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PoliticsRe: Nnamdi Kanu Is Bigger Than Jesus - Biafra Supporter Chukwudi Leo Says by StOla: 10:28pm On Jul 02, 2017
The madness don turn to stage 5.

By stage 7, WHO will declare an epidemic in Nigeria, and Nnamdi Kanu will be hunted to serve as a lab rat to extract the cure to this Ipobic Plague that turned a whole tribe into schizophrenic zombies.
Christianity EtcRe: We Will Christianize Nigeria If Muslims Islamise the Country- Cardinal Onaiyekan by StOla: 10:23pm On Jul 02, 2017
Capsule101:
We won't be left out as well we ll idolize nigeria
Na so naa. Everyone will fight to position their own religion in the hearts of their neighbours.

Religion and madness is like organised crime and petty theft.
EducationRe: JSS1 Textbook Teaching Masturbation As Abstinence Causes Outrage by StOla:
Amberon11:
Thrash! I'm very sane and I seriously doubt your sanity. Pls teach your children to masturbate as a means of abstinence.

And stay out my mentions as I won't read nor reply you further.
You cannot be sane if you think that listing an entry that qualifies under a specific topic is tantamount to teaching the students about the practice the entry describes.

You would also say teaching nursery or primary students that theft is an antisocial behaviour is tantamount to teaching students how to steal.

I repeat, if you do not want an education, stay in your cave, while sane minds are kept informed about what is naturally existing in their environment.

Finally, learn the word "McCarthyism", because you suffer the same problem. A chronic patient of this problem is Femi Fani-Kayode.
EducationRe: JSS1 Textbook Teaching Masturbation As Abstinence Causes Outrage by StOla: 8:00pm On Jul 02, 2017
Amberon11:
I see some crazy people are already in support of this nonsense. Many are mad but few are roaming.
The roaming few must include you if you believe that mutual masturbation does not belong under the title for which it was discussed in the book.

If you believe the title should altogether not even be in the book, then I would even suggest that those who do not need education should altogether stay at home.
EducationRe: JSS1 Textbook Teaching Masturbation As Abstinence Causes Outrage by StOla: 7:54pm On Jul 02, 2017
Franzinni:
who keeps saying the book is wrong? Anybody in that category is a prime example of an illiterate...

Now the book say clearly, ways to give and receive pleasure without actual intercourse... How is masturbation out of place?

Some dingbat. Had posted this same thing a while ago and due to poor comprehension, hoped to find similar minds to swallow this misdirection based on the topic...

Read well... The book is accurate in that regard.
I would have been disappointed if I did not find someone of rational thought in the 1st page of the thread to confirm that the book did not err in including the masturbation entry under the classification it was placed.

I salute you Sir.

Nigeria has become a country of McCarthyism and of religion induced idiocy.
PoliticsRe: Osinbanjo Blocked From Seeing Nnamdi Kanu PICS by StOla: 1:24pm On Jul 02, 2017
sunnyb0b0:
What are you doing about them?
The likes of the OP is already doing something about them, but you seem not to like his actions of exposing the delusional lies.

So I join to ask, what are you doing about those media outlets who make false and outlandish claims that are used to deceive the Igbo almajiri?
PoliticsRe: Biafra: Arrest ’emissary’ Claiming I Sent Him To Nnamdi Kanu – Obong Of Calabar by StOla: 11:53am On Jul 02, 2017
Hahahaha!

IPOB and propaganda.

Na so dem claim say "Afenifere visiting director" by staging a visit for us to believe.

Same propaganda of "Kunle and Alhaji" discussion.

Same propaganda as "Yoruba wife of IPOB member in Europe" calling the pirate hate radio station to declare her support for Biafra.

Same propaganda as "Gov Amosu and Gov Kashim" phone discussion.

Same propaganda as "Finance Minister tweets Igbos are irrelevant".

