AntiBMC:
This was why they removed Igboho...so they can carry out their attacks without hindrance. He was their only obstacle in the SW.

IfnobeGod20:

The political relevance of Yoruba nation surpass your region in all ramifications. Yoruba nation doesn't beg for the presidency to zoned to her region.
Intelligent Yorubas know whom to support and lead them, not nonentity and illiterate that doesn't know when to apply commonsense. We are not like your tribe that carries emotional baggage all about.

Mooh247:
Makinde and Auxiliary won't end well

MisterMan123456:


Awon intelligent people, because your grandparents were not butchered by herdsmen that's why you are making noise. Ndi traitors

InoGetJoy:


Igboho was brave enough to say NO to the herdsmen murdering and displacing your tribesmen and this is what you say about him?
So you're ready to sacrifice your tribesmen on the altar of politics?
Pathetic

IfnobeGod20:

I said it that common sense is not common. You cannot because you have headache and then cut off the head. You people always think for every problem, you can adopt gragra style to defeat it. With all your gragra since 1967, what have you achieved? Pure nothing.
You must be strategic and apply commonsense sometimes.
Since Ighoho left Nigeria soil, how many Fulani attacks have been experienced in Yoruba land? Just to tell you there is more to it than meet the eyes. Common sense not gragra style.
Now, my advise for you. Let go of emotional baggage and embrace the love of Christ, then you will be endow with the common sense.

marsman:

Awolowo worked against his people, not joining that war was a blessing to Yoruba people and acan be a curse to sore loosers who won't keep shut. AND that is different from people playing politics among them selfs, not even close to the meaning of the word "sold out ".

If we want to talk about people that sold people out, lets talk about Azikwe, who sold Awolowo and the North out to the brits because of his greediness, this same Igbo man in conjunction with his Northern friends put Awolowo in prison, after Awo went to him with an alliance agreement not akintola.

or maybe we should talk about Odumegwu who sold out the the survivals of the civil war, to the Nigerian forces by running away with his wife, to God knows were but it is still worshipped like a messiah because of the betrayer in their DNA.

I hate when people throw words they dont know about, around. Give good examples please, this men knew they were rivals( the ones u mentioned)

kayjay69:
Let me clear one silly notion from your response, i am a yoruba not igbo. I guess for someone like you someone like me who has done his own research and has the ability to think independently and radically is difficult to comprehend. But that is not my issue, i'll leave you to contend with that.

Not joining that war by siding with the igbos or atleast staying neutral, is part of what got us where we are today. Not joining that war because the same people who put him in prison promised to back his presidential bid, is part of what got us where we are today. I don't think anyone in their right minds would argue this nor would they argue that Nigeria is in better shape today than it ever was.

i am yet to find a truly great country on God's green earth where men did not sacrifice for the common good. Our story in Nigeria, particulary in the South west, has always been that of promoting self-interest above the collective good. It is why individually we Yorubas thrive but as a collective especially politically, we struggle. It is always one form of self-sabotage or the other when indeed we should be helping each other for our common good.

Awo was a great man and remains a personal hero of mine but the North saw through him like a skimpy skirt. As for Zik, betraying Awo, my dear perhaps you need to go back and read your history books properly. Zik wanted the same thing Awo wanted, Power. They were two ambitious men who sought to become Prime Minister and it is part of why the British preferred to work with the less ambitious Northerner. There was no way Zik was going to agree to Awo's greek offer, if you were Zik you would have done same it was that simple. Stop being naive. In my view, Zik's failing was that he somehow thought he could get into a pact with the North and manipulate them thinking they were not smart enough. They also saw through him and put him in his place. Awo knew that the way the British had drawn up the map of Nigeria pre-independence, political alliances were going to be a necessity. However, he could not bring himself to make a deal with the Northerners (and rightfully so). He tried to make a deal with Zik but that deal was never going to be in Zik's favour eventually. But i understand your angst and I say true this was a collective failing from both men to not make things work for the common good of the South. But aside this, i don't blame Zik for anything. It was politics, plain and simple.

Awo was the best of the three based on ideas alone but unfortunately ideas alone has never been how politics work. He would have been a great president but he should have known that the Northerners hated his guts and were never ever going to support his bid. He should have known the British would 100% back the North in this. He should have realised early that it was all a stalemate and he should have supported the dissolution of this Godforsaken union called Nigeria.

If he had done so, he would have been the undisputed premiere of the South West. He could have turned us into the Singapore of Africa, no question about that. He would have had everything he dreamed of and his legacy would have lasted for atleast a millenia instead he took the shortcut of empty promises and shady handshakes.

As for Ojukwu, call him whatever you want. I think he should have weighed the costs and avoided war but looking back he did what he had to do, his people were being slaughtered he had no choice.

My main grouse here is the West, East and North were never meant to be as one. Individually we could have had it all and still had mutual respect for one another but the failure of the founding fathers to see beyond their noses is part of what led us down this pit we all are now. Ofcourse the #1 cause will always be the British but trust me our founding fathers did not do us any favours.

everythinggirly:
BUHARI and his kinsmen should respect themselves. There should be freedom of speech.

DaddyFabooluz:

Are you not enjoying freedom of speech to rant anyhow you like on social media? What other freedom of speech are you talking about

DaddyFabooluz:

Are you not enjoying freedom of speech to rant anyhow you like on social media? What other freedom of speech are you talking about

marsman:

So much loop holes and rewriting of history just to prove a point nonsense. Here you are talking like it was only the north that imprisoned Awo, while zik and his people were the major factor. Awo presented him an opportunity to work together, bro went to north and undid every thing for a decoration post. Seriously before saying that it would have been a disadvantage to zik you have to provide proof, you can't come here and just feed our minds with nonsense

You blame the British but the Nigerian and Nigerians that betrayed Nigeria when Awo and and bello requested for seccession clause is Zik and his people. This in addition to the fact that zik came all the way from the east to the south west then to tuzzle the premiership of the west with Awolowo, "a region were je had no indiegineous background" coupled with the marginalised coup shows what this people truly wanted was to dominate the whole country.

I Won't bother wazting my time with a common history revisionist, who only understands it the way it pays him. The sacrifices that has been made since the inception of the Oyo empire is not enough, but we still had to join a senseless war which was totally not a fault of ours, but the fault of the greedy biafrans who their greed affected not only the north but us in the process pre war.

Why should we even join their side, after all they did, the coup they carried out did not only target the north but our own western leaders as well
It is obvious this people wanted to totally dominate Nigeria, but according to your analogy we should have joined like the good boys we were so that we can be like Singapore, knowing what this same people did to south south that joined them in the war and thkse people are still complaing about the cruelty of biafran soldiers who shoved them aside in their own indiegineous territories , if the Yoruba race had been fooled to joining their loss cause, the south might have won the war but their back stabbing dominatrix traits would have started another war right here in the south, because it was obvious their intention and it would not have been allowed


i mean Liberals can be really stupid at times. Its only a fool that wouldn't have seen the opportunities that existed in having an interdependent state like Nigeria then, its a pity visionary leaders didn't have a chance to rule it, but that still does not dispute the bountiful opportunities. Awo saw it but ideas and one man cannot make a nation

No coming to Ojukwu, you stupidly claim he had no choice, well he had one by the time he made the agreement with gowon as at then there was no more killing for revenge, this people could have just counted their loses and look for other means that can aid the secession crusade, but because of his wounded ego as result of Gowon " a military personnel below him" is the head of state, he just could not take it. And proof that his intentions were not pure for his people but to help his ego, showed glarely during the ending days of the war when he ran away to God knows where.