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Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Yedebem: 10:30am On Jun 10, 2020 |
[s] Topsic70:[/s] 2 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Yedebem: 10:31am On Jun 10, 2020 |
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Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Finnese001: 10:36am On Jun 10, 2020 |
plessis: Abacha really dealt with afonjas 6 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Yedebem: 10:43am On Jun 10, 2020 |
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Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Bobonnukwu: 10:54am On Jun 10, 2020 |
tutudesz:I'm not a fan of Ojukwu in the least, as I feel he should have waited it out, bidded time by employing tactical diplomatic manouvres to buy time, and build an adequate military for an armed struggle. But he was a young man with no prior leadership skill in the political sense at least. Yet he fought against all odds and much against his wish ab initio (remember he was mandated by the people of the Eastern region to declare Biafra and five them guns to avenge the killings of their brethren in the North). He ran after he couldn't sustain the struggle, nearly millions mostly children died from starvation... If it counts as some moral victory, you didn't crush us by some military genius, rather you suffered far more losses in men and materials despite your vast superiority in men and materials. We only surrendered to the might of the British/Russian/Arab collaborations due to starvation, not outright military humiliation. Replace Yorubas with Igbos in that same circumstance of history but with a plot twist... If Yorubas had fought that war even with all the preponderance of weapons domiciled in Lagos and Ibadan, and the North advanced against your region in an act of war... I can bet my two kidneys right now that the entire Yoruba soldiers would have abandoned their defensive positions and fled to Benin Republic and Togo without firing a single shot. Let's tell ourselves the truth here. 14 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by plessis: 10:57am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Topsic70: No vex. brigadier ogundipe is a brave man for running away and giving himself exile when nobody was chasing him. He's a brave man for dying in exile when nobody was chasing him. infact, he's the bravest in yorubaland. 5 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Gabkosh: 10:57am On Jun 10, 2020 |
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Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Gabkosh: 11:00am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Igboid:Bla, bla, bla. No proof. Does that now changed the fact that ojukwu ran to Abidjan at night and Nnamdi kanu ran away too? 3 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Topsic70: 11:02am On Jun 10, 2020 |
plessis:Quit being a troll nwanne! Go back to d article from vanguard dt I posted in page 1 of this thread and read it again, ds time sloooooowly. Therein lies d answer to ur question! Daalu o. 2 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by CHRISDMANAGER(m): 11:04am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Una no go use laughter kill person for Nairaland....Which one be ran away from life! Igboid: 5 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Baltazarcus(m): 11:10am On Jun 10, 2020 |
tutudesz: don't distort history, Ojukwu never started the war, it was Nigeria and Gowon who fired the first salvo at enugwu 3 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Elimon(m): 11:11am On Jun 10, 2020 |
I am Ibibio, but to me Ojukwu had to do what he did because of the Northern progrom against innocent Eastern civilians and soldiers. The yorubas only stood watching as the Hausa soldiers kept killing their fellow southerners even in Yorubalands..Igbo people agreed to take up arms because more than halve of the population had lost either a relative or a friend in the North because of heeding to 'ONE NIGERIA' Put it this way...if The Yorubas at that time,were killed in masses in igboland,would they ever have dreamt to be in a territorial relationship with the igbos anymore..NO! Then why are people critisizing Ojukwu for taking a decision the all traditional rulers of Eastern Nigerian agreed upon.. I WOULD HAVE DONE SAME..ONE NIGERIA IS FAKE TILL DATE.. 7 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by tutudesz: 11:12am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Bobonnukwu:Anybody who start a war should finish the war with their life. Those who couldn't leave the war zone paid with their lives, but because he had the opportunity he ran 4 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by gungab(m): 11:14am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Yoruba will say 'maja Masa, l'an mó akinkonju' If a warrior know how to fight but don't know how to retreat. He's a gonner. Even The Great Ojokwu obeyed this rule. |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by leokid866: 11:15am On Jun 10, 2020 |
