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This proposal for inclusion of right of secession by the regions in independent Nigeria by the AG(West)was rejected and resisted by NCNC (east) which vehemently argued for a tightly bound united/unitary structured nation because it viewed the provision of a secession clause as detrimental to the formation of a United Nigeria.



That's not true!

all you do is cry over Yoruba Muslims on nl while they don't even know of your existence, your forefather azikwe did all he could to kiss the ass of his Fulani lord,on what grounds did your foolish Dr zik would want to be in a union with the Hausa who on slightest provocation would descend on his people and hunt them like games in the arena.,what about the kano riot 1953.
Between 1947 and 1959 Nigerian nationalist leaders from different regional, ethnic, and religious communities came together in a series of conferences and to negotiate the transition to self-rule and to map out a common future. During these interactions the Northerners declared Nigeria “the mistake of 1914”
This proposal for inclusion of right of secession by the regions in independent Nigeria by the AG(West)was rejected and resisted by NCNC (east) which vehemently argued for a tightly bound united/unitary structured nation because it viewed the provision of a secession clause as detrimental to the formation of a United Nigeria. In the face of sustained opposition by the NCNC delegates, later joined by the NPC and backed by threats to view maintenance of the inclusion of secession by the AG as treasonable by the British, the AG was forced to renounce its position of inclusion of the right of secession a part of the Nigerian constitution.
your mini god or dog ojukwu still came back to contest under a Fulani party after he sacrificed 3millions of his people.
cc Ioannes,coolitempa1

Fight for your own freedom and that of your ethnic group and allow Kanu to do his the way he understands. Otherwise keep shut

michelz:
Reno, you just wasted your precious time on brainwashed blockheads.
No matter what you say to them, these people have vowed to reason on a very very rare occasion.
I remember how some reasonable people here condemned the attack they carried out on Ekweremadu in Germany but most of them were prancing up and down jubilating over the shameful action.
Now MNK has been apprehended, they have started calling out to the same UK government that MNK castigated to no end.
Who knows, maybe Ekweremadu would have been the one speaking out for MNK at this critical point in time. But, what do we know? After all, IPOB members know it all.

You are either unemployed or under-employed.

Aconomist:
Last week the Tigrayans of Ethiopia (who are just 6% of the population) defeated the entire Ethiopian army and several divisions of its Eritrean allies. In 1994, the Tutsi minority of Rwanda (who are just 15% of the population) defeated the Hutu government who are 85% of the country. These examples show that a superior culture will always defeat an inferior culture, no matter its numerical disadvantage.

The defeat of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war demonstrates that despite their supposed intelligence and education, Igbos are NOT culturally superior to the Hausa/Fulani, who are the real brains behind Nigeria.

If Igbos were superior, they would have won the war.

Hausa/Fulani rule Nigeria because they are the superior culture. They have a level trust and coordination that an Igbo or Yoruba could only dream of. You can pay an Igbo man to betray his brother. If an Igbo living abroad sends money back to his family to build a house, that money will be stolen and no house will be built. How can a culture like that win a war? You were betraying each other from day one, and any veteran who fought for Biafra war will admit it.

Thanks for your post. Please can you share how terrible it was? How the experience has been from the time you were diagnosed. A problem shared is a problem half solved

uzohcars:
Terrible

You are arrogantly and proudly IGNORANT!

Yoruba joined the war from the outset

GidiCars:
YORUBAs did not join in at first, it was the the north, middle belt and core south that was fighting against Biafra. The reason YORUBAs later joined was because Ojukwu tried to cross into our region with his army.
The FCT was in Lagos then, so Ojukwu tried to cross into the West with his army and was defeated at ORE by the YORUBAs.

Then again, Awolowo came onboard after few years of fighting and suggested the food blockage which was what led to the defeat of Biafra. It was the north, middle belt and SS that was fighting you for 3 years. YORUBAs would have defeated you if they joined the war.

