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yesloaded:
This is not correct!

Go n check history very well to understand Genesis of the problem of this country

Quite a lot of events happened before the commencement of the war but the primary motivation behind the unnecessary conflict was the ego clash between Gowon and Ojukwu. That war would have been easily averted if one of them had come down from his high horse.

Ugosample:
@angelicbeing look at one of them

May thunder fire Azikiwe wherever he is he betrayed the South and sold us off to the North and you know it but you losers keep on blaming Yoruba for your woes.

seunmsg:
Quite a lot of events happened before the commencement of the war but the primary motivation behind the unnecessary conflict was the ego clash between Gowon and Ojukwu. That war would have been easily averted if one of them had come down from his high horse.

Nigeria was like 'ile ti a fi ito mo'

Las las we go dey alright

enemyofprogress:
No be today we dey lead Igbo people for front


ADVICE PLS!!!

Abeg how can I fry my chicken without it doing shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I'm owing my landlord 2years rent.

AM WAITING OOO

point of correction,zik led the group. can't u see,he was one reading while the others were watching.

Elemosho478:
Azikiwe neglected Awolowo that they both fought for Independence to form allegiance with the north just because of power, he sold the south to the North and betrayed Yoruba but Yoruba never be a bitch and accuse igbo of anything but it is Igbo that is playing the Victim Card today. Igbo is a tribe of Traitors, losers and envious souls Everything that is wrong with Nigeria started from them but they are the one playing the Victim Card today

How Awolowo Was Jailed By Yorubas And Northerners

As a result of the 1959 parliamentary elections, the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) from the Northern Region of N...igeria under the leadership of Sir Ahmadu Bello (the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region) became the country's leading political party with 134 seats out of the 312 seats in the Parliament. National Council of Nigeria and Cameroun (NCNC) based in the Eastern Region of Nigeria under the leadership of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe obtained 89 seats in the same election. Chief Obafemi Awolowo led Action Group (AG) in the West, elected 73 members to the parliament in 1959. The NPC and NCNC (Chief Nnamdi Azikwe's party) coalesced to form the first government of the newly independent Nigeria with Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (the deputy leader of the NCP) as the Nigerian Prime Minister.
Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi Awolowo (the federal parliament opposition leader) became embroiled in a protracted crisis. The leadership of the Action Group (AG), which formed the official opposition in the federal parliament, split in May 1962 as a result of the rift between the two party leaders.
The same month (May,1962). the Western House of Assembly was set to remove Chief Akintola after the party had earlier passed a vote of no confidence on the premier in a party meeting, crisis erupted on the floor of the house. The majority expelled Chief Akintola from the party. The then Governor of the Western Region, the Ooni of Ife, Sir Adesoji Aderemi demanded Chief Akintola’s resignation as Premier and named Alhaji Dauda Adegbenro as his successor. Crisis erupted in the Western Nigeria and this earned the region the appellation "Wild Wild West". Abubakar Tafawa Balewa led federal government intervened to curb the violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointed Dr Moses Majekodunmi (the Federal Minister of Health) as Administrator (interim premier of the Western region) on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of violence. Following an alliance between Ladoke Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Chief Ladoke Akintola.
By 1963, the plot between Chief Ladoke Akintola, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and Alhaji Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history
Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Chief Ladoke Akintola together with his Deputy Premier Remi Fani Kayode "Fani-Power" (both of Nigerian National Democratic Party) went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa's Northern People's Congress (NCP) and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed
Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe led NCNC teamed up with incarcerated Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group (AG), the Northern Progressive Front (NPF), the Kano People's Party (KPP), the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU), the United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) and the Zamfara Commoners Party (ZCP). To form the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA)
In 1964, federal elections became due. Ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Chief Remi Fani Kayode and Chief Ladoke Akintola’s campaign was almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, the result was a victory for the Northern People's Congress (NPC), which won 162 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives, whilst the NNA held a total of 198 seats. Indeed Deputy Premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections. Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.
Following the crisis, Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe requested the military GOC to intervene and reorganise the elections in the Western region to avoid catastrophe, but the military high command refused and Dr Azikiwe was briefly held in house arrest for making such a request. Without any resolution and with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Alhaji Ahmadu Bello as fellow conspirators with Chief Ladoke Akintola and Chief Remi Fani Kayode in the massive election heist, nothing was done to curtail the violence which gradually intensified. Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie).
In the midst of the constitutional crisis the elections to the Western House of Assembly were conducted on 11 October 1965. The decline in constitutionalism and disorder accelerated with this election. Ironically no state of emergency was declared; instead the Federal government sent security forces to support the victory of Chief Ladoke Akintola and Chief Remi Fani Kayode's NNDP. The violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966. It was under these conditions that a section of the military finally struck and overthrew the government on 15 January 1966.
As a result of the 15 January (1966) military coup, which again was Nigeria's first military coup, key government officials and senior military figures including Alhaji Ahmadu Bello (the Premier of the Northern Region), Sir Tafawa Balewa (the Prime Minister), Chief Okotie-Eboh (the Minister of Finance), General Maimalari (the Chief of Army Staff), Brigadier Ademulegun(Commander of the Northern Garrison) Chief Ladoke Akintola (Premier of Western Region) and so many others were killed

