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immhotep:
Don't you believe in One Nigeria?


Cc lzaa gmbuharii

I don't......do you?

I can understand why you don't believe anymore in one Nigeria.

Thousands of Ibos were slaughtered because of their love for One Nigeria when their homeboy was in power.


The moment their homie was dethroned, they lost their love for one nigeria. However, their erstwhile master from the north slaughtered millions more like 'roaches to keep them in the fake union they midwifed & now want out

This na "double jeopardy"................

Like Fela sang..." na double wahala for deadi body and the owner of deadi body

mrvitalis:
So u accept awolowo betrayed Igbo's ?

immhotep:
How Lagos na ?

Cc lzaa gmbuharii

MetaPhysical:
Im telling you man. Ibo will be devastated when regionalism comes. They know this, and is why they sabotage all moves for restructuring....ignore Ohanaeze call for restructuring, its a pretense. In fact Ohanaeze is the biggest beneficiary in SW. Their last 3 or 4 social events were hosted in Lagos. In one, they celebrated Igbo day in national stadium in Lagos. Ohanaeze is an Ibo leadership, and the fore runner in their abandonement of homeland.

Imagine a Yoruba sociocultural group leading Yorubaland from London. How bizzarre!

immhotep:
RUGA master

MetaPhysical:

Is their case that baad

IGBOSON1:
You throw this word 'covetous' about recklessly...almost as if you don't know the meaning!

Between Igbos and you Yoruba, who has coveted the others property the more? You are comfortable with 'one Nigeria' that has allowed you free access to the oil and gas wealth of Igboland from the early 70s to date! Note: i said Igboland and not the politically contrived south-east (previously east central state) that was delineated by Igbo haters in 1967! Igboland has the most onshore oil and gas reserves in Nigeria (Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni), and you greedy, ungrateful schmucks have been creaming off 87% of the benefit for as long as i care to remember! Now if that is not a prime example of covetousness then i don't know what is!

What is this accusation of 'wanting to exert undue influence in other peoples homeland....and not trying 'one Nigeria' BS in the north'? HELLOOOO....is this the same Igbo that want to separate from your cantankerous, quarrelsome and bigoted ass that you're referring to? In any case, how can you say a Nigerian availing himself of the constitutionally guaranteed right to vote and be voted for in any part of his country, is 'exerting undue influence in anothers homeland'? You Yoruba, as far as i know have not agitated for secession, neither have you called for a change in the constitution to prevent Nigerians from seeking elective positions outside their ethnic enclave, so your angst is directed at the wrong people and is nothing short of bloody cheek! Go pester your elite to call for a change of the constitution or demand the secession of the Yoruba from Nigeria, then you'd be wellcome to keep your region to yourselves!

You have the gall to say Igbo should not seek for elective office in 'your homeland' but you don't mind gorging your greedy selves on Igbo oyel and gas! You're the very definition of two-faced greed, covetousness and hypocrisy! Talk about having your cake and still wanting to eat it!

In any event, Igbos are 'seeking to exert undue influence' outside their region only in Lagos and Abuja, and last i checked, these are territories built with our collective commonwealth...a large chunk of which came from Alaigbo!

Sorry, if you don't know the meaning of "covetous".......................google is your friend.

Which oil resides in iboland? most of them lies in the minority areas in the east of the country. This was why zik and his merry-men reneged on the agreement by the 3 major leaders to grant these minorities, their own state once they have been able to fit awo up on a thrumped up charges and split the western region into west and mid-west regions. whatever % of oil is been stolen by the fg is by the northern-led govt which your zik sold us all, to.

Mr. fake one nigeria, I urge you to go to kadunna state and exercise your constitutional rights to be voted for as their governor...........if dem born you well. Hundreds of your kinsmen will be sent in a body-bags back to your hamlet

You can try as much as you like but take it from me, there's nothing for you in lagos. You can try Abuja, though. Good luck

we haven't forgotten how you guys held sway in our region (in the 1st republic) by virtue of your subservient role to the same Sardunna, that you later murdered.

LegendHero:
Hahaha lol.

It’s so sad a group of people in their majority can be suffering from the same syndrome. They should at least modify the way their ancestors reason to give room for innovation.

The words slaves, cowards, Lagos-ibadan news, etc. is already stale and they should all have a village meeting in their enclaves to deploy another words.

