Deadlytruth:


Why you have not been able to show proof to the contrary and still as well not been able to explain how Ojukwu's making Azikiwe an envoy in Biafra didn't translate to giving Azikiwe a leadership position.
AfghanEASTern terrorist like you.

obynzo:


Nigerian government has envoys at the moment and it doesn't make it a leadership position dude get a life, your hatred of igbos is not making you objective. you are already using name calling and abuse to get your point by calling me a terrorist. Oga you have no talk you plan yo sow seeds of discord has failed we have igbos that know their history very well.

T9ksy:




You, my good sir, ain't among those ibos that truly knows their history. Probably, you are just being your genetically-wired deceitful self.

Ezeama400:


The bolded is not true.. Gowon abolished regional government and created 12 states.. Your lies and propaganda can never be true despite repeating it million times..

[b]Before Gowon became head of state in August 1966, Nigeria was a federation of

1) 4 semi-autonomous Regions
2) Each Region had resource control
3)Each Region kept 50% of whatever accrued within it, paid the Federal Government 25% and the rest 25% went into a General account that all the Regions including the Federal Government could use for developmental purpose.
4)Because the 4 Regions were semi-autonomous, it made the centre week and prevented any Region from dominating another

Today, we have

1)36 states that have little or no resource control
2) A powerful Federal government that now pays the states
3)Fiscal federalism is dead

How did we get here? It was Gowons promulgation of Decree 14 on the 27th of May 1967 that caused it all. It was this same decree that forced Ojukwu to declare the Eastern Region a seperate country called Biafra 3 days later and this led to the war. It should also be added that decree 14 was a violation of the Aburi agreement that both Gowon and Ojukwu signed in Ghana.


Decree 14, abolished the 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states, took away resource control, reversed fiscal responsibility and made the federal government all powerful

It was seen for what it was by Ojukwu and the Eastern Region, a calculated attempt by Gowon and his Northern cohorts to dominate everyone.

Suddenly, the North that was one Region, had 6 states while the South that was 3 Regions had to share 6 states between them. This effectively made the North the dominant partner[/b]


Subsequent military administration's led by Northerners subdivided the 12 states Gowon created, and gave the North more states and local governments than the south

Today, the North that was one Region has overwhelming advantage over the South that was 3 Regions

1) The North has 19 states while the south has 17

2)Of the 109 Senators in Nigeria, the North has 59 while the south has 50

3) Of the 360 house of rep members, the North has 191 while the South has 169

4) Of the 774 Local Governments in Nigeria, the North has 419 while the South has 355

This undue advantage given to the North, starting with Gowons decree 14 which changed the structure of Nigeria, is what led to war and created the mess Nigeria is in today

Know your history..

I am done with you.. Bye

obynzo:


You see it shows your small minded nature. I have said i know my history well and you have seen my comments show me where i lied in any of my comments?

Of course, you know YOUR history well .

That was why you were asking for links about this first act of hooliganism ( mace snatching) in our nascent democracy, creditted to one of your kinsman, in Yorubaland.

Probably, due to your inherent intellectual laziness, you predictably concluded that it was a lie.

T9ksy:




Of course, you know YOUR history well .

That was why you were asking for links about this first act of hooliganism ( mace snatching) in our nascent democracy, creditted to one of your kinsman, in Yorubaland.

Probably, due to your inherent intellectual laziness, you predictably concluded that it was a lie.

obynzo:


Nigerian government has envoys at the moment and it doesn't make it a leadership position dude get a life, your hatred of igbos is not making you objective. you are already using name calling and abuse to get your point by calling me a terrorist. Oga you have no talk your plan to sow seeds of discord has failed we have igbos that know their history very well.

obynzo:


Bros show us the link and stop babbling and spewing thash

obynzo:


Bros show us the link and stop babbling and spewing thash

hakeem4:
I believe he did it so as to help his igbo people, because igbos were mostly dominating most facet of life in nigeria

donstan18:
I just wish Military regime will be back, so that one particular man like that will be killed with his cows.

