₦airaland Forum

Alexis11:
Lol... Hallucinating...

How I'm I hallucinating? You well at all?

eki2000:
Well since Igbos want spoil everything now. I am from Akwa ibom, and I and my house have personally decided that if they continue this nonsense protest till Friday. we will humbly vote for APC and keep quiet. But we promise these fools that they will never get Biafra or rule Nigeria in any dispensation. Idiots!

Brother relax, Igbos are not foolish,this Ipob members are some smart motherf**ers cashing in big to make serious money off this demonstrations... why do you think the police and army no longer see them as "terrorists" and now escort them? ... this Ipob demonstration is just a hack job to get money from interest groups and individuals hoping to use them for political gains. I can categorically tell you more than half of those Ipob members displaying their "bravado" will still collect their money, and then turn up to vote for Atiku come Saturday! Lmaooo I have this info in good confidence cause I spoke to my uncle who lives in Onitsha, and he knows and interacts with lots of those boys... a lot of them are actually university graduates just looking to make money off political sponsors who typically lurk around during election time to score political points. The SE block vote is secure in the bag for Atikobi.

If it was Nnamdi Kanu or any Igbo for that matter that said something inciteful like this... We won't hear the end of it for decades, social media will talk, Afonja pigs will as usual flame it up more to pander to their blood thirsty Northern masters.... and the usual anti Igbo sentiments will flare up again...Na eyes we just dey watch una... una cup go soon full.

Zombie consolation.

kutchs:
If you to take a census of that Ariaria market, you will discover that many of the shop owners and business operators have some form of higher education. It's not like markets in the South West and North populated by stark illiterates without even basic education.

Yup, spent a long time in Aba and from my experience dealing with lots of those business owners in Ariaria... I found out a astonishing number of them are very educated, I'm talking about Bachelor and master degree holders.

Sunofgod:
This same fool that was performing for them 4 years ago.

Two faced so and so....

Because he realized the scam APC was and now knows better. Were you the same person 4 years ago? Maybe you gained or lost weight, grew older, wiser, dumber etc... point is change is a constant factor in the cycle of life!

Jowanson:
Ko ki n'se omo Igbo! It was live on Channels TV! There is no need for any damage control here.

Ogun people spoke!

You dey mind that idiot, Las Las na Igbo matter go kill am

blackprowler:
It's been a long time I responded to funny people on nairaland. Oga, please, do you realise that Midwest was a part of the internationally recognised political entity called Nigeria? And that an army officer seized a part of that entity and made ot his own? Do you think the war was about 4 different countries where people would decide who was neutral or not? The fact that FG tried to accommodate Ejoor is a testament to Gowon's large heart. It's not surprising to me that Ibo would rather die than admit they destroyed this fledgling country. It's same problem of all Black nations: they cannot admit their failings and hence don't learn. Let me also state: it wasn't some people that just happened to be of Ibo ethnicity that caused this problem; it is the entirety of Ibo people, including ordinary people on the street who started to mock northerners and even released a mockery album. I only wish Murtala was Head of State. Even Achebe would not have lived to write that stupid book of his. You think war is an international friendly? (lol). You lionise the wicked man who would destroy the whole world to get power. Ojukwu is part of the reason why I know there's no God in human affairs. He destroyed this country, killed 1 million children and women of his own ethnicity, yet lived in luxury and died in old age of natural causes, and buried with full military honours to the adulation of all Ibo people. I have zero respect for any political Ibo. And I refuse to say Igbo

Apparently you have bigger problems than your idiotic post suggest, not sure where I can even start from in dissecting your asinine stupidity... , but you do reek of smug psychopathy, and that your trash post aside from been Igbophobic and hateful much less pointless in context and thesis, completely veered off tangent of what my post aimed to address. Seek help before you self implode man, and I could care less if you call it Igbo or Ibo.

