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I recently bumped into a thread by a Yoruba propaganda merchant trying to twist history as usual on why Zik and NCNC went into alliance with NPC instead of with AG.

I am normally passive these days in this forum, but I felt that propaganda shouldn't be allowed to slide without being squashed.
This present Igbo generation cannot afford the same mistake our parents who left media to a certain Igbo hateful people, who then used the media to commit calumny against us while presenting themselves as angels.

As I had forecast,the NPC won the majority of seats in the House of Representatives.The NCNC came next in the number of seats won and the Action Group came last.There followed political manoeuvres for the formation of a new federal government.

The Action Group sent emissaries to the NCNC and a four man team of the Action Group arrived at my home in Asaba at about 2 O'clock one morning, informing me that they had been sent by their party to meet Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and the NCNC to discuss a coalition government between the NCNC and Action Group.

I was to lead them to Dr Azikiwe who was then at his home across the River Niger at Onitsha.I telephoned Dr Azikiwe and at about 6am ,the Action Group delegates and I crossed the Niger by ferry to Onitsha (the Niger Bridge had not yet been built).

After a short discussion with Zik in his home at Onitsha an NCNC Central Working Committee was summoned to meet at Onitsha.During the ensuing discussion on a possible coalition with the Action Group in the Federal Parliament,Sir Ahmadu Bello,Sardauna of Sokoto and the leader of the NPC phoned Dr Azikiwe from Kaduna and informed him that he had with him Action Group emissaries who were asking to form a coalition government with the NPC.

Dr Azikiwe informed Sir Ahmadu that the Action Group were at Onitsha with us too.That was too much for the NCNC and NPC and it was decided that the coalition must be between the NPC and NCNC.The NPC/NCNC coalition government was accordingly formed.

The Action Group became the Opposition in the Federal Parliament and Chief Obafemi Awolowo became the leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives.

Building a Nation by Dennis C.Osadebay

Page 79-80

A picture of the book written by the Premier of defunct Mid west region, Dennis Osadebay on this subject matter that I quoted above

As you can see, Zik was eager to form an alliance with AG and Awolowo, but Awolowo in typical Yoruba style was not interested in forming alliance with Zik and NCNC, he was only testing waters to see who is the stronger side between Zik NCNC and Balewa NPC to determine who to put pitch tent with.
He was negotiating with Zik , but he sent Akintola and his Entourage to North to negotiate with Saraduna and Balewa.
That's the nature of people from that part of Nigeria and Zik understood the game well.


Unfortunately Ojukwu was young, naive and worst still distanced himself from wise council of elders like Zik and Uwaechue during the Biafra debacle, and he put all his hope on Awolowo supporting the East or staying Neutral.
But Awolowo in his typical people style had weighed up the East and the North and decided that the North were better positioned and immediately pitched his tent with them.
Ojukwu got played because he was young and naive.
Zik is older, wiry and better judge of character so he he read Awolowo and his people well enough, not just pre 1966, but also in the second republic in 1979 and 1983 when he made himself a beautiful bride and choose to go into coalition with NPN, leaving power drunk and scheming Awo once again behind.

When these people open these useless threads to talk about how Zik chose the North over them, just know it's them crying that Zik didn't put himself in position to be played by them like Ojukwu did.

Ndweonu.

The same people who betrayed GEJ in modern day to bring the disaster Buhari.

Is that why Zik also want to be premier of Western region?

DMerciful:
The same people who betrayed GEJ in modern day to bring the disaster Buhari.

2011 have been erased from your calendar

Lol.
When you make a choice, stand by it. Don't attempt to rewrite history to rationalize your choice. (Just like Jan 66 coup)
NCNC had majority vote (and 2nd majority seats) while NPC had majority seats (and 3rd majority votes); meaning both are the real contenders for Leadership/Prime minister. How the first agreed to become 2nd to his rival rather than be the Premier is still a subject of research (doesn't make sense).
All parties negotiate. It was why Zik "picked call" while still negotiating. Same as is done everywhere. Don't try to be clever by half!
Nothing wrong with losing out and forming formidable opposition rather than subjugate your might under a rival!
Check UK, Canada...
Some are just scared of being opposition, even up until now! (Yet call others cowards!)
The rest is history.
Even after combining thier strength, they felt threatened by Awo, thereby creating Midwest and interfered in western politics.

