₦airaland Forum

Emmysteve9:
I used to respect this man until the role he played in installing this cattle rearer as our president. I wonder what's he is looking for. Old fool

pyyxxaro:
Aunty Patience Jonathan I miss you

See obasanjo head like old bitter kola

Goke7:
Enugu never voted PMB in 2015 so how will they vote him out in 2019?

Nigerians and their emotions

Kaira333:
Wetin buhari de do there. It seems he is d only African President dat attended d summit

AntiWailer:
Only Nigerians expect him to send a minister. Those other leaders too dnt have job i guess.

Very dunce wailers.

aminho:
AREWA ON TOP

InyinyaAgbaOku:
The East still has the highest enrollment rate ,with the best educational statistics

royal231:
A yoruba man was meant to be speaker... yorubas still betrayed him

[ quote author=tarekamos post=44341656]The igbos are their own problem. They enjoyed putting all their eggs in one basket. I understand the way they feel now, it was a serious political miscalculation on there leadership. Jonathan really tried for them and south south. At that time they also forgot others like south west. During Jonathan, no Yoruba man was in position number 1 -10. The highest Yoruba person then was Mrs Mulikat Adeola, the majority leader in the House of Reps. Yoruba leaders complained severally to Jonathan about but he did nothing. Jonathan appointments of chief executives did not favoured south west while south east and south south were busy changing appointments as they like. You guys never thought of leaving Nigeria then. The Yoruba leaders waited for yet another opportunity to reposition themselves and they got it right in the last election. Even today, you will still see that in south west pple do not put their eggs in thesame basket. There are PDP governors in south west as we speak. The igbos should grow their own party, that is APGA and pick a presidential candidate and sell him to others because i doubt if can ever get presidential ticket of PDP.

Deadlytruth:
After reading as much of the political history of Nigeria as is available to me, I came to the conclusion that the Northerners are almost blameless as regards this amalgamation.
Ahmadu Bello, the foremost leader the North ever had, did not miss any opportunity to declare his disbelief in amalgamation let alone "One Nigeria". His interview currently on youtube makes me respect him as he was very blunt and honest about his position on this fraud called "one-Nigeria". He obviously knew there was no possible way a Muslim North could peacefully coexist with a Christian South. In fact he described the amalgamation as the mistake of 1914 from his honest and realistic perspective.

But unfortunately some dreamers from the Christian South kept on stupidly believing they could form a country with the Muslim North despite they themselves were aware back then and hearing of war within 100% Islamic countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, etc meaning that different sects of the same religion (Islam) could not peacefully co-exist in those countries. What made those stupid and silly Southern politicians believe back then that a "one Nigeria" between the Christian South and Muslim North was attainable when different Muslim sects within the same Asian countries could not achieve oneness still remains a puzzle to me.
But sometimes I am tempted to believe that these Southern politicians too were not allowing the North go because they were eyeing the huge groundnut revenue of the North just as the North too is eyeing currently eyeing the oil revenue of the South and refusing to let go as well.
If our stupid political foreberers had just been disciplined and contented enough with their own cocoa and oil palm thus allowed the North go with their own groundnut and Islam as they preferred back then, we would not have been in this mess by now.
I also read it that it got to a point when the North even declared it was not ready for independence and added that the South was free to go ahead without them, but that Zik decided to 'sacrifice' to have the South wait till they became ready while Awolowo too agreed with Zik.
With all I have so far read I am of the opinion that we southerners actually first sought to parasitize on the North and when it failed and bomeranged on us we started complaining and calling them parasites.




Thanks for educating some pple that are talking as if they were force abnitio

MyGeneration:
Look at dz one, all things being equal of they tell us Igbo's today today dat we shud leave Nigeria or we shud choose presidency, i swear we wud leave dz country as fast as possible before some ediots change der mind.
U people can deceive gullible Igbo's with the mirage that you guys wud give them presidency very soon as a bargaining chip to mk them think that they hv hope remaining in Nigeria but u cant fool all of us.
If u guys in the middle belt and west love the north as much as u do, y is it dat none of u want to be stuck in the same country with them.