₦airaland Forum

PreyingMantis:
The Igbos also own majority of the oil wells in the Niger-Delta.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that.

We are not smart enough to figure that the reason Jonathan and his petroleum minister , Deziani, were so hated , vilified and had to be removed by the clever use of vicious propaganda was mainly because they awarded Zero new oil blocks to the born to rule Mafia. And also, I heard that most oil block leases were due for renewal in next few years from 2015. It was feared that the duo of GEJ and Deziani were definitely not inclined to renew any oil leases to the Mafia.
Therefore, we can see that the unprecedented vicious campaign of calumny against GEJ, his wife and Deziani are deeply rooted in greed for Niger Delta oil blocks that some people feel to be their inheritance, their booty of conquest.

See human arrogance.
You enter into a habitat that is NOT yours, and then go ahead to murder the inhabitant of that habitat just for your pleasure.

But when others do the same to you, you cry 'evil evil'.

On Friday or Sunday, this same bloke will go to church or mosque to pray for protection from evil.

The arrogance and hypocrisy of uncivilised people.

attackgat:
I also saw an interview on TVC where a young man who claimed to be the leader of the Ijaw youth congress said that Ijaws are not Biafrans and there will be no referendum in Ijawland. The same day he said this, Asari Dokubo came out in an interview to reaffairm that him and the Ijaw nation are Biafrans. Am I to believe Asari Dokubo who has actually fought in the creeks or am I to believe a small boy who has never fought for anything?

It is incredible how stupid some of these people in the so called Niger Delta are. Some of them are the biggest losers in Nigeria,

yet, they say will continue to remain in Nigeria and continue losing.

Some of them like Tonyebarcanister or whatever his name is have the vision of "one Nigeria'" where everybody will be begging the North for resource control/restructuring and hopefully, maybe the North will agree to this one thousand years from now. Lol

My grandfather used to say 'you can only save someone who wants to be saved'

Maybe it is just the destiny of some of the tribes in the Niger Delta to be providing the Oil money needed to be running the 44 Local Govts of Kano. Who are we to judge?

One thing I know is that eventually, everybody will finally come to the realisation that the core North will never allow any restructuring of Nigeria. When that time comes, every ethnic group in the Niger Delta will face the same question Ojukwu faced 50 years ago....

"Do I submit myself to be a slave of the North or do I fight for my sovereignty?"

Beautiful piece.

I still don't understand why the resource-rich , oppressed and robbed people of the Niger Delta continue to pretend not to understand and identify with what Kanu is fighting against and fighting for
Eventually, Kanu's and Ipob's fight is a fight for every oppressed and robbed minority in Nigeria.

They should Stop looking for silly, cowardly reasons not to identify with and join the agitation.

HopeAtHand:
Ojukwu wasn't fighting in the interest of Niger Delta. Ojukwu was only interested in completely owning the oil resources. Make no mistakes, Igbos still remain the most self-centered ethnic group in Nigeria.

Yeah, the Igbos remain the most self-centered people in Nigeria.

Just look at how many military coups that they have done in Nigeria to seize and monopolize political power.
Just look at their born-to-rule syndrome.
Just look at how many times they have annulled peaceful Democratic elections.
Just look at how many inter tribal killings and genocides they have committed in Nigeria.
Just look at them, they don't even venture out of their regions to work or invest.
Look how many times they prefer to cling to power and die in political office rather than resign for ill health.
Look at them,. they neither educate nor train their teaming young populations for survival in a competitive world.
When they are rich, they neither take care of their siblings nor relatives.
They have no community spirit. They neither build schools, health care centers nor vocational centers for their communities.
They just depend on government and government largesse.

Yes, Igbos are the most self-centered people in Nigeria.

It simply amazes me how people, thousands of people, perhaps even millions, take this CLOWN and other jesters seriously.

I mean, with Fools and Clowns like this Mbaka seen and accepted as leaders to be listened to, is there any wonder that Nigeria is a BASKET CASE and failed state ?

pryme:
It's only a fool that will stoop very low to argue this matter with you, am no so I won't.

Your reply, is insignificant.

Lol.

As I always say, a capitulation by any other name is still a capitulation.
Good night little one.

pryme:
What? are you mad that am stating the obvious? What do you call someone that has no brain?

You want to put an argument for kANU comparing him with Jesus? Nigga are you for real?

The very beginning and the End,
The one that made your life has a new meaning, I can go on and on..

OK...

Bring that your kanu let's kill him and burry him, then let's wait for him to rise up on the Third day.

If you do that I will take you seriously.

There is no need to tell you to get lost, cos you are lost already

Meaningless babble.
Again, you made no attempt to challenge my argument with reason. Intellectual deficit, I presume.

Now, if you had a minimum education, and are able to put things in proper perspective, removing any religious garbage that encumbers your brain, then you should also reach a reasonable conclusion that Jesus and Nnamdi Kanu are comparable for stubborn and resilient challenge to the entrenched Religious and political status quos in their respective domains.

Why do you think Jesus gathered a following that morphed into the most powerful and influential religion on Earth?
Because, he challenged the status quo and supposedly payed with his life.
Dummy!
Nnamdi Kanu is also challenging the entrenched political status quo, and offered to pay with his life if and when necessary.

Nnamdi Kanu goes one step further than Jesus. You see, when the imperial Rome declared Jesus and his followers wanted because of temple riots and tensions in polity, Jesus used his most trusted friend, Judas, to secretly negotiate a surrender, in order to spare the lives of his disciples and followers.

Kanu, on the hand, remained resilient, intransigent and defiant even in prison when he had very little hope of regaining freedom.

Christians await Jesus, their mythical Messiah, to liberate them from the shackles of worldly up and downs, and shuttle them to a mythical heaven on a magical spaceship.

Likewise, Igbos, especially the youths, seen in Kanu, the reincarnation of Ojukwu, their hero and liberator, to liberate them from the shackles of Housa/Fulani imperium, to create an idealistic Biafra , where the Igbo spirit can SOAR without the limiting tendencies of Hausa /Fulani association.

That's it in a nutshell, my friend.

pryme:
The owner of this post is special breed of zombies.
Take them seriously at your own peril

Actually, Zombies show themselves by not showing an ability to offer a rebuttal, even a feeble one, to challenge an argument. Instead, they resort to the low IQ tendency of compulsive name-calling.

pryme:
If KANU does not come out and distance himself from this claim, then not only has he sinned against man, but has Blasphemed God, his punishment is now out of our hands but now in God's hands.

Nonsense.

The claim is not a false claim.

In the same way that Ojukwu was a god among men, so too,
for his young followers, Kanu is bigger than Jesus, much bigger than Jesus.

For one thing, Jesus the myth was neither an African nor an Igbo man.
Kanu is a living, breathing hero, a Moses of sorts for the millions of youths that now look up to him and follow him.

