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Please how and when did ZIK eliminate the regions?

ba7man:
Most major step the so called ingenious tribe has taken resulted in near destruction of the nation and hardship that has transcended generations.

(1) Azikiwe abolished regions and eliminated the secession clause from our constitution.

(2) Ironsi introduced coup into the mindset of the millitary which set the nation back for decades.

(3) Ojukwu dragged the nation into a civil war.

(4) Importation which they excel in is actually the biggest killer of manufacturing and the economy in Nigeria, thus weakening our currency.

If say na better tins dem dey import, e for better. Fakest and lowest quality of everything down to fake pharmaceutical drugs for sick and dying people (Collect their money, even if it means killing the sick)........ well, at least they deal in the best quality hard drugs.

Why are you insultive and abusive in a issue-driven discourse?

The content in the link you posted only highlights Zik rationale for opposing secession. It does not say Zik made the final decesion on the inclusion of secession in the independent constitution

mybiz234:
Flaathead, read the content in the link I sent to you and stop conducting yourself as an idiot.

Thae problem with fools like you is that you don't read. Yet, you will be arguing in complete blindness

Bello and Awolowo supported the inclusiin of secession clause in the independent constitution but Zik was against it. The British colonist rejected Awo's idea.

ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS!
So why didn't Awolowo insist on the separate independence for Western Region rather than staying in Nigeria with no option of seceding if post-independent Nigeria became suffocating for Yoruba?

Second, what specific force did Zik and his Igbo tribe deploy to make according to you" everyone to be together by force"

Third, which year and month was that force applied?

mybiz234:
The Igbo tribe can't lay claim to ingenuity.

If you are ingenious, your Azikiwe would have been able to see Nigeria's future and wouldn't oppose Awolowo about Nigeria's unity.

Awolowo, the real ingenious man, wanted a more flexible Nigeria that would give all constituents freedom of choice.

However, Azikiwe, the myopic one, opposed Awolowo and the British backed him up.

Ironically, the first tribe to want out of this rigid union is the same igbo tribe that wanted everyone to be together by force.

It is what you guys sowed that you are reaping.

There is no iota of truth in his comment. You are even worse than the author for defending falsehood and fabrication. Let me ask you:

When and how did Zik abolish the regions?

Golan007:
Because he told the truth?

TRASH UNLIMITED!

Aderewah:
Straight to the point.

Immediately ceass attacking other tribes and their politicians, especially Tinubu and yorubas. Then support whoever APC adopts as candidate. That person will be yoruba. Vote massively for the person and negotiate for speaker or deputy senate president.

After the 8 years of this transformational yoruba presidency, igbos will be supported by yorubas as VP to a sensible northerner.

After 8 years of that administration, an Igbo president will be repaid by yorubas in 2023. Long game. Patience. Emotional control.

If you refuse to do this, you won't have a say in Nigeria in the next 40 years. After the hausa administration in 2039, a calabar or an edo man or even Benue will be considered.

End.

ABSOLUTELY TRUE!

maestroferddi:
And Abacha outsmarted him sotey....


A smarter man would have turned the tables against all the shenanigans Abacha and Babangida were doing ..

ABOLUTELY RIGHT!

A smarter man would have turned the tables against all the shenanigans Abacha and Babangida were doing ..[/quote]

How can he be a victim? Was he forced to accept a post which was meant to for his kinsman?

Navalsadiq:
Allow him REST IN PEACE.who told you he knew he was used.he was only a victim of the military plot

INTERESTING!

haladadon:
I am richer than osun state, tinubu says


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pJ8k86Or1s

Totally agree with you.

tomakint:
My 21 Observations and Suggestions

Introduction
This piece is meant to be meditatively studied and not to just glance through. It is not mere effusions from a confused mind, but that of a sound and discerning mind. It is the absolute truth about our great country, Nigeria. Initially, we as a division have our respective peculiar problems. Eventually, we became a unit as a result of the unfortunate, ill-planned, directionless amalgamation of 1914. Yet, our problem remains! There is no shame in towing the path of bravery by going our separate ways before things get out of hand (of course, the ominous clouds have started gathering foretelling what will unfold soon). The North have their peculiar orientations totally different from the South’s orientations, all we need do is to respect one another and come to a point of realization that when we part ways it will be a sign of mutual understanding for our different ideologies. Those who express fears that parting ways may throw each divided parts into more chaotic situations are not good students of history. Many countries have towed this path of destiny and just with a little perseverance are the better for it today – Nigeria will not be an exception!
We don’t have to wait and fold our hands as if all is well. I do not intend to insult the intelligence of any tribe, unfortunately anytime issues of this nature is reared up, it will always appear some peoples’ intelligence are being attacked. The subject of this piece is about our separation that can be done meaningfully through CONFAB – REFERENDUM, no point shedding blood, we can separate PEACEFULLY!

Observation 1: Definitely, Nigeria can never be one no matter how hard we try (ironically, for we to grow we need to be one). We will definitely understand the language of being one when we part ways on the long run, because we were not meant to be together in the first place.