I know you would not agree, but that's the truth.

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Go get a job. You are either unemployed or under-employed otherwise you won't pen this trash. You are.Ndigbo-obsessed.

Igbos permanently solved Hausa-Fulani problem on May 30, 1967. Awolowo and his Yoruba kinsmen empowered the North by aligning with them to fight Biafra rather than using the opportunity of Biafra's birth to seek Yoruba independence.

History555:
So alderdrich is no longer a yoruba man after years defending yorubas and abusing lgbos He asks a question and suddenly is now lgbo

How old were you when we diagnosed with Diabetes?

Stop posting trash. Fulani fid not kill us during the war. It was Yoruba that made the difference in the war. You aligned with the North to fight us during the Nigerian-Biafra War.

AldrichAmes:
P.S: Presidential Ticket.

…You would be an idiot not to see what’s going on. All the excessive borrowing, looting and Fulanis heading sensitive/juicy positions are for a reason. You need a lot of money and being in strategic position of power to force your will on everyone in a country like Nigeria hence Fulanis were so scared under GEJ with how Igbos were able to hijack his government. They were of the belief that Igbos had money/power to declare war on them.

…Almost all Fulani politicians are crossing from PDP to APC thus weakening the opposition party (Nigeria is almost a one-party state now). And you’d be living in fool’s paradise if you think they’re doing it to push a pro-Yoruba agenda in 2023 and set the stage for a Yoruba president.

…Fulani youths are armed to the teeth and the smallest weapon they carry is AK-47 (a lot of them are being trained in military combat). They also have access thousands of fighting forces in Niger, Chad, Mali and Northern Cameroon. Are they doing this for a Yoruba agenda?

When Yoruba elders in this government talk about how Yoruba have invested a lot in Nigeria; they’re talking about the billions of Lagos money that was used to bankroll Buhari’s presidential ambition. They had to match GEJ’s spending power which came from when oil prices were at their peak and only Lagos’ money under Tinubu could match it. But they’re yet to get half of that money back as Buhari became a turncoat after he became president and his agenda is solely a Fulani agenda. And the only way they can get that money back is for a Yoruba to become president in 2023.

Now, Fulanis really don’t need Yoruba to get another Fulani into power in 2023. They have always had an unspoken alliance with Igbo elites. And they can kill 50million today but once they pick an Igbo vice, most Igbos will vote for them. It happened after the Igbo pogroms in the North in the 50s with NPC and NCNC. It also happened after the civil war when millions were killed but that didn’t stop Igbos from voting for the North and his Igbo vice. And it will happen again. They also have another joker they can play in 2023 with Nnamdi Kanu; all they need to do hold him till next year before cutting a deal with him.

So it begs the question: when neither Tinubu, Fashola, Fayemi nor Osibanjo get the APC ticket for 2023; what’s your plan-b? Are you going to unleash MC Oluomo and his fellow jokers who’re more into theatrics than combat against AK-47 carrying Fulanis? Or are you going to start screaming Yoruba Nation then?

Don't be excited by Ojukwu's epithat on Awolowo at his death. It was a double-edged sword that should be deeply interrogated.

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adelaja70:
IF true he betrayed Ojukwu, why did he now hailed him as the best president Nigeria never had?

Awolowo did not convince Ojukwu to declare Biafra. Ojukwu declared Biafra independent of Awolowo and based on the authority conferred on him by the Constituent Assembly and his political asutute calculation that an independent Eastern Region is the only enduring bulwark against British-imposed Fulani domination of Nigeria.

jimyjames:
Just because of that little clash at his house in Ibadan he wants to abandon the agitation for self determination?


