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"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"

You are a study in contradiction. if you knew that Yoruba will be better off with Oduduwa Republic, why didn't Awolowo declare Yoruba independence with the secession of Eastern Region? Why did Yoruba align with the same North that hated them to fight Biafra's independence?

LegendHero:
I stumbled upon the archive of the New York Times in October 18th 1959 on the eve of the election battle preceding the independence. The article clearly shows the genesis of the problem of Nigeria and how the Igbos and North both ganged up against the Yorubas because of their hatred for the success of the Western region.

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.

Below are the quotes from the Times newspaper:

The conservative North, 75 percent Muslim and containing about half of Nigeria's population, is governed by the Northern people's congress. The premier is Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, who carries the title of Saraduana of Sokoto.

In the East, where the intelligent, energetic Ibo tribes predominates the controlling party is the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, headed by one of the most dazzling of Nigerian politicians, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, premier of the Eastern region, who is known throughout the country as Zik.

In the somewhat more developed west, which is Yoruba Country, the government is run quite well, it is said by Chief Awolowo, an able politician, and his Action group. The West points with pride to its universal free primary education, free medical treatment for children up to 18years of age, agricultural planning and other social programs of which no other Nigerian region can boast of.

On the Hatred of the Yorubas by Azikwe and Balewa:
The Federal government whose prime minister is Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, a muslim notable from the north, is managed by a coalition of the Northern people congress and National council of the Nigeria and the Cameroonians, two parties that have very little in common except mutual dislike of the third (Awolowo).

Anytime the Igbos accuse Yorubas of being betrayals, you should direct them to this factual statement of their eternal betrayal of the Yorubas by being slaves to the North and being a coward to conspire with the north to hate Awolowo who would have made this Nigeria a great country.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1959/10/18/archives/election-battle-warms-in-nigeria-three-parties-seek-control-of.html?searchResultPosition=2

Restructure Nigeria and the attraction of Lagos State wanes considerably

helinues:
Let me ask you, do you think your people would still be flocking to SW daily if that's how the ritualists case are rampant in SW.

Abi you never thought about that?

You said it all!

Rugaria:
This is the height of mental laziness! Some of you are pathetic beyond belief. Ironsi was in power for just 6 months! 6 months!!! Because of the tribal politics of The Sarduana and Awolowo and Akintola, he suggested centralized system of administration. The north was against that. So Ironsi decided to travel around the country to explain his position to the different regions! He was killed while still doing this. As at the time he was killed, the regions were still functioning in full force, headed ofcourse by indigenes from these areas. Revenue generation and utilization were still following the principles of regionalism... Every practice associated with regionalism was still effective! He was killed for his suggestion by those who ostensibly opposed his ideas.

How come that almost a century after his murder, the same people that killed him and took over the reigns of governance, are still blaming him for all the evil maladministrative hiccups that they have bequeathed to Nigeria? I mean how can you blame a man you killed 60 years ago for your present failures, when you killed him to stop him? Why can't you Yorubas and fulanis accept that with over a trillion dollars oil income, you guys have failed abysmally at the simple task of running a modern society? Why pass the buck? This country is the way it's today not because Ironsi suggested a unitary system that he never lived to practice, but because from the day he was killed, two tribal groups with their retrogressive cultures hyjacked officialdom but failed woefully at running a modern state. Simple.

"Sadly, the Hausas have been so messed up with religion by Fulani Emirs ruling them that they will still vote for a Buhari if there is another election held today"

They will vote the Fulani who have enslaved them 100 times before they vote for Ndigbo who can free them.

Guyman02:
Fulanis are seriously displacing Hausas in their homeland in the North but many people in the South are yet to understand that the Hausas are facing systemic genocide as they view the bandits as Hausas.

The confidence of the Fulanis is because of Buhari been in power which they feel gives them some cover to carry out their nefarious activities to the point of freely inviting Fulanis from other countries to relocate to Nigeria and occupy Hausa land especially those with gold deposits as oil value diminishes.

Sadly, the Hausas have been so messed up with religion by Fulani Emirs ruling them that they will still vote for a Buhari if there is another election held today

Totally agree with you!

Idiko1:
If governor El-Rufia is not a dumbass fool, he and poverty-stricken northern region should join the south-east in the quest for disintegration of Nigeria. The teste of the pudding is in the eating. Nigerians cannot know which region will starve to death until we go our separate ways.
A goon who believed his hungry state can feed half of Nigeria yet shivers uncontrollably at the mention of disintegration of the zoo called Nigeria.

