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From the looks of it, the Presidency of Buhari will dogged by militancy until 2019.

The unity of Nigeria is not negotiable

This is the mentality of a man who lives in the Stone-age.

If Britain that created Nigeria can have two referendums in 2 years, one for Scotland to leave Britain and another for Britain to leave the EU, then the unity of Nigeria is not only negotiable, it must be negotiated.

"Unity by force" cannot and never will work.

Onijagidijagan:
yorubas will not chestbeat dis way...go and free nnmadi kanu ur hero before he died in prison

go and revenge d bloodbath given to u in enugu

Dude tell ur people to stop being coward bravery is not gotten frm phone keypad or thru being mouthed.

We don't need to prove anything. We have already fought the powers that be for 3 years. You on the other hand will never be able to fight anything, just 'Siddon Look' and follow the directives of your Northern masters because you are too scared to stand up and oppose them.

Tokety7:
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Foolish talk. The due process at the time of Lord lugard was the will of the Crown in UK. The due process now is for ur representatives to table ur request on the floor of the NASS. Anything apart from that is shear Bunkum. Ipob nonentities will continue to be slaughtered for nothing by the Nigerian forces for disturbing public peace.

Of course!

Lord Lugard came said you will a Nigerian, you said 'Yes Sir!'

Ojukwu came and declared his people free and fought 3 years to keep it, you who dont have the courage to ever fight for your own independent Homeland, said "that man is a fool for fighting instead of accepting Northern slavery like us!'


The North came and too over Lagos and ran Nigeria into ground for 30 years, you guys said 'yes sir!'


Anything supports independent minded thinking has been jettisoned by you people.


Even Britain that made you a Nigerian did not need any Scottish representatives to come foward before they granted Scotland a referendum. It is you who they gave the name 'Nigerian' who is looking for representatives. It is clear why you guys are the weakest link, the people in the SE/SS can think beyond 'one Nigeria', you guys are still in that mental trap which is why you will always be willing tool for the Northerners.

Tokety7:
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Left to where? Ojukwu is dead, stop succking his cocck. U never left. Ojukwu wanted to forcefully leave with ur fathers and the Nigerian forces dealt with them. If u want to leave, follow due process.

Oh really? Which due process did Lugard follow to make you a Nigerian? Instead you guys from the West to admit that you have no fight in you, which is why you people have never fought for anything in Nigeria, you guys will just look for every excuse to be the only ones in Nigeria to do nothing but talk while others are acting. There is no doubt about what the OP said about you people being the weakest link, only can talk but never can act.

Tokety7:

Really pathetic of such peeps. Succks to be them.

Remarkably, when the same people left in 1967. You guys came down to the east to fight for 3 years to bring them back. So who is actually pathetic?

hagmond1:
akpu logic of bravery and are yeebos free?with the monthly Biafro protest
I guess not.

Akpu logic? You can't fight like the Igbos once did. You have never fought like the Igbos did. But you beat your chest and tell your self you are a brave man and accept Northern domination without a fight. If that is what you call Akpu logic then you should be eating it everyday.

adeyemi2015:

Guess you can remember that Awolowo's intelligence won the Biafra War, Adekunle, OBJ only taught you Guys a little lesson on the battlefield?!
Mahatma Ghandi has a solution to your Chest-Beating Problem!

Neither Awolowo nor Obasunjo won the civil war for Nigeria. What won the war was Britain siding with Nigeria. But all that does not take away the fact that the Yoruba nation does not have the backbone to stand up to the North, militarily or otherwise. That is why in the SW/SE/SS chain, they are the weakest

Firstinline:
That name Ojukwu should never be mentioned again even in the whole Ibo land, because that man Ojukwu is the biggest coward and the king of cowards in the world.

After leading a war where millions of his people's lives where lost, you still came back to contest elections for presidency of that same country.

So it means the millions of lost souls were on their own. That man no just get honour at all.

