₦airaland Forum

ezenwajosh:
Alright...Awolowo didn't do the right thing to stop the war.... All he had to do was tell GOWON you're at fault your defaulted your signed agreement in aburi but instead he sided with GOWON and blamed Ojukwu and even suggested hunger as a weapon of war.... And to understand how wicked the north are they tried to use same food blockade on Yoruba people few months ago just to remind them we know the history but we only chose to play dumb and stupid when it suits us but guess what.... Igbos never blamed Yoruba market fight for the food blockade that spread the whole South we stood in solidarity and said to them to hell with that food

I can tell you that if that market fight that led to food blockade was to happen in South East.... South East will be blamed and nobody will stand in solidarity with them

I will read about the Aburi agreement
Awolowo said that the Biafran soldiers were confisticating the food
You can't feed your enemy
it's not done
it will only elongate the war

@ underlined that's not true
except if Nairaland igbos don't qualify as igbos
they mocked us to scorn
I can show you posts

ogkrakkid:
thanks.

you're welcome sir

Muna4real:
God bless you for this question. Some people have no brain.

did he support one Nigeria or not?

Idiko1:
@OP

It is a pity you can read but comprehend. If you clearly understood the first paragraph of the article you posted, a reasonable you could not have concocted the silly caption you gave to this thread. I do not know why most Yoruba people think continuous lies will turn into truths.

tell that to oilpussy the no 1 igbo propaganda machine here

he was against it simple
no lies here

read the speech

ezenwajosh:
We never hated Awolowo for that... We hated Awolowo for the war....

HE HAD RGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN MIND(RESTRUCTURING)
what was agreed in aburi accord (restructuring)
Then Ojukwu and GOWON(who is from platue state) came back and GOWON after being approached by Britain refused to hold up to his end of the signed RESTRUCTURING that was agreed(remember today the people of platue has been over runned by one Nigeria jihadists) ... Now Ojukwu had to declare a state of biafra

Now Awolowo who should say GOWON YOU GOT IT WRONG AND YOU'RE AT FAULT BY NOT HOLDING UP TO WHAT WAS AGREED ON SIDED WITH GOWON AND BLAMED OJUKWU(just like telling the village that was massacred by fulani herdsmen that it's their fault they were killed because they refused RUGA settlement) AND EVEN WENT AS FAR AS SUGGESTING AND USING HUNGER AS A WEAPON OF WAR



TODAY YORUBA PEOPLE HAVEN'T EVEN SUFFERED HALF THE KILLING OF IGBOS IN NIGERIA BUT THEY WANT OUT..... THEY NOW SEEING SAME THING OJUKWU SAW IN THE CONFIGURATION OF FULANI NORTHERN POLITICS

Am sorry it's all in caps

did Awolowo start the war?
he only made sure the war wasn't elongated


I can't read all caps
my eyes can't interprete

ezenwajosh:
Am just angry when ever am explaining to Nigerians... Am sorry

What mindset did Awolowo have?

Awolowo had a one Nigeria with regionalism mindset

ezenwajosh:
GOD FORBID I ENJOY ONE NIGERIA

AZIKIWE DID NOT STOP THEM FROM GOING.... AZIKIWE EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT THEY ARE THE REASON WHY NIGERIA WAS JOINED TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE OF THE POOR ECONOMY IN THE NORTH.... AZIKIWE WAS EVEN LOOKING OUT FOR THEM ASKING THEM HOW THEY WILL SURVIVE POINTING OUT THAT HE WAS BORN, RAISED AND GREW UP IN THE NORTH AND HE KNOWS HOW IT IS FOR THE NORTH..... AS USUAL TRYING TO PLEASE AND DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THEM..... IT WAS EVEN A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION AND AFTER THE DISCUSSION THE NORTH DECIDED THEY ARE NOT GOING ANYMORE

AZIKIWE DIDN'T ORDER A SHOOT AT SIGHT FOR ANY NOTHERNER ASKING TO LEAVE NIGERIA

then why demonize Awolowo
who had the same mindset?



don't quote me with all caps

LeeSantos:
...He should direct his anger to his tribe. Buhari won all in his state. Even the Oyo and ondo state he lost was with a close margin

isn't atiku Fulani?

