EzeUche: Foolish Yorubas! Is this your way of attacking Ojukwu, because you know how my people respect this man.
Like my Yoruba professor stated, the Yoruba are the main problem in Nigeria. I cannot even blame the Hausa anymore. Truth be told, the Yoruba cannot be trusted, that even Yorubas cannot trust their own.
I want to use your statement in my political project. Please what is your ethnicity?
reporter1: Ojukwu was a coward who led Ibos to a war they could never have won from the get go. Any sensible person would have surrendered once their food supply ran out. But trust power-drunk Ojukwu, he had to continue with his senseless quest to dominate the Ibos and other Eastern minorities who were unfortunate to be in the same region as a power-drunk brat.
Ibos being gullible today as they were in 1967 continue to blame others for the failure of their war leaders. While they continue to whine, the Ijaws and other minorities are becoming more relevant. Cry babies.
Chyz2: I laugh. They were the ones who committed the pogrom of igbos in the North even before the civil war,not the hausa/fulani per se. As a matter of fact, the middle belt made up the bulk of the soldiers from the north at the time so dont know what they're talking about. what goes around comes around.
nobody tricked anyone! the biafra war wasn't a war between biafra and hausa people,it was a war between biafra and nigeria! it wasn't a question of angas man are you going to fight?,?yoruba man are you going to fight? or tiv man are you going to fight? all were enlisted as nigerians in the nigerian army! name a tribe outside biafra that didn't take part in the fight against biafra!
ak47mann: As i said earlier, that christian of the north is just realizing the agenda of their fellow northern jihadism..........but is a bit late...they have to be on defensive for a very long time.Confronting the internal war b/w them is a big struggle GOD knows when it will stop
You are a typical Yoruba: drunkenly and giddily ahistorical!
Rotimi47: This interview brought light to several things;
1. Yorubas' fought on igbo side during the civil war and as such contributed to their successful exploit.
2. zik and other igbo leaders were tiped off of the coup.( why is it that no single igbo leader was killed during the coup while other tribes leaders were killed? )
3. Awolowo was not guilty of stopping food delivery to Biafra because the food meant for the civilians keep ending up in the hands of the biafran soldiers. ( Have you ever seen or heard that the United states feed its enemies when they are at war with them?)
4. Aburi addressed what the biafrans wanted but both parties still preferred war( maybe Gowon got schooled on the agreement he signed when he got back to Nigeria and he saw that he had given out too much to Biafra. )
5. The coup was the brain child of the igbos and they only invited other soldiers from other tribes who they think can help them succeed in their plan.
Questions that need answers.
1. Why attack Yoruba land called Ore in Ondo state?
2. Why was banjo the Yoruba soldier that lead the biafrans military to several victories really killed?
3. Why did the biafran military accept all the food that the civilians were handing over to them when can see that the civilians are dying of starvation?
4. Why is it that other soldiers from tribes were not involved in the main plan of the coup but the igbo coup plotters only involved some of them because they lack logistics , communication facilities & other things; they only briefed them on what they want them to know & the task they want them to perform?.
Conclusion.
Both parties are to blame for the war as they missed it one way or the other.
NCNC was not formed by Herbert Macauley. It was NNDP that was formed Macaulay.
Ovamboland: So you think it makes sense for Zik to position himself as first Premier of western region riding on a party formed by a Yoruba man Herbert Macaulay, sidelining many capable Yoruba that could have been projected for that office?
Why was he not struggling to take over as Premier in northern region against Ahmadu Bello? He must have taken the liberality of the Yoruba for stupidity. Why did he not give the seat of Eastern region premier to a Yoruba man to show how detribalised he was?
He came off as someone who was too desperate for power, and would readily compromise whatever moral standings he had, to achieve power
Totally agree with you!
