₦airaland Forum

MyNewJackeT:
Fayose for 2019 does any yoruba man have a problem with that?

do you?

it brings out the betrayer in you but you are silent.

WetinConsignMe:
Awolowo said, if the East left the federation, the Yoruba would have to leave the federation. ...

efighter:
Notorious billionaire kidnapper, Chukwuduben Onwuamadike, popularly called Evans is the greatest Igbo man ever, the greatest Biafran pig ever liveth.

Francis5:
Did you just say I should leave them to develop at their own pace? Have they left me to develop at my own pace? How come I score 200 in a national exam and yet I cannot develop at my pace by being able to attend school with my higher score, but I am delayed because I have to make space to accommodate someone who scored 20 in the same exam?

You are an Afonja hypocrite!! I piss on you.

Francis5:
The north is holding Nigeria back big time, and regardless of what is done, until they know their place and accept to be helped by the south, they are DOA. At the same time, the South needs to assert itself and its rightful position. But I guess division among you southern ''idiots'', especially the Afonja muslims, is your bane.

stev120:
is Abiola episode all you got. ...

i qout Abiola:"i will win election with out the Igbos".. go and read your history well. .

.......betrayal. ....
Awolowo did it to Ojukwu. ..1966
yoruba also repeat it during 2015 election.

Vivere:
The Igbo were never even forced out. They were forced inwards - forced to remain within Nigeria, so even if Awo made that promise, it was rendered invalid by the subsequent events that unfolded. That is the truth they do not want to hear.

WetinConsignMe:
Did u read what I wrote? Awo promised Ojukwu to pull Yorubas out if Igbos were forced out in front of witnesses who have collaborated the story. I never said Yorubas agreed to join the liberation force.

Dedetwo:
Are you a student of military tactics? How could he have been annihilated when Gowon would have been on the run to Kaduna? Remember there were Yari.ba who readied themselves to join the liberation force. Did you think that uprisings of the so-called cocoa famers were mere coincidence? If Lagos was securely under 101 Brigade, please tell how northern region and Gowon would have flooded Apapa Wharf with war materials? Both sides depended on the element of surprise and Banjo lost that key aspect for Biafra.

And which "Yoruba" were ready to support Ojukwu' liberation force? Was that before or after Ojukwu's biafran babes had dropped bombs in lagos killing the same "yaribas" in yaba and apapa area? Initially (August 9th 1967), Biafran plane dropped "warning bombs"-leaflets in ikeja and palmgrove areas “calling on the people to overthrow Gowon’s government and the Hausa imperialists.” However the following week,seeing that the people failed to his bait, Ojukwu dropped real bombs killing innocent "Yoruba" residents in yaba and its environs.

As for the agbekoya uprisings- that had nothing whatsoever to do with Ojukwu's BLF. Among other issues they rebelled against, the high fixed tax rate of $8 in western region of nigeria was their main grouse with officials of that region in particular and nothing to do with the federal govt of gowon (hence the slogan "oke mefa laosan-We are only paying 30 shillings!" and which Awo was able to quell with some negotiation. Your usual obfuscation tactic, am afraid will not work here, oga dede.

The bottom line is that Ojukwu sent Banjo (as a Trojan horse) on a "mission impossible" to wrought havoc on his ancestral land which Banjo must have taken cognizance of, hence his attempt to seek safe passage through yorubaland which necessitate the delay. Ojukwu simply had the man killed 'cause his gamble failed and he needed a fall guy for his gross military incompetence. There was no way Ojukwu ill-equipped rag-tag liberation front could have taken lagos and hang on to it when even his rear axis -the mid-west region was still been harangued by ogbemudia's resistance force.

In fact, the whole excursion was a futile attempt by ojukwu and a sheer waste of vital human resources.

WetinConsignMe:
WRONG! Very wrong. Gowon was not involved in Awo's release. Ironsi signed his release papers just before he was killed. Ojukwu was the only authority in the east as the Gowon coup did not work in the east. Ojukwu was the only one who had the power to release Awo and he was the person who released him.
Here are Ojukwu's words:

