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There is a slight - not major - error in your submission. The Aburi Accord was signed by 5 people:

1) Gowon
2) Ojukwu
3) Adebayo
4) Johnson
5) Ejoor

Thanks

gidgiddy:
53 years ago. Lt Colonel Ojukwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region, travelled to Aburi in Ghana to meet Lt Colonel Gowon, Military Head Of State. The agenda, was to restructure Nigeria. After 2 days, they agreed on a confederation. All 4 Regions would be autonomous, control their resources and even have their own Police and Military. The federal government would be very weak and no Region would be able to control another Region. Gowon and Ojukwu, signed this agreement in front the then President of Ghana, General Joe Ankrah. It was to be known as the Aburi accord. Then they all went back to Nigeria


And thats when trouble started. Gowon returned to Nigeria and realised that the agreement he signed prevented him and his fellow Northerners from getting what they most wanted, economic and political control of Nigeria. So Gowon went back on the agreement and Ojukwu had no choice than to declare Biafra. This led to war.

The reason why this story is important is that nothing has really changed in 53 years. The North still has a stranglehold on Nigeria, they control who becomes President, they control the National Assembly and they control NNPC. If anyone thinks the North is going to give up those privileges in the name of restructuring or confederation, that person should think again

Eventually, anyone who wants restructuring or confederation will have to face the same choice Ojukwu faced 53 years ago, accept Nigeria as the North wants it or go for your freedom

Absolutely right!

dokyOloye:
Good to know that d vandals are now killing themselves.
Gowon and TY Danjuma's ppl have already been thoroughly dealt with and by d time Osama BinHary kaputs and Osunbade takes over,dem go start to detonate their bombs in Oshogbo and Ibadan.

Absolutely right!

Sweetguy25:
A senseless war fought to keep a useless country together.

You killed it! Kudos for your insightful and intelligent commentary.

sagytariusTM1:
CONCLUSION
Inspite of Awolowo’s animosity and genocidal war policies against Ojukwu, and Biafra as a whole, a number of points stand out very clearly:

i) Ojukwu Attended and Addressed the United Nations General Assembly during the crisis.  He received a standing ovation from the International Heads of State and Delegates after addressing that World Body on the Biafran Issue.  His enlarged photograph adorned the Cover Page of the “Times Magazine” that carried the full text of the U.N. story during that crisis.

ii) Ojukwu was a HEAD OF STATE, and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of a Country-Biafra, for three full years.  Some other Heads of State don’t hold office for up to a single year.

iii) When Ojukwu died, he died a National Hero and was given a National Burial, with Full Military Honours, as a General of the Peoples’ Army.  His burial was given an International Colouration, with the personal presence of General John Jerry Rawlings, a former Ghanaian Head of State; and other foreign Dignitaries.

iv)      Awolowo Blockaded and Starved Biafrans, with the hope of getting SIMILAR Positions, Titles and Honours after the war, but never did.  When he failed his last Presidential election, in 1979, he declared, out of frustration, that he had fought to become Nigeria’s Head of State for too long.  That he was not going to contest for the Presidential seat any more.  And that if Nigerians wanted him to be their president, they knew where to look for him.  Unfortunately, Nigerians never went to look for Awolowo, till he died.  So much for Tribal leadership, and unbridled political ambition.  

THE GOD OF BIAFRA NEVER ABANDONEDHER
Like Awolowo, many of those who fought against Biafra have suffered one form of NEMESIS, or the other:  Brigadier-General Benjamin Adekunle (the Black Scorpion) who commanded the 3rd Marine Commando that blockaded and killed Biafrans from the coastal region, has long been forgotten by the people he fought for, in terms of political positions/rewards.  Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken-Saro Wiwa were killed by the same people that used them to fight Biafra.  Today, Bakassi has been lost to the Cameroon as “compensation” to that country, for blocking Biafra from the outside world from that land axis.  The wartime commanders from Middle-Belt region who fought Biafra, know how they have been faring in Nigeria’s political scene for the job they did.  

Gowon, a Christian, was used by the core Muslim north to fight Biafra.  After doing that job, he was humiliated and disgraced out of office by General Murtala Mohammed, a Muslim from the core North.  Gowon had to beg for pardon from the same people he worked for, to please let him return to Nigeria from England to which he had also run to like Ogundipe.  Today, Gowon is going all over the place praying.  May be, praying for more pardon from God for the sins he committed with Awolowo against Biafra.