Zik went north, and not only did he rise to become Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief, but he also lived a full 92 years, respected, and honored till his last breath.

Aguiyi Ironsi went west, and not only did he lose his life, but he was brutally slaughtered in the supposed heart and capital of the west ,Ibadan—at the mere age of 42. No legacy, no honor, no justice
And as if that wasn't enough, the same west that watched his murder engineered a civil war, painting blood across the land while washing its own hands clean.

Now, know the difference. One walked away with power and longevity; the other, a tragic end and historical betrayal.

Buccalcavity2:
Lol.
When you make a choice, stand by it. Don't attempt to rewrite history to rationalize your choice. (Just like Jan 66 coup)
NCNC had majority vote (and 2nd majority seats) while NPC had majority seats (and 3rd majority votes); meaning both are the real contenders for Leadership/Prime minister. How the first agreed to become 2nd to his rival rather than be the Premier is still a subject of research (doesn't make sense).
All parties negotiate. It was why Zik "picked call" while still negotiating. Same as is done everywhere. Don't try to be clever by half!
Nothing wrong with losing out and forming formidable opposition rather than subjugate your might under a rival!
Check UK, Canada...
Some are just scared of being opposition, even up until now! (Yet call others cowards!)
The rest is history.
Even after combining thier strength, they felt threatened by Awo, thereby creating Midwest and interfered in western politics.

Treachery run in your blood, so I'm not surprised.
When you sit in a table telling someone you want to form an alliance with him, it's only normal to assume you have already weighed up your options and decided that this person is the best to form an alliance with.
You don't sit on a table, telling someone to form an alliance with you, while sitting on table with his rival talking about alliance too.
That's treachery, if it's not treachery, you would tell the person you are also in discussions with his rivals, but you wouldn't do that because you are a treacherous, unreliable and untrustworthy people, you see these traits as normal while in my culture, these traits are frowned upon, we cherish straightforwardness. When the Igbo tell you they are with you, they will follow you to the moon and back.
Zik already anticipated Awolowo move, that's why he had an Informant within NPC base to keep him abreast of issues.
If Zik had not received news of Awolowo trying to be the sneaky "baskard" he was all his life, he would have happily formed an alliance with him.

So it's obvious the NCNC-AG alliance failed because of Awolowo treachery.
This is history as we know it. You Yorubas should embrace it and stop trying to twist issues.
You no longer have monopoly of the media, we will always be here squash your propaganda.

Please no Yoruba should get into this conversation.... Everybody knows whom the igbos are already. Allow them merry in their folly.

alanto:
Please no Yoruba should get into this conversation.... Everybody knows whom the igbos are already. Allow them merry in their folly.

When your lies are not allowed to stand, this is how you cry.
Cry more.

helinues:
Is that why Zik also want to be premier of Western region?

That occurred years before the event in question.

pazienza:
Treachery run in your blood, so I'm not surprised.
When you sit in a table telling someone you want to form an alliance with him, it's only normal to assume you have already weighed up your options and decided that this person is the best to form an alliance with.
You don't sit on a table, telling someone to form an alliance with you, while sitting on table with his rival talking about alliance too.
That's treachery, if it's not treachery, you would tell the person you are also in discussions with his rivals, but you wouldn't do that because you are a treacherous, unreliable and untrustworthy people, you see these traits as normal while in my culture, these traits are frowned upon, we cherish straightforwardness. When the Igbo tell you they are with you, they will follow you to the moon and back.
Zik already anticipated Awolowo move, that's why he had an Informant within NPC base to keep him abreast of issues.
If Zik had not received news of Awolowo trying to be the sneaky "baskard" he was all his life, he would have happily formed an alliance with him.

So it's obvious the NCNC-AG alliance failed because of Awolowo treachery.
This is history as we know it. You Yorubas should embrace it and stop trying to twist issues.
You no longer have monopoly of the media, we will always be here squash your propaganda.

