₦airaland Forum

Ariani:
Is Bini even in SS? Edo is geographically a SW state or at the very least, a north central state, considering it's Islamicized northern senatorial zone.

It was only put in SS because they didn't really fit into anywhere. Even though they are in SW geographically, they were not Yorubas and had refused to accept their Iinferiority before Yorubas, seeing as they are being ruled by Obas of Ile ife descent.

They wouldn't have fitted into the North either, as they are not "North enough", they were reluctantly put in SS.

Edo is the only SS state with no riverine culture. And with a significant Islam stain.

You've just betrayed Ignorance on the philosophy behing the creation of the SS.

If Edo is not a SS state because it is,
according to you, more of a Yoruba state,
then it leads to four deductions as follows;
1. That the Igbankes you claim brotherhood
with in Edo State are now Yorubas,
therefore your brotherhood with them
makes you Igbos yourselves automatically
Yorubas. Whoever claims brotherhood with
a people he implicitly labels as Yorubas is a
Yoruba himself.
2. The Delta state you claim is part of SS (to
the exclusion of Edo) is actually a state
inhabited by Bini migrants (Urhobo, Isoko,
Itsekiri in part, etc) who don't deny their
Bini ancestry. With that fact viewed against
your logic, Delta state too is a SW/Yoruba
State and not a SS state.
3. That the fact that some tribes in Bayelsa
state (like Ogbia) trace their origin back to
Benin means Rivers and Bayelsa too are Edo and not SS states.
4. The fact that some tribes in Northern
Cross River have languages mutually
intelligible with some Edo-North tribes also
means Cross River is Edo and therefore a
Yoruba State based on your logic.
Then which state is left in the SS that fits
correctly into your logic? May be only
Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom. Even Bayelsa by,
virtue of its indigenous Muslems, is either
SW or North according to your logic. So only Akwa Ibom is the state left in your own version of SS.
You also said Edo is not culturally or geographically SS? Are
Nigeria regions purely geographical/
cardinal demarcations or rather geopolitical mappings? Are they called Geographical
Regions or Geopolitical Regions? If the
former is the case, then what is the purely
geographical relationship between the
Itsekiri part of Delta and the Ogoja part of
Cross River both of which you agree are in
the SS? What is the geographical or cultural
relationship between Fulanis in Illorin and
idomas in Benue thousands of miles away from Illorin to qualify them both into
NC if it is purely Geographical/cultural?
What are the Igbos in Benue doing in the
North Central if our regions are based on
cultural mappings? What are the Ijaws of
Ondo doing in the SW if it is by cultural
mapping? There are native Itsekiris and
Ijaws in Edo State, so by your funny logic those Itsekiris and Ijaws of Edo state are not SS but Yorubas while the Itsekiris
and Ijaws of Delta State are not Yorubas but SS. If Edo State has no riverine culture then how come Ijaws and Itsekiris (the known riverine tribes) occupy parts of Edo State? Are you using "geographical" and "geopolitical" interchangeably?
The SS is a region
created for Southerners who are neither
Yorubas nor Igbos irrespective of their
cultures or geographical space
relationships. .

On your use of Islam as a criterion for SS identity I want to remind you that there is a huge and fast
growing population of indegenous Igbo
Muslims in the Afikpo LGAs of Ebonyi, and
others in Enugu. In fact there is an Igbo
Sheik in Afikpo town. Does it therefore mean that Ebonyi and Enugu are not really SE states?
This brings us to another funny stereotype from you Igbos which is
is the attitude of terming others as
Arewanistan as an indication of disdain for
Islam, and yet you have kept on working to
see that your proposed Biafra will include
the SS states and Niger Delta for which you
therefore have been pasting online
photographs in which the Niger Delta
Volunteer Force leader, Asari Dokubo, is
seen in association with Nnamdi Kanu and
other Biafra agitation leaders, yet you
comfortably forget that the Asari Dokubu
whom you so wish to share Biafra identity
with is Strong Muslem who believes solidly in the very Islam you so despise. If
you sincerely so despise Islam
then why seek partnership with Dokubo, a
Muslim well grounded and founded on
Islamic faith, in your thrust to form your
purportedly "Christian" Republic of Biafra?
It is either you people are fooling Dokubo
and the Niger Delta and SS generally, or
that Dokubo is fooling you people. Someone just must be fooling the other or himself in this obvious contradiction. It definitely can't
be a genuine partnership. Such a "fully"
Christian Biafra Republic with Asari Dokubo in it as a high ranking stake holder
alongside other indigenous Bayelsa
moslems is doomed to implode
catastrophically and eventually lead to war. I foresee
such a war again within the Biafra that
includes Bayelsa because Asari is not a man
who would tolerate religious marginalizion
from Igbos. Meanwhile let the self
deception and delusion continue on your
part.
However, I know that the Mujaheed Asari Dokubo I know is aware deep down in his mind that he is just fooling
Igbos as a SS Republic is what guarantess
his religious freedom based on the fact that
a SS republic is full of Christians but not
Christian bigots like igbos, and that the SS
houses more indigenous muslems across at
least four of its states, and that the states
involved do not deny it the way Igbos deny
having indigenous Muslim populations
despite really having them in Ebonyi and Enugu. Or
you think Asari Dokubu is a kid not to have
seen it clearly that biafra Republic will be
the first country in world history where
Christians will persecute others for holding
divergent faiths from the mainstream
Christianity? Asari Dokubo is only using you
people as a tool to craftily press for true
federalism which the SS only wants. Asari
and most Bayelsa muslems prefer to stay
back in Nigeria and secure their religious
freedom than go into Biafra and lose it.
Religious freedom is more important than
economic freedom. No sane person
surrenders religious freedom for economic
interest. Let the FG grant true federalism/resource
control today and see whether Asari will
ever again touch Biafra agitators with a
100m long pole. I have given you this
exposition free of charge because I don't
want you to deceive yourselves into another
secession brotherhood war only for you to
later brand Asari Dokubo a traitor by the
time he really demonstrates what he means. They say "Once beaten, twice shy".
But I'm afraid you will be twice beaten. I have taken all this pain out of genuine
concern for another 3 million lives on the
line now due to your assumption that Dokubo is sincerely behind you. It is
better you face reality, concentrate on your
5 Igbo states and leave the SS alone so as
not to risk another "betrayal" as no SS state
will open its two eyes and join a Republic
where self-acclaimed Jews and Christians
will surely persecute other religions'
adherents.

honourhim:
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Young man what you have posted here is irrelevant to us so its more of a waste. Immediately i read where you said that you were from Edo, a Bini man, i just scrolled past your write up.
We have no business with Bini people. Whether you hate us or not hasnt stopped us from progressing in life so your hatred is irrelevant to us and a waste . You can hate us as much as you can but it doesnt scratch us so keep off.

Keep deceiving yourself. You did not read my post but you knew the content which enable you respond appropriately. What an interesting irony! If you really feel I should keep off then you should have blamed your brother Ariani for ever mentioning my name here as that was what brought me in.
Well, under normal circumstances I don't even comment on posts concerning Igbos as a tribe because I know it is almost impossible for them not to use Yoruba blackmail when they meet superior arguements. However I was forced to come into this because your brother Ariani mentioned me specifically. Igbos have from time immemorial hated Edos for no justifiable reason. Our own aversion for Igbos started in 1967 for the obvious reason of the Midwest invasion which remains justifiable. But same can't be said of Igbos' hatred for us. It is jut out of envy. Simple!
I have no business with Igbos at all but unfortunately they litter Benin and most Edo towns. I don't know anyone in my hometown living in Igbo land. We know who needs who more.

SonOfEl:
Your long tales by moonlight won't change the facts. Just listen to yourself, successive governments did not entrench true federalism because the late ironsi from his grave won't let them....

Dude suit yourself, am out.

I have already told you that you are not philosophically oriented.
The second dimension to the rejection of Ironsi's unification decree was the belief that once he unified the treasury, the resulting hugeness of the purse would easily tempt he himself and his future successors to steal from it and therefore they will come to find it difficult to reverse the trend. Once you allow a person to enjoy the fruits of stealing he will never be able to revert to normal life again. The validity of the arguement lies in the fact that even Jonathan, a man from the region hardest hit by the consequences of Ironsi's useless decision, could not reverse it because he himself was so overwhelmed by the hugeness of the centralized purse that he forgot entirely the need for him to work actively towards decentralizing it but started helping himself from it for his campaigns. It is like someone who looked for a job of N10,000 for 15 years and could not get it and "luck" came his way making him go into robbery where he now makes N250,000 a week. Now, he is used to fat pay from stealing and at that point you now offer him the N10,000 job he once looked for. How do you expect him to accept it? Ironsi's action made everyone abandon agriculture for oil. How will one person whose region has abandoned his farms for oil for the past 50 years get to power and suddenly reverse Ironsi's decision knowing fully well that his own region has nothing to fall back on immediately? Can you yourself try that as an igbo man on getting to power? You will just hurt your people. Only a very stubborn SS or Lagos State person can get to power, do that and his own home state will not be affected by the deadly shock it will have on the economy for at least the first ten years. Just a fall in crude oil prices in the int'l market and most states are bleeding profusely already.
Only an SNC will bring a genuine reversal of Ironsi's blunder. And that does not rest on one single ruler. It has to first be agreed on and then very gradually implemented until this ugly unitary system is phased out. Get it now?

Ariani:
Lol! This Yoruba man again? How many times have you been disgraced on this board by Ikechukwu( one naira, no naira, Ikeg48).

You truly have no shame, perhaps that explains your attraction to the shameless Ikwerre group.

What you know about Ikwerre or Okrika doesn't matter, you should spend more time to study about Okun/ Igala delineation, Offa/ nupe delineation, those should be your point of interest as a shameless Yoruba man.

I know an Ikwerre man when I see one, you can see no Igbo man here is disputing Bigmillz and lacasera Ikwerre identity because it's obvious to see they are Ikwerres, they don't need to prove it, but you, your Yorubatic flavour sticks you out like a sour thumb.

I can only pity you.