This is how awolowo visited Enugu in 1967 and convinced ojukwu to declare Biafra that he will use that opportunity to pull South West out of Nigeria too, the next thing he went and accepted the post of finance minister and became Gowons right hand man, the afonja spirit is in every yoruba man

ARE YOU A SOUTHERNER?

muykem:
Kanu ideology and campaign is worst than bandits the same way religion fanatics is worst than armed robbers.
Religion fanatics gave birth to terrorism while Kanu campaign can give birth civil war.

How did you arrive at this substantive conclusion? Yet they obeyed IPOB's stay at home order to commemorate birth of Biafra on May 30, 1967

An intelligent person does not make flippant statements.

Omoslim26:
No sensible Igboman will ever stand by or support ipob.

Point of correction: Yoruba was on board right from day one of the Nigeria-Biafra War

GidiCars:
The last time Tinubu went to aso rock, that was the game Buhari wanted him to play. Shortly after his trip, the CP of Lagos came out and said IPOB was planning to attack Lagos. They want to make it look like the igbos are the enemy but we all know our common enemy. Do you ever think why the chinese are no longer giving nigeria loans, because they've done their study and seen that the country is boiling and would not survive the next few years.

The north that has been threatening war has never won any war on their own. Even the last civil war, they fought Biafra for 3 years and couldn't defeat them even with the support of the world powers at the time. It wasn't until Awolowo (Yorubas) came onboard and brought up the food blockage.

OUR LAGOS RALLY IS HOLDING JULY 3RD. WE WILL COME OUT BOLDLY AND DAMN THE CONSEQUENCES. FCK NIGERIA

You actually defeated yourself - not Ndigbo. You defeated Yoruba future and the freedom of millions of unborn generation. Awolowo defeated his sole life ambition of becoming Nigerian President.

What enduring benefit did Yoruba gain from aligning with Northern Nigeria to fight against Biafra?

Are we not all Biafrans today?

Lazy and indolent post

aribisala0:
Show us one newspaper article or any book written anywhere to back up all these silly stories

Was there a decree enacted.How did they identify Igbo accounts?
What about Ijaws and Ibibios?

Are we to believe that Igbos from IKa and Delta were spared as were Ikwerres who have similar names? or they did not have bank accounts?
The truth is most folk who had money fled with it and gave it to Ojukwu in exchange for Biafra pounds it was BAD MARKET
One of the most difficult thing to do is to admit personal foolishness especially to your children so what do you do blame others.
Blame Awo. Blame Yoruba.

The truth is you INVESTED your wealth in the Biafran pound and A superior mind defeated that strartegy

You must be a Yorubaman!

EraseTheDot:
Ojukwu knew that his biafra dream would never succeed without Yoruba commanding his army.
He failed woefully the moment he became too emotional & knob headed to listen to his Yoruba commanders.
He lost 3 million and ran away in mini skirt.

- erase the dot

You didn't deal with Biafran solders. You dealt with Yoruba future and interest. You empowered Hausa/Fulani to enslave Yoruba ethnic nationality and her unborn generation. You have proven the fact that the average Yoruba is a SOPHISTIGATED slowpoke by focusing on Biafra instead of Northerners you humiliated nd occupied your land.

The Yoruba solders were the headache of the Biafran solders during the civil war, we dealt with them so much they were defeated on all front led by Yoruba solders.

It is understandable they hate us so much knowing the Yorubas are more tactical and efficient when it comes to action

Half education is worse than no education says an African proverb

Everfrank:
AJAYI TEMITOPE WRITES:

Two days ago, a very good egbon wrote here in a Facebook post that the Igbos have been mindlessly marginalised in Nigeria. After reading the post, I asked him to explain how the Igbos are marginalised.

I am well aware we have many who binge on elite conspiracies which are just mere grand design to pollute the waters for personal advantage. With an open mind, I asked my good egbon to educate me on how the Igbos have been marginalised because I really want to know. Let me say I am still waiting to be well schooled on how badly Nigeria has treated Igbos.

