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Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by emmysoftyou: 10:49am On Mar 21, 2018 |
Throwback:young man stop contradicting yourself. Your case is like Isaac and Ismael. Accept your fate. Igbo amaka 4 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Strikethem: 10:50am On Mar 21, 2018 |
nwabobo:Keep displaying your mumuism.You mean ipob fact |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Strikethem: 10:54am On Mar 21, 2018 |
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Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Throwback: 10:55am On Mar 21, 2018 |
emmysoftyou: Look it this one battling with history. Go and uproot the university in Ibadan to rewrite history so you can gloat properly. |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by emmysoftyou: 11:11am On Mar 21, 2018 |
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Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by aalangel(f): 12:16pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
nwabobo: My great Alma Mater... 1 Like |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Ugosample(m): 12:18pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Why does every thread have to descend into chest beating and tribalism? University of Ibadan and University of Nigeria Nsukka are both good universities, that has produced scholars, so what is the argument again? 1 Like |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by jagorinho: 12:27pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
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Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by jagorinho: 12:33pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
imhotep:This has to be the most stupid utterance i have heared in this 1st quarter of the year, sometimes i do think education has little effect on the thinking faculty of " these " people. 3 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by jagorinho: 12:42pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
imhotep:Why am i not surprised? because in the next 20 years, your people will say they won the civil war, a group that feast on lies can never progress......i think you people are tired of being adultrated jews, because it has been long i heared " igbos are jews" slogan on this platform. The first nationally acknowldged university in nigera is the university of ibadan, if you are not happy then that is your cross to carry 4 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Ritchiee: 12:56pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Throwback: That is one of the few dangers inherent in most of the Igbos:clannishness, nepotism,tribalism,covetousness etc.name it.Little wonder they see Yorubas as a threat.Yes,Yoruba had been a tribe they would want catch up with because Yoruba have been ahead of them from time immemorial up till date. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Ritchiee: 1:08pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
femi4: So apt. 3 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Throwback: 1:18pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
emmysoftyou: He was a ceremonial president since we had the executive Prime Minister. However, he had his own powers too, and he ensured he "tribalised" it to benefit his people with federal appointments. 4 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Ritchiee: 1:21pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
talk2percy: lol..coming from Igbos who were still learning how to wear clothes in 1920. Yoruba people have been educated since 1800+ when your people were still using bare hands to cover their private parts. 3 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by T9ksy(m): 1:40pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Throwback: @ bolded........................ GBAM!!! LOBATAN!!! One just can't win with these people. what a greedy and conflicted tribe. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Nobody: 1:56pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
jagorinho:Kenneth Dike sends his greetings cc lzaa onyeoga 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Nobody: 1:57pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
T9ksy:One Nigeria please cc lzaa onyeoga 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Throwback: 2:06pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
T9ksy: The day you show an Igbo friend that you are not a fool, you become his immortal enemy. It is either you are his lazy fool or you are his enemy. It is good that many Yorubas are now awoken to the Igbos and their cunning ways. 3 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by ODVanguard: 2:06pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Throwback: Dont mind those hypocrites. That Zik loss is still paining them till today, probably as much as (if not worse than) Soyinka's Nobel laureate win against their Achebe preference. See, I am always thankful that Zik's longthroat ambition to become Western premiere was stopped in its tracks (they can continue sulking about that failure till kingdom come, na dem sabi). Else we probably wouldn't have recorded the many firsts that hallmarked Awolowo/Action Group's administrative era, like first the first T.V station in subsaharan Africa, first tallest building/skyscraper, the establishment industrial areas, etc, that are still very much around till today. I doubt that Zik could have achieved anything close to that considering the abysmal and unimpressive legacy he left behind as premiere of the Eastern region - you can't give what you don't have. And also, thanks to that failure on his part, we have been spared what would've been another reason for them to thump their chests in our faces. They would have undoubtedly invented the narrative that it was Zik that 'developed' Ibadan and by extension the rest of the SW; a feat he failed to register in his own backyard throughout his lifetime. Little wonder they honour the likes of Nnamdi Kanu and Ojukwu above him even up till today, yet they expected us to gift the highest leadership position in our region to such a character? 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Throwback: 2:21pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
