₦airaland Forum

WriterX:
Hadn't it been I actually have done what I call overly extensive research on this fore mentioned historical topic some years ago when an Igbo neighbour of mine and my former history teacher got me interested in it and been able to discuss and talk with a few people who were around this time period I would have said to myself "this is nothing but the truth" but true journalism is objective and not subjective hence my audacity to call this fictitious , your write up has no grounds.

God bless you. Adaka Boro's declaration of Niger Delta Republic had nothing to do with Ojukwu and Ironsi on personal level. That was February 1966. It is hatred for Igbo and fear of Biafran unity that they are still fighting.

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 see how wicked you people are in changing narratives out of hatred for Igbo? No wonder someone said that Nigerians will always unite due to their hatred for the Igbo man. The same divide and rule tactic against today's Nigeria is what you guys want to apply for a potential Biafra. It will not work. Gowon only released Adaka Boro to create disunity among the Biafrans. Later, was it not the same Fulani that Boro fought for against Biafra that killed both him and Ken Saro? Keep fooling yourself. Only if our people would learn history instead of pressing phones. No one would teach you who your real enemy in Nigeria is.

SpecialAdviser:
I don't really trust Yorubas when they fight for freedom or oppression or break up.

They do a lot of things for POLITICS .

God bless you sir. You know them well. They'll even sell that Sunday Igboho for a pot of pottage. It'll just take one night of meeting between their oba and governors and money will pass round with the guy sold and bought.

Tofax:
The core North are too greedy. The revenue generating agencies and the entire security architecture of the country- and the three arms of government are firmly in their hands.
In a country of nearly 200 million people of diverse cultures, religions and ethnicities. They trash out the federal character principles.

They control the NPA, NNPC, PenCom, FIRS, Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), NIMASA etc. Everywhere they're there. The South & Middle Belt should wake up.

Just shut it. No one trusts a Yoruba man if you're one. For decades, oil from Niger Delta has been exploited and the people degraded but no single Yoruba man saw it as injustice. For Decades, the Igbo wanted out of this country, every Yoruba man kicked against it. Now, because parastatals, ports and borders have been taken over by Fulani, you people are pretending to have woken up from slumber. Tomorrow, once your leaders are settled with appointments. you'll go back to your usual love of injustice and evil. Who takes a Yoruba talk seriously?

Oshigun:
That would be a grave mistake. When the cause is just then the Government will lose ,from having too many enemies to fight, once the Buhari-led FG becomes dictatorial, brutal and intolerant.

Let us not forget that Igboho, unlike Kanu, is not agitating for secession and peddling hate speech against other Nigerians because Goodluck Jonathan lost an election. Igboho is not doing this because he loves to disturb the peace of Nigeria like others enjoy orgasmically as part of their nature.

Igboho is doing this because of reasons the entire universe can apreciate and empathize with. He is having to watch Yorubas maimed, kidnapped, killed, raped everywhere with farms and livelihoods of families being destroyed by Fulani marauders all in the name of 'one Nigeria'. Even those against secession worldwide would agree the cause is just in this case.

So secession can be reasonable because it is now championed by a Yoruba man? You are truly Two-Face, backstabbing hypocrite.

tamdun:
Yeyen, u hypocrites will always ignore how yoruba people voted for Jonathan in 2011, how the fight against yar'adua's cabal first started on the street of sw, how Jonathan marginalised yoruba people after becoming president, ur people even mocked us here on nairaland like... So Oga, drop the act, we know ur game

Congratulations....at least, you're no longer marginalized but killed and on a progressive exile. What a great improvement. Belle-Before-Life Two-Face people. Is that not why your proposed beef ban didn't work? Humans who put what to eat before their lives. I'll see how you'll escape their plan before 2023. You Yoruba have no shame so I'm shaming for you. How many times did Buhari make Igbos VPs, yet were rejected by Igbo? But immediately they dangled cow meat before Yoruba, long-throat for what the belle would eat was irresistible to you. As in, Jonathan is still your problem while you have all your heart's desire and still getting ready to be wiped off the face of the earth. Keep fixating on Jonathan until you find yourself on exile. Belle before life.

skywalker240:
We share border with you, but we want nothing to do with you people, so dont come here and claim ally.
And before you call me ipob too,
Ode me ee OVOUKEYE ME JU ISOKO from delta state.

