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TheChameleon:
Yeah, blah, blah, blah.. the past is the past.

The "YARIBAs" have now colonised the place.

You are now free to commit suicide if it's that painful.

The moniker has a huge point on your stream of thought.

If I am on the corridor of power, the elements of Nigerian army involved in this fracas should be severely punished. People in the authority should lead by example.

Abagworo:
The truth is that those places bore those names earlier as a result of the fact that then Diobu Ikwerres embraced those Umu prefix for children despite Rumu being their dialectal version. It is common accross Igboland as many written names do not reflect the immediate dialect. An example is Ehugbo written and pronounced as Afikpo, Ugwuta written and pronounced Oguta, Owereh written and pronounced as Owerri etc. The Diobu Ikwerres felt dominated by non native Igbos from Southeast because of the usual Igbo attitude which has always led to a dichotomy in their host Igbo cities like Ngwa vs others in Aba, Onitsha vs others, Abakaliki vs others etc. mainly because non natives win most electoral offices making the natives allege a conspiracy which is unproven.

The change of name from Umu to Rumu was simply to declare liberation from inland Igbo dominance after Biafra was defeated in Port Harcourt. It was a political manipulation to give the Diobu a sense of belonging among tribes hitherto different from them and then prove that they are different from Igbo proper.

Remember there were Rebisi and Ikwerre. Diobu was/is Rebisi. The change of name was the folly of acceptance. It is mark of inferior mentality. Those who played alongside Ikwerre's stupidity also laughed along too. Not all Ikwerre or other Igbo people who were native to what became Rivers State found it funny. For example, the two Igbo/Ikwerre who were in the government of Lt. Cdr Spiff from its inception in Lagos resigned from the government the moment it was finally moved to Port Harcourt when the war ended.

SuperS1Panther:
Ikwerre-Igbo Relationship As Seen By Ohaneze Indigbo
By
Okachikwu Dibia
nelsondibiaokachi@yahoo.com


In the interview of the President, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Ralph Uwechue, published in the Daily Sun of 10th March, 2010, the President was asked what efforts he is making to unite Igbo in Rivers and Delta States, he said “ First of all, it should be understood that these fractions who now deny the fact they are Igbo did so only after the civil war; take for instance the Ikwerre people… fully identified with us during the pre-civil war era but because the Igbo lost the civil war, a kind of stigma was smeared on them making a lot of people to start adjusting their names to sound less Igbo…”. This statement is misleading and not correct.

First of all, Ikwerre is not Igbo. We have made this clear even before the civil war and that was why some Igbo accused Ikwerre of sabotage during the war. Second, in all efforts by the minorities in the former Eastern Region to agitate for their own political, social and economic recognition and liberty in the Easter Region and Nigeria at large, Ikwerre participated fully: hence, the late Chief E. J. A. Oriji and others represented Ikwerre before and during most of the conferences set up to address the fears of the minority ethnic groups in Nigeria. Third, in May 1963, Ikwerre people formed the Ogbakor Ikwerre Convention to state that Ikwerre is a distinct ethnic group from any others in Nigeria. Fourth, in the 1964/65 elections into the Federal House of Representatives, NCNC nominated an Igbo man named Mr Eluguronu to represent Ikwerre in the House. Ikwerre rejected it and fielded young Bar. Nwobidike Nwanodi as an independent candidate and he won. Fifth, Ikwerre’s participation in all the movements for the creation of COR and later Rivers states clearly shows Ikwerre’s rejection of been Igbo.

Let the point be made that right from about the 16th century, the Igbo has been in touch with Ikwerre ( through slave trade, Arochuku activities, goods trading, hiring of labour for farm works, marriages and politics) and had always wanted to dominate, colonize and take over Ikwerre at all costs and by all means possible. This is natural especially where the dominated people are better endowed than the colonizing power, coupled with the ever tendency of a bigger group to swallow a smaller one and whenever the latter refuses, the former resorts to cheap propaganda. That is exactly what Chief Uwechue and Ohaneze Ndigbo are bent on doing to Ikwerre. In this unholy enterprise, they appear confused: for example, while some of them claim that Ikwerre sabotaged the Biafra project, Uwechue has said that Ikwerre did not. Truly, Ikwerre did not just like every other minority ethnic group in the former Eastern Region. How could we when the Igbo was in absolute control of the region? So, we fought for Biafra. When another colonizing super power (Nigerian forces) arrived, Ikwerre had no option than to surrender and cooperate with them. Hence, Ikwerre actually fought the war on and for both sides.