OyiboOyibo:
Yorubas are treacherous. I have lived and dealt with them all my life. They will betray you at the slightest opportunity. More so, they are cowardly. Trust Yorubas at your peril.

You are describing Igbo the real tribe of Traitors, Cowards and treachery. Azikiwe betrayed Awolowo to form allegiance with the North despite the fact that they both fought for independence, is that not treacherous, cowardly and betrayal to you ? And you are the first tribe to carried it out in Nigeria. Shameless Igbo tribe always playing the Victim Card when they are the really trouble makers

zik was not in dis delegation...please get ur facts right....

Elemosho478:
Azikiwe neglected Awolowo that they both fought for Independence to form allegiance with the north just because of power, he sold the south to the North and betrayed Yoruba but Yoruba never be a bitch and accuse igbo of anything but it is Igbo that is playing the Victim Card today. Igbo is a tribe of Traitors, losers and envious souls Everything that is wrong with Nigeria started from them but they are the one playing the Victim Card today

Zik was not a party to Awolowo going to jail and infact worked with the party of awolowo, a yoruba man by the name akintola worked with ahmadu bello to jail awolowo and the sentence was handed to awolowo by justice sowemimo

gidgiddy:
Nigerians always recognise and cherish their right to have sought after independence from Britain. Nigeria even has a day, 1st of October, set aside to celebrate its independence and freedom from Britain


But if Biafrans like Ojukwu and Kanu talk about getting independence from Nigeria, the same Nigerian will start screaming "treason!", "python dance!", "war!"

Hypocrisy is a Nigerian

The is nothing same about the way Nigerians got independence and the way Ojukwu and Kanu sought to get "independence" (actually secession). Nigeria got independence by lobbying through the political process after years of negotiations. The independence leaders and lobbyist did not call British "Zoo" and all sorts of derogatory names. They did not insult the Queen, the prime minister or the governor general. They definitely did not run to another country while threatening the country with war. Everything was done cordially in accordance with extant local and international laws.

These cannot be said for Ojukwu that launched a war on the country leading to death of millions on both sides or Kanu that purports to use Radio, social media and street protests to achieve to achieve so called independence.

sapele914:
Failures will always have an excuse,I guess the civil war of 1861-1865 messed up the United States of America?

im go tel u hw nzeogwu plan coup ironsi hijacked do unitary govt but im no go talk hw d northern hegemony after ironsi death led by ty danjuma further centralize d country.....Rwanda experience genocides de ve move on...pple have move on from d years of holocost...