Besides, going by the Bible, Jesus was also supposedly a notorious Rabble Rouser that challenged the prevailing status quo , the entrenched religious and political order of his day.
Mix that with a few myths over a few hundred years, and VOILA! We have a god, godman or assistant god or co-god as many would want to believe.

At the end , it's all about perception and faith.

Sanchez01:
Cry like a sissy from now to the end of the earth, it does not take away the fact that your quest is a solo quest. If there would be a need for the Delta to secede, then Biafra would be the last consideration. Our struggle was made known before your genocide in 1967, meaning we have been there before you. Fall back to the history books to nourish your crafty reasoning.

The only serfs and minions I see here are those screaming to 'control his destiny'. Refrain from the identity blackmail, biko. Genetically, we are not related, neither are we tied by culture, believe me. We are not from Israel and we are no Jew. The so-called irrational fear and paranoia of domination is carefully arrived at, and until an Ebonyi man would be seen as equal to a man from Anambra, and the Osu-caste system which many claim to have been fully abolished, while an Ngwa fellow would not be despised by his own, we would always relate to your kind and people with paranoia.

Don't blame us that the world is wary of you.

Lol again.
The fact that you refer to yourself as Delta speaks volumes about how brainwashed you are, and how pitiful your ignorance is.
Tomorrow, you will call yourself South South.
Look who has an identity crisis.

Reading your post over and over again, almost verbatim, it screams over and over " inferiority complex, inferiority complex".
Sour grapes
Your hand can't reach the fruit, so you condemn the fruit as being sour.

When I read these self-deprecating sulkings from little people like you, it makes me mighty proud to be Igbo.

Again, kindly accept my pity.

Sanchez01:
When you're done clowning, you'll wake up to smell the coffee. There is no 'working' with the Igbos. The Biafran ideology is born out of greed and selfishness.

I still don't take you lots serious though because you are apparently not ready for the craze you call struggle. If you are, you would stop worrying about thinking of 'working' with people who don't regard you and move on without them.

Actually, the Igbos that I know do not put faith on anyone in order to thrive.
And we don't give a rat's bottom about the opinions of little minions like you , or what you think or feel about our struggles.

The Biafran struggle was just in 1967.
The Biafran struggle is just and even more imperative in 2017,..and will always be.

It just befuddles us that people with whom we share a history of genetic and cultural ties would rather remain feudal serfs in their own land , and prefer to continuously get fuxxd in the axx by uncircumcised Northern feudal cabals, than to forge common goals with Igbos, out of irrational fear and paranoia of domination, an acute inferiority complex.

You have my pity.

Sanchez01:
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Utter rubbish! We know people who disguise. You guys should understand that the tendencies we develop toward the Igbos is as a result of the large disunity and supremacist tendencies most of them exhibit. Biafra has nothing in common with a man from the Delta!

Look at this one

What tendencies other than the usual inferiority complex ?
So strong is that complex that you would prefer a Northerner to exploit you, rather than work with your southeast brethren.
What has that earned you so far ?

The FARCE is strong strong with you.

Ank:
I concur.
Nothing more to add.
She said all that needed to be said.
Kudos to her.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MY BRETHREN IN THE "SOUTH-SOUTH"
By Donald Ekpo, Akwa Ibom State

"For as long as the Old Eastern region remain in disarray and not united, self-determination of the region will remain impossible." ~ An anonymous retired Nigerian Army Chief

The word “South-South,” even though it may sound absurd, is a name we have come to accept as a people. We can’t say exactly how we came about to be identified with the name neither can we say exactly when we were given the name, but we just know it is our name. While growing up back in the days, geography taught us about “the North,” “the South,” “The East” and “The West.” For proper definition of locations, we were also told about “The Northwest, NorthEast, Southwest and SouthEast” I can’t remember anything like the “NorthNorth”, “SouthSouth”, “EastEast” or Westwest , but here I am today, writing a letter to my South-South brethren. That is what happens to a people that are not in control of their Cultural Development or the Political and Economic Future.

That is what happens to a people that are just there for their numbers, that is what happens to people that are just kept for their services, that is what happens to people that are just custodians of wealth for a supposedly superior people, and finally, that is what happens to peoples that are slaves. Any name is suitable for them, they can only get whatever is given to them even if it is originally theirs. If in doubt, please remind me of the meaning of KUNTA KINTE.

I write this letter not because it is frustrating to see how we allowed a defrauded propaganda to position our people as the pawns in the Political Chess called Nigeria, but rather, I write this letter in an effort to request that we free ourselves from these propaganda that has lingered for too long. If our grandfathers and fathers did not ask questions, is there any divine law that says we cannot ask? We know we all belonged to the old Eastern Region of Nigeria before the Northern Protectorate took back their power after the gruesome murder of General Aguiyi Ironsi.

Just for the records, let me do us a bit of history here; Major General Ironsi as Head of State was cornered and arrested somewhere in western Nigeria on July 29th of 1966, his hands and feet were tied together, then tied to a Land Rover with a little space in between, and driven on a tarred road, face down for several kilometers. The then highest ranking Northern officer, an acting (Unconfirmed) Lieutenant Colonel was chosen to be the next Head of State ahead of serving Brigadiers, Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels of the Southern Nigeria, followed by the dreadful killings of officers and soldiers of Eastern Nigeria including our so called South South soldiers and officers.

The genocide that followed is what is recorded as the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 – 1970. As if that was not enough, the Eastern region was broken apart with the sudden creation of the then South Eastern State (today’s Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom), Rivers State (Today’s Rivers State and Bayelsa). It was during that war that propagandas were designed, created and generated to separate us from the old Eastern Region and make the average Igbo man our potential enemy in an effort to reduce their own presumed enemies. In as much as it is a bitter history, but I find it necessary to do you this preamble.

I write this letter to remind us that our region, known as the South-South today was a creation of the North for the sake of creating the disunity we face today. And moreso, it was not just for the disunity for them to win the war, but to also take away our resources, our manpower and our economic future. In 2014 when President Jonathan, a son of the so called South-South decided to re-contest the 2015 elections, Sheik Junaid Mohammed in an engagement on behalf the Northern Protectorate, reminded us that the so called South-South was a creation of the North for effective management of the Northern interest in Eastern Nigeria. How bad could this be? Can we imagine that? So while we are busy reminding ourselves that we are a different people or that the Igbos are wicked and are trying to kill us, the North is joyously taking over and owning 85% of our oil wells while the West takes over the left overs.