After the war, some of the ill activities of the Igbo in Ikwerre were corrected. In the case of names, the Igbo first changed the original Ikwerre names into Igbo names in an attempt to force Ikwerre to become Igbo. So at the end of the war, some Ikwerre decided to assert their original names; hence, Igirita was changed to Igwuruta, Isoba was changed to Choba, Amaweke was changed to Rumuokwuta etc. Even individuals suffered the same humiliation when their names were forcefully changed from Ovunda to Obinna for example. Even the original name of the Ikwerre Ethnic group which is Iwheruoha was changed to Ikwerre by the Igbo. Some names have been retained (like my surname) to reflect part of the Ikwerre colonial journey, just like a Yoruba Nigerian bearing the name Mathew. Does this make the Yoruba man an English man? No!

On a more serious note, if the Igbo insists that Ikwerre is Igbo, they should provide concrete sociological and historical evidences to prove their case beyond the whimsical factors of appearance, language and name which no longer can correctly and truly define a people in today’s world. What does is the character of the people and I am yet to see where the Igbo character can be sufficiently located in the behavior of an average Ikwerre person. For example, they say we are lazzy; is the Igbo also lazzy? Again, if Ikwerre say they are not Igbo, why not the Igbo leave the Ikwerre alone; must Ikweere be Igbo for them to exist? Ikwerre is Ikwerre!

It is this type of continuously overbearing tendency to dominate and extinct a people by force that makes it difficult for me to agree to dissolve myself into who I am not. That is why it will continue to be difficult to agree to a citizenship arrangement in Nigeria whereby I will just be a Nigerian. I am a Nigerian from Ikwerre, just like Wilson Churchill is a European from England. Therefore, let us restructure Nigeria on ethnic basis and let all the groups have equal rights, privileges and opportunities and respect one another as peoples of diverse and different nationalities who have discussed and agreed to be in one political and co-ordinate sphere called Nigeria. This pluralist recommendation is akin to the EU with different and diverse ethnic groups who have political, social and economic freedoms, but agreed to meet as equals in EU. Thinking of forcing every ethnic nation in Nigeria to forget who they are in order to become Nigeria, is like forcing the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain etc into one country. If they did not discuss and agree on that formation, who will rule who and how?

Let Nigeria and in particular the Igbo allow Ikwerre to remain who she says she is until and unless superior evidence is provided to prove beyond all reasonable doubts that Ikwerre is Igbo. Let the Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Igbo etc allow Ikwerre to be.


Okachikwu Dibia
Abuja.


Minorities really suffered in the hands of the Igbos in the old Eastern Region. no wonder they want Biafrau.d with SS again. They are looking for people to colonise and dominate.

It is said that bold lies when repeated can be truth. The 1965 election was for regional house not federal. In addition, the election was for the seat of Mile 2 Diobu district in the Ahoada Central constituency. The main fight was not between Mr Eluguronu and Nwanodi who were the principals or Ikwerre and Igbo because there was nothing such as Ikwerre political power in the area as of the time of this discuss. The fight was between Orlu/Okigwe axis versus Mbaise/Bende axis. Mr Eluguronu who had already stepped down for NCNC candidate for the position of Mayor of Port Harcourt angered his town union people which was Mbaise which refused to give him support because the Mbaise/Bende political power house has already had Nwanodi as its candidate in NCNC. Due to the debacle between Mr Eluguronu and his Mbaise Union, he opted to run as independent and lost the election as did the former Mayor of Port Harcourt, Chief Emenike, who ran as independent too. During this era, Ikwerre or Ijo did not have any political backbone in Ahoada Division. The politics of Ahoada central constituency was dominated by the two axis, Orlu/Okigwe and Mbaise/Bende. Note Mbaise represented people from Owerri area since Owerri was the designation of the province.

