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gaby:
VERY HISTORIC PIECE

Copied from "FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938" Forum posted by Adenike Marinho, a Medical Doctor.

Tunde Oduwole, I-QS.
14.06.'18.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF HATRED
I had the privilege of attending some meetings of the Yoruba and Igbo Leaders. I was not a leader but a youth who knew how to wash his hands. At one of those meetings in Owerri, I think in 1989, I think, I listened to Uncle Bola Ige and other Yoruba Leaders take the likes of Mbakwe, R. B. Okafor and others to the cleaners when the Igbo said the Yoruba were betrayers, citing that Chief Obafemi Awolowo led them into secession with a promise that if the Igbo left Nigeria, the Yoruba would follow suit. They accused him of not following up on his promise. Trust Uncle Bola Ige! He pointed to Chief Mbakwe and said, "you were there in the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu as I was. Is that statement correct?".He turned to two other Igbo and two Yoruba Leaders who were at that meeting and asked the same question, saying he had transcripts of the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu. They kept quiet while the Yoruba Leaders affirmed that Awolowo never promised to follow the East into secession. What he said was that if the Igbo were "driven" out of Nigeria the Yoruba would take it seriously and reassess their own position. Igbo Leaders DID NOT CONTEST this version. Then Chief Bola Ige threw in the clincher! "Who are you to accuse the Yoruba of betrayal?" he roared, and continued:
1. At Independence Awolowo offered a joint government between the NCNC and AG, with Zik as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. Awo and Zik "were still negotiating" when it was announced that Zik would be President in a coalition with NPC of the North. The East then collaborated in destroying the West and sending Awolowo and his leutenants to jail!
2. What of the 1965 elections which the West and the East agreed to boycott? We met all night and reached agreement about 3am on the day of the election. In the morning, while the Yoruba boycotted the election, the Igbo went to vote
3. After the 1979 elections Yoruba (UPN) and Igbo (APP?) Leaders were still at the negotiating table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN)
4. After the 1983 elections, 1979 repeated itself. Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation. Talks started and they met in Benin where Awo pleaded passionately that only a collaboration between The Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria. They didn't reach agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North
Uncle Bola paused and then continued "we can go on and on. So how dare you accuse the Yoruba of betrayal? How many Igbo have been killed in Lagos, Ibadan, Akure, Oshogbo (he mentioned other Yoruba towns)? You have your businesses in the West and went to Western schools. Yet you count the Yoruba as your enemy. You get killed in Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Zaria etc and have your goods looted yet you consider the Hausa/ Fulani your friends. It's your choice. If you want to be slaves for ever, we can't help you"
I had never been so scared in my life. I thought the roof was going to fall. There was a pin drop silence and no Igbo dared interrupt Uncle Bola Ige because he was telling the truth. The Yoruba Leaders ended the meeting at that point and left. I hope Chief C. O. Adebayo's memoirs will give more details of those exchanges.
Now to make three points from all this:
A. The Yoruba have been stretching their hand across the Niger for a handshake for a long time. The Igbo refused to take it for a long time until recently
B. Many Igbo Leaders of the 70s, 80s and 90s deliberately perpetrated the legend of Awolowo's role betraying them into the civil war and his role in prosecuting the war, to rally the Igbo population behind themselves. The Igbo agreed on Yoruba hatred than on any other issue. So it was the fabric that held them together for a long time
C. Time heals all things. Many Igbo reading this will be hearing for the first time that their leaders of old knew for a truth that Awolowo did not break his word to Ojukwu as alleged. And to think of it, EVEN IF OUR PARENTS QUARRELLED, SHOULD WE THE NEW GENERATION CONTINUE THE SAME WAY?. ITS TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND MAKE THE HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE NIGER WORK FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PEOPLES AND NIGERIA

IslamicRebel01:
The Islamic zoo eagles lost the match.

ElsonMorali:
I think it's already too late for a handshake across the Niger.


I wish the average Igbo will read that write up. It's the truth, but they'll pretend not to see it.


