ANOTHER SIDE OF OUR HISTORY. The youths need to know !!!. Most especially igbos brothers in South West Nigeria.

Let us go down memory lane
Someone said "Fulani is Yoruba's number one enemy and that the British handed over Nigeria to them."

*This is not the truth.*
The British did not hand over Nigeria to the Fulani.

Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government.

Zik's National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats.

Awolowo's Action Group (AG), came second with 1,992,364 votes to get 73 seats.

However, the Ahmadu Bello's Northern People's Congress (NPC), came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives despite getting less public votes.

The above three major political parties in the election did not get enough number of the seats to form a government. An alliance had to be formed to determine who would rule.

It was a no brainer that Zik's NCNC and Awolowo's Action Group should make a coalition government as they came first and second respectively.

Awolowo, then humbled himself and volunteered to be a Deputy Prime Minister or Finance Minister in a coalition government with Zik as the Prime Minister. This was because the Zik's NCNC party had more public votes and seats than the Awolowo's Action Group.

Zik invited Awolowo’s team to Asaba, the gateway between the Yoruba's Western Region and the Igbo's Eastern Region to hold coalition talks. The talks were a clever ruse to keep Action Group’s hopes high, so that Action Group would be kept distracted from meeting with other minor parties for talks, including: Northern Elements Progressive Union with 8 seats; Mobolaje Grand Alliance with 6 seats; Igala Union with 4 seats; Independents Candidates with 4 seats; Igbira Tribal Union with 4 seats and the Niger Delta Congress with 1 seat.

Whilst the Action Group team was waiting in Asaba for a meeting with the NCNC, they read in the news that Zik and the NCNC had gone up North and clinched the deal with Ahmadu Bello on forming a coalition government with the NPC.

Tafawa Balewa, a Fulani, would be the Prime Minister of Nigeria while Zik would be the figure head Governor-General. Even Nkrumah of Ghana was shocked. He asked Zik why having spent so much energy fighting for colonial emancipation and then settling for a toothless bulldog role when Nigeria needed him the most.

Zik wrote in his autobiography why he did not form a coalition government with Awolowo.

In 1947, with over £13,500 raised from the Yoruba people and given to the NCNC, Zik had led other six prominent NCNC delegates to London to protest the “obnoxious laws” of Governor Arthur Richards. The trip ended in failure with backbiting, abuses and accusation of theft against Zik. Zik’s opponents at the NCNC, accused him of squandering the money and the trust of Nigerians.

Zik replied insinuating that the Yoruba on the team, that are: Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, and Dr. A. B. Olorunnimbe, were the problem.

There erupted a heated and prolonged press war between Zik’s Political Reminiscence in his West African Pilot and H.O. Davies’ Political Panorama in the Daily Service. This led to Igbo in Lagos rushing to buy machetes in large numbers thinking a tribal war was imminent.

The Governor and his General Secretary, Hugh Foot, quickly called Zik and H.O. Davies to order at the Government House.

Zik went away with the resolve that “the Yoruba must not be allowed to rule over others in Nigeria”.

And afterwards in the Daily Service published the speech of Zik in 1949 about Igbo being destined by God to conquer and rule over others. This among others, will explain why Zik rejected Awolowo's offer of a coalition government in 1959 and instead worked with the Fulani.

The Fulani had been reading Zik and the Igbo through the lens of his 1949 speech ever since.

The Fulani way of neutralising Zik when the opportunity came in 1959 was to offer him a powerless post, which surprisingly Zik and the NCNC dutifully accepted in place of being Nigeria’s first Prime Minister.

Zik had thought that the Igbo can easily manipulate the Fulani in place of the educated Yoruba. He thus manipulated Balewa to arrest Awolowo in 1962 and to have him jailed for 10 years in 1963.

Zik also manipulated Balewa to remove from the Western Region the Edo, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Western Ijaw that account for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them the Mid-West Region.

Zik's hatred for the Yoruba gave the Fulani the impetus to rule over others in Nigeria.

The Igbo coup plotters tried to undo Zik's mistake in 1966. And unfortunately, they killed other tribes and left theirs, which resulted in the civil war.

Britain did not really hand over Nigeria to the Fulani. Nigeria was given over to the Fulani by the Igbo.

However, to hold on to power in Nigeria, the Fulani enlisted the backing of the self-serving career politicians in England.

Not many Igbo especially the young ones know this narrative. I don’t think most Yorubas, even their elders remember this. Has the leopard changed its spots?

in that case, the Igbo betrayed Yoruba first

doclatom:


Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government.

Zik's National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats.

Awolowo's Action Group (AG), came second with 1,992,364 votes to get 73 seats.

However, the Ahmadu Bello's Northern People's Congress (NPC), came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives despite getting less public votes.

Yoruba boy stop trying to rewrite our history and stop trying to deceive people.