Dede1: Please change NCNC to NNDP. It was UPGA (NCNC and AG) against NNA (NPC, NNDP, NDC and United Middle Belt Congress)
Awo was to be sent to Nigerian prisons in Bauchi where a plan has already been hashed for the Hausa, Kanuri or Fulani prison officials to see to death of Awo in prison. However, some Igbo officials in high places resolved to send Awo to the east. It is very laughable to a conjecture that suggests Gowon released Awo from prison. During the era in discuss, Gowon and Nigeria have no iota of authority to send post-office mail to eastern region talk less of issuing an order to release Awo from prison. Even Gowon’s position as a doorman was not recognized in eastern region of Nigeria.
The ferocity with which the West pursued the war was borne out of the way Ojukwu and Biafra conducted themselves in the opening months of the war. Initially many in the West believed it was a war between the North and the East and they would stay neutral. But that neutrality went away the moment Biafra forces invaded the Midwest and aggressed the West
You are shameless liar and a revisionist historian.
dayokanu: The ferocity with which the West pursued the war was borne out of the way Ojukwu and Biafra conducted themselves in the opening months of the war.
Initially many in the West believed it was a war between the North and the East and they would stay neutral. But that neutrality went away the moment Biafra forces invaded the Midwest and aggressed the West
The conduct of Biafra forces in the Midwest was something that no one would want to happen in their homeland
Every civil war commentator would know the Battle of Ore was the turning point where a concerted effort by the Other Southerners against Biafra began
No Westerner would fold their arms while they turned his homeland into a war theatre. What Enahoro and Ogbemudia saw happen in their homeland Awolowo, Obasanjo and Adekunle wouldnt
If Biafran forces have gone up North and attacked the North The West wouldnt have cared At least Gowons homeland of Jos was closer to Biafra than the SouthWest. Attack Plateau and Go towards Kaduna Not attack the West
The appointment of a SE administrator over the Mid west was a problem and when the Letter from Ojukwu to Banjo was also another insight into what awaits us
Tell me what would be the reaction of Biafrans if that letter was the other way round from SW to the SE. I am certain no one would not attack back
It is an unfortunate war. However, the young man with all youthful exuberances who bullied the older folks like achebe into an unplanned war remained their hero. While they live their deliverance in the hand of others.(At least they thought Yoruba would have co-operated with them not on mutual term but on theirs). Every man has a right to his decision but you can not force others to go your own way. However, the young officer discarded the voice of reason only to come back later saying it is someone else. Bible said, who is the man who wants to build a house, who would not first take account of its cost? Even catholics knows this story, not to mention the pentecostals.
"I think ignorance and under-education of the situation is the reason many Yoruba has such ridiculous opinions about the Biafra situation"
They are ahistorical - drunkenly and giddily ahistorical!
Ikengawo: The war had already started by the time Ojukwu declared
60,000 igbos had already been killed when and while Awolowo was telling Ojukwu to wait. I think ignorance and under-education of the situation is the reason many yoruba has such ridiculous opinions about the biafra situation. Forget your biases, and study the situation. Ojukwu responded to pogroms against his people and declared biafra as a boarder to announce once Igbos cross that land, they're free, protected and sovereign.
Unless yoruba people are truly stupid people that are given more credit than they deserve. Even today nigerians are being killed en masse for no reason because of the north, and now in the West. Stop acting like this is an igbo-v. yoruba war. It was a common sense v. cowardice war and the yoruba chose the cowards route of dying slowing subservient because they feared dying suddenly sovereign.
Biafra wasn't an igbo nation. It was a christian nation. Every single Christian tribe in Nigeria supported Biafra in the south and were in it except the Yoruba. Allowing a land locked north to blockade christian southerners by sea because of your confusion and cowardice. The end result was what? They ruled you into the modern era and you're now less politically relevant than before.
Yoruba people made a mistake and still down have the courage to own up to it. They sided with genocide and are now surprised to be called genocidal cowards. History has judged Awolowo and this is why he has died forgotten. When Ojukwu died the heads of states across the world and the brightest minds in yoruba land came to show respects. When Awolowo died he was buried and nothing can be pointed to as a single legacy because cowards that fear death are the only people that ever really die. Everyone else is immortalized for posterity.
