₦airaland Forum

AllenSpencer:
Are farmers not giving special treatment?

Are investors not giving special treatment?

Can use the fact that some Okada men rob to generalize all Okada men? No

Thats why you need a plan to identify the criminals. If a farm settlement is in Lekki, what will an herdsman be doing in Ikeja. Open grazing will even be completely banned.


And if it might interest you, do you know it will be more expensive for this herdsmen to maintain their herds in the case of settlements or ranching.

You are just high on cow dong. You likeen Fulanis herdsmen to investors? All these holy lies aka taqqiya will never stand. Eyes don open.

AllenSpencer:
Their is nothing like a private business in the situation at hand. Their activities has posed a threat to national security and the government has a mandatory right to intervene.

I will list out few advantages for you and will be ready to explain where necessary

-Herdsmen will be clustered in settlements which will totally abolish open grazing and bring to a stop farmers/herdsmen clashes

-Animal Rustling will be history

-Comprehensive database of practicing herdsmen in a state can easily be tracked and monitored, which will also aid in disease and animal care

-Employment opportunities it will create as settlements will bring businesses closer to them.

I can go on Bro

When IPOB posed threat to the national security, what did the FG do to them?

AllenSpencer:
Why are you sounding so irrational and unenlightened!

Doesn't the government lease and sell agricultural lands to farmers? Even Chinese are getting industrial lands at subsidized rates just to attract investment.

We talking about National security here and it the responsibility of the Federal Government to find a solution.


People like you can only oppose, You cant constructively define a resolution excluding hate and bitterness

You are free to give them your lands in SW. SE/SS is locked down. Some states now have their own ranches. No need for Fulani bacteria-infested malnourished cows.

Benekruku:
Your statement is a false annotation.

A religious conflict is different from whats playing here and you just only trying to use it as a point which out-rightly does not fit

What has cattle ranching got to do with religion? Oh! Cos predominantly Muslims are into the trade and the myopic view of Islamization is brought to play.

How many Northern settlements are in the west for years without them having conflicts about who controls the affairs of the area. Let me mention a few to buttress my point. Mile 12 and Mushin in Lagos and Kara in Ogun state. Conflicts are bound irrespective of religion or tribe. Is Ikorodu or shomolu a Fulani settlement? but conflicts happen there spontaneously.

Dont bring the religious or tribal play into the picture. Think more of best solutions to curb the menace. You mention grazing in whole of Sambisa forest and am certain you were proposing products should be railed to where its required. Are you being logical and feasible?


And let me just enlighten you cos you sound not be aware. Cattle rearing is also done by Christians who employ Fulani's has herdsmen, and not only Fulani tribe is into cattle rearing. Its archaic to believe in the "They want to take our land" ideology when National security is involved.

TAQQIYA at it's worst. Our eyes are now wide open. Mentions the Christians in commercial cattle rearing business. We have read and seen what similar gesture caused for Southern Kaduna. It will never happen again.

Aonkuuse:
and you think they wouldn't pay for grazing on those lands?

And if they refuse to pay, what will you do? While at it, think of what the host communities have done about the destruction of their farms, killing and raping their women by the Fulanis.

Bbbwings:
Stfu and enjoy next level
America is in a trillion dollar debt.
And boy do they navigate around it by printing more money
Emeifele get to work.

Are you America? Do your roads, power, security, economy look like America's?

Celebrityblog:
Source: http://www..com/2019/06/sayyu-dantata-flies-his.html?m=1

Dunno why it is only Igbos & Hausas that are living large in Lagos. From private choppers & wonder cars to bespoke residential quarters. Where are the so called owners of Lagos? Okay at the Oke-afa slum.

Gazzy88:
You've come again with your "nomansland " nonsense abi? You na no dey ever give up? I guess abuja, calabar and lokoja are no man's land too? These places were/is a seat of govt at one point in time yet the aren't close to Lagos. Calabar is very close to you people but you won't troop there, why? The answer is obvious. For you lots traveling hundreds of miles to come to Lagos instead of calabar shows how obsessed you are to Lagos. Lagos isn't the only former Federal capital so shut your trap up.

