I have said it before and it bears repeating now, the day Ndigbo and the Yoruba decide to bury the very destructive but senseless rivarly between them and forge a common front on issues of common interest, that is the day the #TheChildrenOfTheSouth and indeed the whole of Nigeria will experience a new dawn.

I have always waited for this day and as it would seem, 11th January, 2018, appears to be the day my long wait will take its last breathe for that is the day these two great peoples will gather in Enugu in celebration of their age long but almost forgotten brotherhood in a historic event tagged "HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE BRIDGE" being put together by an Igbo socio-cultural group -NZUKO UMUNNA (The Bridge Builder) under the auspices of the two Apex socio-cultural groups of both Peoples, Ohaneze Ndigbo and Afenifere.

It is the day the 'Who-Is-Who' from both sides will come together to re-ignite the unique bond examplified by their two brave sons, late General Aguyi Ironsi, the former Head of state and Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, the former governor of SouthWestern region who were both murdered in cold blood by disgruntled soldiers in the counter coup of 1966.

But beyond the euphoria of the expected brotherly HandShake between these two great Nations, the question is, was there any justifiable reason for unhealthy rivalry between them in the first place?

Has there been any record of tribal war, clashes or any form of direct ethnic confrontation between Ndigbo and the Yoruba? (The answer is No)

So why the destructive competition rather than constructive collaboration??

For ages, numberless generation of young people from both sides have been fed with the wrong account of the Civil war, an account that is replete with cherry-picked quotes, facts and figures, self-serving selectives, a basket of distortions, mis-representation, mis-quotation and mis-interpretation.

For instance, those who wish to keep us divided will always feed an average Onye-Igbo with the devilish propaganda that The Yorubas starved Igbo kids during the war while Ndigbo attacked Lagos, Yoruba-land, in a land-grabbing quest. And with these distorted war histories, our children will grow up inheriting a mutual antagonism while our region and our people will keep wallowing in socio-political/economic Egypt.

How about telling a Yoruba man that an Igbo man, Ojukwu, it was, who released Awolowo from Calabar Prison and sent a security team to escort him to his village?

How about telling an Igbo person that Adekunle Fajuyi, a Yoruba man, died with his guest, Aguyi Ironsi rather than give him up?

We owe it to both Man and God to put the wars and woes that happened five decades ago behind us and build a long-lasting mutually beneficial alliance in the interest of peace and economic emancipation of our two great peoples and the country in general.

It is for this reason that I find this event as uniquely significant as it is strategically desirable. I say a very big Thank You to NZUKO UMUNNA for conceiving and organizing such a landmark Bridge-Building event. And even a bigger Thank You to Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Uba-led Organizing Committee.

With Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the Ohaneze Ndigbo PG co-hosting with the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti and the Publicity Scribe -Yinka Odumakin and the Obi of Onitsha and Ooni of Ife as the Royal Fathers of the day, I have no doubt in my mind that the great Southern unification is nigh.

May This New Bridge Never Break!

By Charles Ogbu.

Source.

Anything for the unity of this country is a welcome development as far as I am concerned. I belong to nobody and I belong to everybody.

I will try to be mature and play gentle until, ,,,,,,,

You can never build peace on force

Betrayal between the two is imminent . Well written with helpful facts that may benefit both Yoruba and Igbo. Yet I see the BRIDGE BUILDING as waste of time and total fiasco.

The hatred between Igbos and Yorubas is very artificial.

They come online and insult each other yet they are colleagues at work and worship in same church. Buy commodities from each other.

ok

IPOBrep:
You can never build peace on force

who is forcing who
if u believe u are being forced, that means you're perpetual slaves...

vicadex07:


who is forcing who

if u believe u are being forced, that means you're perpetual slaves...

Who fired the first shot of insults? Yoruba. Very predictable.

Built2last:
The hatred between Igbos and Yorubas is very artificial.

They come online and insult each other yet they are colleagues at work and worship in same church. Buy commodities from each other.

Ok, so we hug ourselves and sing kumbaya in real life? Nice try.

Alcatraz005:


Ok, so we hug ourselves and sing kumbaya in real life? Nice try.

We do. Show me just one instance where tribalism started a fight between the two tribes?

BankeSmalls:


Who fired the first shot of insults? Yoruba. Very predictable.

lol...did I mention any names. I mentioned something about being enslaved and u already felt I was yabbing ur people.

