NkayStory:


We can never never be one..Dis-integration is the only way out going forward..Too many Nigerians hate the country with a passion as well tribes that are not theirs

No matter how hard you yorubas fight it,it will definetly happen..

..cant you see Nigeria is getting worse by the day with ethnic hatred increasing at break neckk speed with no end in sight?...or you want to deny that??

You can re-write history to suit your acute myopia but it changes nothing..lie againt Nnamdi Azokiwe or Ojukwu as much as you like it changes nothing!!..

Someday soon,you all shall meet your fate with destiny because this country is jinxed.

Yyeske:
I guess it is time history is reintroduced in our schools for people to understand how we ended up in the pit we are in, we Igbos must accept the fact that our forebears contributed to it all.
Azikiwe insisted on one Nigeria when northern leaders wanted a de-amalgamation of the country.
He resisted the secession clause as proposed by Awolowo and Enahoro,
Formed a government with the north instead of the west,
The casualties in the 1966 coup was obviously one sided,
Ironsi not executing the coup plotters,
He signed into law the unitary decree,
He in conjunction with Ojukwu squashed the dream of the Niger Delta republic, he equally signed the anti secession decree,
Ojukwu educated enough to know the law still went ahead to seceed without adequate preparation, weapons or even allies and wasted millions of souls.
Let us admit it, our forebears contributed to it all.

ipodstinks:
If he does, make I bend.

Ojoji:
I think this write up is not a means to generate unnecessary controversies but time to carry out analysis to see how can change bad situations history has bequeathed on us. Honesty, there is no tribe or region that is not feeling the pain and for how long? Structurally, it is impossible for Nigeria to work that is a bitter truth. Which way should we go from here? This Is not the time to trade blames, pointing accused fingers, or played victim role but time to take responsibility of what have happened and forgive ourselves especially we southerners.

Xander85:


Oh please, spare us the pretence! You knew exactly what you were doing when you posted this revisionist, one-sided cra'p! Saying you didn't author the article but just innocently posted it because you're looking for a detached and dispassionate analysis of the points raised is bullshit! You expected dispassionate discourse on such a Igbo-bashing thread on nairaland!? Dude, get real!

eurogee:
I am a full blooded igbo from Ideato North local government area of imo state.

I had read countless accounts of pre-independent Nigeria authored by renown local and foreign scholars. Before I came into contact with these books, I used to hold the belief that igbos are matreated in Nigeria. But after reading these books, I began to tell those who care to listen that IGBOS are the architect of their problems. And I will maintain this stance without sentiment for as long as I know the truth.

I regret to say that most of the post civil war Igbos are uninformed about the past. And that's very correct. They are being fed half truths by their kins. This is just the truth that has no hiding place.

I always say this; there was no reason at all for January 1966 coups. And for Ironsi to have paid blind eye service to the coupists after being caught, is the height of atrocity, and an intolerable slap to the faces of the people whose leaders were unfairly murdered in the course of that stupid coups. In holding this view, I knew there were prior consensus to the effect that the coupists be spared in order to persuade them to lay down arms but that's bullshit.

The truth is that my people are highly competitive in nature. And when they spot an opportunity, they'd want to be all out to seize it. Nothing is wrong with this when you do it without making noise of being smarter than other tribes, or having subjugation of other tribes in mind. Otherwise, you'd draw undue attention to yourself, and they people you are trying to outsmart would develop eagle eye to make sure they frustrate your wicked ambition.

The politicians of SE decent had subjugation of other Nigerians in mind. This is an undeniable truth. This fact shaped their stance on most national political issues and defined their actions in pre-independent and early post-independent Nigeria. Igbos wanted to be power brokers for not only Nigeria but also individual regions. Unfortunately, fate does not always fall in line according to plans. We found ourselves where we had wished for other Nigerians.

This is just the truth judged by the past happenstances. Don't come here to abuse yourself, because I read widely and I know for sure that what I just said is the truth. I don't stand to be corrected. Rather, go and read the history! The selfishness and stupidity of our forebearers got us where we are today!

