Deadlytruth:


You reason against common sense. You can't be better than those you claim are marginalizing you. It does not make sense? It is like claiming that you are stronger than the person you yourself acknowledge as your oppressor. If really so, then why not use that superior strength of yours to extricate yourself from his hold? Or do you naturally enjoy oppression and marginalization?

*yawns* *yimu*

Deadlytruth:


Soaring to where? Soaring yet complaining of marginalization and seeking to opt out of the confusion you plunged the country into through your useless and retrogressive decrees?

Yes we are been marginalized, every pundit except wannabes like you knows that. but despite all these, our ingenuity keeps us soaring economically socially and intellectually.

Deadlytruth:



So you never read it here where I explained that the other military interventionists' mission was to teach Igbos a lesson by sustaining Ironsi's blunders so that after bearing the brunt of being on the receiving end for too long Igbos would come to hate unitary system and perish their fraudulent one Nigeria dream? And has it not really worked today with Igbos now the champion of true federalism, confederalism and secession?
Total lack of comprehension skills. Shame on you!

Till today, you are still "teaching igbos a lesson" right? Your stupidity really amazes me. That said, I didn't know you 'sleep for my matter'.... I just hope you slept well because anything Igbo gives you nightmares.

Keep deluding yourself with your revisionism. Ironsi's didn't interfere with the economy and free press, its there in the books. Your tales by moonlight won't change history.

Deadlytruth:

Are you really this daft? Who would not have known that you were unapologetically but blindly Igbo given how you tried to deny and even justify Ironsi's useless decrees from the very first comment you made on this thread?
You can't hide your state and ethnicity and expect me to give you my ethnicity after having given you my state. That is pure rubbish. Tell me your state first if you are really proud of it.

Dumbo I have released you, go and sleep, your reverse psychology isn't working. Try something else

Deadlytruth:


The truth is already out and it indicts Ironsi. Much as you try, you can never wash him clean of responsibility for the dismantling of federalism.

I don't even give you any respect in the first instance to warrant its being inconsequential to you. Do you deserve respect for your blind tribal loyalism?

I have said it that you are a dullard. So you now compare which military junta is better than which for a country which began with democracy defined by a world class model system of government? No wonder you justify mediocrity on the alter that one mediocre is better than the other. Shame on your level of intelligence.

When you are done ranting, you can tuck yourself to bed. Don't be offended that I didn't buy your crude and stupid half-truths.

Sleep well....or at least try to.

Deadlytruth:


From the beginning I knew I was discussing with a useless man blinded to the truth by tribal ego. I only played along because I knew you would end up resorting to insults when finally cornered.
Igbos who are honest and sincere do acknowledge that Ironsi's Decrees killed federalism and set even Igbos back. Just check about six comments back and you'll see an example. Those are the kind of Igbos I respect. They are intelligent enough to know that the only way to absolve the entire Igbos of Ironsi's and Zik's blunders is to condemn and denounce these two men.
But your likes are too dull to know the shame in defending very obvious blunders in the name of tribal loyalism.
Had it been someone else proposed the secession clause and Enahoro joined in resisting it, Edos would have by today been denying him and even claiming he was not really one of them. Has it been it was an Edo person that promulgated the Unification and Anti-seccession Decrees, Edo's would have been telling the whole world today that he acted purely for his own selfish interest. Just look at Tony Anenih. He is a very good example of all that is wrong with Nigeria. In fact he was part and parcel of the hegemony which ruined the country. How many Edos have you ever seen rise to his defense on social media?
In fact his own Esan people loath him more than outsiders. That is the difference

The igbos you respect are the ones who should agree with you. Well your respect is inconsequential to me.

Ironsi's shortcomings have been magnified and overestimated and sold to ignorant dummies like you. Very soon the truth will be revealed for every revisionist to hang their heads in shame.

Ironsi is 10 times better than the generals after him.

Deadlytruth:


It was you who after asking for my ethnicity, claimed you guessed right that it is Edo. So please tell that to yourself.

You can't cajole me into telling you my ethnicity when you yourself have refused to tell me your state after I have announced mine. Never!
You mention your state like I have done, then we now go into ethnicity. You want to know my ethnicity so that you will begin to bash it while I will not be able to respond since I will not have known yours! He he he he..... You suppose know say that Igbo trick no go fit work for Edo man na!
E don tey wey Edo get sense o!

It is only a dullard who wouldn't know that I am unapologetically Igbo. As for your shameful self, you are scared of stating your ethnicity. Shame!