Igbos are yet to learn from their failed propaganda policy of the failed Biafra.
PoliticsRe: Our Brothers Arrested With Nnamdi Kanu Abandoned And Forgotten by StOla:
Atleast they are not dead yet while the emperor is posing with his private guards and relishing in the worship of his mob.

Ojukwu found his own life too valuable to be lost, and ran away after wasting lives of his soldiers who were fighting with cassava sticks, and lives of Biafran children whose intended deaths he had hoped would help win a propaganda war.
CrimeRe: 2 Nigerians Arrested In India For Possession Of Heroin by StOla: 10:58am On Jul 01, 2017
Why are these Indians envious of these hardworking developers?
Christianity EtcRe: Bishopric crisis: Mbaise Catholics say no to the Pope by StOla:
Shame!

Their complaint.
“The priests and the laity in Mbaise rejected Bishop Okpalaeke because of the sheer injustice that we noticed in the selection process, which led to his appointment and consecration. It is absurd that out of the 700 Mbaise indigenous priests, none of them was considered qualified to be named a bishop, either in their home diocese or elsewhere”, Ekechukwu said. He recalled that Awka Diocese where Okpalaeke hails from, with far less number of priests, has seven bishops. When asked if Okpalaeke was not qualified to be consecrated as Bishop of Ahiara Catholic Diocese, Ekechukwu answered affirmatively, adding that he speaks a different Igbo dialect that would be incomprehensible to the rural dwellers in Mbaise. He fumed that for refusing to accept Bishop Okpalaeke, “Mbaise people have been discriminated against, ostracised, persecuted and sacramentally starved for more than four years”. The leader of the aggrieved Mbaise priests also said that hundreds of their young lads have been denied the sacrament of confirmation, while no fewer than 48 senior seminarians have been denied priestly ordination.
BusinessRe: Candido Joao Da Rocha: Nigeria's First Millionaire by StOla:
nnokwa042:
so papa ojukwu that brought stock exchange to Nigeria lives in a jungle abi,? Anyways why I dey argue with u sef may be ur from ogbomosho with tribal marks cus every Yoruba person is a lagosian and am wasting my time replying u,coming here to tell us cock and bull story about jahrzinho of brazil
Very insecure Igbo.

You hear the tales of a Da Rocha who was born into wealth and also created wealth before Sir Louis Ojukwu, and you begin to doubt the authenticity of the story.

I repeat, that you in the Eastern jungles of Nigeria knew of Louis Ojukwu as the 1st millionaire, confirms that you existed in the ignorant isolation only a jungle can provide. As such, you are not expected to know what had been existing and common place in the colony of Lagos and Western Nigeria where many of the educated Yoruba even had to work with their engineering doctorate degree under English men with only bachelor's degree in the colonial service.

Do you know how many generations of Yoruba doctors and lawyers and engineers and millionaires existed in the West and Lagos before the Eastern jungle produced it's own first?
If you fortunately stumble on such revealing history, you would also call it rooster and bull story.

Da Rocha and Ojukwu senior are a generation apart. While Da Rocha was giving away money anyhow, Ojukwu senior was still struggling to suckle his mother's breast.

The sun may rise in the East, but civilization emerged from the West.
BusinessRe: Candido Joao Da Rocha: Nigeria's First Millionaire by StOla: 8:27pm On Jun 30, 2017
nnokwa042:
the first west African millionaire is ojukwu father which every body knows ,so if u like go Brazil and bring bebeto or dunga as first Yoruba millionaire Na una sabi nobody knew him take
You knew your own millionaire in the jungle of the East at a time the Yorubas in the city of Lagos had long turned the tales of Da Rocha's wealth to folklore being passed from generation to generation.

Just as the Fulanis have long held Dantata as the richest man in black Africa of his time.

Celebrate yours and let others celebrate who they know to be the wealthiest.
BusinessRe: Candido Joao Da Rocha: Nigeria's First Millionaire by StOla: 8:22pm On Jun 30, 2017
"Oun se bi omo Da Rocha".