ODVanguard: If Zik had won, they would have told us that they were the ones that brought development to Yorubaland. They would have told us we were so lazy that an Igboman had to be pleaded with to run our region for us. The arrogant would have said we were so stupid and weak, and could not suppress the dominating spirit of the Igbos, as such we did not have a choice than to surrender to Igbo superiority. They would have rewritten history and told us that no Yoruba was educated enough to be a good political administrator. What I love most yet find absurd, is that it pains them and Azikiwe dearly as though their own region was so useless they had to make a good impression elsewhere. 6 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by LZAA: 2:46pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
imhotep:one naijeriyaaaa ya gaskiya 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by LZAA: 2:47pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
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Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by jayraster(m): 2:49pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Wherever the likes of these men are now, they will be disappointed that their sucessors to whom they left in charge of this once great nation have woefully failed them. Chai... There was indeed a country. #irestmycase 1 Like |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by ODVanguard: 2:53pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Throwback: Yes o. A Zik premiership in the Western region at the time would have gone down as the greatest political defeat on SW Yoruba soil for many generations. The shame for too much abeg, coz dem for no allow us hear word again o . And if our people had defended their allowance of such development as a testament of their tolerance and sophistication as a race, no, they wouldn't have none of that and would instantly retort that we just simply lacked competent leaders that could have assumed the position. They would tell us to our faces that we are just weak like that, and needed an igbo 'savior/redeemer', in the person of Azikiwe, to come straighten us out and help us attain 'development'. You know what is funny is that once upon a time, before I became more conscious, I actually once entertained the possibility of an Igbo governor in Lagos, but omo, knowing what I now know about these folks and their inbred hatred toward us, i now consider such a prospect/development as a calamity of inexplicable proportions for the Yoruba race -- all they would need is a 4-year tenure to nepotistically displace every other group in the state. Mind you, that is a state they luv to hate, yet cant stay away from. There's just no pleasing them, unless of course we allow them to overrun our lives and region unencumbered coz they 'merit' and are entitled to it. I guess I am just not that sophisticated anymore. The country should just split so that everybody will go and bear their father's name for the sake of peace. Enough of the oju aiye abeg. 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Throwback: 3:16pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
ODVanguard: Same feelings here about once harbouring thoughts that a non-Yoruba could someday win majority support and votes to become a governor in Lagos. This is because I believe in a true republic. But with the true feelings that Nairaland has helped to unveil, I now know my enemy who stays in my domain yet is never happy with any positive news therein, and I want him to know that I hate him too. I have realised that I was one of those stupid Yorubas that the Igbos always like. I would rather they hate me as that tribalist who will protect his own inheritance too and point out their many crafty past deeds they would want to keep buried. 5 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Deadlytruth(m): 3:44pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Throwback: As per the first bolded, Zik was the originator of tribal slurs in Nigeria. As far back as 1944 he had, among several other reckless tribalistic utterances, enthused that "the god of Igbos had placed on their hands the future of leading Africa out of slavery". On the second bolded; what you seem to believe is actually a lie which has come to stick like a truth because it has been repeated over the years for nearly six decades running now. But documented facts show clearly that Zik did not really win that election or even come close to winning it. The so much hackneyed cross carpeting essentially done by just two persons and without it Zik would have still lost the election. I have the comprehensive and detailed account of the election and I can furnish you with it if you will not mind. How does it even make sense that Awolowo was so superhuman that he could use tribalism to change the results of an election for which the Electoral body had openly declared Zik winner and yet Zik could not approach any single court to recover his mandate? Awolowo's clarion call in that election was that it was wrong under federal principle for a non-Westerner (not necessarily a non-Yoruba) to