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SEFAGO is a disgraceful pervert who tends to exhibit ignorance on the subjects well above his/her pedigree.

Katsumoto:
You are dancing around the issue; can international planes land at PH? If they can, they your argument makes no sense. It is not a secret that successive governments in Nigeria do not have a good maintenance culture. There was a documentary produced by Channel 4 (one of the main UK channels) approximately 11 years ago about MMA. The documentary's objective was to highlight the poor state of the airport. But despite its poor state, airlines continued operating there because it was economically viable. I am sure that the Abuja airport is in a better state than MMA but British Airways probably still makes more money from Lagos than Abuja. I remember how much British Airways was hurt in 1996 when it was banned from flying into Nigeria by Abacha and how quickly BA negotiated with the Abdusalam government as soon as Abacha died in 1998.

Jumbo aircrafts can land in both London and Amsterdam but no airline will use a jumbo jet between london and Amsterdam unless they are stopping over. Like I said, the size of the aircraft is irrelevant. It is left for an airline to make a decision about flying a route based on the demand for that route and the size of the aircraft permitted to land at the airport. If an aircraft from london can land at PH, then an aircraft from anywhere in the world can land at PH. That is a fact. As a consumer, it is not your business what aircraft an airline chooses to use.

I am left in stitches with your plank of argument. It is obvious you want us to believe that any highway with an attached batcher in eastern region of Nigeria which can provide landing and takeoff facilities to flights originating from Duala is an international airport. Pal, this is beyond the pale of my comprehension and I know you can do better than this one.

I think airlines tend to use big jumbo jet on the long distance flights because of its economic nature including one instance of huge haulage of passengers and cargos. Since most flights to Port Harcourt originate from either Europe or USA, it is proper to ask why jumbo jets are not the option. I deduce the volume of traffic and passenger maybe the reason but more so on facilities on the ground to handle such aircraft.

ChinenyeN:
It's ok, Kobojunkie. Seriously, relax. No need getting loud (word choices and capital letters). I retract my statement. P.H. Intl. Airport is indeed a legitimate, functional, intl. airport. No fussing over it.

But seriously though, you have been reading too much into my posts. So do try to remember that there's never really anything more to what I write than what you see. Nothing to assume or figure out. I just don't know when you and others will finally come to realize that.

Port Harcourt is a glorified functional airstrip period. There is no iota of sign that will inform an undiscerning onlooker that the park is an international airport. The airport’s flight schedule are still written on board with chalk, it does handle bulk cargo on international flight, passengers still run to the tarmac to board flights and pray it is not raining during boarding time.

It is a mean-spirited and disingenuous political machination under the nomenclatural insanity that tagged the Port Harcourt airstrip as international airport. The funny thing was the idiotic joyous expression that followed the announcement of the batcher as international airport from part of the country.

@ Andre Uweh

It is only a fool that will not understand the effects of war and reconstruction. Almost all the cities, roads and bridges in Igbo land were destroyed during the war of attrition imposed on Biafra by Nigeria. Since after the war, Igbo land has not been offered any preferential help to catch up with the rest of Nigeria. Despite all the set backs as a result of the civil war, Igbo land had stood up to be counted. I expect the detractors of Ndigbo to remember the reasons why quota system is institutionalized in Nigeria.

@ katsumoto

No sane person will build a batcher with a highway across it and declare such place an international airport. Airports are graded based on facilities, runways, type and size of airplane they can handle. A glorified express highway as in the case of Port Harcourt remains misnomer when referred as International Airport. Anyway, there is nothing reasonable about Nigeria. It does not surprise me that a park with highway is called international airport.

Of course, Jumbo jets are flown from London to Amsterdam on regular bases. The airline carriers will decide what type of jet to operate as long as the facilities on the ground would accommodate the aircraft and its cargo. Also the profit and volume of passengers would contribute as factors.