The earlier you realize that I can't claim who I am not just because I want to fit into your stereotype of how a Yoruba or a SS person should speak, the better for you. I am from Edo State and if you don't know, know it today that an Edo man's opinion on issues is least influenced by tribal sentiments. I am a proud Edo person because Edo kingdom pre-existed Nigeria and was already being referenced all over the world before Nigeria was ever dreamt of. Edo historic artworks remain the most sophisticated in pre-colonial Africa. A typical Edo person believes first in his state before believing in Nigeria if he does at all. But I must be very blunt with you that we have an unquenchable aversion to Igbos because we continue to see Ojukwu's invasion of Benin as an act of foreign aggression and territorial violation.
Moreover why should I defend igbos unduly when I know they invaded my hometown and committed havoc against my people in 1967? I know my aversion for your heros Zik and Ironsi is what makes you believe I am Yoruba, and I have kept on asking you why you think all SS (particularly Edos) should be so senseless as not to realize that Zik's advocacy of unitary system disguised as one Nigeria sloganeering ended up inspiring Ironsi into dismantling federalism which ended up opening up the Southern minorities, of which I am, to exploitation, oppression, etc by the big three (WAZOBIA). If fact the day you'll pay a long visit to Benin and in fact any other Edo/Delta town apart from probably the Anioma ones you will discard this your perception that it takes only a Yoruba person to hate Zik and Ironsi. Why should I love Zik and Ironsi who caused my economic and political enslavement as a minority to the WAZOBIA tribes just because I want to prove I am not Yoruba? Awolowo's actions during the war might have really hurt you psychologically and he could be blamed for even intervening in the war rather than allow it run its natural course as it was essentially a war between those who even jailed him, but that does not alter the truth that his position as a federalist would have paid me better if Zik and his lieutenants had listened to him at the constitution drafting stage. After all have we not all now seen from experimentation with unitary system for the past 50 years that Unitary system is too grave an evil for any truly educated and sincere person to even contemplate let alone openly advocate for a multi-ethnic democracy like Nigeria? The mere fact that even you now demand true federalism means that posterity has passed a damning verdict on Zik and Ironsi.
As an Edo person I eulogize Enahoro not necessarily because he is my kinsman but because he made honourable and realistic proposals like states created along tribal compatibility lines to forestall clashes of culture and its attendant bloodshed as (if he saw today's Nigeria ahead), and also proposed the secession clause to instill in all our future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance - both of which were roundly rejected by that myopic Zik who argued that secession clause was inimical to national unity and that federalism would promote tribalism over nationalism due to his very naive assumption that a country of over 400 strange bed fellow and mutually antagonizing tribes would be so peacefully and successfully governed by unitary system therefore making secession clause unnecessary. The presence of secession clause in that independence constitution would have restrained Balewa and Ahmadu Bello from misruling so much as to warrant Awolowo's civilian Coup and later Nzeogwu's military coup which each of Awo and Nzeogwu found as the only available weapon of defence against Balewa's misrule and assault on the South since the more effective , legal and non-violent option (i.e. secession clause) had been forestalled by Zik and his NCNC. If there were secession clause do you think Awo or Nzeogwu would have resorted to coups, or that even Ojukwu himself would have used the approach he used in seeking Biafra which ended up failing for that matter? That is the thrust of my contention against Zik, and the endowment I need to analyse the issue the way I have always done is simple education and minimum intelligence, and not being a Yoruba or Hausa. Some very honest Igbo guys have accepted that Zik's fantasy with one Nigeria landed the South in this mess. I met two of such Igbo guys on my recent thread on Saro Wiwa and I was humbled by their honesty and tribal detachment. in fact one particular one of them was very consumate and expository in his acknowledgement that Zik ruined our future as Southerners. I will go back to that post and mention your name so that you can read him up to see if he too is Yoruba.

Well, if the mods are banning you, I think it might have more to do with your sometimes abusive choice of words like you always use on me than your assumption of puncturing anyone's "propaganda". What you do when you see an arguement is to try attacking with superior facts and logic rather than resort to alleging that the person must be Yoruba as if that will change the fact that his arguement is superior to yours.
I don't try to read people's tribes from their opinions because I find it childish and as an escape route from the onslaught of his superior arguement.

mamabomboy:
Ghen Ghen. You guys have not seen anything yet. This is for Barcanista and friends

Modu Sheriff has proven that it is not over until it is over. You wan try?

SonOfEl:
ONCE AGAIN, YOUR EFFORT TO OVERBLOW IRONSI'S MISTAKE CAME PRETTY LATE. YOUR LAME EFFORT IN DEFENDING SUCCESSIVE REGIMES IS OBVIOUS. IRONSI REMAINS A SAINT COMPARED TO GOWON, MURTALA, OBASANJO, BUHARI, IBB, ABACHA AND CO.....[color=#990000][/color]

It's obvious you are very poor in philosophical reasoning. If Ironsi had not forcefully taken over power and tampered with federalism at all we would not have ever had the ugly history of military rule thus the Abachas, IBBs, Gowons, OBJs, etc would not have ever smelled power let alone perpetrated their evils, hence we would not have degenerated to this very low level of even comparing military rulers and trying to even say which is better than which when military rule is itself an aberration that should be unheard of. Each time you look at a chart of Nigeria's past rulers and you see almost all of them in military caps and uniforms does it give you joy? You should be ashamed of yourself for degenerating so low as to start trying to establish which military ruler was better than the other in a country which started with a world class model democracy. Don't you know that Ironsi is responsible for military rule in this country and all the retrogression, genocides, corruption, war, etc, that came with it? If Ironsi had been honest enough to drop his own personal ambition and just hand over to Dipcharima and then replace the slain premiers with their deputies and left the stage honourably, do you think all the later events that led to war, successive coups, bloodshed, institutionalization of corruption, the coming of Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, OBJ, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, etc would have later come to be our lot leading to this current tragedy? My friend you need to stop being parochial and start looking at issues holistically. Must you defend a villain just because he was of your tribe? If Ironsi were a Yoruba or Hausa man would you have been defending him now and trying to rationalize his deeds? Be honest!

SonOfEl:
....is that not why ironsi was overthrown at the first place? So why did the successive leaders NOT RESTORE true federalism? Grow up dude....They wanted what ironsi had, in a way ironsi even helped them position it properly.

Don't try to overblow ironsi's mistake. Ironsi was not in anyway as corrupt and bloodthirsty as the successive leaders were. Ironsi's mistake was a lesson others avoided, not that they were any smarter or more intelligent.
.

But you initially claimed Ironsi made no mistake?
However, what you fail to understand is that after Ironsi was overthrown Gowon actually corrected Ironsi's fraud (I won't call it a mistake because Ironsi did that against commonsense and logic) by restoring the regions 100% to status quo ante with his own Decree 56 and ran the country like that for 11 months but was forced to start reverting not because he loved to but because it became necessary as a tool to cripple Ojukwu for declaring Biafra. Had Ojukwu not declared Biafra but remained calm and kept on galvanising support for the implementation of Aburi accord, Gowon would not have been forced to start reversing himself. In all Ironsi set the ugly precedent and morally emboldened others to follow suit. We all blame Adam for sin not because we ourselves are not sinners but because he set the precedent.

So the "Christian" and Unitary Republic of Biafra will have indegenous muslems?

First Nigeria Regional Elections:
Western Nigeria 1951 Elections
Matthew Mbu and history:

Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well-
respected Nigerian. But in this piece,
veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike
challenges some of his claims about
Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have
its hour, but it has no future' -
Francois D. Pressense

In what seemed his 48th
independence anniversary gift to
Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu,
politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave
The Nation an interview run in its
October 1 edition addressing some
political issues in Nigeria of which he
had been a key player. Among
others, he spoke on the Western
Nigeria election held in 1951, two
generations ago, and repeated the
claim of the National Council of
Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC)
that it won that poll, but had been
robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr.
Mbu did not provide any evidence to
substantiate the NCNC claim.
Dr. Mbu said of that election held on
24 September 1951 that: "Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the
Western Region of Nigeria, not by
the electorate, but by the leaders.
The NCNC won the election against
the Action Group (led by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action
Group introduced what was
unknown to Nigerian history",
namely, "carpet crossing. They
Action Group bought members of
the NCNC to join the Action Group
after these people had won election
on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the
leader of a majority party in the
Western Region became the Leader
of Opposition overnight".
Reminded by the interviewer that the
late Chief AMA Akinloye had
maintained in his lifetime that he
and his group had contested the
election on a neutral platform from
the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his
version. He is entitled to say what he
wants to say. I don't want to say ill of
the dead. He knew he was NCNC and
his group was NCNC. Adelabu
remained NCNC. He stuck on to
NCNC till he died".
The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba
Mbadiwe said in his autobiography,
Rebirth of a nation, among others
that: "But in pursuance of the policy
of creating a political climate healthy
enough to make one a citizen
wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe
contested and won the general
elections in 1951 into the Western
House of Assembly. To stultify this
policy of one Nigeria in favour of his
tribally-based philosophy, Chief
Awolowo got some elected members
to cross carpet from the NCNC to his
AG side. Zik the victor lost. And
Awolowo's party was able to form the
government of the Western Region."
At a news conference in Lagos on 20
September 1989, more than two
years after Chief Awolowo's death,
Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic
saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party
won the majority of seats in the
Western House of Assembly. He was
due to be elected the Leader of
Government Business, when
overnight, the Action Group
introduced the notorious carpet-
crossing. By this manipulation,
members who won under the NCNC
crossed over to the Action Group
building it to become the majority
party in the West. As a result of this,
Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of
Government Business and Dr.
Azikiwe had to resign."

Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe
named the members of the NCNC
who contested the election on the
party's platform and later joined the
Action Group to enable Chief
Awolowo form the government to
the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These
are weighty allegations such that
they would have assisted their
readers to clear the issues rather just
repeat their own version of the
events at that time in the hope that
such repetition would turn
falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over
candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the
Government Public Relations Officer,
wrote to the parties to furnish a list
of the candidates contesting election
on their platforms. Only the Action
Group complied with this request
and its list of candidates was as
follows:
1. Ijebu Remo Division - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya,
Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips;
3. Oyo Division - Chief Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A.
Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun Division - SL Akintola, JO. Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola;
5. Ondo Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko;
6. Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA
Tewe and SO Tubo;
7. Epe Division - SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and
C.A. Williams;
8. Ikeja Division - O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO
Okuntola;
9. Badagry Division - Chief
CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev.
GM Fisher;
10. Egba Division - J.F.
Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole,
Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso,
SB Sobande, IO Delano and A
Adedamola.
The others were as follows:
11. Egbado Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A.
Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin
Illo and P.O. Otegbeye;
12. Ife Division -
Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O.
Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju;
13. Ekiti Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade
Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D
Atolagbe;
14. Owo Division - Michael
Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA
Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A.
Olusa;
15. Western Ijaw Division - Pere
EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee;
16. Ishan Division - Anthony Enahoro;
17. Urhobo Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri
and JD Ifode;
18.Warri Division - Arthur
Prest and O. Otere, and
19. Kukuruku Division - D.J.I. Igenuma.

