₦airaland Forum

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.

Ahmado Bello: Foresight
Awolowo: Realist
Azikwe: Dreamer

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 )

Awo can lie for Africa.

Absolutely right!

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?

Awo can lie for Africa.

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.

It was the greatest scam of the century!

nku5:
The way Buhari scammed Tinubu in 2015 no be small thing. The man no gree kpai

"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.

sarrki:
That is one of the attributes of OMOLUABI

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.

Thanks for the confession Mr Turncoat.

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.

Help others suffering with Diabetes by sharing your experience of living with Diabetes in Nigeria

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.

ťğsvwjjnn44

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.