For decades, many people, including the media have perpetuated wrong narratives in this country because of the way falsehoods have been mainstreamed. There is no part of Nigerian history from 1958 when we had the first all Nigerian cabinet headed by a Nigerian elected Prime Minister, preparatory to independence in 1960, that supports the false narrative of marginalisation of Igbos.

For those who may not know, the first indigenous Federal Permanent Secretary even before independence was an Igbo man, Mr. Francis Nwokedi.

Mr. Nwokedi and Dr. S.O Wey, who later in 1961 became the first Secretary to the Government of the Federation, were the first two indigenous Federal Permanent Secretaries in the colonial government. The two men were the doyen of Nigerian civil service. Mr. Nwokedi was promoted as Permanent Secretary about two weeks ahead of Dr. Wey.

To make Aguiyi Ironsi the General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army, Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa broke rank with his Northern People Congress colleagues and Sir Ahmadu Bello. NPC and Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Region wanted a Northerner as the GOC.

The last British General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army, Major-General Christopher Welby-Everard in his recommendation to the Prime Minister raised a number of issues against the then Brigadier Aguiyi Ironsi who at the time was the most Senior Nigerian Army Officer and concluded Brigadier Ironsi was unfit to lead the Army of a brand new country.

For fairness and to preserve the tradition of seniority in the Army, Balewa ignored General Welby-Everard’s recommendation. He appointed Ironsi as the first indigenous General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army.

A stubborn fact of history is that the Igbos dominated the top echelon of the Army and Federal Civil/Public Service for many years from 1958. Till date, Abia, Anambra and Imo State have largest number of indigenes in Federal Civil Service.

If we all agree our country has historical animus we must, therefore, be honest to acknowledge them and confront them. If it is about trading blame of who did or caused what in Nigeria, no tribe or group will smell like roses.

In confronting our demons, we must also reject this persecution mentality many Igbos have carried for far too long. It is distorted version of history that is fueling anger in Igboland since the civil war broke. However we choose to dice it, Nigeria has been good to all tribes. Each tribe can only complain of not having enough but no one can honestly complain of having the short end of the stick. Like other countries, our union is not perfect. It remains a work in progress.

Let's go back to our history and let history guide us. There is no strong argument to support the marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria beyond what exists in the imagination of those who constantly mine the Biafra franchise to amass private wealth from brainwashed people and politicians who use same for political bargain.

I can conveniently say that Igbos have had the best of Nigeria more than any other tribe. Blackmailing the country with victim mentality is not a strategy. Today, many Southern politicians and so-called activists built their public credentials on constant agitation for restructuring of Nigeria. If indeed there is anything wrong with the current political structure of the country, the blame should be more on Igbos.

Who promulgated the Decree 34 that abolished 1963 Federal Constitution and unitarised the Federal structure? It was Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi as Military Head of State. With scant regard to other tribes, Igbos dominated the security agencies and the Federal civil service in the first Republic.

Professor Ben Nwabueze who is now the chief priest of restructuring drafted the unification decree as Legal Counsel to General Ironsi. Igbos who literally ran the Federal Government then executed the unitary arrangement for domination and ethnic advantage.

Who plotted first coup that decimated South West and Northern political establishment? The fallout of that misadventure led to the civil war in 1967. The mainly Igbo officers who masterminded the coup didn't kill any political leader from their tribe.

Some Igbo leaders talk about the Civil War as if Nigeria started the war against them. Colonel Emeka Ojukwu started the war not Major-General Yakubu Gowon. Gowon had a duty to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Nigeria.

Even with all the noise about all that is supposedly wrong with Nigeria, who are the biggest beneficiaries of Nigeria's diversity today? It is still igbos. Every part of this country welcomes them.

They prosper more across the country outside their ancestral homeland. Igbos are probably the biggest real estate owners among all Nigerian tribes. In fact records show they own more than 60% of houses, Plazas, hotels and housing estates in Abuja.

