₦airaland Forum

Super1Star:
As usual some Igbo kids are dancing because of some stupid statements of a lunatic Northern jingoists, that is merely playing on their emotions.

The question the reporter should have asked him is Why is he against restructuring?

the sole reason they are preventing the disintegration of the country is because they do not have access to the sea. Funny. Does Ethiopia and Switzerland have access to the sea?

They need the South for technical know-how!!!! How daft can this man be. Southerners are going to school and they are busy building mosques, marrying girls at tender age and promoting poverty in their region and he is not even ashamed to state it they need the south for skillful manpower, after 50years of independence and several years of leading the country

See the way he tactically avoided dissecting the North but rather used words to dissect South into different regions.

Why is it that the Fulanis are the only ones ruling the North politically and monarchically, whereas they use Hausas and other tribes in the North for population advantage?

Please why did he avoid calling their killing vampire machine herdsmen trouble makers which have been sowing sorrow tears N blood wherever they step?

Yes, he called the Yorubas trouble makers because he realise we are the only one that has what can be used to locked them down. We demystified their Northern Oligarchy and dismantled it for them with pen and paper, we locked down the country with pen and paper we sent the military packing with pen and paper. They have our fear in their hearts and we do not care.

huptin:
The Igbo's say Yoruba's don't want them to get Biafra, now the Hausa's are saying that Yoruba's are the ones pushing Igbo's towards Biafra, now I am very confused, I don't just know what to believe.

IRobot7:
Enlighten me sir, I do not know the problem. We are talking about Britain here and not Biafra.

phreakabit:
You Yorubas think you are all so smart and tactically insurmountable, don't you?
Well, I agree with you and read these line carefully. . . Hail Biafra, Hail Oduduwa, HAIL ALL MAN FOR HIM SELF!!
We won't be fighting any outsiders war. We fought alone, you should do same.

And you think east can fight it alone

All northern region are united that's y they are ahead of us in ruling this country...

The bitter truth is that SE need SW nd SW need SS vice versa...

The truth we don't want to accept is that all south need to be united cos we're fighting for something in common...

A southern country will b a great country

vantage001:
Piss-off.
After everything they have done , you want the igbo race to form an alliance with them.
Speak for yourself and don't portray the igbo race as naive people.

menxer:
Go and read up on history, then you can decipher what we are passing through and where we are heading.

schoolboij:
lol. you don't agree with what he said about the minorities but you agree with what he said about Yoruba. can you hear yourself?
you don't want to agree so as not to offend them because of oil.

do you also believe this? hipocrite.

Two, we need the current oil revenue. In Nigeria, only six states can survive with the oil revenue they are getting. There are four oil bearing states that cannot survive with the quantity of oil located in their areas. These states are Abia, Imo, Ondo and Edo, they have oil, but it is not as much as they could rely on for survival. But Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom and one other state can survive with the oil located in their respective areas. So, during the first Biafran agitation Ojukwu entered agreement with France whereby he gave concession for the entire oil and gas resources in the Biafran region. If Biafra succeeded, there was no way the Niger Delta people could claim ownership of oil and gas located in their areas.

IRobot7:
Which books do I read, please tell me? I don't want to read some books and you tell me that the authors are biased.

skywalker001:
And you think east can fight it alone

All northern region are united that's y they are ahead of us in ruling this country...

The bitter truth is that SE need SW nd SW need SS vice versa...

The truth we don't want to accept is that all south need to be united cos we're fighting for something in common...

A southern country will b a great country

menxer:
That is left for you to decide....
... Just remember history was/is written by the Victors.

beberebe:
You see your slow poke lies....
you are Ikwerre and the same time kalabari....you are an imposter...

