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Its shocking to dismiss a presidential appeal that a tribunal took about 10hrs to deliver judgment! They wanted to avoid jurisprudence knowing fully well Bubu would be indicted or the supreme court would set deadly precedence

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Guest007:
Why don't you advice that we approach with love, since you're dishing it out.

I guess he wanted to say in reality, you're not a man. You corrected the unfortunately he used and he recognized by saying he dint mean it as an offense....let's correct with love

Guest007:
He doesn't even know what he's trying to apologise for because he didn't mean it to being with

You harsh o.....he tried to apologize!

Guest007:
So... You don't understand the words you use

Educated illiterates everywhere

(no ooofffence)

You see the issue with you guys, you're making it seem restructuring is for Igbo benefit alone. It seems you guys are satisfied with the way Nigeria is. Where are your ambitions?

Area4Area:
Any constitutional amendment needs the the support of 2/3 of all states' house of assemblies, 24 states before it proceeds to the national assembly.
It is now up to you to start working on your representatives in your state to start doing the needful.

After calling the north parasites and SW slaves, how do you now expect help from them to achieve your aim of reforming, restructuring, referendum, secession, Igbo presidency etc. Democracy is all about number and diplomacy, Igbos blew their chances since 2011 till date by being politically myopic, it was same with Zik who refused de-amalgamation and secession, Ironsi who signed the anti-secession decree into law and Ojukwu who declared a Biafra knowing he just asked for a declaration for war, that is some of the "arrogance" of Igbos people talk about.

Most act before reasoning, very many want Igbo presidency today but would easily forget how Igbo politicians fought for GEJ to remain the president in 2011 when they were shouting "no more rotational presidency". OK sit down now and try to do your homework for Igbo presidency and you're not doing anything even after all the hate speeches against others.

You are not proposing a solution but complaining!

Omoodua007:
What part of British infeleunce did you miss
And what do you think will happen when they both found out the quantity of oil that’s in reserve in the defunct eastrern region

In hindsight I’m sure you wished Azikwe listened to all of Awolowo advise but because he chased him out of west he was clouded by his emotions

You are not ok. what solutions are you proposing rather than ranting? Or you like the country like this? The hausa-fulani that has been in power for 45yrs, they did not ruin the country but people who are doing their businesses right? So after the civil war, why dint Gowon and Awolowo implement what they wanted since they were the victors?

Omoodua007:
That’s why they say you can only start something you don’t know where it would end

The so called destruction made bristish to use Hausa to destroy Nigeria so you see foolish move
You destroyer federalism
You removed seccesion from constitution cause of greed and to spite Yoruba people
You caused a war after destroying the country
Very useless tribe

Let's assume what you said is true, do you want it to stay destroyed? At what point are we going to say let's reform this union for prosperity?

Omoodua007:
Look @ this blind student of history
No be Igbo destroy the so called equal system
Cause despite the domination of federal civil service they were the poorest region back then

Diplomacy does not involve one accepting a skewed system just to be politically correct. This union should be restructured to make the centre unattractive and let every state or region develop at their own pace. Clashing with people sometimes happen especially where there are no conscious effort to understand each other. The Igbos have not had any physical confrontation with the Yorubas in real life. Social media has made you guys believe the Igbos are troublesome, far from it. The Igbos will never initiate any physical confrontation but will confidently defend themselves. I told you Igbos do not naturally kowtow for anyone, neither do they keep quiet on issues that doesn't suit them......and this is what people see as arrogance. Have you wondered why indirect rule failed in the eastern region during the colonial days? Take us as we came in or we go our separate ways.....we cannot change our way of life for people who have their own ways! If you intend to complain of Igbos behaviour then support Biafra so your complain won't be forever!

QuotaSystem:
Cannibalism and slavery were also once acceptable behavior until human civilization rendered them obsolete and unacceptable. That you have behaved in a certain manner for decades does not preclude you from adapting when necessary.

In order to survive in an evolving world, you must evolve with it or go extinct. You can never survive anywhere in a world now ruled by diplomacy. No wonder you are clashing with your hosts everywhere from Lagos to SA, India to Indonesia. Have you ever heard of the art of stooping to conquer?

The behaviour you just described simply portrays you as uncivil, contemptuous, unyielding and stubborn. It is the height of contempt, arrogance and hubris to expect everyone else to accept behavior that is irritating and provocative. Interestingly & fortunately, I have come across refined, enlightened Igbos home and abroad that certainly do not display such nauseating and inconsiderate behaviour, so I take strong exception to your blanket claim. Mba!

Adapting is now a matter of your political survival. Nobody is naturally built to concede and take bullshit either. Not Hausa Fulani for sure.