They should put their education to use at least even if it will just this one time!

LegendHero:
I have a question:

Why is it that all of you always regurgitate the bolded word like a damaged robot?

At least change the word, even if you have nothing meaningful to contribute at least troll with a new word!

nonoski:
Nnamdi Kanu thinks he is the only intelligent person alive in Igbo land.
I don't blame him.
It's his foolish followers I blame

Dedetwo:
Samuel Ladoke Akintola was his wing man.

Yep..........he replaced the slimy zik of africa onitsha

EmekaMD:
first of all we are called Igbos.. not ibos(you can call ur grandma that)

Secondly.. Do you know what Nigerian constitution says about citizenship and rights of residency ? You no nothing.. go read before you yab.. don't open ur mouth and spew rubbish because everyone can now be wise behind the keyboards..

NaMeAboki:
Don't mind the hypocrites; its like they have been cursed to wail for no reason.

Abi o jare!!!

Wailing yeasterners

nku5:
Who told you the south wasn't ready to open up Did you not hear him say there were only 6 northerners in the civil service when he became premier

The northerners did not have enough educated people to fill the positions in their own region talkless of working in the south because there were not enough western educated people from the north. Whose fault?

EmekaMD:
i hate that I'm arguing with an Ignoramus first of..

Secondly.. i won't try any further if your blockhead refuses to learn ..

For the last time.

He was the premier of the north. His responsibility was inclusive of every single Nigerian citizen resident in the North. He was the Premier of Northern Nigeria, not just Northerners in the northern Nigeria.

North is a region of Nigeria, and Nigerians have equal rights to live and work anywhere in the country they so wished. That's how it should be ideally..

But blockheads and bigots like you who probably never owned a passport talk more of knowing how regional government work in saner climes are here making pointless arguments..

Go and sit down

irrefragable:
don't you ever use this words again. We are not your brothers.

Perkins2018:
Kanu started spewing hate speeches against Yoruba before anybody knew him in the south west. He rose to prominence using hate speeches. Of course the only way to gather Igbo supporters is to use hate speeches against other tribes.

How do you want Yorubas to like him?

Perkins2018:
Was Awo a part of the enactment even in prison? Stop sounding dumb my old ipob fool.

"Prof" has consistently been spewing gibberish ever since Nov. 1967, when he was inopportuned to have come across the black scorpion which turned out to be his one and only engagement in the biafran war as a boy soldier. Adekunle promptly and specifically dislodged a bullet in his (Prof dende.mo.ro.n's) left temporal lobe as his "calling card".

Ever since, "prof" has been bleating about like a go.at

Dedetwo:
You are one reason I had always campaigned for the disintegration of Nigeria. You can testify that there no unity in Nigeria. Why would any sane person rejoice because of the misfortune of his/her compatriot?

Dedetwo:
I hope were not drunk you posted the above crap? The dude cannot even pass as the father of Yari.ba talk less Nigeria. Most Nigerians from certain section of the country are load of loudmouthed nobodies.

"Prof", you still chatting gibberish ever since the black scorpion deposited a bullet in your skull as a testament of your one and only offensive as a boy soldier in Oju-iku's ragtag BLF.

Omoodua007:
No concrete achievements just ceremonial things lol

mrvitalis:
His boss ? Someone failed government weac

seunmsg:
God! How can just one person be this ignorant?

Guy abeg, go and read up secondary school government textbooks and stop embarrassing yourself. This is no longer funny to be honest.

As regards your first paragraph, Zik did not appoint the prime minister. The leader of the party that wins majority of seats in the parliament becomes the prime minister and forms the government. The only role the Governor General/ President plays is the ceremonial invitation of the party that wins the majority of seat to come and form the government.

When Zik initially refused to play his ceremonial role after the NPC won the 1964 general election and kicked NCNC our of the ruling alliace, Balewa called his bluffed and went ahead to form his government. Zik then realized how powerless he was and quickly accepted the result and invited Balewa to form the government.

0monnak0da:
Dende what is ths new sanatorium like? I hope they are cleaning and feeding you on time. The last one was very cruel, they only washed your bottom twice a month(elder abuse).

Osaze007:
I agree even if 5m igbos cluster in Kano they won’t and know not to dabble into the politics of Kano

Abi o jare!!!

When dog dey fumble, he/she knows not to bring it anywhere near his Master.

