₦airaland Forum

Those who betrayed the easterners after Aburi are scared of the truth.
Read the Aburi communique

http://www.dawodu.com/aburi4.htm

You cannot betray the east again. We won't let you. The MEND is making sure of that! They are[b] MENDing[/b] Nigeria through the barrel. Ijaw is more vexed than the Igbo this time. Nigeria, you better negotiate , or there will be no pieces to pick up.

[size=16pt]On Aburi We stand[/size]

With all due respect those places don't have the human capital Biafra has. There are millions of Igbos all over the world today. You think they'll just fold their hands
This is 21st century. Igbos are everywhere now, and the killing won't be only in Igboland. The former killers may be fighting in their own backyards too. Bottomline is the world has changed profoundly. If MASSOB can face Nigeria's security forces unarmed, and they are killed for it, yet they are continuing their agitation, imagine if Igbos decide to arm up. The scenario will be scary. You saw MASSOB in Ghana to receive Obama. You see them in Europe, America, South Africa, Asia etc. I would negotiate with these guys if I were Nigerian authorities. Nigeria won't win this if it escalates. Nigeria will have to contend with Igbo and MEND. Scary scenario!

If Biafra really want to get UN recognition, it is easy. Why? Because Taiwan is not Biafra. UN watched as Nigeria committed genocide in Biafra between 1967 and 1970. You think UN will do the same again and watch as 2 million people (or more ) die all over Nigeria? I doubt it.

The final solution to all Nigeria's ills seems to have started.  There was never a divide between the Ijaw and the Igbo historically. If this alliance works, the Niger delta will finally get 100% resource control. Igboman hates injustice! A united EAST can bring justice to all parts of Nigeria.

Kobojunkie:
Lol  . . . . I think you ought to go back and read your own post to realize that my response actually follows your reasoning there.
Interesting, so to you, holding em accountable means lynching em or something of that sort? And we wonder what the Nigerian problem is. You have the law and the constitution on your side to fight with, yet you do not use it but continue to cry that they were rigged in to office and since you did not vote em, you cannot use the law to fight them? And we wonder why people like Gani and the others who stand up against these same government stand alone for the most part. Majority of us are too busy carving our excuses for ourselves to stand in our place as citizens. SigH!!

I used lynching figuratively there anyway. My point is that elections shouldn't be rigged in the first place. We were lucky the last time to have a governor who was rigged in actually turn around at the risk of his own life (Ngige) to perform more than elected governors in Nigeria. It took the really elected guy almost 3 years (to follow your advice) to reclaim his mandate.
A people shouldn't be put through such ordeal. We want our votes to count and our election choices sworn in from day one!
As for the constitution, it is a fraud. Almost every expert on true federalism says so.

After reading Awolowo's address to the western regional assembly, I become convinced that the old political fox knew inside his heart that the [b]Aburi Accord [/b]was good for Nigeria. There was really no need for Biafra. There is probably no need for it today if Aburi is implemented. Every nation finds its own path to democratic stability -so says Obama. Nigeria must find her own path and Aburi remains the only document negotiated by Nigerians for Nigeria without foreign injections. The British hated it because of that fact. They needed something they could influence. That is what we have today in Nigeria. A nation of foreigners. A northerner is a foreigner in the east, south and west.  The same applies to the easterners.

Dr. Lorenz:
Can they?  

@Onlytruth
What is the truth? The truth is the actualization of Biafra was supposed to have happened in 1960. It didn't.

It didn't because there was no need for it. The Nigerian nation was balanced then. The regions controlled their resources. It wasn't perfect, but it was far better than what we have today. The nation was new, untested. When it was tested in 1966 and 1967, the nation sat down and negotiated. The product? Aburi Accord supported by Awolowo and the north (before the British intervened to deceive them) and Awo reneged after Biafra was declared. Remember Biafra was declared only because the north and the west stabbed the east in the back by not implementing Aburi.
Today-43 years after! -  Aburi is still the best arrangement for a stable Nigeria.

asha 80:
Which ones please?I am sure abia is not among.

Well with the exception of Abia state, I believe Anambra, Imo, Enugu and Ebonyi are performing. But to be more direct, the only governor voted by the Igbos is the Anambra governor and he is performing. At least he is not busy stealing our money!

Kobojunkie:
Hold up there fella!!! You already have such a system, you just are not taking advantage of it but instead waiting for, yes, Abuja, to tell you that you ought to hold your governors accountable, before you start doing so. If Nigeria was still under military rule, this conversation would go a lot differently. But there is no line in the constitution that states that the Governor is not to be held accountable by the people of Nigeria.


