Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), recently took to his Twitter account and shared a newspaper that is over 50 years old now. The details of the newspaper amazed everyone. It talked about the Aburi agreement for restructuring.

For quite a long period of time now, some group of people have been opining that the country should be restructured due to some perceived marginalisation of some regions in the country.

Nnamdi Kanu who took to his official twitter handle today, asked the Fulani populace if they have gotten the restructuring they are looking for yet.
According to Nnamdi Kanu, he said Aburi Accord restructuring was meant to restore normalcy in Nigeria but some group of people including the Fulani said no.

He said now that it's over 50 years now, the same group of people who rejected the same restructuring Aburi propagated are now the ones calling for it.

The post by Nnamdi Kanu amazed many of his followers. Many of them spoke about the issue of restructuring.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MaziNnamdiKanu/status/1371806986011021313

Enugu-awka propaganda Eastern spotlight?

GEJ a man from the Niger Delta didn't restructure Nigeria, you now expect GMB a Fulani man from Kastina to restructure Nigeria

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theTranslator:
Enugu-awka propaganda
Eastern spotlight?

Can you explain MORE please?

Obiano : Buhari save me from ebos? IPOB miscreants are after my life

Buhari : We will send our fulani jajaweed to deal with them like we did in orlu, ask Umahi if am lying

Umahi : baba Buhari hahahaha na so even some of the miscreants are in Mogadishu barrack eating beans with swollen lip

this guy is an hypocrite,he keeps attacking Buhari cos Buhari doesn't have certificate, does Nnamdi Kanu himself have certificate?

At least we know buharis military records n co,what was this guy doing b4 ipob?
or was Biafra just his hustle?
any company of his own b4 ipob?
any organisation he worked for b4 ipob?
d schools he attended n certificate?

what I realise about life is that, people's voice are always d loudest when criticizing others

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

They only want the SS for their coast and oil

mbaise1000:
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Can you explain MORE please?

What's there to explain??

BabaOwen:
GEJ a man from the Niger Delta didn't restructure Nigeria, you now expect GMB a Fulani man from Kastina to restructure Nigeria

Katsina.

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

rugaria, gidgiddy, officialgarri, Eastlink, proeast2, hammervj, Asgard13, afonjaconehead, FSU, Sctests, fahdiga, mayniaa, cynthialove

what do u people have to say?

hollah123:
this guy is an hypocrite,he keeps attacking Buhari cos Buhari doesn't have certificate, does Nnamdi Kanu himself have certificate?

At least we know buharis military records n co,what was this guy doing b4 ipob?
or was Biafra just his hustle?
any company of his own b4 ipob?
any organisation he worked for b4 ipob?
d schools he attended n certificate?

what I realise about life is that, people's voice are always d loudest when criticizing others

Before you start taking go and find out about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. He is a graduate of political science from Cambridge. He comes from a rich family and you are busy comparing dead meat buhari to him. I dey laugh

Truthwords:


Before you start taking go and find out about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. He is a graduate of political science from Cambridge. He comes from a rich family and you are busy comparing dead meat buhari to him. I dey laugh

can we have proof,at least we know buhari doesn't have a certificate but show us your leader's certificate.

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

Hhmmm... you're a true historian!

Aburi accord is all lies.. you claim Gowon rejected restructuring when an Igbo dictator in person of Aguiyi Ironsi killed regionalism to steal all the wealth for Igbos thinking they would be the ones ruling Nigeria.

They keep posting half-truths to hide their evils and blame others just to keep their gullible ones in line. Y'all are lucky Nigerians didn't wipe out your race from the face of the earth during civil war.
Aburi my foot.

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

What has all this got to do with the Aburi agreement?

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

You are lame with history
Adaka boro was killed by Benjamin adekunle
His fellow Nigerian soldiers


Saro wiwa was hanged by abacha his so called political uncle
They used them and dumb them,same with asari Dokubo
They might deal with him and blame ipob ,and mofs like you will start spreading concocted lies

flokii:
Aburi accord is all lies.. you claim Gowon rejected restructuring when an Igbo dictator in person of Aguiyi Ironsi killed regionalism to steal all the wealth for Igbos thinking they would be the ones ruling Nigeria.