IGBOSON1:
Dude, there’s nothing like ‘locals’ as against ‘foreigners’! The constitution doesn’t make those kind of distinctions! We’re all ‘one Nigeria’ remember?

IGBOSON1:
Nice to see you read the entire post to determine it’s a load of cow dung! What parts of the post did you find shitty?

Omoodua007:
Looool
Same thing ngozi Iweala did
She started appointing her own saying they are the most qualified sounds like what ethnic bigots say

When using merit the Igbo people lag behind

IGBOSON1:
[s]Zik was a ceremonial president with no executive powers, so where do you get the idea Zik should be blamed for the head of gov'ts decision on who to appoint to whatever position? Could we say history is repeating itself today in that Tinubu is kissing Buharis' scrawny ass, hence after the core muslim north has filled its people in all the 'juicy' positions in the public/civil service, military and paramilitary organisations, that it has thrown a few scraps to its villeins the Yoruba? You see how your masters conspired to get rid of the Yoruba finance minister? That was supposed to be your slot wasn't it? So what happened after she was removed? Your masters went and replaced her with a Fulani, yet we didn't hear kpim from your end! Quite surprising considering how you're now here railing against Zik for appointments made that weren't even part of his remit! We could overlook that incident with the excuse that it was a short-term measure to fill the gap created by the resignation, but what happened when your master Buhari picked his ministers for his 2nd term in office? He only went and reappointed the same Fulani woman as the substantive minister of finance....a slot that was supposed to be for the Yoruba! Yet again, not even a whimper of protest from the west! Now just imagine if it had been a Igbo or GEJ that had done this...the kind of protests and riots on the streets we would see in the west...with accusations of how those 'greedy okoros' have come again!

You said: "Another instance is education where ibos became VC in all the higher institutions in the yorubaland but could do the same in the north. This was at a time when yorubas were aggressively pursuing western education like it's going out of fashion. This was the same time when it's common to have at least one PhD holder among the ekitis."

Yet again your insecurity, duplicitious/two-faced nature, paranoia and bigotry is at play here! So what if Igbos became the VCs in all the higher institutions in Yorubaland? Were they from Mars or were they 'fellow Nigerians'? Could it be that they were best suited for the jobs at that point in time? If not that the Yoruba are a bit insular and not as widely travelled in Nigeria as the Igbo at the time, they could equally have been in the running for appoitments in the eastern region! Seeing the kind of idealist Zik was i'm sure its something he would even have welcomed! Like i stated in my previous post, Zik was a pan-Nigerianist even to a fault as this prevented him from seeing the faultlines and chasms in the Nigerian national fabric! He was brought up in the west....had spent most of his adult working life there (i hear he could speak Yoruba just like Ikemba could).....and being the idealist he was, didn't see it as an issue seeking elective office in the western region!

Fact of the matter is if you say a Igbo -that has been forced back into 'one Nigeria' as your 'fellow compatriot' and told Biafra is dead and he's now a Nigerian- cannot be vice-chancellor of a university in the west or cannot be premier of the western region because he is not Yoruba, then you have no right to complain about xenophobia in South-Africa or racism towards blacks anywhere else in the world! This is the raw truth that stares you in the face! You cannot be elated when a Yoruba is appointed to any prominent position in a university in the western world or wins an election there, and then turn around and say a Igbo (that you forced back through the barrel of a gun to be your 'fellow compatriot') should not be vice-chancellor or governor in any state in the west of Nigeria! I know it sounds somehow, but that's the raw truth if we claim to be part of the civilsed world! Ditto Igbos in the east also!

Just imagine how far Nigeria would have gone in becoming one cohesive unit if from the 60s, Ziks' idealism for a united Nigeria -where tribe would amount to nothing more than a cultural/monarchical statement that didn't influence political or economic decisions- was allowed to gain traction and become part of national-psyche! This is what obtains in England and what Rwanda has done in giving less national prominence to Hutu/Tutsie divisions! Having one ethos and commonality of purpose is the first step to becoming a true nation...not like what we see in Nigeria today, where different ethnicities are engaged in political brinkmanship, subterfuge and backstabbing!

You said: "The VCs promptly filled their academic staff with their kith and kins so much so that, yoruba graduates couldn't secure employment in their own region 'cause greedy ibos have the whole lot. I guess, this was the monopolisation zik talked about in 1949 at the one year anniversary of the Ibo State Union."

