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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Nobody: 9:35pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


You are roaming. The song had nothing to do with dead Northern leaders, you need help.

And nobody danced to that song to mock Northerners, those were stories you all made up. Lex lawson songs were hits in the East, and people always danced to them.
Linking Igbos dancing to a classic lex lawson song to mean celebrating dead Northern leaders was schizophrenic and demonic of Northerners looking for excuse to unleash their blood lust.



You have allergy to the truth. You live perpetually in denial. But the whole world knows the truth except the Eboes due to their hypocrisy.
Here is another example that Eboe traders rejoiced in the North after the killing of their elders.

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by pazienza(m): 9:36pm On May 28, 2017
raumdeuter:


Awolowo was the mastermind from his jail cell in Calabar?

Awolowo was the one who recruited the soldiers and sent them to spare Azikwe, Okpara Osadebey and all Ibo politicians

Why should he kill them? He had no scores to settle with them. His scores were with Akintola, Balewa, Saraduna and Okotie, and all of them ended up dead in a coup whose plotters claimed that the aim was to enthrone Awolowo from prison to head of state. cheesy

Co incidence?

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Afam4eva(m): 9:36pm On May 28, 2017
Lol. That bread looks kinda recent.

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by raumdeuter: 9:38pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


Why should he kill them? He had no scores to settle with them. His scores were with Akintola, Balewa, Saraduna and Okotie, and all of them ended up dead in a coup whose plotters claimed that the aim was to enthrone Awolowo from prison to head of state. cheesy

Co incidence?

Awolowo from his jail cell in Calabar recruited mainly Ibo soldiers to kill all politicians but spare all Ibo politicians and soldiers

What was Awolowos grouse with Maimalari, Ademulegun Sodeinde Lagerma, Pam that he ordered their hit from prison

You sound like a comedian

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by pazienza(m): 9:40pm On May 28, 2017
deji15:


You have allergy to the truth. You live perpetually in denial. But the whole world knows the truth except the Eboes due to their hypocrisy.
Here is another example that Eboe traders rejoiced in the North after the killing of their elders.

Keep roaming. You can as well remove your cloths.:https://www.nairaland.com/2690144/mystery-1966-loaf-bread..north-distortion

grin

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by pazienza(m): 9:41pm On May 28, 2017
raumdeuter:


Awolowo from his jail cell in Calabar recruited mainly Ibo soldiers to kill all politicians but spare all Ibo politicians and soldiers

What was Awolowos grouse with Maimalari, Ademulegun Sodeinde Lagerma, Pam that he ordered their hit from prison

You sound like a comedian

Unforeseen casualties perhaps.

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by shukuokukobambi: 9:43pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


Why should he kill them? He had no scores to settle with them. His scores were with Akintola, Balewa, Saraduna and Okotie, and all of them ended up dead in a coup whose plotters claimed that the aim was to enthrone Awolowo from prison to head of state. cheesy

Co incidence?

And you had to paint your ibo soldiers as nincompoops who had no common sense to think for themselves just to continue living in denial? See how you threw your brothers under the bus out of hatred for Yoruba? cheesy

Awo must indeed be a god to those zombified soldiers if he could make them carry out atrocities of such scale from.his prison cell. You even made it look like Awo was their capo de tuti who had always led them Mafia style for years cheesy

In any case, Did you and your folks not rejoice on this thread that Yoruba felt marginalized and even encouraged GEJ to do it the more?

Did your folks not celebrate Nigeria here with some even talking of pushing Yoruba out of the Union so that we won't partake of the 'goodies of 1 naijeria' with you and the north? Did Afam not denigrate Yoruba for pushing for the same regionalism your kith and kin are being shot over today?

Did any single one of your folks on this thread remember Biafra in all their gloating at 'Yoruba misfortune'?

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Dedetwo(m): 9:43pm On May 28, 2017
raumdeuter:


Awolowo from his jail cell in Calabar recruited mainly Ibo soldiers to kill all politicians but spare all Ibo politicians and soldiers

What was Awolowos grouse with Maimalari, Ademulegun Sodeinde Lagerma, Pam that he ordered their hit from prison

You sound like a comedian

You are too slow a learner. If you are give a century to figure it out, you will still draw blank.