The British handed over Nigeria to the Fulanis.

In a parliamentary election the party with the highest seat forms the government, if they don't have enough seats then they go into coalition with other parties to form the government.

The fulani party had the highest number of seats even though they had the lowest number of votes in the election.

The question you should ask is why did the fulani party have the highest number of seats when they had the lowest number of votes compared to the yoruba and ibo parties. That singular act of the British of making the Fulani to have the highest number of seats with the lowest number of votes is how the British rigged the election for the Fulanis even before the vote was cast.

You may hate the Ibos, but don't twist history to satisfy your narrow mind.

By giving the north more seats, the British ensured that the north will always form the government either alone or in coalition with other minority parties. Zik simply accepted to be the minority party.

Think of Donald Trump and Hillary, Hillary had more votes but trump had more delegates, trump became president and Hillary went home. In our case the Fulani were given more seats intact almost the total seats of the western region and the eastern region combined.

There is no way either Awolowo or Zik could have scale through such a high seat disparity to form the government and hold on to power

Atlanticfire:


Yoruba boy stop trying to rewrite our history and stop trying to deceive people.

The British handed over Nigeria to the Fulanis.

In a parliamentary election the party with the highest seat forms the government if they don't have enough seats the go into coalition with other parties to form the government.

The fulani party had the highest number of seats even though they had the lowest number of votes in the election.

The question you should ask is why did the fulani party have the highest number of seats when they had the lowest number of votes. That singular act of the British of making the Fulani to have the highest number of seats with the lowest number of votes is how the British rigged the election for the Fulanis even before the vote was cast.

You may hate the Ibos, but don't twist history to satisfy your narrow mind

What he wrote is the absolute truth. That is the true account of what happened.
The guy who finally bastardized the carefully negotiated constitution that gave Nigeria three fairly independent regions was Ironsi.

Guestlander:


What he wrote is the absolute truth. That is the true account of what happened.
The guy who finally bastardized the carefully negotiated constitution that gave Nigeria three fairly independent regions was Ironsi.

What truth are you talking about.

How do you expect a party with 81 seats to form the government when there is another party with 134 seats?

How will they get 2/3 majority to pass any law?

I know people like the OP, they repeat a lie several times hoping that people will eventually accept it as the truth

The Rat cannot shew Beans therefore the Rat must scatter and waste the Beans.

The Rat cannot shew Beans therefore the Rat must scatter and waste the Beans. That's Ibo for you.

slyzy:
in that case, the Igbo betrayed Yoruba first

.

And will do it again and again. Yorubas and the Hausa/Fulanis know this.

Nigerian Military understands all these. That has caused the creation of 36 States. The 36 States seem semi-autonomous under Military laws, but not so in a Democracy. The Rights to full security, safety and success is patent to constitutional States in a Democracy.

These people ad falsified history. Awolowo was jailed by a yoruba judge

Atlanticfire:


Yoruba boy stop trying to rewrite our history and stop trying to deceive people.

The British handed over Nigeria to the Fulanis.

In a parliamentary election the party with the highest seat forms the government, if they don't have enough seats then they go into coalition with other parties to form the government.

The fulani party had the highest number of seats even though they had the lowest number of votes in the election.

The question you should ask is why did the fulani party have the highest number of seats when they had the lowest number of votes compared to the yoruba and ibo parties. That singular act of the British of making the Fulani to have the highest number of seats with the lowest number of votes is how the British rigged the election for the Fulanis even before the vote was cast.

You may hate the Ibos, but don't twist history to satisfy your narrow mind.

By giving the north more seats, the British ensured that the north will always form the government either alone or in coalition with other minority parties. Zik simply accepted to be the minority party.

Think of Donald Trump and Hillary, Hillary had more votes but trump had more delegates, trump became president and Hillary went home. In our case the Fulani were given more seats intact almost the total seats of the western region and the eastern region combined.

There is no way either Awolowo or Zik could have scale through such a high seat disparity to form the government and hold on to power

How old are you, if I may ask?
Anyway, the north had more seats because they had more ethnic representations. The north central was included in northern seats. It will shift the number of seats, not necessarily the number of votes.
You don't even know if I'm Igbo. You see, the day you realise and accept where you went wrong, that's the day you embark on the road to genuine recovery. No one is above certain mistake. If you have enough energy and data, kindly go round and do your won research and see if what's written here is false. You react because it pained you. Truth hurts, brother!
The number of votes and seats that'd have resulted from the coalition between Zik and Awolowo would have shifted and balanced the power play at that point in time. Zik betraying the gentleman agreement with Awolowo unduly shifted the power balance to the north.
Did Awolowo swallowed his pride and went to Zik for a coalition just to checkmate the growing influence of the north then? Yes, he did! What did Zik do, he betrayed that gentleman agreement and went to meet up with Balewa instead.
Did Zik influence Balewa into getting Awolowo arrested? Yes, he did because he felt the Yorubas were making too much trouble and noise over his sneaky, betraying behaviour. The financial sleaze accusations were believed to be from the Yoruba people mentioned in the post.
Did the Igbo later find out they couldn't control and puppeteer the north as Zik initially thought? Yes!
What did the Igbo do? They went on rampage in a coup to try to decimate the north that was becoming larger than life to them.
What happened after the coup? CIVIL WAR OF THREE YEARS DESPITE AWOLOWO'S PLEA TO OJUKWU TO FORGET THE IDEA AND TO INSTEAD REACH OUT IN DIPLOMACY!
Who lost more people at the end of the day? Igbos!
Who's playing the victim? Igbos!

