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simpleseyi:

Politics is investment. You invest and reap. You cannot invest 5% votes and expect CBN governorship position. Katsina, Kano, Kaduna, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara a.k.a The Kardashians deserve the position because they invested about 70% of their votes. It is unGodly to rob Peter in order to pay Paul. South East can continue to hold the Minister of Labour where there is always crisis and troubles and Minister for Extenal Affairs to help lie to international community that we are enjoying in Nigeria. If you want to talk about competence, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi ran CBN better than Godwin Emefiele.

You're a stark illiterate cretin!

Why has Trump not stopped paying attention to California since he got lesser votes from there?

Kagawa10:
Same Tinubu that gave Ibo voice in lagos and also gave them several political posts? It's Tinubu fault for making Ibo so comfortable in lagos, if not, your weak father wouldn't have seen that witch of your mother to marry. But let me warn you sternly, we don't care if you claim to be Yoruba because you're only a half Yoruba and we are ready to treat your fvck up. You and your mother. You can tell her that.

Such a stark illiterate cretin!

Igbos have been living in Lagos even before, tifnubu's biological mother came to Lagos from Zamfara.

Kagawa10:
Olodo quoting his fellow dunce post on nairaland. Lol. OSU and stupidity, very synonymous.

You're a moronic stark illiterate!

Tell us where your OPC women organization was when fulani criminals after destroying Olu falae's farmland, kidnapped him and, demanded that a ransom must be paid for his release.

Your women organization can only fight their fellow women hawking on the streets of Lagos.

Kagawa10, your OPC is an amala and ewedu women organization.

If the Ijos could decimate them with a population of less 10k then, I don't see why the Igbos living in Awuwo Odofin only can't annihilate them too.

tobby98:
Nobody is your enemy!!!
you are enemy of yourself. I am a mixture of both tribes so I can tell you for sure that TINUBU knows his time is almost up and he introduced the ethno-religion factor to cow you guys into extending his reign as warlord and extend his imminent time up.
The North don't need him again after Buhari won... they will clip his wings soonest... afterall he only contributed a meagre 130k win margin in his own stronghold.
if he escapes 2019,he might not by 2023

This is the first time I'm seeing one Yoruba post an intelligent comment on here since 2010.

Kagawa10:
Well, others already zoomed off with their bike. No one knew Demola would fall victim of accident.

They never noticed damola was pummeled by the Igbos?

It's not surprising after all, the Dahomey Amazons invaded your land and, castrated your cowardly men.

Kagawa10:
Lol. The last time they asked Ibo to leave their region, your red cap leaders all went to beg them. The last time they carried out their progrom, Ojukwu was seen wailing.
Yeye.

Show us one report that says Igbos begged anybody .

Kagawa10:
Just say OSU can't afford such costly food except smelling akpu food.

This is really funny. There are over 1.5M stunted and malnourished kids living in the south west.

Kagawa10:
Don't mind the pigs. It's only where there is no law they act their stupidity.

Even your awusa masters know that Igbos in the north are braced up for any eventuality.

The last time there was a coordinated attack on the Igbos living in the north, the reprisal attacks in Igboland shocked every soul.

Kagawa10:
It's on Google. You can check it. Amala is a rich man food made from dried plantain.

Whoever eats amala and ewedu is likely to turn a coward. Obasanjo, an army officer who was shot in the butt is a living proof, looool.

Kagawa10:
Demola was unlucky to have had an accident. It was only after this, Ibo gathered up a little courage to stone him from distance. Shame on them attacking an accident victim.

Damola had an accident and, the other members of the amala and ewedu women organization fled, leaving him to his fate, looool.

Kagawa10:
Amala ewedu is rich food unlike your smelling akpu.

Even the ijaws were the first to denounce the ijaws miscreants who came to cowardly attack in the dead of the night. The ijaws immediately cried out the next day that they knew nothing about it and some ijaws were even seen fleeing the scene of the incidence.


Anyway, goats don't seem to hear word except Cane.

Amala and ewedu equate cowardice.

Show us one evidence that says Ijo folks cried after decimating your amala and ewedu women organization.

TIGRITIS:
Na small small e dey start.

Same elements beating the drums of war will still form victims.

You're a moronic person!

That amala and ewedu protest was staged in 2013 or so. Anyway, never stop crying cos Igbos will elect an Igbo governor in 2023.

