₦airaland Forum

Obaaderemi2:
So in essence, he was pushed out. Here you have your answer, Lifestone

Three NCNC central (national) ministers
were the first culprits and were summarily
dismissed from the party. They were
A.C.Nwapa (Igbo), EniNjoku (Igbo) and
Okoi Arikpo(Ogoja).

ONLY DrEndeley (Cameroun) was
supportive of the tactics.Eyo Ita, the Head
of Government Business in Eastern
Nigeria and some of his ministers picked
against the policy and were flabbergasted
when the central ministers were
dismissed by the party. Of course, when
the party asked them to resign, they
equally rebelled against the party and
refused to comply. They became known
as ‘sit-tight ministers’.

Amongst them wereEyoIta (Ibibio),E.I.Oli
(Igbo), S.J.Una (Ogoja), R.I.Uzoma (Igbo),
S.W.Ubani-Ukoma (Igbo) and
S.J.Koripoma (Ijaw). Those who complied
with party directive and resigned were
Dr.M.I.Okpara (Igbo), M.C.Awgu (Igbo)
and S.T.Muna (Bamenda, Cameroun).

Obaaderemi2:
You are the clown here as even your fellow easterners can see and have been pointing out. Did Eyo Ita resign wilfully?

Have you ever seen a selfish betrayer of public cause give up his selfish pecks freely?
As you are now, if I ask you to give up your job of defending Tinubu and ApC that have impoverished Nigerians since 2015 and counting and join the noble cause of forcing Tinubu and his likes out of power, will you agree?
The answer is nope.
Even if Naira is turning to tissue paper, even if most Nigerians can nolonger feed on daily basis, even though our GDP has shrunk and our debt profile is on astronomical rise, what's more important to you is the peanuts you get from Tinubu that keeps you relatively okay while the rest of the populace suffer.

Just like Eyo Ita, you will resort to "Igbo domination" screeching too at anyone trying to oust Tinubu. And unfortunately it always works because the rest of Nigeria suffer from incurable Igbophobia and you always know how to exploit it.

Nigeria has been on a loop since 1914, same shit, different players.
Pathetic.

Lifestone:
I was seriously thinking you are better. Seems, I'm wasting time debating you. For you to say Yorubas, not even Lagos wasn't ahead of you way before 1914 means you are either a joke, your knowledge of history is not as robust as you portrayed it or you are a deliberate revisionist. All is historical fraud.

Lol! Yes Lagos wasn't ahead as of 1905.
Infact Lagos Colony ( SW) couldn't afford the dredging of the port in Lagos as of 1905, and other capital projects..
But immediately it was joined to Southern protectorate( SS and SE) in 1906, money was provided to dredge Lagos port over Calabar port that was originally planned for,and alot of capital intensive projects that Lagos colony had no funds for, miraculously commenced.
And we all know where the money came from. That's when the robbing of Peter( SE and SS ) to pay Paul started, even before the second amalgamation took place in 1914.

Obaaderemi2:
He already explained. Eyo Ita was pushed out by Zik for alleged anti party acts so that Zik could take over since the party Ncnc was basically an ibo party

You must be a clown.
How was Eyo Ita pushed out by Zik?
Eyo Ita chose to be a happy slave under colonial rule rather than make sacrifices to help with the independence push.

It's same way you chose to be receiving peanuts from Tinubu while you support a government that is impoverishing the whole commoners in the country.

owobokiri:
Like I told you earlier, visionaries build states not some pacifist charlatans. You lack what it takes to pontificate on this issue., it is obviously way above your pay grade..Any FAKE igbos here who think that it is politically right for the igbos to overlook the possibility of being surrounded by enemy states post Nigeria, is an ijiot on steroids. By their arguments you will know them. Once you see some of them arguing vigorously about who should be allowed to be this and that in the east, while not saying much about the oppression the igbos go through, they are FAKE.

Get this though: any part of the eastern or south south or even middle belt minorities that share any sort of cultural affinities, religious beleifs or boundaries with igboland, that wants to join the Biafra movement will be graciously welcomed. The most important issue here is; "are they willing to join without being forced"? If yes, folks like you will have to jump out of the window then because their opinions/commitments to the emerging state, counts more than your sterile rants.
There you have it..

All your talk about how the igbos are hated all over the South South is jejune, because that has never beeen established as a fact by anyone. I dontbagree with the nauseating notion that igbos are an endangeredspecie in the South South. That sounds more like the opinion of an agbadorian dingbat than that of a politically aware igbo man...The fulanis are hated in some parts of the north anyways. Ditto the Hausas. Uet, one month is the goal up there! We dont even know the percentage of people that hates who and who in the South South. You are on your own here! We saw the South South come out massively to vote for Peter Obi, but to you that does not count because the elections were rigged. Imagine that! Where elections not rigged in whatever state you come from too?

The South South are part and parcel of the emerging Biafra Republic! You will soon get used to that as your sterile opinion is that of a disoriented minority. Any scoundrel that doesn't like that should go and get his guns ready.. Because it will be decided after a roforofo. Who are even the socalled South south? A region that has a a large chunk of igbos and igbo soil? A place full of ethnic groups without any serious boundary demarcation between them and their Igbo neighbours? A geographical location created by the same army Generals that committed genocide in igbo land?

You are deluded..

They don't want to join, so let them be and stop trying to sound like you are gentle when actually you habour dictatorial and terrorist intents towards Ndiigbo and them.
You are living in delusions you created in your heads. Yarribas had minorities in Western region too, but since the Midwest left , do you still see them still rolling on the floor for those minorities? Do they even behave like those minorities exist? They go about their own business.

Weak airheads in IPOB make Minorities in the East look too important to Ndiigbo with all your simping and inability to let them be and concentrate on the Igbo,and you wonder why they all now have over bloated sense of importance.

Every group in Nigeria hate themselves, Nigeria is a dysfunctional society, so yeah, that Minorities resent Igbos is a reality and I have shown you historical facts to back that, starting from false accusations they brought against Ndiigbo in Willink commission to the voting pattern of 1979, 1983 and 2023 presidential elections. But of course you are emotional and have dictatorship agenda, so facts don't matter to you. You IPOB who are by the way non Igbo in mindset and orientatio, but hope to ride on Igbo population, good will and resources to capture not just Ndiigbo, but these minorities so that you can create a non democratic useless multiethnic Biafra where bunch of degenerates and asylum seekers that have failed to make anything out of their lives abroad can return and start exploiting us all while you unleash terror on any who dare to speak out, as you have demonstrated in your sit at home enforcement terrorist acts.