The history of federalism in Nigeria suffered a setback in May 1966, when the military government under Major-General J.T.U.Aguiyi-Ironsi abolished the federal system of government and formed a unitary system of government. Thus, the national military government legislated for the whole of the country. After the counter coup-d’etat of July 1966, General Gowon promulgated a decree abolishing the unification decree of Ironsi and restored Nigeria to federal system of government. Nigeria did not go back to the old four regions but dramatic changes took place. According to D.A. Ijalaye; “by breaking the old Northern and Eastern Regions into six and three states respectively, each with extensive semi-autonomous powers, and by the distribution of assets and liabilities of the former regional governments, major changes had been effected in the potential balance of powers within the federation as well as the position and powers of Native Authorities and of many ethnic groups especially the minorities.”


It was Gowon that restored the Federal System

T9ksy:




Ode ni e !

Have you bothered to check the link supplied by DT? Hell no!! But you will still insist that the asserion is a lie.

Deadlytruth:


Stop this terrorist behavior. Only terrorists see superior facts and arguement but refuse to bow to it hence they go on killing spree.
You have been given the link repeatedly together with a snapshot of the specific page the information is contained in.

Here it is again: https://www.academia.edu/6198062/The_Fall_of_the_First_Republic

Go to page 29 and read, you AfghanEASTern terrorist.

Deadlytruth:


I wouldn't expect you to know the difference between an envoy and an ambassador. Nigeria presently has an ambassador to many countries and that's what you use interchangeably with envoy.
Go and check your dictionary first.

Meanwhile you can't know Azikiwe's role in Biafra more than Azikiwe's son himself who granted the interview below:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/we-sensed-dad-was-disappointed-about-nigeria-before-his-death-ziks-son/%3famp

Note where the son says in response to a question asked about his father's role in Biafra and as follows:
Of course, initially, he was skeptical about it, but when it was obvious that there was Biafra, who was the spokesperson for Biafra? He was the one. He was the one travelling around the whole world to get support. He was the one that was meeting leaders to get them to support the Biafran cause. He was also an adviser to Odumegwu Ojukwu for a long time.

I guess that the role which confereed on a man all the duties described above was not a leadership role but that of an ordinary follower in your AfghanEASTern reasoning?

obynzo:


Once again you are a big fool. Is an envoy a leadership position. you being an adviser doesn't put you in a leadership position, it is up to those in power to listen to your advise or not. Please bring evidence that Zik moved NCNC HQ from Lagos to Enugu.

obynzo:


Once again you are a big fool. Is an envoy a leadership position. you being an adviser doesn't put you in a leadership position, it is up to those in power to listen to your advise or not. Please bring evidence that Zik moved NCNC HQ from Lagos to Enugu.

The guy got what he deserved by being nepotistic, killing Northerners and Westerners excluding his Eastern Brothers. He was the one that form Unitary Govt abolishing Regional Govt and Devolved Powers that his people are clamoring for today in the name of restructuring all because of greed and the grand plan to make his tribe to dominate other tribes in Nigeria.

His people started nepotism in Nigeria

Deadlytruth:


Blind AfghanEASTern terrorist. Was it only advisory duty you read Azikiwe's biological son crediting to his father in that interview, or you as usual didn't open it at all? So for a person to be traveling all over the world officially and in representative capacity of his country is not a leadership role?
Your weak lines of defense here lay it bare before the whole world that you are one of the eaters of Lamidi Cownu's poo.

Deadlytruth:


You are an idiot with a rotten brain. A fool among fools. if not, you would have seen the copious references from credible journals all featuring on it, and that is if you opened the link at all. The author didn't write it as a thesis but as an summary account of the events which he compiled from different documented sources written by eyewitnesses and contemporary academics of those periods. Please which bush school did you attend in your AfghanEASTerns terrorist region where you were taught that a thesis is same as a narration? Big Buffon! If you can't show proof that Michael Okpara received a delegation Lettie from Lagos mandating him to travel from Enugu to Ibadan to beg Awolowo's wife for the very all-South alliance which you AfghanEASTern idiots initially rejected in pursuit of your domination agenda calculations, then you remain the stinking victim of moronic plague you are.

revolt:


See how you fools twist history.... Ironsi survived the 1st couple by a stroke of luck and abolished regionalism BUT ALL REGIONS STILL HAD RESOURCE CONTROL.

revolt:

