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i wish nigeria cud just seperate, it wud hav been a better place to be

See yourself.

But y have yorubas and igbos been at loggerhead expecially on this thread.....Igbos vs afonja.....ojukwu vs awolowo......east vs west......but always quick to forget in the bigger picture we all southerners.....
Even a dead man knows that the southern part of nigeria is where it all happens...name it education,class,sophistication,religous tolerance,commerce,entertaiment,oh i forgot d biggest of all CRUDE OIL...with all these and many more im still baffle as to why nd how we always play second fiddle to d north.....as in how....dem use jazz for us ni.....even at that we self geh plenty juju house in the south fah,plus large number of christian and muslims.....why and how we dont control things baffle me.....i mean the average northern guy in my street is either a shoemaker,meh guard,aboki and other kind of whaever.....(pls im in no way discriminatory towards d north,just comparing...)
the south west wants restructure
the south south wants restructure
the south east wants Biafra...becuz dey cant get restructure.....
Im not surprised the north iv been silent regarding restructure,who will like or wants its dominance to wane because the north has been the biggest beneficiaries of this current system.....
Nothing last forever.....barcelona dominance in football is gradually coming to an end....arsenal excuse of always being in top four is not even assured anymore.....
northern nigeria colonisation of the whole country is also an interesting topic getting much needed attention,thoughts nd review....also the restructure will only work if the afonjas and the Igbos will work together.....
Long live a well structured Nigeria......

jolof33:
if u don't keep shut I will break ur head,... lying thieves

meaning?

He just stated the scary reality and truth of Nigeria.

Yet you have stupid Igbo and Yoruba people on this forum attacking each other.

Ignorance in its purest form

Check my post history. I have always said the real enemy is the North. It has always been, it will always be. Their selfishness, bloodlust and the destruction they wield has been a curse to not only Nigeria but the entire continent of Africa.

"Dear Yorubas and Igbos, what exactly are you dragging?"??

sankky:
Here's the solution below:


THE IGBOS AND THE YORUBA 'COLD WAR'; A CASE FOR SOUTHERN UNITY:

By Charles Ogbu

"Power is like a shadow. It resides exactly where men who are under its control think it resides"

The above is true with regards to the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment.

We think the Fulanis are the ones that have been holding power and because we think and believe so, it actually look so. Because of this assumed knowledge, we hand over our destinies, our future and those of our children to a people who are not above 11 million, have little or no education and contribute little or nothing to the national pulse.

What if I told you that the real power rests in the South and with southerners but that the mutual distrust and foolish superiority contest between Igbos and Yorubas is the biggest obstacle to wielding this power? This senseless feud between these two Southern giants is also the biggest enabler and promoter of the fulani Oligarchy.

The southern part of Nigeria owns the oil which feeds the entire country. Without the oil today, there is no economy and there is no Nigeria. The same south controls the commercial sector of the economy. The media is still owned and controlled by the South.

When a people owns the only thing that is feeding a whole country and still control commerce plus the media through which people's thoughts and opinions about anything can be shaped and can equally boast of the best human resources, what else does it take for such a people to wield power in such a country?

Unity!

The few fulanis who have been running this country directly and indirectly since independence, what do they have?

Unity!

When the fulani Oligarchs want to achieve an aim, they effortlessly find a way to get every northern minorities such as Christians and middle Belts on their side even when they almost always end up discarding these same minorities and even killing them once the aim is achieved.

Now, ask yourself: how have the fulani Oligarchs managed to turn the entire Nigeria into an 'Animal Farm' with them as the only "Napoleon' despite their low education and the fact that all the prerequisites/bargaining chips for acquiring and wielding power are domiciled in the South??

Igbo-Yoruba 'cold war'! This, right here, is the answer.

The day the two biggest southern ethnic groups --The Igbos and The Yorubas --decide to put a stop to their needless bickering and channel all their energy towards confronting their common enemy --the children of Danfodio--, that is the day the Fulani Oligarchs will understand that even though the king is the one with the crown, he is nothing without the kingmakers and the people.