Why is that so ironic

Who told u am Yoruba by the way? Out of the over 100 ethnic group in Nigeria, na only Yoruba came to ur mind. What if I am Hausa who Igbos also love to hate

BankeSmalls:


We do. Show me just one instance where tribalism started a fight between the two tribes?

Keep emigrating to yorubaland in droves and continue hating us at the same time and that fight you are sure wont happen would eventually occur.

Just keep emptying your region in search of greener pastures in the SW.

Alcatraz005:


Keep emigrating to yorubaland in droves and continue hating us at the same time and that fight you are sure wont happen would eventually occur.

Just keep emptying your region in search of greener pastures in the SW.

The only thing I can deduce from your comments, is FEAR and PANIC. Why are you this frightened because of Igbos?

Built2last:
The hatred between Igbos and Yorubas is very artificial.

They come online and insult each other yet they are colleagues at work and worship in same church. Buy commodities from each other.

Alcatraz005 can confirm this.

BankeSmalls:


The only thing I can deduce from your comments, is FEAR and PANIC. Why are you this frightened because of Igbos?

Alcatraz005 simply needs an Igbo wife to calm his nerves

That is a total waste of time,










we can never unity with people who tried to turn our people to beggars.
They size our landed properties,
their brother stole our money given few 20pounds only.





God bless the land of the rising sun.

Built2last:


I have said it before and it bears repeating now, the day Ndigbo and the Yoruba decide to bury the very destructive but senseless rivarly between them and forge a common front on issues of common interest, that is the day the #TheChildrenOfTheSouth and indeed the whole of Nigeria will experience a new dawn.

I have always waited for this day and as it would seem, 11th January, 2018, appears to be the day my long wait will take its last breathe for that is the day these two great peoples will gather in Enugu in celebration of their age long but almost forgotten brotherhood in a historic event tagged "HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE BRIDGE" being put together by an Igbo socio-cultural group -NZUKO UMUNNA (The Bridge Builder) under the auspices of the two Apex socio-cultural groups of both Peoples, Ohaneze Ndigbo and Afenifere.

It is the day the 'Who-Is-Who' from both sides will come together to re-ignite the unique bond examplified by their two brave sons, late General Aguyi Ironsi, the former Head of state and Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, the former governor of SouthWestern region who were both murdered in cold blood by disgruntled soldiers in the counter coup of 1966.

But beyond the euphoria of the expected brotherly HandShake between these two great Nations, the question is, was there any justifiable reason for unhealthy rivalry between them in the first place?

Has there been any record of tribal war, clashes or any form of direct ethnic confrontation between Ndigbo and the Yoruba? (The answer is No)

So why the destructive competition rather than constructive collaboration??

For ages, numberless generation of young people from both sides have been fed with the wrong account of the Civil war, an account that is replete with cherry-picked quotes, facts and figures, self-serving selectives, a basket of distortions, mis-representation, mis-quotation and mis-interpretation.

For instance, those who wish to keep us divided will always feed an average Onye-Igbo with the devilish propaganda that The Yorubas starved Igbo kids during the war while Ndigbo attacked Lagos, Yoruba-land, in a land-grabbing quest. And with these distorted war histories, our children will grow up inheriting a mutual antagonism while our region and our people will keep wallowing in socio-political/economic Egypt.

How about telling a Yoruba man that an Igbo man, Ojukwu, it was, who released Awolowo from Calabar Prison and sent a security team to escort him to his village?

How about telling an Igbo person that Adekunle Fajuyi, a Yoruba man, died with his guest, Aguyi Ironsi rather than give him up?

We owe it to both Man and God to put the wars and woes that happened five decades ago behind us and build a long-lasting mutually beneficial alliance in the interest of peace and economic emancipation of our two great peoples and the country in general.

It is for this reason that I find this event as uniquely significant as it is strategically desirable. I say a very big Thank You to NZUKO UMUNNA for conceiving and organizing such a landmark Bridge-Building event. And even a bigger Thank You to Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Uba-led Organizing Committee.

With Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the Ohaneze Ndigbo PG co-hosting with the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti and the Publicity Scribe -Yinka Odumakin and the Obi of Onitsha and Ooni of Ife as the Royal Fathers of the day, I have no doubt in my mind that the great Southern unification is nigh.