In The Advocate Newspaper of Sunday 4th Nov., to Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, Gowon was reported as saying that he and Awolowo had no regrets over their roles in the Civil War.  He alleged that Prof. Achebe did not know what happened during the war, and should not have written on what he was not sure of.  He arrogantly added that he was ready to face the International Criminal court (ICC) at the Haque, for war crimes against Biafra.  My old mother in the village will say “Easier said than done”.  Gowon must be reminded that if a stubborn goat manoeuvres its head into a narrow-necked pot to consume anything, and can no longer free its head from the pot because of its long horns, then the goat must blame itself for what it has caused itself.  This is food for thought, for all concerned.

Awolowo himself was used by the North to fight Biafra on the promise that they would make him the Civilian Head of State after the war.  That never happened.  The North he served dumped him in 1979 and chose Alhaji Shehu Shagari as Head of State.

The Southern minority ethnic groups were told to join in fighting Biafra, to be free from Ibo domination.  Today, one doesn’t know the real people dominating the South South: Is it the North? The West? Both? Or none of the above?
N.B.   Things Ojukwu and Easterners saw almost half a century ago, are the things others are only just beginning to see today.  No wonder the Bible made it clear that the Three Wise Men came from the EAST.   

Above all, most of the problems Nigeria thought she would solve by fighting Biafra, are even multiplying.  That is why, today, Benjamin Adekunle says he regrets the degree of killings he did during the war, and General Alani Akinrinade is now asking “If Nigeria splits, so what?”

To cap it up, one very remarkable thing happened in the East, in the first few years after the war.  The rate at which male children were born, especially in 1970/71 was not only outstanding, but astonishing!  This really got people saying it loud, that “Our Children who fought and died in the Biafran war are COMING BACK”.  Was that God’s own way of repopulating the East, after the Genocide against her?  God alone has the answer, but birth records are there to prove the point.  In God, the Ibos rest their case.

Indeed, interesting!

naijaseeker:
Interesting

PEDESTRIAN REASONING!

Desola:
My foe, do not mistake greed, selfishness, self-centredness and necessity for patriotism. That the ibos are investing in other regions does not reveal their "patriotism" or belief in the Nigerian project. Their moving forth into other regions is borne out of the need to survive. They know that no right thinking Nigerian would come to their region and after their fruitless attempt at secession, the government had lost interest in planting anything in their land for lack of trust and their commitment to the Nigerian project. Ibos are traders and in order to succeed, they have to go to their markets and their markets are not in the east but in the west and the north. Ibos loathe Nigeria but loves its money and that is what you are mistaking for patriotism. An ibo man would do all within and without his means to earn money and that is why he is going about setting up in other regions to make the money by all mean; not because of some stupid belief in one Nigeria! To the iboman, it is all about the benjamins, baby!

ABSOLUTE TRUTH!

the north and south are always scared whenever the hidden truth about the genocide against the igbos is mentioned.

that controversial and shameful issues of the war that Nigeria wants to hide is actually the reason why Nigeria will never, ever move forward. an igbo proverb say that "if an abominable act is concealed, it will continue to hunt and create havoc on the conscience of the perpetrators - the perpetrators always go on defense mode whenever the issue is mentioned!"

the first step towards placing Nigeria on the part of progress is by tendering unreserved apology to the igbos - unless that is done, Nigeria will continue to retrogress!

Accusing Prof Achebe of eliciting war based on his memoir is like trying to cover pregnancy wit a blanket!

"General Gowon sensed this mood, studiously drew Chief Awolowo closer to himself. He offered him the highest civilian post in the Federal Military Government – the vice-presidency of the Federal Executive Council – with the unspoken understanding that Nigeria was his as soon as the war was over and the army withdrew"

Trash unparalled!

