₦airaland Forum

So why did Awo who advocated for secession clause in 1954 fight against secession when it finally happened in 1967? Does it mean that he was merely grandstanding when he advocated for the inclusion of clause in the independence constitution. Action speak louder than words.Zik verbally opposed secession clause. Awo on the other hand fought a war & killed millions of his fellow Nigerians who actionalized the very idea Awo advocated in the past.

How do you explain the dissonance between Awo’s words on secession & action on secession?

BlowYourMind:
If zik was wise and had foresight, he would have opposed the removal of secession, but he is blind to the future, he want to be premier in the south west.

Medicine after death!

Pelumisamuel:
You just said my mind, almost everyone in the SW regrets ever voting for him

So true!

Boomkalakuta:
The massacres were widely spread in the north and peaked on 29 May, 29 July, and 29 September 1966. By the time the pogrom ended, virtually all Igbos of the North were dead, hiding among sympathetic Northerners or on their way to the Eastern region. The massacres were led by the Nigerian Army and replicated in various Northern Nigerian cities. Although Colonel Gowon was issuing guarantees of safety to Southern Nigerians living in the North, the intention of a large portion of the Nigerian army at the time was genocidal as was the common racist rhetoric among Tiv, Idoma, Hausa, and other Northern Nigerian tribes. With the exception of a few Northern Nigerians (mainly army officers who were not convinced that Igbo were innately evil), the Southern and Eastern Nigerians were generally regarded at the time in the North of Nigeria as described by Charles Keil:

"The Igbo and their ilk...vermin and snakes to trod underfoot...dogs to be killed."

Ndi-Yoruba will disagree!

The Igbos are the greatest black people in the world. without them Nigeria would have collapsed long time ago. Yoruba people should emulate them

Yes, the best Shege!

Nonny95:
The best Shege he meant😂

Please how did Zik steal NCNC from Macauley? This is the first time l am hearing this. Substantiate your claim or withdraw it because it is a big LIE — capital LIE!

confusedlady:
Azikiwe was a very unstable politician whose ideology changed with each day.....NCNC.....Biafra......NPP......
He stole NCNC from Herbert Macaulay.......in Biafra he initially supported Ojukwu but midway through the war jumped ship and declared support for Gowon and Nigeria......He stole the Nigeria people's party (NPP) from Waziri Ibrahim who had to abandon the party for him to go and form Great Nigeria people's party(GNPP).

Absolutely right. He could have maintained a NEUTRAL STANCE and allow North & East to settle their political score. But he joined his enemy, Arewa North, to fight East just because Gowon “promised” him post-Biafra Nigeria presidency.

DMerciful:
He could have stayed neutral and preoare for a possible failure of the Nigerian state to pull his people out. By encouraging Gowon to create 12 states, he ruined the regions forever.

Yorubas are complaining of Igbos in SW. It shall be so until breakup

You hit the nail on the head?

Armaggedon:
but he was civilian enough to join gowon to fight Biafra. Always giving senseless excuse like fools you guys are.

Totally agree with u!

DonXavi:
Today the same professor who called the then first lady unprintable names is saying that Peter Obi is unfit because of a few well deserved yabis thrown his way. If hypocrisy was a person!

So why were Igbo and their look ailikes prevented from voting?

JagabanB:
Everybody has a right to vote whoever they want, obidents and their audio messiah are pained.

Salewa97:
They should find the perpetrators and shoot them on sight.

One Nigeria!

Let them worry about that!

jasent:
Which wealth? If Nigeria is restructured that lagos wealth will disappear

It daft & dumb to compare Aisha not standing for hollow national anthem & INEC not obeying the electoral law. Aisha has the right of free expression. I live in USA. We have the right to burn American flag, refuse to recite the anthem or pledge. But when it comes to election all the state& federal laws must be obeyed.

Did you follow South Africa’s Election 2024. Compare it to the charade that happened in Nigeria’s Election 2023. No

Your post validates the White man’s hypothesis that the Black Race is incapable of self-governance for collective good.

