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PoliticsRe: Obidients Attack Aisha Yesufu, Rinu And Fisayo Soyombo For Questioning Peter Obi by johnjose68: 2:19pm On Oct 15, 2022
Throwback:
Hahahahaha!

IPOBocrazy trying it's best to supplant democracy and divergence of thought like it did in the SouthEast.

Just imagine Rinu and Aisha Yesufu trying to protest in an era of IPOBocrazy?

Will they even have the freedom to leave their respective houses talkless of gathering to protest?

If you don't fear God, at least fear IPOBocrazy that considers any contrary opinion as saboteur thought deserving of death.

They have told you inadvertently many a times, yet you are still forming woke when indeed you are foolishly stupid.

They have crowned a failure they previously admitted to as their candidate and have sworn that no one else must be allowed to exist to campaign otherwise.

Those who dared them were recently assassinated.

Those who contributed to create the monster that infested the SouthEast, were soon visited with their own sorrows to console themselves with, by the very same monster they criticised others for and aided its growth.
They want people to tolerate their i.pig tendencies..but they cannot tolerate any criticism.

Imagine what i.pob presidency would be...it would be worse than the worst.


Most of them live in Lagos and abuse Jagaban...and nobody cares...imagine if you do that in Anambra!!!!!

Imagine the number of people, (even those that are supporting their candidate) that they have threatened to kill!!!!

Nigerians...be careful!!!

There is no names they have not called Tinubu, the Jagaban. Still, you will NEVER hear any threats from any Yoruba, the omoluabis.

Now imagine if one-tenths of those insults are directed at their candidate...ahahahahah. all hell will be let loose.

God save us from these people.

No longer will we go back to 1966. If you know you know.
TravelRe: Lagos Test-Runs Blue Line Rail (Video) by johnjose68: 6:04pm On Oct 14, 2022
brightbright:
Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqLh_HAIeq4

A video has emerged showing a test-run being carried out on the Lagos Blue Line Rail.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjsuwNgIOAG/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Waiting for alambra own..
EducationRe: UNILAG Tops Nigerian Varsities, Ranks 401-500th In The World by johnjose68: 7:23am On Oct 14, 2022
Corridon:
Should have been one of the best in the world but Tinubu's greed makes it impossible.
Remind me, which university dey alambra self? grin grin

And then tell us how bitter obi turned alambra university to first in the jewish world tongue
CrimeRe: Names Of Sexual Offenders Convicted In Lagos Published by johnjose68: 7:19am On Oct 14, 2022
osazsky:
Why are they all yoruba..see thier tribal Mark's..the only igbo there was by mistake but his dad married a yoruba woman that bigotted the idiot spits
These ones (f.lathead) go vote for prison grin grin
CrimeRe: Names Of Sexual Offenders Convicted In Lagos Published by johnjose68: 7:17am On Oct 14, 2022
Lanrelagboi:
">https://twitter.com/Lagosdsva/status/1580743085633417216?t=Qy_ekhqnlruLQtzpCt1lxw&s=19[/quote]grin grin Na Obidient pikin dem be.

One by one, we go lock all of them for prison. He go shock them.
PoliticsRe: Sanwo-Olu Receives Approval For Badagry Deep Seaport Project by johnjose68: 7:00pm On Oct 13, 2022
Kajaard:
Lol cheesy grin cheesy

You people just like trouble too much cheesy
We like vawulence... grin
Anything that makes i.pig angry, we like it.
PoliticsRe: Sirika: Why FG Didn’t Waste Time Giving Approval For New Lagos Airport by johnjose68: 9:16am On Oct 13, 2022
franchasofficia:
Honestly Southwest leaders need to have a sober reflection of what their region would have looked like without Lagos.



Funny enough Lagos was treated as a separate entity during the 1960s.


It baffles me how the rest of southwest states abandoned their state development only to be chanting our Lagos up and down, making it look like Yoruba land starts and end in Lagos.



Why can't they develop a seaport in Ondo, work on making Ogun state the next megacity like Lagos because of its proximity to Lagos.



A whole Oyo state is far behind in development all because Yoruba leaders only care about Lagos but will be first to call out regions that are single handedly building their regions with little or no federal government assistance.



Imo state indigenes contributed money in the 80s to build Imo airport.


Anambra state government built their own airport within 2 years.


Enugu have airport.