They keep posting half-truths to hide their evils and blame others just to keep their gullible ones in line. Y'all are lucky Nigerians didn't wipe out your race from the face of the earth during civil war.
Aburi my foot.

People keep saying that Ironsi killed the Regional system of government but nobody has been able to say how.

How is it possible that Ironsi killed Regionalism when all 4 Regions where existing the day he died? All 4 Regions had resource control and fiscal federalism right up to day Ironsi died

Someone should explain this magic to me. Did Ironsi come back from the dead later to kill Regionalism?

flokii:
Aburi accord is all lies.. you claim Gowon rejected restructuring when an Igbo dictator in person of Aguiyi Ironsi killed regionalism to steal all the wealth for Igbos thinking they would be the ones ruling Nigeria.

They keep posting half-truths to hide their evils and blame others just to keep their gullible ones in line. Y'all are lucky Nigerians didn't wipe out your race from the face of the earth during civil war.
Aburi my foot.

You sound really stupid!

Pray, what part of the unification decree collected the resources of the regions and domiciled its control with the central gov't? Because that's what your daft post is saying....that Ironsi killed regionalism to steal all the wealth for Igbos! You look at what has transpired in this shithole of a country since Ironsi left the scene right up till today, and you still have the temerity to boldly make that false assertion? Who has been in control all this while, and why haven't they returned the 'fair and equitable' Nigeria you say Ironsi killed? You saw the resources Eastern Region had at the time prior to that senseless Nzeogwu coup, yet still say Igbos wanted to steal all the wealth for themselves? What wealth? Which region was richer than the Eastern Region at the time?

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Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

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This lies in no way relate to what the thread is saying
The agreement is not about adaka boro or Saro Wiwa
Is about restructuring
And you rejected it
Typing shit from a Concocted road sides printing machine is bizarre
And if I take it up
You won’t be able to defend this gossip and rumors you typed or paste
Please
Tell us why you rejected Aburi Accord
If you can answer this I will deactivate my account for you

gidgiddy:
People keep saying that Ironsi killed the Regional system of govt but nobody has been able to say how.How is it possible that Ironsi killed Regionalism when all 4 Regions where existing the day he died? All 4 Regions had resource control and fiscal federalism right up to day Ironsi died.Someone should explain this magic to me. Did Ironsi come back from the dead later to kill Regionalism?

The Aburi accord was later manipulated & renege upon by the enemies.This is how they become silly when trying to force a narrative that is incongruent with histroy.Even Ironsi was going round trying to sound opinion and solicit the cooperation of the regional governments and their traditional leaders but was unjustly and gruesomely killed.

Meanwhile, what did then Lt Col.Gowon, Majors Murtala Mohammed/TY Danjuma, Capts.Mathins Adamu/Joe Garba, Lt.Paul Tarfa and co did thereafter with their volte face succession plan between July 28-31st 1966?

What has been the story after their middle belt brethren tried in Feb.1976 to assert their own dichotomy from the griphold of their famed monolithic north conspiracy of Jan.1966? What has changed today? Let them answer these questions sincerely then we start from there.

Aburi Accord was the best truce this nation would have had for a better footing towards self independency & governance in an already bastardized country following the two bloody coups of 1966 but the northern region thinks it is clever by half in mounting the saddle & tried to forced it on everyone. What is the story today?

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flokii:
Aburi accord is all lies.. you claim Gowon rejected restructuring when an Igbo dictator in person of Aguiyi Ironsi killed regionalism to steal all the wealth for Igbos thinking they would be the ones ruling Nigeria.

They keep posting half-truths to hide their evils and blame others just to keep their gullible ones in line. Y'all are lucky Nigerians didn't wipe out your race from the face of the earth during civil war.Aburi my foot.

[/s]You tell unintelligent lies while trying with utter futility to distort histroy.Today is not the Nigeria of 1966. Be guided.

