mightyhazel:
which propaganda machine u talking about?
I hate 2 engage on tribal e bashing,..but does this letter not suggest how slimy/sneaky the average yorubas are?
Who in his right senses would ever have thot that the author of this letter wud in a matter of days join forces of oppression against the east?

U want to tell me he changed his mind in a matter of days to support the greatest genocide that has ever happened in africa? No! This 'sage' knew all along what he was doin... He gave the relatively much younger and less experienced( less sneaky) ojukwu a false sense of hope that the yorubas will never join hands in the event of a war to annihilate his ppl. He even went further to say that if things deteriorated further and east secceeded,yorubas will follow suit! Talk of backstabbing!
This man wud av just kept his silence or berra still taken a harder/threathening stand against the biafran movt as at that time.
Ojukwu wud hav taken berra judgement at the time,...obviouslyhe reckoned only on fighting the northern elements,bearing in mind dat yorubas wud at best remain neutral in the conflict. Talk of luring a friend out in the bush and hacking him to death!

bloodyBLOGGER:


can you now see how inexperienced ojukwu was?

small boy. Mind you, Yorubas were neutral in the war.; D

MasterofNL:
Interestingly he always separated Lagos from Western Nigeria.

[size=16pt]Western Region and Lagos[/size]

gidgiddy:


Everything you said above is complete nonsense. Awolowo always knew that had he allied with Ojukwu, the North would have been defeated. The Economy of Nigeria was in the south, the seaports are in the south, the capital was in the south, the oil was in the south ,everything was in the south. But Awolowo being the Yoruba man he is chose the easy route of 'one Nigeria ' and sold his people into slavery and northern domination. He ran to become 'boy-boy' to Gowon who was old enough to be his son. Is it the Groundnut pyramids that Gowon would have used to fight a war? Ojukwu could have chosen to become another 'northern a$$licker' to avoid war but this is what separates the Igbo man and the Yoruba man. The Igbos value their freedom and they are far from cowards. Three million died but hardly any Igbo man ever blames Ojukwu, nobody said freedom is cheap. Over 50 million people died in the second world war fighting oppression. The true mark of a man is one who is prepared to fight for his freedom and the right to be free. A coward comes with every excuse to remain a slave. Ojukwu did his best for his people, at the end of the war, facing certain death if captured, he escaped as any Soldier is supposed to do in a hopeless situation.

As I said before one man's hero is another man's villain, and vice-versa. Ojukwu and Awolowo will always be heroes to their respective ethnic groups and cowards to the opposite ethnic groups

All the members of the bodyguard of the Military Governor of the Western Region were Northerners; there were over 36,000 soldiers in the whole of the West, most of whom were Northerners, and all of them carry arms, I led a delegation to Lt. Col. Gowon on the 7th and at that interview I made it clear on behalf of the West that if the soldiers of Northern origin were not removed from the West we would not attend any further meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee. He said he would do something, of course he did not. We passed our resolution (THAT THE NORTHERN SOLDIERS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE WEST) and Col. Adebayo did very well and give us certain Yoruba officers with whom to go and deliver the petition to Lt. Col. Gowon. I did give him an ultimatum up to the 15th of May to remove these Northern soldiers from the West. Of course, he agreed to remove them by the 31st of May but the time we returned to Ibadan Northern soldiers had taken up arms and wanted to kill me, to kill Adebayo and all others, Just now Adebayo does not sleep in his house. Somebody told me that he has not been sleeping in his house. I know why they put two policemen with two rifles in front of my house the other day. Of course, I rang up and said I wanted them removed. There were policemen in front of Sardauna's house but they did not save him. The populace, of course, turned against the Northern soldiers. I don't know why Adebayo should issue the release that soldiers should not be taunted. But this is the way we have been doing our quiet fighting. You are remote from the West; you have advantages which we do not possess. We cannot rush without rushing to our death at the same time. We are not cowards in the West but we have to move cautiously, because if we do not do that you might not have us alive; you would only have monuments all over the place.



