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mightyhaze:
You see igbo hatred on the thread,but a thick milky layer of cataract now covered your vision to the stark hatred oozing from your yoruba kith on the thread.. Your hypocrisy is gold standard. Okpe !

The level of hate that yorubas poured on Igbos when Jonathan took power was incredible.

See this thread where they were celebrating Igbos killed by boko haram https://www.nairaland.com/1174823/kano-lost-38-igbos-2

Walaha dey

If you cannot obey Lastma traffic rules park your car o. The ginger go dey on overdrive

Foreign countries no go like give us loan if na true

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 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.


Let’s agree to live together.

This article is riddled with false info in violation of Rule 8.

The lies are numerous and scattered all over but see a few lies like the defence chiefs all being Igbo. Admiral Joseph Akinwale Wey (Yoruba) was Chief of Naval staff, Louis Edet (Efik) was IG of Police and Kam Salem (fulani) succeeded him.

See a screenshot of the cabinet in Balewa's government for more info check Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa

ODB ma nigga.

Na man you be

I personally don't want SGF for an Igbo person so that Igbo APC members can be ashamed

kelvine:
Dont know how true it is but I like your blog

Two things are certain:

1. Obama never forgave GEJ for the anti-homosexual law and also placed an embargo on arms sales to Nigeria with the knowledge of likes of Obasanjo

2. The Northern governors and other APC bigwigs like Lai Mohammed lobbied US and UK governments.

Jonathan see something sha

But Abacha never stole...just like Tinubu

okosodo:
Asari Dokubo is not a biafran. He is a mole

If he can coordinate and mobilise Ijaw consciousness and help us get a referendum by mistake I no mind o

This was a year ago now it's no longer just news. People are kidnapped on a daily basis in the South West and his touts say nada because they don't want to offend Buhari and they prepared to sacrifice their people just to grab power in 2023. It's a shame...

The industries in the SE are not few but there would have been much more if the SE did not have the worst infrastructure in Nigeria. Worst roads, undeveloped ports and bad power. Infrastructure is one of the main determinants of the location of industries

God punish Lord Lugard

If Peter Obi joins APC he is finished in the SE

I have one senior friend that works for Kogi State government that is seriously suffering. When his first daughter got married two years ago he was penniless. He couldn't contribute a dime to the wedding. Still broke and suffering. If i curse this Yeye Bello....

Saudi slave in chief

teddyalba:
Try to get ur facts right. The ibos have constantly cast aspersions on the personalities of Yoruba leaders, kings, culture and traditions. It started getting worse after the 2015 elections. You are entitled to some rights and privileges under the constitution no doubt but the way of life of your hosts must be respected. Wether a state or country the affinities shared by the groups inhabiting it must be honored. Do you guys asked why ibos is the target everywhere?

The first Nigerian to ever insulted the sensibilities of all indigenous Lagosians was an ibo man named Wachukwu Jaja with the claim that Lagos my ancestral homeland was a no man's land.

I never heard that Jaja Wachuku said this. Where's your source of this information? I dont think it's true

Somewhere in Otueke somebody is laughing as the people who hated on him go down one by one

The God of GEJ let Him be my God

Osagyefo98:
The EFCC has paraded Nigerian musicians –Naira Marley real name Afeez Fashola and Zlatan Ibile real name Omoniyi Temidayo Raphael in connection with alleged case of internet fraud and money laundering. According to EFCC, Naira Marley was linked to Yahoo Yahoo offence.

EFCC released their picture this evening

These guys still dey pose for efcc cell?

This is the secret dream of many yorubas. We have been seeing such sentiments by yorubas on social and conventional media for years

El-rufai dey tackle Tinubu this period sha. This 2023 matter no go easy o

BuhariAdvocate:
I will advice them to not waste taxpayer money on unnecessary thing like innoson inferior vehicles or car.

Your hate is the fuel for more success. Abeg keep it up

Last weekend, Saturday, May 4th, 2019, a delegation from the Government of Sierra Leone paid an official visit to Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Ltd Nnewi.

