₦airaland Forum

freshvine:
OK. Since there are still bitterness in the political system of Nigeria, don't you think this contraption should cease to exist cos certainly it was a dysfunctional creation of the British?

I'm not interested in your after the fact lamentations, this is about regionalism and how ibo man killed it.

You can not have it both ways. This is your prescribed medicine so swallow it in peace..

aresa:
I'm not interested in your after the fact lamentations, this is about regionalism and how ibo man killed it.

You can not have it both ways. This is your prescribed medicine so swallow it in peace..

Put federal might aside, Tribe against tribe... Igbos will take any other tribes to the cleaners in warfare

Nigeria and her recycling philosophy. There is nothing wrong with our form of government and constitution. The problem is our political gladiator.

Gerrout here u oshogbo dweller, gowon did the damage by creating state to checkmate the Igbos, why did they not reverse it since its not feasible

aresa:
The fact that OBJ or other people did not revers it doesn't alter the fact that ibo man abolished regionalism.

Ibo man abolished what ibo people are today clamoring for.


Ibo people shed the fist blood and set Nigeria on a dangerous path straight out of the gates of independence.


You people love to play victim when in fact you are always the culprit..

Omotolu:
Nigeria and her recycling philosophy. There is nothing wrong with our form of government and constitution. The problem is our political gladiator.

Its ur kind that keeps on shying 4rm solutions 2 nigeria's problem under d guise of bad leaders nd corruption ,and yes d system of gov in place z not suitable 4 a diverse country like nigeria.

tooco:
Its ur kind that keeps on shying 4rm solutions 2 nigeria's problem under d guise of bad leaders nd corruption ,and yes d system of gov in place z not suitable 4 a diverse country like nigeria.

..folks like you forget that Nigeria ones practiced that form of government which led us to serious political problems and assassination of our leaders. Nigeria will not import people that will form the government. Practice any form of government- that's Naija's problem,not mine.

Aresa the former alawusa photographer, always filled with bile in all his comments.

Thank God, Ambode keeps you at arms length

freshvine:
Put federal might aside, Tribe against tribe... Igbos will take any other tribes to the cleaners in warfare

You jokers don't hesitate to beat your hollow and worthless chests. It's like every conversation means time to bore us with your silliness...

freshvine:
Put federal might aside, Tribe against tribe... Igbos will take any other tribes to the cleaners in warfare

NA watin?

Una too dey brag.

Omotolu:
..folks like you forget that Nigeria ones practiced that form of government which led us to serious political problems and assassination of our leaders. Nigeria will not import people that will form the government. Practice any form of government- that's Naija's problem,not mine.

I always advocate for true federalism/resourse control/states autonomy cos regionalism itself wud peg development in some states, and corruption/bad leaders aint our problm bt d system of gov and weak institutions.

tooco:
I always advocate for true federalism/resourse control/states autonomy cos regionalism itself wud peg development in some states, and corruption/bad leaders aint our problm bt d system of gov and weak institutions.

...first off, there is nothing as "true federalism". We have Federalism. Most of issues you advocated for are not for country like Nigeria or continent like Africa. Corruption/bad leadership will kill Nigeria if we shy away from getting rid of it. Our problems are lack of good leadership, corruption (indiscipline). Let Nigeria operates any form of government, in as much we have the Tinubus, IBBs, Obasanjos, Gowons, Ojukwus, Absalams, Abachas, Buharis, Jonathans, Iboris, Amaechis, Fasholas, Akapabios,Sarakis, Kwankwansos, El-rufai etc, there may not be progress.

Omotolu:
...first off, there is nothing as "true federalism". We have Federalism. Most of issues you advocated for are not for country like Nigeria or continent like Africa. Corruption/bad leadership will kill Nigeria if we shy away from getting rid of it. Our problems are lack of good leadership, corruption (indiscipline). Let Nigeria operates any form of government, in as much we have the Tinubus, IBBs, Obasanjos, Gowons, Ojukwus, Absalams, Abachas, Buharis, Jonathans, Iboris, Amaechis, Fasholas, Akapabios,Sarakis, Kwankwansos, El-rufai etc, there may not be progress.