Observation 2: Southern part and Northern part have to go their separate ways for any meaningful developments (be it structural, intellectual to take place). Northern part (especially the Northwest and Northeast) and Southern part are like water and oil, they can never mix together.

Observation 3: 2015 will definitely be too hot to handle for the governments security wise. Nigeria may likely open a new vista in her convoluted political history.

Observation 4: This politics of “it’s my turn to rule” is purely demonic and undemocratic”, as there have never been any reasonable and meaningful lasting developments targeted towards the many citizens of this country especially from “rulers” in the Northern parts.

Observation 5: Democracy will never fix our problems; we are different from the United States. This is a wasteful system of government as far as we can see, compared to even the military (before you axe me check your facts on this and you will be amazed at how extravagant our incompetent politicians are). Of course, I am not supporting the military comeback. A Sovereign National Conference or Confederacy (through Regionalism as practiced in the 60s may just be appropriate).The warning is this; Jonathan may just be the last Nigeria’s President!

Observation 6: Corruption gives room for all manners of shortcuts to “making it big” within the cycle of governments, hence we are at a standstill.

Observation 7: Our so-called leaders are not sincere with the led, the more reason we are not developing.

Observation 8: Good roads, stable power supply, vibrant agriculture, efficient securities at all levels, well-planned job creations and efficient educational and financial systems must be integrated into the system if Nigeria must attain stability in the near future.

Observation 9: Our judicial system is a farce and a great mockery to what genuine democracy is. Judgments have been slaughtered on the platter of MONEY – A big shame!

Observation 10: We are too fearful to take our destinies in our hands as a nation and this has affected virtually all the citizens of this great country.

Observation 11: We are fond of celebrating mediocrity and glorifying stupidity in almost all our endeavours towards nation-building.
Suggestions – Fielding qualified personnel to place of authorities and not political appointees is the answer to this anomaly.

Observation 12: The only thing constant in Nigeria right from her independence is LIES! No nation can develop on the foundation of LIES – I am still standing to be corrected!

Observation 13: Going our separate ways is not the end of the world, only greedy, blood-thirsty, visionless leaders always drums up support for our “unity that is not united”. We have been in the wilderness of this deception for too long, let the North go their way and the South go their way and we shall see the light we have been craving for instead of this groping in the dark.

Observation 14: Only “very few” Religion leaders in the country know the mind of God for this country and are still on the path of truth.

Suggestions – May God continue to keep this “very few” (Amen).

Observation 15: About 90% of Nigerians understand the language of FORCE; about 70% are ravished by POVERTY, about 60% of the working force is JOBLESS, about 40% are criminally-minded when not in PRIVILEGED POSITIONS/ PLACE OF OPPORTUNITIES, about 90% are criminally-minded when in PRIVILEGED POSITIONS/ PLACE OF OPPORTUNITIES. Indeed, danger looms in the not-too-far distance.

Suggestions – Point 8 should be strictly considered!

Observation 16: It is very certain that there is no LOVE among us, hence, the lack of unity. The more reason we cannot continue to do the same thing over and over again and expect different unique results – impossible!

Observation 17: Political parties are unique instruments of polarity as far as “Nigerian Politics” is concerned, this we shall see before 2015 – mark my words.

Observation 18: There is nothing strange in Buhari’s utterances, that is what a typical Hausa – Fulani man is behaviourally (easily-provoked), the same applies to many of his tribesmen either in the elite class or the cattle-rearers. The only difference is that, he is not a pretender and he got the balls to express himself while his other “elite tribesmen” are pretenders and extremely dangerous – Jonathan beware!

Observation 19: There is nothing strange in Boko Haram’s activities as far as I am concerned, they believe they are championing the cause of Allah as laid bare in the Quran, and penciled down by their great Prophet, Mohammed. Remember the activities of an average Hausa – Fulani man during their many riots and how they dealt with their southern counterparts who reside in the North – wake up people!

Observation 20: Indeed there is a great confusion in the land, our leaders are just pretending to be in control, and time that heals all wounds will still be the definitive factor that will prove this noble truth!

Observation 21: There can never be PEACE in the core north why? Too many innocent bloods have been shed in that part of the country (start your personal research from 1955 and you will be amazed at the rate of the senseless killings) yet they are still incorrigible instead of them to be penitent!

Note: Only genuine prayers to God and a willing heart to turn away from these wicked acts can reverse the looming dangers – we can keep on dreaming thinking all is WELL, when indeed all is not WELL!

Why are you bothering yourself with the fellow. He is a Yoruba man and an average Yoruba is ahistorical - drunkenly and giddily ahistorical

pchukwudi:
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Young man, you are simply trying to interprete history from your current perspective without due regards to historic facts. You simply have no grasp of the facts. And your speculations do not appear so logical to me.

For starters, here are some facts and thoughts to ponder:

1. Contrary to your insinuation, the yorubas were not neutral during the war.

2. Lots of Yoruba soldiers fought on the Nigeria side, while some fought on the Biafra side.

3. The actual reason Yorubas did not alley with the easteners enmass was because of hate politics spread in the west in pre-67 elections, where akintola portrayed yorubas as economic victims to igbos whom he claimed dominated comnerce in lagos. He conviniently blamed this false yoruba victimization narative on Awolowo, who obviously was pro igbo at the time.

