We owe it as a duty to the next generation that the right history is preserved and not allowed to be rewritten, retold or diluted by liars.

When I made a post earlier today where I noted that since the 1952 elections, the region that is now known as Southeast and Southsouth have always voted in same direction, I, expectedly, got some negative reactions from proponents of falsehood who tried to remind me that some part of the region now known as Southsouth were geographically and politically part of the Western Region before they became a distinct Midwestern Region.

The question they have refused to answer however is why did the people Benin and Delta fight teeth and nail to be separated from the Western Region? And the answer was because the Yorubas who formed the larger ethnic group in the old Western Region wanted to “Yorubanize” everything to the extent of trying to make Yoruba the lingua Franca and having a Yoruba who lived in Sapele representing Benin Province in Western Assembly at some point until Benin people agitated against it.

These attitudes forced majority of the political leaders of the then Midwest Province to go into alliance with Azikiwe led NCNC instead of Awolowo’s Action Group (AG). So, even though they were administratively under Western Region, the Midwestern people aligned with Azikiwe’s NCNC politically. The implication was that they voted in same pattern with the Eastern Region where NCNC dominated.

And that was how in 1952, out of 24 elected representatives of Midwestern Province in the Western Regional Assembly, 21 of them were of NCNC and only 3 were of Awolowo’s Action Group.

When the Western House of Assembly opened in January 1952, 21 out of 24 Midwesterners were allied with the NCNC while three – S.O. Ighodaro, Arthur Prest, and Anthony Enahoro - were allied with the Action Group. One immediate source of irritation was the government’s official pamphlet, which insensitively described the Parliamentary Mace with four ceremonial swords as representing the authority of Yoruba Chiefs. To aggravate matters, when the unicameral Western House of Assembly was formally declared open by then Lt. Governor Sir Hugo Marshall, the Alake of Abeokuta, rose to speak immediately after Sir Marshall and said:

“On my right sits the Oni of Ife; On my left, the Leader of our Government, Obafemi Awolowo. The Voice of the West is complete.” [Hansard of Western House of Assembly: January 7, 1952]

In other words, as the delegates from Benin and Delta saw it, the “voice of the West” did not include those of the people of Benin and Delta provinces. To compound matters, Benin and Delta delegates later complained too about derogatory epithets that had allegedly been hurled at them, such as “KoboKobo”, used to refer to persons (or barbarians) whose diction cannot be understood. (File BP/2328/1 National Archives, Ibadan].

From this point on, the Oba of Benin, Akenzua II, supported by the Benin and Warri (Delta) legislative delegation, began openly touring Benin and other Divisions of Benin province as well as the Delta province to campaign for the Midwest (Central) region. According to Professor Michael Crowder:

“In the Western region, as a reaction against the allegedly Yoruba-dominated Action group, the Mid-West State movement was started, supported largely by non-Yoruba-speaking peoples and in particular the people of the old Benin Empire.” [M Crowder: The Story of Nigeria. 3rd Edition, 1972. Faber]

Indeed, at the very next Benin Provincial Conference at Ogwashi-Uku in June 1952, attended by pro-Midwesterners like JO Odigie of Ishan, Chike Ekwuyasi of Benin and Dennis Osadebay of Asaba, separatist sentiments were strongly expressed, resulting in the creation of the “Central State Congress”. [File BP/2328/1 National Archives, Ibadan] [b]One of the criticisms of the Western region government was the alleged decision to spend 225,000 pounds in Awolowo’s home province of Ijebu with a population of 383,000, as compared with 169,000 pounds in the Benin province with a population of 624,000. Subsequently, a subgroup known as the Committee of the Midwest Organization emerged under R.O. Odita.

[b]Before the end of 1952 another significant event occurred. It was the decision of the Action Group government based in Ibadan to restore the title of the ‘Olu of Itsekiri’ to ‘Olu of Warri’ as it had been known in previous centuries. Non-Itsekiris in Warri Province reacted violently, concerned that there was an implication of suzerainty over the whole province. Thus a compromise was reached. In exchange for acceptance of the designation of the Olu as ‘Olu of Warri’, the province was renamed ‘Delta province’. [personal papers, Alfred O. Rewane] In spite of this compromise, the experience soured the relationship between many Urhobo leaders of thought and the Action group leadership, which they felt, had been beholden to a powerful Itsekiri lobby. It served to drive Urhobos, already so inclined, further into the warm embrace of the Midwest Separatist Movement.

