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Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by SUNNINO(m): 1:46pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Yes, elders from Mid west and later Bendel state testified that he was actually a tribalist, that way and manner he treated the non Yorubas in then western Nigeria ,led to the creation of mid west region in 1963. He discriminated against other tribes and had serious hatred for the Igbos due to the division of his region, because he felt they incited the people to call for mid west region. He was more of Regional leader than Nationalist as claimed, he shared that quality sectionalism with Buhari. 2 Likes |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by InvertedHammer: 1:49pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
/ An enviable resume' destroyed with just / 1 Like |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by BSdetector: 1:52pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
InvertedHammer: 3million flatin0s died after feeding on cockroaches, lizards and their own kins men all for nothing. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by RomanGreen: 1:56pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Juliusmalema: Hahahaha, chai....u get bad mouth o |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by BSdetector: 2:05pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
SUNNINO: No it's you Igbos that are just exactly like the fulani...... you're only pissed that you aren't the oppressor. The great Awo had the interest of his people at heart and knew that a nigerian state was not doable reason why he opted for the succession clause but the stupid zik because of his greedy igbo nature, false sense of grandeur and nazi like ideologies stood against Awo thinking it would benefit him and his half wit stupid tribesmen....we all know how that ended... you call Awolowo who pitied you subhumans with £20 evil when Nnamdi Azikiwe onced called Ojukuwu and your biafra forefathers rebels and begged France to stop sending aid to you idiots. you Igbos are pathetic victim complex fools. Yoruba's will always live rent free in your flatskulls. 13 Likes 5 Shares
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Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by benji93: 2:16pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
It's a serious problem. It's easier to blame an outsider than someone in your backyard, who may have been responsible for your problems. They should ask their relatives and politicians who fought for secession then, why they did so if a significant number of their people were enjoying their lives so much. Maybe it was just a group of bitter politicians who felt their people were wronged because they were denied certain political positions. It's disappointing that the majority of these politicians do not understand the difference between personal interest and regional/national interest. It's even more disappointing that the people cannot/will not realize it when their leaders are full of shit. BSdetector: 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by DedeNkem: 2:17pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
tamdun: Yourubas have not learned from being enslaved by the Fulanis! 1 Like |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Tajbol4splend(m): 2:18pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
brandmix: Bro this is not tribalism, do you think there is anything real called Nigeria? No, Yoruba is a nation, Igbo is a nation, Hausa/Fulani is a nation. All of us were forced on one another by an everlasting rotting British dictator in Lord Lugard. We have nothing in common in terms of culture and tradition, that's what makes a nation a nation, this thing we have is a cheating 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by BSdetector: 2:24pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
benji93: Sincerely...they're something else, they'll brag, go out and shit the bed and blame Yoruba's for it like we're their fathers....they never take responsibility for their actions and think they know it all and are perfect at stuff when they aren't worth shit. God help us all. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Amalekki: 2:24pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Sardauna Ahmadu Bello is laughing at Chidoka 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by JustCruise(m): 3:35pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Oracleforce An average Igbo man hates Awolowo because as Minsiter of finance, he fought Biafraudn people with his economic strategy and he won... NYamiri is the slogan that can never be forgotten in Igbo land. .. As usual an ordinary Yoruba man can't talk without insults. Free your self from hate or die like him. I won't reply you again. |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by michresakidjo(m): 4:01pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
I'm very young and know little about History... Please someone should please suggests me books to read on scandalous topic as this. Educated folks without Biases please!!!... |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by 7lives: 4:22pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Sirjamo: Oil dey your head, they should cry us a river. |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Munamu: 4:24pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
NIGHTMARE0O7: Because, he didn't allow Zik to take over Western region abii. Okay if he had allowed Zik in Western Region, of what use would that have been, since Zik disappointed even his people by romancing with the North. Truth be told ,Awo did not play a good role during the war, but he was not an angel. 1 Like |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by GUNITGuy: 4:44pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
What role do you expect him to play Please tell me ....help Ojukwu invade Lagos or what exactly do you people want from him....Awo has been the scapegoat of the word of the civil war despite not being a soldier......Others like Gowon, obj, ogbemudia, adaka Boro , muritala, even Pa Edwin Clark have been excluded from the blame of the woes the ibos suffered during the civil war even though they played a major part in the event that occurred Munamu: 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by alexconddy072(m): 4:55pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
