₦airaland Forum

kingjis:
You should be ashamed of yourself
You don't even know how your coward awolowo died

Shame on you mumu

Regardless of how he died. He was greater than all the leaders your as.s region will ever produce as long as the earth remains.

Awoleesu:
That was what was thought of Buhari too... And despite his arguably bad antecedents, the general expectation was that he was going to move Nigeria to an enviable position...Alas! He turned out a catastrophe!

So, my friend, you wouldn't know since Awo never became...just as we wouldn't have known had Buhari never become now!

Awolowo had an example to show ,free education,free healthcare,housing ,busary,buhari had none expect the short period he had in 1983 to 1985 .

treatise:
It's a sacrilege to juxtapose Awo with Tinubu ; Tinubu should be compared with likes of Sugh Knight, Christopher Wallace, Pablo Escoba and others.

Word

kingyakos:
Political moses of the skull minners

And nemesis of the human flesh eaters. The bane of the cannibals. The koboko of long pig eaters.

Christistruth00:
Awolowo and Azikiwe requested for independence at least 20 years too early

But they meant well
Ahmadu Bello was more realistic when he admitted that the North was not ready for independence

With hindsight even the South was not ready for independence at the time

The southwest was ready for independence. A region that could have its own tv station before Spain and France was definitely ready. The north has always been backward, and Britain deliberately planted them to retard Nigeria's progress as a punishment for the guts of Awo and other southern activists to stand up to them (the f**king Brits).

Babysho:
The funny part is despite the Europeans stealing from us, they would have somehow still developed the oil industry compared to what we have now. Even the colonists in another country believed in development to bring profit. We Africans seek profit first before development in our own country. FEAR AFRICAN BUSINESSMEN.

Most things see on the island, most successful big companies you see at Ikoyi or Victoria Island, they're all handovers from Whites to Africans.

Check out what Britain did in Hong Kong naah. The place was developed like kilode. If those Brits had not left, Nigeria would have been far better than Dubai.

SlyDev:
Greediness of Igbos and Fulani cost this innocent man his life

"the only thing that bring Northern region and Eastern religion together is their hatred for the third region, western region"

It was more of hatred borne out of envy.

Nosayer:
If Awolowo's style of development was adopted throughout Nigeria, the country would have been free from any political upheaval aside from the rapid grassroots development that would have taken place.

A nation cannot develop if development is not from the grassroots to the centre. The one Nigeria ideology where we try to unite a nation with vast differences was the beginning of Nigeria's death.

Mutual relationship with a loose government at the centre would have instil people's confident in their respective regional government, the fear of domination by the minorities wouldn't have been there.

When development becomes equally distributed to some extent, detribalization would have been easier. But look at where we are.

Well said. Thank you.

SlyDev:
Greediness of Igbos and Fulani cost this innocent man his life

"the only thing that bring Northern region and Eastern religion together is their hatred for the third region, western region"

Aje..

This man was hated by his own people...Yoruba people then betray him

kingjis:
Awolowo the coward,the back stabber

The mr rat poison

Lol

This are stories your grandfather told you right

Hallabee1:
Aje..

This man was hated by his own people...Yoruba people then betray him

Lies ,igbos hated him so much ,azikiwe was so jealous of his achievement ,he went to patner with northners ,they all made it impossible for him to get to rule Nigeria and replicate the same thing.He was a great man,he built all those things you see today with cocoa money.First tallest building in west Africa cocoa house,first television station,the current Nigeria house in london is cocoa money NTA formely wntv was cocoa money.

Awolowo was a victim of vicious betral by Azikiwe and the Igbos.

Azikiwe betrayed Awolowo because he couldn't become the Premier of Western region.

Azikiwe in partnership with the North led the Division of the Powerful Western Nigeria region into Mid-West ( Delta-Edo) to steal Crude oil of the West to the North and East using the ethnic Minorities as tools.

Awolowo premier of Western Nigeria region was building sky scrappers, building universities and industries while the North and East concentrated on Nepotism, Religious bigotry, Corruption and Military coups to steal the resources of the productive West.

Today the IGR of the West is stolen
Oil Wells stolen
Development stunted
Poverty very high
Seaport and resources all stolen and taken one way or the other by the North and East.

The Western Region must be restabliahed and the Constitution truncated by the East which is the Regional Constitution must be brought back.

BSdetective:
Descendants of ojukwu shouldn't call men who stood their grounds cowards...... especially when ojukwu ran off disguised as a wh0re through the border after sacrificing 3mill of his dumb kinsmen as ground manure.

chimoo

yemmit90:
Exactly, he was the only visionary leader Nigeria has ever produced. He would've been successful if not for his too much love for south west and regional politics.

This is what differentiates him and Tinubu. Unlike Tinubu flexible/accommodating style, Awo political ideology is too rigid, conservative, and meritocratic for the then corrupt military government to have confidence in.

The British did not want someone as intelligent and wise as Awolowo, a brilliant lawyer and prolific author of political books to become the Head of State of NIgeria. They were scared by his outstanding achievements as the first Premier of the Western Region. He gave scholarships to Yorùbá students to study overseas and prepared them for nation building. That is the why the Western Region is the most advanced region in Nigeria.

what a man sow that he will get in return.
Read his account in the civil war.
He was paid back in his own coin.

CanadaOrBust:
Myopic. If UK had found oil in Nigeria u think they would have ever left? Leave trillions of dollars and go home? No way

Fact.

Rest on Great Awo

olas24u:
Awolowo had an example to show ,free education,free healthcare,housing ,busary,buhari had known expect the short period he had in 1983 to 1985 .

You're right!