Chei I know I found love in Ogun state for a good reason , my correct Ijebu babe dey even Atikulate pass me sef

Deadlytruth:
So if you knew you were in a war situation with Nigeria with our territory as part of it already, then why come to offer us freedom from that same Nigeria we had supposedly, out of our own free will, chosen to be part of? Don't you think you have actually just contradicted yourself?
If you agree you were in a war with Nigeria, then why cry over the casualty you suffered? Or do you think war is an international friendly competition of some sort?
And I guess the Biafran soldiers who invaded the Midwest and killed over 700 locals in one onslaught, imposed themselves in Osadebe House, raped countless teenagers and committed other unprintable atrocities were on a Mother Teresa mission, right?
The Midwest was neutral as far as it's leader at that moment (David Ejoor) could declare it before the whole world. Despite we were statutorily a part of Nigeria, the Federal forces respected that declaration by never setting foot on Midwest soil despite they too needed the territory as a passage to Biafra area. But Biafran soldiers disrespected it and invaded us hence we became morally justified to drop the neutrality and invite the federal side to help us root out the invading Biafra forces which it did perfectly.

LOL the Midwest was never neutral, forget that revisionist nonsense the Nigerian distorted history sold to you. The Federal government was in control of the Midwest at the time, and that made it enemy territory by all standards of military doctrine, and was fair game if invaded. Yes the military governor of the Midwest might have declared the neutrality of his region in the escalation of hostility, but Federal troops from the Lagos garrison in Dodan barracks were still stationed in the Midwest and definitely patrolled the region, though not in full strength. I stand among many rational Igbos that condemned the acts of atrocities committed by the Biafran troops (even though the accounts of such were haphazard and exaggerated), at least compared to the ones committed by the Federal side in the wake of the 2 infantry div counterattack under Murtala which even the international observers witnessed and reported in full glaring details... yet I won't exonerate the Biafran side from any of its disenfranchising acts on the people of the Midwest region. But to recap and conclude my point, the Midwest was never neutral in that war, in principle and theory yes... but every facts of practicality (factors like the presence of Nigerian troops using the Escravos ports in Warri and the likes to secretly patrol several miles of the River Niger, the garrison of Nigerian soldiers stationed in Benin, the tacit support of the Midwest to the Federal side, the ethnic complexity of the region with some supporting Biafra and the rest Nigeria , and the inevitability of an invasion to relieve the federal pressure on our Northern sectors), gave rise Biafran troops crossing the bridge on August 9, '67...The invasion was fair game given the circumstances at hand.

Also note that the prize wasn't even the Midwest, it was Lagos which was the Rubicon, Lagos was the pressure point as it was symbolically the bastion of the Nigerian military, more like Aso rock or the White House of its kind. And to get to Lagos in the quickest possible way, Biafran troops had to go through the Midwest which was the means to an end... at least it made geographical sense that way.

My PH will never vote a lifeless dullard, not my darling PH... We're fully Atikulating home and abroad.

lastempero:
Your people where still fallowing deep inside the forest not even bush.

Yet a product of that forest can be seen standing on a table been held by two gentlemen, and towering over the sophisticated people of the West who gathered to watch him in awe... how ironical

Lmaooooo massive for where?

labani06:
Ok hmmm I have never seen a retarded fool like you an idiot that tend to be literate why u are more than a slowpoke .a rascal like have to know communicating in a social media or typing fluently in social media does not qualify you to be modern Shakespeare u have to go back to school and learn what is a life in a social media plat form in fact what do u know about nigerian history infact talking to a pervert like is just a waste of time damn fool .

Eeya poor you, on a second thought I actually feel pity for you... you are just another slow learner with mild intellectual disability. Hope you get some help though!

Where's the crowd??

labani06:
after nzegwu kill sardauna why dont Ironsi arrest him and everybody know nzegwu is a friend to ironsi and they are All INYAMURAI
for god sake nzegwu was raised in sardaunas house he raised nzegwu and send him to join millitary but he betray him

Firstly learn to write in simple English you illiterate dunce, could barely understand that dyslexia inducing crap you somehow clubbered together.

