₦airaland Forum

Me: Papa, Uncle Bola Ige, in my TV interview, described you as an "incorrigible democrat". If you believe so much in democracy, why did you accept to be in a military government?

Awo: Alimi, you know I am hiding here... well, I will give you three reasons. First, a good turn deserves another. The young man released me from prison. He sincerely needed my service and I readily consented to help him.

Beaf: Rewind...

Desperation!
Anti-GEJ's, una de lie wella sha o!

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http://247ureports.com/oba-shuns-airhiavbere-as-president-visits/

The President was thereafter asked to proceed alone to the inner chambers to see the Oba while others,
including the PDP Candidate, Maj-Gen Charles Aihiavbere (rtd), were asked to vacate the palace hall.

Beaf: Rewind...

Desperation!
Anti-GEJ's, una de lie wella sha o!

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Beaf: Rewind...

Desperation!
Anti-GEJ's, una de lie wella sha o!

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http://247ureports.com/oba-shuns-airhiavbere-as-president-visits/

Atheist:-D:
If Otedola had not recorded Farouk Lawan, would most people know what went down in the PSF scheme and NNPC in general?

How many companies would have escaped after bribing?
How many innocent companies would have been made to carry the blame for everything?
the real culprits would have escaped (Diezani, Ibikunle, Reginald Stanley).

We need to open our eyes more to things, investigate further, understand what goes on in the industry. There is no rush to get results. We need to get the right results.

In the UK, the hacking scandal took 4 years to come to light. In that time the scope of the hacking and involvement has been exposed for all to see.

Katsumoto: Did you read the article at all or you just jumped on my case in the usual emotional manner?

Did your eyes miss the sections below or you just have a hard time with comprehension?:

He managed to secure an agreement to devolve power from the federal government to the regions. This turned Nigeria into a confederation. In the words of one writer Ojukwu “secured the signatures of the SMC to documents which would have had the effect of turning Nigeria into little more than a customs union".

The federal government attempted to implement the Aburi agreement in diluted form by enacting a modified Constitution (Suspension and Modification) Decree (Decree cool which turned Nigeria into a de facto confederation, but which did not incorporate ALL of the agreements reached at Aburi. Federal civil servants argued that to implement all of the Aburi agreements would lead to the dissolution of the federation. Ojukwu declined to accept the initial draft of the Decree and insisted on a full and complete implementation of the Aburi accords.

As the weaker party, could Ojukwu still have showed greater pragmatism to spare further suffering for his people? Even with its flaws, Decree 8 gave him 90% of what he wanted. The U.S. State Department was “impressed by extent to which Decree 8 appears to meet many of East's fundamental demands for much greater regional autonomy. While recognizing that it stops short of granting everything Ojukwu wants, Dept. considers Decree represents genuine effort by FMG and other Mil Govs to implement Aburi agreements and to retain Nigerian unity in form which least objectionable to East…..Consulate Enugu has reported that some prominent and moderate Easterners may incline toward above view".

WINNER TAKES ALL – NIGERIA’S MALAISE

In the “winner takes all” mentality that is so symptomatic of Nigerian politics, Ojukwu unrealistically held out for 100% of his demands and in the end, received 0%. His refusal to be tactically flexible by considering options other than secession, placed him and his people in a worse position than they started in. Rather than turning Nigeria into a confederation (which is what Decree 8 did), Ojukwu’s give no inch stance gave the federal government an opportunity to overrun the Eastern Region, carve the country into several states and concentrate massive powers in the central government.