The reason I said despite Buhari's "arguably bad precedents"...

walefresh3:
Why all dis stress old man ?

e concern you?? young man?read and jump pass,you don't have to comment or quote anyone,just slide off.lazy youth

The South should have requested their own independence and allowed the North to have their own country when they are ready.

Christistruth00:
Awolowo and Azikiwe requested for independence at least 20 years too early

But they meant well
Ahmadu Bello was more realistic when he admitted that the North was not ready for independence

With hindsight even the South was not ready for independence at the time

Who let the dog out?

SlyDev:
Greediness of Igbos and Fulani cost this innocent man his life

"the only thing that bring Northern region and Eastern religion together is their hatred for the third region, western region"

olas24u:
Awolowo had an example to show ,free education,free healthcare,housing ,busary,buhari had none expect the short period he had in 1983 to 1985 .

Actually, Buhari also had an example in that short period. His policies were bad, things got expensive , the economy was in the mud. People pointed it out to us then , but majority never listened. We were only obsessed with the disciplinary nonsense he displayed then, and the APC media team used it to overshadow his bad performance as a military head if state.

Infact, it was one if the reasons that he got overthrown as an head of state and only spent a very short time of 2 yrs.


Ian summary, the red flag was there , as regards his handling of the economy, but people ignored it, thinking that fighting corruption will automatically translate to good economy

Eriokanmi:
Pa Awo, the man who made a great mistake of unifying Nigeria. He later realised this mistake when it was already too late.

it was not yet late for him to take a stand,after ojukwu release him from calabar prison he had the opportunity to correct his mistake but he chooses to be the minister of finance

Who are the Yoruba man who stood their grounds when Ojukwu ran off? And when did he ran off as a LovePeddler through border and which border? Can we conduct a survey to ascertain among Ndigbo whether they support your hypothesis that Ojukwu "sacrificed 3 millions of his kinsmen"

BSdetective:
Descendants of ojukwu shouldn't call men who stood their grounds cowards...... especially when ojukwu ran off disguised as a wh0re through the border after sacrificing 3mill of his dumb kinsmen as ground manure.

The confusion about the Olu of Warri and the whole problem between the Urhobos and Itsekhiri was caused by this man

"Awolowo recognized this and moved for a secession clause to be included in the new constitution BUT Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it and even reported Awolowo to the British as a saboteur - infact he personally wrote section 86 which makes any move for secession a treasonable offense"

Question #1
Do you understand the word " rejected"? How did Azikiwe reject the inclusion of secession clause when he was not in charge of the process of determining the inclusion or rejection of the secession clause in the constitution?

Question #2
When did Zik personally write section 86?

27Pushing30:
1. We are backward because of the north … they did not want independence; the south did this from the beginning we were incompatible .

2. After enahoro moved the motion for independence in 1953… there were riots in the north with many southerners killed —- this was the first indicator that they (the north) were committed to being under British rule - Awolowo recognized this and moved for a secession clause to be included in the new constitution BUT Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it and even reported Awolowo to the British as a saboteur - infact he personally wrote section 86 which makes any move for secession a treasonable offense!
https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/04/27/flashback-why-i-opposed-awolowo-on-secession-zik/?amp=1

Funny how Azikiwe later realized his ignorance during the civil war but it was too late.

I’m telling you that based on section 86 Nigeria can never break up unless the ENTIRE south wants it and are willing to shed blood for it… not SE , SS or SW individually but the whole SOUTH as an entity .

So NO we did not request independence too early … we only had one visionary leader- Awolowo - the others were ignorant

How about One million? Will that satisfy your conscience that millions died?

georgeakins:
I don't really believe that those that died were up to 3m. Where did they bury the 3m corpses?

Ibos like lying and exaggerating petty things.

That car worth around €1M now
Vintage cars Abi Wetin dem dey call them

phemmyfour:
Amalgamation was in 1914, that was when the entity called Nigeria was put together.

Independence of Nigeria not Lagos or Arewa is what we are talking about here. The independence was [/b]a joint effort of the North and South

Why then are they screaming that they joined two unrelated regions together? The South and the North made efforts?


By the way, we don't calculate British colonialism when Nigeria came into existence. We calculate it when the influence of British imperialists started in the areas now called Nigeria.

BSdetective:
Awo the visionary. If I had the means I'd buy this car and keep it in my collection.

auction for 1billion naira

Abdul05:
if this man chief awo had successfully taken the reins of power in the 60s..

I don't think dis country will look like this..
messed up in a big way...


By now...we should be comparing ourself with the western contrees ..


But ..greed and corruption are being
rife and Nepotism is still the order of the day ..

Is the SW region he headed competing with the best countries out their?

He started political party decamping which is a flaw in his leadership and political character.

olas24u:
Tbey discovered oil 40 years back and were already stealing the oil before independence ,this is old story o,there are documents that proved they discovered oil before ilobiri discovery,sont fall mugu

DMerciful:
Does South Africa have oil? SA got their independence around 1990 and they were better for it as the whites were able to develop it

Cromagnon:
they did, in 1956

Christistruth00:
It was the British that found oil in Nigeria

Enceladus:


The British found oil way way back. So you think Oloibiri story is true? Go and read.

There is oil then there is oil. Oil boom in Nigeria occurred well after the British left. And even first measly oil production in 1958 occurred well after the British had already committed and promised to leave. If it wasn’t for the oil boom Nigeria would have gladly let Eastern Nigeria go or at least have a confederation. East would not have been worth fighting for. Same way, if Britain were in charge when oil boom arrived they would NEVER have left, unless they totally detest tons of cash, which we know they don’t!