₦airaland Forum

Bimpe29:
This bigot called FFK should as a matter of urgency, be caged. He is heating up the polity unnecessarily.

Is he? What if he is right? What if there are plans by some groups in the North to slaughter Igbos after october 1st

There has been many waves of massacres of Igbo the North so this not something to be dismissed.


However, if Igbos are massacred in the North again, especially this time around, that will be the end of Nigeria.

Olabestonic001:
Then, automatically, the North are right after all since they have mass at their beck and call. Your reasoning is not correct!
Nnamdi

Why do you think the North controls Nigeria? Tjat why anyoe who doesnt like the situation, such as Kanu, should agitate to leave.

Everyone who calls him or her self a Nigerian is just a Northern slave.

Theres a chance that nobody will see Buhari until his second term inaugration

jseRIKI:
So this one no believe in Biafra

How do you know he is Biafran? He could be Ikwerre

I remember that Nnamdi Kanu talked about this same issue recently. He said that when Biafra is achieved, a sovereign national conference will be held where the name of the new country can be changed from Biafra to something else.

The name is not likely to be Niger Delta as Nigeria Delta doesnt really signify anything special same as Nigeria.

allrightsir:
dont be stupid, does the law recognize Biafra does that stop you from talking about Biafra? You and I know what is meant by SE and yes the law recognizes the SE as a socio-political region consisting of anambra, ebonyi, Imo, Enugu and abia.

Yes the law does not recognise Biafra but Biafra is yet to exist. You are talking about SE like is already exists, it does not exist.

If Biafra turns out to be Anambra, Imo Abia and, Enugu and Ebonyi states, then some boundary adjustments will have to be done. Im sure some people will not like the Igalas of Anambra to be taken into Biafra, same as some people wont like the Idomas of Enugu or the Ibibios of Abia taken into Biafra. In that same vain, Im sure the Igbo of the lower benue would prefare not to left in Nigeria, some of the Igbos of Delta and Rivers state would prefare to go with their brothers. Who would want to stay in place where they will be a minority when they can go where they will be the majority?

My point here here is that using the states to signify where Biafra starts and stops is not a good idea.

Deedeedee3:
Nigeria can never be restructured. Disintegration is much easier

I dont see how Nigeria can restructured. Those who want restructuring dont have the numbers to get it through the national assembly

allrightsir:
They really are a bunch of jokers, the whole concept of Biafra is based on the SS going along with them but all the other minorities have said they will not be part of Biafra. I wonder what kind of country they think they can create with only the 5 states of the SE which is landlocked and only the size of Oyo state? Their concept and viability of Biafra is premised on annexing the other minorities and dominating them based on population but these minorities have not forgotten how they were treated during the Biafran war and have all come out one by one and said NO to Biafra and if the country falls apart they will form their own country.

When you say SE, what exactly do you mean? The law does not recognise any area in Nigeria called SE or wve SS

whitebeard:
GOD has been with Nigeria that's why u never won the civil war and u will never will cause GOD is with nigeria. Biafrans that think of KANU as high as Jesus, do u expect GOD to be happy with them...

After winning the civil war, where is Nigeria today?

Other countries you started off with like South Africa, Malaysia, India etc have all ran ahead of you. But you think God is with you?

greatiyk4u:
No, rather it is the person that has majority of reasonable personalities that controls power especially in Nigeria.

Those people you call reasonable personalities are nothing if the people have deserted them. It is the person who has the teeming masses behind him that has the power because if that person tell the masses turn on the elite, the elite are finished.

That is what all these people shouting restructuring do not know.

Where will you get two thirds of the vote needed to pass a bill on restructuring at the national assembly?

To get restructuring, it would mean at the house of representatives, the SW/SE/SS/NC and at least one of the NW or NE have to back it up!

5 geo-political zones are needed to get Restructuring!

With the core North against Restructuring, it is simply not possible.

Anyone hoping for restructuring should forget it, it is simply mathematically impossible to achieve

greatiyk4u:
Enough of all these shit of crowd Kanu pulls.........among his cult of followers, who are the prominent members?


There is no honour in pulling a crowd of touts, illiterates and frustrated lazy greedy failures who are merely living in a fool's paradise

It is the person who has the majority of of the people behind him that really controls power.