It's not as if the Igbos are insulting others, it's the others who doesn't understand Igbos. Traditionally, Igbos do not kowtow, show servitude or keep quiet. People see this as arrogance but its cultural. The Igbo man's behavior of 1950s that Amadu Bello complained of has not changed, its Nigerians that refused to accept that this behavior precedes Nigeria. Igbos were like this and yet the hausas and yorubas formed a country with them. After that they want to change Igbos from historically loud people to quiet people. It's not possible! Most nations today dont like Americans cos they are loud but this is a consistent behavior of envy!

QuotaSystem:
If the husband knows she is simply strongheaded and wants to leave simply because she is stubbornly unwilling to change due to pride and hubris, he can definitely frustrate her escape efforts to humble her, especially when she starts showing signs of receiving sense.

Imagine a man that is tired of a marriage and the wife says she wants divorce, will the man frustrate her from getting the divorce if he is tired of her or accelerate the process? You know the truth that Nigerians are afraid to let the Igbos go cos that's the only thing keeping this country together ironically!

QuotaSystem:
Why do you like to think anyone owes you any favours? In return for your constant opposition? Don't you think they would be more willing to frustrate you instead if they so detest you? Can you now see why getting Biafra' seems increasingly more difficult by the day? Lol.

Why would even expect someone you constantly antagonize to freely help in your struggle for freedom? Do you people just like to wallow in delusion or what?

You must diplomatically seek the votes for amendment, seek it by force or forget secession & get ready to wail till thy kingdom come.

So you take Arewa quit notice as official position of Nigerian government? I repeat, since Nigerians don't like Biafrans, they should be willing to do an act of national assembly for referendum. If it's not in the constitution, the national assembly can put it or do a doctrine of necessity

QuotaSystem:
I think you already know the answer to the first part of your question.

The second part is however untrue. Don't you remember the quit notice issued to Biafrans by Arewa last year? What happened? Did Igbo elders not go begging El-Rufai and other Northern Traditional rulers cap in hand to be allowed to stay in the North? Or have you been living under a rock?

You really think your typically selfish & greedy Igbo elites whose investments are scattered all over Nigeria and enjoy juicy appointments and govt contracts will truly initiate any concrete moves towards breaking up the country and killing their golden goose? Wake up, nobody is holding you but yourselves.

Above all, the fact is there are only 2 possible ways for Biafrans to secede from Nigeria. By diplomacy (legally through the national assembly) or war. Nobody will hand you a referendum/secession on a platter (which require majority votes from across Nigeria to amend the constitution to allow referendum), just like nobody will hand you the Presidency for free. Let that sink in.

So while Nigerians may not like Biafrans due to their nature, it is false that they don't want them to go or are the ones stopping them from leaving.

I really need to understand why Nigerians dont like Biafrans and yet dont want them to go. It's a paradox!

Its a big deal if she says she is and turns out to be false. Its called deceit!

peepydelano:
You are having a very good lady as your wife,count yourself very lucky.Why not fast forward your white wedding and have free access, and its not a big deal if she turns out not to be a virgin,appreciate the fact that she's God fearing. Respect her Godly wish and wait for the abundant blessings that follows,she is blessed amongst women

I am not saying you guys are wrong but I'm saying if Amadu Bello, Balewa, Awolowo, Enahoro really believed it was necessary to add the clause, how then can they allow one man against 4 to have his way? Unless they weren't convinced themselves! They were all responsible either by commision or omission!

Area4Area:
https://www.nairaland.com/4376735/zikist-movement-reacts-ipobs-accusations

Zik was at fault for what he did and IPOB talked against him and the zikist movement for their involvement

If they tow that line to blame Zik, they indirectly indict their leaders for incompetence and ineptitude! Its preposterous!

gidgiddy:
It's one of the funniest things I ever heard in my life. That one man, Zik, held the constitution of Nigeria in his bedroom and decided what was included in it and what was removed.

Nigerians had 2 opportunities to correct the mistake of 2015 through election of 2019 and through the court but as always since 1960, Nigeria keep taking 1 step forward and 2 steps backwards. Nigeria as it is currently constituted, without restructuring to a loose federation can never be great. Oil and water can never mix!

The article mentioned that all of them were initially against not putting the seccession clause but somehow Zik had his way against their own judgment and you say it's not weakness? It means they were unsure of themselves!

wirinet:
Not week leaders, naive leaders. Zik convinced his childhood friend Sir Ahmadu Bello, through a letter, to reject separate countries and secession clause. Once Ahmadu bello came on board one indivisible Nigeria slogan promoted by Zik, there was nothing Awolowo could do.