And what do we get? Noise! Even the supposedly football legend, Sunday Okechukwu Oliseh is busy telling us he is not Igbo as if it is a curse to be Igbo. One wonders if the name Okechukwu is of Hausa or Yoruba origin. When you speak Igbo as a language and yet claim you are not Igbo, is that not the saddest thing that can happen to any people of identical culture? Even Major Kaduna Nzeogwu that led the first coup that was said to be an Igbo coup is from Okpanam village in today’s Delta State. Could he have come out to say today like Sunday Oliseh said that he was not Igbo? If the Abakaliki or Nsukka indigene that has a more distant dialect of Igbo is Igbo, how come the Anioma or Okrika indigene that is easily understood is not Igbo? How did a people of the same culture get so separated these far?

I write these letter to speak to those of us regarded as "minority tribes." How can we be minority when in essences we are known to be about 35 million of the said 180 million of the said Nigerian population? How can we be a minority in our own lands if we were not treated as such, or if we did not accept to be such? If those from the alliance that separated us from the West are said to be about 50 million in population, and our brethren in the East are said to be about 40 million, how can we accept we are a minority? Our compatriots from the alleged minorities of the North are said to be another 30 million, who then is the minority? Having run through these figures, we know who the real minorities are.

Be it as it appears, the truth is that our region was broken into two so as to weaken our original strength given that at a combined population strength of 35 million and 40 million people, our economic and entrepreneurial strength put together would be something the alliance will be worried about. So why should we ever think that it is logical to claim we are two different people when in essence, we have always been one and the same people for over 400 years before the arrival of the white man. If what the white man did to us was not bad enough, is it not ridiculous that we allowed a certain minority immigrants to assume control of our economic and political future?

I write these letter to ask my brethren in the South-South these pertinent question; Let us assume the very worst situation in this fracas between us and our Igbo brothers, why are we worried about the Igbos taking over our “natural resources” (assuming they don’t have theirs), ARE WE PRESENTLY IN CONTROL OF OUR “NATURAL RESOURCES”? Does it make more sense that our natural resources is being controlled by some strange people from over 700 miles away? People that kill us at will at a single provocation of their religion? People that even kill us in our land? People that challenge us to the ownership of these our resources? People that show absolute disregard of who we are? People that think it is a privilege for us to be in any position of authority? And finally, people that do not in any way have the kind of entrepreneurial skills that we have?

Why would we allow our imaginary quarrel or fights with our brothers translate to the decision of one of the women in King Solomon’s Judgment that insisted that since she couldn’t have the child, the other woman should not. So are we in essence saying it is better for none of us brethren to own our resources simply because we don’t trust our brothers, yet we do nothing about the stranger that has ripped us apart? Are we logically correct in these senseless quarrel?

Even while we are senselessly worried about how the Igbos will colonize our people because that is what we were told, and that is what some of these alliance are still trying to tell us; can we sincerely tell ourselves that the Igbos are that evil? Evil enough to leave their Natural resources in Abia, Imo, Anambra and Enugu states to come and take ownership of our resources? How will they do that? How possible will it be for a people that barely kill by the sword compared to our present oppressors? Do we honestly see that as a possibility? How and why did we allow these propaganda to go these far? Is these not what the alliance has used to rule us through the divide and rule scheme? Sheik Jumiad Mohammed said it clearly that our separation was a creation of the North for the effective management of our resources while we keep fighting an imaginary enemy.

I write this letter to remind us that we and our Igbo brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers have cultural identities, we uphold the sanctity of life, we do not kill a man like a chicken, we worship the same God, and we have identical looks and reasoning capabilities. Education is a respected virtue to both of us, entrepreneurism is a common love between us. We both respect constituted authorities. Even-though we both have the cultural odds that cannot, and should not be used to castigate an entire people. So how come the Igbo man suddenly became evil shortly before the war if the castigation was not a propaganda tool of the war?

How did we accept that our Igbo brothers were evil while we were saints? How are we saints? Is there any evil that is the monopoly of the Igbos that we are totally clean of? That we don’t have a single man/woman that does same if positioned in the same situation? How did we allow a distant people determine how we leave our lives? If we think we are different and as such we are treated better than the Igbos; have we noticed that the fate of the Onitsha Port is the same fate that befell the Ports in Calabar and Port Harcourt? We from the East are all forced to go to Lagos to pay taxes to those ports. How have we been treated differently by these alliances if we were different from the Igbos? Are we not facing the same fate as our Eastern brethren? How do you think we will fare if we were the only ones to receive these treatment given a circumstance where the Igbos are no more in this contraption called Nigeria?

I write this letter to our brethren to remind us that without a unified stand of the entire region, the self-determination process will be a farce. We need each other in all difficulties. We are the Eastern Region; we are the region of the Lower Niger; we are a common people; we are not different from each other. Starting from the Hills of Ogoja to the rocky soils of Ebonyi, down to the temperate region of Anambra down to the enclaves of Ishekiri and Isoko, we all look alike.

The Akwa Ibom man and the Abia State man are the same people simply divided by boundaries. The Calabar man and the Arochukwu man have identical ancestral masquerades. The Ikwerre man is just an Igbo man that was separated by the North to act as a different people. A British woman, camped somewhere in Kaduna decided to add the “R” consonant to the “U” vowel to totally break the identities of the Igbos in today’s Rivers State. The Ijaws, Kalabaris, Oron, Efik are practically the same people positioned in different locations possibly during the settlement centuries ago. We are all interrelated in the region and as such must not be divided.

We have been used for decades, disregarded at every opportunity, our rights are perceived as privileges if not favors. We do not have control over our future as instructed by the late Ahmadu Bello when he instructed his people not to allow us have control of our future, and should be seen as a conquered territory. Are we a conquered people by some strange people that believe they are born to rule, conquer and kill? These are a people who do not hold as sacrosanct what we revere as one. How can we continue in this Union that was designed to enslave us? How can we allow the lies told by these strangers to pitch us against ourselves?

AN ADDENDUM TO MY IGBO BROTHERS

I write to you to remind you that you can only fight a lie that was imbedded into the hearts of my brethren by putting yourself in his shoes to know how best to respond. We cannot fight evil with evil. Like we know, they say two wrongs don’t make a right. It is your responsibility to subtly ask those accusing you some logical questions that may prick their hearts to realities. We are all in this mess called Nigeria together.

Our Son, Goodluck Jonathan, was treated the same way General Ironsi was treated, they were both rejected. They were both despised. Both of them wanted a united Nigeria that existed beyond tribes and religion, but what did we see? President Goodluck Jonathan was lucky to escape with his life, but the General was not that lucky; He was tied to a Land Rover and driven on the rocky tarred roads between Abeokuta and Ibadan till he died and was shredded to pieces. Based on the Alhaji and Kunle’s phone conversation I believe we all listened to, we know that it could as well have happened to President Jonathan if he was not wise enough to let go of their birthright. But can we continue like this?

Look at what they are doing to Nnamdi Kanu? These are the same people that organized 70 lawyers to represent the Boko Haram suspects that have raped, maimed and Killed Nigerians, yet the one they choose to lead us says Nnamdi is too dangerous to be released because he has dual citizenship. Is these the kind of place we will continue to belong to when we are likely going to be having malicious morons of this magnitude leading us?