I know your type

IRobot7:
Who are the victors and who are the vanquished?

phreakabit:
I didn't bother reading the incoherent BS you carefully thought up, after reading the emboldened which was absolutely what I was waiting for. Here is something that should help you in your day to day activities, arguments are based on either facts or logic. . .
Facts tell me that General Philip Effiong of blessed memories fought along side Igbos during the war
Facts tell me the Obafemi Awolowo proposed to use of starvation as a weapon during the war
Facts tell me Awolowo Acknowledge using starvation as a weapon during the war. .
Facts tell me that Awolowo used the 20 pounds policy to steal from Igbos and deny them monies they had in bank accounts prior to the war
Facts tell me NO Yoruba man condemned Awolowo's actions, but rather praised him, and even adopted the "Awoist" philosophy as you sorry bunch have tagged it.
Facts tell me General Philip Effiong is from Akwa Ibom
Facts tell me Awolowo is Yoruba
Logic leads me to the conclusion that only one of these men, is honorable, trustworthy and could be considered a friend.

menxer:
That's a perspective only history can accord you.

IRobot7:
You are funny. History is history.

isnovic:
....The Igbo believed in him and Ojukwu told all the Igbo to go back to their respective areas. At that time, the Igbo were holding various positions in government, but they all left. When they came back after the civil war, they found that the Yoruba had occupied their positions, and till today, they have not regained such positions, and they will never regain them


There is the joker of the game. They will never regain them is truly the written code and agreement about the no victor no vanquish after war declaration regarding the Igbos.

Do whatever it takes, but do not let them return to their previous glory.

Pre-civil war the Igbos virtually reigned supreme in all facet of the economy. From service, education, military, commerce and investment, civil service. All that was lost after the war but the agreement reached during the war and implemented secretly till today by Northern and Western Nigeria ruling class and elites, is that do not allow the Igbo full integration, politically, economically and geographically. Keep them perpetually subjugated to the allied force of the North-South West interest.

Reap from their fallen estate and threaten them of their place in the advent of a malfeasance.

Keep the South East and South south region under develop and ensure power and economics are kept in the South and North by deliberate government policies.

This was their lot now.

schoolboij:
fact did not tell you about those Yoruba that fought for Biafra.

fact did not tell you about wole Soyinka that was imprisoned because of Biafra.

fact did not tell you that biafrans murdered the minorities in eastern region calling them saboteurs.

fact did not tell you about mid west invasion by Biafra soldiers

facts did not tell you how the eastern minorities wrote petitions for them to be freed from Igbo domination leading to the creation of rivers state.

facts did not tell you about how ojukwu conceded the SS oil to France?

so much for your hipocrytic facts.

if you believe a portion of an article that appeal to your emotions and ignore what will make you offend the people you are stealing to steal their oil, that's hypocrisy.

schoolboij:
fact did not tell you about those Yoruba that fought for Biafra.

fact did not tell you about wole Soyinka that was imprisoned because of Biafra.

fact did not tell you that biafrans murdered the minorities in eastern region calling them saboteurs.

fact did not tell you about mid west invasion by Biafra soldiers

facts did not tell you how the eastern minorities wrote petitions for them to be freed from Igbo domination leading to the creation of rivers state.

facts did not tell you about how ojukwu conceded the SS oil to France?

so much for your hipocrytic facts.

if you believe a portion of an article that appeal to your emotions and ignore what will make you offend the people you are stealing to steal their oil, that's hypocrisy.

phreakabit:
Yoruba man fought for Biafra? . .
You mean that treacherous swine Victor Banjo who acted as a mole in the system?. . . I am sure you heard he was eventually executed.
You mean the same Wole Soyinka who visited banjo to receive classified information, only to share it with Nigerian forces?
How do you define FACTS? . . even though your spelling is horrendous, I am certain you are educated.
PLEASE show evidence that suggests minorities were killed for being saboteurs.
The only Saboteur who got killed was Banjo, A Yoruba man. . . No surprise there.

schoolboij:
that's how you people roll. betray good gestures. he fought for Biafra and was killed by ojukwu. that's betrayal. that's how igbos repay good gestures.

phreakabit:
Back you "facts" up with proof.
I can reference you books to read. . . assuming your reading is any better than your writing ability.

phreakabit:
Treachery isn't exactly good gesture.
Yorubas have a twisted perception I must say.

phreakabit:
Apart from Akwa Ibom and Calabar. . . Who else fought with Igbos?
Your question is hilarious.
The real question is were we allies during the war?
What was the role of the Yoruba nation during the war?
Answer that and you will see a clear direction as to where things are headed.