Are you rattled? That's what truth does to pathologic liers. It rattles them.

Gazzy88:
Mumu and oponu like you, Lagos is the most indebted state in Nigeria yet they are the most advanced state. USA have the highest debt profile in the world, yet they are world's numéro uno. Sorry kid, which school did you attend before I know what to size you up with? So because a state pays worker's salary regularly means they are the best state. If I were to go by your childish and stupendous permutations, then Lagos shouldn't have been recording huge successes due to their high debts. With the so called "doing well" status of Eastern states, their citizens always save up to catch the next available bus to Lagos. It's either you're just being naive or you're totally lost. Grab a crash course on governance boy.

See this Onuku. When their lies about SW's bouyancy are busted, they quickly reference Lagos which we all know was built by all Nigerians which makes it a nomansland.

Sanromeo:

‘I met no money in the treasury’


Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has disclosed that he took a loan of N7bn to pay workers’ May salaries.

He said this on Monday while addressing leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the state.

He added that he would rather focus on ensuring good governance in the state than pre-occupy himself with the actions or inactions of his predecessor.


He said “We have by far too many things to do than to begin to be bogged down by what someone did or what he did not do or what he left behind.

“I cannot begin to describe in the open to you the Ogun State that we inherited. I cannot begin to describe it to you. I will not because I have made up my mind that publicly and privately, I will not discuss anything about the past administration.


“We have resolved to draw the line and to move forward from there. We need to be focused. We are going to rebrand and re-launch the security trust fund.”

Abiodun added that his first challenge in office was how to pay the May workers’ salary, saying he had to call his friends who are managing directors of banks to get a credit facility of over N7bn to pay the workers.

He said, “30th day of May was our first day in office. And on the 31st, it dawn on me that it was the end of the month and we need to pay salaries.


“But here we are on our second day in office. I don’t even have an office; I don’t even know how to sign any document; I don’t even know what the protocols are. Suddenly, we realised it was 31st and I intend to keep my end of the tripartite agreement. So, I called the Head of Service; I told him we must pay salary. But he said to me, ‘You are new in government and everybody understands that you just assumed office and we don’t have that expectation of you paying salaries now. They (workers) will understand. There is very little or no money. We can talk to them.’


“I told the Head of Service, whether they (the workers) were expectant or not, it was my promise to the people that salaries would be paid as and when due.”

He added, “So, I picked my phone and called my friends who are MDs in different banks. I told them I needed to pay salaries and this is the little I have; almost nothing in the state account.

“I requested for a credit facility to allow me to pay over N7bn which is the state wage bill. That day, my intention was that maybe one or two will oblige me, but the five banks I called obliged me.”


He said civil servants received their alerts that evening and that gave a sense of fulfillment, being his first task in office.

The governor later held a closed-door meeting with the APC chiefs.

Briefing journalists after the meeting, the Publicity Secretary of party’s caretaker Committee, Mr Tunde Oladunjoye, said the governor called the meeting to brief them on the activities of his administration in the last one month.


https://punchng.com/i-took-n7bn-loan-to-pay-may-salaries-says-abiodun/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Ogun, a state touted to have a higher IGR than the whole SE put together is borrowing to pay salary. However Anambra taunted for having the lowest IGR has never borrowed to pay salary.
Lies always find it's way to the surface because liers most times are caught off guard.

GistMore3:
GistMore.com

President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Monday dissolved an 11-year-old marriage between one Jimoh Ibrahim and Barakat over unrepentant dirtiness and waywardness. Odunade held that the court was puting an end to the relationship between Jimoh and Barakat due to loss of love between the couple.

“The marriage between Jimoh and Barakat has ceased to be in the interest of peaceful coexistence. “Custody of the eight year-old child produced by the union is awarded to Barakat and Jimoh shall pay a monthly allowance of N5,000 for the child’s upkeep in addition to being responsible for his education and other welfare of the child,” the arbitrator said.

Earlier, Jimoh, a businessman and a resident of Oja-Iba area in Ibadan, told the court that he could no longer cope with his wife’s dirtiness and adultery. “For 11 years now, I have waited over and over to see whether Barakat would have a change of mind in her bad attitude or not.