They play big in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, and Port Harcourt - every part of Nigeria. I need someone to tell me the number of Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Ijaw, Kanuri, Tiv man or woman etc that currently have lands, houses or any business that can employ 50 people in any part of South Eastern Nigeria the same way Igbos do in South West, South South and in the North. Do they sell land to non-Igbos in South East same way they freely buy land and own properties in other parts of Nigeria?

Under President Jonathan, the government they seem to have invested heavy emotions more than Jonathan's own Ijaw tribe, Igbos got key federal appointments through Senator Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Did other tribes bitterly complain the way Igbos now do over appointments? In any case, which statutory appointments have they been denied by current government despite rejecting President Muhammadu Buhari and his party in 4 elections? Let’s get real here.

Igbos really want to get all top appointments in a government they rejected and have shown unimaginable hostility despite the government offering them the best deal in Nigeria in terms of real development no administration offered them since 1960. It is on record Buhari, in two presidential contests, made top Igbo politicians his running mate. Let’s face it.

Which government in Nigeria has taken on the quantum of Federal government-funded infrastructural projects that are going on in the South East than this current FG since 1960? If we analyse the Federal Budget from 2016 when President Buhari presented his first budget, the current FG has possibly spent more money developing SE in 6 years than it has done in Buhari's own North West if we consider FG's spend on Infrastructure per region.

It will appear Igbo elites prefer appointments that only benefit individuals and their hangers-on more than real development that benefits majority of citizens of that region.

They covet appointment of an Igbo person as Chief of Army Staff more than Second Niger Bridge, Enugu-Port Harcourt Express, Awka-Enugu Express, Owerri-Port Harcourt Express, Port Harcourt-Aba and other dead Federal highways that are being reconstructed across the region.

For all the special intervention supports by Federal Government to all States of the Federation, I am not aware President Buhari denied South Eastern States what is due to them because Igbos didn't vote for him.

Question: how did all the appointments held by Igbos before the Buhari administration including Chief of Army Staff, Comptroller General of Immigration, Deputy Senate President, Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Inspector General of Police, Minister of Aviation, Director-General of Pension Commission, Executive Chairman of National Electricity Regulatory Commission, Minister of Power etc improve the lives of Igbo people.

Stella Oduah and Osita Chidoka as Ministers of Aviation couldn't even fix Enugu Airport in 5 years or did Dr. Sam Amadi, Professor Bath Nnaji and Professor Chinedu Nebo who superintended over the power sector for 6 years supply more electricity to Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi?

Having Igbo sons leading the power sector for 6years could not even resolve the legal logjam between Emeka Offor’s, Enugu Distribution Company and Geometric Power owned by another Igbo man to supply regular electricity to Aba.

Whereas a Federal government being led by a man they rejected in every election since 2003 has done, in 6 years, what the Igbo adopted political party could not do for them in 16 years. It was Buhari that gave Ariaria Market, the biggest market in the region uninterrupted electricity supply.

The main point here is the fact that Igbos cannot continue to claim they are the only good people or tribe in Nigeria while others are the evil people holding them down. Certainly, hate and insulting other tribes can't be a strategy for engagement in addressing any grievances if at all there are genuine ones.

Even though the Nigerian constitution does not allow for referendum, let the Federal Government allow it to see if majority of Igbo people will vote to leave Nigeria. I am sure majority wants to remain citizens of Nigeria because they know Nigeria serves them better.

If the Nigerian government won’t allow a referendum, can the South East governors agree and fund an informal referendum to even give us a scientific basis to know if the Igbos want to live as citizens of Biafra, after all, Lagos State, in 2003 or so, conducted its own census independent of the Federal Government.

The Igbo elites must summon courage to counter the IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu's hate mongering. Igbo elites have tolerated Kanu too much without considering their own hard work, sweat and investments in Nigeria. Whatever our country is today is what we all made of it.

If we now need to press the reset button it should be done in a manner we all can listen to ourselves. We must not yield the space to the mad man and his specialists in IPOB..."