4. When akintola was killed during the coupe Awolowo had his chance to steer the west in the right direction but he had not the guts.

5. If the yorubas had solidly stood with the igbos on ojukwu's demands the north would not have had the morale to go into the war considering that the midwestern region was also a willing alley to the eastern region.

This is my last on this discurse.

"At the aburi conference, it was northern, western and Midwest regions against eastern region. You can’t win a war when you’re outmanned and outgunned"

Q#1
Why would Western Region support Northern Region whose position and stance in 1967 was rabidly pro-North and unabashedly against the long-term interest and well-being of Western Region and the entire South?

Q#2
Why would Western Region and Yoruba willingly support her long-term enemy (Northern Region) to politically behead Yoruba head only to start complaining in future, after the damage has been inflicted, that Yoruba have no head?

Q#3
What would have been the state of Nigeria - and South in particular - had Yoruba courageously joined Ojukwu and Eastern Nigeria to resist the Northern Nigeria hijack of power or insisted on the implementation of Aburi Accord?

Q#4
Have your read, Indepth, the content of Aburi Accord?

Q#5
Do you know that Awolowo supported Aburi Accord before opposing it after Gowon offered him the Greek gift of political appointment?

Q#6
What have Yoruba nation gained for aligning with Gowon and Northern Nigeria to fight for fraudulent One Nigeria/Nigerian Unity instead of Ojukwu and Eastern Region to usher for both Yoruba and Igbo nation?

Q#7
Why did Awolowo end up as the best president Nigeria never had instead of the best the president Nigeria ever had?

Q#8
Who is having the last laugh on Nigeria and laughing at Nigeria - between Ojukwu and all the political and military opponents that fought against him in the Northern Nigeria-Biafra War?

Q#9
Can you give me names of at least 5 military or political figures - dead or alive figures from the south or non-Muslim Northern who fought against Ojukwu that is happy about (1) their anti-Biafra stance (2) state of Nigeria and (3) condition of their region/ethnic group vis-a-vis Hausa/Fulani?

ipobcannibals:
Ojukwu, as soldier should have know that the war will be lost from the onset, because if he had any sense at all and value Igbo/eastern lives, he should have seen it coming at Aburi. At the aburi conference, it was northern, western and Midwest regions against eastern region. You can’t win a war when you’re outmanned and outgunned.

The truth about that war hasn’t been told to Ndigbo yet, because if it had been told, many Igbo would start to see Ojukwu in a different light as someone who was careless with eastern/Igbo lives. Today, the SS does not want to hear anything about Biafra because of the unnecessary deaths it brought to them and it’s time Ngidigbo understand that Biafra is death and has never brought any good to Igbo.

You hear some facts. You don't hear facts. You interrogate issues and events to ferret out facts

Coldie:
I hated that civil war I swear. That was igbos biggest mistake it’s the only thing I wish I can erase from our history.


When I heAr some facts about it I begin to ask myself if Ojukwu was really a hero, I heard that sometimes in the war when there’s no weapons he would bundle hundreds of Igbo youths with cutlass and stick send them to the battle front to fight against an army with rifles and ak47 if that wasn’t enough when they started running out of matured soldiers they turned to kids as soldiers, he was loosing the war but refused to give up despite all advice, men who tried to go against him was executed, but instead kept sending people to their death until he ran away finally

Where and when did Ojukwu apologize?

Nyanmiridunce:
Ojukwu messed up but it was wise of him to apologize to Nigeria how stupid he was. Lamidi cownu is currently towing that lane and he's been caged like ewúrẹ́ ìyá àlákẹ.

Substantiate your assertion with empirical evidence.

Hisbah21:
Even Ojukwu knew before his death he fought a clueless war. he turned alot homeless

True words indeed!

BaronCorbin:
While the caption was made this way to get attraction, let be it explicitly stated that the caption was not meant as an insult for any tribe or for any person. That being said, let me make some salient points very clear and I will be very brutal

The internet have been filled with hullabaloo on how "an editor called the Yoruba nation sophisticated morrons and how Igbos are against the making of June 12 democracy day". Well this letter serves as a reminder as to why their are oddities of this nature of recent. It also serves to set many misinformations straight before outright lies become truths.

(1) Dear Yoruba nation, Igbos are not against the naming of June 12 as Nigerian democracy day. We are not for or against the idea because it does not really affect us in anyway and we are not constitutionally bound to it. For all we care, Buhari can name the whole 12th day of the the whole 12 calendar months as democracy day. It doesn't change the fact that the day we celebrate democracy day is May 30th which we have resoundingly made clear to governments prior before the naming of June 12 as democracy day. Igbos all over the world recognise May 30th as the day of our fallen heroes. Case Closed! But immediately the announcement was made about democracy day being shifted to 12, many political jobbers cashed in on it, opened so many alternative monikers and started castigating the Yorubas about the awards. Most of them are PDP online warriors who are hell bent on making the elections a very tribal thing. The Yoruba people in their so called sophistication cashed in on the attack and started insulting the whole Igbo race. I can bring evidence of how they insulted my tribe to the last! So many threads were opened and were asking "Why are Igbos angry about the announcement of June 12". We swallowed all with pride. Now it has come back to bite them! How?

