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Oops!

No name exist because it is a mission impossible for you and BankeSmalls. You cannot overcome the historical fact that you played catch up to the Yorubas who were setting African records when the Igbos were yet to have a secondary school.

My case is closed with excellence!

*yimu* *yawns*

Well, am many things rolled into one.

First a teacher,

Then a Nutritionist,

A missionary preacher,

An entrepreneur,

And then counselor/psychologist.

Am proud of who I am o.

MEd., BSc. (Ed.), OND....... only me o...ah ah, e easy?

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Zik got Nigeria independence yet he was a protege of a Yoruba politician who himself was in the midst of other Yoruba politicians already demanding for home rule.

Zik got us independence, yet it is recorded as historical fact that the different times the motion for independence was moved, it was by the members of the Action Group, starting with Anthony Enahoro.

The question then goes that, if CMS with its many Yoruba returnee slaves were able to realise the need for education among the Yorubas, why didn't freed Igbo slaves return to establish even a kindergarten that early?

I gave a challenge early to an empty head. I now law same challenge before you as BankeSmalls with a small brain couldn't face such mission impossible.

Mention 10 Igbo doctors and 10 Igbo lawyers before the year 1900, who were known to practise in what exist as present Nigeria.

Let us see who were the illiterate tribe as at 1900, and who did not have a secondary school as at then.

That would be childish of me. Mentioning who were doctors or lawyers, you should have included engineers, clergies, soldiers, and every other vocation known to man. Its unfortunate I was dealing with an amateur like you.

Its better I leave you gasping for breathe as I watch you drown in your intellectual mud.

Throwback:


Do you know how many Africans in the diaspora were educated just like Africanus Horton?
Who is to say that those ones did not have Yoruba or Igbo or Ijaw ancestry?

We are talking of Nigerians who identified with their tribe and lived with their tribe post slavery, or who never had any need to return from slavery seeing that they never departed their tribe as slaves.

Funny enough, the same Africanus Horton was educated at CMS grammar school in Yorubaland, and never associating with his own tribesmen who were still cavemen in the eastern extremities of British protectorates in West Africa. That type of secondary school the Igbos would not have until well after the amalgamation of Nigeria, when the Igbos had to be kept abreast of what had become norm in Yorubaland.

The CMS grammar school was owned and built by who? Yoruba? Lol.... Dude, don't disgrace your tribe here. CMS was owned by the British. Save your breath.

Without Igbo, your history will be written and researched for you. Thank dike.

Without Igbo, slave abolition would have been delayed. Thank equiano.

Without Igbo, you won't have had independence from Britain. Thank zik.

Throwback:


Who ever said they were regional schools?

I am telling you that the Yorubas looked the British in the face and demanded for tertiary education, at a time the Igbos were yet to have secondary schools.

Or you want to deny the above fact?

Don't let me disgrace you here ooo.

You are our catch up neighbours we share a country with. Besides that, we would have long developed if not for the British holding us back so that other Nigerians can have a chance at catch up.

While yorubas were busy skull mining and bedding their mistresses in the 18th century, igbos then were busy wielding immense influence as abolitionists and political scholars.

Park well.

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Do you know how long it took the Igbo to have a Medical Doctor or Lawyer, after the Yorubas were already in their 3rd generation of those same profession.

Do you think it is mere coincidence that Yorubas were already forming political parties so early and rightfully demanding a university from the British colonialists?

Or you think Yaba Higher College and University of Ibadan were sited in Yorubaland by coincidence?

It will forever be remembered that Azikiwe was the protege of a Yoruba politician. That is how "illiterate" the Yorubas were, yet setting standards for the rest of Africa.

Lies lies lies.....

UI was not a western Nigeria or awo affair, it was a west African colonial affair, and Ibadan was more proxy to Lagos (then the FCT) than any other part of the country.

Yabatech was never a western region affair. It was purely to serve the colonial masters prior to UI establishment. Western region had not influence over it.

If zik learnt from Macaulay, then Macaulay should thank olaudah equiano for helping to abolish slavery. For without abolitionist there won't be any Macaulay.

What about Africanus Horton, highly regarded as the father of modern african political thought years before Macaulay existed?

Dude, Igbo are not your mates. Show some respect.

unohbethel:

can u show me the thread about that igbo polish senator pls.

Abraham Onyekwere Godson. Google the name pls

Y0ruba:


Let us not write baseless epistles.

