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ScamHunter:
Just visit some foreign forums to understand what I'm saying.

The only thing you project here is ethnicity and partisanship. Some of your moderators like Mynd44 very biased.

You can't even deploy an ignore button so that sensible people would stop seeing the comments of the many idiots roaming your forum.

What of self-moderation of posts? Please add this. Not everyone should be entitled to respond to every post.

Also get serious with cleaning up. I know the forum makes you money, clean up the many undesirable entities by sticking to your own rules. Don't be another INEC.

and who is forcing you to login to nairaland? Mteeeew

IPOB terrorists not Nigerians, point of correction.

Fattesticles:
Obafemi Awolowo is the undisputed hero of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria whose wartime policy of starvation and currency change helped kill the Biafran dream. The post colonial era of Nigerian history was dominated by three actors, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello. Dr Azikiwe was an avowed nationalist who preferred one Nigeria above anything else. Sir Ahmadu Bello was a tribalist who initially preferred a balkanized Nigeria to enable his people live their religious and cultural life without external negative inluence and was later reluctantly convinced to seek an agenda for a united Nigeria. Chief Obafemi Awolowo from the onset did not hide his preference for an Oduduwa Republic.

Chief Awolowo is idolized by the Yorubas because he was able to transform the South West into an educational and industrial hub in Africa and build a robust political climate. He so much understood the value of education that he made it free, affordable and offered a lot of scholarships to Yorubas to advance academically to the highest level. He ran a political system in Action Group whereby people have their say while the leader has his way.

This is the system Bola Tinubu is unsuccessfully trying to emulate in Action Congress of Nigeria.

Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, a core nationalist, never received the level of hero worship Awolowo received in the South West because Igbos severally accuses him of not taking them out of Nigeria when Chief Awolowo and Sir Ahmadu Bello were angling for a balkanized nation. Chief Awolowo was the sage whose idea ended the Nigerian civil war. He advised the Gowon Cabinet to block all food supply to Biafra so as to end the war quickly and according to him ” starvation is a legitimate instrument of war ” This led to the starvation of over one million Biafran children. Thus Awolowo’s advice and actions led to the quick end to the Biafran dream. Therefore it is right to say that what the entire armed forces of Nigeria could not do, the wisdom of Awolowo did. Chief Awolowo convinced Gowon that every adult Biafran who managed to survive the starvation deserved only #20 pounds to start life afresh irrespective of economic status before the war, an action perceived as intended to further reduce the ability of Igbos to recover economically.

Another policy of his which frustrated Biafra’s ability to import food and arms was the change of currency which according to Awolowo” And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra.

He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers has stolen from our Central bank for sale abroad to buy arms…So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place”.

Chief Awolowo has been variously accused of introducing tribalism into the Nigerian politics. He chased Dr Azikiwe out of the Ibadan in 1954 when the NCNC headed by Azikiwe won majority seats in the West Nigerian House of Assembly and through a palace coup called cross carpeting Zik was denied the Premiership of Western Nigeria, at a time when Professor Eyo Ita, an Efik was premier of Eastern Region and Alhaji Umoru Altine , a Fulani, was Mayor of Enugu. Dr Azikiwe, following the footsteps of Awolowo, had to frustrate Professor Eyo Ita out of Enugu. Chief Awolowo and Sir Ahmadu Bello seems to have a deeper understanding of the Nigerian complexities than Dr Azikiwe.

While Awolowo never trusted the Igbos, the north never trusted Awolowo and theYorubas. The northern oligarchy instigated crisis in Western Nigeria in the same manner President Obasanjo used the Uba brothers to instigate crisis in Anambra State. This crisis led to the trumped up charges leading to the trial and imprisonment of Awolowo . Reports has it that he was to be poisoned in prison before the military coup altered the state of affairs.

Awolowo was released from Calabar prison by Biafran leader Odumegwu Ojukwu and there was an agreement that while Ojukwu declares Biafra in the East, Awolowo would declare Oduduwa Republic in the West. The British establishment, sensing the dangers of Awolowo declaring Oduduwa Republic in the West, convinced Gowon and the north to checkmate Awolowo’s secessionist agenda by appointing him the Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council. This strategy worked effectively and Awolowo was deceived that after Gowon’s tenure he would be given the opportunity of ruling Nigeria. Awolowo thus had to checkmate the Biafran dream to clear any obstacle to his ruling Nigeria while the north was looking for the right opportunity to throw him into the dustbin. In frustration, Awo resigned from Gowon’s cabinet when he realized he has been politically duped.

