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What makes it a fact? Yes, he might not win. It only becomes a fact after February2023 Election when he loses. Until, then , Soludo's view is only a personal opionion or claim. To argue that a man's claim on a future event is a fact exposes the problem with almost all your postings on Nairaland.com which is: penchant to parrot half-truths and false narratives

TUFIAKWA!

LegendHero:
You might need to type like 50 page of lamentation for you to be heard by him.

Why wasting your time on a candidate like Obi when you know he can never win the presidency?

You mean he should post fake news about some certificate online so as to please Obi zombies?

First of all, what is your ethnic nationality?

Second, nothing goes arroud comes around. Yes, Zik was the beginning of Ndigbo problem because of his addiction to One Nigeria instead of addiction to Igbo independence. Similarly, Awolowo was also the problem of Yoruba because he fought for independent One Nigeria like Zik instead of Yoruba independence -- especially after the rejection of his suggestion of inclusion of secession clause in the constitution. But Ndigbo had an Ojukwu to correct the mistake of Zik by talking Ndigbo out of Nigeria.

Unfortunately, Yoruba didn't have n Ojukwu to correct the mistake of Awo and Zik at independence. Instead, Awolowo committed a worse mistake by going to war to force Nigerian to remain one under the domination of Hausa/Fulani oligarchy, Zik never went to war or kill Yorubas to keep Nigeria one. Awolowo dies a frustrated and disillusioned man. He was used by the North to fight Biafra for the phantom promise of becoming the next civilian president and dumped after achieving Biafra's defeat. When he attempted to claim his promise, they delivered a death blow to his ambition in 1979 and 1983 which he never recovered until his demise in 1987.

Drogunov:
What goes round comes round. Zik was the beginning of Igbo people's troubles.

What is your ethnic nationality? That will help me engage you better. You lied all through your response.

How could Zik stop Awolowo's idea of inclusion of secession clause into the constitution and made it treason to secede when Zik, Awo and Bello were under the rule of British colonialism and the British were in charge of the process of determining what was included and excluded in the constitution?

Can you disallow what is not with your control? Where did Zik get the political power and authority to declare secession a TREASON?

Bring back a region who tries to secede? Please can you show me Boro's map that shows the Eastern towns and cities that constituted his Niger Delta's Republic? Boro's so-called secession was at best a protest that should not be referred to as secession.

Perfectbeing:
First the Igbos, through Azikiwe stopped Awolowo peaceful way of secession, when he wanted included in the constitution, a secession clause. That way any region that wanted out of Nigeria could do so peacefully and constitutionally.. But Azikiwe, in his short sighted greed of ruling over all of Nigeria frustrated Awolowo and made it treason to secede.

2ndly, the Igbos, Ironsi and Ojukwu, were the first to bring back a region who tried the secede. Adaka Boro broke away the Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria and formed a country. Then Ironsi ordered Ojukwu to bring back the ND forcefully back to Nigeria.
Adaka was caught, stripped naked and sentenced to death for treason..

You Igbos made the bed. So you must lie on it.

I thought they say Yorubas don't curse their elders. You are insulting a 94-year old man who is fighting for your future and unborn generation while cheering Tinubu, a selfish and greedy fellow who has mortgaged Yoruba future for a pot of pottage.


TUFIAKWA!

OsunOriginal:
The same shameless old man has no other place to live apart from Lagos (Lekki) which Tinubu developed.

Seriously, you think Nigeria is Pakistan mate? Keep deceiving yourself.

Napata77:
That is just your mental conditioning talking, with no basis in reality.

If PAKISTAN can handle nuclear power, NIGERIA can handle it.

EGYPT is building a nuclear power plant as we speak.

NIGERIA has no excuse.

Zik didn't have to allow the Northerners to go in 1953 because it was not within his power to allow or disallow secession of any part of Nigeria. The colonial masters called the shots and the region decided whether to secede or not. A speech arguing against secession of any component speech is not allowing secession or not. It is a mere speech. There is no action behind it. The man who took action to disallow a component unit from seeding is Awolowo who joined the North to prevent Eastern Region from seeding which was a contradiction of his earlier position on secession.