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by raumdeuter: 9:44pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:
Unforeseen casualties perhaps.

Conveniently enough no Ibo politician became an unforseen casualty, Ironsi wasnt, Azikwe wasnt, Okpara and Osadebey werent

Well the scores of January 15 1966 have been settled in full. Incase you are interested in another unforseen casualty putsch we are ready

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by shukuokukobambi: 9:45pm On May 28, 2017
raumdeuter:


Awolowo from his jail cell in Calabar recruited mainly Ibo soldiers to kill all politicians but spare all Ibo politicians and soldiers

What was Awolowos grouse with Maimalari, Ademulegun Sodeinde Lagerma, Pam that he ordered their hit from prison

You sound like a comedian

His attempts to keep the delusion so as not to face his past must be painful to watch for his elders but all I can do is laugh cheesy

In fact, its safe to conclude that Awo was the god worshipped by Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Anuforo, Okafor and other ibo soldiers and elders of that era. Only a god could make intelligent adults take leave of their senses like that cheesy

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by raumdeuter: 9:46pm On May 28, 2017
Dedetwo:
You are too slow a learner. If you are give a century to figure it out, you will still draw blank.

Dendemorron is that you? Its been a while. How is the nursing home treating you

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Nobody: 9:47pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


Keep roaming. You can as well remove your cloths.:https://www.nairaland.com/2690144/mystery-1966-loaf-bread..north-distortion

grin

Raving lunatic. Continue to live in denial.

At this stage, we can conclude the following-Eboes are greedy, hateful and hypocritical.

1. An Igbo man, Kaduna Nzeogwu embarked on the first ethnic identifying campaign for power

2. Same Igbo man, led the first provocative and very painful attack and assassination of top brass Hausa men.

3. An Igbo man disrupted our political beginnings and introduced us to the military rule aberration.

4. Another Igbo man, General Aguiyi Ironsi clearly recognized the ethnic danger provoked by the former.

5. The second Igbo man destroyed Nigeria’s regional rule and initiated the Unitary republic.

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Omofunaab2: 9:47pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


You are roaming. The song had nothing to do with dead Northern leaders, you need help.

And nobody danced to that song to mock Northerners, those were stories you all made up. Lex lawson songs were hits in the East, and people always danced to them.
Linking Igbos dancing to a classic lex lawson song to mean celebrating dead Northern leaders was schizophrenic and demonic of Northerners looking for excuse to unleash their blood lust.





Nnamdi azikwe in his pamphlet


The Origins of the Civil War, he writes: "Some Ibo elements, who were domiciled in Northern Nigeria taunted northerners by defaming their leaders through means of records or songs or pictures. They also published pamphlets and postcards, which displayed a peculiar representation of certain northerners, living or dead, in a manner likely to provoke disaffection."

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by shukuokukobambi: 9:49pm On May 28, 2017
Dedetwo:


You are too slow a learner. If you are give a century to figure it out, you will still draw blank.

In order words, you're also in agreement that Awo was so powerful to the point of divinity that he turned foreign trained ibo officers into idiots incapable of using their brains to evaluate the ramifications of their actions? And all these from his prison cell? cheesy

Your lineage should be worshiping Awo. The guy was indeed a god to your ancestors cheesy

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by pazienza(m): 9:50pm On May 28, 2017
raumdeuter:


Conveniently enough no Ibo politician became an unforseen casualty, Ironsi wasnt, Azikwe wasnt, Okpara and Osadebey werent

Well the scores of January 15 1966 have been settled in full. Incase you are interested in another unforseen casualty putsch we are ready

Isn't it convenient that in one full sweep, all Awolowo arch enemies( Saraduna, Balewa and Akintola) were wiped off in an instant, by a coup plotted by young soldiers who saw Awolowo as a messiah and who had the blessing and support of a Yoruba man called Fajuyi?

Well tell Tinubu that there won't be another coup to spare his sorry ass like Awos was, when he finally schemes himself into a political cul de sac by his power lust, certainly, there was no such coup to save Awolowo from IBB, and he subsequently did the needful.

