₦airaland Forum

Yujin:
Common sense should have told you that at least one Igbo should have been made a minister because they had a big population but we know already the ill-will your people had for them.

Why wasn't ibibio & ikwere made minister of the Eastern region? Even as Anang were given two slots

Osadebe was a NCNC man and played opposition to AG in those years Awolowo was the premier of west.

Just like Ibibio had their own party had played opposition to NCNC in the East.

Do you want Awolowo to manufacture Igbo in AG to give ministries. In the Benin region, only Edos were members of AG

In the Warri region, Only Ishekiris and Isoko were members of AG.

Yujin:
Lies. Asaba(6 lgas) today was under Benin division while Aboh (3 lgas) was under Warri division.

Ok Asaba 6 local government was under Benin division that had 4 ministry all under Edo

And Warri which had 2 ministry under Ishekiri and Isoko.

Maadoo:
After 1954, cocoa bean fall. While palm kernel and pap oil kept rising...


From the picture below, you can see that, as at 1914, Britain was literally sustaining and developing Lagos with proceeds from oil palm export. Oil palm proceeds alone was more than a combination of proceeds from all other commodities

Your list looks distorted

Oil was added after total was accounted for

Why?

Propaganda from ipob to attack Yorubas

Well when I am ready I would attack Zik and Eastern region

And no mod should block my post please.

excanny:
No Urhobo, no Itshekiri, no Anioma people.

You did not See Ishekiri?

Bendeco2020:
All Igbo men dead or alive are all courageous

Zik that ran away because he was informed about a coup

Ojukwu that ran away after leading 3 million igbos to death only to contest to be the president of a country he wanted to separate from and ironically lost to a Yoruba man with a Fulani vp

Kanu that boasted but ran away at the sight of a scopion dressed like prostitute just like his mentor Ojukwu. Apparently after leading a group of youth to their early grave.

Brave has a different meaning in igbo land

Bendeco2020:
Yoruba person can't born a man like Obasanjo.... Yorubas are know to be cowards.

For a person to be a true son of Yoruba u have to be a coward..... So check it well obasanjo can't be a Yoruba son

Are you sure you read the history of Nigerians conquest of Biafra

Many Yorubas like Benjamin Adekunle swept away your Joke Biafra Army force

Even, Obasanjo was the one that got your surrender letter after Ojukwu had run away dressed like a prostitute.

Ordinary hunters defeated your Biafra army in Ore.

Captainrambo2:
the great awo ? Which calls him that. Maybe his family members.

Zik was known and is still known as zik of africa. Tutored nkrumah and other nigerian giants. Dont compare him with that local champion called awolowo

Who mentored Zik?

duncun:
Can't you see he listed them already ? Check his previous posts and stop shadowing

He updated the list

successmatters:
What does an assistant minister mean then?

They are both Junior ministers

There's always a main minister.

maestroferddi:
Junior ko Baiano ni...

You are calling PAs junior ministers...

Kontinu.

Go to school

A junior minister is either called assistant minister or state minister

maestroferddi:
lol..

So the Edos were your mai-guards and slave minders helping you to enslave and exploit the minorities?

You no get talk, abeg...

Call them whatever you want but know Igbos in delta today were never under delta or warri division..

They were always grouped as Edo

successmatters:
And I am sure you know what an assistant to a minister means.

Check the western region list again.

I am sure you know what a state ministry means?

Ok let me help, State ministry means Junior ministry

maestroferddi:
I suppose you are not blind to compare both lists...

Delta Igbo had no representative in the Western Regional government...

Nine LGs in today's Delta State....

Please I need an explanation...

Hope you have eyes ?

23 to 7 in west 5 main ministry and 2 junior

26 to 9 in the East 6 main ministry and 2 junior

23 igbos to 22 Yorubas

The Delta igbo was under Edo sub region and Edo took all your slots

successmatters:
9 senior positions.

Hope you know what a state minister means?



Go and check your list again

maestroferddi:
In other words, you were running the Mid-West as a conquered colony...

How many positions were given to non igbos in the East?.

Take note Yorubas in the West had less ministry and more Yorubas than minorities.

successmatters:
What about the other 4?