SuperS1Panther:
This is the speech by Zik that the OP deleted because she does not want the world to see it again


Osus, Ojukwus and children of hate simply lack foresight. That is one of their major characteristics apart from Crime and Flat head.

If their Zik had the foresight, he would have allowed the northerners to go in 1953 and his kinsmen will not be dying for nothing on the daily basis for one imaginary and mirage of a country.

He even went ahead to form an alliance with them in 1960, prior to formation of Govt.

Please wetin concern Ojukwu in this matter. If running away is the yardstick for calling Ojukwu a coward, what do you call all those in the picture. The picture was taken in Maryland, USA - not Maryland, Lagos Nigeria.

lhordspy:
Paid enough? How

You should celebrate a courageous man who fought for the betterment of this nation. Isnt it funny, you people take interest in criticising men who stood their ground in the face of tyranny and oppression.

But celebrate, a coward like Ojukwu who ran away, disguise in women wears including pant and bras to cameroon by boat. After he had successfully sacrificed 2million of your people to senseless war.


There is level to this thing.. There is, mr Emeka.

Which bravery?

tiger28:
WHEN it comes to TRUE Heroes of democracy against wicked dictators in Nigeria........You have to give it to the Yorubas for their Bravery.

NOT some fake Nationalism because of the elections.....Tinubu really stands out here!

I am from the North and I have noticed this very well!

You people from the South that are in the army, what is your record?

Naz34:
honestly you stated the obvious truth. This has been their undoing, and i wonder why they are not smart enough to align themselves towards the directions you stated. The level of their myopic stance especially on this forum surprises me.

Which other peoples region did they want? List the regions and the time they wanted other people's region?

MindHacker9009:
They wanted others people's region that was why they lost.

What is the fundamental difference between what Baba said about Tinubu's ambition, Yoruba nation and Nigeria compared to what you said about Yoruba nation and Nigeria this attached post of yours?

LegendHero:
Nice one Baba Akintoye.

Aesthetically it’s wrong for you to even support any politician in the first place because it will go against your ideology of Yoruba nation.

Jagaban is contesting for Nigeria presidency and no secessionist must be seen within his ranks.

However even within Baba Akintoye household, if a polling booth is there, Jagaban will win that polling booth.

Nice game play by Baba.
God bless Yorubaland.

But you had the chance to solve the wicked consequence of theBerlin Conference in 1967 when Igbo seceeded from Nigeria. Sadly, your Yoruba kinsmen fought against that chance.

slimfit1:
That's why I am in the same country with a Hausa man. while my brothers in Benin and Togo are speaking Yoruba but we are neighbors instead of one country and one family. These people don't know the amount of damage they caused us as a race.

They had all these, yet they could not offerit to Buhari and Osibanjo's regime?

Moh247:






Hope 93 manifesto was a document written by the progressives under SDP and Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu was part of the formation

Renewed Hope 23 is a product of the progressive as well

Shame on Dele momodu for leaving the progressive for Atiku's dollars


The same template and manifesto, Pa Awolowo used as a progressive in old Western region, was what Pa Jakande and Chief Bola Ige used in Lagos and Old Oyo State, it's the same as Chief MKO Abiola's hope 93, it's also the same template of Lagos master plan used by Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo-Olu



.

Your hatred for Ndigbo and Ojukwu had blinded you to the fact and truths of the issue.

Tranquill:
Do your Biafra and leave the "so called South South" alone. The situation would have been worst if Biafra had succeeded under Ojukwu with the arrogance and greedy nature of the Igbos.

I was not born before the war but I followed him closely, listened to his utterances and watched his conducts
Ojukwu would have been one of the worst dictators on earth and would have killed countless number of people with different views and opinions. He was very arrogant and selfish.
I have met some people from Nnewi who are happy that Biafra failed because, even when he came back and before the Bianca issue, he busied himself sleeping about with married women and breaking homes.
Ojukwu was very close to Abacha which made Abacha release his family properties seized by the federal government to him. A selfless leader would have told Abacha that unless he releaesed the properties of other Igbos that were also seized and compensate the Biafran soldiers, he would not accept. Ojukwu did not mind but was even sidelining his own siblings. Faced with two evils, Ken Saro-Wiwa made the better choice. May his soul rest in Peace.

