₦airaland Forum

The Northerners i e Hausa-Fulanis were the first to attempt to divide Nigeria before independence but they were pacified with the Prime Minister position by the Dr Azikiwe led NCNC. They again wanted to divide Nigeria after the General Gowon led counter coup in 1966 but they were advised by the British to.keep it together. The initial war cry was Araba meaning breakup but Major General Ogundipe the most senior military man still alive left the country to.the UK to become the High commissioner and General Gowon a leader among the coupists became the head of state and convinced Chief Awolowo of the west to support him.
The next attempt to break up the country was when General Gowon broke up the Eastern region with the creation of more states in Nigeria. Colonel Ojukwu the head of the Eastern region did not agree and war broke out. Another attempt was the Gideon Orkar led coup d'etat against General Babangida's government.
The Boko Haram too are spiritedly trying to break up the country but the oil money holding the country together has not allowed them to succeed. Their complain is that western civilization is our undoing and they want to return to the glorious era of the Kanem Borno.
The only major group yet to champion the breakup of Nigeria are the Yoruba but they came close to doing so after the state murder of Bashorun Abiola who won the Presidency and was in detention. It is needless to restate that if the floor was not left to the Yoruba alone in 1999 for the Presidency, there would at least have been a civil war in Nigeria and the powers that be will know the right people to support.

I don't know why Hausa people are afraid. When we break up we will still trade with each just like we are right now. The only difference is we won't allow them to come and dictate to Yoruba people to release a Fulani man that has killed a Yoruba man apart from that. We will be under west African trade agreement.

slimfit1:
I don't know why Hausa people are afraid. When we break up we will still trade with each just like we are right now. The only difference is we won't allow them to come and dictate to Yoruba people to release a Fulani man that has killed a Yoruba man apart from that. We will be under west African trade agreement.

Hausa should look to Niger for reunification. The Hausa in Niger are living in a better state than Nigeria.

lawani:
Hausa should look to Niger for reunification. The Hausa in Niger are living in a better state than Nigeria.

When we asked for a break-up so that everybody could live their life accordingly, you people said no. After using our cotton and groundnut money to discover oil, you think we should foolishly accept your agitation that everybody should go their separate ways? Just as our resources were used as a national cake, the oil we now rely on must continue to be used as a national cake too.
And for candid advice, no part of Nigeria will be allowed to leave; we are together till the kingdom comes. Not now that we have managed and perfected our hegemony over you. We will consider the Yoruba with power at least, but for the Igbo, they have to pay for the atrocities committed when they took arms against the establishment, of Nigeria in 1966.

gawu1:
When we asked for a break-up so that everybody could live their life accordingly, you people said no. After using our cotton and groundnut money to discover oil, you think we should foolishly accept your agitation that everybody should go their separate ways? Just as our resources were used as a national cake, the oil we now rely on must continue to be used as a national cake too.
And for candid advice, no part of Nigeria will be allowed to leave; we are together till the kingdom comes. Not now that we have managed and perfected our hegemony over you. We will consider the Yoruba with power at least, but for the Igbo, they have to pay for the atrocities committed when they took arms against the establishment, of Nigeria in 1966.

If you say national money was used to discover oil which is debateable becaise oil companies are the discoverers, what about southern money that was used regularly for the North before independence when tax collection in the North was nothing to write home about?. Then if Nigeria remains one, nobody can prevent an Igbo presidency. Remember Peter Obi won in Lagos. It can not be prevented in a democratic setting. The hegemony you talked about can only work in a non democratic setting not in a democracy. If you thinl there is any hegemony now, you deceive yourself. The three biggest nations in Nigeria should be managing their own affairs. They are too big to be together. They should have their own country with own official languages

gawu1:
When we asked for a break-up so that everybody could live their life accordingly, you people said no. After using our cotton and groundnut money to discover oil, you think we should foolishly accept your agitation that everybody should go their separate ways? Just as our resources were used as a national cake, the oil we now rely on must continue to be used as a national cake too.
And for candid advice, no part of Nigeria will be allowed to leave; we are together till the kingdom comes. Not now that we have managed and perfected our hegemony over you. We will consider the Yoruba with power at least, but for the Igbo, they have to pay for the atrocities committed when they took arms against the establishment, of Nigeria in 1966.

Remind me again why Lugard joined the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914 to form ‘one Nigeria’!?

gawu1:
When we asked for a break-up so that everybody could live their life accordingly, you people said no. After using our cotton and groundnut money to discover oil, you think we should foolishly accept your agitation that everybody should go their separate ways? Just as our resources were used as a national cake, the oil we now rely on must continue to be used as a national cake too.
And for candid advice, no part of Nigeria will be allowed to leave; we are together till the kingdom comes. Not now that we have managed and perfected our hegemony over you. We will consider the Yoruba with power at least, but for the Igbo, they have to pay for the atrocities committed when they took arms against the establishment, of Nigeria in 1966.

You cotton and groundnut money? Back in the 50's when Oil was discovered in commercial quantities in the Eastern Region, every Region controlled their resources

And I don't remember reading anywhere that the Northern Region gave the East any money to develop oil

Nigeria will eventually break up, it is a failed country, and no failed country has long term prospects