I think d day our leaders are open/sincere about d fact that we are not one bt can still live 2geda,dats d day we wud start making progress.ok just decentralize power,make states autonomous,allow resource control and peace wud reign.As 4 d corrupt leaders,i believe if power is moved from d centre nd more responsibility to state governors ppl wud b more concerned/careful abt wu dey vote in there.

tooco:
I think d day our leaders are open/sincere about d fact that we are not one bt can still live 2geda,dats d day we wud start making progress.ok just decentralize power,make states autonomous,allow resource control and peace wud reign.As 4 d corrupt leaders,i believe if power is moved from d centre nd more responsibility to state governors ppl wud b more concerned/careful abt wu dey vote in there.

unlike 2day where state govnors are quick shift d blame on fg(resourse allocation) after embezzeling money.decentralizing power wud help fighting corruption at state level if u luk at d biga picture bt most importantly wat nigeria need is competition in every state, and dis unitary system wud neva allow that.

ikubch:
Gbam! On point. I said it in 2003.
It will boost the development of each region. If some regions like it, they should be shouting Biafra then while southwest sooner turn to Dubai while another should send all their people to mecca.

see how your brain works...
Do you think if Nigeria has maintained regional government, there will be anything like Biafran struggle?
No allow me call you mumu oh....
U don't know this is Anyoku's way of supporting Biafran struggle...

DikeOha882:
So what stopped yoruba icon Obj from reversing it? You cone heads reason topsyturvy

OBJ is not a Yoruba icon and does not tow the Yoruba line of political reasoning. In fact OBJ's line of political thought leans towards the Igboish concept of a unitary one-Nigeria invented and propagated by Zik. And that's why Igbos gave him block votes in 1999 and 2003. If OBJ were truly a Yoruba Icon Igbos would have voted against him in 1999 as they did to Falae who was the real Yoruba Icon. So OBJ, an Igbo man politically, could not have reversed the mistake of another Igbo man, ironsi.

Deadlytruth:
OBJ is not a Yoruba icon and does not tow the Yoruba line of political reasoning. In fact OBJ's line of political thought leans towards the Igboish concept of a unitary one-Nigeria invented and propagated by Zik. And that's why Igbos gave him block votes in 1999 and 2003. If OBJ were truly a Yoruba Icon Igbos would have voted against him in 1999 as they did to Falae who was the real Yoruba Icon. So OBJ, an Igbo man politically, could not have reversed the mistake of another Igbo man, ironsi.

AGUIYI IRONSI DID NOT DISSOLVE THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS OR RESOURCE CONTROL; GOWON WITH THE COLLUSION OF AWOLOWO DID! 

Gowon created the 12 states to punish the Igbos.

Remember, an Igboman Emeka Ojukwu spearheaded the Aburi agreement in which fiscal federalism and even confederation was adopted, but the Yorubas with their cotravellers, including Awolowo and Enahoro kicked against it. That is why fiscal federalism has not been experienced in this nation since then.

In 1972 Gowon and Awolowo (a Yoruba man) proceeded to enact and enforce the Indigenization decree which led to the collapse of the Nigerian economy.
To add insult to the festering injury, an Otta indigene, from Yoruba tribe, Olusegun Obasanjo, promulgated the Land Use Decree (now Land Use Act) in 29th of March, 1978.

By the provision of the Land Use Decree of 1978, the inhabitants of the oil producing communities were turned into squatters in their own ancestral homes, as land where oil is explored, produced, transported and stored were decreed to belong to the state long after political independence in 1960. The existence and application of the Land Use Act of 1978 contributed to the present state of neglect, under-development and the insecurity of the region.

And for the past 45 years, subsequent governments have refused to repeal the evil laws and entrench true practice of federal system of government.
The 'sophisticated' tribe were in power for over 11 years without repealing the evil laws. Many of their elites would rather sit on the fence than have the evil policies eliminated!

Omotolu:
...first off, there is nothing as "true federalism". We have Federalism. Most of issues you advocated for are not for country like Nigeria or continent like Africa. Corruption/bad leadership will kill Nigeria if we shy away from getting rid of it. Our problems are lack of good leadership, corruption (indiscipline). Let Nigeria operates any form of government, in as much we have the Tinubus, IBBs, Obasanjos, Gowons, Ojukwus, Absalams, Abachas, Buharis, Jonathans, Iboris, Amaechis, Fasholas, Akapabios,Sarakis, Kwankwansos, El-rufai etc, there may not be progress.

