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Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by madridguy(m): 11:16am On Oct 25, 2015
Which Comes First? The Jonathanian Or The Radio Biafran?
I bet you have asked this question too. It can't be denied... I checked a whole bunch of actual names. I found many of the same names that used to say, "GEJ till 2019", are now the same names saying, "Biafra or death". But the topic is, which comes first, the chicken or the egg.

Thankfully I have been listening to Nwannekaenyi Kenny Okwu-Kanu who goes by the stage name, "Nnamdi Kanu," for quite a bit; assigned by my organisation [ENDS] to monitor his terror potency as part of our primary mission to combat old and prevent new terror in Nigeria.

Before the station re-dedicated itself for instigation of full terror against the new government, Radio Biafra was a Jonathanian bully organisation. In the beginning days and till late 2014 when Nnamdi Kanu recognized that Jonathan was bound to lose, all Radio Biafra did was prop-up PDP candidates and officials and threaten death on Muslims and APC candidates and their supporters. There's tons of such recorded episodes.

Radio Biafra's PDP Campaign And Opposition Party Intimidation
Nnamdi Kanu threatened Rotimi Amaechi when the then Rivers state governor picked up 'arms' against Goodluck Jonathan; that period when Jonathan made 16 greater than 19...before APC was born. He threatened and promised to kill Rochas Okorocha. He promised death and ordered his members to harass and try to kill Chief Sylvester O. Dimunah for converting to Islam. This was all Radio Biafra was.

His words were as clearcut, cold and blatantly pro PDP and Jonathan as can be seen in this excerpt from a facebook post he made:

“DEALING WITH APC SUPPORTING SABOTEURS IN THE BIAFRAN STRUGGLE ...There will be no mercy, no pardon, no forgiveness. All traitors must die and so too their families. This nonsensical disease of Igbo saboteurs springing up all over the place in the name of having a different opinion on Biafra liberation will no longer be tolerated especially those who claim they are Biafrans but are supporting APC or APC candidates.” -Written by Nnamdi Kenny Okwu Kanu, owner RadioBiafra, January 5th, 2014 on Radio Biafra facebook.

In fact at a time when Jonathan's government was so hopeless to the international world and where the administration-supervised deadly campaign against the northeast was so glaring with Boko Haram/Daesh in Nigeria successfully conquering 90% of Borno state and also capturing the top half of Adamawa state and much of Yobe state, Radio Biafra was strongly for Jonathan and his army chief, General Azubuike Ihejirika despite them both facing increasing global condemnation for the pogrom in the north. Radio Biafra for its many years openly drummed up Igbo support for the PDP-Jonathan-led government and terrorized the opposition.

You must realize that as you can hear in this recording of Nwannekaenyi Okwu-Kanu (Nnamdi Kanu) that I made at the time, Nwannekaenyi said Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was Igbo, his Igbo brethren [
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbNCBllNiWM]. Also recollect that General Azubuike Ihejirika is the man that Boko Haram negotiator, Stephen Davis accused of being a sponsor of Boko Haram.

Jonathan was an Igbo president for Radio Biafra and in him and with his policies they were well pleased. Till today, Radio Biafra still holds its support for PDP governors left in the south. See their tweet campaigning for mega corruption accused former PDP governor Godswill Akpabio just this week.

Background Of The Jonathan-Ihejirika North Pogrom, Destruction of Nigeria's Military
We recollect that General Azubuike Ihejirika was the head of the army for the four years that Boko Haram had unprecedented territorial success, capturing 20 of 27 local governments in Borno, then with public uproar, Ihejrika clears them back while killing hundreds of Borno youth in careless military ops that were as bad as the terrorists and got him Amnesty International condemnation records; then he steps back again to allow Boko Haram capture the 20 local governments again, and so on in a continuous no-strategy cycle to eradicate the northeast of human life. It was a pogrom and it led to the definition and entrenchment the official deadliest terrorist group in the world that killed over 100,000 north-based people and displaced over 2 million, especially farmers, leading to a catastrophe beyond proportions. 

We recollect that it was General Ihejirika that the US accused of amassing billions of dollars meant for equipping the military via the Boko Haram pogrom which allowed for stupendous military budgets that were diverted under him and Commander in Chief Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. We also recollect that General Ihejirika was a mani beneficiary of the dividing up of lands meant for military barracks'.

