₦airaland Forum

Duduknight: See your original post below; who were the AG members who were part of the government in the first republic? Stop using insults to mask your ignorance. And while you are it, stop dancing around the main issues. Do you know the meaning of coalition? I will not respond to any of your posts if you can't simply admit to your error or tell us how the AG was in the ruling coalition in the 1st Republic.

I have concluded you are a typical dunce who is either blind or dense. Do you think forming political alliance translates into ministerial appointment? I have always stated the coalition government was between NPC and NCNC. However, both parties have partners as evidenced in NNA and UPGA. I even reiterated in my post that you reposted that NPC and NCNC were the senior coalition partners. It is clear to me you are one of those nitwits who look up the chart of political appointments in order to cast your vote.

Again, there is slight technical difference between “Alliance and Coalition”.

Duduknight: I meant UPGA, it was an error on my part. In any case, there was a coalition between AG and NCNC for the 1964 election.

You accuse others of being fools yet your posts indicate that you are the most dangerous poster because your posts are filled with half-truths, lies, and misinformation. Weren't you the poster who stated that the AG was in a coalition with NPC and NCNC? Perhaps you don't know the meaning of coalition. If you do know the meaning of coalition, can you provide the names of the AG members who were part of the government in the first republic?

Your point about elections being boycotted in certain wards is not relevant to the debate.

I guess in a hurry to score cheap point for your team of ethnic bigots, you did not peruse my post or you were struck with common sickness of deficiency in comprehension. Again, the coalition government was forged between NPC and NCNC. However, there were political alliances between parties. Such alliances produced NNA and UPGA. I suggest you kick the habit of laziness and tribal parochialism while you get educated.

Duduknight: Seriously, you need to see a shrink or a doctor.

Action Group was in the coalition with NPC and NCNC?

Kunle is correct. The first coalition was between NPC and NCNC; after Akintola left the AG, he formed NNDP and that party joined the coalition. It was Akintola joining the coalition that caused the rift between NCNC and NPC. In the election of 1964, NCNC formed a coalition with AG to form UMBC while NPC and NNDP formed the ruling coalition. It was defeat in that election that led Zik not to call Balewa to form a government and the subsequent constitutional crisis of January 1965.

When I said Nigeria is teeming with loudmouthed fools who are miserably ill-educated, I meant every word. Did the above poster remotely insinuate that NCNC and AG form UMBC? You will not gain any knowledge from me. By the way, what does UMBC represents? There are parties other than NNDP that joined NPC to form alliance known as NNA.

Again, the election in reference was boycotted in the wards NNA had stronghold by certain parties due to alleged irregularities in the Balewa's government conduct of Nigerian census.

Again, the act of flaunting ignorance in the public seems to score high among certain group of people in Nigeria.

kunlekunle: You are mixing issues up,
the first coalition was NPC and NCNC, the second was NPC, NCNC, NNDP.
the southern ministerial positions were occupied by NCNC with some positions for yourube NCNC.
Akintola's arguement was those NCNC yoruba guys wont reflect anything SW, so the southern positions were shared between NCNC and NNDP which created political acrimony that akintole hated the ibos.

take it or leave it.

Of course, I had to leave it. Why should I take myriad of unintelligible craps?

One of the problems with Nigeria is the country teeming with tribal irredentists who had closed minds to reality. NNDP was the not leading coalition partner. The coalition was between NNA and UPGA. In the coalition, NPC and NCNC were senior partners while NNDP, AG, UMBC, NEPU, NDC, MDF, UNIP, NPF, UNP and ZCP were junior partners in the coalition.

Due to undue tribal pressure, you kept thinking Akintola was the main mover in the political scene of 60s in Nigeria. To the best of my knowledge, SL Akintola was a rabid tribal icon and master of butt licker.

nuclearboy: Bros - I am as yoruba as any human alive today and I totally disagree with you about this issue - it MAY be happening in the other services but how can anyone argue against what is above? Out of 25 promoted to the realistic "top" rank, 3 came from one state! 6 divisions and each geo-zone represented! I was brought up in the military and loyalty is more important than seniority!

