Throwback:


You are the one that continues to play around with a false delusion.

I have already had you rephrasing your own previous boastful statements. That should tell you something about your ignorance.

UI is Nigeria's first university while UNN is the first Nigerian university to award its own degree.

It is as simple as that.

nwabobo:
UNN had produced 2 sets of graduates holding UNN degrees before UI produced it's 1st set. #FACT

Throwback:


Yet Azikiwe only remembered he came from the East after his ambitions had been thwarted in the West.

How can a region that did not have a secondary school until 1925, bring enlightenment to the West.

What political parties or movements did you have established in the Eastern region before Azikiwe was handed his party by his Yoruba political benefactor?

Have you finally enlightened your own region to abolish the Osu caste system it practices as an ancestral bondage?

emmysoftyou:
young man stop contradicting yourself.
Your case is like Isaac and Ismael.

Accept your fate.

Igbo amaka

bopm:



university wey no dey independence DAT one na university? its a college with affiliation elsewhere.

nwabobo:
Throwback Pic: Zik Pointing To The Site Of University Of Nigeria.

Zik pionts to the proposed site of the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 1950s.


https://www./nigeriannostalgiaproject/permalink/2065767463464025/

jollymizzle:
I'm not from Lagos, we are all Nigerians are free to live anywhere within Nigeria as long as your business is honest.

imhotep:

Of course its 100% run by Igbos who appointed VCs they desired.

imhotep:

UNN is the first Nigerian university, stop playing around with suffersticated fake logic

Throwback:



It is good that Azikiwe lived to see the result of his shortsighted politics in the life of his people.

It is also good that he also saw that other regions could also populate themselves in federal government jobs and positions like he was doing with his clansmen and termed as meritocracy during the independence government.

femi4:
You and I know that Igbo man and "honest business" are parallel lines

emmysoftyou:
i thought they said azikiwe is just a ceremonial president?
How come he has Alot of hidden powers to execute his favourable decisions.

Hmmm

talk2percy:
he was looking for greener pasture in the west?? U have gat to be kidding me! Or he was trying to enlighten and bring u guys outta ancestral bondage??

Throwback:


Please ask them ooo.

These Igbo people are a special breed of delusional entitled brats.

When you allow them have their way, they boast that you were stupid or lazy to have allowed them to dominate in your own region.

Awolowo that was not stupid or lazy, and campaigned for his own seat and party in his own region, is a tribalist for not allowing Azikiwe ascend the throne of his Igbo forefathers that they kept in Ibadan.

jagorinho:

Why am i not surprised? because in the next 20 years, your people will say they won the civil war, a group that feast on lies can never progress......i think you people are tired of being adultrated jews, because it has been long i heared " igbos are jews" slogan on this platform. The first nationally acknowldged university in nigera is the university of ibadan, if you are not happy then that is your cross to carry

T9ksy:



@ bolded........................ GBAM!!!

LOBATAN!!!

One just can't win with these people. what a greedy and conflicted tribe.

T9ksy:



@ bolded........................ GBAM!!!

LOBATAN!!!

One just can't win with these people. what a greedy and conflicted tribe.

Throwback:


Awolowo nor any Yoruba politician do not owe any Igboman explanations for their political campaign among their own people.

Azikiwe himself campaigned in the East after he finally found his village. He did not go there to campaign as a Yoruba man, same way Awolowo is expected to campaign as A Yoruba man to his own people, just as Ahmadu Bello campaigned to his own Northerners too.

Just admit that Azikiwe was fighting a lost cause, and only had the hope that his Yoruba party members would also win their own seats in Parliament to score a majority.
If it were a presidential system, I assure you that Azikiwe would only score as much votes as Awolowo would have scored in the North, and Ahmadu Bello would have scored in the East.

What is tribalism is you ethicizing federal jobs and appointment. And recruiting into federal establishments with the aim to flood it with Igbos. You enjoyed it while it lasted.

While it lasted!

ODVanguard:


Dont mind those hypocrites. That Zik loss is still paining them till today, probably as much as (if not worse than) Soyinka's Nobel laureate win against their Achebe preference. See, I am always thankful that Zik's longthroat ambition to become Western premiere was stopped in its tracks (they can continue sulking about that failure na dem sabi). Else we probably wouldn't have recorded the many firsts that hallmarked Awolowo/Action Group's administrative era, like first the first T.V station in subsaharan Africa, tallest building/skyscraper, the establishment industrial areas, etc, that are still very much around till today.