That is not how the majority of Igbos see it. The Igbo mans way of thinking is not the same as a Yoruba man. Ojukwu led a war of liberation for his people. He may have lost but Igbos love him for at least trying. Igbos then decided to give 'one Nigeria' another try. That is when the great Ikemba came back and joined politics. The millions who died did so in the quest for freedom. That's what happens in a war of freedom same as the 20 million who died in the 1st world war, same as the 50 million that died in the 2nd world war. None of them died in vain for freedom is one of the few things in life worth fighting and dying for. Only God knows that the Yoruba nation will never produce a freedom fighter like Ojukwu in a million years. That's why they are the weakest link.

hagmond1:
and after ojukwu was through beating his chest,he later contested under Fulani party,the same Fulani that killed 3 million of his people

Well at least he he fought first before he conceded defeat and contested under a 'fulani party'. You guys conceded defeat long before there was even a 'Fulani party'. Yes 3 million died, but no price is too great to pay in the quest for freedom.

adeyemi2015:
Yorubas ain't Chest Beaters!!!

I know! It takes effort to beat the chest. For people who have never taken 'action', I fear even beating the chest will be just too much.

I agree with OP. The SW are the weak link that the North have used to exploit Nigeria. There many examples of this but I will mention two

1) If the South of Nigeria is regarded as SW/SE/SS then the SW are the only ones never to have taken up arms against the North. SE have done it in the Biafran war. SS have done it with the Niger-Delta militants (MEND, NDVF, NDA). The SW have never done anything.

2) Lagos is regarded as being in the SW and part of Yourubaland. But this same Lagos was siezed by Northerners in 1966 and used as their 'control base' to rule Nigeria from the 60's right into the 90's when the capital was moved to Abuja. It would have been impossible for the Northerners to rule Nigeria from Enugu or anywhere in the SE, the Igbos would risen one day and wiped them out. It would have been impossible for them to rule Nigeria from Portharcourt or anywhere in the SS, the militants would have chased them out. But it is Lagos they can go and relax for nearly 30 years because they know that the Yorubas cannot do anything.

Adaure4ever:
There was a time, M.I Opkara, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Akanu Ibiam, Sam Mbakwe, Sir Ojike, Odimegwu Ojukwu, Sir Emeka Anyaogu, Nwafor Orizu, Okadigbo ETC were IGBO Leaders.
- NOW, Nnamdi Kanu is seen as an Igbo leader, CHAI.
When things start falling apart, the center cannot hold.

Those men are from a bygone era when men were men. Kanu represents the future

PaulKillerman:
B people allotting praises to this mad really surprised me so much, I'm surprised, is it that younpeople lack an adept understanding of history....

That man was the biggest cowards ever traversed this earth, I'll spit on his grave anywhere I see it.... God will punish him anywhere he is in the great beyond...

Of course people giving him praise will surprise you!

Have you ever fought for freedom? No!

Can you fight for self determination ? No!

But if it is to wave the Nigerian and shout 'one Nigeria!' While Nigeria is heading nowhere, that one you will know how to do.

Whenever you can fight like Ojukwu, come back let's compare notes.

Justdulla:
The Great General Odumegwu Ojukwu.
The Bravest Officer Nigeria ever Produced
A Great Orator and Eloquent Speaker
A Brilliant Man and Loving Father
A Fierce fighter

I remember his famous speech 'the people at the other side will be surprised by the shock awaiting them' and truely the Federal forces were shocked.. Unfortunately i belong to the people at the other side, but i wish i had fought alongside this great man because he stood for oppression, suppression, subje tion and subjugation. No man wants to see his people suffer and he was a leader and a Legend.... Sir I Hail Thee




meanwhile click on ma signature. thanks

Ojukwu was a great man who fought for three years for the liberation of his people against the oppressive Nigerian state. It takes a remarkable man to fight for freedom, it takes an unremarkable person to be a "Northern a$$licker"

Adaure4ever:
IGBOS are amateurish in terms of political tactics,
our republican nature promotes individulism which causes lack of Centralised Aim and Purpose.
Okorocha 4yrs tenure is better than T.A Orji 8yrz tenure but YET Igbos will pick T.A Orji and hate okorocha just because He is APC.
Apart from Okorocha, which Igbo Man Can pull Votes in the North to be a President?
NO ONE except Okorocha for now.. But yet we hate him.
Political Foresightness is not in our dictionary.

Of what use is the presidency to Igbos in a messed up land like Nigeria? You think the Obasunjo presidency did anything special for Yorubas? All the time that the North have had the presidency, they are much poorer than the south. The Presidency of Nigeria is a curse and I pray that my fellow Igbos aspire to something more important than that.

