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Macphenson:
Please be more specific, stupid yorubas not Southerners aligned with the north to vote out Jonathan claiming "Sophistication".

Stupid southerners aligned with the north to vote him out just as north and some southerners also voted obj instead of olu falae in 1999 presidential election. Amaechi, okorocha, and Tinubu championed revolution against GEJ.

Jolomenas:
Hatred will kill you, ODE

Why will I hate someone that does not exist, tell me A lifeless thing

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

Above carp is ranting of ant. It is one of the nonsensical conjectures I have ever read. The piece lacked the decency of human intellect. The writer of the above junk dwelled in the falsehood which trailed blunder of the people called Ijaw or deluded minorities from the southern Nigeria. The nonsensical Oloibiri oil well could not even pay for the contractual bill when it ran dry. Nigeria did not get any revenue from the crude oil until 1961 when Owaza crude oil fields started pumping. In addition, eastern region was not a country and did not care what the deluded Adaka Boro did with himself. Nigerian armed forces tasked to secure the borders of Nigeria dealt with Adaka Boro. He was lucky the British touches on soldiers who arrested him were still intact. If they were soldiers of today, Adaka Boro would have been shot at sight.

Some fools are following these unemployed leaders or activists who are only using their unions or organizations to make money for themselves

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

Sorry for you.

When he called a constitutional conference how many of you and them show up.

Make una continue to de lie give una def

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

hmmm
believe this at your own risk.
i have Ijaw friends and they could really tell you a much different story.

christistruth01:






Truth is Light

Gen Alabi Isama was the one who saved the Life of the Biafran Soldier that killed Boro after he was Captured

Many Federal Soldier's were ready to Finish him off immediately despite him being a Prisoner of War

Alabi Isama had to send the Biafran Soldier who killed Adaka Boro to be detained in Lagos for his own safety
He would not have Survived detention by the 3MCDO troops in the East

You guys are so wicked with your lies. So a Nigerian army that was killing civilians and even massacred women and children suddenly spared a Biafran soldier who killed one of their own? Adaka Boro that was not even killed in combat? Even if it was combat against the Biafrans, it would still be justified, but Boro was killed by his own troops. That';s why the lie about his death has been "under unknown circumstances". It beats me how any southerner would still be fooled.

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

Sorry for you.

When he called a constitutional conference how many of you and them show up.

Make una continue to de lie give una def.

Na so una lie for him administration. But someone them de under okonjo iweala now.

Una de under Jonathan but una still no know.

tegrianonigltd:
He is not my leader, I only wanted people like you to do more research before you talk, not just base on emotions, but base on facts. You are growing, if you have this kind of judgmental habit, you will fail woefully in life. You don’t judge people you don’t know, I can’t judge you. I don’t know you, before I would, I would do my research about you thoroughly.

You really get time for one idi*t ooh. One dirty poverty improvished idi*t somewhere God knows how he got a small phone to use on nairaland is there asking you for stupid prove and you are still quoting him. Guy get sense na...

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

Oh! What a pity. This is my first time of hearing this. As an Igbo, if this is the truth, I am on my knees asking forgiveness over myself and my entire lineage over this injustice though i was not born then, and urge all Igbos to do so. Only the truth can set us free. To my Niger delta brothers,please let us know that manipulation is the only thing they use in holding us down. They pit us against each other, they use religion, and so on just to see we are not united because once we are united, we are free from their shackles. So let us forgive each other, forget and forge a common strong front.

nwabueze1999:
hmmm
believe this at your own risk.
i have Ijaw friends and they could really tell you a much different story.

why not make use of your Google to know the true?

theTranslator:
Enugu-awka propaganda
Eastern spotlight?

Anakoyeri.

ugolinze123:
You really get time for one idi*t ooh. One dirty poverty improvished idi*t somewhere God knows how he got a small phone to use on nairaland is there asking you for stupid prove and you are still quoting him. Guy get sense na...