I am curious, how market with Yoruba that understand the art of war?
geeez: [b]Obviously Awolowo was a brilliant politician with all the tact required to lead a bloodless revolution which Oju Iku failed to see. How can you, for the love of Christ, start a battle you so badly lack the capabilities to sustain?
Oju Iku demonstrated cowardice by fearing to meet in the west and despite being a military officer, he failed to understand the art of war. I wonder how someone will call an Awolowo who requested that his security be withdrawn, a coward. Didn't Oju Iku himself flee, dispossessing innocent women and children of their planned flight to safety? That is cowardice at its worst - running from a battle you initiated and taking advantage of the weak
And let it be clear to all you ranting folks, that the Yorubas have never been and never will be subservient to the north. The Yoruba is the only nation in Nigeria with a distinct identity, the only region that has been vocal and bold even in the face of imprisonment and death in modern Nigeria, the only race that has proved that it cannot and will not stand a day of mediocrity in governance, the only people with a clearly defined ideology of what they want from a united or divided Nigeria irrespective of their religious differences.
Obviously a united south will be place in a better position to deal with the north but what Oju Iku failed to realize is that wars are not won on the battlefields but in meeting rooms. [/b]
Your comment is an example of misery loves company.
You cannot compare the flood in Western Germany and Lagos - Nigeria as a whole. The flood in Western Germany and Europe is the result of global warming and climate change while that of Lagos is a result of zero urban planning and poor drainage.
Have you read or seen problem of flooding in Germany last year or in the last 30 years? The answer is NO. But Lagos flooding is a perenial problem. The only town well - planned with first-class drainage is Festac Town where l grew up in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, Nigerian factor has destroyed Festac.
If Lagos were to experience the kind of flooding in Germany, the entire Lagos will shut down and there would be thousands of death because Nigeria has poor emergency-and-disaster response system.
Igboid: OP. What about the flooding in Western Germany and Belgium? Were those caused by poor drainage too?
I am not a fan of Tinubu. But I think Marina flooding is part of the global event of climate change,which is manifesting as rise in sea levels with its resultant flooding of coastal areas lying below sea level.
If the Whites are this helpless as we saw on TV recently and can't stop this flooding, what chance do we stand over here with our limited knowledge and funds?
I lived at lasu axis some years back. Anytime I wanted to go to Alaba to get something, I would look for an Hausa man to buy from because I was sure that my fellow igbo man would cheat/defraud me or sell fake products to me. Asides phones, it is very difficult to get original products at alaba. They cheat you and call it business. When abokis cheat and marginalize us in politics, we cry foul.
Another point is this, Ndigbo will go through stress and travel home for Christmas, mostly to showoff and lavish money. But he can never travel home to vote good leaders for his state.
Is Christmas more important than our political future?
vasel15: Open your mind before reading to free yourself from mental slavery and please crime is universal,all tribes in Nigeria commit crimes, this is just about the way my people worship money and not all Igbos that blow money get it illegally,Igbos work hard, I can even say more than any other tribe in Nigeria, everything we have we worked hard for it
Dont get me wrong other tribes also worship money in Nigeria eg yorubas but igbos take their money worship to another level, i urge cubana and his igbo friend to band together and give the igbos something solid in igbo land or they should talk to their governor friends to do it and don't get me wrong it is nice to be rich but everyone have their own destiny don't be faster than urs
I saw a post on Twitter by should I say an old igbo man because he's got some white beards, he was comparing those Arabs and Russians chopping money to those in Nigeria, Russia, and Dubai actually work compared to Igbo land.
