₦airaland Forum

onila: Abacha-my best-he protected the bakassi

OBJ-worst-he dashed away our bakassi peninsular

OBJ gave away bakassi? Britain had already given away bakassi before OBJ was born

Pls whr is Diamond Estate?

IGBO-SON:
@Naptu: you've only succeeded in justifying evil and injustice, giving the lame excuse that because it happens in other countries it can and should happen in Nigeria. I understand your points raised, but my question was -regardless of what happens in other countries- why should we condone murder and injustice giving the excuse of 'power' play' and 'unwritten rules'?......and before you talk of Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu; though they may or may not have had good intentions, i also see what they did as evil also, and would have expected them to have been given a fair trial and paid for their crimes; you do the crime.....you do the time!

I can reel off many other practices that happen in other countries that don't happen in Nigeria, but of course that would go over your head because it wouldn't benefit your ethnicity or agenda. Fact of the matter is one cannot analyse and discuss Nigerian politics from the 60's to date without discussing the 'elephant in the room' which is ethnicity.

All those that killed in the name of whatever, will answer to a higher being and a higher set of rules on the day of reckoning!

@igbo-son, we are still back to the tribal issue, If Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu had good intentions? Yes i think they did by killing defenceless people who were not from their ethnic group. The reason Ifeajuna had when he was running to Michael Okpara after the coup had failed and he still killed Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (how callous). The same reason Nzeogwu had when he went to house of Ahmadu Bello. Yorubas should make no mistake about it, THEY WOULD HAVE KILLED CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO IF HE WAS NOT IN JAIL. The whole story about handing over power to Awolowo is tales by moonlight, an after thought when the coup had failed to draw up sympathy. The main reason the ibo officers killed the four most senior northern officers (Maimalari, Kur Mohammed, Largema & Pam) and the most senior yoruba officers (Samuel Ademulegun & Ralph Shodeinde) while they left Aguiyi Ironsi the most senior ibo officer. The main reason the ibo officers killed the Prime Minister (Tafawa Balewa) and the northern premier (Ahmadu Bello) because they were hausas not because they were corrupt. The main reason, they killed the premier of the western region (Ladoke Akintola) while they ran to the eastern region premier, Dr. Michael Okpara who should have killed too and tipped off the president (Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe) just because they were ibos.

Major Ifeajuna arrested and killed Tafawa Balewa, Major Danjuma arrested and did no kill Aguiyi Ironsi. Even Nzeogwu who killed Sir Ahmadu Bello was given full military burial and his tomb is still at the military cemetery in Kaduna.

Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu & Co were never punished. So why punish Danjuma?

IGBO-SON:
Dimka was executed for assassinating a Head of State, but Theophilus Danjuma did the same thing and is not only still alive, but is a celebrated elder statesman and stinking rich to boot!......am i missing something?

When Emmanuel Ifeajuna murdered the Prime Minister (Abubakar Tafawa Balewa) and ran to the premier of the eastern region (Dr. Michael Okpara) who was meant to be killed too, your people did not complain. When Chukwuma Nzeogwu murdered the premier of the Northern Region, did igbo-son complain? I forgot the people killed were not ibo but when Danjuma arrested Aguiyi Ironsi(He did not murder him) your people have being complain since 1966

When Adaka Boro declared Niger Delta Republic what did the ibo Head of State (Aguiyi Ironsi) and military governor of the eastern region (Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu)do? When Biafra invaded the Midwest it was liberation but when the Federal Forces wanted to liberate the non-ibos in Biafra it is genocide? Your people (Chinua Achebe) cry, whine and whinge about the civil war.

Kindly leave Theophilus Danjuma alone to enjoy his life

Olosho 101:Neva take an ashi 2 where u live. if u dont have money 4 hotel room, free am

Where is Awoyaya?

Fogman: Remember back in the days, when this delicacy is a morning ritual.

Shite go dey hold u wella 4 bus

Congratulations to Adeboye. Only in naija

orgy: By the extreme right is Kaduna Nzeogwu.

Are you sure?

sheymoni: All I can say is that, these two men are greedy & selfish. they sang all the songs & there's nothing left to sing 4 the present artists apart 4rm sangalo,fonkasibe, e dey pain make I comot am e.t.c.

Laugh wan kill me but seriously what are you high on?

I prefer Ebenezer Obey but i dont subscribe to the fact that one is better than the other. They are both greats in their own rights.

nolio: Alomo bitters, sabrina, yahuu

Local boi. lol

eldoradoxx: Don't you think Ojukwu was actually right? Don't you think that he saw the falsehood upon which Nigeria was built too early to have wanted to go his way with his people? Don't you think that the various regions that make up Nigeria would have advanced better than they are now had Ojukwu succeeded in forcing Arewa, Oduduwa and Biafra to exist as separate Republics ? Has the hatred, ethnicity, tribalism, extremist religious views that set Nigeria ablaze in first republic and thus caused the first military coup and civil war have stopped now? Do you love any tribe or religion other than yours now? Are we truly united as on nation which Ojukwu never pretended that we were ? I am from South South, my late father and uncles fought against Biafra, but how many of them alive are happy the way Nigeria is today? Let me ask again, don't you think that Ojukwu was actually right but was resisted by those who profit from our unity without caring if this nation is granding to halt.

