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Nice one

The police man should be sacked immediately, our police men need to be taught that its not all order you can carry out, an illegal order cannot be carried out, any police man even the IG cannot stop any lawmaker from entering the assembly house, its illegal.

We should not stop saying the truth no matter how difficult it is before some other people rewrite history for us.

ceaser:
I beg to differ. Yorubas have done well to move on away from the hurts and betrayals from their South Eastern brothers in the execution of the coup and even the civil war, to the effect that their properties were cared for and kept intact till their return after the war.

But a fact that has been established over the years is that the Igbos relish keeping malice as if they were the only saints in the war. They keep playing the victim up to this day. As if that was not enough, they looove to re-write history to suit their narratives and paint themselves in such saintly light.

Suffice it to say that this problem is mainly by the newer generation that did not witness the war; this is the generation that Nnamdi Kanu belong to and that is why it is so easy for him to insult and accuse the rest of the country without self-control. He declares renewed war with the Yorubas and twist the narratives of the war to his contemporary new gullibles who swallow all he dishes out unquestionably and without research. The elderly among the South East will tell the true picture of the story and will not be quick to beat the drums of war as you guys are won't to do.

Read this:

[b]My Rejoinder to Persistent Accusation Against the Yoruba by Our Igbo Brothers on a Pan-Nigerian Platform.

The answer to your question was that Igbo in cahoots with the North of the Nigeria country put Awolowo in prison, but Igbo became the greatest beneficiaries. I shall elaborate on that towards the end of this factual account of history.

Proverbially speaking, Igbo people will seldom appreciate you if they enter your house and you welcome them with your food and drinks. Their eyes will be on your wife too, and failing to offer her to them as well, would be seen as your unwillingness to appreciate their handsome selves who had cared to pay you a visit! That describes their attitude towards their best friends on earth: the Yoruba. Yes, Igbo people, sit down and survey your peregrinations across Nigeria and the world and you would find that Yoruba people are your best friends.

The Igbo/Yoruba dichotomy began with the false narrative of Chinua Achebe, which is their favourite account like the Cathecism, that Awolowo orchestrated "a daylight robbery" of Zik's "mandate" to be Premier of the Western Region in 1954.

Achebe said in his book "The Trouble With Nigeria" that he was a student at the University College, Ibadan, when the "daylight robbery" occured.

But what was the fact? It's worth repeating before the Igbo false accusers for the umpteenth time because their hearts seethe in that hatred borne of patent biased reportage of events that Awolowo usurped what was supposed to be an Igbo leadership mandate over Yorubaland and associated ethnic groups of the old Western Region.

Don't forget that the elections of 1954 was conducted by the British and it was six years away from independence. The fact of the matter was that neither Awolowo's Action Group nor Zik's NCNC had enough seats in the Western Region's Parliament in Ibadan to form a Government when the votes were counted and who won which seats became public knowledge. Both parties then had to resort to wooing candidates of the smaller parties like the Ibadan Peoples Party and Mabolaje Grand Alliance to form a coalition with them.

The Action Group, of course, went to work assiduously, promising the candidates cabinet positions. On the day the parliament was opened, the white governor of Western Region asked the parliamentarians to signify their affiliations for the records. That was how most of the smaller parties' candidates openly declared their alliance with the Action Group. That was how Awolowo became the Premier. Go to Federal Archives at the University of Ibadan. The election results and parliamentary hansards of the time are there in original forms.

But backtrack to recall that from 1951 to 1954, Awolowo was already a quasi-premier of the West with the title of "Leader of Government Busines". That's why in his autobiography he has a chapter titled "Eight Years of of Office". That is,1951 -1959. He was already a burgeoning legend among his people as a sterling performer. The Igbo had hoped to truncate our pace-setting advancement in education, rural development, industry etc, with Zik taking over from him. I'm sure most Igbo of this generation don't know Awolowo had led the West for about three years before ZIK sought to upstage him.