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Nobody: 9:52pm On May 28, 2017
shukuokukobambi:


And you had to paint your ibo soldiers as nincompoops who had no common sense to think for themselves just to continue living in denial? See how you threw your brothers under the bus out of hatred for Yoruba? cheesy

Awo must indeed be a god to those zombified soldiers if he could make them carry out atrocities of such scale from.his prison cell. You even made it look like Awo was their capo de tuti who had always led them Mafia style for years cheesy

In any case, Did you and your folks not rejoice on this thread that Yoruba felt marginalized and even encouraged GEJ to do it the more?

Did your folks not celebrate Nigeria here with some even talking of pushing Yoruba out of the Union so that we won't partake of the 'goodies of 1 naijeria' with you and the north? Did Afam not denigrate Yoruba for pushing for the same regionalism your kith and kin are being shot over today?

Did any single one of your folks on this thread remember Biafra in all their gloating at 'Yoruba misfortune'?

No, they were having a good time then under the one Nigeria unblela. It used to be GEJ 2019 thengrin grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by raumdeuter: 9:53pm On May 28, 2017
shukuokukobambi:


In order words, you're also in agreement that Awo was so powerful to the point of divinity that he turned foreign trained ibo officers into idiots incapable of using their brains to evaluate the ramifications of their actions? And all these from his prison cell? cheesy

Your lineage should be worshiping Awo. The guy was indeed a god to your ancestors cheesy

Awolowo through his divine mind control was able to make Ibo soldiers go on a killing rampage

Awolowo through his genius also thought of what no other Ibo person thought of? You dont feed your enemies in war

Awolowo through his mind control made Ojukwu feed the Biafra army and abandon the populace resulting in famine

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by pazienza(m): 9:56pm On May 28, 2017
Omofunaab2:



Nnamdi azikwe in his pamphlet


The Origins of the Civil War, he writes: "Some Ibo elements, who were domiciled in Northern Nigeria taunted northerners by defaming their leaders through means of records or songs or pictures. They also published pamphlets and postcards, which displayed a peculiar representation of certain northerners, living or dead, in a manner likely to provoke disaffection."



Where is a direct link to the source of this quote?

And a source is not good enough, you would need to show us an audio of these songs and a picture of these postcards.

You lots had failed to provide this since 1967, for reason- they don't exist.

Obviously, lex lawson isn't Igbo, and his Ewu na ebe akwa song had nothing to do with Northern leaders death.
Oh! I forgot one of you claimed it was Celestine Ukwu that sang the song, while the other claimed lawson was Igbo. grin

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Nobody: 9:58pm On May 28, 2017
Afam4eva:

My point is that you people have helped to perpetuated the "I am not Igbo" mantra. So, i'm quite surprised that just because you want to portray a musician as Igbo, you chose to call him Rivers Igbo instead of the name of his clan in Rivers state (ir Ikwerre, Etche etc). I think it's hypocritical.
It is not hypocritical if you understand the meaning of the word hypocrisy. If you are able to read and understand, the answer to your question is in my post that you replied to. Can you read it and explain it back to me?

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Omofunaab2: 9:58pm On May 28, 2017
Many igbos have a penchant for always blaming yorubas for their failures as a tribe, political miscalculations.

I can see one shameless idiot blaming Awolowo for the 1966 coup.. Some will even say kaduna Nzeogwu isn't IGBO but these hypocrites forget the same kaduna Nzeogwu was in charge of training recruits for the biafran army. ..the shameless coup plotter eventually died in Nsukka while fighting for biafra and yet these people want us to believe it wasn't an eboe coup .

Most of the soldiers that participated in the 1966 coup eventually fought for biafra.. And yet it was Awolowo that masterminded the coup from calabar prison. ..Awolowo must have been a great man

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Nobody: 10:00pm On May 28, 2017
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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by pazienza(m): 10:01pm On May 28, 2017
raumdeuter:


Awolowo through his divine mind control was able to make Ibo soldiers go on a killing rampage

Awolowo through his genius also thought of what no other Ibo person thought of? You dont feed your enemies in war

Awolowo through his mind control made Ojukwu feed the Biafra army and abandon the populace resulting in famine

Oh! So Zik and Igbo leaders through divine powers coerced a Northern based Nzeogwu, A Yoruba man Ademoyega, and the rest into a coup? They also caused Fajuyi to not only support but lend advice on this coup.