Nigeria Police in a federation is a misnomer.

Peterobiisathie:
Cannibals have slaughtered their police officers

Are you non-Igbo from former Eastern Nigeria?

Thoh:
Old eastern region was dominated by Ibos..
Ibos took everything upon themselves.. ibos are worst than Fulanis when in power..

Some idiot ipigs say we Ijaws should go back to the disaster eastern region....thunder fire them

"Some states tried to buy the DISCOS within their states so as to be in charge, the foolish drunkard stopped the states from bidding."

Are you for real? I have also wondered why the states were not sold the DISCOS within their states which will allow them to manage it efficiently for the benefit of their states. I never knew DUMBO refused to allow that. He is a monumental disappointment.

I still believe GEJ didn't do any tangible thing for the people of the Niger Delta.

The people of the Niger Delta gained no meaningful project under GEJ. The guy is a disaster.

See the way GMB handle the PIB matter, GEJ could have done all within his power to make sure the PIB was passed with the bill favouring the Niger Delta. Even if it means he will bribe to make sure it is pass

Some states tried to buy the DISCOS within their states so as to be in charge, the foolish drunkard stopped the states from bidding.

He eventually sold it to incompetent people/companies with clause that will make it extremely expensive if the FG decide to cancel the contract.[/quote]

Don't mind the hypocrites who try to shield Osibanjo from the calamity that Buhari/Osibanjo regime has become

Lunex:
Why can't we blame osinbajo in this administration?
Because he isn't part of the government or what? A vice president?
If he has plans for Nigeria, as a vice president don't you think he has the best platform to show it?
If he sees buhari incompetence and he doesn't speak up then he shares equal blame with him
But the question is: why giving ourselves little options? Must out saviour come from someone with past record as vice president/president?
NB: Atiku is not even better

Leaders indeed!

mrvitalis:
So you didn't want to support a PDP member from south west but ended up supporting a PDP member from north West

This are people we call leaders

You are ahistorical: drunkenly and giddily ahistorical

doclatom:
How old are you, if I may ask?
Anyway, the north had more seats because they had more ethnic representations. The north central was included in northern seats. It will shift the number of seats, not necessarily the number of votes.
You don't even know if I'm Igbo. You see, the day you realise and accept where you went wrong, that's the day you embark on the road to genuine recovery. No one is above certain mistake. If you have enough energy and data, kindly go round and do your won research and see if what's written here is false. You react because it pained you. Truth hurts, brother!
The number of votes and seats that'd have resulted from the coalition between Zik and Awolowo would have shifted and balanced the power play at that point in time. Zik betraying the gentleman agreement with Awolowo unduly shifted the power balance to the north.
Did Awolowo swallowed his pride and went to Zik for a coalition just to checkmate the growing influence of the north then? Yes, he did! What did Zik do, he betrayed that gentleman agreement and went to meet up with Balewa instead.
Did Zik influence Balewa into getting Awolowo arrested? Yes, he did because he felt the Yorubas were making too much trouble and noise over his sneaky, betraying behaviour. The financial sleaze accusations were believed to be from the Yoruba people mentioned in the post.
Did the Igbo later find out they couldn't control and puppeteer the north as Zik initially thought? Yes!
What did the Igbo do? They went on rampage in a coup to try to decimate the north that was becoming larger than life to them.
What happened after the coup? CIVIL WAR OF THREE YEARS DESPITE AWOLOWO'S PLEA TO OJUKWU TO FORGET THE IDEA AND TO INSTEAD REACH OUT IN DIPLOMACY!
Who lost more people at the end of the day? Igbos!
Who's playing the victim? Igbos!

Now, this doesn't take anything away from the Igbos and the Goodwill they enjoy even on the west. Igbo's biggest problem is starring them right in the mirror if they look in the mirror and honestly evaluate what they see.

Igbos are good people. But their biggest leader didn't see things correctly. He made wrong decisions, likewise some of others that followed thereafter.
When Awolowo saw the hegemony brewing from the north, he started developing the west to make it strong and independent should anything happen. The cocoa house, the first TV, the free education, etc. The coalition of the betraying, sneaky Zik and Balewa called him A TRIBAL LEADER. Alas, Awolowo saw right and equally did right!

It is well with Nigeria. Everyone will get their just reward! Amen!

