₦airaland Forum

This man is long dead.

The north is strategizing their next move in the background and from all indications they are not in any way ready to adhere to the constitution.

Things are about to get messy for the ACN faction of the APC.

The only saving grace we have now in preventing full blown Ab0ki foolishness in the North is the fact that the average Almajiri is indifferent to Buhari remains president due to serious hunger but that won't in any way prevent the extremist belly aching broke Ab0kis to use Buhari's official death announcement to riot and loot.

Can't Garba Shehu get an actor to go ahead and do the interview?

The backdrop of the political struggles and hurdles leading to the only constitutionally created region (Mid-West) will later be the motivating factor in creating states during the civil war.
While state creation in the Eastern region by the military govt of Gowon (on advisory by Awolowo) was done primarily to weaken Biafra, state creation in both the north and west served an economic advantage.

While the NCNC opposed the agitation for a COR State (Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers) in the East, they strongly supported the agitation for a Midwest State in the West and a Middle Belt state in the North. Thus, for the Midwesterners, the AG was the "enemy" party on the issue of a Midwest State. The debate over state creation in the various regional houses of assembly was dictated by the ideological prism of the ruling political parties.

With Awolowo, Anthony Enahoro and other prominent members of the AG facing charges of treasonable felony, the AG opposition to the creation of the Midwest State gradually became insignificant. The AG crisis that began in May 1962, following the party’s convention in Jos, fundamentally altered the alliance construct of Nigerian political parties in the 1962-1965 period. This provided an ideal constitutional framework for the Midwest State movement. The crisis also offered the NPC -NCNC coalition government a golden opportunity to crush the AG.

Meanwhile, deserters from the AG, led by Akintola and Ayo Rosiji, established a new political party - the United Peoples’ Party (UPP) - which in mid 1964 was renamed the Nigerian National Democratic Party (UNDP). As premier of the West, Akintola emerged as the leader of the party. In the Federal House of Representatives, Rosiji led the pack of former members of the AG to "cross carpets" to swell the cell of the NPC. The disarray of the AG, and the impact of the treasonable felony trial against Awolowo, Enahoro and other leaders of the party, created ideal situations for the NPC. The NPC no longer seem to need its alliance with the NCNC, and thus became politically arrogant towards its coalition partner.

Akintola, who as the premier of the AG-led government of the West had opposed the creation of a Midwest State, now began to view the creation of the state through the same ideological prism of the NPC, a party with which his UNDP was now aligned. Thus, the governing parties of the East (NCNC), the North (NPC), and the West (UNDP) now all agreed on the creation of the Midwest State. The houses of assembly of the respective regions had little difficulty passing the required resolutions in support of the proposal to create the Midwest.

So from the above conclusion we can see who the real attachee by force are and it isn't the Igbos but the SW.

sarrki:
Ojukwu destroy southern unity

By encroaching into ore in ondo state

It is too early in the morning to display your ignorance.

It is within this backdrop of ethnic supremacy between the three major ethnic power blocs that the agitation of state creation of minority groups emerged largely fueled by opposing forces. The north blatantly refused the British from balkanizing their region during the same period the western and eastern regions were being proposed by the British to which the south ignorantly accepted.

The north not satisfied in having the southern protectorate bakkanized supported any movement to further dismember both the western and eastern regions. This is where the agitation for Mid-western and Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers (COR) regions began with only the Mid-West region seeing the day of light in 1963.

It so happens that the AG under Awolowo promoted viciously the creation of COR region out of the defunct Eastern region in the view of reducing eastern influence after Azikiwe entered an alliance with the north.

Awolowo in his brazen desire to decimate the eastern bloc was oblivious of both the NCNC and NPC moves to create Mid-western region out of the west.

The NCNC can be given credited for attempting early on for trying to push for the creation of Middle-Belt region which was viciously opposed by the north and ignored by the west.