Bro this is the same inherent idiocy which had seen our people bunkering for crude oil in the creeks while the sons and daughters of elite politicians from northern region of Nigeria have rare animals as pets. I really hate have these fools as compatriots.

Nigeriabiafra82:
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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

Why are arguing so passionately about this after more than 50years?? U cannot bring back the past or live in the past. Let’s move on and talk about the future.

Good luck was there for 7years and nobody was arguing aburi accord. Good luck cudnt also restructure Nigeria because it’s not that simple, there are steps and we need to 1st define those steps based on the law and choose exactly what to restructure.

buckeyemedia:
I want to believe the President of Nigeria has more brains than your peasant papa, True or False?

false

Paid agent! Keep decieving ur people with ur twisted story. The south south and south east will be stronger before 2013

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

Bros, your post is seething with lies, hatred and toxicity.
Your heros, Ken and Isaac Boro, who for pecuniary gains betrayed Biafra were gruesomely murdered by the same people that used them.
And you, out of incurable obsession with hatred for the Igbos still can not read the handwriting on the wall.

Kelvin3476:
We want to restructure ur cone head

I be igbo guy but I bet u I get bad mouth pass u.

Just say I know say attacking u is like me attacking myself, so lemme just shelf it.

Anything I used against u am giving out out enemies tips to use against me in future since am igbo so I go just close mouth if not the finishing for bloody

SuperBold:
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

Hmmm....

Coldie:
I have asked this question to almost every igbo restructuring agitator, once u ask them they start beating around the bush...

I ask u this right now what does south east want to restructure u can't still answer.

If you must know the only thing keeping south east in Nigeria is not resources or anything, it's just the fact that we the true Nigerians know other regions are seating back watching u fool around once the east goes west will want to go too.

Apart from that, if not for that reason Nigeria would have let u hv ur BIAFRA

Wow!!! East is a very powerful factor in the union of Nigeria. If east goes the west will go as well, hurray!!! Yet dumbass ninnies still have the effrontery to spew crap.

nice reminder

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

Idiko1:
Bro this is the same inherent idiocy which had seen our people bunkering for crude oil in the creeks while the sons and daughters of elite politicians from northern region of Nigeria have rare animals as pets. I really hate have these fools as compatriots.

As in ehh....Gosh.....

gidgiddy:
This whole Aburi thing is a very simple thing to understand, for those who want to understand. There was a coup, counter-coup, pogrom and strife.

Gowon and Ojukwu, met in Aburi, Ghana, to find a way foward. Ojukwu proposed a number of measures that would create a loose federation(confederation). Gowon accepted and signed the agreement.

When they returned to Nigeria, Gowon and his Northern cohorts realised that the agreement would deprive them of what they wanted the most, the political and economic control of Nigeria.

So Gowon started undermining the agreement and culminated in Gowon enacting Decree 14 of 1967, which dissolved all 4 Regions, created 12 states, took away resource control and removed fiscal federalism. It was the worst Decree in the history of Nigeria.

With the Aburi agreement completely thrashed, Ojukwu had only two choices, accept Nigeria according to the dictates of the North or fight for freedom

Ojukwu did what any Igbo man with any sense of dignity would do. He refused that neither him nor his people would become willing slaves of the North, declared Biafra and fought for freedom for 3 years

It did not work out but but nobody can blame Ojukwu for trying.

Aburi was the last hope of Nigeria, when it failed, Nigeria failed, courtesy of Gowon and his Northern cohorts

The decree which killed regionalism in Nigeria. Gowon killed regionalism in Nigeria. However the revisionists in Nigeria who believed there is something such true or false federalism will point at decree 34 which sort to create uniform civil service in Nigeria as the killer of regionalism on Nigeria. The essence of decree 34 is still used in Nigeria till date.

emezuo17:
. Good, so what happens to igbos in Delta and Rivers State if your new Republic comes to life, I really think we need to talk the truth about the past, strengthen the present and move into the future with a better plan and understanding, please note and tell your brothers that the igbos are not interested in your oil, we can pay for it, the coast also can be paid for, just the way we have bought all over Lagos. It will Favour the ijaws and other riverine communities more if igbos can replicate what they are doing in Lagos down here, it is a win win for you guys, think out of the box, our enemy is a common one.