OyiboOyibo:
How Awolowo Was Jailed By Yorubas And Northerners

As a result of the 1959 parliamentary elections, the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) from the Northern Region of N...igeria under the leadership of Sir Ahmadu Bello (the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region) became the country's leading political party with 134 seats out of the 312 seats in the Parliament. National Council of Nigeria and Cameroun (NCNC) based in the Eastern Region of Nigeria under the leadership of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe obtained 89 seats in the same election. Chief Obafemi Awolowo led Action Group (AG) in the West, elected 73 members to the parliament in 1959. The NPC and NCNC (Chief Nnamdi Azikwe's party) coalesced to form the first government of the newly independent Nigeria with Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (the deputy leader of the NCP) as the Nigerian Prime Minister.
Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi Awolowo (the federal parliament opposition leader) became embroiled in a protracted crisis. The leadership of the Action Group (AG), which formed the official opposition in the federal parliament, split in May 1962 as a result of the rift between the two party leaders.
The same month (May,1962). the Western House of Assembly was set to remove Chief Akintola after the party had earlier passed a vote of no confidence on the premier in a party meeting, crisis erupted on the floor of the house. The majority expelled Chief Akintola from the party. The then Governor of the Western Region, the Ooni of Ife, Sir Adesoji Aderemi demanded Chief Akintola’s resignation as Premier and named Alhaji Dauda Adegbenro as his successor. Crisis erupted in the Western Nigeria and this earned the region the appellation "Wild Wild West". Abubakar Tafawa Balewa led federal government intervened to curb the violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointed Dr Moses Majekodunmi (the Federal Minister of Health) as Administrator (interim premier of the Western region) on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of violence. Following an alliance between Ladoke Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Chief Ladoke Akintola.
By 1963, the plot between Chief Ladoke Akintola, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and Alhaji Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history
Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Chief Ladoke Akintola together with his Deputy Premier Remi Fani Kayode "Fani-Power" (both of Nigerian National Democratic Party) went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa's Northern People's Congress (NCP) and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed
Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe led NCNC teamed up with incarcerated Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group (AG), the Northern Progressive Front (NPF), the Kano People's Party (KPP), the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU), the United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) and the Zamfara Commoners Party (ZCP). To form the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA)
In 1964, federal elections became due. Ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Chief Remi Fani Kayode and Chief Ladoke Akintola’s campaign was almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, the result was a victory for the Northern People's Congress (NPC), which won 162 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives, whilst the NNA held a total of 198 seats. Indeed Deputy Premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections. Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.
Following the crisis, Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe requested the military GOC to intervene and reorganise the elections in the Western region to avoid catastrophe, but the military high command refused and Dr Azikiwe was briefly held in house arrest for making such a request. Without any resolution and with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Alhaji Ahmadu Bello as fellow conspirators with Chief Ladoke Akintola and Chief Remi Fani Kayode in the massive election heist, nothing was done to curtail the violence which gradually intensified. Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie).
In the midst of the constitutional crisis the elections to the Western House of Assembly were conducted on 11 October 1965. The decline in constitutionalism and disorder accelerated with this election. Ironically no state of emergency was declared; instead the Federal government sent security forces to support the victory of Chief Ladoke Akintola and Chief Remi Fani Kayode's NNDP. The violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966. It was under these conditions that a section of the military finally struck and overthrew the government on 15 January 1966.
As a result of the 15 January (1966) military coup, which again was Nigeria's first military coup, key government officials and senior military figures including Alhaji Ahmadu Bello (the Premier of the Northern Region), Sir Tafawa Balewa (the Prime Minister), Chief Okotie-Eboh (the Minister of Finance), General Maimalari (the Chief of Army Staff), Brigadier Ademulegun(Commander of the Northern Garrison) Chief Ladoke Akintola (Premier of Western Region) and so many others were killed

Azikiwe betrayed Awolowo instead of standing with the person that they both fought for the independence he chose to be a slave to the North, that's the real fact and no Excuse and justification. May thunder fire Azikiwe where ever he is