You are obviously hoping that there a saints somewhere in Nigeria whose denial of the right to rule is responsible for our woes. So who exactly are these saints that will just appear one day and just wipe corruption off Nigeria? Where are they right now? Have you ever wondered why since 1960 till this moment no Nigerian leader has been accepted as good by a simple majority of Nigerians? And do you think a time will ever come when Nigeria will have good leadership with the present unitary system structure that takes revenue generated in one state and gives it to another free of charge? So if you were to work in a company where Board of Directors make the policy that the staff who does overtime for 4 hours receives equal pay for the one who does 30 minutes overtime and then this creates crisis, would you continue to believe that the solution to the crisis will be to change the manager rather than to alter that policy?

08xtr8r:
AGUIYI IRONSI DID NOT DISSOLVE THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS OR RESOURCE CONTROL; GOWON WITH THE COLLUSION OF AWOLOWO DID! 

Gowon created the 12 states to punish the Igbos.

Remember, an Igboman Emeka Ojukwu spearheaded the Aburi agreement in which fiscal federalism and even confederation was adopted, but the Yorubas with their cotravellers, including Awolowo and Enahoro kicked against it. That is why fiscal federalism has not been experienced in this nation since then.

In 1972 Gowon and Awolowo (a Yoruba man) proceeded to enact and enforce the Indigenization decree which led to the collapse of the Nigerian economy.
To add insult to the festering injury, an Otta indigene, from Yoruba tribe, Olusegun Obasanjo, promulgated the Land Use Decree (now Land Use Act) in 29th of March, 1978.

By the provision of the Land Use Decree of 1978, the inhabitants of the oil producing communities were turned into squatters in their own ancestral homes, as land where oil is explored, produced, transported and stored were decreed to belong to the state long after political independence in 1960. The existence and application of the Land Use Act of 1978 contributed to the present state of neglect, under-development and the insecurity of the region.

And for the past 45 years, subsequent governments have refused to repeal the evil laws and entrench true practice of federal system of government.
The 'sophisticated' tribe were in power for over 11 years without repealing the evil laws. Many of their elites would rather sit on the fence than have the evil policies eliminated!

So Igbos knew OBJ promulgated the wicked land use decree in 1976 to punish the minorities by way of denying them their economic rights and yet Igbos still colluded with Hausas to vote massively for the same OBJ about 23 years later (1999) to come and further pursue his wickedness against minorities? Now the same Igbos are complaining that OBj is a Yoruba man who refused to repeal the evil laws he made to favour Northerners. What an interesting Irony! What does that sincerely say of Igbos? When Igbos themselves were busy chanting "one Nigeria" while blindly colluding with Hausas to vote for OBJ in 1999 were they expecting him to come and repeal the evil laws he had already made in collusion with the same Hausas? Is there any sense in such? Please answer this question with a sense of honesty.

If Ironsi did not dismantle federalism then what exactly was the meaning of his decree 34?
If Ironsi did not abolish federalism then why did Gowon find it necessary to promulgate his own decree 56 which reversed Ironsi's decree 34 and returned Nigeria to the status quo ante?
If Ironsi did not abolish federalism then why did he (Ironsi) remove the word 'federal' from Nigeria's official name to become just "Republic of Nigeria" rather than the previous "Federal Republic of Nigeria"? The name Republic of Nigeria meant the federating units had ceased to exist.
Gowon actually restored the regions and operated them for 11 months before Ojukwu pushed him into using the 12 states split as a strategy to weaken Igbos. When Isaac Adaka Boro declared the Niger Delta Republic on Feb. 23 1966 and the same Ojukwu (who was still in power together with Ironsi and still loving one Nigeria) was used by Ironsi to frustrate Isaac Boro by killing 50% of his soldiers, were you expecting Gowon too, who later came to power, to fold his arms and watch the same Ojukwu declare Biafra and go free after he himself (Ojukwu) had earlier crushed another man's secession attempt?
When Awolowo and Enahoro proposed a loose confederation and secession clause in the 1957 London constitutional conference and the Igbos rejected it under Zik's counsel claiming that secession was inimical to one-Nigeria and then labelled Awo and Enahoro as tribalists who wanted Oduduwa Republic, were you expecting the same Awo and Enahoro to later support the same Igbos to push for the actualization of Aburi accord which aimed to foster the same loose confederation Igbos earlier mocked them for? Where you expecting Awo to support Igbos' bloody/war quest for Biafra Republic after Igbos had mocked him for seeking a constitutional clause that would have made his own Oduduwa Republic possible constitutionally without blood shed?
You Igbos are jokers. All the demands of Aburi Accord were implicitly capture in Awolowo's and Ahmadu Bello's memoranda of 1957 which Igbos rejected and heavily criticized as tribalist agenda against Zik's one Nigeria. So Aburi Accord was an afterthought.

