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TRASH

E pain am

StOla:
Why didn't Azikiwe resume in the Western Region as a leader of opposition? Atleast he still had his single seat he won and his party was now holding minority seats when compared to the majority seat that Awolowo and his independents alliance held?

Because he only wanted to lead and not follow. So he ran back to the Eastern region and usurped Dr Eyo Ita as the Premier of that region. All of a sudden, Azikiwe remembered he had a village in the East, yet he wanted to be a Western Premier, when the North had a Northerner and the East had Eyo Ita an Easterner. Or could Awolowo have ran to the East to contest for Eastern Premier if he had failed in his Western bid like Azikiwe quickly retraced his steps?

A man who having schooled in the US and not UK like Awolowo, did not understand parliamentary system of government. He foolishly chose to partner with the Northern NPC to become ceremonial president as opposed to being executive Prime Minister in an NCNC and AG alliance. The same American education would not allow Azikiwe to agree to Awolowo's demand to have a secession clause in the constitution. America had fought a civil war to keep it's territory intact between the slave owning South and the emancipated North Yankees. While a parliamentary Britain had managed to settle for Irish separation from the UK.
In the end, it is his people that suffered for his political ignorance, and ended up fighting a civil war like the Southern Americans and lost like them.

But seriously, how can a tremendously educated Western Region have an Easterner who was only the first generation of educated Igbos as Premier? Even the poorly educated North had a Northerner. What did Azikiwe who was a Lagos politician know about the yearnings and aspirations of the Western Region?

In retrospect, Awolowo proved to be a blessing to the Western region and scored many firsts in Africa, that the rest of Nigeria had to play catch-up.

Abeg, cry me a river.

MOST OF US IGBOS HATE ZIK THAN YOU DO JUST LIKE KANU RECENTLY INDICATED.

BUT THE POINT HERE IS:

AWOLOWO INTRODUCED TRIBAL POLITICS IN NIGERIA. THAT'S THE BITTER TRUTH.

LET IT SINK IN YOUR BRAIN

reality1010:

I v said it before that in a true nigeria the yoruba man's character will be his on doing.Biafra/Nigeria will find it difficult to partner with d yorubas.Truth is coming out everyday.Honestly Yorubas should change their attitude it s shaming.

coming from the hypocritical Igbo man who hates every tribe in Nigeria because he wasn't given the chance to dominate or rule the country, see if you guys like hang yourselves we care less about whatever you have in mind.

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StOla:


Yes his party did, and he also had to contest for a seat and win before he can head the parliament.

So Zik as national leader of NCNC decided to contest for a seat in the fringes of the perimeter of Lagos city which qualified as SW and not Lagos. He won that seat and by default of party leadership would have become the Premier of Western Region where his seat was domiciled.
Yes the NCNC had majority seats, but AG was able to get the support of IPP (Ibadan Peoples Party) and other independents who for some weird reasons, NCNC had counted to be on their side.
That was how the AG alliance formed the majority government ahead of Azikiwe's NCNC.

To cut the long story short, Azikiwe jettisoned his seat in the SW and quickly made the most of some government crisis in the infant administration of Dr Eyo Ita of NCNC of the Eastern Region. The crisis was resolved in a way that Dr Azikiwe became the Premier since he was still the leader of the NCNC nationally and had managed to somehow lay claim to a seat for a constituency in that Eastern Region.

The same way Aguiyi Ironsi, in concert with the then senate President, in the 1st Republic, Nwafor Oritzu persuaded Hausa Fulani members of NPC to hand over power to Igbo military officer after the massacre of Hausa- Fulani and Yoruba military and Political leaders.

johntolu:
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Lets agree for argument sake, that Chief Awolowo brought tribalism to Nigerian politics as a result of his victory on the floor of the Western House of Assembly, in 1951, after the alleged 'cross carpeting saga,' which is a normal practice in Parliamentary system of government.
How do we describe Chief Azikiwe's 'palace coup' against an Efik man, at the Eastern House of Assembly, in Enugu, after loosing the 'battle' at Ibadan, to a Yoruba man. It could be argued that Dr. Azikiwe probably learn tribalism at Ibadan, but the sample that was used in toppling Prof. Eyo Ita from the Premiership post in Enugu, was an Igbo version.
It was the same version that was used in the Igbo civilian/military coup of 1966 that killed civilian and military leaders from other ethnic groups and spared all civilian and military leaders from the Igbo race when the Igbo race lost out in the political equation of the 1st Republic.
The party that formed the government at the center before and after independence, was a tribal party, Jihar Arewa Ta Jumhuriyar Naijeriya (Northern Peoples Congress). Ironically, it was the same Hausa-Fulani based party that gave Dr. Azikiwe, the platform to emerge as a ceremonial President in 1963.