The Nigerian military was being purposefully undermined and depleted under Jonathan and Ihejirika while certain civilians were being given Nigeria's arms and military hardware budget cash to fund private armies. Tompolo was one such individual who was given billions to be a so-called paramilitary force in the south south to "defend Nigeria's waterways." It is recollected that at this time oil theft rose to unprecedented levels in Nigeria's history, suggesting that the funding of Tompolo's southern army was not for what was portrayed.

My Debate With Nwannekaenyi Okwa-Kanu On Why He Campaigned For Jonathan
In cogniscance of the above background, you will understand why at the time I was frustrated seeing people who pretended to be freedom fighters using their platform to campaign for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the continued anti-north pogrom and deliberate destruction of the Nigerian military under army General Ihejirika's watch. Jonathan was so bad and dangerous to Nigeria and west Africa as a whole, I did not mind Ihejirika seizing power for him. 

Yes, when we look back at Nigeria's military take overs, and history of slightly longer northern rule, the north (80% of Nigeria's land mass) did not rule for 10 more years than the south because they were elected into power, but because they seized power on the claim that the administration in charge was recklessly corrupt. Kaduna Nzeogwu had attempted the same but possibly when he massacred many prominent Nigerians especially northerners in his attempt, it flopped. Northerners however sacked fellow northerners in power via coups on the claim of doing good for Nigeria. We have even voted one such ex-military ruler as our current president because I guess we appreciated that he was really good and was for good, and wholeheartedly forgive him for the coup. 

We are as it appears free humans who like progress unrestricted and not slaves to western political democracy per se. So now a southern "Igbo" was president and General Azubuike Ihejirika was in charge of the army. Why did Ihejirika not do something to save Nigeria?

I challenged Nwannekaenyi, aka "Nnamdi." "Why do you support Jonathan and Ihejrika with their hopelessness and pogrom?" I asked him. "Should Ihejirika not sack Jonathan for us? Why do you support Jonathan?," I pressed on Radio Biafra, under the fake name "Smart Alec."

Nwannekaenyi Okwu-Kanu defended the PDP president as his person. It was clear Kanu was an arm or sponsored by Jonathan. Nwannekaenyi said Jonathan was the only president that set up a sovereign national conference. I called his BS. Several identical conferences had been set up in the past and there was nothing sovereign about this conference where certain references had been banned, I told him. I am happy I recorded this debate and evidence of what Nwannekaenyi Okwu-Kanu truly is/was [
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbNCBllNiWM]. He was Jonathanian through and through. The Jonathanian comes before the Radio Biafran, apparently.

As Jonathan Loses, Radio Biafra Becomes Agitator
It was only when the permutations were poor and it was glaring that Jonathan would loose as Nwannekaenyi started mentioning on his broadcasts that "Biafra or death" started coming up. Biafra or death is the Jonathanians' plan B. And while these masters, Jonathan, Ihejirika, Nwannekaenyi Okwu-Kanu and the like have tremendous material gain of these various schemes, it is the gullible youth followers that one must pity as they mumuishly follow the chicken and the egg and rubbish perhaps worthwhile and widespread legitimate causes for true federalism, independence and self determination.

Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something] 
Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian

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Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by Damianbrown(m): 11:22am On Oct 25, 2015
This biafra guys are scared of buhari. Make them go aso rock go protest na
Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by hallelujahme(m): 11:25am On Oct 25, 2015
good observation
Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by merry02(m): 11:26am On Oct 25, 2015
That's y Buhari needs to manage every crisis.... Boko haram erupted during PDP and caused damage. Buhari should manage the crisis very well or else.......his tenure ll be worse than his predecessors...

Biafra, Boko haram, Niger delta, cattle rustlers and opc are showing pointers everyday...

Buhari should be warned b4 things fall apart
Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by fullblast(m): 11:40am On Oct 25, 2015
All in a bid to remain relevant, men are ready to do all sorts.This is just a diversionary tactics. The lives of the igbos revolve around entrepreneurship which they are very skillful at ...No succesfull business man of TODAY will like to go to war. Try pushing a plebicite to igbos in diaspora n let's hear if they really need biafra
Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by basilo101: 12:01pm On Oct 25, 2015
Biafra agitators siezed an FRCN station in Enugu and almost made a live broadcast b4 being arrested. Was buhari d president then?
Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by cosby02(m): 12:04pm On Oct 25, 2015
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Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by Nobody: 12:05pm On Oct 25, 2015
atbu1983:
You Igbo should stop spreading lies. It is time to correct this deceit.

