₦airaland Forum

0monnakoda: Feel free to do that in the EBOE WAY with full Okoro Swag. Should be entertaining

Katsumoto: Is all these really necessary?

0monnakoda: Shut up dia ! what u should be asking is how I rumbled u so easily

0monnakoda: Olukwu!! What is "jor" You wanna "feelamong" SHINEDOOO!!

ilugunboy: They are mainly traders....what would they need high rise corporate offices for?

0monnakoda: No Afam is You

Desola: E.g?

Ola Johnson: They probably they think those tall buildings in Victoria Island, Lagos, belong to them.

ilugunboy: You've started smoking weeds harvested from the jungles of Mbaise?

0monnakoda: Afam in disguise lol

0monnakoda: No only a few Irritants like Dende1,Afam4whateva,Ngodigha and Shookoomekah

Ola Johnson: You deceive yourselves that SS and SE are one.

Desola: You are taken aback by my utterances? Are you a newbie here?

It is an open secret that I detest ibos and a self professed ibo slayer on this forum so I'm quite surprised that you take me to be someone else.

I would one day make decisions in Lagos and trust me, it would be with delight that I frustrate ibos so much they would run at the mention of Lagos.

Desola: You lot are just not likeable at all! There is something about you that grates on others.

macjive01: YOU DO NOT OWN LAGOS.!!! GET THAT INTO UR SKULL.

when ur forefather - oduduwa was chased out of the sky and he landed in Ife, did he not meet land, ?

abi he manafactured the land ?

abi people no dey the land when he landed ?

these igbos has resided in that area for over centuries, and as strong as yorubas has claims to the land so do they too.

dayokanu: Explain how we would leave them when they brought the war to our doorsteps in Ore?

Should we leave them to turn our ancestral land into a battlefield?

macjive01: [size=18pt]lagos is no man's land!!! [/size]

money talk , tradition bows!

Babaloja ki Senior-agbero ni

ayswags: i tire for una,is it until yorubas start using the suya style for ibos something which has been tested and trusted by the hausas. is it until then that u Igbos are going to know ur limits

abu12: Yes

Northern will be quick to support

Niger-Delta will support

Igbo don't have option than to follow.

ilugunboy: Desperate party....doing very desperate and crazy things.

Nigeria is doomed

Desola: Really?

Well, all the best. I don't like them.

Desola: Sorry but I try not to fraternise with people from your part of the niger

I trust that you do not mind.

Desola: Do I look like nkechi to you?

Please face eastward Abeg.

lastpage: I dont know how old you are but even if you are underage (at least yo have access to the internet and you can type!), you should try and "READ-UP" on your history, instead of asking questions that make you appear silly.

I will summarize it for you but l expect you to go back to your Library and CONFIRM whatever l have written:

1.) The Biafran war was initially between the Igbos (Easterners) and the Hausa/Fulani (Northerners). Igbos were killed in the North, there was Reprisals in the East just like Igbo Military guys killed Northern Military elites and Northerners retaliated... and so on. SO, Igbos wanted "out"

2.) At this stage, the Westerners have NOTHING to do with the war. Igbos tried to "DRAG US" into it, by asking for our support, to join them to fight the Northerners. It was coyed in form of a "We will declare secession and we want you to do the same, when we do ours". The reasoning was that the Northerners cannot afford to fight the war on two fronts.

3.) The Westerners, characteristically take "good stock" before engaging in any action (Read Wole Soyinka's quote about "Bravery not being in reckless actions and words".) They gave it a "second thought" and realized they were NOT PREPARED to FIGHT AND WIN A WAR RIGHT NOW.

4.) While the Yorubas were still bidding for time to "get prepared for a war" (Weapons and Logistics), the Igbos, in their Characteristic manner of boating, reckless bravado and self-over-exaggeration of ability, as a result of their inability to "critically self-examine" (something they termed as cowardice in Westerners/Yoruba) SIMPLY DECLARED SECESSION and that marks the beginning of the BIAFRAN WAR! They never consulted and sought approval of the Yorubas whom they expect to CO-OPT into WAR!