Facts are:

1. In the academia, appointments are made by seniority based on year of appointment at a certain level - from assistant lecturer to professor.

2. Nnamdi Azikwe was the President and had power to determine what happened in Federal institutions which included University of Ibadan.

3. Prof Ajose became a Professor in 1948.


See: http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH3007&type=P

4. I could not find any record on when Prof Dike was appointed a Professor but as at 1946, Kenneth Dike was still a Post Graduate student.

See: http://sci.ui.edu.ng/archhistory

As at 1946, Kenneth Dike was still a PG student meanwhile in 1948, Ajose Oladele was appointed a Professor. This goes tp show Ajose was a much more senior Professor but not only that, he was an accomplished African in his field who held several positions before Kenneth Dike began working in the academia.

Why a much senior professor was skipped for a much younger professor. And interestingly, the appointer and the appointees were both of the same ethnic background.

You ruminate on these facts and do the Math. There really isn’t any need for you to respond, just take the dates and run with them.

Your ability to articulate your positions doesn't prove that Dike wasn't qualified enough to become the VC. The crux of the matter is:

1. The seniority cadre you raised as regards UI VCship started when? What age was considered an age for retirement at that time? What age was considered viable for VCship for a professor?


2. How far-reaching and seminal was Ajose works on preventive medicine compared to dike's works on African history for a previously colonial country like Nigeria?

3. Who had the real power to appoint a VC, the prime minister, the political party or the ceremonial president?

4. Why are you limiting VCship to politics only? Was there no professional competence considered before initiating the politics of it?

Kenneth Onwuka Dike (17 December 1917 – 26 October 1983[1]) was an Igbo Nigerian historian and the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the nation's premier college, the University of Ibadan.[2][3] During the Nigerian civil war, he moved to Harvard University, Boston. He was a founder of the Ibadan School that dominated the writing of the History of Nigeria until the 1970s. He is credited with "having played the leading role in creating a generation of African historians who could interpret their own history without being influenced by Eurocentric approaches."[4]

Career Edit

Born in Awka, eastern Nigeria, Kenneth Onwuka Dike was educated in West Africa, England and Scotland. He attended Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone and also Durham University for his BSc, the University of Aberdeen for his MA,[5] and King's College London for his PhD. During the 1960s, as a member of the University of Ibadan's history department, he played a pioneering role in promoting African leadership of scholarly works published on Africa. As the head of the organizing committee of the First International Congress of Africanists in Ghana in 1963, he sought for a strengthened meticulous non-colonial focused African research, publication of research in various languages including indigenous and foreign, so as to introduce native speakers to history and for people to view African history through a common eye. In 1965 he was elected chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.[4]

Nwaubani argues that Dike was the first modern scholarly proponent of Africanist history. His publications were a watershed in African historiography. With a PhD from London, Dike became the first African to complete Western historical professional training. At the University College of Ibadan, he became the first African professor of history and head of a history department. He founded the Nigerian National Archives, and helped in the founding of the Historical Society of Nigeria. His book Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta 1830-1885 dealt with 19th-century economics politics in the Niger Delta. He focused on internal African factors, especially defensive measures undertaken by the delta societies against imperialist penetration. Dike helped create the Ibadan School of African history and promoted the use of oral evidence by African historians.[6]

References Edit

^ "Kenneth O. Dike Dies In a Nigerian Hospital". The New York Times. 1983-11-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ J. Gus Liebenow (1986). African Politics: Crises and Challenges. 388 of A Midland book. Indiana University Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-253-3027-55.
^ Richard A. Joseph (2014). Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria. 56. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-107-6335-37.
^ a b Keith A. P. Sandiford, A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora, Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 151.
^ "Kenneth O. Dike Dies In a Nigerian Hospital". The New York Times. 1983-11-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
^ Ebere Nwaubani, "Kenneth Onwuka Dike, 'Trade And Politics,' and the Restoration of the African in History", History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 2000, Vol. 27, pp. 229-248
Toyin Falola, The History of Nigeria, Greenwood Press, 1999.

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Dr. Kenneth O. Dike, the president of Anambra State University in Enugu, Nigeria, died in a hospital there on Oct. 26, it became known Friday. He was 65 years old.

In 1973 Dr. Dike became the first Mellon Professor of African History at Harvard University. He was a founder and the first director of the Nigerian National Archives, a former chairman of the Nigerian Antiquities Commission and, from 1967 to 1970, the roving ambassador for Biafra, the eastern region of Nigeria that failed in its secession effort.

