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I do not give a ratarse if Middle Belt is real or imaginary. It does not constitute an inch of space in my daily political stream of thoughts.

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This is another misplaced finger pointing exercise. Nairaland did not make anybody a bigot. If a person claims to be bigoted in any way or shape, I guess Nigeria is the reason for such endeavor. Everything about Nigeria, from food, language, clothes, quota system, federal character, economic localization, market, religion, roads to citing of schools is tribally determined.

It is shamefully disingenuous and morally condescending for any Nigerian to point out Nairaland as the source of his or her bigotry.

Rudolf Okonkwo should leverage his position as columnist to spur Ndigbo to start training in clandestine warfare and handling of assorted assault weapons. The preaching of sermon of unity among southerners in Nigeria is a complete waste of time. There is no doubt most parts of Nigeria have perfected in handling of some of the weapons. Boko Haram is a typical example.

^^^^^ I hardly bring my humble self to engage in war of words with nincompoop such as you. From the vote tally, 11 persons have indicated they saw or participated in the war. If you are not a drooling maggot, you would have, at least, insinuated that DEDE 1 is among the eleven-wise who voted they saw or took part in fighting the war.

Majority of southerners are slimy, conniving, delusional, self-denial and idiotic artists. I am really amazed there are southerners who still think 1966 pogrom in northern region of Nigeria was limited to easterners and Igbo.

The 1966 pogrom affected every southerner as it is today’s Boko Haram north however the easterners and Igbo decided to say “enough is enough”.

Kc3000:
@Dede1, I would say that with the shortage of manpower and weapons, especially, the size of a Division in Biafra, might not have been similar to what you would find in a standard Army. I would not be surprised if a Brigade consisted of 500 men, given the circumstances in Biafra. I believe Nowa Omoigui alluded to this possibility in his narrative of the tussle for Owerri between Biafran and Nigerian forces. Besides, conventional military doctrine suggests that one engages an enemy force with a larger force, whenever possible, and this would even be more of a necessity with an Army that was not nearly as well equiped as the enemy, as was the case in Biafra. My point is that engaging a Brigade with an entire Divison, in normal circumstances would be excessive and cumbersome, but in this situation that might not be the case. Gen. Madiebo might be right in his recollection.

Bros granted there were shortages of manpower and materials, no reasonable commander will deploy entire division to halt a brigade meant to protect the flank of the main force. I still can not fathom the rational behind the nonsensical insinuation that a sector commander and GOC of 14th Division had to commit the entire unit readied to halt 3MCDO thrust to Orlu through Owerri just to repel a decoy such as 14th Brigade. The shortages of man power were noticed on both sides but more inimical on Biafran side than Nigerians. For example, certain intelligence provided to the Biafrans indicated some Brigades on Nigerian side consisted of 3 battalions or less.

Again, in the Owerri Theater of the war, 14th Division under Ogbogu Kalu was tasked to halt advances of 3MCDO toward Orlu and recapture of Owerri. I must state categorically that 14th Div under Ogbugo Kalu did not accomplish any of the tasks. Ogbugo Kalu and 14th Div were headquartered at Atta while “S” Div under Onwuatuegwu leapfrogged to headquarter at Emeke-Ukwu. Along Owerri-Okigwe road, it was 67 and 68 Brigades of “S” Div at Akabo and Emi, five to 10 miles ahead of 14th Div, under Lt Col Okoi and Major Onwuka respectively halted the advances of 3MCDO which led to the reducing of the 3MCDO as an ineffective fighting force.

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Madness in creativity if the alleged thread is remotely true. Not only the house built of plastic bottles a fire hazard, the houses built of glass bottles are explosion hazard as bottles are not good resistant to either tension and compression forces. Northern region with its issue of madness knows no boundary.

abagoro:
I miss your point.Are you implying that all Igbos met one day and decided that they wanted to wage war against Nigeria?I told my story from the point of view of my Grandfather who is alive till this day.He went to war to defend his people and not to conquer other people.To him the war wasn't lost because Igbo survived.

Starting from the genocide in the North down to Asaba and even Benin, the aim of that war was to wipe out the Igbo race.

Bros, Nigeria is what it is. Most people treat Nigeria/Biafra civil war with skewed interest. Biafra did not declare war on Nigeria or start even “police action” against Nigeria yet moronic imbeciles on NL would like to create a phrase that never existed such as “war of secession”.