SS minorities will be left to be on their own, while Ndiigbo concentrate on unifying Igbo speaking groups in SE, SS and NC and forming a true strong nation where everyone speaks one language, have unity of purpose and are willing participants..

If the emerging nations in SS become toxic to us rather than pursue collaboration on areas of mutual interests, then we will be their own version of Israel surrounded by Arabs.
We will be fine. But your dictatorial Multiethnic Biafra will not happen, better go look for job now if you have non and are banking on useless multiethnic Biafra to happen so that you can return and become part of the looting class under a Suplim Lida.
I can assure you it will not happen. You lots have showed your true selves and agenda all too soon. You are anti democracy and pro dictatorship and communist principles, this is a complete deviation from the Igbo core democratic and capitalist nature..
You have failed.

Lifestone:
I'm sure you don't believe what you just wrote. Why wait till Yoruba declare Oduduwa Republic, why not just return enmass back to the South East immediately?
I should remind you that Lagos was already economically developed more than any other part of Nigeria before the amalgamation.

Lagos was made by the Colonials using wealth from all over Nigeria.
In 1906, Sir Egerton amalgamated SW with SS and SE and moved the capital of the old Southern Nigeria (SE and SS) from Calabar to Lagos!

Before this period, Lagos wasn't more developed than other parts of Nigeria.

You not okay, you want to eat your cake and have it?
We will move once Nigeria divides and our commonwealth is no longer cornered by Lagos.
You know how much that enters to Lagos by being the only maritime gateway to Nigeria and the main airway gate ways?
All the major foreign investments meant for the whole country are all poured into Lagos for this same purpose too.
Once the country divides and Lagos stops feeding off the rest of the country, we will abandon it for you Yarribas so that you can turn it to Porto Novo standard.

Lifestone:
And you are proud of all those needles wars. In other words you already saying you will force the southern minorities to join your doomed Biafraland, of course the minorities knew this already and that informed why they are aligning with other regions in Nigeria and not the Igbos, you guys haven't given them the confidence to join mirage country.

IPOB don't represent Ndiigbo or how the average Igbo reasons.
IPOB are like malignant cells in the Igbo body.
The Igbo world view is built on democratic principles and the Igbo are against subjugation of others or themselves.
IPOB was always going to fail , because they are living on delusion of bringing oppressive dictatorship style of government from China and Russia and first of all impose it on Ndiigbo and later on minorities.
Ndiigbo would never submit to that. We don't do "Suplim Lida" stuff,we are not feudal Yarribas and North that do such. We are democrats.

Moreover, no reasonable Igbo want anything to do with Minorities at this point, our support for GEJ was our last act of benevolence to those lots. From henceforth, it's always going to be a tit for a tat relationship.

Lifestone:
You sound very ridiculous as your Zik to have ever contemplated an Igbo man ruling South West. What evidence do you need to validate the domination agenda from the Igbos.

You are backward.
Zik resided in Lagos and paid tax in Lagos. Lagos was Nigeria capital City.
If Nigeria was ever going to be a successful country, it needed to be one built on merit and not on tribal sentiments.
An India/Pakistan became prime minister of UK, recent Austrian migrant to USA in Schwarzenegger became governor of California.
If he was providing value to the land, and the people support him, why go about raising ethnic sentiments to put him down instead of argue on his competence to deliver or fail as an elected leader?

Awolowo set Nigeria on a slippery road of tribalism over merit and capacity, and that's where we are today .
That's how North chose Buhari over GEJ and that's how SW chose Tinubu over Obi, and that's why the country went backwards and continue going backwards.

ajailer:
Yorubas will keep on demonizing you cos you go to someone's house and start displaying your arrogant nature. Be humble, and you won't have issue with your host. You guys can't stay a whole year in your region cos of the criminality happening there, you want to transfer that criminality here n the host no allow una n next thing na to dey shout tribalism. If I ask you for your location now, and you don't lie, I am sure it will be in one of the SW states, ...if you are in a relationship and you tell your partner that u no do again, shebi u go waka commot leave that partner for there but for una case, you say Naija is bad and u want Biafra, wetin u still come dey do inside Naija, make una start relocating first, then we will know u guys r serious..... but I know Monday sit at home no go allow u guys go back.


I love Ibos, they are a resilient people, they are good traders, but any sign of ungratefulness from them will be fully suppressed and unfortunately many of them are ungrateful, causing more problems rather than solutions for the country.

Criminality? You must be kidding me.
The greatest thieves in Nigerian history are Aninih and Oyenusi and non of them are Igbos.

Tinubu and his Yariiba goons have looted Nigeria dry and rendered the currency to tissue paper since you inherited the country economy wing from 2015 till date. All you know how to do is loot, loot and loot, you can't run a business on micro level.
All the multinationals you stole following Indigenization act in 70s, you ran them all bankrupt through same looting spree to support senseless owanbe culture of consumerism and senseless misplaced priorities, and you wrecked the country economically when those companies failed throwing thousands into unemployment.

That's all you are good at, looting and destroying, you are never builders or micro managers.
OBJ knew this and handed over the economy part of administration to Igbos, GEJ did same and in a matter of a decade Nigeria became the biggest economy in Africa and was projected to be a trillion dollar economy by 2025 in 2014 before you looters happened in 2015 and here we are knocked down to 5th in Africa and still sliding down.

Truth is that you can't give what you don't have, you can't pour from an empty cup.

LZAA:
You know this because you have stayed with igbo people for a long time or you have lived in the east with them?
By being cunning as a fox you mean supporting lopsided appointments or clapping for corruption?
I ask you this because no igbo person worth his/her salt will ever do so
By the way ogbunigwe in the context you used it is wrong for your post
That bomb ceased to exist in the 70s
Cheers

They call politics of supporting poor performing political office holders or political party, just to gain power "sophisticated politics", that's how low the bar is.
Since Ndiigbo will not support failures and looters like OUK, Ekweremmadu, Okorocha,and co to gain monopolistic power and be able to make waves nationallly, instead we will pull them down, so in his and his ilks mind, we don't know how to play politics.
Knowing how to play play politics is to rally behind chronic looters like Tinubu and Buhari like the SW and North has done, to hijack power for themselves and their cronies while the rest of commoners from all ethnic groups suffer impoverishment from the looting spree of these devilish leaders.
What matters is that we get to cheat beat and shout to all who cares to hear that the President is from our ethnic group.

