₦airaland Forum

The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and its
northern counterpart, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), yesterday in Enugu rekindled hope in the continued existence of Nigeria as one
indivisible entity.

Chairman, National Executive Council and head of the delegation of
ACF to a meeting between the two groups, Alhaji Aliko M. Mohammed had arrived in Enugu on Tuesday with Senator J.K.N Waku, Senator
Ladan Shini, Major-General Lawrence Onoja, Brig-General Mohammed
Umar, among others, ahead of their meeting with Ohanaeze Ndigbo, to
inaugurate the South-East chapter of ACF.

The meeting proper held yesterday at Universal Hotel, Enugu was presided over by the two leaders of the organisations: Alhaji Mohammed (ACF), and Ohanaeze Ndigbo President-General, Ambassador Raph Uwechue, who attended the meeting with former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme; and former Ebonyi State governor and health minister, Chief Sam Egwu. Others are Senator Offia Nwali; Nweke Anyigor; Eze Ozobu; former Ohanaeze PG, Prof Joe Irukwu; Ohanaeze Secretary, Nduka Eya; First Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazuluike Amechi; Professor Chinedu Nebo; Professor Uzodimma
Nwala; Chief Onyeso Nwachukwu, among others.


After the meeting, the two groups in a communiqué said they had a big brief discussion where they underlined “the imperative of national unity dialogue and consensus, based on the principles of equity, justice and cooperation among the various people of Nigeria.” They, however, agreed that since the visiting ACF raised some weighty
issues in its address, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo would need some time to
study its presentation and then make its own response for discussion in a future meeting.


In the ACF presentation, Alhaji Mohammed had noted that the meeting
had deep historical significance as it was the first time in recent times
when leaders from Northern Nigeria and their counterparts from the
South sat down together on a common table as one extended family to discuss. He told their Ohanaeze Ndigbo host that they requested for the meeting in their belief that all the ethnic nationalities have a duty to dialogue with one another and search for solutions to the major issues of concern to the country.




http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/ohanaeze-arewa-leaders-meet-in-enugu/

If you know the sheer hatred between Arabs and the Persians, you would prolly edit that post. Take that from me.

dadicvila: some1 has takin the pains to explain to you why i categorized them as arabs

Look, Saudi Arabia is even the one lobbying US to attack Iran. Wikileaks is a good reference material.

all4naija: He never said Iranians are Arabs in that statement. I think he referred to all Arab people who would be in support and how no Arab nation as never defeated Israel, for the simple reason Iranians seem to be acting as Arab nations custodians.

The Arabs hate Iranians more than Israel and vice-versa.

berem: WHAT DA FUCCK IS A DRONE? Some peeps here don't know what it is.why don't you peeps say what it is and what its used for?

www.google.com.

keep quiet,i never said Iranians are arabs,if i did why dint u point it
out??They are aryans,closely related to germans,jobless goat

dadicvila: my friend source for info before spewing crap,the drone was detected several km's away from Isreali territory and monitored till it flew over an unpopulated area in Isreal b4 it was shot down by IAF F-16 jets that had been monitoring it.....and for your info,Isreal will not defeat Iran with missiles,offcourse there must be missles attacks by and against isreal but Isreal relys on the strength and infallabity of their military,both IAF,the groundtroops and the Isreali navy,forget arab propaganda,no arab nation can face the IDF in combact,they will land their troops in Iran and over power the iranian forces withing weeks if war breaks out.....just thinking,hezzebolah dosnt recognise Isreal,they carry out all manner of attacks against the state of Isreal yhet when Isreali forces invade them as they did in the 1st and 2nd Isreali-Lebanon war the world will start screaming genocide,what do the world really want from Isreal??to sit down and read their torah and pray as the pre WW2 jews did while the armies of Ishmeal slaughter them??

Now tell me more about the bolded.

Iranians are NOT Arabs! They don't speak Arabic and don't understand Arabic. A simple Google search could have saved you this embarrassment. Stop wasting your bandwidths here.

victorD3: Read your history and understand that no Arab country can defeat Israel. It has happened before where Israel took on all its Arab neighbors join together.