ChukwuObe:
I think INEC will also be at liberty to flout electoral law in 2027 since everybody can disobey the law of the land. I hope many fools will not cry when the table turns for real

Please how did he do it?

Jagaban2012:
Aguyi Ironsi , the man who used his greed to destroy regional government . Now , everybody is groaning because of his yeye selfish policy ....

I disagree. Nigeria under better of under witches & wizards. At least, they will make the environment conducive for them to fly in the night to executive their nightly duties.

Onyiiobi7735:
Very unfortunate! The only thing worse than Witches and demons are Nigerian politicians.

Totally agree with you!

Veste:
Nigeria scamming nigerians . Believe in a better Nigeria at ur own risk. The best u can do is to make yourself better and forget about Nigeria becoming better.

Imagine criminals running a government. Who do black people this? It was not this bad under Obasanjo, Yaradua or Jonathan. I keep on saying it that nigeria is the problem of Africa.
APC go finish the remaining life in this failed British company .

Totally agree with u!

whytediamond:


Man spat out facts up on facts.

In a world going digital, the so-called giant of Africa couldn't conduct elections digitally.

This is 2024 where JAMB is written electronically but the leaders couldn't account for the billions of Naira looted all in the name of conducting a general election. Yet no one was jailed for the failure of i-Rev during a crucial and destiny changing elections.

We are a very funny entity called country.

Please can you give us a link to your write-ups & books. Some of us will like to read it. Thanks!

franchasofficia:
That is why English language have an adage that says "living in your past glory".


Prof Wole Soyinka did exploit based on the time of his youth and trend of events at that time, but he has become completely irrelevant in today's events and now living in his past glory. He ought to have left the stage when the ovation was high for him.


I write too just like Prof Wole Soyinka and in fact, my writings have been published in international platforms and gained wide audience, I also have books on sale and will soon become a PhD holder like Prof Wole Soyinka and if God keeps me alive, I will also become a Professor like Soyinka, so I see no reason why his criticism should even be taken serious if not for bigotry. What does Soyinka a 90yr old man know about today's events and current desire of the youths? He failed in all his youthful attempts to correct Nigerian dictators, little did the world know that he was only fighting for power to go to his preferred corrupt civilians so that he can have unfettered access to government funds and contracts.


What makes Wole Soyinka's criticisms of Obi more ridiculous is the fact that he agrees that Peter Obi is a man of impeccable character but his only anger is that Peter Obi's supporters are incompetent as if Peter Obi's supporters will be governing Nigeria from Aso Rock with Obi should he become President. The same stupid opinion that useless Reno Omockery have about Obi. None of them is saying Peter Obi is bad or corrupt or anything, their only problem is Peter Obi's youth support base that is not agreeing with their old way of cash and carry politics of highest bidder.


More funny is the fact that Prof Wole Soyinka support Bola Tinubu whose supporters kill, burn and destroy properties and even fought opposition voters from voting, but they are excellent supporters to Wole Soyinka but Peter Obi's supporters who only respond to critics online are the dangerous supporters not Bola Tinubu or Buhari's supporters who kill people, burn houses, cars, etc, and you say all is well with Prof Wole Soyinka's mental state?

So true!

franchasofficia:
Listen, there is a way God works, He works in ways man underrate and most times don't accept until it becomes reality.


God doesn't choose kings from the richest families, He select Kings from the least expected. If you study the Bible very well you will understand how God works.


Check the Biblical stories and see how God operated and liken it to our daily lives here and you will understand the mind of God in some issues of life here on earth.


Igbo man spearheaded the fight for Nigeria's independence and through him and many others, Nigeria got independence. I am skipping some details to drive my point for you to understand and go to meditate on it.


