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Akintola's Three Part Lectures by DuduNegro: 11:37pm On Oct 23, 2012 |
....COMING SOON! |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by dayokanu(m): 2:48am On Oct 24, 2012 |
ok waiting. |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by ektbear: 6:10am On Oct 24, 2012 |
when will soon arrive |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by birdman(m): 5:34am On Oct 25, 2012 |
we are wairing... ** strokes tribal mark(s) in anticipation ** |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by ektbear: 6:27am On Oct 25, 2012 |
where are the lectures na |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by NegroNtns(m): 7:35am On Oct 25, 2012 |
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Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by NegroNtns(m): 7:40am On Oct 25, 2012 |
Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNPzWW3kXVg&feature=youtube_gdata_player Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErVSJKMRyhM&feature=youtube_gdata_player Part 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk83xIRwI2o&feature=youtube_gdata_player 1 Like |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by birdman(m): 8:15am On Oct 25, 2012 |
I had seen those before, but I listened again anyways. Agree or disagree with him, but his oratory is evident. I think the only difference between Akintola and Awo, based on this speech was how much politics they were willing to play. |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by kunlekunle: 5:50pm On Oct 25, 2012 |
i think some of the issues related to the message “It became common practice for Yorubas to be denied appointments, to be denied promotion and to be superceded by officers from other tribes who were less qualified or experienced. When Yoruba civil servants cried out, Chief Awolowo's response was that he would share in their suffering by refusing to collect his remuneration as the Leader of the Opposition in the Federal House. Before Independence, the federal parliament was Chief S. L. Akintola's turf where he performed the duties of Leader of Opposition intelligently and effectively with a joviality that earned him the love, respect and admiration of a wide spectrum of Nigerians cutting across regional, tribal and political boundaries. . The N.C.N.C. had the wrong but widely accepted notion that Chief Awolowo was the only power to be reckoned with in the West and with his departure, they (the N.C.N.C.) could just march in and take over. It therefore, came as a great shock to the N.C.N.C. when every notable Yoruba leader rallied to the support of Chief S.L. Akintola. Yoruba political stalwarts like Chief Richard Akinjide, Chief R.Fani-Kayode, Prince Made Lamuye and a host of others saw in Chief Akintola the type of leader the Yorubas needed and decamped from the N.C.N.C. to join him in the NNDP. Even Chief T.O.S. Benson, a national Vice President of the N.C.N.C, after a brief hesitation, also crossed over to accept Chief Akintola's leadership. Akintola's legacy was that he reconciled Yoruba leaders who were considered irreconcilable under Chief Awolowo's leadership. When Chief Akintola's N.N.D.P. took the Yorubas to their rightful place in the federal government, Chief Ayo Rosiji became Federal Minister of Information, Chief Richard Akinjide became Federal Minister of Education, Chief A.M.A. Akinloye was Minister of Industries, other Ministers I cannot quite remember their portfolios were Prince Made Lamuye and Victor Lajide. The N.N.D.P. Ministers mentioned above represented a bridge between the federal government and the core Yoruba elements of Western Nigeria as against the Lagos Yorubas whom Chief T.O.S. Benson and Chief J.M. Johnson catered for. When Chief Richard Akinjide took over the Federal Ministry of Education, he was presented with a list of nominees for award of federal government scholarship. Ninety Eight percent of Southern nominees on that list were Igbos; the Yorubas, the Midwesterners, the Efiks, the Ibibios, the Ijaws, the Kalabaris etc shared the remaining two percent. Chief Akinjide rejected that list and ordered the compilation of a more balanced list. A majority of the Yorubas and other non-Igbo Southerners who benefitted from federal government scholarship awards that year had Chief S.L. Akintola, the N.N.D.P. and Chief Akinjide to thank for their good fortune. During that period of Akintola's N.N.D.P. participation in the federal government, the tenure of Professor Eni Njoku as Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos expired, Professor Saburi Biobaku was appointed to succeed him. The N.C.N.C. raised a deafening yell of tribalism and financed students to raise hell and mayhem in the course of which Professor Biobaku was stabbed in an assassination