Pathetic country and inhabitants.

otomatic:
So the NCNC was an Igbo party? Was Eyo Ita not the head of govt business in the region?
Was it not after the 1951 elections when people cross-carpeted to make AG produce the Premier in the Western Region that Zik came to the East to snatch the Premiership because they were from the majority tribe?
Was Zik and NCNC not gunning for premiership in the West before the cross-carpeting incident?
The minorities were not well treated in your region that is why you will never garner support from them.
I am not maligning any Igbos but you people should not gaslight us.

Can you post any evidence of Igbos maltreating the Minorities other than falsehoods from those Minorities?
Willink commission investigated every single trumped up accusations of marginalisation by Eastern minorities and found Ndiigbo to have been more fair to minorities.
The population balance between Ndiigbo and Minorities in Eastern region was 3:1 and every appointment and post in the Eastern region represented that ratio or even many times gave minorities more, but never less.

But same Willink commission done in Western region, found Yaribas fully guilty of accusations of marginalisation brought against them by the mid westerners.
Looking at the kind of nepotism Tinubu who embodies Yoruba traits,is wrecking in FG by filling everywhere with Yaribas, then you begin to understand how Yaribas ran the mid West while sidelining the Minorities totally.
For comparison, while the Obong of Calabar was the leader of Eastern house of chiefs ahead of Prominent Igbo kings like Eze Nri, Eze Aro, and Obi Onitsha, the Yaribas relegated Oba Bini to low ranked chief in the house.

ajailer:
My own advise to my fellow Yorubas is that when Ibos are shouting, let them be and when they are tired, they will keep quiet. They love chestbeating.

Some years back, I was having a conversation with these two Ibo guys and all they were saying was that Biafra is coming, Nigeria will break up bla bla bla..... I calmed down and allowed them to finish talking and next thing I told them was that if this country should break up, no Ibo will be allowed to stay freely in the SW, that we Yorubas will tell them all to pack up and go back to where they came from, you need to see how these guys went quiet, they were shocked to hear me say that, and that was when I realized that all these gra gra about Biafra na scam, even if you tell to leave, next thing they will hold on to is tribalism. I understand that they want to feel that they matter too in this country, but the way they have been going about it, even from their past leaders is what is causing them issues with others. You can't achieve anything meaningful through negative emotions, by stiring up hatred in the mind of your ppl towards others. A wise person should know that he does not have the monopoly to hatred and violence, others can hate and be violent too.

The other day, we read on the FP about the guy from SE that wants to relocate here to SW, does that show a ppl who want to develop their region? The fools among them here are based in the SW and will be talking about going back to the east en mass to develop their region just as they have helped others to develop theirs, but the reality on ground is that, everyday, they keep moving to the SW en mass in search of a better life. I have come to realize that they say the opposite of what they mean, very unreliable ppl. Now for the guy that we read his story on the FP, give him some years now, when he starts living a better life here in th SW, he will now turn his ungrateful mouth, and start seeing everything bad in the system, when their presence here is putting a lot of pressure on the limited resources.

Funny coming from a Yariiba person, when all your commoners and elites have done since 2014 is demonize Igbos are spread Igbo hate, from Oba Lagos, to MC Oluomo, to Tinubu wife, to Onunagu, to KKF.
Your Igbo hate has been torrential and non stop,but somehow, you delusionally want Igbos to react to your hate with love, you must be joking. As a Yariiba man, look at the long vacuous post you made, yet you deliberately chose not to spell Igbo right.

There are Yariiba people in SE too, even in villages here. Lagos was developed using wealth from the whole Nigeria, so it's ridiculous you want to have it to yourselves while still staying attached to Nigeria.
Anyday you want Lagos to shrink to Porto Novo size in population and relevance, just declare your Oduduwa republic, let Lagos be limited to SW wealth, population and potential and see what happens.

Igbos are in Lagos because Yaribas have stayed glued to Nigeria to grow Nigeria,Igbos are in the North too and the rest of the world.
Your SW will be just like the rest of Yorubaland in Benin republic,once Nigeria stops existing, ie too small, economically irrelevant and insignificant to us.
Your chest beating means nothing to us. We don't want to share a country with you,when we divide,you can treat any Igbo that comes to your country the way you wish and under international laws, the rest of us wouldn't mind, so that you stupeed threat is childish, the world is Igbo adventure ground, SW is inconsequential in the large scheme of things in terms of our migration patterns, we will simply re channel to elsewhere with our investments.

tishbite41:
Concerning the Midwest, please give Dennis Osadebay his credit
Zik did little towards achieving that
Osadebay did the real job

Osadebay couldn't achieve that Without Zik.
Zik got the North on board to effect calving out Midwest from the West.
The original plan was to just to extract Anioma and rejoin it to Eastern region, that was Osadebay and Zik original plan.
But the Edo/Edoids led by the Bini made an irresistible offer to Anioma, an offer of union called Midwest where Anioma under Osadebay will be the premier, while Edo keeps the capital of the region.
Osadebay took the offer and Zik agreed as well.

Midwest couldn't happen without NCNC, Zik was NCNC leader and used the framework of NCNC alliance with NPC to bring the North into equation and made the creation of Midwest possibly.
The Oba of Bini played his own key role too

owobokiri:
What's the bitter truth..? You will never get it.. will you?
China is trying to force Taiwan back into the fold after capturing Hong-Kong and Macau. The same China is readying for a confrontation at the south China Sea. China is holding tight to Tibet and minority enclaves near India borders.. All these areas resent mainland China more than the minorities resent igbos

Russia went to war and decimated the insurrectionists at Chechnya. Chechnya was almost 100% infavout of independence from Russia. Putin didnt say "Oh, they dont like us that much, so we should allow foreigners to take over and dictate policies there in Chechnya'.. Russia went to war and cornered Cremea. Same Russia has now lost thousands of men fighting for portions of Ukraine for obvious geopolitical reasons.


The USA is talking up "The Gulf of America". .., wants to occupy Greenland and has basically surrounded her neighbours with pro America foreign policy thrusts. California, Texas them, New Mexico, at a point moat people in those areas would have voted to either be independent or join Mexico, but the federal forces said no. What does that tell you?

Even in the south-east of today, many in Ebonyi are confused as to where they should lay their loyalty! So what should we do with them? Discard them too as we want to discard the Ibibios and Anangs? People we have lived with and married with for years before the coming of the white man.. All these while the fulani are still fervently stuck with their nebulous "Hausa/fulani" fake identity card?

Ethiopia went to battle few months back to force back a break away region into the fold.
South Sudan that has a lot of tribal groups that resent the dominant madingas are at war today to keep their territories safe.

