bayooooooo: In my opinion, the West and East lost the war.

ACM10: This Fani-Kayode is a God-forsaken revisionist. I suspect that he is a nairalander with Katsumoto handle. Cos both of them regurgitates the same bullshyt

Katsumoto: It is only on NL that you will see a motley crue of ignorant, disingenuous, and downright foolish personas who will feed on the words of a drug-user like Fani-Kayode to malign the person of the GREAT Obafemi Awolowo.

1. How relevant is the individual
Who precisely is Fani-Kayode? Who appointed him a spokesman of the Yoruba? The only relevance Fani-Kayode derives, are from his former godfather, the gorilla of Owu and his father who was expelled from AG and too irrelevant to be killed by the Jan 66 plotters. . Has Fani-Kayode won an election any where in Nigeria? Was Fani-Kayode not a junkie when he was returned to Nigeria?

2. Motive
Fani-Kayode’s father was expelled from Awo’s AG and would fall into obscurity after Jan 1966

3. Knowledge
Was Fani-Kayode present when Gowon promised Awo presidency? Would Fani-Kayode and the resident idiots on NL have us believe that Gowon and Murtala were foolish enough to believe that Awo would fall for that cheap bait or that Awo was daft enough to fall for the said bait?

In any case, Fani-Kayode showcases the gaps in his history by stating that the 3rd Marine Commando was 98% Yoruba. The 3MC was formed from the Lagos Garrison Office (LGO) and that didn’t even have a Yoruba majority.

Obiagu1:

I hope you challenge Fani Kayode and not us.

Dhelake: Letz take the bull by the horn .... I wasn't alive wen all dis tin appuned .. Buh to ma own reasoning ...
NB: I'm nt sayin dis is d reason y awo did wat he did o

if i was awo, i would neva had allowed biafra seccede .... Afta usin d yoruba cocoa money to explore oil ... Then, u're plannin to seccede ... Who would allow that

Katsumoto:

I don't need to ask anyone anything; you are the ones taking the words of a nonentity as gospel.

You guys make assertions and when you are asked to support it, you revert to 'go and ask northern elder or Fani-kayode'.

I ask again, how and when was Kwara conquered? With all this talk of Kwara, one would think Kwara was under foreign occupation.

And what if Kwara was conquered? What great nation hasn't had part or all of its territory under foreign occupation.

Katsumoto:

Can you read at all? Did you miss my attack on Fani-kayode? Like a dunce, you jump with both feet and run into an uppercut.

Did you miss this? Ok, I am Fani-Kayode in real life but I signed into NL to attack myself. No wonder Biafra went to war and lost.

Katsumoto:

Can you read at all? Did you miss my attack on Fani-kayode? Like a dunce, you jump with both feet and run into an uppercut.

Did you miss this? Ok, I am Fani-Kayode in real life but I signed into NL to attack myself. No wonder Biafra went to war and lost.

Obiagu1: The truth shall set us free! I hope that the Yorubas will finally see reason with us rather than throw empty punches to cover the past.

Points to note:
-Biafran troops stopped at Ore and asked for free passage because their intention was not occupy Yoruba land as some NLers often talk about. Yorubas refused rather attacked Biafrans. Biafran intention was to get to Lagos, the seat of government.

-Awolowo really had a pact with Biafra but reneged when promised Presidency. He sold his conscience and killed innocent children with his policies.

ACM10:

Fani-Kayode = Katsumoto

Can't u notice the pattern? See how he suddenly appeared from the blues.

malele:
Its unfortunate that the northerns are jaming our heads together, and using us for there selfish gains.
Let's leave the past,another war is looming, let's get it right this time.

9ja_I_hail:

Exactly my thought but can yorubas be bold enough to accept the fact that awo who told them to keep away from the war as the war is between the igbo and huasa suddenly lead them into the same war,are they not created with human brain to reason and figure it out that their great papa awowowowow has gotten some selfish interest.

onomeasike: the ibos wont just put the blame and loss they suffered during the biafra war in the right quarters.clearly,many of them have not learnt any lesson.Would you do as Ojukwu (who was reportedly killed by AIDS) did in and expect to win a war?It is only a foolishman that will do the same thing in the same but expect a different result.The average igboman,even okonkwo character of the things fall apart fame,is more of brawn than brain.War is first fought in the brain,the strategy and humility to disarm ur enemy without his knowing and element of surprise is beyond the ability of average igbomen.If I am igbo,i will rather have the more matured ,beautiful and submissive igbowomen lead a war.These crop of igbos on nairaland are typical empty vessels of the igbos.

