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WhizdomXX:
The past is the past Igbos played their role albeit wrongly, Yorubas played their role, albeit tribally.
Northerners played their role, albeit too politically
The main thing is that we forget the Past nd work together to make a United Developed Nigeria. Yh.

There is no working together between light and darkness.

Igbo Amaka.

izac82:
The next governor of Rivers state is coming from the Asa/Ndoki extraction.
I hope the Ijaws are ready to support him as one of their own. The Igbos
in Rivers state is ready to deliver hundred percent votes.

Exactly.
It's the turn of Ijaws to rule Rivers State.
We will all support the Ndoki of Obiigbo to represent Ijaw people, since we all agree they are all Ijaws now.

Ijaws should support this move!
Aswana!

JaroMan:
Please, except those around you know you are untrained. Don't let more people to know; it's an indictment on your parents

You are not okay.
If you are, you wouldn't be writing such rubbish about a people your own people are not better than.

JaroMan:
Is there anything wrong with that? The South East is in need of leaders who have seen it all.
Imagine a region without a governor With national reckoning.
Didn't you see Peter Obi, Rochas were governors, the made headlines when APC was formed. Currently, no governor is in that mould except maybe Umahi.
So if Soludo holds sway in Anambra, Ekweremadu coming through Enugu and Abaribe in Abia, then they are good to go.
You can say what you want to say, but it's best option for South East.

Stop writing rubbish.
What is the meaning of the above rubbish?
Are you okay at all?

Deadlytruth:
Wrong! What Yorubas tried to use to discourage the relatively smaller Midwest tribes which Aniomas were e even part of was Benin domination.
Anioma domination was not even an issue. Go back and read the history of the Midwest Struggle all over again.

"...a shadowy organization called the Anti-Midwest State Movement was put forward by the Action Group. It asserted that Edos had more to fear from Igbo than Yoruba domination, and that creation of a Midwest region would expose Edos to Igbo domination.". http://edo-nation.net/nowao1.htm


Ndiigbo in Midwest were well looked after by Zik and co.
Notice in the Willink commission report for Western region, while Edos were cheated in the scholarship slots, Midwest Igbos were not.
Osadebey who was Zik staunch man and an Igbo union leader from Asaba, ensured the Midwest Igbos were never cheated.

descarado:
Why is her name igbo?
I thought they are not igbo
Why didn't change her name?

The mother is Igbo from Mbaise.
While Ndoni people don't claim Igbo, they don't deny Igbo either, and they are not Igbophobic.
Don't use Ikwerre to judge other Igboids in Rivers State.

thesicilian:
Lol. You should have told me ab initio that you were also a comedian. You guys are one of the most disjointed set of people on earth. You only seem to be united when it comes to fighting others over trivial issues. So much so that even your people refused to vote for your supposed hero of Biafra, the great Ojukwu in the presidential elections, fielding several other Igbo men to contest against him.

We don't worship people.
Our Unity as a people has nothing to do with voting for Ojukwu in presidential election.
Though like a rabid Igbo hater you are, anything we did was always going to be twisted to paint us in bad light to satisfy your Igbophobic agenda.
If we had all voted for Ojukwu, you would have spinned it to say that Igbos are very clannish and tribalistic and do not vote others but fellow Igbos.
But as voted in Unison for non Igbo and not Ojukwu, you have spinned it in your Igbophobic black heart to say we are not United because we didn't vote for Ojukwu.

The joke is on you!

Igbos are as United as we can be, more than any other group in Nigeria.
We form Igbo associations easily where ever we go, and easily help each other.
Give an Igbo a shop, and soon he goes home to bring fellow Igbo to join him and soon the whole market is crawling with Igbos.

Next time when you want to give your senseless example why your ethnic group should continue with one NIGERIA, leave Ndiigbo out of it.
We no want!

thesicilian:
There's a great difference between tribalism and patriotism my friend, especially in the Nigerian context. And it's not about nations being lumped together as you say, it's simply about each man trying to outsmart and short-change his neighbours. In 2011 or thereabouts the Abia state government directed all non indigenes (who were still Igbos by the way) to leave the state civil service. This directive was mainly for those who came from Imo, Enugu etc. How do you explain that? Ijaws and itsekiris are fighting constantly in the South South, is that because the nation was lumped together? Sometimes an Ekiti lady will not want to marry an Ondo man (both yorubas) because of minute tribal differences.

Even if each state decides to go on their own today, there'll still be serious divisions along ethnoreligious lines. It's the way we have programmed ourselves and it would take a really pan-Nigerian leader or set of leaders to create in us a significant change in orientation for the better.

