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Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has dismissed threat of Nigeria’s unity as he also said that with Biafra it is finished.

General Yakubu Gowon made this statement recently in reaction to the resent protests by some youths.
He said that Nigerians have put behind them the bad memories of the 1967 civil war, and that those behind these protests on Biafra don’t have an inkling what the Biafra war cost Nigerians.

The elder statesman speaking in Lafia, the Nasarwa State capital shortly after a malaria eradication campaign questioned that ‘do they want us to go to another war? but hoped and I prayed to God that such should not happen.’

He went further to say that those involved in this campaign were being driven by just a few people and that majority of the Igbo people do not share the same view.

‘It is only them, the few, that are there but the majority of the Igbo people that I know are not with them’.

Acceding to the fact that the protesters have the right to express their feelings he stated “with Biafra it is finished”.

He said these people ‘let them say their views, yes it democracy but let s make sure they can express their wishes and desires but let them remember with Biafra it is finished. it is not a threat’

He further said that keeping Nigeria one was behind all that he did and not for hatred for the Igbo as that was what Odumegwu Ojukwu also stood for.

All I did is not a result of hatred against the Igbos but on the principle of keeping Nigeria one and this is all we are trying to do and that was why at the end of the war in other to see that there is no heard feeling we used the term no victor no vanquished

I have said if there is anything of this sort anywhere in any part of the country just like the problem of Boko Haram we should deal with it, Nigeria should deal with it in matured way .

Source: Vanguard

ekenedegreat:
When will a yourobber albino shake nigeria the way kanu is doing?

where were you when we were locking down your country during June 12 struggle. Nigeria was on a total locked down for 1993 to 1998.

investments into the country was on a sub-zero level, Nigeria was banned right, left and centre. We chased one president away and another died on the seat.

That is shaking the country.

Guess what, we achieved all that without losing 3million souls and we still got the presidency at the end of the day, at the expense of your kinsman.

Ilaro and Oke Ogun treatment await them.

We do not issue lame ultimatum. We walk the talk.

No story,

doublewisdom:
Liberation of Ilorin? Impossible. Soon there will be an Emir of Oshogbo you dey talk of Ilorin. Stop am o.

We will like to see the liberation of Oyigbo by renaming it back to Obigbo. Rename back all the RUmus to Umus and reclaim back your hijacked father; properties in PH.

That will actually be the 8thwonder of the world.

Achieve that and you will then have the right to use the word liberation in your sentences.

Remarkable:
what is the name of the king? and what village? something tells me you have just told a desperate lie in order to make your people not look so bad lol. Be honest, this is a slap to the Yorubas that a whole Olu Falae will be kidnapped and when your elders speak up.. they are told ... right in Yoruba land... and I am sure if the Senator knew how to speak Yoruba, he would have said it in Yoruba language too ... "shut up!"

Why do you igbos like denying the obvious. A visit to http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/fulani-herdsmen-kill-village-chief-in-enugu/ will confirm my story.

He never used the word shut up. Read and read over his speech 100ce. By the way, he has been duly answered. Has your elders ever made any attempt to even issue any of your numerous lame ultmatum to them? Naaaa. They are too lilly-livered to dare that.

Olu Falae was kidnapped in a village because he chose to relocate back to his village, to use his wealth of experience to assist his people. Where do your elders stay? SW I am sure. Your towns are even gully eroded, how much more the villages.

Lest I forget, call a press conference for your elders, for them to lambast fulanis for he sustained and continuous molestation of your women and killing of your village chiefs.

E kaaro eyin omo kaaro ojire.

Wish we can have a strictly yoruba speaking time daily eg between 1800GMT to 1900GMT.

No English speaking. Strictly yoruba.

Or what do you think?

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bolabolakemi:
So stupid you are. Are albinos less human ? Even if he is an albino, so what ? But he is not if your dumb brain will perceive that. Lunatics everywhere

Albinos are not less human in a anyway.

This Lunatic Albino Nnamdi Kanu, is subhuman. Simple as ABC.

How can you tell me someone that is propagating hate messages against other ethnicities is not subhuman.

How can you tell me someone that is preaching the killing of others is not subhuman

Diegobonito:
Ezi ofia, shoutin albino albino, what makes him an albino? Even if he's an albino,we love him like that. We'll kill and die for him. Get that to your empty skull

We know he is your albino god in the jungle of Biafra/junglefra, but to us in Nigeria, he is the Lunatic Albino.

The ghost of the Lunatic Albino can also die, for all I care.

It is good riddance to bad rubbish.

He was wishing death to yorubas and Northerners and if same comes to him faster, so be it.