Onlytruth: ^^
Nobody is interested in 16th century "history".
If that history were relevant, the Moors and the Turks would still be military powers today. lol

malele:
Its unfortunate that the northerns are jaming our heads together, and using us for there selfish gains.
Let's leave the past,another war is looming, let's get it right this time.

Katsumoto:

Can you read at all? Did you miss my attack on Fani-kayode? Like a dunce, you jump with both feet and run into an uppercut.

Did you miss this? Ok, I am Fani-Kayode in real life but I signed into NL to attack myself. No wonder Biafra went to war and lost.

Tolexander: . Mr man! An history will always b an history no matter what year it occured just like biafra also is 1 today. Even this your contributions and mine today will be an history tomorrow. What we are interested is the legacy. The history is biafra fought nigeria and the fact is nigeria won, the legacy is what is naw happenin after the war which we are now demonstrating. The moors war today was like unwon biafran war in case you don't know.

gboss4sure: Oga Awo was desperate for power

onomeasike: @ PROUD-IGBO, pride made the silver-spoon[b] Ojukwu sacrifice innocent igbo blood[/b] for the lucre of power,dont humour yourself with any obasanjo-awo connection.Your arrogant war lord drew the first blood by leading troops into yorubaland killing yorubas in the process.The north,even uptill now,lament the way igbo schemed successfully to exterminate their honest selfless leaders along with Akintola.While the igbos had okpara,zik etc for years,providing guidance and political leadership to the ibos,the Yorubas had Awo,Ajasin et al for many years to nurture and guide the development of their regions.The north had no-one,they suffered untold hardship even till date as a result of what the igbos did to them.Clearly,northerners blame the igbos for their current poor political leadership.The north lost more than the Yoruba but the Yoruba had more at stake when the north and biafra wanted to make yorubaland their battleground.That was the swingboard.The yorubas reaped the greatest spoil of the war because they won the battle.It is not an accident that all the top corporate entities till date are owned by Yorubas and the large chunk of the bureaucracy is in the hands of the yoruba which constituted the backbone of all previous political leadership under northern military men!

Yeske!:
Sharrap dia, you've been shying away from my question so do justice to it.

Onlytruth:

We actually don't hate anybody (you may not believe it but it is true), especially the Yoruba, because honestly we think that you are no match to us in real brain work. Please no offense.
The way some of you react to your gap in that department is to lose your conscience: constantly betraying agreements and stabbing people in the back even if you will pay for it later.

There is a difference between intelligence and treachery. Some of you mistake the one for the other.

The "conquered territory" thingy is an open truth because the Hausa/Fulani constantly remind you of that.
The Igbo are only enjoying the reputation they acquired through their actions in the civil war. Nobody doubts what we Igbo can do as evidenced by facts from fairly recent history. We paid for our reputation in BLOOD.
Time to earn yours.

gboss4sure:

Can you tell me what lead to Ojukwu declaring Biafra? i guess you don't know that

onatisi:
end of discussion.all other points remain irrelevant.if awo had surpported ojukwu maybe the outcome could have been different.

Aigbofa:

You paid for your foolishness in blood, that is the cold truth. Nothing about your experience in Nigeria points to the fact that you are smart at all. From the moment Azikiwe joined the Abokis in denying a secession clause in the constitution, your fate was sealed. If anybody can take ibos out of Nigeria, it is the same Yorubas you despise so much.

onomeasike: if you read the history of the Yorubas,you will know they are naturally gifted in the art of war.They even had their own civil war before the Nigerian civil war!they constitute the greatest number of Africans recruited by britian for the first world war(see BURMA BOY by Philip Barnaby of Aljazeera.Clearly,they are more war-tested than their southern neighbours.It is not an accident that even the biafran forces that made the greatest impact in the biafran war was led by a Yorubaman .Clearly,that it took the Yoruba stopping him was not an accident.A northerner would never had matched the sophistry of Banjo!!

As regards the point where Fani-kayode refered to Awo,clearly,that is an attempt to denigrate Awo.Awo participated in Gowon's govt after Gowon promised to conduct elections and transfer power to the politicians.[/b]How Fani-kayode now decietfully infered that the patriotic request Awo made to Gowon automatically means that Awo was promised the presidency is typical Fani-kayode's loquacious personae.[b]If Awo wanted to be the president at all cost,he would not have resigned from Gowon's govt.