The Fulanis are not runing Nigeria because they are smarter than others. Far from it. They are messing with the destinies of over 180million people because the two Southern big brothers with the wherewithal to end their murderous reign of impunity are busy chasing rats while their houses are afire.

I am no historian neither do I pride myself as a man of letters but I know for a fact that the biggest weapon of the fulanis is neither guns nor bombs. Their biggest weapon is their ability to identify their opponents' weak points or even create one where none exists, magnify it and use same to create division amongst them just so they would effortlessly implement their Divide And Rule tactics.

Sadly, they have succeded in using this weapon against Southern Nigeria's two biggest ethnic groups.

Throughout history, all the wars and woes visited on both the Igbos and the Yorubas all came from the fulanis. There is no record of ethnic clash between these two humane southern Nations.

No time has these two people ever disagreed violently.

Strangely, the mutual suspicion that exist between these two great peoples seem far greater than the one they harbour against their common oppressor, the Scions of Danfodio.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned Awolowo and killed thousands of Yoruba youths who protested the unjust imprisonment for days in different Yoruba cities in 1963. It was the fulanis and the killing was done by another fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari, who was the then platoon commander, 2nd infantry brigade, Abeokuta. That same year, Buhari was gifted with double promotion on the same day by the govt of Tafawa Balewa.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned many Yoruba leaders, forced others into exile and killed others like Abiola after annuling his presidential victory.

It was not the Igbos who attacked Yoruba citizens in Lagos neither was it the Igbos who desecrated Yoruba cradle of civilisation, Ile-Ife by cutting off the head of a Yoruba citizen and parading it along the street, thereby sparking off a bloody ethnic clash that ended in the arrest of only the Yorubas including an Oba by the fulani president and his fulani security agents.

It is not Igbo herdsmen that kidnapped a yoruba son, Chief Olu Falae and have been going about terrorizing and killing Yorubas in Osun, Ogun, Kwara etc with govt-sponsored impunity.

On the other hand,

It wasn't the Yorubas that killed thousands of Igbos in the 1945 Jos pogrom and 1953 kano pogrom.

It was not the Yorubas who slaughtered millions of Igbos in the North after the first 1966 coup.

It was not the Yorubas who jailed an Igbo son, Alex Ekwueme who was only the vice president while the president, Shehu Shagari, a fulani, was left in a cosy apartment in the govt house. It was a Fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari who did this in 1984 after overthrowing the then govt in a coup.

Was it the Yorubas that is holding Nnamdi Kanu? Or was it the Yorubas who rained bullets and acid on hundreds of Igbo sons and daughters praying inside a school field in Abia state on Feb.9th, 2016 and those remembering their Biafran heros inside a church in Onitsha on May 29-30, that same year?

Is it Yoruba herdsmen that have been killing, maiming and raping villagers in Nimbo, Nsukka, Awgu Bende Council etc, all in Igbo land?

Today, even Jack, my two day old puppy knows that Nigeria CANNOT work as presently constituted. It was the rejection of the Aburi Accord by the Fulani Oligarchs which would have restructured Nigeria as a Confederation that led to the Biafran war. Today, the Yorubas want a restructured country. The Niger Delta want the same thing. The Igbos want Biafra BECAUSE Nigeria has refused to restructure.

Who are the only people resisting the call for restructuring, thereby holding everyone to ransom? Your guess is as good as mine.

Dear Yorubas and Igbos, what exactly are you dragging?

Why have you refused to realise that you have a common enemy, a very ruthless common enemy who have kept you busy fighting among yourselves while he's busy ruining your future and that of your unborn generation?

Can you not see that your siblings; Ijaws, Urhobo, Edo, etc are all looking up to you for that 'big brother' leadership and direction?

Can't you see that the fulanis are not really the problem? You are! Your disunity is!

You have no reason to be fighting.

Was it not a Yoruba man, Lt. Col Fajuyi, who chose to die with his visitor and commander-in-Chief, Thomas Umunnakwe Aguyi-Ironsi, an Igbo man, rather than give him up to the Hausa/fulani soldiers on 28th July, 1966?