Deadlytruth:

I can now see that you are as foolish as the Ironsi you have been defending.
If not, where did you see any mention of Delta Igbos in my enumeration of the Delta State tribes I am more qualified than you to speak for? You are a fool honestly! You don't even digest when you read. No wonder you have been having a hard time understanding how Ironsi's Unification Decree caused the death of federalism.

.....and your other military leaders' "intervention" resurrected true federalism right? Hypocritical sadist.

Thank God for history and posterity. The economic policies of the regions were still intact under ironsi until your "saviours" killed and buried true federalism.

Deadlytruth:


You are sick upstairs. First of all you are ashamed of your state hence your refusal to even mention it at all let alone your ethnicity.
Among the Edo State ethnicities of Bini, Ishan and Afemai, which one of them is not known for excellence all over the country and beyond to warrant being ashamed of?
You smell of shameless ignorance.
At least I have mentioned my state and given you a few credentials which have scared and intimidated you so much that you will never mention yours let alone your ethnicity within it.
Mention your own state so that we now both go into ethnicity if you are sure your ethnicity is as popular as any of Edo's.
You don't want to mention your state to someone who has already mentioned his, yet you want him to go on to mention his ethnicity while you hide both your own state and ethnicity. Igbo wayo!

You Igbos are always fondest of probing people's specific ethnicities and tribes yet the same people are the quickest to label others as tribalistic. Why
You are so interested in my ethnicity but even your state you can't even disclose to start with. Very dubious thing!

Since you are so good at guessing, what now stops you from guessing my ethnicity. You could guess my state from among the six SS states, yet you can't guess my ethnicity from among just three? Shame on your intelligence.

I actually I thought I was discussing with an intelligent and open-minded person. I didn't know I was dealing with charlatan, a bitter and pathetic soul.

You are an intellectual wannabe. Long noisy but empty revisionist.

Deadlytruth:


So what now qualifies an Igbo man above an Edo person in speaking for Urhobos, Ijaw, Itshekiri, Isoko, etc? I have all these tribes in my state of Edo while you don't have them in yours. So who between you and me is qualified to speak for them?

Do you even know what ethnicity means? Why not tell us your own specific ethnicity in Igbo land? Or you think we don't know that Igbos have ethnicities too?
It is exactly you that reeks of inferiority complex. Tell us which Igbo ethnicity you are if you are not ashamed of it.
Only Igbos are always so crazy about other people's ethnicities because they feel inferior, yet they easily accuse others of being tribalistic.

If you could rightly guess that I am from Edo State, then why can't you also rightly guess my ethnicity since you are so good at guessing? Why is your guessing gift failing when it comes to ethnicity?
Is your right guessing ability selective?

Yes, I am happy you now seem to understand that Edo people are the most resentful and antagonistic of Ironsi because we were actually the hardest hit by his asinine and preposterous Unification Decree.
You hate Awolowo for allegedly causing the loss of your most cherished Biafra dream, yet you want us to love Ironsi who likewise caused our loss of fulfilment of our potential greatness as a Nigerian State or independent country. Double standards.
Ironsi decided to hold others back with his useless decrees because he saw clearly the enormous developmental speed with which the other regions would overtake his own.

You keep hating, we keep soaring.

Deadlytruth:
Okay, you have now known I am from Edo State even though you assume Edo is an ethnicity. So what next?

Mumu, who said Edo is an ethnicity? I just stated that you were from that state, but I don't know your ethnicity? So I keep asking, why are you ashamed of your ethnicity? What is your ethnicity?

You are a waste of time.

Deadlytruth:
Okay, you have now known I am from Edo State even though you assume Edo is an ethnicity. So what next?

Edo is NOT an ethnicity. State your ethnicity and stop making a mess of yourself here.

Deadlytruth:


You must be able to tell me if your own SE is an ethnicity before answer you whether SS is an ethnicity. And by the way how many ethnicities do you even think you know about the SS?
And what exactly has your question got to do with the issue I was responding to? I don't even get it.
The SS people see themselves as one people defined as non-wazobians irrespective of their ethnic diversities. So when they call themselves SS it speaks of their commitment to their non-wazobian identity before any other thing. In the SS we don't lay unnecessary emphasis on ethnicity because we don't suspect and hate one another as it is with WAZOBIANS.

