CSTR2:
Though to be honest, the north allied with the East in the greater part of our national history.

Day don dey break?.

valentineuwakwe:



well said my brother....many will not agree with this but Truth is always bitter, only conscience will heal it

Concience is an open wound, only the truth can nuture it.

Area4Area:
This post has finally summed up exactly what led to the Nigeria we have today.
GREED, GREED and more GREED on the part of Zik, Ironsi and Ojukwu.

Most Igbos of this present generation would never want to hear anything about it since this doesn't go well with their narratives of what happened and for those who knew all along, they wouldn't want the truth to be divulged out, see how they are trying to avoid the thread because they know the write up is but the GOSPEL TRUTH.

The Igbos should atone for the sins of their forebears against Nigeria instead of acting the victim every time.

Compulsory history class will format their brains.

ChiSomtoChi:
To the uncircumcised hamitic Yorubas and Almajiris



1966 Coup: “THE IGBOS NOW VINDICATED AND EXONERATED”
Olusegun Obasanjo.

"Let the truth be told. The People involved in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:
1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)
2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”
3. Capt. G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).
4. Maj. Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).
5. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.
6. *Lt. Robert (Bob) Egbiko* (Midwestern Region – Ishan).
7. Lt. Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).
8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).
9. Capt. Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).
10. Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).
11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).
12. Lt. Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)
13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)
14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).
The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
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Yoruba – Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if u have any. History will always tell us what happened.
1. Azikiwe defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria (present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming Opposition, rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.
2. Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba control of the media for decades.
3. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.
4. Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.
5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.
6. As Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic divides. 9. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and co to overthrow General Ironsi.
7. In order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West (Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to join the North in fighting Igbos.
8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.
9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.
10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.
11. Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than financial destitute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba
12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .
13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.
14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.
15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.
16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.
17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.
18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.
19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.
20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.
THAT IS WHY IGBOS WHO EXPERIENCE ALL THE ABOVE INJUSTICES THINK THAT BIAFRA IS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER.

HOWEVER, MY TAKE IS THAT THIS SHOULD MAKE OUR IGBO LEADERS FOCUSED, AND FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THEIR KINSMEN, NOT ONLY FOR THEIR OWN POCKETS

Trash

Wow what an interesting read, igbos are the architect of their own problems Karma caught up with them.


Their evil plans towards other tribes in Nigeria was put to halt by Gowon and his cronies. I swear by God if it was was them that have the realm of affairs of this country under their feet we would have all been slaves by now and maybe we would have committed suicide due to their oppression and arrogance because an average IPOB man is very arrogant, he will do wicked things to you and later on rub it on your face. But God of men is not asleep he knows the reason why he doesn't want them in power.



We can all see how they are oppressing other minority tribes in their region and SS, we can all see how they are calling other tribes different names we can all see how they want to cause an unnecessary rift between yorubas and Northerners.

Area4Area:


They are all Igbos, you still divide them into LGAs, stop derailing.

Who were those that bore the brunt of the killings and who were those who didn't miss one person, let's even assume the murderers were Ghanaians and Indians?

You now agree that SS anioma is Igbo but, not Biafrans.

Hypocrite!

ChiSomtoChi:


Am sure through your name "Area4Area", you are from the Niger Delta maybe Warri! You are quick to notice the Igboness in Zik(an Onitsha man) but you guys will say that Onitsha are part of the great Benin Descendants. Hypocrites

Go through his comments you will find out he is a hate filled afonja.

Did any of those guys fail in that position?
Did any of them get the position cos he is Igbo?
Then, everything was merit.
Keep living in yesterday.
The truth is if u resort to merit today, the igbo will dominate. HATE OR LOVE THE IGBO, they believe in excellence

Area4Area:
See you pointing a finger at someone and forgetting you're also pointing four at yourself.

What stopped Zik and the Igbos from acting based on those incidents of 1945 and 1953 and cooperating with leaders from other regions for a de-amalgamation or/and referendum and secession in the pre- independence constitution?

I guess just as the author wrote, they acted that way based on the false belief that they can lord it over others, others warned that Nigeria couldn't work then yet it was Zik and the Igbos that wanted Nigeria to stand and now they are seeing the result of their stupidity they now want out, never done that.
You can't eat your cake and have it

Enough of this your zik and ironsi rubbish. I've told you before that, this rubbish you always propagate is dead on arrival. The lives and future of this present day Igbos does not lie on zik and ironsi. We the great Igbos of this generation have chosen the path we want to follow and no man born of a woman can stop or change that not even a billion of your type including the devil can do anything to stop it.

