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T9ksy:
And which book did you read that informed you that ojukwu's rag-tag soldiers actually took Ore before retreating? And moreover, like someone posited, how do you retreat from a battle-field that you are already winning? Also, which one of your ydiotic elders did you hear this platitudes from? And you swallowed the illogical statement, hook line and stinker without engaging your cognitive cells?

At any rate, Colonel Oyinlade Iluyomade, a retired veteran of the civil war clearly stated how he led 179 soldiers to stop biafran troops at the Ofosu bridge.

Badly embellished rubbish by Iluyomade to tickle his light brained brethren

Aside from a few officers, how many Yorubas actually fought at Ore? The bulk of soldiers who fought there were from the north and Middle Belt but they don't make noise like you all have been doing. If I have time today I will debunk this you people's favourite masturbatory propaganda

baysol:
Igbos are empty noice makers. They are only proud when there is money. Take money away igbo mans life is meaningless. Chi ko chicken ni.

See your obas kissing buhari's feet like slaves. Have some shame

Igbo Amaka mehn God bless Abaribe. Igbos do not kneel or bow to any man in submission. If they love you they can do anything for you but you can never conquer them and make them worship you. That's why the British hated them so much. They were very difficult to subdue.

Efulefu. They no go make you presido. Stop disgracing yourself anu mpam

Anambralstson:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/eastern-ports-revival-how-npa-hull-blyth-maerskline-others-are-pulling-through/

This news sweet me pass morning wine. I never knew I would say this but nice one from Buhari

I remember one thread a long time ago when some jambites were arguing with me that ports in the East were naturally disadvantaged. I told these clowns that if you dredge them, repair the access roads and police the waters effectively there is no reason why shippers will not flock there. Even without those being done the foreign shippers have had enough and are going anyway.

NewsMuncher:
Onne, Port Harcourt, Calabar and Warri are all in that South South. When they call them eastern ports, people like Anambrastson start getting veey excited like the ports are in the south east.

If a Biafra comes like many of you easterners deeply desire, hope you know you will not have even one of these ports in your region??

I feel your pain Those are our Eastern brothers. Before Royal Niger Company sold us to Britain and named us Nigeria we were living peacefully. After we exit this fake contraption we will continue living in peace. No more enemies of progress to sow division and do divide and rule. Besides who told you the Igbos in Rivers state do not have access to the sea?

Area4Area:
Are you saying that regional power now supersedes that of the centre for Ojukwu to have unilaterally secede from the union?
Eastern region laws doesn't and cannot override that of the federal government.

Federal government says no secession and it is binding on all component parts

Which Federal laws legitimized Gowon's government in those days following Gowon's coup? Which secession laws forbade the Eastern Region? Show us

Open your eyes and learn. There was a constitutional crisis that they went to sort out in Aburi because the north wanted to secede after their Araba (secession) counter coup and the East didn't want to be in the federation. The West was doing siddon look waiting for the stronger side to emerge before picking a side. They left Aburi with an understanding on the future of Nigeria's structure but senior civil servants advised Gowon not to go ahead with it. Simple for even a baby to understand

forgiveness:
Do you mean to say Ironsi abolished regionalism? I am learning.

No bros. Ironsi unified the civil service and introduced the Federal Civil Servant we know today that can be posted anywhere in the country. Ironsi still had Regional administrators like Ojukwu in the Eastern Region and Hassan Katsina in the north. Gowon and co overthrew Ironsi and created states. Gowon destroyed regionalism but propagandists keep saying Ironsi did it

0monnak0da:
The killing of Northern and Western leaders by Ibo officers and the taunting behaviour of the Ibos including making records and even images of the killed leaders on loaves of bread caused the pogrom in the North.
The stubborn defiance of Ojukwu even though he had no weapons or friends led to the war.

Everything here has been discredited and torn to shreds over and over and you think repeating the same nonsense beer parlour gist will make it true?

brightokechukwu:
The guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed, just had to give his intellectual limitations some benefit of doubt.