Dude, igbos are indigenous to Delta state too. Stop speaking for okocha, okonjo-iweala, col. Achuzia, asagba of asaba, tony elumelu, Herbert wigwe, and my cousins in ugwuashi-ukwu, etc...they are proud igbos in the so-called south-south. Face your Edo, but please be bold enough to state your ethnicity.

Deadlytruth:


But why would Awolowo and Enahoro be the ones to help Igbos ask for what they (Igbos) had come to need more badly than others? Are you just kidding?
And moreover, were only the votes of Awolowo and Enahoro all that was needed to put secession clause in the 1979 constitution? Were Igbo delegates not in attendance in that conference? Did they themselves propose it there and Awolowo and Enahoro rejected it? Must Igbos always be spoon-fed? I thought you just claimed they were the most intelligent and progressive tribe? So why wait for "dullard" tribes to float a bill which the most intelligent tribe was supposed to champion?

The truth remains that you got all my arguments but keep playing the devil's advocate just to save face.
I thought you asked for my ethnicity? So Edo State is now an ethnicity? Wonders will never really end.
What you lots don't understand is that Edos and Deltans are the South-South's naturally most outspoken people and don't pretend to like what they hate.
These two states resent Igbos more than even the Yorubas whom you call Afonja because they have not gotten over Ojukwu's Midwest invasion which they still view as an act of foreign aggression.

Yes I am from Edo State and very proud of it. That is the state that houses the most powerful pre-colonial kingdom in black Africa. It is the state with the richest culture in Nigeria. The only state to have simultaneously produced the national chairmen of the two largest Nigerian parties in one political dispensation (SDP and NRC). The emblem of the federal ministry of culture and tourism has three icons out of which two are taken from Edo State and the third one is for all the other 35 states put together. The only state whose people's artefacts so rivalled their European counterparts in beauty and craftsmanship that the Europeans themselves fell for the temptation to loot them. The most strategically located state in the country, the only state that has a fair share of almost all the different mineral resources found in the country. The only state that hosts the two largest Nigerian companies in a particular industry - Okomu and Presco, the state that hosts the first Polytechnic in Nigeria, The State that first established LCDAs and houses the first State owned University in Nigeria, The home state of the man that first foresaw the bleak future of Nigeria and proposed secession clause to forestall it, the state of the people whose boundaries remain the only legally created entity together with Delta State in the country's history. I can go on and on. In fact had Ironsi left our federal structure intact, an eventually created Edo State would have been the California equivalent of Nigeria. Under this unproductive unitary system Edo ranks 4th in GDP per capita despite being among the bottom 10 in federal allocation receipts. Just imagine where it would be under true federalism.
That simply explains why we so much detest Ironsi, Zik and Ojukwu who deceived people with one-Nigeria in their dubious quest to impose unitary system. You can take that to the bank.

Each time you claim that Igbos are competitive and hardworking I don't get it. How could a genuinely competition-loving people have rooted rooted for unitary system (disguised as one Nigeria) which inspires laziness, reliance on handouts from the center, kills initiative and creativity, etc; at a time all other tribes were asking for federalism which really inspires healthy competition that results in rapid industrialization?
You people just make claims that diverge from logic.

When did you start speaking for all the ethnicities in delta state? Who made you their mouthpiece? Are you from Delta state? Are you Urhobo, Isoko, Igbo, itshekiri or ijaw? Why not be open about your ethnicity in Edo state?

You hate Igbo, simple. Don't rope others into your biase. Unfortunately for you, we Igbos care less.

By the way, I rightly guessed that you are from Edo state, yet I don't know your ethnicity. Are you ashamed of telling us your ethnicity? You reek of inferiority complex.

Now I know why you have been so antagonistic against ironsi. Its a shame. Leave igbos alone. We are not your mate.

Deadlytruth:


Neither is Your own South-East an ethnicity. Why are you having headache over the composition of the SS which is not your region? You just labelled Enahoro and others as tribalists for focusing on their regions which were multi-ethnic. Ironically you, supposedly a "nationalist" are now probing with severe curiosity the specific ethnicities and tribes the SS people. Have you too become a tribalist? What an interesting irony!

You keep ridiculing yourself with all due respect. You were the one who said you were neither Yoruba nor Igbo, that you were "south-south" and then I asked, is south-south an ethnicity? Rather than correcting yourself and stating your ethnicity, you keep ignoring the obvious. This is ridiculous.

Sorry.

KhadyM:


Now we are derailing...where does Christ and the church come in?

Are you sure you think we are derailing or you just want to dodge the points as usual?