Heard that line a lot while growing up.

I believe he was an ancestor of Abimbola Da Rocha of the first 3 letters of ADRAO school at Ahmadu Bello Victoria Island.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria’s Problems Started With Awo’s Introduction Of Tribal Politics — Unongo by StOla: 8:53pm On Jun 29, 2017
BigIyanga:
Cos facts arent on your side. Numbers dont lie! NPC came first in those elections and could have formed a govt with any party.
The winning party always calls the short and Zik has the first right of refusal.
If he was truly against NPC, but lobbied to be appointed federal minister?
Facts are Awo never matched Zik in winning national elections.
Zik got 36% in 1960 elections in S/W- Awo's backyard while AG got 15% in the East, Zik's backyard.
Awo was charged with treason because of the way he brought lawlessness to the SW.
Then in 1964, Akintola's Nigerian National Democratic Party beat Awo's AG in the southwest. If he was that powerful, why did he lose to Akintola?
Zik never sufffred any defeat in NCNC stronghold unlike Awo.
Dude read up on history, in 1964 Akintola and his party emasculated the Western region with federal backing. Awolowo was already in prison by then.

As for winning party issue, I already told you the factual history of how the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats formed government in the UK ahead of the Labour Party that had the highest vote, with David Cameron becoming Prime Minister instead of the incumbent Gordon Brown. This was the situation that could have played out in 1960, but I reckon Azikiwe was limited in the knowledge of parliamentary democracy like you are, and was happy with a non-existent right of first refusal to be junior partner instead of moving to form a majority government and be Prime Minister.

I have told you Awolowo was not a federal minister in the 1st republic, rather he was the leader of opposition in Parliament before being imprisoned. He only became federal minister under Gowon's regime and resigned a year after the war was over.

Why you decide to insist on your unfounded suppositions as fact, really baffles me.

Did Awolowo ever suffer any defeat in his stronghold while a free man?
PoliticsRe: Nigeria’s Problems Started With Awo’s Introduction Of Tribal Politics — Unongo by StOla: 8:13am On Jun 29, 2017
BigIyanga:
You have a tenous relationship with the truth! In 1960, elections were held in S/W and AG got 54% of the vote with 79 seats while NCNC got 36% of the vote with 33 seats .
In 1961, elections were held in the east, NCNC got 58% with 106 seats while AG got 14% with 15 seats. So AG won 94 seats in SW/E while NCNC got 142 seats in SW/E.. so who should be the king maker? Zik came 2nd while Awo came 3rd.
Awo had always been beaten by Zik in those days.
I noticed how tactifully ignored the fact that Awo lost 52 seats in 1964 elections and NCNC made huge gains.
Awo's AG was the first political party to be embroiled in crisis and banned. His leadership invited FG to declare state of emergency in the SW.
Zik was in the graduating class of 1933 while Awo was in the graduating class of 1948. Zik had practised and delivered results in Naija politics before Awo. How could awo have known better than Zik?
Zik played politics of live and let live while Awo played politics of highhandness and exclusion of dissenting views.. Lives and properties were lost under Awo's leadership.
Dude, you are just revolving around statistic that is irrelevant to the fact you want to disprove.

NCNC and AG had the 2nd highest and 3rd highest seat tally in the federal elections to form a government in 1960. The NPC that had the highest number of seats did not have an exclusive majority. As such they needed to align with either AG or NCNC to prevent an AG/NCNC alliance that would surpass the seat tally of NPC.

NCNC thus became a junior partner to NPC when same NCNC could have been senior partner to AG, with Zik by virtue of being the NCNC leader, becoming the Prime Minister.

You put a lot of blame on Awo's leadership as the cause of trouble in the West. Was it leadership from prison? Or you blame a man who had been craftily sidelined and dumped in prison by the federal government that Azikiwe was an integral partner? Or did the federal government not craftily install Akintola's NNDP as the party of government in the Western Region while Awolowo was in jail? Or you expect the AG to have made gains in 1964 while being actively decimated by the NNDP who had federal backing of terror, and core leaders in jail already?

