WetinConsignMe:


People and newspapers didn't notice the word "allowed". They are not lawyers.

logica:
You keep mentioning " people" and "newspapers". No sensible leader makes decisions based on newspaper reports. The Biafran leadership had access to Awolowo before the ill-fated push to Lagos. And he had explicitly voiced against secession. So what's the argument here?

lawani:
If they had not pushed to lagos, the secession bid may have been successful.

WetinConsignMe:

Mumu is a good word. Somewhat humorous.
Did u read what I wrote? I said his words gave that IMPRESSION

lawani:
If they had not pushed to lagos, the secession bid may have been successful.

Dedetwo:


I guess you realized that enslavement of people are not exclusive domain of Europeans. In addition, I do not know where you derived the crap that Ojukwu is epitome of Igboness. Chukwuemeka Ojukwu is not more Igbo than any downtrodden laborer of Igbo descent. I am too enlightened to even listen to idiotic fallacies from Akinjide and people of his ethnicity. By the way, do you think I give slightest hoot where any Igbo person was born? Any Igbo chap could born in Kafachan, I just do not care.

logica:
You keep mentioning " people" and "newspapers". No sensible leader makes decisions based on newspaper reports. The Biafran leadership had access to Awolowo before the ill-fated push to Lagos. And he had explicitly voiced against secession. So what's the argument here?

Vivere:

Mumu is a good word to you, right? May you remain a mumu forever then. Can I get an Amen from you?

WetinConsignMe:

If I were mumu I'd proudly admit it. Admit what u r. So what? Being mumu is not a crime. Afterall you didn't create yourself.

Vivere:

Aren't you the one going around calling other people 'mumu ', and saying it is not an insult? So why don't you want others to call you the same name?

lawani:
If they had not pushed to lagos, the secession bid may have been successful.

lawani:
Awo had already gotten the federal govt to remove northern troops from the west and would have stood by his words if not for the Biafran incursion into the west.

logica:
Exactly! Gowon had accepted most of the demands of the Aburi Accord. The agreement broke down because of "difference" in interpretation on both sides. I would think I can guess who was at fault here, when a simple "allowed" in a statement can completely confuse a particular set of people.

WetinConsignMe:


Everyone except you knows Gowon abandoned the Aburi accord once he got home. The excuse was that Ojukwu, being more educated, outsmarted him as no intellectual went with him. The chant in the East was "On.Aburi we stand!".

logica:

You keep bandying these silly Biafran propaganda full of typical arrogance laced with a huge dose of idiocy.

You can find a list of the delegates here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aburi_Accord

The problem is, you all were brought up with all kinds of silly and childish propaganda (that only children should believe) that crumble with the application of a little logic.

Please for your own sake, outgrow the silly propaganda you were fed growing up. I myself had to research and unlearn all kinds of tripe I heard of that era.

Electricdanger:


No wonder you are crying in pains on that your wheel chair. Too much hate in your dark heart, what a shame.

WetinConsignMe:


Well, the only modern country where slavery was entrenched in the law was USA. By law if u were black u were a slave until proven otherwise, not if u were Hausa or Igbo.
Ojukwu was the Ezeigbogburugburu, the ralying point, Igboness personified, yet he was more Yoruba than Igbo! Go figure!

WetinConsignMe:


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logica:

You keep bandying these silly Biafran propaganda full of typical arrogance laced with a huge dose of idiocy.

You can find a list of the delegates here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aburi_Accord

The problem is, you all were brought up with all kinds of silly and childish propaganda (that only children should believe) that crumble with the application of a little logic.

Please for your own sake, outgrow the silly propaganda you were fed growing up. I myself had to research and unlearn all kinds of tripe I heard of that era.

Dedetwo:


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WetinConsignMe:


The aim was to enbolden Awo and people in the west. Why else was Banjo of all people put in charge. And remember Banjo was in contact with elements in the west all through.

Read again:

"The activists feel that Awolowo missed the opportunity to bring the present conflict to close by coming to Ibadan and make a Western Declaration of Independence speech supported by Victor Banjo and his National Liberation Army.”

