₦airaland Forum

zionmde:
awolowo.
the same man who said if Biafra secedes he will lead Yoruba's to secede too. only for him to join forces with Gowon. A bitter pill we will never forget. Anyway the past is past. Everybody has learnt his lessons, thanks to Fulani guys for making the middle beltans realize how sweet one Nigeria tastes

laudate:
Oh now I remember. My bad. Forgot about that bit. Apologies....

IkpuMmadu:
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"Nigeria’s problem began many years ago after the late Nnamdi Azikiwe scored a fantastic victory in the Western House as a member of the House and his party was to form the government. But Awolowo, who brought federalism as a form of governance reverted to tribal politics when Azikiwe defeated him in the election. Awolowo felt, as the strongman of the Yoruba, Azikiwe should not have won the election in his place, and he could not countenance an Igbo man coming to be the premier or the first minister or prime minister of a predominantly Yoruba place. Night came, and when day broke, Zik discovered his majority had collapsed.

The Yoruba abandoned him and went to a strange person they did not know ideologically, that is Awolowo, on the basis of tribe. So, Zik was forced to rethink as an intelligent person, to relocate. He went back to his own part of the country to become the first Premier of Eastern Region. Some of us sprang up too, in going with Awolowo’s federalism, that the notion that there are only three tribes or sections in the country was so fundamentally defective that we called on the metropolitan power, Britain, to correct this before they would leave. So, we in the Middle Belt of Nigeria came together and decided that we would call ourselves ‘people in the middle’ and that we were not Hausa, we were not Fulani. At that time, we told Britain, Nigeria had over 250 tribes but that we could not dissect Nigeria into 250 nations

.” - Wantaregh Paul Unongo

Ovamboland:
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He said if Biafra was allowed by ommission or commission to secede, the West will not stay in the federation. Biafra wasn't allowed to go end of story.
Only intellectually challenged people will take that as a signal of support for secession.[/s]

Habakus:
Whether the middle belt likes it or yes, the Middle belt is Hausa / Fulani. Simple.
Na now una eyes open.
When you fought your SE neighbours during the civil war just because they wanted to be independent, you didn't realize you were giving up your own autonomy?
Each time you consistently support north in politics just because of tribal and religious reasons, you don't know you're affirming your master/slave relationship with them?
Middle belt, una good morning o.

Ovamboland:
He said if Biafra was allowed by ommission or commission to secede, the West will not stay in the federation. Biafra wasn't allowed to go end of story. Only intellectually challenged people will take that as a signal of support for secession.

MasterKim:
If excuses and blame-game could be swapped for money, Igbos will be the richest tribe in the world.

MasterKim:
Olori pelebe
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