“Instead, Barakat’s dirtiness worsened such that I had no option than to be cleaning the house and washing our wears myself. “I also have to bathe our child and do every other necessary things in the house. “As if those are not enough, Barakat now move around with a gang of riffraff for the purpose of prostitution.

“My lord, she followed men to distant places like Ghana, thus abandoning her responsibilities at home,” he said. The petitioner also said that the respondent was highly disobedient and disrespectful.

“She is so disobedient and disrespectful not only to me, but also my relatives. “Barakat has no time to look after any child,” Jimoh said. The respondent did not oppose the divorce suit nor deny any of the allegations against her.

Barakat, who lived at Odo-Oba area of Ibadan, however, told the court that her husband’s intention to seek for divorce was not new. “Whenever there was any disagreement between Jimoh and I, he packs his property to his parents’ home. “In fact, I usually go and beg Jimoh in his parents’ home to return to our own apartment,” Barakat said.

See more here; http://gistmore.com/11-year-old-marriage-dissolved-over-wifes-dirtiness-waywardness

When I heard dirtiness, I knew the culprit must be woman from a particular tribe. They are all time gold medalists in poor hygiene.

Quality20:
only refering to d normal not d ones in poverty

It is poverty that fuels sexual immorality in the South also. What's your point?

Oshigun:
The same North you hate with a passion will continue to rule you till Biafra ? It is called cowardice buddy.

We don't hate North. We only hate Buhari who hated us first.

tuniski:
2023 is not for igbos no matter the strategy.

Neither is it for Yoruba no matter how many bullion vans of cash Tinubu spends.

manlawal:
you have spoken the truth here, one thing majority of the people dont know is that the plot to install tinubu as president is part of the merger deal tinubu and buhari went into before apc was birth, igbo on the other side are there abusing everyone and boasting online instead of them to speak with one voice of igbo presidency yet they there casting tinubu aspiration, i laugh when people are saying no blocked vote from north and because some people talk that , tell me why tinubu relocated to abuja and make sure the the national assembly election was perfect and everything was in order, tell me where the title jagaban come from if not the north, the only lifeline apc is having after buhari is tinubu if not ......

You are talking about the merger deal Tinubu had with Buhari, please tell me why the same Buhari relegated Tinubu and sought to undo him politically after he won the first term only to pick him up from the trash dump where he left him to work again for his re-election? Moreover, endeavour to remind me of one promise Buhari made to anyone and fulfilled.
When one sees the stark reality and still chooses to create hope in hopelessness, then I am inclined to believe you are merely excercizing faith which unfortunately is inapplicable in Nigeria's brand politics.

WiLdFLame:
Yes things are more better in the Southwest than in southeast but will be more better in 2023 when a Yoruba man becomes president.. Buhari just taught everyone how the position of the president should be used to better your kinsmen life.. in 2023 by the special grace of God it's going to be Yoruba government just like it's Fulani/Hausa government now..You Igbo trying to scuttle Southwest reach at presidency will wail tire!! Yoruba is getting this make una go kill una sef

Try to also make your English 'more' better so that you will be taken seriously by the Fulani in 2023.

Oshigun:
Afonja is the coward and not you even too insecure and scared to challenge you have now settled for helping 'Aboki' to win in 2023?

We ain't challenging nadda. We want Biafran; while waiting for its materialization, the North continues to produce president. Kikikikiii

Bodexman:
I expect this man to channel his energy on advocating for southeast presidency. Or are they alien to the position?

Whether you like it or not, power has gone to the north and it is the turn of the south.

Turn of the South? Be bold enough and tell us which of the constituent South. You coward!

Metrixnews:
The Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu has advised Ndigbo not to be too expectant in the APC led federal government, saying the South East region refused to vote massively for the party in the last election.

The former governor dropped the hint at an event in his Camp Neya home in Igbere to thank his constituents for voting him into the Nigerian Senate.

He said: “Our people did not support APC. We did not vote for the president and that is what we are paying for.