Secondly if you had the slightest idea of Nigerian history, which you apparently don't... you should have known that Ironsi not only crushed the coup, but arrested most of the coup plotters including Nzeogwu.

Thirdly the Sardauna DID not raise Nzeogwu anywhere in his house, much less make him join the military... not sure where you concocted that crap from.

labani06:
A citizen of federal republic of flat head murdered this Gentle Man chaii

Oh so Nzeogwu a delta man from Asaba is now a Igbo now abi? tomorrow una go come here dey give us PowerPoint reasons why there are no indigenous Igbos in the South South, make una kontinue ooo...

gidgiddy:
Ejoor had a choice, to stand by the Aburi agreement or become a Northern slave. He chose to become a Northern slave.

I don't blame Ojukwu for choosing Banjo to lead the Mid-West operations. Ojukwu did not want the Biafran Army to look lke an invasion force and put a Yoruba man in charge. Ojukwu was to regret to his his dying days.

It has now been revealed that Gowon had started to make preparations to escape from Lagos when he heard that the Biafran had reached Ore. Unfortunately, Banjo could not go further.

If it had been Achuzia or Nzeogwu that led that Army, it would have been a different story today

Boss in war there are no sentiments or considerations, however partisan or well intended. Ojukwu was a good friend of Banjo, and it made sense why he entrusted the job of liberating the Midwest and Lagos into his hands, but with no recourse to logic and reality (two inseparably crucial factors in determining the success or failure of a mission), he was simply making himself an assuming leader who lacked tact and cognition (and this is coming from someone like me who idolized Ikemba)... Victor Banjo by all was the worst person to lead that advance... an inimical disaster, and I'm glad events of the war proved the theory right... we had so many loyal Midwestern Igbo officers who would have done the job and returned back to Enugu announce the good news... people like Nzeogwu, Achuzia, Nwawo, Nzefili, Nsudoh etc were there and Ikemba went for the odd option, and paid dearly for it cause the Midwest failure was the beginning of the end for Biafra.

naptu2:
Note: THIS IS NOT THE NTA VIDEO.

I prefer that we hear what he had to say in his own words, but since I can't find the video online, I'll try and summarise what I can remember.

1) He declared that the Mid-West was neutral and ordered both Federal and Biafran troops out of the Mid-West.

2) However, there were things that made him suspect that some Igbo Mid-West soldiers were assisting the Biafrans and he talked about the steps he took to counter this problem.

3) He said that the first indication that he got that the invasion had started was when he heard a small boy shouting very early in the morning (before daybreak), trying to alert people that Biafran soldiers were nearby.

4) He spoke about how he escaped from Government House because the Biafrans were trying to kill him.

5) He said that a white Catholic priest brokered a meeting between him and some Biafran soldiers. The Biafrans were trying to convince him to join them, but he refused.

6) He spoke about how he escaped from Benin and got to a village (I've forgotten where the village was) and then he rode a bike to Lagos.


This video below is an AP video that showed David Ejoor's first news conference when he got to Lagos. The journalists had thought that he was dead.

26/ 9 /67 MISSING BRIGADIER THOUGHT DEAD REAPPEARS IN LAGOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhMAP2lK_LU

Wish I could get some access to that NTA documentary on the Nigerian civil war, used to watch the program when it aired on NTA documentary files some years back, it showed in details events of the war and also showed interviews from the officers and men who took part in the war from both sides... I think the documentary was called "No Victor, No Vanquished"

Efewestern:
Great point raised, but we didn't see it from that angle, Ojukwu not only wanted to conquer the region, he also ordered his men to bring Ejoor dead or alive, that alone brought so many doubts within the indigenes of the region, during the invasion there was also a rumour that the Biafran troops were about removing the Oba of Bini, that also had so many negative effects on how we perceived the occupation of our land by the Biafran troops, within few weeks of the occupation, several militias sprang up from Urhobo, itsekiri and Ijaw axis, they even poisoned some biafran soliders and drown so many in Sapele.