Why should any group of people start a war because the group wanted to secede? Biafran issue was not a case of fighting for independence from a colonial master. Biafra fought to survive the uncalled military onslaught against it by Nigeria.

Katsumoto:
You are a funny chap. How do you know I am a civilian? We are guessing now right??

So in wars, each side selects a formation that is equal to the other side and then engage each other? A brigade can only engage a brigade and a battalion can only engage a battalion?? What a ludicrous suggestion. What is on record is that the Biafran formation under Kalu re-captured Owerri. That is also the view of the Biafran commander, Madiebo, but as always, everyone is wrong except Dede1.

BTW, anyone reading your posts would conclude that the Biafran formations were of similar strengths to their Nigerian counterparts. We know that to be false; the Nigerian side had more men and more equipment. So a Nigerian battalion could have been better resourced than a Biafran Brigade. I am not kidding and you know it. BTW, here are other links that states that Owerri was captured by Kalu.

Medical camps for care of Biafran children are established in the Ivory Coast run by doctors of New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and Ivory Coast Red Cross. (April 1969)

Biafra recaptures Owerri using its 14th Division under Col. Ogbugo Kalu. (April 1969)

103a. Col. Ogbugo Kalu and Biafran Information Commissioner, Ifegwu Eke, address 6 foreign jounalists in Owerri to counter Nigerian denial of its recapture (April 1969)
http://community.vanguardngr.com/forum/topics/the-untold-story-of

This is a pdf newspaper report from 1969 Dede1
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SiteMap/FreePdfPreview.aspx?img=100276867 .

You could be a commanding general however I would question the wisdom of your command if you deploy entire division to halt a flanking Brigade. In fact, 14 and 17 Brigades of 3MCDO on the flank of Utuk’s 16th were harassed by 29th Battalion of 68 brigade, BOFF and elements of 8th Commando under Major Stainer.

As for Ogbogu Kalu addressing media after the recapture Owerri, I say it was in accordance with military parlance since he was the sector commander and the highest Biafran military officer within Owerri Theater of the war.

I have tried to give you the benefit of doubt as a veteran but some of your postulations on military matters while debating on NL leave me a doubter.

Katsumoto:


I knew you would fall for the bait.
Firstly, you are being pedantic with regards to army formations. He referred to a brigade as a battalion and he got the location of a brigade wrong!!! So therefore, his book should be discounted?? In any case, who are we to believe? The great Dede1 from NL or Major General Alexander Madiebo, General Officer Commanding Biafran Army? Well I choose to believe Madiebo and other writers; Or is Nowa Omiogui Madiebo's son or relative? Ogbogu Kalu was in charge of forces at the battle of Owerri. See below

'After the Port Harcourt debacle, [b]Kalu [/b]led the 63 Brigade of the 11 Division under Colonel Amadi and staged a successful assault crossing of the River Niger. He slipped behind 2 Division lines and temporarily harassed Asaba, Ogwashi-Uku and even Ibusa, all in the Midwest.  The significance of this move was that it was the first return of Biafran units to the Midwest since they were evicted in October 1967.  Unsurprisingly, the incursion was not significantly publicized on the federal side.

In September 1968, as elements of the 3MCDO were linking Aba to Owerri during the opening phases of Operation OAU, Ojukwu relieved then 14 Division Commander, Colonel Nwajei and placed Colonel Kalu in charge – with the initial task of defending Mbaise against the federal 14th Brigade.   Although unfairly needled by Ojukwu about his problems at Port Harcourt, he subsequently led the Biafran double envelopment of the federal 16th Brigade at Owerri, which – under Madiebo’s supervision - he recaptured in April 1969.  As a result, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier.

Brigadier Kalu was still in command of the 14 Division when Owerri was taken back, this time, finally, in January 1970, during ‘Operation Tail-Wind’, the final federal offensive of the war. He was among the officers who accompanied Biafran Major General Phillip Effiong to Amichi, and later Owerri for the military surrender to Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo in the field after the broadcast of January 12, 1970.'

http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui33.htm

Secondly, whose account do you really like? Is it Achuzia's Requiem Biafra or Njoku's 'A Tragedy Without Heroes'? You discount and attempt to discredit every book or literature out there just because they don't fit with 'your view. I suspect that you are trying to discredit Madiebo because he didn't paint Ojukwu in good light in his book. 