And some of you close minded so called igbos are busy worrying yourselves about inanities. So what if the minorities complained? Are they not human beings? If they don't like the way things are run and want some autonomy, what's wrong with that? Are you going to replace British colonialism with igbo colonialism?

They want some autonomy? Give it to them but have them in the fold, since they are all so small that if they form independent states, they will easily be hyjacked by some outside forces who can use them as a launching pad to influence politics and life in say Biafra. There are many igbo haters there? Yes! But there are also many igbo lovers there. Just as the federal government empowered that hateful bunch amongst them, you should try and empower those who are pro east/Biafra.., then use them to achieve your political goals. It is that simple..

Y'all are small thinkers..

So you want to build a nation where the constituents are there through the force of gun, you are looking up to the Chinese and Russians as example. You want Ndiigbo to become oppressors in the future, even while you hypocritically cry over Igbo oppression in Nigeria.

See, I have always known that IPOB is a cancer to Ndiigbo. You lots don't operate within Igbo principles, MNK even said he wasn't Igbo but Biafran. Your plans is to strip Ndiigbo of the core values that make us Igbo .

You all have terrorist mentality, you wish you have powers to unleash the terrorists in you, one can really see this with the way you lots handled the "sit at home" in the SE. You hate democracy even though you know the Igbo are by nature democratic and will never endorse suppression of ourselves or others.
Imagine, you even call your leader "Suplim Lida" , a term that is alien to the Igbo tenets as we don't recognise the idea of another human being supreme over us or others.

While rational Igbos want a true nation like those of Netherlands, Germany, etc, where the constituents are ethnically homogenous and all willing participants, you cowards in IPOB are looking to impose non democratic regime on Ndiigbo where you get to rule everyone with iron fist without our democratic opinions, you also hope to annex Minorities into your delusional Biafra and treat them like Russia is doing to Chechnya or China is doing to Tibet. But meanwhile, you are powerless and don't have the powers to unleash this terrorist part of you yet, so you go about pretending they (minorities) are your brothers, you pretend you don't know of the resentment they habour for Ndiigbo, all that doesn't matter to you, you think you are wise, you will pretend they are your brothers and accept all sorts of insults from them towards the Igbo, you tend to use Ndiigbo as shield while you lure them into your autocratic Biafra that you already hope to run in an Un-,Igbo way, since you abhor Democratic principles.

But guess what? The joke is on you, the Minorities see you for what you are, and many Igbos have also started seeing you for what you are.

You have failed bro. You will have no Biafra. No such abomination is coming.
What will happen is Igbo republic and it will not be led by bunch of terrorists with a "Suplim Lida" mentality hoping to copy alien non Igbo subjugation principles from China and Russia.

otomatic:
Can you reproduce the letter Zik wrote to Eyo Ita on this matter?
In that letter, Zik cast aspersions on Eyo Ita's entire tribe.
Publish that letter for clarity because what is written is written.
I remember in university how this matter almost led to a riot in our GST class.
You cannot gaslight us. We know where you are heading and we will not join you.

Lol! Why not produce the said letter yourself.

ObiPandora:
So in your deluded Igbo mind asking a democratically elected Eyo to resign so Zik could take over was alright to your igbo head n when he refused you Igbos use your evil machination n a fraudulent court pronouncement to bring his govt then and you arw here to defend such evil n barbaric machination ?

He was asked to resign because that was the only way to bring the British to negotiation table to present a better constitution that will hand more powers to natives.
Eyo Ita was a normal Nigerian especially APC politician that will compromise national well being to achieve or maintain personal luxury ..
I'm not surprised you are supporting him, you are supporting Tinubu who rigged , forged documents, and had to be protected by the West in exchange for him to cripple Nigerian economy, render our economy useless, send millions of us outside the country working all types of undignified ( I saw videos of Nigerian ladies in Libya and Iraq working as house helps for peanuts to Arab rich homes) and skilled labours in foreign countries.
You wicked souls will rather keep us all enslaved and impoverished just so that you can get to rule over a slave camp with impoverished inhabitants, than give up power for the greater good.

ObiPandora:
You post an adticle from God know where then quoted yourelf to sell your fraudulent msg. Now you claim a simple look at those supporting Eyo Ita shows the none tribal nature of the East but same ypu mischieous n dubious Igbos will not take a look at the nature of those supporting Zik against Awolowo when you insult Yorubas.

If therr were Yorubas supporting Azikwe against Awolowo back then does same rule that applied with Igbos suporting Eyo prove your so called none tribal nature of the East, why then do Yorubas backing Azikŵe and exceedingly foolish bastard from Igboland against their own son Awolowo not prove the none tribal nature of the West " Yorubas" or were there not several Youbas supporting Azikwe or only Igbos supporting whoever you want count as none tribal but when othes chose who the prefed it is tribal.

What's your point?
Awolowo is the father of tribal politics, he never made it a secret that an Igbo man shouldn't be heading western region.
Awolowo motivation was purely tribal .

The intrigues that led to Eyo ita ousting were purely internal party rumbling. Eyo Ita was not ousted by Zik, Zik never had such power.
Eyo Ita simply went against Party policy alongside others including Igbos, they were expelled from the party, they formed a new party and they lost in the end.

And it's ridiculous you are talking about Russia and Crimea.
Our Crimea are the Igboids in SS, I agree they are our misguided brothers and we should find a solution for that.
But you see the non Igboids? We have to flung them as far away as possible. That's the way forward .
Unless you are nursing ambitions of forcefully annexing them into your future country, which makes you a hypocrite and which is stupid anyways because most of them can see through you IPOBS and will resist you. And even if you succeed, what sort of useless country will that be? A country where you are holding people at gun point to be part of your country, is that the kind of Biafra you IPOB a planning? That's Nigeria 2.0, if anything, Nigeria should have thought you that forced union will never produce an economically stable country. Wake up! Your Biafra with Minorities of 1967-70 was a big mistake, it's ridiculous wanting to repeat same mistake over again.

Reasonable Igbos like myself want t peaceful Igbo only country. Without any minority in it, a true organic and ethnically homogenous nation comprising of all Igbo speaking groups in SS, SE and NC
That's what we should be working on like Catalonia is doing in Spain, not this delusional plans of babelian Biafra.

owobokiri:
You were doing good untill you started blasting some igbos who are pro SS. That's myopic politics but I know you won't listen to me. I have met many igbos like you. You are allowing emotions to dictate things..
I have said it here on many threads that igbos who are easily riled up by the tantrums coming from the south south should quickly go and read about the concept of "divide and rule" in politics. It is important because that's what federal Nigeria is using here. These igbos are doing more harm to the "igbo interests" going further into the next generations than they know.