Ojiofor:
Eastern region came into existence in 1954 and people like Elechi Amadi was born in 1934 that is 20 years before Eastern region was extablished and he was named Elechi which is obviously Igbo name by his father whose fathers name was Amadi.
Again,who forced Elechi Amadi ancestors to name their children Igbo names way before Europeans set foot in Eastern region!

I love your patient with the loudmouths. It is a fact nobody can be logical with Yari.ba.

Bilabong:
one day told us he heard of some medicine from U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent speech for curing Coronavirus. He said it would bring more immunity and help to prevent COVID-19.


Trump inspired

You are a typical Nigerian.

packagerz:
WHY TOLERANCE IS NOT AN OPTION

Dear Friends,
In the face of the kind of divisiveness that we face as a nation today, I consider the application of logic as illogical.
My position is based on the premise that abnormal situations brings about abnormal measures.

It is not logical to apply logic when illogical things are happening.
When people take up arms and slaughter other humans who are defenceless, harmless, and most times innocent, that is illogical.
When our security forces rely on vigilantes to protect our societies, that is illogical.
When you can’t make a phone call in a “NEPA” office because of the loud sound from generators, that is illogical.
If we want to apply logic, then it is an eye for an eye, and soon enough, all of us will be blind.

Now, I am not advocating that we ignore veritable threats to lives, especially now that our security forces seems overwhelmed, No! Everyone has a right to life and security, even when it means safeguarding those rights by oneself.

What I am advocating is that we imbibe the spirits of restraint, from engaging in rhetoric that will escalate an already dicey situation.
I am advocating the bridging of gaps that could enable our nation’s best minds to come together and work together to create ground breaking innovations in science, technology, the arts, and importantly, governance.

Recently, I learned that China has about 56 ethnic groups. Who knew? But see where they are! Today Rwanda is becoming a beacon of development and progress because of what I may describe as an enforced National policy of tolerance. Rwandans after emerging from one of the most brutal ethnic conflicts in history, realized that the only way to move forward is through tolerance. Do you know that in Rwanda, it is criminal to identify yourself on the basis of your ethnicity? Everyone is Rwandan.

If we must move forward as a people, we will have to start looking beyond where our leaders should come from, and start focusing on what they can do.
And in other to achieve that, tolerance is not an option. It is a vital necessity at the moment.
One day, let’s learn to and preach tolerance.

God bless us all.

Dr Ramon Adedoyin
Maye of Yoruba kingdom

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To the bolded, I shall add when sophisticated is unsophisticated.
When loudmouth is even louder.

It is safe to say seeing things the way they are instead of the way they should have been is lack of vision and sophistication. Have we not realize that making a noise does not attract dividends? One of worst things against humanity is force human beings not to identify with his/her ethnicity. Instead of denial of ethnic heritage, I wound not mind if denied then nationality of Nigeria. I shall ever be happy with nationality of the Republic of Igbo land or even Biafra.

MinorityOpinion:
Even if Donald Trump liked Nnamdi Kanu post, Biafra is not going to happen

Why does the mention of Biafra give you nightmare? Something better than Biafra might be in pipe line.

tamdun:
I'll forever keep it in my archive and share it on nairaland every year to refresh our memory.

Do you know what posted is the same falsehood known to perpetrated by loudmouths from southwestern Nigeria. Please do better than the free education given to you by Awolowo. You are one of the Yari.ba peeps whom Chief Richard Akinjide meant when he lambasted free education in western region of Nigeria.

BigTableShaker:
Igbos are hypocritical basterrd.

It takes one hypocritical basterrd such as you to recognize another. If the above response came as result of the original post, it is safe to say you are not smart.

tamdun:
Saw this on nairaland ( can't remember d date) and I decided to refresh our memory
Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;

Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!

Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.

Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!

We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.