ZIK AND AWOLOWO: WHAT THE IGBO SHOULD UNDERSTAND Parliamentary election was held in Nigeria on the 12th December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government. Zik’s National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon 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 NPC) came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the HousCongress (e 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 humble 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 has more public votes and seats than Awolowo’s own 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. Unknown to Awolowo, the talks were a clever ruse to keep Action Group hopes high, so that the party (Action Group) would be kept distracted from meeting with other minor parties for talks. These minor parties included the Northern Elements Progressive Union with 8 seats; Mobolaje Grand Alliance with 6 seats; Igala Union with 4 seats; Independent 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 upnorth and clinched the deal with Ahmadu Bello on forming a coalition government with the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). Tafawa Balewa, a Fulani, would be the Prime Minister of Nigeria while Zik would be the figurehead Governor –General. Even Nkurumah of Ghana was shocked. He asked Zik why having spent so much energy fighting for colonial emancipation and 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 in the NCNC, accused him of squandering the money and the trust of Nigerians. Zik replied insinuating that the Yoruba on the team , namely: Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin and Dr Olorunnibe 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, the Daily Service published the speech of Zik in 1949 about Igbo being destined by God to conquer and rule over others. This amongst others will explain why Zik rejected Awolowo’s offer of a coalition government in 1953 and instead worked with the Fulani. The Fulani had been reading Zik and Igbo through the lens of his 1949 speech ever since. The Fulani way of neutralizing 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 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 accounted for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them the Mid-Western 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 mistakes in 1966. and unfortunately, they killed other ethnic group leaders and left theirs, and this 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 the Yoruba, even their elders remember this. Has the leopard changed its spot? No. the Igbo people have always voted for the Fulani since 1959 and continue to do so. And unfortunately so, the Igbo people have always hated the Yoruba ever since and continue to do so. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by okoroemeka(m): 5:14pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Tajbol4splend:it is his paranoia about Igbo people that made him turn around and fight ojukwu and missed the chance to be the first president of the oduduwa republic just because of a minister of finance appointment,just what is going on now,if those two men are resurrected and the events rewound I don't think awolowo will forfeit the chance to declare oduduwa. |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Asswipemod: 5:22pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Juliusmalema: He introduced ethnic politics. That is what you can glean from the write up. Right? Ofcourse your coarse mind cammot process what the writer intended. And maybe he introduced ethnic politics. What about that? I guess he saw something other dull Southern politicians and leaders of his time did not see; that the Northern leaders (especially Fulanis) were devils who had conquest in their minds. He knew it. He saw it. And is it not manifesting today? I was opportuned to see a video on youtube. The video was filmed in 1957. It was a debate among African students convened by an American moderator. The students were 4 in number in that debate. They came from Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa. Yhe SA kid was the only whithe boy in their midst. The moderator inquired about racial amd ethnic prejudices in Africa apparently targetting the SA boy. I was shocked when it came to the Nigerian kid to talk. He was of Northern extraction, spoke excellent English and showed evidence of good education, which makes me wonder what happened to the North of today. But what he said shocked me the more. He did not hide his disdain for Southern people, especially Christians. He said he was prejudiced about them. In 1957! All the respect I had for him disappeared. Now who wants to be in the same country with people like that? Who would not want to beat an escape route for his people if he were a true leader? Now is his fears not happening? After years of misrule by Northerners, they want to crown it with all these? As for taking sniper, your comments simply shows how silly and ignorant you are. And its only a testimony to the mutual hatred that all tribes have for each other in Nigeria PLC especially the Fulanis. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Asswipemod: 5:35pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
alexconddy072: You have spoken the truth sir. Much respect. Nobody Igbo on this forum is gonna like your post because you hit the nail on the head. You just burst their bubble. Small wonder the Fulani are determined not to allow the Igbos get the power back. And no wonder they are always the 1st to scream betrayer against Awo and Yorubas so vehemently because they want to distract others from actually researching and discovering the truth. God bless you sir. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by HBB1(m): 5:36pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
alexconddy072: They wouldn't read or comment on this. Horrible people 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Asswipemod: 5:38pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
okoroemeka: You are muddling things up here. The Igbos betrayed him first. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Asswipemod: 5:40pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Oghene1st: Your knowledge of history is either zero or dull. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Akanbiedu(m): 5:41pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
My only problem with Awo is the 20 pounds thing. Why would he give somebody free money like that? He cheated other Nigerians to please the ingrates. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Asswipemod: 5:45pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
omoharry: Nobody even knows what you people want. Awo wasnstrong and courageous for his people you say he was tribalist. Tinubu wants to be president of the whole of Nigeria, you say he is a coward and greedy. I don't know ehy everybody is reasoning like Fulani herdsmen. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Uchek(m): 5:46pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
" The great Awo had the interest of his people at heart and knew that a nigerian state was not doable reason why he opted for the succession clause.........." He advocated for secession clause in 1953 but when the actual secession occurred (Eastern Region) in 1967, he ferociously fought against it. What a contradiction! BSdetector: |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by ThatFairGuy1: 6:24pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Sirjamo:I've been looking out for this statement. God bless you. |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Sirjamo: 7:00pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
ThatFairGuy1:God bless you too my brother 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by KoshCAD: 7:25pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Asgard13:While your living father can't qualify to be cleaning the last shoe he wore last before he died. Awo rotten bone is valuable than your living father 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by Nobody: 7:28pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Subsidybad21: I can imagine that. Very tribalistic man indeed. |
Re: Osita Chidoka: Awolowo Was Unforgiving, Introduced Ethnic Politics To Nigeria by KoshCAD: 7:40pm On Mar 23, 2021 |
Oghene1st:Hmmm, I will like to see the proofable evidence of this o. I hate people lying. Even during the war, no one chased Igbos away, they left themselves,so who are Midwesterners. I need proof. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
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