Others are quite OK with mediocrity and the backwardness else they would be agitating to change the status quo. And this is the reason why they gang up against Igbos, like they complain too much when it's not that bad. Everybody has their standards however the Nigeria as it is today is unbearable to our aspirations. We wanna lead the nation to change the status quo or opt out

oyatz:
It's such outbursts like this that got you where you are.

Who told you that Non-Igbo Nigerians are lazy good for nothing fellows seating on their asses being contented with the situations in Nigeria?

Who told you that Igbos are the most successful tribe in Nigeria? According to which ethnically based statistics?

Are Enugu, Anambra or Ebonyi the most developed parts of Nigeria?

You will have to be using this your 'succcess" to lead other Nigerians.


































Wisdom is profitable to direct.

The Igbos are the most successful tribe economically but out ambition is far superior to our current situation that's why we are dissatisfied. Other tribes are really not ambitious! We cant be contented with mediocrity because others are OK with it!

oyatz:
Why are the Igbos not teaming up with the Kanuris, Nupes, Igala, Ijaws,Efik, Tivs, Bachama to neutralize any gang up?

You are talking as if the Igbos are helpless in Nigeria.
Even smaller tribes I mentioned above don't lament or display hopelessness like this.

Awolowo, Amadu Bello, Enahoro, Balewa all wanted seccession clause but only one man Zik opposed them and had his way? What kind of fuckery is this? If this is true it shows they were extremely weak leaders!

mauriceju2:
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 Hausafulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their third class citizen status of Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to a 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. 
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. 
However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish this house with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge 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 by colonial fiat without the consent 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 a 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 other tribe. 

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

After moving motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constipation 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, buy 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 constipation. While Azikiwe did all this, 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 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. 


https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/06/my-opposition-to-secession-zik/

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)
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, the 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.
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.
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 laughing the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.
The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority 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 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 heros. 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 Unclad, 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's, 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 Igbo land 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 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 hijacked 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 respresentatives. 
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 clinic power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amnend 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 irresponsibly and dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement we 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.
Obasanjo removed history from d school curriculum hence d reason why many of wat we know of d eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives

How Zik Handed Over Control Of Others In Nigeria To Fulani Oligarchy.

A few days ago, I got a message from a Young Yoruba citizen. He writes and I quote: 

"I believe Fulani is Yoruba's number one enemy which we all knew how the British handed over Nigeria to them."

This is not the truth. The British did not hand over Nigeria to the Fulani. 

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 only 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 been 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 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.

I'm Ika and will definitely join Biafra! Any country where true federalism and meritocracy will be practice is where the future lies. With Hausa-Fulani calling the shots, Nigeria without Igbos cannot be better than Niger or Somalia and eventually Nigeria will be Islamised

Area4Area:
Igboland and your Biafra is landlocked and surrounded by Nigerian territory and there's nothing you can do about it.
Biafra can only succeed and survive if it has a firm agreement with Nigeria, failure to do that is death.
You can't use Nigerian seaports without any agreement with her, your claim on PH is null and void, stop deceiving yourself and others.

Most Ika, Ikwerre, Igbanke and even Anioma people have denied being called Igbos and you go on claiming their territory causing more hate for Igbos. Go and steal PH na and let's see what the owners would tell you, you better ask people what happened to Igbos in the city during the war and stop deceiving yourself.

Okowa of Delta state and Wike of Rivers state are Ika and Ikwerre respectively, their people detaste that Igbo affiliation so stop the attaché by force, it doesn't help your cause.

If Biafra goes, the country will be balkanized! The north understands this. Read about Yugoslavia and USSR breakup! Nigeria started with 3 regions, it has been broken to many states, this is a testament to the looming fragmentation

Area4Area:
Truth they say is a bitter pill, accept the fact that the emergence and survival of your Biafra greatly depends on the goodwill of Nigeria.
If no prior agreement then your Biafra is DOA, it's no rocket science.

Those groups you called out had told you that they are not interested in Biafra, not ready to get their own country and would always be Nigerians, are you angry because you now understand that you'd be surrounded by Nigeria?
You'd be an enclave in Nigeria so start dealing with that and ponder on the other points I've stated earlier.
You'd be deported from Nigeria to Biafra and that's where your nightmare starts.

Hahahahaha......Abeg, e be like say you want to make unnecessary argument. Everybody knows Tinubu is SW leader!

dammiecool:
Who made him south west leader? So because Tinubu abandoned restructuring means d whole of sw did.