[b]OJUKWU: We’ve said this over and over again, so many times, and people don’t understand; they don’t want to actually. If you remember, I released Awolowo from jail. Even that, some people are beginning to contest as well. Awo was in jail in Calabar. Gowon knows and the whole of the federal establishment knows that at no point was Gowon in charge of the East. The East took orders from me. Now, how could Gowon have released Awolowo who was in Calabar? Because of the fact that I released him, it created quite a lot of rapport between Awo and myself and I know that before he went back to Ikenne, I set up a hotline between Ikenne and my bedroom in Enugu. He tried like an elder statesman to find a solution. Awolowo is a funny one. Don’t forget that the political purpose of the coup, the Ifeajuna coup that began all this, was to hand power over to Awo. We young men respected him a great deal. He was a hero. I thought he was a hero and certainly I received him when I was governor. We talked and he was very vehement when he saw our complaints and he said that if the Igbos were forced out by Nigeria that he would take the Yorubas out also. I don’t know what anybody makes of that statement but it is simple. Whether he did or didn’t, it is too late. There is nothing you can do about it. So, he said this and I must have made some appropriate responses too. But it didn’t quite work out the way that we both thought. Awolowo, evidently, had a constant review of the Yoruba situation and took different path. That’s it. I don’t blame him for it. I have never done.
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T9ksy: At the time Awolowo was released (8th of Aug. 1966), Eastern region was still part of the nigerian federation and as such under her jurisdiction. The crime Awolowo was jailed for was a federal offence which means had Ojukwu released him, Awolowo would have been subsequently arrested by gowon and sent back to prison. Moreover, as at the time, there was no republic of biafra which means Ojukwu still draws his salary from the nigerian govt.

Yeah, we all know you are a yorubaman and i am the great-grand son of king solomon and queen of sheba, 'cause i said so!
So Awolowo, a civilian in a military govt was the one who effected the blockade on biafra. he personally conducted the war giving orders to the ilk of Gowon, Murtala, Danjuma, IBB, Buhari, Adekunle, Mohammed shuwa, Obj and the rest on how to fight biafra. Do you guys ever think before vomitting the rubbish fed you by your dumb elders? Somehow i don't think so.

Yeah, of course, Awolowo should have supported Ojukwu's ambition and place the whole of yorubaland under his(Ojukwu's)rule. No, we wouldn't have all these bombings going in the north now rather we will be left to deal with Ojukwu's tyrannical rule over the yorubas. We all know that's why you ibos hate awo and by extension the yorubas so much 'cause we refuse your wild hegemonic ambition onto our territory.

texazzpete: And you expected the head of state of Nigeria to stand idly by when a region decided to secede?

If you were the head of state and the bayelsa governor declares his independence, what would YOU do? Resort to prayers or declare a state of emergency and send in the troops?

I'm glad you don't contribute more here. You aren't very bright, are you?

CastleandGreen: Faruok Lawan if you know you did not want to collect the bribe
from the briber why did you hide the money under your cap, and
acting like a criminal. My advice to you is this! face the
panel ant don't rope GEJ into this mess, you Boko's are all
the same.

demmy: How about the idiot warlord who initiated a civil war he couldn't win? Or that tried to create a nation he couldn't feed? Do you blame him at all?

Ibanga p: Episode 5, wen is d next episode showin?

Kobojunkie: That is not my job to decide that now, is it? What I care about is the claim that there is evidence and a supposed criminal still walks free. Why? That is what I care about.

Aussie: If he does not declare a state of emergency and remove the gov and suspend all legislative matters in Kano, he has not said anything.

Richvkunt: Victor Ikpeba was a great footballer but he certainly is a below average football analyst.
Apart from his poor English and poor pronunciation of words,he fails to be professional in his analysis of football matches.
It is so easy to notice that he is completely biased towards anything concerning Manchester United and totally obsessed with them.
On the other hand his co analyst Segun Agbede is so pro united that the two of them succeed in turning the sports chat segment into a battle between two football fans just lucky to speak into a microphone.
Next season Supersports need to up their game and get professionals to run that segment of the programme,or better leave us to watch the original analysis from the EPL studios abroad.
Right now Victor and Segun are an insult to all premium subscription holders on DSTV.
Whenever they come on I just turn down the volume of my TV set.