But l appreciate your candor for acknowledging the political appointment was " with the unspoken understanding that Nigeria was his as soon as the war was over and the army withdrew" That Greek gift turned out to be a poison chalice, like all Greek gifts, which killed, politically, Awolowo's sole ambition to rule Nigeria. Yoruba nation is still paying, 53 years after, for Awolowo's political myopism and treachery
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Edruezzi:
I must note that I’m of Igbo descent, for those of you who will scream that I’m a tribalist.
Get a life, people. Biafra failed because it had no weapons, no modern arms industry, and no food, and because the Igbo ethnic area, which contained the only people willing to die for it, is landlocked. Most Biafra soldiers fought with rifles of World War I vintage, that is, for the inevitably historically illiterate readers I’m dealing with, rifles from 1914. To have been able to win the war, Biafra would have had to be as technologically advanced as a European country, with the ability to make every type of weapon. The Igbo, who did not see the wheel until the 1870s, are not that kind of culture. Isaac Newton and Thomas Edison weren’t Igbo.
Meanwhile, nobody supports secession because every country in this world has ethnic minorities or a region that would like to secede from it. If the country supports secession overseas it will appear hypocritical to its local secessionists.
This nonsense about tribe reflects Nigeria’s traditionalist mentality more than anything else. Countries where everybody speaks the same language have also fought civil wars: The United States, Spain, Korea, Vietnam. Nigerians should advance beyond tribalism. We are more similar than we are different. The Igbos didn’t even know they were one people until the 1930s. Igbo nationalism is therefore a recent, manufactured concept.

You are indeed a SOPHISTICATED slowpoke!

You are Ndigbo-obsessed but Yoruba future/Yoruba interest blind.

Don't worry, the Fulani's are coming for the final solution!

T9ksy:
Truly, Yorubas were able to stop Ojukwu's rag tag "liberation front", with great emphasis on the word - rag tag, simply because that was exactly what they were, no umbrage intended on my part.

It is also a recorded fact that these rag tag soldiers were
stopped at Ore with hurriedly assembled yoruba soldiers.

Whilst it is also true that the collective and concerted efforts of yorubas under the leadership of Ibadan Generals, were able to scupper fulani jihadists ambition for our land at Oshogbo, in 1840 .

However, this time around the specifics are different. The Jihadists from futa jallon have had ample time to perfect their long-term hegemonic objective for our land aided by the fake union we 've find ourselves under.

As long as we remain under this pseudo unitary govt, the fulanis will surreptitiously and gradually actualise their true objective. Currently, intelligence reports suggest that there are about 1740 fulani illegal camps ( with each camp harbouring between 10 to 15 cells), in our forests with more moving in daily.

Is it any wonder the unprecedented high state of insecurity currently happening in yorubaland? With the perpetrators not being far-fetched. Our towns, motorways and villages are not safe, anymore.

Ph.ock the Chinese, our main worry ought to be this fulani govt of Buhari that's hell-bent on subjugating us and exploiting our natural resources like they did to the hausas.

That's the nature of average Yoruba. They act before they think.

Orjioorji:
you didn't read but you conclude that another tribe posted it what a foolish man you are. Baby factories sell their children to barren women but in South West kill their own babies for rituals.

"I JUST KNOW THAT NO MATTER THE TREACHERY, YORUBAS WILL GET BACK ODUDUWA LAND OF THE SW FROM KEBBI TO LOKOJA TO BAYELSA"

In your dream. Awo sold your Yoruba to Fulani slavery in 1967 when he joined them to fight Igbo in the Nigeria-Biafra War. Tinubu solidified it by aligning with Buhari to restore Fulani hegemony to power rather than using that strange alliance to restructure Nigeria.

orisa37:
Yoruba Land extends from KEBBI along River Niger down to the Confluence at Lokoja and further down straight to the Creek.

One of MAFA, that is, Miyetti Allah FULANI ASSOCIATION'S Chief Priest is called BODEJO and your Child from your Chinese side is called BADEJO. I just wonder why, other than wickedness, OBAMA AND KERRY SUPPORTED THE INVASION, ILLEGAL MIGRATION AND SLAVERY OF YORUBA INTEGRITY, CULTURE, TRADITION AND CIVILIZATION WITH RIFA-RUGA ISLAMISATION FULANISATION AND ANARCHY IN BUHARI'S HANDS?

I JUST KNOW THAT NO MATTER THE TREACHERY, YORUBAS WILL GET BACK ODUDUWA LAND OF THE SW FROM KEBBI TO LOKOJA TO BAYELSA.

See your life. A northerner disparaged Yoruba, rsther than respond you pivoted yo attacking Ndigbo.

