₦airaland Forum

Rugaria:
This is the height of mental laziness! Some of you are pathetic beyond belief. Ironsi was in power for just 6 months! 6 months!!! Because of the tribal politics of The Sarduana and Awolowo and Akintola, he suggested centralized system of administration. The north was against that. So Ironsi decided to travel around the country to explain his position to the different regions! He was killed while still doing this. As at the time he was killed, the regions were still functioning in full force, headed ofcourse by indigenes from these areas. Revenue generation and utilization were still following the principles of regionalism... Every practice associated with regionalism was still effective! He was killed for his suggestion by those who ostensibly opposed his ideas.

How come that almost a century after his murder, the same people that killed him and took over the reigns of governance, are still blaming him for all the evil maladministrative hiccups that they have bequeathed to Nigeria? I mean how can you blame a man you killed 60 years ago for your present failures, when you killed him to stop him? Why can't you Yorubas and fulanis accept that with over a trillion dollars oil income, you guys have failed abysmally at the simple task of running a modern society? Why pass the buck? This country is the way it's today not because Ironsi suggested a unitary system that he never lived to practice, but because from the day he was killed, two tribal groups with their retrogressive cultures hyjacked officialdom but failed woefully at running a modern state. Simple.

Don't waste your time with this half baked thread. This topic is extinct and buried like Tinubu's presidential ambition A biased person will always see what they want to see regardless of what is in plain sight.

All these sorts of threads always start brewing in the build up to elections

Sebi Uzodinjo said he will expose the people behind all the mayhem in Imo state in January 2022. I wonder if this is related to the matter

Original oduduwa sons are defending Lagos but fear no gree tinubu's pet apes answer the Hausa guy wey open thread, they want to rope Igbos in but e no work

Tranquillity360:
Do you know below hard currency join together can not buy one chicken this Xmas?

It can buy 1/2 kilo of chicken

Shoprite was DRY yesterday. Ive never seen anything like it. Around 6-7pm is normally rush hour but it was surprisingly dull with very few people, in Xmas season

It's not profitable because it's based on the concept of oringo. Nothing culturally significant

MENELIIK:
Who were the people that granted the referendum for the mid west? If anything like that happened ( Because you guys can fabricate stories for Africa "Awolowo said" then it is pay back period because of the three regions then the West is the region with least minority groups yet the only one broken

Granted how? Please go and look for the 1960 constitution and read it well. If you dont know your history well go and do research.

tommy589:
Confirmed

But why did minorities in other region not have referendum? I will like an answer

You should read this two books written by him, Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution and path to Nigerian freedom,to have an idea of his mindset. He wanted loose federation where minorities have rights to self rule

I respect your intellectual sagacity and honesty. Awo may have written about minority rights in his book but did not practice it when the chips were down in the Western region.

The north tried to put down the Tiv agitation by force and that's partly what led to the civil war. The eastern minorities too were agitating but I can't say it was so serious. Maybe you have facts to the contrary.

tommy589:
Before, it was Awolowo that did not give Midwest their rightful share from Western region when they exited. Now, Midwest creation was possible because Awolowo was in prison. Meanwhile, Midwest was created June 1963 while Awolowo was sentenced to prison Sept. 11 1963. Google it

Was Awolowo not arrested in 1962? Confirm please

For more details on the minorities experience in the Western region you can check this thread
https://www.nairaland.com/5855752/minorities-testimonies-willinks-commission-life

tommy589:
Awolowo was an apostle for a loose federation. No other leader was ready to listen to minorities agitations for their own region, but he did by creating Midwest out of Western region. I don't know the facts behind revenue sharing, but I am sure he won't hold back what rightfully belong to the Midwest.

Bendelites are too intelligent for anyone to take them for a ride. If Awolowo marginalised Midwest that later became Bendel state, they won't vote massively for Prof. Ambrose Ali, Awolowo's UPN party governorship flag bearer in 1979 election

The Western region fought tooth and nail to stop the Midwest from leaving but were very eager to support the exit of minorities from the Eastern region. If not that Awolowo was in detention, the referendum would never have happened.

Edwin Clark and his unfortunate generation have nothing to show for the Ijaw/Niger Delta alliance with the North since the First Republic.

It is the north that took 50% derivation down to 0% but it's Obasanjo that he can criticise. SMH

Deadlytruth:
Most importantly you read where he made it clear that the Igbo coups of January 1966 destroyed the constitution by which this 50% derivation was being enjoyed.