HE SAIDIT

GamalNasser:
If Osinbanjo said this then I agree he is a fraud of a pastor

Obviously you know little or zero about Ojuwu,Aburi Accord about the issues that culminated into the Nigeria-Biafra War. Please go and educate yourself some more

theTranslator:
Ojukwu was too clumsy and in a rush
If he waited and continued trying and didn't declare Biafra,we might(Nigeria) have been one of the best nations today
The killings in the north were kinda justified
Their sardauna and many of their elites were killed by a majority and Igbo led coup

You are proudly ignorant. Igbos left Lagos, Yorubaland and the entire Nigeria in 1967 when we seceded from this zoo and established Biafra. You went to war to force back to Nigeria. So deal with our presence in Nigeria. That's why they call you folks SOPHISTICATED slowpoke.

Fulani has turned your kinsmen into refugees in Benin Republic. Instead of you to be focused on the state of Yoruba nation in Fulani-led Nigeria, you are rather Ndigbo-obsessed. What a slowpoke?

WesternOligarch:
First go back to biafraland and agitate for biafra over there.....the issue is that unlike the jews, nobody is stopping you guys from going back to the east, but you probably won't go back for fear of your lives. Even me as an ibadan man I prefer my ibadan any day any time over Lagos even though I have strong family ties over there..... I always wonder what's chasing flatin0s away from their land to the lands of people they claim to hate them. Jews left eygpt.

You reason like a fool

liketerm:
No problem about that, when they exist and those who decided to remain behind will be given the GHANA TREATMENT.

Please what specifically do you have hold against NDIG

cocolacec:
The igbos must pay $2,000 for visa and $1.5 million to setup business in Yorubaland.

TRASH. GO GET A JOB!

mekaboy:
We wake up tomorrow and federal government says igbos should leave Nigeria and become Biafra.

Igbos in federal civil service have till 31st of july to resign.

No pension or gratuity to be paid.

A new law and taxes will be imposed on all igbo owned businesses and properties outside igboland. Igbos will now have to pay taxes as foreign investors in Nigeria.

Those employed in police army and every other security agency, have to leave by 31st july.

Igbo graduates from Nigerian universities will not be able to serve in Nigeria.

All goods and transport services( air, road, sea) coming to and from igboland will have to pay taxes in each Nigerian state. When know the people of Niger delta will refuse to be part of Biafra.

So goods coming from lagos will pay taxes in all the states, even to delta state.

By the time these items arrive, how much will they be sold?

No more allocation from federal government.

No more usage of Nigerian Naira in igboland .

All Nigerian owned banks have to close branches in to igboland.

Telecoms have till 31st to shut down operations in the east.

Electricity distributors in igboland have to be disconnected from the national grid.

DSTV and all televison stations licenced in Nigeria have to stop operations in igboland.

All police, army and security agencies have to withdraw from igboland.

NOW WE HAVE OUR COUNTRY BIAFRA. HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS.

What happens to Electricity? The lights are off, how will businesses function?

What about food? By the time a truck of food comes from the north and pays all the taxes from the road, how much will a tubber of yam cost?

Security? No police, army, or security agency in igboland.

Business? No Electricity to power business and they collapse.

Accommodation? Igbos who will leave civil service, police, army, navy etc will have to return to igboland.

Employment? Those who have been dismissed from service will become unemployed. Remember, by nigerian laws, companies in nigeria have to employ at least 60% Nigerians. This means, most Igbos will loose their jobs in companies. As they will be counted as foreigners.

Education? Igbos will be charged school fees as international students. Many parents who have lost their jobs won't be able to afford this.

You see why the fraudster in UK is forcing Niger delta into Biafra?

This is why I tell my fellow Igbo's to forget the fraudster and his fake Biafran agitation.

Use this energy and funds you send to the fraudster to develope igboland. Catalonia was already developed before they wanted to leave. UK was already self sufficient before asking to leave EU.