@ kobojunkie

What a self-indictment. The evidence you jealously flaunted suddenly became unauthentic when it failed to support your myopic and ethnic tinted views.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=445416.msg6080087#msg6080087 date=1274598936]i dont blame you,i blame the moderators who couldnt monitor some useless opinions/arguement that would only twist the brain of a normal person.i thought your link was to educate me on what i dont know;only for me you to direct me to s t u p id arguement that hold no basis.mere hypothesis abi.for your information,the country,i mean the nigeria govt recognises lagos,Abuja,kano and port harcourt as her international airports,any other is a glorified runway. please,dont stress thi again atleast,for the sake of those who want to learn something meaningful.[/quote]I thought your problem was limited to mere comprehension never knew it included inability to scroll. Again, there was physical map of Nigeria posted by kobojunkie that had a chart which clearly identified the international airports in Nigeria through the connotation of encircled figure of an airplane. The only places with such encircled identifiers were Lagos, Sokoto, Kano and Abuja.

I am surprised that you stumbled onto the truth you wrote that many of the so-called airports in Nigeria were glorified runways. This statement could not be truer with the case of Port Harcourt that could still not handle jumbo jets such as Boeing 747 whereas Sokoto International airport had been handling anything plane from Fokker 27 to Boeing 747 on direct flights from Saudi Arabia. Anybody who had visited Port Harcourt airstrip and declare it as international airport needs to be shot.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=445416.msg6080008#msg6080008 date=1274594978]olodo.who told you the north has three international airports?.it is two in the north and two down south cuz last time i checked,port harcourt was still in the south and not north.do your research next time[/quote]You are an immaculate dunce. All years you have been visiting nairaland, you have not improved your comprehension pedigree.

Maybe this link will be of help to you, olodo orishirishi.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-445416.416.html

Katsumoto:
Please tell us what Ndigbo have to migrate to other parts of Nigeria for that can and/or is not provided in Ndigbo. I need specifics please.
There are Igbos in Kano, Borno, Bauchi, Oyo, etc. What infrastructure is in those states that can not be found in Ndigbo? To make your argument credible you have to make mention of infrastructure that is readily available in other parts of Nigeria but isn't available in Igboland.

Also, don't you think that even if the federal government was ignoring Igboland, shouldn't governors in the east use the billions received each year to fund certain projects?

I am really surprised that you requested me to list federal government parastatals in western and northern regions of Nigeria. If I begin to list federal government ministries, agencies, industries and port infrastructures in western or northern region of Nigeria, hell will freeze over by the time I am done with it.

According a physical map of Nigeria mistakenly posted on this forum by a detractor to rub Ndigbo the wrong way showed that Nigeria had four (4) International airports and three (3) are situated in northern region while one (1) in western region of Nigeria. All military agencies including schools are either in northern or western region of Nigeria.

lastpage:
@Dede1
Oga Dede1,
Abeegi, I think it will be insulting to you, if someone used such foul language on you, your people or your region?
How can you refer to people from the South/South as idiotic? What makes them idiotic? YOU?

We have said that we should refrain from collectively abusing a nation, it is sheer ignorance.
Again, l am baffled by your anger at people describing themselves as "South-South", a geographical expression of their location i.e South of Southern Nigeria.
South-South only exists on paper as of now, just like Biafra only exists on paper as of today but maybe, maybe not, it will be realized as an entity in future, that l can not predict.
But l do know that "it is wrong to even try to "assimilate a nation, by subjugation, if they want to part of you".
Everyone is entitled to FREEDOM, as a fundamental right, freedom to associate is also a constitutional right.

To develop migraine simply because the Ijaws or Ibibios or Anags or Itshekiri dont want to become a part of your Biafra project, is astonishing and simply satanic.
You want to "yoke them" with the same yoke that you are also trying to escape from, in the Nigerian project? Haaba!

"Eastern region" is not synonymous with Ndigbo, it consists of many other nationalities. It is just a geographical coinage, just like South-South or Mid-West or West/North.

I am not a South-South person but l detest this muscling and "association by force" that your guy is preaching here.
If you try to use force on them, all they need do is "sign a treaty" with one of the major tribes. You attack them and you've attacked the 'major' tribe and you will have another war (but with a bigger foe) on your hand!
One of the lessons l learned from the last Civil war was that "One should not start a fight they cannot win/finish", its just not worth the effort.

