go to war and crush any threat to her territorial integrity. We crushed boko haram, is it your silly IPOB we cannot handle?

When did deluded IPOO minion start caring for the same Igbos your murderous Yoruba folks didn't think twice in 1967-70 before joining their Northern masters to almost wipe out Igbos and Easterners from the surface of the earth?

Shove your your silly rants down your smelly rear orifice. Igbos careless about your evil scheming. And go save your hopeless people from starving to death. That should be your priority and not another's quest for nationhood.

Victorvexz:
Lol, una no get liver, waiting for others to do the job while u all watch and claim some victory, just the way u all celebrate avengers pipeline bombing, as if they are doing it for u biafrauds. Comparing Soviet Union with Nigeria is laughable. As the name suggests, it's a union of countries, that was why it was easy for it to disintegrate. So if u think what happened in Soviet Union will happen here, the ur dreaming. But anyways, u have to be prepared for war, coward lol

The man who can stand face-to-face with the enemy and boldly air his views is no mean man. He's no coward that had the guts to secede, not once but twice.
Surely, there are many cowards and traitors in Nigeria; the deluded Yoruba tribe is chief amongst them but the truth remains that Igbo Nation is definitely not one of them.

There is virtually no other ethnic group or region in Nigeria with as much guts as the Igbos, not even those that claimed they had a phantom empire in pre-colonial times.

NK stood and looked your Hausa-Fulani masters eyeball to eyeball while the loudmouthed tribalists from Wasteland hid under their beds. The same miserable beings from Odua Islamic Republic of Ritual-killers and Cannibals are currently making a living out of his struggle and at the same time senselessly shouting, "kill Kanu! Hang him! Shoot him!"

https://www.nairaland.com/2727742/fearless-biafrans-protest-despite-being
This is a one on one confrontation between Soldiers and Pro-Biafran protesters. The Nigerian Army tried to stop them and they resisted and the next thing was serious gunshots into the air from the soldiers, Some of them initially refused to run and I could hear a man shouting ''Kill me''....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1DRG7j3FG0

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly" - Albert Einstein

Victorvexz:
What a loser, typical Igbo supremacist, who think his tribe is better than all others. What an idiot fool, claiming Nnamdi Azikiwe and Igbo leaders was responsible for creating Nigeria, as if Igbo is the only tribe that made it possible alone. U can distort history how ever u want, but make sure u feed it to ur fellow gullible Ipob member and not me. I know Igbo are suffering from inferiority complex, so u guys have to boast and distort history to suit u so u can feel better about urself a, lol, losers, look at how they think the rest of Nigeria owes them anything, nobody owes u shit!!! foolish people

Your brain must have been exchanged with that of your slave master's cow for you to spew that trash against Igbos - your eternal nemesis.

Useless, lying bigots cashing in on another people's quest for nationhood to miserably earn a living.

Awón elenugboro! Awón onijékujé! Awón oniranu!

kropotkin2:
Nice pipe dream you have going on there. Nigeria will not disintegrate without a bloody war, so nasty that its ruins will be unfit for the foundations of your phantom Biafran republic

If Nigeria likes let it disintegrate by atomic bomb that can't stop the emerging nation. Go think about your life without free flow of crude oil wealth from another's backyard. And find a solution to bailing out your bankrupt States and your impoverished people currently being ravished by the economic crunch courtesy of low crude oil prices.

And very importantly, place that your silly talk behind your smell orifice.

Deadlytruth:
@36xtr906 a.k.a 666, you have continually refused to address the issues raised. Aburi Accord was an afterthought by Igbos when they woke up to the rude shock that they had become victims of the very unitary system they themselves forcefully introduced.
The question now is: Why did Igbos initially kick against federalism and even organize a coup by which they placed a military man in power to dismantle it when their attempt to get that done by democratic means failed?
If Zik and all Igbos had simply abandoned "One-Nigeria" and allowed Nigeria to be as many as it could be through federalism and cannonization of secession clause there would have been no need for Aburi Accord.
Igbos' advocacy of Aburi Accord was a case of returning to their own vomit.