In July/August 1953, Councilor J. Osadolo Edomwonyi moved a motion in the Benin Divisional Council praying the Constitutional Conference in London to include on its agenda, the creation of a separate region for the Benin and Delta provinces [Edomwonyi, Op. Cit.]. However, overshadowed by a bitter fight between Obafemi Awolowo of the Western region and Nnamdi Azikiwe of the Eastern region over excision of Lagos on one hand and Southern Cameroons on the other, creation of new States was overruled at the London Constitutional conference [Report of the Conference on the Nigerian Constitution, held in London, July-August, 1953 Cmnd. 8934, (London: H.M.S.O., 1953, p4)]. When he returned from London, Chief Omo-Osagie briefed Oba Akenzua II, who then made arrangements to host a conference of traditional and political leaders of the Benin and Delta provinces on September 18, 1953 in Benin City. Anthony Enahoro, S. O. Ighodaro, Arthur Prest and the Olu of Warri boycotted this well attended meeting. In his address, Oba Akenzua II said, among other things that Midwesterners were seeking freedom, “not only from the white man, but also from foreign african nations…” He went on to state that,

“Benin-Delta was a sovereign nation before the occupation of the country by the British.” Akenzua also said, “The divide and rule policy of the British Government had done much harm to the national solidarity of Benin-Delta Province in the past but as God now wants things to be what they were before the advent of the British Government, that is, the Yoruba State for the Yorubas and Benin-Delta State for the “BENDELITES”, that is, the inhabitants of the Benin-Delta Province, steps should now be taken without further delay or fear to move the British Government to repair the damage they have done by restoring the national status of Benin-Delta Province before they transfer power back to the Nigerians from whom they have taken it.”

Mr. JIG Onyia of Asaba then moved a motion, which said inter-alia:

“Be it resolved, and it is hereby resolved that:

1. We (the peoples of Benin-Delta Province) in a conference holding at Benin City this 18th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty three, demand as of right an immediate creation of a separate State for the peoples of Benin-Delta Province…….” [Edomwonyi, Op. Cit.]

Spurred on by stronger and stronger perceptions of discrimination in the West, exemplified by matters such as the state ment of Alake of Egbaland in 1952, Adegoke Adelabu’s emergence over Osadebay as NCNC leader of Opposition in the West, threats of Western regional control of Midwestern forests, etc. H Omo-Osagie urged the assembly to create a “party which will serve as the Vanguard in the battle for the Midwest.” The envisioned party was to be independent of parties based in other regions. After overruling an alternative concept put forward by JIG Onyia of Asaba, that the organization so created should be a “movement” rather than a “political party”, the Benin Delta Political Party (BDPP) was created.

In 1954, Obafemi Awolowo became Premier of the Western region under the 1954 Constitution that created the Federation of Nigeria. At the same time Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh of Warri, representing the NCNC, became the Regional Minister of Labour and Welfare. Dennis Osadebay emerged as NCNC Opposition leader in the West, while V.I. Amadasun became NCNC Chief Whip. Meanwhile the BDPP relied increasingly on the local NCNC operational infrastructure, even while foreswearing any party links in public. As time went on, therefore, pressure grew from within the BDPP to formally ally the party with the NCNC – which the Oba was opposed to. Meanwhile there were unconfirmed rumors at the end of 1954 that the Oba had reached a secret deal with Chief Awolowo. [Michael Vickers, Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria, p93]

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Ok

Contrary to the lies that propagandists would want the public to believe that the Western Region willingly granted Referendum to the Midwest, the true story is that Awolowo tried to assassinate the proponents of the then Midwest Region.

The Action Group had in the meantime conceptualized a plan to seize political control of Benin by co-opting the Oba and destroying Chief H Omo-Osagie.