tutudesz:3 million people... 2 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by tutudesz: 11:18am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Baltazarcus:But was the man in charge, Both Ojukwu and Gowon are war criminals simple. A good leader is willing to die for his people, Ojukwu wasn't a leader. 3 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by tutudesz: 11:23am On Jun 10, 2020 |
leokid866:3 million people died and he ran. 1 Like |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by leokid866: 11:28am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Elimon:Sorry and all the yorubas that were killed or imprisoned for aiding or hiding igbos their sacrifice Is to naught or they did not try to help the situation, or we did not beg ojukwu to stay his hand and look to a future? Shey today the military government is not gone? He thought he would be a military head till the end of time....at no point in his entire agitation not once did he call for a democracy for Nigeria as a whole or for biafra. But feel free to point to Yorubas and say we did nothing forgetting we have a saying "mà pamì mà pamì tobà ya á dì mà pà àrarè" meaning when we beg you not to kill us through your actions and you refuse to listen later we tell you not to kill yourself. ojukwu was warned but did not listen, did you now expect us to add another 3 million lives of our people to his? Or you think we came to this life to support your ego? 4 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Nwanyiogwashi(f): 11:28am On Jun 10, 2020 |
Igboid:His manhood still live in all our self style sophisticated people May God continue to bless Ibb and his family 1 Like |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by leokid866: 11:30am On Jun 10, 2020 |
tutudesz:Right across the border.....if he had stayed i would have still had mad respect for him that he followed through till the end.....like Scarface. 4 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by coputa(m): 11:54am On Jun 10, 2020 |
I 've heard severally about yoruba cowardly act,my dad even told me about it,but i was skeptical,until i saw(soldiers)army officers crying (oladapo diya and abdulkarim adisa)oduduwa blood line,since then i believed. 4 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Yedebem: 11:54am On Jun 10, 2020 |
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Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by hakeemhakeem(m): 12:17pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
Its truly common sense isn't common some of you have know tactical knowledge of warfare 101 called retreat which tinbu and other used is English thought. Awo used the traditional thought killed by some persons hand he took his with his hands |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by tutudesz: 12:43pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
leokid866:Your people died because of you and you were happy! Be a man till the very end |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Nobody: 12:51pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
Igboid:hahahhaahahahahaha 3 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Nobody: 12:55pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
plessis:una no go kill pesin that must be a world record at that time 5 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Ekwutox: 12:58pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
plessis: Chai 2 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Iamgrey5(m): 1:01pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
kingzizzy:@ emboldened Any newspaper article to back this claim? 1 Like |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Iamgrey5(m): 1:07pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
Yorubas that never ran away but faced their fears Victor Banjo refused to runaway Mko Abiola was even given the choice of Exile Awolowo even defended himself in court before being sentenced to ten years in prison Obasanjo when Muritala was killed Wole Soyinka was jailed and beaten by Obj and Gowon for supporting Biafra Agami Eda Aka Fela even refused to runway when his mother was thrown from four storey building Kudirat Abiola who was told several times to.escape. And the list goes on Can igbo give me the names of four people that stood against of for anything till the end? 4 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by IDENNAA(m): 1:37pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
I don't like Ojukwu but I smile when Yoruba people call him a coward...pesin wey fight mighty British for 30 months !! But at the same time these Yoruba people forgot how Diya and Adisa begged like little biitches in front of malam. These people are shameless! 2 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by IDENNAA(m): 1:39pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
Iamgrey5: Don't look too far, the whole of Igbo land stood and fought the British for 30 months....thats bravery in the way I understand it 3 Likes |
Re: Three Yoruba Leaders Who Ran Away by Iamgrey5(m): 1:47pm On Jun 10, 2020 |
IDENNAA:No the whole igbo land should have fled! Which war led to a whole set of people fleeing their ancestoral land before? Not even Rawanda genocide I meant individual who stood firm for what they believed till the last minute. And Biafra had French on their side too. 2 Likes |
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