Igbo is the first tribe to be a traitor

Igbo is the first tribe to be a Coward

Igbo is the first tribe to be Slave to the North

Igbo is the tribe that is accusing others of what they started first in Nigeria, shameless igbo tribe

OyiboOyibo:
Zik was not a party to Awolowo going to jail and infact worked with the party of awolowo, a yoruba man by the name akintola worked with ahmadu bello to jail awolowo and the sentence was handed to awolowo by justice sowemimo

Azikiwe betrayed the South and Formed allegiance with the North and that's the only fact that I need. May thunder fire Azikiwe where ever he is

Elemosho478:
Azikiwe betrayed the South and Formed allegiance with the North and that's the only fact that I need. May thunder fire Azikiwe where ever he is

Pls extend the thunder to your family too....it's urgent

superior1:
And I don't think the Govt of Nigeria has done anything serious to immortalize her memory in the nations history

No they didn’t. Simply because Fela was fighting the evil government then.

enemyofprogress:
No be today we dey lead Igbo people for front


ADVICE PLS!!!

Abeg how can I fry my chicken without it doing shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I'm owing my landlord 2years rent.

AM WAITING OOO

but igbo women have overtaking the yoruba women examples are flora nwapa,ngozi,oby,chimamamda,genevive,linda. etc

In an era when political party support revolved mainly around ethnic or regional loyalties, the odds were heavily stacked against the aspirations of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. The North had 50 per cent electoral representation at the expense of the Southern regions, the Eastern and the Western. Significantly, Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC) and Awolowo’s Action Group (AG) were bitter rivals in the South, both relying on alliances with minor northern political parties such as the Northern Element Progressive Union (NEPU) and the United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) respectively. The North was eminently controlled by the ethnocentric Northern People’s Congress (NPC) whose leader was Sir Ahmadu Bello.

In Nigeria’s peculiar situation, no political party was realistically placed to form the government, thereby compelling a coalition of convenience between political parties. Both the AG and NCNC contemplated forming the government with the support of their northern allies but this did not materialise in spite of Chief Awolowo’s willingness to concede the premiership to his older rival, Dr. Azikiwe. Sir Ahmadu Bello threatened to take the North out of the federation if the proposed arrangement between the NCNC and AG was effected. However, considering the bitter rivalry between the two political parties, it would have been one hell of a coalition government! In the end, a coalition of mutual convenience was consummated between the NPC and NCNC/NEPU alliance. The NEPU was the radical party opposed to the NPC’s conservatism in the North.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/guardian.ng/opinion/revisiting-the-historic-1959-general-election/amp

OyiboOyibo:
THE BETRAYED AND THE BETRAYER: CASE OF DR. NNAMDI AZIKIWE AND CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO, PUTTING EVENTS IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE

The Nigeria Youth Movement (NYM) to which Azikiwe joined in 1937 upon his return to Nigeria was founded on the precepts of "gradualism" and "accomodationism." Azikiwe wanted to move it to a more engaged politics of "opposition nationalism" based on his own exposure and orientation. There was a clash of ideas and methods. The grandees of the NYM, whose engagement with the colonial authorities was all about the opening of elite spaces and opportunities for Africans thought that Azikiwe's ideas, methods and orientation was "too dangerous" and was going to rock their apple stands. This upstart from America of all places did not conform to the call of the older generation with their "ginkana parties" and "egbon nationalism" to navigate elite interests gradually that would see a few over the years occupy "European positions."