Ojukwu miscalculated, he could have used a more diplomatic ways instead of invading the region, considering the fact that he had some level of supports from the anioma's.

The federal government quickly keyed into that and pitched the Minorities against Ojukwu, till now that sentiments still exist, the decision to invade the Midwestern region is one that brought the civil war to an end.

Which still validates my point about the invasion been poorly executed, the Biafran arbitrary high handedness and ill treatment of the midwesterners in no small measure alienated them from any sympathy the people of the region had towards the Biafran cause. I was only trying to point out the reason for the invasion, and even at that would be honest enough to admit Ojukwu would have used a more diplomatic means to win the people of the Midwest over... rather than resort to a military means. But you have to understand Ojukwu was a soldier, and not a politician... and given the atmosphere of uncertainties precipitated by the war, it won't be farfetched to see why a surgical military option seemed more feasible and quicker in bringing the Federal side to a jittery point of negotiation, than a slow process of diplomatic red herrings of negotiations with the government of the Midwest.

Deadlytruth:
You keep calling others slaves of the North when slavery to the North actually started with your brothers Azikiwe and Aguiyi Ironsi. Azikiwe sold out the South to the North by preferring the master-slave coalition government of Balewa and himself to the rejection of the East-West coalition offer which would have made him the Prime Minister. That singular poorly thought out decision triggered off every act which further destroyed Southern unity and we all ended up as losers to the North till today. But why you always never acknowledge that Azikiwe sowed the seeds of southern disunity hence slavery to the North is what always beats me.
Do you honestly think this selective finger pointing of yours will help Igbos get their Biafra or help the entire South disentangle themselves from Northern domination?

The South is simply a slave to the North because we are NOT UNITED, SIMPLE. We can keep blaming the likes of Zik for eternity, but how long will we keep up with the blame game?

gidgiddy:
My only problem with Ejoor is that he never stood for anything. He was just another Northern slave. This was a man who went to Aburi and was signed a document along with Gowon and Ojukwu on behalf of the Mid-West Region. But when Gowon broke that agreement, rather than join Ojukwu and insist on the Aburi agreement, he sheepishly bowed to his Northern masters

Ejoor was just a product of his time, like many officers in his situation who by circumstance or actual conviction pitched their tents on the Federal side, he had no choice than to be a "pawn" to the so called One Nigeria mantra been preached by the Gowon regime. My only regret in that war was Ojukwu been too naive and trusting enough to give the command of a very critical invasion to Victor Banjo of all people... a man with very questionable ambitions of his own, and a yoruba at that was like asking the devil to lead his legion of demons to quench hell fire. The the Midwest and Lagos was his best opportunity to end that war at its early stage, and force Nigeria to the negotiation table... But he floundered that golden opportunity. A Colonel Achuzia (an astute and proven warrior, and son of the Midwest) would have been the best person to lead that Midwest invasion, maybe the narrative would be told differently today...

Efewestern:
Biafran troops, The federal troops never invaded the Midwestern region, Ojukwu miscalculated and that decision cost him a lot.

How was the invasion of the Midwest a miscalculation by Ojukwu? Maybe from a political aspect, the argument would be plausible considering the fact that the Midwest was a buffer/neutral region (presumably at least). But from a tactical perspective, the invasion was a necessity, and if it was better planned and executed(this was where Ojukwu really messed up by putting the command of the Midwest theatre in the hands of officers with questionable loyalty, competence, and ideological leanings) ... it would have been a significant turning point in the early stages of the war. The Federal troops attacked Biafra and were mounting pressure on its Northern axis in the Ogoja axis, Enugu the new republics' capital was only some distance away and was now a target for the Nigerian soldiers... so something spontaneous and contingent had to be done to avert/slow down the Federal advance, a diversionary tactic had to be implemented... and a invasion of the Midwest which in principle was a buffer zone, but actually under the control of the Federal government was the answer to that solution to the Biafran crisis.

But let me not derail the purpose of the thread, just had to make a detailed point here in the most objective and respectful way possible.

Ndi Yoruba sef