Don't mind the fools!

you better be earning a minimum of 600k or 1m before you start bragging about money.

You Nigerians have got to be silly. Only Nigerians look down on traders. Useless people. Mine friend supplied selfie sticks to game stores Nigeria for #60m. Game stores have contacted him again to supply more.

A trader in onitsha told me if he makes 400k a day, that means that day was a bad day.

Carlos slim is an excellent trader..using stock market as his trading platform.

All you Dummos making fun of traders should have a rethink. A gala seller makes minimum 6k a day. Do the math.

Hw many civil servants can boast of such income?

Totally agree with you!

Nchara:
BP.

No one is blaiming Awo for being a tribalist. Igbos instead blame their leaders for not being tribalists. That is what we want to change: Igbos must play tribalism in politics. Live with it or die.

TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!

Bliss4Lyfe:
Sentiments. This post goes to elaborate the grand deception dat was presented to the midwest and unfortunately the ijaws. They fed dem with propaganda and they bought into the lie. Good a thing the post outlines the shift of oil wealth from ogoniland to lagos. Dat was wat Awolowo fought for, against biafra. Sold the south out for oil wealth from the southeast region. The guys corruption knows no bound.

Your analogy is atrocious and horrible. You are comparing India that has ten times more skilled manpower in India than those in Diaspora. You are comparing India whose institutions and bureaucracy works to produce the essential goods and services. You are comparing India that practices true federalism where the states control their economic destiny and unencumbered by an incompetent and incapable Centre dominated by quota-system and federal character appointees. You are comparing India whose Diaspora citizens are trooping back to India to develop the country. You are comparing India with Nigeria where her leaders don't engage in medical tourism like all your political leaders starting from your president. Stop comparing Nigeria with other countries. Nigeria is a FAILED STATE.

No country becomes great when your best of best are imprisoned outside as ECONOMIC MIGRANTS

CyberHustle:
Our lack of organisation is stunning.
We have excess supply of dormant engineers, lawyers and accountants in the labour market. Instead of sustaining the system producing theses dormant hands, why not adjust things from secondary school level? Make more spaces available to study medical sciences and medical related courses. This can solve a lot of problems. More local doctors, more foreign doctors remitting forex crude oil cannot keep up with, better utilization of available minds.
India don't see it as a brain drain as much we do because they have robust educational system constantly adjusting to global market demands. This is how they earn huge remittances from technology and medical science.
We are cursed with leadership in Africa.


https://www.universitytimes.in/brain-drain-the-loss-of-engineers-and-doctors-in-india/

What a tragedy of a nation?

JohnDazzy:
You’re concentrating on the symptoms rather than the disease itself. The healthcare system is collapsing, the other day a patient died right in front of me, there was no resuscitation devices no ambu bag, suction machine to help increase patency of airway wasn’t functional, cpr was a waste of time. In a federal hospital sir. and these are things you will find in common ambulances in developed countries. The challenge is not just the poor pay of medical personnel but necessarily amenities to aid in good delivery of job isn’t there. Go to hospital wards, you’d see a lot of improvisations, using substandard alternatives just because the required equipment and items that should be provided by the government were not given to them. Even if the health workers want to be generous,is it their little salaries they’d use to buy equipment that the government should have provided?

So when
1. The work environment is bad enough to limit the quality of service you can provide
2. Salary is low compared to the workload and sometimes the salary is even not paid
3. Your mates outside Nigeria are flexing life
Who will not want to japa?

If the system was working well and everything was in order, nobody would want to work as a second class individual in another man’s country.

What is the business of IPOB in this matter?

LeoDeKing:
And that is how the ipob religious card gets finally nailed to the coffin. The clowns in their frenzy are even saying northern Christians will vote the pandora crook. As in, where and when did they sit with northern Christians and arrived at this weird decision?

Imagine the clown lying with reckless abandon that his brewery employed 60% of Anambra people. This blockhead dey even think at all before dishing his lies? Or does he think Nigerians are like ipob who believe Buhari died and got replaced with one jubrin?

You have growth and not development. Every sector of Nigeria, though not as huge as it is today, performed better qualitatively and had better outcome.

Reflect7:
There has been notable development since then, in many respects.