In 1966, a young Igbo soldier led other soldiers from different tribes with majority being Igbos to carry out a coup detat mainly to stop a political turmoil engulfing the Western Region of Nigeria known as Southwest today. That political turmoil between Awolowo and Akintola was consuming Western Nigeria and causing Nigeria a lot. The young Igbo soldiers believed so much in Awolowo as a better leader to lead Nigeria than Nnamdi Azikiwe, Belewa and co, so they staged the coup to stop the planned invasion of Western Nigeria and to free Awolowo from jail to make him President of Nigeria, unfortunately they allowed their ethnic/tribal sentiments to disrupt their initial good plans and the coup ended up being a one sided coup with mostly Northern, Yoruba and Midwestern political and military leaders being killed while their Igbo counterparts got spared. This made Northern Nigerian soldiers angry and they started to plot a counter coup to remove the Igbo man who ascended to power after the coup that removed Belewa/Zikiwe from power.


The Igbo head of state got brutally murdered, and instead of the Northern soldiers to keep the matter within the military, they saw it as a conquest and an opportunity to wipe out the whole of Igbo race, starting from innocent civilian Igbos living peacefully in the North, this led to 1966 Northern pogrom against Igbos in which thousands of Igbos got killed by Northern soldiers as Gowon the then Head of state looked on doing nothing to stop the massacre


Major Odimegwu Ojukwu being the Governor of Eastern Region then appealed to Gowon to do something to stop the massacre of Igbo civilians by Northern soldiers in the North, Gowon did literary nothing, as Igbos kept running to Ojukwu who was the leader of Eastern region then to do something, Ojukwu was handicapped, he kept appealing to Gowon yet nothing happened. In summary, Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria an independent state to stop Igbos from being killed by people they call fellow countrymen. He made this declaration in Nsukka after much consultation with Igbo tradition, academic, student, women, market, etc leaders.


Gowon wanted to allow Eastern Nigeria to go but British government refused because of the newly discovered crude oil in Nigeria at Oloibiri Bayelsa which was under Eastern Nigeria then. British Petroleum was in charge of the crude oil exploration, and Ojukwu told them to pack and go, so this made Britain to inspire Gowon to use military force to return Eastern Nigeria aka Biafra back to Nigeria. After several negotiations both the last at Aburi in Ghana, civil war broke out as Gowon declared a Police action to forcefully return Biafra back to Nigeria and Gowon mobilized Nigerian soldiers to invade Eastern Nigeria now Biafra and Biafra started resisting by using emergency soldiers and conscription of civilians into newly formed Biafra military.


Biafra proved stronger than Nigeria
backed by Britain/Russia/Egypt/etc predicted and the war lasted for 3 years until Awolowo who got released from jail and appointed as Nigeria's Minister of Finance by Gowon suggested use of starvation policy to force Biafra to surrender and the policy led to hunger, starvation and malnutrition in Biafra land which led to loss of over 3million Biafran civilians and mostly children and women, and Ojukwu was forced by Biafran leaders to surrender Biafra to save lives, so Ojukwu fled to Ivory Coast and his Vice, Philip Effiong then surrendered Biafra to Nigeria and the war ended and Gowon declared the war a "No Victor No Vanquish" and promised to reunite all Nigerians back and reintegrate Igbos back to Nigeria. Gowon failed to do this as he watched Awolowo implemented a very harsh policy that made Igbos lose all their monies in Nigerian banks before the war such that they got only 20 pounds no matter the millions.they had in bank before the war.


All Igbo soldiers, Police officers, civil servants working with Nigerian government were sacked, only few were lucky to get their job reinstated after the war. All these caused untold hardship, hunger and crime in Eastern Nigeria then, and Igbos began to migrate massively to all parts of Nigeria and the world looking for survival.


Since the end of the war, Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas who became allies in politics started to marginalize Igbos in every sphere of life. Southeast saw no much federal projects, got sidelined in federal politics and appointments, even when states were created, only Southeast region that had more population than Northcentral and Southsouth got 5 states, that was after Southeast communities were removed and added to Southsouth region in erroneous border adjustments to punish Southeast for ever trying to secede, all these and more led to complete degradation of Southeast regional infrastructures such that Igbos started self helping their communities through community development unions and individual contributions as federal government neglected Igbo land after the end of the civil war in 1970.