AWO-OJUKWU ENUGU CONVERSATION

mightyhazel:
So what shd one do with dis epistle?

Am sure it will definitely bring back the over 3million innocent women n children (killed mostly by his legitimate weapon of war,starvation)if we dwell on it long enough.

Next pls!

mightyhazel:
ofcourse u don't compare a man in his early thirties and one in his late sixties in terms of experience (in this case cunning and slimyness).

And yea yorubas were v neutral...,with adekunle bragging about shootin up movable n immovable objects in the east,while losing whole battalions and military stores to platoons of young biafran soldiers

kaakulator3:


You don't have to comment. Yes 3 million people are dead. Deal with it

winsley:
was adekunle representing yorubas or the Nigerian army?

mightyhazel:
yea,3million innocent women and children killed by a bunch of cowardly demonic gang and u expect me 2 sit quietly while u try and paint the gangleader a saint?

U must be out of ur mind!

If u don't like my comments,use a deep canal!

gidgiddy:


Everything you said above is complete nonsense. Awolowo always knew that had he allied with Ojukwu, the North would have been defeated. The Economy of Nigeria was in the south, the seaports are in the south, the capital was in the south, the oil was in the south ,everything was in the south. But Awolowo being the Yoruba man he is chose the easy route of 'one Nigeria ' and sold his people into slavery and northern domination. He ran to become 'boy-boy' to Gowon who was old enough to be his son. Is it the Groundnut pyramids that Gowon would have used to fight a war? Ojukwu could have chosen to become another 'northern a$$licker' to avoid war but this is what separates the Igbo man and the Yoruba man. The Igbos value their freedom and they are far from cowards. Three million died but hardly any Igbo man ever blames Ojukwu, nobody said freedom is cheap. Over 50 million people died in the second world war fighting oppression. The true mark of a man is one who is prepared to fight for his freedom and the right to be free. A coward comes with every excuse to remain a slave. Ojukwu did his best for his people, at the end of the war, facing certain death if captured, he escaped as any Soldier is supposed to do in a hopeless situation.

As I said before one man's hero is another man's villain, and vice-versa. Ojukwu and Awolowo will always be heroes to their respective ethnic groups and cowards to the opposite ethnic groups

mightyhazel:
ask ur 'sage' who said that yorubas will never join in any military debacle days earlier

mightyhazel:
yea,3million innocent women and children killed by a bunch of cowardly demonic gang and u expect me 2 sit quietly while u try and paint the gangleader a saint?

U must be out of ur mind!

If u don't like my comments,use a deep canal!

Volksfuhrer:


You still don't get it. The war could have been avoided in the first place. When you are not prepared for war, then tactfully avoid it by making compromises for peace; Ojukwu would have been perceived as a venerable statesman, had he done this. In any case, the Civil War was a failure of leadership on both sides of the divide.

bloodyBLOGGER:
if this is the way your people reason, then I guess you truly deserved to lose 3million people in the war.

How dare you call what awolowo did as cowardice? He simply used his brain by estimating the strength of his region pertaining war and realised they were not prepared for such. That was the same thing ojukwu knew about his own region, but vain ego and empty chestbeasting blinded his eyes from seeing even his nose. What was the result? A war that had him flee after losing 3million of his tribesmen; a war that his people still find difficult recovering from, that is why you find them protesting day in day out. Is that what you term as bravery?

Today, between his region and Awolowo's, which is more peaceful?

bloodyBLOGGER:
if this is the way your people reason, then I guess you truly deserved to lose 3million people in the war.

How dare you call what awolowo did as cowardice? He simply used his brain by estimating the strength of his region pertaining war and realised they were not prepared for such. That was the same thing ojukwu knew about his own region, but vain ego and empty chestbeasting blinded his eyes from seeing even his nose. What was the result? A war that had him flee after losing 3million of his tribesmen; a war that his people still find difficult recovering from, that is why you find them protesting day in day out. Is that what you term as bravery?

