In May 1962, as the AG crisis was reaching its peak, the nation prepared for its first census as an independent country. The last census, which had been conducted in 1952-53 under the auspices of the British, had been the basis for the distribution of parliamentary seats prior to the 1959 election. Northern power, and the NPC’s dominance, largely resulted from this census. Consequently, when a new census became due in 1962, implications for the ethno-regional balance-of-power inevitably shaped its meaning.
Page 17: discovering” an extra 8.5 million northerners . This brought the north’s population to a new total of 31 million, up from the 22.5 million in the initial count – comfortably large enough to maintain its preponderant advantage. The NCNC led the south in completely rejecting the results of the verification exercise. The governing alliance broke down as the NCNC pushed for the release of the original census result, while the NPC backed the authenticity of the verification checks. Given this impasse, the 1962 results were cancelled and a fresh census was announced for the second half of 1963.
Where in this gbana inspired gibberish is the 1961 census mentioned? Abi you no sabi read
Deadlytruth: If you had any capacity to reason logically you would have been able to deduce that Nzeogwu's inclusion of Zik in the hit list was because he as president must finally sign any document by which the prime minister deployed the armed forces for any operation.
So I should discount Wale Ademoyega's personal account for this your beer parlour theory. E be like say na monkey shit wey you smoke walahi
Deadlytruth: You are lacking in brain. Those who actually complained about the first census were Southerner so how could they have complained about a census that gave them the upper hand? Go and get your facts right. If the first census favoured the South, then why did Southerners allege rigging? You obviously have no use for logical reasoning. In both censuses the figures allocated to the North beat those of the South combined.
Deadlytruth: His being among the coup plotters doesn't make his narration impeccable. After all he wasn't even assigned any of the numerous targets to kill whereas some of his co plotters were assigned double.
You an internet apparition with a NL account is more impeccable than Ademoyega no problem...just bring your proof make I see
Deadlytruth: [b]You are lacking in brain. Those who actually complained about the first census were Southerner so how could they have complained about a census that gave them the upper hand? [/b]Go and get your facts right. If the first census favoured the South, then why did Southerners allege rigging? You obviously have no use for logical reasoning. In both censuses the figures allocated to the North beat those of the South combined.
Ignoramus emeritus the south did not complain about the 1961 census it was Balewa and Sardauna that blocked it because the south had more numbers
Deadlytruth: You mean just because Adegoyega made such claim in his book you would retire your brain under your anus and just take his word for the truth?
Ademoyega that was among the coup plotters said they were after the entire executive branch of government. Or you have more inside knowledge than him?
For 10th and last time what's your proof that Zik approved troops to go brutalize people? Or is his placement on the Nzeogwu list what you call proof?
Deadlytruth: Before the rigging of 1965 elections, two censuses had also been rigged in 1962 and 1963 by the Balewa-Zik government.
You are lacking common sense. No jokes
There was no census in 1962. The first census was conducted in 1961 which Balewa annulled when he saw that the south seemed to be having more numbers. Why would Zik, a southerner that would have been favoured by the results support it when it would have worked against his political interests
Deadlytruth: Again, the federal elections of 1965 had also been rigged by the Akintola-Balewa coalition government yet all these didn't spark off operation Wetie, only for the 1965 regional election alone to spark it off? Is your brain paining you?
You don smoke abi
Edited: just seeing you corrected yourself. What happened in the "1962 elections"?
Deadlytruth: If you had been able to convincingly discredit the source before dismissing the contents verbally, I would have taken you seriously as that is what intelligent persons do if they can't provide counter evidence to a documental evidence.
Okay no vex. Just bring the source of the information. I dey wait
Deadlytruth: Your problem is that after recovering from the shock of any hard fact or superior logic you see, you gather yourself up again and begin to throw tantrums. The mere fact that you mentioned Wikipedia as a credible source of information is enough evidence that you are the intellectually shallow one here. Only a hardline ignoramus would shamelessly speak confidently of Wikipedia which has a visible edit button that makes its contents easily editable by any Tom Dick and Harry. Even you yourself can edit Wikipedia. All you need to is search for the information on Google, click on the icon that looks like a pen, move your cursor to the very sentence you want to edit and then delete or add any information you wish to. Then click on the "post" button and that's all. Try it right away and see for yourself.