*What follows are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"*

Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

*“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”*.

WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:

The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation. The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating.

However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.

Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.

To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution. While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.

Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis). As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:

"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).

"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949). Anascopeterson: As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate. Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria. With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.

But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region. But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region. While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.

Anascopeterson: While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
Anascopeterson: When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts. Here is how:

In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address. But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard. Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government. However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony. Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exhuberance.

On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.

Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint". After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.

Anascopeterson: The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers. That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.

Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.

In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.
But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.

Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.

Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers. Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra. But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty? Be the judge. Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:

After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging. Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.

Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest of Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.

First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle. Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process. Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.

Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference. Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.

In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.

That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians. On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise. But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft. That was the height of Irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.

So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
Anascopeterson: Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives

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Mr. Copier, you failed to post or copy responses to the above crap.

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As a Yari.ba troll, I guess the answer of SS will make you happy. And there you have it.

Unbearable loudmouth!!!

sarrki:

There, in one of his lectures, Wachuku provoked national controversy when he declared Lagos a "no-man's land" – meaning that it was an all-Nigerian city – wherein all Nigerians were entitled to equal rights. Among other responsibilities, Jaja Wachuku was Principal Secretary of the Igbo State Union from 1948 to 1952.


Did you know that during the 1963 Inaugural Conference of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa, Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1892-1975), literally dropped to his knees and begged Nigeria's Prime Minister The Honourable Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912-1966) to plead with his Foreign Minister, first indigenous Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, former Minister of Aviation and Ugo Ngwa [Eagle and Pride of the Ngwa people], Jaja Anucha Wachuku (1918-1996), to accede to the request of Nicolas Grunitzky (1913-1969), Togolese military President from 1963 to 1967, who overthrew and assassinated



https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/117885/everydog-has-his-day.html

It is very unfortunate you knew very little about the history of Lagos. Sometimes I become very flabbergasted as certain loudmouths talk about Lagos as Yari.ba forgetting there was a time Yari.ba was not mentioned in the same sentence with Lagos.

Dogogo1900:
Everytime someone from Niger Delta says that they don't want to be included in Biafra you will see Igbo people attacking him and calling him a Yoruba man,seriously are these people that stupid not to know by now that we are not interested in their Biafra?
These people will never learn.
The best thing is to ignore them and allow them to waste their time.

The wrong issue with your statement is Niger Delta. People such as you do not have monopoly on Niger Delta. You can talk about your ethnic nationality on how to form a coalition with other ethnic nationalities in the region or geographical expression known as Niger Delta. It is plain idiocy for one ethnic nationality to remotely assume that Niger Delta is its ancestral domain.

Kwashiman:
Bros the thing tire me... Na these shameless IPOB degenerates dey give those irrelevant minorities the mouth and ammunition to talk and fire shots at the greater Igbo nation. I'm not even sure the entire Ibibio/Efik ethnic nationality put together with all the jara dey dem get on top sef can measure up to 1/10 of the human development index and global achievements of my LGA in Imo state, not to mention the whole Igbo nation of 40 million or more people. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but love and respect for lots of the minority groups that understand that not all Igbos are on board with the ridiculous ipob manifesto of forcing non-igbos into their warped version of "Biafra", those ones are generally cool with us and don't hide their sympathies and solidarity for us. I've had lots of them openly tell me on the Facebook group I run that they don't mind joining Biafra, and I bluntly told them MBANU! we don't want another Nigeria 2.0 in Biafra, that they are great enough to form their own nations so GOODLUCK!

The mistake Ojukwu made was to include them into Biafra even though reason considering the circumstance of the time was justified, I believe if Biafra was an whole Igbo affair with some diplomatic relations with the minority areas for benefit of sea access etc, we should have won that war.

At the time relevant to this discussion and the prevailing international politics with Britain as an actor, the only way Biafra would have won the war was surprise. Yet it lost the surprise at Ore due to poor tactical approach by Ojukwu. Even with the surprise act of springing into Lagos and driving Gowon to Kaduna, it could have been stalemated with Britain pulling all the strings to save face. If the war will show face today in Nigeria with prevailing international politics, there could be more than two countries out of the crumbled shithole called Nigeria.