@ chisomtochi, beware of this afonja, he hates anything Igbo if you doubt me go through his numerous comments you will find out.

7lives:


Compulsory history class will format their brains.

Do you mean formatting their brains to accept nigeria??

femolii:
Trash

Don't mind him, he is just trying to derail the thread with unverifiable claims whereas the op cited sources that can be verified.

The law of God cannot be broken, karma is always real, I always sense that the problems of Nigeria must have a lot to do with this people due firstly to their criminal money by all means tendency which makes faithfulness, reliability, compassion and every other virtues strangers to them, secondly due to the way they flooded Nigeria with foreign goods causing the demise of many local industry rendering our high population useless to us but beneficial to other countries, they produce fake everything including drugs not minding that lives are lost due to this, of course they don't care, I met an elderly Igbo man with high rank in church who told me how he used to sell fake drugs in Maiduguri before the Hausa killings and he made a lot of money from selling antibiotics to treat typhoid that are fake which fetched him larger profits, I asked him did he not care people might die when they don't get well after taking the drug, he said its none of his business, I walked away from him shocked. Nigeria is better off without these people because they are too selfish to seek the common good of other tribes, but then maybe karma is still dealing with them and is keeping them here so they can fully reap the fruits of their labour because they have murdered sleep and therefore can sleep no more

I am sorry but we should eschew tribalism and revisionism.Some people even lied that an Igbo man was the first rector of Yabatech

Let us love one another.Love your neighbour as yourself.

This hate filled insecure and bitter yorubas always recycling the same garbage year in year out. When will these cowards grow up.

7lives:


Compulsory history class will format their brains.

I don't even think so, the hate and braggadocio is already ingrained in some people's DNA that even if their parents should tell them otherwise today, they'd rather dissociate from their parents than accept the truth.

sultanodudua:
This hate filled insecure and bitter yorubas always recycling the same garbage year in year out. When will these cowards grow up.

Why not counter those points raised so it won't be raised next time

celeiyke:
Did any of those guys fail in that position?
Did any of them get the position cos he is Igbo?
Then, everything was merit.
Keep living in yesterday.
The truth is if u resort to merit today, the igbo will dominate. HATE OR LOVE THE IGBO, they believe in excellence

The same thing the Hausa Fulani man will say which they did when Buhari picked his people especially the service chiefs.I call it longthroat.

I have always said that the 2 ethnic groups in Nigeria that are birthed in nepotism and domineering spirits are IGBOS AND FULANIS.
If Igbos become president,ehn?Everybody go hear whenhen..
Well,it won't be more than 8 years...

sultanodudua:
This hate filled insecure and bitter yorubas always recycling the same garbage year in year out. When will these cowards grow up.

I have always believed my Igbo friends because they complain a lot but most of what they have parroted to me are falsehood taken from 'oblivion'.
Thank God for some people like the OP who are doing a 'YOMAN' job on nairaland and some other platforms to keep the record straight.

One story but in different narrations, colours and sizes begins to make one ponder on that which is true or false. Everyone seems to have verifiable points but none agrees with the other. It means either sides are wrong or just one. But which side will the laymen stand?

doclatom, Sanchez01, Area4Area, naptu2 please for me personally I want to know at least the truth even if I don't get it all in respect to this matter. You can recommend links/books for proper enlightenment or better still create wonderful threads.

Na beg I dey beg una o.

A wonderful thread and a nice read.

It is tempting to ignore idiotic threads but Eboes lie a lot and their lies must not go unanswered.

Obasanjo never removed history from any curriculum
That is a dirty lie
History has always been in the WAEC Syllabus

The Syllabus for History was the same in all WAEC nations not just Nigeria
History was always a JAMB subject and the Syllabus was similar to the WAEC Syllabus.
If Biafra history was not taught in schools how is that down to Obasanjo?

Is he WAEC?


I do no know anywhere in the world where contemporary events are immediately included in the school history Syllabus

It is down to historians to write textbooks of history not government
Did government also stop the teaching of history in universities or stop anyone writing masters or Phd thesis on Biafra war

Area4Area:
I don't even think so, the hate and braggadocio is already ingrained in some people's DNA that even if their parents should tell them otherwise today, they'd rather dissociate from their parents than accept the truth.