I repeat, Awo flogged Zik on every political debate starting from the NYM elections, the Western Region government Premiership, the constitutional debates and in retrospect Awolowo has been proved right and Zik proved wrong with such colosal consequences, especially to his own people. Even up to the civil war debates in the Organization of African Unity, Zik's arguments to get backing for Biafra was roundly defeated by Awo's arguments on behalf of the federal government. Awo understood the system Nigeria was practicing and I maintain that the different
political systems both were exposed to while studying abroad was a factor, regardless of who was graduating earlier or not. Exposure is exposure, that I graduated first in English doesn't make me knowledgeable in Law.

Or how do explain that till today, nobody from the NCNC leadership could produce the list of their members who they claimed won 1951 elections in the Western Region, but decamped to secure Awolowo the majority? AG had their contesting members published in the newspapers then and new exactly the nimber of seats they had won with specific names of those candidates who won and lost. This allowed them to easily go into alliance with other independents that Azikiwe had reasoned foolishly were going to align with his own party.

Do you remember how David Cameron became Prime Minister in the UK?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party had a Majority that wasn't exclusive. While concluding that the Liberal Democrats would agree to some bread crumbs concessions being offered by Labour Party to form a government, the 2nd placed Conservative Party of David Cameron offered Nick Clegg of the Lib Dems the Deputy Prime Minister's position and other mouth watering concessions.

While Gordon Brown was dreaming to start his own full term in office as Prime Minister having concluded the last 2yrs of Tony Blair's 3rd term, David Cameron and his own party were actually forming a government that was not a dream.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria’s Problems Started With Awo’s Introduction Of Tribal Politics — Unongo by StOla: 1:42am On Jun 29, 2017
BigIyanga:
What are you talking about US education?by 1934 Zik had returned to Naija after going thru US schools like Howard University, Columbia, Licoln University and UPenn.
Awolowo started his UK higher education in 1944.. So who had a better understanding of Naija and global events??

Why did Awo AG lead to total break down of law and order in the SW?

It was under his leadership that state of emergency was declared in the s/west?
Zik was a governor general before becoming a president.
Awo was only federal appointed minister serving at the pleasure of the prime minister.
In 1964 elections, AG led by Awo came 4th by winning 21 seats.
NCNC led by Zik came 2nd by winning 84 seats.

How could have offered PM position to Zik when Northern People's Congress had won 162 seats.

Is math your problem? 24 is not greater than 84 or 162!!


You dont need to rewrite history here!
How does timing of foreign study erase the fact that one studied in a country whose political system was different to Nigeria's, while the other studied in a country whose political system was the model for which Nigeria's was structured?

Awolowo was leader of opposition at the federal parliament, not an appointed minister/federal commissioner of a ruling coalition he did not belong to. He only became a federal minister under the Gowon regime.

Your 1964 election results that you stated, does it take precedence over the 1960 elections for which the NCNC and AG could have formed a majority alliance government with NCNC being the senior partner?

Instead, Azikiwe went the way of the North as a junior partner in 1960 when he could have been senior partner in an NCNC/AG alliance, only to regret and align with an already federally castrated Action Group in the 1964 elections that proved woeful to both partners.
Christianity EtcRe: Nigerian Catholics Begin Rosary Challenge Live On Instagram by StOla: 12:14am On Jun 29, 2017
Wish I was still enthusiastic about religion that is of no relevance to its own self.

Whether Christian or Muslim find something useful to do with your time.

Your prayer won't move any mountain.