For the fact that you believed some rag-tag thugs have defeated Israel speaks volume of your logic. How many minutes do you think will require Israel to bomb Lebanon back to stone age? 60 minutes, just trying to be generous this morning.

I learned there is a strong grass in Iran called "Hashish". . .I hope is not what you smoked? no offence.

mu2sa2: D myth of invincibility of the Israeli defence forces was buried in 2006 with their defeat by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Whether they claim that d drone was detected in time b4 it was shot down isnt d issue, but what it proves is that Israeli airspace can be penetrated thus putting to rest another myth. If Israel attacks Iran d world will witness d most mutually destructive war in history. While Israel, of course with US backing, will be tempted to use its nuclear arsenal,Iran and d middle east countries that will line behind her hav deadly chemical weapons and will deliver them to Israeli with equally destructive effect. Germ warfare is also a possibility. 2012 is not 1967; its not going to be a walkover. Both Israel and Iran and entire middle east will lay waste in d event of Israel/US-instigated war on Iran.D dog and the baboon will be bloodied. There will be no winners-all will be losers.

GBAM!

homerac7: of course, i never meant them taking a nuclear strike right awat from on-set. i mean dt if Isreal goes into war with Iran and gets overwhelmed, she would resort to dt option. Afterall, it's same thing US did against Japan to bring d war to end, and they almost ordered one during d Cuban Crisis.

+1

. . .But should Russia and China back Iran, I mean real backing and not some lip service, then go hide under a locally made bunker in your village cos this is WW III

Read about J 20 and Sukhoi Su 47( possibility of fast tracking the deployment of Su 50). . .No room for F -22 raptor. I will watch that war from my basement.

Don Pedro: Empty barrels make the loudest noise! The U.S and Israel would not make noise about their attack or defence capabilities. When the battle starts, even the Iranian allies (Russia and China) will backdown. Let the show begins, the Iranian regime will know better. Its not about going to the media to address press conferences, its about hitting hard lines.

The best post so far. But the downside of using nuclear bomb or a "dirty bomb" at this moment is that, it will trigger nuclear arm race cos every country will want to have one.

homerac7: my friend, there's d biggest factor dt u havn't mentioned - dats dt Israel stock nuclear bombs.

when u r a nuclear nation, u can raise ur voice against any non-nuclear nation irrespective of their perceived military might and d nation will respond cautiously. that's d bargaining chip Israel has here. do u think if Israel begins to feel overwhelmed it will not take a nuclear strike against Iran? of course, dats where it would lead to, whatever happens after dt will be from outside Iran wc in itself will drag in other allies to take side. both sides will know d consequence of an all-out nuclear war and avoid it, so d point will be to end d war. at end of d day, Iran has been destroyed wt a nuclear strike while UN resolutions will b passed to slap Israel. so tell me who has lost more....my man, no b by initial gra-gra and media prapaganda wey dem dey do o! even Saddam do pass dat one sef b4 1st Gulf War, after him don use d same Iran mop gutter finish.

Bottom line, war no b play-station o!

Another pure and unadulterated ignorance. please Google Is still your friend. thanks

unongu: Between USA and Israel, who has who's back? Know that its USA that requires the support of Israel and not the other way round. All the nuclear weapons and missile defence systems in America are built with the technical support of the Israeli Intelligence. The whole middle east put together cannot match Israel let alone miserable Iran. Israel is surrounded by "enemy" countries and yet when Israel coughs, all the "enemy" countries catch cold. Wish only for what can happen bro.

I'm kinda having problem with your "overblown" Iranian capability. If they can reengineered that drone, then why are they still angry with Russia for refusals to deliver the S 400 air defence missile system ? They should go ahead and build their own.

agreed the Iranians are trying tech wise, but in no way they can match the Israeli superiority. finito.

Malcolm-X:
I don't deal with propaganda - I deal with facts and critical thinking. If Israel were aware of the drone, it would have shot it down before it hovered around its airforce base and close to its nuclear reactor. If the drone were to be a military one, don't you think it would have attacked their nuclear sites before it was shot down by F-16? Israelis already confirmed that they didn't see the drone probably because Iran used re-engineered the technology used in the American stealth drone, it brought down last year.