Kagawa10:
Blame the Yoruba in lagos who didn't give you the Hausa treatment earlier because Ibos know that they are to go home and not vote during any northern election in the North. I think it's high time lagos employed same strategy.

Heck, the flogging that was meted on your lots in Akure should be employed. Yeye dey smell.

What treatment are you on about? The Ijos decimated your amala and ewedu OPC women organization at Ajegunle with a population of less 500K yet, you want to come at the Igbos.

naijaguy1234:
Mad man you are. Millions of your Ibo people are scattered all over Lagos as if there is war in the east. Sanwo Olu will deport most of you I can bet.

Igbos will deport sanwor olu back to his Osogbo origin first.

FriendNG:
Gandollar is not an illiterate. I doubt if you were born when he obtain his PhD.

He's a stark illiterate.

Mobilizing Almajiri kids to vote for boohary and stacking dollar bills in his native attire remain his only achievement in life.

I'll never take a cowardly man who was shot in the butt while, running away from the battlefront seriously. It's honourable for a soldier to be shot in the chest not in the butt.

Basic123:


IGBO has been making this statement since 2007 to compensate for their:

ENVY, JEALOUSY!

Regional God father?......His homeboys are your country vice- president,super-minister, governor of the Africa 5th largest economy,FIRS boss,AM ON chairman ETC. deal with that!

His vice president homeboy is a puppet just like him. We all know how he was denied entry to a security meeting which had some governors seated.

There's no embarrassment bigger than that. It's only naive yorubas who think tifunbu is a power broker.

Rotimi47:
Have you heard of the "Yoruba Biafran?"

02/01/2018
Tell your friends

Banjo almost captured Lagos for the Biafran Army in 1967, and his failure led to his execution.

There are some who believe that Nigeria’s Civil War, fought between 1967 and 1970, is not really a civil war, but a dispute between a set of tribes; Yoruba and Hausa on one and the East on the other.

This assertion does not consider people like Lt. Col. Banjo, the Yoruba soldier who rose among the ranks fighting for the Biafran Army and did so until his death at the height of the war.

Not much is known about Lt. Col. Banjo’s early life. He was born “Victor Adebukunola Banjo” as an Ijebu-man in Ogun State on April 1, 1930.

From Ogun’s foggy towns, he joined the Army as one of a generation of precocious young men in 1953 as Warrant Officer 52.

The records state that Banjo was the sixteenth Nigerian to be commissioned as an officer in the Nigerian Army, (NA 16).

In those days, Nigerian officers were entitled to training in England or nearby countries, by virtue of our colonial tie to Britain.

Banjo was a product of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he also obtained a B Sc. in Mechanical Engineering.

ALSO READ: What happens when a Nigerian soldier dies at war?

By the early 1960s, Banjo had risen to become the first Nigerian Director of the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps of the Nigerian Army.

It was the ideal life. He was a young man in his 30s with a young wife and two children.

On January 15, 1966, many of Banjo’s peers executed the decision to take power from the civilian government.

They went on a rampage, killing many national and regional leaders in what we have now simplified into calling the 1966 coup. It is perhaps the most important day in Nigeria’s history.

Detention

It is also the day when Banjo’s travails began, the day when life decided to throw him through filters and ask questions that make a man wonder what drives him at the core.

Shortly after Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi came to power following the 1966 coup, Lt. Col. Banjo was summoned to the office of the newly-selected Supreme Military Commander and was arrested while he was still waiting to see the Head of State.

Few people can say they understand what happened next but Banjo was accused of planning to kill the Head of State, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and summarily detained.

It has been suggested in accounts of that period that Ironsi was simply caught in the middle. The politics of the coup had been very tribal.

After a team of largely Igbo soldiers had murdered the majority of the North’s leaders, there was pressure on him.

ALSO READ: Nigeria may forget but Asaba remembers Oct. 7. 1967

From the North, he was expected to bring the coup plotters to justice. Eastern leaders were pleased that the perceived Northern stranglehold had been broken. Ironsi did not know what to do and the people needed scapegoats.

It was not the first time that matters of tribe would determine the course of his life.

Banjo was detained until the Northern counter-coup in the same year. In a different world, Banjo would have been released. But somewhere in the ripple effects of that coup, Banjo tried to stand up for a Yoruba soldier.

Despite protesting his innocence, he was thrown in jail for the second time. He would stay there until May 1967.