All 3 regional leaders had elements of tribalism in them, so am not siding with anybody, Zik is neither an exception, let's all learn from their shortcomings.

Unongo still thinks that Nigeria is a "Wheel Barrow" economy and that Nigerians must remain in perpetual Bondage to those immigrants from Futa Jalon.

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Marcelo290:
All 3 regional leaders had elements of tribalism in them, so am not siding with anybody, Zik is neither an exception, let's all learn from their shortcomings.

I quite agree with you that all the 3 Regional leaders had elements of tribalism in them, but my concern is this,
the Huasa-Fulani political leaders have never pretended to be Nationalists. They are not only tribalists, they are
also intolerant of other peoples views but the Igbo race will dare not condemn and insult them the way they insult the
Yoruba Nation. I think the time has come for our leaders to borrow a leaf from the Hausa-Fulanis, in the way we engage
the Igbo Nation. They have openly displayed to us that they have formed perpetual enmity with our Nation and there is
no need playing the ostrich with them.

johntolu:
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I quite agree with you that all the 3 Regional leaders had elements of tribalism in them, but my concern is this,
the Huasa-Fulani political leaders have never pretended to be Nationalists. They are not only tribalists, they are
also intolerant of other peoples views but the Igbo race will dare not condemn and insult them the way they insult the
Yoruba Nation. I think the time has come for our leaders to borrow a leaf from the Hausa-Fulanis, in the way we engage
the Igbo Nation. They have openly displayed to us that they have formed perpetual enmity with our Nation and there is
no need playing the ostrich with them.

an eye for an eye

shekauvsbuhari:
and U think nigeria will move forward with ur way of reasoning? Igbos are far better than u in de scale of confusion.

Of course Igbos are at the peak of the confusion scale. No doubt about that

BuariCopyPaste:
May you live long for saying the truth sir. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, someone from the northern part of Nigeria has said the bitter truth.
Awolowo introduced tribalism in to Nigeria government.

His e-rats will soon come online to disagree with this old man that witnessed what Awo did.

I have said it earlier that Yorubas are the real problem of Nigeria.

Awolowo is a sage because his ideology lives on. Few days ago Dr. Paul Unongo blamed the south for northern underdevelopment and spit fire over restructuring until South develops the North. Thank God for Nairaland. Some igbos out of frustrations had insulted Seun calling him names for putting some stories on frontpage. Paul Unongo a Zikist has never claimed to be a sage, he is known in Benue (middle belt) his domain, in South West, he is just an ordinary politician as we have many sage and highly intellectual human beings with vision. This is why we have a lot of great men of God. Founders of Churches that were great prophets. Ability to see the future is spiritual. Awo is both political and spiritual.

Many young men that will hear the statement may never bother to ask the question how does it happen. Because, Yoruba cross carpeted from Zik to Awo in the Western House at IBADAN where he had majority. Oba of Lagos ask a question during the last election, he said what cannot happen in their place is what they want to do in another place. In the Vanguard interview of Dr Unongo, he said the yorubas left Zik to Awo whom they did not know because he is a yoruba man. This shows that he does not anything at all about the Yorubas. What happens to the various Yoruba youth groups abroad and locally where Awo was an active member. Can a Yoruba man lead the parliament in the East even if his grandfather died there, afterall, I spent 6 yrs in the University in the East, so, I should know. As at that time, can an Igbo man lead the northern parliament in the north?

Beacause Yoruba withdrew the support they have given to Zik in the Western parliament, so Awo introduced tribalism. Zik should continue to dominate the western parliament, then later, he can move to the North. Will that be possible in the North. You guys are wasting your time.