Of the names on the list, only MA
Ajasin from Owo Division, which
comprised Akoko then, did not run
because of party solidarity and unity
in Owo. He stood down for A.O.
Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest
two of the three seats, which they
won, while D.K. Olumofin won the
third for the NCNC.
Three secretaries of the Action Group, who ran as independents and won were:
1. Egba Division- Alhaji D.S. Adegbenro
2. Ekiti Division - J.O. Osuntokun, and
3. Epe Division - S.O. Hassan.

At the close of polls on 24 September
1951, the Action Group had won 38
of the 72 seats in contention out of the total of 80 in the Regional Assembly. The shortfall was due to the fact that elections had been postponed in Lagos and Benin due to security concerns. Lagos had five seats in the West Regional Assembly all later won by the NCNC in the election of 20 November 1951, while Benin had three all later won by Otu Edo candidates in the election of 6 December 1951.
Of the 68 candidates on the list furnished by the Action Group to the Government PR
Department, 38 of the elected AG
members were from that list, and were as follows:
1. Ijebu Remo - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O. Awokoya;
3. Oyo - Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun - S.L. Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola.
Other elected AG members from the
list were:
5. Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji
AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and
Prince Adedamola;
6. Egbado (now Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi and A. Akin Illo;
7. Ekiti - E.A. Babalola
and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief
CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher;
8. Ikeja - SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu-
Ale;
9. Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO Olagbaju;
10. Owo - AO Ogedengbe and RA Olusa;
11. Epe - Safi Lawal Edu;
12. Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe;
13. Western Ijaw - M.F. Agidee;
14. Ishan - Anthony Enahoro, and
15. Warri - Arthur Prest.

In addition to the Action Group and
the NCNC, there were local/divisional
parties such as the Ibadan People's
Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA
Akinloye; Ondo Improvement
League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the
end of poll, the standing of the
parties was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. NCNC and its loyal Independents - 25;
3. IPP - 6
4. Ondo Improvement League - 2.
5. Otu Edo candidates won the three
Benin seats, namely, Chief SO
Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo-
Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi.

Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG,
while the latter two went to the
NCNC. And of the six IPP elected
members, only Adegoke Adelabu
joined the NCNC. The rest of them:
AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi
(who later became the Olubadan of
Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin,
Moyosore Aboderin and SA
Akinyemi, opted for the Action
Group. The NCNC National Secretary,
the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent
declaration forms to the IPP
assemblymen asking them to declare
for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye
returned all the forms uncompleted.
The three AG secretaries who had
run as independents - Adegbenro,
Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP
members, one Etu Edo, and one
Ondo Improvement League, Chief
F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy
Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu
Ode) had swollen the number of the
AG elected members. All the
transactions had taken place before
the inauguration of the Regional
Assembly on 7 January 1952. These
were not known members of the
NCNC, nor did the party publish their
names on the list of its candidates,
but claimed them as its "members,
supporters or sympathisers",
according to inimitable Zik in his My
Odyssey, " It takes more than
speculation to claim a person as a
member of your political party". You
cannot just be under the
"impression" as Zik had claimed that
they were and go ahead to field them
as electoral candidates.

For over a
half century, the NCNC is yet to
provide evidence to back its claim
that it had won the West Regional
election in 1951.
Mr Cooper absolved his department
of responsibility for the controversy
generated by the NCNC after the
election. At a post election news
conference in Lagos he said that "Of
the winning candidates, the names
of 38 were on the list sent to me by
the Action Group. The six successful
candidates at Ibadan were all among
those who had been identified to me
as representing the Ibadan People's
Party. No claim of any kind had
reached us about the party affiliation
of the remaining successful
candidates." Why did the NCNC not
send a list of its candidates for the
poll to the Government PR
Department before that poll? And
why have Dr. Mbu and the others not
published the list of NCNC
candidates to substantiate their
electoral victory claim in over 50
years but merely kept reaping false
claims? The records of the poll
conducted in the West and all over
Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher.
In this matter, it is facts that speak,
not what some political/ethnic
partisan said or did not say.
Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only
in losing the regional election, he
also lost the election to the House of
Representatives held on 10 January
1951 at the House of Assembly, Ibadan, among NCNC members. The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80 member Western Regional Assembly was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. Independent/AG - 15;
3. NCNC - 24;
4. Independent/NCNC - 3.
Three
members of the NCNC who had been
elected to the House changed party
allegiance that day ahead of the
House of Representatives vote. They
were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG
Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from
Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.
They were running for the House of
Representatives and wanted Action
Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and
Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went
back to the NCNC. That was all the
carpet-crossing that took place on 10
January 1952, namely, three at first
to the AG and one back to the NCNC.
From the vote tally, it is clear that the
NCNC and the Independent /NCNC
totalling 27 seats altogether out of
80 seats could not have formed the
Government of Western Nigeria.
Even if the local/divisional parties
had chosen the NCNC, it would still
be some seats short of 41 required to
form the government. The Action
Group won 38 seats; its independent
candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun,
Hassan and Odutola won four seats
making a total of 42 seats. The AG
could have formed the government
without the support of the other
small parties. It did not have to
"bribe" anybody to join it to form the
government. Since politics is a game
of number, only few principled
politicians would not be disposed to
joining the winning party, in this
case, the AG.
Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his
book: "Successful NCNC men who
were not Yoruba were scared away.
Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the
Western House (of) Assembly from a
Lagos constituency decided to resign.
Since membership of the House of
Representatives was by an electoral
college in the regional house, no
NCNC from the West came to the
House of Representatives in Lagos".
This is blatantly false. Zik resigned
because he lost election to the
federal house from the West, while
Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka
Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa-
Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir
Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected
from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever
scared non-Yoruba NCNC people
from the West? Chief Denis
Osadebey succeeded Adegoke
Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the
West and the likes of Humphrey
Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh,
Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi
Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and
GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC
in that Assembly.
As Mme De Stael says: The "search
for the truth is the noblest
occupation of man; its publication is
a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political
entourage have chosen their own
side of history. It remains to be seen
whether or not history will absolve
them. Their contemporary audience
is composed of intelligent people
who will search after the truth
without inheriting the political
prejudice and stereotype of their
lying grand-parents. That is the way
ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest
friend of truth is time; her greatest
enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton

The Northern elite too always claimed that Boko Haram members were from Niger and Chad and not really Nigerians. So how come people from other countries come into Nigeria freely to terrorise us? I have never heard other African countries claim that their terrorists are from Nigeria.
Nigerians should stop deceiving themselves. Only a return to true federalism will bring genuine peace.

SonOfEl:
No be only revisionist, na televisionist...... Keep denying the obvious, you came late!

Please go and get books to read to correct your misconception and falsehood. The biggest calamity which befell this country is not amalgamation, not independence, not the January 15 1966 coup, not July 29 1966 revenge coup, not Biafra War, etc; but Ironsi's Unification Decree. That was the final blow that broke the backbone of any hope for a just and equittable Nigeria. And that was when the enduring foundation for this intractable corruption monster was laid.
If you understand the power of federalism and resource control as regards exponential development of any society you'll not even come here to defend Ironsi a bit.

SonOfEl:
Those of you trying to use the thread to break the SE-SS region came late.

Ironsi never attacked any minority tribe in the south south, he did not degrade or misuse their lands.

Adaka Boro should be weeping, seeing what Nigeria has done to his place and people.

Saro wiwa fought alongside arewa Nigeria to crush Biafra for fear of Igbo domination, now he has been crushed and his land become a wasteland and war theater by the same arewa Nigeria.

Good morning to you all.

Revisionist! You came too late.

DMerciful:
I get ur point but we could decide to continue the blame until the other side accept they were wrong or we could move on and let by gone be by gone. We all know the likelihood of genuine apology is slim but since we have common objective which is true federalism, that's should be our focus.

I actually share your concern. However, if they can't apologize, then at least they should stop distorting the facts and just remain silent.
For instance if you check the thread you'll notice that after I posted the topic one of them just came in and began to make jest of Saro Wiwa for allegedly refusing to see beyond his nose obviously in veiled reference to Wiwa's "betrayal" of Ojukwu despite knowing that the reverse was actually the case. That, to me, is dishonesty and provocation. My own idea of a genuine apology is not even to say "I am sorry" but to actually stop provoking the person further.
If Saro Wiwa were to resurrect now, do you sincerely think he would agree to fight for federalism in cooperation with a people still mocking him till today in the name of seeing that bygone is bygone?
The mere fact that they themselves have not stopped their mockery of him shows that they too have not let bygone be bygone.
So why should I deceive myself thinking I will achieve results by working with someone whom I have forgiven but himself has not forgiven me despite he actually wronged me more? Ojukwu and Saro Wiwa are dead and gone forever. We both lost. So they should forgive as we have forgiven them so that we can genuinely work together to restore federalism. Even the Bible says that "two people must agree first before they can work together" or else they'll both keep failing again and again to get results.

DMerciful:
I must day you're good! I'm from Delta igbo but I've always blamed Zik and Aguiyi Ironsi for putting us into this servitude. I have always also wondered what they are doing up north even with the periodic continued killings. But be that as it may....should we continue to execute the mistakes done in the past or change it? Why not support implementation of the confab so we can move forward in equity and justice!

I know we should not continue to excuse mistakes of the past, but not when those who caused the problem keep trying to lay the blame at the door post of others and keep trying to create the impression that they themselves were 100% innocent and that Saro Wiwa and Isaac Boro just victimized them innocently when actually Boro and Wiwa only retaliated for being earlier on betrayed by them. Why do SE Igbos find it so difficult to simply accept the truth that Ojukwu was the first to betray Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa but keep telling stories that Boro had no home support, did his own in a shabby manner, gathered some soldiers in the village square, and did not follow the right procedure as if there is any standard laid down procedure to violent approach to secession which Ojukwu himself used? Genuine reconciliation comes with truth and blunt honesty and not blackmail and deliberate distortion of known facts. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

chidozieikeji2:
my broda am an igbo. But I must say the truth we are the first pple that betrayed the south south they saw this before us and wanted to go in 1966 when they declared niger delta republic and waged a 12 day war led by isaac adaka boro but our broda ironsi suppressed them and imprisoned adaka boro so wen d civil war started and nigeria was loosing in the riverine area Gowon commissioned boro and used him to deal with us so no igbo man shud blame the south south for betraying us we started d betrayal game but now let's throw away the old tins and unite as one south south and southeast na one blood we are one

May goodness and mercy of God never depart from you for your rare honesty unlike most Igbos who keep trying to distort facts. With your likes it means there is really hope.

stayTrue:
Dude, you forced me to post on NL for the first time ever. I have been in guest mode for ages until I read your intelligently distilled arguments in this topic.
You're a GENIUS. I haven't seen this sort of submissions around for a long while.

