Obamaofusa: Stop acting like a chameleon. The SS knows that your people are tribalism personified reason for the abandoned properties saga.. What is the population and landmass of edo and delta which was Midwest compared to yoruba. Now compare rivers, cross river, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom population and land mass against Igbos' and ask urself who was marginalizing who between Yoruba and Igbo.
You igbos had just 3 states and minorities who were around 40% ,had 4 states and they only got 9 out of total 26..Haba
Yoruba gave the just 9% minorities 7 out of 23.
Igbos and nepotism are like cojoined twins.
You are one reason Nigeria is backward. The bolded never informed you that powers that were when states came to existence did so with full house malice against Ndigbo due to Nigeria/Biafra war? How can Nigerians even begin to foster any form of unity when they lacked sincerity?
adeboizy11: “BRITISH DID NOT HANDOVER NIGERIA TO FULANI, NNAMDI AZIKWE DID “ ~ Babalola Akinnuoye
Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government.
Zik's National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats.
Awolowo's Action Group (AG), came second with 1,992,364 votes to get 73 seats.
However, the Ahmadu Bello's Northern People's Congress (NPC), came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives despite getting less public votes.
The above three major political parties in the election did not get enough number of the seats to form a government. An alliance had to be formed to determine who would rule.
It was a no brainer that Zik's NCNC and Awolowo's Action Group should make a coalition government as they came first and second respectively.
Awolowo, then humbled himself and volunteered to be a Deputy Prime Minister or Finance Minister in a coalition government with Zik as the Prime Minister. This was because the Zik's NCNC party had more public votes and seats than the Awolowo's Action Group.
Zik invited Awolowo’s team to Asaba, the gateway between the Yoruba's Western Region and the Igbo's Eastern Region to hold coalition talks. The talks were a clever ruse to keep Action Group’s hopes high, so that Action Group would be kept distracted from meeting with other minor parties for talks, including: Northern Elements Progressive Union with 8 seats; Mobolaje Grand Alliance with 6 seats; Igala Union with 4 seats; Independents Candidates with 4 seats; Igbira Tribal Union with 4 seats and the Niger Delta Congress with 1 seat.
Whilst the Action Group team was waiting in Asaba for a meeting with the NCNC, they read in the news that Zik and the NCNC had gone up North and clinched the deal with Ahmadu Bello on forming a coalition government with the NPC.
Tafawa Balewa, a Fulani, would be the Prime Minister of Nigeria while Zik would be the figure head Governor-General. Even Nkrumah of Ghana was shocked. He asked Zik why having spent so much energy fighting for colonial emancipation and then settling for a toothless bulldog role when Nigeria needed him the most.
Zik wrote in his autobiography why he did not form a coalition government with Awolowo.
In 1947, with over £13,500 raised from the Yoruba people and given to the NCNC, Zik had led other six prominent NCNC delegates to London to protest the “obnoxious laws” of Governor Arthur Richards. The trip ended in failure with backbiting, abuses and accusation of theft against Zik. Zik’s opponents at the NCNC, accused him of squandering the money and the trust of Nigerians.
Zik replied insinuating that the Yoruba on the team, that are: Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, and Dr. A. B. Olorunnimbe, were the problem.
There erupted a heated and prolonged press war between Zik’s Political Reminiscence in his West African Pilot and H.O. Davies’ Political Panorama in the Daily Service. This led to Igbo in Lagos rushing to buy machetes in large numbers thinking a tribal war was imminent.
The Governor and his General Secretary, Hugh Foot, quickly called Zik and H.O. Davies to order at the Government House.
Zik went away with the resolve that “the Yoruba must not be allowed to rule over others in Nigeria”.
And afterwards in the Daily Service published the speech of Zik in 1949 about Igbo being destined by God to conquer and rule over others. This among others, will explain why Zik rejected Awolowo's offer of a coalition government in 1959 and instead worked with the Fulani.
The Fulani had been reading Zik and the Igbo through the lens of his 1949 speech ever since.
The Fulani way of neutralising Zik when the opportunity came in 1959 was to offer him a powerless post, which surprisingly Zik and the NCNC dutifully accepted in place of being Nigeria’s first Prime Minister.
Zik had thought that the Igbo can easily manipulate the Fulani in place of the educated Yoruba. He thus manipulated Balewa to arrest Awolowo in 1962 and to have him jailed for 10 years in 1963.
Zik also manipulated Balewa to remove from the Western Region the Edo, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Western Ijaw that account for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them the Mid-West Region.
Zik's hatred for the Yoruba gave the Fulani the impetus to rule over others in Nigeria.