“We are not entitled to anything when we did not vote for APC so we cannot ask for the Senate President or Deputy President.

“I am not only a senator for Abia north, I am a senator for Abia and Federal Republic of Nigeria because I was elected to make good laws for the whole Nigeria,” he said.

Source: https://www.abnews247.com/2019/06/dont-expect-anything-from-apc-led-federal-government-sen-kalu-advises-ndigbo/

Leave Ndigbo out of your frustrations in APC. Bother more about how you were promised heaven and earth to deliver APC but was instead dumped by same.

Tosinex:
My pastor and his wife are AS and they did not have any SS child, all their children not 1,not 2 are AS. The thing is they already knew their status and always approach the hospital whenever the wife gets pregnant, not hospital in Naija o, in the UK precisely! I don't know what they do but I know it involves lots of money! And he has it... So you've got to think twice before you both continue sailing.

Your pastor and his wife kill SS foetuses she conceives while retaining AS ones.

alawaifat:
2023 presidency: Tinubu gets major backing to succeed Buhari



READ FULL DETAILS AND SEE OTHER NIGERIAN REACTIONS

Source: https://gossiping.com.ng/2019/06/22/2023-presidency-tinubu-gets-major-backing-to-succeed-buhari/

Shouting headline, poor storyline. Afonja gives another Afonja 'major' backing. Two empty cowards. Lol

sylve11:
Everyone needs help. Even the gods don't forget those who come to their aids.

Everyone needs help. Even the gods don't forget those who come for their aids.

livebyday:
Isn't it high time we just focus on good governance?

All these distractions serve no purpose

Jeez

These distraction must be addressed for there to be good governance. Innit?

I am ashamed of sharing the same country with these sophisticated babarian.

Amanismone:
abeg stop this nonsense. Delta ain't igbo.

It's kanu that started this nonsense of including delta state into his fraud Biafra republic. Come and tell me how urhobo, isoko, ika, ijaw are related to igbos? Have you forgotten what your Igbo Biafra soldiers did to them?.

Don't worry okowa will soon leave and power will return to urhobo

Match your comment with the topic of discussion and confirm how demented you are.

Fountainofyouth:
There is nothing "wow" in what she said, and again, the earlier y"all remove whatever is blinding y'all from seeing that not all girls are "money hungry or money collecting from guys" types of ladies, the better for y'all, things are changing, we are breeding more of independent type of ladies these days compared to before, y'all should get down from your freeking low horse.

Most independent ladies still collect money from men. Well, women are created for collecting anything and everything including sex. Men give.

uba1991:
Nobody hate d Igbo. If d north hate d Igbo they ll not accommodate them in nothern States like: kd,kano, abj, Adamawa, katsina, Jo's etc. If d Yoruba hate Igbo u won't see them in lag, Oyo,akure etc. D IGBOS ARE DIA OWN ENEMIES

Shame on you to claim anybody is accommodating Igbo. Igbos are the people accommodating themselves in other regions through hardwork and resourcefulness. Or can you explain why they live a better life than their hosts that 'accomodate' them. Is this how you explain the failure of Yorubas to catch up with Igbos right on their own soil as being lamented by the demented Adeyinka grandson?