And if Isah truly heard before people under his command were bombed, he ought be court-martialled, not just retired.

And those screaming that the eastern brigades are commanded by northerners, na wa O - why do people see everything with tribal lens? You are pleased Ihejerika is COAS yet would also wish igbo commanders only for the east? Its the Nigerian Army, not Eastern Army!

Kai, I wonder why we can't see past native language

I want you to lecture those who thought and believed that January 15, 1966 coup plotters were Igbo soldiers instead of Nigerian soldiers. What about federal character or does it not applicable to 82nd Division of Nigerian army?

kettykings: This might even be the original intent behind the campaign of calumny to hood wink the COAS to foolishly put the Hausa /Fulani in a position to effect maximum damage , since the Boko Haram option has backfired and 2015 is less than 22 months away. The COAS should just make sure his Loyalist are armed 24/7 and have the contingency to react to any misadventure of the Northerners within seconds, i still believe this is not the Army of the 60s where some MUMU igbo soldiers were brain washed into false patriotism and where slaughtered by NCOs from the North.

I am not comfortable with the diagram of deployment in 82nd Division. Why did the loudmouthed numbskull keep mute on the fact that all brigade commanders in southeastern region are soldiers from northern region? Please anybody who had ears of Lt Gen Ihiejirika should call his attention to the “lack of federal character” in 82nd Division.

Tolexander: no ma ngozi! I av always known you to be igbo ethnocentric, bigot and tribalist like Chinua Achebe. Check all my posts, am not a tribalist but always try to counter anything achebe's 'there was a country'. Did you read the book in question? If you weren't bias enough, though you are very ethnocentric like i've known you to be, you will understand that the book is one sided when you compare the known fictionist history to the real historean's history of nigeria.

If you had read the book and still talk about the award of nobel laureate or lack thereof as shown in your previous posts, I safely say you either have comprehensible deficiency or you are a tribal irredentist. I would ask you to check out the “Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad” and scintillating rebuttals by Achebe and “Things Fall Apart”, then you will begin to know why the Europeans do not want to add insults to injury by awarding Achebe the nonsensical nobel laureate. In the plateau of historical and philosophical approach to human nature, Achebe’s book, “Things Fall Apart”, had sent Heart of Darkness to the dustbin.

alj harem: true ! but that is the past. GEJ should honour his agreement

When was the last time your forbearers honored any agreement in the cesspit called Nigeria?

@OP

Igbo people do not listen at all. How could this Ihiejirika guy play Ironsi all over again? The entire 82nd Division at Enugu and it Brigades are commanded by people who would ordinarily want Ndigbo destroyed. It is unacceptable that entire Brigades in southeastern region of Nigeria of Nigeria are commended by soldiers of northern region origin. The nonsensical deployment in the 82nd Dvision at Enugu is in contrast to 1st Division at Kaduna where the GOC and, at least, two Brigade commanders maybe soldiers from northern region of Nigeria.

CyberG: I just said dendeMORONIC_FOOL is so predictable! Senile old man...everyone keeps shaiting on your baifaranic head, but you no get shame, no be so! Anyway, Aschebe has been exposed for the loser that he is, ojkuku fled from war, leaving 3 M retardeens and their retardeenic chief dendeFOOL to keep crying! HAHAHAHA

There was a story the malnourished dull in CyberGfool gave about 1911. When I read craps accredited to the characters such as Awolowo, Akintola, Ben Adekunle, Obasanjo and host of other Yoruba peeps, I deduced that jackass’s sickness of mouth diarrhea is definitely inherent.

kunlekunle: As you rightly agreed, it was a coalition govt of three parties.
eight ministerial positions were given to the south and NCNC took all posts.
Akintolas arguement was that the western seats can not be allocated to the yorubas of NCNC, it should be allocated to the NNDP of yorubas in the west.
when the cabinet was reshoveled you guy shouted Alkintola hated ibos.