When they say we Igbos are not 'wise', this is what they mean. Better to be foolish than to have that kind of wisdom.

pazienza:
Treachery run in your blood, so I'm not surprised.
When you sit in a table telling someone you want to form an alliance with him, it's only normal to assume you have already weighed up your options and decided that this person is the best to form an alliance with.
You don't sit on a table, telling someone to form an alliance with you, while sitting on table with his rival talking about alliance too.
That's treachery, if it's not treachery, you would tell the person you are also in discussions with his rivals, but you wouldn't do that because you are a treacherous, unreliable and untrustworthy people, you see these traits as normal while in my culture, these traits are frowned upon, we cherish straightforwardness. When the Igbo tell you they are with you, they will follow you to the moon and back.
Zik already anticipated Awolowo move, that's why he had an Informant within NPC base to keep him abreast of issues.
If Zik had not received news of Awolowo trying to be the sneaky "baskard" he was all his life, he would have happily formed an alliance with him.

So it's obvious the NCNC-AG alliance failed because of Awolowo treachery.
This is history as we know it. You Yorubas should embrace it and stop trying to twist issues.
You no longer have monopoly of the media, we will always be here squash your propaganda.

I'm sure you watched that video. Those who plotted the game owned up. Forget about what Zik told people, the fact is that he supported NPC to save himself from going to jail for fraud. Simple. It has nothing to do with Awolowo also sending people to NPC for negotiations. Ahmadu Bello new about the directive of the British that Zik must work with the North. The lie that Awolowo was double negotiating (nothing is wrong with this though, because Zik too was double negotiating) have stayed for too long and has been bursted finally.
I'm sure you don't expect Zik to tell the world the real reasons why he didn't become the Prime Minister that he campaign for years to become. He had a fraud case hanging on his neck, the British got hold of that and blackmail. Now it's so clear to me.

pazienza:
Treachery run in your blood, so I'm not surprised.
When you sit in a table telling someone you want to form an alliance with him, it's only normal to assume you have already weighed up your options and decided that this person is the best to form an alliance with.
You don't sit on a table, telling someone to form an alliance with you, while sitting on table with his rival talking about alliance too.
That's treachery, if it's not treachery, you would tell the person you are also in discussions with his rivals, but you wouldn't do that because you are a treacherous, unreliable and untrustworthy people, you see these traits as normal while in my culture, these traits are frowned upon, we cherish straightforwardness. When the Igbo tell you they are with you, they will follow you to the moon and back.
Zik already anticipated Awolowo move, that's why he had an Informant within NPC base to keep him abreast of issues.
If Zik had not received news of Awolowo trying to be the sneaky "baskard" he was all his life, he would have happily formed an alliance with him.

So it's obvious the NCNC-AG alliance failed because of Awolowo treachery.
This is history as we know it. You Yorubas should embrace it and stop trying to twist issues.
You no longer have monopoly of the media, we will always be here squash your propaganda.

The Awolowo alliance would have made Zik the Prime Minister, rather than becoming the hapless ceremonial Governor-General that he became. That British guy was laughing at Zik, deriding him for waiting for the Field Marsha Military Medal that never came, a shock to me given the level of education and intelligence of Zik.
It's therefore obvious that the unseen hand that changed Zik destiny was his fraud case that the British successfully used to blackmail him.
Please go watch that video and and stop been a revisionist.

The reason why ibos are in bondage tday or their 4th class citizenship today was because of the shortsightedness of zik! Only elders will agree with me, I don’t expect these new headless obituaries to know.

Awolowo's legacies are numerous, lots of innovations
that were first in Africa, Asia and some parts of Europe, Azikiwe despised him, conspired to throw him in jail for treason, despite all these, you ran away from the North and Awolowo was put in charge of the destinies of Igbos during the war! Talk about IRONY!!
Did he discharge his duties with bitterness? History says no, he made Igbo return to the South West as smooth as possible, going out of his way to secure abandoned properties, you friggin got 20 pounds!
Show me ANY COUNTRY in the world that fought a civil war and gave out money, just ONE!
I can just imagine if reverse is the case, would Azikiwe have been so magnanimous?

Lifestone:
I'm sure you watched that video. Those who plotted the game owned up. Forget about what Zik told people, the fact is that he supported NPC to save himself from going to jail for fraud. Simple. It has nothing to do with Awolowo also sending people to NPC for negotiations. Ahmadu Bello new about the directive of the British that Zik must work with the North. The lie that Awolowo was double negotiating (nothing is wrong with this though, because Zik too was double negotiating) have stayed for too long and has been bursted finally.
I'm sure you don't expect Zik to tell the world the real reasons why he didn't become the Prime Minister that he campaign for years to become. He had a fraud case hanging on his neck, the British got hold of that and blackmail. Now it's so clear to me.