The delegation was led by the Mr. Edward A. Soloku- The Honourable Minister of Internal affairs which is the supervising minister in charge of their Police affairs. The factory visit was in response to an earlier official visit made on April 9th, 2019 to Sierra Leone by Chief Dr. Innocent Chukwuma OFR on the invitation by the Sierra Leone President, His Excellency, Rtd. Brig. Dr. Julius Maada Bio. During the facility tour of the factory, the head of the delegation, Hon Soloku expressed satisfaction on the facilities he and his team saw on the factory as well as the production capacity of Innoson Vehicles and said “truly Africa has come of age to take care of itself without foreign aid”. The Hon Minister further requested that Innoson vehicles should come and establish a company in Sierra Leone.

Hon Soloku equallyassured Innoson Vehicles that the Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence and The Police Department have concluded plans to order Innoson Vehicles for its operational purposes’. Furthermore on the visit was Mr. Isaac Ken-Green, General Manager of Sierra Leone Road Transport Corporation (SLRTC) who requested that Innoson Vehicles should partner with the SLRTC in other for it to render its services more to the country. The SLRTC equally came into Nigeria with samples of their broken down buses spare parts which they want Innoson vehicles to supply them.

Below is the list of the delegation from the Government of Sierra Leone -

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DELEGATION (1) Colonel (Rtd) Simeon Nasiru Sheriff - Deputy Minister of Defense. (2) Brigadier General Usman Turay - Assistant Chief of Defense Staff Support and Logistics. (3) Lt Col Muctar S. Tejan - Major Brima Davowah Sama- Commanding Officer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Workshop.

THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DELEGATION (1) Hon. Minister: - Mr. Edward .A. Soloku Minister of Mr. Patrick A.T. Johnson -Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) (Head of Operations) (3) Mr. Daniel.A. Bongroh - Chief Superintendent of Police CSP (Head of Transport and Technical), Mr. Prince Henry Ansumana. - (Assistant Superintend of Police ) ASP. (Head of Procurement)

SIERRA LEONE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION (SLRTC) DELEGATION (1) Isaac Ken-Green: General Manager (SLRTC) (2) Mohamed Tejan-Kella: Head of Finance and Manager (SLRTC), Osman Kanu: Head of Operations and Technical Manager (SLRTC) Also in the delegation are Mr Maxwell Lamin Marah (Sierra Leone) and Mr Joseph Emeka Orji (United Kingdom). Cornel Osigwe Head Corporate Communications Innoson Group

https://mobile.twitter.com/innosonvehicles/status/1125714574731354117

These clowns supported Buhari in the first place.

Excaperx:
Nigeria is a failed country, do you know that history isn't taught in school? I learnt about Benin kingdom on net.

Some people say the civil war was caused by Igbo because of greed.

Some said it was caused by northerners because of greed.

I really want to know what happen.

The one that is starting to make since is Ahmadu bello and gowon planned it and slaughter millions of igbos so that Nigeria won't be regionalised and it will benefit the north, ojukwu heard about it and decided to seceded.

My question is why did ojukwu wanted Midwest even though it wasn't in eastern Nigeria?

Why didn't ojukwu negotiate with other Midwest and Yoruba to see their stance?

I need answers please

Go read some books. This nairaland is not the place to seek info of the type you seek. Like this thread for instance is dripping with ignorance and half truths

T9ksy:
Are we then suppose to assume it took the coupists, 5years to plan their coup?

Also, less then a year after being granted independence by the colonialist, the coupists were already planning to topple the new govt. And what reasons could they have for planning a coup so soon? That the govt of the day of which your elite were a significant part of, was corrupt? However, on execution day, your elite (who were part and parcel of the purportedly corrupt govt) ALL coincidentally missed the killer squad's murderous raid.