And did u succeed in d war
That's why I said south need themselves cos the more we're divided the more the north will continue to rule us with their "divide and rule" tactics...
Why do u tink this man is just saying somtin like dis ? Cos he tink the south are beginning to be united by fighting for dsame tin in common and the only way they can't see us succeed in it is by dividing us and this has already gotten into som pple who can't tink...
In his interview did u see anywhere he said anytin bad bout the north

menxer:
History is history if only you know it was once breaking news.

Oyiboman69:
The goals they want to achieve with new Biafra – Tanko Yaksai

dailytrust.com.ng

Jun 4, 2017 2:04 AM

Alhaji Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a former Special Political Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari, spoke on why the agitation of Biafra continued to attract attention, why it is impossible for the Igbo to secede and why they will be better off in Nigeria than Biafra, among other things.



Why is the agitation for Biafra gathering momentum in recent times?

Well, the agitation for Biafra started soon after the demise of Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi. So the name is not new. The only difference is that the old Biafra actually was intended to occupy the whole of southern region. 

It was a scheme for getting the entire southern Nigeria to break away. The intention was to block the North from access to the sea. If that happened, the North would be starved of many things coming from the port, including fuel and imported items we rely upon. So that was the old Biafra. Because of that, when they were preparing to declare Biafra, southern minorities from the present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom led a delegation to the North to plead with General Hassan Usman Katsina, the then military governor of Northern Nigeria, to plead with the central government not to allow Biafran secession to succeed because, according to them, if it was allowed to succeed, they would remain forever as second class citizens in what would be known as Biafra. 

The young men are not agitating for the five Igbo-speaking states to constitute Biafra, rather, they are thinking of the old Eastern Region, with the four minority states, together with five majority Igbo-speaking states. You don’t dismiss idea by a wave of hand. But the practical aspect of it is very difficult because all along there has not been love lost between the Igbo and their minority.

In fact, when Nigeria was to be granted independence and constitutional conference was held in 1957, the minorities in the East complained of oppression and marginalisation by the Igbo. They wanted their interest to be safeguarded in an independent Nigeria. It was agreed that a special arrangement would be made to protect their interest, and it was made with the creation of the Niger Delta Development Authority which was put under the care of Shehu Shagari, who was then the parliamentary secretary to the prime minister.  It was decided that the development of the Niger Delta shall not come from the Eastern Region, even though they were located under the old regional government. 

I don’t think it is possible for the minority to go into any political association with the Igbo.

This agitation started right from the time of Obasanjo, with Uwazurike as its leader. Now, I think Uwazurike has realised that it is an impossible task to realise their dream; that is why he is more or less quiet. This young man, Nnamdi Kanu, was just a broadcaster. I don’t know whether he was under Uwazurike or on his own, but he was not a leader on his own. He was a broadcaster. I believe he got some of their people in the United States, collected their money and set up a radio station, which I think is being broadcast from America and beamed somewhere in West Africa. The boy became popular after his arrest. I think what they are trying to do is to develop the agitation into a political movement and try to gather support from the Igbo and any of their sympathizers.

This agitation for new Biafra came at a time when the Niger Delta people are agitating for resource control, and at the same time, the South-West, who are more interested in brewing trouble in the country, joined forces with them to change the whole issue into restructuring. So there is now a connection between the agitation for restructuring, the realisation of Biafra and resource control. They started during the 1994/95 constitutional conference, where they were holding regular meetings. At that time, every week, the minority from the East would meet with Igbo, and after that, they would meet with the Yoruba. All these three ideas emanated from former Vice President Alex Ekwueme. 