The motor park touts and criminals following kanu will tell you that when Biafra comes all these things will be taken care of.

So the world will be waiting for you to become recognised, form a currency backed by nothing. Then trade with it at what value?

These same touts and criminals will be the ones roaming the streets of igboland, looting properties, kiling people, raping women in the failed country.

Kanu knows all this, but his main focus is in the donations coming from the agitation.

Those Igbo's sending money for igbos to be killed, why not send the same money for factories and schools to be built to provide free education and employment for igbo youths?

You send money to kanu and he pockets it, sends peanuts to buy tramadol and drugs for his ESN/UGM that end up dead.

Please what informed your emphatic assertion? What past event/incident did you include in your analysis to arrive at your conclusion?

truthfulparrot:
The excitement about Biafra is because the North is protesting against it. You will be shocked that if a referendum is carried out in Igbo land today, majority of the Igbo will opt to stay in Nigeria.

A failed state!

Racoon:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2021/06/08/nnamdi-kanu-using-twitter-to-destabilise-nigeria-lai-mohammed/%3famp

Stop posting trash. Adaka Boro was not killed by IGBO.

OneCorner:
Igbos can’t eat their cake and have it
When Nigeria was sweeting them, they fought tooth and nail to keep the country as one thinking they will forever be in the top realms of the country’s operations
They even killed adaka boro, their supposed brother in the Niger delta
Now they have been sidelined, they now want to run away
Sense will not kill these people

Insightful!

Igboid:
1. Both fought/are fighting for a Multiethnic country.
Zik wanted a bigger country without considering that diversity is never an advantage in national building. It's a disadvantage. There is a reason Biblical God introduced language diversity once he wanted to destroy the people of the Babel unity of purpose. In countries where you think there is diversity, look closer, there is also one dominant culture that the rest of the Minorities rally around. The English Anglo Saxon culture is what all Europeans (French/Italians/Germans/Irish/Spanish/Portuguese/Slavic) rallied around to build USA upon.
The Han Chinese culture does same Function for China.

2. Both are/were not Igbo nationalists . It's no news that Zik wanted to be Nigerian first before becoming Igbo. Just as MNK has repeatedly stated that he is a Biafran and not Igbo. While Awolowo and Saraduna were projecting and protecting Yoruba interests, Zik was running around claiming Zik of Africa and one Nigerian, he never wanted to be Zik of Igboland.

3. Both are/were eager to ignore conspicuous signs s that potend future danger in their pursuit of their Utopian Multiethnic country.
Zik had tell-tale signs of what was to come in Nigeria during the 1945 and 1953 Igbo Massacres in the North, yet he insisted on one Nigeria with the North. He even allowed himself to be manipulated into accepting the ceremonial presidency post so that a primary teacher in Balewa can have the whole power.
I have heard MNK talking about moving Biafra capital to Igbophobic Port Harcourt all in attempt to pander to the interests of minorities.

Nnamdi Kanu like Zik before him is currently ignoring the tell-tale signs that gives a peep into what the future of a country between Ndiigbo and Minorities could look like. The atrocities against Ndiigbo in Biafra war and post Biafra where they declared our property abandoned property highlight this.

4. Zik had to wait hard for the North to loosen her relationship with Britain who Zik considered oppressors but who the North considered good allies. You see, so tight was the bond between the North and the British that the North rejected independence from Britain.
The Minorities have shown allegiance and uncanny affinity to the North, who MNK and Ndiigbo consider oppressors.
They have at every point in time backed the North against Ndiigbo.
Twice Zik contested for presidential election in 1979 and 1983, and on each occasion, the Minorities voted more for Awolowo and Shagari than for Zik.
Ever since the days of Harold Dappa and Boro who declared the Hausa-Fulanis the saviours of Ijaw people, the Minorities led by Ijaw have continued to choose the North over the Igbo irrespective of how much the North led Nigeria have exploited and damaged their environment via crude oil exploration and exploitation.