"if the civil was only btween igbo and Hausa-Fulani or Igbos and yorubas, I tell you Igbos will win any day and any time.."

You spoke the truth!

truefact:
Yorubas is has this or that...my question is..WHY haven't yorubas use their suffercation to dislodge the Hausa-Fulani from being the owners of Nigeria?

Yorubas are nothing....Why can't yorubas compare themselves with Hausa-Fulani? Yorubas claim to be the most progressthieves and suffercated, yet they are slaves to Hausa-Fulani...

Mind you, igbos are dislodged by a combined forces which includes the yorubas and Hausa-Fulani. ...if the civil was only btween igbo and Hausa-Fulani or Igbos and yorubas, I tell you Igbos will win any day and any time....yoruba are true cowards...

Igbos are like one man fighting again many men...
Yorubas March Hausa-Fulani man to man, stop being cowards

You are a drunken perpetrator of falsehoods and fabrication!

cocolacec:
The most dangerous friend to have in a struggle is one who has an unchecked obsession to take your lands for himself.... This was the mistake Afonja made with Alimi.... same mistake the Hausa people made when they embraced Usman Dan Fodio.... a Fulani man from a kin that had no ancestral land anywhere in Nigeria.

In the mid 1800's... Ibadan and Ijaiye were at war, Egba sided with Ijaiye ( just as Igbos seek friendship with Yoruba). Its intent was to observe the war from within and manipulate it to their advantage as they put plans in place to take over Ijaiye lands while the soldiers were at war..... Kurunmi of Ijaiye caught wind of the plan and as such, had to divide his army into two, one to remain at home and the other to face Ibadan... this made it less formidable in the battle field and was one of the reasons Kurunmi lost the battle.

No disrespect goes beyond the ranting of an Igbo man still angry today that Zik was not able to colonize me and my kinsmen in their space... they argue it as if Yourba people did wrong by not replacing one colonizer with another..... and till today, the obsession to overrun Yoruba land is still as strong as the days of Zik.

Zik was greatly upset with the Macpherson constitution of 1951.... reason being that it broke Nigeria into boundaries and southern Nigeria into two regions. It gave regions power to nomitae members of house of representatives. Zik did not like this because it greatly reduced the influence of NCNC in the South.... in Yorubaland, AG was the dominant party.... in Southern Nigeria however, NCNC was a stronger party.... so Zik wrote an open letter to Awolowo and quote ; ' We of the NCNC can count on a surprisingly commanding number of members to support us in the western house of assembly, with your equally large number of members the two parties can present a united front and create such a deadlock in the western provinces as to force the hands of government to make party politics more effective ( Dec. 25, 1951)..... this looked like an innocent call for friendship... but the devious underline agenda was that he had his eye on the western region to overrun it as an Igbo colony... He was an Igbo man and NCNC was very formidable in his homebased, why did he want the deadlock to be incited in the western region..... risking the possibility of the provincial governor to sack the western parliament.

Then there was the civil war... Ojukwu had his eye on Western region and recklessly tried to march soldiers into it to invade it.... His intention was to keep it as an estate of Igbos and place a puppet ( Victor Banjo) on the throne.... same thing Zik tried to do through politics, he tried to do it through a direct assault.

Then we had a recent Endsars where all Igbos, especially those of IPOB desperately wanted the focus to be on Lagos, the IPOB leader even said they should not go to Aba.... or incite in the East.. He wanted the focus on Lagos... they tried to focus the anger on Yoruba politicians who drove GEJ and Igbos from the presidency.
This should tell you as a Yoruba man that there is an ulterior agenda that has not changed..... anyone who desires your land cannot be your friend.... If you get too comfortable with such a people, they will sabotage from the inside and manipulate the struggle to their advantage....

Every time they are frustrated by the central government, their focus is Yorubaland....

We don't need friends, we need strategy.... our way forward is unity between Yoruba people and Yoruba leaders.... while we fight that they should truly represent our interest... we should never reject them to embrace foreigners that want our lands.... doing so would not make us different from the Afonja we condemn or the shortsighted Hausa people that supported Usman Dan Fodio against their local rulers.

"Remember the civil war a misunderstanding between two army officers (Ojukwu and Gowon) filled with egoism..."

That's a flat lie.Stop vomiting what you don't know.

AlexBells:
Nigeria's unity had always been negotiable but Nigerians generally have no culture of negotiations, we have Senate and house of Reps whose duty is primarily negotiations.