IamWonderful:
It is still better than when baby factory people were sent out like criminals

What mess did Zik create? Did Zik force Yorubas to join the North to fight for One Nigeria?

Did he force MidWest to join the Hausa/Fulani to fight for One Nigeria?

ehinmowo:
The mess that Zik created in this messy country is unfathomable. Indie, it's bitting the Igbos in the ass the most

You are a shameless liar!

ChiefJusticeFuc:
Abiola won because IBB backed him and this gave most of the south , MB and even parts of the north to vote for him.

It was this endoresment from IBB and a section of the SMC that made people troop out and vote for Abiola.

The Igbo did not vote for Abiola for reasons best known to them and I know they played a huge part in the annulment and were heavily invested in the Abacha govt and Also rock court that they can not be counted in any way or form part of the call to return to democratic rule and I also know they went as far as rallying support for Abacha's transition to civil rule. That's their kind of dirty selfish politics.

What is the relationship between the lopsided police promotion and election boycott or/and Kanu?

budaatum:
I wonder what they thought the dividends of boycotting the last election was?

Perhaps next time the Igbos won't listen to Kanu and will not boycott and become voiceless!

On a more serious note, where's the promotion list?

You must be a southerner: sophisticated morons - particularly, if you are Yoruba. Aso Rock and Nigeria belongs to Fulani. The rest of you are slaves and fourth class citizens.

Bulleye:
Aso Rock belongs to Nigerians and not the northerners or the Fulani. We have that right to criticize Buhari. If they are not comfortable with that, they can make him emir.

You are a nonentity. Nobody cares about your thought!

OZOnNengiTheory:
Honestly, one of the things I can't wait to see is the Albino hunchback receiving hot slaps from some of the disgruntled able men in the Nigerian Army

Nnamdi Kanu needs a brain reset. His investments (gullible followers) should be made to see this on their Biafra Television and his cry for help me audibly heard on Biafra Radio.

I don't hate this man. I only mean well for the Igbo nation. Something is obviously wrong with it.

Totally agree with you!

powerkey:
Mere chest beating.

Yoruba ethnicity don't have the muzzle to declare a rebulic.

Its only noise making.

"There is nothing God can't do. In due time, Naija will be great again."


Stop living in deception!

XshegzzyeeiX:
Please, Nigerians are not stupid.
Believe this and you'll believe anything.

There is nothing God can't do. In due time, Naija will be great again.

You are unintelligent

NoIgboSoundTueh:
Nigerians don't want Biafra independence because we're concerned about its survival.
Or how can five tiny landlocked states that depend entirely on FG allocations survives on its own.
The only resources found in South east is Coal, a useful product if we're in the 17th century. And of course a cupful of petroleum.
Frankly speakly Igboland is just a few duplex and lot of poverty.
So tell me how Biafra plan to sustain itself when even with the handout coming from Abuja 90% of Igbo ladies have taken to prostitution all over naija to sustain themselves.
In short we don't want biafra to go because we're saving it from itself.

Nigeria will be great! HA HA HA

That he has not come out to shoot it down shows he is plain and pliant

Kingscee:
ByI Idang Alibi

It beggars belief that a cabal of cynical political manipulators from the North SAT somewhere in the NORTH and DECIDED that it will be EXPEDIENT for the North to make overtures to former President Goodluck Jonathan to SOUND him out on the possibility that he can be RECRUITED to come back to power in 2023 but on the CONDITION that that can only be possible if he decamps from his own known and identified party, the PDP, and joins the ruling APC and those artful manipulators BELIEVE that like an excited child in a candy shop, Jonathan will fall for this gambit and willingly go along with them.

The mere thought of it and the actual move to accomplish the plan, is not in any way a very good commentary on the perceived character, ability and disposition of Jonathan. Rather, it is a clear expression of the very low opinion they have of him. To put it more bluntly, it is an indictment of who they think Jonathan is. That, he is a plain, pliant, unprincipled and effete man, lacking in political sophistication whatsoever and who can, therefore, be tossed about like a reed in a tide.