Awolowo quashed the Biafran dream while the northern establishment killed the Oduduwa dream and betrayed Awolowo’s presidential ambition thrice. This fact was aptly captured by a prominent Yoruba leader and Nigeria’s former minister of aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode while replying to a boastful statement by another prominent northern leader, Alhaji Usman Farouk on how the north dominated the Yoruba people and conquered the Niger Delta.

Election that was over badly rigg by labour party

ThugCheetah:
I don't believe some of you in this forum are normal...honestly

but you believe people that claim presidential election was rigg are normal abi

DamnnNiggarr:
I know that you wouldn't have been here if Peter Obi was not mentioned.

mentioned or not, labour party badly rigg ABIA state governorsip election

Labour party came to rigg election in ENUGU state and were resisted. ABIA state governorsip election should be cancel and INEC should re conduct fresh governorship election in ABIA state immediately

You need to take your malaria drugs seriously op

DarlingtonC:
Guys, the votes in Aso rock always reflects who Aso rock occupants want to be the next president. This has both human and spiritual connotation. Remember Obi swept all the polling units in Aso rock.

Obi was wholly considered to be the next President after Buhari, with Buhari's consent and knowledge. E shock you?

If Tinubu were to be the preferred candidate, he would have swept Aso rock.

But as it is, he didn't even meet the required numbers in FCT.

Buhari fought all he could to frustrate Tinubu's ambition but, alas Baba has been storing usd for ages.

Please pray Obi reclaims the mandate that was bribed away from Nigerians.

It will be for the betterment of all Nigerians

ABIA State election that INEC will soon cancel and re conduct fresh election. Labour party rigg the election badly

Mteeeew INEC should cancel ABIA state governorsip election immediately, it was badly rigg by labour party

INEC should cancel that of ABIA state governorsip election and re conduct fresh election. It's was badly rigg by labour party

Gbam

ENUGU state governorsip election was free and fair, INEC should cancel that of ABIA state it was badly rigg by labour party

ENUGU state governorsip election was free and fair, INEC should cancel that of ABIA state it was badly rigg by labour party

INEC must cancel ABIA state governorsip election, it was badly rigg by labour party

SLAP44:
If you want to be president in Nigeria, start campaigning while lying on a stretcher with drip hung near the person as they carry him from campaign ground to campaign ground

Is like you are typing hungry abi ?

Labour party rigg ABIA state governorsip election INEC must cancel it and re conduct fresh governorship election in that state

Ireportlive:
PDP finally did their magic

The same way labour party did the magic in ABIA state

ENUGU state governorsip election was free and fair labour party beware

asanausana91:
Is it okay for us to have another Muslim as a Senate president=ORJI KALU asked

Nothing like Christian must be Senate president if Muslim/ Muslim are president and vice presidential in the Nigeria constitution

Op ABIA state governorsip election must be re conducted, labour party rigg the election

Very free and fair election in ENUGU state. Kudos to INEC

If PDP wins in ENUGU state no problems but, if it's labour party INEC must cancel and re conduct fresh election for governorsip and assembly

Believeintruth:
You obviously smoke dried cow dung

the same way peter Gringori obi smoke dried cow dung abi

Fattesticles:
Take your wailing to the market square here is too small

Hahahaha thank God peter Gringori obi has taken his wailing to aba market already

100% rigging by labour party. Very unfortunate.

Rig election by labour party. INEC must cancel ABIA state governorsip and assembly election and conduct fresh election

Waste of time, Senate president is far too big for south east. South east should beg for deputy whip in both chambers

Mteeeew labour party rig ABIA state election, INEC must cancel ENUGU and ABIA state governorship and assembly election immediately

chikason22:
Free Let's see what European countries have to say about your Thiéfnubu drug kingpin

are European countries the ones to rule over Nigerians

INEC need to cancel ENUGU and ABIA state governorsip and assembly election and conduct fresh election. Labour party rig the election