They can join you betrayals. They are of no value to the Niger Deltans. They are parasites. Agric them no get, oil no level. What do we do with them other than to allow them join their owners, the betrayals.

tiredoflife:
so according to u
if u want to rape ur mother and i didnt allow u
and later i came and said let me rape ur mother....instead of just saying no....u prefer to call ur gate man to do the rape ....cos u are angry i didnt let u rape her at first.
this seem logical to u
that Isaac and Ken couldnt use that same time to redeclare niger delta republic since they had their reasons to declear at first
so what changed that they now thought it was best to put the niger delta with nigeria to spite ojukwu

u see how dumb our niger delta leaders can be
and how dumb of u to justify what they did to their people just because they are angry

Bro the fools forgot that eastern region was not a country. The idiotic airhead called Adaka Boro showed his inherent stupidity when fought along Nigerian vandals to uphold One-Nigeria which had sought to partition. He was killed by Nigerian elites who have seen his stupidity from his shadow.

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

See how your enemies are thumbing you up, assuming you are truly from the SS, but 95% in doubt that you are from the SS.

Genuine SS people who want Nigerdelta Republic know that it’s easier for Niger Delta Republic to emerge from Biafra, but next to impossible for Niger Delta Republic to emerge from Nigeria.

And who do you think you are for representing the opinions of people from the SS?

I even doubt that you are from the SS, given your derision of the Igbo. Igbo are also distributed in nearly all the states in the SS.

Aboki of one Nigeriyaa for ever is what you represent. Aboki lives and survives from one Nigeria.

christistruth01:






Truth is Light

Gen Alabi Isama was the one who saved the Life of the Biafran Soldier that killed Boro after he was Captured

Many Federal Soldier's were ready to Finish him off immediately despite him being a Prisoner of War

Alabi Isama had to send the Biafran Soldier who killed Adaka Boro to be detained in Lagos for his own safety
He would not have Survived detention by the 3MCDO troops in the East

Lt Col Alabi Isama was not even two miles from the sector where Adaka Boro was killed. In his book, Alabi reiterated the same killer squad that murdered Adaka Boro was meant to kill him and Alani Akinrinade too. I have Alabi's book and would want to know which pages displayed the alleged Biafran soldier who killed Adaka Boro.

ScamHunter:
You believe a liar because you cannot research.. This is why they say if you want to hide anything from a black man, you write it in a book. You have internet, yet you cannot find the truth for yourself but believe a lie because one idiot wants to cause disaffection among people that have lived in peace for hundreds of years? I served in Ijaw land. These are people that have married Igbo for centuries. So Fulani cannot love an Ijaw man more than Igbo as seen with Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa.

I believe you too.

The thing is that we were not born when those events took place and so such stories can only be evaluated through logic. Also, sometimes some grey area would be painted off just to hide some truths or to tweak the motives.

I think as at the time of Isaac Boro protests, Nigeria as a country was well regionised and each region was quite autonomous. So there was no urgent need for secession. However when the northern elites began to kill easterners, it was clear that the seeds sown by our founding fathers of the type of nation this country can thrive on have been thwarted, oneness was no longer teneble. One part of the country have begun to see themselves as primary citizens.

I believe in restructuring based on the 1960 model, but I also know that it will never happen again. So the only way to survival is to divide.

Divided We Stand.

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

does he want to employ kanu? This one he is after his certificate

Golan007:
Which Cambridge?

Ekiti State.

chatinent:
Katsina.

u mean cat-sinner

Arewa soldiers had since restructured Nigeria politically by creating too many states and political constituencies in Arewa, thus gave absolute political powers to Arewa politicians.