attempt. At that time, there was a profusion of eminent scholars and educationists of Southern Nigerian origin. There were two federal government universities in Ibadan and Lagos. Professor Kenneth Dike was Vice Chancellor at Ibadan while Eni Njoku held court in Lagos. An equitable sharing of the national cake would have prevented a situation where these two federal universities were manned by persons of the same tribe, moreso as Professor Saburi Biobaku was as good if not better than the incumbents at Lagos and Ibadan universities. It was not as if Chief Biobaku's appointment would have made Eni-Njoku jobless. Professor Biobaku had been released by the Federal Government to go and head a university in East Africa and Chief Eni Njoku was only being redeployed to take up the East African job so as to give meaning to the principle of federal character which is still in our constitution as I write. It was these acts to give the Yorubas their fair share of federal patronage that made the Ibos block Chief Akinjide's nomination into Alhaji Shehu Shagari's cabinet and he had to be presented a second time before he got the approval of the Senate:” |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by NegroNtns(m): 10:54pm On Oct 25, 2012 |
Thank you Kunle, great revelation! |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by tunnytox(m): 10:58pm On Oct 25, 2012 |
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Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by kunlekunle: 6:34am On Oct 26, 2012 |
After the 1959 elections, when no party won absolute majority, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa wanted a continuation of a national government as was the case before the election. Chief Awolowo would not hear of it. He wanted the Action Group and the N.C.N.C. to team up against the North. He said he was prepared to serve under Dr. Azikiwe but not under any Northerner. Those of us who were not rabid Awoists wondered what transformation had taken place in Dr. Azikiwe's person since he was chased out of the West by this same Awolowo, who now wanted him to lead the whole country. The only explanation that made sense to us was that Awolowo did not believe in a Nigeria that did not have him as Prime Minister. It was clear from the mood of the times that if the East and the West had teamed up to form the federal government, the North would have justifiably opted out of the federation. An alliance between the West and the East against the North would be nothing short of the South replacing the British as colonial masters of the North. It is inconceivable that Chief Awolowo did not see that implication, so the only conclusion that made sense was that Chief Awolowo would rather dissolve the federation than be part of a country in which he is not the leader. His implication in a coup plot for which he was found guilty and jailed did nothing to disprove the contention that all he cared about was his personal ambition to rule the country or part of it. At the time when negotiations were going on to form the government that would usher in independence, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe described himself and his party the N.C.N.C. as the beautiful bride being wooed by the other political parties. There would have been no need for anybody to woo or be wooed if Chief Awolowo had not set his mind against a national government. The N.C.N.C. accepted the suit of the N.P.C. and received as dowry the right to consume Western Nigeria's share of the national cake even though it did not represent the people of Western Nigeria in the federal parliament. The N.C.N.C. discovered after Awolowo's political incapacitation that Chief S.L. Akintola was a tougher nut to crack than Chief Awolowo and decided to make the West ungovernable for him. The assassination attempt on Professor Biobaku was in line with the operation wetie" mayhem going on all over Western Nigeria in which human beings were being doused with petrol and set ablaze. Those dastardly acts were being perpetrated by Yorubas, but the perpetrators, their organizers and co-ordinators were being funded by the government of Eastern Nigeria under Dr. Michael Okpara, according to intelligence reports available to the Western Nigerian government. I heard and saw these reports available only to the innermost caucus of the N.N.D.P. I did not belong to that inner caucus, but as Press Secretary to Chief Ayo Rosiji, master planner and Chief strategist first of the Action Group and later of the N.N.D.P., I had access to the Sanctus sanctorum of Chief Akintola's N.N.D.P. and government. Also for the fact that I was only twenty six years old, a civil servant and slightly built I was ignored like a fly on the wall and things were laid bare in my presence just as women would UnCloth in front