I replied and I was angry at him for trying to implant that kind of mentality in our young people, did he actually Compare Igbo land to Dubai and Russia and Asia. Lol. I was pissed because this mentality has landed many Igbos in jail and in Igbo land people worship money and I have always wanted to talk about this but now is the right time to do it, before you rant I am Igbo, and a Biafran
When I replied him I was called a hater and a poor man, lol now you understand the mentality and even one old fool from South Africa wearing lakers at his age telling me to go and make money and before he could block me I blocked his descendants
Look at this point in my life I am happy, I have a business, I have a house in Lagos, I have foreign citizenship and I am paying for a house where I have citizenship, I don't need a Ferrari at this stage in my life, maybe if I win the lottery tomorrow I could Buy a Ferrari or maybe not and with the credit limit I have I Can buy a range, I don't need cash, you all understand how it works.
I am not saying be poor but a modest life is ok. it is ok to drive a Toyota, it is ok to take the brt or train, some people can't travel to their village because they have a Toyota, they want a benz.
Pressure from Igbo society has pushed many youths to their deaths and some in jail.
We have no BRT, no train and no roads, no tech hub in Igbo land
Don't fall for pressure from society and even your parents, we know how Igbo parents talk or let me say Nigerian parents talk, like look at your mate building mansions
Dont give your last money to a native doctor to do ego nbute for you because you want to turn to Cubana overnight.
I was already chopping money at 21 meeting with the CP of Lagos at 21, my brother's wife a Chinese was my supplier then and I made money.
We need to start changing the mentality of our new generation you don't need a Ferrari to enjoy your life and you don't to be Cubana to be a rich man, even the Cubana is not even rich, I know what I mean by rich and this is the problem of the black man we are mentally enslaved and this is why we can't be like the whites, we hear of Walmart that is wealth, generational wealth read about the walton family and understand wealth.
Do you know obi Cubana has no hospital or any reasonable business, club business is crap? Why can't he and his gang of rich men develop onicha waterfront and before you say are they the government come on, the one that calls himself chief priest is an APC politician, can't they talk to their politician friends,didn't you see politicians like peter obi at the burial?
No state in Igbo land can compete with Cape Town, shebi una get money, as much as I understand that Cubana is a show biz man but some things are uncalled for especially when you are doing it on dusty and pothole-filled roads
Do you know how many Igbos would land in jail after the Cubana burial?
Many tribes fear marrying Igbos because of the bill they would give them because we worship money
We can blame this worshipping of money on the civil war because the was a race to regain everything that was lost, but now we have it all, and we must stop worshipping money.
Now I understand why Igbos are hated because we love show biz and we do it well and it is not our fault, we just do it better than any other tribe
We must teach our youths that driving a Toyota is ok and we must get rid of this get rich or die trying mentality.
I say to the old people stop killing our youths because you fools worship money, in Igbo land even a little kid with money can talk down an elder without money, this madness must stop
Remember one thing you won't take money or riches anywhere so don't kill yourself to get it if you do someone else would enjoy that money that you killed yourself for or you would kill yourself and still have no money.
I support you to blow your money anyhow but do it after we become like Dubai or China and not when we have dusty and bad roads with potholes or no roads at all and no hospital, we must plan Biafra and we must refuse to make a mistake else we become like the zoo, finally purge yourself from this money worshipping virus.your insults are welcome but i have avery strong skin and I would insult you as well,i don't play
They pretend to be Nigerians patriots more than anybody but when it come down to it, they are as tribalist anything. So why pretend? Its nothing to be ashamed of.
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU
Eziachi: I had said what M.T Mbu had just said before about Chief Awolowo, that the guy never pretended to be a tribalist, who sees himself not as a nationalist but purely a Yoruba leader and there is nothing wrong with that, if that is what you believe and never pretend other wise. That is the problem I have with modern Yoruba folks both here and other places. They pretend to be Nigerians patriots more than anybody but when it come down to it, they are as tribalist anything. So why pretend? Its nothing to be ashamed of.