If you are a southern Nigerian, remain the second class citizen brought to all in the south by political restructuring done by Arewa soldiers.
Soldiers don’t create political structure and constitution of a country formed by different regions.

Show us any modern country where soldiers from one part of the country created political structure and supervised the country’s Constitution? Doesn’t exist except Nigeria.

You think berating people from one part of Nigeria solves your political problems in Nigeria?

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CONTINUATION Part 2


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

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When I left kings college, I went straight to Oxford University. Can you do that today? The five thousand kilometres of telegraph lines, crisscrossing the county. And the four thousand kilometres of railway crisis crossing the country. Thousands of kilometres of telegraph lines, were constructed under Gowon, and since Gowon nothing has been added and mark you, it was only in 1975 that after negotiation, we agreed with partial nationalization of shell and other oil companies did we begin to think of these oil revenue that you are talking about. And under Gowon, in that 1975 revenue was to come to about 4bilion naira. But he was removed three months of implementation, but I know that from January 1999 to 2007, because of the unprecedented escalation of oil prices, this country must have earned about 300billion US dollar.What have we done? …Abuja. That is all. But even Abuja is about 60 per cent private investment in property and all that. So, you see the consequences of leaders not adhering to the discipline of planning.

Two, they rail roaded us to the destruction of our political evolution. Because after 13 years in 1979, the Army said politicians should come back to power. At that time, Zik was still alive. Shagari, others. So, the politicians of the second republic still had the dreams and motivation of our founding fathers. Then came the terrible coup of December 1983. Politicians , many of them were locked up. 24 months, 27 months, no questions asked. Everybody scattered. Then in 1985 another coup, Babangida came to power. He was nice, his intention would have been good, but it was in turn characterized by things beginning to happen without base. People talk about the age of settlement. It seemed as if integrity, honesty, respect for public property, use of public fund went backward. Finally, the civil service having been practically destroyed in the 1975 putsch, this time introduced a new reform whereby permanent secretaries were no longer to be called permanent secretaries but director generals. They were no longer accounting officers. And the principle of having accounting officers who are permanent secretaries is because ministers come and go. Parliament come and go, but the officials should be there to account to subsequent Public Accounts Committee of subsequent parliaments. That was the system. But worse than that, ministers now think they could hire and fire civil servants. And if there is anything, the British did to where they were, to India, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, it was that professional, objective civil service, tenure guaranteed, rules upheld, if you breach those rules, you are punished instantly. We now politicised our civil service, made them impermanent, made them insecure, and of course what has happened? They have been cohorts with the rest of the politicians in the total abuse of public funds. As we are now reading, scams of billions, it is unthinkable.

You spoke about the coup, Ojukwu and the famous Aburi accord which tried to address some of these problems. What in your opinion led to the collapse of the Aburi Accord.

You see unfortunately, the dramatist personae of the time, many of them have gone. Anything not founded on objectivity , transparency and truth cannot last. Somehow, Ojukwu persuaded Gowon that they were going to Aburi as gentlemen of the Nigerian Army to discuss certain things. Acknowledgement of what happened. Already, of course he knew that after the pogrom against Easterners, against Igbo in 1966, the Army, except in Lagos and the West had gone back to their places of origin. Now, no need bringing officials. So, guys we’re going to talk as officers and gentlemen. Of course Gowon did not inform his secretary to government. He did not tell anybody, until the eve of the day he was going. So, if you were going to a conference, you will normally say what is the agenda. You will prepare, with the assistance of the agenda.

Think about them. Think about various scenarios, and go and discuss. That didn’t happen. Lo and behold when they reached Aburi, there was Ojukwu with a battery of permanent secretaries and one of the most formidable intellectual this country has ever produced, Dr Pius Okigbo. All in the delegation. Who went with Gowon? Nobody. Not even secretary to the government. None of the so-called permanent secretaries. And they went there and talked and said they reached agreement. He stepped down as supreme military commander and they talked about the divisions in the Nigerian army and if Nigeria was attacked, then they will consult and decide whether they are going to fight.