'As Isu and Nkwerre began to evacuate, I moved down to Nnewi to see the Head of State once more and brief him on the situation. At last and for the first time during the war, he appeared terrified,  He wondered if we had not left our departure rather too late and if we would still make it. He advised me to come to the airport with my full escorts because he had been reliably informed that certain people were planning to stop us leaving Biafra. For that reason I went to the airport with more escorts than I ever used throughout the war. At that stage, I was no longer sure of our “peace mission”; my doubts had been confirmed and I realised that we were escaping Biafra for good.

By 2000 hours, the threat to Uli Airport was such that no one was sure it could be used again. While alternative arrangements were being made for a possible use of Uga Airport, the Biafra Air Force confirmed that Uli could still be used.

As a precautionary measure, General Ojukwu travelled incognito (like a sexy maiden with his full beard,  . . .lol) in a Peugeot 403 car to the Airport while someone else who could pass for him in darkness, travelled in his official car. Ojukwu’s Peugeot was parked in a nearby jungle for over five hours until the plane was ready to take off at 0300 hours on the 11th of January.'

Source: The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran war. By General Alexander A. Madiebo. pp. 372-373.

You attempt to obfuscate readers by presenting information that is not relevant in an attempt to seem more knowledgeable than others. What has Atumaka or where he hailed from or the incident between Onwuategwu and Achuzia got to do with the point you were trying to make?

I am not surprised you have the audacity to accuse me of being pedantic on the account of referring to a Brigade as Battalion and at the same time stating you had better believe Madiebo than "the great Dede1 from NL".

Of course, Madiebo was the commander of Biafran army and good reason he should be held responsible for such fallacy. I would not have bothered if an idle civilian such as you committed such blunder.

I am not discounting that Ogbogu Kalu was the commander of 14th Div and had been tasked to stop 3MCDO from the capture of Owerri and its surrounding communities. However, the task was never met by 14th Div under Ogbogu Kalu. Again anybody who knew the strength of military formation will frown at the wisdom of deploying a Division against a mere 14th Brigade of 3MCDO as the bolded comment in your post indicated. 

With the serious push by the elements of 3MCDO, mainly 17, 13, 16 and 15 Brigades, to capture Owerri and its surrounding communities, in fact, Owerri had been captured, “S” Division with 52, 63, 68 and 60 Brigades along with 8th Commando Unit were drafted to leapfrog 14th Div in order to halt the advance of the Nigerian vandals.  By 1969, should I say that Owerri was recaptured and 3MCDO completely disorganized.

Katsumoto:
What research are you referring to? You discount every piece of literature out there. You have never used a book or link to support your position; not even the books written by Uwechue, Afigbo, Madiebo, etc. So I am a bit curious as to what researcch you are referring to. But you expect everyone to accept your words as gospel. In any case, each to his own.

I have nothing against research works but frown at inaccuracies and blatant falsehood imbedded in such works especially when it is done to satisfy a certain interest. For example, Madiebo’s book you have profoundly quoted had instances of inaccuracies. The case in point was the reference he made in certain chapters referring 68 brigade of “S” Division as a battalion. Henceforth, every other write-up has referred to 68 as battalion.

Also, there was an issue that happened between Achuzie and Onwuatuegwu in Akabo, the headquarters of the 68 brigade and also served as the “S” Div’s HQ. In fact, it was OP briefing and many other field commanders were in attendance. Madiebo, in his book, painted 14th Div under Ogbugo Kalu which was headquartered in Atta good five miles behind “S” Div as the main expeditionary force delegated to recapture Owerri.

At time of the OP briefing, Nigerian vandals were in Oji and threatening to cross Umuiyi Bridge into Akabo and capturing entire Mbaise/Mbaitolu/Ikeduru axis. It was unfortunate that Major TI Atumaka commander of 68 brigade who hailed from Ubomiri, Mbaitolu LGA died during the operation to recapture Owerri.

He shall ever be remembered for the gallantry and bravery efforts he displayed while making sure 3MCDO and 16th brigade under Adekunle and Utuk respectively beat a hasty retreat from Owerri.

CyberG:
A small rat like you only understand being crushed in the head. So, since you know nothing about the WAR, never even saw a kitchen knife, run along and open your own thread. Every onlooker can see you are a pretentious club-footed efuufulele using tribalism as a cover for your failures. I don't care for whatever crap sits on your table, nothing is in your old, flat and balding empty head. So, no combat experience, not even Aluta, talk less of the war, you are out of your depths dummy and this is way out of your pay grade. If you weren't a little rat, I would gladly put you to shame in real life but I ain't got your time - pretender.

