HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF HATRED BETWEEN IGBO AND YORUBA

I had the privilege of attending some meetings of the Yoruba and Igbo Leaders. I was not a leader but a youth who knew how to wash his hands.

At one of those meetings in Owerri, I think in 1989, I think, I listened to Uncle Bola Ige and other Yoruba Leaders take the likes of Mbakwe, R. B. Okafor and others to the cleaners when the Igbo said the Yoruba were betrayers, citing that Chief Obafemi Awolowo led them into secession with a promise that if the Igbo left Nigeria, the Yoruba would follow suit.

They accused him of not following up on his promise. Trust Uncle Bola Ige! He pointed to Chief Mbakwe and said, "you were there in the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu as I was. Is that statement correct?".He turned to two other Igbo and two Yoruba Leaders who were at that meeting and asked the same question, saying he had transcripts of the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu.

They kept quiet while the Yoruba Leaders affirmed that Awolowo never promised to follow the East into secession. What he said was that if the Igbo were "driven" out of Nigeria the Yoruba would take it seriously and reassess their own position. Igbo Leaders DID NOT CONTEST this version.

Then Chief Bola Ige threw in the clincher! "Who are you to accuse the Yoruba of betrayal?" he roared, and continued:

1. At Independence Awolowo offered a joint government between the NCNC and AG, with Zik as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. Awo and Zik "were still negotiating" when it was announced that Zik would be President in a coalition with NPC of the North. The East then collaborated in destroying the West and sending Awolowo and his leutenants to jail!

2. What of the 1965 elections which the West and the East agreed to boycott? We met all night and reached agreement about 3am on the day of the election. In the morning, while the Yoruba boycotted the election, the Igbo went to vote

3. After the 1979 elections Yoruba (UPN) and Igbo (APP?) Leaders were still at the negotiating table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN)

4. After the 1983 elections, 1979 repeated itself. Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation. Talks started and they met in Benin where Awo pleaded passionately that only a collaboration between The Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria. They didn't reach agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North.

Uncle Bola paused and then continued "we can go on and on. So how dare you accuse the Yoruba of betrayal? How many Igbo have been killed in Lagos, Ibadan, Akure, Oshogbo (he mentioned other Yoruba towns)? You have your businesses in the West and went to Western schools. Yet you count the Yoruba as your enemy. You get killed in Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Zaria etc and have your goods looted yet you consider the Hausa/ Fulani your friends. It's your choice. If you want to be slaves for ever, we can't help you"

I had never been so scared in my life. I thought the roof was going to fall. There was a pin drop silence and no Igbo dared interrupt Uncle Bola Ige because he was telling the truth. The Yoruba Leaders ended the meeting at that point and left. I hope Chief C. O. Adebayo's memoirs will give more details of those exchanges.

Now to make three points from all this:

A. The Yoruba have been stretching their hand across the Niger for a handshake for a long time. The Igbo refused to take it for a long time until recently

B. Many Igbo Leaders of the 70s, 80s and 90s deliberately perpetrated the legend of Awolowo's role betraying them into the civil war and his role in prosecuting the war, to rally the Igbo population behind themselves. The Igbo agreed on Yoruba hatred than on any other issue. So it was the fabric that held them together for a long time

C. Time heals all things. Many Igbo reading this will be hearing for the first time that their leaders of old knew for a truth that Awolowo did not break his word to Ojukwu as alleged.

And to think of it, EVEN IF OUR PARENTS QUARRELLED, SHOULD WE THE NEW GENERATION CONTINUE THE SAME WAY?.

ITS TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND MAKE THE HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE NIGER WORK FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PEOPLES AND NIGERIA

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Yawns...! I didn't read

One sided report

Yorubas are angry that Igbos came to their land, bought all their lands and properties and becoming the landlord while the Yorubas are tenants in their own land. This truth is from a reliable source inside Aso rock

yoruba would never dare to unite with them



Igbos,( untrusted people)


An enemy who behaves like friend..

Some mumu people like this Op will just wake up and be writing nonsense.

You were at a meeting in Owerri, you can't remember the date or venue of the said meeting, but you can remember the tiniest of details of everything that was discussed.

You need better slap this morning to reset your dumb brains.

They were told lies,the Hausa-Fulanis are silly chess player,east needs to let go of the destructive ego and mesh with the ijaw and Yorubas to deal with the villain from futan jalon.

Hmmmmm

As your slowpoked brain will not allow you see the copied and link down there..... Iberiberism

Millimann:
Some mumu people like this Op will just wake up and be writing nonsense.

You were at a meeting in Owerri, you can't remember the date or venue of the said meeting, but you can remember the tiniest of details of everything that was discussed.

You need better slap this morning to reset your dumb brains.

When I saw your name CHILD-uptojoy. I didn't bother to read. I am Yorubian from SouthWest Nigeria. I love the Easterners. God bless YORUBA Nation. God bless Biafra. God bless Nigeria. ###FREENMK###. FREEDOM IS FREE. NO FORCE IN LOVE.

All the facts listed by the OP are verifiable.

Yeebos have ALWAYS preferred to be Hausa / Fulani slaves. ALWAYS!

The only time Yoruba have gone into alliance with the Northerner.s... SE started complaining to high heavens.

childuptojoy:
As your slowpoked brain will not allow you see the copied and link down there..... Iberiberism

Shut up!!

Don't post nonsense here, whether copied or not. You're misleading the ignorant ones like yourself here.

Monogamy:
One sided report

You have made 31 comments this morning ?