The video is irrelevant.
I had provided an eye witness account of events that transpired and led to Zik rejecting Awolowo alliance.
Are you trying to justify Awolowo treachery?

StaffofOrayan:
Awolowo's legacies are numerous, lots of innovations
that were first in Africa, Asia and some parts of Europe, Azikiwe despised him, conspired to throw him in jail for treason, despite all these, you ran away from the North and Awolowo was put in charge of the destinies of Igbos during the war! Talk about IRONY!!
Did he discharge his duties with bitterness? History says no, he made Igbo return to the South West as smooth as possible, going out of his way to secure abandoned properties, you friggin got 20 pounds!
Show me ANY COUNTRY in the world that fought a civil war and gave out money, just ONE!
I can just imagine if reverse is the case, would Azikiwe have been so magnanimous?

What legacy? Legacy of tribalism, of failed bids to overthrow Balewa and later IBB government?

You lots are allergic to the truth and that's why the country will not progress.
The one who plotted to get Awolowo jailed was Akintola. He was in alliance with Balewa and Saraduna and they exposed Awolowo crime of embezzlement of Western region funds during Coker Commission.
Awolowo was tried, found guilty of diverting western region funds to his AG party expenses and his flamboyant lifestyle of private jets and all.

Akintola and Awolowo family were also fighting over the coca cola distribution rights in Western region, it was all greed and the end result was that the Western region went up in conflict known in history as "Wild wild west" and "Operation wetie".

It's pathetic when you Yorubas try to rope Zik into your issues.
Zik was many years ahead of Awolowo in education and accomplishments, if anything it was Awolowo who envied Ziks high heights!

Not only did Awolowo discharge his duties with bitterness, he did so with ultimate wickedness.
He endorsed the use of starvation as weapon of war against Biafran children, and he ensured that the 3Rs proposed for the rebuilding of the East after the war didn't take place, instead everything was channeled towards Lagos!

If Awolowo had a switch button to press and wipe Ndiigbo off the earth surface, he would have, but God was bigger than the man with tiger crawl facial marks.
Ndiigbo survived all Awolowo threw at us during the war and after the war when he inspired Indigenization policy that handed Nigerian economy to the Yoruba elites right after he made sure Igbo elites couldn't participate through the 20 pounds policy.

Awolowo was a wicked soul but his evil plans for Ndiigbo all failed.
All those companies they stole through Indigenization policy, the Yorubas being poor managers of business ran them all moribund and plunged the country into economic crisis with sky rocketing unemployment. Most old money in Yorubaland have their roots in that Indigenization policy heist while the Igbo were forced to go into petty trading to restock capital to be able to make any comeback into the formal sector of the Nigerian economy.

Even as evil as Hitler Germany was, the allied forces restituted Germany back to economic force through the Marshall plan, but instead of same for the East, Awolowo out of bitterness went for wickedness. Zero marshall plan was made to restitute the Eastern economy that was the fastest economy in Africa before the war. And he and FG facilitated and endorsed the abandoned property saga in old Rivers state to further cripple the Igbo economically while making sure our relationship with the Eastern minorities became forever damaged and beyond repair. That's how evil and bitter Awolowo was.

pazienza:
The video is irrelevant.
I had provided an eye witness account of events that transpired and led to Zik rejecting Awolowo alliance.
Are you trying to justify Awolowo treachery?

Indeed, an eye witness only reported the lie that Zik told him. Think about it, Zik campaigned all his life to become the Prime Minister, he has the offer to become one, then he rejected it and rather strangely settled for ceremonial Governor-General.
The only rational thing here is that he succumbed to fear because of the financial fraud he committed which the British used against him.
I'm sure Awolowo would have been shocked to the bone marrow by this strange decision. Unfortunately, both Awolowo, Okpara, Enahoro and Osadebey had died before the truth was finally revealed.
Awolowo did not commit any treachery. Now we know what truly transpired.

Since when has it become a crime in politics to have discussions with multiple associates before settling for the best?

Anything Yoruba does is treachery, when others do it, it's politics.

If what you wrote is the truth, why did Michael Okpara said that he regrets advising Zik to form alliance with the north instead of the west?

pazienza:
What legacy? Legacy of tribalism, of failed bids to overthrow Balewa and later IBB government?

