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Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Deadlytruth(m): 12:45pm On Sep 20, 2018 |
Icon79: Aburi Accord was not a form of restructuring but an unprecedented illegality. Restructuring in Nigeria is a call for true federalism through a re-adoption of the Independence constitution with the current states replacing the regions in status and function. But Aburi Accord was a call for confederalism which was and still remains altogether strange to Nigeria and Nigerians as we never ever practised such before or after Independence. |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by bcube01(m): 12:53pm On Sep 20, 2018 |
pabllov53: What's this one saying. Lagos has no mineral resources. U must be leaving in the past. Besides does a region only survive on mineral resources? Research that up on ur own. U're talking about igbos developing Lagos by 70%. Are u for real or joking? It must be a joke. Do u know how many businesses are in Lagos. Multinational corporations, Manufacturing industries, down to individual organisations. Mr man think before u talk. If u say Igbos developed Lagos at about up to 70% then they must be the majority in Lagos and the remaining 30% minorities. Wake up from ur dreams. Like I said do a proper research before talking. U never would know who's watching. U talk about removing seaports, airports et all. How? Was Lagos the first capital of Nigeria? Is Lagos the only state with Seaports and Airports. Guy if na joke stop am. |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Deadlytruth(m): 12:58pm On Sep 20, 2018 |
ItsMeAboki: Tanko Yakassi, like a typical Northerner, is only being clever by half and playing the devil's advocate by pretending he doesn't know that the current call for restructuring is hinged on the current states acting as the federating units. Given the fact that as at 1962 agitations had mounted from different minorities to be given their own regions, only a dishonest beneficiary of the current system like Yakassi would use the poser of the impracticability of returning to the four region structure as a basis for kicking against restructuring. I am however not surprised that Yakassi is afraid of a return to true federalism considering the fact that he was a very close associate of the very Zik whose One-Nigerianism ideology inspired Ironsi into breaking up our true federalism and subverting the Independence constitution. Yakassi is the Hausafulani version of Zik and Ironsi. We all know that if Zik had been around today his opinion would just be same as that of Yakassi being his fellow unitary system advocate while he lived. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Ovamboland(m): 7:46pm On Sep 20, 2018 |
franchasng: I just had to point out the fallacies and inaccuracies in your nicely written story at to set the record straight. 1st bold, Ibos have aligned with the North at least 4 times in national elections where a Southerner could have come out winner or actually came second. All that was needed to win was Ibo support and it was withrawn on the four occassions. 1960, 1979, 1983 and,1993 are those occassions. The only times Yoruba aligned with North that could deny south of anything was during the civil war and 2015. 2. You are the first Ibo man I would encounter on Nairaland arguing from this perspective. ibo left Ahmadu Bello who called his party Northern people's Congress and did not bother to campaign outside the North, to attack and label as founder of tribal politics an Awolowo who wanted to take his new party nationwide and campaign as such. Bello had so much disdain for Nigeria that he refused to be it's first Prime Minister but choose his boy to occupy the position, but most Ibo see him as more nationalist than Awolowo. It seems you just threw that in to support you coup to install Awo theory. 3rd bold, there's no evidence Azikiwe was ever a target, That he had foreknowledge is not in doubt but chose to save only his own skin is treasonous enough. Non of his high ranking party members or associates was arrested or questioned not to talk of elimination. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Deadlytruth(m): 11:57pm On Sep 20, 2018 |
Ovamboland: The guy you quoted is a factory of fallacies. I don't think he has ever on his own embarked on any independent minded research on Nigeria's political history. They claim Awolowo was a tribalist but ironically argue that the Jan. 15 coupists driven by "national unity" concern wanted to make him Prime Minister. What an interesting irony! That Awolowo-to-be-made-Prime-Minister theory is the most senseless and most watery reason they usually give in their attempt to play down the openly tribalistic pattern of the casualty of the coup. Else, how could a set of coup plotters who made it known that their mission was to impose a unitary government have rooted for the most uncompromising federalist in town in the person of Awolowo to head the unitary government? Were the coupists, most of whom were university graduates, so unintelligent, daft and dull not to have seen the self contradiction in such a decision ? Do these Igbos selling this narrative think they are talking to kindergarten children? Of all the politicians straddling the national space only Zik was the avowed believer and defender of unitary system hence he alone could have been the one they ultimately wanted to make the head of their unitary government. No wonder they tipped him of so as to preserve him for the position in an event the coup had succeeded. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by ItsMeAboki(m): 12:40pm On Sep 21, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: Typical southerner and southern hypocrisy; saying one thing and meaning another. How can you suggest that the proponents of the 1962 were considering the current 36 states as direct substitutes for the former 3 regions in their proposal; knowing fully well that a constitution is a very specific and highly technical document, intentionally designed that way to protect it from loose or glib interpretation. Tanko Yakassai was aware of the absurdity of this proposal and therefore correct to draw attention to the practical limitations of adopting it; while pointing out the alternative route towards it - which is constitutional amendment, an ongoing functional process already in place from the creation of this country till date; but which our dishonest southern co-travellers wish to circumvent in their usual pattern of shifting the goalpost by changing the rules midway through the game. The real beneficiaries of One Nigeria know themselves; neither is the north desperate for the country not to break up (it was the 1st region to want to opt out in 1966); recently the Lamido of Adamawa maintained that position for the north when he spoke at the 2014 National Conference; again Tanko Yakassai is currently hinting the same when he recommended for the north to start consulting with its neighbouring border countries e.g. Niger, Cameroon etc. . |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Deadlytruth(m): 12:56pm On Sep 21, 2018 |
ItsMeAboki: Of course a typical Northerner must conjure every logic, however flawed, in defense of this structure which they unduly benefit from. But then the true goalpost shifters are the North and Igbos who at different times wanted one-Nigeria and secession depending on when it favoured their domination agenda or otherwise. If there is nothing wrong with the current structure then Tanko Yakassi owes Nigeria an explanation for why Northerners staged very violent and bloody riots against Ironsi's 1966 Unification Decree which birthed it? Why has Yakassi never spared a line in condemnation of the Araba movement which the North put in place when it appeared that the feared Igbo domination agenda was getting inevitably real? Yakassi's position that restructuring is a Yoruba secession movement championed by uninformed Igbos contradicts your own opinion that seems to credit him with the North's phantom readiness for secession. Such position is evocative of the times when Zik boasted in all constitutional conferences that the East could stand on her own and do better than if in Nigeria, yet he never stopped preaching the sustenance of Nigeria. Yakassi remains the North's version of Zik's hypocrisy. 1 Like |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Obakuso: 6:20pm On Sep 22, 2018 |
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Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by 0monnak0da: 7:02pm On Sep 22, 2018 |
ItsMeAboki: There is nothing like South or Southerner in Nigeria except in the minds of Fulanis . Let us stop deceiving ourselves. When Nigeria went to war against Biafra no one talked of Southerner. The Yoruba and Midwest fought for Nigeria. The Fulani better wake up and stop deceiving themselves with the North South fiction they are tryng to foist on everybody and in the same vein there is nothing like North . The People of Benue and Taraba are not stupid. If Nigeria breaks up it will break up into at least 10 nations and NOT North and South The Bprno will not stay in one country with Fulani in such a scenario and neither will the Tiv or Jukun 1 Like |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by ItsMeAboki(m): 8:46am On Sep 23, 2018 |
This sounds like the ostrich that buries its head in the sand in total oblivion of the true realities that surrounded it. |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Obakuso: 6:33pm On Sep 23, 2018 |
Obakuso: Envision Capital Investment and massive growth |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by ItsMeAboki(m): 11:36am On Sep 24, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: It is funny how southerners, who were the architects of the Unitary System they are currently complaining about, would shamelessly turn around and blame northerners for unduly benefiting from it - as if to say northerners wrong to have adapted and excelled better under a system which southerners had violently thrust upon them. Yes indeed; southerners were and still are chronic goalpost shifters, often chopping and changing the rules whenever they fail to grab power at the centre: - they ditched our nascent democracy, when they couldn't win through the ballot box, in favour of military dictatorship; introduced geopolitical zones which effectively accommodates and legitimises their obnoxious tribal politics. - they also introduced rotational presidency at the expense of free choice (of candidates) in a true democracy. - as if that is not enough, they now want to take us over 50 years back to the 1962 constitution, which they had earlier destroyed and rejected in their 1966 coup - apparently, because northerners are fairing better under the current system (talk of spitefulness). |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by gidgiddy: 12:15pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: Aburi accord was illegal? Why? Wasn't it the military leaders that met in Aburi and decided on the future? If confederation is strange to Nigeria because we never practiced then so is the current system we practice now. There was a time there were no 36 states and Abuja but we survived. The Aburi agreement is a reminder to anyone who is a student of Nigerian history that the North will never agree to Nigeria being restructured |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Deadlytruth(m): 1:43pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
ItsMeAboki: Your attempt to lump all Southerners together for indictment over the introduction of unitary system is dead on arrival. There has never really been anything called Southerners in the political sense. What we always had was a three region structure which were North, East and West, and then Midwest a fourth one much later. Those who introduced unitary system were the Easterners who have always been the most compatible with Northerners in political alliances. Recall that when Ironsi imposed unitary system protests emanated from the West, North and Midwest except only the East...hence it wasn't really a pan-South thing as you would have anyone believe. Only sheer dishonesty would make anyone try to rewrite the history of those events as you've just done. It is like lumping all Northerners together for blames about Biafra genocide when in actual facts it was overseen by a middle Belter who commanded the army that carried out those acts. However, the mere fact that you believe in blaming the South for the introduction of unitary system means that you yourself know deep down in you that it is not a desirable system for Nigeria's genuine workability. So why then do you keep defending Yakassi's aversion to it? Secondly, it is hypocritic for the North to, after killing Ironsi and thousands of innocent Igbos for Ironsi's sin of introducing unitary system, proceed to entrenched and consolidate it further. Why claim you killed a man for a particular sin only for you yourself to wallow and swim in the same sin? The claim that the North has excelled over the South under unitary system is only correct if applied to the political hegemony class. But as regards the masses the North is the loser hence the general backwardness of the North in terms of education, industries, health, and many other social indeces. Northern states dominate the bottom of all chats on developmental parameters in Nigeria even though their elites are in charge of the nation's wealth through unitary system. those who introduced military rule are the Igbos. Moreover they were partly inspired into that by the wanton misrule and anti-democratic governing style of the Northern Oligarchy which was first to desecrate the altar of democratic principles by evolving and believing they were born to rule in a democracy that was supposedly meant for all irrespective of tribe or class....thus introducing tribal politics. The North-led government was first to violate the Independence constitution by imposing an unpopular government in the Western Region through an unconstitutional means because its ally in that Region couldn't have won it democratically, thereby inspiring the belief that democracy will never work in the new country....hence military intervention. Even when the Courts decided in favour of the Region's home party the North-led government at the center disobeyed the court... thereby laying the foundation for anti-democratic self help tactics of survival. That itself was the first assault on the regional federalism clearly spelt out in the Independence constitution. By trying to control the Western Region's purely internal affairs, the North-led FG had actually introduced unitary system into the polity in violation of the Republican constitution. Geopolitical zones structure was a brainchild of the regime of a Northerner called IBB thus your crediting of Southerners with it is a fraud. Rotational presidency is a product of the PDP which metamorphosed into existence from the Katsina-based Mafia called PDM. The major parties, AC and APGA, which genuinely had their bases in the south were from time against rotational presidency hence they merged later with CPC their nothern replica to produce the APC. You can't fool anyone. 2 Likes |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Deadlytruth(m): 1:53pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
gidgiddy: Exactly who and who elected them to lead them and represent them in a legislative business? Which and which federal consituencies did they represent like how it was in the constitutional conference of London in 1957 which had genuine peoples' representation and therefore carried a seal of the people's ultimate sovereign will? You mean a new constitution produced without our consent by a military establishment which had earlier on subverted our own sovereign and we-the-people constitution on Jan 15 and May 24 1966 should have been accepted by us as a document legally binding on us? 2 Likes |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by gidgiddy: 2:41pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: Then that means that Nigeria is illegal. It was a military man called Feredrick Lugard who created Nigeria in.1914 without the permission of the people. The 36 states of Nigeria and Abuja were the creation of the military. Nigeria and it's structure is a creation of military men. It is time to call for Nigeria to be dissolved |
Re: Restructuring Is Yoruba Agenda Championed By Uninformed Igbos – Tanko Yakasai by Deadlytruth(m): 3:30pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
gidgiddy:After Luggard Analgamated North and South, the people at different times moved to reverse the Analgamation on the reason that they were not consulted. But some among the people resisted and frustrated the de-amalgamation moves for whatever reasons known to them. However the people all later, at some point, agreed to continue as Nigeria and out of their own free will sponsored representatives to London to draft a constitution to define their terms of coexistence which they did and all signed on behalf of the people. Problem started when a section of the country reintroduced the philosophy that they were born to rule and started acting it out again in total disregard for the contents of the 1957 London constitution they had already consented to. The problem worsened when another section which initially aided and abetted their born to rule philosophy became the victims of that philosophy and, rather than rely on constitutional means to reign them in, chose the way of military intervention which produced deadly unitended and unenvisaged consequences that ended up making the country look as if it was never at anytime nurtured on the people's consent. 2 Likes |
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