I doubt that Zik could have achieved anything close to that considering the abysmal and unimpressive legacy he left behind as premiere of the Eastern region - you can't give what you don't have. And also, thanks to that failure on his part, we have been spared what would been another chest-thumping exercise from his people. They would have invented the narrative that it was Zik that 'developed' Ibadan and by extension the rest of the SW; a feat he failed to register in his own backyard throughout his lifetime. Little wonder they honour the likes of Nnamdi Kanu and Ojukwu above him even up till today, yet they expected us to gift the highest leadership position in our region to such a character?

imhotep:
One Nigeria please
cc lzaa onyeoga

imhotep:
Kenneth Dike sends his greetings
cc lzaa onyeoga

Throwback:



If Zik had won, they would have told us that they were the ones that brought development to Yorubaland.

They would have told us we were so lazy that an Igboman had to be pleaded with to run our region for us.

The arrogant would have said we were so stupid and weak, and could not suppress the dominating spirit of the Igbos, as such we did not have a choice than to surrender to Igbo superiority.

They would have rewritten history and told us that no Yoruba was educated enough to be a good political administrator.

What I love most yet find absurd, is that it pains them and Azikiwe dearly as though their own region was so useless they had to make a good impression elsewhere.

ODVanguard:


Yes o. A Zik premiership in the Western region at the time would have gone down as the greatest political defeat on SW Yoruba soil for many generations. The shame for too much abeg, coz dem for no allow us hear word again o . And if our people had defended their tolerance of such development as a testament of their tolerance and sophistication as a race, no, they wouldn't have none of that and would instantly retort that we just simply lacked competent leaders that could have assumed the position. They would tell us to our faces that we are just weak like that, and needed an igbo 'savior/redeemer', in the person of Azikiwe, to come straighten us out and help us attain 'development'. You know what is funny is that once upon a time, before I became more conscious, I actually once entertained the possibility of an Igbo governor in Lagos, but omo, knowing what I now know about these folks and their inbred hatred toward us, i now consider such a prospect/development as a calamity of inexplicable proportions for the Yoruba race -- all they would need is a 4-year tenure to nepotistically displace every other group in the state. There's just no pleasing them, unless of course we allow them to overrun our lives and region unencumbered coz they 'merit' and are entitled to it. I guess I am just not that sophisticated anymore. The country should just split so that everybody will go and bear their father's name for the sake of peace. Enough of the oju aiye abeg.

Throwback:


How dare you say they started tribal politics in Nigeria?

Haven't you heard that it was Awolowo that started it by daring to compete for the premiership of his tribal region, and ultimately prevented Azikiwe of the opponent party from becoming Premier of a region where he was not born nor originated from, but was supposed to be unchallenged even by opposing political parties.

That they went on to to dominate federal offices by appointing themselves to high office and ensuring to use those high offices to recruit fellow Igbos as a deliberate majority, is what is known as meritocracy not tribalism or nepotism.

Deadlytruth:


As per the first bolded, Zik was the originator of tribal slurs in Nigeria. As far back as 1944 he had, among several other reckless tribalistic utterances, enthused that "the god of Igbos had placed on their hands the future of leading Africa out of slavery".

On the second bolded; what you seem to believe is actually a lie which has come to stick like a truth because it has been repeated over the years for nearly six decades running now. But documented facts show clearly that Zik did not really win that election or even come close to winning it. The so much hackneyed cross carpeting essentially done by just two persons and without it Zik would have still lost the election. I have the comprehensive and detailed account of the election and I can furnish you with it if you will not mind.
How does it even make sense that Awolowo was so superhuman that he could use tribalism to change the results of an election for which the Electoral body had openly declared Zik winner and yet Zik could not approach any single court to recover his mandate?