I write to you my brothers to remind you that the Gambaris know for certainty that having broken a greater part of you into other states in the "South-South," it may be difficult to successfully secede knowing what we know today. So it is inappropriate for you to remind my own brothers that with or without us, that you will succeed.

We cannot allow the propaganda of these gambaris to keep us apart. We must reject it by all means and efforts. We stand a greater chance to succeed as one region. As the older one of the two broken parts of our region, it is your responsibility to expose the deception that was used to mislead my people. It is you that will tell my people you do not have any intentions to colonize them. We have to collectively put these alliance to shame by consciously keeping our relationship cordial in the region. My dear brethren, I write to request that you take it as a duty to remind us that we are all one people because in truth, WE ARE ONE!

THE LOWER NIGER CONGRESS will not succeed if we do not position ourselves for success. We cannot go to a referendum with a divided house. We have to all agreed that we cannot continue in this contraption called a United Nigeria that was not just built on lies and propaganda, but was designed to fail while it enslaves our people. We have been battered, raped, disregarded, maimed and killed at will for the past 50 years. I am talking about the entire Eastern region. While we are being raped and killed, we are busy seeing each other as our enemy, while the real enemies smiles at our folly. We cannot continue like this. We should all take the opportunity presented to us by the UNITED NATION CHARTER ARTICLES ON SELF-DETERMINATION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

The Lower Niger Congress, has so far made presentations to the US Congress on the plight of our people, made a presentation to the United Nations, and have been able to secure a period by which the referendum will take place here in our region. But will we succeed during the electoral process if we are not united? Is it not time we put our swords into plowshare and see how we can take control of our political, economic future and Cultural development?

The Lower Niger Congress having met with traditional and titled leaders in all the corners of the Lower Niger Region believes the project will not be a success if we do not see ourselves as a united body. We cannot afford to go into a referendum that may be sabotaged by the propagandas of the alliance of the North. It is our duty to educate ourselves, educate our relatives, and educate our brethren. It is the best duty we can do for the generations unborn of our region.

This contraption called Nigeria was never designed to succeed, not with the present fraud of Constitution, not with the present mentality that only a section of the country were meant to rule, and finally, not with the present odds that accompany those that make it to the leadership position.

Finally, brethren, I appeal to you all to join hands in actualizing our dream to build a new nation based on principles, agreed morals, agreed terms and absolute regional autonomy to provoke developmental competition. This is what the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS IS WILLING TO OFFER.

For more information about the Lower Niger congress visit www.lnc-usa.org

victorvezx:
95% of Nigerians have heard and know where Niger delta is. Whether igbos are there changes nothing. There are many tribes there too. It is very distinct from the south east. South south is Edo, Rivers state, Delta state, Akwa ibom state, Bayelsa state, and cross river state. The real Niger Delta is Delta state, Akwa ibom state, Rivers state and Bayelsa. Imo state, Ondo state and Abia state where only included in Niger delta by Obasanjo as oil producing states, they are not real Niger delta in the sense of it

This post is not only wrong, but is born of youthful ignorance.

Kindly read the article below and educate yourself.


AN OPEN LETTER TO MY BRETHREN IN THE "SOUTH-SOUTH"
By Donald Ekpo, Akwa Ibom State

"For as long as the Old Eastern region remain in disarray and not united, self-determination of the region will remain impossible." ~ An anonymous retired Nigerian Army Chief

The word “South-South,” even though it may sound absurd, is a name we have come to accept as a people. We can’t say exactly how we came about to be identified with the name neither can we say exactly when we were given the name, but we just know it is our name. While growing up back in the days, geography taught us about “the North,” “the South,” “The East” and “The West.” For proper definition of locations, we were also told about “The Northwest, NorthEast, Southwest and SouthEast” I can’t remember anything like the “NorthNorth”, “SouthSouth”, “EastEast” or Westwest , but here I am today, writing a letter to my South-South brethren. That is what happens to a people that are not in control of their Cultural Development or the Political and Economic Future.

That is what happens to a people that are just there for their numbers, that is what happens to people that are just kept for their services, that is what happens to people that are just custodians of wealth for a supposedly superior people, and finally, that is what happens to peoples that are slaves. Any name is suitable for them, they can only get whatever is given to them even if it is originally theirs. If in doubt, please remind me of the meaning of KUNTA KINTE.

I write this letter not because it is frustrating to see how we allowed a defrauded propaganda to position our people as the pawns in the Political Chess called Nigeria, but rather, I write this letter in an effort to request that we free ourselves from these propaganda that has lingered for too long. If our grandfathers and fathers did not ask questions, is there any divine law that says we cannot ask? We know we all belonged to the old Eastern Region of Nigeria before the Northern Protectorate took back their power after the gruesome murder of General Aguiyi Ironsi.

Just for the records, let me do us a bit of history here; Major General Ironsi as Head of State was cornered and arrested somewhere in western Nigeria on July 29th of 1966, his hands and feet were tied together, then tied to a Land Rover with a little space in between, and driven on a tarred road, face down for several kilometers. The then highest ranking Northern officer, an acting (Unconfirmed) Lieutenant Colonel was chosen to be the next Head of State ahead of serving Brigadiers, Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels of the Southern Nigeria, followed by the dreadful killings of officers and soldiers of Eastern Nigeria including our so called South South soldiers and officers.

The genocide that followed is what is recorded as the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 – 1970. As if that was not enough, the Eastern region was broken apart with the sudden creation of the then South Eastern State (today’s Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom), Rivers State (Today’s Rivers State and Bayelsa). It was during that war that propagandas were designed, created and generated to separate us from the old Eastern Region and make the average Igbo man our potential enemy in an effort to reduce their own presumed enemies. In as much as it is a bitter history, but I find it necessary to do you this preamble.

I write this letter to remind us that our region, known as the South-South today was a creation of the North for the sake of creating the disunity we face today. And moreso, it was not just for the disunity for them to win the war, but to also take away our resources, our manpower and our economic future. In 2014 when President Jonathan, a son of the so called South-South decided to re-contest the 2015 elections, Sheik Junaid Mohammed in an engagement on behalf the Northern Protectorate, reminded us that the so called South-South was a creation of the North for effective management of the Northern interest in Eastern Nigeria. How bad could this be? Can we imagine that? So while we are busy reminding ourselves that we are a different people or that the Igbos are wicked and are trying to kill us, the North is joyously taking over and owning 85% of our oil wells while the West takes over the left overs.