KhadyM:


Going by what the Bible says... "he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from God".... the favour was extended to Boaz and David because of the women the married, and not the other way round

Between Christ and the church who is doing the other a favor?

BoweryGirl:



Why are you speaking when no one asked you? Please leave me alone and face your life.

Take it easy girl.... We need each other...so you dont need to overrate yourself. ....Lol....if we don't marry you properly, you will be crying blue murder.

BoweryGirl:


The man in my life needs my favor, son.

....just as you need his.

KhadyM:


Which is better, favour from God or favour from man?

See woman logic...Lol...na wa o... So Boaz, David, Ahasaerus were not favours from God to the women who they married?

KhadyM:


And that just shows how important women are to men, if God actually had to create us FOR you. So by extension, we ARE doing you a favour.

Keep hyping yourself. Favour? Lol... Important? Yes, but favour? Stop overrating yourselves. Marriage is meant to honor the woman, asides that...men can cohabit with the woman, pump babies out of her, without necessarily marrying her. But then you ladies will be shouting, "marry me properly"....so marriage is actually a favor to the woman from the man.

That said, I want to believe that marriage is complementary. It goes both ways in terms of favor.

KhadyM:


Well she'll favour you indirectly. Once you find her, God favours you. Without her, no favour from God. Comprende?

....and the man will favour you directly. Think of Ruth and Boaz...., Esther and king Ahasaerus.... Abigail and David.

KhadyM:
Actually he may be right... when God created the world didnt he say, it's not good for a man to be alone.... he didnt say the same about the woman

That's the reason why the woman was created FOR the man and not vice-versa.

BTW, the woman came FROM the man's body in order to second the man. So without the man, there is no woman.

prince3009:
The Bible says "He who findeth a WIFE findeth a GOOD THING"

The thing is...Married women at classified into two groups.

There are WIVES and there are KNIVES.

When you find a wife, you are favored by God. But when you find a knife, you become flavored by pepper and maggi after being cut to pieces ready to be cooked with your destiny as nkwobi

Yes.....but the "FAVOR" part comes from God, not the woman. She is not doing you a favor by marrying you. Shikena.

Deadlytruth:


Nigeria's current regions are called geopolitical regions not geo-ethnic regions. Please can you mention any perfectly homogeneous regions ethnically among the current six? Even your SE Region has native Igalas in Anambra. So what's your point?

Oga, you said you were neither Igbo nor Yoruba... But from "south-south". Is "south-south" now an ethnicity? Why not be proud of your ethnicity?

Deadlytruth:


Yes my letter had to be long as a detailed analytical response to your false assertions.

Please find below an extraction from Ironsi's speech made on May 24 1966:


THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows:
Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall on 24th May 1966 (in this decree referred to as ‘the appointed day’) cease to be a Federation and shall accordingly as from that day be a Republic, by the name of the Republic of Nigeria, consisting of the whole of the territory which immediately before that day was comprised in the Federation
2.
As from the appointed day—
the Federal Military Government and the Federal Executive Council shall be known respectively as the National Military Government and The Executive Council;
the Federal territory shall be known as the Capital territory;
the provinces, including Kaduna capital territory, in schedule 1 of this Decree which immediately before the appointed day were respectively comprised in Northern Nigeria, Eastern Nigeria, Western Nigeria and Mid-Western Nigeria shall be known respectively as the Northern group of Provinces, the Eastern group of Provinces, the Western group of Provinces and the Mid-Western group of Provinces;
for the purpose of administration each group of provinces shall subject to the authority of the Head of the National Military Government, be under the general direction and control of a Military Governor appointed by the Head of the National Military Government;.
Act No. 20 of 1963 (that is to say the Constitution of the Federation) may be cited as the Constitution of the Republic.
- https://dawodu.com/decree34.htm

Your reference to Americans' description of Igbos as whatever does not answer my question as to why No Northerners or Westerners got any jobs in the Eastern Region back then. Were their applicants all dunces?

If Enahoro, Awolowo, Balewa and Bello could, based on foresight, push for secession clause, then how was it their fault that Igbos now blessed with hindsight in 1979 could not? In 1979 in had become clear to all and sundry that Igbos needed it more than anyone else. Or was it that after the war Igbos totally "forgave" One Nigeria and swore never to demand secession again? If that was the case, then why are they falling for Kanu's moves again?
On the part of Enahoro and Awolowo, Zik's frustration of their first attempts got them into the mood of once beaten twice shy. Moreover Ironsi's Anti-secession Decree made with Ojukwu's moral support and the later irony of the same Ojukwu's demand for secession just 15 months later painted Igbos as inconsistent enough to im 1979 constitutional conference repeat what Zik did when the secession was first proposed.