Ndiigbo leaders through their mind control powers made Awolowo to attempt to usurp Balewa government, get caught and jailed, they also made him to commit suicide after another failed attempt at usurping a Northern government( IBB government)?

grin grin

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by shukuokukobambi: 10:06pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


Oh! So Zik and Igbo leaders through divine powers coerced a Northern based Nzeogwu, A Yoruba man Ademoyega, and the rest into a coup? They also caused Fajuyi to not only support but lend advice on this coup.

Ndiigbo leaders through their mind control powers made Awolowo to attempt to usurp Balewa government, get caught and jailed, they also made him to commit suicide after another failed attempt at usurping a Northern government( IBB government)?

grin grin

......resulting in the wasting of 3million ibo citizens and the endless cries of genocide, marginalization etc since then.

I just completed your post for you cheesy

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by pazienza(m): 10:12pm On May 28, 2017
deji15:


Raving lunatic. Continue to live in denial.

At this stage, we can conclude the following-Eboes are greedy, hateful and hypocritical.

1. An Igbo man, Kaduna Nzeogwu embarked on the first ethnic identifying campaign for power

2. Same Igbo man, led the first provocative and very painful attack and assassination of top brass Hausa men.

3. An Igbo man disrupted our political beginnings and introduced us to the military rule aberration.

4. Another Igbo man, General Aguiyi Ironsi clearly recognized the ethnic danger provoked by the former.

5. The second Igbo man destroyed Nigeria’s regional rule and initiated the Unitary republic.


1. Yorubas as represented by Awolowo are slimy fellows not to be trusted. Awo attempt at playing both Zik and Saraduna in a typical afonjaic treacherous manner resulted in Yorubas becoming the pariah of the first republic.
Yorubas were greedy, unstable and naive to think they can play both the North and the East, and when their plans backfired, Awo resorted to putting the blame of his treachery on Zik and Ndiigbo, thereby sowing the first seed of ethnic tension between the two groups.https://www.nairaland.com/3780719/politics-first-coalition-govt-nigeria

2. The first coup in Nigeria was actually conducted by Yorubas under Awolowo, when out of lust and greed for power he attempted to Usurp Balewa and was caught, tried and found guilty of treasonable felony.

3.Awolowo through his greed for power, alienated Akintola, Akintola through his own greed and Igbophobia sought to form alliance with Saraduna, and both men ended up setting the country on fire. The first political unrest in independent Nigeria was caused by Yorubas political immaturity and greed for power as represented by Awolowo and Akintola.
Events in the Western region was what set the stage for Nzeogwu coup. Yorubas destabilized Nigeria.

4. OBJ, a Yoruba man it was who implemented the land use decree that took the land and resources of the indigenous oil producing communities and made them a jamboree for his Northern masters, Yoruba friends and other cronies from all over Nigeria, setting the tone for the current injustice suffered by that region and the redundancy of Nigeria as a country.

5. Awolowo and co it was who opposed Ojukwu Aburi accord, that would have given fully autonomy to all Nigerian regions.
Awolowo and Yorubas defended Gowon unitary government to the last, and went as far as committing numerous war crimes to ensure Gowon unitary structure stood.

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by shukuokukobambi: 10:19pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


1. Yorubas as represented by Awolowo are slimy fellows not to be trusted. Awo attempt at playing both Zik and Saraduna in a typical afonjaic treacherous manner resulted in Yorubas becoming the pariah of the first republic.
Yorubas were greedy, unstable and naive to think they can play both the North and the East, and when their plans backfired, Awo resulted in putting the blame of his treachery on Zik and Ndiigbo, thereby sowing the first seed of ethnic tension between the two groups.