Abeg, what's ur twitter handle cos I'm so following you like right away.

Well, I am not yet on twitter. But you can get me on Facebook. I'll send you my Facebook ID.

princejayboss:
May God help you

Escapism galore! If you really have facts to defend your position, you would have long dropped them here.
The truth is hurting you badly.

JaaizTech:
All these tribalism will get us no where. Nigeria as a nation has been reasonably fair to all the major ethnic tribes, it is we that have not been fair to ourselves. The Igbo-soldiers that led the very first Nigerian coup are almost as guilty as those blood thirsty hausas that retaliated in unequal measure the killing of Sardauna Ahmadu Bello. On Jan 15, 1966 5 major generals with 4 of them from the Igbo tribe plotted a coup and overthrew the civilian government at the time. The following were the victims of that coup:

1) Premier of Western Region: Samuel Akintola
2) Premier of Northern Region: Ahmadu Bello killed by Maj. Nzeogwu
3) Prime Minister: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
4) Brig. Zakari Maimalari killed by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna
5) Col Abogo Largema
6)Col Kur Mohammed
7)Minister Finance: Festus Okotie Eboh
Lt Col. Arthur Unegbe
9) Brig Gen. Samuel Ademulegun killed by Maj Onwuategwu
10) Samuel Ademulegun's wife killed by Major Onwuategwu
11) Col. Ralph Shodeinde killed by Major Onwuategwu
12) Lt col. James Pam
It was easy to perceive the coup as a plot by the Igbos to subdue other tribes, while they take over power. It appeared like a systematic plot by the Igbos considering that Nnamdi Azikwe, the President was not killed, Premier of the East, Dr. Michael Okpara was spared. It appeared like a plot by the Igbos for the Igbos.

Despite the casualities, this coup was unsuccessful, however it saw another Igbo general, Maj. Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi take over power from the civilian govt.

All of the coup leaders, except for Maj. Ifeajuna who had fled to Ghana, were placed under arrest. Maj. Nzeogwu handed over control of the Northern Region to Ironsi's appointed designee, Maj. Hassan Katsina, before being escorted by Lt Col. Conrad Nwawo to Lagos where he surrendered to Maj Gen. Ironsi. General Ironsi used the coup as a pretext to suspend the Federal Government and bring an end to Nigeria's first republic.

In the months following the coup it was widely noted that four of the five army Majors who executed the coup were Igbo and that General Ironsi who took over power was also Igbo. It was feared that the Igbo had set out to take control of the country and in the North of Nigeria the fear of Igbo dominance became intense. This resulted in the massacres of Igbo which peaked on the 29 May, 29 July and 29 September 1966. This was perhaps also exacerbated by Ironsi's failure to execute the coup plotters after they had been arrested.

The Ironsi government's efforts to abolish the federal structure and the renaming the country the Republic of Nigeria on 24 May 1966 raised tensions and led to another coup by largely northern officers in July 1966, which established the leadership of Major General Yakubu Gowon. Northern soldiers had been enraged by the murder of their two most senior politicians (Prime Minister Tafewa Balewa, and northern regional premier, Ahmadu Bello), and four most senior soldiers (Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari, Colonel Kur Mohammed, Lt-Cols Abogo Largema and James Pam) by Igbo officers in January 1966.

Kaduna Nzeogwu, Timothy Onwuategwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Adewale Ademoyega all later joined the Biafran army, in a strife to create the Biafran state.

Good tracking! Thank you. You've said it all. That was how the ruination of Nigeria officially began by Ironsi. All other issues like Aburi Accord proposals, breaking down regions into twelve states, obnoxious land use decree, etc would not have been if those who started tampering with the constitution did not attempt it. All these are just the fallouts of the fact that Ironsi first tampered with the constitution when the public did not demand constitution review.
Prior to Ironsi's misadventure into politics the constitution of Nigeria was a "we the people" constitution drafted not by military men but by civilians representing all political parties (AG, NDC, NCNC, NPC, UMBC, NEPU, etc) when they all met in London in 1957. These people all agreed on federalism by majority votes. But ironsi came and started unilaterally changing such a constitution thus implicitly claiming he knew more than those world's prestigious universities' graduates and professionals who drafted it even though himself was barely educated.
The remotest cause of the Anarchy into which Nigeria was sliding in the first republic was the fact that Tafawa Balewa was trying to unconstitutionally interfere in Western Region's internal affairs rather than just allow the Awolowo versus Akintola issue run its natural course. It therefore could be correctly said that Balewa, under the influence of Ahmadu Bello, was trying to assume and abuse the powers the constitution did not really grant him. Now if the centre could so much abuse the little power it had and thus caused so much anarchy in the land, commonsense dictated that whoever really claimed to have come to the rescue through an alteration in the constitution should have further weakened the centre. But Aguyi Ironsi who claimed he came to the rescue began strengthening the centre further. How logical and sensible was that? That is why I continue to believe that Ironsi was on a separate mission with a hidden agenda known to only him and the Zik who had always preferred a strong centre. In fact had Zik had his way Nigeria would not have even been split into regions let alone states. Records have it that he opposed the creation of Regions but just wanted Nigeria to be "One" to suit his "One-Nigeria" sloganeering thereby making it easy for him to rule over the whole Nigeria and Africa.

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inquisitiv:
I am a full blooded igbo and my grandfather, uncles and father fought in the civil war. They commandered platoons and by God's grace they came back alive. I had a close, very close relationship with my grandfather before he died some 12+ years ago and I have gone through his library of almost 500 books documenting the pre-indepence, independence and civil war history of Nigeria. Infact after his death I took over the library. I totally and completely agree with DEADLYTRUTH although I will not agree with some of his tribalistic comments. however DEADLY TRUTH is spot on about his historical analysis and he has a grasp of what he is talking about.

I spent hundreds of hours in my grandfathers sprawling library sitting with him and discussing the very things DEADLYTRUTH just said here. I know some people will start questioning my igboness but I am here to speak my mind. I am even a heir to my grandfathers Nze title so I will not defend my igboness.

the bitter, sad and indedd the deadlytruth is that several mistakes were made by that generation but the most DRASTIC, POORLY THOUGHT OUT AND OUTRIGHTLY STUPID CATASTROPHIC MISTAKES WERE MADE BY MY PEOPLE--- the igbos. My grandfather was an accomplished igbo leader of thought, my uncle has a bullet in his thigh till today, my dad blew up Nigerian soldiers using the ogbunigwe but THEY all agree that the coup by Nzeogwu was stupid, arrogant and outrightly silly. how could you kill every tribe except igbos and expect them to send flowers and thank you notes to you?

the war was unnecessary, Ojukwu was a spoilt kid and should have employed the same matured and political diplomacy of Awolowo. How can you accuse Awolowo of betrayal? Did he sign a treaty with biafra. My family fought because when the bullets start flying, you as a man must protect your wives and daughters.

Zik was blinded by an ambition to rule a large African country and should have listened to Enahoro and Co. I have the history books. I know what I am saying. Onye na- amaro ebe mmiri bido agaghi ima ebe okwu si.

we are the future of this country and we should tackle these issues without insulting each other. I rest my case.

God bless you abundantly. Due to your very rare kind of honesty and sincerity, I apologise to you for my tribalistic comments. I was pushed into adding tribalistic ingredients to my comments. I naturally don't do so except provoked by those who think they have a monopoly of tribal slurs. I know every tribe, including mine, has its own good and bad sides. In fact when I denounce some bad attitudes of my tribe I get attacked by my people who sometimes accuse me of not really being one of them. I understand that most Nigerian tribes are still too primitive to accept and acknowledge where they messed up especially concerning the tragedy of Nigeria. I enjoy it more when people engage me with facts and logic alone for that is the only way we can sincerely get to agree with one another. I particularly hate half truths and deliberate ego-driven distortions of glaring facts. As someone from a minority tribe I am always very hard on Zik and Ironsi because their political ideologies and actions were inimical and ruinous to the interest of minorities. At the age of 17 I had to attend a northern university. While I was there I held money in my hands to rent a house but the Northern landlords would reject me because of my religion. Even in the part of Lagos where I live, once you are neither Hausa nor Yoruba, they feel you are automatically Igbo and therefore deny you attention in certain things.
During my NYSC days in the North I twice escaped death from shariah rioters. With all these ugly experiences I began to wonder why my home state could not provide me with tertiary education and then a job to the extent that I had to go to other places to receive insults, humiliation and threats to my precious life. Then I commenced a research on why Nigeria was so disorganised that my state and virtually every state except Lagos is not viable enough to provide jobs and livelihood for their indigens so as to prevent them from migrating to other tribe's lands to hopelessly seek livelihood amidst insults and threats to life. In my research I found out that Nigeria actually started in 1960 with a government (federalism) modelled in such a way that each subsequently created state would have been viable enough to care for all her natives thus Lagos and Abuja would not have been this over attractive, but that Zik, in his misguided quest for an idealistic national unity and aversion to practical reality on ground, inspired Ironsi and virtually every Igbo with unitary system proclivity under his one-Nigeria euphemism which informed Ironsi's decision to destroy that model of government set for us, and consequently redirecting all powers and revenues to Lagos rather than remain at the regions and consequently Nigeria started suffering primacy under Lagos to the detriment of the development and growth of all other states. That was how I developed hatred for Zik and Ironsi till today. But when I read Awolowo's write ups and his ideologies I discovered he was simply superb, very realistic, did not delude himself with national unity, had no use for political correctness, believed correctly that genuine national unity can only be achieved if each ethnic group is given autonomy and self assertion, argued in favour of a system that would have protected the minorities from the tyranny of the majority which we now have, etc. In his works I discovered he had foresight and vision and did not want a Nigeria built on deceit in the name of national unity, but that his enemies painted his his federalist mien as tribalism. Same with Enahoro my own representative. Enahoro was so realistic that he wanted a confederacy obviously sensing that all may not later be well. But he was maligned by those deluding themselves with nationalism. However, the only two mistakes Awolowo made were his dabbling into the Warri traditional stool issue and his decision to intervene in the war. He should have just stayed on the sidelines and watched as it was even a war between those who earlier colluded together to imprison him.
Once again I apologize to you for my tribal slurs. I am indeed humbled by your honesty and truth-loving nature. Your likes are extremely rare.