Not a single expressway existed in Nigeria in 1977. Lagos-Ibadan was our first, commissioned in 1978.

Today, such roads are the norm across Nigeria.

Many cities we have today like Calabar, Uyo, Awka, Abakiliki, Ikot-Ekpene, Minna, Jalingo, etc were villages or glorified villages in 1977. Today they are modern cities with expressways, flyovers, universities, international conference centres, and shopping malls.

Even Lagos which hosted the event for the most part, is vastly improved today in terms of infrastructure and so on.

Don't take these developments for granted.

Rome was not built in a day.

May God bless you.

derecho:
Why do I have a feeling they are doing this to hoodwink the gullible northerners to make them feel Tinubu has always been pro-north?

Tinubu, in my opinion, is for himself, immediate family and loyalists

It has already died down!

inspirator1:
Seriously huge!

Things dey happen for this country. Watch how this matter will die down.

Tinubu is an opportunist.

He is babanla OPPOTUNIST!

onuman:
Tinubu botched the 2014 CONFAB when he saw an opportunity to become president if Buhari won in 2015.

Before 2014, Tinubu had wailed from 1999 all over the SW for political restructuring of Nigeria.
Tinubu is an opportunist.
He cannot go for political restructuring of Nigeria under APC.

Thank you, my brother!

Igbojew:
See this betrayal of Southern governors talking as if he is talking to his fellow Yoruba people.This people think other Southerners are daft and dumb by trying to rub that their lies and deceit on our faces.Same Tinubu that uses restructuring mantra during 2014 APC presidential campaign under Buhari but when Buhari became president Tinubu went on AWOL here they come again with their lies and deceit.............I am that Igbojew the table shaker

Totally agree with you! The generation that survived the war were occupied with surviving the post-war economic difficulties.

DOTian:
The fact that the generation of Biafrans who took over from the ones that fought tht war, Never made a lot of noise about this like the Rwandans did with the Hutu genocide or the Armenians with the genocide pepertuated against Armenians by the Turks, is the main reason Britain is still active in Nigeria today, trying to network with the beastial fulani for another round of genocide in the East..

Folks don't know but the fact is that The Biafran genocide was the first real modern black on black genocide that was recorded in modern history! Before then, the world only had the skirmishes in the Congo that led to the death of Lumumba and the coming of Mobutu to talk about. No major wars between modern African countries. Africans were so into each other that the idea of a one country from cape to Cairo was even being muted. Gowon and his bunch of vandals put an end to that.

It was also the first time the rest of the world started seeing skinny African kids about to be eaten alive by vultures on their TVs. It was nonplussing both for foreigners around the world, and for Africans living in Africa. It was a defining moment too. Because immediately after the Biafran genocide, we started seeing all sorts of brutal , ethnic cleansing wars across Africa from Uganda, Angola, Congo again, Zimbabwe, Kenya etc. Basic copying of the Nigerian template..Strikingly, most of these wars, if not all were wars fought between different ethnic groups WITHIN the same African States and NOT between different African countries.

So it's safe to say that the likes of Gowon, Murtala, Buhari, Babangida and Obasanjo are the forerunners of the genocides and ethnic cleansings in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Angola, Sudan etc..

How do you expect a coward to campaign for his freedom when he is satisfied with crumbs from the table of his masters.

BiafraAburi:
Please campaign for your oduduwa nation and stop wasting your time writing useless epistle. Why are you agbado urchins so much afraid of living in your own oduduwa country. Must you share a country with Igbo people? can't you survive on your own?

Lagos will not be a shadow but all the chest beating will seize because they have to compete with other regions for development which is now one-sided.

CASTOSVILLA:
Because we made it so. Imagine if the country built a seaport in or around the east. Lagos will be a shadow

Can you boldly say today that yoke of Northern hegemony has been finally broken?

tomakint:
A very nice article indeed, however, I am of the opinion that the Kaduna Mafia Institution that had been the voice behind successive governments right from Gowon's regime till Yar'Adua's administration is dead and buried especially going by the restructuring at the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA)! The yoke of the Northern hegemony has finally been broken by the Jonathan's administration....he is really kicking azzes for real

Totally agree with you!

toneroforever:
We want him disgraced @ the polls & thereafter sent to retirement. It's payback time