You fall into the strata of Nigerians who are inherently idiotic and consistently display their mental feebleness in debates. By the way, I do not give a ratarse if you and family lived in a backwater GRA as in the case of Nigeria because the country is a glorified jungle already. As one poster had referred your nonsensical post as “Straight from the gutter”, I must add you are equally straight from gutter.

It is a complete waste of time for any human being to attempt a debate with a marooned dunce such as you who is piloted by a psychotic skull and can not outdebate an Alzheimer patient. A bloody dimwit, tribal irredentist and loudmouthed son of bit,ch  who had idiotically claimed to have developed special set of eyes able to discern a class of pistol at night. What a ninny.

I suggest you donate your drug ridden body to the authorities so that your wonderful set of eyes could be subjected to further experiments with hope to discarding night vision goggle currently used by soldiers from advanced countries, olodo.

CyberG:
Odenson (Dede1) ==> You must be retarde.d for your useless and valueless posts on this thread! Have you answered the question, NO and you know at your old age, you are more than a fool!? I don't like to talk like this but you're clearly stoking the embers of insult and much as I try to restrain myself, you have no brains to see that - what a lilliputian!

Now to your useless comments, so others can see you are a REAL dumbhead: My father towers above everyone in your lineage and seeing you can't even match the achievement of the best of your clan who you claimed was lost in battle, how dare your useless man talk about someone you don't know and can not look him in the face and none in your lineage could not look him in the face if he stood? Check: you are a big fool! Don't let me insult your elderly ones who had more honor than you useless, lazy piece of trash - sore loser!

I know you had no privilege in life so you are mad when I told you just a little thing - it makes you head explode!? My age is none of your business and except you have evidence to controvert that the event I described did not happen, then STFU! But obviously you are a fool for your forget I have a living witness to what I have described. Again, if you ever fought in any war (which is extremely doubtful from your juvenile and silly posts), you would recognize almost any gun even in darkness. If common sense does not make you realize that a gun pointed right at your head is close enough to be seen in any kind of light, then you have no use to humanity and you should just keel over now and die an inglorious, unsung and shameful death! The Browning was officially retired by the US Forces in 1985 so talking about 1911 make it seem like an old weapon and so improbable that I ever saw or touched it? I think alzheimers is already eating away your remaining brain cells. For your information, I have played with different weapons including AK-47, pistols, assault rifles, etc because guards watched the house morning, noon, overnight, in shifts in our own house, GRA, or wherever we were! So, you think they were useless efufuleles (talk less of efulefu) like you blowing hot wind and did not play with "ogas" pikin? Will someone like you even have a mouth to speak in that situation talk less of this your rabid ramblings in the anonymity of the internet?

You cannot answer the question meaning either you ran away when your mates were manning-up fighting and can't lie otherwise Amadioha will slaughter you on that useless computer or you were a pathetic infant who is still pissed like someone stole your candy! Fela called your type "BONN" - doubt if you can figure that out without Google or asking around!

Final word: don't derail the thread. I don't care for your existence. If you didn't fight, your contributions are useless by just pretending to be something when you are not. Are you club footed like Goebbels, and feel so inferior, you think mouthing off tribal BS will get you what you couldn't earn with your own sweat? Back off NOW!

A mere glance at the above incoherent and gibberish drivel you posted will inform an onlooker you are an empty barrel that makes the most noise. There is no amount of insults from your putrid mouth that could cover idiocy. I have trained with some individauls at night and in most case wearing night vision goggle, yet nobody can resourcefully discern the type of blued auto-pistol an assailant had.
No insult intended I do not have any respect for Nigerian armed forces talk less their doctrine. I as write the post, 92FS sits on my table. 

Katsumoto:
Bingo, you finally get it.
Is that not what I have been telling you all this while? I have always believed that you knew this but always sought to reduce that episode to your own personal experiences when there is a wealth of knowledge out there.

Pal, do not jump the gun already because you do not know if I fought in the Nigeria/Biafra war and also performed in-depth research on the aforementioned war. Please do not stir hornet nest yet because I am one dude who had worn double hat.