He wants to replace facts with bad belle and personal opinion

0monnak0da:
Like I said I want to believe you have some form of schooling and are actually literate with a capacity to read and comprehend simple English
I asked for a source I did not say there is or there isn't a source?
Once again


Source?..

This is you backtracking smh

0monnak0da:
Yes he was in power.and enacted decrees which he went on to enforce .
He was recognised by the United Nations

Eventually Phillip Effiong saw things his way

Ojukwu was in power in the Eastern Region and had the backing of the Eastern Regional legislature and council of chiefs to form an independent state. Gowon and co that executed a bloody coup and abolished the regions were even less legitimate but had more guns.

Which Effiong? Quit this clowning

0monnak0da:
He had no mandate to get a mandate.
He was never elected and was APPOINTED by Nigeria. as a MILITARY Governor

So he had no mandate to secure any mandate

Wow total crap but Gowon had mandate to abolish the regions and create states. Who appointed Gowon?

0monnak0da:
Do not rope me in with "others"

Please show where I said he has no source?

I want to believe that you actually have some form of schooling.


If you make a claim it is your responsibility to prove it

You said he had no source, oya prove he has no source

0monnak0da:
Lies left unanswered become truth

SOURCE??

Aburi accord was never signed by anyone.

Anyone with evidence to the the contrary should provide it

If Gowon signed it there must be a copy

Area4Area:
Who do we now blame for the attack on Adaka Boro and his men for the same crime Ojukwu later committed?

Adaka Boro gathered some guys, raided a police station and looted weapons, blew a few pipelines and kidnapped some people within a small area the size of Lekki. Not even up to the level of militancy that Ateke Tom and co were doing few years ago How can anybody who knows what he's talking about compare it to the declaration of Biafra.

0monnak0da:
It is established in Logic and law

Ei incumbio probatio qui dicit non qui negat


It is incumbent on the person who declares a thing to prove it and not on he who disputes to disprove it

If you say I stole your goat prove it I have no duty to prove I did not steal it

Rather it is for you to prove your claim

You and others declaring that OP has no source should prove. Your own logic demands you prove what you are alleging abi no be so

0monnak0da:
The onus is on Biafra supporters to do this not Gowon.

OJUKWU seceded on the basis of an imaginary agreement.

Nope the onus is on those questioning the OP's source to prove this is not what Gowon and Ojukwu agreed upon until Perm Secs told Gowon he had given away too much

doclatom:
� Found this interesting

Forgotten History Of Igbo Tribe And Northern Alliance.

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 from 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
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, 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 a 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 government 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.”*.

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 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.

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). Anascopeterson: 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.

Anascopeterson: 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.
Anascopeterson: 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 exhuberance.

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.

Anascopeterson: 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 naked, 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 of 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 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.
Anascopeterson: Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.

This long, silly write up is riddled with lies and orangutan logic from top to bottom. Tinubu will never be President. If his e-touts like they can choke cyberspace with lies about Igbos it won't help him in 2023

0monnak0da:
Lies left unanswered become truth

SOURCE??

Aburi accord was never signed by anyone.

Anyone with evidence to the the contrary should provide it

If Gowon signed it there must be a copy

Why has Gowon not brought out his copy? After more than 50 years they don't want future generations to know what went down?

After this Gowon reneged on the accord and dismantled our regions and created states in their place when the east opted to go since he had broken the accord he declared war and attacked killing 3 million people in 3 years.

MartinCorridon:
The "suffering" wouldn't reduce his billions or lessen your poverty.

Better reason your own matter first.

Tinubu will never be president. A total nobody at Federal level. Even his local champion status in SW has been taken from him by Fayemi and others

Tinubu don suffer this period honestly

MayorofLagos:
You were dealing with our elders then.

You are dealing with our youths now. Back then our leaders, given same circumstance and opportunity would not have created Amotekun.

Look today at the people that formulated the idea and its structure. It came out of DAWN. The oldest person in operations is about 65.

You are looking at a different dimension today.