Truthwords:


Before you start taking go and find out about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. He is a graduate of political science from Cambridge. He comes from a rich family and you are busy comparing dead meat buhari to him. I dey laugh

When did he get the degree?

hollah123:
can we have proof,at least we know buhari doesn't have a certificate but show us your leader's certificate.

since 1967 til date,many igbos hav taken the mantle to restore biafra,but i hav to admit,afta ojukwu no igbo man hav shaken nigeria like nnamdi kanu,dat is why u come to nairaland everyday looking for a thread dat hav anytin related to mnk,as for me if esn is d only tin nnamdi kanu cud do for biafra am contented,spoke to my mum last week and she told me dat sinx esn is formed she can now go to her farm without fear,he has done wat all d eastern leaders are scared of,dats enuf for me

sharpsecret:
since 1967 til date,many igbos hav taken the mantle to restore biafra,but i hav to admit,afta ojukwu no igbo man hav shaken nigeria like nnamdi kanu,dat is why u come to nairaland everyday looking for a thread dat hav anytin related to mnk,as for me if esn is d only tin nnamdi kanu cud do for biafra am contented,spoke to my mum last week and she told me dat sinx esn is formed she can now go to her farm without fear,he has done wat all d eastern leaders are scared of,dats enuf for me

You are on point

sharpsecret:
since 1967 til date,many igbos hav taken the mantle to restore biafra,but i hav to admit,afta ojukwu no igbo man hav shaken nigeria like nnamdi kanu,dat is why u come to nairaland everyday looking for a thread dat hav anytin related to mnk,as for me if esn is d only tin nnamdi kanu cud do for biafra am contented,spoke to my mum last week and she told me dat sinx esn is formed she can now go to her farm without fear,he has done wat all d eastern leaders are scared of,dats enuf for me

Too much talk


Bring the Cambridge political science degree
Simple.

theTranslator:

Too much talk


Bring the Cambridge political science degree
Simple.

i dont if mnk is an illiterate,.wat i care abt is d impact he has made in biafra land,amotekun is older than esn but esn hav driven d herdsmen far from igboland,why herdsmen are busy burnin amotekun vans

sharpsecret:
i dont if mnk is an illiterate,.wat i care abt is d impact he has made in biafra land,amotekun is older than esn but esn hav driven d herdsmen far from igboland,why herdsmen are busy burnin amotekun vans

Lol don't compare Amotekun with your Terrorist group
Amotekun and OPC arrests and wait for the law
Your Boko Ipob kills immediately
Is Wakili and his sons not being prosecuted now??
Anyone that kills extra-judicially and brags about it is worse than Boko haram
At least Boko haram follow their quran
You guys are lawless!


And show me where Fulani are burning Vans I wanna see

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Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

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If I didn't know the history of this county and the war from people who actually lived and fought it I would have believed you.
You tell a very convincing tale designed to put out exactly what you want others to hear.

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Blast from the Past: Why the Aburi Accord Failed- Philip Asiodu



Philip Asiodu

For many Nigerians, the failed implementation of the famous accord reached in Aburi, Ghana by leaders of the contending federal and secessionist forces during the internecine hostilities that led to the civil war in Nigeria 45 years ago, is at the root of the crisis of structure and federalism in the country today. The accord, was allegedly breached by then Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon, acting on the advice of permanent secretaries. Chief Philip C. Asiodu, one of the central Super permanent secretaries of the era, and prime actor of the day, recounts the details, no holds-bared, revealing and insightful.

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Nigeria is at a crossroads. Some blame it on the amalgamation of 1914. Some blame it on the constitution. Some blame it on so many things. Military intervention and all that. What do you think is responsible for the instability in the country?

I think what we are suffering from in Nigeria is a failure of leadership. Because if you look at Nigeria, you are practically one race. Our appearances too don’t vary too much. Countries which are great today, keep trying and taking their steps. The United States of America is a fantastic example of how we can get people from diverse backgrounds. Why do I say it is a failure of leadership? What are people reacting to? Suppose in this country with the enormous endowments God gave us- natural resources- we are moving forward, developing ourselves with it, that people get requirements as human beings, they want shelter, they want food, they want a situation in which you know that your child has good prospect to be better off than yourself. These are the things people demand. And if you give it to them, they do not ask where you came from.

In this country, when we started in the first republic, with the accommodation made by the leaders, we started developing. Before then, under the British, it didn’t matter where you came from. I was the son of a civil servant. Born in Lagos, within three months posted to Calabar. Back to Lagos. Southerners were in different parts in the North. Northerners were here. Even at the eve of independence …What went wrong?


You just posed the question back to me but I will return it to you. What went wrong?