MinorityOpinion:
Very ugly nkechi.

Na she affect other nkechi. When she died from hot bullet of Nigeria army, she went to God to complain that Ojuwku must suffer for the pain he caused her people but God was mad with her ugly head and curse every Nkechi to be ugly. That's why you can never see any beautiful Nkechi

You are one of the reasons Nigeria is called basket of fools. It is a pity you make fool of yourself in should be academic arena.

tomakint:
Oba Oyekan openly worked against MKO later while Abiola who groomed Tinubu politically was still alive so what's the hype here about one funny and sellout rogue being decorated as Asiwaju when it was clear that the "issuer and receiver" here eventually betrayed the Mandate man (MKO) and follow after his tormentor (Abacha)! Miserable lots......Rest in peace MKO Abiola

I always beg Nigerians to follow simple logic when approaching the so-called mandate for M.K Abiola. I have seen any person who claimed to passed WAEC when the examination was canceled. The M. K. Abiola participated in election which was canceled. Therefore he did not win any election.

raumdeuter:
When the Biafran army aggressed the west which was Awolowos homeland, what was he supposed to do?

It was the same dumbass west which was Awolowo's homeland that harbored Gowon who had used Yoruba soldiers in Nigerian army to attack eastern region of Nigeria. Nigeria is called shithole in party because of idiotic logics such as the above post.

raumdeuter:
Dendemoron

So what were Biafra soldiers doing at Ore on their way to the same Lagos they wanted nothing to do with?

MoronicInvestigator

Are you always dense in skull? The Biafran soldiers were at Ore while headed to Lagos to kick Gowon out of Lagos. The cowering Yari.ba people did not have liver to tell Gowon and northern region political elites to get out of Lagos.

Davash222:
President Buhari gave me expired rice as Covid-19 relief package


- Afonja man

Please understand the differences between a country and zoo.

Shobowalebola:
Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the senate , Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has thanked Nigerians and Judiciary following his victory at the apex court on friday.

He noted that the past five months has provided him an opportunity to learn invaluable lessons about Nigeria 

In a statement personally signed by him, the Abia North Senator  stated that the judgement reaffirmed his belief in the judicial system 

The full statement reads thus,” Today, the Supreme Court of Nigeria gave a judgment in my favor, quashing the conviction which the lower court had entered against me. By today’s judgment, the Apex court of our dear country affirmed my right to fair hearing and equal protection of the law.

“The past five months have been quite a profound period for me. As challenging as that period has been, it has provided me an opportunity to learn invaluable lessons about our country, our peoples, our justice system and the true meaning of love. I mean love for family, love for our country and love for humanity.

“I want to use this moment to thank my family, my colleagues, my friends, my supporters, the people of Abia State, and all Nigerians for their unflinching and unwavering confidence and trust in me through the very testing period. We all know today that their prayers have not been in vain. I also use this opportunity to express my gratitude to the Nigerian Correctional Service for the unalloyed professionalism and sincere humanity extended to me by its staff while I was in their custody.

“I  must accord a special mention to the Justices of our Supreme Court for their unwavering commitment to rule of law. We all stand reminded of the consistent and strategic relevance of the Nigerian Supreme Court in holding this country together, even in moments of great peril. As far back as in the 1971 case of LAKANMI V. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION, (the Ademola Adetikumbo-led Court) the Nigerian Supreme Court has severally rescued this country from the precipice. Also throughout the dark era of military rule in Nigeria, the Supreme Court neither wavered nor flinched in its commitment to justice and fairness. And despite some moments of distraction and mass hysteria, the Nigerian Supreme Court has remained the veritable compass to the highest ideals of justice attainable in this country. This long tradition of the court was exemplified in today’s judgment. I was humbled by the court’s boldness and sense of justice as shown in my case.