Nnamdi Kanu like Zik waited for Northern-British romance to end, is currently waiting for the Minorities to end their romance with One NIGERIA and the North before Biafra can take off.

6. Zik was smitten with the arable vast lands of the North. He wanted such rich country in his myopic mind to be in the same country with his Igbo people, so much that he forgot Igboland has her own fair share of natural beauty and resources. MNK is smitten by minorities crude oil and coasts that he has forgotten how rich in Natural gas and in sizeable crude oil when fully explored Igboland is and can be .


7. Zik Never saw the Hausa-Fulanis as a threat.
He felt he could easily control them in his utopic Multiethnic country. MNK and co are likewise underestimating the Minorities and what they can do if empowered by an external body.

8. Zik tried all his life to project himself as a one Nigerian before the North and West who saw him as nothing but a man running an Igbo agenda.
I see Kanu trying too hard to present himself as detribalised before minorities who see him as nothing but a cunning Igbo man running Igbo domination agenda to rule over them.
Like Zik, if Kanu is not stopped by Ndiigbo now, he would end up jeopardizing Igbo future interests.

9. Zik built and cultivated a toxic relationship with unwilling partners and had to take a subservient role to make it work.
The North made it obvious they were not interested in independence from British. They feared the South would dominate them as they were not well educated.
They made it obvious that they would only support independence from Britain if they were offered the leadership of the new country.
Now let this sink in, the North contributed next to Nothing to the fight for independence, the fight was borne by the South. The British were not going to let a divided independent Nigeria, she would only hand NIGERIA over to the local leaders as a whole (East, West and North), atleast without violent resistance.

Same scenario is repeating today. The Minorities have no interest in Biafra, because they fear Igbo domination, they want their own independent countries, but since that isn't on the table, they would rather cling unto NIGERIA irrespective of the fact they are being exploited by the system.
It becomes obvious that to get them over the Biafran cause, MNK would have to make concessions that would harm Igbo future interests like Zik did with the North. We know today with the kaleidoscope of hindsight, that Zik committed a blunder of epic proportions.

10. The only time Zik unity with his unwilling Northern partners worked was when he was willing to accept the role of subservient partner.
The moment Zik wanted to have the option to lead the union, kasala burst. Starting with the disputed census results.

In same manner, the only time Igbo/Minorities union ever worked was when Igbos took the junior partner role.
Like when Eyo Ita was the governor of the region and a king from AkwaCross was the head of the Eastern House of chiefs. There was peace everywhere. But immediately Zik toppled Eyo Ita cries of Igbo domination filled the air.
Additionally when GEJ was on sit and had Igbo support between 2009 to 2015, the Minorities stylishly muted their Igbophobia. We were inundated with talks of SE/SS unity, GEJ was the new Azikwe. Asari Dokubo was waxing lyrical about Igbo unity with Ijaw. Edwin Clark shelved his usual anti Igbo rhetorics aside. But immediately GEJ was toppled, they all went back to their default settings.

Each time Ndiigbo want to lead the SS/SE coalition, the Minorities left us in the mud.
Look at the 1979 and 1983 presidential elections, Zik was disgraced in all SS minorities areas. Both Shagari and Balewa got more votes in Bendel, old Cross River (South Eastern) and old Rivers States than Zik did and by a long margin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Nigerian_presidential_election#:~:text=Presidential%20elections%20were%20held%20in,the%20parliamentary%20elections%20in%20July.

You begin to wonder how Zik or Ndiigbo ever wronged these people.
The point being that these lots only accept unity with us on the terms that they lead the union.
Is this the legacy we want for Igbo future generations?

YOU CAN REMAIN IN NIGERIA AFTER BIAFRA IS BIRTHED.

Curious345:
I am Igbo ,but I want a united Nigeria