Minister of Economic plan and development?
Minister of Economic affairs?

Odingo1:
No Yoruba man will contemplate of building anything outside Yoruba area. They practice most tribalism in Nigeria.

If you post fake concocted news, we will tackle you with fact.

He wasn't building anything for himself

We are talking about state projects

[quote author= post=89809401]Akwa Ibom then was under Cross River, Okpara built Cement factory and Obudu cattle ranch, established Rice farm in Ogoja, in Rivers Presidential Hotel, industrial estate was conceived and delivered in Trans Amadi area while the Alfa Plant for plywood production berthed on Eastern Region’s shores. Mecheiin factory and Palm plantation encourage farm settlements in the whole region[/quote]When I have a comprehensive list of industries built in the mid west, I would do this with you.

successmatters:
7 low ranking, assistant positions. Please remember that.

Minister of Labour Education and Justice are low ranking positions?

successmatters:
Please don't descend to insults, it's an excuse your people use whenever they are being beaten online.

The Benin had rubber, timber before palm oil. Yorubas just decided to promote cocoa, just because it suited their narrative

Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi were more developed than Enugu .

@ emboldened
Ghana and Ivory coast economies were sustained by cocoa then and Nigeria was also a major producer then thanks to the west

Ivory coast still depend on Cocoa today to sustain its economy.

Ondo and Edo are very similar in terrain, so you should know what can be cultivated in Edo can also be cultivated in Ondo.

What else again?

[quote author= post=89809002]Can you list what Awolowo built in Edo and Delta during western regional government[/quote]The Nigerian timber industry at Sapele, the United African Company erected what was once the largest factory unit in Africa, 

Giving them free education which positioned Delta and Edo to have the highest level of literacy in the South South today.

[quote author= post=89808864]You hear them claiming they built the tallest building in Ibadan, First TV station in Ibadan , Odua industrial estate, after milking Delta and Edo of their resources and left them with nothing. .[/quote]What were their major resources?

In Nigeria today, the West has Five state minus lagos with almost twice the size of Delta and Edo in Landmass. Hence, it’s very obvious that the Yoruba half of the Western region produced a whole lot since Agriculture was our main export..

The Old east has Five states but old Eastern minorities now have twice the size of your region, And oh! your region is now land locked

So who was milking who?

[quote author= post=89808377]b]Kindly read more during Eastern region [/b]
Okpara called his political philosophy “pragmatic socialism” and indeed through an ingenious, well-choreographed, economic blueprint raised the bar of infrastructural development across the defunct Eastern Region which comprised Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers States.
Dr. Okpara was a prudent manager of men and materials that made merit the hallmark of his leadership recruitment model. That was why he could accept Chief Okwulehie’s recommendation of the Obubra, Cross River State-born Dr. Samuel Imoke (1912-2015) for nomination as minister of education; it was for same reason that he had the presence of mind to bring late Chief Ogbuagu on board to head Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation (ENDC)…a regime of square pegs in square holes, that is! Dr. Okpara was, through the ENDC, establishing a Pepsi Cola Plant in Onitsha, a shoe industry and a textile mill were springing up in Owerri and Aba, Obodu cattle ranch in Cross River, Cement Factory in Cross River and Nkalagu, Port-Harcourt was not left out. It was within same dispensation that an industrial estate was conceived and delivered in Trans Amadi area while the Alfa Plant for plywood production berthed on Eastern Region’s shores. Mecheiin factory in Port Harcourt History also has it that it was the provision of abundant public utilities by Dr. Okpara’s administration that attracted both Michelin Tyre and Glass factory to the soil of Eastern Region. Those of us who were born in the 1970s met standard, well-paved roads, pipe-borne water flowing from taps in individual rural homes and uninterrupted power supply. What is more, Presidential Hotels Enugu and Port-Harcourt still stand tall today as some of the signature hospitality statements made during the era under review.