Aidejay:
Endless source of wealth. KEYWORD: ENDLESS
1.Investigation into Alpha Beta without probable cause will be thrown out by a court in one session before you investigate you must have reason to investigate you don't investigate to find a reason to investigate. You can't over tax or under tax there is a taxation formula business and FIRS operate by and it's constant not shifting not renegotiable without equally levelling the same on every single business entity in the country
If tinubu is as smart as he thinks alpha beta will be spotless.
2. Dismantle tolls, this is what u call sensible dismantling sources of revenue of a state so as to somehow frustrate a single man with billions in assets scattered around the world and financial havens where no one can reach. HOW WISE
3. No be only revoke na invoke
4. Close down a TV station and radio station AKA stifling freedom of press AKA frustrating the free media AKA threatening democracy AKA semi dictatorship AKA civil unrest, over step of government functions. Impossible, just ask AIT. A court struck down the NBC'S decision to close AIT down less than 24 hours after the deed
5. Investigation to discover what? Tinubus involvement? With out a credible reason to actually investigate such as an eye witness or audio and video proof or a confession nobody especially one like tinubu will seat down and let one dumbo drag his name through the mud in a murder investigation case open case closed
6.NURTW is a national association made up of stake holders in road transportation They hold the same bearings as the labor Congress u want to dismantle and militarize a whole union how? The only way to achieve this is full privatization of the transport industry just like saying u want to dismantle and militarize ASUU which nigerian lecturer or student or parent will sit and watch that happen
7. Federal might to impose on a states autonomy in other words send soldiers to manhandle tinubu loyalists in Lagos not forgetting this is a democracy. Ahbi what else is federal might? If not military and police u want to use the military. Bros
Just to hunt one man. Everything you mentioned here is dictatorship and we operate a democracy where everything u just mentioned is impossible without assuming a position of a dictator which of u do will result in nothing less than the 2nd civil war in Nigeria

You are presuming that the attacking government will obey court order, abi?

yarimo:
Mumu IPOBIANS hiding under silly global crusade

Does it matter who is sponsoring the suit? What is of essence is that Femi Gbaja whatever is an ex-convict and must go down. After all, Salisu Buhari went that way too. He will not be the first.

Safitu:
It’s not that he can’t tell his wife, it’s that he is secretly enjoying the show and he doesn’t want it to stop. Let’s not be silly here.

This masqurade-wearing Yoruba Muslim, we have heard you. Oya fuvk off and let those that are not hurting from heartbreak offer reasonable counsel sought by the OP.

zoedew:
Attention to all lovers of History

From the political Archives of Nigeria political history*

A must read piece to the end.
Igbo political leaders and their past misadventures resulting in current national political problems*
Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence staff was fron SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!
Still there was dissatisfaction by easterners; the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!
Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.
Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!
We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is the tendency to think those are truths and facts.
What follows are documented facts that can be cross checked for authenticity!
Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central govt because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.
Let those who have ears hear.
*What Biafrans will never tell you about the real cause of their woes in Nigeria today*
The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa-fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria.
In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation. The SE will do well to put a stop to the misrepresentation and consciously work on bringing up the next generation to know the truth. Germans, for instance, have not denied the Holocaust but quietly worked, through the years, on correctional measures to right the wrongs Adolf Hitler engineered. SE should do likewise.
The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating. However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914.
I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.
Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300.
This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended. To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as:
"The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.
But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.
After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future.
According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance.
But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria.
At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution.
While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe
Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in.
But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.
For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.
*https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/06/my-opposition-to-secession-zik/*
It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.
Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis).
As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:
"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).
"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949)
As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate.
Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria.
With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.
But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region.
But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region.
While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.
While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts.
Here is how:
In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address.
But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard.
Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government.
However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony.
Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exuberance.
On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.
Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint".
After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.
The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers.
That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.
Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day.
In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.
*In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria*
*Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes*
*This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region*
*But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him Unclad, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court*
*His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal*
*Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed*
Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.
Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers.
Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra.
But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty?
Be the judge.
Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:
After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging.
Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.
Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.
First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle.
Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit.
In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process.
Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military.
Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.
Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel cc accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference.
Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.
In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.
That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians.
On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise.
But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft.
That was the height of irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.
So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
To his eternal discredit Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we do for a know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.
With the Igbo’s in Yoruba land, “the hand shake has exceeded the wrist”. And as Chinua Achebe said in his book, “it has turned to a fight”

One thing that can be said about The Yoruba is that they are liberal and broadminded. They believe God is on their side largely because they see themselves as givers who will NEVER lack.

It’s about time other Nigerian ethnic nationalities and their intelligentsia go to work and see how we can relate with and equitably accommodate the Igbos without undermining their own interests. Yes, Nigeria is a nation but the Igbo people will not allow a fraction of what the Yoruba - for instance- tolerate in Lagos in Ochanja (Onitsha), Aba, Enugu and the likes.

Let’s agree to live together.

Unity begging for a dead union. Yes Igbos are greedy and evil. Why not let them go?