Ojukwu is here today, supporting IBB for President (remember who were the principal foe of Biafra?) but millions of Igbo lost their children, wives and bread-winners, in a war he started, and bailed-out to Ivory-Coast, when the going got tough, leaving them in the lurch!
Why is he not championing and rooting for an Igbo President?
Even myself like others from the West, would support the clamour for an Igbo president, for the sake of fairness but how can l, when even the Igbo leader/Lord of War (Ojukwu) is not in support of his own people? Very Ironical, you will agree.

bTW: I think we are derailing this thread unnecessarily. Its not about South-South Vs. Ndigbo, it was about Kaduna, abi? Lets stick to that and shift the Ndigbo/Biafra/South-South, e.t.c to another thread.
I hear that Yekowa has been sworn-in as Guv'nor of Kaduna

I am for independent sovereign state of Igbo land. For umpteenth time, Biafra was an affair of the defunct eastern region of Nigeria. Again, Biafra was a country and recognized by sovereign nations while the fictional South-south is not. Please be informed that MY PEOPLE are also dumped into the nomenclatural madness of south-south.

I do not think that it is silly to ask for genuinely unique and distinctive identity in polity. If the Ijo, Urhobo, Edo, Eshan, Itsekiri, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Igbo (in the so-called south-south) or Ogoni wanted sovereign nation out of Nigeria, it will be more politically expedient for them to unequivocally voice it than shamelessly hiding behind fictional crap such as south-south.

I am surprise that a person of a considerable intellect such as you would equate the mere geographical expression, in this case south-south, with ethnicity. Ndigbo had never and will not harbor the idea of annexing any ethnic nationality into Igbo land. By the same token, Ndigbo will never surrender an inch of real estate belonging to Igbo land.

One lesson I have learnt about Nigeria is the people tend to shun truth about history and continue to commit the same blunder over and over again. Anybody who even insinuated that Biafra started the Nigeria/Biafra civil war owes history a passionate apology.

Please preach the political sermon of freedom as fundamental right and freedom to associate to your forbearers who imposed war attrition on Biafra simple because the people wanted the entitlement of the freedom you have consciously stated. I guess Biafrans were not meant to live under the umbrella of freedom as you have suggested.

Ojukwu is not a member of my kindred and I do not speak for him or influence what he does. If Ojukwu chooses to support IBB as he did or did not support OBJ, who ironically is also a principal foe of Biafra, I do not give a hoot.

I suggest you pose the question about not championing and rooting for an Igbo President to Ojukwu. Canvassing against Igbo presidency of the cesspit called Nigeria has become the amalgam of my political philosophy.

Katsumoto:
We should be careful with how we analyse issues. Anyone reading your posts would think that all places outside Igboland are well developed. Even the best developed state (Lagos) is still a slum. What federal presence do you find in Ekiti, Kwara, Adamawa, Yobe, Ogun, etc?How much development did OBJ take to Ogun state in his stints as preseident? What about IBB in Niger? Nigeria has been ruled by more people from the North than the South; is the North more developed than the South?

The fact is that Nigeria has been failed by its rulers, both military and political. Each state receives federal allocation in billions each year; why are you not tasking your representatives about how these allocations are being spent? Or are Eastern states not governed by Eastern governors? We often hear on these forums from people such as Abagworo, Mekusxxx, EzeUche about how enterprising and superior Igbo people are. Why are your governors not trailblazers? Why do they seem mediocre like governors from other regions? After giving each state billions, should the federal govt have to develop each state? What are the governors doing to generate additional revenue? What are they doing to increase development in their states?

Instead of directing your anger at representatives that are within your reach, you continue to lay blame at the wrong people.

I am not even talking about states and their governors in Igbo land; it is about federal government taking its filthy hands off Igbo land so that the people would decide how to establish connections and contacts with people of the world and how to manage the meager resources in Igbo land.