'On the other hand, we had the Southern Ministers
Chief K.O. Mbadiwe, Hon. R.A. Njoku, Chief Aja
Nwachukwu, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Chief T.O.S.
Benson, Chief J.M. Johnson and Chief Olu Akinfosile;
all of them with the exception of Hon. Aja Nwachukwu
who took great pains to keep you alive to the fact
that they were ministers

the N.C.N.C had appropriated
the Yoruba share. Chief T.O.S. Benson, Chief Olu
Akinfosile and Chief J.M. Johnson in charge of the
portfolios that rightfully belonged to Western Nigeria
were not true and legitimate representatives of the
people of that region."

One advice I give to Nigerian scholars who navigate to Nairaland for intellectual exercise is not to accept Nowa Omoigui’s conjectural craps as gospel. In your replies to my post and that of hercules07, you seemed to load up on Nowa Omoigui’s junk.

Let me make it clear that Dr Biobaku was not a senior lecturer, associate professor or tenured professor. The only qualifications he had in pursuit of VC were being Omo Yoruba, political love peddler and tribal politics which Yoruba peeps chased unashamedly. I guess you know the reason behind assassination attempt on Dr Biobaku.

Now, let me call your attention to the responses you gave to hercules07 posts where you the laid the rope you used to hang your political credibility.

In one instance, you stated that “Chief Okotie-Eboh as the only non-Igbo N.C.N.C. Minister in the cabinet”. In another instance, there were Chief J.M. Johnson, Chief Olu Akinfosile and Ola Balogun as ministers. The last time I checked though, Chiefs J.M. Johnson, Olu Akinfosile and Ola Balogun were not Igbo.

It is very laughable how you narrated Akintola’s niche to run to his master, Ahmadu Bello, to plead for peanuts. In addition, it is equally nice to read from you that Yoruba sought tribalism over merit in Nigeria. When Yoruba longed for any position in Nigeria, the process is codenamed fairness but when it is the turn for Igbo the process becomes Igbo domination.

I have consistently reminded Igbo people, especially the deluded jackasses, that an apple does not fall far from the tree. The Yoruba of yesteryears are the Yoruba of tomorrow.

CyberG: Are you another Katsumoto in the making, though female? Well, I never even heard that piece of detail before but I am NOT surprised! Please help record Nigerian history here for the coming generations before some people like dende try to re-write their bogus, nonsensical version!

Cyberfool,

I thought you had occupied your silly self with “demonstration thread”. You can see that issues in discussion on this thread are beyond your intellectual pedigree. He laughs!!!!!!!

hercules07: That was in name only, the NPC had the west through Akintola someone who hated Awo the same, hated the Igbos too, they could continue to use the NCNC as a front while Akintola's party checkmated NCNC in the west.

I hope you understood how the parliamentary government operates. There was no party with outright majority and the two high earners of the votes were NPC and NCNC hence the coalition government. NCNC retained its number of ministerial appointments and also held the position of ranking minister. House was full of members with different party affiliations.

T9ksy: You are so predictable and never fail to disappoint!Did you even bother to read the


link?



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Leaked [Police] Special Branch Report: "Military Rebellion of 15th January 1966"

By Nowamagbe Omoigui, MD, MPH, FACC



This is the Police Report on the official investigation into the coup of 15 January 1966. It was prepared by Police Special Branch Interrogators based on interviews with soldiers, other ranks and some officers who had been arrested after the mutiny.

I had thought you should distance yourself a bit from Nowa Omoigui but it seems you are in tank with the hack writer.

hercules07: He was not what he claimed to be, he was not a quark but a fraud, Soyinka told it as it was; by the way the NCNC had no choice, its plans to conquer the west was thwarted by Akintola. Dr. Biobaku was probably appointed to balance things, remember the NPC and Akintola were running things and they both hated Igbo guts.

