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Can someone reproduce the letter?

ZIM DRILL:
those with weak minds shall puff and huff with answering the question

those with sharp minds shall see the question and really think about the question and try to answer from their point of view

Stop it

It is annoying

It is a Nigerian forum, and If you dont know, now get it to your thick skull, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME!

Get the dimwits in your country together and try creating something remotely as good as this!

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Kobojumkie is Igbo

WHat are you talking about?

It as an AP report, and anyone, including those lazy journalists, is free to reproduce it.

Very funny!

@Blazay

Congratulations

Enjoy your day

And say hi to Zainab for me.

By the way, read up on Awolowo!

@Vicenzo

Can you read at all?
"remember he once said that if the east secced the west would secced:" Hey try to learn the correct spelling of the word secede, ok!   What he said was that, if by error of omision or commision, the East was allowed to leave, the West would leave as well. He never told Ojukwu to embark on his self serving escapade. It is only an idioti that would misinterprete what Awo said in Ibadan, in the presence of Ojukwu, to mean that the East should go ahead with their ill advised plan to commit suicide.

But the truth is that awo was a fox,he was never interested in secceding like he made ojukwu believe,he made banjo betray ojukwu: Now I want to believe that was a joke, innit?

ojukwu wasnt able to see through awo's deceit: Even If that was thru, whose fault is it? Should you not be blaming yourself for allowing an ignoramus like Ojukwu lead you into war you could never have won in a million year?


he was so sure that want awo wants is for the west to be freed from the north hence his appointment of a yoruba man to lead the march to lagos.: Go back and read the first paragraph of the article posted by @Katsumoto, and you will realize how stupit you sound. Please read before posting crap.

Blazay:
Thanks for setting the pace. . . thank your lucky stars the outside world intervened. We would not have stopped at Abiola.

Interesting! Glad to know at last

Majority of the oil wealth is concentrated in the western part of Nigeria.

True that!

I pray you find her soon



Any Ibo man or woman living close to her?

Eziachi:
Sorry, What part of Nigerian constitution said that a president has a superiority of an airspace?

If you do not understand that the president has precedence over everyone else in everything in the country, then I think you should go hang yourself

There is a Yoruba proverb that says: He who is more powerful than you can throw you away.

Blazay:
Yoruba cowardice of course. If there were no northern soldiers in the west our position would be different my balls! The Northern soldiers have 2 heads huh?
The old man nor get shame sef!

You dont have to say that

lets be civil Blazay

You should try and understand his point and the make up of the Military at that point.
The Military then, and to some extent till today, was a northern institution while western education was the forte of the southwest.

The country, then, was lopsided in terms of representation in various institutions and the Yorubas just could not have matched them, skill-wise, nunber-wise, and tactic-wise



Its like white people using their military institution to oppress the Blacks, WTF?

This guy is becoming incoherent

I love Western politics, not this almanjiri type!

Ileke-IdI:
Lol ok. I was born the year emeagwali invented the firefox browser.

How fair is that?

I was honest with you!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

^^^ Read the article

agabaI23:
Make una begin nominate the poster of the year here.
Good luck to the aspirants
1.Blazay (3)
2.Igbobuigbo(1)
3.bk.babe97y(2)
Strangerf (2)

Why is my name here again?
Can we be honest please?

I am not a tribalist! As a matter of fact, I am not even detribalized; I am UNTRIBALIZED!

OAM4J:
strangerf dont mind ileke.

o se se ma pe okan le logun ni osu bi meji abi meta si igba yi ni.

Mu ra lati gbe jade lo si club house ni ojo birthday e. . . omo college ni florida ni

Thanks!
My impression as well

Oodua a gbe wa oooooo lol

jaygetta:
With his last two posts, Blazay just confirmed his limited knowledge of the issues being discussed.

My impression as well!

Blazay:
Oh well. . . if you were not going to enlist, then you had no business opening your borders to the Northerners to go on a killing rampage either.
Sir!
Best case scenario. . .you stay neutral. Did you?
Typical Yoruba.
I ask again. . .after all that fancy speech. . .what did Awo do?
He wanted a united Nigeria indeed. Because the British had whispered in your ears that there was oil in the South.
Make I hear sointin I begggi!