This present crop of Igbos have had their hearts poisoned and their minds polluted against the Yorubas.


To stretch out our hands to them again is to be stabbed in the back AGAIN as they have always done.


Igbo and lies are like 5 & 6.


They will go to any length to discredit the Yorubas.


How I wish the Yorubas can begin an earnest push towards Independence from Nigeria.


We have carried the burden that is Nigeria long enough. It has slowed us down.

donsolo4u2c:
The rift between IPOB and Nigerian government took a dramatic twist yesterday as IPOB raised BIAFRA FLAGS in distance Russia during Nigeria Vs Croatia Game where Nigerian super eagles suffers an embarrassing defeat in the world cup tournament on Saturday.


Many loyalist of IPOB and Biafra Agitators took the defeat to mock Buhari and Nigerian government describing them as total failure.


EbonyiDaily during the game yesterday observed low turn out of Nigerian Supporters in Russia.

A Facebook user, took to his page and wrote;

#WEBOYCUTRUSSIA

Meanwhile Lai Mohammed and Presidency is yet to react to the defeats of super eagles.


http://www.ebonyidaily.com.ng/2018/06/ipob-shocks-buhari-and-lai-mohammed.html?m=0

gaby:
Lets all bury the hatchet and live as one. This is the ultimate message. All the name callings and persistent suspicions of one another is only doing us all more harms and zero goods, both individually and collectively.

efighter:
Dear slowpoke, I hope you can recollect that the team that loss had about 85% Igbo's.

donsolo4u2c:
The rift between IPOB and Nigerian government took a dramatic twist yesterday as IPOB raised BIAFRA FLAGS in distance Russia during Nigeria Vs Croatia Game where Nigerian super eagles suffers an embarrassing defeat in the world cup tournament on Saturday.


Many loyalist of IPOB and Biafra Agitators took the defeat to mock Buhari and Nigerian government describing them as total failure.


EbonyiDaily during the game yesterday observed low turn out of Nigerian Supporters in Russia.

A Facebook user, took to his page and wrote;

#WEBOYCUTRUSSIA

Meanwhile Lai Mohammed and Presidency is yet to react to the defeats of super eagles.


http://www.ebonyidaily.com.ng/2018/06/ipob-shocks-buhari-and-lai-mohammed.html?m=0

ElsonMorali:
I think it's already too late for a handshake across the Niger.


I wish the average Igbo will read that write up. It's the truth, but they'll pretend not to see it.


This present crop of Igbos have had their hearts poisoned and their minds polluted against the Yorubas.


To stretch out our hands to them again is to be stabbed in the back AGAIN as they have always done.


Igbo and lies are like 5 & 6.


They will go to any length to discredit the Yorubas.


How I wish the Yorubas can begin an earnest push towards Independence from Nigeria.


We have carried the burden that is Nigeria long enough. It has slowed us down.

donsolo4u2c:
The rift between IPOB and Nigerian government took a dramatic twist yesterday as IPOB raised BIAFRA FLAGS in distance Russia during Nigeria Vs Croatia Game where Nigerian super eagles suffers an embarrassing defeat in the world cup tournament on Saturday.


Many loyalist of IPOB and Biafra Agitators took the defeat to mock Buhari and Nigerian government describing them as total failure.


EbonyiDaily during the game yesterday observed low turn out of Nigerian Supporters in Russia.

A Facebook user, took to his page and wrote;

#WEBOYCUTRUSSIA

Meanwhile Lai Mohammed and Presidency is yet to react to the defeats of super eagles.


http://www.ebonyidaily.com.ng/2018/06/ipob-shocks-buhari-and-lai-mohammed.html?m=0

Mcreloaded:
I can imagine the reception awaiting your arrival at the airport in Nigeria where armoured tanks,grenade launchers,rocket launchers and war planes and the occasional ogbonigwe will be deployed to effect your arrest.

cuteralph101:
honestly reading this breaks me but what do igbos do. They gon sink themselves...

gaby:
Lets all bury the hatchet and live as one. This is the ultimate message. All the name callings and persistent suspicions of one another is only doing us all more harms and zero goods, both individually and collectively.

gaby:
VERY HISTORIC PIECE

Copied from "FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938" Forum posted by Adenike Marinho, a Medical Doctor.