I honestly believe that if free reign of industrial and economic emancipation is allowed in Igbo land, the Ndigbo will hardly notice who is occupying the governor’s mansions in Igbo land. Who would have believed for almost fifty years of Nigerian independence, the federal government of Nigeria does not own a mechanic shade in Igbo land?

A very talented employee can not perform credibly if the necessary tools are not provided or the employee is not allowed to bring such tools. Ndigbo can be enterprising all they want and seemingly evidenced as you have alleged but if the industrial and economic infrastructures are virtually absence in Igbo land hence the migratory instances of Ndigbo to western and northern regions of Nigeria shall remain a reality.

I state categorically and unequivocally that NO SINGLE ETHNIC GROUP in the colonial contraption named Nigeria will be able to engage Ndigbo in combat of weaponry and survive to tell tales of the battle.   

@ Ogiade

When the stage is set for people to don their surname, you will realize whether Igwe Ocha is Ala Igbo or not. Anybody who thinks what happened in 1966 is about to repeat itself is a dirty fool. 


@ lastpage

You post seemed to be well intended until you started mixing issues of East, South-south, West, etc. Sometimes, I wish contributors come to the forum without holding their punches. There are Ndigbo and I think there seems the so-called and idiotic South-south. In fact, I would want posters to define certain entities properly as in the manner which Igbo or Yoruba are defined. The last time I checked though, eastern region consisted a great portion of the so-called South-south.

Of course, Ndigbo want out of Nigeria and Yoruba, as you have alleged in your post, want out of the cesspit too. For the sake of this discourse, let me center our focus on the southern part of Nigeria. Do the Edo, Ibibio, Efik, Ijo, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Eshan, Ogoni, Annang and Atama also want out of Nigeria too?

If these ethnic groups want out of Nigeria, it will seriously amount to shameful and condescending act of disingenuous for some peeps to keep harping on the so-called south-south or delusional term such as Niger Delta. I think you will agree with me that it is simple act of cowardice, irredeemable political treachery and lacking in intelligence if these ethnic groups had the feeling of being political disenfranchised in Nigeria and yet embrace the fictional terms such as South-south and Niger Delta.

@ ScoleM

It is fortunate you do not even know your ethnic makeup. I think your post is akin to an overfed and drunken chicken that is challenging a hawk for a fight. What you seem to forget is that there is huge difference between a battle evolving two armies and the ranting of a terrorist group.

@asha 80

I had to thank you for the inert vision that spurred you to pose certain question to ChinenyeN. At least, we can now understand the source of the young man’s seemingly angry attitude in the on-going discourse.


@ ChinenyeN

You should understand that Ndigbo in particular have been subjected to every form of deprivation since after the civil war by successive federal government of Nigeria. It is not whining to posit that there is no federal government presence in almost every inches of real estate in Igbo land. Of course, there are certain parastatals required to boost economic viability of communities but unfortunately such entities fall into the exclusive bracket of federal government of Nigeria. There is no trait of laziness in Igbo blood. I think there is no doubt that if offered the same level playing ground, no part of Nigeria will out-compete Ndigbo.

As for the reason why your father does not allow you to visit your ancestral home is best known to him. I guess it is the same reason most Nigerians do not allow their kids to visit home. You must come to grips that the issue of certain cultural predicament is less weighted in Igbo land than other parts of Nigeria. The current wave of kidnapping that is blowing across Nigeria does not stand as exclusive tenant of Igbo land. The social nuisance is all over the jungle called Nigeria but Ndigbo seem to take everything to the extreme.

006:
I'm in trouble ooo!
I don't know much about this Akagbe/Fulani war, I think an Akagbe man should be in a better position to tell us more about the war.
I heard about it while growing up but not in details.

I am surprised, for the time, that you and I have the ears with the hint about Akagbe/Fulani war.

Sorry folks, I do not teach important history such as the one dubbed Akagbe/Fulani war on Pro bono. The need to render Ndigbo powerless stemmed from past recorded events between Ndigbo and Britain, Fulani Caliphate or Bini Empire.

Eziachi:
How I wish you can make your point without being angry over every issue. It seems to me that your new obsession is my age?
Well, may you live longer than your girls friend or boy friend!