Israel didn't detect the drone before it got to its air space. Get emotional all you want, I don't deal with emotions and zionist propaganda - I deal with facts from both sides, and my mentality is based on what's best for humanity. Go get more indoctrination!

Chinese paid hackers, right? The Iranians don't have the capability of hacking into that bird. THEY DON'T!!!!

Malcolm-X:
Lmao.. Fauxnews propaganda - the drone was brought down intact by Iranian hackers!

In your mind the Iranians are Arabs? so much ignorance in here. Go pick up history book.

dadicvila: my friend source for info before spewing crap,the drone was detected several km's away from Isreali territory and monitored till it flew over an unpopulated area in Isreal b4 it was shot down by IAF F-16 jets that had been monitoring it.....and for your info,Isreal will not defeat Iran with missiles,offcourse there must be missles attacks by and against isreal but Isreal relys on the strength and infallabity of their military,both IAF,the groundtroops and the Isreali navy,forget arab propaganda,no arab nation can face the IDF in combact,they will land their troops in Iran and over power the iranian forces withing weeks if war breaks out.....just thinking,hezzebolah dosnt recognise Isreal,they carry out all manner of attacks against the state of Isreal yhet when Isreali forces invade them as they did in the 1st and 2nd Isreali-Lebanon war the world will start screaming genocide,what do the world really want from Isreal??to sit down and read their torah and pray as the pre WW2 jews did while the armies of Ishmeal slaughter them??

Another lies and conjectures from an ethnic propagandist. Just look at how you water down this despicable ethnic cleansing, the foundation of the ethnic animosity and distrust in Nigeria. This singular acts you paint as "Even if Nzeogwu killed all western leaders" is the virus eating this country at the moment and betrays your sincerity on this matter.

Sardauna trusted Nzeogwu with his life and he did not only betrayed him, he personally pulled the trigger on his head . Again, lemme attempt to answer your question by pretending I don't know how selfish you lots can be. You killed tribal leaders and openly poked fun of it and you expect flowers in returns?

You murdered Tafawa Balewa, SL Akintola and even mockingly mimicked their final moments and you expect fanfare in returns?

You slaughtered Maimalari and other fine mid western gentlemen and expect them to "do bale" for you?

Quick check on Hutu and Tutsi i.e. Ruwanda genocide revealed that the minority ruling class killed "few" people after the leadership of the country changed hand and what did we got from the other side? They massacred 1.2 million civilians in return and almost wiped out that ethnic group. They branded them " Nyanzi" which means creepy or snakes that must be exterminated. Moral line is don't start what you can't finish.

Abagworo: It still baffles me how killing of innocent people is a thing of joy to non-Igbos. Why all these hate and envy? Even if Nzeogwu killed all the Western leaders, they should have killed back Igbo leaders and not Igbo civilians who had nothing in common with Nzeogwu or politics. What an average Igboman believes is in success of his endeavor whether education, sports or business and does not know the next man until he succeeds. Whatever ethnic consciousness an Igbo has stems from discrimination from a combination of other Nigerians. Why are people mad that Igbos are living and investing in their area? Why can't they do same? In Igbo culture, we protect strangers rather than kill them off at the slightest provocation as other people do us.

..

Who told you Gowon is a northern leader? This is the problem with you lots, you think you can dictate to others what to do and what not? if you want to smell the wrath of the northerners, then mention or mock Sa'adu Zungur, Tafawa Balewa, Aminu Kano or Sardauna and see what will happen to you. I live more than 20 years in the north to know this.

Secondly, The ibos I do business with always slander the yorubas at any giving opportunities, infact, they WILL call us COWARDS, backstabbers at any giving opportunity cos we refused to tow and buy their ethnocentric agenda. Is it a must to support biafra? We the Yoruba race don't want to have ANYTHING with you or your biafra and courtesy demands you respect our wishes, and not branding us names and all that.

The ibos WILL always want to paint us black in the sight of northerners.(Many normally see me as a northerner due to my fluency and vast knowledge of Hausa lingua.