2. The first coup in Nigeria was actually conducted by Yorubas under Awolowo, when out of lust and greed for power he attempted to Usurp Balewa and was caught, tried and found guilty of treasonable felony.

3.Awolowo through his greed for power, alienated Akintola, Akintola through his own greed and Igbophobia sought to form alliance with Saraduna, and both men ended up setting the country on fire. The first political unrest in independent Nigeria was caused by Yorubas political immaturity and greed for power as represented by Awolowo and Akintola.
Events in the Western region was what set the stage for Nzeogwu coup. Yorubas destabilized Nigeria.

4.

And to complete the divine plot, Awo programmed ibo soldiers into zombies incapable of rational thought before ordering a hit, mafia style, on all those 1966 politicians.

All hail Awo, the god of the ibo coupists of 1966

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Omofunaab2: 10:20pm On May 28, 2017
pazienza:


Where is a direct link to the source of this quote?

And a source is not good enough, you would need to show us an audio of these songs and a picture of these postcards.

You lots had failed to provide this since 1967, for reason- they don't exist.

Obviously, lex lawson isn't Igbo, and his Ewu na ebe akwa song had nothing to do with Northern leaders death.
Oh! I forgot one of you claimed it was Celestine Ukwu that sang the song, while the other claimed lawson was Igbo. grin


You may have to ask Nnamdi azikwe to provide those audio and postcards because he was the one who made those remarks in his pamphlet "origin of the Civil war "

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Omofunaab2: 11:19pm On May 28, 2017
I want to believe what happened in 1966 is currently repeating itself now. .https://www.nairaland.com/3826596/ipob-supporters-donate-cow-named#56968671. That's is a thread mocking buhari by this same igbos, wishing him death and so on, the samething played out in 1966 when Sardauna was the most powerful politician in Nigeria ,Murdering him was murdering the pride of a people, which as a result led to the pogroms in the north.. Buhari today has a cult followership in the north. God forbid buhari should die today, there will be celebrations in the south east and igbos will use the cyber space to mock the northerners.

We all know how volatile the north is, i pray northerners don't use these hateful eboes as suyas.

Like acting president osibanjo said "the wise learn from history, only the fools learn from experience "

And Pazienza, don't worry there will be lots of evidence here on nairaland to justify the killings of your kinsmen by the northerners.

You better go and warn your people on that thread

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by SuperS1Panther: 11:31pm On May 28, 2017
raumdeuter:


Dendemorron is that you? Its been a while. How is the nursing home treating you

The moronic oldman and defeated Biafrau.d bandit urchin is still aliive!!!

Glory be to God ooo

cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Nobody: 12:55am On May 29, 2017
pazienza:


1. Yorubas as represented by Awolowo are slimy fellows not to be trusted. Awo attempt at playing both Zik and Saraduna in a typical afonjaic treacherous manner resulted in Yorubas becoming the pariah of the first republic.
Yorubas were greedy, unstable and naive to think they can play both the North and the East, and when their plans backfired, Awo resorted to putting the blame of his treachery on Zik and Ndiigbo, thereby sowing the first seed of ethnic tension between the two groups.https://www.nairaland.com/3780719/politics-first-coalition-govt-nigeria

2. The first coup in Nigeria was actually conducted by Yorubas under Awolowo, when out of lust and greed for power he attempted to Usurp Balewa and was caught, tried and found guilty of treasonable felony.

3.Awolowo through his greed for power, alienated Akintola, Akintola through his own greed and Igbophobia sought to form alliance with Saraduna, and both men ended up setting the country on fire. The first political unrest in independent Nigeria was caused by Yorubas political immaturity and greed for power as represented by Awolowo and Akintola.
Events in the Western region was what set the stage for Nzeogwu coup. Yorubas destabilized Nigeria.

4. OBJ, a Yoruba man it was who implemented the land use decree that took the land and resources of the indigenous oil producing communities and made them a jamboree for his Northern masters, Yoruba friends and other cronies from all over Nigeria, setting the tone for the current injustice suffered by that region and the redundancy of Nigeria as a country.