May This New Bridge Never Break!

By Charles Ogbu.

Let us hope trust and sincerity can begin to develop among them.

Nigeria is cursed that these two distrust each other. Their enemy has latched on this to manipulate and stoke them to his advantage.

Tufiakwa to bad things.

Who is this charles ogbu is he mentally okay?

This is something that can change Africa. The day we link the 2 sides of the Niger River, the world will tremble.

Built2last:


I have said it before and it bears repeating now, the day Ndigbo and the Yoruba decide to bury the very destructive but senseless rivarly between them and forge a common front on issues of common interest, that is the day the #TheChildrenOfTheSouth and indeed the whole of Nigeria will experience a new dawn.

I have always waited for this day and as it would seem, 11th January, 2018, appears to be the day my long wait will take its last breathe for that is the day these two great peoples will gather in Enugu in celebration of their age long but almost forgotten brotherhood in a historic event tagged "HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE BRIDGE" being put together by an Igbo socio-cultural group -NZUKO UMUNNA (The Bridge Builder) under the auspices of the two Apex socio-cultural groups of both Peoples, Ohaneze Ndigbo and Afenifere.

It is the day the 'Who-Is-Who' from both sides will come together to re-ignite the unique bond examplified by their two brave sons, late General Aguyi Ironsi, the former Head of state and Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, the former governor of SouthWestern region who were both murdered in cold blood by disgruntled soldiers in the counter coup of 1966.

But beyond the euphoria of the expected brotherly HandShake between these two great Nations, the question is, was there any justifiable reason for unhealthy rivalry between them in the first place?

Has there been any record of tribal war, clashes or any form of direct ethnic confrontation between Ndigbo and the Yoruba? (The answer is No)

So why the destructive competition rather than constructive collaboration??

For ages, numberless generation of young people from both sides have been fed with the wrong account of the Civil war, an account that is replete with cherry-picked quotes, facts and figures, self-serving selectives, a basket of distortions, mis-representation, mis-quotation and mis-interpretation.

For instance, those who wish to keep us divided will always feed an average Onye-Igbo with the devilish propaganda that The Yorubas starved Igbo kids during the war while Ndigbo attacked Lagos, Yoruba-land, in a land-grabbing quest. And with these distorted war histories, our children will grow up inheriting a mutual antagonism while our region and our people will keep wallowing in socio-political/economic Egypt.

How about telling a Yoruba man that an Igbo man, Ojukwu, it was, who released Awolowo from Calabar Prison and sent a security team to escort him to his village?

How about telling an Igbo person that Adekunle Fajuyi, a Yoruba man, died with his guest, Aguyi Ironsi rather than give him up?

We owe it to both Man and God to put the wars and woes that happened five decades ago behind us and build a long-lasting mutually beneficial alliance in the interest of peace and economic emancipation of our two great peoples and the country in general.

It is for this reason that I find this event as uniquely significant as it is strategically desirable. I say a very big Thank You to NZUKO UMUNNA for conceiving and organizing such a landmark Bridge-Building event. And even a bigger Thank You to Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Uba-led Organizing Committee.

With Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the Ohaneze Ndigbo PG co-hosting with the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti and the Publicity Scribe -Yinka Odumakin and the Obi of Onitsha and Ooni of Ife as the Royal Fathers of the day, I have no doubt in my mind that the great Southern unification is nigh.

May This New Bridge Never Break!

By Charles Ogbu.

......And I have written about it before, and it worth repeating. Handshake across the Niger(between Igbos & Yorubas) which can be seen as "a momerendum of understanding" is not an act period.
There must be a peace treaty sign by the two Royal fathers. Any political scientist will tell you, that hand shake alone in this context is not a political initiative,...
.no political value. It can be done outside the Nigerian constitution as this can be seen( though I am not a constitutional expert) as two big African ethnic groups within their rights have decided to pursue peace. Next level, truth, peace and reconciliation commission will be set up with a major focus on why the Yorubas aided in genocide against Igbos.

Funny how igbos could think they could take over the west during the civil war.

A dumb mistake by a piggish set of people.

Handshake ko, belly shake ni.
Make everybody dey in lane.
Small tin na, one flat skull will say yorubas came with truck to pack dem to come develop d west