Was it not an Igbo man, Odumegwu Ojukwu, who released Obafemi Awolowo from calabar prison and sent a squad of Eastern Nigerian policemen who escorted him to Ikenne, Ijebu, his home town?

You pride yourselves as the two most educated people in the country, yet your best brains have been reduced to playing 2nd fiddle to the Scions of Danfodio who are mostly without even a secondary school certificate.

In 1979, it was one of the best Igbo brains, Alex Ekwueme, playing 2nd fiddle to Shehu Shagari.
In 1983/84, it was Idiagbo playing 2nd fiddle to a Buhari who had no certificate.
In 2015, it is a Yoruba professor of law still in political purgatory under the same fulani-born Muhammadu Buhari who has now acquired a certificate........NEPA bill certificate.

Ojukwu is dead. So is Awolowo. And since I was born, Igbos and Yorubas have never killed each other. How about we put the gory stories of the war behind us and save ourselves and unborn children from this danger that is staring us in the face?

It is always the descendants of Danfodio doing all the killing, all the subjugation and slavery and we, the entire south have always been the victim.

In a nutshell, Charles Ogbu is simply saying that the Igbos and the Yorubas should channel their energy towards confronting their common enemy. You can join forces to fight a formidable enemy and still remain ethnically patriotic to your respective ethnic groups!

Upon recieving appointment from this administration the guy will also denied this article.

How the death of NSA and Yakowa could go uninvestigated still baffles me....just like that! Both were Christians that occupied Muslim majority positions against the elite power structure. The latter Yakowa was the hope of Southern Kaduna people! Most Nigerians foolishly distracted by BBNaija don;'t care about issues like this! Go and read about how peace returned to Southern Kaduna under Yakowa...no senseless killings by Fulani and religious nonsense fights! He ensured there were security for all including muslims. He was forced not to contest in the election, he refused and we all know what happened.

I am particularly not a fan of FFK,but like him or hate him,he is a blessing to Southern Nigeria.He was in their midst,he knows them all,from the top to the bottom.He knows the threat they pose to the general wellbeing and progress of Southern Nigeria.I only wish we heed his advice before it becomes too late.

FFK should shut up. Is it because he is no longer in power? Was he not part of the cabal or cos he is no longer relevant. Give him an appointment and the man wud shut up

nothing but d truth

Important notice

Nigeriadondie:
FFK should shut up. Is it because he is no longer in power? Was he not part of the cabal or cos he is no longer relevant. Give him an appointment and the man wud shut up

Quiet. No one doubts he is a man who would sing when given food.

However what he said is the truth and only a slave would disagree. Are you one?

This man called FFK, as actually really informed. What an article!

fallout87:
He just stated the scary reality and truth of Nigeria.

Yet you have stupid Igbo and Yoruba people on this forum attacking each other.

Ignorance in its purest form

Check my post history. I have always said the real enemy is the North. It has always been, it will always be. Their selfishness, bloodlust and the destruction they wield has been a curse to not only Nigeria but the entire continent of Africa.

Let me tell you, the enemy are the northern elders that use religion as a tool to hold that big region captive!

But his own people will soon come pouring insults on him. Most Nigerians have no business with the truth. In fact they are allergic to it. Hence we are where we are.

We shall get there one day.

Southerners are too greedy.

Let one Nigeria continue.

Hmmmm I wonder what to make of this, this article ,sounds as if we southerners are not in control of our destiny but I have always wondered, the south started the call for independence, we have had southern vp and presidents, and non had the guts to challenge all this. To me this article is like crying after spilled milk and again are we southerners United?A Yoruba man will always be happy when an Igbo man is down and vice versa the truth is bitter, we southerners hate each other and are not organized politically so the north took advantage of the situation and I don't blame them ,the Niger delta people will never cooperate with other southerners bc they feel they have oil and again we are forgetting the British own this country they like how things are they have always preferred the northerners so to me southerners should go and organize themselves and stop writing articles like this, fani kayode wrote some damaging things about Igbo people in the past someone of his character will never get my respect