The Igbo coup plotters tried to undo Zik's mistake in 1966. And unfortunately, they killed other tribes and left theirs, which resulted in the civil war.
Britain did not really hand over Nigeria to the Fulani. Nigeria was given over to the Fulani by the Igbo.
However, to hold on to power in Nigeria, the Fulani enlisted the backing of the self-serving career politicians in England.
Not many Igbo especially the young ones know this narrative. I don’t think the Yorubas, even their elders remember this. Has the leopard changed its spots?
Yari.ba can write all the nonsense in the world to justify their blunder of 1967 which decidedly shifted power to the northern region of Nigeria hence Fulani, it will never change the factual facts. Northern elites would have been nowhere today if the Yari.ba and the so-called minorities has listened to Ojukwu in 1967. It is plain idiotic to be sucked into the a deceitful presentation of Gowon from little known ethnic group and so-called Christian as the arrowhead of Fulani and other political elites from northern region.
kikake: If not that you are totally against development of any other place in Imo state except Owerri, what is wrong with the request for asphalt of Orlu and Okigwe urban roads?
Look yourself in the mirror, you are abnormal.
It takes one abnormal nincompoop to recognize another on the forum. What a junk.
gwafaeziokwu: "The East had the first industrial development plan in Africa. Note that All Eastern Nigerian "townships" / cities had designed within them, an industria[/b]l zone:
Aba (factory [b]Road),Umuahia (Factory Road) [b]Calabar (Factory road), Enugu and Port-harcourt had Industrial Free zones - the Emene Industrial Lay out and the Trans-Amadi Industrial lay-out. S[/b]o did Owerri, which had an industrial layout,so did Onitsha etc. etc. Owerri,Aba and Port Harcourt were already designed in what was clalled "A three city nexus" (s[/b]ee works plan of the Eastern Survey Dept. in Enugu) The institutions like the :
African Continental Bank,
Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria
Eastern Nigerian Development Corporation,
[b]University of Nigeria was established in 1960 with campuses at Nsukka and Calabar
[/b]Obudu Tourism and Entertainment Ranch, Calabar [/b]
Nigercem,
Nigergas,
Nigersteel,
Factory,glass industries, Portharcourt, Aba ,Owerri
All the above cited examples were accomplished without the silly crude oil fund. Most idiotic Nigerians will always jump to crude oil this and crude oil that yet have no knowledge about the time Nigeria started receiving crude oil fund from SBPC.
Cholison: The only ideology in Nigerian politics is Stomarch Ideology. There is nothing hunger can not do, even to sell your Mama no hard these politicians.
You could not be more correct. This nonsensical behavior is prevalent in Africa, especially Nigeria. Yet these fools do not understand why certain people of the world act disdainfully towards them. All fools do is shout racism.
AAEEI: I don't know the meaning. But the name must mean something in their language. I am not Ogoni, but I am telling you for a fact that Ogonis bear the name. I lived 5 years in River State and traveled to Ogoni regularly back then. Just so you know, I am Igbo myself. I am not saying Dimkpa is not Igbo name. I am saying that it is ALSO Ogoni and Eleme names
Eleme is not Ogoni. The real name of Eleme will shock so many people to the bones.
hargbolahan01: all of you ignorant spreading false story
he was disposed because he tell Bode George to bark to death and he did when Bode disrespected him in Kings meeting...and Bode George was one of awolowo loyalists that even him (awolowo) appointed Bode George as chairman of the Kings council meeting
so go and learn history before you started quoting lies for your fellow ignorant
and besides what do guys gain in tribal war? pls tell me
If the so-called history was written by those who turned Kiriji wrestling match into world War III, I shall pass.
PicLtd: I think part of Awolowo's paranoia is traceable to the fact that he hardly knew his father, as a boy he got kicked out by two of his uncles for being stubborn and lacking respect. Awo was not raised in a balanced home. From one home to another, from one school to another.
Right from his days in school he was fighting everyone, infact he changed about 3 different schools before standard 6, due to his sociopathologies, he always needed to constantly prove to every of his peers that he was better than them. He had serious insecurities. It made him more enemies than friends. He envied little things like the better haircut the Ibo and Ghanian students wore in his school.
It's all there in his autobiography which he wrote himself, if you read between the lines in that book, you'll get a clear idea of a youngman trapped in his cocoon by his psycho-social insecurities.