Nigeria can not even break as Nigeria's costly unity is the best thing for the inherent wickedness in an average of our kind, in 1945 North said the Igbos were taking their jobs they Massacred Igbos, remember the issue between Akintola and Awolowo, the wild wild west, people were burnt alive.

Remember the civil war a misunderstanding between two army officers (Ojukwu and Gowon) filled with egoism these are all things that should be settled with negotiations, you got to keep talking, hopefully before 50 million people are killed Nigerians will learn to negotiate, look, how did this guy even become a king.

Totally agree with you

Redcrafton:
Who was competent then to lead Nigeria?

Ogundipe the most senior ran off...

Who should have been the head of state in your reckoning.......tribal man?

How was he going to be prepared when he was trying to hold the country together...as a soldier?

Tell me one Nigeria leader who is compotent..

Even your current starboy is utterly incompetent...

..all he does and says are like...

...Nigeria can be a super power...
...Nigeria can be great in 50 years...
..We can change the economy in 30 years..
..Nigeria should never be poor....
...We will lift 10M Nigerians from poverty in 2030.
...Nigeria will change for good in 6 years...
..bla, bla, bla bla...
He is in government and acting as if he was outside...

You have proven the reason they call you folks SOPHISTICATED slowpoke!

Dsalvo:
Stop trying to drag Yorubas into your lunacy because you are desperate to gain an ally in 'persecution ' by proxy. Face it alone. We are not unreasonably hateful like you Igbos.

Yorubas are not vociferous about the matter of Igboho simply because many, like me, did not back his stance of "secession or death" he wanted us all dragged into.

Yorubas are reasonable. We don't hate other Nigerians and most know political solutions exists for many of Nigeria's problem. Igbos are just a hateful and divisive people who act up when not in charge.

Igboho is simply suffering the same fate as Sowore who Yorubas have also ignored because he acted like an omo ale when he lost an election and then tried to get Nigerians to rise up against the democratic process he pretended to believe in and wanted to lead. "Revolution now" my foot. Yorubas cannot fall for that madness.

Yorubas are not like Igbos. They will not follow a character like Sowore or Igboho. I predicted all this when Igboho started his agitation that led some ignorant Yoruba upstart to be insulting Tinubu, Osinbajo, our traditional leaders and others.

Yoruba people know the importance of respecting societal hierarchy consisting of people who deserve respect because of age, wisdom, position, achievements and the awareness they have paid their dues for us. This is what Igboho fell foul of.

Totally agree with you!

Ammishaddai:
This man must be smoking something that's in between cannabis and crystal meth. The hallucinations he keeps having about Nigeria keeps growing stronger by the day

I have asked the same question too. Shonekan had the chance to save Nigeria and become the father of Modern Nigerian nation. He could have secretary arrested Abacha and retired him while he was under arrest, and gone ahead, recalled Nwosu to announce the June 12 Election and installed Abiola as the President. If the Northern military and political leaders don't think twice to abuse power and commit all sorts of altrocities while in power,while shouldn't southern leaders deploy political power to effect systematic change.

The answer is cowardice. Shonekan was a coward and traitor. He was more interested in satisfying his selfish ambition than doing public good -even if the public good will benefit in the long run.

naijaspeak:
Can we go back memory lane a little. Why was Ernest Shonekan, the head of Interim National Government afraid of retiring General Sani Abacha. He left this googled general for close to three month until Abacha became a monster. General Abacha seized power and terminated Shonekan government and installing himself as head of state. Abacha government committed gross human right abuses. The googled General went on to steal billions of Nigeria 's oil money some of which are being recovered from foreign government in Leichestein, Luxembourg, switzerland etc

But why was Shonekan afraid to dismiss General Sani Abacha despite the threat General Abacha pose to his government.

How did Igbo remove restructuring clause when they were not in charge of Nigeria

Jackson105:
It is Igbos that scuttle that, it is that hopeless Azikwe that remove secession Clause from the Constitution and even declare it as treason, because they thought they will be in Power forever.

Is it not surprising they are the one at the fore front of secession now? They must suffer it, no Biafra for them, they all stay in one Nigeria forever.

Nonsense and 5%

Tell them my brother!

Emergingnation:
Lol ! We packed our bags and left in the 60ths, your father's fought to bring us back, in the cause of unity begging..