Igbos, under Zik's leadership, told us federalism was bad and that unitary system was the best for us as it would make Nigeria "one". They went ahead to seek for one Nigeria by dismantling our federalism. Now their own solution is hurting them and they are complaining. Why are they refusing to swallow the bitter pill they themselves prescribed as the medicine for a common disease?

Deadlytruth:
So Igbos knew OBJ promulgated the wicked land use decree in 1976 to punish the minorities by way of denying them their economic rights and yet Igbos still colluded with Hausas to vote massively for the same OBJ about 23 years later (1999) to come and further pursue his wickedness against minorities? Now the same Igbos are complaining that OBj is a Yoruba man who refused to repeal the evil laws he made to favour Northerners. ...

When Awolowo and Enahoro proposed a loose confederation and secession clause in the 1957 London constitutional conference and the Igbos rejected it under Zik's counsel claiming that secession was inimical to one-Nigeria and then labelled Awo and Zik as tribalists who wanted Oduduwa Republic, were you expecting the same Awo and Enahoro to later support the same Igbos to push for the actualization of Aburi accord which aimed to foster the same loose confederation Igbos earlier mocked them for? Where you expecting Awo to support Igbos' bloody/war quest for Biafra Republic after Igbos had mocked him for seeking a constitutional clause that would have made his own Oduduwa Republic possible constitutionally without blood shed?
You Igbos are jokers. All the demands of Aburi Accord were implicitly capture in Awolowo's and Ahmadu Bello's memoranda of 1957 which Igbos rejected and heavily criticized as tribalist agenda against Zik's one Nigeria. So Aburi Accord was an afterthought.

Lies of hypocrisy and propaganda from an uneducated political neophyte to divert attention from the very obvious!

Aburi Accord was an afterthought ni, memoranda of 1957 was a pre-thought kó!

Can you make available a credible source where Igbos ever reneged on an agreement or such silly memoranda of 1957?


ABURI ACCORD
31 people attended Aburi Accord and they are as follows:

Chairman of the Ghana National Liberation Council -Lt.-General J.A. Ankrah-Chairman
Lt.-Col. Yakubu Gowon- Head of State
Lt.-Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu - Governor Eastern Region
Major Mobolaji Johnson - Governor Lagos State
Lt.-Col. Hassan Katsina - Governor Northern Region
Lt.-Col. David Ejoor - Governor Mid-Western Region
Commodore Joseph Edet Akinwale Wey - Vice President of Nigeria
Colonel Robert Adebayo - Governor Western Region
Alhaji Kam Selem
Mr. T. Omo-Bare
Others as follows:

N. Akpan Secretary to the Military Governor-East
Alhaji Ali Akilu Secretary to the Military Governor-North
D. Lawani Under Secretary, Military Governor's Office-Mid-West.
P. Odumosu Secretary to the Military Governor-West
S. Akenzua Permanent Under-Secretary-Federal Cabinet Office

Why would Yorubas and their partners in crime renege on an agreement that was painstakingly signed, sealed and delivered in Aburi?

Why did Yorubas and their cotravellers bother travel to Aburi for any conciliator meeting and wasting valuable resources?

To put it succinctly, Yorubas and their partners in crime broke the Aburi Accord.

If you're still too pained that many Igbos seek to have a separate existence from greedy, treasury looters cum murderous parasites you can take a dive into the Lagos lagoon...

08xtr8r:
Lies of hypocrisy and propaganda from an uneducated political neophyte to divert attention from the very obvious!

Aburi Accord was an afterthought ni, memoranda of 1957 was a pre-thought kó!

Can you make available a credible source where Igbos ever reneged on an agreement or such silly memoranda of 1957?