Azikiwe wanted a transfer, not just of positions, but of power to Africans. He broke ideologically with the NYM, resurrected the worsted "lion of Lagos," Herbert Macaulay, and with his control of the first powerful network of indigenous newspapers awakened a new generation of Africans to the possibility of their sovereignty. His appeal was not to the "Lagos elite" of the established Saro merchant class and professionals with its deeply Yoruba roots in Lagos, but to a growing middle class of young people - clerks, traders, artisans, and those who never had a voice until Azikiwe arrived - the "youth of Africa." Many of these happened to be the new urban Igbo, and there was in equal number, the new young, urban youth from all over Nigeria who flocked around Azikiwe, and essentially "retired" the old NYM grandees from relevance. In 1947, the movement which Azikiwe had spearheaded was at that vital turning point of creating a truly "nationalist" movement. It was also in this period, following the fierce debates about the coverage of the Atlantic treaty which Azikiwe and his followers had led, which compelled the United Nations (UN) to adopt the charter of human rights, and which gave grounds for decolonization, that the British began to seriously discuss what they called the "Zik problem."

In his notes to William Blackburne, Harold Cooper, the M16 man in Lagos, working under the cover as the Director of Public Relations in the newly created Public Relations Office set out in a memo the basic plan of action to deal with this "problem of Zik." He basically said that it would be futile at that stage in 1947, given the momentum Azikiwe had generated in nationalist struggle to continue to use suppression or even physical elimination, as it would not only anger and embolden the young nationalists who had flocked around Zik, but might give greater momentum to Azikiwe. He recommended a strategic targeting and recruitment of what he called the "malleable margin" of the young nationalists and other "progressives" and use them to counter Azikiwe's work and influence. That is how that lingo had survived - the difference between the "nationalists" and the "progressives." And we know those who call themselves "progressives." But at that time, it was a code word for those whom the British found amenable for a partnership - that "malleable margin" who were then promised power in postcolonial Nigeria under British guidance.

They began to be called "progressives" and "moderates" while Azikiwe and the nationalists were often described as "radical" and "extremist" in the British colonial press and official communications. It was in this period that Awolowo arrived: suddenly rich, powerful, and influential. From the bankrupted produce trader and newspaper reporter, and indigent law student in London, Awo came home suddenly, a successful newspaper publisher with a thriving law firm in Ibadan, and with money to organize politically in 1947. Where did it all come from? That's a question for another day.

However, what is relevant here is that (a) in 1947, the British colonial government helped to fund and organize what became the Action Group (AG) and the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). In fact, they tried to broker a partnership between them, which eventually floundered during negotiations over the question of who would lead the alliance. As a matter of fact, one of the key highpoints of that partnership was the use of Bode Thomas as the lawyer to free Ahmadu Rabah (later Ahmadu Bello) from the charges of stealing brought against him by the Sokoto Native Authority in 1947;
(b) it was precisely in this moment that the British helped to circulate the ideas of an unwholesome Nigeria with its regionalist character rather than a nationalist Nigeria with a common mission. Political statements from the likes of Awolowo and Bello helped to solidify this idea of a Nigeria of "differences" who must relate to each other on those differences, while Azikiwe was writing and shouting against the British ploy, with their local agents to "Pakistanize" Nigeria - in reference to what had happened in that period with India's partition with which the British had threatened the nationalists, and
(c) the nationalist movement was strategically undermined, broken, and penetrated in that moment. All attempts to push Zik to declare an armed struggle which would have provided the British the final excuse to destroy the leadership of the nationalist movement failed, and it continued towards home rule - including the use of the Forster-Sutton commission. As a matter of fact in one of the most revealing letters ever written by Awolowo to his British masters over the "problem of Zik" in 1957 towards the London conferences, Awolowo stated clearly that the British should no longer worry about Zik. "we damaged him seriously with the inquiry" referring to the Forster-Sutton commission.