What Yoruba benefited from the leadership of Awo, can they get it from Zik? What the North gained from Ahmadu Bello, can they get it if they were to be led by ZIK? Yerima or the northern youth leaders should answer me. This is natural. Even in international politics, it happens. Arabs block will always vote for themselves. Asians the same. Even in Africa Union, ECOWAS it happens.

One day, you people will be given a quit notice in Lagos. I think the quit notice from the Nothern Youth has silenced Igbos and MASSOB.

StOla:
Why didn't Azikiwe resume in the Western Region as a leader of opposition? Atleast he still had his single seat he won and his party was now holding minority seats when compared to the majority seat that Awolowo and his independents alliance held?

Because he only wanted to lead and not follow. So he ran back to the Eastern region and usurped Dr Eyo Ita as the Premier of that region. All of a sudden, Azikiwe remembered he had a village in the East, yet he wanted to be a Western Premier, when the North had a Northerner and the East had Eyo Ita an Easterner. Or could Awolowo have ran to the East to contest for Eastern Premier if he had failed in his Western bid like Azikiwe quickly retraced his steps?

A man who having schooled in the US and not UK like Awolowo, did not understand parliamentary system of government. He foolishly chose to partner with the Northern NPC to become ceremonial president as opposed to being executive Prime Minister in an NCNC and AG alliance. The same American education would not allow Azikiwe to agree to Awolowo's demand to have a secession clause in the constitution. America had fought a civil war to keep it's territory intact between the slave owning South and the emancipated North Yankees. While a parliamentary Britain had managed to settle for Irish separation from the UK.
In the end, it is his people that suffered for his political ignorance, and ended up fighting a civil war like the Southern Americans and lost like them.

But seriously, how can a tremendously educated Western Region have an Easterner who was only the first generation of educated Igbos as Premier? Even the poorly educated North had a Northerner. What did Azikiwe who was a Lagos politician know about the yearnings and aspirations of the Western Region?

In retrospect, Awolowo proved to be a blessing to the Western region and scored many firsts in Africa, that the rest of Nigeria had to play catch-up.

Abeg, cry me a river.

You forgot to add that Awolowo was also a blessing to the old Midwest region (when it was still under the old Western region), as many of them benefited from his free education and health schemes in the sixties. The Delta Igbo whose homelands fell under the old Western region, (before it was carved into the old Midwest) also benefited from Awo's free education programme. Even though many of their descendants try to deny it now, the fact still remains that a large proportion of their forbears would not have received an education if not for his programme.

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Unimaginable123:
Aguiyi Ironsi plotted the first coup? Guy, as in seriously? This your fallacy is a t reasonable offense in sane countries

The 1966 Nigerian coup d'état began on January
15, 1966, when mutinous Nigerian soldiers led by
Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna killed
22 people including the Prime Minister of Nigeria,
many senior politicians, many senior Army
officers (including their wives), and sentinels on
protective duty.
The General Officer Commanding, of the Nigerian
Army, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi then used the coup
as a pretext to annex power, ending Nigeria's
nascent democracy. It was one of the events
that led to the Nigerian Civil War.

Ofemmanu1:
If you can read and understand this post, your paranoia will cease.

IGBOS in their confusion, infusion and frustration arising from pride and over estimation of themselves leading them to a series of saboteur maniac syndromes.

Igbos broadly divided other Nigerians into three broad categories. Those they hate, those they deride and those they fear. Those they hate are the yorubas whom they call traitors, tribalists and cowards. Yet no race in Nigeria have been more tribal than the lbos.

There are historical facts to prove this. If something is ten and igbos are not allowed to take 15, so that the rest of us can share minus 5, lgbos will cry marginalisation and label the rest us tribalists. However there is no race in this country that have been more accommodating of the lgbos than the Yorubas, there is no single igbo leader that did not grow up in the South West or is a beneficiary of Yoruba largesse.

Zik went to CMS GRAMMAR SCHOOL, Adolphus wabara went to AHMADIYA COLLEGE AGEGE, Ken Nnamani went to LOYOLA COLLEGE IBADAN, Ojukwu and Ekwueme went to KINGS COLLEGE, Okpara went to YABA TECH while Phillip Emegwali went to AQUINAS COLLEGE, AKURE. Even my brother Anadu went to IMADE COLLEGE OWO etc All major Igbo politicians cut their political teeth in the West. Their major religious leaders cannot thrive outside the West. Pastor Muoka, Pastor Ezekiel of Four Square and Okonkwo of TREM are examples.