Awolowo's clarion call in that election was that it was wrong under federal principle for a non-Westerner (not necessarily a non-Yoruba) to be allowed to rule the Western Region since the creation of regions was in the first instance done in response to the demand for self governance by each region's natives.
Recall that there were non-Yoruba tribes like Binis, Akoko-Edos, Etsakos, Owans, Esans, Urhobos, Itshekiris, Isokos, Ijaws and even Igboids (Aniomas) native to the Western Region back then. Was Awolowo against the ambition of any of these non-Yoruba Westerners to become premier? Did any Anioma (the Igboid) show interest and Awolowo kicked against it? He did not want an Easterner to rule the Western Region and vise versa. That was not tribalism but advocacy of strict regionalism.
Awolowo was a hard core federalist, and federalism seeks, in principle, to allow every tribe and regions to be in total control of her own affairs and assert herself, hence strict adherence to federalism naturally appears like tribalism. That was what Zik failed to realize despite all his acquired degrees.

Throwback:



The day you show an Igbo friend that you are not a fool, you become his immortal enemy.

It is either you are his lazy fool or you are his enemy.

It is good that many Yorubas are now awoken to the Igbos and their cunning ways.

imhotep:
Placard people
cc lzaa onyeoga

Throwback:


I already know the details of that election where till today, the NCNC loyalists still alive cannot mention the names of their party candidates who contested or who won while AG had their own records of all those who contested on their platform and those who lost and those who one.

I once had a record of that list, but can't locate same now.

Kindly furnish me here with all available historical fact.

ODVanguard:


Dont mind those hypocrites. That Zik loss is still paining them till today, probably as much as (if not worse than) Soyinka's Nobel laureate win against their Achebe preference. See, I am always thankful that Zik's longthroat ambition to become Western premiere was stopped in its tracks (they can continue sulking about that failure till kingdom come, na dem sabi). Else we probably wouldn't have recorded the many firsts that hallmarked Awolowo/Action Group's administrative era, like first the first T.V station in subsaharan Africa, first tallest building/skyscraper, the establishment industrial areas, etc, that are still very much around till today.

I doubt that Zik could have achieved anything close to that considering the abysmal and unimpressive legacy he left behind as premiere of the Eastern region - you can't give what you don't have. And also, thanks to that failure on his part, we have been spared what would been another reason for them to thump their chests in our faces. They would have undoubtedly invented the narrative that it was Zik that 'developed' Ibadan and by extension the rest of the SW; a feat he failed to register in his own backyard throughout his lifetime. Little wonder they honour the likes of Nnamdi Kanu and Ojukwu above him even up till today, yet they expected us to gift the highest leadership position in our region to such a character?

Deadlytruth:


Here it is below. It is very long on account of its being very detailed in order to put an end the lie that Zik won and Awolowo used tribalism to deny him of victory.