Nawaa oo....why no Southerners no wan associate with Afonja again na? This is why it's not good to be a two-face person always betraying people up and down.

MozB:
Your probably won't type this if you have a brother or father as a soldier. It's only in Nigeria i see and hear people brand everybody evil as a result of other people's bad deeds. Besides, one thing you don't understand about the military is that it completely runs by order. Absolute order!! When you sign the form, you sign to take EVERY single order from your superior. May God help us.

Really? Even to shoot your own unarmed citizens in cold blood? Then in battle situation, you expect the same citizens to have empathy for you? That is seen only in unprofessional armies. Do you not know that civilians play vital roles in conflicts such as this? That is in terms of intelligence and information that could have saved the lives of many soldiers if the military built good relationship with them? Ambushes could be avoided. Civilians could even help stranded troops to melt into civilian population by hiding them when facing threats. But if the army is known to delight in brutalizing their own citizens, that's when the empathy vaporizes even when they are killed. How many countries do you see citizens not care that their soldiers are dying? The military has to really work on their relationship with the civilians or it could only get worse.

Spending123:
All we need in this country is just to endure till 2023 for Buhari to come down since he don't want to die nah.

Dream well

Good ... But I do not believe the "Rescued" aspect. When did security agencies become US Navy SEALs? Just tell us that you paid ransom. We understand sha. After all, 8% of your people are already on exile with others to follow. So a little ransom payment here and there to save face would help.

OneTemplate:
Clown. This is far bigger than Tinubu and I say that as a supporter of Jagaban. Is Tinubu now equal to the sum of 50 million Yorubas worldwide just because you Igbos are obsessed with the man?

Please, Yorubas are not Igbos. If we all get behind Oduduwa Republic then no one, not even all our leaders combined, can stop us.

Firstly, Yorubas are the most dogmatically Principled people in Nigeria bar none. We mean what we say and say what we mean unlike Igbos. This is why we are slow to take a hard line position on any issue. We don't act in haste to repent at leisure as Igbos do always.

Secondly, we are the least itinerant people in Nigeria and I doubt, minus the diaspora, that more than 1.5 to 2 million Yorubas, at most, are living outside the SW region in Nigeria.

We are also the people least dependent on others of all Nigerians.

We have the most robust culture, fertile land, beneficial geographical diversity, entertainment sector, vibrant market, leisure industry, middle class wealth, work/business environment and life balance. Our human and material endowment is second to non. All that combined means we are the most ready, out of all Nigerians, to be on our own.

Also, most Yorubas outside the SW, in different areas of Nigeria, will be assimilated back into Yoruba land in literally days if a civil or internecine strife breaks out over seccesion.

Unlike Igbos who would face a nightmare scenario considering 10 to 15 million Igbos, at least, are spread throughout Nigeria and mainly in the SW.

Learn to appreciate how much trouble you and your people have put yourself in before you poke your nose in the affairs of Yorubas who are the real life blood of our nation and can comfortably leave Nigeria, anytime and any day, to thrive massively .