The jackass went further to create confusion on the stratum of Obas in Yoruba land when he appointed Ooni of Ife as the Chairman of House of Chiefs in the western regional assembly. This was due to fracas he had with Alaafin of Oyo. The Alaafin of Oyo never agreed to the Awololo's tribal tendencies in western region. He even formed Omo Egba parapo to oppose the silly Omo Egba Oduduwa. Awo also created the fracas between the Itsekiri and Urhubo. He mastermind the change from Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri hoping to give his alleged kinsmen of Itsekiri the ownership of Warri. Awo never attended secondary school. He grew from the street and motor parks. However, I admired his tenacity to succeed and love for education.
nairalandankrah: @op so you are one of kanus students...lolz anyways, EVERY BODY BORN ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH HAS A HISTORY.... AND WE KNOW OURS Your thread is useless because @OP you do not have the right to AUTHOR a peoples history..
Peoples' history has been authored by human beings.
Christistruth00: Stop lying against Wellington Duke U Bassey and fear God. Wellington Duke U Bassey was NA1.
His enemies did everything to bury Bassey's Career and persecuted him for no other reason than he was an Eastern Minority from Calabar and Ironsi's senior in the Officers Corps by 3 years .
His enemies feared he could become the first Nigerian head of the Army if he had been left alone. The Northern Soldiers treated W.U Bassey like a Father and they used to console him while he was at Zaria Army depot , they could see the all the njustice meted out to him. It was the Soldiers from his own Eastern Region that wanted to assassinate him because of their selfish ambition . It took Bassey over 30 years and a World War to get to where he was ,. His antagonists should have waited for their own turn instead of trying to destroy the great man.
Christistruth00: . If Bassey was already a Major in 1954 when he helped to enlist Yakubu Gowon into the Army then how could he have been commissioned in 1952 ?
From the above crap you are very clueless about the subject matter. Most write-ups in Nigeria are done out of malice. Even Duke Bassey could not have been a major in 1954 talk less Umoh Bassey. Sometimes recorded events tend to shame hack writers in Nigeria who are overwhelmed by the pressure from tribalism. When Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in 1956, Ironsi was the only African with the rank of major in entire British commonwealth in Africa. He was appointed ADC to Queen. I have warned you about the copy and paste. Any fool, especially from certain section of Nigeria, can put down any crap on paper to look relevant and satisfy tribal bent. You should have pose the question how did Gowon equaled Umoh Bassey in rank by 1966. The dude never received UN assignment in Congo because he could not command battalion of Boys Company.
SamNaijaboy: Nonsense. NCNC had loyalty from Yorubas because it was always a Yoruba party before it spread to the East. It was formed and led by a Yoruba, Herbert Macaulay, who upon his death handed it over to Azikiwe. The Yorubas following Zik did that as a part of their loyalty to NCNC. Zik is the most tribalitic leader of them all: he should have partnered with AG to be the PM, rather he preferred to be a ceremonial President/Governor General to the North. He also wanted to be Premier in the West after installing another Igbo as Premier in the East instead of ensuring he went to the East as Premier and working to install a Yoruba in the West using the same party that he inhreited from them.
Same way Igbos come to Lagos to prosper yet can't stop themselves from hating the indigenes that helped them prosper in their midst, always thinking they are smarter than the people who created the environment that makes them excel. Zik should have realized he was a nobody without Herbert Macaulay and the NCNC he gave him to lead without any nepotism and not attempt to rule those who graciously let him lead the party
There is nothing like nonsense about it. He, Awolowo, equally threatened the Oba of Benin and Ovie of Urhobo.
For those who support the silly One-Nigeria do so on genuine reasons of inherent insincerity and fear of unknown. I personally do not support and will never support the silly idea of One-Nigeria.
successmatters: The western region created the assistant positions just to make sure Edo and Delta people are subjugated and are placed at inferior positions to that of yorubas.
I guess eastern region would have copied from western region. The minorities in eastern region were given too much of lane.
Christistruth00: Bassey NA1 never left the Army. he was buried in an Captains posting for years . It was even common knowledge among the Northern Soldiers that Bassey was being oppressed because he was from the Eastern Minorities and was Ironsi's senior in the Officers Corps . The Northern Soldiers even assured him that in any Northern Coup Bassey would not be touched by them because they could see that Bassey was being oppressed by the same people who had murdered their leaders.
The bolded is a silly conjecture from abused mind. How could a major in the alleged 1959 picture of pioneer officers being buried in captain's posting by British COs for years? Your boy, Umoh Bassey, commissioned in 1952 was promoted according to his record. Like most of them in the era never gained regular commission for fear of losing a rank. His rank of Lt Col in 1966 was in order for a dude who gained short service commission in 1952.
Christistruth00: Stop lying against Wellington Duke U Bassey and fear God. Wellington Duke U Bassey was NA1.