Letters from Prison

It is often said that adversity brings out the best in men. And while he would have flourished undoubtedly outside the prison walls, it was then that Banjo showed the moral fibre and liberal system of beliefs that would make him stand out at the most trying moments in his short life.

Most of these can be seen in his letters.

According to the book “A Gift of Sequins”, at the time, Banjo had a young family of four children. He did his best to staying touch and improve what was undoubtedly a hard time through constant letter writing.

Banjo’s letters revealed that he had a liberal, non-tribalistic worldview. At the core, he was a man who loved his country and wanted to see his fellow soldiers do much better.

When the Biafra War began, Banjo had been moved to a prison in the East. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, the leader of the new Biafran nation, released him and made him a colonel.

Despite his tribe, Banjo sought to fight for the new country against what he saw as institutional tribalism and genocide.

Later he would say, “However when l discovered the emerging trend that followed the declaration of Independence of Biafra, it became clear to me that a war with the North was imminent."

“I decided to stay behind and assist in the prosecution of the war, both for the sake of my friendship with Colonel Ojukwu and in the hope that having assisted to fight back the Northern threat to Biafra, he would assist me with troops to rid the Mid-West and Lagos of the same menace.”

There was scepticism to his role in the Biafran Army, but Banjo quickly proved himself to his fellow soldiers and earned their belief.

The Yoruba Biafran

He proved himself as a master tactician and a fearless soldier, traits that he proved when the Biafran Army attacked Nigeria.

When the Nigerian Army invaded Biafra on July 6, 1967, Ojukwu sent Lt. Col. Banjo and Major Albert Okonkwo to invade Nigeria.

Banjo and his team moved quickly. He was able to capture Benin City in less than 24 hours.

By the time his division took a break, he and his soldiers were able to get within 300 kilometres of the Nigerian capital Lagos.

ALSO READ: How the Aburi Accord changed Nigeria forever

Something changed when they tried to enter Lagos.

The Biafran offensive on Lagos started heavily and with purpose. Reports of that time say it moved at a “lighting quick speed” but midway, Banjo, along with his fellow commanders, Okonkwo and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna stopped and turned their army back to Biafra.

On getting back to Biafra, Ojukwu had the soldiers detained.

It is reported that Ojukwu saw their retreat as an act to sabotage Biafra’s existence.

Why they did is not exactly known. Some relations of Ifeajuna have made claims that, as the was war progressed, Banjo and Ifeajuna did not share the idea of a break up of Nigeria.

Their cases were taken to a tribunal. After the first tribunal dismissed the case, a second tribunal sentenced the soldiers to death.

At his sentencing, Banjo said, “ I came into the war at a moment of temporary collapse of the Biafran fighting effort, when it became quite clear to me that the fighting effort of the Biafran Army was not only being incompetently handled, but also being sabotaged.”

“Since then, it has been my fortune to command the Biafran troops on their successful exploits.”

“On the whole, l had in private, told Col Ojukwu that l could never be made to stand charged for having plotted against his office and his person. There was no plot against him”

On September 22, 1967, Banjo, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, and Philip Alale were marched into the Enugu city centre and tied to a pole. A firing squad of Biafran soldiers fired at them.

When Banjo was hit, he reportedly yelled defiantly, “I’m not dead yet!” and he had to be shot multiple times before he died.

Today, the legacy of the soldiers who fought on both sides has been largely forgotten. But in a country where tribal relations are still harsh, Lt. Col. Banjo set a template for living beyond tribe, for the greater purpose of humanity.

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RTSC:
Ogbonnaya onu is good enough. His ANPP also formed the apc.
The only difference between him and tinubu is that he is not a regional godfather.
He is more honest, more straightforward than tinubu will ever be.

And he is a first class graduate of chemical engineering from the university of Lagos. A gentleman to the core.

Apc already has their igbo presidential material . They can't claim lack of a suitable igbo candidate as an excuse.

Tinubu regional godfather? Where? Tinubu's dynasty is Lagos and, it's about to crumble.

Rotimi47:
I read lots of books that were writing during and immediately after the civil war, i even went through hidding war time memos which consist of that of Ojukwu, Awolowo just to mention a few. I found them where they were hidding about 27 to 30 years ago and the person who hid them collected them back from me after I read them. The person died in 2014 and I don't know who he gave them to or were he kept the memos but still remember them.

Banjo capture villages, towns and cities from biafran territory to Ore and had to retreat to save his men's lives.

Tell us one town that Banjo captured and held for one week. The federal troops gained an inch every minute while, Banjo stayed discussing gibberish with the British High Commission.