Zik was against the lumping of the Midwest into the south west. He did all he could to extricate the Midwest from Awolowos grip in the former western Nigeria. He succeeded with the referendum that created the Midwest region and basically made the midwest igbos the politcal power brokers in that new region. Awolowo response was to go berserk by supporting anything that will lead to the balkanisation of the former Eastern Nigeria. The war provided him with that opportunity on a platter and he over-did things by committing a genocide in the process. He's in Hell as we speak because of his Hate.

For any politically active igbo man not to know that the igbos as at today, possess both the economic and numerical advantages that can be utilised to skew the general cultural/political developments in the SS towards a pro igbo stand, is a blasphemy. We can't continue to match the "political rascality" in the south south with haughty outbursts when Tinubu is busy trying to use a very discredited road network to tie the south south to the south west like an umbilical cord! It is blind politics. The SS will forever be our immediate neighbours and they are turning them into our eternal enemies, meanwhile an igbo man in the height of his political tomfoolery is yelling "we don't need the south south, we also have oil and gas"! Hello!? Russia has more oil and gas but she went to war over Cremea!

Think bigger...

You are still living in Utopia.
There is no divide and rule between Ndiigbo and Minorities, one cannot divide what was never united to start with.
If you can remove your simping gown, maybe you can go read the hefty falsehoods and allegations that these minorities made against Ndiigbo before Willink commission that were all investigated by the British and found to be false.

Only a mentally challenged person want a unity with people who hate, denigrate and demonize him. It's the classical simping behaviour. You IPOB guys need to be saved from yourselves, you are emotional and can't reason clearly without sentiments, yet you try to project yourself on others like myself who can see with clarity being unencumbered by emotions or attachments.

My rejection of every sort of relationship between Ndiigbo and Minorities is not built on tantrums anyone is throwing, they are built on historical antecedents of uninterrupted Igbo resentment from these groups since colonial era towards Ndiigbo, despite Ndiigbo non stop show of love and fairness to these groups.

Zik and Osadebay worked on extracting Anioma from Western region and return them to the Eastern Igbo, that was the original plan, but the Edoids made a concession to stay in a union with Anioma with compromise of relinquishing the political leadership of the new region to Anioma, a proposition Zik and Osadebay Found attractive and accepted .

You IPOB go about deceiving yourselves and make it look like minorities are incapable of making their own decisions, you narrow all their Igbo resenting actions to Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas controlling them, you hate face reality, so you created your own delusional reality.

Here are the facts:

Eastern Minorities made up lies against Ndiigbo before Willink commission to project us as bad people despite how fair we treated them, imagine if the British weren't there to look at the cases and found out they were all lies .

These Eastern minorities happily turned on us after the war, abandoned property saga and all others vices. They did this out of spite, bitterness, envy and disdain they have for us.


After the war, Zik contested for Nigerian presidency in 1979 and 1983, but couldn't win any tangible votes in Minority states of old Rivers ( Bayelsa and Rivers)and old Cross River ( Akwaibom and Cross River).
They all voted Shagari and Awolowo as Ist and second choices or vice versa with Zik coming a distant third. You want to blame Yoruba and Hausa Fulani for this too?

Despite all these , we showed support for their son GEJ twice , voted for him massively in 2011, 2015
But guess what, Obi couldn't win in Bayelsa or Akwaibom, he barely won Cross River, and he lost Rivers, say all you want, you can only rig where the people allow it. No one could rig against GEJ in SE because we wouldn't allow it .

At what point will you IPOB people snap out of your delusions and finally smell the coffee? Just because you wish things, does not make them so.
If the aim of independence from Nigeria is for the Igbo to have a healthy space thereafter, why then do you want to entangle us with Igbo resentful minorities?

What is wrong with you lots? Think better!

helinues:
Awolowo, Saudana of Sokoto, Eyo Ita, Adaka Baro all made that statement. Can all of them be wrong?

At least you guys should try and be reasoning your revisiting history very well

Evidence on ground show they were all wrong.
They all say that to rile up emotionally weak commoners.
There is no single evidence of Igbo dominating minorities in the old Eastern region, the Willink commission report was explicit on that.

Whenever a Nigerian politician wants to take selfish measures that will injure the masses, knowing fully well that the Igbo naturally hate suffering and will rebel against any leadership or policy that will expose them to such. Such wicked leaders start by preaching Igbo domination agenda, this way they isolate Ndiigbo, and make it easier for them to unleash poverty on everyone else including Ndiigbo.

EYO ITa was compromising the push for independence by NCNC for the whole country on altar of personal comfort for himself and his own family, but when it backfired, he fought back by shouting "Igbo domination".

Tinubu is impoverishing the whole country, Ndiigbo will naturally fight against anyone trying to impoverish us, we are a democratic people by nature and will not accept a single bad man putting the rest under pain while he enjoys, so what does Tinubu do?
He unleashes army of people like you to go and be stoking flames of Igbophobia, of course the aim is simply to ensure you separate the rest of the country from the rebellious Igbos who if left unchecked will open everyone else's eyes to reject the bad leader.
This has been the case of Tinubu/ Yoruba APC aka AD and Igbos residing in Lagos.
The Igbos in Lagos know that their living conditions there can be better if Tinubu godfather grip is broken., Lagos will get a better leadership that will work for all inhabitants, and the Igbo doesn't even care about his ethnicity, they have supported Agbaje and anyone else they think stood a chance of ousting Tinubu cabal in the past.
But to achieve this , they will need the help of everyone else in Lagos, especially Yorubas there too, but to prevent this, you Tinubu men have mastered how to control your commoners by reaching to their innate Igbophobia through Igbo hate campaigns, this way the Igbo are isolated and unable to achieve the critical mass needed to oust your reign of impoverishment not only in Lagos, but in Nigeria too.

So you see, Eyo Ita fell from Grace to grass, and despite the fact that he enjoyed Igbo support, Eyo ita will descend low to the old tested and trusted " Igbo want to dominate us" mantra, he became the New poster boy for the COR movement, but when that wasn't yielding dividends, because while he was preaching "Igbophobia", NCNC still had henchmen like Mbu from COR area, showing the people the truth.

Eyo ita, will later rejoin NCNC in October 1959. In a typical if you can't beat them, you join them, Nigerian politicians style.

With the above ‘sit-tight’ attitude of some of the ministers, it behoved the legislature to orchestrate the requisite action to paralyse government business, which was practically in the hands of the British Lt. Governor.