For us igbos to find our stand again in national politics, we need to ditch our highly entrenched wrongful beliefs. We need to be apologetics over the "brigandages" of our forbearers. We need to show remorse over the stupidities of those we consider our political sages, and show willingness to embrace the concept of one Nigeria which we remained the architect of until the twist of fate happened.

May God open the eyes of my people to the truth.

May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Signed
Nwa Afo Ideato North.

T9ksy:
Thanks Op..........bookmarked.

Not at all surprised at their juvenille responses as they obviously have no evidence/s to debunk the facts contained in your post.

5thElement:


Were you expecting intelligent conversation about the articles you posted?

Don't. Just get your basket ready. They are going to heap insults on you.

SuperIgbo1:


Which institution produced you?

Born2Breed:


This is the reason I blame the Nigeria's educational system. Intelligent Nigerians are doing everything possible to educate themselves on the history of this country while some still depend on copy and paste without proper research or even reading what they are pasting.

The Current South South today was carved out of the Western/Mid-Western and Eastern region.

Most names there were from former Western / Mid Western region.

You need to understand history from the view point of every one before coming out with an unbiased compilation of historical events. You need more education kid.

5thElement:


Like as if Igbos haven't also been in government since then. Trying to absolve yourselves from blame, I see.

5thElement:


You wanna go there?

Do you want me to go to Google and help you get the name of Igbos who have held top government positions?

People like Azikiwe, first president of Nigeria, Alex Ekwueme, a vice President, a host of Senate presidents and deputies?

How do you feel putting the blame on others when clearly we have all made mistakes?

Do you think your tribe is made of angels?

The hole Nigeria is in now was dug by mainly Igbo political and military leaders. (To be sure, the 3 major ethnic groups have their own share of the blame) That's what this post is about. Tracing where Nigeria fell into the pit.

If we hadn't fallen into the pit, we won't be living in the pit today.

5thElement:
Well written. Watch as they attack the messenger and not the message.

deadkamalu:
lol,i may like the guy for being realist but i dont follow him honestly

gidgiddy:


Why just the genesis? What about the last 52 years that Yorubas and their Northern partners have held power? They said Igbos did bad and they are coming to correct the bad, they ended up doing worse. Everthing that Northerners and Yirubas accuse Igbos od doing, they did 50 times worse when they came to power.That's why it does not make any sense.

They said Igbos conducted a coup, they later turned "coup plotting" into A profession and conducted many

They said Ironsi introduced unitary rule, but they came in and kept divided the 4 Regions Ironsi kept, into 36 states, making Nigeria far more unitary

They said All resisted a secession clause in the constitution, they have had 52 years to add the same law but they will never. But if someone waves a Biafran flag in the East, they will call for the Python to come and dance


Everything they accuse Igbos of doing, they did 50 times worse

deadkamalu:
i guess they were just being nigerians in true sense and not some clannish dingbats

BaaleOko:

Nobody is ploughing your dry sarcasm here as you can see, you asked a question like the reasonable individual I primed you to be(still giving you the benefit of the doubt), don't disappoint yourself by running away from your own challenge by playing dumb.

deadkamalu:
wrong, benue has always been with the northern region,later benue-plateau then presently benue state.

BaaleOko:

Your trash wasn't only an opinionated conjecture riddled with sentimental half truths and distortions, it also in grey matter areas reinforced the morbid obsession the average Nigerian(yorubas especially) have towards the Igbos... Like the same Igbos left your damn Nigeria in 1967, one would expected a "good riddance" feedback from the test of Nigeria since the same Igbos were the troublemakers that truncated the utopian foundation of Nigeria... But no, they were forced back to the same Nigeria at the expense of millions of lives... now they are the problem once again? I mean what gives at these point?

BrownRoofRep:
There level of inferiority complex among these oblong head ritualists is getting alarming.
They can't spend a day without thinking about their landlords.

Afonja that cannot impragnate his ugly wife, na Igbos cause am.

immhotep:
@cute9ja, take heart.
Igbo amaka
Ask sarrki.

cc lzaa velocity25

BaaleOko:

At this point they will soon blame Igbos for their failure to get an erection going while servicing their wives... those folks are just pathetic, best to just ignore the revisionist nonsense.

deadkamalu:
check no 13

gidgiddy:


The problem with those who say that "Ironsi did this", "Zik did that", "Igbos did this" is that they are the same people who have held power at different times for the last 50 years and did far worse than Igbos ever did.


