₦airaland Forum

ednut1:
May God punish the british for granting us independence. Ogun fire them

No, God should punish them for the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorate that form Nigeria in 1914.

Really wish that had happened, we'd all have been better off individually than as we all are.

9gerian:
Well there’s a storyline that stated that Amadu Bello had insisted that should the west and East join forces politically during the first republic, the North would be forced to pull out of the union called Nigeria.

Zik appeared to have been sympathetic to the North’s concern for being left behind in the scheme of things.

There were mistakes from all sides, even today...

That's my father!!!

FhukaFhuka:

Elemosho478:
Thunder will fire Zik where ever he is, where ever Zik is he will never know peace

u re abnormal by abusing a dead man. Who are mine to abuse awolowo. The igbos are cultured.

wirinet:
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.

I will forget about Ojukwu for now because when sought for the independence of his people was military times, naturally, there had to be a military outcome.

But we are now in civilian rule. Zik and the other nationalists did call the British derogatory names. Zik had a Newspaper called the West African Pilot in which he lambasted Britain for seizing the political and economic wealth if Nigeria. Thats where he started his independence struggle, pretty much as Nnamdi Kanu started his own struggle from Radio Biafra.


The one advantage Zik, Awolowo, Bode Thomas and other independence agitators had was that British were a civilised people. The British could have easily declared "operation python dance", chased Zik and the others away with the might of the British Army, killed their supporters and declared the rest as "terrorists" just like the Nigerian government did to IPOB and Kanu.

But the British realised that it was wrong to hold people against their will and allowed negotiations to begin which allowed Nigeria independence from Britain in 1960

Is the Nigerian government allowing any sort of negotiations that will eventually allow the Biafrans a way out of Nigeria? Of course not. They are not as civilised as the British

oforjide:
u re abnormal by abusing a dead man. Who are mine to abuse awolowo. The igbos are cultured.

The first Betrayal in Nigeria ..... Igbo

The First Coup in Nigeria ... Igbo was there

The culprit that stopped Regional Government... Igbo was there

The culprit that stopped the secession clause in Nigeria constitutions.... Igbo was there

But today you shameless losers blame Everyone except yourselves, Awolowo should have wipe all you out because you are a pain in the ass of Nigeria, you are like a Big liability and not useful. The fact that you will blame Everyone in Nigeria except yourselves make you all sick in the head

PFRB:
Guess how young they were then. She to our present youths.

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How many times did I call it? This has filled up the heads of today's youth. They can neither focus, concentrate, or work together.

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

can we now collectively get rid of igbos and allow them their Biafra so that Nigeria comprising of yorubas and hausas will thrive? unity begger

midolian:
Is fela's mother not Igbo?

funmilayonyachi right?

Oloripelebe:
Good old days before the ipob party (NCNC) led by Nnamdi Azikwe and funded by okotie eboh allied with northern political party (NPC) against the Action group (AG) led by obafemi Awolowo


Flatinoooos are the serial betrayal from the beginning but their Indomie generation wl keep on blaming Yorubas for their misfortune

We go show dem pepper

misfortunes? I heard that they are better than your race

Elemosho478:
You still don't get the point ? When Azikiwe worked with South West to fought for independence why did he betray the south and then joined with the North? Azikiwe was a traitor and he was the one that sold the south to the North but no one is talking about it

May thunder fire Azikiwe wherever he is

do you mean Azikiwe did what Tinubu is doing now? if so may that same thunder never spare Tinubu

searchlight:
can we now collectively get rid of igbos and allow them their Biafra so that Nigeria comprising of yorubas and hausas will thrive? unity begger

Who is begging for Unity? Your Generation are the real Unity beggars and they are also the real Nigeria's problem

Who stopped the secession Clause in Nigeria constitutions? Azikiwe as usual, but you lot will keep accusing others and blaming others except yourselves as if you are all saints, you started the problem and you should be able to solve it yourselves but you would rather be a bitch to other Nigerians

searchlight:
do you mean Azikiwe did what Tinubu is doing now? if so may that same thunder never spare Tinubu

So you expect us to keep working together with you when you betrayed us first? You lot would blame Everyone in this country except yourselves, it is a sign that you are all sick in the head

Elemosho478:
No Excuse Azikiwe was a Big loser and Traitor may thunder fire him wherever he is

Azikiwe was the reason no Yoruba would ever trust Igbo again, but the funniest thing is that Igbo are the one playing Victim today.

you are a clown

searchlight:
misfortunes? I heard that they are better than your race

How are they better than anyone in this country when they are the slaves and the Economic Migrants of Nigeria? Oyo state alone is bigger than Entire South East but South East can not even surpass Oyo in term of Development, South West is not the mate of South East considering how small you are and you are still the Vagabond and Economic Migrants of Nigeria

searchlight:
you are a clown

You are the clown here I just tell the truth

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

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Trashhhh as usual from a pained Flatinoz!