Tunde Oduwole, I-QS.
14.06.'18.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF HATRED
I had the privilege of attending some meetings of the Yoruba and Igbo Leaders. I was not a leader but a youth who knew how to wash his hands. At one of those meetings in Owerri, I think in 1989, I think, I listened to Uncle Bola Ige and other Yoruba Leaders take the likes of Mbakwe, R. B. Okafor and others to the cleaners when the Igbo said the Yoruba were betrayers, citing that Chief Obafemi Awolowo led them into secession with a promise that if the Igbo left Nigeria, the Yoruba would follow suit. They accused him of not following up on his promise. Trust Uncle Bola Ige! He pointed to Chief Mbakwe and said, "you were there in the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu as I was. Is that statement correct?".He turned to two other Igbo and two Yoruba Leaders who were at that meeting and asked the same question, saying he had transcripts of the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu. They kept quiet while the Yoruba Leaders affirmed that Awolowo never promised to follow the East into secession. What he said was that if the Igbo were "driven" out of Nigeria the Yoruba would take it seriously and reassess their own position. Igbo Leaders DID NOT CONTEST this version. Then Chief Bola Ige threw in the clincher! "Who are you to accuse the Yoruba of betrayal?" he roared, and continued:
1. At Independence Awolowo offered a joint government between the NCNC and AG, with Zik as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. Awo and Zik "were still negotiating" when it was announced that Zik would be President in a coalition with NPC of the North. The East then collaborated in destroying the West and sending Awolowo and his leutenants to jail!
2. What of the 1965 elections which the West and the East agreed to boycott? We met all night and reached agreement about 3am on the day of the election. In the morning, while the Yoruba boycotted the election, the Igbo went to vote
3. After the 1979 elections Yoruba (UPN) and Igbo (APP?) Leaders were still at the negotiating table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN)
4. After the 1983 elections, 1979 repeated itself. Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation. Talks started and they met in Benin where Awo pleaded passionately that only a collaboration between The Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria. They didn't reach agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North
Uncle Bola paused and then continued "we can go on and on. So how dare you accuse the Yoruba of betrayal? How many Igbo have been killed in Lagos, Ibadan, Akure, Oshogbo (he mentioned other Yoruba towns)? You have your businesses in the West and went to Western schools. Yet you count the Yoruba as your enemy. You get killed in Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Zaria etc and have your goods looted yet you consider the Hausa/ Fulani your friends. It's your choice. If you want to be slaves for ever, we can't help you"
I had never been so scared in my life. I thought the roof was going to fall. There was a pin drop silence and no Igbo dared interrupt Uncle Bola Ige because he was telling the truth. The Yoruba Leaders ended the meeting at that point and left. I hope Chief C. O. Adebayo's memoirs will give more details of those exchanges.
Now to make three points from all this:
A. The Yoruba have been stretching their hand across the Niger for a handshake for a long time. The Igbo refused to take it for a long time until recently
B. Many Igbo Leaders of the 70s, 80s and 90s deliberately perpetrated the legend of Awolowo's role betraying them into the civil war and his role in prosecuting the war, to rally the Igbo population behind themselves. The Igbo agreed on Yoruba hatred than on any other issue. So it was the fabric that held them together for a long time
C. Time heals all things. Many Igbo reading this will be hearing for the first time that their leaders of old knew for a truth that Awolowo did not break his word to Ojukwu as alleged. And to think of it, EVEN IF OUR PARENTS QUARRELLED, SHOULD WE THE NEW GENERATION CONTINUE THE SAME WAY?. ITS TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND MAKE THE HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE NIGER WORK FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PEOPLES AND NIGERIA

ElsonMorali:
I never was aware of such hatred for the Yorubas until I joined Nairaland.