be allowed to rule the Western Region since the creation of regions was in the first instance done in response to the demand for self governance by each region's natives. Recall that there were non-Yoruba tribes like Binis, Akoko-Edos, Etsakos, Owans, Esans, Urhobos, Itshekiris, Isokos, Ijaws and even Igboids (Aniomas) native to the Western Region back then. Was Awolowo against the ambition of any of these non-Yoruba Westerners to become premier? Did any Anioma (the Igboid) show interest and Awolowo kicked against it? He did not want an Easterner to rule the Western Region and vise versa. That was not tribalism but advocacy of strict regionalism. Awolowo was a hard core federalist, and federalism seeks, in principle, to allow every tribe and regions to be in total control of her own affairs and assert herself, hence strict adherence to federalism naturally appears like tribalism. That was what Zik failed to realize despite all his acquired degrees. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Throwback: 3:56pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: I already know the details of that election where till today, the NCNC loyalists still alive cannot mention the names of their party candidates who contested or who won while AG had their own records of all those who contested on their platform and those who lost and those who one. I once had a record of that list, but can't locate same now. Kindly furnish me here with all available historical fact. 3 Likes |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Nobody: 3:58pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
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Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by LZAA: 4:01pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
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Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Deadlytruth(m): 4:06pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Throwback: Here it is below. It is very long on account of its being very detailed in order to put an end the lie that Zik won and Awolowo used tribalism to deny him of victory. First Nigeria Regional Elections: Western Nigeria 1951 Elections Matthew Mbu and history: Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well- respected Nigerian. But in this piece, veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike challenges some of his claims about Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have its hour, but it has no future' - Francois D. Pressense In what seemed his 48th independence anniversary gift to Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu, politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave The Nation an interview run in its October 1 edition addressing some political issues in Nigeria of which he had been a key player. Among others, he spoke on the Western Nigeria election held in 1951, two generations ago, and repeated the claim of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC) that it won that poll, but had been robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr. Mbu did not provide any evidence to substantiate the NCNC claim. Dr. Mbu said of that election held on 24 September 1951 that: "Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the Western Region of Nigeria, not by the electorate, but by the leaders. The NCNC won the election against the Action Group (led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action Group introduced what was unknown to Nigerian history", namely, "carpet crossing. They Action Group bought members of the NCNC to join the Action Group after these people had won election on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the leader of a majority party in the Western Region became the Leader of Opposition overnight". Reminded by the interviewer that the late Chief AMA Akinloye had maintained in his lifetime that he and his group had contested the election on a neutral platform from the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his version. He is entitled to say what he wants to say. I don't want to say ill of the dead. He knew he was NCNC and his group was NCNC. Adelabu remained NCNC. He stuck on to NCNC till he died". The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe said in his autobiography, Rebirth of a nation, among others that: "But in pursuance of the policy of creating a political climate healthy enough to make one a citizen wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe contested and won the general elections in 1951 into the Western House of Assembly. To stultify this policy of one Nigeria in favour of his tribally-based philosophy, Chief Awolowo got some elected members to cross carpet from the NCNC to his AG side. Zik the victor lost. And Awolowo's party was able to form the government of the Western Region." At a news conference in Lagos on 20 September 1989, more than two years after Chief Awolowo's death, Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party won the majority of seats in the Western House of Assembly. He was due to be elected the Leader of Government Business, when overnight, the Action Group introduced the notorious carpet- crossing. By this manipulation, members who won under the NCNC crossed over to the Action Group building it to become the majority party in the West. As a result of this, Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of Government Business and Dr. Azikiwe had to resign." Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe named the members of the NCNC who contested the election on the party's platform and later joined the Action Group to enable Chief Awolowo form the government to the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These are weighty allegations such that they would have assisted their readers to clear the issues rather just repeat their own version of the events at that time in the hope that such repetition would turn falsehood into facts. To avert conflicting claims over candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the Government Public Relations Officer, wrote to the parties to furnish a list of the candidates contesting election on their platforms. Only the Action Group complied with this request and its list of candidates was as follows: 1. Ijebu Remo Division - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole; 2. Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya, Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips; 3. Oyo Division - Chief Bode Thomas, Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A. Amao and SB Eyitayo; 4. Osun Division - SL Akintola, JO. Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A. Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola; 5. Ondo Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko; 6. Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA Tewe and SO Tubo; 7. Epe Division - SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and C.A. Williams; 8. Ikeja Division - O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO Okuntola; 9. Badagry Division - Chief CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev. GM Fisher; 10. Egba Division - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole, Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso, SB Sobande, IO Delano and A Adedamola. The others were as follows: 11. Egbado Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin Illo and P.O. Otegbeye; 12. Ife Division - Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O. Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju; 13. Ekiti Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D Atolagbe; 14. Owo Division - Michael Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A. Olusa; 15. Western Ijaw Division - Pere EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee; 16. Ishan Division - Anthony Enahoro; 17. Urhobo Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri and JD Ifode; 18.Warri Division - Arthur Prest and O. Otere, and 19. Kukuruku Division - D.J.I. Igenuma. Of the names on the list, only MA Ajasin from Owo Division, which comprised Akoko then, did not run because of party solidarity and unity in Owo. He stood down for A.O. Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest two of the three seats, which they won, while D.K. Olumofin won the third for the NCNC. Three secretaries of the Action Group, who ran as independents and won were: 1. Egba Division- Alhaji D.S. Adegbenro 2. Ekiti Division - J.O. Osuntokun, and 3. Epe Division - S.O. Hassan. At the close of polls on 24 September 1951, the Action Group had won 38 of the 72 seats in contention out of the total of 80 in the Regional Assembly. The shortfall was due to the fact that elections had been postponed in Lagos and Benin due to security concerns. Lagos had five seats in the West Regional Assembly all later won by the NCNC in the election of 20 November 1951, while Benin had three all later won by Otu Edo candidates in the election of 6 December 1951. Of the 68 candidates on the list furnished by the Action Group to the Government PR Department, 38 of the elected AG members were from that list, and were as follows: 1. Ijebu Remo - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole; 2. Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O. Awokoya; 3. Oyo - Bode Thomas, Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA Amao and SB Eyitayo; 4. Osun - S.L. Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A. Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola. Other elected AG members from the list were: 5. Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and Prince Adedamola; 6. Egbado (now Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi and A. Akin Illo; 7. Ekiti - E.A. Babalola and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher; 8. Ikeja - SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu- Ale; 9. Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO Olagbaju; 10. Owo - AO Ogedengbe and RA Olusa; 11. Epe - Safi Lawal Edu; 12. Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe; 13. Western Ijaw - M.F. Agidee; 14. Ishan - Anthony Enahoro, and 15. Warri - Arthur Prest. In addition to the Action Group and the NCNC, there were local/divisional parties such as the Ibadan People's Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA Akinloye; Ondo Improvement League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the end of poll, the standing of the parties was as follows: 1. Action Group - 38; 2. NCNC and its loyal Independents - 25; 3. IPP - 6 4. Ondo Improvement League - 2. 5. Otu Edo candidates won the three Benin seats, namely, Chief SO Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo- Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi. Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG, while the latter two went to the NCNC. And of the six IPP elected members, only Adegoke Adelabu joined the NCNC. The rest of them: AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi (who later became the Olubadan of Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin, Moyosore Aboderin and SA Akinyemi, opted for the Action Group. The NCNC National Secretary, the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent declaration forms to the IPP assemblymen asking them to declare for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye returned all the forms uncompleted. The three AG secretaries who had run as independents - Adegbenro, Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP members, one Etu Edo, and one Ondo Improvement League, Chief F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu Ode) had swollen the number of the AG elected members. All the transactions had taken place before the inauguration of the Regional Assembly on 7 January 1952. These were not known members of the NCNC, nor did the party publish their names on the list of its candidates, but claimed them as its "members, supporters or sympathisers", according to inimitable Zik in his My Odyssey, " It takes more than speculation to claim a person as a member of your political party". You cannot just be under the "impression" as Zik had claimed that they were and go ahead to field them as electoral candidates. For over a half century, the NCNC is yet to provide evidence to back its claim that it had won the West Regional election in 1951. Mr Cooper absolved his department of responsibility for the controversy generated by the NCNC after the election. At a post election news conference in Lagos he said that "Of the winning candidates, the names of 38 were on the list sent to me by the Action Group. The six successful candidates at Ibadan were all among those who had been identified to me as representing the Ibadan People's Party. No claim of any kind had reached us about the party affiliation of the remaining successful candidates." Why did the NCNC not send a list of its candidates for the poll to the Government PR Department before that poll? And why have Dr. Mbu and the others not published the list of NCNC candidates to substantiate their electoral victory claim in over 50 years but merely kept reaping false claims? The records of the poll conducted in the West and all over Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher. In this matter, it is facts that speak, not what some political/ethnic partisan said or did not say. Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only in losing the regional election, he also lost the election to the House of Representatives held on 10 January 1951 at the House of Assembly, Ibadan, among NCNC members. The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80 member Western Regional Assembly was as follows: 1. Action Group - 38; 2. Independent/AG - 15; 3. NCNC - 24; 4. Independent/NCNC - 3. Three members of the NCNC who had been elected to the House changed party allegiance that day ahead of the House of Representatives vote. They were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions. They were running for the House of Representatives and wanted Action Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went back to the NCNC. That was all the carpet-crossing that took place on 10 January 1952, namely, three at first to the AG and one back to the NCNC. From the vote tally, it is clear that the NCNC and the Independent /NCNC totalling 27 seats altogether out of 80 seats could not have formed the Government of Western Nigeria. Even if the local/divisional parties had chosen the NCNC, it would still be some seats short of 41 required to form the government. The Action Group won 38 seats; its independent candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun, Hassan and Odutola won four seats making a total of 42 seats. The AG could have formed the government without the support of the other small parties. It did not have to "bribe" anybody to join it to form the government. Since politics is a game of number, only few principled politicians would not be disposed to joining the winning party, in this case, the AG. Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his book: "Successful NCNC men who were not Yoruba were scared away. Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the Western House (of) Assembly from a Lagos constituency decided to resign. Since membership of the House of Representatives was by an electoral college in the regional house, no NCNC from the West came to the House of Representatives in Lagos". This is blatantly false. Zik resigned because he lost election to the federal house from the West, while Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa- Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever scared non-Yoruba NCNC people from the West? Chief Denis Osadebey succeeded Adegoke Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the West and the likes of Humphrey Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh, Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC in that Assembly. As Mme De Stael says: The "search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political entourage have chosen their own side of history. It remains to be seen whether or not history will absolve them. Their contemporary audience is composed of intelligent people who will search after the truth without inheriting the political prejudice and stereotype of their lying grand-parents. That is the way ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Strikethem: 4:19pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
ODVanguard:God bless your soul for this. When he was president, we all saw his bigotry. He would have imposed his greedy people on us but thanks to great awolowo for not allowing that to happen. 1 Like |
Re: Nnamdi Azikiwe Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria Nsukka In 1950s by Strikethem: 4:22pm On Mar 21, 2018 |
Deadlytruth:God bless you, but we thank God he wasn't allowed to be the premier of western region where he would have used tribalism to destroy but imposing his tribesmen on us. We saw that when he was president. Awo saw the future then and quickly quenched it. 2 Likes |
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