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

i just want to read n pass b4 but I have to let u know u are a fool. changing history will do u no good cos we all know d truth. the igbos betrayed d south n form alliance with the north to they can remain in power but their friendship turned sour due to d egoistic nature of the igbos n they turned worst enemy which led to d civil war where igbos were killed like fowls, on realising d calm n wise nature of d Yoruba's who were watching from a distance d hausas approached d Yoruba's n they formed government till present day Nigeria n the igbos were chased away like dogs cos we know them. so till eternity no Nigerian can never trust an igbo man. that's y d pdp they have given their live to will never think of giving them a trial cos they are not marketable n no one will vote for an igbo person. u said Yoruba's betrayed d igbos, ask yourself. d first ceremonial president of Nigeria happens to b an igbo man n d Prime Minister then was an Hausa man just to show u d chemistry between hausas n igbos despite d fact that hausas never fought for anything. after Yoruba n igbo cook food finish, igbo man carry food go meet Hausa man, Hausa man outsmart am collect pot come give am back to Yoruba make Dem dey chop. so ask yourself, who d betrayer is?

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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 divorcee and as well bleeped on public video with an irresponsible man.

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

if only u know all these people u mentioned are nothing compared to just folorunsho alakija. use Google bro

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searchlight:
do you mean Azikiwe did what Tinubu is doing now? if so may that same thunder never spare Tinubu

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Tinubu never align with any Igbo man before. Your Zik & Awolowo Dey together before your Zik did what he knows best to do. Nothing can changed that truth!

oforjide:
u re abnormal by abusing a dead man. Who are mine to abuse awolowo. The igbos are cultured.

they are so cultured to tell us awolowo drank rat poison?

Unik3030:
i just want to read n pass b4 but I have to let u know u are a fool. changing history will do u no good cos we all know d truth. the igbos betrayed d south n form alliance with the north to they can remain in power but their friendship turned sour due to d egoistic nature of the igbos n they turned worst enemy which led to d civil war where igbos were killed like fowls, on realising d calm n wise nature of d Yoruba's who were watching from a distance d hausas approached d Yoruba's n they formed government till present day Nigeria n the igbos were chased away like dogs cos we know them. so till eternity no Nigerian can never trust an igbo man. that's y d pdp they have given their live to will never think of giving them a trial cos they are not marketable n no one will vote for an igbo person. u said Yoruba's betrayed d igbos, ask yourself. d first ceremonial president of Nigeria happens to b an igbo man n d Prime Minister then was an Hausa man just to show u d chemistry between hausas n igbos despite d fact that hausas never fought for anything. after Yoruba n igbo cook food finish, igbo man carry food go meet Hausa man, Hausa man outsmart am collect pot come give am back to Yoruba make Dem dey chop. so ask yourself, who d betrayer is?

Wow!

Igbos been betraying since 412BC

sarrki:
The year 1947 when Olufunmilayo Kuti (Fela Mama) led an entourage of Yoruba Kings, Royals and Chiefs plus Nnamdi Azikwe to London on a major quest for independence from British colonial rule. Fela was right when he said "She is the only mother of Nigeria.

Thanks for this records probably from the British archives. It will add to the records we previously had about this great woman.

The much well known records we used to hear about Fela 's mother is that she is the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria.

She was seen driving a car in Ibadan, south western Nigeria in the early 1960s.

Local people then were perplexed with that achievement as at then in Nigeria.

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

huh?


I'm not a kid

this bickering pre dates 2015...


And hey, Yoruba folks (well the foolish ones who don't understand how democracy works) vilified Igbos for not voting buhari as well goading him on that he should "Give Igbos nothing" for not voting him

this stupid behaviour from Yoruba and Igbo has to stop

Anyone can vote whoever (that is democracy)

sarrki:
The year 1947 when Olufunmilayo Kuti (Fela Mama) led an entourage of Yoruba Kings, Royals and Chiefs plus Nnamdi Azikwe to London on a major quest for independence from British colonial rule. Fela was right when he said "She is the only mother of Nigeria.

who led who?

Sirjamo:
Zik was a great man who believed in strategic alliance and deployment of intellect to pursue a course and achieve a goal. Ojukwu and Kanu would have gone to such a place with sub - machine guns and RPGs.

My thoughts exactly.

johnie:
This was the NCNC delegation led by Azikiwe (Igbo) that visited London to protest the Richards Constitution of 1945, the two men, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin (Ijebu Yoruba) and Dr Abu Bakar Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe (Ilorin Yoruba), were members of the delegation. Others were Malam Bukar Dipcharima (Kanuri), Chief Nyong Essien (Ibibio), P M Kale (Bakweri Cameroonian), and Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Yoruba).


They were also relatively young then

She was 47

Zik was 43

Prince Obafemi Adedoyin was 35


Abubakar Olorun-Nimbe  was 39

Nyong Essien, probably the oldest, was 55

elsewhere, I asked; who led who?