From 1960 to 1967 Dr. Dike was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

In the 1970's he was chairman of the Committee on African Studies at Harvard. He was also a former chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the recipient of 15 honorary degrees and the author of a book, ''Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta: 1830-1885,'' published in 1956.

Dr. Dike was born in the Nigerian village of Awka and received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Durham, England, a Master of Arts degree at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of London.

Surviving are his wife, Ona; three daughters, Nneka, of Lagos, and Chinwe and Ona, both of Cambridge, Mass., and two sons, Emeka, of Lagos, and Obi, of Cambridge, Mass.

Throwback:


My grouse is that the NCNC Igbos introduced nepotism and tribalism to the federal academia, and also sacrificed merit for tribalism in federal appointments.

The regional universities employed citizens of their region. No one should have any grouse with that.

It is only Igbos that had a problem with the Northernization policy of the North, and continue to lament over Awolowo rightly becoming premier of his own Western region ahead of Azikiwe. A move they found so bitter that they accorded him the special toga of tribalist for daring to rise above an Igbo immigrantcin the Western Region.

Lagos being the capital has nothing to do with Njoku's desirability, when Dike had already been appointed in Ibadan the capital of the Western Region. What mattered most is that rather than appoint the most qualified Nigerian, Azikiwe and his Igbo band of NCNC party men, appointed the most qualified Igbo.

Those ones then took it further as evidenced by the University College Ibadan tribal oriented recruitment of Igbo staff.

Akintola that complained about such was also termed a tribalist.

You are only stating your conviction without empirical evidence.

Meritocracy thrived during the pre-war era. When awolowo's biobiaku challenged njoku, he was called to order. He wasn't more qualified than njoku. He only raised dust based on tribal sentiments forgetting that Lagos was the FCT, not western region and njoku was an eminently qualified Nigerian.

LaudableXX:


Why do you keep getting things muddled up? First you said a botanist could do the job of an agriculturist. When the error in your reasoning was pointed out, you switched and now started talking about how botany is relevant to agriculture in terms of research. Kindly try to stick to the original topic. You were the one who asserted that Njoku's selection was based on the fact that he was a botanist, and you tried to link it to Nigeria's economy which was agriculture. Or have you forgotten your fallacious reasoning?

You just don't get it do you?

Somebody wanted to downplay njoku's botany, and I reminded the person that botany was relevant to agriculture particularly plant crops in which Nigeria's economy was built on in the 50s and 60s. What's confusing here?

Stop this faultfinding and stop stick to the point stated.

LaudableXX:

Meaning...?

Meaning you didn't properly search on Ajose.

LaudableXX:


Yes, thanks for the correction. I meant Njoku not Dike. And studying Botany does not make a person qualified to take on the duties of an Agriculturist. Agriculture is wider and far more encompassing of the lifecycle, uses and structure of farming and other agric based endeavours than botany could ever hope to be. Please do not mislead people.

Dude, in the 50s and 60s, botanists were researchers for farmers. Because botanist were experts in ANYTHING of plants in terms of structure and mechanism. Botany is highly relevant to agriculture in terms of plant research.

LaudableXX:


Please go back and do your research on Ajose.

I should be one telling you that.

Throwback:


Just as Biobaku was the pioneer professor of history. So what are the pieces to join besides Igbo dominated government appointing Igbos to federal positions.

Meanwhile the pioneer African professor of anything as all in the whole of Nigeria and University of Ibadan, was Prof Dr Oladele Ajose, yet just because he wasn't singing Nzobu Nzobu as an Igbo clansman, he had to be overlooked for his Igbo subordinate.

You can stick to your viewpoint as much as you want. Njoku was qualified, he was Nigerian in the then FCT, Lagos.

OAU didn't pick an Igbo, they picked Yoruba. just as ABU picked a northerner, and UNN picked an easterner.

So what's your grouse?

LaudableXX:


You obviously know very little about botany. How can you equate the study of botany, to agriculture and/or agronomy? If Dike had studied agronomy, agriculture, agricultural economics etc. it would have made sense, if you wanted to link his appointment as VC to the Nigerian economy!

You mean Njoku, not Dike.

Botany encapsulates any plant based endeavour, from agriculture to biotechnology. Courses were not as diverse as it is today. A botanist could become a biologist, agriculturist, etc

LaudableXX:


That is not what your former post says. You were applauding Dike's historical endeavours to the highest heavens, and looking down on Ajose's medical activities.