In the Eastern House of Assembly, the NCNC majority subsequently succeeded in paralysing the constitutional system by voting to defeat or defer every bill before the House. As a last resort, the Lt. Governor was obliged to use his reserve power of legislation, the ultimate proof of colonial rule and subjugation in a politically advanced dependency, to pass the Regional Appropriation Bill into law. On adjournment day, the expelled ministers (Central and Regional) joined with a few other legislators and supporters who had resigned from the NCNC to form a new party, the National Independence Party, with EyoIta as president. Some 10 weeks later, the Eastern parliamentary crisis was resolved by dissolution of the Eastern House of Assembly following the enactment of an amendment to the Constitution permitting the dissolution of the legislature of a single region. During this period, according to Sklar, the strain on the Constitution was not confined to the Eastern Region, as events of a less dramatic but nonetheless fateful character transpired in the West. Action Group’s hostility to the Constitution was scarcely less than that of the NCNC. Ultimately, the Macpherson Constitution proved unworkable and collapsed as Zik had planned after 15 months of its operation and was replaced with a new Constitution (the Lyttleton Constitution of 1954) that granted residual powers to the regions and provided that apart from the Regional Governor, colonial officials of the administration would be excluded from the Executive Council of the Eastern and Western Regions, amongst other favourable provisions.

Meanwhile, with the collapse of EyoIta’s
government in May 1953, a new election
was conducted to elect new members to
the Eastern House of Assembly. Azikiwe
was elected from Onitsha; NCNC
dominated the House and its leader,
Azikiwe, assumed the office of premier or
head of government.

Eyo Ita as leader of the minor party in the
House became leader of Opposition.For
details of these historical facts, see
Richard L. Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties
(1963), pages 115 – 140. Amplifications
of particular points can also be gleaned
from James S. Coleman, Nigeria:
Background to Nationalism (1958).
Given the above prognosis, would it be
wise and correct for anybody to claim
thatZik or the Igbo conspired to oust Eyo
Ita from power? Or that the constitutional
crisis that terminated EyoIta’s government
was tribally motivated? But this is the
verdict or notion that has been
transmitted from generation to generation
in the South-South.

Finally, let me recap that in October 1959,
Professor EyoIta, Head of Government
Business and Minister of Natural
Resources of Eastern Nigeria from 1952 to
May 1953, resigned his leadership and membership of united national independent party ( UNIP) and rejoined NCNC.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/zikeyo-ita-face-off-aladinmas-misrepresentations/

4.

pazienza:
Now to the matter of Zik-Eyo Ita face-
off:On the eve of the 1951 elections in
which Azikiwe contested for a seat in the
Western House of Assembly from his
Lagos base, Zik declared that he was not
going to accept a ministerial post in “an
inferior legislature of the colonial type”.
In other words, he was not prepared to
serve as minister (premier or prime-
minister) at regional or national level in
the then premature Nigerian political
system. His object, he said, was to
achieve an NCNC majority in the regional
and central legislatures that would act to
“paralyse the machinery of government”
and lead to a reformation of the
Constitution.The Macpherson Constitution
had provided for “semi-responsible
government” at the centre and in the
regions.

The official phrase was “responsible
government within defined limits”. Zik did
not accept this. He wanted total
independence. This was what informed
his declaration above. It was a grand
tactics for national independence that the
Action Group later imbibed.
After the upheavals in the Western House
of Assembly,Zik began to rally his
partymen to the achievement of the
above-stated objectives. This took some
time. Eventually, however, the NCNC
resolved and called its central ministers
to resign in order to actualise the above
independence strategy.

But these ministers were now enjoying
their new stations in life, the perquisites
of ministerial office. Some of them did
not, therefore, want to give up the
positions. In so doing, they were
undoubtedly sabotaging and delaying the
independence struggle that had already
got them to where they were.
Three NCNC central (national) ministers
were the first culprits and were summarily
dismissed from the party. They were
A.C.Nwapa (Igbo), EniNjoku (Igbo) and
Okoi Arikpo(Ogoja).

ONLY DrEndeley (Cameroun) was
supportive of the tactics.Eyo Ita, the Head
of Government Business in Eastern
Nigeria and some of his ministers picked
against the policy and were flabbergasted
when the central ministers were
dismissed by the party. Of course, when
the party asked them to resign, they
equally rebelled against the party and
refused to comply. They became known
as ‘sit-tight ministers’.

Amongst them wereEyoIta (Ibibio),E.I.Oli
(Igbo), S.J.Una (Ogoja), R.I.Uzoma (Igbo),
S.W.Ubani-Ukoma (Igbo) and
S.J.Koripoma (Ijaw). Those who complied
with party directive and resigned were
Dr.M.I.Okpara (Igbo), M.C.Awgu (Igbo)
and S.T.Muna (Bamenda, Cameroun).

A simple look at those who backed Eyo Ita against Zik will show the non tribal nature of the East. Eyo ita was backed by E.I Oli( an Igbo) S.j una( ogoja), R.I uzoma( Igbo) S.W Ubani-Ukoma( Igbo) and S.J Koripoma( Ijaw).

To suggest that Eyo ita loss was tribally motivated and not ideologically motivated, when we can clearly see that the majority of Eyo ita accomplices were Igbo, amounts to dishonesty and historical revisionism.

The East was united by shared ideology not ethnicity like in the West where the minorities including the Oba of Bini were treated like unequals.

2

Now to the matter of Zik-Eyo Ita face-
off:On the eve of the 1951 elections in
which Azikiwe contested for a seat in the
Western House of Assembly from his
Lagos base, Zik declared that he was not
going to accept a ministerial post in “an
inferior legislature of the colonial type”.
In other words, he was not prepared to
serve as minister (premier or prime-
minister) at regional or national level in
the then premature Nigerian political
system. His object, he said, was to
achieve an NCNC majority in the regional
and central legislatures that would act to
“paralyse the machinery of government”
and lead to a reformation of the
Constitution.The Macpherson Constitution
had provided for “semi-responsible
government” at the centre and in the
regions.

The official phrase was “responsible
government within defined limits”. Zik did
not accept this. He wanted total
independence. This was what informed
his declaration above. It was a grand
tactics for national independence that the
Action Group later imbibed.
After the upheavals in the Western House
of Assembly,Zik began to rally his
partymen to the achievement of the
above-stated objectives. This took some
time. Eventually, however, the NCNC
resolved and called its central ministers
to resign in order to actualise the above
independence strategy.