The Richards’ three regional structure of 1947 rendered moribund the Lugardian north-south amalgamation that gave birth to "modern" Nigeria in 1914. The event of 1947 coincided with the formation of the three main political parties that eventually governed the respective regions. We all accept that Nigeria is a creation of British imperial rule. The hitherto independent kingdoms of present day Nigeria were colonized, "united" and christened "Nigeria" by Britain. When these disparate kingdoms regained their independence on October 1, 1960, it was not as separate independent entities which they were, but as a political community called NIGERIA. They were brought together by Britain to experiment with the art of governing a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual polity. Since 1960 Nigerians have been grappling with this experiment. Of the three major political parties that defined the landscape of contemporary Nigerian social and political history, only the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) was established as a national political party. Both the AG, a creation of Egbe Omo Oduduwa, and the Northern Peoples’ Congress (NPC), were founded to promote Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani interests respectively. That the NCNC later became to be perceived as an ‘Igbo’ party was not entirely the design of Igbo political elites, but rather the machinations of some powerful Yoruba nationalists who did not cherish the notion of an Igbo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, becoming the premier of Western Nigeria.

As the leader of the NCNC, Azikiwe was to be the first premier of Western Nigeria following the elections of 1951, with Obafemi Awolowo, a Yoruba, the leader of the AG, as the leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly. It should be recalled, with profound sadness, that prominent Yoruba traditional leaders and political elites exerted pressure on a number of Yorubas elected on the NCNC platform to "cross carpet" in the House and join the AG, in order to deny Azikiwe the premiership in favour of Awolowo. The concept of "carpet crossing" was thus introduced into Nigerian political discourse. Azikiwe had assumed the leadership of the NCNC following the death of Herbert Macaulay, a Yoruba. There would have been no basis for "carpet crossing" if Macaulay, and not Azikiwe, were elected premier of the West on the NCNC platform in 1951.

As a result of this blatant injection of ethnicism into Nigerian politics, Azikiwe was compelled to "return home" to the East where he became the premier of the government. It is safe to postulate that, were it not for this event, the post 1951 development of Nigerian politics could have been spared much of the instability and crisis the country has experienced. This was a vital turning point in the political history of contemporary Nigeria. It helped to influence most Igbos to seek political shelter in the NCNC, just as the AG became privatized by most Yorubas, and the Hausa-Fulani political elites sought comfort in the NPC.

Following the 1959 federal elections, the NPC, with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa as the prime minister, formed a coalition government with the NCNC. Obafemi Awolowo, the leader of the AG, became the leader of the official opposition in the Federal House of Representatives. Samuel Akintola replaced Awolowo as the premier of Western Nigeria, while Michael Okpara replaced Azikiwe as the premier of Eastern Nigeria. Ahmadu Bello, the leader of the NPC, remained as premier of Northern Nigeria. As part of the NPC-NCNC coalition, Azikiwe became the governor general, and subsequently the first (ceremonial) president of Nigeria, when Nigeria became a republic on October 1, 1963.

It was against the above background that the debate for state creation took place. The movement for a Midwest State was the most topical. For the past 50 years the political development of Nigeria has been viewed, rightly or wrongly, as a power struggle for hegemony by the three dominant ethnic groups: Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo. Scholars later used the appellation, "Hausa-Fulani" to depict the symbiotic relationship between the Hausa and the Fulani as a result of the strong Islamic ties that bind the two dominant ethnic groups in the northern part of Nigeria.

Before August 9, 1963, when Nigeria had three constituent parts, the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo political elites exercised hegemonistic powers in the North, West, and East respectively. It is interesting to note that while none of them wanted a separate state created in their region, they supported the agitation for state creation in the opposing regions. This position was identical to the concept of preventive imperialism of 19th century European imperialism in Africa.

cummando:
Fear?
Can a rich man be afraid?

"I am Igbo" - your afonjastic traits that display your dysfunctional upbringing makes your igbo claim false to all.

"I eat your type for breakfast " - when we know you are a poor under fed hungry waif.

"I am rich" - don't make me laugh. The only thing you are rich in is stupidity and cowardice.

cummando:
Fraud!!!!!!!!!!!!

See sweet one
When I say bia you say fool
Bia!!!!!!

Your frustrations are sipping through the Internet and you just succeded in making your fear olfactorily possible to discern over the net.

I smell deep fear in you

cummando:
I eat your type for breakfast
Will be willing to shoot you all anytime sir
When is your next protest

Afonja don't make me laff.

When last did you even have a decent protein diet?

cummando:
Before the foolish warlords mention
Na fake post. Aimed at causing arguments by your sadistic flatinoso!
Oya now bring the insults. Eyin temi shey e wa nibi?!!!!!