The British organized the Ibadan "carpet-crossing" fiasco of 1951 in its bid to prevent Zik from leading a government, and providing the nationalists a ground from which to determine the outcomes of the transition towards decolonization: the strategic capacity was aided by Awo's minder, Mr. Foot, who was almost assassinated by one of Azikiwe's followers, a clerk in the Secretariat, who was arrested and sent to the Yaba asylum. But two things later happened: Azikiwe as leader of opposition in the parliament forced Awolowo to nationalize the Western Nigerian civil service, a situation which damaged Awo's standing with his British friends. A brewing party in-fight with the old guard that wanted to formalize the earlier alliance with the NPC increasingly grew with Awo still unwilling to "concede" leadership the "North." It all came to a head at the AG party conference in Jos in 1962. But this was all down the line. As it turned out, by 1957 Azikiwe and the nationalists had been thoroughly outmaneuvered by the British, both at the London conferences and at home, and the roles played by Awolowo and Bello in this regard, are all too clear. But a weakened Zik was further undermined with the British-instigated intra-party crisis that rocked the nationalist party in 1958, leading to the 1959 election.
Azikiwe only managed to resolve that crisis by the force of his personality and kept the nationalist party together to go into the 1959 elections. Awolowo on the other hand, running on full steam on the banner of a regional party, had been promised premiership of Nigeria if he could stop Zik in the South. The elections came. Zik's party won the South convincingly. But the Nationalist party allies, Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU), suffered voter suppression; imprisonment of its candidates in the elections, and the result was that in places where NEPU and the Nationalist alliance should have won in the North, the NPC was declared unopposed and returned. At the end of the counts, although the Nationalist party secured the plurality of votes nationwide - that is, although Azikiwe and the nationalist party remained the most popular party north and South - they could not lead the government of Nigeria because of the ways that the British had helped to gerrymander the votes from 1956 to that 1959 election.
Awolowo was not a target of the British. He was in the large scheme of that struggle of no particular threat to the British. He was what they called a "moderate" and a "progressive." The British organized, funded, and supported the AG! As was clear in the nature of Azikiwe's file in the British archives even today, Zik was the central issue in the African Liberation movement in the British colonial imagination, and all levers were pulled to stop him. At the end of the 1959 election, Awolowo and his faction of the AG party offered to work with Zik, while another faction wanted to work with the NPC. The Eastern Committee of the NCNC opted to work with Awolowo and form a government. The Western committee of the party however vowed to leave the NCNC if the party chose to work with Awo. Azikiwe listened carefully, and he made a choice, and he was clear about it on the following principles:
(a) as a responsible party leader, he had to listen to his party, and navigate carefully particularly with a party that had just come out of a national crisis,
(b) as the leader of the nationalist movement, it would be irresponsible to isolate the North by working with Awolowo and establishing what would essentially be a government of the Southern parties,
(c) it would be irresponsible given the fragility of Nigeria to allow an essentially regional party like the NPC to go it alone in forming a government of a nation in rapid political transition. It would need the nationalist party to provide the backbone required to establish a postcolonial government in the general interest,
(d) It was difficult to trust Awolowo and his men, given past experiences, and
(e) tomorrow was another day. The nationalists would bid their time and take over government without the interference of the British through the democratic process. All that calculation was based on a very rational premise. Meanwhile, in a bid to reposition himself to the new political reality and circumvent the crisis brewing inside his own party with the old guard essentially, and having become embittered with what Azikiwe always knew as "British chicanery," Awolowo opposed the proposed security partnership with Britain, and became a target from then on, particularly as he began to build alliances with Nkrumah by 1960/61.
Awolowo was thus smashed with the same methods that the British used to smash the man they called "uppity Zik." But this was because by 1962, Awolowo began to work with the so-called "young turks" of his party - S.G. Ikoku, Akpata, Bola Ige, and so on to create a national political opposition. It should be clear that when he was confronted with his own party crisis, Awo lacked the maturity, capacity, and political capital and experience to steer his party aright, unlike Zik, who showed formidable leadership and control when his party spinned into a national crisis in 1958, and Awo and his party were celebrating how "undisciplined" and "disorganized" the NCNC was.

It is important to keep Nigeria's nationalist history in perspective beyond all the new fangled mythologizing that now take place in an attempt to sanitize Nigeria's national narrative.