ABURI ACCORD
31 people attended Aburi Accord and they are as follows:

Chairman of the Ghana National Liberation Council -Lt.-General J.A. Ankrah-Chairman
Lt.-Col. Yakubu Gowon- Head of State
Lt.-Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu - Governor Eastern Region
Major Mobolaji Johnson - Governor Lagos State
Lt.-Col. Hassan Katsina - Governor Northern Region
Lt.-Col. David Ejoor - Governor Mid-Western Region
Commodore Joseph Edet Akinwale Wey - Vice President of Nigeria
Colonel Robert Adebayo - Governor Western Region
Alhaji Kam Selem
Mr. T. Omo-Bare
Others as follows:

N. Akpan Secretary to the Military Governor-East
Alhaji Ali Akilu Secretary to the Military Governor-North
D. Lawani Under Secretary, Military Governor's Office-Mid-West.
P. Odumosu Secretary to the Military Governor-West
S. Akenzua Permanent Under-Secretary-Federal Cabinet Office

Why would Yorubas and their partners in crime renege on an agreement that was painstakingly signed, sealed and delivered in Aburi?

Why did Yorubas and their cotravellers bother travel to Aburi for any conciliator meeting and wasting valuable resources?

To put it succinctly, Yorubas and their partners in crime broke the Aburi Accord.

If you're still too pained that many Igbos seek to have a separate existence from greedy, treasury looters cum murderous parasites you can take a dive into the Lagos lagoon...

The usual Igbo disease of assuming everyone who is against their greedy and wicked ways is a Yoruba person.
Did I say Igbos reneged on any 1957 agreement or that they rejected the 1957 secession clause proposal? Do renege and reject mean the same thing? Which school did you attend?
Your own list shows that Awolowo and Enahoro did not attend the Aburi meeting? So why have you been accusing them of reneging on the Aburi Agreement knowing fully well they were never party of the agreement in the first instance? Oh sorry I have forgotten that renege, reject and even absence at meeting have the same meaning to you.
Rather than address the issues I raised you ignored them and deviated into your usual propaganda and lies seeking to vindicate Igbos.
You claim to be educated on Nigeria's history yet you don't know of the London constitutional conference of 1957 at which the AG, NCNC and NPC all made their positions known over the kind of constitution they each wanted and that where AG and NPC asked for a loose confederation, the NCNC of Igbos criticized them and Zik the NCNC leader vehemently rejected any suggestion of secession clause. Go back and google the London 1957 conference, Mr. Ignoramus.
The mere fact that Igbos invented "One Nigeria" at a time both Yorubas and Hausas described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression and the mistake of 1914 respectively should have been a logical evidence to you that Igbos never initially wanted a loose confederation but preferred unitary system with an overwhelmingly strong centre and weak regions hence their "one-Nigeria" slogan. Go and read Zik's write ups and you'll see unitary system and anti secession ideas running through all of them.
Why did you not address Isaac Boro's issue I raised? If after preventing another tribe from seeking their own country Igbos too later wanted to seek their own country, then that was shameless hypocrisy which Nigeria rightly did not tolerate.
Igbos invented used one Nigeria to force unitary system on us which has caused bad governance, treasury looting, do or die elections, loopsided and unjust revenue allocation, etc and immediately the bad effects of their unitary one Nigeria began to boomerang they wanted to quickly get out of Nigeria in order to escape the effect of unitary system they introduced while others should remain behind to suffer it. Thieves! After causing problem they wanted to run away. Did they think they were smarter than other tribes?
All the other tribes rightly held them back so that we all "enjoy" the consequences of their unitary system and one Nigeria. They go nowhere! We must all be in Zik's one Nigeria for better for worse.
As long as Igbos crushed Isaac Boro's/Ijaws' Niger Delta Republic then God revenged by crushing their own Biafra too. Equation balanced!
Those who deny others freedom don't deserve it themselves.............................Abraham Lincoln.

Igbos were the first to collude with the North when Zik blindly and foolishly aligned his party NCNC with the North's conservative NPC to form the coalition government of 1960. The same Zik decided to have the South delay independence until the North was ready to join Nigeria. So why do Igbos of today try to make it look as if partnering with the North is a sin? Hypocrites!
By the way what stopped Ojukwu and Ironsi from declaring Biafra Republic while ironsi was still in power and even the North was ready for secession right then? Why did the same Ojukwu refuse to impress it upon Ironsi to restructure Nigeria as a loose confederacy or that Igbos even seceed all together as it would not have caused any single blood shed then? Igbos had already been massacred in thousands in the North in 1945, 1953 and May 1966 right under Ironsi's nose yet they refused to seek a loose confederacy or declare secession just because power was still in their hands. But immediately Ironsi, their brother, was removed from power the same people began to ask for confederation and secession just like how they kept chanting "GEJ till 2019, One Naija for life" and immediately Jonathan was removed from power they began to chant "On Biafra we stand". Inconsistent thieves! Aburi Accord ko, Aburi Toyota ni!

i wholeheartedly support this move, lets go back to regionalism

08xtr3r:
This is the umpteenth time you miserable beings would shamelessly collude with your myndless bigot to ban my handle for no just cause, so you can prevent a befitting rebuttal to your silly propaganda but that will not lessen your miseries...