Now, this doesn't take anything away from the Igbos and the Goodwill they enjoy even on the west. Igbo's biggest problem is starring them right in the mirror if they look in the mirror and honestly evaluate what they see.

Igbos are good people. But their biggest leader didn't see things correctly. He made wrong decisions, likewise some of others that followed thereafter.
When Awolowo saw the hegemony brewing from the north, he started developing the west to make it strong and independent should anything happen. The cocoa house, the first TV, the free education, etc. The coalition of the betraying, sneaky Zik and Balewa called him A TRIBAL LEADER. Alas, Awolowo saw right and equally did right!

It is well with Nigeria. Everyone will get their just reward! Amen!

Very informative

Sometimes I feel Ironsi was coerced into forming the unitary government by the crafty Fulani émirs and elites of his regime just to console the north of the assassination of Ahmadu Bello n balewa.
But soon he decreed this, they quickly killed him and put gowon in place to enforce the unitary govt since Ironsi was not willing to enforce it.
They've always wanted to Rule over the south to steal all their resources. They knew that the south was too wealthy and intelligent. It really mysterious that stark illiterates of savage arid poverty-stricken region has dominated our political space this whole time.

In all I blame Zik.
Zik never saw all these coming. He thought Danfodio was dead and buried but forgot the saying that ''the child of a snake is also a snake''

You are ahistorical: drunkenly and giddily ahistorical

doclatom:


How old are you, if I may ask?
Anyway, the north had more seats because they had more ethnic representations. The north central was included in northern seats. It will shift the number of seats, not necessarily the number of votes.
You don't even know if I'm Igbo. You see, the day you realise and accept where you went wrong, that's the day you embark on the road to genuine recovery. No one is above certain mistake. If you have enough energy and data, kindly go round and do your won research and see if what's written here is false. You react because it pained you. Truth hurts, brother!
The number of votes and seats that'd have resulted from the coalition between Zik and Awolowo would have shifted and balanced the power play at that point in time. Zik betraying the gentleman agreement with Awolowo unduly shifted the power balance to the north.
Did Awolowo swallowed his pride and went to Zik for a coalition just to checkmate the growing influence of the north then? Yes, he did! What did Zik do, he betrayed that gentleman agreement and went to meet up with Balewa instead.
Did Zik influence Balewa into getting Awolowo arrested? Yes, he did because he felt the Yorubas were making too much trouble and noise over his sneaky, betraying behaviour. The financial sleaze accusations were believed to be from the Yoruba people mentioned in the post.
Did the Igbo later find out they couldn't control and puppeteer the north as Zik initially thought? Yes!
What did the Igbo do? They went on rampage in a coup to try to decimate the north that was becoming larger than life to them.
What happened after the coup? CIVIL WAR OF THREE YEARS DESPITE AWOLOWO'S PLEA TO OJUKWU TO FORGET THE IDEA AND TO INSTEAD REACH OUT IN DIPLOMACY!
Who lost more people at the end of the day? Igbos!
Who's playing the victim? Igbos!

Now, this doesn't take anything away from the Igbos and the Goodwill they enjoy even on the west. Igbo's biggest problem is starring them right in the mirror if they look in the mirror and honestly evaluate what they see.

Igbos are good people. But their biggest leader didn't see things correctly. He made wrong decisions, likewise some of others that followed thereafter.
When Awolowo saw the hegemony brewing from the north, he started developing the west to make it strong and independent should anything happen. The cocoa house, the first TV, the free education, etc. The coalition of the betraying, sneaky Zik and Balewa called him A TRIBAL LEADER. Alas, Awolowo saw right and equally did right!

It is well with Nigeria. Everyone will get their just reward! Amen!

Atlanticfire:


What truth are you talking about.

How do you expect a party with 81 seats to form the government when there is another party with 134 seats?

How will they get 2/3 majority to pass any law?

I know people like the OP, they repeat a lie several times hoping that people will eventually accept it as the truth

yoruba sophistry at its best..........they lie so beautifully and convincingly!