Just as prayer against bribery and corruption being recited by a corrupt congregation since 1996 would not take away corruption. Same as prayer against Nigeria in distress did not stop the June 12 1993 crisis, election crises, the boko haram crisis or the Fulani herdsmen crisis.
PoliticsRe: I Hereby Renounce My Support On Buhari. by StOla: 12:04am On Jun 29, 2017
Kyase:
Not pro Buhari anymore,im officially a wailer, my zombienism has been cured by fulani herdsmen and Buhari's failure. If i ever insulted you in anyway because of that failure, please forgive me.


It's time to defend my people, i'm TIV first before a Nigerian
Cc gravas, queenofnepal, OZAOEKPE, zombieHUNTER and all the wailers family.
You are no wailer who wanted failure from day1 and got failure. You are a patriot who has become disappointed in a government and would not shamelessly support such out of tribal and religious sentiments like wailers do.

Your duty now is to sack this regime if it makes the mistake the previous failure made in contesting to be re-elected.
PoliticsRe: Pep Guardiola Leads Catalans To Secede From Spain In October Referendum by StOla:
Built2last:
I notice you masturbate on all Secession or Biafra threads. Give me 10 good reasons Nigeria should remain one and If cogent enough. I will join you and IpobExposed campaigning for one Nigeria.

You keep referring to the fact that no government official has joined the call from South East. I challenge you to name one revolutionary group in history that was a led by a government official. It's usually a scaliwat or a rebel. Am sure you are familiar with Mao Tse Tong and Castro. Don't expect political and traditional rulers to join. They have vested interests and structures across Nigeria that they won't easily submit.

I am from middle belt but Nigeria is just not working 103 years later
I'm sure you must have also noticed that I have a knack for detecting the hypocrisy of those who try to compare treasonous acts like you have celebrated in your post, with decent societies who do things within the legal framework.

Or is it the treasonous movements you alluded to you expect to get the support of the UN?

Like I have maintained, there are rules to follow to get the sympathy of sane minds like me, anything outside that framework is just noisemaking.

And I will continue to ridicule such with the same examples our blind mob want us to believe is similar circumstance, quoting UN charter while being treasonous.

By the way, those revolutionary movements were not tribal or sectional within a heterogeneous state. Rather, they were national movements.

Ireland got its independence as a sectional/tribal movement but led by the recognised power structure of that section of the former country. Scotland pushed for a separation using their recognised state structures of authority. Same thing applies to this Catalan pursuit.

I repeat, where is the recognised democratic power structure of the SE to demand for a separation like Ireland demanded, Scotland demanded and lost, and as Catalonia is demanding now?
PoliticsRe: Pep Guardiola Leads Catalans To Secede From Spain In October Referendum by StOla: 5:02am On Jun 28, 2017
pazienza:
Worry more about what your SW leaders are doing to get you Odua republic.
At this rate, Biafra will be gone, followed by Niger Delta, and you will be forever trapped in a retrogressive Islamic union with Arewa.

Focus on your problems, worry less about Biafrans, Yoruba man.
How do I worry more about Yoruba problems when day in day out, the Igbos want to make their problems my own?
Or are you feigning ignorance of the demands by IPOB apologists that SW or Northern legislators should accede to the demands for a Biafra or at least a referendum? Demands that are yet to be made by any constituted authority from the SE. Not even as low as a Local Government councillor has requested for such, yet you lots are wont to compare the unsuccessful Scottish referendum or this persistent Catalan demands with your own mob that cannot boast of authority.

Continue to hope desperately on the NigerDelta.
PoliticsRe: Pep Guardiola Leads Catalans To Secede From Spain In October Referendum by StOla:
Even this news report shows that the Catalans despite pushing for independence using the recognised democratic structures of their region, are still opposed by the Spanish government and have been deemed illegal by the Spanish courts.

How moreso a push for secession by a mob of thugs called IPOB led by a miscreant emperor, that does not even have the backing of the democratic structures and recognised authorities of the region they want to liberate?

Again I ask, why is Senator Ekweremadu or Senator Abaribe or Stella Uduah waiting for Fulani or Yoruba Senators to move a motion in their own favour?
What are the SE state governors waiting for?
What are the SE state assemblies waiting for?