You lots are allergic to the truth and that's why the country will not progress.
The one who plotted to get Awolowo jailed was Akintola. He was in alliance with Balewa and Saraduna and they exposed Awolowo crime of embezzlement of Western region funds during Coker Commission.
Awolowo was tried, found guilty of diverting western region funds to his AG party expenses and his flamboyant lifestyle of private jets and all.

Akintola and Awolowo family were also fighting over the coca cola distribution rights in Western region, it was all greed and the end result was that the Western region went up in conflict known in history as "Wild wild west" and "Operation wetie".

It's pathetic when you Yorubas try to rope Zik into your issues.
Zik was many years ahead of Awolowo in education and accomplishments, if anything it was Awolowo who envied Ziks high heights!

Not only did Awolowo discharge his duties with bitterness, he did so with ultimate wickedness.
He endorsed the use of starvation as weapon of war against Biafran children, and he ensured that the 3Rs proposed for the rebuilding of the East after the war didn't take place, instead everything was channeled towards Lagos!

If Awolowo had a switch button to press and wipe Ndiigbo off the earth surface, he would have, but God was bigger than the man with tiger crawl facial marks.
Ndiigbo survived all Awolowo threw at us during the war and after the war when he inspired Indigenization policy that handed Nigerian economy to the Yoruba elites right after he made sure Igbo elites couldn't participate through the 20 pounds policy.

Awolowo was a wicked soul but his evil plans for Ndiigbo all failed.
All those companies they stole through Indigenization policy, the Yorubas being poor managers of business ran them all moribund and plunged the country into economic crisis with sky rocketing unemployment. Most old money in Yorubaland have their roots in that Indigenization policy heist while the Igbo were forced to go into petty trading to restock capital to be able to make any comeback into the formal sector of the Nigerian economy.

Even as evil as Hitler Germany was, the allied forces restituted Germany back to economic force through the Marshall plan, but instead of same for the East, Awolowo out of bitterness went for wickedness. Zero marshall plan was made to restitute the Eastern economy that was the fastest economy in Africa before the war. And he and FG facilitated and endorsed the abandoned property saga in old Rivers state to further cripple the Igbo economically while making sure our relationship with the Eastern minorities became forever damaged and beyond repair. That's how evil and bitter Awolowo was.

Your comments reeks of everything we know about the Igbos, somebody else is always responsible for their problems, it didn't start today. Zik stole money from the government he led, got found out, the British used it against him you blamed Awolowo, Ojukwu led his people to a senseless war, a war he was not prepared for, he had no weapon, no foreign power support, he has no money of his own, has no food to feed his people, yet he blamed others whom he was fighting for not giving him money and food, the little food that entered Biafraland for the civilians were stolen by Ojukwu and his soldiers, yet you and your fore fathers continue to blame others, you humiliated and oppressed the minority tribes when they were under the old Eastern region, yet when they refused to follow your wayward Biafra, you blamed others, they seize your properties in PH, but all your properties in Yorubaland were kept and release to you after the war, yet you are here bleeping and blaming Yoruba for properties that were seized in PH, you by yourself change your currency making all the money you had before the start of the war useless, yet you blamed others rather than admitting your waywardness.
We know you guys already, this is still showing till today, Chest beating, lack of accountability and responsibility.

JAMO84:
Since when has it become a crime in politics to have discussions with multiple associates before settling for the best?

Anything Yoruba does is treachery, when others do it, it's politics.

If what you wrote is the truth, why did Michael Okpara said that he regrets advising Zik to form alliance with the north instead of the west?

My Brother, Micheal Okpara did not know what was going on under. No one in his right senses will reject becoming a Prime Minister (which Zik campaigned for) and accept to become Governor-General, Okpara too was in a game he knew not. He was used by Zik, simple.
No amount of speeches would have changed anything, the British had Zik tied up already because of fraud. Zik used everybody.

Lifestone:
My Brother, Micheal Okpara did not know what was going on under. No one in his right senses will reject becoming a Prime Minister (which Zik campaigned for) and accept to become Governor-General, Okpara too was in a game he knew not. He was used by Zik, simple.
No amount of speeches would have changed anything, the British had Zik tied up already because of fraud. Zik used everybody.

I thought as much.