5. Awolowo and co it was who opposed Ojukwu Aburi accord, that would have given fully autonomy to all Nigerian regions.
Awolowo and Yorubas defended Gowon unitary government to the last, and went as far as committing numerous war crimes to ensure Gowon
unitary structure stood.
Incoherent jargons from a lunatic. Guess who blocked the provision of secession clause from making into the constitution at the very beginning?? Azikiwe.
The whole world knows that Eboes can never be trusted. Your best bet is to continue to cry of marginalisation and Biafuro.

Here is some home truth written by the "shon of shoil':

https://www.nairaland.com/3620860/enduring-grip-historical-falsehoods-igbo

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by Nobody: 3:37am On May 29, 2017
The enduring grip of historical falsehoods on Igbo minds continues to poison both Igbo culture and psyche.

BY TOCHUKWU EZUKANMA FEB 06, 2017


My recent article, the messages of Ahiara, an incisive piece buttressed with logic and reason, which refuted some popular but erroneous notions of tribalism and secession in Nigeria, drew a lot of hostile responses from some of my readers. They lobbed curses and hauled invectives at me. However, to me, it was all exhilarating. I relish rejoinders to my writings, be them abusive or appreciative.


One of my milder critics accused me of demonstrated dislike for Biafra and its leadership. Yes, I detest the Biafra leadership because, in its recklessness, arrogance and despotism, it brought about the death of hundreds of thousands at the glory of their youth and the starvation to death of more than one million hapless and blameless men, women and children. It dismantled the Igbo power structure, painstakingly put together over decades by the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, and Michael Okpara, and set the Igbo back by at least 100 years. Why would any Igbo not despise a leadership that brought so much, avoidable, suffering, pain and sorrow to the Igbo?

Some of my detractors argued that secession was a necessary response to the mass-murder of the Igbo in northern Nigeria. Undoubtedly, that orchestrated slaughter of the innocent for no offense of theirs but their ethnicity was unconscionable. However, it would be selective amnesia to forget that the July 29th 1966 coup and the attendant anti-Igbo riots in the North did not sprout out of a void. They were in reprisal for an earlier coup in January 1966 in which an Igbo dominated group of army officers murdered the most important Hausa/Fulani political and military leaders (Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Belewa and Zakari Miamalari) without killing any Igbo leader. And following the coup, the Igbo in the North became too celebrative; dancing and singing to a Rex Lawson song and telling their Hausa neighbors that the bleating of a goat in the song was Ahmadu Bello (the most important Hausa/Fulani leader) howling like a goat as he was being killed by Major Nzeogwu. It was the discriminatory killings and gratuitous mockery of the memory of their most important leader, amongst other reasons, that set the stage for the July 1966 anti-Igbo coup and the attendant anti-Igbo riots.

After the killings in the January and July coups and that unsurpassed butchery of Igbo civilians in northern Nigeria, there was a desperate need for peace in the country. In search of peace, the regional governors, David Ejoor, Usman Katsina, Robert Adebayo and Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, and the Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, met at Aburi in Ghana, where they agreed on and signed the Aburi Accord. The most significant aspect of the accord was constitutional: the reduction of the powers of the federal government by devolution of additional powers to regional governments. Long ago, an Igbo professor of political science at Howard University in Washington, DC told me that Yakubu Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord. To me, his statement was not only unbelievable but sacrilegious. I lost my temper at what I thought was historical revisionism taken to a nauseating extreme. The elderly professor must have understood my problem. I was suffering from a hangover of the Biafran propaganda. I was under the stupefying hold of the lies we were fed in Biafra. For he stated, “don’t worry, with time, in the course of your reading and research, you will find out that Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord”.

Years later, I found out that Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord. In his book, Power Sharing in Nigerian Federation, Chukwuemeka Nwokedi wrote that, “Apart from minor adjustments to the Aburi Accord, in other to still retain the corporate nature of Nigeria”, Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord with Decree 8; “and the regions acquired more powers than they have ever had”. That was months before the continued wrangling between Ojukwu and Gowon led to the creation of states. But did Ojukwu not declare Biafra and we marched out to war on the mantra, “On Aburi We Stand”. According to other writers, the minor adjustments Gowon made to the accord was the cancelation of two articles of the accord, which stated that any region can secede from Nigeria at will, and that the federal government can, on no account, impose a state of emergency on any region. Ojukwu’s advisers urged him to accept Decree 8 because Gowon had “gone more than far enough”. He refused.