And what do we get? Noise! Even the supposedly football legend, Sunday Okechukwu Oliseh is busy telling us he is not Igbo as if it is a curse to be Igbo. One wonders if the name Okechukwu is of Hausa or Yoruba origin. When you speak Igbo as a language and yet claim you are not Igbo, is that not the saddest thing that can happen to any people of identical culture? Even Major Kaduna Nzeogwu that led the first coup that was said to be an Igbo coup is from Okpanam village in today’s Delta State. Could he have come out to say today like Sunday Oliseh said that he was not Igbo? If the Abakaliki or Nsukka indigene that has a more distant dialect of Igbo is Igbo, how come the Anioma or Okrika indigene that is easily understood is not Igbo? How did a people of the same culture get so separated these far?

I write these letter to speak to those of us regarded as "minority tribes." How can we be minority when in essences we are known to be about 35 million of the said 180 million of the said Nigerian population? How can we be a minority in our own lands if we were not treated as such, or if we did not accept to be such? If those from the alliance that separated us from the West are said to be about 50 million in population, and our brethren in the East are said to be about 40 million, how can we accept we are a minority? Our compatriots from the alleged minorities of the North are said to be another 30 million, who then is the minority? Having run through these figures, we know who the real minorities are.

Be it as it appears, the truth is that our region was broken into two so as to weaken our original strength given that at a combined population strength of 35 million and 40 million people, our economic and entrepreneurial strength put together would be something the alliance will be worried about. So why should we ever think that it is logical to claim we are two different people when in essence, we have always been one and the same people for over 400 years before the arrival of the white man. If what the white man did to us was not bad enough, is it not ridiculous that we allowed a certain minority immigrants to assume control of our economic and political future?

I write these letter to ask my brethren in the South-South these pertinent question; Let us assume the very worst situation in this fracas between us and our Igbo brothers, why are we worried about the Igbos taking over our “natural resources” (assuming they don’t have theirs), ARE WE PRESENTLY IN CONTROL OF OUR “NATURAL RESOURCES”? Does it make more sense that our natural resources is being controlled by some strange people from over 700 miles away? People that kill us at will at a single provocation of their religion? People that even kill us in our land? People that challenge us to the ownership of these our resources? People that show absolute disregard of who we are? People that think it is a privilege for us to be in any position of authority? And finally, people that do not in any way have the kind of entrepreneurial skills that we have?

Why would we allow our imaginary quarrel or fights with our brothers translate to the decision of one of the women in King Solomon’s Judgment that insisted that since she couldn’t have the child, the other woman should not. So are we in essence saying it is better for none of us brethren to own our resources simply because we don’t trust our brothers, yet we do nothing about the stranger that has ripped us apart? Are we logically correct in these senseless quarrel?

Even while we are senselessly worried about how the Igbos will colonize our people because that is what we were told, and that is what some of these alliance are still trying to tell us; can we sincerely tell ourselves that the Igbos are that evil? Evil enough to leave their Natural resources in Abia, Imo, Anambra and Enugu states to come and take ownership of our resources? How will they do that? How possible will it be for a people that barely kill by the sword compared to our present oppressors? Do we honestly see that as a possibility? How and why did we allow these propaganda to go these far? Is these not what the alliance has used to rule us through the divide and rule scheme? Sheik Jumiad Mohammed said it clearly that our separation was a creation of the North for the effective management of our resources while we keep fighting an imaginary enemy.

I write this letter to remind us that we and our Igbo brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers have cultural identities, we uphold the sanctity of life, we do not kill a man like a chicken, we worship the same God, and we have identical looks and reasoning capabilities. Education is a respected virtue to both of us, entrepreneurism is a common love between us. We both respect constituted authorities. Even-though we both have the cultural odds that cannot, and should not be used to castigate an entire people. So how come the Igbo man suddenly became evil shortly before the war if the castigation was not a propaganda tool of the war?

How did we accept that our Igbo brothers were evil while we were saints? How are we saints? Is there any evil that is the monopoly of the Igbos that we are totally clean of? That we don’t have a single man/woman that does same if positioned in the same situation? How did we allow a distant people determine how we leave our lives? If we think we are different and as such we are treated better than the Igbos; have we noticed that the fate of the Onitsha Port is the same fate that befell the Ports in Calabar and Port Harcourt? We from the East are all forced to go to Lagos to pay taxes to those ports. How have we been treated differently by these alliances if we were different from the Igbos? Are we not facing the same fate as our Eastern brethren? How do you think we will fare if we were the only ones to receive these treatment given a circumstance where the Igbos are no more in this contraption called Nigeria?

I write this letter to our brethren to remind us that without a unified stand of the entire region, the self-determination process will be a farce. We need each other in all difficulties. We are the Eastern Region; we are the region of the Lower Niger; we are a common people; we are not different from each other. Starting from the Hills of Ogoja to the rocky soils of Ebonyi, down to the temperate region of Anambra down to the enclaves of Ishekiri and Isoko, we all look alike.

The Akwa Ibom man and the Abia State man are the same people simply divided by boundaries. The Calabar man and the Arochukwu man have identical ancestral masquerades. The Ikwerre man is just an Igbo man that was separated by the North to act as a different people. A British woman, camped somewhere in Kaduna decided to add the “R” consonant to the “U” vowel to totally break the identities of the Igbos in today’s Rivers State. The Ijaws, Kalabaris, Oron, Efik are practically the same people positioned in different locations possibly during the settlement centuries ago. We are all interrelated in the region and as such must not be divided.

We have been used for decades, disregarded at every opportunity, our rights are perceived as privileges if not favors. We do not have control over our future as instructed by the late Ahmadu Bello when he instructed his people not to allow us have control of our future, and should be seen as a conquered territory. Are we a conquered people by some strange people that believe they are born to rule, conquer and kill? These are a people who do not hold as sacrosanct what we revere as one. How can we continue in this Union that was designed to enslave us? How can we allow the lies told by these strangers to pitch us against ourselves?

AN ADDENDUM TO MY IGBO BROTHERS

I write to you to remind you that you can only fight a lie that was imbedded into the hearts of my brethren by putting yourself in his shoes to know how best to respond. We cannot fight evil with evil. Like we know, they say two wrongs don’t make a right. It is your responsibility to subtly ask those accusing you some logical questions that may prick their hearts to realities. We are all in this mess called Nigeria together.

Our Son, Goodluck Jonathan, was treated the same way General Ironsi was treated, they were both rejected. They were both despised. Both of them wanted a united Nigeria that existed beyond tribes and religion, but what did we see? President Goodluck Jonathan was lucky to escape with his life, but the General was not that lucky; He was tied to a Land Rover and driven on the rocky tarred roads between Abeokuta and Ibadan till he died and was shredded to pieces. Based on the Alhaji and Kunle’s phone conversation I believe we all listened to, we know that it could as well have happened to President Jonathan if he was not wise enough to let go of their birthright. But can we continue like this?