I do not understand what you meant that NPC and Akintola were running things. The national government was still a coalition of NPC and NCNC. Is it not funny when a Yoruba gets a position, even when such character is abysmally unqualified as in the case of Dr Biobaku of Unlag, Yoruba talk about “balancing of things”?

[quote author=~Bluetooth]Achebe is a bigot while Soyinka is a peacemaker.beside his books are full of lies.what has he done for Nigeria ? Nothing other than spreading lies and hatred in the minds his children.[/quote]You are one of the reasons people detest the type of free-education introduced in western region of Nigeria, olodo.

Tolexander: A tale of two men(writers). One
decided destructively scattering
the city with his pen from abroad
while the other is constructively
criticizing her with his pen staying
at home.
Professor Oluwole Soyinka you
are the man. Little wonder you
were awarded the nobel
laureate.
Keep it up.

Are you afraid the dilapidated house known as Nigeria is about to collapse?

T9ksy: I thought the title in bold is your exclusoive reserve.

No, i didn't, did you?




At the Yaba Military Hospital they dropped 2/Lt Ezedigbo who had been wounded in the encounter with Brigadier Mai-Malari. The time was about 0400 hrs. Major Ifeajuna drove away on to the Abeokuta road. On the way they stopped and Ifeajuna asked the PM out of the car whence he shot and killed him. When he and Okafor became certain that the PM was dead they left the body in the bush at a point beyond Otta on the Lagos to Abeokuta road. They then opened the boot of the car and dropped the body of Lt.Col. Largema near that of the PM.

They then drove on to Abeokuta. On the way after Abeokuta two other soldiers in the car were dropped and told to find their way back to Lagos whilst Ifeajuna and Okafor proceeded to Enugu. They arrived Enugu at about 1415 hours and proceeded to the Premier's Lodge where they held discussion with Dr. MI Okpara, then Premier of Eastern region, after which they separated and went into hiding. Ifeajuna eventually escaped to Ghana where he was received by the former President Kwame Nkrumah who sent him to
Winneba to stay with SG Ikoku.


http://www.omoigui.com/2004/09/strongleaked_po.html

It is good to see you did not disappoint with above post. When I asked if you did serve the tea, I had in mind you have been hanging out with Nowa Omoigui and my postulation is impeccably correct.

T9ksy: Can you then explain how come Major Ifeajuna and Major Okafor were having tea with

the same Dr. M.Okpara, who was supposed to have escaped their coup plot, at 14:15 on jan 15th 1966?

I have a funny feeling you have finally make good on your promise and finally visited your g/mother's

library in your village

This local pathological liar and master of illogical conjectures has done it again. Did you serve the tea?

naijababe: You are absolutely correct! Dede1 just told above that it was manufactured overnight! Me kearn shout

I shall be all eyes if you could proffer an iota of evidence to support your goofy claim that Dr Sylvester Anieke was a fraud. Please do not cite craps from a character such as Richard Akinjide.

[quote author=Dudu_Negro]next time you address my name and leave out "Chief", i will raze your village down. yeye

i have three names, Chief Negro_Ntns; Odua_Negro and Dudu_Negro. the last one is close with DuduKnight but we are different people.

to those trying to educate dede on fair and balance, you are talking to a mute. you will succeed much quicker with relief converting almajiri to catholicism than you would educating dede on truths. biafrans like him earn their living from the continued controversy. the day the controversy ends their paycheck will dry up.[/quote]The talk about razing down a village reminds me boastfulness is inherent. I shall add Otumba and Asiwaju too.

hercules07: Bros go and read Wole Soyinka's Ibadan the penkelemes years, you will find the story of Anieke there, you will also find Okpara helping the AG when it dawned on him that the NPC were up to no good.

Bros, I knew about the coalition formed between NCNC and AG. It was not just Okpara. Even the plan to quench the miserable life of Awolowo in Nigerian prisons in Bauchi was thwarted.