Of course Enahoro was not billed to live by igbos' whims and caprices. All other tribes decided to teach you people a bitter lesson for ever dismantling federalism and replacing it with unitary system against public disapproval.
With 50 years of unitary system now you people have bitterly learnt that Ironsi and Zik were just dishonest and fooled you Igbos by ever advocating unitary system and forcefully introduce it into Nigeria.
The deadly truth is that without being made to learn from the practical experience of the last 50 years Igbos would not have ever been convinced that unitary system was unworkable for Nigeria even though they read it in books. If the other tribes had not taught you that bitter lesson of subjecting you to unitary system and its evils you people would by now still have been rooting for unitary system claiming, like Zik, that federalism would elevate tribalism over nationalism.
But now you have seen for yourself directly that it is even unitary system that elevates tribalism over nationalism and promotes loopsidedness in the polity, hence your voice is now loudest in asking for a return to the same federalism you people dismantled and replaced with this unitary system.
Experience, they say, is the best teacher. Thanks to Enahoro and the rest who subjected you to that ugly experience. At least in the last confab Igbos never foolishly argued again like Zik that the unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable and that federalism would promote tribalism.
However it is shameful that it took 50 years of bitter experience of experimenting with unitary system for a tribe to be convinced that federalism is actually better for us as a heterogeneous country despite the fact that members of that tribe had already read such in books. What a tribe!

[size=14pt]"In one Nigeria we all remain. We will never allow you go..."[/size]
- The Notorious Deadlytrash of NL, wailing in perpetuity at the unavoidable, impending doom and gloom at his doorstep.


It's only parasites that live on sucking other people's blood that hates being on their own. Parasites are usually the ones screaming 'One Nigerian', not because they love others, but because they can't survive without them.

https://www.nairaland.com/273382/turn-nigeria-into-nation-federations-18-region-structure-enahoro-2009
This the notorious Enahoro who this confused Uneme-Nekhua minion has been bragging with. This Enahoro was the same hypocrite who colluded with his Northern masters to frustrate the lots of the better South in the 1960s. At just the tail end of his life on earth he began to clamour for restructuring of this country - the same idea he contributed in destroying just to get a few crumbs from his slave masters.

[b]Devil incarnate, Ojukwu came up with the confederation idea and proposed it in the Aburi Accord of January 4 and January 5, 1967, which was agreed to and signed by the parties involved only for enemies of progress - the greedy, wicked and diabolic Edo witches and wizards to push for its non-implementation till date.

From the time of the first coup of January 15, 1966 and Aguiyi Ironsi becoming the head of state to January 5, 1967 of the Aburi Accord is not up to a year! Even if you mischievously used Nigeria Independence day of October 1, 1960 as your base line to January 5, 1967 of the Aburi Accord, what you get is 6 years and 3 months.

So where exactly did you dimwit get your fraudulent 50 years calculation from? Your fish brain decided to play a fast one by basing the date in the region of year 2010. Your case is indeed ridiculously irredeemable and there's nothing that can be done about it. It's a pathetic situation.
Aside being daft in Nigeria politics, history and geography, you're equally a dunce in simple arithmetic. Infact you're completely useless in estimating values and indeed poor in Economics; a good for nothing riff-raff.[/b]

Notorious Deadlytrash of NL, your endless lies and propaganda against the Igbo Nation cannot stop the raging IPOB tsunamic movement.
I honestly feel your eternal pains as you and your inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua people warm up to spend the rest of your miserable lives with your Fulani masters.

For the umpteenth time, Igbos are not interested in sharing a country with deluded and lying hypocrites in Uneme-Nekhua enclave who are confused about what they stand for.

Before I proceed further, proffer answers to these questions obout the January 15, 1966 coup asked by a concerned fellow:

1. Explain why Awolowo was spared in that coup.
2. Explain why Enahoro was spared in that coup.
3. Explain why Yorubas like Ademoyega, Fola Oyewole took part in that January coup.
4. Explain why the coupists also killed Col. Unegbe, an Igboman.
5. Explain why the coupists didn't kill Aminu Kano.