Look at what they are doing to Nnamdi Kanu? These are the same people that organized 70 lawyers to represent the Boko Haram suspects that have raped, maimed and Killed Nigerians, yet the one they choose to lead us says Nnamdi is too dangerous to be released because he has dual citizenship. Is these the kind of place we will continue to belong to when we are likely going to be having malicious morons of this magnitude leading us?

I write to you my brothers to remind you that the Gambaris know for certainty that having broken a greater part of you into other states in the "South-South," it may be difficult to successfully secede knowing what we know today. So it is inappropriate for you to remind my own brothers that with or without us, that you will succeed.

We cannot allow the propaganda of these gambaris to keep us apart. We must reject it by all means and efforts. We stand a greater chance to succeed as one region. As the older one of the two broken parts of our region, it is your responsibility to expose the deception that was used to mislead my people. It is you that will tell my people you do not have any intentions to colonize them. We have to collectively put these alliance to shame by consciously keeping our relationship cordial in the region. My dear brethren, I write to request that you take it as a duty to remind us that we are all one people because in truth, WE ARE ONE!

THE LOWER NIGER CONGRESS will not succeed if we do not position ourselves for success. We cannot go to a referendum with a divided house. We have to all agreed that we cannot continue in this contraption called a United Nigeria that was not just built on lies and propaganda, but was designed to fail while it enslaves our people. We have been battered, raped, disregarded, maimed and killed at will for the past 50 years. I am talking about the entire Eastern region. While we are being raped and killed, we are busy seeing each other as our enemy, while the real enemies smiles at our folly. We cannot continue like this. We should all take the opportunity presented to us by the UNITED NATION CHARTER ARTICLES ON SELF-DETERMINATION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

The Lower Niger Congress, has so far made presentations to the US Congress on the plight of our people, made a presentation to the United Nations, and have been able to secure a period by which the referendum will take place here in our region. But will we succeed during the electoral process if we are not united? Is it not time we put our swords into plowshare and see how we can take control of our political, economic future and Cultural development?

The Lower Niger Congress having met with traditional and titled leaders in all the corners of the Lower Niger Region believes the project will not be a success if we do not see ourselves as a united body. We cannot afford to go into a referendum that may be sabotaged by the propagandas of the alliance of the North. It is our duty to educate ourselves, educate our relatives, and educate our brethren. It is the best duty we can do for the generations unborn of our region.

This contraption called Nigeria was never designed to succeed, not with the present fraud of Constitution, not with the present mentality that only a section of the country were meant to rule, and finally, not with the present odds that accompany those that make it to the leadership position.

Finally, brethren, I appeal to you all to join hands in actualizing our dream to build a new nation based on principles, agreed morals, agreed terms and absolute regional autonomy to provoke developmental competition. This is what the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS IS WILLING TO OFFER.

For more information about the Lower Niger congress visit www.lnc-usa.org
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maupe:
www.dailypost.ng/2017/06/25/biafra-difference-nnamdi-kanu-ken-saro-wiwa-gen-akinrinade/

So Ken Saro-Wiwa was an intellectual agitator, and therefore Nnamdi Kanu is ...?

Were Ken Saro-Wiwa and Nnamdi Kanu agitating for themselves or their peoples ?

What was the fate of Ken Saro-Wiwa ?

Was Ken Saro-Wiwa not an Igbophobe, and was it not his very good friend from the North that played the typical divide and conquer card on him, trapped him into a corner, and then Hanged him like a common criminal ?
So what lessons are to be learned from his struggles and his tragic fate ?


It takes a really really stuuupid person to make the kind of statements attributed to Gen Akinrinade .
It is simply amazing the type of stuuupid people that this country produces.

sukkot:


[b]and you know me, i hate no one. am just banging on igbo cuz they always banging on yoruba lol. its a tit for tat game. if they stop banging I stop banging

I actually thought you were much more mature and better than that.
So if a few anonymous Igbos come on Nairaland to disparage Yorubas, rather than channel your invectives directly at the individuals, you then take it upon yourself to declare online war against the entire Igbo race ?
That is not the trademarks of an educated, enlightened person, whom I am guessing, has spent a considerable portion of your adult life abroad, in a civilized multicultural society .

sukkot:
nah mayne, I aint no igbophobe. you igbos are the ones who hate afonja since your ijaw son azikiwe goodluck lost his election.

Count me out of hating anyone.
Besides,c I don't know the meaning of Afonja.

If you think that Igbo dissatisfaction with this lopsided federal system , and that agitations for self determination began in 2015, then I am 100℅ correct that you're just an ordinary Igbophobe.

Ejanla07:
my yoruba muslim brother


wen u scroll down you will know

deep down inside the bottom corner of your heart

that the op




is a UNITY BEGGAR

He is just an ordinary Igbophobe.

reel14:
where's your forensic and DNA evidence to buttress your claims?

your archaeological findings needed too

Don't mind him.

I was just about to ask the same question.

DNA, Mitochondrial DNA is the most reliable tool for tracing genealogy.

It's just amazing how simple , modern , foolproof science of genetics is completely ignored in preference for biblical mumbo jumbo.

baylord101:
Na wa oo, CAN is always complaining, Probably it's for those religion bigostic in the SE and Core North because I could remember my days back in secondary School, we divide the class to two for IRS/CRS class.

Back then in Umunneochi in Abia state, any time we are preparing for solat passerby will open their mouth and locked their leg just to witness what we are doing and I blame them not because it's only Christianity they were exposed to unlike in Southwest where you will see both sleeping in the same room.

Why can't we be trying to improve the science and math studies, African history, philosophy, introductory psychology, ethics studies, etc, instead of introducing and re-introducing and fighting over more of the same toxic shit religions from the stone age middle East ?
I mean, talk about Nigerians being permanently brain-fxxed

This is the reason we don't think well.
Our brains are suffused, no, suffocated with too much poo from Middle East stone age poo religions.
As a man thinketh, so he acts.
A curriculum,f or example, on African Traditional Philosophies would do so much good to the psyche of the Nation.

Akiintom:
Sorry boy, I'm conscious not to fashion my life, after bull headed and inordinate intransigent folks.

From Kaduna Nzeogwu to Ironsi to Ojukwu and now to Kanu, all liars, power drunk, hypocrites and cowards.

Let me remind you, Ojukwu was whipped back from Ore, on his way to Lagos, during the foolish campaign. Is ore or Benin part of biafra land?

Nzeogwu executed a coup, wherein no single notable Igbo leader was killed. But northern leaders were desecrated. Ironsi pampered the felons, until Ironsi's sore did festered.

You guys have offended innocence, and trust has become a commodity you can never be accorded.

Oh. And I mistakenly thought we were having a genuine discussion of current events.

It's obvious that you are just another Lilly livered Igbo hater.
It eats you soooo deep, as deep as your personal insecurity and inferiority complex about Igbos and the word Igbo itself.