Now, you said Zik had no powers of his own whatsoever hence couldn't be accused of any wrong done by the NPC-NCNC coalition government. Then again you now claim Nzeogwu and co were after the entire government inclusive of Zik obviously for the misrule and abuse of power by that government. My question now is that: why did they include the Zik who occupied a powerless position in that government hence didn't do any wrong according to you? Ot are you suggesting that Nzeogwu and co had a personal beef with Zik which they only wanted to settle the scores with the coup? The reason they were after Balewa was his abuse of office. Okotie-Eboh's was perceived corruption. Akintola's was his abuse of power in the West. What was Zik's own who was a figurehead and had no powers he could abuse according to you? Please answer.
More epistles.... Zik was a member of the government so he was also a target. If you dont accept what even some of the plotters like Ademoyega have confirmed then you are free to conjure up any bad belle thoughts you like
You are still trying to use epistles to cover your ignorance. I'm still asking you, where is the evidence that Zik approved for troops to go and kill people
Deadlytruth: Operation Wetie was the final outburst of a long pent up anger that started brewing since 1962 over the the unconstitutional means repeatedly deployed by the Zik-Balewa NPC-NCNC coalition government in its attempt to take over the Western Region and kill AG.. Thank God you are honest enough this time to agree that Zik pulled NCNC out of the NPC-NCNC coalition in 1964. Now, the question is: why didn't Zik do that in 1962 when the NPC-NCNC just started using Akintola and unconstitutional methods in trying to take over the West and kill AG? Why did he wait till 1964 after Akintola had won the battle and shaken off the NCNC in the West before he pulled NCNC out of the coalition at the center? I need answers.
1. Operation wetie was a revolt against Akintola/Balewa/Sardauna government (NNA) for rigging the 1965 elections. You have not provided evidence that Zik approved troops to go and kill people you don shift to new collection of lies tufiakwa!
2. You also claimed that Zik and Akintola had a coalition but you haven't proved it either.
3. Zik realigned the NCNC with a coalition with UMBC, remnants of AG and NEPU after western region NCNC members defected to Akintola's group.
4. Who denied that Zik pulled out of the coalition. These things are even in pamphlets you can buy at bus stops how shallow are you?
Deadlytruth: I said it was a resistance to the Zik's and Balewa's violations of the independence constitution through which Nigeria was making progress. Is it too difficult for you to understand? I already said it that you will only return to dismiss the hard evidence without providing any contrary facts. Aren't I vindicated now?
You said Nzeogwu planned a coup right? Why was Zik's name number 1 on the hit list of Nzeogwu? Recall that the coup was inspired by the unlawfulness of the Zik-Balewa government which used the army to kil peacefully demonstrating Tiv and Okrika people. Where in that constitution was the army given the power to quell demonstration where the police was?
The way you build lies on top of lies eh
Small children can use wikipedia and learn that Nzeogwu, Ademoyega and co were after the entire government, Zik inclusive.
But claiming that the Prime Minister needed to get permission from the ceremonial president to mobilise troops internally shows you are intellectually shallow. Where in the constitution was the deployment of troops illegal?
Deadlytruth: Zik jointly shared that power with Balewa. That is what I said. If after taking the pains to show you hard evidences from a combination of journals authored by live witnesses of those events among whom were Europeans and Nigerian professional journalists, you could still call it bear parlour talk without having opened it to read for yourself, then whoever thinks he can convince you with proofs and evidences must be a very idle person.
The only hard evidence you have provided are your emotional epistles. Show where Zik as figure head had powers to deploy troops.
Deadlytruth: So you couldn't see where it is clearly stated in the story that Zik was the leader of the NCNC which spearheaded all that negative activities? You didn't see whete Okpara, the foremost Zik loyalist, decided to draw back? You are simply beyond salvage.
And I have asked you why Zik decided to team up with Balewa to start violating a constitution which kept Nigeria working. Before independence we were even already operating that system. So why wasn't there operation wetie before Zik and Balewa combo and Ironsi's onslaught on that constitution? That source I have provided put to bed all your revisionist tales.
Operation wetie started in 1965. The NCNC had pulled out of its coalition with the NPC by 1964. The combo that sparked operation wetie was Balewa/Akintola. Nice try though
Deadlytruth: You obviously can no longer use as escape route the lame argument that Zik was a figurehead president. FYI, Zik, as 'figurehead" president still had some exclusive powers in the constitution back then. For example he alone could call on the elected prime minister to form a government or else the country would be at a standstill. He used this power briefly against Balewa in protest of the 1965 election's poor credibility.
