TemmyT002:
This is deep.
It is true that Igbos haven't had a leader since Zik

johntolu:


The Igbo Nation do not believe in anyone leading them.
The British have to create warrant Chiefs, to lead them, during colonization period.
The only known leaders Igbo Nation ever had were Ojuiku and Nnamdi not Azikiwe, but Kanu.

kaen1317:
Let's wait and see. The north will still present a candidate in 2023 with a running mate from the SE. Shame on Tinubu cos he has been fool twice
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oilPUSSY:

“In 1999, when the constitution came in, Obasanjo wasn’t sponsored by the Yoruba, even though he was a Yoruba man; the Yoruba rejected him, and sponsored Falae. But the Northerners and the Igbo voted for him; the Yoruba never voted for him and he still won because the Northern Hausa and the Eastern Igbo decided to support him.

“In 2003, Obasanjo came for the second term; again, he was not sponsored by the Yoruba; the Yoruba put up another candidate but still he won.

“In 2007, Yar’Adua was not supported by the Yoruba but the Igbo supported the Northerners and he won.

“In 2011, Jonathan came in, he’s not a Northerner but he was supported by the North and the Igbo, and he won." Says clerk

This will tell you how inconsequential their votes are. But but since butterflies have started seeing themselves as birds, they are going back to their normal position when the chips are down.
Is it Tinibu abi Osibanjo that couldn't deliver his pooling unit ?

Meanwhile I heard that Elrufai is also warming up

SarkinYarki:
that one will never happen ..we are all voting in a northerner in 2019 I promise you Yoruba people !!!!!!!

richie240:

Bia, 'gentumern', dt information was false. An imposter used his picture to make that hateful and divisive speech.
The owner of d pix (under d false name Sani M'med) has since made a disclaimer.

https://www.nairaland.com/5052509/someone-trying-frame-me-man?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5905670702

I would've Tod u to stop spreading falsehood, but can a leopard change its spot?

cc: IvarTheTerrible
tohyorsih2, iiiyyyk

Danjunior:
. I wish it were so but I doubt. Power will definitely return to the North

OGHENAOGIE:
it's ok... naso pdp do overconfidence say dem go stay for 60 yrs till dem lose...sm of u are so ignorant...to think a Yoruba presidency is so easy kashimawo...if any igbo person with a national appeal contest he go win same for other major and minority tribes...

9gerian:
But the bolded is what has been happening since independence. However, the Yorubas have never castigated / maligned the Igbos for their choice.

Fast forward to 2015, and the Igbos have used every opportunity to insult and malign the Yorubas without end. They even ensured that Peter Obi’s candidature was quickly painted as a tribal rivalry against the Yoruba Vice President, a very unwise move it turned out.

This

The Yorubas were the ones who fought tenaciously for Jonathan to be installed as acting president, with Obasanjo rallying support for him in the North, hence the votes he got there. The Yorubas also gave Jonathan their votes without much solicitation during 2011 presidential elections.


The question is why do Igbos think they can partner with the North politically without end, but would not allow anyone to rest maligning and calling Yorubas names because they eventually partnered with the North (for the very first time in history)? It defies logic

It is hoped that this string of events allows everyone to reflect on past mistakes (including those of our leaders past) and begin to strive for equity, and not just when it affects you. This is what a nation needs to harness its diverse potentials. These potentials are everywhere all over the length and breadth of Nigeria.

Btw, I think the Igbos may stand a good chance at producing the next president, but that is if they retrace their steps and start building bridges instead of attacking everybody (including their people that reason differently). Interestingly, Obasanjo was the first to suggest that Igbos prepared to be President by 2019 at the height of Buhari’s absence in 2017 or so; Obasanjo was abused and even cursed by the same people (Igbos) that he was envisaging to help broker an equitable deal. Sighs

IvarTheTerrible:


oilPUSSY already knows this, the savagery of my knockout just made HIM make a foolish point.

I had already won, HE and his fellow yeebows just wanted to salvage their crushed psyche.