Rochas Okoroawusa is a nobody in Igboland. Outside his Orlu constituency, nobody cares about him. He betrayed his people because of power. APC is not a party in the best interest of Igbos, it is a party in the best interest of Okoroawusa and his Hausa/Yoruba friends. Needless to say that Okorocha will never be president of Nigeria because most of his fellow Igbos won't vote for him nor APC and neither will the North and Yorubas. The man is a disgrace.

HeGeMon:
B4 nko is the oil yours?

Of course, the indigenous people who own the land own the Oil.

The man who went to the East to kill over 3 million people in the name of keeping Nigeria one (although the only he was after was Oil)

If Nnamdi Kanu had not wanted to be arrested, he would have just stayed back in London. Everyone knew he was a wanted man. However, the man is passionate about his beliefs and came back. If every Nigerian was passionate about Nigeria the way Kanu is about Biafra, Nigeria would be a greate country. But who is fooling who? Passion and fraud don't go together. I'm glad that Nnamdi Kanu came back, the massive worldwide Biafran protests might not have happened if he didn't. His arrest gave the Biafran agitation global attention and reminded Nigerians that we are not one.

The only thing 'one' about Nigerians is the air they breathe.

[b] I'm not a fan of either PDP or APC. I'm yet to be convinced that both of them have the interest of the common man at heart. But the reality is that APC is the current ruling party and their activities, particularly that of their leaders, is subject to increased scrutiny. General Buhari came to power largely on an incorruptible persona. The APC propaganda machine painted Buhari as a man with a spotless record who was coming to rescue Nigerians from the clutches of PDP darkness. But is Buhari really the Saint he was made out to be? We may not be able to judge Buhari based on the present or the future but we can at least look at his past.

In 2014 when Chief Fani-Kayode was GEJ's campaign spokesman, he made a startling revelation that as Aviation Minister, he was privy to the Haruna Adamu report that indicted Buhari of massive corruption during his tenure as PTF Chairman to the tune of over 25 Billion Naira. FFK said that the only reason Buhari never got prosecuted was because the main prosecution witness, Alhaji Salihijo, an inlaw of Buhari , died on the day Buhari was to be formally indicted. While the report purpotedly does not directly accuse Buhari of corruption, it indirectly indicts him of creating the 'enabling environment' for some characters in the PTF including Alhaji Salihijo to loot PTF. Many would find it hard to believe that 25 Billion Naira disappeard under Buhari as PTF Chairman and he didn't know anything about it.

Another allegation against Buhari is that as Oil Minister in the 70's, a staggering sum of $2.8 Billion disappeard from NNPC's accounts with Midland Bank in London. The regime of Shagari created a sub-senate committee under Senator Olusola Saraki (father of the incumbent senate president) to investigate what happened to the missing funds. In 1984 shortly after Buhari came to power, Olusola Saraki granted granted an interview to NTA where he disclosed that the money had been traced to accounts belonging to Buhari in the same Midlands Bank. What happened next was a like a scene out of a horror movie. Saraki was hounded into exile, the journalist who interviewed him was dismissed from NTA and Buhari promulgated decree 4 of 1984 which censored the press from enquiring and reporting about the missing funds. To this day, many still believe that the real reason Buhari overthrew the democratically elected regime of Shagari was because he and others got wind of the fact that they were about to be indicted for misappropriation of public funds.

A legal practitioner by the name of Barrister Ahaaiwe recently went court over Buharis WASC certificate. His prayers to the court was that it should declare that Buhari has no WASC. Ahaaiwe claimed that in 1961 when Buhari joined the Nigerian Army, he did so with a covering letter from the principal of his secondary School. Ahaaiwe claimed that Buhari reported the Army training depot but never went back to sit for his WASC. Retired General Paul Tarfa who joined the Nigerian Army about the same time as Buhari said in interview that after the British pulled out of Nigeria in 1960, many Government positions became available. Because the North was far behind the South in terms of Education, the Northern Government of Sir Ahmadu Bello, in a desperate bid to fill in the Northern quoter, started recruiting secondary School students who were yet to take their final exams. Paul Tarfa even said that he personally never saw his own WASC until he was commissioned as an officer. As the court case raged in Court about Buharis certificate, Buhari is reputed to have hired over 20 Lawyers including 12 SAN's to object to the proceedings. All of a sudden, Barrister Ahaaiwe who instigated the proceedings inexplicably dropped the case and and it was struck out. To this day, Buhari has not shown anyone a true certified copy of his WASC endorsed by the Examining body and the copy of the WASC being bandied about on the Internet looks spurious. The importance of Buhari's WASC is that if he hasn't got one, then he should have never been commissioned as an Officer of the Nigerian Army which makes his entire Military career a fraud. [/b]