I have posed this question before, that people should look at the history of Nigeria and tell me any national election in Nigeria, where the Yoruba as a nation had ever in numbers voted for a non Yoruba candidate, when their folk is a candidate in the same election? It has never happened.
A good example was 2003, when everybody decided to kick OBJ out of office, and all of a sudden, the entire Yoruba race remembered that OBJ is one of them, and see it as a tribal protection of presidency including those in the AD party then. When in 1999 the same people told us that OBJ is nothing but lucifer and refuse to give even 10% of their vote to him, including his own community. AD party even decided not to field a presidential candidate of his own, just to protect a Yoruba presidency in the same OBJ they did not vote for four years earlier, only for the guy to turn around months later and rigged all of them out, except Tinubu, who resisted the idea in the first place. That a great thinker like Bole Ige even left the opposition to join OBJ's govt and the same people had the affront to say anything when ANPP rogues joined Yar Adua's govt but forgeting that they invented it.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, this is the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Hear it and it shall be well with you and by implication, the Global Yoruba Nation.
You are arguably the most effective political leader of the Yoruba Nation today, regardless of any assumptions as a pan-Nigerian leader. You are engaged in a life and death struggle with the forces of darkness ravaging Nigeria. It must be restated that the fortunes of Yoruba Nation as a major factor in Global African Emancipation is not limited to Nigeria’s geo-political confines and therefore cannot be constrained by it.
You must know that historically, all efforts at mixing the fortunes of the Yoruba with that of the Nigerian colonial architecture had always ended up in a misfortune for the Yoruba. And it is not fortuitous that the only manifestation of our potentials was through the attainment of Autonomous Self-Government between 1951 and 1959. This is not an advocacy for a Yoruba National Purity. Our history testifies to this, where it is on record that we are a welcoming and tolerant people, very liberal to non-Yoruba people and proved by our existentialism, where, traditionally, the Oba was (and is) the guarantor of the non-Yoruba rights and freedoms in his domain.
Despite these, all attempts to dissolve our particularities into Nigerian generalities have always ended disastrously. The famous and popular Afonja story powerfully illuminates this. Afonja was not a Muslim; yet he provided Ilorin as a haven for Muslims from the northern part of what later became Nigeria, partly because of his own strategic impulse at the then power-play in Yorubaland. These northern Muslims were intent on ramming their own brand of Islam through Yoruba throats although Islam predated their arrival in Yorubaland. The resistance to this brand of Islam led to their being regarded as violent interlopers in the land upon which Afonja formally declared Ilorin a place of respite for them. Despite this, they went ahead and destroyed Afonja and the Yoruba Nation lost Ilorin and environs to northern Muslim political control, which has continued till date.
M.K.O Abiola spent a large part of his financial fortunes in pursuit of Islamic development in the North, again, within a strategic political objective. Northern Muslims voted massively for him but when the time came to take up a stand against the then looming military shenanigans, they balked, largely because another “northern” Muslim would take over power. They famously refused to be part of the pan-Nigerian coalition against the annulment of a fellow Muslim’s election thereby leaving the opposition to only the Yoruba, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
In both instances, Nationality prerogatives trumped religious solidarity; therefore, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while you do not play up your religious affiliations, you must recognize the role of Nationality in any quest for political power in Nigeria. While this is true for all the major political organizations in the country, for the South, especially the Yoruba, it has been relegated to the background as a factor in Self-Determination, which is why Yoruba National Imperatives become confused with a pan-Nigerian agenda, all in the name of developing Nigeria into a modern geo-political entity. Yet, for the North, it is its raison d’etre; that is, controlling the center is its own end.
50 years after political Independence in Africa, the colonial architecture cannot engender any form of development for her various Peoples. Rather, the continent becomes merely a playground for International economic forces with a capability to reproduce its own internal elites for continuation of its economic hegemony while her hapless Peoples continue to wallow in deep material poverty as well as of consciousness.