ezenwajosh:
Please how many northerners did he kill and shoot at sight to keep them in ONE NIGERIA.... Please answer me

I can see that you are enjoying one Nigeria

assuming he let the north go
south Nigeria would be an African power if possible a world power

ImmaculateJOE:
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wetin do you?

mynd44 lalasticlala

(1953) NNAMDI AZIKIWE, “SPEECH ON SECESSION”
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 / CONTRIBUTED BY: BLACKPAST
In 1953 when Northern Nigerians were beginning to consider secession from the Nigerian colony that would soon be a nation, Nnamdi Azikiwe gave a speech before the caucus of his political party, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) in Yaba, Nigeria on May 12, 1953. That speech, while not disallowing secession, suggested that there would be grave consequences if the Northern region became an independent nation. Ironically, fourteen years later, Azikiwe led his Eastern Region out of Nigeria and created Biafra, a move that prompted a bloody three year civil war. Azikiwe’s 1953 speech appears below.

I have invited you to attend this caucus because I would like you to make clear our stand on the issue of secession. As a party, we would have preferred Nigeria to remain intact, but lest there be doubt as to our willingness to concede to any shade of political opinion the right to determine its policy, I am obliged to issue a solemn warning to those who are goading the North towards secession. If you agree with my views, then I hope that in course of our deliberations tonight, you will endorse them, to enable me to publicize them in the Press.
In my opinion, the Northerners are perfectly entitled to consider whether or not they should secede from the indissoluble union which nature has formed between it and the South, but it would be calamitous to the corporate existence of the North should the clamour for secession prevail. I, therefore, counsel Northern leaders to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of secession before embarking upon this dangerous course.
As one who was born in the North, I have a deep spiritual attachment to that part of the country, but it would be a capital political blunder if the North should break away from the South. The latter is in a better position to make rapid constitutional advance, so that if the North should become truncated from the South, it would benefit both Southerners and Northerners who are domiciled in the South more than their kith and kin who are domiciled in the North.
There are seven reasons for my holding to this view. Secession by the North may lead to internal political convulsion there when it is realized that militant nationalists and their organizations, like the NLPU, the Askianist Movement, and the Middle Zone League, have aspirations for self-government in 1956 identical with those of their Southern compatriots. It may lead to justifiable demands for the right of self-determination by non-Muslims, who form the majority of the population in the so-called ‘Pagan’ provinces, like Benue, Ilorin, Kabba, Niger and Plateau, not to mention the claims of non-Muslims who are domiciled in Adamawa and Bauchi Provinces.
It may lead to economic nationalism in the Eastern Region, which can pursue a policy of blockade of the North, by refusing it access to the sea, over and under the River Niger, except upon payment of tolls. It may lead to economic warfare between the North on the one hand, and the Eastern or Western regions on the other, should they decide to fix protective tariffs which will make the use of the ports of the Last and West uneconomic for the North.
The North may be rich in mineral resources and certain cash crops, but that is no guarantee that it would be capable of growing sufficient food crops to enable it to feed its teeming millions, unlike the East and the West. Secession may create hardship for Easterners and Westerners who are domiciled in the North, since the price of food crops to be imported into the North from the South is bound to be very high and to cause an increase in the cost of living. Lastly, it will endanger the relations with their neighbours of millions of Northerners who are domiciled in the East and West and Easterners and Westerners who reside in the North.
You may ask me whether there would be a prospect of civil war, if the North decided to secede? My answer would be that it is a hypothetical question which only time can answer. In any case, the plausible cause of a civil war might be a dispute as to the right of passage on the River Niger, or the right of flight over the territory of the Eastern or Western Region; but such disputes can be settled diplomatically, instead of by force.
Nevertheless, if civil war should become inevitable at this stage of our progress as a nation, then security considerations must be borne in mind by those who are charged with the responsibility of government of the North and the South. Military forces and installations are fairly distributed in all the three regions; if that is not the case, any of the regions can obtain military aid from certain interested Powers. It means that we cannot preclude the possibility of alliance with certain countries.
You may ask me to agree that if the British left Nigeria to its fate, the Northerners would continue their uninterrupted march to the sea, as was prophesied six years ago? My reply is that such an empty threat is devoid of historical substance and that so far as I know, the Eastern Region has never been subjugated by any indigenous African invader. At the price of being accused of overconfidence, I will risk a prophecy and say that, other things being equal, the Easterners will defend themselves gallantly, if and when they are invaded.
Let me take this opportunity to warn those who are making a mountain out of the molehill of the constitutional crisis to be more restrained and constructive. The dissemination of lies abroad; the publishing of flamboyant headlines about secessionist plans, and the goading of empty-headed careerists with gaseous ideas about their own importance in tile scheme of things in the North is being overdone in certain quarters. I feel that these quarters must be held responsible for any breach between the North and South, which nature had indissolubly united in a political, social and economic marriage of convenience. In my personal opinion, there is no sense in the North breaking away or the East or the West breaking away; it would be better if all the regions would address themselves to the task of crystallizing common nationality, irrespective of the extraneous influences at work. What history has joined together let no man put asunder. But history is a strange mistress which can cause strange things to happen!