CyberG:
@Afam. . .that is very true! But I will tell you honestly that I am surprised at your candour regarding this topic!

I have two experiences which I have gotten away from; which anyone will pray they never experienced. One was an armed robbery attack in Kogi State while going to Abuja. Do you know that a military guy (in his uniform) was in the vehicle at that time and guess what? He opened the door while the vehicle was still in motion and jumped out! If I remember well, I think he lost his belt or so in haste. Our get-away was frantic and only what you would see in an American movie!

The second one was having a pistol pointed at my head while escorting my cousin home at night by an armed robber - who claimed he was a cop! My cousin (a lady) is all I could think about and getting her to safety was the only thought in my head through this ordeal. I know that pistol very well, it was a Browning .45 Caliber - my dad had a very similar pistol and I have played with it and many other guns as his guards played with us as kids and let us play with the guns - without ammo. So, these are some of my real life experiences - not even war or close to it! Can anyone make a claim or attack another based on stories they were told, which true as it may, is heavily biased?

You are as goofy as hell. We know the slimy trolls by what they write. At night and yet you were able to discern the pistol pointed at your head by an armed robber was Browning 1911. I can not speculate how old you were when your father’s aides allowed you to play with such a gun.

In fact, I do not know what to believe in these craps involving your father as service man and Browning 1911. I can not recall when Nigeria started issuing 1911 as side arms to soldiers. Maybe your father was a member of foreign armed forces. Again, there is no soldiers of advanced countries that would allow a kid to play around with Browning 1911.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=797390.msg9489449#msg9489449 date=1320526622]You sounded like you witnessed it but vowed to re-write history by bringing up conjectures every now and then.btw,you are yet to tell me why you hate awo,adekunle and obj aside fighting against biafara ![/quote]You are getting impressive lately. They were Nigeria/Biafra war opponents.

Abagworo:
[b]Posters logic is funny.[/b]The truth is that some of us have 1st hand info on that war.My father fought as a child soldier while my Grand father fought as a full soldier.The history from my family's point of view is what I believe.Most Igbos fought that war as war of survival and not war of secession as being claimed by many reports I have come across.

Bros, it is very funny and naïve indeed.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=797390.msg9488880#msg9488880 date=1320520903]Dede1 witnessed it and that is why he despised Awolowo,Adekunle and Obasanjo so much ![/quote]If I inform you that I saw the war, participated and surrounded, it will not change anything about how you and poster of the thread think about Nigeria/Biafra civil war.

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It is unfortunate you have such a downcast mindset about the tales of the war. Let me remind you that rarely do warriors narrate full detail accounts of battles during the war. The reason is simple because one soldier can not participate in all the battles within all the sectors at the same time. In fact only the sector commanders and personals at HQ knew as much about the war as reporters.

If anybody really wants to know the gist of the war, he or she must remain at the rears with imbedded news hunters. I can understand why your father or uncle does not want to talk about war with you because their knowledge of battles is limited to ones they participated. In fact, researchers could tell more detailed stories about war than field commanders.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=796866.msg9488647#msg9488647 date=1320518400]That is what i'm saying.outside the fact that awo,obj and adekunle killed biafara dream,is there any other reason why you hate them so much ?[/quote]Believe you me, all the three stooges you named can not make my cup of coffee.

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@Dede1:
Your PARENTS, no insults intended,just ask them.
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LOL @Dede 1,
You sound like one of those foolish igbo boys raised outside Nigeria whose parents pumped in lies and romanticized about 'the legend of Biafra'. Get this into your head,the igbos were TOTALLY defeated during the civil war and would have been 'genocided' if Gowon was not a christian or if the international community had looked away. Most of the 2 million Igbos who died during the war,died of starvation and diseases. Biafran soldiers also murdered many fellow Biafrans,especially the Lagos returnees and intellectuals who didnt buy into the Biafran cause. Land disputes were solved with Biafran soldiers taking sides and killing the other party. Biafran soldiers r^aped many fellow Biafran women, and boys. I'm telling u all this cos my folks lived in Biafra and till today they vow that if any civil war ever breaks out in Nigeria,they'ld rather claim refugee status in [b]Benin republic [/b]than relocate to Eastern Nigeria.
Wise up young man,the Ojukwu who led many of your own intellectual people into untimely death,still lives today and spends his spare time tickling Bianca's anus with his 'Bear bear' while u sit back and reminisce on the flawed concept called Biafra.

