sankky:
THE IGBOS AND THE YORUBA 'COLD WAR'; A CASE FOR SOUTHERN UNITY:

By Charles Ogbu

"Power is like a shadow. It resides exactly where men who are under its control think it resides"

The above is true with regards to the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment.

We think the Fulanis are the ones that have been holding power and because we think and believe so, it actually look so. Because of this assumed knowledge, we hand over our destinies, our future and those of our children to a people who are not above 11 million, have little or no education and contribute little or nothing to the national pulse.

What if I told you that the real power rests in the South and with southerners but that the mutual distrust and foolish superiority contest between Igbos and Yorubas is the biggest obstacle to wielding this power? This senseless feud between these two Southern giants is also the biggest enabler and promoter of the fulani Oligarchy.

The southern part of Nigeria owns the oil which feeds the entire country. Without the oil today, there is no economy and there is no Nigeria. The same south controls the commercial sector of the economy. The media is still owned and controlled by the South.

When a people owns the only thing that is feeding a whole country and still control commerce plus the media through which people's thoughts and opinions about anything can be shaped and can equally boast of the best human resources, what else does it take for such a people to wield power in such a country?

Unity!

The few fulanis who have been running this country directly and indirectly since independence, what do they have?

Unity!

When the fulani Oligarchs want to achieve an aim, they effortlessly find a way to get every northern minorities such as Christians and middle Belts on their side even when they almost always end up discarding these same minorities and even killing them once the aim is achieved.

Now, ask yourself: how have the fulani Oligarchs managed to turn the entire Nigeria into an 'Animal Farm' with them as the only "Napoleon' despite their low education and the fact that all the prerequisites/bargaining chips for acquiring and wielding power are domiciled in the South??

Igbo-Yoruba 'cold war'! This, right here, is the answer.

The day the two biggest southern ethnic groups --The Igbos and The Yorubas --decide to put a stop to their needless bickering and channel all their energy towards confronting their common enemy --the children of Danfodio--, that is the day the Fulani Oligarchs will understand that even though the king is the one with the crown, he is nothing without the kingmakers and the people.

The Fulanis are not runing Nigeria because they are smarter than others. Far from it. They are messing with the destinies of over 180million people because the two Southern big brothers with the wherewithal to end their murderous reign of impunity are busy chasing rats while their houses are afire.

I am no historian neither do I pride myself as a man of letters but I know for a fact that the biggest weapon of the fulanis is neither guns nor bombs. Their biggest weapon is their ability to identify their opponents' weak points or even create one where none exists, magnify it and use same to create division amongst them just so they would effortlessly implement their Divide And Rule tactics.

Sadly, they have succeded in using this weapon against Southern Nigeria's two biggest ethnic groups.

Throughout history, all the wars and woes visited on both the Igbos and the Yorubas all came from the fulanis. There is no record of ethnic clash between these two humane southern Nations.

No time has these two people ever disagreed violently.

Strangely, the mutual suspicion that exist between these two great peoples seem far greater than the one they harbour against their common oppressor, the Scions of Danfodio.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned Awolowo and killed thousands of Yoruba youths who protested the unjust imprisonment for days in different Yoruba cities in 1963. It was the fulanis and the killing was done by another fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari, who was the then platoon commander, 2nd infantry brigade, Abeokuta. That same year, Buhari was gifted with double promotion on the same day by the govt of Tafawa Balewa.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned many Yoruba leaders, forced others into exile and killed others like Abiola after annuling his presidential victory.

It was not the Igbos who attacked Yoruba citizens in Lagos neither was it the Igbos who desecrated Yoruba cradle of civilisation, Ile-Ife by cutting off the head of a Yoruba citizen and parading it along the street, thereby sparking off a bloody ethnic clash that ended in the arrest of only the Yorubas including an Oba by the fulani president and his fulani security agents.

It is not Igbo herdsmen that kidnapped a yoruba son, Chief Olu Falae and have been going about terrorizing and killing Yorubas in Osun, Ogun, Kwara etc with govt-sponsored impunity.

On the other hand,

It wasn't the Yorubas that killed thousands of Igbos in the 1945 Jos pogrom and 1953 kano pogrom.

It was not the Yorubas who slaughtered millions of Igbos in the North after the first 1966 coup.

It was not the Yorubas who jailed an Igbo son, Alex Ekwueme who was only the vice president while the president, Shehu Shagari, a fulani, was left in a cosy apartment in the govt house. It was a Fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari who did this in 1984 after overthrowing the then govt in a coup.

Was it the Yorubas that is holding Nnamdi Kanu? Or was it the Yorubas who rained bullets and acid on hundreds of Igbo sons and daughters praying inside a school field in Abia state on Feb.9th, 2016 and those remembering their Biafran heros inside a church in Onitsha on May 29-30, that same year?

Is it Yoruba herdsmen that have been killing, maiming and raping villagers in Nimbo, Nsukka, Awgu Bende Council etc, all in Igbo land?

Today, even Jack, my two day old puppy knows that Nigeria CANNOT work as presently constituted. It was the rejection of the Aburi Accord by the Fulani Oligarchs which would have restructured Nigeria as a Confederation that led to the Biafran war. Today, the Yorubas want a restructured country. The Niger Delta want the same thing. The Igbos want Biafra BECAUSE Nigeria has refused to restructure.

Who are the only people resisting the call for restructuring, thereby holding everyone to ransom? Your guess is as good as mine.

Dear Yorubas and Igbos, what exactly are you dragging?

Why have you refused to realise that you have a common enemy, a very ruthless common enemy who have kept you busy fighting among yourselves while he's busy ruining your future and that of your unborn generation?