6. So Ojukwu was right to have killed Agbam, Alale, Banjo and Ifeajuna because Nigeria was built on falsehood?

7. So Ojukwu was right to have killed innocent children when he wanted to abandon Biafra dressed like a woman?

8. So Ojukwu was right to have starved his people who died of starvation because he was asking for landing rights from humanitarian orgs. who brought food for his pple because they needed to endure for biafra? Where his children hungry in biafra? i need an answer please

9. So Ojukwu was right to have killed expariate staff of eni agip because there was so much hatred, tribalism in Nigeria.

10. So Ojukwu was right to have locked up the civillians and officers who disagreed with him over biafra because there were diverse religions in Nigeria?

11. When in February 1966, Adaka Boro wanted his people out of the Eastern Region and created Niger Delta Republic. What did Aguiyi Ironsi and Emeka Ojukwu do?

Komedy: are yu a child of Africa?

Definitely not a child of Biafra. I would never share Ojukwu's ambition, greed, ignorance and ego that led the loss of lives of his people. History would never forgive him no matter the propaganda of Achebe ignorance of some people

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Aderupoko2: But what is 'agbari Ojukwu'?

Ojukwu, said Stephan, was a supporter of the 15 January 1966 coup, the first in the country’s history. “He sympathised with the January 1966 plot makers, but was careful enough to avoid any overplayed attachment to them. Ojukwu told me later that it had been him who had requested General (Aguiyi) Ironsi to crush the coup and that he had stopped the General from being arrested.”


Ojukwu during Biafra war

On 8 April 1967 in Enugu, while meeting with Suzanne Cronje, author of The World and Nigeria: The Diplomatic History of the Biafran War, 1967-1970, Ojukwu said: “On January 15, I was the one who advised Ironsi to stand as the head of the army, call for support and then organise the various units that would immediately support, so that the rebels, who were bound to be few and already committed, would suddenly find that the whole thing was phasing away.”

For this support, Ironsi rewarded Ojukwu with an appointment as governor, reckoned Stephan. “Obviously on the grounds of thankful feelings, the General (Ironsi) made him Military Governor of the Eastern provinces. I know Ojukwu as a man of more than average intelligence, extraordinary versatility, high eloquence and remarkable personal charm. But there are two characteristics in that man that are not realised by many people for a long time: his greed for power and his ability to charm and enchant the masses: a demagogue,” Stephan told the German people in the broadcast.

A similarly unflattering verdict on Ojukwu’s personality was delivered by Chief Richard Akinjide, the man who later became Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation.

A US document of 11 September 1969 quoted Akinjide as telling Mr. Strong, American consul in Ibadan, that “he (Ojukwu) suffers from Hitler-like megalomania”.

Akinjide explained to Strong that as a child, Ojukwu was rejected because his father strongly denied that he was solely responsible for the pregnancy that led to him, arguing that other mysterious force or forces may have been at work as well. His mother, claimed Akinjide, was a mistress his multimillionaire father, Sir Louis Ojukwu, acquired on one of his business trips to the North. Being a devout Catholic, Sir Louis refused to keep the boy in his house in Lagos, preferring to send him back to the North, where he was born and where his mother made a living as a trader. Ojukwu, like Nnamdi Azikiwe, was born in Zungeru, in the present day Niger State.

As the boy grew up, friends of the business mogul prevailed on him to recognise him as a son. According to Akinjide, Sir Loius agreed to do so, but the boy became something of an embarrassment to him, the reason for which he sent him to school in England, where he made it into Oxford University.

Akinjide, a member of the Nigerian National Democratic Party, NNDP and federal minister in the First Republic, said: “When Ojukwu returned to Nigeria, he tried to get a job with the Nigerian Tobacco Company, NTC, but was turned down.” Akinjide speculated on how Nigerian history might have panned out if NTC had given Ojukwu a job. “Instead, he drifted into the civil service and was given a post as Assistant District Officer at a bush post in the East. He was unhappy in this position,” claimed Akinjide, because he felt his talents undervalued.

Seeking a surer road to power and influence, he joined the army. And because of the top-tier education he had acquired in England, he was soon sent to the elite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK. Akinjide believed Ojukwu’s career and personality could be explained as an endless effort to gain the recognition he was denied early in life and to show his father and the society that rejected him how wrong they were. “Ojukwu was subconsciously seeking revenge for his early rejection. A man so driven is not subject to rational dissuasion from the course on which he has set himself,” he told Strong.

In another document dated 19 September1969 and titled Psyching Out Ojukwu, Strong narrated the story he and Colonel Adeyinka Adebayo, Military Governor of Western State, were told over lunch by Nnamdi Azikiwe. Azikiwe said the reason he was hated by Ojukwu was because “at one point, he (Azikiwe) had settled a dispute between Ojukwu and his father, which had already reached the proportion where Ojukwu had threatened to shoot his father.” Azikiwe told the private gathering that Ojukwu’s father was a very good friend of his and he prevailed on Ojukwu not to carry out his threat. Since then, Azikiwe said, Ojukwu had been very unfriendly towards him.