Then my eyes opened.


It was then I began to pay more attention to their nuances, the little sniggering remarks in real life, the comments about cowardice of the Yorubas and the talk about backstabbing that I used to ignore and take for granted whenever I was with Igbo acquaintances in real life.


Then I realized these peeps whom I went to church with, worked with and lived in the same area with are just like, if not the same people who come here on Nairaland to curse Yorubas.


No! I don't hate Igbos. Far far from it. I just don't want people who harbor hatred in their hearts for me and my kind anywhere near me.


That's why I support the realization of Biafra.

That's why I support the self determination of the Yorubas.

zionmde:
See this one crying at the sight of a mere flag
Biafra must be causing u pains in ur scrotum. But sorry efulefu continue crying, biafrans don't care

meccuno:
your eyes were opened, so were the eyes of other naive igbos too. it goes both ways. i stopped believing in Nigeria. it was a complete waste of time. i personally dont think that it is cool to have a country with so much diversity. it breeds contempt distrust and it has never worked. the best bet is to be friends from afar. not together.

ElsonMorali:
I never was aware of such hatred for the Yorubas until I joined Nairaland.

Then my eyes opened.


It was then I began to pay more attention to their nuances, the little sniggering remarks in real life, the comments about cowardice of the Yorubas and the talk about backstabbing that I used to ignore and take for granted whenever I was with Igbo acquaintances in real life.


Then I realized these peeps whom I went to church with, worked with and lived in the same area with are just like, if not the same people who come here on Nairaland to curse Yorubas.


No! I don't hate Igbos. Far far from it. I just don't want people who harbor hatred in their hearts for me and my kind anywhere near me.


That's why I support the realization of Biafra.

That's why I support the self determination of the Yorubas.

meccuno:
[s][/s]

cuteralph101:
sadly I'm igbo...the nuisance perpetrated by igbos is a disgrace to the world. Such a shame. Let them go. They won't be missed

cocoduck:
bury which hatchet? Is there any similarity between us and the sophisticated morons?

cuteralph101:
I quit. Damn it. Everything IPOB...are we not ashamed. Our quest for sovereignty has turned the entire igbo race into a laughing stock. For crying out loud we are not applying wisdom. We aren't the only people clamoring for a sovereign Nation. Yet we use every avenue to idiotize our quest and disgrace the movement. Is that how we gon rule if ever we win alas that if it ever happens. Well IPOB can Wail for eternity...u cant get Biafra without sense.


If u want a Biafra nation to be respected by the world start from the grassroot and build a legacy to be known for. Tech? Improve. Innovation? Excel do it more and more and don't stop...channel this disgraceful attempts in ridiculing Nigeria all in the name of fighting a lost cause. Nigeria isnt only affecting igbos. Lets be wise plz

zionmde:
bla bla bla
they were not sponsored by ur stupid government
they are biafrans that reside in Russia.
So ur soldiers can position the war planes In front of ur house for u and ur entire family




Buhari and his fellow terrorists should be ashamed that people all around the world love to associate with the so called proscribed terrorists

cuteralph101:
sadly I'm igbo...the nuisance perpetrated by igbos is a disgrace to the world. Such a shame. Let them go. They won't be missed

gaby:
Love trumps all man....

gaby:
VERY HISTORIC PIECE

Copied from "FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938" Forum posted by Adenike Marinho, a Medical Doctor.

