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Godfullsam: This biafra issue is past tense joor . Let's face the present situations of our country and plan for a way forward and not backward .
God bless nigeria

barcanista: Aburi or Aboki Accord, the koko is that Ojukwu lost out woefully in the power struggle.

barcanista: Aburi or Aboki Accord, the koko is that Ojukwu lost out woefully in the power struggle.

barcanista: Aburi or Aboki Accord, the koko is that Ojukwu lost out woefully in the power struggle.

justokey: How can we forget a defining incident such as the war? I think the reason the SS and SE are getting along recently is the open admission of the SS that they indeed made error of judgment at the time. If every major actor could come out and take responsibility for their actions then, the wounds will heal faster. Otherwise this mistrust will keep widening until we move apart.

LFJ: Barcanista. U are just a bad guy, I know you love saying the truth, I know that Ojukwu lost out in the power struggle, I know that no matter what u say, fo.o.ls would never allow the past to rest in peace.

Please, we need you to focus more on today and the project for our future than adding to the pains of those who are ignorant of the fact that the careless of our fathers is what is causing our headache today. Sadly, by our actions and thinkings, we are already preparing grounds that will cause headache to the coming generation.

APContherun: That my brother is the worst way to solve national and personal problems. You don't solve your problems by pretending and wishing away your past and the mistakes made therein. True the war was fought several decades back but we need to revisit it every now and then so as to undetstand the mistakes that led to the war. Nigeria is in its present situation because we have refused to learn from the mistakes of the past, it's undeniably that the events that caused the war then are rearing their ugly heads again and unfortunate that so many people are willingly urging them on.
Some say revisiting the war may reopen new wounds but I say that the wounds are still very fresh even more than 40 years and the best way to heal the wounds is to not repeat the mistakes of the past. We can only avoid the mistakes by knowing them and we can only know them by revisiting the war.

barcanista: Thank you. We need to let bygone be bygone, learn from the mistakes of the past and forge ahead. In this age that we are now, we shouldn't be preaching tribal sentiment nor ethno-championism(yea I may be guilty of this but it doesn't make it right). As long as a section of the young people continue to revisit the whole scenario with aim of the usual blame game, when we know the koko of the matter, Nigeria will be having problems-because these people interpret everything using the tribal card.

naijaking1:
That's Nigeria for you. The one who prepared well, did his home work, and made better points looses and the ill prepared ones pass. Can you see a pattern in our national life? If you passed your exam well, the person who didn't pass well gets to be promoted better than you, if you're honest the dishonest ones arebetter appre ciated because of tribalism and ethnicity. Too bad.

That my brother is the worst way to solve national and personal problems. You don't solve your problems by pretending and wishing away your past and the mistakes made therein. True the war was fought several decades back but we need to revisit it every now and then so as to undetstand the mistakes that led to the war. Nigeria is in its present situation because we have refused to learn from the mistakes of the past, it's undeniably that the events that caused the war then are rearing their ugly heads again and unfortunate that so many people are willingly urging them on.
Some say revisiting the war may reopen new wounds but I say that the wounds are still very fresh even more than 40 years and the best way to heal the wounds is to not repeat the mistakes of the past. We can only avoid the mistakes by knowing them and we can only know them by revisiting the war.

Godfullsam:
This biafra issue is past tense joor . Let's face the present situations of our country and plan for a way forward and not backward .
God bless nigeria

Orunto:
The Book of Proverbs: When you go for a meeting to discuss and agree on common problems, don't attend with MOTIVES. Attend with clear conscience so that deliberations and resolutions will be objective, purposeful and acceptable to all. Ojukwu was the most aggrieved, the cunniest and the most determined to get a selfish desire other than one of unity and a purposeful plan for integrated development of Nigeria. Azikwe, Awolowo, the recently dead Emir of Kano, Aminu Kano, Mbakwe, Shagari etc were all around then, why was no one of them invited to Aburi? Recklessness made them all lose focus. And the way the Igbos are making their case now is not only reckless but greedy. They are also cunningly trying to drag the Southsouth with them to make their always selfish case. God bless Nigeria!!!

Sergio103:
The poster above.

Thanks for resurrecting this thread.

And then I ask.....how will a nation bound under unpreparedness move forward??

