In 1914 Lord Frederick Lugard, the British Governor-General of Nigeria, described northern Nigeria as the "poor husband" and southern Nigeria as the "rich wife".

He went further by boldly proclaiming the marriage of the two regions by British fiat and declared, without consultation with either of the two "spouses", that this was a marriage that had "no prospects of divorce" and that "would last forever".

Ever since then and for the better part of the last 104 years the "rich southern wife" has been enslaved, raped, sodomised, insulted, humiliated, devalued, demystified, rubbished, bound in chains, cheated and treated with the utmost contempt and disdain by a rappacious and insatiable "poor northern husband" who has no sense of restraint, decency, fairness and or compassion.

The south, plagued with a notoriously timid, weak, pitiful, ignorant, confused, shortsighted, cowardly and irredeemably pliant set of leaders, have proved, over the last 58 years, to be wholly incapable of engendering any form of unity or collective purpose and of standing up to northern arrogance, bondage and captivity.

They have all failed woefully and their inexplicably docile, indolent and stoic disposition remains the greatest obstacle to southern emancipation till today. As a matter of fact the leadership of the north continuosly thanks God for their lack of understanding, weakness, cowardice and divided ranks.

You do not have to behave like the pliant and subserviant rich wife simply because a cruel, misguided and self-serving British mercenary and colonial officer described you as one 104 years ago.

If the north had been the rich partner and had been blessed with oil and the south were its burden, its leaders would have had the courage to break out of forced marriage take their zone out of Nigeria long ago.

Sadly southern leaders have always lacked the vision, courage and ability to make such a move. Instead all they do is silently whine and grumble behind closed doors about northern domination.

I make bold to say that one of the greatest disservices to southern Nigeria and indeed the black man in the history of the world was the amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates of Nigeria by the British in 1914.

This was a forced marriage of ethnic, religious and cultural incompatibles and there has been little peace between the two ever since. From day one it was a mistake and a failure and it remains a mistake and a failure till today. Lord Lugard and his wife Flora Shaw, who gave Nigeria its name, must both be laughing in their graves.

There you have it. I have spoken the minds of millions even though few are prepared to say it publicly.

Lol contraption

If the north had been the rich partner and had been blessed with oil and the south were its burden, its leaders would have had the courage to break out of forced marriage take their zone out of Nigeria long ago.

Of course if it had been the North that had the economic might of Nigeria, long time they would have gone. If the North had been the ones who had Oil, they would have declared Arewa Republic long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. That's why I laugh at people who believe in "one Nigeria", they don't yet know it is all about Oil money

Sadly southern leaders have always lacked the vision, courage and ability to make such a move. Instead all they do is silently whine and grumble behind closed doors about northern domination. 

I beg to differ. We Igbos did make such a move. We declared Biafra and fought for 3 years to keep it. It was Northern Nigeria including their collaborators in the SW and SS that teamed up to fight Igbos. They thought they were punishing Igbos, little did they know that they were fighting to be slaves of the North.

Is that the picture of Lord Lugard I'm seeing on top there

I have taken it down, he go see pepper even on his grave
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Nigeria's founding fathers had agreed that Nigeria is not a nation...as its inhabitants have refused to be one. But nobody will listen until oil in the south is finished.

"...The British treasury initially supported the landlocked Northern Nigeria Protectorate with grants, totaling £250,000 or more each year.[61] Its revenue quickly increased, from £4,424 in 1901 to £274,989 in 1910. The Southern Protectorate financed itself from the outset, with revenue increasing from £361,815 to £1,933,235 over the same period..." Wiki

The North is sensuous and immoral, said Lord Lugard. Take that to ICC and the marriage is immediately dissolved.