Do not bother an iota about the ranting of a petty thief. The swine confirmed it on this forum that he/she is heavily into stealing.

@Eziachi


Some people will write any crap in attempt to score an inconsequential political point. I can run from Owerri to Igweocha in less than 2 hours talk less of driving an automobile.

ChinenyeN:
Deede, it is beyond Facebook.

I think I know where you are coming with this statement politically. However, some of us who considered themselves Ngwa are working on it for a change.

006:
Hahaha, do you think Aros could have dominated?
Remember that Akabe people stopped the rampaging Fulanis talk less of Aros. Common Ngwas stopped you folks and you're still talking.   

It was not only Akagbe stopped the rampaging Fulani but entire Igbo warriors. The manner in which Fulani Caliphate was defeated and beat a hasty retreat had contributed to the intrigues about Ndigbo.

ChinenyeN:
You all are really making this out to be more than what it really is; making it seem as if I have a problem with everyone else, which of course I don't. I just take my identity and everything associated with it seriously.

Ewuo!!!!!!!!! Nwadede nnele na ikonne. Dikwanu otu iji mee onwe gi ka arusi apiriapi. I consider myself an Ngwa person because I was born and raised in greater Ngwaland including Ukwa. I have also called Igbo peeps of non-Ngwa “Nwa ohuhu”. I guess you are catching my drift. You should not let the ignorance of the lady on the facebook disturb you.

Katsumoto:
How is it first degree murder? The most he'll get is manslaughter and with a good lawyer who will paint the picture of a hardworking who returned home to find his wife in bed with another man, he'll walk. He will have a good chance in traditional states such Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. The beauty of the American justice system is that you are only convicted by a jury. If you live in a county where most people are traditional, then you will struggle to get 12 people to convict such a man. I for one, will never find a man guilty if he reacts to another man coming home to his to steal, kill, or mess.

The victim did not come to steal and certainly not come to kill. I am also in support of homeowner aggressive defense of his/her turf against armed burglary. However, the husband acted in a rage with intent to cause serious bodily injury or death in this particular case.

I disagree with you on the suspect’s chances in traditional states such as Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. USA is country of law not sentiments. I think the jurors in the so-called traditional states would have expected the man to walk away and sue for divorce.

[quote author=bk/babe97 link=topic=445416.msg6069787#msg6069787 date=1274426080]lololol. Dude, ure joking right? lol. You!!! LOL. HAHAHAHAHHA!!! tYPICAL, Ibo man, will look for ways to twist the truth at all costs. Going from page to page trying to declare me an illiterate like most Biafrans, because I constantly criticize your grammatical ballistic missiles; u , your father (Eziachi), and your brothers Wily+Wily, and Dede1!!! My man, u couldnt match me in a grammar contest if the lives of all your loved ones depended on it. U stand a better chance getting gang-ra*.ped by the devil and 23 demons!!! lol. Ibo man, always trying "everything" to score brownie points. This time, again my friend, u looooooooseee!!![/quote]Before you fall in a pervert-style love with the words; illiterate or literate, I suggest you endeavor to understand meaning of the words. You were right when you wrote that “I have never claimed to be educated”. Who in his/her right mind would associate a dirty pig such as you with education?

Katsumoto:
You are very correct; I am old school.
The man would go free in many[b] US southern states[/b], France, Middle East, Asia, some African countries.
You must be prepared to die when you go to sleep with another man's wife in his home.

Are you serious about this statement? Which states were you referring in US southern states where a person commits murder and rides free? The man committed first degree murder and bad enough the suspect admitted the victim was on his way out when stabbed on the back.

Kobojunkie:
@Ezeuche is right though, those cutting off other parts of the eastern bloc from their IBO Sovereign nation will need to face the LANDLOCKED reality he speaks of at some point.  ROFLMAO!!  

At least he is willing to admit one of the major problems to the exclusively for "real" IBO's advocates  . . .   I mean look at the map. How do you cut out the other states without consequence?

What can be more self-indictment of ignorance than the map of Nigeria attached to your previous post with referencing chart of circled figure of airplane as International airport? On the map, I could point out four (4) International airports with three (3) in the north region of Nigeria.