It is on record that the west wasnt dealing with Awo. As a matter of fact, they were extremely 'scared' of Awo and Zik. They felt that dealing with them/ empowering them would be at the detriment of the more gullible/impressionable north.


My point is that Awo did what he had to do for his country, not just for his people

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Did you read the article posted by Katsumoto?

Nigeria was not a confederation, there were no borders stopping the north from invading the west. The British handed the machineries of the military to the North

All the members of the bodyguard of the Military Governor of the Western Region were Northerners; there were over 36,000 soldiers in the whole of the West, most of whom were Northerners, and all of them carry arms,  I led a delegation to Lt. Col. Gowon on the 7th and at that interview I made it clear on behalf of the West that if the soldiers of Northern origin were not removed from the West we would not attend any further meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee. He said he would do something, of course he did not. We passed our resolution (THAT THE NORTHERN SOLDIERS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE WEST) and Col. Adebayo did very well and give us certain Yoruba officers with whom to go and deliver the petition to Lt. Col. Gowon. I did give him an ultimatum up to the 15th of May to remove these Northern soldiers from the West. Of course, he agreed to remove them by the 31st of May but the time we returned to Ibadan Northern soldiers had taken up arms and wanted to kill me, to kill Adebayo and all others,  Just now Adebayo does not sleep in his house.

Blazay:
Honestly, Awo played both sides. He sat on the fence. He was not honest.
What did he stand to gain but to save the Yoruba special neck in the whole process?
Ojukwu was stubborn. He was short-sighted and dogmatic in his views.He ewunded up making a worse mistake than Nzeogwu.
Knowing that the war was inevitable, Awo should have supported Ojukwu to avoid the North invading Biafra.[/b]It was open Sesame on Biafra from then on,

If you were an Iraqi in 2003, would you have advised your loved ones to enlist in the Iraqi army? Knowing fully well that the US Army was just unmatchable, both in skill and tactics.
Did you see this:

Awo: .   .   .You are remote from the West; you have advantages which we do not possess. [b]We cannot rush without rushing to our death at the same time. . .

That right there is extrememly powerful. Even though he wasnt a military guy, he understood the situation perfectly. There was no way he could have stopped the north from invading Biafra, when Ojukwu was bent on leaving anyways. He wanted a UNITED Nigeria, not a fragmented one. He understood very much that we are stronger together. And he was for that.

Just be honest for once!

Blazay:
Honestly, Awo played both sides. He sat on the fence. He was not honest.
What did he stand to gain but to save the Yoruba special neck in the whole process?
Ojukwu was stubborn. He was short-sighted and dogmatic in his views.He ewunded up making a worse mistake than Nzeogwu.
Knowing that the war was inevitable, Awo should have supported Ojukwu to avoid the North invading Biafra.
But hey. . .being the promise of abandoned property to the Ijaws and other non-speaking Igbo Southerners was too much to pass up.
It was open Sesame on Biafra from then on.

Treachery upon treachery.

Here we are today. . . back to square one.

He articulated the difficult position the Yorubas were in

He wanted a UNITED Nigeria

He also wanted the East to be present at the meeting to present their concerns themselves inorder to avoid any confusion

He showed great knowledge, patience, skill, candor, warmth, and genuine interest in the affairs the Igbos

Even, if he was neutral as you claimed, what is wrong with that?
He did not decieve anyone, and surely did not lie to anybody.
He presented his case the best way possible, that even a dimwit would have understood
You really cannot fault him
He was simple flawless

Ojukwu is to be BLAMED for BIAFRA 100%, No?

Give me a hint?


Like I did.

^^^ Once and for all


Are you for real 43?

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Blazay be honest for once


Look at Awo's transparency

He was completely honest with Ojukwu

I am actually interested in your unbiased honest view, please!

Finished college in 2007,

^^^^

Are you seriously 43?

E ma binu ooo for all my misyarnings, If you truly are

Whao!

All these run of the mill historians for NL sef dey fear me

Can you guys stick to facts!

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Hey this my 7th year here ooo

I WILL NEVER BE AMERICANIZED

I HATE THEM LIKE MAD

nkan to de lomomo degbe, egbe o dun omo

WETIN DEM BE SEF!

ANYWAY, MAY GOD HELP US ALL

ANY UPDATE ON OURR LOVELY BOY?