Candid advice to Wike

scholes0:
As at present and has it was in the past, the political rudder of Kwara state is geared towards North and Arewa unity, so how can that be in synchrony with South Western developmental plans? These people can be very irritating how they behave sometimes.

Look at their governor, who by the way is 100% Yoruba, looking like an almajiri sympathiser

https://newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Gov-ahmed.jpg

They have used religion to stylishly colonised them, for them to lose their identity and root.

Missy89:
Can you explain what you mean by strictly Yoruba? What is your definition of a "real Yoruba"

We are all yorubas. there is no real or fake, We do not practise a caste system.

I was advising that Binis should be allowed to join Niger Delta Republic or Biafra, rather than joining a yoruba nation.

Aareonakakanfo:
Lol fayose the m.a.a.d man who was criticizing Odua Investment Company.He never sees good in anyone, always having something negative to say

Fayose is the refined yoruba copy of the Lunatic Albino -- Nnamdi kanu.

pazienza:
Exactly, and Biafra campaign started online.

So dot the I's and cross the t's,

the same way some people vehemently refused being being called what they are not, through online medium.

Aareonakakanfo:
I'm tired of this Ilorin issue.I feel we should just give it a rest honestly

don't be.

we need to know the history of the past, for us to harness the opportunities today by making the right decisions, with the future impact in mind and laying a foundation and building block for future developments, as well laying down of likely mistakes to be avoided for unborn generations.

The Ilorin scenario nearly played out in another format with Jimi Agbaje leading his red cap wearing and wrapper tying clowns to denigrate the sanctity of our forefathers inheritance.

pazienza:
Who did we tell that they are Igbos, and they refused?
Let me guess, online personalities with no real way of tracing their real origins?

Online is a reflection of reality. Discounting online information in this modern day, will be to your peril.

Ask Jonathan, his removal started online.

Mobilisation for the Arab spring movement started online.

Gadaffi;s removal started online.

ProfShymex:
I believe there was a deeper reason why Ibadan warriors never bothered to liberate them when they got to Ilorin. And all the Yorubas who fought alongside the Fulanis were publicly executed in Ibadan for a reason. So why bother to liberate them now?

Also, I think Yorubas of that era would have liberated them if they wanted to (they had about three chances to do that)- but they left them in servitude for a reason. There is also a legend in an academic source that they were cursed by the Alaafin. So for them to be liberated, they might have to buy 200 cows, 100 chickens, and 50 birds to appease the gods and go see the current Alaafin looool.

They were actually left as punishment for the treason.

There is every likelihood that they were cursed. You know the curses of then are something else, that you can never joke with.

pazienza:
Good a thing you already know.

It has to be because your people live, breathe, eat and drink yorubas. If you do not have light - it must be yorubas, if you cannot do your manly duties to your wives - it must be yorubas, if you quarrel with your neighbour -- it must be yorubas; if you tell someone they are igbos and they refused -- it must be the fault of the yorubas too.

Yorubas must be next to God.

Flyoruboy:
I totally agree with you that liberating ilorin would have proved futile for the Ibadan led legion at the time coz the ilorins themselves didn't exhibit any enthusiasm for their own liberation. They possibly would have fought on the side of the Fulas against the Yoruba army. But all that is now history.

they actually fought alongside the fulanis. The yorubas that were caught during the jalumi war were sent to Ibadan and beheaded in the public square for treason against the Empire.

Funny enough, the fulani Generals/War commandants were released, after massacring all their men.

delpee:
We should all strive to do something to improve the current condition of our schools individually and collectively through alumni associations. It goes a long way towards improving academic performance and moral upbringing of the students.

a good suggestion.

it is more or less like personal CSR.

yemaldo:
If you know nothing about ilorin, at least u should ask, ask non indigen ilorin and they'll tell u.
Can u pls tell me ur state

State is an artificial boundary delineation for administrative purpose.

Ethnicity is stronger than state of origin.

yemaldo:
1)ilorin comprises of 5 local govt (asa, moro, ilorin south, East and west) of all those local government you'll only see larger population of fulani in ilorin west, and what majority don't understand is that these people have been yorubanized, u can stay a whole year in ilorin west and you'll hardly see anyone speaking fulani,these people will call themselves fulani but cannot speak their language anymore, they eat amala like mad and even give themselves yoruba name(the emir included) u can ask anyone schooling in ilorin
2)aside from larger population of fulani from d west, the remaining 4 local govt are yoruba even majority of fulani in west can't speak their language

3)issue of emir of ilorin is not a shame ilorin people alone should face, it's a slap on yoruba race, afonja invited the fulani to fight for him after betraying Aladin and they almost finished oyo empire, from oyo Ile (no present on) ogbomoso etc but the Yoruba fought back and when the get to ilorin they stopped, tell my why, ilorin was very important to oyo empire back then(maybe you should get a copy of Rev Samuels history of yoruba)
Afonja house in ilorin till date don't see eye to eye, they hate each other like mad, late govn Lawal tried to install a yoruba king in ilorin but he failed because d emir had people backing him from feds
3)if Nigeria divided today, do you think ogbomoso will be d boundary between west and North? I think the boundary will be in kogi state

Yorubas fought back and decimated the fulani army. They never recovered from it. They were pursued from Ikirun down to gate of Ilorin.