Autopin:
Nnamdi Kanu left his wife and children in London, flew into Nigeria steering up racism, tribalism and war.
When the war comes, his family will be safe in Britain why our youths and children will be busy dying on the battle fields.

Really?

Boko haram killings, herdsmen killings, sectarian killings, cultist killings, Niger Delta militancy.

Youe country was messed up long before Kanu came back

Only a very stupid person will place property and assets above the freedom and sovereignty of his own people

Points of correction

1) Nnamdi Kanu went to UNN briefly but left to study in London

2) I dont understand what being born after the war has to do with beliving in Biafra

3) Nnamdi Kanu's father is the king of their village, a non political position.

4)kanu's wife is an Igbo who speaks Igbo. Videos of her doing so at IPOB rallies are on youtube.

5) Kanu wants referendum not war. If there is a war, it will be Nigeria fighting for the sake of fighting.

6) There is freedom of religion in Igbo land, so even if Kanu decides to be a confucian, thats his business

7) Nnamdi Kanu never said he is greater than Jesus. That is something someone on facebook said

Gurumaharaji:
Quite unfortunate....Can I know d reason why this man is celebrated??

All freedom fighters are celebrated by those who wish to free

wirinet:
We had that opportunity just before independence, but the Igbos pushed for and got a one Nigeria, thereby forcing us into this marriage of convenience. A referendum could have been possible before independence (afterall, southern Cameroons held a referendum to stay with cameroon instead of Nigeria), but a referendum now is impractical if not impossible.

Dont say Igbos pushed for anything. There is no written agreement or treaty where the Igbo nation agreed to be part of Nigeria. Saying that a referendum is impractical in Nigeria myopic. Even Scotland that has been with the UK for over 300 years got referendum in 2014 to even talk of Nigeria that was created just 102 years ago

The funny thing is that both men, Chris Ugokwe ana Buhari joined the Army the same day. But in this picture, Chris Ugokwe is a Lt Colonel while Buhari was already a Brigadier General. Does anyone know why?


The reason is that when the war broke out, Chris Ugokwe fought for Biafra.

After the war, all Igbo officers such as Chris Ugokwe who returned to the Nigerian Army were all demoted which ensured that they could never catch up with their mates from the North and West who won the war

Restructuring is not in the constitution of Nigeria.

wirinet:
I am reacting based on IPOB strategy of seeking to secede with the use of threats and hate speeches against Nigeria and other tribes in Nigeria. If Biafra unilaterally declare secession, that is tantamount to declaring war.

Countries are like civil marriages, once contracted is often very difficult to divorce. Some divorces are highly acrimonious and difficult. Scotland that you guys like to use as example had fought two independence wars, held a referendum and still not free from England. Northern Ireland is a different cup of coffee. Even Honk Kong is yet to free itself from Chinese rule.

But the unfortunate thing in this situation is no one ever agreed to be a Nigerian. There was never any marriage or a contract. Nigeria is just the colonial making of the British. Since the British have now gone, we should conduct a referendum to know those who want to continue with this colonial idea called Nigeria and those who wish to go a different way

Just a gathering of people who came to protect their jobs

GavelSlam:
These tribes have not asked for secession and you would not instigate them to do so.

Stick to your own issues.

How do you know they havent asked for secession? Havent you heard of RONDEL?

Restructuring is not in the constitution! So how can anyone be backing restructuring?

wirinet:
No IPOB member or supporter have been able to answer pertinent question asked by the Senate President;



Are IPOB youths ready to sacrifice tens of millions of Igbo lives and trillions of naira of igbo owned properties in the North and South West for their Biafra? Most of these IPOB youths including their leader has little or no investments in other parts of Nigeria, most do not even have reasonable investments in the homestead. IPOB is like the proverbial Baby that was in dispute between two women in the Bible. IPOB believes the Baby should be cut in half because she would never feel the pain of loss, while the real mother prefers to give away the baby than lose her baby.

Ekwerenmadu and other Igbo groups are trying to preserve their lives and interests in the Nigerian baby.

Dont you see the hypocrisy of what you are writting? So what you are saying is without 'one Nigeria', millions will lose their properties? Without 'one Nigeria', millions may die?

If it is so then 'one Nigeria' is really very bad for Igbos.

Personally, I will never be able to understand why people will.be fighting to keep a British colonial legacy like Nigeria together. If there are those who want to go, let them go.


As for the South/South. A lot peiole seem to forget that this area contains about 50 tribes including a large chunk of Igbos/Igboids. Nobody has asked all these tribes what they want.

Ohamadike!

Tolexander:
The secession agitation is coming from mostly Ndigbo that haven't gone out of alaigbo!

Where did you think it was supposed to come from? Igbos that have gone to Kano?


Restructuring is not in the constitution of Nigeria.

tysontim:
Really?

Oh yeah. Austria is just a small country of just 7 million people but Austria is richer than Nigeria.

It is better to be Austria, smaller but effective, than to be Nigeria, bigger but hopeless.

It is important to note that there is a big difference between Igbos and SE.

However, it is clear even to a blind man that Nigeria cannot work as a nation. So the alernative is self determination. It is much better for Igbos judicioulsly manage 100,000 barrels in their land than to be part of a Nigeria that is going to mismanage millions of barrels

QuitNotice:
Big kid, that doesn't mean your people should start a war they can't finish. Whatever happened in the past doesn't mean Kanu is leading you guys on the right path, stop derailing!!!

Kanu isnt talking war, he is talking referendum

cyrilamx:
"I am not in support of Biafra at all. Two days ago, I saw a pamphlet that Biafrans are observing a fasting and prayer for their leader Nnamdi Kanu.

Wrong! Nnamdi Kanu and more importantly, Biafra,

I believe in one Nigeria. If Nigeria is disintegrated, its going to cause war

Why should it cause war? Czechoslavakia broke up without war in 1992 without war. Soviet Union broke up into more than 10 countries without war. Even Britain that created Nigeria nearly broke up in 2014 with no acrimony. So why should Nigerians be fighting and killing themselves to be together?

and even our fore fathers like Odumegwu Ojukwu and the rest who fought for Biafra acknowledged that they made a mistake. The mistake being that they went for a war without having the necessary arsenal. The result of that war is still telling on us till today. Biafra is just a divided house. You are fighting for freedom, yet you have different units like IPOB, MASSOB, and there’s also another one mapped out. It is just a house against itself. They say they want one thing, but their interests are different. Igbos are talking about Biafra whereas it still comprises of other entities from the south-south. Even Niger Delta people are also Biafrans. So, ethnicity still continues. Running away from Nigeria will not solve the problem. What they need is unity” he maintained.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/biafra-odumegwu-ojukwu-others-acknowledged-made-mistake/

Simple typing the word 'Ojukwu' in YouTube will show some of the videos where Ojukwu said he "proudly led Biafra". What Ojukwu always said is that if Nigeria is run justly, equitably and with fairness, there would be no need for anyone to breakaway.

But all Nigerians know this is not possible. That is why a referendum should be conducted so that the ethnic groups who share a common value system and are comfortable with each other can carry on with their national agendas, with or without Nigeria

This is one example that shows that Buhari is not a democrat. This is the same man who praised David Cameron for respecting the wishes of the British on the BREXIT referendum. This is the same man who said he believes in right of Palestine and Western Sahara becoming sovereign nations. Buhari is such a hypocrite of monumetal proportions. Referendum is one of the most democratic things a country can do, it is even more democratic than elections because in elections people choose office holders, in a referendum people get to choose their fate.

The same Buhari witnessed as Britain that created Nigeria held two referendums in two years, one to allow Scotland to stay or leave Britain, and the other, to allow Britain leave or stay in the EU. This same Buhari is the one who is turning his back on referendum.

It is important to remind people that before the Nigerin/Biafran civil war started, Ojukwu offered Gowon referendum in the Eastern region to let the people decide their fate. Gowon said "we must all be one Nigeria" and a civil war followed that claimed 3 million people.


For the nincompoops who re-echo this nonsense Buhari said that Biafrans should form a political party to advance their objectives, of what use is it? Which Nigerian National Assembly will vote to grant a referendum anywhere in Nigeria? Is it Hausa representatives or Yorubas that will vote for a referendum to be conducted in the SE/SS area? How will the SS/SE get a referendum when the core North controls about half of the votes in the National Assembly?

Buhari is a man of deciet and Nigeria is a British created fraud.