Ebonyi and Abia are massively building their own airports yet these people don't respect Igbos who build their region with their own sweat without federal government assistance.




No wonder they hate to hear that an Igbo man wants to become President, they want the marginalization of Igbos to continue while they use our communal wealth to build their region and still rob it off on our faces like they worked for it.



Time will tell, nothing last forever.



Where is Rome today, where is Athens? Oppression never last forever, wise people know this but fools always brag with oppression thinking it will last forever until reality down on them
Oh. Sorry.
PoliticsRe: Sirika: Why FG Didn’t Waste Time Giving Approval For New Lagos Airport by johnjose68: 8:28am On Oct 13, 2022
trantayo:
FG approved airport in Lagos and someone commented that when Obi becomes president, they will see what become of Lagos.It is clear now that Obi movement is anti Yorubas development. My fellow Omoluabi, vote for Tinubu for progress of Federal Republic of Nigeria. Don't vote for someone that will divide Nigeria
We know this already. I.pob (igbo) is the most tribalized region in the country.. if you go to peter Obidient Next cash and carry in Abuja, 99.9% of their staff are ipobs.

This is the same thing they will do to Nigeria. Remember they are ipobian jews and not Nigeria. So let us all beware of them.

If you notice, they have taken over labour party as an ipob party.

Even their party PCC is composed mainly of i.pob.

Fellow Nigerians, beware...beware...beware...

They are hijackers...this is the same way they hijacked Jonathan's government....the same same way they hijacked end SARS movement. Now they have hijacked LP.

Every of their outburst is laced with anger, bitterness, frustrations abuse, etc..

Now they need the north's vote when they used to call them cows.

Now they need Yorubas vote when hatred will not make them appreciate Yorubas hospitality to them.

Now they want to become Nigeria president, after they suddenly realised it is no longer a zoo.

Nigerians be wise.
PoliticsRe: Sirika: Why FG Didn’t Waste Time Giving Approval For New Lagos Airport by johnjose68: 8:18am On Oct 13, 2022
ariesbull:
Lagos has airport the only SW state with via Le Airport

No airports in these areas

Ondo... None
Ogun... None
Osun... None
Ekiti.... None
Oyo... Planes lands there once in 4 yrs



In south east

Anambra... Yes
Enugu.... Yes
Imo.... Yes
Ebonyi... Building
Abia.... None


In south south
Rivers... Oh yes
Cross River... Yes
Delta.... Yes (2)
Ákwá Ibom... Oh yes with an aircraft
Bayelsa... None



From the deduction... SW is the most backward region in Southern Nigeria... Apart from Lagos
Hmn. I am sure you typed your rubbish while staying in a south west state, possibly Lagos or Ibadan or Abeokuta. Hatred will surely kill you one day. F.lathead. Unknown Gun Men bikin. Save your Biafra cry till February next year.

By the way, its been long we hear ipob cry. Oh one of them is contesting as s president cheesy
PoliticsRe: Sirika: Why FG Didn’t Waste Time Giving Approval For New Lagos Airport by johnjose68: 7:23am On Oct 13, 2022
CheapHomes1:
Is it Lagos state that built and is maintaining MMIA? Have other states not built airports of their own?
No. It is peter Obidient. Nonsense and ingredients. Just be happy for once...after all even your i.pig obi na Lagos him dey stay not anamBad angry .

Even you commenting here will never stay in that your land of erosion-infected mud-ravaged, land-locked, anger-infested, dot nation.

You run to another man's land and another man's platform like nairaland to spew trash and hatred.

huh
PoliticsRe: Sirika: Why FG Didn’t Waste Time Giving Approval For New Lagos Airport by johnjose68: 7:17am On Oct 13, 2022
tishbite41:
By February next year, Afonjas will give us the tears of a clown
but we are not f.lathead and i.pig.
PoliticsRe: Sirika: Why FG Didn’t Waste Time Giving Approval For New Lagos Airport by johnjose68: 7:15am On Oct 13, 2022
tishbite41:
If to sey na Igboland, e go take una 20 years to approve am
Una Yorulani collaboration against the Igbos will soon backfire
Developer spotted. cheesy cheesy

Always angry at someone else's success. Now they want to become z.oo president. No be juju be that.
PoliticsRe: CVR: INEC Deletes 2.7 Million Double Registrants, PVCs Ready November by johnjose68: 5:45pm On Oct 11, 2022
5iine:
I know you deleted Obi's votes.... mostly southerners.