Can you not see that your siblings; Ijaws, Urhobo, Edo, etc are all looking up to you for that 'big brother' leadership and direction?

Can't you see that the fulanis are not really the problem? You are! Your disunity is!

You have no reason to be fighting.

Was it not a Yoruba man, Lt. Col Fajuyi, who chose to die with his visitor and commander-in-Chief, Thomas Umunnakwe Aguyi-Ironsi, an Igbo man, rather than give him up to the Hausa/fulani soldiers on 28th July, 1966?

Was it not an Igbo man, Odumegwu Ojukwu, who released Obafemi Awolowo from calabar prison and sent a squad of Eastern Nigerian policemen who escorted him to Ikenne, Ijebu, his home town?

You pride yourselves as the two most educated people in the country, yet your best brains have been reduced to playing 2nd fiddle to the Scions of Danfodio who are mostly without even a secondary school certificate.

In 1979, it was one of the best Igbo brains, Alex Ekwueme, playing 2nd fiddle to Shehu Shagari.
In 1983/84, it was Idiagbo playing 2nd fiddle to a Buhari who had no certificate.
In 2015, it is a Yoruba professor of law still in political purgatory under the same fulani-born Muhammadu Buhari who has now acquired a certificate........NEPA bill certificate.

Ojukwu is dead. So is Awolowo. And since I was born, Igbos and Yorubas have never killed each other. How about we put the gory stories of the war behind us and save ourselves and unborn children from this danger that is staring us in the face?

It is always the descendants of Danfodio doing all the killing, all the subjugation and slavery and we, the entire south have always been the victim.

In a nutshell, Charles Ogbu is simply saying that the Igbos and the Yorubas should channel their energy towards confronting their common enemy. You can join forces to fight a formidable enemy and still remain ethnically patriotic to your respective ethnic groups!

Wisdom

what is this c*w saying

Ok

Synthase:

Your ignorance is staggering soo for your mind you actually think 1% vote equates to only one person voted for the person as if only 100 people voted na wa.

Oga you should have known it was all a joke

Now I know. Have been wandering why this Marvis hav been in the house for a long time

trinity11:




marvis would hv left the house long ago like you rightly thought, but "Marfe" sustained her, Efe fans do not want to let go, because what Efe feels for her is real. that's y she made it to the top five @ Glorianinja



@ Otijah2 the 1% she got was her fan base and Ntin more, at the finale there was Ntin like "Marfe" it was all mallam for his kettle, strictly Efenation, no compromise.

Andrewkinggg:


Why you too dey lie like this? Fear God, 1% vote no mean say na 1 person vote for her. And moreover sef no be even 1% vote she get. She has close to 15% of total votes.

if you don't know what you are saying just shut up

mailtotim:


when they ask you to read your books , you were jumping school fence , with your logic only 100 people voted during bbfinale ? This is why i don't bother arguing with wailers ...... They'll never get it

see this zombie cow oo, so you did not realize I was making a joke of what I typed.
Abeg swerve make I see road.
Wole Soyinka

GloriaNinja:
WHAT AMAZED ME WAS MARVIS MADE IT TO THE TOP FIVE, I THOUGHT SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN EVICTED A LONG TIME AGO.

What shocked me was her 1% vote on the final
So na only 1 person vote for am

Andrewkinggg:


Why you too dey lie like this? Fear God, 1% vote no mean say na 1 person vote for her. And moreover sef no be even 1% vote she get. She has close to 15% of total votes.

if you don't know what you saying just shut up

Ok

modelmike7:
TBoss, we still love ya!!!

Who is we?
Oga no mention my name for witches matter biko

Critically:

seriously? You guys are just hardening girls' hearts. I'm begining to believe that of every ten guys I meet, nine are liars!

I am that number one who is saying the truth. How can thug ignore him bc of he has a family. For God's sake it was all a game and she fell prey

She is a fool!!
A very big one for that matter

ogologoamu:


Inferiority complex is killing Nigerians. I wonder why they are yet to realise that English language was forced on us by Lugard. They hail Ronaldinho when he speaks his native language and attack their fellow Nigerian when he can't speak English very well.

I na enye ya onu
nna afa gi nka bikonu.

This gifty resemble this man. eemm.....

Acidosis:
with his dirty pidgin

With his dirty and real pidgin we voted for him and made him a millionaire overnight.

Where has your real, clean, polished English taken u to

Who English don Epp!!

lilycasera:


Hater spotted. Bae doesn't even know you.

who is this one.
Abeg swerve make I see road

That's why u people are referred to as gold diggers

You want to spend 25mil in a week

And somebody is calling me a fool for been an atheist

Abeg sombori with kind heart should summarize for me

[quote author=sweetilicious post=55437148][/quote] lol, she was serious discussing it to EFE, and EFE knew those comments she was making were strong so he just kept laughing at her, knowing fully well that the world was watching her. She Bleep up

The way Bisola is been celebrated eeh. E come be like na Tony guilty pass

Keenysbojan:
please do you hav d video, share me d link if yes

I watched it on dstv live. Don't know how to upload it sef even if I download it

Ok wehdone sir!

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Na which kain lie b dis one dis morning

AdoraAmadi:
Big Brother Naija housemate Efe has been declared the winner of Big Brother Naija 2017. He goes home with the reality show's prize money N25million and brand new SUV!


http://www.lailasblog.com/2017/04/efe-wins-big-brother-naija-2017.html

lalasticlala

ok

XtraSmooth404:


I feel for the guy sha. I'm sure Kartoon won't interview him in Ikeja

[quote author=XtraSmooth404 post=55419834]
I pity for him

EFE just dey smile like goat
He knows it can't be him

Marvis out!!!

IceDude:
Do you know if you will make heaven

place wey I dey go on weekends