We will leave again, it's just a gradual process

Igbos are fraudulent people, yet you don't want to allow them to go. The whole Nigeria went to war to prevent them from leaving Nigeria

ArewaNorth:
This is exactly what an Indian told me in 2019, he said he has been dealing with Nigerian in different businesses for more than 30yrs and he very well knows Igbos as fraudulent people. I didn't mean to offend them but this was what he told me in Mumbai that year.

You are absolutely right. They are the first to tag Igbos wailers and Biafra

haha20:
But your Yoruba people are the first to insult everybody and call them IPOB whenever somebody says that Nigeria should be divided to its natural units before Fraud Lugard came.

Why must blackman end all his problems with war?

ThinkSmarter:
Igbo Commoners believe that the actualization of Biafra will bring their sufferings to a halt.
But elite Igbos know that Biafra won't be so easy to get and no body is ready to trade his present Comfort for the eventual chaos that comes with every war especially having learnt from the 1st civil war.
Or are you ready to sacrifice the comfort of your your beautiful one room apartment to go and stay in the bush/jungle where you will deprive yourself of the basics of life.
Get addicted to drugs, get malnourished and face death threats from the government forces?
Are you ready?
Are you ready to die at any moment?
War is a big deal.
You can't predict the aftermath .
It might be devastating.
Are you prepared for it?
Are you prepared to see women being raped by drug influenced rebels?
Are you ready to see education and business
activities grounded?
Are you ready to see beautiful structures bombed?
Are you ready to see children and your aged parents getting sick and starved?
Do you have enough resources like guns, bullets, bombs, aircrafts and combat trucks for war?
I ask again, are you ready?
Or should you embrace dialogue and go diplomatic.
The fantasy of Biafra is like the fantasy of heaven or paradise among believers
There was a country.
#ThinkAboutit

Stop lying on social media? Can you afford a plot of land in Alaigbo?

yuping:
I'm ashamed to admit the truth because is painful to me because I have lots of friends I grow with, they are the only tribe that won't sell a plot of land to you but will come to your land and claim its as no man's land, I just hope they become civil from this uncivilized culture and believe that selling a land to an outsider is a curse.

But the East did secede. On May 30, 1969, Eastern Region became Republic of Biafra. So why did he renege on this publicly-avowed statement? Awolowo saw the conflict as an opportunity to liquidate Ndigbo and position his Yoruba ethnic group as the pre-eminent nationality in Nigeria. His post-civil war policies validates this hypothesis. What the war failed to achieve, he sought to achieve through his wicked policies.

Sunnybobo3:
looking at the statement made by Awo from different perspectives, one can deduce a lot from it. by using the word 'if' , he made the possibility of the yorubas pulling out a conditionality based on 'if' the East was allowed to pull out which eventually was not allowed.

Now looking at it critically, Awo may have further pitted the North against the East by that statement. By making that threat, the Federal government of Nigeria then led by the North were pushed to take a decisive action not to 'allow the East pull out of Nigeria' so that the Yorubas wouldn't have a cause to also pull out. This resulted in the war which led to the annihilation of millions of Igbo mainly innocent civilians, women and children. But man is not God. Man proposes, God disposes!

Going by his antecedents and what the yorubas are known for, the above may have been his aim though he approached it in a subtle manner as Yorubas are wont to. The events during and after the war ie starvation as a weapon of warfare and the 20 pounds policy all point to a deliberate plot by Awo to emasculate Eastern Nigeria particularly the Igbos who he saw as the only tribe standing between the Yorubas and economic dominance.

I guess he succeded but now the tables are turning and very fast at that.

You hit the nail on the head

vanbonattel:


The Igbos's been vindicated.

Let all the other tribes enjoy the Nigeria they fought to save.

It's like fighting hard to prevent a war, and then, tragically losing your entire generation of your people in the resulting peace.

Nigeria is neither!

PrinceOfLagos:
Is Nigeria still a country or a zoo?

Because I'm no longer understanding

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Mrglobal1:
The way you made amends with him and your sins were forgiven

If you are in Lagos invest 100k into my Food Packaging business or POS business and get 15k returns every month for 6months and pull out with your initial money

Another reason why we should leave Nigeria

PROUDIGBO:
Because they’re playing hateful politics with it....encouraged (not that they needed any encouraging) by saboteur Igbo house-niggers in APC that felt opening it before the elections would give Soludo an ‘advantage’!