of a one year old baby boy. Also in those days of N.C.N.C. financed mayhem in the West, Premier's Lodge, Ibadan was like a refugee camp overflowing with men, women and children who had fled their homes, towns and villages for dear life. There was no privacy for anybody including the Premier Chief Akintola himself to grab some fresh air, breathing space and a snatch of private conversation, Chief Akintola and Chief Rosiji would get into the back seat of my two door Saab car and I would drive them around the back streets of Ibadan GRA and sometimes park by deserted roadsides while the two leaders discussed affairs of state which I found quite revealing and educative. One of the issues discussed in my car was a proposal allegedly made by Chief T.O.S. Benson that the N.N.D.P. should organize its own operation wetie in Lagos to hit back at N.C.N.C. interests and personnel in the federal capital. Chief Ayo Rosiji dismissed that course of action saying any disorderly act in Lagos would be counter-productive as it would draw the ire not only of the targeted N.C.N.C. but also of the federal government and every other Nigerian, seeing that Lagos was Nigeria in microcosm. On that occasion, I was not destined to merely eavesdrop; I was drawn into the conversation.Chief Rosiji said that he had made contact with the President of the Ibo Youth League and he would send him to me and together our task would be to destroy that body and use the fragment to carry the fight right back to Chief Michael Okpara in Enugu and the length and breadth of Eastern Nigeria. The prognosis was that if Chief Michael Okpara* s tail was set on fire he would be so busy trying to put out the flames that he would not be able to continue formenting trouble in the West. I was also given a story to surreptitiously leak to the Press. It concerned the attempt to remove Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh as Federal Minister of Finance and replace him with Chief K.O. Mbadiwe. When the Western Nigeria share of the Federal cabinet was allocated to the N.N.D.P., the number of N.C.N.C. Ministers was reduced from eight to five with Chief Okotie-Eboh as the only non-Tho N.C.N.C. Minister in the cabinet. The N.C.N.C. had believed that with its representation in the federal cabinet reduced, to place the important Finance Ministry in an Igbo hand was a desideratum; in other words, Chief Festus Okotie Eboh not being an Igbo man was a second class N.C.N.Cer. The N.C.N.C. requested Sir Abubakar to reshuffle the cabinet so that Chief Okotie-Eboh and Dr Mbadiwe could swap places. An enraged Chief Okotie-Eboh with the solid backing of N.N.D.P. ministers strongly opposed that move. Chief Akintola took it upon himself to go up North and appeal to Sir Ahmadu Bello to prevail on Sir Abubakar to reject the N.C.N.C. request. The refusal of Chief Okotie-Eboh to surrender the Ministry of Finance to Dr K.O. Mbadiwe was a sin so grievious in the opinion of the N.C.N.C. that he was killed alongside Yoruba and Northern leaders in January 1966. When I called in some officers from my ministry to help spread the story of the N.C.N.C. pertkiy on Chief Okotie-Eboh, one of the officers, Stephen Ojo, confirmed to me that Chief K.O. Mbadiwe had already announced to Pressmen that he was soon to replace Chief Okotie-Eboh as Finance Minister. The failure of that move caused Chief K.O. Mbadiwe considerable loss of face and did nothing to alleviate his feeling of contempt for Dr. Michael Okpara whom he had described as the rural Bende bumpkin without the national credentials necessary to lead a great party like the N.C.N.C. Most devastating for the N.C.N.C. was that Chief Okotie-Eboh and Dr. K.O. Mbadiwe, the N.C.N.C. s most prominent ministers in the federal capital, gravitated towards the Sardauna as the one person who could make or mar one's fortune in Nigeria*s political arena. At the same time, a group of young men came to me in my office. Their leader introduced himself as Emeka Chikwendu, President of the Ibo Youth League and those with him as the members of the League's executive committee. They said they had come to pledge their support for Chief Akintola and praised the good work he was doing to restore balance to the tottering foundation of Nigeria*s unity. They acknowledged that the turmoil in Nigeria was caused by the Ibo elders' attempt to deny the other Southern tribes their place in the sun. They expressed disappointment at Chief Awolowo's leadership pattern and drew a contrast between Zik's diplomatic handling of the rebellion of Mbadiwe, Nwapa and company to Awolowo's fight to finish duel with Chief Akintola. http://www.dawodu.com/agbe1.htm |
Re: Akintola's Three Part Lectures by 0monnak0da: 7:58pm On Mar 06, 2023 |
Very relevant today 1 Like |
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