The prepared one(Ojukwu) would have taken his people to a great height.

But the lazy ass unprepared one has to lead all to slow movement because never will they be prepared.

gidgiddy:
I commented on this thread last year, it is still in its second page

Had this thread been about what Ojukwu or another Igbo man did wrong in the national life of Nigeria, it would have had many pages

Aburi is one of the the major reasons Nigerian history will never be taught in schools, because to do that would be to reveal to all Nigerians that contrary to what they have always been told, that Ojukwu caused the war, Gowon actually did that.

Gowon and Ojukwu met in Ghana, talked and discussed for two days, reached an agreement, signed this agreement in front of the then President of Ghana, General Ankrah

Only for both men to return to Nigeria and Gowon broke the agreement they signed, which forced Ojukwu to declare Biafra, and the war followed

But the truth will always remain that had Gowon kept to that agreement, there would never have been any war

But Gowon could not keep to that agreement because it would have prevented him and his Northern cohorts from getting what they most wanted, the political domination of Nigeria

And they got it after the war, they still have it today

hotseat:
This unending ding-dong affair is tonic to a country not prepared to heal old wounds, learn from its mistakes and move forward.



Nigeria is not the only country that has gone into a civil war, but obviously the only one not prepared to let go of the painful memories which are the concomitants of any bloody conflict.



It is an ill wind that blows no good to the unity and cohesion of our beloved but beleaguered country.



Rwanda is a showcase for Nigeria and Nigerians.



It's high time we moved on!




However, all actors, particularly those at the helm of affairs, must imbibe the spirit of nationalism, oneness of purpose and the ultimate desire to make Nigeria truly the Giant of Africa!

hotseat:
This unending ding-dong affair is tonic to a country not prepared to heal old wounds, learn from its mistakes and move forward.



Nigeria is not the only country that has gone into a civil war, but obviously the only one not prepared to let go of the painful memories which are the concomitants of any bloody conflict.



It is an ill wind that blows no good to the unity and cohesion of our beloved but beleaguered country.



Rwanda is a showcase for Nigeria and Nigerians.



It's high time we moved on!




However, all actors, particularly those at the helm of affairs, must imbibe the spirit of nationalism, oneness of purpose and the ultimate desire to make Nigeria truly the Giant of Africa!

Sergio103:
Bro how can you let it go whereas more lie are being heaped on the wound.

Will the wound heal??

Till today, Nigeria controlled Media are still accusing Ojukwu of being the cause of the war and is making people believe such.

How can a grown man that calls himself a wise one go to meeting that determines the fate of millions without being prepared??.

How can a grown man of integrity dishonour an accord that was reached in another country in the presence of the president of the nation and many other leaders.

Till Nigeria accept the fact that they are the oppressor here......then I don't see a certain set removing the sloughs of the civil war

hotseat:
This unending ding-dong affair is tonic to a country not prepared to heal old wounds, learn from its mistakes and move forward.



Nigeria is not the only country that has gone into a civil war, but obviously the only one not prepared to let go of the painful memories which are the concomitants of any bloody conflict.



It is an ill wind that blows no good to the unity and cohesion of our beloved but beleaguered country.



Rwanda is a showcase for Nigeria and Nigerians.



It's high time we moved on!




However, all actors, particularly those at the helm of affairs, must imbibe the spirit of nationalism, oneness of purpose and the ultimate desire to make Nigeria truly the Giant of Africa!

BlackTechnology:
The real losers are the Southern minorities whose oil wealth is being siphoned

Imagine that most of your oil wells are owned by Northerners

Luak:
. Spirit of nationalism, oneness of purpose implies fairness, equity in distribution of political power. Look at the security architecture of Nigeria; where is the nationalism? That's just one example

Sergio103:
Bro how can you let it go whereas more lie are being heaped on the wound.

Will the wound heal??

Till today, Nigeria controlled Media are still accusing Ojukwu of being the cause of the war and is making people believe such.

How can a grown man that calls himself a wise one go to meeting that determines the fate of millions without being prepared??.

How can a grown man of integrity dishonour an accord that was reached in another country in the presence of the president of the nation and many other leaders.

Till Nigeria accept the fact that they are the oppressor here......then I don't see a certain set removing the sloughs of the civil war