I remember that after the civil WAR, Igbos who came back to ILE IFE were allowed TUITION FREE while the YORUBAS in NSUKKA were rusticated. Example is Pastor Adeboye. Yet lgbos reserve their greatest hatred for the Yorubas for reasons being that the yorubas refused to be dominated by the lbos to confront the North.

As to the label of cowardice, had there been any war between the yorubas and the lbos in which the lbos defeated the Yorubas? In the whole ancestral history of Ndigbo, which war has the forefathers or great forefathers fought? Any empire in their history? Yet the yorubas have worsted the lgbos four times in the political history of Nigeria.

As to the label of treachery, had there been any agreement the yorubas signed with the lbos and they reneged? The answer is no. Yet the yorubas have records of Igbo treachery on the two occasions they formed alliance with them. In 1964 to fight the federal election, the yorubas formed an Alliance called UPGA with the Ibos to be led by Okpara because major Yoruba leaders were in jail. There was an agreement that the election must be boycotted. The Igbos sabotaged it, went and contested election while the West kept to the agreement.

In 1979 the West went into alliance with the lbos and formed PPA - PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE ALLIANCE. Again Igbo sabotaged it so that they can produce Speaker house of Representatives. Who then is traitor? The second category are the Eastern minorities made up of present Rivers, Akwa lbom, Cross Rivers and Bayelsa. The igbos see them as subhuman with tidal brain. Until the creation of Rivers State by Gowon, no OGONI man can sleep on the hospital bed in Bori GENERAL HOSPITAL . As at 1977 only UYO ,PHC and CALABAR had electricity light. They were so underdeveloped by their Igbo overseers that you will think that you were in the Congo jungle.

Until Diette Spiff, there was no Ikwere named Street in Port Harcourt. To show how deep the derision is, the present Biafran agitatators changed the name of RIBISI (Phc) to IGWOCHA as if the IKWERES do not exist.

The third category are the Hausa Fulani. The igbos pretend to hate the Fulanis but the truth is that the Igbo man is subservient to them. Ignore the noise. There are historical facts to justify this. Zik served under BALEWA, EKWUEME served under SHAGARI and EKEREMANDU zoned the PDP presidency to the North because he wants to be the VICE PRESIDENT to a Northerner.

After the civil war and OJUKWU was granted amnesty for his rebellion against constituted authority, he returned to Nigeria and he joined the Hausa fulani party (NPN) of those he accused of genocide against his Igbo people. It is Igbo tragedy that they hate and deride those who grow and sustain them while they cringe to those(the hausas) who kick them like balls.

Igbos are the only race in nigeria that celebrate failure. In 1982, the igbos celebrated the defeat of biafra by welcoming ojukwu with fanfare on his return from asylum haven been granted amnesty by the igbo overlords- the hausa fulani. He revelled in the fanfare and promptly married FFK left over- forgotten the over 3 million lgbos that died in the war and with many of them languishing at OJI RIVER CAMP.

The second celebration is the release of kanu with the most humiliating bail conditions ever granted an accused in the annals of Nigerian justice system. A bail conditions targeted at the entire Igbo race and granted by an Hausa Fulani judge. I could not believe that with all the noise, such bail conditions will be signed. But he signed and in his eagerness to leave kuje he abandoned his two conspirators in kuje. The bail conditions wiped out the Identity of the ibos and EKEREMANDU was made the enforcer of the conditions.

FFK is a polemist like Femi ARIBISALA etc. They have the capacity to argue both sides of the same point. The igbos regard him as their hero just like Ayo fayose the Eze gburugburu the second. I hope very soon the by Igbo will not start blaming fayose as they blamed Awo for everything that went wrong with their prosecution of the biafran war. I rest.
#Akin writing from PH.

Oh my goodness! I don't know what to say. Wait first, let me read it again before I can comment.... Wey my kunu, my zobo, my groundnut and my mat? Na on top this thread I go match brake today. Hey, okada hold am there!