It was a foolish yeebow that created that post

dondada78:


Was zik a leader? Ojukwu is respected even more than the man, zik.

leokid866:


You mean Ojukwu? You mean an educated man who knew what power structures to hold to get what you want from day to day, but instead decided to go to war, dragged all of us through a traumatic experience both emotionally and financially, cost us all a lot In human capital, lost the war, fled and left Nigerians be they from the North,South,west,or east bearing the cost of it all. The man who knew the eronius cost of a war but still went ahead to declare a sovereign nation within an already specified and recognised border. The man who refused to think about the future of his people and Nigeria as a whole. That is the man you want to raise your cap for? WOW. Zik might have been cut down in his prime but he didn't start no wars and was a forward thinking Man.

9gerian:
But the bolded is what has been happening since independence. However, the Yorubas have never castigated / maligned the Igbos for their choice.

Fast forward to 2015, and the Igbos have used every opportunity to insult and malign the Yorubas without end. They even ensured that Peter Obi’s candidature was quickly painted as a tribal rivalry against the Yoruba Vice President, a very unwise move it turned out.

The Yorubas were the ones who fought tenaciously for Jonathan to be installed as acting president, with Obasanjo rallying support for him in the North, hence the votes he got there. The Yorubas also gave Jonathan their votes without much solicitation during 2011 presidential elections.


The question is why do Igbos think they can partner with the North politically without end, but would not allow anyone to rest maligning and calling Yorubas names because they eventually partnered with the North (for the very first time in history)? It defies logic

It is hoped that this string of events allows everyone to reflect on past mistakes (including those of our leaders past) and begin to strive for equity, and not just when it affects you. This is what a nation needs to harness its diverse potentials. These potentials are everywhere all over the length and breadth of Nigeria.

Btw, I think the Igbos may stand a good chance at producing the next president, but that is if they retrace their steps and start building bridges instead of attacking everybody (including their people that reason differently). Interestingly, Obasanjo was the first to suggest that Igbos prepared to be President by 2019 at the height of Buhari’s absence in 2017 or so; Obasanjo was abused and even cursed by the same people (Igbos) that he was envisaging to help broker an equitable deal. Sighs

gidgiddy:


That's how you may see it but most Igbos see it a much different way. Ojukwu fought for the liberation and freedom of the Igbo nation and that alone means far more to Igbos than anything obtainable inside Nigeria

When you understand that, you will understand why most Igbos revere Ojukwu

Manshoesq:
Igbo alliance with other sect might happen before 2023,things can change in an instance.

9gerian:
But the bolded is what has been happening since independence. However, the Yorubas have never castigated / maligned the Igbos for their choice.

Fast forward to 2015, and the Igbos have used every opportunity to insult and malign the Yorubas without end. They even ensured that Peter Obi’s candidature was quickly painted as a tribal rivalry against the Yoruba Vice President, a very unwise move it turned out.

The Yorubas were the ones who fought tenaciously for Jonathan to be installed as acting president, with Obasanjo rallying support for him in the North, hence the votes he got there. The Yorubas also gave Jonathan their votes without much solicitation during 2011 presidential elections.


The question is why do Igbos think they can partner with the North politically without end, but would not allow anyone to rest maligning and calling Yorubas names because they eventually partnered with the North (for the very first time in history)? It defies logic

It is hoped that this string of events allows everyone to reflect on past mistakes (including those of our leaders past) and begin to strive for equity, and not just when it affects you. This is what a nation needs to harness its diverse potentials. These potentials are everywhere all over the length and breadth of Nigeria.