Same thing is applicable to you and your likes.

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doclatom:
� Found this interesting

Forgotten History Of Igbo Tribe And Northern Alliance.

Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;

Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!

Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.

Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!

We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.

*What follows are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"*

Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

*“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”*.

WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:

The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation. The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating.

However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.

Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.

To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution. While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.

Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis). As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:

"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).

"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949). Anascopeterson: As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate. Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria. With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.

But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region. But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region. While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.

Anascopeterson: While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
Anascopeterson: When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts. Here is how:

In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address. But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard. Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government. However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony. Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exhuberance.

On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.

Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint". After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.

Anascopeterson: The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers. That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.

Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.

In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.
But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.

Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.

Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers. Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra. But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty? Be the judge. Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:

After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging. Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.

Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest of Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.

First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle. Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process. Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.

Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference. Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.

In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.

That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians. On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise. But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft. That was the height of Irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.

So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
Anascopeterson: Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.

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[s]quote author=DaBullIT post=86058475]I managed to read half of thing long history , I would have completed it but I know the story, maybe not in the given order but its all familiar

I was looking forward to seeing the write-up talk about how Ibos partnered with hausas in a political party but not sure its included



My point here is Ibos did more harm than good to Nigeria but they still like to claim being victims


Nigeria would probably be competing with dubai / Singapore / Malaysia right now if the first coup didn't happen


Worst of all Ibos raise their kids with lies and those ones swallow hook line and sinker + even add their own imagination to the lies


Before anything else ibo nation needs to learn to be humble and apologize to Nigerians esp the north, that's the first step towards ibo ever smelling anything close to power at the centre [/quote][/s]

NimrodEndOfDays:
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Does your cancelling change the truth, absolutely not.

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mamaafrik:
I have read alot about how the igbo were worse satan than the current North but Aside the enahoro Book,op ,is there any more to buttress you claim?
Moderator,please this should hit the front page.
We need a wider audience.
Many have been told lies that is ingrained in their DNA

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unbitchable:

These are the myraid of lies your forefathers passed on to you. ibos have always come up with their own version of lies to cover up the obvious truths in a bid to appear sanctimonious and justify their trademark of victim mentality. A bunch of recalcitrants who have refused to take responsibility for the attendant anarchy, political instability, constitutional deformity, regional & socio-economic underdevelopment that has bedeviled the country by their political mischievousness and innate greed for power.
you and your forefathers are to pass the buck on Awo, even when nature has cursed you for as long as the blood you shed in the first republic do not depart from your generations . if Awo was not in prison, your blood thirsty forefathers would have killed him just as they did others. cursed souls.

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Area4Area:
Does your cancelling change the truth, absolutely not.

[/s] truth? You are a very funny man.

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unbitchable:

These are the myraid of lies your forefathers passed on to you. ibos have always come up with their own version of lies to cover up the obvious truths in a bid to appear sanctimonious and justify their trademark of victim mentality. A bunch of recalcitrants who have refused to take responsibility for the attendant anarchy, political instability, constitutional deformity, regional & socio-economic underdevelopment that has bedeviled the country by their political mischievousness and innate greed for power.
you and your forefathers are to pass the buck on Awo, even when nature has cursed you for as long as the blood you shed in the first republic do not depart from your generations . if Awo was not in prison, your blood thirsty forefathers would have killed him just as they did others. cursed souls.

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Ritchiee:


The same thing the Hausa Fulani man will say which they did when Buhari picked his people especially the service chiefs.I call it longthroat.

I have always said that the 2 ethnic groups in Nigeria that are birthed in nepotism and domineering spirits are IGBOS AND FULANIS.
If Igbos become president,ehn?Everybody go hear whenhen..
Well,it won't be more than 8 years...

Ok.
Support us and see how even d common man in ur village will see government work

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Gabkosh:
This idiot will not give reasonable answer. Why have you igbos never talked of innocent Yoruba people you bored at the casino? Why?

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It's funny how all these tribal bigots with no sense of history continue to masturbate on anything IGBO!

I would reply to the OP when he presents verifiable links to the claims made in that piece.

For the much we know, it could just be another madman meting out his hungry frustration on a Nation that has done so well for themselves inspite of every form of segregation, traumatization, and trampling that have been meted out to them.

Remember this, when you think of the Igbos, think of the Phoenix... We rise in glorious splendour from our ashes.