OgaBuhari:
TIV, Idoma, Nupe, ebira and all the minorities in the middle belt are all categorized under the Arewa Republic of Hausa Fulani.
North na North. There's nothing like middle belt in nigeria

Cut the crap, please!!

StOla:
Why didn't Azikiwe resume in the Western Region as a leader of opposition? Atleast he still had his single seat he won and his party was now holding minority seats when compared to the majority seat that Awolowo and his independents alliance held?

Because he only wanted to lead and not follow. So he ran back to the Eastern region and usurped Dr Eyo Ita as the Premier of that region. All of a sudden, Azikiwe remembered he had a village in the East, yet he wanted to be a Western Premier, when the North had a Northerner and the East had Eyo Ita an Easterner. Or could Awolowo have ran to the East to contest for Eastern Premier if he had failed in his Western bid like Azikiwe quickly retraced his steps?

A man who having schooled in the US and not UK like Awolowo, did not understand parliamentary system of government. He foolishly chose to partner with the Northern NPC to become ceremonial president as opposed to being executive Prime Minister in an NCNC and AG alliance. The same American education would not allow Azikiwe to agree to Awolowo's demand to have a secession clause in the constitution. America had fought a civil war to keep it's territory intact between the slave owning South and the emancipated North Yankees. While a parliamentary Britain had managed to settle for Irish separation from the UK.
In the end, it is his people that suffered for his political ignorance, and ended up fighting a civil war like the Southern Americans and lost like them.

But seriously, how can a tremendously educated Western Region have an Easterner who was only the first generation of educated Igbos as Premier? Even the poorly educated North had a Northerner. What did Azikiwe who was a Lagos politician know about the yearnings and aspirations of the Western Region?

In retrospect, Awolowo proved to be a blessing to the Western region and scored many firsts in Africa, that the rest of Nigeria had to play catch-up.

Abeg, cry me a river.

You are very crafty , you have called an Akwa ibomite Easterner but you have going around other Biafra thread shouting and crying that Akwa Ibom is not east and is not part of Biafra..... Yorubas are really really cunning and deceptive..... but time will tell

Babinski:
Unongo is not being entirely honest. Awolowo and Azikiwe were both members of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), the first genuinely nationalist organization in Nigeria. However, in 1941 Azikiwe backed Samuel Akinsanya to be NYM candidate for a vacant seat in the Legislative Council, but the executive selected Ernest Ikoli instead. Azikiwe resigned from the NYM accusing the majority Yoruba leadership of discrimination against the Ijebu-Yoruba members, Ibos and some Ijebu members with him, thus splitting the NYM along ethnic lines.
The same Azikiwe, would in May 1964 after being selected as the first President of Nigeria, give a public lecture on the benefits of tribalism in forging national unity  at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
What I can see from all these is that Zik himself considered ethnicity and tribalism as political tools and only hated it whenever he was at the receiving end. And I guess Awolowo also knew that.

Well said!! Some of the actions Zik took, were inconsistent with his posture as a nationalist.

GreatSE:


You are very crafty , you have called an Akwa ibomite Easterner but you have going around other Biafra thread shouting and crying that Akwa Ibom is not east and is not part of Biafra..... Yorubas are really really cunning and deceptive..... but time will tell

You are very ignorant and it is my duty to put you on the path toward enlightenment.

I reckon you are talking about Eyo Ita who was from the Eastern region as at pre-Independence and was poised to be premier of the Eastern Region before Azikiwe usurped him after he had failed in the Western Region in 1951, a period in Nigerian history of which this debate is about. Just as Anthony Enahoro, Okotie Eboh and Dennis Osadebey were all Westerners up till 1963 when the MidWest Region was carved out of the West. Infact Dennis Osadebey was once the leader of opposition in the AG dominated Western parliament in the 1950's

Or am I suppose to refer to Eyo Ita as an Akwa Ibom or Cross River or South South man as at 1951? Did such federating units or geopolitical zones exist in the 1950's.

Or should I call Eyo Ita a Northerner?

Or by your logic, I should also still be referring to a Delta Anioma or Urhobo as a South West man?

Or is Cross River or Akwa Ibom presently a South East State? Are they not presently South South states?