“Overall, my experience tested and reaffirmed my belief and confidence in our country, Nigeria. My case is a true Nigerian story with a bold MADE-IN-NIGERIA stamp on it. It is a story of initial injustice that was caught and ultimately corrected. It is a story of restoration. It is a story of how a wrong was righted and how justice and truth prevailed in the end. It is a story of the power of hope. My case should teach us all that even though we may not get things right at the first attempt, with patience and dedication, we shall get them right eventually. That is the lesson of my case and that is the lesson of our country – that with dedication and patience, we shall place Nigeria in its rightful place eventually.

“Before I end, I would like to let it be known that the events of the past five months gave me an added perspective on matters of justice and injustice in Nigeria. I have come to know that the course of justice will not be complete if it stopped at my case. It must continue until it touches the lives of millions of Nigerians who face injustice anywhere in this world. I shall be dedicating my time henceforth to ensuring there will be justice for all Nigerians whether they are in Sokoto or Akwa Ibom or in Lagos or Maiduguri or in Jos or Enugu, or wherever they may be. Justice for one man or for a few people will no longer be enough in this country. A system whereby over 70% of all prison inmates population is made up of people awaiting trial cannot be allowed to continue. Situations where innocent people are falsely charged with murder just to get them out of the way does not dignify our country and cannot continue. Justice must now mean justice for all. That is my pledge to Nigerians.

I look forward to rejoining my colleagues in the Senate as soon as possible.

Thank you and God bless all of you.”

https://premiumreportersonline.com/2020/05/08/kalu-speaks-after-victory-says-past-five-months-has-taught-him-invaluable-lessons-about-nigeria/

If takes a mere speed bump on the driveway of Uzor Kalu's personal ambition to learn invaluable lessons about Nigeria, it is safe to say the dude is not visionary.

BranddesignerH:
I would've condemned his action if not there was total Lockdown in the state

Even if there was no lockdown, it is against the freedom of movement to convey human beings in container used for animals. It is unfortunate Nigeria does not standardize things. In developed countries, a person cannot convey human being in trucks designed to carry cows and claim freedom of movement.

MinorityOpinion:
Reply booked

I know you are not smart enough to reply immediately. Go and cull from depths of lies. Even your best hands have been taken to tedious tasks of proffering identity of the Biafran unit which committed the alleged massacre of the minorities. I guess till date no answer has been provided.

omonnakoda:
Those spewing abuse on this thread are Igbo

https://www.nairaland.com/745731/yoruba-marginalization-elders-met-jonathan

We supported Jonathan with our votes in 2011 so we could " cry wolf " after the election. Buhari did not get 25% in a single Yoruba state in 2011
We did that for exclusive wolf crying rights

That makes a lot of IboSense

Jonathan is not Igbo but why was there no IPOB when he was in power?

I know Yari.ba peeps can spew outlandish craps to look relevant. In a previous page, you labeled a group of people as sufferers of "Stockholm Syndrome" and on this page accuse the same group of people of being abusive.

MinorityOpinion:
https://www.nairaland.com/5838192/attrocities-biafran-soldiers-during-civil

Read this.

Do you expect me to read the craps previously posted on Nairaland by intellectual midgets such as you? Probably the crap came from Nowa Omogui's series or persons such as Orobator which the narrators could not proffer answer. Again it is stark idiocy to write goofy stuffs with no identifier. There were two major massacres noted during Ngeria/Biafra war. They are the Asaba and Ogba-Egbema massacres. Biafrans identified the units of Nigerian army which committed the offences. The Asaba massacre was committed by the elements of 8th Brigade of 2nd Division, Nigerian army under the command of Major Ibrahim Taiwo. The Ogba-Egbema massacre was carried out by the elements of 15th Brigade of 3MCDO, Nigerian army commanded Major Ola Makanjuola. There is a disturbing partner in the senseless act of genocide by the certain elements of Nigerian army during the war. The troops that perpetrated these acts of inhumanity against fellow humans were mostly Yoruba or led by a Yoruba commander.

omonnakoda:
Traditional Tripod? What is that? You exaggerate your importance.
Gentleman Agreement?