You alleged that Zik had power to deploy troops, prove it
Deadlytruth: [s]If you had any capacity to reason logically you would have been able to deduce that Nzeogwu's inclusion of Zik in the hit list was because he as president must finally sign any document by which the prime minister deployed the armed forces for any operation. [/s]
okay I don hear. Nzeogwu singlehandedly gave Zik the powers of Balewa via his hit list
Deadlytruth: [s]This is more than pathetic. Nzeogwu was himself a soldier but he put Zik's name on the hit list because of the troops being deployed unlawfully all over the country. I guess you understand the dynamics of the relationship between the executive (Zik-Balewa) and the armed forces better than Nzeogwu, right? Idiot!
And I have been asking you whether America never worked just because all the disturbances I listed above and many more ever happened there. Your kinsmen are all over South Africa because they believe it is currently working better than Nigeria yet South Africa is full of frequent incidents of xenophobic uprisings and massacres. Please which school did you even attend?[/s]
Zik was a ceremonial president. Abi na Nzeogwu dash am powers of Prime Minister? You are too desperate to score points. Calm down and study
Deadlytruth: You are now suffering from the agony of defeat. We all believe that America is working even though there are frequent uprisings there, for example the case of George Floyd, the Marthin Luther King protest, the, American civil war which saw deaths of thousands of civilians, the 1961 invasion of a university by the American police which left many students dead on campus, the Herbert Hoover protests that nearly set the country on fire, the recent invasion of Capitol complex by protesters in support of Donald Trump, the Watergate Scandal, the bombings of WTC which recorded over 3000 deaths, etc. Going by your silly idea of a working society we can say America has never worked because all the following happened there right? You are simply a dunce!
You equate a terrorist attack on 9/11 in the US with the hell in Nigeria between 1960-1966?
Talk true...since you were born has anybody complemented you on being wise?
Deadlytruth: I said it was a resistance to the Zik's and Balewa's violations of the independence constitution through which Nigeria was making progress. Is it too difficult for you to understand? I already said it that you will only return to dismiss the hard evidence without providing any contrary facts. Aren't I vindicated now?
You said Nzeogwu planned a coup right? Why was Zik's name number 1 on the hit list of Nzeogwu? Recall that the coup was inspired by the unlawfulness of the Zik-Balewa government which used the army to kil peacefully demonstrating Tiv and Okrika people. Where in that constitution was the army given the power to quell demonstration where the police was?
This is pathetic...Zik was a figure head president with no power to command troops. Operation Wetie was between Awo and Akintola loyalists, even primary school kids today know that.
Now back to the real question....was Nigeria working?
All this awada keri-keri is amusing to be honest but back to the basics.....So Nigeria was working with Operation Wetie and All the chaos? Very soon you will say operation wetie was caused by Ironsi smh
Deadlytruth: You already have it above. What were Michael Okpara and Azikiwe backing out from? Why couldn't Azikiwe resign from the coalition government between his party NCNC and NPC if he wasn't really in support of all that the government was doing in the West? Can you provide a single evidence of an instance in which Zik publicly condemned his slave master Balewa over his unlawful interference in a purely internal affair of the Region?
At least Okotie-Eboh who was himself also part of the whole plot came back to his senses on seeing his fellow Midwesterner Enahoro suffering in jail for rather fictitious charges hence he began to publicly call on Balewa to shake off the apron strings of Ahmadu Bello and rely purely on his conscience in handling the situation. Ironically this was the Okotie-Eboh you Igbos murdered by twisting his head through 360⁰ while you left the Azikiwe who never protested walk free. What a wicked and demonic people!
So your evidence of your claim of an alliance between Zik and Akintola are plenty of speculations and tribalistic beer parlour theories such as "Why didn't zik resign"? Why did zik wear white agbada? Why did zik drink water?
Your lengthy, meaningless rants don't mean a thing. You can't dodge the initial question with all this crap and epistles..So Nigeria was working before Ironsi?
