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Why do the police parade them when they've not even been proving guilty!

I was in university in the 90s during abacha regime, UNAD to be precise. All nigerian students lost 1 or 2years sitting down at home back then because of strikes and political unrest in the country, it's sad that the same old story still continues.

I'm not an advocate of violence, but we have to realise that the students are products of our violent,corrupt and unsettled society, consciously or unconsciously a child will naturally immitate the doings of the society he finds himself.

It will be a case of 'black kettle calling charcoal black' if government prosecutes the students for violence.

A luta Continua  ,  GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

@Sbeezy8, You can be abusive as you like, My comment was made as a result of lots of prejudices about tribe that has been mentioned from the begining of this thread, you have a right to your opinion though.

The issue i have with the zoning arrangement is that it's a PDP thing and it doesn't apply to other parties. for the sake of argument what will happen if labour candidate from southwest or south east wins the presidential election? will the northerners  still say its their turn? or are we saying indirectly that the president can never come from another party except the PDP? it's really scary.
I'm praying for the day nigerians will be able to vote for the best candidate, a president chosing not on religion or tribal alligiance but on merit. GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

Zoning is a PDP arrangement but sadly most people are taking it as part of our constitution.  i'm amazed that it's still difficult for the south east to back the south south! that really shows us the igbo mentallity.

Talking about the role of the yorubas during the civil war, I didn't want to talk about this but because i've seen a lot of comments on it in this thread i feel compelled to talk about it.  Gen gowon was the head of state, with military governors for each of the region then, including ojukwu for eastern region. power belongs to the military during this period, that was why it was easy for ojukwu as a military man to break away, even the great azikwe could not stop him from going to the war. Awolowo doesn't have the power to make the yorubas break away even if wishes so, he was a civilian.  The statement awolowo made that the south west  will go if nigeria allows the south east to go was just to press and threatning Gowon to act on time and not allow the south east to break away. The south east has their plan to break away already anyway, so why are the igbos now turning back to blame awolowo as if he was the one that took them to war.  
Lastly, if the igbos want to break away from nigeria its up to them, the yorubas are not.
It'sad that a lot of igbo writers on this thread are either ignorant or illitrates, the educated igbos home and abroad understands the facts and events of the war anyway.

The part of this topic i want to attack is that Awolowo introduced tribalism into nigerian politics, this opinion is a fallacy. To start with human beings by nature are tribal whether you are an african, asian, european , etc, human association mostly is based on language, colour of the skin,religion, culture, tradition and values.
I live in britain, using britain as an example, i was suprised when i first came over to britain and saw the level of dislike between the english, scottish, welsh and the irish despite the fact that they are under the same kingdom. take Ghana for example, we have the ashantis, fantis, gans, and the hausas, the problem of tribalism exists there too, take the rwanda genocide for example between the hutus and the tutsis where millions of people were killed because of tribalism, i can continue to give example across the world but my point here is that tribalism is a human problem all over the world and it can even take the form of racism, so to say that its chief Awolowo that introduced tribalism to nigerians is ridiculous and silly.
One problem Chief awolowo had was that he was a blunt man and he will always say things the way he sees it which most people believes a politician shouldn't do, but it's an irony that we always complain when our politicians lie to us even though we ourselves don't always like hearing the bitter truth.
It's also laughable that people will say he's only interested in the western region, people forget that under parliamentry system of government which nigeria started with, every regional leader is mainly responsible for their regions. one man's hero is another man's villain, even ghandi,abraham lincon, john kennedy, roosevelt, clinton all these great leader still has their own critics till date.
Awolowo and co faught for nigeria independence, even when the northerners were against it, so why are people saying he didn't believe in nigeria.
All said, everybody has a right to their opinion anyway.