₦airaland Forum

Bede2u:
You have often heard enemies of Biafra say that while Awolowo and Bello wanted to put a 'secession clause' in our constitution, Zik refused.
Well...that didn't happen, but you probably already know this since the British would have gone with the wish of the majority and hence added 'secession clause' to the constitution they drafted.

What happened was this....
The 1946 Richards Constitution Introduced by Sir Arthur Richards, then Governor of Nigeria,
divided Nigeria into 3 regions: Northern Region, Western Region and Eastern Region
It created regional legislatures and regional councils of chiefs. Strengthened indirect rule and gave more autonomy to traditional rulers.
Introduced limited African representation in the legislative council.

It was aimed to reflect Nigeria’s "diverse cultures" — reinforcing the tripartite regional model.



Azikiwe (Eastern Nigeria) and Eyo Ita (Calabar area) opposed the regionalisation model.
They feared it would deepen ethnic divisions and entrench colonial divide-and-rule policies.
They argued that the 3-region model was artificial and would weaken national unity.

Azikiwe and Ita led a group that rejected the 3-region structure.

They proposed a federation of 8 states based on ethnolinguistic and cultural diversity, not colonial convenience.

1. Hausa/Fulani state (North-West)

2. Kanuri state (North-East)

3. Tiv/Benue state (Central North)

4. Yoruba state (West)

5. Edo/Delta state (Mid-West)

6. Igbo state (East)

7. Ibibio/Efik state (South-East coast)

8. Minority coastal state

Their report was rejected as a 'minority report' because NPC and AG backed the 3 regional agreement as an opportunity to dominate the unfortunate minorities of their region.

This is what happened. This is accurate history, not Lagos-Ibadan revision.

Kdon2:
Ipob version of history you mean to say.
We know what you people did in abia, Delta and cross river before the war. Not to be aok of what you people did to edo people during the war

Bede2u:
Bot, this historical fact is open for anybody to go and verify

Bede2u:
Azikiwe (Eastern Nigeria) and Eyo Ita (Calabar area) opposed the regionalisation model.
They feared it would deepen ethnic divisions and entrench colonial divide-and-rule policies.
They argued that the 3-region model was artificial and would weaken national unity.

T9ksy:
Op, so zik advocated for the minorities, ba? So, what then happened to the Eastern minorities when the Mid-west region was carved out of the Old Western region?

Armaggedon:
Midwest was never created willingly. If awolowo was not in jail for treason and coupled with the fact there are Igbo speaking minorities in the western region who eastern region went extra mile to support, there wouldn't have been mid west state.

Armaggedon:
Midwest was never created willingly. If awolowo was not in jail for treason and coupled with the fact there are Igbo speaking minorities in the western region who eastern region went extra mile to support, there wouldn't have been mid west state.

T9ksy:
Oh, so the mid-west was not created, willingly but at least, it got created.

My question to you is, what happened to the minorities in the Eastern region abi there were no minorities in the old Eastern region ni?

DomPerignon:
The creation of Midwest began and was concluded in the Yoruba dominated regional House in Ibadan.

The Yorubas never opposed the demands of the minority people in what will later become the Midwestern region.

It's even on record that a Yoruba regional parliamentarian moved the motion for a plebiscite for the creation of Midwestern region which sailed through without a hitch.

After the referendum was conducted and decided, a Yoruba federal parliamentarian moved the motion in the federal house to have Midwestern region ratified .

Was this ever the case in Enugu were all pleas by the minorities in the Eastern region were blatantly shut down by the Ibo majority?

Frustrated at Enugu but buoyed by their cousins's success, the coastal minorities took their plight to the federal level and had secured the support of the western, northern and Midwestern MPs in Lagos


When ot became inevitable to Zik and his Marxistsin Enugu that the east was soon be balkanized and end up the most wretched, that is when Zik activated his orcs in the military to stage a coup and from there abolish regionalism while imposing an Ibo military dictatorship.

Have you asked why Adaka Boro started his movement to leave Nigeria after the coup of Jan 1966?

Where was Zik when Ojukwu under the express orders of Ironsi under the advice of Zikist elements brutally clampdown on ethnic minorities to force Adaka Boro to surrender?

You can continue lying to yourselves in that your corner

DomPerignon:
Stop engaging these revisionists.

Dem go explain tire for the next 100ys

Kdon2:
Ipob version of history you mean to say.
We know what you people did in abia, Delta and cross river before the war. Not to be aok of what you people did to edo people during the war

Good2go1:
Is it not more accurate than ewedu brown envelope history

christistruth01:
Azikiwe heavily campaigned against and frustrated the Eastern Minorities from getting their own Region

Azikiwe seized their Lands and redistributed it to his own kinsmen using the Eastern Region Govt Interest as a pretext.
Azikiwe forced all Eastern Minorities to learn Igbo in school and he also moved the capital of the East from Calabar to Enugu against the advice of the British and the protests of the Eastern Minorities

Azikiwe's discrimination against the Eastern minorities was so bad that the traumatised Southern Cameroonians voted to leave he Eastern Region Nigeria and to Join Cameroon instead