Now, How this is the problem of Yorubas or how we caused them to Declare secession, is still a mystery.

5.) The war has been on for over 15months and the Westerners/Yorubas simply stood aside. Some Yorubas (like Col. Banjo, Wole Soyinka even gave "tacit support" to the Igbo cause because we sympathize with their victimisation (rightly or wrongly), in the North.

6.) Odumegwu Ojukwu, who as a personification of the Igbo war, wisdom and cause .... at one point felt he MUST FORCE THE YORUBAS into the war. We made him understand that "we feel we cannot win the war as we were NOT PREPARED FOR THE WAR. The mallams have control of all the important Garrisons, the armoured battalions even in Ibadan!
Only a stupid man goes to war expecting his enemy to make things easy for him or provide him with weapons and support.

7.) As balanced as the war was at this point, Ojukwu, in his "infantile wisdom" was still adamant on forcing the hand of the Westerners into the war.
OJUKWU HENCE DEVISED A STEWPID AND CLANDESTINE MOVE: HE STARTED ATTACKING THE WESTERN REGION!
He crossed the Onitsha bridge and started waging war Southwards! He ransacked the Mid West (Benin and Delta regions), he looted, burned the remains and took our women hostage, raping and generally sowing mayhem.

8.) Awo sent message to him requesting that OJUKWU SHOULD DIRECT HIS WAR EFFORT NORTHWARDS as we will like to remain NEUTRAL. Ojukwu will hear nothing of this.

9.) AWOLOWO was using "WISDOM" while OJUKWU was using "RECKLESSNESS and BRAWN".
One after another, Ojukwu ransacked Western Cities, Edo fell, Akure, Ondo town fell (undefended) until He got to Oore.
This is when Awolowo reasoned that you cannot be attacking and killing my people, while you say we are friends.
NOTE: Yorubas NEVER ATTACKED IGBOS.
During the war up to this point, those who chose to remain in Lagos, were still well protected by their Lagos Host (infact, Lagos was a Federal capital so we considered them "one of us".)

10.) When Ojukwu will not listen to reason, and as typical of most Igbo (and you can see the same herd mentality over here), none of his brethrens were willing to tell him the truth; They chose to bury their heads in the sand.

Awolowo was finally rumbled and roused from his patience and in a SINGLE DISPLAY of MASTERLY STROKE, he brought the Biafran Shenanigan to a HALT IN OORE!

[b]Now, what would the average Igbo leader or person do (let us be honest to ourselves for once, we are still brothers), if your so-called friend is attacking you, killing your people and setting your house on fire, when you have done him no wrong?
We did not wrong the Igbo, they attacked us, just to force us into a war we never wanted to be a part of.

This is the part of "the War History" that Igbo fathers and grand fathers have refused to tell their children.
They have tried to justify their stewpidty and treachery while blaming their fool-hardiness and consequent loss of the war on Yorubas.
For christ sake, its a war, a 3year war we are talking about! In war, ALL IS FAIR!! Thats why its called a W-A-R-R-R

So, if you must insult Awolowo for the action he took, you must also acknowledge his patience and reluctance to engage in war while at the same time, you have to salute his acumen and tactical approach at ending a war that had dragged on for over two years, in less than six months.
That is the stuff Yorubas are made-of!
No Gra-Gra, No mouthing, No chest-beating, No self-delusion, No grand-standing, ....Just meticulous planning and precise execution.

Ojukwu and his military tacticians should have known better than to start a war they cant finish, expecting to force an ally's hand into war, wasting the lives of over two million Igbos in what essentially was a show of Gra-Gra ..and attacking the WEST! (Bad Move)
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Lastpage!

BTW: The only reason l have gone to great lengths to expose and espouse this here is so that ignorant ones amongst you, whose parents lied to them about how they were almost conquering the whole world , ....can try and read-up their history, direct their anger/energy in the right direction and dont make the same mistake again.

Also, remember that Fashola did NOT DEPORT ALL or ORDINARY IGBOS from Lagos, the minuscule quantity he deported (if true) are those who can be considered "Nuisance". No work, No Home, No education, No visible means of sustenance!

I salute my Igbo Brothers!