Warey Inec grin
E shock you. Start practicing how to cry in February now �
TravelRe: Sanwo-Olu Receives Letter Of Approval For Lekki Airport by johnjose68: 5:37pm On Oct 11, 2022
festacman:
Another Airport at Lekki will make mad economic sense. Megacity taking shape.
But i.pig will not like this. They want to hear bad news about LAGOS. cheesy grin

They have never seen movement. By the time JAGABAN movement starts....

I.pigs are the only tribe that will live in another man's land and be abusing the host. No be juju be that shocked
CrimeRe: Gang Who Track People At Abuja Airport Almost Kidnapped My Friend - Twitter User by johnjose68: 9:22am On Oct 10, 2022
nlfpmod:
As shared by Twitter user, Paul of Truth



https://twitter.com/iam_paulash/status/1579036657067884544?t=zQLI69PeEgv49E1LhbM2Pw&s=08[/quote]The gang must be f.lathead. go and verify. grin
TravelRe: Julius Berger Switches On The Streetlights On The Second Niger Bridge (Pictures by johnjose68: 11:12am On Oct 04, 2022
AFRICANJAMAICA:
Ok

This country is doomed....these are basic amenities that other country construct for betterment of their citizens,but here in nigeria ,is a big deal...they are even used for campaign...
Show us the basic amenities obidense provided for you and your unborn generations.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Supporters Visit Old Woman who Swept The Road At Kogi Rally Yesterday by johnjose68: 5:38am On Oct 04, 2022
christejames:
When they say supporters of APC are Brainless, they are speaking about persons like you...

How did you know the Labour Party woman was induced with money to join a rally, she could be a hawker holding her daily sales in her hand. Compare that to the post above with video of your demonic party men visiting a woman for 'thank you' just to buy her conscience and get her PVC undecided undecided





I'm really sorry for you, you need to look beyond 2023, your life is hanging dangerously lose on a thin thread wire if you don't do the right thing embarassed embarassed


Vote Wisely!
Why are you explaining grin
PoliticsRe: J.martins At Peter Obi Rally Today - Photos by johnjose68: 10:28am On Oct 02, 2022
NaijaRoyalty:
Popular Nigerian music star, J. Martins was at the Peter Obidient rally today to show his support for one of the Presidential front runner, Peter Obi at the Obidient rally

See photos below
Planning

The planning of the coup began with an inner circle of university-educated young officers who intended a national military revolution by seizing power in the regional capitals of Kaduna (Northern Region) and Ibadan (Western Region), and later taking control of Lagos (Federal Territory). Nzeogwu was tasked with leading the revolution in the Northern Region starting with Operation Damisa on 15 January 1966 and, at later stages, Operation Kura, Operation Zaki and Operation Giwa which would have culminated in the murder of the northern establishment.

Nzeogwu had started his preparation by organizing a two-day night exercise "Damisa" (Operation Tiger) to train soldiers in new fighting techniques. The exercise was approved by authorities of the 1st Brigade Headquarters apparently unaware of the real intentions of Nzeogwu and the Brigade Major, Alphonso Keshi had sent circulars to all units operating under the Brigade to contribute troops towards the success of the exercise. By the time Major Keshi realized "Operation Damisa" was actually a military conspiracy it was too late to counter the operation.

Execution

In the early hours of 15 January 1966, Nzeogwu led a group of soldiers on a supposed military exercise, taking them to attack the official residence of the premier of the north, Sir Ahmadu Bello in a bloody coup that saw the murder of the Premiers of Northern and Western Nigeria. The Prime Minister (Abubakar Tafawa Balewa), a federal minister (Festus Okotie-Eboh), and top army officers from the Northern and Western regions of the nation were also brutally murdered. From the existing government, the premier of the Eastern region (Michael Okpara), the President of the Nigerian federation (Nnamdi Azikiwe) and the Igbo Army Chief (Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi) were notable survivors.

Nzeogwu's modus operandi in the North contributed in no small measure to the success of the coup in Northern Nigeria.

According to a Nigerian Police Special Branch Report, Nzeogwu executed at least 4 army and police security personnel including one of the men on his team (Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke). Nzeogwu also participated in the execution of Col. Raph Shodeinde, his superior officer at the Nigerian Military Training College and is reported to have shot indiscriminately at fleeing women and children.