Aren’t you deluding yourself by the claim above? Which Ibo Governors are doing better than governors elsewhere? The same round-and-round –the-garden game is going on in that country from north to south, east to west and you are here trying to tell us that eastern governors are doing better? Aren’t you the same person that claimed your governors are not accounting to you but to Abuja? Are you now saying Abuja is now doing a good job through your governors?


I think people like me are clear in what we will say and that is for people to START holding their governors accountable rather than continuing to blame Abuja for the incompetence of their elected leaders.

This is the most childish observation here (apologies  ) So you think using the army and police to rig elections is democracy??
I can't hold my PDP governor accountable because I never voted for him. Our people never voted for him and he goes around with heavy security (supplied by Abuja). Let him walk the streets like the great Ikemba and see if he won't get lynched by an angry mob.

Kobojunkie:
@Onlytruth, your problem with him is not of my concern. I just responded to your post which was no different from what I read from the other guy.

As in my response, the IBOs are just as responsibly for the SHIT AT THE ALTER as people like BIGBRO and the rest of us. Trying to play the VICTIM card claiming Biafra will save the day when these ( MASSOB touts) are those who claim to be leaders for the Ibos is RIDICULOUS and nothing but the same old BULL fried in  OIL with a different name.

I'm not really interested in Nigeria's presidency. I suspect most Igbos will prefer Biafra or something close enough. We need s system where we can have our governor account to us rather than Abuja. Where the police chief will be accounting to local voters rather than to someone in far away places.
Put differently, Igbo want to control their own destiny. You can fool yourself all you want but South east governors today are performing better than their counterparts elsewhere (irrespective of abuja) manipulations. Imagine what will happen if such Abuja impositions end. We can turn around our fortune overnight. I wonder what people like you will say then. Nigeria's presidential powers is part of the current Nigerian problems.

@Kobojunkie

I hope forumites see my point about extreme foolishness brought on by extreme wickedness! I'm sure you didn't even follow the logic of my post. Someone (BigBro) basically said that Igbos cannot be trusted with presidency of a failed state called Nigeria. The same failed state battling an increasing guerrilla force called MEND. Left for Igbos like myself, we won't touch that your presidency with the longest pole available! We want a nation that can actually work, not a fraudulent nation run by tribes of dark souls. And there are about 40 million of us!

@BigBro

I hope you see why Nigeria is DEAD whether you like it or not. You are basically saying that a Nigerian tribe (the only one of the biggest tribes found only within the Nigerian border) "cannot be trusted with power" in their own country and land! Do you listen to yourself??
The biggest problem in Nigeria is that people go to shit in the middle of the alter in the church and still expect decent people to attend holy communion at the same alter! I had this chicken and egg argument with a Nigerian; he said that Nigeria's biggest problem is wickedness. I told him Nigeria's biggest problem is foolishness. We argued for hours over this; at the end we agreed that Nigeria's biggest problem is extreme foolishness brought on by extreme wickedness.
For someone to think that he can cage an ingenious, hardworking, gregarious and restless 40 million people in the 21st century, that is extreme foolishness indeed!
Nigeria needs Igbo presidency more than Igbo need Nigerian presidency. Anyone thinking about that country existing in 10 years time MUST begin with that whether he likes it or not. Most Igbo will prefer Biafra, but I'm sure they will reconsider if people like BigBro are made to face trials for the genocide of the first war and some form of restitution paid to victims. Otherwise Nigeria is as good as dead.

Link(s)?
Here they are

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/US-President-Barack-Obama-Kotoka-International-Airport/photo//090710/ids_photos_wl/r1797495892.jpg//s:/nm/20090710/pl_nm/us_obama_africa

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8521789

This is no laughing matter.

@Bilymuse and other people claiming MASSOB is a fraud. Keep dreaming,

This development caught my eyes on yahoo news.

People shout slogans and wave flags as they wait for the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama outside Kotoka International Airport in Ghana July 10, 2009.
REUTERS/Luc Gnago (GHANA POLITICS)

MASSOB is receiving Obama in Ghana! As they promised!
My concern is that Nigeria is NOT taking MASSOB seriously. Bullying MASSOB or arm twisting Ndigbo because of MASSOB won't stop Biafra agitation or Biafra actualization.
Only truth and justice which comes from honest negotiation and open dialogue can stop MASSOB or anyone with similar grudges against Nigeria.
Nigeria stopped speaking the truth after Awolowo spun around to support everything his conscience had earlier opposed in 1967.
If we fail to talk, I'm afraid we are headed for a split. Talking is ALWAYS cheapest.
I love Nigeria but there is just too much fraud. You have people in this forum openly defending injustice and fraud.
How can Nigeria ever move forward as one with so many tribes and peoples without conscience?
I doubt it!

@becomrich

If this "Benin republic" is not a classical cesspit I wonder what is!!