Disgruntled, treacheerous treasury looters, the earlier you go find an idea you can live and die for the better for your survival!

Confused minion, take your silliness to OduaArewanistan republic where you're most needed! Igbos are not willing to self-destruct with you!

Memoranda of 1957 kó, memoranda of 1957 ní!

Refer to the paper by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the current Emir of Kano, a Fulani, where he revealed some truths about your people: "YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA"?
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/


The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons was formed in 1944 by Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe and Herbert Macaulay. Herbert Macaulay was its first president, while Azikiwe was its first secretary. The NCNC was made up of a rather long list ofnationalist parties, cultural associations, and labor movements that joined to form NCNC. The party at the time was the second to take a concerted effort to create a true nationalist party. It embraced different sets of groups from the religious, to tribal and to trade groups with the exception of a few notable ones such as the Egbe Omo Oduduwa and early on the Nigerian Union of Teachers. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe became its 2nd president and Dr. M.I. Okpara, it's 3rd president, when Dr. Azikiwe went on to become the first indegenious President of Nigeria. The party is considered to be the third prominent political party formed in Nigeria after a Lagos-based party, the Nigerian National Democratic Partyand the Nigerian Youth Movementformed by Professor Eyo Ita who became the Deputy National President of NCNC before he left the party to form his own political party called theNational Independence Party.


The provision of medium of expression for members of NCNC through which they would endeavor to secure for Nigeria and the Cameroons, political freedom, social equality, religious toleration and economic activity.

Executive members of NCNC from November 1957 to August 1958 included:

Nnamdi Azikiwe, National President and President of the Senate (Ibo, Methodist)

J. O. Fadahunsi, First National Vice-President (Yoruba, Protestant)

Eyo Ita, First National Deputy President (Ibibio-Efik Man, First Nigerian Professor)

Raymond Njoku, Second National Vice-President (Ibo, Catholic)

F. S. McEwen, National Secretary (West Indian, Protestant)

Festus Okotie-Eboh, National Treasurer, Federal Minister of Finance (Warri, Protestant)

A. K. Blankson, National Auditor (Ghanaian, Protestant)

Dennis Osadebay, National Legal Adviser (Ibo, Protestant)

T. O. S. Benson, National Financial Secretary, Federal Minister of Information (Yoruba, Protestant)


References:

Peter C. Lloyd, The Development of Political Parties in Western Nigeria. The American Political Science Review > Vol. 49, No. 3 Sep., 1955.Sklar, Richard L. (2004). Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation. Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-59221-209-5. Retrieved 2015-03-17.Tekena N. Tamuno, Separatist Agitations in Nigeria since 1914. The Journal of Modern African Studies > Vol. 8, No. 4 Dec., 1970.