The lie that Chinua Achebe swallowed alongside his umunna who had converged around the parliament building in Ibadan wearing their ishiagu for the crowning of an Igbo King over Yoruba people was dished out by Zik. He lamented to the press outside the parliament building at the end of swearing in that he had been betrayed. That all those who teamed up with Awolowo were his political associates whose support he had taken for granted. He claimed they simply defected overnight and blamed it on cultic loyalty. Maybe they were Ogbonis. LOL.

Igbo people had to believe him then hook, line, and sinker. He was their political god just as Awolowo was to most Yoruba people.

But, no sir! Those coalition members won their seats on their own steam just as you, Zik, had won yours with Yoruba votes in Yorubaland. They had the freedom to associate with who they wanted. They opted for Awolowo and his Action Group not so much because they were even playing Yoruba ethnic card but because they had a deal! Politics is a game of interest. Chief Augustus Meredith Akinloye of the Ibadan People's Party, for instance, had been promised a cabinet position. Of course, he couldn't have been deceived because if that had happened he could defect and the Action Group ruling coalition would collapse. He became Minister of Agriculture, Western Region.

Meanwhile, Zik became the Leader of Opposition in the Western Region but he was soon pressed by his Igbo kinsmen to leave a region where he had won an election to represent Yoruba people for the Eastern Region where they went to lay the foundation of hatred and hostility between themselves and their minority compatriots of today's Southsouth zone by removing Prof. Eyo Ita, a NCNC leader in his own right, as Premier. The Igbo had majority seats anyway. Zik then became premier. A surrogate in the Eastern parliament vacated his own seat for him.

I return to my opening line. The real act of provocation, which could have led to attacks on Igbo in Yorubaland, were Yoruba not the hospitable and liberal people they are, and which set the stage for the collapse of the First Republic, was laid by the Igbo in cahoots with the north with which they had a ruling federal coalition in Lagos.

It was the NCNC/NPC coalition that framed up Awolowo in a phantom coup d'etat when they could no longer tolerate him as Leader of the Opposition at the Federal Parliament and, of course, to takeover his sphere of influence.

With Awolowo held in Calabar prison for no just cause, the Igbo quickly pressed for the issue of creation of new regions of which Awolowo was the chief advocate as laid out in his autobiography published in 1960 months to independence in October. But they only wanted the Midwest Region he had proposed. They didn't want the COR (Calabar, Ogoja, Rivers) region, equally in the proposal. That would have split their Eastern empire. And, of course, their senior northern partner wouldn't brook any suggestion of a Middle Belt region, also proposed by Awolowo.

Thus, we had a situation where the smallest region in the country was split, while the bigger ones were kept intact. The Igbo plot worked as planned. In August 1963, a second class Igbo (that's by Igbo standard) from Asaba, in the person of Chief Dennis Osadebey, an old boy of Zik's alma mater, the Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, became Premier of the Midwest Region. Hurray, Igbo now had two premiers!

By that, it was believed Awolowo's sphere of influence had been diminished forever.

Then the Igbo went for the bigger goal. They wanted to upstage their Arewa partners from power. They then formed an alliance with the rump of the traumatised and divided Action Group of Awolowo. Earlier, in 1959, they had rejected the same alliance with Awolowo for Zik to be Prime Minister and Awolowo, Minister of Finance. They belatedly formed an NCNC/Action Group alliance known as the United Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA) for them to control federal powers in addition to two regions.

D-Day was 30 December 1964 when the general elections were held. Meanwhile, the Arewa senior partners in the NPC had wizened up to the Igbo game and also formed an alliance with another faction of the Action Group led by Chief Akintola. They then had what was called the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA). They won! Chief Akintola, without Awolowo's support, had successfully launched a counter-coup on the Igbo splitting of the Western Region by aligning with the north. The ensuing cabinet produced only three Igbo as Federal Ministers as against seven Yoruba. The Igbos were Raymond Njoku, Jaja Wachukwu, and K.O. Mbadiwe. This development, northerners have quietly argued, was the beginning of the coup of 15 January 1966. It is argued that the Igbo political elites, who had lost out, instigated Igbo boys in the military to strike. And that was why no civilian or military casualties were recorded in the whole East during the coup. But Chief Akintola and his newfound northern partners were all eliminated.