First Nigeria Regional Elections:
Western Nigeria 1951 Elections
Matthew Mbu and history:
Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well-
respected Nigerian. But in this piece,
veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike
challenges some of his claims about
Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have
its hour, but it has no future' -
Francois D. Pressense
In what seemed his 48th
independence anniversary gift to
Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu,
politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave
The Nation an interview run in its
October 1 edition addressing some
political issues in Nigeria of which he
had been a key player. Among
others, he spoke on the Western
Nigeria election held in 1951, two
generations ago, and repeated the
claim of the National Council of
Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC)
that it won that poll, but had been
robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr.
Mbu did not provide any evidence to
substantiate the NCNC claim.
Dr. Mbu said of that election held on
24 September 1951 that: "Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the
Western Region of Nigeria, not by
the electorate, but by the leaders.
The NCNC won the election against
the Action Group (led by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action
Group introduced what was
unknown to Nigerian history",
namely, "carpet crossing. They
Action Group bought members of
the NCNC to join the Action Group
after these people had won election
on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the
leader of a majority party in the
Western Region became the Leader
of Opposition overnight".
Reminded by the interviewer that the
late Chief AMA Akinloye had
maintained in his lifetime that he
and his group had contested the
election on a neutral platform from
the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his
version. He is entitled to say what he
wants to say. I don't want to say ill of
the dead. He knew he was NCNC and
his group was NCNC. Adelabu
remained NCNC. He stuck on to
NCNC till he died".
The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba
Mbadiwe said in his autobiography,
Rebirth of a nation, among others
that: "But in pursuance of the policy
of creating a political climate healthy
enough to make one a citizen
wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe
contested and won the general
elections in 1951 into the Western
House of Assembly. To stultify this
policy of one Nigeria in favour of his
tribally-based philosophy, Chief
Awolowo got some elected members
to cross carpet from the NCNC to his
AG side. Zik the victor lost. And
Awolowo's party was able to form the
government of the Western Region."
At a news conference in Lagos on 20
September 1989, more than two
years after Chief Awolowo's death,
Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic
saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party
won the majority of seats in the
Western House of Assembly. He was
due to be elected the Leader of
Government Business, when
overnight, the Action Group
introduced the notorious carpet-
crossing. By this manipulation,
members who won under the NCNC
crossed over to the Action Group
building it to become the majority
party in the West. As a result of this,
Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of
Government Business and Dr.
Azikiwe had to resign."
Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe
named the members of the NCNC
who contested the election on the
party's platform and later joined the
Action Group to enable Chief
Awolowo form the government to
the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These
are weighty allegations such that
they would have assisted their
readers to clear the issues rather just
repeat their own version of the
events at that time in the hope that
such repetition would turn
falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over
candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the
Government Public Relations Officer,
wrote to the parties to furnish a list
of the candidates contesting election
on their platforms. Only the Action
Group complied with this request
and its list of candidates was as
follows:
1. Ijebu Remo Division - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya,
Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips;
3. Oyo Division - Chief Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A.
Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun Division - SL Akintola, JO. Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola;
5. Ondo Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko;
6. Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA
Tewe and SO Tubo;
7. Epe Division - SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and
C.A. Williams;
8. Ikeja Division - O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO
Okuntola;
9. Badagry Division - Chief
CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev.
GM Fisher;
10. Egba Division - J.F.
Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole,
Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso,
SB Sobande, IO Delano and A
Adedamola.
The others were as follows:
11. Egbado Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A.
Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin
Illo and P.O. Otegbeye;
12. Ife Division -
Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O.
Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju;
13. Ekiti Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade
Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D
Atolagbe;
14. Owo Division - Michael
Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA
Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A.
Olusa;
15. Western Ijaw Division - Pere
EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee;
16. Ishan Division - Anthony Enahoro;
17. Urhobo Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri
and JD Ifode;
18.Warri Division - Arthur
Prest and O. Otere, and
19. Kukuruku Division - D.J.I. Igenuma.
Of the names on the list, only MA
Ajasin from Owo Division, which
comprised Akoko then, did not run
because of party solidarity and unity
in Owo. He stood down for A.O.
Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest
two of the three seats, which they
won, while D.K. Olumofin won the
third for the NCNC.
Three secretaries of the Action Group, who ran as independents and won were:
1. Egba Division- Alhaji D.S. Adegbenro
2. Ekiti Division - J.O. Osuntokun, and
3. Epe Division - S.O. Hassan.
At the close of polls on 24 September
1951, the Action Group had won 38
of the 72 seats in contention out of the total of 80 in the Regional Assembly. The shortfall was due to the fact that elections had been postponed in Lagos and Benin due to security concerns. Lagos had five seats in the West Regional Assembly all later won by the NCNC in the election of 20 November 1951, while Benin had three all later won by Otu Edo candidates in the election of 6 December 1951.
Of the 68 candidates on the list furnished by the Action Group to the Government PR
Department, 38 of the elected AG
members were from that list, and were as follows:
1. Ijebu Remo - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O. Awokoya;
3. Oyo - Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun - S.L. Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola.
Other elected AG members from the
list were:
5. Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji
AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and