The difference was that the central/ unitary govt appointed admunstors for each region. Ofcos no elections in a military rule but every region was still autonomous.

revolt:

Contrary to how it may seem like it was insidious on his part, that was the way to end the chaos with emergency rule.

revolt:


GOWON ....GOWON. . GOWON was the one that abolished resource control while giving back so called federalism. He destroyed Nigeria.

revolt:

I can blame ifeajuna for messing up the 1st coup but to be realistic the west was boiling with Akintolas wild wild west and sardauna was openly showing his disdain for igbos and how he preferred the white man to other nigerians in the midst of riots and pogroms in the north.

revolt:

Michael okpara eastern region was relatively peaceful and the opposition had ousted ziks NCNC. Though unfortunately this has been thwarted as an igbo agenda.... its mischievously covered up that ojukwu and Ironsi were the reason the coup failed... the coup was halted by igbos. Ironside survived by the whiskers. History will never be rewritten by you revisionists

obynzo:


You are really a big bitter fool and a miserable SOD it seems an igbo girl broke your heart that is why you are filled with hate

Deadlytruth:


I have never in my wildest imagination seen myself in a date with an Igbo lady talkless of actually attempting in rea life a relationship with one that could culminate in her breaking my heart.
You would do better to just address the posers I have placed before you here than trying to derail this enlightening debate with this thrash you just threw up. Ineffectual Buffon.

obynzo:


Bring the links or excerpts of the interview and once again how old was Zik's son during the war. You are really stupid.

Deadlytruth:
You are a cow and a goat combined. How old were you yourself during the war? Definitely Zik's son seniors you in physical age hence it is idiotic on your part to have boasted of deep knowledge of Nigeria's political history and then question that of the son of Zik whose was lectured by his father who happened to be a major player in those events.
You read and believe that there were WW 1, WW 2, American Civil War, etc, yet not even your parents had been born then. If being alive during the time of an event is what it takes for one to be an authority on those events, then What are historical records and books for? When I say you attended a bush school, you think I am insulting you. Brainless cranium and hopeless coconut head!

obynzo:


Bros you think you are smart. You said was Zik as an envoy in a leadership position in Biafra and I said no and I used the fact that envoys in our current Nigeria headed by Buhari are not in leadership position. You now decided to shift posts saying that Zik was an adviser and I explained to you that as an adviser it is the leaders in Authority in Biafra that would either heed the advice or not That made him not to be in a leadership position which I have proven to you. Now my own posers you have not provided an answer but you are still playing smart. Please show me the proof that Zik moved the HQ of NCNC from Lagos to Enugu. You still need to give me the link where Okpara went to beg Awolowo's wife.

You are blinded with hate and to crown it up you are even a fool which makes your case pathetic. You think you can troll Oga I will so haunt you on nairalabd that to spread hate and ethnic bias would be a lost cause for you.

Deadlytruth:


Can't you see as you are ranting as a broken record with your incoherent and shifty defense lines? So in your useless and persecution complex-infested brain the positions of envoy, adviser and foreign affairs minister combined do not translate to leadership position? Then what is the definition of leadership position? Are you sure you went to school at all? So a minister is not a leader of his ministry? A portfolio holder is not a leader by any standard? Even your fellow Igbos are so ashamed of you that they are avoiding you like a plague in this thread. Idiot.

obynzo:


You are big fool. put the link and stop abusing me. i have tried to be reasonable with you, but you want to be stupid.

T9ksy:



In addition to DT's link, if you are genuinely seeking the truth, here's another link for you. This is not a "thesis" but a witness account of what exactly transpired on that fateful day on the floor of the regional western House of assembly.


https://dawodu.com/benson2.htm

DonroxyII:
Hero ... If he didn't die alongside Ironsi ... Southeast till date would say Fajuyi/Yoruba lured Ironsi to Ibadan for him to be killed ....

Southeast still blame Awolowo/Yoruba till tomorrow for the defeat suffered by Ojukwu/Biafra ....

Deadlytruth:


See who is talking of understanding Nigeria's history. The same you who has not been able to answer the simple question of how Ojukwu expected Awolowo to remain committed to the joint secession arrangement after seeing Zik having a portfolio in Biafra.....the same Zik who sabotaged the secession clause motion all before then.