If Jonathan does not think himself as fitting the above portraiture but as a man of principle, fairness and justice, upon hearing the rumour swirling about his possible draft by the North for 2023 on the platform of the North, for use by the North, to achieve some yet-to -be -disclosed Northern agenda, the mere thought of it should have caused him to wear sackcloth and ashes and parade the nooks, creeks and crannies of Otuoke and the streets and boulevard of some Nigerians towns and cities, lamenting, ‘’How do they see me? Who do they think I am? Do they think of me as a pliable, unprincipled, unfair and a useless man who lacks even elementary self-respect? Do they see me as an any-how man who is not concerned about his personal dignity or the dignity of the people he has come to represent and to symbolize their fears and aspirations?

Surely, there is thinking that informed the thought that Jonathan is the right man for the plan and that he be approached for 2023. Do they think that having tasted power for six years, he is so enamoured of it and has become so desperate to go back that ne can fall for any plan that derogates his sense of dignity and self-respect? What becomes of the popular near nationwide clamour for an Ibo presidency come2023? If Jonathan thinks much of himself and wants Nigerians to see him as a man of integrity, he would recruit his own wife, Mama Peace, to employ either a winged instrument and follow him in his parade and take up a lament, ‘There is God oh’’. This thing they want to do to the Ibos, there is God oh!’’

Let no one tell me that the idea is a mere rumour. We should wait for it before we seek to pass judgment. We must start to pass judgment right now in order to possibly nip it in the bud because the mere idea of it is not good at all. In our country Nigeria where everything and anything goes, a political rumour is as good as a confirmed plan, the idea is indeed harboured. What remains is the manifestation. Before Jonathan bites the bait, a town crier ought to warn him because any acceptance of it will be akin to committing suicide.

As this rumour started, I cast my mind back to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The late Sardauna and his followers in the North knew how desperate Awo sought to be president for even one day because he knew that even if he was president for one day the mere speech outlining his plan for Nigeria will change Nigeria for good! In spite of this knowledge, no one in the North would have contemplated approaching Awo and selling him the idea of his decamping form his Action Group party or the Unity Party of Nigeria to run on the platform of the NPC or the NPN.

If anyone dared to approach Awo the man would have called a press conference to wonder aloud to the world the motive of the people who approached him if the people who met him with such a proposal were sane or mischief makers who want to court his trouble. The fact that people could approach Jonathan should therefore be a matter of how they perceive his person.

In case Jonathon is not aware, these parties that do not represent any ideology have nevertheless become more or less cultural expression property of the people. There are Northerners of President Buhari’s ilk or generation who believe that APC is a Northern thing and the South-South and South East who believe that thePDP is their own thing. If Jonathan therefore dares to ditch PDP and runs on APC platform this is what will happen: the South-South and south east will not vote for him. In fact, they will align with someonefrom the North, most probably Atiku, in order to pour sand into his garri. He will be seen as a monumental betrayer of the hope and aspirations of his base to become a willing stooge in the hands of others. The whole thing will sound the political death nail of Jonathan.

Whether Jonathan eventually wins or loses, his image would have taken such a severe battering that he will not be able to recognize himself in a mirror. His people in the South-South will be the first to disown him for acceding to his image being put to disrepute. I will be the first to do so because I will feel humiliated on his behalf if he does not feel so. The Ibos who will feel that he is being used as a convenient spoiler to their legitimate claim will treat him like a leper.

In fact, he will not be able to spell his surname after the election whether he wins or loses. For some of us humble and appreciative souls who are always thankful to God for what some consider small mercies, we wonder why someone like Jonathan will like to be used in a clear plan to scuttle the fair and right agitation by the Ibos that as one of the tripods upon which Nigeria stands, they deserve to have the presidency in 2023.

Dear President Jonathan, cynical power wielders and manipulators have realised that there are three things that men of all races on earth fall for if they are sufficiently tempted: power, sex and money. That is why those people are approaching you. I want to humbly tell you that they have settled for you not because they love you so much but because they love themselves and their interest which is always number one in their consideration of everything. Therefore, refuse to be tempted. Reject the offer. If God wants you to be president again, the initiative is not going to come from those people. It will come from somewhere else and you will discern it yourself.

Have you forgotten just so soon how these people and their agents were abusing you every day to such a level that you yourself once remarked that you were the most abused president on earth? They called you clueless, incompetent and unsuitable. What has changed now? Have you now become so ‘clueful’, competent and suitable?