History had it that, the Oluyole warriors did not enter into Ilorin because they believe most people in ilorin as at then have been islamised and it will be a futile effort fighting for them.

Ilorin people should make more effort to draw themselves into the mainstream yoruba agenda. Of course other yoruba speaking areas of Kawara eg Offa, Moro,etc are non-negotiable.

I believe the first step is for the yorubas in ilorin to demand for an Oba and subsequently install one, that will immediately pledge his allegiance to Alaafin. The politicking and propaganda will complete the rest of the full integration. They need wane themselves from the subtle programming those fulanis have successfully implanted into the minds of the ilorin people over the decades.

pazienza:
Why are you so shamelessly hiding behind an Igbo name.

Why can't you be proud of where ever you crawled out from?

As usual, he is yoruba --- (in conc igbotic intonation).

amakaobiemeka:
u have to put a fool in its place. Today i have heard a million igbos calling river igbo state. That they own 90%

If they can claim 110% of Lagos that is miles away from their territory, thank your stars they stopped at 90% for a state that is congruent to their core gully eroded land.

Herald47:
your people are lucky that the igbos are still in nigeria,if not the fulanis would have taken the whole sw as they took kwara.

Really!!!!

What exactly are you doing to save guard yorubas from fulanis, that you cannot do to recover your hijacked abandoned properties from the minorities, or to rename back your town from oyigbo to obigbo or wade off the marauding fulanis that killed your king and are having carnal knowledge of your women for fun or hep out the umuleri community that is being ransacked by the igalas.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/fulani-herdsmen-attacks-enugu-women-protest-urge-govt-action/

Y1bos are just shameless and pathetic group of people,

bugzbunny:
Shut up... Afonja

Hijacked abandoned properties and renamed oyigbo come to mind.

Descartes:
Living in denial is a trademark of an average Yoruba man. Just as your elders are been disgraced by kwankwoso

It is better to have a semblance of elders, than to have deaf and dumb ones, that cannot speak up against obvious injustice.

This is an example:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/fulani-herdsmen-attacks-enugu-women-protest-urge-govt-action/

psucc:
It is good for one to maintain his ancestral linkage and if it must be changed, it should be for better. The rate at which the Yoruba swallow the Islamic religion had virtually pitched them against themselves and any move to check the activities of their master will be rejected.

I see Aregbe trying to be the first to install Emir in Osun (not prophetic but personal opinion) just to please his masters.

See this one.

It is easier for Jews to install a Rabbinate over you these deluded bleaching yellow pawpaw jews-wannabe, than for Aregbe to achieve that.

Descartes:
Look at this slave who sees nothing wrong on how kwankwoso is treating your elders with so much disdain

Disdain indeed and he is being replied in a condescending manner.

What do your elders have to say to the killing of your king by the fulani marauders and the persistent ravishing of your women?

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/fulani-herdsmen-attacks-enugu-women-protest-urge-govt-action/

They could not even issue any of their numerous lame ultimatum. That shows how cowardly, osu caste they are. It shows and confirms your slave status country.

We shall release you, when we are done with you guys. therefore, stop begging us to let you go.

I am waiting for the day the osu castes, the 5th class citizens of Nigeria, the official Nigerian slaves aka war booties and 1st class citizen of the online republic of Biafra, will have such a liver to make these kind of statements.


TIll Jesus comes, it can never happen, despite the fact that they killed one of your kings and they are rapin.g you women for fun.

Proud of my heritage, Omo yoruba ni mi oooo, Swagger.


Won ni were, aroma ni awon fulani ni. Oke Ogun and Ilaro treatment loading.

@ IlekeHD,

Abeggg, it's enough for the night.

ProfShymex:
Lol. Now I see why you are pro-Nigeria and the only other option is a Yoruba country with Edo loool. You are sly! Don't worry, we'll send you lot back to Biafra.

Then again, Edos and Yorubas can always form a country due to shared heritage. Heck, Edos can even form a country by themselves - they are that intelligent and gifted.

The diversity in a strictly yoruba county is rich enough for us to contend with. Let them join the Niger Delta republic or Lower Niger Republic jejely.