Anyway, Banjo achieved three things in the midwest operation. First, he dislodged a platoon of soldiers at Siluko hill, Benin city.

Second, he created the saboteur mantra in the army and in Biafra as a whole. He told the NCOs that their commanders were saboteurs hence, they lost grounds every day. His antics created a dangerous disease in Biafra. NCOs accused their commanders of collaborating with Nigeria forces and, wanted them dead. Captain Nweke was killed by his own troops as a result of this disease created by Banjo.

Third, he imprisoned Lt. Col Igboba, an Igbo from the midwest and, abandoned him in prison even as he(banjo) was retreating with his men. Thus, when the Nigerian troops got to Benin, they released Lt. Col Igboba from prison and beheaded him.

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Rotimi47:
God purnish your father you slowpoke Nitwit!

You have got dog poo for a brain. Who decimated your IPOB good for nothing clowns? All your leaders are cowards who flee out of the country at any opportunity

OPC decimated by Hausa or ijaws in stupid dreams abi? You most be high on the mud from your errosion infested states!

You people are worthless and lost the civil war and all your no lefrandum no erection!

Go to ajegunle, go to mile 12 , go to Idi araba, go to ogun state and even check out ijaw vs ilaje clash in ondo state, not to forget the ishekiri vs ijaw clashes and also the Yoruba vs Hausa clash in ile-ife.


Fish brain you are daft and know nothing

It's better you continue to sell your gala in traffic peacefully than to instigate a clash that will waste you.

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I thought this stark illiterate had an IQ of at least 2 hence, I was being soft on your amala dumbass.

Before you open your putrid mouth to talk about Igbo leaders, tell us why Ogundipe fled to London where he died a great coward even when nobody pursued him. Are you not General Adisa's kinsman? Man was caught on camera weeping and begging a junior officer, Al' Mustapha.

The yooroba nation should be nuked by NATO. A bunch of cowardly men that were castrated by Dahomey Amazons in their own land are no good to the world, looooool.

Kagawa10:
Says someone whose leader, Ojukwu fought no war. Says someone whose Eze was flogged in Akure. Lol.

You mean like Obasanjo who was shot in the butt while, running away from the battlefront, loooool?

Cowardly Obasanjo cried endlessly when he was appointed to led the third marine commando, citing that he was an army engineer and as such, he couldn't command any army division. Man knew the Biafran army took no prisoners, loooool

Kagawa10:
Ojukwu and Azikiwe were part of the Ibo leaders who consistently crushed the dream of the COR dream. This happened before ironsi regime of just 1 year. Get that sunk into your skull. Only fools would even argue against this because it's a well known fact.

Name one major events Ademoyegun partook in? Yeye dey smell.

I'll not reply your dumbass again.

I'm cool chatting to Rotimi. At least, he has an idea unlike, some stark illiterate cretin who doesn't know that Ademoya fought in the civil war as Banjo's second-in-command in the liberation army.

Rotimi47:
Banjo never established any communication with the British high command but was setup due to Ojukwu seeing that he is getting very popular and other igbo high ranking officers were envious of his achievements on the battle field.

Banjo gave biafra the major outstanding victories which you got during the war. He was on the offensive but after you people killed him on funny charges; you could no longer go on the offensive but defensive and counter attacks within your territory.

Let put to you that Banjo captured territories upon territories and have to tell Ojukwu that should secure the territories that they already captured but Ojukwu instructed him to keep advancing even up to the point that Banjo told him his men and supply lines are thinly spread.

When the Biafrans invaded the South West through Ore, the Yorubas who were initially not really involved in the war; joined the Nigerian military in large numbers and then gave the Biafrans a bloody nose.

Banjo gave the Biafra her major victory yet, his troops in the midwest withdrew in the most disorderly fashion after one month without giving Murtala Mohammed's second Division a hard time. The only victory Banjo's troops scored was that they dislodged a platoon of soldiers at Siluko hill, looool.

The midwest operation led by Banjo was the worst ever seen in Biafra cos they had almost everything an African army needed at that time yet, they failed. The midwest operation crippled other Biafran offensives that was going on at fronts at that time. Y'all are really very funny. I'm sure you've never read any book about the civil war just like Kagawa10.

Banjo moved his troops from where they were stationed in Onitcha after delaying for 48 hours to the midwest, not cos he was a brave soldier but cos there was no serious federal troops at the midwest at that time yet, he couldn't match on to Lagos.