Have you asked yourself why a minister overseeing the aviation ministry couldn’t be assed to visit the airport from the time construction started till today!? See how they’ve reduced AIIA, Enugu to a joke!

They’ve gone and borrowed money from that African development bank (whose name escapes me at the moment) for development of 3 Nigerian airports. You can bet your bottom dollar that no airport in the south-east will be among! Later now, when the results of this wicked and blatant cheating of Ndigbo and the south-east manifests in other regions (specifically south-west and north-west) stealing economic gains over us, some dickheads will chalk it down to ‘sophistication’ or having ‘better’ state gov’ts! That’s what ‘one Nigeria’ is all about....stealing from peter and handing over to paul!

You are absolutely right!

gwafaeziokwu:
Who gives birth to these fools. What the hell is this rubbish.

This trash isn't worth my time,honestly. Our enterprenual stories has been well researched and known across the globe. Igbo youths wake up and show up for hustle every morning in all manner of conditions across many markets, offices, factories, SMEs across the length and breath of Nigeria, Africa and the world. The successful igbaboy/apprenticeship system is a testament of the Igbo youths desire to make it legimately over the years.

Millions of igbos youths work their back off everyday at Ariaria,and many markets across Aba even Onitsha producing and exporting shoes, clothings and so many unbelievable products for sale under unimaginable conditions. Many are in Nnewi producing all kinds of motorcycle spare parts selling and distributing all over the nation and parts of Africa. There is a reason Aba and Onitsha are competing for the SME capital of Nigeria. Igbo youths started 80% of the building material and spareparts markets across Nigeria and Africa from the scratch. Markets which have become igr spinners for the places where they did these magic.

Are there Igbo youths that do not want to succeed the hard way? Yes. What is their percentage compared to the ones willing to go through the agelong Igbo culture of excellence, dignity of labour and entrepreneurship? 3% is more than a generous figure one can concede.


I don't have any problem with anyone trying to write the truth about the lifestyle of a few youths of Igbo extraction. But when your headline screams " CRIME CULTURE AMONG IGBO YOUTHS" , then you are a fool with an agenda of tarnishing the image of a hardworking population.

As for the Yorubas jumping up and down on this thread making fools of themselves. Your Lagos Ibadan media has tried this for years without success. This single story of the Igbo that you guys has pursued for years has always met a deaf audience worldwide because our many stories preceeded your infantile jealousy induced attempt at blackmail. Right from colonial days our stories have been told and retold by people who knows the art of story telling. The Igbo story is a well known story.

Fredrick Madufo just like Joe Igbokwe is suffering the effect of long years of exposure to subtle jabs and hate from igbophobic elements whom they chose as friends. Not everyone has the mental strenght to withstand constant undermining by friends who dislike your tribe but claim to love you. For you to stay long in their circle you must pick up at a point this self cruxification attitude in order to "Belong". It is a cross we have to bear as itinerant people who raise their kids in all manner of culturally toxic environment.

Did Nigeria recall all her citizens from Britain when she was fighting for independence? Do you think everybody will support such move knwoing that their is diversity of opinions on any issue. The truth is blackman - particularly that of Nigeria- is an inferior being.

Sammy07:
You both are right.

You can't be doing sit at home and expect people to bring referendum to your door step

And you are right, 9ja no be Britain where things works right.

I think here's what you have to do.
Recall all your Igbo brothers all of the Nigeria to come home.

Shut down SE and her economy, esp the gas

Shut down, govt houses and demand that they must demand for referendum.

I think it'll be easier that way, if yah not rugged in taking action, they won't take u serious
There might be some repercussions tho, cos crisis will emerge and state of emergency.

You lack historical knowledge. Igbos left your Nigeria in 1966 to Eastern Region and on May 30, 1967 severed their connection to your Nigeria by declaring Biafra. It is the same Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani that went to war to force them back to Nigeria.

So your assertion that "If Hausas and Yorubas chase them away today,you will see how they will crawl on their feets to beg you" is pure lies and falsehood.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

cocolacec:
Very good question,they claim to develop everyone space but cannot develop their cities to become envy of other nations in Nigeria.

They claim to develop Lagos but cannot develop Enugu,their Eastern capital better than Lagos.They lack human capital and ingenuity to stand alone,only boasting is their trademark.

If Hausas and Yorubas chase them away today,you will see how they will crawl on their feets to beg you.

They are the real jews of Nigeria aka wanderers.