Point of correction! Mr President was not brought to power by us in the SE/SS geopolitical zones. We knew his stinking past and stayed well clear from him. Now the rest of you who fell over your selves to vote for him can now enjoy the dividends of "change"

The elections are over and now it is dawning on all the 'Sai Barbarians' that they voted for something worse than GEJ. But the real tragedy is that in 2019, all the zombies will queue up again to vote back the dullard of Daura.

One good thing about IPOB is that they finally made everyone in Nigeria including the whole world to realise that there is no such thing as "one Nigeria"

Since that Hopeathand guy was exposed as a Yoruba guy who grew up in Portharcourt, I don't take threads like this serious. Some people will do anything to drive a wedge between Ikwere and their Igbo brothers.

Buhari is a deluded man. All he is doing is 'money recovery'. I'm not saying that going after people who have embezzled public funds is a bad thing, but it is just a small part of fighting corruption. What about those that are currently embezzling funds now under Buhari? What has Buhari done to ensure accountability in all spheres of Government? What has he done to ensure that Local Government Chairmen don't pocket monthly allocations? That Governors don't steal? What is Buhari doing to see that "Egunje" still being extorted by the armed forces from Police to the Army becomes a thing of the past?As Buhari goes after funds looted in the past, the current office holders are busy looting away. Buhari is just a clueless dullard.

Deadlytruth:
That is at best a speculation. Until it is tried and the outcome is that way no one can confidently make any assertion as to what exactly the outcome will look like. Ekweremadu still remains in the best position to champion this course as long as the legal route is concerned. It would be a different thing if he has actually ever made an attempt and it did not succeed. At least he can do so for record purpose and posterity sake. It may not yield the desired result immediately but it will have set in unstoppable motion a very important watershed in the history of Nigeria and in the secession quest of Biafra.

What you wrote doesnt make sense. Ekweremadu is not going waste time and effort to sponsor a bill which he knows has not even the slightest chance of being passed by the National Assembly and neither will any legislator. None of them are interested in history making. Another thing is that any legislator who even attempts sponsoring a bill on referendum is most likely going to be branded a 'secessionist', and enemy of the state and will be hounded by the Government and Nigerian security agencies for the rest his life. Nigerian politics is not yet advanced enough for politicians to keep an open mind. There are only 3 ways a referendum can be conducted in a country like Nigeria:

1) If it is decided at a sovereign national conference or any national conference

2) If there is internal strife within Nigeria such as war, fighting, violence or killings on such a scale that all stake holders finally agree that we are better off apart than together

3) That Nigeria restructures into confederating or federating regions. An 'Igbo Region' will then have the autonomy to pass a referendum law in its own parliament which it can call up at any time.

There maybe a fourth option of a president using executive order to to order a referendum but this is most unlikely since no Nigerian president will probably do this and even if he does, the national assembly is likely to veto it.

Deadlytruth:
@63XR36, you don't ever argue your own points with facts and logic but with crocodile tears over being allegedly being held back in Zik's One Nigeria. If you are really sincere what exactly has been holding you back from asking your brother, Ekweremadu, to simply sponsor a bill for referendum with his power as DSP? Is it other tribes that have as well held Ekweremadu back from using his position to ask for a referendum or that your seeking of secession is mere lip service?

It would be be pointless for Ekweremadu or anyone else to sponsor a bill on a referendum because such a bill will not even make first reading. And even if it does, everone out of the SE/SS zone will gather to vote it out. It is pointless to bring a referendum bill out when it is guaranteed to fail

Nigeria's indivisibility? If Britain that created Nigeria can hold two referendums in two years, one for Scotland to leave Britain and another for Britain to leave the EU, then there is no such thing as an "indivisible Nigeria"

It is good that international writers are taking note of the oppressive Nigerian state, one of the few countries that claims to be great but shoots unarmed people who have contrary opinion.

My fellow Igbos have indeed suffered for the error that Lugard made of putting in the same country with Hausas and Yorubas.