van bonattel:

Whish topic, lemme tell you what the topic is, now remove your pants, deep your finger into your anus, deeper.....deeper still, now drag it out and smell it, what does it smell like? That is the summary of your life

Obinoscopy: My history might be a bit rusty. But I think he was killed because of an attempted coup and an attempt on the life of Ojukwu. Also Col. Banjo was seen as a traitor. His stopping at Ore during the SouthWest incursion by his men casted doubt on the Biafran Military on his loyalty.

2mch:

So you agree he was sent to kill his own people. So why have people been embelishing history to try to convince people on NL that some saviors were coming to save the SW. He was a fool. He knew his whole family would have been wiped out. He failed and still went back. Of course they will claim that there was an attempt at a coup. But it is glaring what the reson was. What coup could a Yoruba man forge in the midst of easterner's. Doesn't seem logical. Truths are being revealed.

2mch:

So you agree he was sent to kill his own people. So why have people been embelishing history to try to convince people on NL that some saviors were coming to save the SW. He was a fool. He knew his whole family would have been wiped out. He failed and still went back. Of course they will claim that there was an attempt at a coup. But it is glaring what the reson was. What coup could a Yoruba man forge in the midst of easterner's. Doesn't seem logical. Truths are being revealed.

van bonattel:

Historically, yorubas are cowards and as such bad coupists, what does Diya, MKO, Olarewaju and banjo have in common? Anybody?

2mch:

So you agree he was sent to kill his own people. So why have people been embelishing history to try to convince people on NL that some saviors were coming to save the SW. He was a fool. He knew his whole family would have been wiped out. He failed and still went back. Of course they will claim that there was an attempt at a coup. But it is glaring what the reson was. What coup could a Yoruba man forge in the midst of easterner's. Doesn't seem logical. Truths are being revealed.

CyberG: Good to get your opinions, but we still need to get to the root of why it OKAY when Lt. Col Banjo led an entire army against his people (no shouts of BETRAYAL from our SE Nigerians) but when ANOTHER man who DID NOT MAKE any agreements with Ojukwu, then it is BETRAYAL?? Pitch in guys, this is the time to show your strength of true character!

macjive01:


[size=18pt]ASK YOURSELF, WHY DID BIAFRAN ARMY RISK THEIR LIVES MARCHING TO LAGOS, WHEN ALL THEY NEEDED TO DO WAS DEFEND THEIR TURF ?

WHY WOULD OJUKWU PERMIT THE ARMY TO BE LED BY AN Yoruba, IN THE PERSON OF BANJO, WHEN MORE EXPERIENCE AND CAPABLE OFFICES WERE AVAILABLE ?


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2mch: Banjo was a fool. Considering the circumstances and how it all played out, he should have known his time was up when they put him as the leader to a suicidal mission and to betray his own people. I would have led them to the SW and abandoned ship at ore. Anyway, he got his reward from Ojukwu for not attacking his own people. Ojukwu the ambitious, juvenile, coward. There was never any evidence he actually fought or led troops. . If the idea was truly to liberate SW why kill Banjo?

alex_101:

With the bolded, you've just confirmed what every human have been saying: "yorubas cannot be trusted". Instead of leading them half-way to Ore and doing the "Usain Bolt" on the troops placed under your command, why don't you just tell Ojukwu that you can't lead the Biafran forces to yorubaland because it will be seen as "betraying liberating Yoruas" from northern yoke?

lagcity: Ibos have their own weird logic, so you can never get an answer. Ibos are the real traitors, they started the killing of Hausa and Yoruba in Nigeria, including unarmed pregnant woman. They are cursed.

macjive01: apparently since you can't decode the answer, i will tell you.

the yoruba according to their leader who even before the massacre that led to the civil war was aggitating for secession, awolowo and others confined in ojukwu that they wanted out too, but couldn't because of the northern military power "besieging lagos and yoruba territory. ojukwu then sent an army led my a yoruba son to "LIBERATE " Yoruba land. what more could Ojukwu have done ?

Ojukwu declare Biafra which is ample reason for the yoruba to declare as well, since they have always agitated for it.

Ojukwu sent an army, with the leadership of a yoruba son to fight ur fight. ( which is basically to dislodge a battalion of hausa led force stationed in lagos and environs)

Ojukwu release your imprisoned leader who was at the fore front of the secession agitation.


what did Biafra get in return ? [size=18pt]Betray and Cowardice[/size] of the highest order.


what a tribe! now you see why nobody takes your noise serious anymore ? last fuel crisis was a clear example.

The only leverage Yoruba still has is Lagos. remove the seaport in lagos and yorubas will be as epileptic as northeast zone.

oduasolja:

look at this theif. u lot are confusionist and opportunist . u create confusion so as to seize any opportunity.

u went to war for one reason , to steal and claim minority land and oil as yours.

alex_101:

With the bolded, you've just confirmed what every human have been saying: "yorubas cannot be trusted". Instead of leading them half-way to Ore and doing the "Usain Bolt" on the troops placed under your command, why don't you just tell Ojukwu that you can't lead the Biafran forces to yorubaland because it will be seen as "betraying liberating Yoruas" from northern yoke?