Please can you post links of where Saro Wiwa apologized to Ojukwu?
This is the biggest joke of the century. Did Saro Wiwa and Ojukwu ever meet again after he was arrested by Abacha's government and his travails started? If he so apologized, then how come the average Ogoni man still remains strongly anti-Biafra in orientation?

How does a change in government affect economic policy? Show me where ironsi interfered with Nigeria's economic policies.

You try so hard to sound intellectual but still, the incoherence of your points expose your ignorance.

Since awo and co had opportunities change the constitution in favor of seccession clause, WHY DIDNT THEY CHANGE IT? stop perambulating.

You post lengthy voids that makes no point.

If you are from Edo state I won't be surprised.

BoweryGirl:



I don't bother with dingbats like you. Na man like you talk something wey make sense, stay here and continue running your mouth like tap water. Bye Felicia!

Chai.... E pain am..... Lol...don't worry I will be praying for you eh?

BoweryGirl:



....what makes you think I am not married or will not get married? Cishet you! Please, go away.

Still go and pray o. Be waiting for a man who you would assert as doing a favour for....sorry.

Deadlytruth:


Well, I am neither Yoruba nor Igbo but from the SS.
You seem to have a good argument. However there is a weakness somewhere in it.
Before independence, the North had already began chanting born-to-rule and were killing Southerners, mostly Igbos, in large numbers at the slightest provocations. Their quest to dip the Quran into the Atlantic Ocean was already being rightly or wrongly perceived.
At the end of the 1959 federal elections the southern parties together with their Middle Belt allies had more votes than Ahmadu Bello's party and could therefore have thrown up a Southerner as prime minister thereby crushing the North's born-to-rule and Atlantic Ocean agenda in the mud. But unfortunately, a Southerner known as Nnamdi Azikiwe broke the proposed all-Southern parties coalition aimed at achieving just that, and rather aligned with Ahmadu Bello's party thereby giving power to the North to entrench achieve those two agenda. The same Zik once again sold out in the attempt by UPGA (another all-South alliance with same objectives as the initial one).
Don't you therefore think that any Southern soldier who genuinely wanted to address the issue as a hero should have by all means first killed that habitual Southern sell out before touching any Northerner if at all it was necessary? Why did these "heros" go ahead with the coup despite being fully aware that the main cause of the problem they were trying to address had escaped?
I don't share the sentiment that it was a genuine concern about the Atlantic Ocean agenda that inspired the coup because a lot of things don't add up to it.

There is no ethnicity called south-south. State your ethnicity.

BoweryGirl:
Preach it, Sir! The men will not like this.

Lol..... I dey laugh you. Nathaniel is married o....you better pray hard for a good spouse let God favor you too.

For the first time I DISAGREE with Nathaniel Bassey.

The favor the bible talks about comes from God, NOT the woman.

What about the story of Boaz and Ruth? Esther and king Ahaserus? David and Abigail? WHO WAS FAVORING WHO BETWEEN THESE COUPLES IN MARRIAGE?

Nathaniel should stick to his singing and stop creating unnecessary drama.

We know our scriptures.

Deadlytruth:


In what better way can a regional government's economy be interfered with than striping it of its civil service commission as Ironsi did?
Consider yourself the governor of your state with your civil service suddenly no longer answerable to you but to Abuja, thus all taxes and revenues generated in your domain get redirected to Abuja leaving you with practically no funds or man power to implement your economic policies or prepare budgets. In what way better than that can an economy be interfered with and destroyed? By centralizing the civil service Ironsi left dummies as regions.
What defined the regionalism then was not the regions' physical boundaries but the extent of their autonomy which Ironsi's civil service restructuring eroded 100℅. That they have regions in the UK does not automatically translate to federalism. We know they practice unitary system because those regions are not autonomous.
The assumption that it was Gowon's creation of states that killed federalism is a very lame one because the creation of new the regions had already started under the civilians with the Midwest coming first and having the regional autonomy in place trickling down to it automatically. So it would have been with all the other new regions or states to be created after the Midwest.
Did the creation of the Midwest from the West take away the latter's autonomy when the constitution was yet intact? So how could Gowon's breakdown of the regions have taken autonomy away if Ironsi had left the constitution intact?