I did not insult Tinubu, I only said he has abandoned restructuring. I also called him SW leader, where is the insult here?

alablec:
There you go again! Tinubu! Tinubu!!, I wonder what this guy did to deserve this, it must really tormenting?

The bulk of SW listens to Tinubu! They no longer listen to these people you mentioned. There is no point denying it here.

alablec:
Please say what others have said that is greater than what Afenifere, opc, ọọni, Obasanjo and Etta have said; are they not part of the Yorùbás you are referring to?

So you wanna deny your elders? You know Bubu can stop them cos he has cultlike followership in the North!

oyatz:
Who are the elders? What's their numbers?Which political parties do they represent? Do ALL Yorubas share these interests?



In all honesty, do you think they or even Buhari can stop anybody from contesting?
Didn't Gov Rochas Okorocha (the only southerner) contested against Buhari for the APC presidential ticket in 2013 and even came 4th?


Are you new to Nigerian politics?

You are asking lots of questions for answers that you know. Yorubas were the biggest proponents of restructuring in the 90s and early 2000s but they have abandoned it. Now the biggest proponents are the SE & SS. Afenifere is talking restructuring but most South Westerners dont listen to them anymore. Secession is on the table if the rest of Nigeria insists on running this current stagnated system.

alablec:
So those are the SW leaders and people?
Because some of them are ministers, they should now beat Buhari on restructuring?
What are your region'a leaders saying about restructuring that makes them vocal than that of SW's?
Can you quote them and what they did better?
Can you type what your leaders, your appointees did with restructuring when they were in power or government that made you love them more, even those in power presently?

We surely need to say things the way they are without emotions and exaggerations. If one is not angel, don't blame others too much.
There is difference betweenr secession (which is the loudest voice in the SE and which reduce others' trust, particularly northerners, in them for presidency) and restructuring (which is the main demand of the SW, SS and NC). Google and history can help you, there is no need for argument.

What is SW leader Tinubu saying about restructuring? What is Osinbajo saying about restructuring? What is Lai Mohd saying about restructuring? What is Aregbesola saying? They are saying we need to restructure our minds first, can you believe that! Tinubu has been particularly silent because he doesn't want to offend the North

alablec:
Can you please support your comment with facts and evidence of South West opposing restructuring?

From your writeup, you agree a restructured Nigeria will be better than this. One now wonder why the SW opposes restructuring even though they were the major proponents in the 90s.
Is it because Igbos are pro-restructuring?

alablec:
It'll be difficult for North to continue except you lack knowledge of what happened between 1992 and 1999. The North cannot hold on to power for long, though they've got the number but can't face the SW and SS troubles... that'll be the end of
the country if they tried such, as they can't
imagine Lagos and it's ports, their investments like Dangote's, Rabiu's, etc and SS's oil money slipping away; they are actually wiser than most of us in the south think. They will eventually want someone from SW and probably later from SS to be the president.

Though some of us want SE's president but the reality of thing is far from such; emotions and name callings do not produce a president. Although SE had been partnering the North since 1954 except in 2015 but they had failed to set the terms and when the North was forgetting Biafra, there comes GEJ's issue and Kanu's revival of hatred.

To some scholars, democracy is a worst form
of government in a multi-ethnic nation like
Nigeria. A group can simply be sidelined
without a perfect constitution and numbers.
Hence there is need for new constitution
(which will have the regional Independence
Clause the Eastern leaders rejected in the 50s) and true federalism (which Ironsi canceled in 1966).

You are just jumping from pillar to post. Everybody knows its Igbos turn but the challenge with you guys now is how do we cheat them and justify it hence all these 'beautiful' reasons. You claimed Igbos do not build alliances, yorubas build alliances yet the dont have investment or houses in the North. You dont trust the North not to take houses in the event of conflict yet you pretend that this is a nation.

oyatz:
Your concepts of Politics especially the Nigerian Politics is far reality.

You dont understand political planning. Was Abdulsalami not planning to handover in 1999 as at 1998? Why did the said military hurriedly gazzette a pardon? Did they go through a legal process to know if he was actually guilty? See, there was no time cause election was less than a year away and legal processes takes time so to give Obj a chance, the granted a pardon hurriedly. Go and read Sanusi famous article where is said Yorubas are the problem of Nigeria, he clearly stated it there.

oyatz:
Dishonesty is in your DNA sir.

1) Obasanjo was granted pardon by the Military Junta headed by Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar in 1998.

2) The PDP convention was held in 1999 and the PDP came to power on May,29,1999

3) How could PDP which didn't exist when Obasanjo was released in 1998 had hurriedly granted Obasanjo a State pardon?

4) How did a State pardon in 1998 affected the conduct of PDP primaries in 1999?