The removal of the two articles of the accord did not in any way imperil the lives and property of the Igbo and other peoples of Eastern Region. Ojukwu’s squabbling, against the advice of his advisers, over the two articles was solely motivated by personal ambition. Following Ojukwu’s declaration of Biafra, the war inevitably started. As it raged on, it was obvious that a negotiated settlement to the war would be most advantageous to the Igbo. Ojukwu’s obsession with maintaining himself in power stalled the peace talks that would have extracted for the Igbo a number of concessions from the federal government. Despite the enormous toll of the war, especially, on human lives, he kept protecting his position and power, until it became untenable. And, as Biafra collapsed, he ran away; Biafra surrendered unconditionally.

A litany of the falsehood we were fed in Biafra is beyond the scope of this article. David Klinghoffer was right when he wrote that, “Widespread misinformation poisons a culture”. The enduring grip of these falsehoods on Igbo minds continues to poison both Igbo culture and psyche. They make us paranoid – we feel surrounded by enemies committed to our destruction, and in our suspicion of these “enemies” we see ulterior motives in every act, no matter how well-intended and benign, by other Nigerians. In addition, they make us feel like innocent victims of the evil devices of an alliance of the other Nigerian ethnic groups. And like perennial victims we refuse to take responsibilities for our actions; we find psychological refuge in blaming others, the Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, etc, for our problems.

Blaming others for your problems is gratifying but destructive; it reinforces the feeling of victimhood. The mindset that sustains a feeling of victimhood is antithetical to victory. Therefore, a victim remains a loser until he changes his mindset. For our own good, the Igbo need to change their attitude towards Nigeria and the other peoples of Nigeria. This demands rising above the misinformation of the Biafran propaganda by embracing some incontrovertible historical facts. This will enable us to realize that our problems stemmed not from the hatred and wicked machination of the Hausa, Yoruba and other ethnic groups of Nigeria, but from repeated political blunders of Igbo leaders, especially, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.

Otherwise, our political fortune, clout and relevance will continue to decline. It has declined to a point, where a proud and resourceful people that, in their triumphalism, once boasted of dominating not only Nigeria but the whole of Africa now whimper and snivel over trivialities like a disconsolate old widow.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2017/02/06/misinformation-continues-poison-our-minds-tochukwu-ezukanma

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by TheEminentLaity: 7:59am On May 29, 2017
I'm Kalabari and Rex Lawson was a Kalabari man. His surname is common in Kalabari so it was definitely his father that was Kalabari. In fact, many Kalabari people today have matrilineal ancestry with the Ibos, but it is still common that we do not identify with or even as Ibos. I think the culture then was to go marry off ibo girls and bring them to our islands to become part of us. Such tradition was/is very compatible the Ibo tradition of marriage where one literally owns the woman (wife) after fulfilling the marriage rites.

*There's nothing like rivers ibo by the way
deji15:


You are right, I think the father is Kalabari while the mum is Rivers Ibo. But he speaks and sings in Igbo language fluently. He gave them a song which they all danced to in mocking the North after the kiling of their leaders. "Ewu Ne Be Akwa - Goats are Crying".
But when snakes and all kind of reptiles started dancing in their homes, they are shouting blue murder..

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Re: Yoruba Marginalization: Elders Met Jonathan To Complain - SMH by EvilMetahuman: 9:14am On May 29, 2017
Henryyy:
I can see the focus of the thread has been diverted from THE HYPOCRISY OF IGBOS to some untrue historic shiit.How low can some stoop i wonder undecided undecidedYou have been exposed yet you think the best way to tackle such shame is to come back head strong with "facts" you've pulled out from your bums?If you had any decency you would:
1. Back off and let this thread die a natural death
2. Quit chanting marginalization and eat ur own share of d poison quietly.
The proof of your hatred is here for all to see so ranting marginalization only exposes you for the double-faced humans you all are.

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