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forgiveness:
Ko i ti te.

forgiveness:
Ti owo omode o ba ti te eku ida, ko le bere iku to pa baba e......

tishbite42:
Google is your friend

tishbite42:
Go and read Max Siollun's Oil, Politics and Violence
Page 112
Author is a Yoruba like you, albeit, a sensible one
Thank me later

waynetee:
Yorubas re not one person, so they want different things. I am just saying there is restructuring going on if we look closely.

Personally, i am anti secession / anti restructuring because i dont see our togetherness as the real problem.

Christistruth00:
He said he is not Yoruba but Egun
But Yoruba and Egun are one

Elsudani2:
Have you found your mother?

Elsudani2:
Your father is crying on how you turned out

Blueace247:
90 % of all the igbos I have met are proud, dubious, jealous and they feel they are wiser than all other tribes.

creativehubb:
Being dumb you won't understand, dumb people don't understand discretion, and they are destroyed because of their foolishness. No one man is worth the peace of a state or people. Persons or people die to uphold the state not vice versa. If a man wants to throw a state into chaos, better to disown or kill the terrorist. Only fools will allow one human being lead them to hell. Kudos to yorubas, wise sound people.

creativehubb:
True, upholding respect, values, maintains the peace and sanity in southwest. A region that puts money above it's values will be destroyed. As capiitalist as America is, the law, and values is upheld higher than money still. Yorubas maintain your ways of respect, speaking truth and civilized nature, south west will continue to grow from glory to glory. I was really impressed how Yoruba elders came together and handled the ighoho issue, avoiding unecesary destruction and insecurity in the region.

Omoawoke2:
The worst massacre in the history of Nigeria was against igbos carried out by Hausa Fulani.
Over 30,000 Igbo death

What did you do?


1 million igbos fled for their lives

Abifarin16:
You have told your truth to the extent of what knowledge you may have acquired concerning this matter at hand. As you opened you made remarks about your displeasure for those who don't respect Ojukwu. You have also dragged a Yoruba Hero in the mud in a bid to glorify Ojukwu.

As a writer or an aspiring one you should learn to speak you truth without necessarily dragging others through the mud, Referring to Awolowo as One is not only an insult but derogatory. You even went further to label him and his people cowards. Ojukwu was a highly trained military Man Awolowo was not: this things make a difference.

Every leader must make a choice that will suit his people in the long run. Looking back he made the best choice based on the knowledge and the ability he had. Had he followed Ojukwu, the Yoruba's would have been tied to a more abusive relationship with the Igbos in my opinion.

No one knows it all, and life might not always be about right and wrong, it is also about the decisions we make in the moment to ensure we see the moment. If things don't go your way or someone chooses to follow a different path it doesn't make them cowards, they just choose a path they would fine acceptable to live with and with themselves.

All has been said and done now. What must be done in the present is to look forward and forge better alliances, let justice, integrity, Good faith, unity and the desire for peace guide our decisions as individuals and as a nation.

proeast:
Igbos believe in competence while you guys dwell in tribalism since the days of Awolowo. During that era too, a fulani man was elected by Igbos to be the mayor of Enugu, our capital.

Yes, Ojukwu knew that there was no single man left in the SW who had the guts to pull out and challenge the Hausas and Fulanis, so he tried to liberate you guys. To show you guys he had no intention of administrating Yoruba land from Enugu, he gave a Yoruba man called Banjo the command and control. He didn't even intend to administer Midwestern region that had significant number of Igbos and also shared boundary with East let alone Western region.

The same tribalism Awolowo introduced into Nigeria's politics is what Tinubu has started promoting again. No wahala, you guys can continue stewing in it until it blows up in your faces.

chopnaira:
He also used underage soldiers to fight his ill fated war, in which he himself fled after sacrificing close to 3 million Ibo lives.

As a result, a lot of Igbos are still cursing Ojukwu till date.

proeast:
If Igbos didn't dominate minorities in the East when we were together under one government, why then will the yorubas that claim to outnumber Igbos be so afraid?

Even today, they keep crying that Igbos have taken over Lagos

proeast:
Lol, coming from those that are too timid to the point they're banned from celebrating their cultural festival by their masters?

If Awolowo hadn't chickened out like the coward he is, your people won't be suffering in the hands of Fulanis today

Queenttoast01:
The kingdom of God is at hand, Jesus is coming soon, the Gospel has been preached throughout all the world, repent now and be save.