Kanu is just making noise in the wilderness.
PoliticsRe: Nnamdi Kanu Poses With His Special Security Guards (photos) by StOla: 8:23pm On Jun 27, 2017
Hahahaha!

Kanu my crooked guy. Continue to kowonje.

The dictator emperor.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria’s Problems Started With Awo’s Introduction Of Tribal Politics — Unongo by StOla:
GreatSE:
You are very crafty , you have called an Akwa ibomite Easterner but you have going around other Biafra thread shouting and crying that Akwa Ibom is not east and is not part of Biafra..... Yorubas are really really cunning and deceptive..... but time will tell
You are very ignorant and it is my duty to put you on the path toward enlightenment.

I reckon you are talking about Eyo Ita who was from the Eastern region as at pre-Independence and was poised to be premier of the Eastern Region before Azikiwe usurped him after he had failed in the Western Region in 1951, a period in Nigerian history of which this debate is about. Just as Anthony Enahoro, Okotie Eboh and Dennis Osadebey were all Westerners up till 1963 when the MidWest Region was carved out of the West. Infact Dennis Osadebey was once the leader of opposition in the AG dominated Western parliament in the 1950's

Or am I suppose to refer to Eyo Ita as an Akwa Ibom or Cross River or South South man as at 1951? Did such federating units or geopolitical zones exist in the 1950's.

Or should I call Eyo Ita a Northerner?

Or by your logic, I should also still be referring to a Delta Anioma or Urhobo as a South West man?

Or is Cross River or Akwa Ibom presently a South East State? Are they not presently South South states?


Bros, abeg, devote more time to Nigerian history.
CrimeRe: Gang Of Nigerian Fraudsters Face Jail For £10m Scam In UK by StOla: 1:43pm On Jun 27, 2017
Good.

Let the law deal with them mercilessly, because I am a lazy man who is envious of their success and I must bring down my hardworking brother.
PoliticsRe: APGA Attacts Nnamdi Kanu Over Election Boycot, Says It's Irresponsib by StOla: 1:25pm On Jun 27, 2017
According to Daily post, APGA warned Kanu not to be carried away by the success of the May 30 sit-at-home call, which it attributed to fear.

The party reminded Kanu that the right to vote and be voted for was a universally declared right under the United Nations Charter of People’s and Citizenship Right, and in the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
I have previously stated that if Kanu while enjoying the bail granted by the courts of Nigeria, does anything to derail the democratic stability or process of the SE and Nigeria, he would only make himself the beneficiary of the state terror the states and federal government can supply.
PoliticsRe: Igbo Soldiers Plotted Coup From Independence Day -david Ejoor by StOla: 12:36pm On Jun 27, 2017
quid:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSosECbcmM
A man who meant well for his people as regional premier, but the Igbos would not have anyone stop them from dominating foreign land.

The question now is, was the assassination of this one man that Igbos wildly celebrated, worth the lives of 7000 Igbos lost to the pogrom and 1million Igbos lost to the civil war?
CrimeRe: Nigerian Students In Malaysia Top The List Of Foreign Drug Offenders by StOla: 8:59am On Jun 27, 2017
Please replace Nigeria on the list with Biafra.
PoliticsRe: 2017 Budget: You Are Ignorant, Fashola Blasts Senate, House Spokespersons by StOla: 7:59am On Jun 27, 2017
zombieHUNTER:
All these grammar solves nothing
Tell the minister of works SW to continue playing his tribal politics.. It's in his blood and we know his antecedents
Since Buhari became a vegetable in London the rascality and looting by his ministers stinks to the high heavens
He is not Igbo, so I reckon he can never be good enough for you. Continue with your persecution complex jare, I'm not the psychologist with your cure.
PoliticsRe: 2017 Budget: You Are Ignorant, Fashola Blasts Senate, House Spokespersons by StOla:
According to him, a budget is not cash. It is an approval of estimates of expenditure to be financed by cash from the Ministry of Finance.