As for the case of “The Penkelemes Years: A memoir by Wole Soyinka, I shall not bother to read it because of the respect I have for Wole.

However, Dr Sylvester Anieke was no quark or fraud but caught in the usual tribal politics of Nigeria. If Dr Sylvester Anieke was Yoruba, this instance would not have arisen. Besides, what were the qualifications of Dr. Biabiaku(sp) who became VC of Unlig?

Duduknight: On this thread, you have tried, in vain I might add, to dispel certain positions which you believe to be false or incorrect. Why stop now? Please tell us why you believe Anieke was not a forger. Was Anieke not appointed by Zik despite having been made to leave his prior appointment at UI in a scandal?

And I am not Negro_ntns.

Wow!!! Did you write this form of Negro_ntns? You could not be more correct. It must be a coincidental aura.

I guess Prof. Eni Njoku was fraud too. Because it was the same band of tribal irredentists from Yoruba land that wanted VC of Unilag removed because the professor was not the son of soil. When Dr. Sylvester Anieke was a lecturer at UI, he was qualified and not a quark. The moment Dr Sylvester Anieke was elevated to the position of the chairman of the governing council of University of Ibadan, with another Igbo man as VC, his forged certificate was manufactured overnight. Thanks goodness I lived in Yoruba land. I do not fall for your deceit.

texazzpete: I am happy you understand where I'm coming from.
I am also quite shocked that you say you did not see any concrete facts therein. He quotes Azikiwe and Nwakanma. He provides excerpts from confidential US diplomatic cables. He shows that Achebe's account of meeting that foreign head of state cannot possibly be factual. He punctures Achebe's attempts to dissociate Nzeogwu from the Igbo tribe. He shows how Achebe highlights Igbo suffering and glosses over the suffering of others.

There ARE concrete facts in his article.

Of course, you have developed the niche to term anything anti-Igbo as concrete facts. If the author does not possess the intellect of a third grader to different facts from frictions even when such goofy craps emanate from few deluded Igbo, the author can not be absolved of inherent display of stupidity. Citing Obi Nwakanma’s statement about Okigbo running of guns does not constitute an iota of fact. The era in discussion was far from today’s era of Internet and video phones. It is insult on the people who ran Biafra to sinuate Okigbo, who had no previous training on weaponry, should be sent on journey to purchase weapons for Biafra. Who should be blamed if Okigbo bought logs of wood for Bazookas?

Duduknight: I guess she didn't realise that you would ignore the valid points she raised and instead proceed with entertaining us with other 'relevant' information.

Negro nuts,

I shall not get into debate with you and naijababe over Dr Sylvester Anieke because I have grown to understand that any position, in Nigeria especially in Yoruba land, filled with non-Yoruba, the candidate or the person automatically becomes quark and unqualified in the eyes of Yoruba peeps. So the case of Dr Sylvester Anieke as the Chairman in Council (governing council) of University of Ibadan was no exception.

naijababe: Dede1, what is it with you and half truths! Have you forgotten the part where the same Akinjide on becoming minister found out that close to 80% of the recipients of the federal schorlarship were Igbo? Or the part where Azikiwe chose to foist Dr Anieke - a certificate forger who had erstwhile been forced to resign from U.I as head of the teaching hospital on the same U.I as the chairman of the University's governing council?!

I guess you sounded very unintelligent out of the block with the above post. You have every right to believe anything you want. However, you should also bear in mind that beliefs are not translation of truths or factual facts. It is your cherished headache to dwell on statements from a character such as Richard Akinjide who has been known as a person that could not separate seeds from the chaffs even when his life depended on such endeavor.

texazzpete: I despise and abhor tribalism and ethnic bias...I thank God that I come from a 'minority' tribe so I don't have to take sides in this inanity.
However, i am firmly convinced that 99% of the other posters here are making these jibes good-naturedly. Many of these yoruba guys here have igbo girlfriends and vice versa for some of our outspoken Igbo brothers.