But these ministers were now enjoying
their new stations in life, the perquisites
of ministerial office. Some of them did
not, therefore, want to give up the
positions. In so doing, they were
undoubtedly sabotaging and delaying the
independence struggle that had already
got them to where they were.
Three NCNC central (national) ministers
were the first culprits and were summarily
dismissed from the party. They were
A.C.Nwapa (Igbo), EniNjoku (Igbo) and
Okoi Arikpo(Ogoja).

ONLY DrEndeley (Cameroun) was
supportive of the tactics.Eyo Ita, the Head
of Government Business in Eastern
Nigeria and some of his ministers picked
against the policy and were flabbergasted
when the central ministers were
dismissed by the party. Of course, when
the party asked them to resign, they
equally rebelled against the party and
refused to comply. They became known
as ‘sit-tight ministers’.

Amongst them wereEyoIta (Ibibio),E.I.Oli
(Igbo), S.J.Una (Ogoja), R.I.Uzoma (Igbo),
S.W.Ubani-Ukoma (Igbo) and
S.J.Koripoma (Ijaw). Those who complied
with party directive and resigned were
Dr.M.I.Okpara (Igbo), M.C.Awgu (Igbo)
and S.T.Muna (Bamenda, Cameroun).

So this thread is inspired by a recent post by Yoruba poster here: https://www.nairaland.com/8396294/awolowo-smarter-more-intelligent-thanwho claimed that Zik lost out in the West and then went to East to use tribalism to oust EYO ITA as the leader of the East.

Normally I wouldn't even bother with such historical distortion, but I'm inclined to do that because we now have a large number of Igbo youths who have been brainwashed by MNK and IPOB to accept all sorts of nonsense ( denigration, gaslighting, etc) from SS Minorities in the "stupeed" hope that doing so will make them accept their dead and delusional multi ethnic Biafra with these minorities.
Not clarifying the Eyo Ita saga will give these misguided Igbos more reasons to feel apologetic for a deed Ndiigbo never committed before these minorities.

Maybe it's about time I made a new thread on Eyo Ita saga to keep younger Igbo generations here better informed to fight off Yoruba and Igbophobic voices from SS that will attempt to distort that aspect of our history to project Zik and Ndiigbo in bad light.

pazienza:
With the above ‘sit-tight’ attitude of some of the ministers, it behoved the legislature to orchestrate the requisite action to paralyse government business, which was practically in the hands of the British Lt. Governor.

In the Eastern House of Assembly, the NCNC majority subsequently succeeded in paralysing the constitutional system by voting to defeat or defer every bill before the House. As a last resort, the Lt. Governor was obliged to use his reserve power of legislation, the ultimate proof of colonial rule and subjugation in a politically advanced dependency, to pass the Regional Appropriation Bill into law.

On adjournment day, the expelled ministers (Central and Regional) joined with a few other legislators and supporters who had resigned from the NCNC to form a new party, the National Independence Party, with EyoIta as president. Some 10 weeks later, the Eastern parliamentary crisis was resolved by dissolution of the Eastern House of Assembly following the enactment of an amendment to the Constitution permitting the dissolution of the legislature of a single region. During this period, according to Sklar, the strain on the Constitution was not confined to the Eastern Region, as events of a less dramatic but nonetheless fateful character transpired in the West. Action Group’s hostility to the Constitution was scarcely less than that of the NCNC. Ultimately, the Macpherson Constitution proved unworkable and collapsed as Zik had planned after 15 months of its operation and was replaced with a new Constitution (the Lyttleton Constitution of 1954) that granted residual powers to the regions and provided that apart from the Regional Governor, colonial officials of the administration would be excluded from the Executive Council of the Eastern and Western Regions, amongst other favourable provisions.

Meanwhile, with the collapse of EyoIta’s
government in May 1953, a new election
was conducted to elect new members to
the Eastern House of Assembly. Azikiwe
was elected from Onitsha; NCNC
dominated the House and its leader,
Azikiwe, assumed the office of premier or
head of government.
Eyo Ita as leader of the minor party in the
House became leader of Opposition.For
details of these historical facts, see
Richard L. Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties
(1963), pages 115 – 140. Amplifications
of particular points can also be gleaned
from James S. Coleman, Nigeria:
Background to Nationalism (1958).
Given the above prognosis, would it be
wise and correct for anybody to claim
thatZik or the Igbo conspired to oust Eyo
Ita from power? Or that the constitutional
crisis that terminated EyoIta’s government
was tribally motivated? But this is the
verdict or notion that has been
transmitted from generation to generation
in the South-South.

Finally, let me recap that in October 1959,
Professor EyoIta, Head of Government
Business and Minister of Natural
Resources of Eastern Nigeria from 1952 to
May 1953, resigned his leadership and membership of united national independent party ( UNIP) and rejoined NCNC

So, Eyo Ita fell from Grace to grass, and despite the fact that he enjoyed Igbo support, Eyo ita will descend low to the old tested and trusted " Igbo want to dominate us" mantra, he became the New poster boy for the COR movement, but when that wasn't yielding dividends, because while he was preaching "Igbophobia", NCNC still had henchmen like Mbu from COR area, showing the people the truth.

Eyo ita, will later rejoin NCNC in October 1959. In a typical if you can't beat them, you join them, Nigerian politicians style.

With the above ‘sit-tight’ attitude of some of the ministers, it behoved the legislature to orchestrate the requisite action to paralyse government business, which was practically in the hands of the British Lt. Governor.

In the Eastern House of Assembly, the NCNC majority subsequently succeeded in paralysing the constitutional system by voting to defeat or defer every bill before the House. As a last resort, the Lt. Governor was obliged to use his reserve power of legislation, the ultimate proof of colonial rule and subjugation in a politically advanced dependency, to pass the Regional Appropriation Bill into law.

On adjournment day, the expelled ministers (Central and Regional) joined with a few other legislators and supporters who had resigned from the NCNC to form a new party, the National Independence Party, with EyoIta as president. Some 10 weeks later, the Eastern parliamentary crisis was resolved by dissolution of the Eastern House of Assembly following the enactment of an amendment to the Constitution permitting the dissolution of the legislature of a single region. During this period, according to Sklar, the strain on the Constitution was not confined to the Eastern Region, as events of a less dramatic but nonetheless fateful character transpired in the West. Action Group’s hostility to the Constitution was scarcely less than that of the NCNC. Ultimately, the Macpherson Constitution proved unworkable and collapsed as Zik had planned after 15 months of its operation and was replaced with a new Constitution (the Lyttleton Constitution of 1954) that granted residual powers to the regions and provided that apart from the Regional Governor, colonial officials of the administration would be excluded from the Executive Council of the Eastern and Western Regions, amongst other favourable provisions.

