₦airaland Forum

Softmirror:
The British gave room for secession, other opportunities arose to separate. The Northern political elite once stood against a one Nigeria. Even Awolowo, the Yoruba political elite was determined to not to be part of a one Nigeria.

The person wey God no go forgive sabi himself.

Ifedichi1:
Who wrote the statement or better said the news .

gidgiddy:
Characters like the above are funny. Its South Westerners like the above that wants Nnamdi Kanu's head just because he does not want his people to be in the same country with them

It is the South Westerners that are still demanding Awolowos 'secession clause' before they can believe that anyone has the right to exit Nigeria

It is still the South Westerners that will be ready to pick up gun and fight civil war should any part of Nigeria secede

As an Igbo man, I laugh in Ijebu dialect 😆 🤣 😂

ibechris:
The western Yorubas holds the position of the richest but the wealthiest are the igbo tribe.

helinues:
Wealthiest without toping the list of any financial institution. Abeg make una stop this derision jare

helinues:
Wealthiest without toping the list of any financial institution. Abeg make una stop this derision jare

seunmsg:
Because we are all stuck in this contraption for now all thanks to Nnamdi Azikiwe’s shallow thinking.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/04/27/flashback-why-i-opposed-awolowo-on-secession-zik/?amp=1

phorget:
But how can one person's decision override two people's decisions? I thought they say majority always win a vote.
Some narratives are actually meant to be questioned, if one amongst three is in support of a decision whilst two are against such decision I actually believe the two automatically wins the lot.

Ok even if the one person somehow manages to win the other two then why can't such decision (which we have collectively agreed that it hasn't been favorable) be changed even after so many years?
Must we all die for another man's "mistake"?

LegendHero:
Even till today 2025, the data still hold true. The SW regions has always and continue to be richest, most advanced, and sophisticated region in Nigeria.

Now I am starting to think Awolowo made a mistake with our Yoruba leaders. We should not have agreed to be part of Nigeria upon independence.

Softmirror:
Yes, vested interest that has backfired .

sreamsense:
But through their sopstication, your best biafran lawyers (that many of you believed never loose case before) couldn't prove drug case of Tinubu, instead Tinubu south west lawyers used their sopstication in knowledge to thrash your best biafra lawyers and sent them to 200level to retake law class. If Tinubu case was successfully proven by your Biafra lawyers, Obi may be the president by now

Burob:
It is a shame the nonsense the people above u were yapping, like u rightfully mentioned, if it was a mistake in 1960, why haven’t they amended it in the last 65 years?

Nonsensical bunch of wailers, sophisticated indeed.

Ofodirinwa:
wow, the SW has really declined

Skeyskey:
. Make I sleep in peace. Goodnight dear.

Skeyskey:
. Make I sleep in peace. Goodnight dear.

helinues:
Wealthiest without toping the list of any financial institution. Abeg make una stop this derision jare

helinues:
We are actually learning so fast lately as we have tolerated unnecessary things in the past. Things are now taking shape

Softmirror:
The mistake is been systematical corrected gradually, starting from Lagos.

Ezmans:
Eastern people will be the happiest people if this nation is divided that is there prayer points

Gerhards:
Why did Tinubu forfeited drug money to the United States, you can keep lying to yourself but we Nigerians know the truth, he’s a bobo Chicago for a reason 😁😁

okpouman:
Must one follow the constitution to seceed? If a region wants to seceed,and other regions who don't want them are OK with it,why must the constitution be followed.

Mutual agreement - a referendum can be called for them to seceed peacefully and leave to their own country.

LegendHero:
Even till today 2025, the data still hold true. The SW regions has always and continue to be richest, most advanced, and sophisticated region in Nigeria.

Now I am starting to think Awolowo made a mistake with our Yoruba leaders. We should not have agreed to be part of Nigeria upon independence.

jamesversion:
It's not too late to secede. Acting like you're doing anybody a favour. If e sure for Yoruba to be on their own, they would have done it decades ago.

LegendHero:
Even till today 2025, the data still hold true. The SW regions has always and continue to be richest, most advanced, and sophisticated region in Nigeria.

Now I am starting to think Awolowo made a mistake with our Yoruba leaders. We should not have agreed to be part of Nigeria upon independence.

helinues:
Wealthiest without toping the list of any financial institution. Abeg make una stop this derision jare

LegendHero:
Even till today 2025, the data still hold true. The SW regions has always and continue to be richest, most advanced, and sophisticated region in Nigeria.

Now I am starting to think Awolowo made a mistake with our Yoruba leaders. We should not have agreed to be part of Nigeria upon independence.

seunmsg:
Awo saw through the problem early enough. However, he was outnumbered and couldn’t do anything about it. He made it clear very early that Nigeria is not a nation but a geographical entity made up of many nations.

Because he was outnumbered by British colonialist and other ethnic leaders who were too myopic as at that time to see the problem, he came up with so many ideas on how to build a federal system that would still give each ethnic group an opportunity to exist and develop at their pace. He even suggested we should include a secession clause in our independence constitution so that any aggrieved ethnic group can activate it to get out of the union at anytime.

Awo started writing and researching about how to make Nigeria’s federalism work as far back as 1948. He kept researching and writing about this subject till his death. He’s arguably the only person in history that has written so many books about how to make Nigeria work as a federalist state. Sadly, the military came and crashed everything and here we are today unable to live and coexist peacefully together after over 60 years of existence.