Achebe the chief propagandist of biafra who sees nothing wrong in dragging the person the Yoruba race call leader and to think there won't be any backlash?

Eziachi: You are making a lot of sense. The war was between Nigeria and Biafra but most Yoruba from big to nobody always take it upon themselves to make it theirs.
You can never hear the northerners and middle belt boasting about atrocities of the war. Its not a Nairaland/internet thing, even within the ruling establishment, an average Yoruba will bring the war as a taunt to Easterners at every given opportunity.
OBJ never waste time in bring the war issue into the equation when its not needed, as a war hero. Something the likes of Babangida will desist from, even though they all wer involved.
Do you remember the Yoruba diplomat in the U.S taunting Ojo Maduekwe about the war during OBJ years?

I haven't read the so called Achebe's book, but based on what they are saying that he said, I had been told that he was directing issues to Gowon and his deputy, Awolowo. But you will think that Gowon wasn't mentioned OR HE CAME FROM A PLANET OF NO PEOPLE and it was Achebe vs Yoruba.

None of these tribal goats could deny the raw truths piled up in this article. I like everything he said, particularly where he described Awolowo as the brain behind the conquest of biafra.

lacasa: Ibraheem A. Waziri
NORTHERN NIGERIAN MUSLIMS AND THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR: BETWEEN ACHEBE AND OTHER IGBO INTELLECTUALS
By
Ibraheem A. Waziri
iawaziri@yahoo.com

It’s just that ignorance reign in Nigeria or our public intellectuals do not have passion for details and deep philosophical enquiry into the nature and realities of our socio-cultural formation and its history for the best of their opinions. These can be the only open and not so stretched explanations to Chinua Achebe’s blatant, below status and insincere depiction of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 - 70 in the light of a so called jihadist expansionist goal of Muslims of northern Nigeria. The excerpts of his latest book, There Was a Country, as published by the UK Guardian, Tuesday, 2nd 2012, make bold this meaningless assertion:

“But if the diabolical disregard for human life seen during the war was not due to the northern military elite's jihadist or genocidal obsession, then why were there more small arms used on Biafran soil than during the entire second world war? Why were there 100,000 casualties on the much larger Nigerian side compared with more than 2 million – mainly children – Biafrans killed?”

Needless to mention that Achebe is not alone in this kind of portrayal that is typical of recent Igbo ‘intellectuals’ when it comes to discussing the civil war. The task of re-educating them and the crop of their students is therefore necessary if the dream of a greater Nigeria in fair neighbourliness is to be realized.

Yes, northern Nigerians are mainly and majorly proud and faithful Muslims with unique culture and a record of close interactions with other world civilizations since time. They have for long known and understood that not everybody must look like them or believe in what they believed in, before peace, social cohesion and fair neighbourliness are justifiably established. In fact it can be authoritatively said that northern Nigeria of the 1960s, formed one the most cosmopolitan and accommodating social spaces in the whole world. When the Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah wanted to initiate and draft Nigeria’s prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the premier of the northern region Ahmadu Bello into his Pan-Africanism they clearly told him that they were not racists and believed in the universal nature of truth, justice, fairness and equality of humankind regardless of race or ethnicity and that reflected the way they managed northern Nigeria and the country in general.

It was this world-view with its values and norms guiding intra and inter-pinning of human relations that saw a northern Nigeria of the 1960s as a home to many Igbos. In modern history the top one percent of the most literate and influential Igbo personalities once lived in northern Nigeria or spoke Hausa, the dominant language in the North. It was here that Major Chukuma Kaduna Nzeogwu’s parents settled and gave birth to him in 1937. He grew up with all opportunities unhindered and got the award of love, justice and trust of the then premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello until he finally, easily and safely got access to him, in the night, in his house, in the privacy of his bedroom and killed him in front of his wife with no struggle, no any suspecting guard to check him or even ask him hard questions. It is finished. Brutus killed his Caesar in cold blood of treachery, hatred and breach of trust. Describing a similar situation in the same operation kill, where Major Ifeajuna an Igbo soldier and Major Nzeagwu’s co-kill planner ad partner, shot Brigadier Maimalari, Bernard Odogwu, an Igbo Nigerian Diplomat at the times of the events, in his book, No Place to Hide - Crises and Conflicts inside Biafra, clearly put it, “I am particularly shocked at the news that Major Ifeajuna personally shot and killed his mentor, Brigadier Maimalari. My God! That must have been Caesar and Brutus come alive...”