The British had his nudes

Lifestone:
Your comments reeks of everything we know about the Igbos, somebody else is always responsible for their problems, it didn't start today. Zik stole money from the government he led, got found out, the British used it against him you blamed Awolowo, Ojukwu led his people to a senseless war, a war he was not prepared for, he had no weapon, no foreign power support, he has no money of his own, has no food to feed his people, yet be blamed others whom he was fighting for not giving him money and food, the little food that entered Biafraland for the civilians were stolen by Ojukwu and his soldiers, yet you and your fore fathers continue to blame others, you humiliated and oppressed the minority tribes when they were under the old Eastern region, yet when they refused to follow your wayward Biafra, you blamed others, they seize your properties in PH, but all your properties in Yorubaland were kept and release to you after the war, yet you are here bleeping and blaming Yoruba for properties that were seized in PH, you by yourself change your currency making all the money you had before the start of the war useless, yet you blamed others rather than admitting your waywardness.
We know you guys already, this is still showing till today, Chest beating, lack of accountability and responsibility.

No court or justice system found Zik guilty of any financial misappropriation, you are a clown and the joke is on you.
All you have is conspiracy theories.

Awolowo was tried in a court of law under Coker Commission and was found guilty of financial misappropriation and treasonable felony. Awolowo was a common thief and was jailed for his theft of western region funds, but instead of taking responsibility for his crimes, you want to blame Zik, is this not madness?

You want Zik to form alliance with a treacherous Awolowo that was scheming to use him to better his negotiating position with the North like he eventually did with Ojukwu while claiming to be neutral and ready to secede if the East does, but ended up in bed with the North and was pushing starvation policy in the East.
Evil souls.

The Willink commission report is available for everyone to read.
The commission found no single instance of Igbo marginalisation of the minorities but found multiple instances of your wickedness against the mid West minorities hence the recommendation for Midwest creation.

No body asked for any food from your devilish Awolowo, it was only asked that the food passage be not blocked. Your evil Awolowo was in support of Nigerian army shooting down planes from red cross and other humanitarian agencies bringing food to Biafra.

You are a plaque to the country. You instituted Indigenization policy, colonized all foreign companies, and ran them all moribund through your owanbe culture and plunged the country into economic crisis in the 80s.
You have repeated the feat again with APC since 2015 to date, you inherited an economy that the Igbo economic team of Okonjo Iweala, Soludo, Aruma Oteh, etc grew into African biggest economy and you ruined it all with your usual incompetence and Igbophobia. You have plunged the country into recession, made her currency useless and rendered the people poor, yet all you think of is Igbo, Igbo!
When are you going to take responsibility for ruining Nigeria in 1980s and since 2015-date, when are you going to understand that you are a failure and good at nothing that has to do with governance or economy ?
When are going to stop looking for Igbo to blame for your failures?

However, another dark eclipse came, when Obafemi Awolowo left office, as Premier of the Western Region in 1959, after an uninterrupted governance for 8 years and became leader for the opposition in the Federal Parliament in 1960. The first major clash, easily referred to as the “Coca-Cola Crisis,” came up between, Hannah, as wife of the outgoing Premier and Faderera, as wife of the incoming Premier, Samuel Ladoke Akintola. Dideolu, as wife of the Premier and also a family friend of the AG Leventis, the owner of Coca-Cola, enjoyed the patronage of the Coca-Cola bottling company as its major distributor, since 1956.

Faderera, wife of the new Premier, insisted that Mama should relinquish the distributorship to her and Dideolu felt insulted by this request. It is a striking coincidence, that the two women, Hannah and Faderera, were equally strong and had very strong influence on their husbands. Faderera Akintola, Nee Awomolo, from Igbajo in the Ijesha speaking town of Yoruba land, trained as a Nurse at the Baptist Mission Hospital Ogbomosho, when Ladoke was at the Baptist College Ogbomosho, from where they started a blossoming relationship, which led to marriage in 1935. Faderera, like her policeman father, was a woman with strong views.
https://guardian.ng/features/travails-of-hid-awolowo/

pazienza:
However, another dark eclipse came, when Obafemi Awolowo left office, as Premier of the Western Region in 1959, after an uninterrupted governance for 8 years and became leader for the opposition in the Federal Parliament in 1960. The first major clash, easily referred to as the “Coca-Cola Crisis,” came up between, Hannah, as wife of the outgoing Premier and Faderera, as wife of the incoming Premier, Samuel Ladoke Akintola. Dideolu, as wife of the Premier and also a family friend of the AG Leventis, the owner of Coca-Cola, enjoyed the patronage of the Coca-Cola bottling company as its major distributor, since 1956.