According to Chief N.U. Akpan, Ojukwu’s secretary before and during the war, the first orders Ojukwu gave when he resumed as military governor on 19 January 1966 were to “remove Azikiwe as the Chancellor of University of Nsukka, cut off all incomes accruing to him from his properties in Nsukka and order African Continental Bank to recover forthwith all overdrafts or loans outstanding against Azikiwe or any companies and business establishments with which he might have been associated”. Azikiwe told the American consul: “Perhaps, I offended him by preventing him from shooting his father.”

Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s assessment of the Biafran leader was not very dissimilar to Akinjide’s view of him as a man who sought to control everything around him. Reviewing his own efforts, undertaken at considerable personal risk to find an accommodation with Ojukwu before he declared the secession in May 1967, Awolowo told US Ambassador Elbert Matthews on 24 August 1967 in Lagos that he was convinced it was impossible to negotiate with Ojukwu, who was seeking to bring the whole of southern Nigeria under his control. He described Ojukwu as being committed to conquest, not secession. According to the Periodic Intelligence Note complied on the Nigerian situation by Thomas L. Hughes, Director of Intelligence and Research, submitted to US Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, the “chief target” of Ojukwu’s “seizure of Midwest” was the Yoruba. “Should this large tribe, numbering eight million or more, choose to join Ojukwu in a move to oust northerners from southern Nigeria, the rump Nigerian federation would come apart…The Yorubas, riven by past divisions and in no mood to pull Ojukwu’s chestnuts out of the fire (rescue Ojukwu), are undecided. They have tended to side with the Gowon government ever since their principal spokesman, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, agreed to join it last June. At the same time, the fear of northern domination remains strong…Awolowo rallied towards the Federation when Gowon, himself a northerner, showed he meant to break up the once monolithic North by decreeing several newstates there,” the US intelligence estimate stated.

Culled from American Secrets Files on Ojukwu[/b]

Komedy: my friend shut that thing yu call mouth.shut up!.

I didnt type what i wrote with my mouth. When will you people be liberated from this Ojukwu?

Shepe and Paraga

Our Yansh: 1. Yorubas(Bluetooth, Dayokanu, Eko Ile etc) on Nairaland won't allow Ojukwu rest in peace..

2. APGA chieftains will always call him to come and settle their quarrels, so how can he rest??

3. His wife and children wake him up every week to come and share the properties he left...

4. MASSOB wakes him up every now and then to save them from the bullets of our gallant soldiers.

5. Rochas sent thugs to demolish his library abi na grave...

Please when will this man be allowed to start resting??

The evil that men do live after them and their is no resting place for the wicked. You forgot to add;

6. Agbam, Alale, Banjo and Ifeajuna (not really) will never allow him rest in peace afterall he too cowardly abandoned enugu.

7. The children who he killed while running away to Cote D'voire will never allow him rest in peace.

8. The people who died of starvation because he was asking for landing rights from humanitarian orgs. who brought food for his pple.

9. The expariate staff of eni agip who he killed in biafra would not allow him rest (peace is asking for too much.

10. All the civillians and officers who he locked in prison for not supporting his delusional thoughts when leading his people on their suicidal expedition (while he ran away with own children)

Our Yansh: 1. Yorubas(Bluetooth, Dayokanu, Eko Ile etc) on Nairaland won't allow Ojukwu rest in peace..

2. APGA chieftains will always call him to come and settle their quarrels, so how can he rest??

3. His wife and children wake him up every week to come and share the properties he left...

4. MASSOB wakes him up every now and then to save them from the bullets of our gallant soldiers.

5. Rochas sent thugs to demolish his library abi na grave...

Please when will this man be allowed to start resting??

The evil that men do live after them and their is no resting place for the wicked. You forgot to add;

6. Agbam, Alale, Banjo and Ifeajuna (not really) will never allow him rest in peace afterall he too cowardly abandoned enugu.

7. The children who he killed while running away to Cote D'voire will never allow him rest in peace.

8. The people who died of starvation because he was asking for landing rights from humanitarian orgs. who brought food for his pple.

9. The expariate staff of eni agip who he killed in biafra would not allow him rest (peace is asking for too much.

10. All the civillians and officers who he locked in prison for not supporting his delusional thoughts when leading his people on their suicidal expedition (while he ran away with own children)

In the 21st century? SMH

2 short men wiv bah

Pptyconcession: some people dont just mind their own business, just because the forum is free, they just waste their precious time posting rubbish on here. I dont know what some people think of others, some assholes.

What he was only saying that its not fair you collect money from the landlord and from the tennat too. 10% is fair enough

Boko Haram is not about islam for your information. Its all politics and i think the FG has set a bad precedence by granting amnesty to Niger Deltan militants. The niger deltan militants are now multi billionaires

Lemar, time 2 grow