There will NEVER be a time that yoruba youths will undertake an endeavour of this regional scale without the direction and consent of the elders. Is it the youths that bought all those jeeps and equipment?

DAWN was never a secessionist initiative it was fake regional integration to put pressure on GEJ. It is OPC that was a secessionist militia powered by young men but formed by the elders under Abacha. Obasanjo became President and the elders/elite who had used OPC for security and clout tossed them in the bin. By the end of GEJ's tenure yorubas were calling OPC a PDP support group because they were given security contracts to safeguard the SW zone and pipelines by GEJ.

Amotekun is a good initiative but it is a political strategy. The north knows this

WiLdFLame:
With the rate at which IPOBs/ Online Igbos Has hijacked this Amotekun issue, even the devil is scared. The southeast can’t develop if you guys care much about southwest issues than you should be on urgent problems ravaging your Southeast lands

Tinubu is not the president neither the senate president or governor but you all castigate him and mastubate so much about him. If you want him that bad kindly beg us to dash you or give him southeast citizenship!!

I STAND WITH ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU . Amotekun is a welcomed development for us Omoluabis but also we can’t be blind to the fact that Amotekun needs proper structuring. For Therein lies the long term benefits of the whole Southwest states. we don’t want sensational fleeting popularity that leads to death, the Line you guys are known to always tow Rather the Southwest wants something that will stand the test of time and last decades from which our unborn children can benefit


To the Online Ibos/IPOBs: The Yoruba are more wiser and smarter, we see through your antics and gorging; this was what you did to yourselves with over 1 millions death ravaging your lands. Same thing happened with That fraudster Nnamdi Kanu and hundreds of your people was killed. Learn from us and stop being a MISCHIEF MAKERS. NIGERIA NO GO BREAK!!!!!

Cc: Passingshot

So Tinubu bots want to turn it to an Igbo affair to save face clowns

See long grammar. If they offer SW presidency in 2023 they will like one Nigeria again and cancel Amotekun

aminu114:
thats lie. igbos want to use this amotekun to create hatred between hausa/fulani and yoruba people i pray they will not succeed

See this one. You people's divide and rule has failed. SW people are seeing clearly now

Okpa042:
At this point musa needs to go and do eye surgery .

nice one

efighter:
Have you asked yourself while Nnamdi Azikiwe colluded with Tafawa Balewa and jailed Awolowo? Have you asked yourself why Alex Ekweme colluded with Shagari and Obasanjo to rig Awolowo in 1979 and 1983? Have you asked yourself why Syvester Ugor teamed up with Bashir Tofa against MKO? Simple, the East and the West are never in agreement politically. So, tell me, what lengh has Igbos gone to stand behind the Almajaris?

As for the Almajari that is saying nonsense, maybe you should answer him because we Yorubas are not in the same category with Almajaris and since you two are at the same level of reasoning, you can engage him.

Is this Photoshop or videoshop?

The north is determined to hang on to power beyond 2023 and don't want any opposition. They miscalculated because they thought their divide and rule tactics would work. Unfortunately for them the SE, SS and MB are not falling for their tricks and are in support of the Amotekun initiative. North don enter one chance

See as these northerners dey show themselves. Why are they so scared of the Yorubas forming a vigilante group to defend against Fulani herdsmen? It's almost as if Amotekun arrived just in time to spoil something they had been planning. Where was Balarabe Musa when Fasoranti's daughter was murdered?

Seriously I am now becoming very concerned about the reaction of the north. From Miyetti Allah to ACF to people like this man whose voice we have not heard for decades. Why are they so scared? In my opinion they don't want to hand over power in 2023 and are scared of the fallout

Of course Gowon can not say this to any correct outlet he can only spew this crap on BBC Hausa service like the willing slave he was in 1966 and is now. He is proud that he killed 3 million Igbos to preserve a fake country that is today a failed state where his people are being massacred like the Igbos were under him.

Deep down he regrets it terribly just like all the other middle belt soldiers of his generation but he can never admit it