T9ksy:

@ 1st bolded, and what do you think Ojukwu would have done? Do you think ojukwu would have still released him from prison?

@2nd bolded, its not so much the "liberating yorubas from northern yoke" as the subjecting yorubas to the eastern yoke.We know you guys.

You will never leave our land. Even without any war being fought and won, are you guys not laying claim to people's ancestral land?

And anyway, none of you guys has been able to come forward with irrefutable evidence that shows yorubas unequivocally solicting igbo's aid.

I guess Ojukwu whilst trying to seceed with his people from nigeria (and having not accomplish his main objective yet), unilaterally decided to

deviate from his main course to go and "liberate" the yorubas.

How magnanimous of him! Pity it was all in vain as we clearly saw through his "Trojan horse"!

macjive01:


Ojukwu needed Yorubas to declare oduodowa or what ever so that the case for secession at the UN will be stronger.

also if the yorubas had declared, the war would have been fought on two front which the mallam north would not have been able to sustain.

macjive01:

First, why the name calling ?

went to war for one reason ? what ? - if 30 thousand yorubas were killed in portharcourt would your leaders not demand answers ?

The Igbos demanded answers, but were dismissed. least you forget an igbo blood is worth 10 of Nigerians. (igbo being direct blood linage of jesus christ (may his soul rest in peace) who is God. hence one can say Igbos are little Gods.

for your information, Ojukwu did not want the war! he hesitated at first but was enpowered by the Eastern house of assemble ( like the senate- whom comprise 193 Igbos and 180 of (Efic, Ibibio and ijaw). #

claim minority land? what land? at that point the whole eastern - SS and Se was one. with no state demarcation. so there was no land to claim.
and tribe then lived in settlements which could hardly pass to own the present state structure.

River state then, was over 80 percent made up of Igbo indigenes. jaja of opobo is the modern day founder of river state(basically) and he is Igbo.

there were large Igbo communities in every present SS state except in present southern Bayelsa.

in akwa-ibom, their royal linage is of igbo ( due to some war in the past and inter marriage), a sizable portion of akwa-ibom bordering Aro in abia state are of same clan.

same as cross river with Afikpo in Ebonyi state.



so bring your facts/doubts let me clear ur oily brain.

macjive01:


Ojukwu needed Yorubas to declare oduodowa or what ever so that the case for secession at the UN will be stronger.

also if the yorubas had declared, the war would have been fought on two front which the mallam north would not have been able to sustain.

macjive01: Ojukwu needed Yorubas to declare oduodowa or what ever so that the case for secession at the UN will be stronger.

also if the yorubas had declared, the war would have been fought on two front which the mallam north would not have been able to sustain.

CyberG: This is a real question and I want to get the perspective of NLanders. Every time, Ibo claims that they were betrayed when there's no proof of such but just Goebbelian propaganda they heard. However, when Yoruba soldier like Lt. Col. Victor Banjo, a competent soldier in all ramifications, decided to lead the so called Baifara expeditionary force, Ibo don't shout betrayal, WHY?? I love and respect every part of Nigeria and yes, I have been everywhere with my ibo chics but I just want to know! Please no bashing and let us learn together!

As in... [size=30pt]WHY??[/size]

oduasolja:

dummy. u think war is a childs play.

so u want yorubas to open up a second front with no weapons


u are mad.

so that they can be slaughtered.

we never advocated for seccession , u ran off to war because u are theives.

macjive01:

Thieves ? how?

what are we stealing ?

look if Yorubas hadnt agreed to declare , of which Ojukwu judiciously reasoned would aid the Biafran secession cause, the troops sent to Lagos with arms would have been utilized more effectively in the actual war. dont u think so ?

oduasolja:

first of all you are a dummy , if you think igbos are any more special than anybody else. stupid dummy.

secondly , ojukwu did not get any approval from any eastern house of assembly, because he had dissolved the assembly. he created his own consultative assembly , members of which he handpicked himself. those are whom he claimed to have a dubious mandate from.

thirdly , there were many minorities who did not want to part of biafra and fought against biafra. this is clear.

fourthly, before ojukwu declared biafra , gowon created 12 states , giving the minorities their own power. so ojukwu had no more power over their land.

2mch:

Agreed to what? The statement you are referring to is "If Igbo's are ALLOWED to seceed the Yoruba will leave too". Emphasis on "allowed". You had not even won your war but were running 4/40 to come and liberate us. Does that make too much sense to you? Propaganda is a bastard. You are a human being and not a robot. Win your war and secceed first, then we will take care of ourselves. If we need you we send a smoke signal.

abdulkayus: Interestin thread, i will also lyk to know cos d igbo always play d victim nt knowin dat dey are d causes of their misfortune.