(2) I spoke above, on how so many threads were opened seeking to know why "Igbos are angry about the announcement of June 12 as democracy day". Well if I may ask some of you unlettered human beings; who are the Igbos you are talking about? The last time I checked, Igbos are a powerful nation of over 40 million people. Our achievements all over the world are there for the whole world to see and bear witness to. The average Igbo man is more interested in his business and family welfare to care about some useless May 29 handover date or June 12 election annulment date! Check my profile and you will see the day Igbos celebrated their democracy day! It was resounding and overwhelming statement to the Nigerian state that we are not loyal to this very useless nation which does not give a single Fucck about its lower citizenry! If you doubt me, come to Onitsha where I stay and ask the average Citizen about the new democracy day of Nigeria! I can bet my balls that only 1 in 10,000 heard about the News except those on Nairaland! Case Closed again!

(3) Some dingbats who felt that insulting Igbos on Nairaland is not enough took it to twitter and other media outlets. Many of them took it to vanguard news site and was insulting the heck out of Igbos. Let me tell you guys... You people don't know the calibre of people who read that news site. You people go there, insult vanguard as pro Biafra news site, call it all sorts of tantrums and vitriols and then expect that there won't be a backlash right? I have literally seen where so many e-diots go to vanguard just as they do on Nairaland and voice out their disgust about Igbo people there. They keep on reminding them on how they lost the 2015 elections. Well, do you think it will not get to somebody someday? Well, there you have it! You people can cry us a river from now till thy kingdom come. There is nothing you people will do now that can really affect the Igbo nation except maybe... Be mean and tactically wicked to the Efulefus who built houses in your states, doing business there and are schooling there. We warned them already on how you people can be tactically dangerous and betraying without coming out to the front to state it! So other than being mean to those ones in your area, every other thing is useless online rant that really changes nothing!

(4) The Agbero Akiolu connect! Do you guys remember the above named tout? Who willingly said he will drown Igbos if they vote against APC? Do you guys remember how your folks supported him on Nairaland? Even some dingbats carried placards warning Igbos on insulting their king... I laugh in Swahili Well, is that King a respected person in Yorubaland or Not? How many Yoruba people condemned the animal who is the Nigerian version of Hitler that killed 6 million Jews for not supporting him?

(5) On yorubas and IGBOS not being mates quote being used by so many Yoruba on this forum. Hahahaahahahahahahahahaa! Please allow me laugh for 10 minutes. Well, I don't know who deceived this current Yoruba generation that Igbos are dragging anything with them. The last time I checked, the sky is very high and wide for every bird to fly to their destiny. We are not in any dickk measuring contest with any tribe. The last time I checked again, Igbos are a highly successful tribe much to the envy of so many tribes in the world. The secrets of their success is left to Chukwu Okike kere Uwa. Is it the Transport sector, Movie sector, Nollywood, Religion, Technology, Sports, Education, Pharmaceuticals, Medicine line, Entertainment? The only sphere Igbos are not successful in Nigeria is just politics which is something borne out of wickedness to subjugate them! If they cry out, they say they have victim mentality... Wow! You are holding somebody back and expect him or her not to fight back? Go to Europe and America and see how Igbo sons and Daughters are winning Parliamentary seats! In true countries governed by rule of law and order, Igbos are winning! Even your Yoruba son Davido had his brains cooked and fuccked out by an Igbo lady that he had to scream Igbos are winning. You see? So Yorubas no need to drag anything with you people. You guys met the white people almost 20 years before we met them! But it took the Igbos nothing more than a year to surge and catch up with whatever you people learnt already and eclipsed it. Cry me a river too cry babies! True Igbo sons don't care!

I can go on and on.... He who brings ant infested wood home should not be angry when Lizards come visiting. Any person you people see on Nairaland going against the June 12 day is not a true Igbo person. True Igbo sons have never really cared about May 29 not to talk of June 12! What is our business there? There was a country called Biafra by Chinua Achebe and that is what keeps on reminding us forever that there was a country we have to keep on searching for!

N.B
Let me also to point also point out there are so many Hausas and Fulanis on this forum! Thousands of them posing as either Igbos or Yorubas. There duty is to fan the embers of hatred to the benefit of their region. Because at the end of the day, this has always been there tactic of remaining in Power! If they do a calculation and see that they will loose election in APC, all of them will support PDP and if they see that they will loose in PDP, they will revert back to APC! Have a nice day! Case Closed!

"Don't forget that Ifeajuna schooled in UI which was the first University in Nigeria and established by Awolowo"

UI was established by the British -not Awolowo!

