₦airaland Forum

pazienza:
[s]The COR movement was a movement for the creation of separate minority region from the then Igbo majority Eastern region by some members of the Eastern region minorities . Its an acronym for Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers, representing the minorities provinces in the now defunct Eastern region of Nigeria.


The Eastern region existed between 1939 to 1966. In its composition were Igbos, Ijaws, Ibibio, Annang, Ejagham, Oro, Agbo, Boki, Ugep, Ogoja, Ogoni, etc.
It was estimated that minorities on the whole constituted roughly 1/3 of the population of the region, while Igbos constituted 2/3 of the region total population.
The relationship between the Igbos and the minorities were relatively peaceful but not without intrigues. There were often innate fears and cries of Igbo domination by significant members of the minorities who usually called for creation of a minority region from the Eastern region. These demands led the colonial government to constitute the Willink commission of 1957 whose aim was to look into the grievances of the minorities and offer a recommendation.
The report of this commission can be found below this post.
The commission found no real marginalization of the minorities and maintained that Igbos have been fair in their dealings with the minorities, all the accusations brought to the commission by the minorities were found to have no substance and were dismissed. The commission noted that division of the Eastern region was not necessary.

Nevertheless, the yearnings of the minorities for a separate existence outside Igbo area of influence never died. It gathered pace once more when having lost out in Lagos, NCNC members found a way to replace Eyo Ita with Zik as the leader of the Eastern government. The aggrieved Eyo Ita left NCNC with both his Igbo and non Igbo supporters and founded a new party where he lost the elections to NCNC. However, rather than concede defeat, Eyo Ita embraced and vitalized the COR movement in retaliation. This rattled the Eastern region, but with NCNC party loyalists from COR areas like Mbu, Akpan, Ibanga Akpabio, Imoke against Eyo Ita, he soon ran out of steam and conceded defeat, while admitting that the people from COR didn't really want separation from the Eastern region.
Eyo Ita would later reconcile his differences with Zik and rejoined the NCNC.

To know more about Eyo ita saga :https://www.nairaland.com/2730983/see-no-wisdom-south-south/3

Appended to this post is a copy of Eyo Ita statement on his resignation from championing the COR movement.
This was sourced from Chibuzo Ihuoma collections via his blog: [/s]

clevvermind:
The Chinese are very wicked people. Trust them at your own risk.

Moradeke827:
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Members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Lagos are putting final preparations in place to honour their late leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

According to Mazi Emeka Okoye, a leader at the Alaba Market the coronavirus pandemic has denied them the opportunity to formally bury Mazi Kanu who died from the virus last week.

Okoye who also lamented that their businesses have been impacted by the lockdown said it was painful to learn that Nnamdi Kanu had died.

He however vowed that the people of Biafra will not give up the struggle that he stood for while he was alive.

“We are putting final preparations in place for his formal burial here in Lagos. He deserves a state burial and he will get it once the lockdown is lifted.

“We have been communicating via social media and using WhatsApp to finalise the process, he deserves to be honoured like a hero that he was.
Okoye lamented the fact that his body could not be transported back to Nigeria as they, the peopl[/s]e

jumper524:
Well the man can continue since his followers has refused to have sense..
Guess Obasanjo and Jonathan were afraid of the north also even when they were presidents.

helinues:
[s]Handsome with facial make up plus lipstick[/s]..

Proletariat:
[s]I know we all have our doubts already due to the long delay it took for the IPOB cabal to address the allegations of Nnamdi Kanu's death and the presence of an impostor pretending to be the late Nnamdi Kanu.

We also saw the condolence message from the Turkish Diplomat who was kanu's adviser.

We also saw the leaked picture of the face cloning of a new Nnamdi Kanu.

Now, carefully analyse the below pictures and see if this old looking man that resembles Ifeanyi Araraume, the former Senator and Imo state Governoship aspirant/candidate, is the same person the IPOB cabal is trying to pass off as the late Nnamdi Kanu who was known to be young and with a fresh face.

The allegations of an imposter seems to have become heightened.

Where did the IPOB cabal get this GrandFather from, pretending to be the young looking Nnamdi Kanu that has a hunchback?

We now demand for a recent DNA test to confirm the existence of the real Nnamdi Kanu.


The last picture is of Sen Ifeanyi Araraume.[/s]