Igbos forgave the rest of Nigerians and reintegrated happily and started relocating to all parts of Nigeria, doing businesses, investing and living peacefully with their host communities but little did Igbos know that the rest of Nigerians haven't forgiven them as their hatred for Igbos always raise its head whenever it is time.to make federal appointment or presidential election.


Let me stop here for now


Because of all these, the living God, the God of justice and fairness made a decision that Nigeria will forever struggle with leadership until the rest of Nigerians come together and elect an Igbo person endorsed by majority of ordinary Igbos as President of Nigeria. If not, Nigeria will forever struggle with good governance.


The big men of God may never have seen this revelation but I have and I speak with all audacity that this is the ordinance of God concerning Nigeria and God made this decision to correct Nigerians unjust hatred for Igbos because God is a just God. God is a fair God. God hate injustice. God hate marginalization. God hate ganging up against one person.

Your GDP did not expand with all the projects & oil wealth, na single road project go expand ur GDP? By the way GDP is not an barometer for people-centered development.

designking:
Phase 3 & 4 are already approved and it is starting at Calabar and Akwai Ibom.

The South South will greatly benefit from this project as it will open our economy and expand our GDP

I agree with u!

quote author=Blaze14k post=130134879]Let's hear agbado people.. you know most of them think anything APC does is gold yet things have gotten worse.[/quote]

That’s how they bragged that they defeated Jonathan & installed Buhari. Imagine boasting that u engineered the emergence of a govt & ruler whose actions & inactions brings death & suffering to your own kinsmen. That’s why they referred to as SOPHISTICATED MORONs!

turmacs:
This one is bragging with the fact that he delivered a calimity as mandate. With all that's currently going in this country, dollar 1500 from 600 in less than one year in office, kidnappers everywhere, Still this one isn't ashamed to spit out this thrash. Walai some people need to be striped and flogged in a market square on a very hot afternoon.

What is the relationship of your post with his comment? OLODO RABATA!

Codepain:
Wole Soyinka fell off but you that didn't fall of your entire generation is only known deep inside imo forest.
Nairalands and clowns

OLODO RABATA!

Putinofrussia:
We still topped the chart with Lagos.
Lagos is a natural blessing to the SW just like oil and gas is to the Niger Delta.
Next year's gdp will have SW states taking the first five slots.

Perfect analogy!

ChizzyBuna:
U.A.E is like a Rich guy from a rich home
Nigeria is like that hungry Olosho in the street

Nigeria will always spread her legs for U.A.E
Olosho no care about Integrity or respect

Na Money Olosho dey find

Na lie!

MEEVEET:
So a governor believed that if mobil wanted to move to akwa ibom... It's lack of office space that would stop them?

If you want mobil to move to akwa ibom it's simple... Make a law that any company that operates in akwa ibom from outside would pay 10 x the normal Tax

If you have head office in the state u pay 0.8 x tax

Then watch them move or stay either way win win

Is it only Tinubu?

rantingpigs:
Tinubu has made the country unattractive for foreign investments. Such a big definition of a failure Promax..

Totally agree with u!

IduNaOba:
He he he
Let them come and say its miracle center
We came back from a civil war and took back our rightful place.
You can only hate Sha
But you know we no be mates
We belong with the greats

Totally agree with you

Vboot1:
Just like the cowards blamed Arthur Nzeribe for June 12 1993 annulment but can't blame IBB head of state who gave the final orders. I have never seen this type cowardice in any tribe in my life. Tribe of Cowards.

Interesting!

Excerpt...























The Nigeria-Biafra Civil War will continue
to rage, even if just in the hearts and minds of those who endure the impact of its aftermath. Philip U. Effiong, PhD

So many to read and assimilate from my old eastern brothers.. One of our own has spoken. Download pdf below