Who were the parties and when was this signed
Your psychology is funny because there is no more glaring case of self deception

So the argument is that Yoruba are the biggest obstacle to an Igbo presidency?
The biggest obstacle is the Igbos themselves. Next to that is the Hausa/Fulani who will never let it happen.
The Yoruba position is we are your competitors anytime the position comes south we will compete just like Ekwueme did but if you were not cowards the greater share of your hatred should be for the Hausa/Fulani
Instead you "identify with the aggressor" a pitiable case of Stockholm Syndrome.

Your imagined gentleman agreement is another of your infantile fantasies. There is no Tripod. You are not that important to anyone

Your task is to convince other Nigerians that the can trust you more than the Yoruba.
Surely that is a minor thing for the great Igbo people?

Most Nigerians have weird stream of thought. In every scenario pertaining to Nigeria/Biafra war, Yoruba and defunct western region of Nigeria are the aggressors as the defunct northern region of Nigeria. It is a very deceitful shenanigan in attempt to exonerate a group from commission of act by accusing their opponent of Stockholm Syndrome.

MinorityOpinion:
Is it by force to force yoruba on my head. Nonsense. Biafran soldiers killed the minorities, raped the them and destroyed their villages during the civil war. You think they will follow you and let you dominate them again.

You are a dumbass liar. Please remotely suggest the name of the Biafran commander and the unit that committed the alleged atrocities.

MinorityOpinion:
This is war. No mercy. The same way igbos killed and raped hundreds of minorities during the civil war

This is ranting of an ant!!!

lukui:
Mynd.44 I don't care if you ban me but I will post this.



They will leave their regions to Lagos, Lagos is their Paradise. Most of them don't even speak their mother tongue, all their children speak is English. When last did you celebrated Christmas and new year in your hometown. Do you even remember the road to your hometown. Some of them will claim that it is their great grand fathers money that was used to build Lagos, ehn go back to your states and leave Lagos alone for us now.
Some will say that Nigeria is zoo and that they ate going to "whatever". Mr man leave our zoo for us go back to your state.

Didn't your governors, senators, house of reps, local government chairmen, councillors, collect allocation and revenue? All the money that they collected, what did they used them for? You cry about marginalisation restructuring, when your people were in power what were they doing there? Guys like ike ekweremadu? Guys like peter obi? And so on and so on.


There are poor and rich people everywhere, no doubt about that. But you too go and develop your region and stop claiming that Lagos belongs to you.

Many pictures of Aba shows dirty streets littered with filth and stench. Buy brooms for your oeole and sweep them clean.
Even that reminds me, you usually post picture of Ibadan with brown rooftops, telling them to do something about it. Success in life is not the house that you built, it is the positive impact that you have in the lives of people around you. Your children, how you bring them up. That what success is, not big building and your children are cocaine pushers, prostitut.es and whatever.

Good people are every where, but its the bad eggs that spoiled the good ones.

Good morning nairaland
Don't bother to quote me, I won't reply.

I don't need your likes and shares, discuss the topic, not me.
Tekno sang: take project ooo forget I dey mad ooo.!!!

Anybody who has the similar stream of thought as expressed in the above post is a typical Nigerian and one of the reasons Nigeria is a backwater. It was not long ago your father, brothers, uncles and aunties joined the northern region of Nigeria to prosecute a war of attrition against Ndigbo and Biafrans who wanted nothing do with Lagos and Nigeria. It very silly to read from a person whose forbearers fought to keep Ndigbo and Biafrans in Lagos and Nigeria. What do you really want from Ndigbo and Biafrans?

Tranquillity360:
The question should be"why must Igbos and yorubas share the same country.

This is the source of conflict. Honestly, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa should not be in one and the same country.

Genoa:
Op use your brain, Ojukwu is responsible for the 3m Biafra death, remember this was how he dressed to ivory coast after putting Alaigbo in problem.

Did Ojukwu and eastern region ever crossed into Benue or northern region of Nigeria? Would you have been happy if Ojukwu went to his knees at the sight of northern elements in Nigerian army who encroached into eastern region?