Bros, abeg, devote more time to Nigerian history.

shukuokukobambi:


Of course Igbos are at the peak of the confusion scale. No doubt about that

pity you lack understanding. Igbos are less confused than you. Your confusion is worse.

shekauvsbuhari:
pity you lack understanding. Igbos are less confused than you. Your confusion is worse.

What exactly do you want now? Restructuring, Biafra or ibo 2019 presidency? Tell me and prove you're not confused

checkengine:


It thugs on my heart whenever other tribe mostly the remain 2 majority (Hausa & Yoruba) accuse the Ibo's alleging they take-up all the jobs and businesses in the eastern region and also come to theirs to harass them. It will be worth mentioning that within this country of ours, Ibo's are the most travelled. They are spread all over Nigerian and don't hesitate to build and establish a noticeable presence not out of a back-hand aim to dominate, but for their own comfort.

While the Ibo's are penetrating other regions, their counterparts from other regions sat tight within their own enclave. The few that found their way to the eastern region don't do much outside the confines of whatever it was that took them there. Enugu, Owerri, Umuahia, Portharcourt, Calabar etc, all these places are emerging cities, nobody will stop a Hausa or Yoruba man from buying up properties, taking up jobs or establishing big businesses there. The people of the east have never stopped or usurped the plan of a Hausa or Yoruba man from doing business or owning properties within their region.

In conclusion, their lack of presence in the east is their making and not because they were stopped.

Without being biased I would say that the major deterrent to their presence in the east is largely due to Ibo land tenure system. Whilst this tenure system ensures that land remains within the Ibo family its largely disadvantageous to the non Ibo tribes. Even if land is granted to externals he is still made to feel that the land tenure is temporary unlike other parts of Nigeria even the South West where the omo onile operate, once they are paid their dues they vanish unlike the ibos who wouldn't consider selling due to fear of retribution from his kinsmen. I know u will probably want to mention the Nigerian land tenure system law that guarantees fair allocation of land it does not go far enough to legislate the Ibo mentality. This system ensures that the land is not pollutted by foreign culture but it also deters business investments from other tribes. I'm sure anyone who studied estate mgmt will understand.

shukuokukobambi:


The same way Ojukwu abandoned the 3 million mofos he sacrificed to his fulani masters? or the same way you abandoned ojukwu and voted instead for Yaradua in 2007? or the way Azikiwe abandoned biafra to be singing one naijeriya in lagos with his ewedu eating friends? Continue blabbing. your slavery in Nigeria has just begun

Have your unity begging elders left Borno state yet?

you have just slaughtered the Igbos

Razorblades:


A 78 years old man died in his sleep but you wont even reach 40 before kicking the bucket. Ojukwu of cursed memory died senile, deaf, dumb and cripppled. What a shame

Your God Awolowo drank Otapiapia as he ran mad with depression due to all the innocent bloods his treacherous behaviour killed. Awo the Afonja of the 20th century

RonJeremy:


Your God Awolowo drank Otapiapia as he ran mad with depression due to all the innocent bloods his treacherous behaviour killed. Awo the Afonja of the 20th century

I can see you are frustrated just like your cursed god Ojukwu of cursed memory who died crippled, blind, deaf, dumb and senile while FFK f.uck his wife in his bedroom. The animal lost 3m Ibo animals and ran away dressed like an Onitsha olosho. What a shame

Ovamboland:




IBO failure to think strategically has been their bane that got them pogrom in the north and made them play host to civil war. You always fail to take the idiosyncracies of others into perspective, it's always just what you want. You are yet to learn to give up little things for greater reward. No everything must be grabbed.

Which is why Igbos like me thought you guys would be jumping for joy at the mention of Biafra

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Ofemmanu1:


If you can read and understand this post, your paranoia will cease.