OyiboOyibo:
Pls extend the thunder to your family too....it's urgent

Thunder will fire anyone that accuse Yoruba of anything again when Igbo are the real culprits, everything that is ever wrong with Nigeria started from them but they keep on dragging Yoruba through the mud and keep on playing Victim Card.

The first betrayal in Nigeria
The first Coup
And the culprit that stopped regional Government but today they keep on blaming Yoruba and accusing everyone except themselves. Big Hyprocrites, cowards and shameless traitors

Elemosho478:
May thunder fire Azikiwe wherever he is he betrayed the South and sold us off to the North and you know it but you losers keep on blaming Yoruba for your woes.

??

superlanny:
Afonja women have been leading the way for long, while their eastern counterparts were going to the stream to fetch water for pa obi.

but igbo women have overtaking the yoruba women examples are flora nwapa,onyeka,ngozi,oby,chimamamda,genevive.etc while yoruba women that are making wave, messed themselves up examples are kemi fogged her certificate and as well embelzed public money, tiwa is a divorcee and as well bleeped on public video with an irresponsible man.

Nice observation

johnie:
Why is it that no one in the delegation was obese?

Could it be the diet they lived on then?

A similar delegation today would likely comprise of obese people.

Elemosho478:
Thunder will fire anyone that accuse Yoruba of anything again when Igbo are the real culprits, everything that is ever wrong with Nigeria started from them but they keep on dragging Yoruba through the mud and keep on playing Victim Card.

The first betrayal in Nigeria
The first Couple
And the culprit that stopped regional Government but today they keep on blaming Yoruba and accusing everyone except themselves. Big Hyprocrites, cowards and shameless traitors

I can feel your pains.. .Next Level of hunger will deal with you till 2023

Elemosho478:
May Thunder fire Zik where ever he is he sold the south to the North, why did that Bastard betrayed Awolowo when they both fought for independence? Igbo are tribe of traitors but they are the one playing Victim today

awolowo wasn't on same class with the great zik of africa. On that picture,did u see awolowo there and point of correction, awolowo didn't fight for freedom.

Lier....

Ugosample:
indeed southerners are stupid


What is the basis for the Igbo vs Yoruba bickering?

The igbos started their tribal nonsense by cursing out the yorubas just cos yoruba supported Buhari in 2015.

No doubt Igbo women are doing well but to say they have overtaken the Yoruba women is very very far from the truth.

You need to research about the exploits of Yoruba women all over the world.

The Yoruba culture forbids unnecessary noise when you are making giant strides. It’s the strength on which the Yoruba wisdom and ethics are built.

But for Forbes no one would have known Mrs Alakija.

You may wish to consult the leaked panama papers on offshore accounts to get a good feel of how wealthy but quiet the Yorubas are...

oforjide:
but igbo women have overtaking the yoruba women examples are flora nwapa,onyeka,ngozi,oby,chimamamda,genevive.etc while yoruba women that are making wave, messed themselves up examples are kemi fogged her certificate and as well embelzed public money, tiwa is a divercee and as well bleeped on public video with an irresponsible man.

oforjide:
awolowo wasn't on same class with the great zik of africa. On that picture,did u see awolowo there and point of correction, awolowo didn't fight for freedom.

Thunder will fire Zik where ever he is, where ever Zik is he will never know peace

OyiboOyibo:
I can feel your pains.. .Next Level of hunger will deal with you till 2023

I'm already a Rich man, next level of Hunger Is only for you

Yes, that angle was equally very strong, and may have contributed significantly to the rash decisions leading to the war at some point...

seunmsg:
Quite a lot of events happened before the commencement of the war but the primary motivation behind the unnecessary conflict was the ego clash between Gowon and Ojukwu. That war would have been easily averted if one of them had come down from his high horse.

iS nNAMDI aZIKIWE THE ugly one?