I never did. That's the way you chose to see it.

Ajose's work in medicine was definitely not new in the western world. But whenever you mention researched history about Africa from an African viewpoint, Dike stands tall among others.

Throwback:


If history was so critical to being considered for the position of University Principal, why was Saburi Biobaku who was in Unilag and considered as most notable Nigerian academic historian besides Kenneth Dike, not appointed as the first African Principal of University of Lagos?

Instead, an Igbo professor from the sciences just like Ajose, ENI Njoku a Botanist, was considered as most qualified Igbo to be Principal.

All of a sodden, the need for historians was not critical to the progress of University of Lagos, as no notable Igbo was historian there.

Oh now you have shifted to Eni Njoku?

UI was a colonially established university. Nigeria wanted to prove a point by forwarding a distinguished historian who had what whites didn't.

Unilag was a university built by the federal government, not western, eastern or northern region.
Nigeria's thriving economy was run on plant based agriculture. Eni Njoku was the pioneer professor of botany (study of plants). Join the pieces together.

Throwback:


That you continue to spell Ajose as ajose, while ensuring to spell Dike as it is, does not surprise me when you eventually conclude with your text in bold.

You are the one who is biased to see that the only qualification that Ajose had a shortcoming was his tribe being too achieving to the disliking of the British, and not being Igbo at a time Igbos had the political power, owing to the poor literacy of their Northern senior partners in government, to appoint school council chairman, or university Principal.

History will always remember Ajose for the pioneer that he was, and how he was a victim of Igbo style of meritocracy - appoint the most qualified Igbo over the most qualified Nigerian.

I honestly didn't mean what you are insinuating as regards the small letter casing I gave to ajose. My conscience is clear.

But who is ajose? How noteworthy were his research compared to dike's research in African history?

History will be kind to dike for proving his mettle as a distinguished historian and pioneer of contemporary African history, something the whites couldn't lay claim to.

Africa needed a historian that would the narrative of sfrican history. All the world know about Africans then were jungles, slavery, colonialism. Dike's scientific research debunked all that.

You yorubas and your sense of entitlement is your Achilles heel.

LaudableXX:


So in your view, history is more superior to medicine, right?

No. Non supercedes the other. It is only the strength and global relevance of ones work that may outpace the other.

LaudableXX:


And who told you Ajose did not publish more relevant works than Dike? Especially when he was senior to Dike?

Senior to who? Let's not even start with that.

Ajose was a medical practitioner right? His field differs from Dike who was a historian.

What did ajose accomplish that was new or unaccomplished by the whites or that wasn't theirs? But dike had what wasnt owned by the whites, and that is african history. Dike made outside world seek for his research works because he narrated with prove about Africa's history from a seasoned African research perspective.

Throwback:


So you do not know that it is political parties that run a government and appoint people into positions?

Even till today, who appoints the VCs of federal universities?

That I have to educate you about how political parties in government work, is a shame you could have avoided.

Yet you are from a country where the citizens complain about PDP and APC, so why are we complaining about those parties if they are so irrelevant to their own regimes?

Dude, you cannot erase the past history of Igbo nepotism and tribalism within the federal government of the first republic.

You cannot dispute the qualification of Ajose as the most qualified, most pioneering and most senior for the position of Vice-Principal and eventually Principal of University College Ibadan. Ajose's only shortcoming was not being Igbo, in a country that had an Igbo Azikiwe as Governor General and later ceremonial President, and an Igbo NCNC party man as School Council Chairman as appointed by Azikiwe himself.

But the most qualified Igbo and most senior Igbo just had to be appointed to suit the Igbo version of meritocracy.

Dike's VCship was a product of nepotism right? You are really biased.

Assuming I have stayed longer than you ( though marginally) in professorship, yet you publish more relevant and groundbreaking research works than mine, it means you have a competitive advantage over me. IT IS THAT SIMPLE! Enough of this trash post you churn out.

Dike had competitive advantage over your ajose or whatever his name is.

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Even Dike could not understand why he had to be called back from an unfinished Sabbatical in the USA to come become Vice Principal under the soon departing British Principal.

He was apprehensive to accept the position he damn well knew he was the most senior and most qualified Igbo, but not the most senior or most qualified Nigerian.