Today, between his region and Awolowo's, which is more peaceful?

winsley:
exactly the response expected.I don't have ask my sage,when truth stare into every eyes.
like yorubas didn't fight on biafran side, like prominent Yoruba's didn't support Biafra.
its tiresome to reason with this kids and their parents who wouldn't take responsibility for their failure

kaakulator3:


Lol see tears what's my business with the people who were killed. OK let's even assume they're demonic and you've spoken against the gang leader, will that bring back the dead souls?

I thought you people also say yorubas didn't take part in the war or they didn't play any role since they were cowards as you like to put it. Why are you blaming them again?

mightyhazel:
ofcourse u don't compare a man in his early thirties and one in his late sixties in terms of experience (in this case cunning and slimyness).

And yea yorubas were v neutral...,with adekunle bragging about shootin up movable n immovable objects in the east,while losing whole battalions and military stores to platoons of young biafran soldiers

bloodyBLOGGER:
stop lying. Adekunle was the bravest warrior in that war. He never lost any battalion to non-existing biafran soldiers whose name you can't remember but can still remember adekunle's. Every ibo man, old and young, can never forget the name Benjamin Adekunle. Even the newly born ones get told about his fierceness.

was it not adekunle that liberated the SS?

7lives:


No be by force to align na, you can't love me more than myself.
Why una no dey fight una battle alone? una dey always look for somebody to join body to fight una battle, what nonsense?.
When una know say una no get power why una dey go fight? abi una think say everybody na mumu like una?
If una no go fit use sense and patience solve una problem make una dey fight dey go, as long as una no carry una senselessness enter my homeland no wahala, the difference between the COWARD and BRAVE is 3 million wasted lives so live with it.

medpren:


The proper question should be -between Awo and Ojukwu region which one is in perpetual servitude to the fulani?

pchukwudi:
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Awolowo was sure a great man with lots of virtues. But courage and definiteness of purpose were certainly not part of his good sides.

bloodyBLOGGER:
stop lying. Adekunle was the bravest warrior in that war. was it not adekunle that liberated the SS?

mightyhazel:
see this linus! Moments ago,u said yorubas were neutral in the war,now they werethe greatest warriors
Sorry!








Meanwhile I'd advice u 2 read texts on the civil war by major actors,including the by federal actors. Read up on col etuk's book,on how a v rugged and lavishly equipped army. Of brigade strength under col utuk himself ( second in command 2 adekunle) was decimated to near extinction in owerri by a handful of young biafran troops armed wit bolt action rifles.
Read son,books don't have fangs ok!

mightyhazel:
igbos never solicited yoruba support during or b4 the war.
The least yorubas shd av done was remain neutral.

bloodyBLOGGER:
illiterate.


Because individual Yorubas fought in the war doesn't mean the tribe did. We were neutral. The individuals that fought were only carrying out their civic duties as soldiers.

Remember, some yorubas also fought on the side of biafra. Does that mean we were boarding too?


the war was a war between the east and the north, but Yoruba soldiers stood out e.g Benjamin Adekunle who liberated the SS and OBJ who biafra surrendered to

T9ksy:



Rightly so but then the ibos should not have brought their stupid war to yorubaland, for whatever reason imaginable.

mightyhazel:
the way u shift grounds,while lying thru ur teeth is quite amazing,.. Wot exactly do u mean by yorubas didt fight in the war and yorubas won the war?

T9ksy:









Despite the knowledge of such incontrovertible fact, most especially the above-bolded portion above, you guys still persist, like a clone, in maliciously, erroneously and impishly tagging the old sage, a "coward" and even extending this clearly false tag to the entire yoruba race - a group of people who at one time in their past history had been able to fashion an empire as big as the Oyo empire!

but then maybe, just maybe that was what Ojukwu had in mind for the people he's supposedly going into a military alliance with - "monuments all over the place" (yorubaland), for his Biafran Liberation Front to rescue?