Sustaining this economic playground requires a political façade, often procured through periodic cycle of elections usually dubbed as democracy, where victors in all African countries seem to have only one prescription for Africa’s development, which is always foreign investment, foreign investment and foreign investment supposedly aimed at creating jobs for the youths coupled with finely woven words on economic development. Yet, none of these African countries have been able to translate any of these into reality.
This is so, because the political agenda is yet to be fulfilled; such agenda being the imposition of one Ethno-Nationality over the others to bring about the homogenization of the cultures into one under the suzerainty of the other. This is the cause of inter-Nationality conflicts on the continent where one colonially-favored Nationality will seek to impose its status on the rest and the cycle of violence goes on while the post-colonial state continues its economic parasitism unmolested.
Obafemi Awolowo attempted to reverse this phenomenon by combining the best of capitalist development and its social imperatives with a decidedly YORUBA world view. He also attempted to introduce this paradigm into the rest of Nigeria, with each Nationality/Culture as its own paradigm and the story of what happened to him is very well known. However, among the Yoruba, there is the continuous debate as to whether he should have “gone to the center or not” with differing answers. The bottom line is that Yoruba Nation became a victim of Nigeria’s post-colonial State architecture thus posing the problematic differently. It is not about going to the center or not, but the anti-colonial imperative of coming into being of the Yoruba Nation as a Nation for, and in itself. This was the rationale behind the agitation for True Federalism anchored on Ethno-Lingual Categories.
Nigeria’s forces of darkness will avoid going for your jugular, that is, your physical annihilation lest you become another icon in the mold of Awo and MKO. But they will attempt to decapitate you with a debilitating strike, physically and politically, regardless of any number of your “private” meetings with the effective leader of APC and its presumed 2019 presidential candidate.
This has started in earnest and it is not subtle, it is a “roforofo” fight. To your credit, you will not give up easily as doing so is not your habit; you will fight with all your strength, but you need to change the narrative. You need to change the name of the game. Your strength, that is, political savviness, strategic impulses, historical astuteness will not lead to victory, and by implication, victory for the Yoruba Nation. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, you must identify the golden bullet for victory. It is already available, waiting to be picked up.
The victory does not lie in aiming for Nigeria’s presidency, so this is not a matter of a new coalition for power and certainly does not lie in retaining Nigeria’s current political and economic formations.
Self-Determination/Autonomy for all the Peoples of Nigeria is the key. Any form of Southern/Middle Belt solidarity, any handshake across Eastern or Northern Niger, MUST be anchored on Self-Determination/Autonomy for ALL, lest it becomes a route to your political decapitation mentioned above. Perchance others may foot-drag, the Yoruba Nation must not be carried along that route. The Yoruba Nation does not need to wait on them before pushing ahead. And that is the golden bullet.
You are ahistorical -giddily and drunkenly ahistorical!
TRUTHTOPOWER: I hate to reply your likes on issues that you are apparently ignorant of. But I will do this for the benefit of those who interested in the contents of trending topics. 1. You accused Yorubas of worshiping the north. 2. Your lot accuse Yorubas of not supporting secession 3. Your lot blame Nigeria for the war.
On your first accusation. From 1950s to 1999. Igbos were the ones in government with the north playing second fiddle. First Republic Zik was a ceremonial president. Balewa was the PM with all the Executive Powers. In the second Republic again. Shagari was the Executive president. Ekweme the vice. In 1999 Yorubas rejected the PDP as a northern contraption the igbos abandoned Ojukwu and went with the North. so tell me who had been worshiping the north with votes? The first alliance between north and west was 2015. But you forget your history of political subservience to wine about Yorubas status in the present govt. We should have stayed with GEJ and be content with just 2 substantive ministers. Omobola Johnson and Adèsina.