However, there are a few here that i'm 100% convinced are dead serious in their hatred. Dede1 is the most prominent of these. I will stand against such people...and for now, he will suffice as the face of generational hatred on Nairaland.
I'm taking no sides here. I find Damola's arguments to be quite convincing and if my challenges towards my Igbo brothers here will make their attempts at rebuttals lean more towards logic than insults, all the better.




How the heck is this a 'generalization' or a stereotype (the word i used)? Did I say "all Igbos are coup plotters"?
From the events of that day, the casualties recorded and the key members of the plot, holding a position that the coup was 'Igbo led' or 'had an igbo supremacist agenda' may not be far-fetched.
These refer to the coup plotters and not every man, woman and child of Igbo extraction.

I do not give a hoot about what rocks your boat. It is very unwise to make a statement of fact with slight knowledge of what you vomit. My best friend to date is a Yoruba chap but such relationship does not stop me or him from articulating the essence of nation states out of Nigeria. I had wanted Republic of Igbo land. If you are twisted out of human form because of my nationalistic zeal, I can not help you. Some wonderful parts of my life time were spent in Yoruba land and in so doing had family friends of Yoruba ancestry that still hold till date.

When growing up, there are values my parents inculcated in me such as uprightness and fairness. I do not pull paunches especially on the issues surrounding the deceitful nature of Nigeria. The inhuman approach to Nigeria\Biafra civil war had constituted the amalgam of my political philosophy in the cesspit called Nigeria. Nothing will bring more joy in life than to see the disintegration of Nigeria. If I have the wherewithal, Nigeria will not survive a day on my watch. Remember I am not oblivious to the numerous craps you posted on this forum and do not think for a moment I am that forgetful.

Please I suggest you shove your idea of “despise and abhor tribalism and ethnic bias as well as coming from minority tribe”. By the way, I shall not give a dirty ratazz to the impression you have formed about me. If hate is a natural phenomenon, I guess there is palatable reason for my indulgence.

kunlekunle: since you are a better Igbo fictional historian, kindly assist me to confirm how authentic this piece is

As part of the exclusive revelations from the 21,000 pages of US documents on the Nigeria-Biafra war, Richard Akinjide the Ibadan lawyer and Nnamdi Azikiwe, the former president of Nigeria told the American consul Mr Strong in Ibadan what that they thought of Ojukwu: Akinjide said: “Ojukwu suffers from Hitler-like megalomania.” He explained that Ojukwu was rejected as a child because he was an offspring of a mistress his father Sir Louis Ojukwu acquired in one of his business trips to the North. The father, a devout catholic, refused to accept the pregnancy that led to Ojukwu was his alone; other mysterious forces may have been at work. So he did not recognise Ojukwu nor took him into his home. Instead he sent the mother and the baby back to the North where the mother made her living as a trader and where the boy was born. Ojukwu like Nnamdi Azikiwe, was born in Zungeru. As the boy grew up, friends of the business mogul prevailed on him to recognise the boy as his own son. He then agreed to do so but the boy was something of an embarrassment so he sent him off to school in England where the boy eventually made it into Oxford University.

Akinjide, the former NNDP politician said “he knew Ojukwu well” when he was a federal minister under Tafawa Balewa. He continued: “When Ojukwu returned back 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 been different if NTC had given Ojukwu a job. “Instead he drifted into civil service and was given a post as Assistant District Officer at a bush post in the East. He was unhappy in this position,” Akinjide said because he felt his talents were not recognised. Seeking a better road to power and influence he joined the Nigerian army and because of his good educational background, he was soon sent to the elite Royal Academy Sandhurst in the UK.

I usually do not respond to junks written by characters such as Richard Akinjide but since you seek the truth, Akinjide is one reason people hold Yoruba in contempt. However, I shall disappoint you on the issue of Ojukwu’s parentage. Unlike the loudmouthed Richard Akinjide, I do not dwell on peoples' mother and father.