What then could have been the fate of other Igbos in many parts of the North who enjoyed the same love, trust and protection of the other northerners who began to see a new streak of arrogance, condescension in the behavior of the Igbo who were illussioned in the new leadership of General Ironsi to the extent that , as told by our parents, they used to mock the northerners, imitating the cries and squeaks of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa before he died in the hands of Major Ifeajuna. Still Igbo intellectuals engage in this mockery as the Nigerian military historian Max Siollun, recently re-told the story of Nzeogwu’s kill which clearly portrayed Ahmadu Bello as a coward and a simpleton who hide behind his wife when he saw that Nzeagwu was certain to get him. These provocations and the details of stories such as captured by David Muffett, a British colonial officer who wrote the account of the 1966 coup in a book titled, Let Truth Be Told, outlining the Igbo elite’s detailed plan to take control of not only the political structures but even the social structures of the North by killing all the then northern emirs in the final.

Some including Achebe are still contesting that the kill was not an Igbo carefully planned affair but rather a coup plotted against all Nigerian leaders of then. Yet all Igbos in prominent positions were missed in the fire and it was said the president, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe was missed because he was out of the country for a medical checkup. The question is could they have missed Sir Ahmadu Bello or Abubakar Tafawa Balewa if any was on a medical trip or they would have postponed the plans for more appropriate date that would guarantee and ensure an all inclusive kill?

Yet, the pogroms that followed the events and the civil war were unfortunate (more objective details of which were written by Elechi Amadi in Sunset at Biafra). But the characterization of Northerners as Muslim jihadists who were already prepared and ready to stage a ‘holy jihad’ against Igbo, as a reason for the war is very untrue and intellectually insincere. Just because Igbo intellectuals have to find reasons then it doesn’t mean every reason must be dashed out. Just because they need someone to blame doesn’t mean the 21st century image of fundamentalist Islam must be projected backward into the story of Nigeria to justify a perspective.

Besides what religion did the major actors of the war on the federal side professed? General Yakubu Gowon, General Theopilus Danjuma and General Joseph Garba, were Christians. Chief Awolowo, the intellectual architect of the War was a Christian. General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Adekunle were all not Northerners. The prominent name in the commands that is a core Muslim northerner was only General Murtala Muhammed. Even if all the others were Muslims what sense could it have made for the Muslims to have fought the Igbos only to establish the leadership of General Yakubu Gowan who was a Christian, the same and only reason they supposedly could have fought the Igbos? Gowon enjoyed the support of all Muslim northerners as my good friend Alhaji Yakubu Musa, currently a media assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan who is from a devout Muslim family, once mentioned how he was named Yakubu in celebration of Gowon’s visit to Kano on a day that coincided with his birthday.

No. The truth of the matter is Igbo betrayed the trust given to them in the then northern Nigeria by the singular act of betrayal of Nzeagwu on Ahmadu Bello and the subsequent poor management of their relationship with their hosts that bred suspicion of complicity in the plans of the kill and a thought of greater conspiracy.

The way forward is not to employ a wider and more efficient propaganda machinery to score cheap sympathy and sponsor the production of a sensationalist movie in the Holly Wood, Secret of the Sun, starring Bruce Willis and displaying that northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa will attempt to do the same in the present Nigeria and in the recent future and can be stopped only by the Americans.