Wake up son [/size]

You must be inherently idiotic to post this nonsensical write-up. There was no doubt Biafra was defeated. The issue in discuss remains who were the southerners overly afraid of Hausa or Fulani. The last time I checked though, most politicians from the northern region of Nigeria are still on their knees thanking Allah that certain moronic southerners joined them in defeat of Biafra. I guess you would have been ashamed of your silly self to inject the element of international community to this discussion, the same international community that rushed to the aid of Nigeria.

You seemed to be only dullard who has dreamt about the Biafran soldier’s violation of their source of strength. If this idiotic allegation from a gull such as you is remotely close to be truth, the war would have ended in first week as idiotically predicted by Nigerian leadership.

Now you are slowly showing your dirty hand as who were the southerners actually afraid of Hausa or Fulani. You are a regrettable troll.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=796866.msg9488489#msg9488489 date=1320516676]I know your hatred for him is because he stopped biafara,so continue the hating !If you hate any yoruba,it's because that person has stopped ibos from achieving biafara. Eg awolowo[/quote]Is there anything to gain in hating a tribal irredentist such as Awolowo? You are jokingly silly indeed.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=796866.msg9488414#msg9488414 date=1320515777]I know your hatred for him is because he stopped biafara,so continue the hating ![/quote]Obasanjo does not have intestinal fortitude required to stop anything talk less Biafra. Keep deluding your silly self.

publisher:
@Dede1:
[size=15pt]Your PARENTS, no insults intended,just ask them.[/size]

I must say without equivocation that your request of me to pose a certain question to my parents is idiotic and infantile. Again, no single ethnic group in the colonial contraption called Nigeria will dream of engaging Ndigbo in a war and survive to recount the battles.

I guess the afraid you referenced in your previous post stemmed from shameful and cowardly act staged by Obasanjo, Ejoor, Johnson, Wey and Adebayo who shook in their military pants in Lagos while crowning a relatively junior officer such as Gowon the commander-in-chief in defiance to military parlance.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=796866.msg9488306#msg9488306 date=1320514543]Atleast he killed biafara dream ![/quote]You shall not disappoint at playing marooned clown. Even something very elementary as the parts played by many field commanders on Nigerian side during the Nigeria/Biafra civil war, you have foolishly arrogated to Obasanjo. I am not surprise because the only thing your folks have not claimed yet is 1914 amalgamation of southern and northern protectorate. You might as well claim such idiotic maneuver too.

publisher:
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The truth is that when i was much younger,i remember that most southerners feared Hausa/Fulani's and the middle belt was silenced. Obasanjo balanced the Nigerian equation,indirectly gave Niger Deltan militants room to flourish,so as to make it impossible for any northeern cabal to have unlimited access to Nigerias oil.

Obasanjo,gave southerners and the middle belt courage,-Plateau states' power structure was taken from the Hausa fulani and returned to the Beroms.
Obasanjo diluted the Nigerian Army:Today,i'm seeing lots of igbo and south south Major generals in the Nigerian army,this was NEVER the case during the northern military era.
Obasanjo's singular move in 1999 of retiring ALL military officers that had ever held political office is directly responsible for Nigerias 12 years of uninterrupted democracy. Now we have a generation of 12 to 15 year old Nigerians who have no idea of what a military government looks like.

The defeated Hausa/Fulani cabal are fighting back through Boko Haram,but its a battle that they will surely loose because 70% of Nigerians from the deep south up to southern Kaduna have the capacity to wipe them all out if a peaceful compromise is not reached.

Chief Olusegun Aremu Mattew Obasanjo is the greatest Nigerian that ever lived. [/size]

Please be specific about the southerners who were afraid of Hausa, Fulani or Kanuri. Ndigbo and Biafrans have never and will never be afraid of anything from either northern or southern region. The afraid you alluded in your post manifested from the cowardly act by majority of southerners who joined forces with northern region to precipitate a war against Biafra hence the birth of the nonsensical phrase “the north are born to rule”.

It is either Obasanjo stole the capital fund used to jumpstart Otta farm or borrowed it. As of this post, all evidences suggest he stole the money. Obasanjo is one of the slimy and conniving dirty criminals Nigeria has ever produced.

One thing he could not sneak himself through was a requisite examination that would have placed him in RMA at Sandhurst, UK via Teshie, Ghana where Ojukwu flunked him not once but twice.