36xtr36r:
Integrity-challenged charlatan suffering from chronic cerebral amnesia, if you believed the trash you put up there you and your confused hypocrites wouldn't be running amok on every media page with anti-Biafr* slogans to attempt to quench the raging IPOB tsunami movement. You lots won't be shamelessly earning a living on pay-per-post basis just to blackmail Igbos from leaving you behind in this cesspit.

The man who does not believe in a cause should leave those who are determined to forge ahead despite the threats and challenges.
Foes and naysayers cannot determine for Igbos how to go about self-determination, for it is an inalienable right of a people.

Go find yourselves an idea you can live and die for!
And cease fooling yourselves and your confused Uneme-Nekhua people with your silly claims, endless rants and propaganda on NL. The earlier you relay back to channel their energies towards OduaArewanistan republic the better for your survival.

Unfortunately you remain a slave of the SS inclusive of Uneme in the current republic for now until you go to Ekweremadu and ask him to sponsor a bill for secession clause. Let him use the Biafra "bravery" to do such.
I now want to prove that you are a slave of Uneme. So I therefore command you my slave to write your next comment and mention Unemeh in it. One, two, goooooo...........!

36xtr36r:
Igbos are not interested in sharing a country with lying hypocrites who are confused about what they stand for.

If you're too pained that you and your slavish Uneme-Nekhua people will eventually end up with the Yorubas and Hausa-Fulanis in OduaArewanistan republic then find go find an idea you can live and die for. Leave Igbos out of your miseries.

In all your useless theses and theories of absurdity you have consistently failed to point out the contributions of your Uneme-Nekhua people to this country. Up till now you still cannot mention your Uneme-Nekhua elites who have attempted to salvage this contraption from heading to the rocks.

You Uneme-Nekhua people have mainly contributed in destroying this entity and brought it into ruins by your perpetual ass-licking stance.

Channel your negative energies to countering the maiming and killings of your kinsmen for fun for decades by the marauding herdsmen; but you wouldn't and can't. And you think that Igbos are your mates that you and your cotravellers can just wake up from stupor and start ranting senselessly at.

It has been a curse on Igbos having the likes of Unemes in the same country and this curse is broken already and the serpent head is severely bruised and that's why you've been on rampage for some months now attempting in vain to resurrect a walking corpse.

Take your miseries to OduaArewanistan republic where bunch of hypocrites and confused bigots are found.

Igbos are comfortable having a separate existence from greedy, treasury looters cum murderous backst*bbers.


Culled:
Braithwaite reportedly died on Monday morning, March 28, 2016 at St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos.

The founder of the Nigerian Advance Party, NAP was a delegate at the 2014 National Conference, canvassed for a Confederal Constitution to replace the 1999 Constitution.

He described the 1999 Constitution as Decree 24 which was presently destroying Nigeria and Nigerians, stressed that it should be thrown out and be replaced with either a Confederal constitution, with Nigeria operating con-federalism or a very loose federation.
...

”... The present 1999 Constitution or Decree 24 is enforcing a country that is destroying its own people, and should be rejected outright.

”This Conference must therefore be as much a development conference as a constitutional one. It is our firm conviction that only a Confederal Constitution or a very loose federation is best suited for Nigeria. I say this because I know that no part of Nigeria is desert.

Then get out of NL and go and ask your Ekweremadu to sponsor a bill to that end rather than zoning PDP tickets here and there.

36xtr36r:
@Deadlytrash,

There are 2 main things that send cold chills down the spines of the Uneme-Nekhua people and their cotravellers to the core:

1. The mere mention of Biaf.. many whine, weep, wail , yell and gnash their teeth.

2. The mere thought/sight of Fulani many begin to tremble and go into convulsions and epileptic spasms.

Be wary of jellyfish. Though known to be spineless and defensively hopeless - without bones, hands, legs or muscles. Though they appear harmless and helpless they are highly potent with deadly venom, lethal enough to cause great pains and even death of its victims. Wherever they are found in water jellyfish have caused lots of human fatalities to people who let down their guards and were caught napping in their most unguarded hour.

Beware of the innocuous looking and smooth-talking creatures of the earth that come to you mouthing, 'peace', 'One Nigeria'. Life has got no duplicate.

A legitimate agitation by a people for a simple referendum is no way a crime.

No one has got the moral right to impose on another his/her self-centred way of reasoning.

Strange bedfellows, with irreconcilable value systems that are at best suitable for the individual selves, are not meant to be together! The 102 years of existence attest to that verdict!

Once again, Igbos are not interested in sharing a country with verm1ns and vagabonds parading as One-Nigerianists.

There was referendum in Scotland recently because they have it in their constitution. But there can't be referendum for your secession of Biafra. It is not in our constitution. You yourselves with your "nationalistic" NCNC's position prevented its inclusion in our constitution claiming that such would be inimical to national unity. Now you are enjoying that national unity but complaining. Why? So you now want referendum illegally conducted for you against the provision of our constitution? Even the UN will not answer you.
Only sheer buffonrey would have made a people believe that a country of over 400 different tribes would be a bed of roses and therefore making secession clause unnecessary. If you are sincere then tell Ekweremadu to sponsor a bill to ammend our constitution to that effect.

blackprowler:
Your history is convoluted, as well as your analogy. You have to do a lot more reading and thinking. You too, why did you avoid taking on my Kainji and Shiroro dam analogy? It would have helped edify you if you applied yourself to thinking about it

Okay then, tell your people to allow true federalism and resource control so that you can take your Shiroro and Kainji Dams revenues all for yourselves. But you refuse this offer. Why?

36xtr36r:
@Deadlytrash, you're still suffering from myopism and hypocrisy which is your undoing.

Emotionally unstable bigot whose main motive of desiring 'One Nigeria' is to continue to parasitise on the better South.

A dimwitted bigot from an inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua group can continue to whine, weep and wail perpetually on NL to no avail. Your portion still remains with your Fulani masters.

Igbos cannot afford to continue to share a country with verm1ns and vagabonds like you who have merely flourished and survived, at the expense of others, by the unjust, lopsided system and the relentless ass-licking of your slave masters.

If you're too pained with the article by SLS on Yoruba tribe gladly do a rejoinder.

"YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA"?
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Battle Between Awolowo, Akintola Led To 1966 Coup- Yakassai - https://www.nairaland.com/2867045/battle-between-awolowo-akintola-led


 http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/12/12/the-north-built-on-mistakes-of-the-south-%e2%80%94-mbu/
Mathew Mbu on Tribalism, Awo and the North, "Zik won all, the majority, in the Western region. It was when he went to the East, that this notorious question, this notorious carpet-crossing, for the first time in our history was enacted on the floor of the Western House of Assembly. Before then, we never knew about carpet-crossing. Those who won on the platform of the NCNC were suddenly bought over by the Action Group.
...
The AG introduced, for the first time in our history, carpet crossing; 
...
For Nigerians who do not have a recollection of the events of that era and who talk about tribalism, they would want the records set straight. Some even say had Zik stayed back, may be he would have fought it? And some even say that from that moment onwards, Nigeria lost it?

Yes, we lost it from that moment onwards. That was crude tribalism on display. That’s all. What else could it be that somebody of Eastern origin should come and control a region that belongs to the westerners? That was a clear display of tribalism, crude and that was when Nigeria lost it, the true sense of nationalism. Yes! AG, NCNC, that I belonged to, were at opposing ends on true nationalism and nothing else. NCNC till tomorrow remains a nationalist party, one Nigeria, one people, one destiny. AG believed in one Yoruba, one nation, one Oduduwa."

Yes NCNC believed in a "One-Nigeria" where Igbos were slaves of Arewanistan with Zik as the chief slave.
But just four years after, the same "Nationalistic" NCNC was pummelled by NPC which rigged censuses and elections against the Eastern Region. Then rather than remaining with the Arewa NPC to re-nationalize the ruling government, the "Nationalistic" NCNC turned around to form the UPGA alliance with the same "One-Yoruba, One Oduduwa" AG. What a nationalistic party indeed! After few months later the same "nationalistic" NCNC started asking for "One Biafra, One Igbo nation". If NCNC's brand of nationalism were the standard, then nationalism would have been irritating. Fake nationalism. Nationalism of self-enslavement for economic interest. Nationalism to cheat. Nationalism to deceive. Nationalism to re-colonize. Nationalism to plan tribal coups. Travesty of nationalism. NCNC, led by Zik and Okpara, was a neocolonialist party and not a nationalistic party.


Below is the deadly truth of the cross-carpeting accusation. It punctures the falsehood you Ignorant Igbos have been selling for ages. Read it carefully and see that Zik never won that election in the first instance and that no one really cross-carpeted but that what happened was similar to forming alliances between parties at a time of stalemate caused by the inability of one single party to clinch more than 50% votes. It was just like how none of NPC, NCNC and AG failed to clinch up to 50% in 1959 elections and therefore no single party could form the government thus necessitating alliances which made Zik align his NCNC with NPC. Could that also be called cross carpeting? Wishing you happy reading:

First Nigeria Regional Elections:
Western Nigeria 1951 Elections
Matthew Mbu and history
Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well-
respected Nigerian. But in this piece,
veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike
challenges some of his claims about
Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have
its hour, but it has no future' -
Francois D. Pressense
In what seemed his 48th
independence anniversary gift to
Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu,
politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave
The Nation an interview run in its
October 1 edition addressing some
political issues in Nigeria of which he
had been a key player. Among
others, he spoke on the Western
Nigeria election held in 1951, two
generations ago, and repeated the
claim of the National Council of
Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC)
that it won that poll, but had been
robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr.
Mbu did not provide any evidence to
substantiate the NCNC claim.
Dr. Mbu said of that election held on
24 September 1951 that: "Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the
Western Region of Nigeria, not by
the electorate, but by the leaders.
The NCNC won the election against
the Action Group (led by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action
Group introduced what was
unknown to Nigerian history",
namely, "carpet crossing. They
Action Group bought members of
the NCNC to join the Action Group
after these people had won election
on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the
leader of a majority party in the
Western Region became the Leader
of Opposition overnight".
Reminded by the interviewer that the
late Chief AMA Akinloye had
maintained in his lifetime that he
and his group had contested the
election on a neutral platform from
the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his
version. He is entitled to say what he
wants to say. I don't want to say ill of
the dead. He knew he was NCNC and
his group was NCNC. Adelabu
remained NCNC. He stuck on to
NCNC till he died".
The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba
Mbadiwe said in his autobiography,
Rebirth of a nation, among others
that: "But in pursuance of the policy
of creating a political climate healthy
enough to make one a citizen
wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe
contested and won the general
elections in 1951 into the Western
House of Assembly. To stultify this
policy of one Nigeria in favour of his
tribally-based philosophy, Chief
Awolowo got some elected members
to cross carpet from the NCNC to his
AG side. Zik the victor lost. And
Awolowo's party was able to form the
government of the Western Region."
At a news conference in Lagos on 20
September 1989, more than two
years after Chief Awolowo's death,
Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic
saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party
won the majority of seats in the
Western House of Assembly. He was
due to be elected the Leader of
Government Business, when
overnight, the Action Group
introduced the notorious carpet-
crossing. By this manipulation,
members who won under the NCNC
crossed over to the Action Group
building it to become the majority
party in the West. As a result of this,
Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of
Government Business and Dr.
Azikiwe had to resign."
Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe
named the members of the NCNC
who contested the election on the
party's platform and later joined the
Action Group to enable Chief
Awolowo form the government to
the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These
are weighty allegations such that
they would have assisted their
readers to clear the issues rather just
repeat their own version of the
events at that time in the hope that
such repetitions would turn
falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over
candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the
Government Public Relations Officer,
wrote to the parties to furnish a list
of the candidates contesting election
on their platforms. Only the Action
Group complied with this request
and its list of candidates was as
follows: Ijebu Remo Division -
Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya,
Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips; Oyo
Division - Chief Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A.
Amao and SB Eyitayo; Osun Division -
SL Akintola, JO Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I.
Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola; Ondo
Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko;
Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA
Tewe and SO Tubo; Epe Division - SL
Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and
C.A. Williams; Ikeja Division - O.
Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO
Okuntola; Badagry Division - Chief
CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev.
GM Fisher; Egba Division - J.F.
Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole,
Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso,
SB Sobande, IO Delano and A
Adedamola.
The others were as follows: Egbado
Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A.
Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin
Illo and P.O. Otegbeye; Ife Division -
Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O.
Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju; Ekiti
Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade
Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D
Atolagbe; Owo Division - Michael
Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA
Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A.
Olusa; Western Ijaw Division - Pere
EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee; Ishan
Division - Anthony Enahoro; Urhobo
Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri
and JD Ifode; Warri Division - Arthur
Prest and O. Otere, and Kukuruku
Division - D.J.I. Igenuma.
Of the names on the list, only MA
Ajasin from Owo Division, which
comprised Akoko then, did not run
because of party solidarity and unity
in Owo. He stood down for A.O.
Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest
two of the three seats, which they
won, while D.K. Olumofin won the
third for the NCNC. Three secretaries
of the Action Group, who ran as
independents and won were: Alhaji
D.S. Adegbenro, Egba Division; J.O.
Osuntokun, Ekiti Division and S.O.
Hassan, Epe Division.
At the close of polls on 24 September
1951, the Action Group had won 38
of the 72 seats in contention in the
Regional Assembly. There were a
total of 80 seats. Lagos had five seats
in the West Regional Assembly all
won by the NCNC in the election of
20 November 1951, while Benin had
three won by Otu Edo candidates in
the election of 6 December 1951.
The poll had been postponed in
Lagos and Benin following security
concerns. Of the 68 candidates on
the list furnished by the Action
Group to the Government PR
Department, 38 of the elected AG
members were from that list. And
they were as follows: Ijebu Remo -
Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O.
Awokoya; Oyo - Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA
Amao and SB Eyitayo; Osun - S.L.
Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I.
Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola.
Other elected AG members from the
list were: Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji
AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and
Prince Adedamola; Egbado (now
Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi
and A. Akin Illo; Ekiti - E.A. Babalola
and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief
CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher; Ikeja
- SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu-
Ale; Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO
Olagbaju; Owo - AO Ogedengbe and
RA Olusa; Epe - Safi Lawal Edu;
Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe; Western Ijaw -
M.F. Agidee; Ishan - Anthony
Enahoro, and Warri - Arthur Prest.
In addition to the Action Group and
the NCNC, there were local/divisional
parties such as the Ibadan People's
Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA
Akinloye; Ondo Improvement
League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the
end of poll, the standing of the
parties was as follows: Action Group
38; NCNC/Independents 25; IPP 6
and Ondo Improvement League 2.
Otu Edo candidates won the three
Benin seats, namely, Chief SO
Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo-
Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi.
Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG,
while the latter two went to the
NCNC. And of the six IPP elected
members, only Adegoke Adelabu
joined the NCNC. The rest of them:
AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi
(who later became the Olubadan of
Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin,
Moyosore Aboderin and SA
Akinyemi, opted for the Action
Group. The NCNC National Secretary,
the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent
declaration forms to the IPP
assemblymen asking them to declare
for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye
returned all the forms uncompleted.
The three AG secretaries who had
run as independents - Adegbenro,
Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP
members, one Etu Edo, and one
Ondo Improvement League, Chief
F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy
Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu
Ode) had swollen the number of the
AG elected members. All the
transactions had taken place before
the inauguration of the Regional
Assembly on 7 January 1952. These
were not known members of the
NCNC, nor did the party publish their
names on the list of its candidates,
but claimed them as its "members,
supporters or sympathisers",
according to inimitable Zik in his My
Odyssey. It takes more than
speculation to claim a person as a
member of your political party. You
cannot just be under the
"impression" as Zik had claimed that
they were and go ahead to field them
as electoral candidates. For over a
half century, the NCNC is yet to
provide evidence to back its claim
that it had won the West Regional
election in 1951.
Mr Cooper absolved his department
of responsibility for the controversy
generated by the NCNC after the
election. At a post election news
conference in Lagos he said that "Of
the winning candidates, the names
of 38 were on the list sent to me by
the Action Group. The six successful
candidates at Ibadan were all among
those who had been identified to me
as representing the Ibadan People's
Party. No claim of any kind had
reached us about the party affiliation
of the remaining successful
candidates." Why did the NCNC not
send a list of its candidates for the
poll to the Government PR
Department before that poll? And
why have Dr. Mbu and the others not
published the list of NCNC
candidates to substantiate their
electoral victory claim in over 50
years but merely kept reaping false
claims? The records of the poll
conducted in the West and all over
Nigeria by the colonial
administration are available at the
National Archives and can be
accessed by any honest researcher.
In this matter, it is facts that speak,
not what some political/ethnic
partisan said or did not say.
Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only
in losing the regional election, he
also lost the election to the House of
Representatives held on 10 January
1951 at the House of Assembly,
Ibadan, among NCNC members. The
total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80-
member Western Regional Assembly
was as follows: Action Group 38;
Independent/AG 15; NCNC 24;
Independent/NCNC 3. Three
members of the NCNC who had been
elected to the House changed party
allegiance that day ahead of the
House of Representatives vote. They
were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG
Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from
Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.
They were running for the House of
Representatives and wanted Action
Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and
Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went
back to the NCNC. That was all the
carpet-crossing that took place on 10
January 1952, namely, three at first
to the AG and one back to the NCNC.
From the vote tally, it is clear that the
NCNC and the Independent /NCNC
totalling 27 seats altogether out of
80 seats could not have formed the
Government of Western Nigeria.
Even if the local/divisional parties
had chosen the NCNC, it would still
be some seats short of 41 required to
form the government. The Action
Group won 38 seats; its independent
candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun,
Hassan and Odutola won four seats
making a total of 42 seats. The AG
could have formed the government
without the support of the other
small parties. It did not have to
"bribe" anybody to join it to form the
government. Since politics is a game
of number, only few principled
politicians would not be disposed to
joining the winning party, in this
case, the AG.
Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his
book: "Successful NCNC men who
were not Yoruba were scared away.
Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the
Western House (of) Assembly from a
Lagos constituency decided to resign.
Since membership of the House of
Representatives was by an electoral
college in the regional house, no
NCNC from the West came to the
House of Representatives in Lagos".
This is blatantly false. Zik resigned
because he lost election to the
federal house from the West, while
Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka
Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa-
Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir
Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected
from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever
scared non-Yoruba NCNC people
from the West? Chief Denis
Osadebey succeeded Adegoke
Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the
West and the likes of Humphrey
Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh,
Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi
Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and
GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC
in that Assembly.
As Mme De Stael says: The "search
for the truth is the noblest
occupation of man; its publication is
a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political
entourage have chosen their own
side of history. It remains to be seen
whether or not history will absolve
them. Their contemporary audience
is composed of intelligent people
who will search after the truth
without inheriting the political
prejudice and stereotype of their
lying grand-parents. That is the way
ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest
friend of truth is time; her greatest
enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton

@636rxtr363r or whatever junk of alphabets you identify yourself with, in my penultimate comment above I chose to respond only to the SLS related link you posted as I had already addressed all the other issues you repeated there.

The former Central
Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi,
surprised guests present at the Muson
Centre for the launching of the book of Sir
Olaniwun Ajayi.
WE'RE ALL VICTIMS OF COLONIZATION -
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (In response to Sir
Olaniwun Ajayi's book titled "NIGERIA,
AFRICA'S FAILED ASSET?"

Below is his unedited speech.