I am not surprised that Kanu's courage reminds you that you are perhaps half or a quarter of a man, considering that you have and see nothing in your life worth fighting for or agitating for.

They deliberately don't teach you dimwits history in school, for the good reason that they don't want you to ever understand events and issues in a broader historical perspective other than a narrow , stomach infrastructure perspective. Example is your shameful " political prosperity" nonsense.

As a Yoruba that I assume you are, you are ignorant of the struggles of Obafemi Awolowo against your current slavemasters
,and how his struggles and agitations paved the way for whatever benefits your parents and you enjoy in this contorted federation.
Cognitive dissonance wouldn't also allow you to remember that Obafemi Awolowo was the first Nigerian to face trial and be convicted and jailed for treason in Nigeria.
No one has held that fact against the entire Yoruba people.

Now, since you are Yoruba, and don't see anything wrong with Nigeria, and therefore have nothing to struggle for, I urge you to simply ZONE OUT, and desist from disparaging those of us who see plenty to fight against and agitate for.

I very well understand the psychology of little people like you.
Kanu will continue to stare you and your in the face as the giant of a man you can never rise up in 10 of your lifetimes.

Hate Igbo , despise them all you like. But we know it is only your own deep down personal insecurity that you are marketing online.

Akiintom:
It's pity. You neither have a near grasp of what freedom is nor what dynamics of revolutionary idea or act is.

It's pitiably pathetic, for a Kanu, to be an inspiration for you. And to shove Kanu, as likely symbol of leadership for myp generation, will be the most insulting thing to say to me.

By my age and education, i belong to the youthful class in the Nigeria of today.

I personally bemoan the lost capacity for rational and progressive thinking, that now afflict youths, who crave the primitive and crude idea from Kanu.

Boy, you live in the 21st century world, it amounts to pathetic case, to find direction in the delusionary path, that Kanu has charted.

You can can fire as much invectives at Kanu as you wish.
He is obviously 10x the man you could ever be, even if does absolutely nothing for the rest of his life.

The point is that you , as a youth , have never in your generation had a leader of any sort. Therefore, you are the least qualified to speak about leadership , its qualities and what it means. You have absolutely zero with which to make any form of comparisons.
There are no text book manual of what a should.look like or method for his struggle.
The fact that you and I are having this discussion means that Kanu has already succeeded beyond his own expectations. That's the point that eludes you.

By their choice of words regarding Kanu, it is obvious that only only people bereft of courage that tend to despise him.

Akiintom:
Kikikikikikiki..... Hmmmm.

Only if you know and understand what freedom means.

The very method of the pursuit, of the mirage called biafra, from its sickly conception, by its progenitors and the present neophytes, betrays shallow thinking.

I suppose the leadership now provided biafra illusion, by a disillusioned Kanu, is the new narcotics, for another round of misadventure.

You speak as if you are ignorant of history. Every revolutionary idea starts out as a grand heresy, and its champion, a delusional heretic.
Anything worth having, is worth fighting for.
Like I said before, Biafra resides in the heart of every Igbo person. This latent feeling is there and has always been there, embedding deeper with every instance of institutionalized injustice against the Igbo people since after the civil war.
Kanu is not Biafra, but only a provocateur, a rekindler.
Kanu is not the leader of Biafra, but a brave symbolic of its symbol and tenacity.

Let me ask you. I don't know how old you are, but when was the last time Nigeria, any part of Nigeria , had a youthful leader that fought for something, anything at all ?

Kanu is a refreshing emergence and presence in a population, especially the youthful population, that had been betrayed and cowed by one set of oppressors after another.
Kanu's brave and exemplary fight is for everyone in Nigeria, every oppressed person in Nigeria.
Youths like you should be able to look beyond periphery and see Kanu's fight for what portends for Nigeria.
It is either Nigeria comes out better from it, restructured for more regional independence, a more equal, more just and progressive nation , or pls give me Biafra.
It is as simple as that.

Akiintom:
My own anger against the Igbo leaders, is their insidious and mischievous mute, on the senseless behavior of neo-biafrians, who are mostly fetuses or infants when the civil war happened.

It's more pathetic for them this time, because, if war should occur ( a rarity) again, their loss will be infinitesimal, compared to 1967.

Again, with all these childish ranting of neo-biafrians, they are effectively clogging the wheel of their political prosperity.

Nonsense.

For your information my dear friend, Biafra is deeply imbedded in the heart and soul of every Igbo soul since the civil war.
Call it neo-biafra or whatever suits you, it is real a real phenomenon.
Ipob, which started out as somewhat of a child's play, has rekindled and re-energized that latent nostalgia, thanks again to the high-handedness and murderous brutality of another Fulani feudal lord in power.

As for you, Fxxx your political prosperity.

We are very happy and proud to dream and agitate freedom from slavery and serfdom.
Keep your political prosperity.
Keep swallowing cow dung, be happy as a favoured serf, as long as political prosperity( whatever the fxx that means) is repeatedly dangled before you.

BTW, how is it going with your political prosperity ?

As per your last statement regarding war.
I feel ashamed to even address it.
Men shouldn't be talking to cowards.

First, why do you think war is necessary to protect or force Nigerian unity?
Do you think Nigeria is a united country?
Can you die to protect the so-called unity of Nigeria ?
If you are not willing to take up arms to fight and die for this feudal oligarchic contraption, then you should desist from speaking of war.

And yes, we IGBOS are very very very very PROUD to have faught, suffered losses and died for our freedom of self-determination.
We are even PROUDER that we are able to Rise from the ashes of war to wax even stronger.

Only an ignorant Igbophobe, and there are many, would still under-estimate the tenacity of IGBOS in the pursuit of goals, especially a goal as noble as self-determination.

Aonkuuse:
it is obvious when the south is in power, nobody will make noise but when any northerner comes in power. Niger delta militants and biafrans will spring up. Is that not greed for power and possessions? When your father is dumb, your mother is dumb I don't expect you to be bright. Village fool

The fact is Nigeria has been a dysfunctional state for a very long time.
There has been many attempts to build unity and national cohesion by building strong democratic institutions.
But from historical facts, it has always been northern elements that have tended to truncate attempts at unity and national cohesion through their inordinate greed for political power at the center.
This is not my opinion, but facts.

No matter what you think of OBJ and Jonathan, the 16years of democratic government under them witnessed economic progress, national cohesion and less NEPOTISM and ethnic rivalry.
So, it's understandable why every group adopted a wait and see attitude
Now, when the current president came to power, what were his first utterances and acts?
What is the current State of national unity and cohesion ?
Whose fault is it ?

And yes, Biafrans or Niger Deltans have the right to say that we are sick and tired of being relegated to political serfs under Hausa Fulani feudal fiefdom.