According to testimony from Dr. Obas. J. Ebohon,

“My father was the personal driver of Chief Omo-Osagie through out his political career and what both himself and B2 went through before, during, and after the creation of Mid-West is unimaginable and sometimes better than some of 007 epic films. My father once told me that the journeys to and from the Western House of Assembly in Ibadan was the type of journeys one makes to and from the battle field. Firstly, they never exceeded four people and they travelled by Bedford Lorry instead of a car to which his status demanded. The reason for this was security as his life was threatened openly by those enraged by his demands for Mid-West State. He said on approaching Ore, they would disembark and B2 would come out of the comfortable second row and climb into the back of the Bedford lorry and be covered with trampoline and that is where he would remain through the numerous roadblocks put out to hunt him down and, that is how he would remain until they arrive Ibadan. Sometimes, for the need to confuse his detractors, he would be hidden in lorries carrying plantain to Ibadan and guess where he would be sitting - buried among the plantain and that is how he remains until the outskirts of Ibadan and be transferred into the Bedford lorry again. On numerous occasions they escaped death with the skin of his teeth. My father indicated that when they are travelling, it usually was like preparing for a funeral at B2's house and those of his entourage and the worst is expected and, when they return unharmed, it was jubilation.” (Source: OJ Ebohon. Edo-Nation Egroup, July 5, 2002. RE: [Edo-Nation] The Last Edo Political Titan: Chief Humphrey Omo-Osagie)

Under these circumstances, on March 8th, 1955, Obafemi Awolowo invited Oba Akenzua II for a meeting in Ibadan. According to the minutes of the meeting, Chief Awolowo told Oba Akenzua II to disengage himself from politics before it becomes a disadvantage. Awolowo told him that he had planned to preserve the position of traditional rulers as an "important part of the social and spiritual life of the people" outside the political arena. In response, Oba Akenzua II politely but firmly drew a distinction between politics and his activities with the Midwest State movement. He went further to query why the Ooni of Ife and the Alake of Abeokuta were open supporters and contributors to the Action Group but were not being similarly advised. Awolowo reacted by promising to give other Obas similar advice, but also told Oba Akenzua II to go back to Benin and seriously reflect over his comments. [National Archives, Ibadan; File B.P.215 Correspondence with the Oba of Benin.]

Another development in the Western Regional Assembly that created consternation in the Benin and Delta provinces was the attempt in 1956 to enforce Yoruba as a language medium in all schools throughout ALL the provinces. The British Lt. Governor, Sir John Rankine, vetoed compulsory implementation in the Benin and Delta provinces, explaining that it was a time–bomb. It is not clear what role Oba Akenzua II played in securing this veto. [personal communication, D. A. Omoigui]

In May of 1956, Benin people voted against the Oba of Benin’s son because he was in Awolowo’s Action Group. They voted for the candidate of NCNC.

Meanwhile on May 26, during Western parliamentary regional elections in Benin, Otu-Edo secured victory once again. Notably, G.I. Oviasu of Otu-Edo/NCNC defeated S.O. Ighodaro of the Action Group and the Oba’s second son, Felix Akenzua, lost to VI Amadasun. One irritant during this election was the complaint that many students from the Benin and Delta provinces at the University College Ibadan were so mistrusted by Action group operatives on campus that their names were surreptitiously removed from voters’ registration lists in Ibadan.

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It was so bad that a leader of the then Midwest Province preferred Midwest being bombed by nuclear weapons than remaining under Western Region.

Before settling down to prepare for the Willink Commission visit, reaction to the outcome of the London Conference among members of the MSM was extremely negative. Chief Omo-Osagie, for example, said,

“The people of the Midwest would willingly submit to the use of nuclear weapons, devastating bombs or machine guns to annihilate them, rather than remain in a self governing West.” [West African Pilot. July 14, 1957)

Some testimonies of some Midwestern people before Henry Willinks Commission which was set up in 1958 to look into the agitation of the Midwestern people.

Awolowo gave scholarships to only Yorubas.

He taxed the Benin-Warri province excessively and used the money to develop Ibadan while Benin had nothing.

The position of the MSM was based on fear of colonization by the Yoruba. Detailed testimony was heard from a broad range of witnesses, including Chiefs Ezomo, Oliha, Ineh and Osula. Other witnesses included the Chairmen of the Iyekovia, Uhunmwode and Benin City councils, namely Messrs Adonrin, Atohengbe and Ogbebor. Edo women made a submission through Madam Eweka. Complaints included lack of rubber markets and processing facilities, excessive local taxation, including “head taxes” which would then be remitted to Ibadan, poor infrastructure, and discrimination in the award of scholarships and opportunities for Edo women traders at Ibadan. More recently, Mr. Isaac Asemota recalled that, “While Benin- City stayed in the dark with no electricity, running water, good roads, separate and unequal schools and grossly inadequate health clinics, there in Ibadan, Edo tax monies were being squandered in the construction of Cocoa House, Mapo Hall and Commercial Broadcasting Service Radio Station whose frequency we couldn’t even pick up in Benin-City. The best we could hope for was Redifussion radio which had a very low frequency and could not be heard more than two miles away from the broadcasting booth. “ (Isaac Asemota: “The last Edo Political Titan: Chief Humphrey Omo-Osagie” unpublished manuscript, Edo-Nation Egroup, July 2, 2002.)