Meanwhile, with the collapse of EyoIta’s
government in May 1953, a new election
was conducted to elect new members to
the Eastern House of Assembly. Azikiwe
was elected from Onitsha; NCNC
dominated the House and its leader,
Azikiwe, assumed the office of premier or
head of government.
Eyo Ita as leader of the minor party in the
House became leader of Opposition.For
details of these historical facts, see
Richard L. Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties
(1963), pages 115 – 140. Amplifications
of particular points can also be gleaned
from James S. Coleman, Nigeria:
Background to Nationalism (1958).
Given the above prognosis, would it be
wise and correct for anybody to claim
thatZik or the Igbo conspired to oust Eyo
Ita from power? Or that the constitutional
crisis that terminated EyoIta’s government
was tribally motivated? But this is the
verdict or notion that has been
transmitted from generation to generation
in the South-South.

Finally, let me recap that in October 1959,
Professor EyoIta, Head of Government
Business and Minister of Natural
Resources of Eastern Nigeria from 1952 to
May 1953, resigned his leadership and membership of united national independent party ( UNIP) and rejoined NCNC

pazienza:
Now to the matter of Zik-Eyo Ita face-
off:On the eve of the 1951 elections in
which Azikiwe contested for a seat in the
Western House of Assembly from his
Lagos base, Zik declared that he was not
going to accept a ministerial post in “an
inferior legislature of the colonial type”.
In other words, he was not prepared to
serve as minister (premier or prime-
minister) at regional or national level in
the then premature Nigerian political
system. His object, he said, was to
achieve an NCNC majority in the regional
and central legislatures that would act to
“paralyse the machinery of government”
and lead to a reformation of the
Constitution.The Macpherson Constitution
had provided for “semi-responsible
government” at the centre and in the
regions.

The official phrase was “responsible
government within defined limits”. Zik did
not accept this. He wanted total
independence. This was what informed
his declaration above. It was a grand
tactics for national independence that the
Action Group later imbibed.

After the upheavals in the Western House
of Assembly,Zik began to rally his
partymen to the achievement of the
above-stated objectives. This took some
time. Eventually, however, the NCNC
resolved and called its central ministers
to resign in order to actualise the above
independence strategy.

But these ministers were now enjoying
their new stations in life, the perquisites
of ministerial office. Some of them did
not, therefore, want to give up the
positions. In so doing, they were
undoubtedly sabotaging and delaying the
independence struggle that had already
got them to where they were.
Three NCNC central (national) ministers
were the first culprits and were summarily
dismissed from the party. They were
A.C.Nwapa (Igbo), EniNjoku (Igbo) and
Okoi Arikpo(Ogoja).

ONLY DrEndeley (Cameroun) was
supportive of the tactics.Eyo Ita, the Head
of Government Business in Eastern
Nigeria and some of his ministers picked
against the policy and were flabbergasted
when the central ministers were
dismissed by the party. Of course, when
the party asked them to resign, they
equally rebelled against the party and
refused to comply. They became known
as ‘sit-tight ministers’.

Amongst them were EyoIta (Ibibio),E.I.Oli
(Igbo), S.J.Una (Ogoja), R.I.Uzoma (Igbo),
S.W.Ubani-Ukoma (Igbo) and
S.J.Koripoma (Ijaw). Those who complied
with party directive and resigned were
Dr.M.I.Okpara (Igbo), M.C.Awgu (Igbo)
and S.T.Muna (Bamenda, Cameroun).

A simple look at those who backed Eyo Ita against Zik will show the non tribal nature of the East.
Eyo ita was backed by E.I Oli( an Igbo) S.j una( ogoja), R.I uzoma( Igbo) S.W Ubani-Ukoma( Igbo) and S.J Koripoma( Ijaw).

To suggest that Eyo ita loss was tribally motivated and not ideologically motivated, when we can clearly see that the majority of Eyo ita accomplices were Igbo, amounts to dishonesty and historical revisionism.

The East was united by shared ideology not ethnicity like in the West where the minorities including the Oba of Bini were treated like dogs.

Now to the matter of Zik-Eyo Ita face-
off:On the eve of the 1951 elections in
which Azikiwe contested for a seat in the
Western House of Assembly from his
Lagos base, Zik declared that he was not
going to accept a ministerial post in “an
inferior legislature of the colonial type”.
In other words, he was not prepared to
serve as minister (premier or prime-
minister) at regional or national level in
the then premature Nigerian political
system. His object, he said, was to
achieve an NCNC majority in the regional
and central legislatures that would act to
“paralyse the machinery of government”
and lead to a reformation of the
Constitution.The Macpherson Constitution
had provided for “semi-responsible
government” at the centre and in the
regions.

The official phrase was “responsible
government within defined limits”. Zik did
not accept this. He wanted total
independence. This was what informed
his declaration above. It was a grand
tactics for national independence that the
Action Group later imbibed.

After the upheavals in the Western House
of Assembly,Zik began to rally his
partymen to the achievement of the
above-stated objectives. This took some
time. Eventually, however, the NCNC
resolved and called its central ministers
to resign in order to actualise the above
independence strategy.

But these ministers were now enjoying
their new stations in life, the perquisites
of ministerial office. Some of them did
not, therefore, want to give up the
positions. In so doing, they were
undoubtedly sabotaging and delaying the
independence struggle that had already
got them to where they were.
Three NCNC central (national) ministers
were the first culprits and were summarily
dismissed from the party. They were
A.C.Nwapa (Igbo), EniNjoku (Igbo) and
Okoi Arikpo(Ogoja).

ONLY DrEndeley (Cameroun) was
supportive of the tactics.Eyo Ita, the Head
of Government Business in Eastern
Nigeria and some of his ministers picked
against the policy and were flabbergasted
when the central ministers were
dismissed by the party. Of course, when
the party asked them to resign, they
equally rebelled against the party and
refused to comply. They became known
as ‘sit-tight ministers’.

Amongst them were EyoIta (Ibibio),E.I.Oli
(Igbo), S.J.Una (Ogoja), R.I.Uzoma (Igbo),
S.W.Ubani-Ukoma (Igbo) and
S.J.Koripoma (Ijaw). Those who complied
with party directive and resigned were
Dr.M.I.Okpara (Igbo), M.C.Awgu (Igbo)
and S.T.Muna (Bamenda, Cameroun).