Any links you can provide to back up this assertion? It could be true....i dunno, but i'd like links to articles/publications where this was said and more importantly, who made the claim! In any event, if for the sake of argument we say this assertion is true, can you tell me how this is any different from what Buhari and his Fulani cabal are doing today? Or are you comfortable with 'filling positions withe their kith and kin to the exclusion of the Yoruba' only if such acts are being carried out by the Fulani and not the 'pesky okoros'? I can furnish you with links to your kinsfolk...Yoruba, complaining about Buharis' nepostism and northern agenda! I wonder why this equally doesn't bother you!

The statement you claim Zik made in 1949, could it be he made that statement with a firm belief in the capacity of his people to strive based on merit, and hence in a merit-driven society (such as he was expecting Nigeria to be after independence) that Igbos would strive and get to the top based soley on merit? Look at Igbos today, and tell me if they're not one of (if not the most) the most driven and entrepreneurial groups in Nigeria and in diaspora! Take a look at the cut-off marks for secondary schools in Nigeria and tell me why states from the old eastern region have the highest hurdles to cross! Zik made that statement way before Uni' Ibadan or Uni' Lagos so unless he was Nostradamus, i don't see how he could have foreseen a situation where he would be a ceremonial president of Nigeria and be able to, as you claim, 'influence' the appointments of VCs in the western region decades later!

You said: "You guys are just incredible! I mean, you can understand when the sardunna claimed " North for north.........." but you can not fathom why the yorubas would want one of their own to manage her affairs. I make bold to suggest that had zik won that regional election in western Nigeria, ibos would have done exactly as they did in the 1st republic- take most of the jobs available in the region.."

Can you point out where i said i understand the Sardaunas' claim of 'north-for-north'? My issue with Awo is that, fair enough...he has this morbid fear and suspicion of Igbos...that they want to come and take over the western region! Fine! Now my question is, if he had this negative sentiment towards Igbos and didn't want them taking advantage of the freedoms and liberties granted them by the Nigerian constitution, then why in Gods name did he take part in sustaining the 'mere geographical expression' which would see him continue sharing the same country with the very people he sees as untrustworthy and out to take over Yorubaland? Also, why didn't he seize the window of opportunity the Biafran war accorded him to seperate his people from Nigeria as the eastern region was trying to do at the time? You can see why some people accuse Awo of being.....dishonest at best! Did he really believe in the Nigeria he was fighting for its survival when making statements like (and i paraphrase): if by omission or commission the eastern region is allowed to leave, that the Yoruba wouldn't bother staying behind to continue doing 'one Nigeria' with the north!

This one is interesting: "Yeah, of course, zik was a true Nigerian.........as long as his people have the rein of power in the country but unfortunately no one wants to be under the tutelage of the covetous folks."

'No one wants to be under the tutelage of covetous folks' you say? You could have fooled me! What's happening today with the Fulani coveting all the major appointments and bulk of investments? Oh, i get it....it doesn't matter if the Fulani do it 'cos they're your masters and they're helping you 'deal with the hated okoros' abi?

This one's the here gave me a chuckle : "Ol' boy, stop making excuses for your slave master. Nothing transpired in the north of the country without the knowledge and acceptance of the sardunna. Sardunna's indigenisation policy put paid to zik's One Nigeria. His BBC interview which you guys termed hate speech was meant to protect his people , land, culture etc from been over-run by the ibos"

You're actually making unfounded accusations that the Sadauna had a hand in the mass killing of Igbos in the north in the 50s! You have any proof to burtress this assertion?

This is what i mean when i say Zik preferred dealing with the north b'cos with them, they don't hide their feelings about anyone or issue....what you see is what you get, shikena! You know where you stand with them on any issue!

'Sadaunas' indigenisation policy put paid to 'one Nigeria'' you say? So if there's no such thing as 'one Nigeria' what was Awo doing accepting a gov't position and joining to sustain something which both you and him admit has outlived its usefulness? Is that not two-faced hypocrisy? Today as we speak, are you in support of Mazi Kanu and IPOBs efforts to change the status-quo? What efforts are you and your people making to stop living the lie you say Nigeria has become?[/s]

Area4Area:
So long an epistle, I guess you spent the whole night composing it.