I am always amused at how much you Yoruba put your belle ahead of your lives. Is it not free oil that have kept you in one Nigeria all these whiule before your latest taqqya? Let me ask you? Is it not because of your interest in free money that even now, your eyes are yet to open until all your people are sent on exile to IDPs? You are not in the same class with Igbo in terms of industry and I am sure you're aware of that. Whether Igbo property worth trillions of dollars are in the north and west does not put Igbo in any marked disadvantage even if your lazy people decide to steal them. Igbo equally have property in Europe, Asia, North and South America. That is our nature and we do not put our belle before our lives. That is why we want our own country. Even now, did you not notice that your cow ban could not even work for one day? Why? Belle-before-life people. Even now, we all know that your pretensions for Oduduwaland is another Taqqya to put pressure on Fulani to leave Tinubu and co off the hook as they've already planned to do before 2023. We know your double-face lives Two-face people. So do not bring Igbo into your yeye Oduduwa phantom trick. It will not work. Even Fulani are smarter than you. That's why they could deceive you to power and now turn around in preparation to wipe you guys off the face of the earth. Mu-mu man, how many times did Igbo reject Buhari despite making Igbos VP? But once he dangles their cow meat before you, you sell your brain and shout Sai Baba. Don't you notice it when MitteAllah always refer to Yoruba as gluttons because of your love for their cow meat {belle-before-life} that you could not even boycott for one day? Keep you Oduduwa taqqya to yourself abeg

NyamiriFlathead:
ipob miscreat talking, yoruba land no be Igbo land where soldiers kill you people like animals.

The only reason soldiers are not killing you like animals is that they know herdsman can accomplish in your place what only soldiers can accomplish in Igbo. Your fame as cowards goes ahead of you na

tamdun:
We goofed because we didn't vote Jonathan? Wetin happen when we vote that ingrate in 2011?

But the "ingrate" didn't send your people on exile in IDP.
The "ingrate's" people never murdered your people in cold blood the way your darling daddy's are doing
The "ingrate" never considered your people worthless sub-humans that have no right to life.
The "ingrate's" Ijaw people were not kidnapping your people for ransom.
The "ingrate" had no plan to disgrace and possibly jail your leaders for daring to aspire to become presidents.

So what did the "ingrate" do to elicit so much hate aside appointing Igbos that he trusted and who are competent to office?
Now the non-ingrate has appointed your people and excluded Igbo, has your life been any better?
Are you richer and more secure? Would we not hear another news of bloodbath in your region as the land is poised to be taken over by the non-ingrates?
You see, you'll never know what hit you until it's too late because your priorities are so so wrong due to absence of foresight and hindsight

aljharem:
Honestly, I am Yoruba but Yoruba people don't have shame. I truly embarrassed. You all followed Tinubu to betray the south and now the hunter is now the hunted.

God catch una. Stupid zombie

Thank you, sir. Yoruba are an embarrassment to the south, yet no shame. Imagine they're the only big tribe where Fulani are still slaughtering people at will, yet they have no response. In fact, the only plan they have to stop their people from being killed or sent on exile is 2023. As if Fulani go just carry power dash them. They'll only recover part of their sense when Tinubu and his cronies are finally dealt with.

Story story? Story

Media trial?

Mikecold:
Destroying Beer and stealing Fridge and plasma in return


More like the devil stoning the devil in Mecca




Islamabad for a reason

I'm a witness. I see these Muslim women enter restaurants and guzzle beer. Afterwards, they cover their veil and be on their way

Gangster paradise

As if the country is not spending billions on security. Fulani is just cashing out big time under this government. Serves foolish natives right.

We warned Nigerians in 2014 but they thought they're smart. Beats me how people could be so stupid in the era of Internet. In fact, I've given up hope on negros in their contraption. This is why I don't pity those going on exile. When you refuse to have sense, sense would be knocked into you by force.

Does it not awe you that nearly every issue in this country is now taqqya geared towards projection of one ethnic groups? Just one. Yet people were too blind to see what was obvious.

If a neighboring state donates, you're as good as a donor because your state becomes target of their attacks from the base provided by the neighbor

Scapegoat, meanwhile hundreds more will take over from where he stopped. It's already getting late for Oduduwa people unless they take the bull by the horns now. He is infinitesimal part of the agenda even if there is a single judge brave enough to convict him.