The way forward is to always tell the truth, accept faults, take responsibilities for errors and constantly preach the gospel of keeping trust, commitments and fair neighbourliness. Let’s make the younger generation and the entire world know that we are one in Nigeria and the top one percent of Igbo most informed political and public intellectuals lived in the North or even spoke Hausa. This ranging from Chinua Achebe himself, Cyprian Ekwensi, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeagwu, General Emeka Ojukwu or Dr. Nmandi Azikwe. Cyprian Ekwensi even copied and translated the literary work of my uncle, John Tafida Umaru titled, Jiki Magayi, from Hausa to English, titled it African Nights Entertainments, and dubbed it his own without acknowledgement, adding to his literary stock, achievement and fame. The world must know the good contribution their living in the North and speaking its language brought into their skills and perspectives that which won them the accolades they so celebrate and rejoice in, today, a fact which they and their friends always want to hide!

None of these tribal goats could deny the raw truths piled up in this article. I like everything he said, particularly where he described Awolowo as the brain behind the conquest of biafra.

lacasa: Ibraheem A. Waziri
NORTHERN NIGERIAN MUSLIMS AND THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR: BETWEEN ACHEBE AND OTHER IGBO INTELLECTUALS
By
Ibraheem A. Waziri
iawaziri@yahoo.com

It’s just that ignorance reign in Nigeria or our public intellectuals do not have passion for details and deep philosophical enquiry into the nature and realities of our socio-cultural formation and its history for the best of their opinions. These can be the only open and not so stretched explanations to Chinua Achebe’s blatant, below status and insincere depiction of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 - 70 in the light of a so called jihadist expansionist goal of Muslims of northern Nigeria. The excerpts of his latest book, There Was a Country, as published by the UK Guardian, Tuesday, 2nd 2012, make bold this meaningless assertion:

“But if the diabolical disregard for human life seen during the war was not due to the northern military elite's jihadist or genocidal obsession, then why were there more small arms used on Biafran soil than during the entire second world war? Why were there 100,000 casualties on the much larger Nigerian side compared with more than 2 million – mainly children – Biafrans killed?”

Needless to mention that Achebe is not alone in this kind of portrayal that is typical of recent Igbo ‘intellectuals’ when it comes to discussing the civil war. The task of re-educating them and the crop of their students is therefore necessary if the dream of a greater Nigeria in fair neighbourliness is to be realized.

Yes, northern Nigerians are mainly and majorly proud and faithful Muslims with unique culture and a record of close interactions with other world civilizations since time. They have for long known and understood that not everybody must look like them or believe in what they believed in, before peace, social cohesion and fair neighbourliness are justifiably established. In fact it can be authoritatively said that northern Nigeria of the 1960s, formed one the most cosmopolitan and accommodating social spaces in the whole world. When the Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah wanted to initiate and draft Nigeria’s prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the premier of the northern region Ahmadu Bello into his Pan-Africanism they clearly told him that they were not racists and believed in the universal nature of truth, justice, fairness and equality of humankind regardless of race or ethnicity and that reflected the way they managed northern Nigeria and the country in general.

It was this world-view with its values and norms guiding intra and inter-pinning of human relations that saw a northern Nigeria of the 1960s as a home to many Igbos. In modern history the top one percent of the most literate and influential Igbo personalities once lived in northern Nigeria or spoke Hausa, the dominant language in the North. It was here that Major Chukuma Kaduna Nzeogwu’s parents settled and gave birth to him in 1937. He grew up with all opportunities unhindered and got the award of love, justice and trust of the then premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello until he finally, easily and safely got access to him, in the night, in his house, in the privacy of his bedroom and killed him in front of his wife with no struggle, no any suspecting guard to check him or even ask him hard questions. It is finished. Brutus killed his Caesar in cold blood of treachery, hatred and breach of trust. Describing a similar situation in the same operation kill, where Major Ifeajuna an Igbo soldier and Major Nzeagwu’s co-kill planner ad partner, shot Brigadier Maimalari, Bernard Odogwu, an Igbo Nigerian Diplomat at the times of the events, in his book, No Place to Hide - Crises and Conflicts inside Biafra, clearly put it, “I am particularly shocked at the news that Major Ifeajuna personally shot and killed his mentor, Brigadier Maimalari. My God! That must have been Caesar and Brutus come alive...”