Major Nzeogwu made a mid-afternoon announcement, declaring martial law in Northern Nigeria.

Arrest

Following the announcement from Kaduna, and information that Nzeogwu was gathering forces to attack Lagos which was a huge possibility at the time, Commander of the Army, Maj. Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi sent emissaries led by a man Maj. Nzeogwu heavily respected, Lt. Col. Conrad Nwawo, to Kaduna to negotiate peace talks with Maj. Nzeogwu and a possible surrender. Maj. Nzeogwu set conditions which Gen. Ironsi agreed to. Aguyi Ironsi assumed power, and Nzeogwu was later arrested in Lagos on 18 January 1966 contrary to agreements earlier reached between Nzeogwu and Ironsi. He was held in Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in Lagos before being transferred to Aba Prison in the Eastern Region where he was released in March 1967 by Governor of the Eastern Region and future President of Biafra Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.
PoliticsRe: Reactions Trail Tinubu/shettima Nairaxi Transit Card Initiative by johnjose68: 10:49am On Sep 30, 2022
Xbobtage:
why only do this during campaign? BAT has had the ears of President and hands if the VP plus all the ministers he put in power for 7 years.
Why is Obi visiting Egypt during campaign flat.head??
CrimeRe: Man Caught Using Children With Fake Stomach Tumour To Beg For Alms In Lagos by johnjose68: 5:16am On Sep 30, 2022
ojun50:
No be lagos
Why dem no go Anambra, Nigeria Dubai. tongue
PoliticsRe: 2023: Again, SERAP Urges Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, Kwankwaso To Publish Their Assets by johnjose68: 6:50pm On Sep 28, 2022
politicoNG:
https://twitter.com/SERAPNigeria/status/1575147760231354377?s=19

Previous Thread:
SERAP initially threw the challenge at them in July:
https://www.nairaland.com/7243643/serap-atiku-obi-others-publish#115022015
We will see how Obituary will declare assets in pandora haven. We are waiting cheesy
PoliticsRe: Muslim-Muslim Ticket: We’re Talking With PDP, Says Lawal by johnjose68: 10:25am On Sep 28, 2022
mariahAngel:
Tinubu's over-ambitiousness will be his undoing.
I'm BATIFIED.

Oya, insult me!!! cheesy
PoliticsRe: Muslim-Muslim Ticket: We’re Talking With PDP, Says Lawal by johnjose68: 10:25am On Sep 28, 2022
ovieigho:
Yes
Anything but the evil ( APC) party

They want to marginalize Igbos for another 16yrs
They want to marginalize Christians for another 16yrs if not more ( Islamization agenda )
Let the Insults Start!!!!

I'm BATIFIED.
TravelRe: Lagos Tests The Blue Rail Train Service (Video) by johnjose68: 5:14am On Sep 28, 2022
Dtygz:
Some moróns will begin attributing this to another person thereby ignoring the real personality to be praised which is the sitting state governor.
Obi is the developer of the train.
PoliticsRe: Obi, Atiku, Tinubu To Sign Peace Pact On Thursday by johnjose68: 7:47am On Sep 23, 2022
tsephanyah:
If not for tribalism and religion sentiments.... Peter Obi is the best candidate to vote for, unfortunately Yoruba tribalism and northern religion extremism will not allow us to reason well.

We will vote either Tinubu or Atiku for them to continue looting and screwing us while their children are abroad enjoying themselves.

I might vote Peter Obi even if he will not win at least I will sleep better knowing I did the right thing
The Bible says: answer the f.ool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes (Prov 26:5).

So let me answer you.

You are a fo.ol

The Bible equally says: answer NOT a f.ool according to his folly, lest you be like him (Prov 26:4).

So I will stop here and not bother about your f.oolishness.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu meet with Northern Christian Leaders (Pictures) by johnjose68: 6:43am On Sep 23, 2022
BurialGround:
grin

This SLEEPING BAT is so desperate but nothing for him.
Obituary must be praying here!!!

PoliticsRe: Tinubu Sleeps Off At Gombe Emir’s Palace During Meeting (Photos, Video) by johnjose68: 6:27pm On Sep 18, 2022
TheDirector:
I believe you could have made your point without bringing the name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST into your submission. Thank you.