The US, which stands tall as the best example of nation building, did not ever experiment with unitary system because critical and honest reasoning intuitively inspired in them the understanding that unitary system would be antithetical to their diversity. The likes of Awolowo, Enahoro, Ahmadu Bello and Balewa who had the gift of critical reasoning and intuition cautioned against unitary system in Nigeria but got mocked and labelled as tribalists by Zik and his myopic admirers.
It is the same myopic mindset you too have just demonstrated here by accusing Awolowo, Enahoro and Ahmadu Bello of tribalistic leanings for their unwavering belief in federalism.
It is very easy to confuse federalism with tribalism since the former seeks, in principle, to allow for self assertion by each tribe. This explains why Zik and his Igbo cheerleaders misinterpreted Awo's and Bello's pro-federalist stance as tribalistic leanings while living in the illusional assumption that they were nationalists just because they were selfishly rooting for an unworkable centrist arrangement within a diversity.
As for the secession clause: When Enahoro first initiated the idea and got the support of Ahmadu Bello, it was Zik that instigated the colonial masters into threatening them with treasonable felony charges if they refused to back down. Ironically, in less than ten years afterwards, the same Zik began to ask for "separation in peace and not in pieces". He would later lead his kinsmen in the quest for secession in another three years thereafter.
Common sense therefore dictated that when constitutional conference opportunity popped up in 1979, the first time after the war, the burden of fighting for the inclusion of the secession clause was that of Igbos who's earlier rejection of it later cost them 3 million lives. Ironically, they refused to champion that cause during the said constitution review. Then who exactly were they expecting to carry their own cross for them?

Hmmm! So you really believe that before 1966, all the plum jobs were being gotten by merit? Then how come no Northerner or Westerner was brilliant enough to get a plum job in the Eastern Region? I laugh in Swahili. Even Ahmadu Bello, in the currently trending online video, rhetorically asked whether any Northerner was employed in the Southern Civil Service, and the journalist could not answer him. I guess all Northerners who applied for jobs in the South back then were dullards, right? In actual fact what we had then was a strictly regional arrangement where each regional government was by law mandated to give priority to the natives over aliens. That is one of the hallmarks of true federalism which you erroneously take as tribalism. If you are now demanding a return to true federalism/resource control and you are not prepared for tribalism, then you don't yet know what you are asking for. No wonder the confused Zik, despite all his degrees and certificates, kept on seeking "One-Nigeria" and an end to "tribalism" under a strictly federal structure.

On Adaka Boro: Only revisionists try to implicate the Nigerian side. Common sense dictates that he was killed by Biafran soldiers for "betraying" Ojukwu. However, whoever eventually killed him is not as guilty as Ironsi and Ojukwu who frustrated his Niger Delta Republic dream which if they had allowed him realize, he would have been in his own separate country at the time Nigeria and Biafra fought, hence would not have been involved at all let alone being killed by either side. Moreover, he alone, and not his tribe, was killed for defending "One-Nigeria" unlike Ojukwu whose over 3 million kinsmen were later killed right before his eyes by the very "One-Nigeria" in whose interest he had earlier on crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic. Who lost more to One-Nigeria between Boro and Saro Wiwa on one hand, and Ojukwu and Ironsi on the other?
No doubt, Ojukwu, like any sane person, would have preferred to, like Adaka Boro, be killed so that his kinsmen might be spared than how it happened the other way round in reality. So give and take Ojukwu, Ironsi and Igbos lost far more for ever defending "One-Nigeria" than Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa lost for doing same.

So long a letter.

Structural changes had NOTHING to do with economic policies, you don't have write an epistle trying to force the lame point you are asserting. Even historians agree that Ironside didn't tamper with the economic policies being implemented.

Before 1966, jobs were on merit, even the American government referred Igbos as west African "Jews" because they were envied and hated for their collective hardwork, industry and intelligence.

Awo, the north and co had the opportunity to include the seccesion clause in the new constitution. They didn't. Q.E.D. it speaks of their actual intentions.

On boro and sarowiwa, the point you are trying to make is dead on arrival. Even wiwa apologized to ojukwu and acknowledged his naivity in dealing with Nigeria. Boro was ambushed by his Nigerian ally, I wonder where you get your information from.

I know am "myopic" and you are "foresighted", but chips on ground proves that Ironside NEVER tampered with economic policies and the free press. Your long impotent revisionism won't change that.