You accused Yorubas of not supporting secession. I will let your forefathers answer you from the grave In 1953 the NPC under the leadership of my good friend, the late Sardauna, threatened to secede from the federation unless their 6-point proposals were adhered to. I had to use personal diplomacy. We had been personal friends since 1940. So, I saw Sir Ahmadu Bello and prevailed upon him that the unity of this country was greater than himself and myself and the other people too helped so that the North shifted grounds and agreed and so the country was saved. That was in 1953. Again, however, when the 1954 constitution conference started, my good friend, Chief Obafemi Awolowo tabled a motion to the effect that in the new constitution, provision should be made that any state which feels like seceding should do so. I was opposed to it and said ‘no’ and said that once we have a federation, we are indivisible and perpetual. That was when we began to use that expression - ‘The Indivisibility and perpetuity of the federation’ - and that to secede would amount to treason. And so, a debate ensued. Zik and his Igbo travellers won and Nigeria became indissoluble till today!
You blamed Nigeria for the civil war. As per legal principle of indissolubility established by Zik, Igbos gave Nigeria the legal armour to prevent secession at all cost. Igbos killed leaders of other regions and celebrated the killings in the streets of the North. Ironsi promulgated Decree No 34 of 1966 abolishing the autonomy the region's had been enjoying. There is something about laws of warfare, it is called casus belli. cause of war. Each party to a war has a reason for the war. you have yours the north have theirs. at the end Nigerian law prevailed against Ojukwu. So you have a choice before a war. plan to fight and when you are starved run away with millions of dead bodies in your wake. or avoid war through international arbitrament. see Cameroon Vs Nigeria.
So as per our documented history of 60 years the east have been the ones worshiping the north. The West were in opposition to both the North and the East as per who caused the war. Ojukwu caused it. With his stubbornness. If he knew how to run. He should have done that earlier. If fought gallantly to the end he would join those who died for the cause they believed in. cowards!
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.
You hit the name on the head. Awolowo sold the dummy (State creation) to Saro-Wiwa and stole thier wealth and transferred it to Lagos
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.
If Awo was indeed a realist, he should have fought for Yoruba freedom and not One Nigeria
jason123: He did not hate Ndigbo. Get that idea out of your head. Because he does not agree with you does not mean he HATES you. . . .Ezeuche, let's not digress. The point is, he proved what I was saying the other day.
How can you care for Igbos yet served in a government that slaughtered them before the war and almost wiped them out during an unjust war. What kind of diabolical love is that?
mrvitalis: so the evil awo claimed to care about igbos and yet u took all our cash n gave us 20 ponds right?
awo hope u can see us now (started from the bottom now we are here )
pazienza: “Even at the federal level, I have no desire whatsoever, and I certainly cannot be tempted or induced to develop one, to head, or participate in an unelected or even an electoral-college elected civil administration in a military or any setting. At the moment, I am participating in the activities of the military government because I have been invited, and I also think it is right, so to do. I am, therefore, obliged, morally and for the purpose of keeping Nigeria united, to take part, as fully as I can, in any measure designed, in particular, to keep the Ibos as a constituent ethnic unit in the federation of Nigeria, enjoying equal and identical status and benefits with other ethnic units, and in general, to preserve Nigeria as an economic and political entity.”
Was this really the main reason why they attacked Biafra? To live in the same country with the same very people they hate?
Awolowo was duplicitous and deceitful in his negotiation with Zik. It was wrong sending two delegation simultaneously to Balewa and Azikiwe. It drove Zik into Balewa's hand. Zik should have look beyond that behavior and focused on political power which is the ultimate price. According to Nkrumah, seek political power and everything shall be added to you
Ojiofor: We have Read from Lagos/Ibadan express way propaganda media,now let us read from an unbiased account from the other side.