Abufo:
Rubbish...........d guy that destroyed Nigerian civil service! started the continuing northernization agenda!!!! Obasanjo is and remains the best Nigerian leader by far! One thing I love about OBJ is that within his power and knowledge ,he will always try to balance his decisions and actions............and he is a stickler for acquiring knowledge........he would have done even better as a civilian if the north did not use the national assembly to abort and slow his plans!

Murtala was a war time criminal.......he allowed his subordinate and side kick Ibrahim Taiwo to organize the massacre nearly 5000 male civilians in Asaba..........less than 10 years later nemesis and cruel death visited the 2 of them ( murtala and Taiwo) in the Dimka coup! Let us not talk of the july 1966 counter coup ,when the useless murtala and even more useless Danjuma superintended what is arguably the most heinous crime ever committed by the (slave raiding fulani army disguising as a national army),dragged out hundreds of innocent Igbo army officers and slaughtered them in their barracks...............conveniently leaving the coupists of the January 1966 alive!

Racoon:
Murtala Ramat Mohammed was a cold blooded killer like Adolf Hitler. So I am not surprised he has admirers
He came in a Hail of bullets and left in same.

mightyhazel:
Killings of igbos predated 1966. Igbos have been killed as far back as 1945 by the northerners.don't act as if d misguided coupists started senseless bloodletting in the country.moreover,col. Arthur unaegbe,a senior militaryman of igbo extraction was also killed in the said coup,but u conveniently skipped dat part. Moreso,yoruba officers like major wale ademoyega and col victor banjo were. Also v major players in the so called 'ibo' coup

ImperialYoruba:
Were. . Tunde dey issue receipt for Lagos State Govt.

Mtttcheeeewww...ibo matter, if e no fake e go be scam. And if e no fake or scam e go be fraud. If e no be any of those na drug or robbery go end am. If their victim survive all the above dem go kuku kidnap am and go butcher for pot feast.

Trust ibo at your own risk.

Geez! You know these guys so well !!!

I laughed so much, I damn nearly crack a rib!

AuschwitzPrefec:
Did anyone drag him from his village to settle in Lagos ?

ElSudani:
He carried out a coup within a coup. Ifeajuna's coup did not succeed why did he take over power?

AuschwitzPrefec:
How does the agitation for an independent Niger Delta Republic bother you ?

Do your Biafra and leave Niger Delta Republic to do their own
.

yommen:
Unfortunately, it's the exact opposite. An average Igbo man is still pained that Awolowo didn't support the Igbos during the war. They therefore believe Yorubas are the course of all their problems. It's also so evident in you. Na why you dey create different account on Nairaland just to drive home my points: an Igbo man masking his identity, faking to be Yoruba.

Brimstone77:
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Why are you lots obsessed with igbos?

Even without any prove you have tagged him igbos?

Spit!

Melonsmasher:
You have mentioned the Igbos who took part in the January 15th coup but omitted Maj. Adewale Ademoyega! Wasn't he one of the top coup plotters with Nzeogwu? Or was he just there watching and agreeing to everything whether right or wrong? Have you taken your time to read his book "Why we struck"

Did you know that Akintola played a huge roll in getting Obafemi Awolowo thrown in jail?
Get your historical facts right and stop sticking to hearsay

As you can see, Ademoyega was actually the last officer to be recruited by the coupists. Obviously, to balance the books, so to say.Also, Nzeogwu was not part of the inner coup plotters albeit, he led the northern part of the coup plot as he was based in the north and familiar with the region

Also, you guys keep yapping about the book Ademoyega wrote, even when it's obvious to anyone with a modicum of grey matters that, he (Ademoyega) can only re-count what Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu told him I.e the coupists aim, is to release PA Awo from prison and make him the PM. Meanwhile, unbeknown to Ademoyega, there was no activity scheduled in Benin where Awo was imprisoned.

In fact, one of your mischievous ilk even went ahead to open a thread where he claimed that Ademoyega was the one that started the coup and recruited all these Igbo officers into his coup plot.

Interesting enough, Ademoyega killed no-one but was complicit in the death of Okotie eboh by virtue of the fact that he was present at the latter's death however, it was Maj. Anuforo who gunned down the former Finance Minister.

Go on,I certainly will like to know what significant part, Akintola played in Awo's incarceration