I draw you back. You know Yoruba people fight on principles. They launched massive agitations against Akintola for selling out to the northerners. They were not appeased by seven cabinet positions that didn't have the blessings of Awolowo and his progressive lieutenants languishing unjustly in prison. Operation Wetie began in earnest, shaking Balewa in Lagos and Akintola in Ibadan. Somebody had put on the body form of my highly esteemed friend, Prof. Wole Soyinka, to attempt stoppage of the announcement of the election results at gunpoint at Radio House in Ibadan for which the real Soyinka (LOL) was tried and freed by Justice Kayode Eso. Go and read Justice Eso's memoirs titled THE MYSTERY GUN MAN.

Eventually, Aguiyi Ironsi came to power. Awolowo petitioned him for his release. He rebuffed him till northern troops removed him from power. Then Gowon released Awolowo and invited him to join his government and stabilised the country then careening into chaos.

Igbo declared secession. A civil war ensued. They lost. At the end, they picked their favourite scapegoat, Awolowo, for their defeat The accusations traversed the war operations to post-war settlement.

First, he betrayed them, having promised them that if they declared secession, Yoruba would follow. Ask yourself, on what grounds? An old man just out of prison! A civilian! To declare secession in confrontation with Gen. Gowon who had just pitied him and set him free! Something an Ironsi had refused to do! How does that add up? Well, since it's Awolowo who had prevented Igbo premiership of Yorubaland, it must add up.

Second, he starved them during the war. Of course, General Gowon must have been too naive as a British-trained military officer to understand the implications of giving an unimpeded corridor of food supply to enemy territory in war! Awolowo had to teach him that the food was being hijacked by the Biafran troops.

Third, and back to what prompted this recollections ab initio. The accusation of £20. Honest Igbo know the truth. First and foremost, records of Nigerian banks in the East had been destroyed during the war as banks were prime targets of unruly elements among combatants on both sides during the civil war. Hence, apart from their passbooks, most Igbo claiming they had money in the banks had no proof. Many had even lost their passbooks. It was an era when there were no computers to keep soft copies of records or backups. Everything was done manually and in hard copies.

It was a mark of the magnanimity of the Federal Government that it created a fund from which banks were to pay £20 each to any Igbo with some proof of bank account ownership. It was a blanket thing. Even if you had £1 balance in your account you would get it. But those who had proof, especially those in the West - Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta etc - where their banking records were intact, had their accounts reactivated.

If anything, the Igbo had, over the years, rendered evil as reward to the only ethnic group in Nigeria that had received them with open arms, including Zik, from the time this country was established till date. If anyone should be held back by the unkindness of old, it should be the Yoruba against the Igbo and not the other way round. It's the Yoruba, among whom Igbo have found accommodation and toleration more than anywhere else they had ever set their foot upon on earth, who should be talking of Igbo betrayal, Igbo unfriendliness, and Igbo selfishness.

But it's one of those ironies of life that the victim is made the accused by his traducers. The Yoruba cosmopolitan outlook and liberal-mindedness is what have kept Nigeria one till date. It's only the Yoruba who have never unleashed violence against other groups. Not that they are contented with their lot in Nigeria or because they're cowards. It's not just in their DNA to spill blood carelessly! The only times they've engaged in any major public disturbances that cost lives (their own lives) were mainly to protest oppression and injustice visited on them and it was limited only to their space. They never went after non-Yoruba as scapegoats. That was during Operation Wetie and Agbekoya Revolt in the 60s and June 12 demonstrations in the 90s.

Let us hope that one day, some sections of Nigeria won't have to look back and regret that they blew their goodwill with the Yoruba.

If you hear of anybody supporting Igbo presidency outside Igboland today, who is not Yoruba, please, tell me. The same thing applied to Igbo sympathisers during the civil war: the Wole Soyinkas, Tai Solarins, the Col. Victor Banjos, the Prof. Sam Alukos of this world etc. They were all Yoruba, and some of them got imprisoned for it like Wole Soyinka. Col. Banjo wasn't as lucky. He was rewarded with bullets!