Do not squander the enormous goodwill you earned for that singular, statesmanlike acceptance of your defeat in 2015. Anything else you do now is likely to cast you in the image of our usual type of politicians who live for power without any principles. The year 2023 is the year of the Ibos to accede to the presidency of their country. Your region has had its just share. Do not allow yourself to be used to spoil the chances of your brothers, the Ibos. You are too much to be used for the role of a spoiler. A brother who loves you has said it. Heed the counsel.
https://leadership.ng/beware-president-jonathan-dont-bite-the-bait/?amp=1

You cannot become a giant of a continent by the success of a small slice of a city of huge country like Nigeria.

rossniti:
By the time Eko Atlantic is completed, anyone still going to Dubai, na you know wetin you dey go find there.

Eko Atlantic will make Lagos Africa's greatest city, and Africa's most visited city.

It will be a global investment and tourism magnet that will put a stamp to Nigeria's status as the undisputed Giant of Africa, and a major international power.

Can you educate me how the inclusion of secession clause in the independent constitution would have prevented the Nigeria-Biafra War?

Thanks

seunmsg:
If only the Igbos had agreed to the inclusion of a secession clause in the independent constitution, Ojukwu’s ill-fated war wouldn’t have been necessary.

You hit the bull's eye!

kingzizzy:
That Ore situation actually exposed Yorubas as slaves of the North. You Yorubas were so concerned that Ojukwu invaded the west that you joined hands with the North to enslave everybody to the North

Today, Obasanjo is shouting "Fulanization" and "Islamisation". If Adekunle was still alive, he probably would be shouting the same thing. But 50 years ago when Ojukwu was fighting against the same Fulanization and Islamization of Igbos, Obasanjo and Adekunle thought he was a mad man and fought against him proudly.

When Yorubas should have been teaming up with Ojukwu to drive Gowon and his Northern goons out of Lagos back to the North, Yorubas were busy teaming up with the North to make everybody come under Northern rule

Today, it's no longer Ojukwu invading the West, it is Fulani herdsmen who are invading and killing Fashoranti's daughter

Totally agree with you!

kingzizzy:
Has Adekunle, Obasanjo and Awolowo had any sense, they would have been talking about Oduduwa Republic when Ojukwu was talking about Biafra. Instead, they all fought for a united Nigeria where the North would be masters of every body.

What a shame

Yes he is working

yaki84:
Buhari is working....
Please dont disturb!

How market now?

Montaque:
My costly vote for GEJ in 2011 has led me to days of regrets and anger.
The expectations were not met, even when it is expected that having once had no shoes,he should know the plight of the poor masses.
The greatest we lost during these periods since 2011 has been the eroding values of the nation...
The sanctity of life
The national conscience
The guilt of wrongdoing
The boldness of evildoers
The open show of corruption
The profligacy in use of our resources
The utter reduction in our monies worth
The hardness of living here
The lower standard of goods in the market
The idleness of both employed and the unemployed.
Etc...

Honestly, GMB has a lot to do if he wins.

"Nigeria's debt to GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world at 30.05%."

This metric is meant for developed countries and developing countries with the right economic and political foundation - not Nigeria with no political or economic direction.

Eteka1:
The loan is meant for major infrastructural development like roads, power, rail, bridges etc. There is nothing wrong in that. Nigeria's debt to GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world at 30.05%.

Good question!

emmie14:
why are you against restructuring? What negative feedback will restructuring bring to Nigeria as a nation?

YOU DON'T CELEBRATE MEDIOCRITY WHEN THE ENTIRE NORTH IS MONUMENT TO MEDIOCRITY.

Arrewa:
one thing I love about the north is our ability to hold politicians accountable for our allocations.

We are not like the east... That are hypocritically blaming the north for their failure since 1967.

We don't celebrate midiocrity like the East does!

Did you say the your enemies are Ndigbo and we use every opporrunity to blackmail the North?

Arrewa:
true...

But you have to be specific....stop dragging the whole south into the problem you are having with the north.

We have no problem issue with the south south and the west.

The only people we see as potential enemies are the Easterners.

We know the people who hate and always celebrate our pains and downfall.

We know the people who use every little opportunity to insult and blackmail the north.

We know the people who are instigating hatred against the north.

Stop dragging the whole south into that!!