His enemies did everything to bury Bassey's Career and persecuted him for no other reason than he was an Eastern Minority from Calabar and Ironsi's senior in the Officers Corps by 3 years .
His enemies feared he could become the first Nigerian head of the Army if he had been left alone. The Northern Soldiers treated W.U Bassey like a Father and they used to console him while he was at Zaria Army depot , they could see the all the njustice meted out to him. It was the Soldiers from his own Eastern Region that wanted to assassinate him because of their selfish ambition . It took Bassey over 30 years and a World War to get to where he was ,. His antagonists should have waited for their own turn instead of trying to destroy the great man.
Ask the jackass name of another soldier, he will tell I do know him/her because they were not in the same social circle. I pay no mind to silly opinions from people who are being interviewed. So stop flooding the forum with nonsensical craps from interviews. I bet you this jackass does not know the difference between Efik and Ibibio.
Blackking98: ibibio is ibibio and not the rubbish your director is spewing, y'all should keep your madness to yourself and leave us abeg
I personally do not give a ratass about Ibibio. I have only visited Uyo once during my high school days when it was a backwater. If heaven should fall today, I want Republic of Igbo land.
raumdeuter: So Ojukwu has a right to attack Yoruba soldiers and Yoruba land but Yorubas dont have the right to attack Ojukwus men
You are really a morron
The mor.on is the person who allows a warlord to sit in his so-called Yari.ba land and use Yari.ba human resources to attack another region yet claim idiotic right of ancestral land to attack.
overall90: Adaka Boro did not declare Niger delta republic because Aguiyi Ironsi who has been in power for merely 12 days was using oil proceeds to develop Enugu or any part of Igbo kand for that matter. as at the 1960s,oil have not become a huge foreign exchange earner though the potential was there. oil actually became a big earner from 1970 because of the Arab-Israeli war/wars (the first oil boom). the main reason why Boro wanted a Niger delta republic is because,as Wellinki pointed out in his report,the Niger delta because of its terrain needs a special status and attention for it to be developed and Boro felt that its only an independent Niger delta republic can do that.
Bros it is shame that large section of Nigerian population remains stack ignorant. Isaac Adaka Boro like his forbearers and tribesmen were agents of NPC and political elites of northern region of Nigeria. It was the proceeds from Enugu coal that gave Igweocha in Ikwerre and other backwater villages in Ijo a link to livelihood. Talk about biting the fingers that are feeding you.
Ogbeni you are still brainstorming? The Okoros have finalized payment in dollars for port usage with us, the usage of airspace is next on d card and how much dollars is to be paid, jeun soke continues! They know they are a landlocked country but initial gragra is allowed
If only your silly skull could allow you to realize that certain boundaries are determined through the muzzle of the gun. In addition, some folks are expendable thanks to Nigerian government in Bakassi peninsula.
Is Afenifere this stupid? Or is it a generation thing? No organization gives anybody country. However there certain protocols that needed to be laid down before the real thing is proclaimed. I do not think the loudmouthed characters would proclaim state nobody knew anything about it.
Bialegend: What is happening in Benin City. Many northern looking people and today is not friday that we may say they are coming back or going to a mosque to pray. Benin people what's going on in your city?
Fulani/Herdsmen Invasion in Benin City, Edo State.
It is called One-Nigeria your forbearers fought to achieve. I guess you have deal with it. The blunders committed by the forbearers shall visit the future generation.
Ndigbo unlike Yari.ba do not vote on the national level due to ethnical or selfish interest. Ndigbo cannot cast their votes because one bent Igbo chap on the ticket. Ndigbo votes on chosen party with like compatible ideologies. Yari.ba only vote if their son or daughter is on the ticket. Only in Obasanjo's first they voted against a presumed son because another preferable son was on the other ticket.
Christistruth00: Bassey never left the Army that was part of the propaganda of lies against him to justify the injustice meted out on him. He never left the Army. He was given the Army number NA1 after independence in 1960 and Ironsi was given NA2 at the same time . Please stop lying Bassey's reputation has already suffered enough.
Wellington Umoh Bassey was not NA1. This honor goes to Aguiyi Ironsi because he was the most military officer from Royal Queen's Own Regiment to Nigerian army after independence. Umoh Bassey was not even suited to command a combatant unit when Nigeria needed good and capable officers to command units of Nigerian army in Congo during UN operation. Nigeria is really basket of fools.
Politics › Re: Western Region Ministerial List In 60s by Dedetwo(m): 12:39pm On May 22, 2020
. It takes a fool nothing to defend a fool like Kanu 