Katsumoto

Please secure this lecture about a patch of Lagos being capital of Nigeria in your back pocket. Lagos, which consisted of Ikeja, Agege, Epe, Ikorodu, Shomolu, and Badagry, was the capital territory of federal republic of Nigeria. The relevant issue about the status of Lagos was contested in 1957 as Awo and Action Group agreed to the prevailing political wave of the era that entire Lagos was capital territory and federal government had a minister appointed to be in-charge of Lagos. 

Lagos was like today’s Abuja where delegates from in and around Abuja are representatives at the Niger State House of Assembly. If Abuja had to be elevated to state cadre tomorrow, few peeps will also argue that Abuja was developed by Niger State.

[quote author=paddyboi ]I am igbo and biafra is a PIPEDREAM, the average igbo man is too corrupt, indisciplined and ignorant to govern himself, is it the likes of andy uba that will be president?, where are the resources?, what will the currency be anchored on?, where is the access to the sea, or will u annex calabar and rivers state too, ?, Ojukwu was a FOOL, egotistical naughty person that had to kill millions of igbo to justify his silly war, and i am 27yrs old so i know what am talking about,
the world is global, nations are forming unions, because only the strong survive, and some idiots are clamoring for BIAFRA, a landlocked landmass that only exists in history, now overtaken by events,
its o.k though, some southerners in the U.S, still wish for the confederate states of america, and fly rebel flags, keep dreaming like them, @POSTER, u just made my day.[/quote]This is the height of idiocy. If you hate yourself this much, I suggest you jump a cliff. My people say that a child that calls his/her mother ugly invariably called his/her father a fool.

What a fallacy. The tax revenue generated from the massive infrastructural development the federal government dumped in Lagos alone and attractive nature of such federal government presence in Lagos are enough to develop two new states from scratch in eastern region.

Before the war, government of eastern region developed Port Harcourt to, at least, rival Lagos in certain aspects. Yet Port Harcourt for all intent and practical purposes is River State of today.

Aba and Onitsha were commercial nerve centers in then eastern region and still remains still today. Besides lacking the federal government benevolent presence in Lagos, Aba and Onitsha are the two cities that can be mentioned in the sentence with Lagos when commercial activities are discussed in the jungle called Nigeria.

Even with huge federal government economic benevolence in Lagos, Yoruba people still travel out of Yoruba land to engage in socio-economic activities. Why should the enterprising nature of Ndigbo drive some peeps into twisted insanity? If this misplaced knock on Igbo land is not driven by political naiveté, it must be certainly the act of condescending disingenuous on part of authors.

Katsumoto:
Dede1, the extract below is for you. Its from an interview granted by Ralph Uwechue. I am sure an Igbo son such as yourself would have read it before but you probably would disagree with it.

[b]'Again, in 1957 when the British Colonial Government, under intense pressure from Southern politicians pressing for independence, attempted to uncouple the union between the North and South forged through Lord Lugard’s Amalgamation of 1914, with the offer of independence to the three Regions individually provided any two accepted the offer, a political crisis loomed large on the national horizon. The Northern Region, led by the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) took the position that the North was not ready for that level of political and economic independence. The Western Region, led by Chief Awolowo’s Action Group (AG) promptly, declared its readiness to accept the offer. It was the Igbo-led NUNC that held the balance. It was an issue that could make or break Nigeria if the three Regions chose to go their separate ways to independence.