see how they attacked the op

they won't say they weren't warned
my own is they must not come to the west

what's this rubbish





this is getting out of hand!

Igbochief001:
Restructure this country set may 29 2013 as implemention date

Divide Nigeria into 6 zones ...let each ethnic group decide which zone they want to belong to

Let each zone creates their province the way they want ...each province handles their resources , pays 35% to the region , region pays 35% to the federal government simple

Regional police and province sheriffs should handle security

Regions have equal number in the army simple

this is reasonable

now you're talking

that way it would be easier to secede later

we warned IPOB

this nonesense must not come to the west

optionalY09:
I don’t pity your situation because you’re already bellow the pit, unredeemable

you'll remember I told you

Aketi2:
If waving flag is sufficient to classify someone as terrorist the world would have classified Ipob as one.

To savages and their lackeys, flags are weapons, that is why they killed a lot of them at Lekki and took their bodies away.

Be assured, that the Igbos will not submit.

My joy now is that, reasonable Yorubas are now fighting back. Hope you will not be treacherous sly against the true Omoluabis whose futures is been threatened.

they became terrorists when they killed Mohammed Isa extrajudicially

I am an Omoluabi
the west is where my 1st alliegance lies
if it's get to it
I'll personally pick up arms
but for the purpose of good
not killing my fellow brothers because "Nigeria must bleed"
"when I am through Somalia will be better" according to your nnamdi

Seun:
Didn't the man he works for seize power in 1983? Why didn't the man he works for fix the problems caused by the 1975 coup?

Lai is a mad man

Valkan:
the east is no longer on fire ba

continue blowing hot and cold at same time

the east was never and may not be in fire if you guys take my advice

I always say the truth
I don't support just anyone

Aketi2:
You are not engaging in a reasonable discussion.

with who? a hardened IPOB terrorist that supports UGM?

Idiotseverywher:
. What is this one saying, what is happening in the south east? Enyi, iwu otile, you are just an anus

ok Sir


you'll remember I told you

kevapet:
I love my land reason i don't concern myself with others.

oh!!
you're omoluabi

Igbochief001:
Show me where u condemned the attacks

search my posts I always supported ESN until they killed Mohammed Isa extrajudicially

they don't kill fellow omoluabi but Boko IPOB does

we warned them

kevapet:
I won't remember s**t cuz i'm less concerned about whatever happen in ibo land.

you don't love your land?

FreedomArmy:
ebonyi people are in their ancestral land.

yes
dead in thier ancestral land killed by uncircumcised Fulani


besides south Benin is ancestral Yorubaland

Aketi2:
You are already learning the hard way. 40% of your young men are touts in SW. The only avenue which is agriculture in not working becuase the foreigners have chased your people away. You will rather hand over your wives and daughter to a 13 year old Fulani to rape.

They will only take our lands after they have sent in the Tucano and Fighter jets and have successfully killed every Igbo man. As for your people, accept your servitude, its better to be alive and go to party every Saturday, than contend with a savage tribe.

digress as you like


we shall see

you'll remember I said this

Warripikine:
No mind am! We go dey burst their eye for this forum.. Scum parasites

who is a parasite?

kevapet:
That one no concern you. Face wetin dey una abeg.

ok Sir

you'll remember my post