This is what I am going to address. Supposing we had a leadership, which continued to preach as, they did in mobilizing us towards independence. Preach of the great role for Nigeria as a catalyst for African renaissance. As a catalyst for re-establishing the pride and respect of the black man, so thunderously and criminally destroyed in the three hundred years of colonialism and slave trade. Supposing we have leadership pointing to a greater height.

When I was a student, we used to pay with our own pocket money to go and listen to Dr Zik, it wasn’t the politics we have today. People were telling us that when we become independent, life would be better. And as soon as they got regional self-government in the West, in the East, and the North. What did we see? Scholarship schemes, much more than the British ever did. New schools. Industrial estates. And progress was there. If you were around in the fifties, in the run up to independence, so great was the expectation. So happy were the people, because things were literally improving.

Immediately after the independence, before the crisis, we were growing at more than six per cent per annum. Inflation was less than 2 per cent. So you could see visible improvement and people were happy.


Gowon and Ojukwu at Aburi, Ghana

Unfortunately, we had this terrible military intervention in 1966. Maybe well intentioned by the young boys; but extremely naive and extremely disastrous to expect that four majors had the answers to the great problems of Nigeria. And they began the destruction of African liberation. Because, after that political parties were banned then there was a counter coup, July 1966, which then destroyed what was left of the Nigerian Army. And put us in the hands of servile officials, who had not reached the level in the Army at which officers used to be brought into council with civilians to determine the affairs of state. Luckily, the first two military leaders, Ironsi and Gowon led the government which was able when things looked very bad to keep semblance of normalcy to get government restored. But those coups as it were has effectively terminated our political revolution. The views of the founding fathers which would have lifted us above our dreams, because man does not live by bread alone. You must be inspired to join this hype. But what happened? In 1975, there was a coup against General Gowon.

The military destroyed the state. They then proceeded to remove ten thousand civil servants- the best amongst them. Destroyed institutional memories. Destroyed continuity. Destroyed commitment to service- selfless service. Destroyed respect for public funds and public property. And having now got the civil service prostrate, no checks and balances. Worse than that, they then abandoned the 75-80 plan which was to introduce the transformation of the economy radically . That plan talked about moving on to produce capital good.

Having a solid base for industrialization and value added economy, they abandoned it. I am sad to say, the leading members of that government which succeeded Gowon, Murtala and Obasanjo, were members of Gowon’s cabinet which approved this plan. Why did they abandon it? And it is that abandonment of the plan (75-80) which initiated our divergence from the good path of the Asia Tigers. Up till that time, we were not behind Malaysia. We were not behind Singapore. In fact, Malaysia came here to take palm seedlings to begin their economy after they succeeded in beating back the communist insurrection. Malaysia had even more serious problems than ourselves ……they do not take religion the way some of us take it, Christians and Muslims. But they had faith go to that place now, you will be proud of what they have achieved.

Now, they abandoned not only the plan, but the discipline of planning. And once, you abandon the discipline of planning, which gives you priority that when money comes, this is what abc will do. When money comes, it disappears and there would be nothing to show for it. And it was that combination that resulted in declining activity

Before the coup of 1975, the country was growing at 11.75 per cent per annum after the civil war. Imagine, if we had continued on that trajectory for 10 more years, 20 more years, we would not be talking about poverty today. We will be nearing first world. We will be with the big countries. Now, that plan was abandoned and the discipline of planning. And then what happened? Money came but not with planning. Things would have continued evolving, people having quality education. Up till 1975-1980, Nigerian Universities was ranked then among the first 200 in the world. Now, we are not even up to the first 1500. See the decline, because of no planning and coups.

This Boko Haram, this instability has just crept up consequently out of the failure of leadership and good governance. Not that we are not able as we were six years ago. If you are not responsible to the peoples need, you may still have power. But the leadership and commitment are not there.

So, coming back to what I am saying, what is the failure of leadership? I have told many people, you can go and look at the books. Throughout British stay in Nigeria, revenue never rose more than 40 million pounds a year. Forty million pounds a year for the central government. Under Balewa and Okotie-Eboh, it reached 60 million pounds a year. Under Gowon in the second year, we were already in the civil war, that was when it reached 100miilon pounds. We fought that civil war and came out of it without borrowing. Now what did the British, what did the first republic do with the little resources they had. The habours of Lagos, Warri, Sapele, Port Harcourt, Calabar were built under the British.