That religion is not any faith is a cult group. They are living for religion blaming others for the failure, "woe onto them". Inside our nation challenges some Nigerians don't want to use any of their senses to change our downturns. While some are really working hard to make the country many choose to maintain status quo, by selling their sense so cheap. As it is the country is at mess and shameful to discuss to the rest of the world. Someone must start thinking and acting well before things can really change. Most countries are abandoning religion and embracing massive development for their people and future generations here we are fighting over something for nothing. Nigerians should open their eyes for once

The plans of the northern criminals have failed and will continue to fail as long as there is God.
If this incompetent govt cannot restructure Nigeria with regards to the Nigeria constitution then they should stop wasting time in dividing it.

fallout87:
Quiet. No one doubts he is a man who would sing when given food.

However what he said is the truth and only a sale would disagree. Are you one?

What he said is not new. But then he was part of d cabal. When d igbos fought for Biafra where were d yorubas. Now Nigeria is one for d north to dominate. The yorubas condemn igbos for agitating for Biafra u condemn them not knowing that d north were the first to agitate for secession during the infamous Araba riots. Also if d oil wells were in d north who born that southerner to own a drop not to talk of oil wells. So guy park well and get respect for yourself than tell me quiet.
FFK didnt make this noise when he was in power get that into ur head.

These salves wouldn't like this revolution and this key of freedom.
National conference reports are the solutions to all these backwardness.

IamaNigerianGuy:
Kudos to FFK for another great writeup. The man is indeed an excellent writer and researcher. Too bad he abandoned his progressivism while he was in power.

Still a good effort

Let me add here that I disagree with one thing.
The 2019 elections will not be between Buhari and Atiku but between Atiku and Tinubu. Buhari will not contest
Another point: the days of the Fulani in power are numbered.

I am sure you didn't start reading from begining......FFK never wrote that....He said it was sent to him by somebody he refused to mention. I have read this write up from the source for over 3days now before today. It's on fb. So FFK is not the original writer.

You ought to have written this back then when you were d aviation minister. I can recall a brief interview he was grated then in his office. Wearing a white agbada & fila, he swings his chair slowly ....left & right and said: Nigeria is safe, good and d best place to visit in Africa. So, let it be.

FFK all your write up are trash, always bedevilled with ethnic hatred and fanning the embers of violence and attrition so that you and your gang of looters should not be tried. For you prefer Nigeria to be in war than to face corruption charges. I can authoritatively say that no one sent you the write up, it is the work of your own evil imaginations to earn cheap sympathy. If all the past Nigeria leaders are mediocre, then why is Jonathan(southerner)craftily positioned by Obasanjo (another southerner) to become president, however became the worst mediocre and most rottennly corrupt. This is why I said FFK is sick upstairs, and all his antics and those looters that sent him to destabilize Nigeria, so as to avoid being probed and their loots recovered, will simply not work.

Educative and thought-provoking post yet just two pages of reaction. If the message is accurate why should it matter if the messenger is not sincere? Nigerian youths are not ready for anything!

Nigeriadondie:
What he said is not new. But then he was part of d cabal. When d igbos fought for Biafra where were d yorubas. Now Nigeria is one for d north to dominate. The yorubas condemn igbos for agitating u condemn them not knowing that d north were the first to agitate for secession during the infamous Arab riots. Also if d oil wells were in d north who born that southerner to own a drop not to talk of oil wells. So guy park well and get respect for yourself than tell me quiet.
FFK didnt make this noise when he was in power get that into ur head.

You are part of the problem.

Instead of unity you are speaking in division. You are a perfect example of a slave who doesn't even know he is one.

so disgusting.... Southerners wake up

gurnam:
This is the way to present issues, completely devoid of insults and use of derogatory words.

FFK can't say what you just write up there. you can read it again so as to understand the write up well. May almighty God be with us in this Nation.

Nigeria Is About The Only Joke Left That's No Longer Funny.