Leave Ndiigbo out of your unity begging antics.
Abia State government sacking other non Abia Igbos from their civil service was greeted with loud rejection and condemnation by all Igbos including Abians themselves, so much that Abia government was in shame and quickly backtracked on the move by recalling the sacked workers.

If anything, that incidence proved that Igboland is indeed a United organic nation.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/147625-abia-recalls-non-indigenes-sacked-state-civil-service.html

DubaiLandLord:
No dey call me for nonsense talk

Good.
I prefer you in this account.

DuwaRepublic:
Dude, you are not the entire igbo ethic group. You are just a confused individual who thinks he speaks for the entire igbo race, you do not. You are just a small fish in a big pond.

You don’t matter at all, and your opinion matter less. Not all igbo think like you, you also do not think for all Igbos. Your ethnic bigotry dies with you, it’s your kids that will suffer for the hate you teach them. You will also continue to suffer for the hate you harbour. You can blame Nigeria all you want, but it is you and you yourself that’s not allowing you to progress in life not Nigeria.

You are playing the Ostrich, but you can continue if it makes you happy.
The only Igbo who screams NIGERIA, is the one whose life sustenance is dependent on NIGERIA existence.

Igbos fought for 3years to have a country of their own and died in millions for that noble cause, but air heads like you think it's something you can wish away.

I doubt you are more successful in life than me.
But we are not discussing about Individual performance here, we are discussing about the unsustainability of the colonial abominations the whites created in Africa.

AdaFonju:
The Igalas of Anambra, the Idoma communities in Enugu

Idoma communities?
Other than Ette which is shared by Igbo, Idoma and Igala.
Where else in SE do you have this your Idoma communities?

QueenAgbo:
Igboid,slayforever make una come.

There this my close friend of Igbo extraction.

I have problem with my bank so I nor fit transfer or withdraw.

But I was hungry as mad....

I was moving around our student community here in Enugu state and I met this my real nigga friend this evenibg.He ask me why my mood was bad.

I told him what happened to my account,so he ask me to go collect food from one popular place wey we all dey go chop that he will pay.

I am glad,this guy na my real nigga wey we gather dey school here and street together.

The reason I am posting this is because,there are good Igbos out there forget about what some online thugs are doing on the internet.

He did it for me,because if the role was reverse, I will do it for him that is me.

2moro I go go resolve issue with my bank.

Lesson:Try to build friends from all tribes.


This is me @sufferingboy.

I would prefer it if you would log into your Dubailandlord account.
You sound more coherent there.

Immatex:
So I can only be an Nwga man when I support terrorism? I am Igbo, you have to keep hearing it, from Aba, a village called Obegu. My name is Chinonso.

Terrorism is terrorism even if my own brothers practice it.

I'm a Yoruba man, from Ondo state, precisely from Oba-Akoko, my name is Akin.

If you want the name of my compound in Oba-Akoko, I can also give you that.

Now tell me, would you believe me?

flokii:
It's like you're crazy.. I should be the one to stress my head for your exit as if you don't have hands and legs to work for your own exit.

Yes! You are probably crazy.
Sane people work hard to eliminate what they consider a problem from themselves.
Malaysia considered Singaporeans a headache and difficult people, guess what they did?
They rallied their lawmakers, amended the law and evicted Singapore out of the Malaysia federation.
That's how sane people solve a problem.

You yourself and Millions of your ilks have identified Ndiigbo as a problem to you.
Why not do the needful like Malaysians did to Singapore?
Are you not mad so? Sane people don't wait for problems to solve itself, they go out and solve the problem

Immatex:
If you must know, I am Igbo not half Igbo. I live in the East not abroad. There's no geographical location called Biafra, if you don't know, know now.

It's safe to say that everyone who believe the lie called Biafra is a terrorist and terrorist sympathiser no matter how highly placed he is.

I am so convinced because in the name of the blind struggle with no clear strategy or pathway, you have directly as a terrorist or indirectly as a terrorist sympathiser (by community bloodshed) caused the avoidable deaths of countless people.

You have caused economic stagnation and provided no assistance to the people they falsely and fraudulently claim to liberate. Even Jesus Christ didn't let people die for him before liberating the whole of humanity.

In your selfish agitation you have foolishly followed the rebellious cause of a man with who speak profanity and curse humans he cannot create. You people have no shame.

And yes, I am bitter because you guys leading people to their slaughter run and hide when you meet your march in the field of war.

And just incase you didn't get the memo, the officer of whose reason I am replying you is a Nigerian of Eastern extraction, that's the current headline. I am sure she will ask people to kill their neighbours for her.

If you were an Igbo, you wouldn't need to tell us, we would know.

roundman:
Wanted to asked same question if she was using Biafran passport?

Igbo blood is a Biafran passport.
Move on and stop hating.

flokii:
Ahmadu Bello described them well in his interview in the 60s'.. what is yours is "ours" but what is theirs is theirs only.