A political love peddler and perennial decamper such as Richard Akinjide introduced tribalism in Nigerian academia as Awolowo introduced tribalism in Nigerian polity. When he decamped from NCNC and joined NNDP on the promise of ministerial appointment, his first action on duty as Minister of Education was to appoint a fellow Omo Yoruba and political decamper in Dr Biabiaku(sp) as Vice Chancellor of Unilag and pushing out Prof. Eni Njoku. Folks remember that the things that qualified Dr Biabiaku for a teaching position talk less associate professorship were, 1. omo Yoruba, 2. clipboard carrying member of AG, 3. a fellow political love peddler such as Akinjide and 4. average lecturer at UI not even an associate professor.

I love Yoruba peeps with loudmouth and Akinjide did not disappoint. Ojukwu as a master degree holder from Oxford and son of highly placed Nigerian with friends in high places can not drift for job. Ojukwu was given options and he chose to be administrative officer, a job reserved for Colonial masters. I gathered it was a plan to vacate all the colonial masters from the eastern region to the western and northern regions. He was posted to Udi in Enugu as an assistant district officer (ADO) where he allagedly slapped a Briton who was DO (District Officer). The Briton was transferred to northern region while Ojukwu was transferred to Aba as ADO under Chief Jerome Udorji. My father, who was a district councilor in Asa, informed me that Ojukwu had little issue with Udorji which made Ojukwu to leave Aba for the military.

I am amazed at the manner Yoruba peeps flaunt their collective ignorance in the public. It is laughable that a person in position of Richard Akinjide lacked the knowledge that Ojukwu did not attend British Royal Academy, Sandhurst. Anyway, laziness and loudmouth can be agents of delusion. Since Ojukwu had a master degree from Oxford University for that matter, he was sent to British Royal Academy, MONS, Aldershot just for the military regimentation.

kunlekunle: culled from the last meeting between Awolow and ojukwu.

Ikemba: I started off this struggle in July with 120 rifles to defend
the entirety of the East. I took my stand knowing fully well
that by doing so, whilst carving my name in history, I was
signing also my death warrant.


what sane person would start a war with 120 rifles.
To me he sacrificed the biafrans.

Another person said, my land is occupied bt 35,000 armed soldiers, i need to apply wisdom, his decision saved the yorubas and you saw the brave one that did HUSEIN BOLT.

Ojukwu was always magnanimous and equally sarcastic in every statement he altered to the press during and after the war. Typical example was a statement such as “president Nigeria never had”. When I said a coward will die 10 miserable deaths before the actual death, I meant every word.

Awolowo displayed the inherent niche for cowardice and total ignorance on military issues when he allegedly claimed that western region was occupied by 35,000 soldiers. This is ridiculously laughable. I doff my heart for loudmouth antics of Yoruba peep. In 1966, Nigeria had two considerable less in strength Brigades and other formations such Recce and Garrison Organization.

A standard battalion takes at least 500 men. The 2nd brigade in the southern Nigeria comprised three battalions namely 1st battalion in Enugu, 2nd Battalion Ikeja and 4th Battalion Abeokwuta. There were small formations such as Recce and Garrison organization at Lagos and Ibadan. It takes at least 500 men to form a battalion. In case of Nigeria in 1966, the battalions were considerable undermanned.

For posterity sake, let me allot the number of full battalion to 2nd and 4th which sum up to 1000 men. Since both the Recce and two Garrisons are smaller formations than battalion, I shall be generous in granting 1000 men to the combined formations. Now those of you who studied mathematics, can 2000 men translate into 35,000 armed men? Bear in mind also that another battalion that made up the 2nd Brigade was 1st Battalion at Enugu with at least 500 men.

texazzpete: We may as well take all our learnings on World War II from the memoirs of the members of the German High Command.

The OP does not dispute that Achebe was in the Biafran war. He's just saying his books has several items that are not factual and is colored heavily by his previously hidden trait of an ethnic bigot.