Kagawa10:
Ojukwu and other Ibo leaders were those who crushed Adaka Boro dream of secession. At least you have accepted the fact that there was no love lost between the ijaws and the Ibos. It's so stupid of you and Ojukwu to have thought the COR would want anything to do with the accursed Biafra nonsense when they had wanted to seceed from the old eastern region. Yeye dey smell.


Like I stated earlier, Ademoyegun fought no war. He wasn't a participant in any of the major events that took place. He was just a 'carry along'.

Stark illiterate, you're looking for soft landing so, it doesn't seem as though you're dumb? Any sane person with an IQ of 5 will realize you're the dumbest.

Hobo, Ojukwu had no power to crush any secession group cos he didn't command the army. It was Ironsi, the chief of the armed forces who crushed Adaka's group.

Stark illiterate, the second-in-command of the liberation army fought no war? I've not seen a bigger illiterate than you, looool.

Rotimi47:
Ok now! but checkout how many Yoruba states you and your people will travel through to get to the South East! It's going to the a massacre.

Just do the maths.

It's better to seek peace than to look for trouble that you will regret; that is if you survive it.

Another stark illiterate.

Who are you relying on to start this massacre? I hope it's not OPC, the amala and ewedu women organization that was decimated at Ajegunle by the Ijos and by the awusas at Mile12.

Clowns, loooool.

Kagawa10:
See this one. Did you realise Adaka Boro was an ijaw man who had wanted to seceed from the old eastern region but was vehemently attacked by Ojukwu and his men? The ijaws clamour for secession even preceed the biafra but was often quashed by the Ibo leaders. Even their clamour for independent region like the Midwest wasn't allowed to stand by the Ibo leaders in the old eastern region yet one stupid Ojukwu deemed it fit to annex their land. Can you now see why the international communities didn't take you clown serious because your clamour for secession was due to your greediness.

You're a stark illiterate, loooool.

Dumbass, it was Ironsi who crushed Boro's Niger delta republic. Heck, which oluwole university produced your dumbass? Man you're so dumb that you don't even realize it.

The problem is that y'all Yoorobas will never read a book rather, y'all like guessing and assuming. Only a yooroba man would sit in his hut in Ogbomosho and, assume what's going on in far away Abia state. Even when he's corrected, he'd rather argue aimlessly.

When do you want to start reading? I'll gladly send you some money to buy books. It really sucks to be yooroba.

somalianprince:
Though this is a statement of fact but to what end. Igbos have nothing to gain if other regions collapse economically.

Loooooool!

Kagawa10:
The question you should ask is why always the Ibos? In Akure, Bayelsa, Cross River, North or even Ikwere land where they don't sell land to the Ibos?

Ibos should do a soul searching.

Why do you keep assuming, stark illiterate?

Have you ever traveled beyond Ore how much more, Bayelsa and Cross River?

Kagawa10, I'm done with your dumbass. If you say Ademoyega didn't fight in the civil war then, I really don't know what I should be discussing with you.

You're a stark illiterate. Accept your new tag and, move on, loool.

Kagawa10:
Lmao. Did ademoyega fight in the civil war? Besides, what Banjo asked was for Ojukwu's help whenever Yoruba wants to secede. He didn't ask for biafra army to attack the Midwest and his kinsmen in Ore.

He was so angry with Ojukwu because he had wanted to negotiate with the Midwest, not attack them like Ojukwu did. In fact, that was what gave Banjo an eye opener to Ojukwu's greediness and blood lust. Ojukwu's letter content of dominating the southwest was the final straw for Banjo

Ojukwu was a thief and an eediot.

You see why I say you're stark illiterate cretin? Ademoyega was second-in-command to Banjo in the midwest invasion. His roles in the fronts were well written in his book "Why we struck".

Many Yoorobas fought on the Biafran side, not cos they wanted to but, cos they had no choice. Also, all of them participated in the January 15 coup.

When Ojuwku released them from Warri, Enugu and, Uyo prisons they communicated to Gowon about their intentions to come back to Nigeria but, Gowon refused. For instance, when Banjo communicated to Gowon that he wanted to come back to Nigeria, Gowon refused but, told him he could come back if he wished to stay in another prison in the West or Lagos. Being left with no reasonable option, Banjo opted to remain in Biafra.

You're a stark illiterate. I'm sure you've never read a book in your life, looooool.