This is the situation now.  The issue to be addressed is whether the present Biafra would include the former Eastern Region, whereby the four minority Igbo-speaking states would join forces with five Igbo-speaking states and form new Biafra? That has not been spelt out. The only thing I heard was that Rivers would not be part of the Biafra; I think Akwa-Ibom too. But it is not clear yet whether the four minority Igbo-speaking states have openly declared that they are not going be part of Biafra. This is the immediate challenge the agitators for new Biafra will face. But grant it that Biafra will materialise; everybody is aware that the major ethnic groups in Nigeria are Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. 

The minorities are everywhere and our minorities are not distinct; we are interwoven. Even the North-Central, which is the official area regarded as the Middle Belt, is made up of six states. Four of the six are Muslim majority; they are Nasarawa, Niger, Kogi and Kwara states and the minority elements left in Plateau State, for instance, are themselves fighting one another. In addition, they don’t speak with one another except in either Hausa or English. None of them can speak with the other in their own native language, and all of them were at loggerheads with the Tiv. Initially, when our committee was asked to recommend creation of states, we intended to create Middle Belt state but when the idea was put forward, the people of Niger said they were out of it; the people of Ilorin said they were out of it and the people of Kogi also said they were out of it. So the old Plateau had to be merged with Benue and made one province while other provinces were regrouped.

So, the reality is that the three major ethnic groups, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, need Nigeria. Every one of them needs Nigeria. Let’s start with the Yoruba. Most of the industries are located in the South-West, mainly in Lagos, some in Ogun and some in Ibadan. According to a letter written by the late General Adeyinka Adebayo, the industries in Oyo are owned by Lebanese and Indians, but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo. So the industries that are manufacturing goods in the South-West and some in the Eastern Region have the whole of Nigeria as their market, a market of about 200 million people. If there is no Nigeria, there would not be that market and what would be the consequences of lack of market? 

First, the goods cannot be sold, there will be no production and there will be unemployment, and the people that are employed in industries located in the South-West are largely Yoruba. The day there is no Nigeria, there will be massive unemployment in the South-West. This is apart from the food and livestock they are getting from the North. If there is no Nigeria, they will not get them, and if they are going to import, it will take time and will be costly. By nature, they cannot grow livestock and some food items in their area. The geographical situation in South-West is different from that of the North; the animals they are growing do not enough meat and milk, unlike the ones in the North.

For the Igbo, at present there is no village where there is a flourishing market where you cannot have the Igbo conducting their own businesses. And they are living in peace; nobody is harassing them. They live within thousands of other ethnic groups and nobody is attacking them. It is a well known fact that the business of building materials is surrendered to Igbo people, as well as electrical appliances, fittings and spare parts. Commuter transportation; those luxury buses that are plying our roads from one state to another are owned by the Igbo. The day there is no Nigeria, the Igbo will have no alternative than to relocate to their states. And with the hate speeches being circulated on the social media and other platforms, it is impossible to have a peaceful dissolution of Nigeria.

That is the take on the Igbo and the Yoruba people. We the Huasa Fulani too need Nigeria. I have sat alone, without reading any book and said to myself: “What do we need from Nigeria?” And I have come up with five things we really need Nigeria for. One, we have no way of having immediate access to the sea than from Nigeria. If there is no Nigeria, we have to go to Libya, and there are no enough roads to achieve that. 

Two, we need the current oil revenue. In Nigeria, only six states can survive with the oil revenue they are getting. There are four oil bearing states that cannot survive with the quantity of oil located in their areas. These states are Abia, Imo, Ondo and Edo, they have oil, but it is not as much as they could rely on for survival. But Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom and one other state can survive with the oil located in their respective areas. So, during the first Biafran agitation Ojukwu entered agreement with France whereby he gave concession for the entire oil and gas resources in the Biafran region. If Biafra succeeded, there was no way the Niger Delta people could claim ownership of oil and gas located in their areas. 

