TheKingdom:
Azikiwe, the reason for Biafra then and now....Too bad

Azikiwe with the help of Ahmadu Bello help rigged Akintola into power in the west. This resulted in 'operation wet e ' , then the coup, then the civil war.

Opakangallant:


Yorubas are far more than igbos in population which makes us the second largest tribe after Hausas.

You Igbos are in the distant fourth or fifth so you can never dominate Yorubas. Not in this life will such happen.

You can try your sinister agenda with Niger delta people and maybe some part of middle belt. But Yorubas are way above you.

That is why you will never produce president cos even if you try, Yorubas will never give consent. Who is the slave now ehn?

FYI, After North 8 terms, a Yoruba man will take mantle of leadership. Maybe Fashola or Ambode or any other credible son of Odua. That's the agreement that gave birth to APC.

In the 60's it was very difficult for a westerner to get a job in any organization headed by a Igboman, so the Yoruba people decided they were going to take their own destiny into their own hands.

We built University of Ife, the best in physical infrastructure since that time till date.

We built industrial estates in Iganmu, Ikeja, and over many other areas in the western region. Foreign and local companies started occupying the estates providing jobs for our highly qualified youths who were left behind in the scheme of things, just because we were not at the centre.

Imagine where we would be today had we made Zik premier.

Opakangallant:


Yorubas are far more than igbos in population which makes us the second largest tribe after Hausas.

You Igbos are in the distant fourth or fifth so you can never dominate Yorubas. Not in this life will such happen.

You can try your sinister agenda with Niger delta people and maybe some part of middle belt. But Yorubas are way above you.

That is why you will never produce president cos even if you try, Yorubas will never give consent. Who is the slave now ehn?

FYI, After North 8 terms, a Yoruba man will take mantle of leadership. Maybe Fashola or Ambode or any other credible son of Odua. That's the agreement that gave birth to APC.

In the 60's it was very difficult for a westerner to get a job in any organization headed by a Igboman, so the Yoruba people decided they were going to take their own destiny into their own hands.

We built University of Ife, the best in physical infrastructure since that time till date.

We built industrial estates in Iganmu, Ikeja, and over many other areas in the western region. Foreign and local companies started occupying the estates providing jobs for our highly qualified youths who were left behind in the scheme of things, just because we were not at the centre.

igbodefender:
The West voted Zik in, before Awo changed everything in the night.

Zip was voted by his Lagos constituency to represent them at the western region parliament. That does not make him the premier. He lacks the support of the rest of the region.

igbodefender:


How do you know? Or because something doesn't suit you, you label it as concocted!?

Before, during and after the civil war all through the years that Awolowo was alive, such assertion was unknown.

Suddenly, just a few years ago, some discredited men started mouthing such things. Do they think we are fools.

igbodefender:
@T9ksy
The January 1966 coupists have said that their aim was to make Awo Prime Minister, a post held by Tafawa Balewa.

Recall that at that time Awolowo was in jail after being convicted of plotting coup against Balewa's government earlier on in 1963.

The coupists were die-hard supporters of Awolowo.

This assertion that the coup was meant to make Awolowo the Prime Minister was, never a part of our history. It was concocted. An afterthought.

Dedetwo:


You forgot that Yari.ba prosecuted, sentenced and jailed Awolowo. All the witnesses were Yari.ba including arresting police officers. If not for the intervention of an Igbo chap, Awolowo would never have seen Nigerian prison in Calabar. He meant to be send to the Nigerian prison in Bauchi where his silly life would have been snuffed out of him by the Abok

When your enemies can't get to you, they use your own people who are willing to be used by them.

Dedetwo:


I do not know why certain stocks in Nigeria tend to write crap in order to impress their silly selves. There is nobody who handed any party to Azikiwe. In addition, Awolowo was never a member of NCNC. In 1954, Azikiwe appointed a Yari.ba the secretary of eastern regional government. I wish to see the day these twisted group of people will sit truth on its feet.

I wonder where you read or learnt your own history. The top echelon and most of the founding members of AG were former NCNC members when Herbert Macaulay was still alive.

diadem10:


Yoruba men in the assembly house never voted him. The Ibadan independent group and other small parties voted for Awolowo. Foolish Zik already thought he had them in the bag because they've always voted for his party. Lol.

They expected Azikiwe to represent the Lagos constituency that sent him to the Western Region parliament, not to claim the premiership as he does not have the support of the majority of the party members for the Premiership.

diadem10:


Yoruba men in the assembly house never voted him. The Ibadan independent group and other small parties voted for Awolowo. Foolish Zik already thought he had them in the bag because they've always voted for his party. Lol.

Yoruba people who voted NCNC candidates into the parliament never had Azikiwe in mind for Premier. They voted the party because it is the only party they had known all along. AG was relatively new to them.

There was no law that says the leader of the party must be premier.

I don't see why any one could accuse Awolowo of tribalism after he chose to cede the position of Prime Minister to Azikiwe to settle for a lesser post in the NCNC/AG coalition in 1960.

At least Awolowo tried to make up, but Azikiwe rejected his overtures.

Igbos should realise that in politics, there is no permanent friend nor enemies. Your political foe yesterday could become your political friend tomorrow.

We should not allow the mishap of yesterday to destroy our today or future

Ovamboland:


Where was Paul Unogo whne the Ibo union and Ibibio union was formed? When others congregate on tribal forum, that is not the beginning of tribalism? When other people in Northern region and Eastern region have a firm grip on their own regional elections that was never the beginning of tribalism. It only becomes tribalism when Yoruba insists that what obtains in other regions must be applicable in the West.

There is nothing wrong with people who share the same identity to form an organisation to promote their progress and development.

I don't understand how anyone in his right mind could conceive that as tribalism.

In the UK, the Scottish people have a political party that promotes their interest in the UK parliament.