What then could have been the fate of other Igbos in many parts of the North who enjoyed the same love, trust and protection of the other northerners who began to see a new streak of arrogance, condescension in the behavior of the Igbo who were illussioned in the new leadership of General Ironsi to the extent that , as told by our parents, they used to mock the northerners, imitating the cries and squeaks of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa before he died in the hands of Major Ifeajuna. Still Igbo intellectuals engage in this mockery as the Nigerian military historian Max Siollun, recently re-told the story of Nzeogwu’s kill which clearly portrayed Ahmadu Bello as a coward and a simpleton who hide behind his wife when he saw that Nzeagwu was certain to get him. These provocations and the details of stories such as captured by David Muffett, a British colonial officer who wrote the account of the 1966 coup in a book titled, Let Truth Be Told, outlining the Igbo elite’s detailed plan to take control of not only the political structures but even the social structures of the North by killing all the then northern emirs in the final.

Some including Achebe are still contesting that the kill was not an Igbo carefully planned affair but rather a coup plotted against all Nigerian leaders of then. Yet all Igbos in prominent positions were missed in the fire and it was said the president, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe was missed because he was out of the country for a medical checkup. The question is could they have missed Sir Ahmadu Bello or Abubakar Tafawa Balewa if any was on a medical trip or they would have postponed the plans for more appropriate date that would guarantee and ensure an all inclusive kill?

Yet, the pogroms that followed the events and the civil war were unfortunate (more objective details of which were written by Elechi Amadi in Sunset at Biafra). But the characterization of Northerners as Muslim jihadists who were already prepared and ready to stage a ‘holy jihad’ against Igbo, as a reason for the war is very untrue and intellectually insincere. Just because Igbo intellectuals have to find reasons then it doesn’t mean every reason must be dashed out. Just because they need someone to blame doesn’t mean the 21st century image of fundamentalist Islam must be projected backward into the story of Nigeria to justify a perspective.

Besides what religion did the major actors of the war on the federal side professed? General Yakubu Gowon, General Theopilus Danjuma and General Joseph Garba, were Christians. Chief Awolowo, the intellectual architect of the War was a Christian. General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Adekunle were all not Northerners. The prominent name in the commands that is a core Muslim northerner was only General Murtala Muhammed. Even if all the others were Muslims what sense could it have made for the Muslims to have fought the Igbos only to establish the leadership of General Yakubu Gowan who was a Christian, the same and only reason they supposedly could have fought the Igbos? Gowon enjoyed the support of all Muslim northerners as my good friend Alhaji Yakubu Musa, currently a media assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan who is from a devout Muslim family, once mentioned how he was named Yakubu in celebration of Gowon’s visit to Kano on a day that coincided with his birthday.

No. The truth of the matter is Igbo betrayed the trust given to them in the then northern Nigeria by the singular act of betrayal of Nzeagwu on Ahmadu Bello and the subsequent poor management of their relationship with their hosts that bred suspicion of complicity in the plans of the kill and a thought of greater conspiracy.

The way forward is not to employ a wider and more efficient propaganda machinery to score cheap sympathy and sponsor the production of a sensationalist movie in the Holly Wood, Secret of the Sun, starring Bruce Willis and displaying that northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa will attempt to do the same in the present Nigeria and in the recent future and can be stopped only by the Americans.

The way forward is to always tell the truth, accept faults, take responsibilities for errors and constantly preach the gospel of keeping trust, commitments and fair neighbourliness. Let’s make the younger generation and the entire world know that we are one in Nigeria and the top one percent of Igbo most informed political and public intellectuals lived in the North or even spoke Hausa. This ranging from Chinua Achebe himself, Cyprian Ekwensi, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeagwu, General Emeka Ojukwu or Dr. Nmandi Azikwe. Cyprian Ekwensi even copied and translated the literary work of my uncle, John Tafida Umaru titled, Jiki Magayi, from Hausa to English, titled it African Nights Entertainments, and dubbed it his own without acknowledgement, adding to his literary stock, achievement and fame. The world must know the good contribution their living in the North and speaking its language brought into their skills and perspectives that which won them the accolades they so celebrate and rejoice in, today, a fact which they and their friends always want to hide!