Don't ask me silly questions go and read Adewale Ademoyega's book where he gave all the answers. Though I'm certain you don't want the truth because it will smash your anti-Igbo narrative to pieces. I'm done with this coup gist abeg. The "Igbo coup" propaganda is DEAD stop making a clown of yourself.

Abeg tell us how Igbos forced all the other tribes into Nigeria as you claimed and stop dodging

Volksfuhrer:
He said the truth! Your rant only showed you knew next to nothing about the January 1966 Coup.

"Nzeogwu trained the plotters..."(!): which of the "plotters"? the ones in Kaduna or Lagos?

"Nzeogwu read the speech..." : that ipso facto made him leader of the Coup plot? Dogoyaro read the speech that brought Babangida to power...it didn't mean he lead the plot!

If you were truly familiar with the coup you would know that Nzeogwu was recruited only a few months before January 1966! Unbeknown to Nzeogwu, the "coup" was not a coup originally planned by Ifeajuna to take power from civilians and foist military rule on Nigeria...it was devised only to eliminate the political enemies of Zik and the NCNC, which explained the patterns of killings! Nzeogwu was duped big time by Ifeajuna and co. The "coup" was a success as planned by the "inner circle!"

Igbos did take over through Ironsi (Plan B) when the move to install Mbadiwe as acting Prime Minister (Plan A) failed! The North that called the coup an "Igbo coup" were not as clueless as once thought...they saw right through the charade. Events of the time forced such conclusion and I don't blame them...I put the blame on Ifeajuna's head and Igbo elders who didn't foresee the morbid consequences of his intent.

Having said that, I would like to add that Ironsi didn't foil the coup, he was too incompetent to do so...that lofty credit was Gowon's and Ejoor's!

Oga you are allowed to hate Igbos it's your business but you are not allowed to lie. Adewale Ademoyega in pages 75-76 of his book "Why we struck" states in clear terms when the "nucleus" of the coup first began to meet. Adewale Ademoyega, Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna began the plot in 1961. How can you boldly post that Nzeogwu was recruited few months to the coup abeg

Honestly I'm not interested in the rest of the embarrassing stuff you posted because it's just too easy to debunk and we have laid all these your James Bond stories to rest over and over again. Its getting boring. I want that person I quoted to answer the question I asked. All these coup stories are a diversion to be frank

T9ksy:
By the way, it wasn't Nzeogwu's coup rather it was Ifeajunna's. Nzeogwu was recruited like Ademoyega but the former being based and knowledgeable of the northern part of the new nation was chosen to lead the operation in that region.


Secondly, it was an ibo coup meant to snatch power at the centre from the illiterate northerners but backfired.


Lastly, what gives you the foggiest notion that i give a rat's a.r.s.e whether you are snowed under by your ignorance or not?

Nzeogwu coup or Ifeajuna coup who cares what the name was. Nzeogwu read the speech, Nzeogwu did the interviews, Nzeogwu trained the plotters. It was Nzeogwu's coup to the world. Besides Igbos practically controlled the Army so leave all this pettiness

If Igbos wanted to take over it would have been the easiest thing to do. Ironsi foiled the coup in Lagos, Ojukwu and Ike Nwachukwu kept Kano free from the plotters. In the West and North Igbos ensured the coup failed so your point is baseless. Your region was in a civil war called Operation Wetie and the plotters wanted to put Awo in power. Even primary school students know this now

Your attempt to divert attention has failed Pls teach us how Igbos forced the country into a nation before independence. Or just admit you have no facts and were faking it the whole time

Yahaya Bello goes to do a deal with satan

Las las he will still not get the ticket

Sprumbaba:
It is Igbo that is more tribalistic. I know many Igbos with lands across the yoruba states but No yoruba or Hausa can own land in your corridor.

I'm sure you have never left your village before. Highest you visited Lagos for Xmas

Soji Salau is an example of a Yoruba man that owns plenty of property in the east. This is just one of the streets where he owns land in Independence Layout, Enugu

yinka10:
He claimed no ransom was paid