Deadlytruth:
I disagree that Yorubas initiated the coup. One thing that was very clear was that both Ifeajuna (the actual arrowhead of the coup) and Nzeogwu had tremendous reverence and respect for Awolowo. Nwobosi (the Ibadan axis commander of the coup) recently granted a press interview in which he declared that among all the leading politicians back then (i.e. Balewa, Bello, Zik, Awolowo, Okpara, Akintola, and Okotie-Eboh) only Awolowo could not be classified as a mediocre hence the original plan of himself, Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu was to kill all those directly and indirectly involved in Awolowo's imprisonment and then free Awolowo and forcefully install him as the prime minister whether he liked it or not. Don't forget that Ifeajuna schooled in UI which was the first University in Nigeria and established by Awolowo. Nzeogwu was a no nonsense and 100% detribalized and ascetic army officer who was disgusted by the governing style of the coalition between Bello, Balewa, Zik, Okotie-Eboh and Akintola, so much that only in Awolowo he saw an excellent alternative. Why those young military men were so convinced of Awolowo remains a puzzle however. So it was clear that it was not really a Yoruba coup but a patriotic coup in conception but tribalized by Ifeajuna at execution stage.

They remind igbos that they are land locked and so cannot survive. I laugh at the parochial conclusion,


I laugh also at their parochia lconclusion

Built2last:
An average Igbo man doesn't trust a yoruba man.

The war left a bitter experience that older Igbo generations have cascaded down to the younger ones.

It is unfortunate because its a blanket belief.

The Igbos felt that, to have sustained themselves with their own economy, transportation, accepted currency in 47 countries, they would have won the war if not that Yorubas through Awo, aligned with the north. That bitter experience Igbos will not forget in a hurry.

The agitation for seccession has been sustained by Igbos since after the war and Yorubas are the first to shout and scream there shall be no Biafra each time Igbos talk. This comes with apprehension in trusting Yorubas by Igbos.

I beleive in stronger south. The united south with stronger economy have no business being ruled by the north.

Look at the current security leadership of Nigeria. Military and para-military all Northerners.

its nothing but to consolidate and engender a stronger hegemony.

Yoruba leaders desire to be a republic because they have all it takes to be a great nation, but do not want to be at the fore-front of it.

I am amazed that Yorubas with the greatest seaport in Africa are scared of forming a strong nation.

They remind igbos that they are land locked and so cannot survive. I laugh at the parochial conclusion,

Europe has 27 member states, only 14 have access to water. the other 13 is land locked and some of them have existed for centuries.

look at Monaco and Gilbratar in Europe, these countries have practically nothing but services but leave well.

Igbos have River Niger bordered at Onitsha.

When dubai was established in the 80s. the country was a wilderness. today they boast of 14 lakes and still conquering nature.

can we have a stronger south? Yes we can

Right on point!

snowwhyte607:
*No region in Southern Nigeria needs One Nigeria to survive.*
(A must read pls.)



*Buhari’s government is a necessary evil. Necessary in the sense that each region that makes up the contraption called Nigeria has come to see the union as an open-faced lie that it is, and is weighing its options. While the South West, which became the backbone of the Northern dominance over the South for the past 6 years tries to pull back from the alliance, the South East and South-South which have been waiting for South West to get ready to crash the fraud, sit back and watch.* South West has managed to corner the economic power of the country while the North keeps the political power through the unverified population claims.

While the South West negotiates with economic and media power, the core North negotiates with unverified population political power.
The South-South, especially the Ijaw areas negotiates with cutting off the mainstay of the nation’s economy. This implies that if the gas trunk line from Escravos is cut off, half of Lagos and Ogun will be out of power till it is restored, so they're listened to.
But South-South lost so many economic potentials due to years of inter-tribal wars and militancy. Lagos was able to gain what South-South lost by promoting itself as safe and peaceful; again with the power of media.
The Ijaw-Itsekiri war forced many multinationals to relocate to Lagos from Warri.
Years of militancy further stripped Port Harcourt of its garden city status, removed most of the benefits of oil the region had to the gain of Lagos while it became an ecological wasteland.

*However, the South-East has nothing to negotiate with, because it has failed to build a local economy with its huge human capital, natural resources and individual financial war chest.*
Building an economy entails full industrialisation of the region.
The governors have not thought beyond the monthly allocation from the federal government, and their innate quest to fritter away the commonwealth of the people of the region to set up a system that taps from the ingenuity of their people.
Setting up this system means that there will be a direction and objectives to be achieved in say, 10,20, 30 years time.
*This system will build a market that is interconnected and becomes a go-to for entire West Africa. Instead, the economy of the region is scattered in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and only returns to either build filling stations or hotels.*
*But the "hotel and filling stations" economy does not offer sustainability or keep the money in the East as no raw materials and labour are sought.*
The inability of the leaders to think beyond their stomachs is why Aba has no good internal roads, let alone the ones that connect her to Akwa Ibom to facilitate the movement of goods from Nigeria to Cameroon.