Please learn to separate the man from his achievements. He is an excellent writer and a world renowned literature expert. His famous books have rightly earned him a lot of accolades. His antipathy towards corruption is exemplary. However his clearly Igbo Supremacist agenda is disgusting to the extreme to me and many others. That is where we stand in this matter!

Instead of babbling about Nowa Omoigui, why don't you tackle the remaining 95% of the write up that didn't reference Mr Omoigui?
Are we supposed to believe the words of a clearly Biased Achebe over the dispassionate and unbiased US embassy reports?

Honestly speaking, if there is anybody babbling about anything or grasping for air on this discussion, it is you. There is nothing of intellectual discussion about the crap written by Damola Awoyokun in response to Achebe’s memoir about Nigeria\Biafra civil war.

It is childish to compare the ceremonial wrestling contests between Modakeke and Ife with shooting war known as Nigeria\Biafra civil war.

He equally displayed lack of knowledge on military issues when he stated Azikiwe’s bodyguards facilitated Major Ifeajuna’s arrest of Balewa. I really wondered if the ninny understood Major Ifeajuna was the BM of 2nd Brigade.

In another stanza, he ignorantly latched onto imaginary massacre of Ibibio, Efik and Annang by Biafran soldiers. Again, the two able field commanders of Biafran army in the sector in discussion were sons of the soil.

He talked about Okigbo. In this instence yet again, he exposed his ignorance in the issue of warfare. Anybody who has few atoms of brain cell can easily realized a frontline guerrilla fighter can not be fighting gun battle at the time hopping from one country to another in search of ammunition. Okigbo has never been trained in weapon handling before the war and it will amount to idiocy for Biafran government to send Okigbo in search of weapon for Biafra.

Yet in another display of inherent ignorance, he dwelled on the imagery Igbo celebration and taunting after January 15, 1966. The only two cities where people celebarted January 15, 1966 coup were Lagos and Ibadan. The first exponent of such crap of Igbo celebration is Nowa Omoigui who ignorantly claimed the artist of Ewu Na Ebe Akwa was Celestine Ukwu, an Igbo musician who collaborated with the January 15, 1966 coup plotters in release of the record. Well, the hack writer in Nawa Omoigui had been shamed when actual artist of Ewu Na Ebe Akwa was revealed to him.

Nowa Omoigui has also been rebuked by stating Igbo Market woman in Sambo Garri printed leaflets of dead bodies of politicians from northern region of Nigeria. Again, anybody with peanut size of brain will understand that an average Muslim could not have being able to snap the photograph of dead Bello or Balewa lying in state talk less of Igbo market woman. The leaflets with the dead pictures of Bello and Balewa were printed by New Nigerian Newspaper based in Kaduna and distributed throughout northern region in order to incite unrest.

It is very funny and refreshing to read from Nigerian intellectuals such as Damola Awoyokun. In the case of the manufacturing of Biafran Ogbunigwe, the impostor remembered the Irish journalist in Donal Musgrave who uncovered the American and for unknown reason forgot the name of “bespectacled” American mercenary from MIT who trained Biafrans on how to use fertilizers in making of bombs.

In fact, I really do not know where to start or stop with the craps spewed by this ill-informed extrovert called Damola Awoyokun. Even the so-called issue of Midwestern region invasion by Biafra has been dealt on this forum.

T9ksy: Sorry to disaapoint you, but i won't. Rather, i 'll be having a good time rounding up any flat-headed mofo

ingrates (in my region) who can't pronounce "toro", properly. we shall utilise their blood to cleanse our land of those who

wish us nothing but tribulations.

It is good you reminded us about Yoruba’s propensity for ritualistic indulgence.

T9ksy: No sweat!!! Any okoro man or woman masquerading as a yoruba will not be shot but rather we shall

gladly sacrifice him or her to one of our myriad deities.

You can knock yourself silly with sacrifices.