Gowon destroyed the 50% derivation. Do some research pls

JAMO84:
The 2.5 billion dollars Lagos Ibadan rail alone is bigger than everything PDP did in your region in Sixteen years.



Ibadan dry port

10 new federal institution in SW

Apapa Oshodi express

MMIA new terminal

Lol. GEJ is the one that gave SW all this. Buhari has done nothing for you since 2015.

Uzodinjo has said it over and over that the unknown gunmen are political thugs. I noticed that they started killing people since he seized the estate of his predecessor. Anyway make we dey watch

Captain8:
The Egbema Ijaws of rivers and imo]
The Egbema people of Imo and Rivers state are a subgroup of the Egbema Kingdom in delta and edo state . The Kingdom is split into two different states. Egbema people in Imo state (Ohaji/Egbema). Egbema people in Rivers state (Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni).
Though, many thought they Igbos because of their associations with the Imo people.

Egbema of rivers state originated from the Egbema Kingdom in delta state and edo state.
Though, they have been accultured by imos. Egbema of rivers have a strong Igbo cultural but still maintain their Ijaw Identity.
The Egbema Igbos have always kept their Identity.

If Egbema boys catch you eh

AfonjaConehead:
These people are simply abominable.... Serious taboo to the south.
[b]There's a thread hear about Akande's book where he revealed how himself and tinubus worked against Gejs and pdps plan to make a yoruba woman speaker of house of representatives. They scuttled the plan and foolishly worked the the emergence of a northerner, tambuwal,of same PDP,as speaker!!!! J[/b]ust imagine if Gej or someone from the east did that to that yoruba woman!!!! Don't they blame Nzeribe today for the annulment of June 12 elections that Abiola won and have no words for IBB!!?

Very wicked people.

I saw that thread. These swaga apes actually justified it on the basis that GEJ should have picked an APC member instead of Mulikat but Tinubu and his junior devils worked for Tambuwal of PDP...thanks for pointing it out

NGpatriot:
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What rubbish is this ipob talking about?

NGpatriot:
Oponi ipob, you put medicine for mouth?

Is Tinubu not a Nigerian or the constitution says Tinubu does not have any constitutional rights to contest election in Nigeria?

It is not up to you and your kind to determine or dictate to Nigerians who and not to vote for, it's up to Nigerians to decide at the ballot box? It's called democracy.

Instead of crying and spewing undemocratic rubbish, why not just bring your A game to the polling station to defeat Tinubu?

Bunch of nuisances..

Osita Okechukwu na IPOB now but when him and his ilk from SE joined una filthy APC party una been dey hail am as one of the few "good igbos"

No worry na still morning be this. Lol

AfonjaConehead:
Was Akinwunmi Adeshina not one of Gejs ministers?
Is he not the president of ADB today?!
What about Obanikoro?
What about the daughter of Richard Akinjide,Jumoke?
What about olushegun Aganga?



You people will never escape judgement against the innocent.

GEJ not only appointed Yorubas to sensitive positions like Foreign Affairs, Agric & Telecoms but did a lot of projects in the South West, even more than his support base in SS/SE

See sample here https://www.nairaland.com/2098200/gej-finished-commissioned-projects-southwest

joeyfire:
Na that format the con man take swindle afenifere that year

No mind that Yahoo boy called Tinubu. He could not provide Lagos with pipeborne water or roads. The man's legacy is thuggery and godfatherism. His name is fake, school fake, age sef fake, state of origin is fake. Only thing real about him is his conviction for being accountant of the heroin cartel in America

If Tinubu does not endorse Osinbajo it will backfire

RuudVanNistroyz:
Lagosians should beg Tinubu to stop collecting 10% of their taxes through Alpha Beta Consulting he awarded a monopoly against conflict of interest when he was Governor in 2003 to collect Lagos state taxes against best practices and competitive bidding.

After collecting his 10% tithe from Lagos state taxes, he leaves the remaining 90% to be shared by 20 million people.

Prof Bola Tinubu PhD in agbero studies

CR777:
Please concentrate on your bandit-ravaged region. I heard bandits now kill their kidnapped victims even after collecting ransome.

Please ignore that thing

There needs to be a media war with large funding from the state ministries of health (we know Buhari/FG would prefer to resign than help the SE)

This demonic drug must be shown clearly for what it is

Today na this wicked man birthday? God protect us today