You started commenting at 5:15am ? some of us just got to the office and a man your age is sitting at he.vommentimg this much on nairaland?

How then will you ever have a successful life when you refuse to do the needful?

Tomorrow you will be blaming the president or your village people for your misfortunes

Oga use your time well

go back to bed Old man Springer

springer:
When I saw your name CHILD-uptojoy. I didn't bother to read. I am Yorubian from SouthWest Nigeria. I love the Easterners. God bless YORUBA Nation. God bless Biafra. God bless Nigeria. ###FREENMK###. FREEDOM IS FREE. NO FORCE IN LOVE.

E pain am

Millimann:


Shut up!!

Don't post nonsense here, whether copied or not. You're misleading the ignorant ones like yourself here.

Fahdiga:
Yorubas are angry that Igbos came to their land, bought all their lands and properties and becoming the landlord while the Yorubas are tenants in their own land. This truth is from a reliable source inside Aso rock

He who buys immobile property registered himself as permanent visitor. Are you not dreaming of going back home one day? Do you plan to die in foreign land? Don't you want Biafra again? Does it sound wise that your region is in mud and splash/ gully erosion roads while you continue to build and develop foreign land? Pls THINK TWICE. By the way we want you to bring more money to buy properties that you can't move back home in Yorubaland. We need more cash and tax in Western-Nigeria. We need developers. We want more investors. God bless Yorubaland.

NoFucksToGive:


You have made 31 comments this morning ?

You started commenting at 5:15am ? some of us just got to the office and a man your age is sitting at he.vommentimg this much on nairaland?

How then will you ever have a successful life when you refuse to do the needful?

Tomorrow you will be blaming the president or your village people for your misfortunes

Oga use your time well

Mynd44 oamj4 lalasticlacla dominique mukina Seun

I would continue to be polite and reporting same guy that has been provoking me and other NL's deliberately

Monogamy:


Mynd44 oamj4 lalasticlacla dominique mukina Seun

I would continue to be polite and reporting same guy that has been provoking me and other NL's deliberately

I have neither provoked nor insulted you, but you on the other hand has been insulting people and I have been reporting you ..surely justice will be served on you

The only time I near yoruba people is when I want to buy their house. They are not useful after that

No matter what!
Come what may!

As an Omoluabi I will never hate any tribe.

adefitim:
No matter what!
Come what may!

As an Omoluabi I will never hate any tribe.

Peace bro.
Yoruba and Igbo are great tribe.
As an Igbo dude, yoruba is a good tribe to me.
Let's leave all the senseless dick measurement, we are good in our respective ways.

I like your post bro

Igbos and Yoruba's should look to Afghanistan to what is happening...... that's all I'd say.

Fahdiga:
Yorubas are angry that Igbos came to their land, bought all their lands and properties and becoming the landlord while the Yorubas are tenants in their own land. This truth is from a reliable source inside Aso rock

Igbos bought all land how come I still have a house built on a land, I have fishery and farm also on a land, yet you have bought all land, no wonder igbos are not welcome by other tribes in Nigeria, you always try to run faster than your shadow and get yourself in a ditch, see how you have been denied of ever getting close to presidency so you wouldn't ruin the country, the coup and bitterness of 1966 still hunt you like ghost, everywhere in the world when Nigerian criminality is mentioned they look out for you.

IGBO and YORUBA are usually like Cat and Mouse.

Yoruba said igbos are not welcome by other tribes in Nigeria

But in Nigeria and wider world .... after indigenous people.. igbos are next.

They Yoruba that claim igbos are not welcome can be hardly seen in any part of Nigeria talk more of wider world..
Even in their land ... that they claim accommodators .. they literally fought with every Nigeria tribe except igbos... them no reach ..

And the Yoruba people claiming that igbosland is muddy trash

I challenge any Yoruba to show a Yoruba state more developed than any state in the east... except Lagos.. or even the local government of the state ?
.... go to China and see igbos building ... US South Korea.. japan .. Asia .. buying up houses from Europe to to Middle East..
talk more of Yoruba land that is in Africa.. have your u been to Ivory Coast? And see how igbos built... four storey..

Travel Yoruba no go gree .. Na to stay ipetu bush the type nonsense...and believe propaganda.
ignorance everywhere.
Sophisticators for mouth...

Soon Seun will push the trash to front page... unity beggars .. Na only during elections you dey see this trash.
Unity with Yoruba is an abomination to igbos ancestors.

IgweOfNnewi:
Igbos bought all land how come I still have a house built on a land, I have fishery and farm also on a land, yet you have bought all land, no wonder igbos are not welcome by other tribes in Nigeria, you always try to run faster than your shadow and get yourself in a ditch, see how you have been denied of ever getting close to presidency so you wouldn't ruin the country, the coup and bitterness of 1966 still hunt you like ghost, everywhere in the world when Nigerian criminality is mentioned they look out for you.

What an incoherent and disjointed gibberish

Fahdiga:
Yorubas are angry that Igbos came to their land, bought all their lands and properties and becoming the landlord while the Yorubas are tenants in their own land. This truth is from a reliable source inside Aso rock

INTERNET NEVER FORGETS


I JUST WANT TO LET THE WORLD KNOW THAT YOU ARE A FULANI HERD TERRORIST

IJOBA11:
INTERNET NEVER FORGETS

What's wrong if I expose my people's hyprocricy?

Nonsense

Fahdiga:
What's wrong if I expose my people's hyprocricy?

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