Faderera, wife of the new Premier, insisted that Mama should relinquish the distributorship to her and Dideolu felt insulted by this request. It is a striking coincidence, that the two women, Hannah and Faderera, were equally strong and had very strong influence on their husbands. Faderera Akintola, Nee Awomolo, from Igbajo in the Ijesha speaking town of Yoruba land, trained as a Nurse at the Baptist Mission Hospital Ogbomosho, when Ladoke was at the Baptist College Ogbomosho, from where they started a blossoming relationship, which led to marriage in 1935. Faderera, like her policeman father, was a woman with strong views.
https://guardian.ng/features/travails-of-hid-awolowo/

This is the type of corrupt legacy Awolowo was leaving in the west.
Fighting over Coca cola distribution deal.
Greed uncensored.

The Coker Commission found Awolowo guilty of gross financial misappropriation and of diverting funds totaling N4.4 million in cash and N1.3 million in overdraft from government-owned corporations to finance political activities. This report, published on 31 December 1962, also absolved Akintola, the premier of the region and former lieutenant of Awolowo who had now become an ideological opponent.

https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/history/history-political/coker-commission/

pazienza:
The Coker Commission found Awolowo guilty of gross financial misappropriation and of diverting funds totaling N4.4 million in cash and N1.3 million in overdraft from government-owned corporations to finance political activities. This report, published on 31 December 1962, also absolved Akintola, the premier of the region and former lieutenant of Awolowo who had now become an ideological opponent.

https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/history/history-political/coker-commission/

These are the facts about Awolowo.
He was found guilty of misappropriation of western region funds.
This is the thief the SW worship, not surprising considering how they worship Tinubu today as well.
Legacy of tribalism and embezzlement of public funds, living large , riding private jets while the populace lived in rusted zinc houses.

This is the thief riding private jet in an era electricity was a luxury for many of his people.

pazienza:
What legacy? Legacy of tribalism, of failed bids to overthrow Balewa and later IBB government?

You lots are allergic to the truth and that's why the country will not progress.
The one who plotted to get Awolowo jailed was Akintola. He was in alliance with Balewa and Saraduna and they exposed Awolowo crime of embezzlement of Western region funds during Coker Commission.
Awolowo was tried, found guilty of diverting western region funds to his AG party expenses and his flamboyant lifestyle of private jets and all.

Akintola and Awolowo family were also fighting over the coca cola distribution rights in Western region, it was all greed and the end result was that the Western region went up in conflict known in history as "Wild wild west" and "Operation wetie".

It's pathetic when you Yorubas try to rope Zik into your issues.
Zik was many years ahead of Awolowo in education and accomplishments, if anything it was Awolowo who envied Ziks high heights!

Not only did Awolowo discharge his duties with bitterness, he did so with ultimate wickedness.
He endorsed the use of starvation as weapon of war against Biafran children, and he ensured that the 3Rs proposed for the rebuilding of the East after the war didn't take place, instead everything was channeled towards Lagos!

If Awolowo had a switch button to press and wipe Ndiigbo off the earth surface, he would have, but God was bigger than the man with tiger crawl facial marks.
Ndiigbo survived all Awolowo threw at us during the war and after the war when he inspired Indigenization policy that handed Nigerian economy to the Yoruba elites right after he made sure Igbo elites couldn't participate through the 20 pounds policy.

Awolowo was a wicked soul but his evil plans for Ndiigbo all failed.
All those companies they stole through Indigenization policy, the Yorubas being poor managers of business ran them all moribund and plunged the country into economic crisis with sky rocketing unemployment. Most old money in Yorubaland have their roots in that Indigenization policy heist while the Igbo were forced to go into petty trading to restock capital to be able to make any comeback into the formal sector of the Nigerian economy.

Even as evil as Hitler Germany was, the allied forces restituted Germany back to economic force through the Marshall plan, but instead of same for the East, Awolowo out of bitterness went for wickedness. Zero marshall plan was made to restitute the Eastern economy that was the fastest economy in Africa before the war. And he and FG facilitated and endorsed the abandoned property saga in old Rivers state to further cripple the Igbo economically while making sure our relationship with the Eastern minorities became forever damaged and beyond repair. That's how evil and bitter Awolowo was.

Nnamdi Kanu is a beneficiary of Azikiwe's legacy!