Btw, I think the Igbos may stand a good chance at producing the next president, but that is if they retrace their steps and start building bridges instead of attacking everybody (including their people that reason differently). Interestingly, Obasanjo was the first to suggest that Igbos prepared to be President by 2019 at the height of Buhari’s absence in 2017 or so; Obasanjo was abused and even cursed by the same people (Igbos) that he was envisaging to help broker an equitable deal. Sighs

Odingo1:




TABLE 1: NIGERIA’S 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (APRIL 16) RESULTS BY GEOPOLITICAL ZONES

STATE PDP CPC ACN

Voter Turnout
Jonathan Buhari Ribadu

GEO-POLITICAL SUMMARIES

SOUTH-WEST 2,786,417 321,609 1,369,943

INEC Results: http://www.inecnigeria.org/?page_id=31 (link updated, March 2015; formerly: )
2011 Election
SW PDP=2,786,417
SW ACN=1,369,943
How did Yorubas voted for Jonathan in 2011

leokid866:


You speak of fighting for freedom like we held you daily with chains and at gun point. And stop generalizing it, a lot of igbo people cursed him after the war. What freedom was he fighting for that it led to carrying gun. He was the richest amongst his people and a general to booth. They whined him to go to war cause you felt you were oppressed and stupid him fell for it. Igbos were and have been the most prosperous people before and after independence, if you had played your cards right you could have been the most prosperous part of nigeria and maybe even try your own brexit now. But what did you do with all your blessings and gifts? You cried injustice picked up the gun went to war and threw it all away. And instead of you to cast away the name ojukwu the man who led you all down your current path, here you are saying he deserves respect. What stupid respect.

gidgiddy:


You are a product of the fact that Nigerian history is not taught in schools. If the history of the war had been taught, you would realise how wrong you are.

There have been waves of massacre of Igbos in Nigeria such as the the Jos massacre of 1945 and the Kano killings of 1953 where hundreds of Igbos were butchered in cold blood by Northerners. It did not end there, in 1966 alone, over 50,000 Igbo men, women and children were massacred all over Nigeria, mainly in the North. As more and more Igbos were being killed, many Igbos ran to Ojukwu who was then Military Governor of the Eastern Region and they asked him to pull the Eastern Region out of Nigeria since the Government of Nigeria was doing nothing to stop the killings. Ojukwu refused and told Igbos to remain patient. As the call to secede from Nigeria grew, and as millions of Igbos ran back to Eastern Nigeria, Ojukwu risked his life to travel to Ghana and have a meeting with Gowon to keep Nigeria one. After two days of meeting, Ojukwu and Gowon reached an agreement and signed this agreement in front of then the President of Ghana, General Ankrah.


When Ojukwu returned to the Eastern Region he showed Igbos the agreement signed in Ghana that would usher in peace and keep Nigeria as one. As a gesture of good will, Ojukwu asked Igbos who had ran back home, to return to the North since the dispute had been settled. Ojukwu even personally escorted some of them to the boarder between the Eastern Region and the North. Do you know what happened next? Another wave of massacre occurred and those that returned to the North were massacred in greater numbers. The final straw was when Gowon broke the agreement he signed in Ghana with Ojukwu

It was then that the scales fell from Ojukwu's eyes and he realized that there was nothing like 'one Nigeria'. It was then that Ojukwu realised that what the North wanted was the political domination of everyone in Nigeria.

In the face of continued massacre of Igbos and the breaking of the peace agreement, Ojukwu did what any sane person would have done, he asked all Igbos to return home and declared their independence. I dont know if you expected Ojukwu to fold his his arms and watch as his people are murdered and turned into slaves without a fight?

After Ojukwu declared Biafra, Gowon declared war on Biafra and sent Soldiers to the East where Igbos were enjoying their new country, to fight. Ojukwu fought against all odds for three years to maintain the independence of his people, and when he could no longer continue, he left and the war ended.

If there is anybody to be blamed for the war, it is Gowon who refused to keep to the agreement he signed.

The truth about it all is that Ojukwu did everything he could to avert war and keep Nigeria one, but the North made it impossible.


When Ojukwu died, he was given the greatest burial ever seen in Igbo land because the vast majority of us Igbos know that he fought for our liberation and independence

That's why the federal government does not want to teach the history of the war, doing so would expose the ugly truth that the Northerners led by Gowon caused the war in their quest to dominate Nigeria