Militant30:
Akeredolu is the only south Western governor who fears no cabal unlike the Pontius Pilate of Lagos State who usually run to Aso Rock to cry about Endsars Everytime, The other ones are just Ewedu eaters.

Say the only southern governor. He reminds me of Fayose. Yoruba people missed something in Fayose. Things wouldn't have been this bad if Fayose and Akeredilu were in government today.

Malawian:
Both of them can only give out their father's land, they can't even give out their kindred land, let along their town land. They certainly cant give out land belonging to another town, you don't even know Igbos.

You're wrong. Not even their fathers land would they dare give Fulani. ESN would deal with them if they dare.

Reference:
Hmm...food for thought, except he was a specialist. The military should consider airborne assaults in these kinds of search and destroy operations.

Wars are not won from the air. There is no single war in history won from the air. Air superiority only gives the infantry an edge over the opponent. You always need men on the ground to win a war. Even with the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, the Americans still needed soldiers on ground to secure the Japanese mainland as evidence of the defeat.

Idiko1:
There is nothing such as Andoni LGA Ijaw. In addition, Andoni LGA is not and have never been Ijaw. The word, Urang, is not Ijaw. It is very silly people from an insignificant entity tend grab what cannot defend.

You are very right. I served in riverine Ijaw area of Rivers, so I know that Andoni are not Ijaw. Was surprised reading that. The writer apparently wants to elicit empathy wrongly. Perhaps, they felt without attaching Ijaw to Andoni, people wouldn't know since Ijaw are among the better known ethnic groups in Rivers.

Gofwane:
My heart so cold towards these Nigerian Army guys that I don't feel any sympathy for them anymore. They've allowed themselves to become objects of ridicule through corruption and lack of professionalism.

Shout out to the Air force. Their standards are top notch.

The same airforce that bomb IDP not once, not twice by "mistake" are top notch to you?

lonecatt:
orji kalu and okorocha are the prominent ones who have gone this low and most time they do it when they are in trouble. Show me how many southern leaders or governors who have decorated themselves in like manners and publicity or you shut it .we know the real northern slaves.

Those are better because they're obvious. Better because their people know them and so would be wary. Unlike the chameleons that pretend they're for you but would backstab and sell you the next second. No southern governor would stand for their people when you push it. Those thinking they have less prominent slaves are worst hit because they're still praying to barren land while others are crossing seven hills and seven seas. By the way, you lost the bet.

lonecatt:
Just like orji kalu these Igbo men continue to enslave themselves. At the end they will still be disgraced and put in prison by those they worship

Haha...show me one southern governor that hasn't pledged allegiance to Fulani. Just one and I'll give you $100

It is unfortunate happenstance that there are no politicians with the interest of their people left in the South. The reason is this unholy alliance and allegiance to the caliphate. When shall we have the Fayoses and Ihediohas again as governors in the south?

SarkinYarki:
Many people saw it and called it correctly but some of us wouldn't listen then ..I remember my mum warning about the man but since I didn't experience his military leadership I didn't believe her then but by 2015 December I knew he had nothing to offer

You should have listened to your mom or at least research. Many of us did not experience it but we have the internet to search and research truths. It's a pity that Nigerians have herd mentality. I personally warned people from Benue and Middlebelt that electing a Jihad sympathizer would spell doom for them but they mocked. I never reckoned with the herders being emboldened to run Amok in Yorubaland because of the population and size of the ethnic group. but today, it's obvious that they'll stop at nothing until they take over West Africa. Unless of course the natives wake up

budaatum:
Perhaps you need to go and learn how Yorubas were complicit in handing Ilorin over to Fulanis, and you might just wisen up.

It's the same story everywhere. Hausas were complicit in handing Hausaland to them because they brainwashed them with bringing purified Islam. What are they brainwashing the Yoruba of today with? Political offices and free oil money maybe plus regular supply of beef for Owambe?