As a dimwitted bigot parading as having a good knowledge of Nigeria history, you alleged that I made the comment of Britain frightening Gowon into refusing to let Nigeria split in 1966. I have asked you to make available the post where I made the comment and you have consistently refused instead diverted to inanities to hide your cluelessness.

Explain to your readership why no Uneme-Nekhua person can be credited as having impacted positively to the progress of this country.

You have failed and refused to mention any Uneme-Nekhua elite that made any input to Nigeria Independence.

Mention any attempt by Uneme-Nekhua elites to salvage this contraption from heading to the rocks.

You have persistently failed to relay to your fans how Uneme-Nekhua elites have countered the maiming and killings of your kinsmen for fun for decades by the marauding herdsmen.

One of the main reasons you have refused to comment on the above is that you verm1ns and vagabonds have helped to destroy this entity and brought it into ruins by your perpetual ass-licking stance.

Here are the reasons you've been running helter-skelter like a headless fowl on IPOB issue: the fear of Fulanis plundering your entire land, islamisation, no free crude oil wealth and eventual low economic activities in your land once Biafr* emerges. And very importantly, you cunningly want Igbos to continue to subsidise your vassalage, parasitism and obliviousness.

You desparately want Igbos to remain in this fraudulent union so that Igbos can help you and your confused Uneme-Nekhua people wade off Dan Fodio's descendants whenever they recommence their jihad.

Wake up from your delusion, the 1966 charms of propaganda and lies against Igbos is no longer working. Your once poisonous fangs has lost its potency.

Igbos are not interested in parasites, traitors or genocide conspirators. The Igbo struggle is strictly for hardworking achievers and goal-getters, and not for lazy Uneme-Nekhua criminals who have only survived by being stooges and weak-minded fellows.

Face OduaArewanistan republic with your Fulani masters. And leave Igbos out of your home troubles.


HOW NIGERIA'S BREAKUP IN 1966 WAS SCUTTLED BY MIDWESTERNERS - Umaru Dikko
https://www.nairaland.com/233153/north-would-have-regretted-nigerias-break-up-in-1966-Umaru-Dikko
"when Gowon took over government there was a constitutional conference, people from the Northern, Eastern and Western regions came together to say which way Nigeria should go. Because, at that time, the country was in turbulence and anything could have happened.
"So, we went, some people were saying Nigeria should break up. All the regions supported the idea (of Nigeria breakup), except Midwest (now Edo and Delta states), which said no, the federation should remain and continue. We went as Northern delegation, led by Sir. Kashim Ibrahim, Governor under the Sardauna to Lagos to discuss the matter."
- Alhaji Umaru Dikko,
SECOND Republic Minister of Transport and Special Duties


HOW ABURI ACCORD OF JAN 1967 WAS SCUTTLED BY MIDWESTERNERS, LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR - Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole
https://www.nairaland.com/2854914/why-fought-side-ojukwu-biafra-fola-oyewole

Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole, 77, a Nigerian Military Officer of the Yoruba stock, fought on the side of Biafra during the ncivil war. Before then, he was, because of the first coup 50 years ago, imprisoned in Lagos and in the Enugu but was released by Lt Col Ojukwu.

He wrote his own war account too, entitled “The Reluctant Rebel”, which joined other civil war narratives like ‘The Biafra Story’ (1969) by Frederick Forsyth, ‘Why We Struck’ (1981) by Adewale Ademoyega, ‘Sunset In Biafra’ (1975) by Elechi Amadi, ‘The Nigerian Revolution And the Biafran War’ (1980) by Alexander Madiebo among others.

In this interview with Ademola Adegbamigbe and Femi Anjorin (Idowu Ogunleye snapped the photos), the retired army officer narrated what happened during the first coup, his participation in it and why he, despite being Yoruba, fought on the side of Biafra like other non Igbo officers like Lt Col. Victor Banjo, Major Wale Ademoyega and others.