Nigeria is dominantly a gas nation and has the highest proven gas reserve in the whole of Africa with over 202 trillion cubic feet of gas reserve.
*A greater proportion of Nigeria's gas reserve is in the south East. None of the Igbo leaders licking the anal hole of Abuja men has thought it wise investing in electricity, using their Abuja connections to add value to the economy of the region except one.* Investment in electricity is a good starting point for industrialisation. The totality of Imo, Anambra and Abia are sitting on huge NAG reserves.
While Escravos Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS) supplies 2.2 Million standard cubic feet per day, the Assa North-Ohaji South project which holds more than 4.3 trillion cubic feet of NAG is the largest greenfield gas condensate development projects being undertaken in Nigeria and expected to supply 600 million cubic feet of gas daily. This will translate to 2.4 GW of electricity that can power more than 5 million homes. But the shocker is that it will not be used for electricity in the South East.
Imagine 2.2 GW of electricity in Onitsha and Nnewi and Emene industrial areas.
*The first conceptualised domestic gas supply project was the Aba-Owerri-Nnewi-Onitsha Pipeline Project but it was abandoned for the Ajaokuta - Kaduna - Kano project.*
There is also no domestic gas project covering the entire Niger Delta, despite the fact that the region supplies to Lagos and Ajaokuta. So what have the leaders in these areas been doing?

Another reason why these gas reserves in the East are not being developed is because of the so-called "competitive market and infrastructure to harness them".
*Oil Serve is deep into gas development in Ukwa and Asa and built the supply base for the 188 MW Geometrics gas-powered plant. But Igbo leaders sat down and watched as Prof Bat Nnaji and Emeka Offor's Interstate electricity battled for nearly 8 years, depriving Aba of the needed power that will restore its industrial potentials.* The funny part is that it took Vice President Osibanjo to wade into the dispute to settle it while Ohanaeze drank champagne from house to house. Taunting yourself as holding over 60 per cent of the country's capital while there is no back up local economy will backfire as it did in the 60s when push comes to shove.

Igbo leaders over the years missed the lecture.
*Their inability to invest in youths like Zik, MI Okpara and Sam Mbakwe did, by setting up critical infrastructures like electricity and good transport systems pushed the youth to the wall.*
Their complicity and reliance on Abuja meant that their people no longer take them seriously.

Instead of Arthur Eze using police to harass Abba people, he could have teamed up with Seplat and Oil Serve for a gas pipeline to Onitsha and Nnewi. They can source $3 billion for the project. With Arthur Eze's connect in Abuja, nothing will stop it. But what do we get? People who just want us to clap for them for driving Rolls Royce on tattered roads. Now the youths are fighting back, choosing death than to back down. Currently, there is a struggle for the control of the soul of the East, between the youths and the traditional politicians. Instead of using dialogue to settle the disagreement, the politicians rely on the same Abuja which understands nothing but brute force to crush the resistance. *However, the consistent militarization of the East has not scared these youths but has emboldened them. From flying flags to now wielding AK 47 assault rifles, the next phase is already known.*
They have failed to understand that this generation won't tolerate what their fathers tolerated.

*Moving on, Nigeria breaking up, violently, is a matter of when and no longer that of 'if'.*
*We have all come to the brutal reality that each region needs an armed group that will speak for it in times like these.*
Even the central government with its clear lack of direction is beginning to prepare grounds for eventual break up of the union, through the appointment of people of Buhari’s ethnic group in juicy positions to steal as much as they could and using the wealth from the south to build an economically irrelevant railway to the Niger Republic. Despite all the noise, they would find out that all they contribute to the union are onions, cabbage, tomatoes and meat.

*It is funny that Nigeria has not found a way to connect its economic clusters of Lagos, Aba, Onicha and Port Harcourt with rail but has all of a sudden found a way to connect an economically arid Niger Republic whose GDP is not up to that of Anambra.*
The significance of this is profound. The North West has more affinity with the Niger Republic, Chad and Mali than the rest of the country.
That is why under Buhari, railway, refinery etc will get to Maradi. It is also why governors from the Niger Republic attend political campaigns in places like kano and Katsina.
*It is why herders are imported from Niger down to Chad and the Central African Republic to cause mayhem all over Nigeria while Abuja turns the other way.*
*It is why Gas is channelled from Obrikom/Obiafu to Kaduna, Kano while Bayelsa has no stable electricity.*

*Nigeria is the biggest fraud to ever exist and it took the docile South just six years of Buhari to finally see what has been going on for about 60 years.*

*It was within these 6 years that the people who criminalised Kanu and his IPOB for only flying flags and demanding their own country began actively negotiating with terrorists, resettling them and publicly demanding amnesty for them.* When they moved against Igboho, the South West resisted. The core North was handicapped and couldn't sustain its propaganda in the Sasa incident because the South West plugged off its media power from their mouth. Outdone, they sent Kadiari Ahmed to appeal to journalists not to blow up the country while failing to put the blame squarely at Buhari’s nepotist feet. Nobody threatened to burn down their shops in order to cow them, a common threat issued to our people from the South East.

*Will the bandits get the amnesty?*
*I bet you they will. If you doubt it, then you are not paying attention enough.*
If the politicians whose actions led to the insurgency in North East, found a way to create a North East development commission, banditry is also geared towards a North West development commission which will sap more money from the South to the North while the wait for the D-day continues.
*Those shouting that the "Unity of Nigeria is not negotiable" are only waiting to steal enough.*
With the way the union is tearing apart, there will be little to no time to even negotiate.