I am new here and I don't belong to the admin. Your handle was banned obviously because of your penchant to avoid addressing issues raised but resorting to invectives and insults.
As usual, you have made off the mark comments that addressed no single one of issues I raised. I however don't really expect you to dispute the facts that Igbos were the first to hold others back from seeking a separate existence (Isaac Boro's/Ijaws' Niger Delta Republic).
You also have refused to tell us why Ironsi and Ojukwu the chief secessionist refuse to seek secession when he and his brother were still in power and therefore needed no Aburi Accord to do have that done.
Biafra will never materialize because you people lack the moral basis to seek separation after earlier frustrating every other tribe's attempt to separate from Nigeria. The spirit of Isaac Adaka Boro will continue to haunt Biafra actualization until you all apologize to Ijaws. Useless hypocrites.
NCNC was formed by a Yoruba man, Macaulay, who handed it over to Zik an Igbo man. But instead of Zik to chose another tribe as his deputy to reflect the nationalist outlook of the party and to reciprocate Herbert Macaulay's detribalized gesture he chose Michael Okpara, an Igbo man like himself, and the NCNC began to unravel on account of that very first move by Zik to convert it to an Igbo party. They are the most tribalistic yet they are the quickest to accuse others of same.
They could not form their own party but stole NCNC, a party founded by Yorubas in their own land, and took it to the East and made it to become an Igbo party. The same way PDP was formed from PDM by Hausas in Katsina and the same Igbos stole it again to their region and now calling PDP an Igbo party while killing the APGA formed by their own hero and leader Ojukwu. Such a shameless set of people always going to steal political structures from other people's lands and claiming it as theirs. Morally bankrupt people! Igbos have been stealing other people's parties since 1944! When will they be tired of this? They'll soon steal APC again even though they pretend to presently hate that party. Just give them 10 years from now.
If SLS had not attended an almajiri school he would have read it somewhere that the first unconstitutional attempt to take over power was by the Zik-Tafawa Balewa coalition government which, in pursuit of born-to-rule belief, reinstated Akintola without election as stipulated by the Western Region's constitution then. Awolowo's coup was just in response to that as a self help mechanism.
Nearly every Southerner (Yoruba, Igbo and SS, and even some Middle-Belters) have come to agree that the North's born to rule philosophy was the remotest and most responsible reason for the disunity and divisions in Nigeria. It is believed that the Born to rule philosophy initiated by Ahmadu Bello was anti-democratic and sowed the real seeds for power tussle between the North and South. Ahmadu Bello's and Tafawa Balewa repeated rigging of 1962 and 1963 censuses and 1964/65 elections sparked off the second part of the first Republic's crisis which precipitated the Nzeogwu's coup. That fraudulent census' results is what has been used till today to give Igbos 5 states while the NW and NC have 7 each. The same explains how Kano got 44 LGAs while a more populated Lagos and Anambra each have 20 LGAs. Now SLS made an analysis in which he laid all the blames of Nigeria's disunity at the doorstep of every other tribe without reserving a single blame for Ahmadu Bello and his own brothers who invented born-to-rule, and unfortunately an Igbo man is here referencing that analysis to establish his opinion. That's the height of shallow mindedness.
Only a rabid desire and a bitterness stricken heart blinded by ethnic rivalry mindset will make a person to be so thoughtless and blind to make reference to SLS' selfish and dishonest analysis that gave his own Northern born-to-rule brothers a clean bill of health as regards Nigeria's problems.
It is utterly shameful and self contradictory for an Igbo man to rely on SLS's analysis which lays no single blame on the Ahmadu Bello who insulted Igbos and accused them of domineering attitude and monopolization mindset as recorded on youtube today. Well Igbos' referencing of such an analysis might even mean that they themselves agree that Ahmadu Bello was correct about them, hence justifying their own massacres in the North.

It is now clear that you have no answer to the moral questions I posed before you and hence your repetition of the same invectives. You claim others are afraid of being together with Hausa Fulanis without Igbos as if it was not even Igbos that feared and felt the South could not exist alone without Hausa-Fulanis hence Zik and his Igbo followers continued to forcefully glue the rest of the South to Hausa-Fulanis by declaring that Igbos were ready to sacrifice their own independence and wait till the North became ready. Very daft people! Did you not know that the North was Arewanistan Republic when you decided to sacrifice your own freedom till they were ready for independence?
A sacrifice is a self denial leading to a permanent loss whose consequences must be borne however inconvenient it might be. So if Zik claimed he had sacrificed your freedom to keep the north and South together perpetually, then why are you still looking for that 'freedom'? Or don't you know what it means to sacrifice something? When you were sacrificing and sacrificing blindly for the same people you now call Arewanistan you rejected every warning and wise counsel against that in the name of your fraudulent "one Nigeria". You even went as far as forming an unholy alliance between your stolen NCNC and the NPC of Arewanistan. You once sought one Nigeria with Arewanistan and now you are afraid of Arewanistan because your plot to subdue and lord it over Arewanistan failed woefully. Now your sacrifices have failed woefully and are in vain, but you want to blame others for your bad market. Biafra failed in 1967 and it will always fail. On your own One Nigeria we now stand.
I have no further time to spare let alone sacrifice for a commentator who does not address issues raised but keeps repeating invectives like a damaged compact disc. Until you tell us what justifies Igbos' seeking of Biafra after they themselves frustrated Isaac Boro's quest for Niger Delta Republic you remain a fool and hypocrite.