PoliticsRe: Tinubu Sleeps Off At Gombe Emir’s Palace During Meeting (Photos, Video) by johnjose68: 4:58pm On Sep 18, 2022

PoliticsRe: Britain Owes Igbo Apology, Compensation For Biafra’s Destruction – Prof Anya by johnjose68: 6:37pm On Sep 17, 2022
Truthdeypain:
CHIEF AWOLOWO is a GENOCIDAL SUICIDAL BABY KILLING Omoluabi, for all the death and destruction, and his zeal to finally exterminate that great tribe that gives all YORUBAS and HAUSAS sleepless nights and sorrows, he took otapiapia and sniped away his worthless life, being a thorough and we'll bred coward he could not bring himself to stand in the face of trial. The word coward should be replaced with the name of that bastard you worship and Venerate in your region.

For all the biafrans you guys have killed and the BiAFRA you guys have destroyed and shared and bombarded where is still the most developed and civilized region in Nigeria?? No be South East. How far has the South west come on terms of development and changing from a shit eating brown roof mud house republic into stated where houses are actually built with an in house toilets..

How far has Nigeria come and how far have we progressed, what has happened after AWOLOWOS 20 POUNDS poverty policy. I guess IGBOS are the poorest folks in Nigeria, and they do not have the highest average per capita of millionaire in Nigeria.

How far has the SE come in education, where do they stand in the discussion for education. Where would you find some of the most liveable cities in NiGERIA today.

Who has the most Aesthetically beautiful people in Nigeria 8/10 beautiful girls on Lagos are IGBOS if you come go east you can never find an ugly IGBO girl they are in the 1 percent. Only my brothers find pass all the yoruba girls wey dey this Lagos, my brothers ni oo. SS, EDO, FULANI are other beautiful people around. YORUBA na una carry last girls are uglier than they are dirty, ugly pieces of shit.

After all said and done we are still on top of the world. It's not so difficult to see why IGBOS are much hated in Nigeria and much compared to the JEWS, like them we have suffered GENOCIDE and HATE.

GOD CANNOT BE MOCKED. LONG LIVE THE GREATEST AFRICAN TRIBE ON EARTH
He pain am....am sure you are in lagos typing this nonsense. May be you don't know that it is Awolowo that named the naira you are spending every day. I wonder why Obituary is leaving in Tinubu lagos.
PoliticsRe: Britain Owes Igbo Apology, Compensation For Biafra’s Destruction – Prof Anya by johnjose68: 4:30pm On Sep 17, 2022
Anigreat:
shocked



I really love the great Igbo tribe even though I am not Igbo. Even in the face of oppression the fear no one, they speak their mind and fear no idiot. Infact it's this inherent behavioral disposition of fearlessness constantly and consistently displayed by them that I believe the saying that goes thus: "Igbo man bows for no one except his chi"

This fearless trait is not only found in their men but also their women. Aba women riot of 1929 came to mind were Ikonnia,Nwannedia and Nwugo, beautiful Igbo women lead the protest successfully, and recently the case of Uju and the queen is a clear study of what their women is made of. God bless them.

Don't think that Igbo men will run away from their ancestral land to Benin republic or Cote D'Ivoire, they fight bravely and die as warriors..while others run and still die as cowards.
They threw us into this mess by perpetrating the first coup and killing the leaders of other tribes. They caused all these mess. But they will be the first to shout blue murder.

Imagine wanting to be president of z.oo!!!! And feeling entitled to it.

Awon dot nation...land-locked region..the developers.

Awon were jatijati.
PoliticsRe: Britain Owes Igbo Apology, Compensation For Biafra’s Destruction – Prof Anya by johnjose68: 4:26pm On Sep 17, 2022
adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Britain-owes-Igbo-apology-compensation-for-Biafras-destruction-Prof-Anya
*HISTORY NEVER DIES....*

*By Reno Omokri*

What Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Exposes About Biafra

First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in today’s ThisDay.

When on Thursday, September 8, 2022, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed on into ancestor-hood, I was not particularly moved. I like England. I schooled and worked there and those years were some of the best of my life. The English people are by far some of the most decent peoples on planet Earth.

However, I am rather indifferent about their monarch. I did not like or dislike Queen Elizabeth II. The only thing I can think of that I admire in her is her stoicism. Her ability to take pain and pleasure with equanimity. She is the epitome of duty and a stiff upper lip.