Those who tell you that South East is landlocked do not see how wide and deep River Niger and Imo River are.
The Port of Hamburg which is the 15th busiest port in the world and the busiest in Germany is along the Elbe River which is not as wide as the Imo River or Niger River.
Google is your friend.
They tell you that these rivers pass through other states to get to the ocean.
But if Nigeria breaks up, those rivers will be bound by international water treaties or might be decided through other unconventional means.
If you go to St Petersburg in Russia, you notice several motorised bridges that open at night for cargo ships to pass and close in the day for vehicles.
While the biggest vessel to ever berth in Nigeria is 10,000 TEU, the Elbe River carries vessels above 24,000 TEUs.

If Hamburg is Nigeria, you know how the story will turn out.
The government is not thinking.
You should also not stop thinking. Those who make peaceful coexistence impossible make violent balkanisation possible.
Sadly, they're in power.

Dr Dennis U. Ekumankama, MFR.

Indeed as usual

pinkPUSSY:
The suspects are Alfa Yunusa Atikoko, and Wasiu Ajikanle.


As usual..


YMM

25000 × 16 = 400k

The are like Siamese twins

DennisEche:
AFONJA AND HUMAN PARTS .... THE HEADSLAMMING CORPSE ARE THE MOST AFFECTED. BECAUSE TO DIG 6FIT CHRISTIANS CORPSE GO HARD

Indeed you are SOPHISTICATED slowpoke!

Gazzy88:
Anything ibos does today, Yoruba has done and left it years ago. This people are fighting the reality that yorubas are miles ahead of them. They are doing everything possible to pull us down so they can take our place but the more they try, the harder it gets for them. Anything or anyone that stands against their agenda to dominate Yorùbás, they strive to hate and ridicule it.

They don't just hate tinubu for hating sake, they hate him because he has Lagos in his pockets which doesn't go well with ibos. They hate the whole yorubas cos Lagos falls on our laps and ibos find it difficult to admit the reality.

DID NIGERIANS IN LONDON ALL LEAVE BRITAIN FOR NIGERIA WHEN NIGERIA WAS FIGHTNG BRTIAN FOR INDEPENDENCE?

AWO went to London for his legal education and sent his son to London for higher education while fighting Britain for Nigeria's independence. The level of your reasoning is atrocious. No wonder the black man is regarded as intellectually inferior to the white man. By the way in 1967, Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Lagos-Abẹ́òkúta expressway was busy with vehicular activities conveying all ibos back to the east' after which they declared Biafra. We left your God-forsaken Yorubaland. You went to war to kill us and force us back to Nigeria. Have you apologized to us for forcing us back before you now want us to repeat the same thing?

You can't even write simple correct English. You write proper nouns in small caps. TUFIAKWA!

Gazzy88:
We've been waiting for that day when Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Lagos-abẹ́òkúta expressway will be busy with vehicular activities conveying all ibos back to the east so we can close the gate at ore on you when the last vehicle cross.

STOP ADVERTIZING YOUR IGNORANCE. CORRUPTION IS NOT NIGERIA'S PROBLEM - BUT A HUMAN PROBLEM. ALL THE COUNTRIES WITH THOSE BEAUTIFUL INFRASTRUCTURES ARE MORE CORRUPT THAN NIGERIA.

God1000:
Corruption has dealt us a heavy blow in this country, Nigeria is the only country that retrogresses every year, no progress since 1960.

I don't know when this ugly circle will end.

USELESS SW APC GOVERNORS WHO SOLD THEIR BIRTHRIGHT - YORUBA LIBERATION - FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE

SmartPolician:
This is how sane minds should be thinking, not comparing Sanwo-Olu to one voice-cracked thug who uses machete to address his audience.

What happened yesterday is enough for the Southern governors to push for state police.
Nigeria needs sensible people in government because the masses with bear the brunt of thuggery and gangsterism in the corridors of power. We have done that for over 60 years.

Lagos State is terrible in terms of water supply. Every house in Lagos has it own water supply - borehole and overhead tank. True or False?

Moferere:
The same Onitsha o?

Have they fixed their lack of water?

Enugu and Onitsha are terrible in terms of water supply.

"The coup being an ethnic cleansing /agenda isn't even debatable"

How did you arrive at the conclusion that the coup carried by military personal of different ethnic groups being ethnic cleansing/agenda?

Can you show me empirical evidence that Awolowo came to Onitsha to discuss with Zik?

Igbokid:
You keep running around in a circle.
I like the way I'm exsanguinating you.

Your initial lie was that AG and NCNC didn't have the numbers but ever since I bursted your lie , you've resorted to shifting the goal post just to save face .

Kindly point out the part where I claimed Awo and AG were one and the same . Stop lying abeg !
Don't you have any honour ?? It's even a faceless medium for Pete sake

If you had any working neuron in that brain , you would have realised that I said that the coupists ''claimed" ... However, the result of the coup revealed the motive behind it - Ibo domination.