The most powerful and emotional testimony from Benin came from Chief H Omo-Osagie. He lamented the insidious cultural role of Ifa divination and Ogboni activities in inserting Yoruba values and ways into Benin society. He explained that Ifa divination required knowledge of Yoruba, while the Yoruba derived Ogboni society, was, according to him, “more dangerous than freemasonry.” In fact he openly stated that after independence, laws would likely be passed, making membership of the ROF compulsory. He went on to criticize the Western region Chiefs Law No. 20 of 1957 which was being used with effect to intimidate traditional rulers and influence the selection of chiefs and Dukes inside the Midwest. The Chief also went into additional detail about perceptions of Yoruba domination of the Police, government boards, the public service, and the use of scholarships as a tool for punishing separatist divisions. The Benin division, for example, had not, under the period of review, received any scholarships, while the Ijebu province (home to Chief Awolowo) had secured 17 such awards. Another complaint was that Rubber was being developed in the Ijebu province when investment in the promised Ikpoba Rubber processing factory for already established rubber plantations of the Midwest was being help up. A similar shenanigan affected the Koko port. He went on to use examples of the decision by the Action Group government to dissolve the Benin Divisional Council in 1955 as an example of arbitrary misuse of power. In conclusion, Chief Omo-Osagie opposed the new “Welsh-type” arrangement implemented by the Action Group through the establishment of the “Ministry of Midwest Affairs” and the Midwest Advisory Council, and demanded either the creation of a Midwest region or a return to a unitary government at the center with provinces at the periphery.

In trying to dissuade the Midwest people from demanding for a separate region, Awolowo’s Action Group threw the ethnic card.

This shows that these guys have always been tribalistic and using the anti-Igbo sentiments since the pre-colonial period.

In response to testimony of pro-Midwest witnesses, a shadowy organization called the “Anti-Midwest State Movement” was put forward by the Action Group. It asserted that Edos had more to fear from Igbo than Yoruba domination, and that creation of a Midwest region would expose Edos to Igbo domination.

What the Henry Willinks Commission Observed.

Among its observations, the commission noted that actual expenditure on road development in the Midwest area up to March 31, 1957, was only 15% of the estimates, compared with 50% in the Yoruba West. It also made the following observation:

“What is feared is a permanent Action Group majority in the Western House of Assembly. The Action Group drawing its inspiration from a Yoruba society, the Egbe Omo Oduduwa expressing itself….through the Ogboni Fraternity, controlling Boards, Corporations and Commissions, eventually even the Magistracy and Judiciary, aiming at the obliteration of all that is not Yoruba. That is what is meant by Yoruba domination.”

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Awolowo never wanted the Midwest to become a separate region. And it’s very likely he instigated the COR (Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers) to demand for a separate region away from Eastern Region as payback for NCNC’s support for the creation of the Midwestern Region.

1961-62

The years 1961 and 1962 moved with dizzying speed. At the Midwest regional conference of the AG, Chief Awolowo kept up his oft repeated statement that he would work for the simultaneous creation of the Midwest, COR and Middle Belt States. In the Midwest, however, his comments were regarded with skepticism, all the more so considering what was regarded as his preference for a balkanized version of the Midwest. In any case, in March 1961, the NCNC – urged by Chief Okotie-Eboh - formally opposed the exclusion of Akoko-Edo and Warri from the Midwest minority area. When Chief Awolowo was confronted with the commitment the Western regional House of Assembly had made to creation the entire Midwest back in 1955 by approving the Sowole motion, he replied that he was no longer bound by that motion because the country was under colonial rule at the time [Federal Parliamentary debates, April 4, 1961]. The comment merely served to confirm suspicions that he did not support the creation of the Midwest – under any circumstances – even though he challenged Balewa to create the Midwest before the end of May 1962.

They did not start selling propaganda today. To cause disaffection between Benin and other ethnic minorities in the proposed Midwest Region, Awolowo boys started writing about supposed “Benin Domination”.

On April 4th, 1961, what is now known in history as the first Midwest motion was moved and carried by voice acclamation in the federal House of Representatives [Federal Parliamentary Debates, 4 April, 1961, col. 802]. It was a private member’s motion, which would run into legal trouble later because no formal count had been taken, as constitutionally required, of those in favor or against, and many complained that they had left the council chamber before the voice vote was taken. The April 1961 Midwest motion in the federal legislature was followed by initial approval in June 1961 in the Eastern region and in September 1961 in the Northern region. During this period newspaper articles written by AG loyalists appeared in which various ethnic groups of the proposed Midwest were warned of “Benin domination.” In the smear campaign, designed to derail Midwest unity, rumors were spread about how certain posts were going to be dominated by “Benin.”

In 1962, the Eastern and Northern Regional Assemblies passed the bill to create the Midwestern Region but Western Region Assembly passed a motion countering the passage of the bill in Northern and Eastern Assemblies.

This is the Awolowo they said “willingly” granted the Midwest their region.

Late on March 23rd, 1962, Senator Dalton Asemota of the Benin province received an important visitor in his apartment at the federal legislator’s Legco Flats in Victoria Island, Lagos. His visitor was none other than Chief Anthony Enahoro, Vice President of the Action Group and leader of the Midwest Regional Executive. Enahoro stayed on in Senator Asemota’s flat until the early hours of the morning lobbying him to adopt the party position of the AG to vote against the second Midwest motion. The Senator, who was not a party man, was nonetheless reminded that he owed his position to the goodwill of the Action Group government in Ibadan. Early on the 24th, late Senator Asemota’s wife, late Mrs. Onaiwu Asemota (nee Obinwa family of Onitsha) rushed to my parent’s house to report the conversation Enahoro had with Senator Asemota. On this basis, the Senator’s brother in Benin, late Pa Elekhuoba Asemota was contacted emergently by phone with a report of what had transpired. My parents rushed to the Senator’s flat to ask him whether he had decided to oppose the motion. The late Senator, to his eternal credit, smiled and told my parents, “Do not worry, my children, even if it costs me this position, I shall not act against the interests of my people.” (personal communication, GO Omoigui)

After overcoming an attempt by Action group legislators, therefore, to amend the motion by deleting Akoko-Edo, Warri and western Ijaw from the definition of “Midwest” and then obfuscate issues by adding the creation of 11 new states as a pre condition, the Federal House of Representatives and Senate approved the second Midwest motion by 214-49 on March 24, 1962. The final count-down had begun.

Six days later on March 30th, 1962 the Midwest referendum Bill was passed. It was followed on April 17th and 18th by the Midwest Parliamentary Bill which specified the addition of Akoko-Edo, Warri and Western Ijaw areas to the proposed Midwest. No sooner did this vote take place than Barrister S. O. Ighodaro, Attorney General of the Western region, went to court to challenge the validity of the Midwest Parliamentary Bill and the Eastern region’s approval of the federal Midwest Bill. Separately, the Olu of Warri and Chief Reece Edukugho filed court proceedings to contest the inclusion of Warri in the Midwest.

Meanwhile, on April 4th the Eastern region passed the second Midwest motion, followed on April 5th, by the Northern region. On April 13th, a counter-motion was passed by the Western House of Assembly, opposing the federal Midwest motion [Daily Times, April 14, 1962].

How the Midwest Bill finally scaled the hurdle of the Western Region Assembly and got their Referendum.

On April 19, 1962, one day after S. O. Ighodaro went to court on behalf of the Akintola government to challenge the Midwest motion, Chief SL Akintola was expelled from the Action Group by Chief Obafemi Awolowo after an unsuccessful attempt at reconciliation. The Governor of the West, Sir Adesoji Aderemi was advised by a majority of Action Group legislators at Ibadan to dismiss Akintola as Premier and replace him with Alhaji D. S. Adegbenro – an act that was challenged all the way up to the Privy Council in London. On May 26, 1962 an attempt by the Western House to meet and ratify Akintola’s dismissal ended in confusion, leading to Police intervention. Armed with his wet handkerchief as an antidote to teargas, V.E. Amadasun was one of the first to rush to Lagos from Ibadan to inform the Midwest community in the federal government of the development, which led to the eventual declaration of a State of Emergency in the West on May 29 [Federation of Nigeria Official Gazette, supplement to No. 38, Vol. 49, May 29, 1962]. Although the Privy Council eventually approved the Governor’s action, its “approval” had been overtaken by events in Nigeria because of a constitutional amendment by the Federal House of Representatives. Meanwhile, under the “emergency administration” of the West led by Senator MA Majekodunmi, a fresh slate of predominantly pro-Midwest Midwesterners became ministers, including Mark Uzorka, T. E. Salubi, Webber Egbe, A. Y. Eke etc, with Oba Akenzua II and the Olu of Warri as “advisers.” It was the emergency administration in the West which gave the Western region’s approval for the Midwest referendum to proceed.

In May, there was an All-party Midwest conference in Benin at which Senator Dalton Asemota of Benin was made Chairman of the Midwest United Front Committee (UFC). The conference – which was boycotted by most members of the Action Group - was a confidence building measure designed to iron out party differences and differences between ideological and ethnic interest groups. The conference resulted in the creation of many committees to plan for the future Midwest. In addition to the UFC, these committees were the constitutional and legal, finance and general purposes, civil service, delimitation, and minority protection committees.

In June, the Majekodunmi regime filed a motion to withdraw the court cases that were pending against the Midwest motion. Both motions were eventually dismissed in July by the Supreme Court.

On September 9th, there was another all-party round-table at the Oba’s Palace in Benin which most members of the Action Group, except Ja Isuman and JE Odiete boycotted. At this meeting, a 75 man Midwest Planning Committee including all Midwest legislators at regional and federal levels was created. It too was chaired by Senator Dalton Asemota, assisted by EB Edun-Fregene, JAE Oki, Dr. Christopher Okojie, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Dennis Osadebay and Humphrey Omo-Osagie. Various sub-committee chairmen were Olisa Chukwura for the constitutional and legal, Chief A. Y. Eke for the finance and general purposes, J.I.G. Onyia for the civil service, Chief Obasuyi for delimitation, Ja Isuman for the Plebiscite, and Chief Odiete for minority protection. About one week later a new political party called the Midwest Peoples Congress (MPC) was formed. It was allied to the Northern Peoples Congress and led by Apostle Edokpolo. [Vickers, Op. Cit.]

A week later on September 22, Chief Awolowo and many others were arrested for an apparent plot to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Balewa. Chief Anthony Enahoro initially escaped into exile in Ireland but was extradited back to Nigeria in May 1963 to stand trial.

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Why was Adaka Boro arrested?

What was his offence?

Who arrested him?

They will desert the thread

helinues:
Why was Adaka Boro arrested?

What was his offence?

Who arrested him?

Create a topic for that ... Face the topic and stop deviating

This thread includes how Oba of Benini was locked outside because he came late and treated with disdain in western traditional rulers council dominated by Yoruba traditional rulers..

The creation of mid-western region was vehemently opposed by Awolowo and the western region even though Awolowo worked tirelessly for and supported the creation of the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers (COR) region to be carved out from the Eastern region.

With the oil rich region now independent from Ibadan and the discovery of large deposits of crude in Rivers, Awolowo's western region would have been the poorest region after the secession of Biafra and Mid-West Region.

This is the sole reason Awolowo renegaded on his declaration to secede once Biafra leaves


Thank God for Azikiwe's intervention that liberated mid West..

Average SW person hates hearing this..

Mtchew..

Keep deceiving your fellow headless mob..

The problem with op and his likes is they don't know how to have a decorum.

You can't be using emotions to be writing something that will implicate your own region.

The purpose of this thread is to show how the then Westerners mistreated the Midwest people which made them to break away. Meaning when they requested for being alone, it was granted to them by the then Western government, no Fighting, no arrest.

I asked questions about Adaka Boro above, if the Niger Delta people wasn't mistreated by the majority dominated Eastern people which Ojukwu is the one in charge of Eastern region while Ironsi was the head of State, would they have demanded to have their own republic ?

Were Niger Delta people allowed to gain their freedom from the dominated Easterners? The answer is No but instead their leader was mistreated

Awolowo made 2 important attempt for Nigeria to have a secession clause should Incase they are tired of the contraption, Azikwe bluntly said no, for better for good.

Adaka Boro and his people got fed up about the contraption early enough, Ironsi and Ojukwu also said No, we die here together.

You sabotaged others efforts in leaving this contraption and you think those people would also allow you to go?

That dream of Biafra will continue to be a fermented palm wine tapper's dream.

You can't plant guava and be expecting to harvest apple

Penguin2:
More…

Why not do well to include the source of this information .

"The reason for this was security as his life was threatened openly by those enraged by his demands for Mid-West State."

The demand for a better Nigeria by the youth seems to have enraged some against one particular region just as in the past. Whenever these particular set of people speak, the emotion they accuse others of is so glaring in their speeches that it’s alarming! Even the govt they support had to step in and arrest one that called for his tribesmen to rise up and kill their fellow countrymen! Reason for his rage?? Those his countrymen unknowingly make him feel bad about himself! In one month the country has gone from bad to worse, but there they go, suffering & smiling on empty stomachs as they walk back to their dark houses and empty generator tanks!

Don't you think that the failure to give the Eastern Region minorities Referendum at the same time as the midwest was a mistreatment of them especially as it was they who started the Campaign for referendum for their own separate Region first?

"One irritant during this election was the complaint that many students from the Benin and Delta provinces at the University College Ibadan were so mistrusted by Action group operatives on campus that their names were surreptitiously removed from voters’ registration lists in Ibadan".
.......So no be today this rònú nonsense begin!😊😊😊

They will not come here to lie any more
Not only fulanis that don't want history lessons in schools yorubas has a hand in it too
In short it was yorubas ideas sold to fulanis

limeta:
They will not come here to lie any more
Not only fulanis that don't want history lessons in schools yorubas has a hand in it too
In short it was yorubas ideas sold to fulanis

The yoruba see history as a rival to yoruba fairytales, so they axed history.
Also Yoruba don't like the constant reminder that most of them descend from slaves.

No matter how horrible you ibo try to paint the Yorubas. Prosperity is there to judge. No matter the trash which i'm not interested in reading you posted there one thing is for certain, Was the Bendel (The so called mid west) granted independence or not? Were they not allowed to have their own life in their hands?

Now let's talk about the minority in the ibo dominated eastern region. What happened to Adaka Boro when he deemed it fit for his non ibo people to have freedom and own their life? Why was he arrested, why were the so much loved non ibos of eastern region mostly used for target practice by the majority ibos during the civil war and other atrocities. Even till date the minority in our midst enjoy the best of freedom but same can never be said about independent ethnicity even in far away Niger Delta as you lots still try to lump them in your so called Beeeerfraud.

Yorubas believe in on Yoruba. We care less about any other group ok. We were in opposition (Thanks to all the almajiri balls that eleribu azukawe have to suck anyway), yet the most developed region still and now the most important mainstream. President and vice president. Pull that off and let's see how far you can go you primitive lots.

limeta:
They will not come here to lie any more
Not only fulanis that don't want history lessons in schools yorubas has a hand in it too
In short it was yorubas ideas sold to fulanis

The only people that never wanted history to be told are the yeeeeeeeeebos because it would remind them about how 3 milllion of them died for no reason and their greatest hero wore wrapper to flee to neighboring Ivory coast.

Stoplying:

The yoruba see history as a rival to yoruba fairytales, so they axed history.
Also Yoruba don't like the constant reminder that most of them descend from slaves.

Lat time i check, the yeeeeeeebos have no history pre colonial era. Even their warrant chiefs called igwe and the likes were chosen by their colonialist so i wonder who really doesn't want anything to remind them of their primitive lifestyle though.

helinues:
The problem with op and his likes is they don't know how to have a decorum.

You can't be using emotions to be writing something that will implicate your own region.

The purpose of this thread is to show how the then Westerners mistreated the Midwest people which made them to break away. Meaning when they requested for being alone, it was granted to them by the then Western government, no Fighting, no arrest.

I asked questions about Adaka Boro above, if the Niger Delta people wasn't mistreated by the majority dominated Eastern people which Ojukwu is the one in charge of Eastern region while Ironsi was the head of State, would they have demanded to have their own republic ?

Were Niger Delta people allowed to gain their freedom from the dominated Easterners? The answer is No but instead their leader was mistreated

Awolowo made 2 important attempt for Nigeria to have a secession clause should Incase they are tired of the contraption, Azikwe bluntly said no, for better for good.

Adaka Boro and his people got fed up about the contraption early enough, Ironsi and Ojukwu also said No, we die here together.

You sabotaged others efforts in leaving this contraption and you think those people would also allow you to go?

That dream of Biafra will continue to be a fermented palm wine tapper's dream.

You can't plant guava and be expecting to harvest apple

Same old gibberish
You sound hollow no air no sound more like gasping for breath
Take a break take a kit kat break .

Kapeter:
No matter how horrible you ibo try to paint the Yorubas. Prosperity is there to judge. No matter the trash which i'm not interested in reading you posted there one thing is for certain, Was the Bendel (The so called mid west) granted independence or not? Were they not allowed to have their own life in their hands?

It wasn't up to your people, it was despite your people's derailing of our agenda that we got the referendum done !
The reason we wanted the referendum in the first place is because of your ethnic bigotry.
And nobody needs to paint you anyhow, your actions paint you in a bad light already.
Also, it seems you don't understand that Bendel was only the future name of the Midwestern region, it came to being when Nigeria was seperated into states.

Kapeter:
Lat time i check, the yeeeeeeebos have no history pre colonial era. Even their warrant chiefs called igwe and the likes were chosen by their colonialist so i wonder who really doesn't want anything to remind them of their primitive lifestyle though.

Yes the Igbos have no history.
But neither do the Yorubas.
The Igbos accept that they have no history whereas the yorubas invent stories of batman dropping from the sky with golden Mr T chains: I think you call it super Oduduwa.

Stoplying:

It wasn't up to your people, it was despite your people's derailing of our agenda that we got the referendum done !
The reason we wanted the referendum in the first place is because of your ethnic bigotry.
And nobody needs to paint you anyhow, your actions paint you in a bad light already.
Also, it seems you don't understand that Bendel was only the future name of the Midwestern region, it came to being when Nigeria was seperated into states.

Dear omo nna, all that i see here is nothing but trash. Expecting something better.

Stoplying:

Yes the Igbos have no history.
But neither does the Yoruba.
The Igbos accept that they have no history whereas the yorubas invent stories of batman dropping from the sky with golden Mr T chains: I think you call it super Oduduwa.

Even our colonizers know that we were never mates. Everything was well documented. Th Yorubas have never been mate to any Southern ethnic group oga. Everything has always been well documented. Find it ok. I'm sure you don't want me to start seeking that for you.

Stoplying:

Yes the Igbos have no history.
But neither does the Yoruba.
The Igbos accept that they have no history whereas the yorubas invent stories of batman dropping from the sky with golden Mr T chains: I think you call it super Oduduwa.

You forgot to add Ijebu-ode people who claimed to come from Sudan, don't mind those confused lots

Kapeter:
Even our colonizers know that we were never mates. Everything was well documented. Th Yorubas have never been mate to any Southern ethnic group oga. Everything has always been well documented. Find it ok. I'm sure you don't want me to start seeking that for you.

Is your colonial master aware the person who gave birth to all Yorubas fell from the Sky all the way from south arabia?
Can you explain to me how the Ijebus came from Sudan? Oponu didirin

Wutinky:






Is your colonial master aware the person who gave birth to all Yorubas fell from the Sky all the way from south arabia?
Can you explain to me how the Ijebus came from Sudan? Oponu didirin

Omo nna re colonised with the Yoruba language, Just how i loved it. Speak and hate us in our language and culture bruv. I so much love the hate. In all, all that i'm so much aware of is that while one of them have no history of anything, the other one was already civilized. Go and verify bruv

Oh, very precious writing. I have saved it for posterity. Cheers

Kapeter:
Omo nna re colonised with the Yoruba language, Just how i loved it. Speak and hate us in our language and culture bruv. I so much love the hate. In all, all that i'm so much aware of is that while one of them have no history of anything, the other one was already civilized. Go and verify bruv

Ewedu muncher Where did Oduduwa came from?

Wutinky:






Ewedu muncher Where did Oduduwa came from?

Confused clown with no history. Tell me where nnas came from first, i want to check something.

Well atleast they got their region as they wanted at the end. The same can't be said about others.