OJUKWU: We’ve said this over and over again, so many times, and people don’t understand; they don’t want to actually. If you remember, I released Awolowo from jail. Even that, some people are beginning to contest as well. Awo was in jail in Calabar. Gowon knows and the whole of the federal establishment knows that at no point was Gowon in charge of the East. The East took orders from me. Now, how could Gowon have released Awolowo who was in Calabar? Because of the fact that I released him, it created quite a lot of rapport between Awo and myself and I know that before he went back to Ikenne, I set up a hotline between Ikenne and my bedroom in Enugu. He tried like an elder statesman to find a solution. Awolowo is a funny one. Don’t forget that the political purpose of the coup, the Ifeajuna coup that began all this, was to hand power over to Awo. We young men respected him a great deal. He was a hero. I thought he was a hero and certainly I received him when I was governor. We talked and he was very vehement when he saw our complaints and he said that if the Igbos were forced out by Nigeria that he would take the Yorubas out also. I don’t know what anybody makes of that statement but it is simple. Whether he did or didn’t, it is too late. There is nothing you can do about it. So, he said this and I must have made some appropriate responses too. But it didn’t quite work out the way that we both thought. Awolowo, evidently, had a constant review of the Yoruba situation and took different path. That’s it. I don’t blame him for it. I have never done."

humilitypays

JayJohnson:
Bloody coward, you are yet to tell is why you abandoned your rag tag army and ran away

Na Awo advised the cantankerous self-obsessed ego-centric orangutan lookalike to leg it in the middle of the night to abidjan

with his benz .

zenmaster:
Coward Gowon went on exile in 1975 or thereabouts na. . .

Why did Gowon not stay and face Muritala/Obasanjo, if he is not a coward ?

Babalegba:
Stop repeating silly questions, it belittles your intelligence . Don't you think massive support from the countries you mentioned would have completely crushed Biafra irreparably

rabzy:
What do you call those who leave their comrades during the fight and run away...survivors abi

Kazim88:
You guys are actually failing the great Sardunna .. He wanted Northern Independence..

It was the British that wanted One Nigeria..... They were they strong hand behind that coup and civil war.

North are still suffering from "One Nigeria " burden... They sacrifice everything for one Nigeria yet they are poorest region.

ProWalker:
I will not say sardauna was too naive but I will say he underestimated the treachery, backstabbing of the people that killed him..the same people he was their benefactor

mightyhazel:
seek out 'why we struck " by major adewale ademoyega and stop boring ppl here with ur alzheimer's symptoms



books are meant to be read

mightyhazel:
the 3 major conspirators were nzeogwu (okpanam), ademoyega(yoruba) and ifeajuna(igbo). so at which point exactly was it conveniently termed igbo coup...

Graycoder:
I hope the picture below solves your problem. There is a large difference between conspirators of coup and participants. You people really need to stop looking for excuses and accept your own part of the blame

diadem10:
It's quite funny to see his troop surrender as soon as Nigeria stop sending food relief. That means he and his army can't live on empty stomach yet expect the civilians to live on empty stomach.

Odingo1:
Kaduna Nzeogwu that stage the Coup is from mid-western Nigeria(Delta state now) and his assistance Ademoyaga is a yoruba man, how did they kill other tribes leaders?

deedeedee1:
According to them ibos, they invaded our land to free us from slavery.
Alanu samaritan ni won

attackgat:
Just fighting for freedom means so much even if Ojukwu did not succeed

People like Awolowo never got to the stage of fighting for sovereignty and chose the easy cowardly way of being a Northern slave

attackgat:
And we are proud to have been led by Ojukwu and to have died in the millions in tge quest for freedom. Dont worry, I dont expect you to understand that sort of mentality. Cowards like Awolowo didnt understand that either when is was musch easier to a Hausa-Fulani slave.

Elbowroom:
Ipork terrorists are hypocrites

That was what you have melted on hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and other tribes
You abuse, curse them
Abuse their beliefs and religion

But you Expect them to hug and kiss you after much ridicule?

U must be smoking peppered weed

ColonelDrake:
Discussing biafraaaud in Oyo state? You all are sick!
Bounce back to upper iweeaka or any of your erosion regions to discuss it. Python is dancing there and not in Oyo. Oya, park ya people into a commercial bus like sardine and face east

Abi o jare!!!

Biafrans dey discuss their family meeting in Oyo state.

Made me wonder how many of them (family members) are residing in " brown roofs " land and how many remains in their so called "land of the

rising sun"? I bet the former has more population than the latter.

I swear, these folks no get shame at all, at all

samebony1:
They are welcome. Its only the guilty that are afraid. Innocent hearts fear no accusation.

South West people can't be used by politicians and looters who lost in the last election to ferment trouble.

We don wise pass that