But then Banjo had his own agenda and western secession was not part of it!

logica:
Mr Man, I will not bother with any more rebuttals. The mere fact that in this day and age you will believe such a puerile fabrication like "Gowon reneged because he was outsmarted with English by the more educated Ojukwu because he did not come with learned assistants" is enough to make an informed judgement about you.

Dedetwo:


Yet you claim to be a "black man". Even your types have claimed Africans are "Black". What a folly. I guess ignorance is abyss.

WetinConsignMe:

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lawani:
You speak lightly of the incursion of strangers as a liberation army, no one would take that in their shoes! it was ordinary state creation that led to the civil war!

logica:
Monkey, go read up on Decree 8 that never saw the light of day.

WetinConsignMe:


They didn't attack them going in. But soldiers probably had to be soldiers instead of getting with the.program.
Why else do u think he chose Banjo?

WetinConsignMe:


HABA OGA! How can u be arguing something so obvious. First of all the victors wrote your "research".
Just as they wrote that Gowon freed Awo fom Calabar, something that's impossible. Even at that WIKIPEDIA of all places is where u do your research??!!!

There were people that witnessed these things.
Femi Adesina is a Yoruba man, a one-Nigeria man, a Buhari man, an Awoist.

Here is what he wrote (which everybody who witnessed the events knows fully well):

Federal Government's Violation Of The Aburi Accord Led To The Nigerian Civil War - Femi Adesina

(Femi Adesina is currently the special adviser on media and publicity to President Buhari.)

"The meeting held on January 4 and 5, 1967, and came out with what is popularly known today as the Aburi Accord.

The agenda of the meeting consisted of three crucial issues: (i) Reorganization of the Armed Forces (ii) Constitutional agreement (iii) Issues of displaced persons within Nigeria.

The two-day meeting reached consensus that were acceptable to both sides... This was something akin to federalism, even under a military government...

What does this mean again in simple language? Equity, fairness, true federalism.

Matters like the holding of an ad hoc constitutional conference, fate of soldiers involved in the January 15, 1966 coup, rehabilitation of displaced persons, etc, were also amicably resolved, and the conferees returned happily to Nigeria. Only for the Federal side to deliver a blow to the solar plexus: The Aburi Accord, Gowon said, was unworkable, and he reneged on all the agreements".

WetinConsignMe:


My friend it was not just Biafran leadership. Everybody had the impression Awo would announce if Biafra announced.

Here is proof.

Aluko on what Awo told Ojukwu:

Awolowo said, if the East left the federation, the Yoruba would have to leave the federation.

Here are Action Group, man on the street, and Americans:

“AG (Action Group) activists and the man on the street are convinced Awolowo made the statement under duress…They say Awolowo’s true position was indicated in the Leaders of Thought resolution in May, which said if any region seceded or forced out, the West would automatically become independent. The activists feel that Awolowo missed the opportunity to bring the present conflict to close by coming to Ibadan and make a Western Declaration of Independence speech supported by Victor Banjo and his National Liberation Army.”

People were trying to justify why Awo.broke his promise not if he made a promise

Here is Vanguard. The parenthesis can be infered.

Why Awo did not make West to Secede (as he promised)
VANGUARD 
26 SEP 2017

Here are some reasons given why Awo couldn't keep his "promise":

If Chief Awolowo had taken Western Region and Lagos out of the Federation at that time definitely Western Region and Lagos would have been the battle ground. And where were the troops and how prepared was he for a major war. At the time he made those declarations, officers of the Western Region in the Nigerian Army were less than 7%. At that time Lagos, Ibadan and Abeokuta garrisons were occupied by ‘northern troops’. Even the then Governor of Western Region, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo was not prepared for war. Chief Awolowo admitted on May 1, 1967 speech, that ‘We have neither the military might, nor the overwhelming advantage of numbers here in Western Nigeria and Lagos...'

So, everybody understood Awo to mean -"if Biafra secedes, so will the South West" .
His statement definitely did not mean "If Biafra secedes I will join Gowon administration and fight them"
Ojukwu and peoople in the East were partly encouraged by Awo's statements to secede.