It's their boastful and "put him down" nature I detest most.. one stvpid bitch here tried that nonsense but I ignored, someone that is cursed already, o ma ko ti e niwaju.

Then support the referendum to have this boastful and "put him down" people have their country?
Or you can pressurize your own law makers to conduct emergency meeting, insert secession in the constitution and evict these troublesome people out of your holy NIGERIA.

What do you think?

helinues:
If we are to go by that analogy, then why is it hard for some people to stay put in their region?

A national boundary between everyone else would help you to decide who enters or leave Oduduwa republic.
You should support Odua nation campaigners to have your wish which Ndiigbo supports come true.
You can't be supporting one NIGERIA and still be complaining of people coming into your SW. That's a form of cognitive dissonance.

thesicilian:
And Africa can only start rising after we defeat the tribal and religious discrimination we often show one another.

Africa will rise when the Colonial abominations called countries like NIGERIA are torn apart and new organic ethnic nations or atleast one formed by inter ethnic alliance are formed.

When you keep a wise man in a place, he readjusts himself to make the place comfortable for him.
The world(Europeans) handed us a Colonial abominations they called countries, that will never work, wise people are calling for adjustments so that we all can move on, but not-so-wise people benefitting Individually from the flawed abominations insist we move on with the colonial abominations.
The end result is that we are in a Limbo.
No people ever worked together without AGREEMENT.
As an Igbo, my culture, religion, thinking style, etc is at variance with that of Yoruba,Ijaw or Hausa-Fulani man.
I can't stop being me(Igbo) and they can't stop being themselves to be able to agree with me,end result is that we all hate each other and there is nothing on Earth that will change that.
Fences, in this case national boundaries will make for good neighbors between all involved parties in Nigeria.

Advocate500:
who will patronise a bigot? Number one rule of successful business is to stay away from tribal and ethnic sentiment.

His fellow Igbo hating people go patronize am.

nerdjared:
why are losers on Nairaland hating this man, you hate anything Igbo with passion yet Pee on your pants whenever they mention Bia.fra

It's a mystery.
Las las, Dem go die of bitterness.
Because Biafra will always be around, lurking in the corner, waiting for the appropriate time to manifest.

DubaiLandLord:
There is no place or tribe called Anioma in Delta State.

What happened to your "Sufferingboy" handle?
Them ban am?

[quote author=tommy589 post=108751258]

Ride on, seems you find comfort in insulting me

was dead. But your biased mind won't let you think through that a dead man can not influence Adaka Boro declaration of Niger Delta Republic February 23,1966

Lol!
The Willink commission separated facts from fictions.
People like you don't like such things because it exposes your lies!
All the complains the Minorities brought to the commission were rationally examined and facts were separated from emotions and empty allegations.
Nope, it was not same as Lai Mohammad, the British had no reason to cover the Igbo.

I gave you a piece of interview from Adaka Boro brother which confirms what we already know before now.

By wilinks report,the Midwest/Bendel had fears for Awolowo and Yoruba domination, but the fear became extinct few years after when they voted overwhelmingly for Awolowo's party UPN in 1979.

It was post civil war and Yorubas had used the vacuum of the Igbos left to spread Igbophobic Agenda everywhere. That's all I can say about that. The Igbos were labelled the big bad wolves by the Lagos-Ibadan propaganda machine after the war, following the exaggeration of the events of Midwest March by the Biafran troops in the Midwest by Yoruba controlled media.

Since minorities in the eastern region were fairly treated like the rest of minorities in Regional Nigeria before the creation of states. Tell me other states in the old Eastern region that voted for NPP (Zik party) outside the core Igbo states. At least their votes should have been an appreciation for fair treatment when together

The facts on ground shows the Minorities were treated well by Igbos.
However in life, you can only determine how you treat people and not how they treat you back.
That the Minorities have decided to become Igbophobic towards the Igbo is their own cup of tea, it doesn't change the fact that we treated them well, you can even see it with how despite how they treated Zik in 1979 and 1983, we didn't pay them back with GEJ, rather we gave GEJ full support.

How is wilink report different from Lai Mohammed officially telling the world Nigeria is eldorado. The minorities are the ones on ground that knows the majority that marginalised them and don't think they will ever forget

Again, in Willink report, they brought what they think was marginalization and it was examined with available facts and were all found to be false.
Emotions and facts are usually at variance.
For example, emotions will make a Nigerian in the village with poor information believe that Nigeria is supplying Niger, Mali and co light for no reason while we don't have enough light in Nigeria.
Information and facts will show that Nigeria had to compensate those countries to prevent them from building their own dams in the upstream Niger River and rendering own damn redundant because of reduced volume of water.
What someone claims and the reality and facts were put to test in Willink report commission and the facts exonerated Ndiigbo.