Q: In what area did you take part in that coup?

A: Arrest, seize facility and others…


Q: You were at a point, according to your book, with Captain Adeleke, another Yoruba soldier, who was he?

A: He was a colleague. He is the one who said he wanted to consult the family and we were friends, we both worked in Apapa before the crisis.


"If you listen to the Aburi accord or the proceedings as a whole, you will duff your cap for Ojukwu whether he is a villain or whatever you want to call him, call him. He really dictated the pace of the discussion, he was prepared for it, he kind of put together all the things and if you listen, the moment he started talking, others kept quiet and when he finished, they will say ok ok ok. To give you a full grasp of what the theme was, you need to read the comment of the super perm sec (Akenzua) who led us to (the mess) where we are today.


THE ACTION OF ENAHORO IN SCUTTLING THE CONFEDERATION PLAN - Tanko Yakassai

"...I was an assistant publicity secretary of the party, so I know all the happenings – the action of Tony Enahoro, the boycott by northern members of house reps, the riot that followed the plan to turn Nigeria to confederation, and those who protested.”

According to him, “Only two people are everywhere in Nigeria – Igbos and Hausas. This is because Igbos are hardworking, and Hausas are everywhere because they are the only one that can do menial jobs..."

- Alhaji Tanko Yakassai
Chairman of the Northern Elders Council, NEC
http://nigerianpilot.com/restructuring-calls-fears-igbos-yakassai/


FEMI ADESINA - Friday March 02, 2012
"...As his earthly remains are interred today, it is tragic that Nigeria is still submerged in the morass that Ojukwu already identified about 45 years ago. Today, bombs go off like firecrackers in the country... [size=13pt]Didn’t Ojukwu warn of these landmines ahead? Were all these issues not already settled at Aburi?[/size] Foremost journalist and media administrator, Akogun Tola Adeniyi, in a recent media interview, explained the Aburi Accord this way: “Let every region be semi-autonomous and develop at its own level.” Yes, that was the spirit and letter of Aburi, but which sadly became a road not taken. And is that not why we are still suffering today, living in a rickety and decrepit country that can burst at the seams any moment? I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country. Pity. But whether we like it or not, there’s no way we won’t return to Aburi. Willy-nilly. I only hope it will be sooner than later, before Nigeria goes to grief. On Aburi I stand.

Federal Government was perfidious and duplicitous on Aburi. It is still the same way today. That is why as Nigerians, we are most times disillusioned, dismayed, dispirited, dejected and depressed. When will change come to this land? Our hearts are getting weary.

Last December, I wrote that Ojukwu should be buried like a hero. I’m glad at the rites of passage so far, culminating in the interment today. Yes, bury him like a true hero. An icon, an avatar, deserves no less. This generation will surely not see another like Ojukwu. He fought not only for his own people, but for a true federation founded on justice, fair play, equity and rectitude... Adieu the Ikemba, the Eze Igbo Gburugburu. May your soul rest in peace. Ka nkpur’obi gi zue ike n’adukwa."

- Femi Adesina, current special adviser on media and publicity to PMB
Source: http://www.euphemiaudanoh.com/2016/06/federal-governments-violation-of-aburi.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&m=1


N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. These hypocrites are loose cannons - uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their juju-infested enclave when the jungle matures.

Disciple of hate and propaganda, here are the members of Yoruba tribe that participated in the January 1966 coup:
(See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:

*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).

*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’

*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.

For personal studies consult the following sources of my posts: 

*http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/

*https://www.nairaland.com/334770/famous-aburi-conference-full-minute/3

* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.

* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by  Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.

* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2

* 'Nigeria’s Five Majors’ - book by Ben Gbulie

* Major General Alexander Madiebo - excerpts from his interview with National Mirror
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/13104-blame-gowon-and-awolowo-for-biafra-genocide-general-madiebo

* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega 

* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108

* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. 

* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)

* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

* http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain by the criminal 'sophisticated' tribe, even in this age of information technology.

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