Prince Adedamola;
6. Egbado (now Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi and A. Akin Illo;
7. Ekiti - E.A. Babalola
and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief
CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher;
8. Ikeja - SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu-
Ale;
9. Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO Olagbaju;
10. Owo - AO Ogedengbe and RA Olusa;
11. Epe - Safi Lawal Edu;
12. Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe;
13. Western Ijaw - M.F. Agidee;
14. Ishan - Anthony Enahoro, and
15. Warri - Arthur Prest.
In addition to the Action Group and
the NCNC, there were local/divisional
parties such as the Ibadan People's
Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA
Akinloye; Ondo Improvement
League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the
end of poll, the standing of the
parties was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. NCNC and its loyal Independents - 25;
3. IPP - 6
4. Ondo Improvement League - 2.
5. Otu Edo candidates won the three
Benin seats, namely, Chief SO
Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo-
Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi.
Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG,
while the latter two went to the
NCNC. And of the six IPP elected
members, only Adegoke Adelabu
joined the NCNC. The rest of them:
AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi
(who later became the Olubadan of
Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin,
Moyosore Aboderin and SA
Akinyemi, opted for the Action
Group. The NCNC National Secretary,
the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent
declaration forms to the IPP
assemblymen asking them to declare
for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye
returned all the forms uncompleted.
The three AG secretaries who had
run as independents - Adegbenro,
Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP
members, one Etu Edo, and one
Ondo Improvement League, Chief
F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy
Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu
Ode) had swollen the number of the
AG elected members. All the
transactions had taken place before
the inauguration of the Regional
Assembly on 7 January 1952. These
were not known members of the
NCNC, nor did the party publish their
names on the list of its candidates,
but claimed them as its "members,
supporters or sympathisers",
according to inimitable Zik in his My
Odyssey, " It takes more than
speculation to claim a person as a
member of your political party". You
cannot just be under the
"impression" as Zik had claimed that
they were and go ahead to field them
as electoral candidates.
For over a
half century, the NCNC is yet to
provide evidence to back its claim
that it had won the West Regional
election in 1951.
Mr Cooper absolved his department
of responsibility for the controversy
generated by the NCNC after the
election. At a post election news
conference in Lagos he said that "Of
the winning candidates, the names
of 38 were on the list sent to me by
the Action Group. The six successful
candidates at Ibadan were all among
those who had been identified to me
as representing the Ibadan People's
Party. No claim of any kind had
reached us about the party affiliation
of the remaining successful
candidates." Why did the NCNC not
send a list of its candidates for the
poll to the Government PR
Department before that poll? And
why have Dr. Mbu and the others not
published the list of NCNC
candidates to substantiate their
electoral victory claim in over 50
years but merely kept reaping false
claims? The records of the poll
conducted in the West and all over
Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher.
In this matter, it is facts that speak,
not what some political/ethnic
partisan said or did not say.
Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only
in losing the regional election, he
also lost the election to the House of
Representatives held on 10 January
1951 at the House of Assembly, Ibadan, among NCNC members. The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80 member Western Regional Assembly was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. Independent/AG - 15;
3. NCNC - 24;
4. Independent/NCNC - 3.
Three
members of the NCNC who had been
elected to the House changed party
allegiance that day ahead of the
House of Representatives vote. They
were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG
Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from
Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.
They were running for the House of
Representatives and wanted Action
Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and
Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went
back to the NCNC. That was all the
carpet-crossing that took place on 10
January 1952, namely, three at first
to the AG and one back to the NCNC.
From the vote tally, it is clear that the
NCNC and the Independent /NCNC
totalling 27 seats altogether out of
80 seats could not have formed the
Government of Western Nigeria.
Even if the local/divisional parties
had chosen the NCNC, it would still
be some seats short of 41 required to
form the government. The Action
Group won 38 seats; its independent
candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun,
Hassan and Odutola won four seats
making a total of 42 seats. The AG
could have formed the government
without the support of the other
small parties. It did not have to
"bribe" anybody to join it to form the
government. Since politics is a game
of number, only few principled
politicians would not be disposed to
joining the winning party, in this
case, the AG.
Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his
book: "Successful NCNC men who
were not Yoruba were scared away.
Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the
Western House (of) Assembly from a
Lagos constituency decided to resign.
Since membership of the House of
Representatives was by an electoral
college in the regional house, no
NCNC from the West came to the
House of Representatives in Lagos".
This is blatantly false. Zik resigned
because he lost election to the
federal house from the West, while
Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka
Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa-
Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir
Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected
from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever
scared non-Yoruba NCNC people
from the West? Chief Denis
Osadebey succeeded Adegoke
Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the
West and the likes of Humphrey
Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh,
Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi
Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and
GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC
in that Assembly.
As Mme De Stael says: The "search
for the truth is the noblest
occupation of man; its publication is
a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political
entourage have chosen their own
side of history. It remains to be seen
whether or not history will absolve
them. Their contemporary audience
is composed of intelligent people
who will search after the truth
without inheriting the political
prejudice and stereotype of their
lying grand-parents. That is the way
ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest
friend of truth is time; her greatest
enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton