Kjhova below is a long read.

[21/10 8:45 pm] Anascopeterson: WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:

The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausafulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their third class citizen status of Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to a play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria.
The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of.
However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish this house with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge from an informed position.

Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done by colonial fiat without the consent of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.
To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be a called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any other tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, termed them ethnic champions, accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and declared that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constipation of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, buy Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constipation. While Azikiwe did all this, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.


https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/06/my-opposition-to-secession-zik/

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.

Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis).
As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:
"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).

"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949)
[21/10 8:46 pm] Anascopeterson: As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate. Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria.
With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.
But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region. But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region. While they did that, the Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.
[21/10 8:48 pm] Anascopeterson: While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
[21/10 9:02 pm] Anascopeterson: When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts. Here is how:
In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address.
But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard.
Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government. However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony.
Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exhuberance.
On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.
Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint".
After laughing the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.
[22/10 6:22 am] Anascopeterson: The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority Igbo army officers. That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.
Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.
In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heros. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.
But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.

Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.
Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro's, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers.
Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igbo land to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra.
But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty? Be the judge.
Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:
After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging. Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.
[21/10 11:23 pm] Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.
First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle. Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijacked the process. Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.
Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference. Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.
In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected respresentatives.
That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians.
On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise. But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinic power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amnend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft. That was the height of irresponsibly and dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement we ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements. So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
[22/10 6:26 am] Anascopeterson: Obasanjo removed history from d school curriculum hence d reason why many of wat we know of d eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives

Aboki99:

Can you see that the barbarism has not left you? Your resort to names calling in a simple debate on history says it all! Your own part of the SW I actually referred to and your insults to me confirms it. I am cultured and well brought up to insult so find someone on the same level of civilization with you to engage with!

You had it coming when you insulted my tribe..I can't take that from no one especially when I know my people's history...so you can't come from no where and say shit and expect no response..this is internet anyone may read this in future so I had to clear you...now back to the issue...Why don't tell us about your own fulani subjugation of the Hausa tribe..I'm sure you should have a good command of that history...You might want me to school you about that too..if you want ...it exist in ilorin in yorubaland too...choose your words wisely should you decide to quote me again..because I'm very versed in African history

WORDWORLD:
Kjhova below is a long read.

[21/10 8:45 pm] Anascopeterson: WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:

Hello @WORDWORLD,

Your post, thou riddled with quite a few debatable narratives, is very apt a representation of our National tragedy to date. How a few individuals, lost in their self interest, took decisions that still hunt us all today.

Today's mass delusion in the East of Nigeria carries on in tandem with the very errors of the past. We can only hope that there are still enough sensible folks out there to reign in the IPOB types who are bent on bringing destruction to their own enclave.

I have enjoyed your write-ups and posts uptil this point.

1) Slavery was more prevalent in the North than in the South and has been going on for longer period than the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The Trans-Saharan slave trade sourced their slaves from West Africa , substantial parts of which came from the present Northern Nigeria.

2) At the onset of British Colonialism, about half of the population of the Sokoto Caliphate were slaves.

fk001:



The North were never weak as of then, they were the only region that have their armies in an organized way.

Followed by the SW

The SE were decentralized fighting themselves, as we have read in chinua Achebe's books.


Do you know that there was little or no slave trade in Northern Nigeria when compared to the massive slave trade that was undergoing across the river Niger?

Most Almajiris can't read or write their own names even in their native languages let alone in Arabic.

What Almajiris do is mostly to cram and memorize portions of the Holy Quran and depending on their level of 'Almajiri training' some can read parts of the written Quran in Arabic with little abilities to interpret it to the local languages or even comprehend it well.


If you use an ordinary paper on which you write faeces in Arabic to wipe your anus and an Almajiri in Kano, Funtua, Geidam, Zaria or Gombe sees you, he can thrust a dagger into your Tummy for allegedly using 'the Quran' as toileteries.

Obas101:

most almajiris can read and write in Arabic

fk001:



The North were never weak as of then, they were the only region that have their armies in an organized way.

Followed by the SW

The SE were decentralized fighting themselves, as we have read in chinua Achebe's books.


Do you know that there was little or no slave trade in Northern Nigeria when compared to the massive slave trade that was undergoing across the river Niger?

