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aguiyi:
wake up boy,no nation has splited without shedding blood. correct me if am wrong but pls do so with proofs

21-05-2011:
I hope and pray Nigeria will never turn out like former SUDAN
that is why looking around and noting that we are in the infancy of the bloodshed that happened in Sudan
we have to break up
we should learn to draw from other peoples experiences
Naija simply isnt working!

Obiagu1:
My position on this is, it's much harder for Biafra or Odua to secede alone. Negotiation has to be devoid of sentiment; it has to be based on reality.
How possible is it that Biafra can secede alone? If we all see the need for the south to leave Nigeria, then after such secession, it will be put to referendum to decide what we want, confederation, federalism or outright split.

This is my position.

Eziachi:
Ignorant is a disease. I don't even think you know what we are actually debating.

Obiagu1:
If Southern Nigeria declares independence, the North cannot contemplate war because:
1. The Yoruba gives the south a number equal to or greater than the north. So numerical advantage is nullified.
2. Northern access to the sea will be cut off, so they will be battling with logistics on how to get in reasonable quantity of arms to sustain their war effort.
3. With this problem of logistics, the south has upper hand, which at the end of the day, if the north were the aggressors, they'll eventually lose more land to the south.

It's a war the North can't win and suicidal if they go that route.

solihu:
Na wa o! Una go kill person with laugther.

This must be a conspiracy. So when the man with the bowler hat is at the helms of affairs strategizing how to navigate his way to 2015 and you guyz are trying to cut short his dream?

alj harem:
the only aid you can give to us if you really like us is to make us remain in the same country

alj harem:
thank you

Eziachi:
Hypocrite!
So you knew before that it will be decided by individual votes before you took it upon yourself deciding what majority of Ndigbo including me will want or you didn't read your own original posts?
Yet another self made expert on Ndigbo and what we wanted.

Eziachi:
In as much as I don't ever believed in one Nigeria from day one. Anything called Southern Nigeria as one country will be far worse than Nigeria as we see it today.
It will be like jumping from a frying pan into fire.
How on earth, will anyone, after eventually freeing self from Nigeria and then will choose to replace it with another mini Nigeria called Southern Nigeria?
There are no such thing as Southern Nigeria as long Ndigbo is concerned, if there were such a thing, I think it ended in 1967, when some of them joined hand with the northerners to fight their so-called southern brothers.
How can you create another nation with Yoruba and Ndigbo inside it and expect progress? You measure how futile such a country will be even through NAIRALAND alone. No chance!!
The day Nigerians will eventually wake up from their slumber and decide to go their separate ways because the crude oil that kept forcing them together is either finished or something new happens, everybody will go back to their pre-1914 of Lord Lugard status.

Then based on choice and individual interests, whomever chooses, can form a new marriage (nation) with whoever it find comfort/trust with or another choice to stay on your own , no matter what.
There is no hidding the fact that Ndigbo, Ibibio, Efik and possibly Annang may likely form a nation based on the fact that they had always got on well better than others, over many generations in the past. They had never had any known or recorded disagreements in the past and such a union must also be based on the choice of each and everyone of them.

Why would an Igbo nation stop Igbos from emigrating? That is not just a baseless sentiiment but also meaningless.
Many Igbos like Ojukwu's father, my grandfather and others was making their money/building their businesses in far away Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Known as Panya then) as early as 1930s. As we speakm my family still the sole Franchise owner of Citreon Trucks in both Gabon and the Congolese nations.
Igbo businesses are more secured in far away Cameroon, Togo, Gabon and presently South Africa than they they are in Ogbomosho, Sapele or Katsina etc.
So what the heck are you talking about migration, especially in today's open world?

LoveKing:
Who are you guys calling for secession? What are your qualifications? Are you in nigeria or abroad? Is it only just on cyberspace or is it echoed by every nigerian on the streets? What does the media say about this in the north and in the south? Or are we living in a pipe dream? Are we postulating theories or taking actions?

SAKUR:
“Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa.

Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern region: strength, intelligence, a determination to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life styles, great hope and aspirations… the East is good in business and technology, the West is good in administration and commerce, law and medicine, but it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power “at all costs” to (one region), Our mission was accomplished by destroying the opposition on all fronts. The West led in the fight for independence, and was punished for asking for freedom”.

He submitted that the colonial masters did a lot of havoc while they were in Africa, and planted time bombs when they finally left. “What we have seen since independence is an administration of new internal colonial masters, fellow Nigerians doing more damage to Nigeria. Instead of detonating the time bombs planted by the British, it is planting mines”.

http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/opinion/letters/4096-harold-smith-on-colonial-britains-hidden-agenda-in-nigeria

Obiagu1:
The bolded is one of the major reasons they opposed Biafra, a final breakaway from the North.

Obiagu1:
If Nigeria should lose control of Bornu State to Boko Haram, then the formation of Sharia republic of Northern Nigeria is around the corner as they'll seek to conquer the whole sharia states and even the south but, hahaha, Yoruba man will follow Igbo man fight by force else . . .

badesco:
Secession or no seccession. No section of the country should coerce or force any section into fighting a cause dat is not theirs. If igbos want to secceed let them not drag d yorubas into it. Yorubas and igbos are 2 different entities. So leave yorubas alone and fight your cause alone.