Tunde Oduwole, I-QS.
14.06.'18.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF HATRED
I had the privilege of attending some meetings of the Yoruba and Igbo Leaders. I was not a leader but a youth who knew how to wash his hands. At one of those meetings in Owerri, I think in 1989, I think, I listened to Uncle Bola Ige and other Yoruba Leaders take the likes of Mbakwe, R. B. Okafor and others to the cleaners when the Igbo said the Yoruba were betrayers, citing that Chief Obafemi Awolowo led them into secession with a promise that if the Igbo left Nigeria, the Yoruba would follow suit. They accused him of not following up on his promise. Trust Uncle Bola Ige! He pointed to Chief Mbakwe and said, "you were there in the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu as I was. Is that statement correct?".He turned to two other Igbo and two Yoruba Leaders who were at that meeting and asked the same question, saying he had transcripts of the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu. They kept quiet while the Yoruba Leaders affirmed that Awolowo never promised to follow the East into secession. What he said was that if the Igbo were "driven" out of Nigeria the Yoruba would take it seriously and reassess their own position. Igbo Leaders DID NOT CONTEST this version. Then Chief Bola Ige threw in the clincher! "Who are you to accuse the Yoruba of betrayal?" he roared, and continued:
1. At Independence Awolowo offered a joint government between the NCNC and AG, with Zik as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. Awo and Zik "were still negotiating" when it was announced that Zik would be President in a coalition with NPC of the North. The East then collaborated in destroying the West and sending Awolowo and his leutenants to jail!
2. What of the 1965 elections which the West and the East agreed to boycott? We met all night and reached agreement about 3am on the day of the election. In the morning, while the Yoruba boycotted the election, the Igbo went to vote
3. After the 1979 elections Yoruba (UPN) and Igbo (APP?) Leaders were still at the negotiating table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN)
4. After the 1983 elections, 1979 repeated itself. Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation. Talks started and they met in Benin where Awo pleaded passionately that only a collaboration between The Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria. They didn't reach agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North
Uncle Bola paused and then continued "we can go on and on. So how dare you accuse the Yoruba of betrayal? How many Igbo have been killed in Lagos, Ibadan, Akure, Oshogbo (he mentioned other Yoruba towns)? You have your businesses in the West and went to Western schools. Yet you count the Yoruba as your enemy. You get killed in Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Zaria etc and have your goods looted yet you consider the Hausa/ Fulani your friends. It's your choice. If you want to be slaves for ever, we can't help you"
I had never been so scared in my life. I thought the roof was going to fall. There was a pin drop silence and no Igbo dared interrupt Uncle Bola Ige because he was telling the truth. The Yoruba Leaders ended the meeting at that point and left. I hope Chief C. O. Adebayo's memoirs will give more details of those exchanges.
Now to make three points from all this:
A. The Yoruba have been stretching their hand across the Niger for a handshake for a long time. The Igbo refused to take it for a long time until recently
B. Many Igbo Leaders of the 70s, 80s and 90s deliberately perpetrated the legend of Awolowo's role betraying them into the civil war and his role in prosecuting the war, to rally the Igbo population behind themselves. The Igbo agreed on Yoruba hatred than on any other issue. So it was the fabric that held them together for a long time
C. Time heals all things. Many Igbo reading this will be hearing for the first time that their leaders of old knew for a truth that Awolowo did not break his word to Ojukwu as alleged. And to think of it, EVEN IF OUR PARENTS QUARRELLED, SHOULD WE THE NEW GENERATION CONTINUE THE SAME WAY?. ITS TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND MAKE THE HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE NIGER WORK FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PEOPLES AND NIGERIA

Nashirushekoni:
Nah there problem how this affect the match

Nnamdiojukwu:
Why don't you raise the same rag in your locality and see what will happen?
Unlike those coward s that raised the rag in the far away Russia, pls try urs in aba,Onitsha,asaba,Enugu and ebonyi etc,let's see what will happen.

cocoduck:
No! I beg to differ, It is Justice, Peace and Progress. Justice is the greatest. Do not allow anybody deceive you.

Almaiga:
Will the flag give you Biafra, come and pick up Arms if you truly need Biafra.
Bloody Cowards.

cuteralph101:
seems ipob are all out to disgrace Nigeria. Its high time Nigeria retaliates. Don't employ igbos don't do business with igbos don't help igbos and don't accommodate igbos. Ipobs are pain in the ass. Let it be Nigeria vs IPOB. Ndi Ara