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| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by Nobody: 5:53am On Oct 15, 2011 |
arsenefc: Long time bro, I like your new handle. Arsenic comes to mind everytime I see it. Are you being cryptic or something? |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by MrGlobe(m): 6:48am On Oct 15, 2011 |
Since Awo did not have any friends outside the yoruba circle and hence not a pan Nigerian. Why is he on the national currency? Ojukwu deserves a spot on the currency if Awo who is unpopular in Nigeria can get a spot. National assembly, anybody? #Justsaying |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by nku5: 7:09am On Oct 15, 2011 |
Awolowo had a disciple from the east called mck ajuluchukwu that I am certain |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by striker07(m): 8:44am On Oct 15, 2011 |
what about ambross ali and anthony enahoro |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by mithel(m): 9:21am On Oct 15, 2011 |
Mr. Globe: And what makes ojukwu pan-nigerian??trying to split the country??gosh,the way some people think ehn.smh |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by kbdrim(m): 9:56am On Oct 15, 2011 |
Awolowo was a local champion, that is one fact SW cant live with, Yes he was a visionary leader and an intellectual but he was naive and perhaps a proud dude. prior to the 1979 elections, Awo did not even know anything much about the north, If he had gone outside of the SW, he might have been able to forge alliance with Aminu Kanu and other northern progressives who had similar ideologies. The only friend he seemed to have made in the north was Joseph tarka. Even then it was not a sincere friendship, he was only trying to use Joseph Tarka to break the ''middlebelt'' from the powerful north and he had no interest of the ''middlebeltans'' at heart, he didnt even know the political dynamics of the middlebelt at the time and that led to joseph tarka dumping him to support the NPN in 1979 when he realised Awo was just using him. Awo simply was a regional/tribal leader and had no friends outside his yoruba race. I have a lot of respect for Pa Awolowo. His policies turned the south west into what it is today but he was a not a ''good politician''. Politics involves building ties and friendship from every part of a country you want to govern |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by Afam4eva(m): 10:08am On Oct 15, 2011 |
striker07: They were both from the old western region. So that doesn't count. mithel: The point he was trying to make is that why Awolowo and not Ojukwu. The both were not Pan-Nigerian. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by hbrednic: 10:52am On Oct 15, 2011 |
Awo had no friends. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by ak47mann(m): 11:11am On Oct 15, 2011 |
Awolowo have no friend outside SW Nigeria you are right a tribalist and a loser all his life |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by member479760: 11:21am On Oct 15, 2011 |
OP - if this is what are putting together to make Ph.d dissertation then you are wasting your life. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by mithel(m): 11:22am On Oct 15, 2011 |
afam4eva: well,Awolowo never threatened the existence and unity of the entity called Nigeria and as much as many would claim he has no friends or has only friends from a particular tribe,you all dont have proof and evidence and are just whipping up answers based on ethnic sentiments. You cant expect ojukwu,who actually waged war against nigeria to be on the that same country's currency,common lets think straight. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by mithel(m): 11:25am On Oct 15, 2011 |
nakedall: which yeye thesis is he doing,he just wanted to create another tribe bashing thread,and made up a silly reason.smh4him |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by Afam4eva(m): 11:27am On Oct 15, 2011 |
mithel: You have a point. In the same vein, you can't expect the general Igbo populace who waged a war against Nigeria to be part of Nigeria. Mind you, Ojukwu was just the face of the struggle. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by mithel(m): 11:35am On Oct 15, 2011 |
afam4eva: but they were igbos fighting for the nigerian side too,so what are talking about?and mind you,great ZIK is on the face of a nigerian note,so you can actually see an example of what am saying above,ZIK worked for nigeria,not against nigeria. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by ak47mann(m): 11:41am On Oct 15, 2011 |
ZIK work for nigeria and nigeria really thanked him for that, even his grave yard show how Nigeria appreciated him  |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by aljharem3: 11:44am On Oct 15, 2011 |
ak47mann: How did Zik work for Nigeria and how did Nigeria appreciate him ? |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by ak47mann(m): 11:46am On Oct 15, 2011 |
you have seen his grave yard abi? |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by aljharem3: 11:48am On Oct 15, 2011 |
ak47mann: Yes I have on pictures based on the internet That is why I asked the question. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by asorocker: 11:56am On Oct 15, 2011 |
Actually in politics there is no permanent friend or foe but permanent interests, the good thing about Awolowo was that he was able to deceive his followers ( The gullible and blind yorubas from the south west) The same way Fashola/Tinubu is magaing to deceive them by planting grasses and trees and maiking a mountain out of a mole hill of it. Comparatively neigther Zik or Ojukwu developed the East but some unsung heroes by the names Micheal Okpara and Akanu Ibiam. Zik had a dream (pan africanism ) that ended up in a night mare where as Ojukwu saw the future but went about the future the wrong way. Nobody and i repeat nobody would have somebody like Awolowo as a friend , some people could manage him as a political associate and when Elections are over the lines will be drawn . Have you ever wondered what happened to the so called Awolowo legacies, the ibadan that was his capital is now the dirtiest city in nigeria (human settlement rather than city ) The so called free education he embarked has only ended up putting his tribe as the third most eduated tribe in nigeria even his indigenisation policies which threw up incompetent C.E.Os of yoruba origin ended up producing unprofitable firms like unilever , dunlop and failed industrial complexes in ikeja which has been taken over by New Generation Churches |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by aljharem3: 12:01pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
asorocker: Haba, leave the yorubas out of this and face the topic. Did Awolowo have friends outside the SW of Nigeria. Yes or no |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by seanet02: 12:01pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
ak47mann:Yes they appreciated him, Infact this was how they appreciated his follow follow style of leadership [size=40pt] Azikwe's Grave in Total Ruins[/size] https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-488326.224.html |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by mithel(m): 12:36pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
seanet02: ode,lets hear word jor.TRIBAL BIGOT OSHI. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by EkoIle1: 1:33pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
seanet02: I wonder why his many friends refused to donate even on brick to give him a respectable grave like the rest of past Nigerian leaders. You know why? Because all across Nigeria, they don't give a shitttt about zik His northern friends used and dumped his a.s.s.s, they called him a prostitute for a reason. His own ibo people with all their bragging all over the place, they themselves don't give a shitttt about zik, they not only refused to give him a proper resting place, they wont even cut the grass and clear the trash on top his grave. His own son and family sef don't give a shittt, they wont even put money together just to do the right thing, The fact is, these are hollow and shallow people, all mouth but no substance. Of what use are your friends when at the end of the day, you are left to languish inside trash? Pathetic and seamless people, bragging with nothing to show for it, |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by ak47mann(m): 1:53pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
About 2.5 million Lagos residents have been found to be suffering from one form of mental illness or the other, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, has said. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by EkoIle1: 1:58pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
ak47mann: I though you people claimed 45% of Lagosians are ibo? Don't you think a whole lot of the 2.5 million people are ibo people? What a dullard, |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by mbatuku1: 2:36pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
Even Zik himself described Awo as a snake with two heads. How can such a deceiptful man have real friends? |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by T8ksy(m): 2:47pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
mbatuku1: Yeah and i do believe Zik was having a shave at the time. He was talking to his own reflection in the mirror before him. @ bolded, Quite right too as evidenced by the way and manner his grave has been neglected till date. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by EkoIle1: 3:01pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
mbatuku1: Have asked yourself why ziks friends labeled him a prostitute and why dogs are urinating on his grave? |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by mbatuku1: 3:55pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
Eko Ile: T8ksy: It still doesn't change the fact that Awo was a lonely loser and a creepy snake with 2 heads. Hahaha. |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by ahbaycity(m): 4:04pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
Awo did not only have friends across the other geo political zones, he was a moving force across the country, you people did not know a thing about him, He thinks better and much much wiser than the Zik of Biafra. A man that made his own region the unsomountable and the most economics prosperous in the whole Nigeria, even when other regions were crying for shortage of funds, the leftover was the one he used in funding free education, building university of Ife, setting up both higher and post secondary and primary schools, funding University of Ibadan, industries Lagos (Ikeja) and Ibadan, Set up the first Television station in Africa, the first and the highest skyscrapers in Africa. etc. Is not about the number of friends that you made, its about the achievement, the legacy left behind, tell me what did Zik benefit from having friends across the country add to the Ibo pot of soup or the Ibo GDP, tell me with all the friends that he had, what are the legacy HE left behind that you as an Ibo could refers to now So many could be said of Awo, He is not in Zik level, he pass am no be by mouth alone, even by legacy left behind    Zik spent more years on earth than Awo, and wasn't even relevant again in the politics of things before he died, but Awo was relevant all through his lifetime , even in death, he was still more relevant and talk about more than Zik, Its because of how good to Nigeria that The Govt @ that time refuse to buried him, the family had to talk to the FG to allow them buried him around 1999 - 2002 i think. Up till today they still celebrate Him, people converge all over the country @ his home in Ikenne to pay tribute to this great man, tell me, how many does that for Zik, when they can't even built a proper maouselem for Him to rest, Think twice b4 you even mention this man name again |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by ahbaycity(m): 4:28pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
Awo did not only have friends across the other geo political zones, he was a moving force across the country, you people did not know a thing about him, He thinks better and much much wiser than the Zik of Biafra. A man that made his own region the unsomountable and the most economics prosperous in the whole Nigeria, even when other regions were crying for shortage of funds, the leftover was the one he used in funding free education, building university of Ife, setting up both higher and post secondary and primary schools, funding University of Ibadan, industries Lagos (Ikeja) and Ibadan, Set up the first Television station in Africa, the first and the highest skyscrapers in Africa. etc. Is not about the number of friends that you made, its about the achievement, the legacy left behind, tell me what did Zik benefit from having friends across the country add to the Ibo pot of soup or the Ibo GDP, tell me with all the friends that he had, what are the legacy HE left behind that you as an Ibo could refers to now So many could be said of Awo, He is not in Zik level, he pass am no be by mouth alone, even by legacy left behind Zik spent more years on earth than Awo, and wasn't even relevant again in the politics of things before he died, but Awo was relevant all through his lifetime , even in death, he was still more relevant and talk about more than Zik, Its because of how good to Nigeria that The Govt @ that time refuse to buried him, the family had to talk to the FG to allow them buried him around 1999 - 2002 i think. Up till today they still celebrate Him, people converge all over the country @ his home in Ikenne to pay tribute to this great man, tell me, how many does that for Zik, when they can't even built a proper maoselum for Him to rest, Think twice b4 you even mention this man name again |
| Re: Did Awolowo Have Friends From Outside The SW (read old W region)? by HighChief4(m): 4:47pm On Oct 15, 2011 |
Awo the tribalist never had friends outside SW, wish he never rushed to drink those rat poison, his oily a[i]s[/i]s would have been thrown to the gallos. Local Champs |
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