“Let me start by saying that I am Fulani
(laughter). My grandfather was an Emir and
therefore I represent all that has been
talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has
written a book. And like all Nigerians of his
generation, he has written in the language
of his generation.
“My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a
Nigerian. The problem with this country is
that in 2009, we speak in the language of
1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the
way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of
my generation speaking in that language.
“Let us go into this issue because there are
so many myths that are being bandied
around. Before colonialism, there was
nothing like Northern Nigeria, Before the
Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the
Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano
regard himself as bakane. The man from
Zaria was bazazzage. The man from Katsina
was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war
with each other. They were Hausas, they
were Muslims, they were killing each other.
“The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko,
Egba. When did they become one? When
did the North become one? You have the
Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person
from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one
kingdom. They now
said it was a Muslim North.
“The Colonialists came, put that together
and said it is now called the Northern
Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our
grand fathers were able to transform to
being Northerners. We have not been able
to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is
ours.
Tell me, how many governors has South
West produced after Awolowo that are role
models of leadership? How many governors
has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe
that can be role models of leadership? How
Many governors in the Niger Delta are role
models of leadership? Tell me. There is no
evidence statistically that any part of this
country has produced good leaders.
You talk about Babangida and the economy.
Who were the people in charge of the
economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae,
Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in
the North?
“We started the banking reform; the first
thing I heard was that in Urobo land, that
there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said
they (ancestors) would not answer. They
said why? I said how many factories did
Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the
ancestors of the Urobo people support her?
“We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is
hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in
1999, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged
election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It
was not. “The problem is: everywhere in this
country, there is one Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba
and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to
get his hands on the pile and how much he
can steal.
Whether it is in the military or in the civilian
government, they sit down, they eat
together. In fact, the constitution says there
must be a minister from every state.
SO, ANYBODY THAT IS STILL PREACHING THAT THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA IS YORUBA OR HAUSA OR FULANI, HE DOES NOT LOVE NIGERIA. (Capital letters mine)
The
problem with Nigeria is that a group of
people from each and every ethnic tribe is
very selfish. The poverty that is found in
Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty
that you find in any part of the South.
The British came for 60 years and Sir Ajayi
talked about few numbers of graduates in
the North (two at independence) . What he
did not say was that there was a
documented policy of the British when they
came that the Northerner should not be
educated. It was documented. It was British
colonial policy. I have the document. I have
published articles on it. That if you educate
the Northerner you will produce progressive
Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in
Egypt and India. So, do not educate them. It
was documented. And you say they love us
(North).
“I have spent the better part of my life to
fight and Dr. (Reuben) Abati knows me. Yes,
my grandfather was an Emir. Why was I in
the pro-democracy movement fighting for
June 12? Is (Moshood) Abiola from Kano ?
Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat
Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?
“There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo
people, good Fulani people, good Nigerians
and there are bad people everywhere. That
is the truth. “Stop talking about dividing
Nigeria because we are not the most
populous country
in the world. We have all the resources that
make it easy to make one united great
Nigeria. It is better if we are united than to
divide it.
“Every time you talk about division, when
you restructure, do you know what will
happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri
will say Agbor, you don’t have oil. When was
the Niger Delta constructed as a political
entity? Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were
fighting the Urobos. Isn’t that what was
happening? Now they have become Niger
Delta because they have found oil. After, it
will be, if you do not have oil in your village
then you cannot share our resources.
“There is no country in the world where
resources are found in everybody’s hamlet.
But people have leaders and they said if you
have this geography and if we are one state,
then we have a responsibility for making
sure that the people who belong to this
country have a good nature.
“So, why don’t you talk about; we don’t have
infrastructure, we don’t have education, we
don’t have health. We are still talking about
Fulani. Is it the Fulani cattle rearer or is
anybody saying there is no poverty among
the Fulani?”, he said.
This is a great message to our generation.
Are we truly ready to develop and unite
Nigeria?"
Now, I hope you took special note of where he said;
"SO, ANYBODY THAT IS STILL PREACHING THAT THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA IS YORUBA OR HAUSA OR FULANI, HE DOES NOT LOVE NIGERIA". (Capital letters mine) The man's tune has changed again just last month. And such an inconsistent man is your standard. Well I am not surprised because Igbos themselves are equally inconsistent. From "GEJ till 2019, One Naija for life" before elections, to "On Biafra we stand" after GEJ lost. Why would such people not be fascinated by SLS? Like attracts like after all. Birds of a feather congregate. Igbos and SLS in Biafra-Arewanistan union of inconsistency. Zik was indeed a "prophet". He saw it that his people and Arewa would always been one and the same in everything including inconsistency.

63xtr63r:
“Before I came to Biafr*, I heard that Biafrans fought like heroes, but after my visit to Biafr*, I can tell you that Heroes fight like Biafrans.”
- John de st jorre, France

@Deadlytrash, let me sound it loud and clear again, "Igbos are not interested in parasites, traitors or genocide conspirators. Igbos cannot afford to share a country with verm1ns and vagabonds parading as Uneme-Nekhua people on NL. The Igbo Nation are not willing to self-destruct with the deluded Uneme-Nekhua people".

Accursed fetish inbred savage of dirt and slavery, you most likely grew up without knowing who sired you. That should be the sole reason you often rave wild like a castrated dog, without regards or manners on NL with your lies and propaganda against the Igbo Nation.

FYI, your wicked propaganda and foolish ranting on NL cannot stop the raging IPOB tsunami movement.

You're too pained that Igbos would sojourn to your poverty-stricken village and prosper while many of your deluded Uneme-Nekhua people are still wallowing in illiteracy, strange diseases, penury, abject poverty and squalor.

Igbos travel to your remote village to take advantage of the visionlessness, docility and gross ineptitude of your docile, parasitic Uneme-Nekhua people. About a century ago the Europeans competed amongst themselves in trooping to Africa.
That's business acumen and economic expansion at work!

Frustrated cretin and rapscallion from a juju-infested enclave, the reason the Chinese, Lebanese, Indians, Americans and Italians troop to other parts of Nigeria is to create opportunities and conquer the land.

It takes a determined and industrious people to leave their immediate environment and venture into a distant land and conquer it. A bunch of parasitic creatures would rather lazy around in their neighbourhood and depend on their parents for their survival. 

We live in a global village that's why you see the Igbos, Chinese, Lebanese, Indians, Americans and Italians journey to Lagos to conquer the land.

You're pained that the Igbos would come into village and out-compete you to your shame and chagrin. And now your unbridled greed led you to sell off your father's lands to the ever industrious Igbos and becoming tenants.

Little wonder many of you leeches rarely believe one can achieve success save by ritual-killings and cannibalism aside the armed robberies, incests and juju prevalent in your enclave.

Be weaned from your parents and try venturing out so you can compete with other people.


My heart-piercing comments must be making you go insane. However, I shall continue releasing befitting rebuttals at full throttle like never before against your shenanigans and unequalled stupidity on NL.

[b]You're not man enough to challenge the marauding herdsmen who maim and kill your kinsmen but you hypocritically and callously post silly comments against Igbos for daring to seek self-determination.

Let me reveal the underlying fears of your masturbations and baseless postulations on NL: the fear of Fulanis plundering your entire land, islamisation, no free crude oil wealth and eventual low economic activities in your land once Biafr* emerges.

The Business Venture of Lord Lugard being supervised by the Islamic Fulani-led fiefdom, maintained by Hausa born-to-rule hegemony and oiled by Yoruba propaganda and lies is moribund already. 


The man who can stand face-to-face with the enemy and boldly air his views is no mean man. He's no coward that had the guts to secceed, not once but twice.
Surely, there are many cowards and traitors in Nigeria; the deluded Uneme-Nekhua people are no exception but the truth remains that Igbo Nation is definitely not one of them.

There is virtually no other ethnic group or region in Nigeria with as much guts as the Igbos, not even those that claimed they had a phantom empire in pre-colonial times.[/b]

NK and the Handcuffs -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEOQnuAM_nU

NK raising his hands in victory -
https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/2-05-2016/5zt_70.gif

NK stood and looked your Hausa-Fulani masters eyeball to eyeball while the trracherous Uneme-Nekhua people hid under their beds. The same miserable beings currently make a living out of his struggle and at the same time senselessly shouting kill Kanu! hang him! Shoot him!

The man whom the inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua people and their cohorts think the only way they might pin him down is by using masquerades to testify against him in court. Now its over 8 months and the confused cretins are still plotting against one man who declared in Nigeria court:

"I would rather remain in detention than subject myself to a trial that I know amounts to perversion of justice." - Nnamdi Kanu, Dec 23, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vYxXAQYKyX0

"Anyday I abandon Biafr* and go to Abuja, hunt me down and kill me" ~ Nnamdi Kalu (RB, March 2015)

And you useless cretin of the inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua dare call such valiant people cowards.

I quite understand your frustrations that the dream and vision of the inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua people of remaining eternal parasites is crumbling owing to the great efforts and followership of one man who commands over 40 million people without money. There is indeed every reason for you bloody, ass-licking slave to be jittery for life.

https://www.nairaland.com/2799715/biafra-kanu-bigger-crowd-puller-than#40980839

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Refer to the paper by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the current Emir of Kano, a Fulani, where he revealed some truths about your treacherous Yoruba people:
"YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA"?
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude. 

The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention...

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https://www.nairaland.com/2221644/formerly-secret-files-nigerian-war-against-biafra-by-mark-curtis
https://markcurtis./2007/02/13/nigeriabiafra-1967-70/

On 26 May the eastern region consultative assembly voted to secede from Nigeria and the following day Gowon declared a state of emergency throughout the country, banned political activity and announced a decree restoring full powers to the FMG. Also announced was a decree dividing the country into twelve states, including six in the north and three in the east.

On 30 May 1967 Biafra declared independence and on 7 July the FMG began operations to defeat it. It lasted until January 1970 as an extremely well-equipped Nigerian federal army of over 85,000 men supplied by Britain, the Soviet Union and few others, took on a volunteer Biafran army, much of whose equipment initially came from captured Nigerian supplies and which only later was able to procure relatively small quantities of arms from outside.
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The background is therefore very complex and it remains far from clear cut as to where the ‘blame’ lay for the failure of peaceful negotiations and the resort to war. It does appear, however, that the FMG did go back on its agreement at Aburi on the extent of regional autonomy it was prepared to offer the easterners. Before they began to back the FMG unequivocally once war began, British officials had previously recognised the legitimacy of some of Ojukwu’s claims. The High British Commissioner in Lagos, Sir Francis Approaching-Bruce, had told Gowon in November 1966, for example, that the September 1966 massacres of the Ibos in the north ‘changed the relationship between the regions and made it impossible for eastern Nigerians to associate with northerners on the same basis as in the past’. The issue was one of basic ‘law and order and physical safety throughout the federation’. He told Gowon that the FMG had to go ‘a considerable distance to meet the views of Colonel Ojukwu’.
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Then there was the wider question of whether it was legitimate for a region to secede and whether Biafra should have been allowed to establish its independence. Again, a lot of complex issues are involved. British officials feared that if Biafra were to secede many other regions in Africa would too, threatening ‘stability’ across the whole of the continent. Most of the great powers, including the US and Soviet Union, shared this view largely for the same reason.