The second account reflects the inability of Dr. Azikiwe and Chief Awolowo to reach a common ground at the critical moment so that one of them would become Prime Minister instead of Alhaji Balewa. Azikiwe had been blamed particularly by loyalists of Awolowo for preferring to align with NPC rather than with the AG. In my opinion, that is partially correct, which is probably an unfortunate outcome of the disappointment felt by NCNC leaders as a result of the carpet crossing episode of 1952. However, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, a diehard supporter of Dr. Azikiwe, presented a different perspective on the issue about eight years ago. According to Chief Amaechi, after the 1959 election when it became obvious that a coalition government must be formed to take over from the departing British colonialists, a delegation from the AG went to discuss the matter with NCNC leaders in Azikiwe’s Onitsha residence. It proposed that both parties should form an alliance such that Azikiwe would become Prime Minister while Awolowo would serve as the finance minister. While the discussion was on, Azikiwe went upstairs to answer a telephone call. Upon his return, Azikiwe told the AG delegation that the NCNC would consider AG’s proposal and send a delegation back to Chief Awolowo.
When the AG delegation left, Dr. Azikiwe informed the NCNC leaders present that the telephone call he went to answer was from the Sardauna of Sokoto and that the Sardauna had informed him of a delegation from Chief Awolowo which visited him offering NPC precisely what the other delegation that just left them offered their own party, the NCNC. Probably concluding that AG is a double-headed snake, Dr. Azikiwe decided to negotiate with the Sardauna.
During the negotiation, Ahmadu Bello insisted that the north should produce the Prime Minister, otherwise they were not ready for independence. In the agreement to end British colonial rule signed at Lancaster House, it was agreed that if any region said it was not ready for independence, the process will be postponed until all regions were willing to go ahead. According to Chief Amaechi, northern leaders took advantage of that agreement. Dr. Azikiwe and top leaders of the NCNC reasoned that having fought and sacrificed so much for political freedom, it was preferable to allow the north produce the first Prime Minister so that independence would be attained as soon as possible. Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/the-problem-of-retrogressive-politics-in-nigeria-4/ cc:Iampatriotic
Zik and NCNC leadership was dealing with a double headed snake and a chameleon.
"In one sentence he is saying Zik was powerless and checkmated by Balewa and in the next he is saying Zik made Balewa arrest Awo "
My observation too
nku5: The useless copy and paste is full of lies and half truths but these are a sample
In one sentence he is saying Zik was powerless and checkmated by Balewa and in the next he is saying Zik made Balewa arrest Awo
How could Zik have made Balewa create the Midwest region when it was created by a referendum that chose to separate from the Yorubas in a huge landslide. Was Zik a god?
Like I said before if all this anti igbo propaganda we are seeing everywhere is to impress the north ahead of 2023 then yorubas have a lot to learn about the north
"Baba Awolowo is the greatest president Nigeria never had, and no thanks to Obasanjo and Abiola the treacherous sons....never again shall Yorubas being used against the interest of another Yorubas, we shall continue to determine the political spectrum of the country."
Keep deceiving yourself. Awolowo was used and dumped just as Obasanjo, Abiola, Shonekan and a host of other Yoruba men are used against Yoruba interest and later dumped. You are so arrogantly ignorant and proudly naïve to believe that Yoruba " shall continue to determine the political spectrum of the country
IamPatriotic: Baba Awolowo is the greatest president Nigeria never had, and no thanks to Obasanjo and Abiola the treacherous sons....never again shall Yorubas being used against the interest of another Yorubas, we shall continue to determine the political spectrum of the country.
He laid the foundation for the management of nation's finances, yet a decade after that, Awolowo was lamenting the mismanagement of Nigerian economy by Shagari who incidentally replaced him as Federal Commissioner of Finance and contested against him in the 1979 Presidential Election. It is ironical that Awolowo was so good with the Nigerian economy during the war yet, the Northern Oligarchy did not find him worthy to manage Nigeria during peace time.
After 6 years of Buhari's administration, l am curious to know your assessment.
omenka: You can NEVER fiind anyone disputing that!! That is why I support him. An honest and upright leader is all Nigeria needs at this critical point in her journey to redemption; we need an honest man to nip corruption in the bud.
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