Be healed from your own foolishness

cummando:
Useless post
He is just another dead man!
And a stubborn one at that. Who send am?
Hero korr.....Hercules no!



Terrorist!!!!!!

Afonja

sarrki:
Must you display motor park garage way of life
On every comment you make ?

Zombie, I am on my zombie slaying break!

Gimme 30mins and I will be with you with a wooden stake, holy water and garlic.

TonyeBarcanista:
Please I no understand o.

How you go understand when you have no allegiance to anywhere or anything but yourself with the only language you understand being crumpled dirty small notes of cash.

Guy you are such a monumental disgrace.

Reading your crap here for the past 4yrs and I just know you will not be considered nor respected by your own family !

This TonyeBarcanista desperation for money no get part 2.

Reading his obviously paid and bought for article makes me cringe with so much embarrassment for this confused desperate two-bit no good political tout!

sarrki:
What should I expect from who is role model says stealing is not corruption

Keep regurgitating spent APC propaganda rhetoric.

Blank zombie

sarrki:
Very soon he will know say khaki no be leather

Does your stupidity level increase with every post like an xbox game?

sarrki:
I swear dem never born you well

Stop disgracing yourself any further on this forum.

sarrki:
Nigeria neither belongs to those two religion alone

They are all imported to Africa

This is not the time for a die hard zombie like yourself to start experimenting with stone idols to save you from monumental disgrace.

sarrki:
Promotion neither from the east, or from the west, nor south.


Psalm113

Promotion cometh from God

And this same fake pastor has denied Christ severally by refusing to take the plight of his fellow christians being butchered by Hausa /Fulani Muslims.

This man will learn hard why Jonathan was unashamedly a christian

annayawchee:
the south east and south south should be making plans ahead if they are wise

For the last 2yrs we in the SS/SE have been ready.

All thanks to Buhari's wickedness towards us.

The SW will face first hand the wrath of Fulani foolishness and they will take it for the sake of one nigeria

smark61:
Nope I believe he will not be able to control the affairs of this country if he becomes president by accident, he will be too weak to say anything
The fact that he has kept numb about the killings of Christians n numb about apostle suleman arrest said it all. He can't be trusted

God has already rejected him after he refused to at least speak on behalf of murdered christians at the hands of his Fulani masters.

Ten12:
How much did God pay you for this case you're making for him

Do not blaspheme for the sake of NL likes

annayawchee:
Prepare to defend your selves, if by chance our president passes on, do U think the north will sit down and watch osibanjo takes over? It's a no......

The north is already talking about separation as at today.

The desperate men in Aso Rock and the APC will rather see this nation burn than witness regime change after oppressing the opposition and with so much blood on their hands.

This man who parades himself as a "man of God" is yet to come out and defend his fellow christians being killed by Hausa/Fulanis.

If Osinbajo who claims to be an elder in the church of christ can not use his God elevated position to fight and defend christians is it the secular constitution he will lay his life to protect?

In my sincere opinion, Osinbajo has denied Christ severally and the blessings and protection he ought to have drawn from Heaven have been withdrawn.

That is why he is being ridiculed by a bunch of islamofascist illiterates in Aso Rock.

It is my sincerest opinion that Osinbajo will be a disaster as president as he is a man of no sound character or ideology but a coward.

lastmessenger:
in that case let the funeral begin here in nairaland

This is our problem with us in the south.

As we gloat over Buhari's death, the north is already strategizing over a post-Buhari presidency.

War is brewing and the desperate characters in Aso Rock and the CPC faction of the APC are drawing their battle plans while you hold inconsequential rallies and pray the north will respect the constitution.

Only the AGF can constitute a Medical board headed by the Minister of Health to which the professional advice arrived will be deliberated by FEC members and a resolution taken to NASS.

kings09:
U mean attack dogs like sarrki, ngeneukwenu, seeunmsg, efilefun, sibrah n their likes

Those worms?

lastmessenger:
I just want to know the truth. Is he dead?

Only Aisha can be trusted with that question and her silence now points that she is in mourning

ovieigho:
Make dem cum catch u

The cabal will work overtime this next 4mths and we expect them to use their dog units