That's all Ndiigbo care about and that matters!

If anyone say Ndiigbo marginalized minorities in the Eastern region, let them bring facts and figures let's debate, bearing in mind that crude oil was never source of income for Eastern region as Shell paid first revenue for crude oil to Nigerian government around the time Civil war was on.
Eastern region source of income were Coal, palm oil and taxation of the citizens which Igbos contributed the bulk of.

tommy589:
Confirmed

But why did minorities in other region not have referendum? I will like an answer

You should read this two books written by him, Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution and path to Nigerian freedom,to have an idea of his mindset. He wanted loose federation where minorities have rights to self rule

He wanted non of those things,stop talking nonsense.
All he wanted was to position his Yoruba people and himself better.
Which in itself isn't a bad thing.

tommy589:
Yorubas stopped the creation? A Yoruba man in Action group, Hon. M.S Sowole raised the creation of Midwest in Western region house of assembly in 1955.
You should check Google.

How come other region did not listen to the voice of the minorities in their midst for their own separate region. Is it not that agitation for fair dealings that led Adaka Boro to declare Niger delta republic out of Eastern Region

Stop talking nonsense.
The details for Midwest creation is well known, you can check here for full details!


https://www.dawodu.com/omoigui22.htm

Adaka Boro declared for Niger Delta republic because his plan to unsettle Eastern region, the then most peaceful region, with the help of Saraduna failed the moment he learnt that Saraduna was killed in the coup.
It had nothing to do with non existent marginalization.

https://punchng.com/northern-nigeria-encouraged-isaac-boros-12-day-revolution-brother-david/?amp

The Willink commission investigated the complaint of marginalization by Eastern minorities and exonerated Ndiigbo, but when same was done for Western region, Yorubas were found guilty.
https://www.nairaland.com/5855752/minorities-testimonies-willinks-commission-life

https://www.nairaland.com/5851640/eastern-region-series-cor-movement

seunayantokun:
I don't support any form of marginalisation but Niger Delta people have to be united to fight their battle. When they had one voice under Obasanjo, derivation was moved up to 13%. They can do better but their politicians are betraying the trust of the people they represent. The story is the same in the west.
When they were part of the Eastern Region, how were they treated? What did they do to help themselves? Edwin Clark 'explained the northern region was well coordinated in the joint ownership of assets compared to South East region, a situation that badly affected them at the time.'

Clark is an old man probably suffering from dementia.

tommy589:
Awolowo was an apostle for a loose federation. No other leader was ready to listen to minorities agitations for their own region, but he did by creating Midwest out of Western region. I don't know the facts behind revenue sharing, but I am sure he won't hold back what rightfully belong to the Midwest.

Bendelites are too intelligent for anyone to take them for a ride. If Awolowo marginalised Midwest that later became Bendel state, they won't vote massively for Prof. Ambrose Ali, Awolowo's UPN party governorship flag bearer in 1979 election

Awolowo never supported the creation of Midwest!
Infact! Yorubas tried to stop Midwest referendum by telling Midwest minorities that the Igbos (Anioma) will dominate them in the new region with the help of their brothers in the Eastern region.
Stop talking nonsense.

louqas:
Another truth is that the east has always lagged behind the other two region.. hear Clark

"Clark said, Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the the Western region and Sir Ahmadu Bello of the Northern region were able to develop their regions above the Eastern region
as a result of the practice of the principle of derivation.

“The Eastern Region did not progress like the other two regions."

The earlier the east admit they are not equal to the other two region the better for them so they stop trying to equate themselves with the west and north. Ibos are not marginalized as they have their fair share of everything but greed and misinformation make them think they deserve more. Their 5 states is even generous considering the states are among the most unproductive in the federation

Clark is a clown.
The East was led by technocrats like Imoke and Okpara and held her weight well.
See the available stats here not rubbish from Clark's demented brain.

Deadlytruth:
Read me well. I didn't say the West didn't marginalize the Midwest. Of course that was why we chose to exit it in the first instance. What I am saying is that the marginalization in question was not about oil. Read the story again and you would see where Clark only spoke of the marginalization in terms of assets sharing and never oil which was yet unknown in the Midwest then.
Then the other fact is that the East marginalized the Eastern Region minorities back then and that explains their quest for COR Region and the eventual Isaac Adaka Boro secession declaration.

The. Willink commission report clearly proved beyond reasonable doubt that Igbos never marginalized the minorities.
Especially when you consider that Crude oil was not a source of revenue for Eastern region but Coal and Palm oil and taxation, which Ndiigbo contributed a lion share of.

https://www.nairaland.com/6586330/how-ndiigbo-oppressed-marginalized-eastern