In modern days it took like 24 hours to finish Poland. You will still be consulting. Anyway, be that as it may, nobody could make ambassador, nobody becomes a super scale officer, senior assistant secretary, group 7 except there was a unanimous agreement. And if you know history, there was once in history where a single member of the parliament can exercise veto.

They did this and they came back. Just like they looked at the proposal after the second coup of July 66, some of the northern assistants in Nigeria, were saying we will blow up Carter bridge, blow up the second mainland bridge.

When they subjected this Aburi accord to simple analysis, it was simply saying Nigeria is no more practically. And civil war or no civil war, then chaos would have started later. All the same, we said look, … if we still want to be a country….authority which deals with customs, currency, federal trunk roads, foreign and external defences, that is more than enough for a government. But it must be able to act. You can not say that in the Ministry of Defence, you can not promote somebody a Lt Col, except you have a unanimity. You cannot move one plane to another place except through unanimity. Even when you have those limited powers, they must be able to function. And you cannot function in the context of those things they said. And then what you have is four countries.

And the permanent secretaries vetoed it?

No . the permanent secretary made analysis and said look, if you are really serious, if you say you are having Nigeria, you must have central function which must be fulfilled. There is no need saying this is central function and you cannot fulfill it. So, we analysed and said these were based on incorrect premises. People came with proper papers, well formulated. The other side just went thinking they were going to do initial breaking of the ice. Therefore, please try to reconcile this to ensure that we still have a country. Gowon in fairness, vetoed that approach, and still proceeded to have decree number 8 of 1967. If you go and read that decree, and if the East had accepted that decree, there would have been no need for secession. Nigeria would have disintegrated within three months. And you cannot move anybody without unanimity. You collect revenue, you cannot transfer it…

Decree 8 was an affirmation of Aburi accord?

It was an affirmation of the Aburi accord which gave the East under Ojukwu, more than 95 per cent of what Aburi meant. But because there were maybe one or two phrases which they didn’t like, if they read that thing and it is still there, they have got what they wanted. But if it was such, that hostilities would have broken out among four independent countries. Not one on one.

And I think, we don’t have much time now. With the present challenges in the country and the lack of serious effort to address the issue, we may even be in worse position if we are not careful. Because, this time, it will not be federal versus Biafra, but among 110 million people. So we are going to end up with warlords, if authorities should finally break down and I appeal to God that we avoid that, by stopping all these jokes as if we can continue milking this country forever. What we are doing is not sustainable. And the sooner we address, try to create a new national austerity programme, discipline ourselves, decide that we cannot be millionaires, billionaires in little islands with a whole ocean of poor wretched people, there would be this tsunami which will overwhelm all of us.

So, the leadership now has a big challenge to begin to readdress things. We can’t carry on like this. But I am saying that whereas in 1967 we had an authoritative civil service which commanded respect, across Nigeria and internationally, we still had a fairly disciplined Police Force. We still had fear. People didn’t take government fund and use it with impunity. There was shame to be jailed or detained for corruption. All these underpinnings of society must be respected and because the things to prevent us from horrendous, murderous anarchy are not in place and we should not over try our luck.

But coming back from what I was saying. Go and read decree 8, if we had implemented it in three months, we would have had four independent states.

Why was it not implemented?

Because, it didn’t satisfy the Easterners. The decree had been promulgated by Gowon. It was to be implemented then. But it was seen by Ojukwu as not being sufficient. I am saying that politics is something which has to be played with some tact. Sometimes my brothers there see black and white where there is immediately green in between. Sometimes, there is really no finesse in politics. They will think the reality is not important as how you get there. The reality was that Nigeria was finished under decree number 8. The reality is that although it was finished, they didn’t proclaim ‘we hereby dissolve Nigeria’. But that was of no effect. You go and read it. But it was rejected . Having been rejected, these people have no obligation to it anymore.