DK, don't mind the toad. No be six police officers Odi River people kill , way joint military task force almost wiped out the whole community?

dayokanu: And what should have been done? Kill 7 Eastern people?

When you start an action the other party reserves the right to end it on their own terms?

How many people were killed in 9-11? How many people have been killed since that time in Iraq and Afghanistan? go Figure

Whatever or however it was, you people brewed the sheer dishonesty in Nigeria . Pray tell, who manipulated the minorities? Elechi Amadi is still alive and Omoku people of Rivers hasn't lift the land sale embargo on ibos. You may have to present another high stories cos this one will never fly.

Whatever, Zik unilaterally cut out the then western Nigeria into pieces because he thought we have to be dealt with for you to enjoy perpetual dominance over other tribes. We paid you in multiple folds.

We created 12 states, OBJ carved out Niger Delta out of the then eastern Nigeria while, Abacha gave the Ijaws headquarter when he created Bayelsa State and there is nothing anybody can do. If you do me I do you, God no go vex!

Abagworo: It is not actually same because Yoruba groups were not manipulated against their people as a means of survival. Its a crime against humanity to kill people into ethnic denial.

Was that the first time for Ojukwu to loose election in his home town?
Remember he lost senatorial seat in 1983. Who spent the billions then and what military was use then?

May be I should just accept the fact that you guys are for the highest bidder, hence the constant envy and jealousy towards the more organised self-conscience breeds.

Go fix your house and stop crying for the bereaved. fuctards.

nku5: Apga lost there because the yoruba man spent billions to bribe and rgged mercilessly with the help of police and the army

This was thesame method Zik introduced to check the powers of Awolowo. He conspired with northerners to jail Awolowo and 15 days later he announced the creation of mid west. He carved out mid west out of the whole Western region to check-mate the powers and rising influence and numerical strength Awolowo is banking on

Then later on, thesame method was used by Awolowo and Gowon to create 12 states and reduce the powers of Ojukwu which made the egocentric power drunk maniac to hurriedly declared secession without preparation. The war was all about the large oil quantity on the lands of the minority tribes that was carved out from the old eastern region

Moral of this story. . .No be only ibo get sense.

Abagworo: The above is exactly what has been done and it is such a shame that Igbos out of sheer need to survive had to compromise their identity and accepted being used against their fellow Igbos. This is the reason I will always respect Eze Sam Uzor(late Nze-Obi) of Egbema. He is one of the few Igbo leaders that refused to change identity while some villagers were used to divide his kingdom and put half in Rivers State because of crude oil. Same goes to Francis Ella of Ogba and Okugbule Wonodi of Ikwerre who refused to renounce their ethnicity for political and oil gains.

A party that just won a landslide in just concluded Edo state election and some bigoted ediots are here writing rubbish.

why did Ojukwu's APGA failed to win his ward when he contested against a Yoruba man? l guess his people have realized he was just a deceptive power thirsty egocentric toad, looking for a way to rule at all cost.

Foolish disorganise people always looking for ways to make everybody look like them.

Yet again the stup!d ibo bigots wishing everywhere should be directionless like their region. fools.

Centre of Excellence, we lead and others follow. Eko o ni ba je

The senile crippled toad looking fool called achebe murdered sleep. The retarrded snail got his brain frozen since 70's, hence the continual churning of nonsense. He didn't see anything wrong when his people went on ethnic cleansing and cheering the killing of other regional leaders. They murdered others in cold blood and gave passage to their's to ran into hiding.

Are you from Ondo state?

slimyem: Buhahahaha...
Are you for real?
What are your instruction equipments?
Gongs,PDAs?
Mtcheeeeeeew...
.
Whether the elction is free and fair or rigged,Mimiko will take the day!!
Yes,i said it!!

So where are the retarrded bigots shouting Tinubu's name yesterday when the news broke?

We can clearly see mimiko has now borrowed a leaf from PDP thieves. for this singular act, he(mimiko) just lost his credibility in my eyes and I will instruct people to massively vote against him.

Yes, so much love from ibos.

^
You see this is the problem with you loud mouthed fools. put them to test and watch them running away. she be you want it physical? Ewu!