IGBOS in their confusion, infusion and frustration arising from pride and over estimation of themselves leading them to a series of saboteur maniac syndromes.
Igbos broadly divided other Nigerians into three broad categories. Those they hate, those they deride and those they fear. Those they hate are the yorubas whom they call traitors, tribalists and cowards. Yet no race in Nigeria have been more tribal than the lbos.
There are historical facts to prove this. If something is ten and igbos are not allowed to take 15, so that the rest of us can share minus 5, lgbos will cry marginalisation and label the rest us tribalists. However there is no race in this country that have been more accommodating of the lgbos than the Yorubas, there is no single igbo leader that did not grow up in the South West or is a beneficiary of Yoruba largesse.
Zik went to CMS GRAMMAR SCHOOL, Adolphus wabara went to AHMADIYA COLLEGE AGEGE, Ken Nnamani went to LOYOLA COLLEGE IBADAN, Ojukwu and Ekwueme went to KINGS COLLEGE, Okpara went to YABA TECH while Phillip Emegwali went to AQUINAS COLLEGE, AKURE. Even my brother Anadu went to IMADE COLLEGE OWO etc All major Igbo politicians cut their political teeth in the West. Their major religious leaders cannot thrive outside the West. Pastor Muoka, Pastor Ezekiel of Four Square and Okonkwo of TREM are examples.
I remember that after the civil WAR, Igbos who came back to ILE IFE were allowed TUITION FREE while the YORUBAS in NSUKKA were rusticated. Example is Pastor Adeboye. Yet lgbos reserve their greatest hatred for the Yorubas for reasons being that the yorubas refused to be dominated by the lbos to confront the North.
As to the label of cowardice, had there been any war between the yorubas and the lbos in which the lbos defeated the Yorubas? In the whole ancestral history of Ndigbo, which war has the forefathers or great forefathers fought? Any empire in their history? Yet the yorubas have worsted the lgbos four times in the political history of Nigeria.
As to the label of treachery, had there been any agreement the yorubas signed with the lbos and they reneged? The answer is no. Yet the yorubas have records of Igbo treachery on the two occasions they formed alliance with them. In 1964 to fight the federal election, the yorubas formed an Alliance called UPGA with the Ibos to be led by Okpara because major Yoruba leaders were in jail. There was an agreement that the election must be boycotted. The Igbos sabotaged it, went and contested election while the West kept to the agreement.
In 1979 the West went into alliance with the lbos and formed PPA - PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE ALLIANCE. Again Igbo sabotaged it so that they can produce Speaker house of Representatives. Who then is traitor? The second category are the Eastern minorities made up of present Rivers, Akwa lbom, Cross Rivers and Bayelsa. The igbos see them as subhuman with tidal brain. Until the creation of Rivers State by Gowon, no OGONI man can sleep on the hospital bed in Bori GENERAL HOSPITAL . As at 1977 only UYO ,PHC and CALABAR had electricity light. They were so underdeveloped by their Igbo overseers that you will think that you were in the Congo jungle.
Until Diette Spiff, there was no Ikwere named Street in Port Harcourt. To show how deep the derision is, the present Biafran agitatators changed the name of RIBISI (Phc) to IGWOCHA as if the IKWERES do not exist.
The third category are the Hausa Fulani. The igbos pretend to hate the Fulanis but the truth is that the Igbo man is subservient to them. Ignore the noise. There are historical facts to justify this. Zik served under BALEWA, EKWUEME served under SHAGARI and EKEREMANDU zoned the PDP presidency to the North because he wants to be the VICE PRESIDENT to a Northerner. After the civil war and OJUKWU was granted amnesty for his rebellion against constituted authority, he returned to Nigeria and he joined the Hausa fulani party (NPN) of those he accused of genocide against his Igbo people. It is Igbo tragedy that they hate and deride those who grow and sustain them while they cringe to those(the hausas) who kick them like balls. Igbos are the only race in nigeria that celebrate failure. In 1982, the igbos celebrated the defeat of biafra by welcoming ojukwu with fanfare on his return from asylum haven been granted amnesty by the igbo overlords- the hausa fulani. He revelled in the fanfare and promptly married FFK left over- forgotten the over 3million lgbos that died in the war and with many of them languishing at OJI RIVER CAMP.
The second celebration is the release of kanu with the most humiliating bail conditions ever granted an accused in the annals of Nigerian justice system. A bail conditions targeted at the entire Igbo race and granted by an Hausa Fulani judge. I could not believe that with all the noise, such bail conditions will be signed. But he signed and in his eagerness to leave kuje he abandoned his two conspirators in kuje. The bail conditions wiped out the Identity of the ibos and EKEREMANDU was made the enforcer of the conditions. FFK is a polemist like Femi ARIBISALA etc. They have the capacity to argue both sides of the same point. The igbos regard him as their hero just like Ayo fayose the Eze gburugburu the second. I hope very soon the by Igbo will not start blaming fayose as they blamed Awo for everything that went wrong with their prosecution of the biafran war. I rest.
#Akin writing from PH.