Deadlytruth: [s]The rift between Akintola and Awolowo initially took a legal and lawful procedure hence the AG set in motion a process to impeach Akintola which was sailing through very easily. But out of fear of the AG's soaring popularity among the masses on the strength of its democratic socialism campaign, the Zik and Balewa coalition government at the center decided to interfer in the impeachment process using unlawful tactics which involved teargassing AG members of the Western House, Zik's loyalists in the Assembly e.g. Ebubedike or so breaking the mace, and finally the imposition of state of emergency on the whole Western Region for a disturbance just within the House of Assembly all in a bid to strengthen Akintola unfairly in order that NCNC would take over the West forcefully and then align the West with the North to shame Awolowo and AG. Without Azikiwe and Balewa unlawful intervention, Akintola would have been easily impeached and there wouldn't have been anything like Operation Wetie. So anyhow you look at it, it all stemmed from the violation of the federal constitution by Azikiwe in pursuit of his dubious agenda to suppress AG. [/s]
Pure and complete rubbish that you can never back up with sources. Don't rush to reply. First go and watch that video so you dont disgrace yourself further...
But as a good brother let me help you small. When did AG form the alliance with NCNC? Now run along and do your research like a good boy
Deadlytruth: That is why I say you are a crass ignoramus. Operation Wetie was remotely caused by the fact that Tafawa Balewa, with the support of Igbo members of the Western Region House of Assembly and the Federal Parliament, violated the clear provisions of that constitution by reinstalling Akintola as Western Region Premier without election contrary to the dictates of the Western Region Constitution. The rigging of the 1965 election was also as a long term fall out of Zik's decision to collude with Balewa to flagrantly violate that same constitution by way of disobeying the Privy Council's verdict on Akintola through a retroactive bill passed by majority votes of the Igbo and Northern members of the parliament which overode the Privy Council's verdict retroactively to install Akintola who was at that time still an ally of Zik in his push to decapitate AG and put Awolowo out of circulation in order that his NCNC would take over the West by hook or crook. Go and read your young ignorant girt!
calm down and stop crying. Provide evidence of these your lies above. "Zik was in alliance with Akintola" I don dey sorry for you really
Deadlytruth: See what this idiot went to dig up to substantiate her idiotic argument. What happened in that video was as a result of the beginning of resistance to the very first attempts by your forebears like Azikiwe, Okpara, etc to, in collusion with some retrogressive elements in the North to violate that very constitution by which Nigeria was working. When I say you are of the indomie generation you think it is an insult. You don't know the details of the cause of the content of the video. Ignoramus!
Operation wetie aka Akintola vs Awo
I was expecting an engaging exchange but you are falling apart with your emotions outside. Awo wanted to pursue an alliance with NCNC but Akintola had opened Western region nyash for Sardauna and his party.
What a useless thread...the OP's claim about regional govt & Ironsi were busted, claim that Nigeria was working were busted. OP's true intellectual capacity also busted
Deadlytruth: [s]Idiotic pig from AfghanEASTern Republic. Repeating the same question like a broken record and pretending not to be able to read. What does it mean for a country to be working in your own idea if you have one at all? Coconut head[/s]!
These childish rants mean nothing
How could Nigeria have been working with the thousands killed in the western region civil war (operation wetie) or the 4000 estimated killed in the Tiv riots of 1964? Or the rigged western region elections that provoked Nzeogwu, Ademoyega & co to overthrow the government?
Deadlytruth: You obviously have no use for logical reasoning. Haven't you ever heard that Nigeria was a net exporter back in those days with each region trying to outdo the two others in terms of infrastructural projects? Wasn't it before the coming of Ironsi you hear about Coco House, Western Nigeria TV, Western Region Investment Board, Eastern Region partnership with Israeli experts for certain industrial projects of large scale, Northern Region establishing five potential universities at the same time, ongoing development of 12% area of Sambisa forest for ranches thus the forestalling of this present menace of Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram occupancy of Sambisa, Ahmadu Bello's policy of incorporation of Western Education into the curriculums of Islamic schools to avoid radicalization of the products of such schools, local government police that gathered intelligence at the grassroots for the federal police thus keeping insecurity totally down, and lots more? Your responses here reveal that you are of the indomie generation. I usually don't engage indomie generation babies on discussions about Nigeria's political history because they bore the whole thing with their stubborn ignorance and keep asking stupid questions.
Cowardly and highly empty, hiding behind long empty epistles. How was Nigeria working?
Politics › Re: Unanswered Questions On Ironsi And The Regional System. by joeyfire(m): 3:25pm On Dec 29, 2021