And recall that Col. Adekunle Fajuyi had died alongside Gen. Ironsi in July 1967 when northern soldiers came for the latter in Ibadan because Fajuyi didn't want the impression to be created, as the northerners wanted it, that Ironsi's death was a Yoruba set up. He chose to be executed with his Igbo commander in-chief who wasn't gracious enough to release Awolowo, his fatherly kinsman, from prison when he had the power to do so! How common is such vicariousness?

The Yoruba are still open to forging a meaningful partnership with the Igbo to safeguard and promote a glorious future. I hope voices of historically false accusations would allow the detente to reach its denouement[/b]

can you post this as a new thread? Nice one.

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DEROX:
We will never vote any igbo over Fulani but you may. Not after the known hatred calling us slaves and all that

surely we will... Igbos are our neighbors and brothers Fulanis are not our neighbors, but we don't need to hate anyone.

DEROX:
Fulani's know the difference very well they only can't differentiate SS and SE do you think they don't know osinbajo tribe or Femi gbaja but you see Jonathan most of them thought he was Igbo with his ebele azikwe name

i will choose an igbo man, a South south any day anytime, we ve tried them both, we have voted for ijaw man over fulani, he packed us aside, now we voted for a fulani over an ijaw man,the result is not better, my point is Yorubas will vote igbo man if we are not contesting over fulani any day any time, we should be above board and forget the online ne teasing please, we don't hate anyone all we all need is good governance irrespective of where the head if government comes from.

DEROX:
lol we never said we wat odua republic na, even if we want it we can't be so foolish as to waste 3million of our people as suya or even be used as mud water experiment/Python dance.We know how to play our games just wait and see.We didn't get the presidency under Jonathan we didn't die but now we are in a better place to choke and frustrate you people which we have started. when the speaker is through with the land grabbing act which the north is also supporting we will pass a law where any ipob member will be sentenced to death immediately and also the resources will be shared according to no of states in each region and each states productivity, Yemi kale already declared you poverty capital of the south now we will show you what we are we and north just try us we will tell you we are in power even your landlocked states we will pass a law whereby the little govt investment there will be controlled by foreigners for accountability and we exclude you from major projects just as we did in the $22bn loan Even in civil service which the head of service is a Yoruba woman(Yemi esan) we will segregate you and put our people and northerners which we have started check the permanent secretaries and their regions. In the army we have the chief of defence(brigadier general abayomi olonishakin)who is even higher than buratai we will use both of them to fix you people to fight bandits that will waste your people in no time as we won't give you good weapons
NB:we will show you people

oga please stop this nonsense in the name of online argument... Am Yoruba what you wrote up there is very toxic and it will affect us all, igbo, ijaw Yoruba... This is not 1960,a Yoruba man must be above board in Nigeria.. Bring out your ọmọlúwàbí qualities, i stop reading where you said if the speaker pass the land grabbing act, do you think the Fulanis know the difference between an igbo and a Yoruba man? E je ki a sọ ara wa oooo... Please, thank you.

LaboPolitics:
Abiola never became, so that election remains null and void officially. You are not talking to kids here.

Only one yoruba have ever been president and yorubas didn't contribute votes to elect him. OBJ was elected by the North and East in spite yorubas who voted against him. Shikena!

and you are proud that the north and the east voted a failure, he is the main reason why we are where we are now.

A law should be made to stop the executive from giving anything, money, cars, trips abroad anything whatsoever to the legistators, they should have their own separate budget to run various states house of assemblies, this is the main reason most house of assemblies cant check the excess of the Governors. Security vote should also be stopped.

To me the bennin palace court is the most beautiful in the country.

id4sho:
campaign for APC

hmmmm
The table OBA is shaking, before the wrath of Obaseki will strike him. This mere Royal fathers won't learn. He told shuaibu nonsense and now his principal.



lemme save this here

oba of Benin is the only traditional ruler in Nigeria that if a governor dispose, heaven will fall in Benin city, only the colonialist depose one,a civilian Governor will dare not try it.