Three, the North also needs education. Today, in most of our universities the lecturers are mostly from the South - even the students. We need education and we cannot get it without teachers, so we need Nigeria to get teachers from southern part of the country to come and teach us. 

Four, we need the technical know-how the South has. So we need them for that. 

Five, we also need the South for investment. The only northerners that have huge investments are three - Aliko Dangote, T. Y Danjuma and Alhaji Abdulsamad Isyaka Rabi’u. But if you go to the South you will get thousands of them with huge capital. 

So, the three major ethnic groups need Nigeria because everybody is benefiting from Nigeria. For the Igbo, if there is no Nigeria, there will be no market for them to do their businesses. At least if you take the North, you are talking of 55 per cent of the population of Nigeria, which is about 100 million out of the 180 million of Nigerian population. The Yoruba also need market because their industries cannot sell the goods to themselves. By nature, the Yoruba man likes the Hausa man more than the Igbo man and the Igbo man likes the Hausa man more than the Yoruba man, yet the Yoruba are now trying to convince the Igbo to forget aganist the Hausa. 

The Igbo, unfortunately, are lacking in diplomacy. This is the weakness of the Igbo and that is what the Yoruba are capitalising on to manipulate their way of thinking. During the first declaration of Biafra, it was a public knowledge that when Gowon sent Awolowo to persuade Ojukwu not to embark on secession, they met on the River Niger bridge and discussed. Later on, the media said that according to unofficial report, Awolowo assured Ojukwu that if they seceded, the West would also secede. When he came out, he declared publicly that if by any act of commission or omission the East was allowed to go, the West would follow. This is the public announcement he made and the record is there, which means the West would also secede from the rest of Nigeria. The Igbo believed in him and Ojukwu told all the Igbo to go back to their respective areas. At that time, the Igbo were holding various positions in government, but they all left. When they came back after the civil war, they found that the Yoruba had occupied their positions, and till today, they have not regained such positions, and they will never regain them.

https://dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/the-goals-they-want-to-achieve-with-new-biafra-tanko-yaksai/200428.html

raker300:
The hate on the yorubas by the north is scary...yet the yorubas are quick to align with them. why?

According to this report the igbos are being deceived by the south west. Lol.

successmatters:
Eye opener!

This interview has thought me more Nigerian History than any book before. I just became more afraid of the southern minorities again, and for the treachery of the yorubas, no be today e start.

Biafra is more needed than we think.

successmatters:
Eye opener!

This interview has thought me more Nigerian History than any book before. I just became more afraid of the southern minorities again, and for the treachery of the yorubas, no be today e start.

Biafra is more needed than we think.

IRobot7:
Nothing lasts forever, not even you and I. Use history as a guide to direct your paths but focus on the present and its future consequence.

koning:
You no dey shame?!. So if they ask you what tribe in Nigeria you are from, you will say "Niger Delta". Which tribe is that.

Anyway to the topic, Tanko Yakassi has some very valid points here. The Biafra I wanted and even fought for as a boy scout was the Old Biafra. That, comprised of the entire Eastern rergion.
Count me out of any Biafra that is made up of only the 5 SE states. Heavy Igbo investments and commitments in Lagos and Abuja is the main reason the 'new Biafra' will not be achieved.
Besides, it would be a landlocked, dry country.

SHAKABOOM:
BIAFRIA for life..What do you expect an elder from a region with the highest number of junkies ad illiterate to say before? So awolowo said he will pull out of nigeria only for him to betray ojukwu..A wise man would have been neutral..Well I know he is in the hottest part in hell right now..The man use trouble makers refer to im yoruba desendants..

Yerstday one opc Afonja carpenter tout try repeat wetin de Awolowo of a back stabber do..An afonja is an afonja anytime anyday..BACK STABBERS

ZombieTERROR:
Don't allow this old hags to deceive you
The south needs to come together
See how they view Yorubas
Yet they tilt towards the north politically

The south needs to unite
We have a common enemy