But I doubt that I bothered much about her and her goings on. I was just aloof.

So, while I was not one of those mourning, it was not because I had some grudge against the House of Windsor. No. It is just that the House of Ginuwa (the first Olu of Warri), mattered more to me than Buckingham Palace.

The above not withstanding, I was absolutely mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate things that were said about the Queen and her family by a Nigerian woman living in America, whose name I will not dignify by mentioning.

I later got to find out that this woman has other issues, which made me understand her bitterness better, though I still vehemently reject her indecorous words.

She was one of the people who famously celebrated the death of TB Joshua and called him all sorts of unprintable names when he died. So it is no big surprise that she has turned her vitriol in the direction of the late Queen.

And so now, let me tackle what the death of Queen Elizabeth II reveals about Biafra. It shows us as a people not aware of our history, and because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo history has been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it, and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.

That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and for some strange reason decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

But of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, there are millions of people who believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.

One fellow named Uche Nnaya even tweeted at me that the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria had a right to rail against the British monarch and the rest of Nigeria, because “you can’t push people to the wall and dictate how they react.”

Really? But do those who hold such views not know that some other persons were FIRST pushed to the wall? Uche’s response will also justify how those who were first pushed to the wall reacted.

We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.

My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should my people carry that grudge forever?

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to LUTH and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.

This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?

I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.

So, please let us stop pretending as if the late Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria and ignited a war. The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of mostly Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.

Many people now spewing vitriol against the late Queen Elizabeth II for her alleged role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during the Biafran occupation of the Midwest.

After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed. Please research it before you insult me.

I need to add that the killings by the liberating forces were worse than the killings of the Biafrans, and should truly have been declared war crimes.

Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.

The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today!

There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East.

That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.

So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!

It is only those who are ignorant about how the British government works that will blame the late Queen for the actions of the British government. She was a titular and ceremonial head of state, whose actions were limited to appointing the candidate who has won election directly or indirectly as prime minister, and declaring open the parliament. She was a symbol. She was not the initiator of the policies of the British government.

And even the British government are not to blame for the Nigerian Civil War. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions. That war was the result of the ill advised January 15, 1966 coup.

The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:

1. Kaduna Nzeogwu
2. Emmanuel Ifeajuna
3. Timothy Onwuatuegwu
4. Adewale Ademoyega
5. Chris Anuforo
6. Humphrey Chukwuka
7. Donatus Okafor

Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.

Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say that have learned very little since the civil war.

22 people were killed during the coup, including

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Ahmadu Bello
3. Ahmed Ben Musa
4. Hafsatu Bello
5. Ahmed Pategi
6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola
7. Festus Okotie-Eboh
8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun
9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari
10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde
11. Col. Kur Mohammed
12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema
13. Lt. Col. James Pam
14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe
15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun
17. Zarumi Sardauna
18. PC Yohana Garkawa
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo
20. PC Akpan Anduka
21. PC Hagai Lai
22. Philip Lewande

As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria. . (I have since learned that Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe was Igbo. He was in charge of weaponry in Lagos, and was killed when he refused to cooperate with Major Chris Anuforo).

After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.

However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.

These are facts that we all should address, rather than blaming the late Queen Elizabeth II for a war she did not cause, nor had anyway of stopping. And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.

The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of soldiers and civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore.

We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming Queen Elizabeth II 50 years after the war?

And when you point this out, the very same people castigating the late Queen will accuse you of creating ethnic tension? Do you want to be victims and victors at the same time? Leave the woman and her family to grieve in peace. By celebrating the Queen’s death, you are giving Nigeria a very nasty reputation that will affect all of us and not only you. We cannot afford to be seen as a nation with anti British and American sentiments, when we are not able to get a better deal from China and Russia.

Reno’s Nuggets
PoliticsRe: Lagos Impounds 4,694 Motorcycles, Convicts 1,490 Offenders by johnjose68: 7:03am On Sep 16, 2022
Mstick:
The 25 years old "blueprint" expires next year and Lagos is still a money guzzling slum.

Imagine a big state collecting taxes for everything, still the number one most indebted state in Nigeria but no clean running water despite been surrounded by the ocean.

grin
Why not concentrate on Anambra!!!

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