Just as the Igbos would have cried fowl if Brigadier Maimalari was appointed as first Nigerian Major General, ahead of Aguiyi Ironsi the most senior, or Ademulegun and Ogundipe who were the next ranking of all the 4 Brigadiers that were in contention for the promoting to Major General.

It is for such slight that a more senior Ojukwu, rejected the authority of a subordinate Gowon.

Yet our Igbo debater believes merit is only said to have been adhered to when an Igbo is appointed out of the blues ahead of his superiors. He is even trying to cast aspersions as to the academic credentials of the first African Professor in a globally multiracial environment in a then British run university. Oladele Ajose broke the glass ceiling for others to follow.

Merit = Igbo

Unfortunately, it was Igbos that self destruct and truncated the Igbo domination by nepotism agenda, out of excessive greed to have it all.

Who is (sorry, was) ajose? What gave ajose the edge over dike? Was it age? That was definitely not enough to say one is superior to the other.

Dike trailblazed the African historical narrative. His research set a standard for other African historians. Something ajose didn't accomplish in his medical whatever.

Dike's efforts still sustains UI, the national archive and the African history in general. Ajose was not above him in any way academically or socially. Dike even carved his niche at Harvard university owing to his groundbreaking research in African history.

Y0ruba:



You don’t seem to get it.

Azikwe was the Governor-General then Presideht when Nigeria became a ‘Repubic’. He had powers to make appointments into Federal institutions.

Now, in academia, appointments are made by experience and years of being whatever position one may be - for example, as much as there are Professors, there will be those who have been Professors for a longer time and they are regarded as ‘seniors’ to those who have been Professors for a shorter time. And in the academia, appointments are given to most senior Professors.

Ajose was more accomplished and a senior Professor to Dike.

Azikwe who had Federal powers to appoint a VC had two options:

Ajose the more senior professor

Dike the younger professor.

You do the maths.

I don't believe ajose was a senior professor because there is NO Proof of such claim. I even thought you were refering to age. So far, history tells us that dike was the most prominent among his contemporaries. Even the academic world couldn't dispute it.

You linking zik to appointments is dubious and to even start with, does not prove that parties appoints academics. The head of government (balewa) appoints while the ceremonial president only accents. So blaming igbos for your kinsmen not being better qualified enough to run the premier university is ridiculous.

UI was not owned by the Yoruba western region. It was established by colonialists. Unilag belonged to the federal government because it wasn't established by the western region. It was only OAU that was established by the western region at ife. That explains why it was a Yoruba that was appointed as the first VC.

Dike was a foremost historian who gave the african community back the academic rationale to narrate and research its own history. Google is your friend.

Obi1kenobi:


Google is always your friend, you know. Aren't you one of the Jew-claimers I've tackled before on here now ironically disparaging another person's "claiming"? A host of Niger-Delta groups trace their ancestry from Benin/Edo, which you are calling "claiming". Yet, you had no problem claiming Igbos are related to a Semitic group in the Levant with zero evidence for the claim other than mythical fantasies.

Who told you Goodluck identifies more with Igbos?

Igbo wannabe, they have come again. I hope you are done with your jamb studies. You have been noticed.

Hear from the horse's (GOODLUCK EBELE AZIKIWE JONATHAN) mouth:

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://allafrica.com/stories/201309300508.html&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwij87PiytzZAhXMDMAKHQLYBi0QFjAAegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw1JR8RiVVk7f-LfQ_27djcS

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Awo is to the Igbos the father of tribalism for contesting to be premier in his own Western region when he had an Igbo challenger from another party, and daring to become premier of his own region.

For daring to compete in his own region, Awolowo is a tribalist. For ensuring nepotism, Igbos are competitors.

I don't need to fear domination as my people are not famous for wailing like babies with claims of marginalization. We simply dictate our own rules in our own region, and surely we sit back to watch with amusement the protestations of only one tribe out of all the migrant tribes in our own midst - the Igbos. You are that predictable and self entitled.

I have pointed out the nepotism that Igbos termed merit in the first republic, when less qualified Igbo's were appointed by fellow Igbos into offices that were above their station, while more qualified Yoruba seniors were overlooked. And as one Igbo got in, he made sure to bring the whole clan in. The same strategy you tried to do in the Western region politics and failed woefully. While the North already knew who they were dealing with and kept you from their regional jobs and offices, while you already dominated the federal space being the educated tribe in the North-East alliance of the first republic federal government.