Kemperor:
That is why it is called a zoo...
Why can't you do things in a civilized way?
What happened to peaceful separation?
What happened to referendum?
Instead of the arewa youths to pressure their leaders to accept the separation and call for immediate referendum, they preferred to threaten the igbos... Meanwhile ever since the emergence of Biafra no one Northner has been threatened or told to leave East....
As a result of the foregoing, you can now identity and differentiate the reasoning capacity of both groups..

For your info the East ain't crying rather jubilating because what the awera youths did has quickened the process.. Guess what?... The world is watching.... Know why?.... Cos zoogeria is the most pupolar country in Africa..

Don't mind the morons.
They don't reason very well.

The threat from the faceless arewa youths is actually a catalyst for the eventual breakup of Nigeria.
I , for one, wish no southeasterner remain anywhere in the North.
Those who have properties there should mortgage them and redeploy their investments.

Aonkuuse:
Igbo make noise as if they dominate the south. Iam sure that biafra war break out because Aguiyi ironsi was over throne as military president. Greedy set of people

Do you know the definition of greed ?
I doubt you do.

A product of failed educational system and a failed state.
A failed reasoning ability.

Akiintom:
THE NORTH SHOWS LEADERSHIP.....

* When Terrorist Nnamdi Kanu set up a pirate radio station in April 2015, and started insulting President Buhari and northerners, calling them all manner of unprintable names, no state governor from the Southeast called for the arrest of the cantankerous rabble rouser, instead, as it later turned out, Nnamdi Kanu was just a front being used by Igbo politicians to intimidate, blackmail and subvert the President Buhari administration!

* When IPOB grew and became a platform on which every mentally deranged Igbo youth stood to insult the person of PMB and his supporters, we have not seen nor heard any Southeast governor or prominent leader call for caution!

* We have heard and seen from certain thugs, militants or terrorists from the South/South and Southeast worst statements of threats and insults against "parasites", usually a euphemism for northerners. But while all those threats and insults lasted, never have we heard or seen any governor from down that side rebuking or ordering the arrest of those miscreants!

* We have seen how the Southeast hired and commissioned a morally bankrupt hate merchant like Femi Fani-Kayode to be spewing hatred and insults on daily basis against President Buhari and northerners, to the point that an Igbo newspaper, DAILY SUN, gave him a column where he wrote hate-filled articles against PMB and the north, yet not once have we seen or heard any Southeast governor or prominent politician from that region condemn Fani-Kayode or even call for his arrest!

As a matter of fact, northern Nigeria has suffered incalculable insults, denigrations, and all manner of mischief from all such hate mongers since 1966 up to the conversion of Boko Haram to "Boko Haram", and yet there seems to be no letup on the undeserved attacks and insults against the north and its leaders. What you need to be a "hero" in some quarters is to demonstrate that you are an imp like Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose, and Nnamdi Kanu with undying thirst to fan hatred and mischief against PMB, and this visceral hatred against PMB by these sons of Lucifer is simply based on where he comes from, and we all know where their largest fan base is!

In spite of all that, it is condemnable that the Northern Youth Coalition chose to toe the path of IPOB, Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose and all the ragtag groups that speak for Terrorist Nnamdi Kanu by calling on the Igbo to leave the north within three months. It is understandable, anyway, the anger and frustration a group of people may feel when they are the subject of hatred and ridicule by people with overrated self importance, but in times like this, it is always expedient to keep a cool head and show leadership in just the same way Governor Nasir el-Rufai showed how venerable monger power he was, by asking that those northern youths who asked that the Igbo leave the north be arrested!

However, patriotism in a diverse, multi-ethnic, and multinational country like Nigeria should not, and cannot be a one way traffic. As much as it is wrong for northern youths to ask for the departure of any ethnic group from the south from the north, it is equally much wrong for any group from the south to claim monopoly of sectional bigotry. I have seen hypocrites celebrating their full scale hypocrisy by condemning what those northern youths coalition said whereas they are well known as ardent supporters of IPOB and their allied groups. Tit for tat ain't good but not everybody can endure persistent, unrelenting insults and regional blackmail.

El-Rufai has shown that in the midst of needless provocations, and dearth of leadership among the provocateurs, there is no leadership in the northern part of the country. And this is the same el-Rufai every slowpoke that adorns themselves with IPOB flags love to label as Hell-Rufai on social media.

Thanks for pouring out your hatred of Igbos.
But do you think you have made any sense in this garbled piece of nonsense ?
You know, any fool can also write volumes of garbled innuendos against any tribe, including yours, to justify dislike, loathing, envy or fear.
Like most Igbophobes , you failed to show how and when an Igbo or the Igbos ATE YOUR LUNCH.
You only succeeded in showing your deep inferiority complex.
And that is what it always boils down to: inferiority complex.

But more than that, it takes a very very shallow, very very weak and cowardly mind to come out on social media to proclaim hate for a people, an entire race that have committed no crime against you.
When Hausa Fulani slaughtered tens of people in Ketu last year, I guess your cowardly mind was in a cowardly coma to come out on social media to show your outrage or disgust.

When same Hausa Fulani slaughtered hundreds in Ife earlier this year, no one heard your cowardly voice on Nairaland. I guess you must have been preoccupied with more important matters, and no time to come online to berate the aggressors.
Is this a case of Stockholm's syndrome ?

If you think Igbos are your problems in life, then I urge you to stay in the North in the following months, and we wish you a happy union.

Now, for the record, Igbos have a legitimate right of self-determination.
The online rantings from insecure chickens and favored slaves of the Hausa Fulani feudal serfdom only makes Igbo more determined , and the goal more imperative.

gberra:
Apologize for?.. O.k oya sorry . I only wonder for how long it will last

Apology accepted.

Accept mine as well.

gberra:
I am grateful that you were able to justify the fact that you're just as daft.
I wouldn't have been irked if you were this a little sensible speaking in general terms unlike your initial comment that I struck out where you specifically alleged Israel as being the "worst."

Lol.


You started this fight, so apologize and let's move on.

gberra:
STFU & Gerrarahia nutjob!..Who's not aware of your crackass vituperations on Isreal/Palestinian conflict. I guess Palestinians are saintly notwithstanding Isreal's complicity.
Gambian ousted president Yayah Jameh committed one of the most dehumanizing crimes against humanity in modern history. I guess we must hold Isreal responsible too.

Dumbos everywhere forming I sabi... Radarada!

- Burn Yourself

Dumbo, let me rephrase my position in kindergarten language for you.

Africans, as a people who have been historically enslaved, oppressed and dehumanized, and still currently suffering from the traumas of those ages, we should not be the people fraternizing and hobnobbing with modern states or their leaders , any state, with institutionalized racism and oppression of any other race , tribe or people.

Simple enough for you ?
If you have a hard time comprehending this simple position, then you may have personal learning dissabilities that go way beyond this issue.