The Ibo treachery and backstabbing of Jan1966 was well documented . They killed the NPC leaders but miraculously allowed Zik and his counterparts that formed the so called corrupt government to walk free.

The coup being an ethnic cleansing /agenda isn't even debatable .

You being a typical Ibo with extreem greed and dishonesty would never agree that your useless forebears in typical Ibo fashion laid the foundation of Nigeria's woes and we are yet to recover from the mistake of January 15 1966. Ciao!

Your response is stinks to high heavens. You are a pedestrian and logic-impaired commentator. You are all over NAIRALAND spewing half-truths and fabrications. You make a substantive statement in thread and in another thread, you contradict and invalidate your earlier statements.

Here is the statement that attracted my response.
"Excerpts from the paper shows the Western Region is the most developed and richest region in Nigeria pre-1960, and it also capture succinctly what I have been saying that the Yorubas will be far better off with our Oduduwa Republic than remaining in this Nigeria that is pulling us down

Your response ("Why change a system that is working in the first place?') is contradictory to your statement, ("I have been saying that the Yorubas will be far better off with our Oduduwa Republic than remaining in this Nigeria that is pulling us down")

The system could not be working if remaining in Nigeria is pulling Yoruba down. The system could not be working if the Bello and Zik hated Awolowo with so much passion that they sought to pull him down. Why would Awolowo want to remain in the same country with the same people that hated him passionately?

Your response ("Awolowo do not make hasty decision like Ojukwu............Moreso Awo doesn't have the power (at least looking at the situation pre the civil war) to declare secession coz declaring secession is not a tea party or something one just decide as a loner" "Also Yoruba independence will be based on Yoruba terms and not just based on reflex of Eastern region declaring the same") contradicts your comment ( "I have been saying that the Yorubas will be far better off with our Oduduwa Republic than remaining in this Nigeria that is pulling us down")

The 1966/67 crisis was a golden opportunity gifted by providence to Awolowo to peacefully and bloodlessly pull Western Region out of Nigeria that is, according to you, pulling Yoruba down. Yoruba could never have asked for such a better opportunity. The two Yoruba enemies -Eastern and Northern Regions - were fighting each other. All Yoruba needed to do was to stand aside and allow their two enemies to destroy themselves. Instead Awolowo joined the North - the region that hated him with so much passion - to fight Biafra and sustain One Nigeria which was pulling Yoruba down. I agree with you that Yoruba independence will be based on Yoruba terms and not based on reflex of Eastern Region. It is over 50 years since Igbo declared Biafra. When will Yoruba declare their freedom from this Nigeria that according to you is pulling her down. Since that 1950s, Yoruba has been making noise about secession from Nigeria. But they are only good at talking the talk not walking the talk.

On May 1, 1967 at a meeting of Leaders of thought of Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo made the following declarations: ‘I consider my duty to Yoruba people in particular and to Nigerians in general to place four imperatives, two of them categorical, and two conditional. (1) Only a peaceful solution must be found to arrest the present worsening stalemate and restore normalcy. (2) The Eastern Region must be encouraged to remain part of the Federation (3) If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of omission or commission to secede from or opt of Nigeria, then Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation. We know what happened when Eastern Region seceded. Awolowo chickened out and chose to serve in the government of his mortal political enemy

Ojukwu did not make a hasty decision. That's view is Yoruba false narrative of the war. Ojukwu forced Gowon to come to Aburi to address crisis confronting Nigeria. A comprehensive accord called Aburi Accord was reached but Gowon chose not to implement it because it was going to create a decentralized Nigeria impossible for the North to dominate and manipulate. Ojukwu insisted on the sanctity of Aburi Accord. The two Yoruba governors (Adebayo of Western Region and Mobolaji-Johnson of Lagos) who signed the accord chickened out an

LegendHero:
Awolowo do not make hasty decision like Ojukwu.

Why change a system that is working in the first place? Moreso Awo doesn't have the power (at least looking at the situation pre the civil war) to declare secession coz declaring secession is not a tea party or something one just decide as a loner.

Also Yoruba independence will be based on Yoruba terms and not just based on reflex of Eastern region declaring the same.

You did not address the questions posed to you. Your response is wishy-washy.

LegendHero:
I really don't like going around in circles coz everybody knew the Aburi accord agreement was a common knowledge and was a creation of the military. How you chose to blame Awolowo for that remains a topic for another day.

The treacherous nature of Azikwe, his attitude towards the eve of 1956, his earlier statement when the north tried to seceede, his statement about Igbo seceeding when he fellout with Balewa, his collaboration with the North to charge Awo of treason and also his double dealings made Awolowo never trusted Azkiwe or the Igbos.

Below is the speech of Azikwe in May 12th, 1953 about seccession of the North from Nigeria. The North at that time want to seceede from Nigeria but Zik made it hard for them by trying to play on their intelligence.

""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!""

In all Honesty, Do you think Awolowo will trust a double-mouthed man like Zik or the Igbos when the East were trying to seceede too?