This man is a big thief.. Release the name s, 50 million for security for one office.

My question is apart from adding income into the government purse, whats the benefits of stamp duties, what exactly is a *stamp duty "?.

Just read about it but i must say the rate is too high in Nigeria compared to other climes.

Am so happy for leeds

Op na which kain Engriish be this?

I don't understand.... Is a vice chairman not superior to a deputy secretary?

Am not a fan of the both factions tho.

What are they mining there?

Rest in peace Dan foster

Crap, they should scrap anything like monarchy in Nigeria abeg... Useless set of people collecting 3% of local government money allocations monthly.. Which in fact is illegal according to the constitution.

Bighead9:
Igbo Amaka.

There has never been an hour without a news of someone who killed a close blood relative in the EAst. Only God know what Biafra will look like when the North finaly give them their independence.

am Yoruba and i need to say you are a disgrace and inhuman, out of everything that happened to the poor fellow its igbo amaka that came to your brain.

Btw the op or reporter also butchered my brain with his /her English.

Well Good on paper, and since the German government is involved i doubt if Siemens management will do what they did under Obasanjo regime again, some of their former staffs were imprisoned, I pray this works for the sakes of prosperity, if Buhari deliver power 24/7 all his sins are forgiven then.

Ishaquine:
Yh, you're right. I didn't read that well.
Sorry

its ok i also commit that not reading through thing often, we all learn everyday.

Ishaquine:
Here

As nouns the difference between insult and defamation is that insult is an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude while defamation is act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

You said insult, and i asked where in the constitution is that a crime, not defamation.

I listened to the track, the guy has serious questions to answer with most of his allegations, this is defamation not even an insult, thats a crime.

Lagosfinder:
Insulting leader's is a crime

Find better medium to present your grievances

Thank you

can you kindly state where in the constitution its stated that insult is a crime? To a leader or anyone?

safarigirl:
This is an idiotic stance to have, and a major reason why governance is so useless in Africa.

Idiotic.

thank you, and please tell me anywhere in the world a critic of a government has pick up a job with the same government to be the spokesperson? Wise one.. Tell me? Just one example.am not a fan of APC nor PDP they are just the same, but you don't have to be speaking from both sides of your mouth because you want to eat, you have to stand for what you speak for, or has Buhari Administration change in its way of policy and implementations?
No.

The very wiseone please tell me.

Why am I even replying someone calling someone else idiotic on a faceless forum... This is so low of me,i won't come down to your level abeg... NEXT.

Critics of any government administration has no business taking up appointments in the government administration unless they have joined the party and declared allegiance to the party, you can't eat your cake and have it at the same time.

Lagos State government, lagos state house of assembly is very corrupt, that's why they did not domesticate freedom of information bill, and they don't open their budget for lagosians to look in.

sapientia:
This is invasion of privacy.

I thought it was only terrorism that can grant the IG the power to access phone records.

Lai used his position in the ministry to boycott every known due process.

Buhari and cohorts are actually above the law.

even with terrorism, they must get a court order, all the officers involved has to face the law because they just broke the law, with this all opposition members in the national assembly are not safe, even members of the ruling party are not safe, even the ministers themselves are not safe, even people in the presidency are not safe.

The Nigerian Police or any security agencies in the country has no right to bug anyone's phone without a court order, Lai Mohammed may be a victim of this devilish act tomorrow if he leaves government, is it not the same Lai Muhammad that was insulting /criticizing all members of previous governments? The international communities should keep watch on all this people who are suppressing freedom of speech in the country under democracy and sanction them and members of their families, Governors, ministers in this administration that cant stand criticism should please do the needful and resign, public /government offices is not by force.

Its also high time the court should start punishing over zealous government officials for carrying out illegal duties,the highest ranking police officer involved in this illegal detention of this woman should be made to face the book, demoted and uses as an example for others to carry out their duties in the confines of the law.
Without this, the country will not move forward.

I want to believe this Twitter handle is fake.