The NUNC leader, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe took the stand that although the Eastern Region was ready to assume the responsibilities of Regional independence, its attainment without the North would lead, in his own words, to the ‘’Baalkanization of the Nigeria Nation’’ and conceivably a break-up of the country. The Eastern Region would rather suppress it’s appetite for independence and the obvious gains it would entail until the Northern Region was ready. That was how Nigeria Independence was delayed until 1960. In short, the Igbo-led Eastern Region would rather forgo the advancement of its own political economic interests than risk the break-up of Nigeria.[/b]

Had the Eastern Region opted for Independence at that time, the territory under its control would have comprised in today’s terms the following nine States with their enormous human and natural resources: Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Rivers state. It would also probably include Southern Cameroun with the oil rich Bakassi Peninsula. If not for Zik, by 1960, the three Regions would have become separate sovereign states and there would have been no question of Biafra’s attempted secession in 1967 from a non-existing Nigeria federation and the devastating civil war fought to stop it.
Similary, when Zik moved to the Federal scene as Governor-General and later titular President of Nigeria, the NUNC, under the leadership of Dr. Michael Okpara, of blessed memory, continued faithfully in his giant and indelible footsteps, the political bridge-building and nation building enterprise of the Igbo.

At independence, the Igbo-led NUNC shunned the attraction of being the senior partner in an East-West Alliance with Chief Awolowo’s Action Group (AG) and chose to team up instead as the junior partner, with Sir Ahmadu Bello’s Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) in order to consolidate the frail and insipid attachment of a wary and skeptical North to Southern Nigeria. At that time Chief Awolowo’s Yoruba dominated Action Group (AG) was viewed with considerable suspicion by the Hausa Fulani-led NPC for its ambition and role in the then Middle Belt, under Congress (UMBC). However, when the Yoruba Leader Chief Obafemi Awolowo was accused of treason and incarcerated in 1963, on charges which many Nigerians believed were trumped up to silence him politically, the Igbo leadership of NUNC switched side and came to his rescue.'

Sumoto, I have read better essays about the 1957 constitutional conferences and issues pertaining to the regional self-government than this author had lifted. Much opposition was stood up against granting the regions autonomous self-government.

Whether granting of autonomous self-government status to regions would have led to independence sovereign status remained debatable but the fear of balkanization of the Protectorates and failure to attend independence status at all was a legitimate concern to some principal players of the era.

The author of this article has more historical digging to perform because he or she was writing from an abused stated of mind.


http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za:8080/DC/asjan59.15/asjan59.15.pdf

Katsumoto:
Are you so bitter that you must always use caustic words? Political maneuvering and dealing should not be the preserve of only well developed and established political systems. Awo was well within his rights to reach out to both political parties. Besides it is indeterminate whether Awo actually sent Akintola and Rosiji to negotiate on the AG's behalf.

Also, Independence was always going to be achieved, it was only a question of when and how.
The options from Sir James Robertson were
1. Every region gets independence in 1957 with majority acceptance
2. Nigeria gets independence in 1957 with majority acceptance
3. Nigeria gets independence later with majority acceptance

After the polls of 1959 election in the Protectorates to fill in the central legislative body designed to hold 312 elected representatives, the results were as follow:

NPC       142 + NDC = 143
NCNC      89 + NEPU = 97
AG            72 + Independent = 73

From the above results, baring any form of political treachery or overzealous ambition, NCNC or NPC would either engage each other in negotiation to form coalition government or each would sought the hand of AG. But these were not the case as the party that finished third sent two negotiating teams to the parties that finished first and second as each mission was unbeknown to first or second placed party. 

Unfortunately, Chief SL Akintola, a member with the AG team sent to negotiate with NPC had a hidden agenda as he torpedoed Awo’s double standard move by placing a phone call from Kaduna to NCNC as the negotiation was in session.   

What are you insinuating on every region gets independence in 1957 with majority acceptance per Sir James Robertson options? The regions had been granted autonomous status with legislative powers through the 1954 Lyttleton Constitutional Conference. The issue in 1957 was sovereign independent status for entire Northern and Southern Protectorates, hence independent nation called Nigeria.

I wonder how Zik scuttled the chance to rule Nigeria when it has been determined that Nigeria gets independence in 1957 or later with majority acceptance. Are you talking about unanimous or simple majority? I can recall that one of the regions had indicated lack of readiness or unwillingness to settle for independence in 1957.

Any Nigerian who does not notice the absence of MMA or NAA class of airport in the defunct eastern region of Nigeria was a designed economical and infrastructural strangulation of the region by the successive central government of Nigeria since the end of Nigeria/Biafra civil war is either socio-political myopic or outright disingenuous.