This Great Piece, written by Akin omo Akin, should be the Yoruba Nation's Standard Testament in our relationship with the Igbo Nation.
The only ethnic Nationality that has openly declared war with the Yoruba Nation is the Igbo Nation and there is no need denying the fact that we are at war with them.
We should all take a cue from the Eleko of Eko, Oba Rilwan Akiolu's treatment of the Igbos as the best way to deal with them in Yorubaland.
They can always relocate to their erosion ravaged villages if they are not comfortable staying in Yorubaland on our own terms.
The era of Baba Awo and his contemporaries with their British 'gentleman mentality' is gone for good. We are real African men and women, according to Baba 70 of Blessed Memory

shukuokukobambi:


What exactly do you want now? Restructuring, Biafra or ibo 2019 presidency? Tell me and prove you're not confused

and what makes U think any of those rubbish u lose sleep over is my concern?

Omoluabi daa daa

Who are truly the slaves to the north.. Yoruba or Igbo?.
Now think well with your brain and don't respond with your programmed Biafran brain ..
Yorubas the slaves never keep on crying daily that they are marginalized in their own country. yoruba's are living large , we have a president that ruled for 8years from 1999 till date . We have a sitting Vice President also . Name any Pres/VP Igbos produced and still you will keep on shouting Yorubas are slaves . I sometimes don't know the difference between the educated illiterate igbo's and the Illiterate almajiris..

Think and think and see who the real slave are.
Keep crying for your Biafra like we care in the southwest.
The reason for the hatred of the Yorubas by the Igbos is because we don't support them and they know that if the Yorubas decide to make Nigeria break today it will be a reality because we have the diplomatic approach and we are morally sound.
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shekauvsbuhari:
and what makes U think any of those rubbish u lose sleep over is my concern?

Ans: You're an ipob jew who really doesn't think things through. If not you'll not be on this thread defending nonsense in the first place

StOla:


You are very ignorant and it is my duty to put you on the path toward enlightenment.

I reckon you are talking about Eyo Ita who was from the Eastern region as at pre-Independence and was poised to be premier of the Eastern Region before Azikiwe usurped him after he had failed in the Western Region in 1951, a period in Nigerian history of which this debate is about. Just as Anthony Enahoro, Okotie Eboh and Dennis Osadebey were all Westerners up till 1963 when the MidWest Region was carved out of the West. Infact Dennis Osadebey was once the leader of opposition in the AG dominated Western parliament in the 1950's

Or am I suppose to refer to Eyo Ita as an Akwa Ibom or Cross River or South South man as at 1951? Did such federating units or geopolitical zones exist in the 1950's.

Or should I call Eyo Ita a Northerner?

Or by your logic, I should also still be referring to a Delta Anioma or Urhobo as a South West man?

Or is Cross River or Akwa Ibom presently a South East State? Are they not presently South South states?


Bros, abeg, devote more time to Nigerian history.

How does anyone fault this brilliant breakdown of the matter by my brother?

E Ku ishe jare.....omoluabi rere

shobenward:

Without being biased I would say that the major deterrent to their presence in the east is largely due to Ibo land tenure system. Whilst this tenure system ensures that land remains within the Ibo family its largely disadvantageous to the non Ibo tribes. Even if land is granted to externals he is still made to feel that the land tenure is temporary unlike other parts of Nigeria even the South West where the omo onile operate, once they are paid their dues they vanish unlike the ibos who wouldn't consider selling due to fear of retribution from his kinsmen. I know u will probably want to mention the Nigerian land tenure system law that guarantees fair allocation of land it does not go far enough to legislate the Ibo mentality. This system ensures that the land is not pollutted by foreign culture but it also deters business investments from other tribes. I'm sure anyone who studied estate mgmt will understand.

I don't understand your submission if the land tenure spelt out on the purchase receipt states 99 years just as is obtainable in other states of the federation. I am privileged to have bought land in the east and at no time have there been an encroachment or harassment from the sellers.

How do you explain that?