Yet there appears to be no reason why Biafra, with its 15 million people, could not have established a viable, independent state. Biafrans argued that they were a people with a distinctive language and culture, that they were Christian as opposed to the Muslim communities lumped into the Nigeria federal state, which had, after all, been a colonial creation. In fact, Biafra was also one of the most developed regions in Africa with a high density of roads, schools, hospitals and factories. The struggle for an independent state certainly appeared to have the support of the majority of Biafrans, whose sense of nationhood deepened throughout the war as enormous sacrifices were made to contribute to the war effort.

https://www.nairaland.com/2221652/b-formerly-secret-files-nigerian

https://www.nairaland.com/2221675/c-formerly-secret-files-nigerian

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By the interview conducted on Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole, 77, a Nigerian Military Officer of the Yoruba stock, fought on the side of Biafra during the ncivil war, the following lies were exposed:

Ojukwu was kind enough to give safe passage to Northerners and others to join the federal side while Easterners were being slaughtered in the North.

1.) The lie that it was an Igbo coup 

2.) The lie about soldiers starving civilian; it was civilians fed the Biafran troops.

The lies of Unemes and their Yoruba counterparts can't survive for long; they die as soon as they rear their ugly heads.

https://www.nairaland.com/2854914/why-fought-side-ojukwu-biafra

Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole, 77, a Nigerian Military Officer of the Yoruba stock, fought on the side of Biafra during the ncivil war. Before then, he was, because of the first coup 50 years ago, imprisoned in Lagos and in the Enugu but was released by Lt Col Ojukwu.

He wrote his own war account too, entitled “The Reluctant Rebel”, which joined other civil war narratives like ‘The Biafra Story’ (1969) by Frederick Forsyth, ‘Why We Struck’ (1981) by Adewale Ademoyega, ‘Sunset In Biafra’ (1975) by Elechi Amadi, ‘The Nigerian Revolution And the Biafran War’ (1980) by Alexander Madiebo among others.

In this interview with Ademola Adegbamigbe and Femi Anjorin (Idowu Ogunleye snapped the photos), the retired army officer narrated what happened during the first coup, his participation in it and why he, despite being Yoruba, fought on the side of Biafra like other non Igbo officers like Lt Col. Victor Banjo, Major Wale Ademoyega and others.

Q: In what area did you take part in that coup?

A: Arrest, seize facility and others…


Q: You were at a point, according to your book, with Captain Adeleke, another Yoruba soldier, who was he?

A: He was a colleague. He is the one who said he wanted to consult the family and we were friends, we both worked in Apapa before the crisis.

Q: I want you to describe what happened to other Yoruba people or non Igbo who fought on the Biafran side – Lt Col. Victor Banjo, Major Wale Ademoyega, then Major Kaduna Nzeogwu an Igbo from Opanam in Delta?

A: They were detained like myself, and Nzeogwu was detained, that was a common factor.


Q: In the book, you applaud Ojukwu’s performance in Aburi, explain to us what actually happened because there is this argument that he bamboozled Gowon

A: If you listen to the Aburi accord or the proceedings as a whole, you will duff your cap for Ojukwu whether he is a villain or whatever you want to call him, call him. He really dictated the pace of the discussion, he was prepared for it, he kind of put together all the things and if you listen, the moment he started talking, others kept quiet and when he finished, they will say ok ok ok. To give you a full grasp of what the theme was, you need to read the comment of the super perm sec who led us to were we are today.

Q: Was it Philip Asiodu?

A: The group – Asiodu, and the rest. Their recommendations, what they brought back from Aburi was agreed to be implemented but when they came here they tore it into pieces/.

Q: Ok, was after the agreement was signed in Aburi? They came back to Nigeria….

A: To put it in whatsoever you can say political implementation. They desired to analyse it, it was an agreement not suggestion, that’s where our problem sort of started.

If you listen to the Aburi accord or the proceedings as a whole, you will duff your cap for Ojukwu whether he is a villain or whatever you want to call him, call him. He really dictated the pace of the discussion, he was prepared for it, he kind of put together all the things and if you listen, the moment he started talking, others kept quiet and when he finished, they will say ok ok ok. To give you a full grasp of what the theme was, you need to read the comment of the super perm sec who led us to were we are today.

All you cut and pasted above is pure trash meant for the Dustbin. The only part I'll respond to is the claim by SLS that Yorubas are the problem with Nigeria.
If you were not suffering from moronic plague you should have known that the foundation of Nigeria's problem was the born-to-rule mentality of the North by which the North sought to enslave the south and which is why you yourself has been calling them Arewanistan slave masters here. Now a Northerner gave a historical account in which he cut away the period from 1914 to 1960 but just jumped into the middle and started analysing. He omitted the period (1914 - 1960) when his own Northern Oligarchy started laying the foundation for crisis by chanting born-to-rule ... the same accusation you yourself have been making against them here and supporting with you-tube videos, he did not mention how his own Northern brothers started the game of shedding the blood of your own very Igbo people, he did not mention how his own brothers Balewa and Bello commenced executive lawlessness and brigandage by disobeying the Privy Council and installing Akintola against judicial verdict but creating a law that retroactively thus criminally took effect against the verdict...therefore prompting Awolowo to resort to self help in the form of a civilian coup; yet you took that analysis from an Arewanistan as an objective one just because it was anti-Yoruba in title. Very unintelligent of you!
In that speech SLS claimed that Yorubas are Nigeria's problem, but there was nowhere in the speech where he spared a line to condemn his kinsmen for always ironically killing Igbos instead of the Yorubas whom he believes are the problem.
And such is the speech you referenced to substantiate your claim? See how a relatively uneducated Fulani man has scammed you again with all your Aburi Accord Biafra intelligence?
You are too dull to be able to read between the lines.
The same SLS recently contradicted himself last month to be precise. I'll post the excerpts on my next comment.

36xtr36r:
No matter how much you whine, weep and wail on NL Igbos cannot be cajoled or blackmailed to share a country with verm1ns and vagabonds parading as 'One Nigeria' propagandists.

Igbos are comfortable having a separate existence from you.

Yeah! Igbos have never been cajoled or blackmailed to share a country with those they now call vermins and vagabonds. NO! Igbos have always out of their own free will submitted themselves as slaves to vermins and vagabonds to rule and kill them. Another Igbo One-Nigerianist called Ekweremadu has just willingly submitted the Igbos as slaves of Vermin and Vagabond Saraki. Igbos have willingly accepted as their own god a Vermin Fayose which Yorubas cast out from among them. Is Fayose not the current god worshipped daily in Igbo land? You claim Yorubas are inferior to you people but those whom Yorubas cast out are adopted by you people as your gods. Then who is actually superior between you and them? Actions speak louder than words.
Rochas Okorocha is an outcast among Igbos today for nearly the same reason Fayose is an outcast among Yorubas. But that does not make Yorubas adopt Rochas Okorocha as their god the way Igbos have done for Fayose. Igbos are born with self enslavement DNA. You don't need to go and catch them as slaves. They'll come by themselves.

blackprowler:
I'm sure your selection bias made you blind to Kainji and Shiroro dams. I don't expect a Nigerian, let alone a militant sympathiser to have a clue what I'm saying. I'm happy to inform you that you're one of Nigeria's problems

I don't think he is wrong.
The hypocrisy is both ways between Hausas and Igbos.
When the North was enjoying groundnut pyramids boom before oil came they stuck to federalism and resource control so much that immediately Ironsi dismantled federalism they rioted and killed thousands of Igbos and even later killed Ironsi himself, but on getting power back they too just continued with unitary system from where Ironsi stopped.
On the other hand, had the oil discovered in Oloibiri in 1956 were to have been struck at the backyard of Ironsi's father's house in Umuahia, Ironsi would not have tampered with federalism at all on getting to power. In fact he would have quickly strengthened the regions more than he met them.
This is the irony of Nigeria. There is too much hypocrisy.

jpphilips:
Another Igbo man's investment destroyed by the Niger delta saboteurs aka Avengers.

NCTL pipeline is fed crude from OML 24 oil block covering Awoba and Ekulama 1&2 oil fields. Even though AITEO ( Chike Onyejekwe) owns the NCTL pipeline, the crippled oil block is owned by Festus Fadeyi and Felix Amieyeofori .
While Avengers told us 85% of the oil blocks are owned by northerners, so far, southerners are the hardest hit.

Below are the real targets of the Avengers listed by oil blocks crippled so far;

OML 26 (owned by FHN Egbert Imomoh),OML 30 (owned by kola karim), OML34,53,54 (Owned by Ibru) OML40 (owned by Emeka Offor) OML42 (Owned by Ernest Azudialu),OML 18 (owned by Charles odita, financed by, Diamond bank (paschal Dozie), fidelity bank (Peter obi) , OMLs 4, 38 & 41, (owned by ABC Orjiakor) .

So far in this battle, no northerner has been touched, Igbo entrepreneurs who recently invested in these oil blocks that have not recovered their investment funds let alone make profit are the real target of the Avengers, the Northern Gibberish was all hogwash and a huge distraction.
History is repeating itself!!

IGBOS BE WISE!!

Hoping they will see through the smokescreen of Asari Dokubo-Nnamdi Kanu parleying. NDA knows that the ND's real enemies are those who dismantled federalism.

giftedben:
At the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War, in June 1967, Boro was pardoned by the Head of State-Lt-Col. Yakubu Gowon. He later joined forces with the Federal troops. He was however betrayed and killed by a fake Commando from the West. Boro, fought for the cause he had once so bitterly opposed, that is the preservation of the Nigerian nation.

Ken Saro-Wiwa Hated His Friends (Igbo/Biafra/Ojukwu/Ijaw), Looked Up North, West For Friendship, Yet, They Killed Him

fear ndi Mba-mmiri they are betrayers.

This is a deliberate distortion of facts. Boro never later fought for the course he once bitterly opposed. What Boro fought for (Niger Delta Republic) was totally different from what he opposed (Biafra). He declared Niger Delta Republic not really because he wanted to get out of Nigeria but in order to separate from the oppression of the Eastern Region which was the future Biafra.

Ken Saro Wiwa's case was not different. These are the real truths and not the half truths we hear today mixed with lies.

sauceny:
Everything you wrote up here,are blatant lies...I advice you edit em with shame

Those are the deadlytruth which will set you free. Why not just give us that your "truthful" version rather than ask me to edit? What exactly is the lie in the comment? Was the "One Nigeria" slogan not an invention of Zik? It is there on you-tube where Zik said it with his own mouth that the "One-Nigeria" slogan was invented by him. Go to you-tube and type in "Zik and One Nigeria slogan" and you'll see the video. Then watch it and come back here to recant your accusation with shame.