“The Ministry of Finance has not yet released any cash for the Second Niger Bridge, so no money was returned.”

“Three phases of Early Works of piling and foundation was approved and financed by the previous government in the hope that a concession will finally be issued, which has not happened because concessionaires have not been able to raise finance.

“The continuation of Early Works IV could not start in May 2016 when the budget was passed because of high water level in the River Niger in the rainy season.

“The contract was only approved by the Federal Executive Council in the first quarter of 2017 and the contractor is awaiting payment.”
Can our clansmen and clanswomen from the East, rest their tribal liver now?


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The previous tribal sentiments you all held on this debate between Fashola and the legislators, is one of the common sense reasons I support an Igbo only Biafra, where you can manage to finally lose the victim/persecution complex that is in your DNA, and the penchant to always see every national debate from a tribal perspective.

If Gov Theodore Orji demolished shops in Abia, it was because he is heartless. But if Gov Fashola demolished shops for which notices have long been given to the owners who are majorly Yoruba, the Igbo tenant concludes Fashola is not even heartless, rather he is a tribalist.

The Port Harcourt International Airport renovation that Jonathan abandoned is still yet to be completed despite having an Ikwere Amaechi as minister of Aviation. Maybe he is also tribalist against his own state as you all would have concluded if the minister was from the North or West.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria’s Problems Started With Awo’s Introduction Of Tribal Politics — Unongo by StOla: 7:48pm On Jun 26, 2017
Unimaginable123:
Zik did not contest for election in SW. His party did. Parliamentary system of government as practised in the UK (which is what Nigeria was practising then) is different from presidential system of govt. U better read it up
Yes his party did, and he also had to contest for a seat and win before he can head the parliament.

So Zik as national leader of NCNC decided to contest for a seat in the fringes of the perimeter of Lagos city which qualified as SW and not Lagos. He won that seat and by default of party leadership would have become the Premier of Western Region where his seat was domiciled.
Yes the NCNC had majority seats, but AG was able to get the support of IPP (Ibadan Peoples Party) and other independents who for some weird reasons, NCNC had counted to be on their side.
That was how the AG alliance formed the majority government ahead of Azikiwe's NCNC.

To cut the long story short, Azikiwe jettisoned his seat in the SW and quickly made the most of some government crisis in the infant administration of Dr Eyo Ita of NCNC of the Eastern Region. The crisis was resolved in a way that Dr Azikiwe became the Premier since he was still the leader of the NCNC nationally and had managed to somehow lay claim to a seat for a constituency in that Eastern Region.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria’s Problems Started With Awo’s Introduction Of Tribal Politics — Unongo by StOla:
positivetaught:
If every thing you wrote up there is correct then how come Azikiwe was able to win the elections in the first place?, beautiful grammatical expressions don't always means a superior point if argument or defense, there are some bitter truth that can't be denied rather they can be defended smartly,I wouldn't entirely blame Awolowo for what he did,but the truth is that very incident sow the original seed of distrust n hatred between the Igbo's n Yoruba's that has stuck up till today.
He won a seat because he took up residence along the fringes of Lagos prior to the election. He won his single seat, and as national leader of NCNC he would become their leader in government due to the way the parliamentary system is structured. You don't need to be generally popular, you only need to win your own seat, and by priviledge of being party leader you become the leader either as opposition or as government. Awolowo ensured Azikiwe would only have the role of opposition leader as he formed an alliance with the Ibadan People's Party and other independents to achieve a majority over NCNC.

Azikiwe ran back to the East and usurped the Premiership of Dr Eyo Ita.
PoliticsRe: Kemi Adeosun Denies Tweeting About Igbos're Becoming Irrelevant by StOla: 1:16pm On Jun 26, 2017
IPOB can continue with their propaganda.

That is what they know best to do and they have their army of thoughtless Eastern almajiri to deceive with fake news.

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