Slavery was even more instituted in the north than South and only ended grudgingly there in the 20th century. As for a standard army, yes the north hand something similar to that but not really a standard. Similar to what the Benin Empire had. No other groups had such forces not even the west like you said. On the eastern side, only the Aros had a similar army and it was because those warriors were hitherto raiding bands that ransacked small communities for slaves to sell. If sokoto controlled a standard army like you would want us to believe, they won't have fallen so easily as they fell. I had to research very well to come to this conclusion. Majority of the east had no standard army and So resorted to guerrilla warfare that frustrated the British. Churches did a lot of pacification to reign in the eastern groups.

mubeela:
And farming cassava 4 der Abacha

Lol. Abacha sweet o

QuotaSystem:


Nothing more to say...same old boring insults

The north cannot be messed with militarily by any other region...if e pain you wella jump into the lagoon

NEXT!

Lol. In your dreams. It's just a matter of time. Personally, the Hague can come after we've slugged it out. Lokaci yayi kusa!

Yujin:

Lol. In your dreams. It's just a matter of time. Personally, the Hague can come after we've slugged it out. Lokaci yayi kusa!

Go and finish slugging it out with Asari Dokubo before you start beating your bony chest in my presence

Ordinary ijaw criminal call una cowards & slaves una no fit respond but it's the NORTH you think is your mate lol. Or you need the link to the video?

Go answer your Ijaw masters ka ji?

kjhova:


Dear friend, actually, @fk001 is right and you are not quite correct. Careful review of history always helps to mitigate the risk of emotional reviews.

When the British descended on Africa, they already had experience from colonial domination in the Arab world, Eurasia, Polynesia and the Americas. They had formed a system of categorizing the natives they encounter in their continued colonial conquest.

Below are the simple items on the civilization scale which guide British opinion of their newly conquered peoples:

a) religion - a monotheist society is superior to a polytheist one.

b) government - a more centralized govt with multiple provinces is superior to a decentralized tribal system.

c) literacy - a society that has developed writing and schooling system is superior to one with no written language or educational methods.

d) international relations - a society with evidence of contact with the outside world is superior to one with only local existence.

e) military - a society which can project war on its neighbours is superior to one with limited or no capacity for projection.

In all 5 counts, the Hausa emirates with Fulani overlords ticked all boxes while no ethnic society in the south came anywhere near close. The Caliphate has Islam as official religion, run a central government based in Sokoto, has the Ajami writing script along with Arabic, conducted Hajj's to Mecca and Medina annually and have relations with Morocco, Egypt, Arabia and the Othoman world and was running its own petty colonial conquest already in the Niger basin before the British defeated them.

From the above, it is clear that the British deferred to the Hausa's not because they were considered stupid. On the contrary, the British regarded the Northerners as more civilized than the rest of us.

To add, the North was conquered eventually when Sokoto and Gobir fell in war around 1910 which is anywhere between 15 to 50 years after most of the South had been subjugated and fully pacified. We cannot say therefore, that the northerners submitted to the Brits.

If Nigeria will move forward, we must all shed the petty emotional fables we were told by our ignorant grandfolks and find a way to bond together as a people to move us forward.

Nigeria is all we got and may we not end up like Syria someday!

The first part of your write up was concise and plain. I have to agree with you on that. However, there was more to that which had to deal with why they came here in the first place- economy. It's on the record that the affairs of the north couldn't be run by how much she produced hence the need for amalgamation with the rich south to augment the deficit. You can't argue that. The dissimilarity notwithstanding as long as the British interest is served. This is the problem to us. Your emits had no option but to agree. They were always conscious of the north only and never about a fictitious country not until after the war. The british never wanted a broken Nigeria as that would end the stealing of the riches in the south. We know this too well. They equally saw a blight in your organization which was one devoid of proper administration -recipe for poverty. Today's Nigeria is exactly what they had in mind in choosing to relate with your emirs in the first place. How could people who worked directly with Southerners when administered Nigeria directly chose another to run her after they departed if something is not amiss? People should think!

QuotaSystem:


Go and finish slugging it out with Asari Dokubo before you start beating your bony chest in my presence

Ordinary ijaw criminal call una cowards & slaves una no fit respond but it's the NORTH you think is your mate lol. Or you need the link to the video?

Go answer your Ijaw masters ka ji?