Dr. Okpara’s legacy of aggressive industrialization and even development can further be seen in his establishment of Adapalm Ohaji in present-day Imo State and several farm settlements spread across the defunct region. Likewise, Modern Ceramics Industry and Golden Guinea Breweries Umuahia are also eloquent testaments of Dr. Okpara’s unmatched industrial revolution. And to think that his administration accomplished all these with proceeds from palm produce, one cannot but appreciate the genius in this man who served his people, chose not to serve self and family to the point of being unable, by election, to build a hut for himself and family in his ancestral home of Ohuhu, Umuahis in today’s Abia State.[/quote]Oh so he built Factories in Aba

What happened to those he built elsewhere, did they disappear?

successmatters:
The awolowo free education made people from the old mid West highly literate? Wonder why your states are not doing free education today if free education makes dull people suddenly bright. Delta and Benin people had always been intelligent, pre independence till today. It's nature, not because of Awolowo.

It's criminal not to develop Sapele, Ughelli, Warri and Asaba despite the numerous natural and human resources there. Awolowo wasn't from Ibadan but ibadan speaks his language, he doesn't understand not trust the other languages, that's why he refused to give them any meaningful position, or develop their places.

To him, it's either they accept their second class status or jump into the lagoon.

You obviously don't know what literate means

Literate is the ability to read and write which is a skilled acquired by people it has nothing to do with intelligence.

Please read before making a fool of yourself on a public forum.

Further more, let us not get ahead of ourselves, as at the time mid-western region broke away from West. Cocoa was the main earner of foreign reserve and earner of revenue for the government. The major source of revenue from mid west was palm oil. Petrol was not a big thing then.

Again, it’s not like Awolowo was developing the whole of Yoruba land while leaving the non Yorubas to suffer. He developed ibadan to the taste of a capital just like Easterners were developing Enugu, while the rest of Western region was developing at similar pace together with non Yoruba areas.

The Edo's bone of contention has always been the comparisons between ibadan and Benin. They said they expected him to have made Benin the same way with ibadan..

Now tell me any city that was as developed as Enugu in the old Eastern region or state as developed as Abuja in today's Nigeria?

Nwanyiogwashi:
face the topic odoko

Please go and play with toys or watch cartoon, this discourse is way above your intelligence level

Thank you

successmatters:
I heard that the yorubas took all the revenue generated by all the region and developed just Yoruba speaking parts of the region, totally marginalising Edo, Itshekiri, Igbo, Ishan, Isoko, and Ijaw speaking areas?

How true is this?

Really, ever wondered why people in Delta and Benin are generally Educated with high literacy rate.

Awolowo planted the seed because of his free Education was through out the west despite being in opposition.

They accused him of spending in ibadan as if Awolowo himself is from ibadan and as if Edo didn't spend in Benin when they got their Midwestern region.

Or is Okowa not spending money gotten from other parts of Delta in Asaba today?

Is Nigerian government not spending in Abuja today?

successmatters:
Are you saying that Edo betrayed Yorubas?

That's a new one.

No, it’s not new to most of us in the west

But we don't just cry over spilt milk like the igbos

They did what they felt would benefit them the most when they took the decision

What has been done cannot be reversed.

The so called Minorities are now ruling themselves in the South/South region and we wish them all the best of luck.

successmatters:
What about

Itshekiri
Isoko
Kwale
Oki
Igbo

So Minister for mid west affairs isn't Isoko

You didn't see Ishekiri on the list

Our undoing was trusting the Edos to oversee the Midwest on our behalf. They ganged up to betray us.

The Eastern list had no.

Ikwere

Ibibio

Okrikas.

Ogoni

Many minorities in Cross River only Agbo a minority close to igbos was given a slot

successmatters:
So you are saying that if the Ijesha and Akoko people don't get a ministerial position first, Edo and Delta tribes don't deserve to get a position?

Every single one of Edo major clans got an important position

Justice, Labour and Education..

In the whole Western region

Edo held three major ministry and were the first to bad mouth us when the time came for them to break away..

Not even every of Yoruba clan had only one major post each but every of three Edo major clan had a major and important position

Ishan

Bini

Esanko

successmatters:
Ibanga Udo Akpabio held two key senior positions.

Minister for education and minister for internal affairs!

So who is holding Ministry of Justice, Labour and Education in the West?

We even created a special ministry for minorities called the ministry mid west.