And that led to the civil war and Gowon now declared Police action on Biafra?

Ojukwu now called his people and said we went to Aburi , Aburi has not been respected. We must defend ourselves. We must think a way of saving Nigeria, and if it came to secession. I want your mandate. He got the mandate.

Gowon then replied. Before then, he had told the Northerners that the killings had gone too far, and must have to stop. He then said everything will be done to make amends. He said we will bend backwards, implement certain decision these soldiers, go back to your places of origin. But then, he added that if it becomes necessary to defend the integrity of Nigeria by force of arms, he will do so.

I was a friend of Emeka Ojukwu from Kings College, we were friends in Oxford. And when he was made military governor, he invited me to go with him. And I told him, that I do not believe in regional politics. And of course, at that time in fairness to Ojukwu and co, nobody was talking about regions. He said we will abolish the regions in a few months. Obviously, like Army men, they still talked of unitary structure and all that. And I simply told him that by the time you live with a people, participate in their hopes and dreams, you are a different person. That is that.

Then few of us- Alison Ayida, late Aliu Martins, myself, Abdulaziz, who served in the East, ‘we went to ask Ojukwu what is it you want so that we could prepare the ground for a meaningful conference, where every side would know what they are saying.’ Eventually, just as Ojukwu was warming up to tell us what he wanted , so that we could have come back to Lagos, sell those ideas to Gowon, and see if we can reach agreement, C. C. Mojekwu came and broke up the meeting.

He destroyed that last chance, and we flew back empty handed. Before they started cooking up the Aburi, they went there with unequal preparation. But before then, General Gowon was only communicating with him as an officer. He did know that behind Ojukwu, people were working. So, we didn’t want Ojukwu to get the wrong impression. In anyway, we then agreed that a letter be prepared, addressed from my house, signed by Alison Ayida,who was in Oxford (cuts in, he was in Oxford too?) at the same time? Two of us signed this letter trying to spell out to him the consequences of what will happen if secession was declared. That there would be war and if there is war, until you vanquished federal authority, you will not get recognition which will give you access to the sea, and so on.

I can be embittered. I can feel for my people. But I have a duty to make sure that every step I take, I have calculated all the scenarios and make sure that in the worst scenario , I am not taking them to a worst decision.

If one was there, one would have pointed out certain things. He knew that we proclaimed a state for Rivers people, Ogoja people. One thing the federal government did was to order a sea blockade. And instead of making loose speeches like no power in black Africa can stop Biafra, you had to sit down and count what guns you have. Igbos were three quarter of the officer corps before the coup of 1966. But I doubt if they were even 5 per cent of those carrying guns. Fulani maybe five per cent of the officer corps. But the people carrying guns were mainly from Benue / Plateau area.

But the critical thing is that the man who said they can’t be blockaded; didn’t do much. If at that time Igbos probably went and bought two merchant ships, with Igbo captains who were ready to risk their lives, it is a different thing. But to have no boats, and think a white man or a blue man with captain will risk his life against NNS Nigeria? No.

These were some of the things. One thing is to draw up an agreement. Rhetoric. Our job as good civil servants was to see how this can be implemented. How it can be monitored to achieve what you say is your purpose? I am sorry, that was not quite there. Hence, we went into what we went into.

I still believe that when you go and read it and see all the powers which had been conceded, and all the things which were subject to veto by just one person because it required unanimity, decree number 8 promulgated by Gowon had given 95 percent of the substance. And if it was taken, it was only a matter of three months for everybody to realize that there was no Nigeria.

But as night follows day, we have become used to economic integration. So, the point is whether 1914 was described by whoever, was it Sar’duana, I don’t know, as a mistake, and has been taken up by some southern irredentists as a mistake, the point is that we have gotten used to certain extremes, which we cannot wish away. Which if we wish away will bring us to a lower standard of living than we are used to now.

-nigerianvoice.com