Lol. Asari woke up from the wrong side of the bed to babble as of recent. I don't have to waste my time on him. Igbos are so unique that you often become confused when you try to describe them. One thing is for sure, our die hard spirit is second to non. As for almajiris, your time is fast running out. Even your rulers know that hence the desperate preparation they are making. Sudan which is your role model has been divided despite how long it took. Same is applicable to Nigeria to your shame and despair.

Yujin:

Lol. Asari woke up from the wrong side of the bed to babble as of recent. I don't have to waste my time on him. Igbos are so unique that you often become confused when you try to describe them. One thing is for sure, our die hard spirit is second to non. As for almajiris, your time is fast running out. Even your rulers know that hence the desperate preparation they are making. Sudan which is your role model has been divided despite how long it took. Same is applicable to Nigeria to your shame and despair.

So now Asari Dokubos open, clear and confident rubbishing and reminder of Igbos pre-colonial and present status as cowards and Ijaw slaves is him "waking up on the wrong side of the bed"?

Lool that nigga really knows what he is saying

QuotaSystem:


So now Asari Dokubos open, clear and confident rubbishing and reminder of Igbos pre-colonial and present status as cowards and Ijaw slaves is him "waking up on the wrong side of the bed"?

Lool that nigga really knows what he is saying

We know where our problem is from and Asari is certainly not one. Lol at Igbos precolonial status. Igbos were never subservient to any group in history until the advent of the British. Various Igbo clans had different set ups with their neighbours. The Nsukka side with the Igala, the Aros with the Annangs/Ibibios, the Ikas and other Umuezechima clans with the Benins, Ndokis, Ikwerres, Echies etc with Ibanis, Kalabaris and Okrikas. That's how it goes. You know nothing about Southern Nigeria so focus on that which you know. Meanwhile, your time is running out hence you're apprehensive. Look at Sudan, that's the way your going soon.

Yujin:

The first part of your write up was concise and plain. I have to agree with you on that. However, there was more to that which had to deal with why they came here in the first place- economy. It's on the record that the affairs of the north couldn't be run by how much she produced hence the need for amalgamation with the rich south to augment the deficit. You can't argue that. The dissimilarity notwithstanding as long as the British interest is served. This is the problem to us. Your emits had no option but to agree. They were always conscious of the north only and never about a fictitious country not until after the war. The british never wanted a broken Nigeria as that would end the stealing of the riches in the south. We know this too well. They equally saw a blight in your organization which was one devoid of proper administration -recipe for poverty. Today's Nigeria is exactly what they had in mind in choosing to relate with your emirs in the first place. How could people who worked directly with Southerners when administered Nigeria directly chose another to run her after they departed if something is not amiss? People should think!

You got me all mixed up! I am from the South South born and bred in Yorubaland and today a proper Lagosian. I only told the history of colonial rule in Nigeria and my comment was not glorification of any region. Just a factual explanation of the British view.

As for the Brits handing the country over to Northerners, it still follows my narrative that they considered them racially superior to the rest of us. However we view the matter today, this was what guided colonial activities at the time.

From early on, the colonial power decided to annex southern territories outrightly while adopting an indirect approach in the north. They considered the organizational structure in the north suitable to their aims and saw no reason for disrupting the system.

At any rate, no one set of humans are inherently "superior" to another set. Any group of people can accomplish anything within human capacity if given the right conditions. This is why we have seen previously backward places become rich and hitech in the modern world. So long human history continues along our current timeline, some African countries will become rich and proper at some point.

I must have said so much already.

Even though, I don't like all these inter-tribal contests on Nairaland but we must say the truth at all times.


1) The North is NOT the leader of Nigeria neither are the Northerners first class citizens of anywhere.

2) The Human Development Index in the North reader the place,0ne of the least developed places in the World.

fk001:


Yea i am blessing him for making us the first class citizens of the country, while making you people as minorities and our servants.


About this almajiri issue that you are about to commit suicide because of it, they choose to live that way and do i look like I give a fvck about them?


All I know is Millions of Northerners are taking the advantage of the federal myth that the British blessed us with, and I can't stop thanking them.


We will remain one until we achieve our aim.


Shalom!!

fk001:
Lord Frederick Lugard with Northern Nigeria Emirs at London 1934, waiting to be presented to King George V of England.


God bless Lugard you will always be remembered for your goodwill.

God bless Nigeria

Bump.