Yorubas and their Northern cohorts have held power for the majority of the last 52 years. They did far worse than Ironsi, Zik and the Igbos ever did. Yet every day they criticise what Igbos did even though they did much worse.

That's why it's laughable

BaaleOko:
Honestly a thorough psychological research needs to be conducted on the yoruba race at an evaluative level, cause their proclivity towards Igbo obsession isn't just getting ridiculous and scary, it actually borders on sheer lunacy at these point.

cute9ja:
By Folorunsho Kuku

In this piece, historical facts helps to dispel many of the false claims about how the Igbos have been unfairly treated over the course of the years within Nigeria and instead throws light on how the decision of their elites, knowingly or unknowingly, brought thrust Nigeria into its current abysmal state.

Claim 1
Igbos claim to have always been cheated out of juicy positions in Nigeria thus the clamour for regional and political restructuring where they are unable to secede from Nigeria.

The Fact 1.1
While Tafawa Balewa presided as Prime Minister of Nigeria, several positions, now famously considered “juicy”, across the country were led or headed by the South East.

Security Chiefs
1) General Officer Commanding (today’s equivalent of Chief of Army Staff) was
Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi from Umuahia in present day Abia State
(1965 - 1966)
2) IG of Police was Louis Edet from Calabar in present day Cross Rivers State
(1964 – 1966)
Executive & Cabinet Ministers
1) Governor General & First President was Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was from Enugu
State
2) External Affairs (today’s equivalent of Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Minister was
Jaja Wachukwu from Aba in present day Abia State
3) Education Minister was Aja Nwachukwu from Ebonyi State

Education Leadership
4) First Unilag VC was Professor Eni Njoku from Ohafia, Abia State.
5) First Nigerian Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan was Professor Kenneth
Dike from Awka in present day Anambra State.

Northern Leaders led by Sardauna Ahmadu Bello however resisted same from occurring at Ahmadu Bello University insisting that the North will prefer to have a foreigner head the school until the North had produced a qualified administrator.

The reason for this was that by the late 50s and early 60s South East dominated the senior ranks of the Northern Civil Service after the British colonial staff rushed to leave the country as agitation for independence grew louder. What is obvious is that as each region attained self-determination, leaders of each ethnicity sought that its people lead or head these institutions located within their regions.

Dissatisfaction of the way the polity was run by politicians across Nigeria culminated in a mutinous coup executed largely by senior ranking South Eastern officers who executed Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, Brigadier General Maimalari and a host of the crème of the North’s leadership as well as Chief Ladoke Akintola, the Regional Head of the South West region.

The plan of the mutinous soldiers had been in the works since 1964 and Major Nzeogwu gave the instruction that led to mayhem and blood-letting on the morning of January 15, 1966. Reading the details of the main actors involved, it is surprising that they failed to see how skewed those they eliminated largely represented a certain demographic of the growing nation.

Of all the senior ranking officers in Nigeria at the break out of the 1966 coup, there were fifty five (55) officers (officers as at June 1959 are listed below), the SE had thirty seven (37), with the exception of Lt-Colonel Arthur Unegbe (Quartermaster-General of the Nigerian Army when the January 1966 coup broke out) no other Igbo man was killed.

Of the eight ( officers from the North, six (6) were killed while of the ten (10) officers from the South West, two (2) were killed. Note that the Igbo Majors as at 1966 who were the primary brains of the coup did not join the Army until the early 60s and are junior to those listed below.

In an awkward twist of fate and curiously, the headship of the government when the coup failed, fell into the laps of another Igbo officer, J.T. Aguiyi-Ironsi, (being the most senior military officer in the country) despite not being one of the coup plotters. Aguiyi Ironsi with help of a leading legal expert, subsequently imposed a unitary system of government on the country.

SOURCE - http://www.nigerianeye.com/2019/03/the-igbo-elite-and-professionals-and.html

deadkamalu:
joe akahan is a tiv man from benue,i wonder why you wrote eastern region.

oilPUSSY:


So today SS is now Igbo ?
Afonja and narrative switch.... Smh