Despite dominating your multi-ethnic Eastern region and ensuring you dominated the federal government jobs, using the NCNC partnership with NPC, your people till this day continually wail that Amadu Bello did not allow them to have their way in the Northern region.

Till this very post, even you are still in turmoil and agony that Awolowo democratically became the first premier of his own Western region, having formed a government with his own Action Group and independent parliamentarians who together formed a majority government. What manner of greed and baseless envy is the Igbo imbued with?

Your greed is legendary and is exemplified by the recruitment conducted by Igbos in University College Ibadan.

It was also the NPC/NCNC government that appointed Prof. Eni Njoku as Principal of University of Lagos, so no surprises at all. The Igbos must have it all.

Still you wanted the very soul of the Nigerian Federal Government, hence the Igbo coup of January 1966, and the subsequent unitary decree of Aguiyi Ironsi.

Your ways are known to all, and we have put you were you belong.

If only your Igbo sons and daughters could erase the history of the Yorubas they always have to catch-up to.

Or so it is now political parties that appoints academics for VCship? I didn't know your brain has been seriously bleached. Look for another lie, this one won't fly.

Your lengthy piece of trash keeps baring your wannabe composure and sheer stupidity.

Very typical of your type. Loud but empty.

Deadlytruth:


As for the meaning of Edoid and how it relates to GEJ; you can cure your ignorance here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engenni_people



https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/notes-from-atlanta/13466-what-s-really-president-goodluck-jonathan-s-ethnic-group

If you wish, you may search for Jonathan's declaration made the day he arrived Oba Erediawa's Palace for campaign in 2011.


It is no longer surprising that you don't know the difference between digression and tangential topics. Ignorance is really bliss!

Am so disappointed you used Wikipedia and daily trust newspaper to proof good luck belong to your "edoid" whatever.

More so, he being ogbia/I jaw still has his affiliations (Igbo, efik, Ibibio) and he, GOODLUCK EBELE AZIKIWE JONATHAN isn't complaining. Mr. "Incoherent association-by-force", go and play with your mates. Attaché by force.

Deadlytruth:


You are not really okay. So Jonathan is an Igbo man?
Your ignorance is very obvious.
In fact Jonathan's real tribe is Edoid if you don't know. Google is your friend.

Wetin be edoid? Lol.... Claiming relationship.

Good luck identifies more with igbos efiks ibibios after his ogbia/ijaw ethnicity. But this has nothing to do with issue on ground. When will you stop digressing for once?

Deadlytruth:


As per the bolded; Festus Odimegwu himself would, after resigning, publish a very detailed article carpeting GEJ for really sacking him in his (GEJ's) incurable quest to endear himself to the Hausa-Fulanis ahead of his second term ambition. That alone angered Odimegwu into throwing his weight behind Buhari.
Southerners have always been their own problems.
And it remains so sickening to remember that Jonathan who so much acted against common sense and proprietary in seeking Hausa-Fulani endearment towards 2015 won 2011 without their votes.

Don't you see that your efforts in downplaying Igbo are impotent? You no dey tire.

You better tell your sisters and mothers to stop embarrassing Africans in Italy with their harlotry. Shame.

Throwback:


You are what you are.

Nepotism and tribalism are the watchwords of clannish men.

Everyone else have wronged you for not allowing you dominate them, while you have never wronged others as all you have was obtained by merit - the Igbo version of it.

Awolowo, the Father of Tribalism and nepotism

Igbo domination has always been your nightmare because you hate competition. We see it everywhere even in retail markets.

The more you hate the more we soar.

Professor Kenneth Dike - first black VC, university of Ibadan. Our Igbo son from present day Anambra state.

Professor Eni Njoku - first black VC , UNILAG and UNN. Our Igbo son from present day Abia state.

So go and quench

Throwback:


I repeat, the only merit the Igbos know is Igbos first.

If only you could remove Ajose's place from history just to legitimate your nepotism and tribalism with the Dike appointment?

Unfortunately, you can't.

You are what you are right before independence and till now.

The Sardauna knows you best and rightly described you for what you are.

Of course whatever your Fulani masters say is correct and acceptable by you.

Dike's detailed research on Africa's history was groundbreaking because before then it was the foreigners that was writing our history for us. Dike put an end to it by narrating it with scientifically back research. Dikes research covered a lot of ethnicities and language clusters....even ajose's own language and your language, YORUBA included.