When Yar Adua was sick in 2010 and GEJ was VP the most vocal group who ensured Jonathan was made President were the Yoruba. During these period most Igbos were silent and dumb.

The Save Nigeria Group founded by Pastor Tunde Bakare and Sahara reporters prevented Jonathan from being impeached and making way for David Mark to becoming d president. We cant 4get the massive support Prof Wole Soyinka gave to save nigeria group protest and impact of other south west media houses like punch, tribune and the nations to the struggle to prevent Jonathan Impeachment and ensuring that Jonathan became president.

In 2011 elections, the whole South(SW,SS and SE) and middle belt gave Jonathan block vote. South west gave jonathan more than 70% of their vote in 2011 when compared to what Buhari got in South west. South south did the same. South east did d same. North central gave Jonathan more than 60% of the vote.

In 2011, In the whole North (NC,NW and NE) Buhari was only leading Jonathan with about 3.3million vote. In the south west, Jonathan was leading Buhari with about2.4million votes, while in south south Jonathan was leading Buhari with about 6million votes. This means if we cancel all the elections from south east, Jonathan would have still won 2011 elections.

The only thing some south east states did which south west states and North Central stares did not do was to Inflate the voters turn out which card readers prevented in 2015 election. The truth was dat the inflation of vote by some south east states in 2011 was completely unneccessary because Jonathan would have won without it. Jonathan won some states like Taraba and Adamawa in North east in 2011.

We cant forget the impact of Pastor Enoch Adeboye laying of hands on Jonathan in 2011 redeem camp on 2011 Jonathan election among christians all over Nigeria. We cant 4get the role of Gen Olusegun Obasanjo in ensuring that Jonathan was made Acting President. Who being the Chairman of PDP board of trustee asked Yar Adua to resign for Jonathan to become president. We cant 4get d Insult obasanjo got from Arewa for that statements. We cant 4get how Obasanjo prevent former VP Atiku abubarkar from hijacking PDP and getting the PDP ticket in 2011

So igbo never made Jonathan President in 2011. The only thing Igbo did was to destroy Jonathan presidency between 2011 and 2015.
Igbo people like Stella Oduah destroyed d image of Jonathan Govt. Igbo people hijack Jonathan govt preventing him from achieving what he needed to achieve. Pius Ayim Pius brought high level Nepotism to Nigeria Federal civil service.

As far as i an concern it was President Jonathan who did Igbo big favour by giving them a loud voice in Nigeria national politics. You igbo should be grateful to Jonathan not d other way around.

The only time Igbo stood alone with Jonathan was 2015 election which Jonathan lost. Igbo stood with him for thier own good because of what he had done for them politically. And also because they know they cant control any other person the way they controlled Jonathan

Even today that Jonathan is no more the president of Nigeria, the only Governor who has made defending Jonathan legacy his primary assignment is a Yoruba Governor. Governor Fayose of Ekiti. No igbo PDP governor defend Jonathan today like Fayose do.

Today, they want to re-write history with fake propanganda just because of 2015 election. What make me sick is the way they make it look like south south owe them when actually they are the one owing south south for giving them voice through Jonathan.

Below is 2011 Presidential results.
source:http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20110419040622zg/sections/general-articles/details-of-2011-presidential-election-results-in-nigeria/

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Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by omenka(m): 12:24pm On Oct 25, 2015
fullblast:
All in a bid to remain relevant, men are ready to do all sorts.This is just a diversionary tactics. The lives of the igbos revolve around entrepreneurship which they are very skillful at ...No succesfull business man of TODAY will like to go to war. Try pushing a plebicite to igbos in diaspora n let's hear if they really need biafra
The other day I was on my way home when I visited my folks. It was very late at night. Stopped at a shop to get some much need supplies. The owner of the shop happened to be an Igbo man. From all the noise folks make around here, I just decided to ask the dude a couple of questions:

Me: Oga, no vex, make I ask you question- wetin you think about Nnamdi Kanu??

Man: Who be Nnamdi Kanu??

I let that slide and asked: wetin you think about Biafra??

Man: Wetin consain me consain Biafra?? Na Biafra I go chop??

I just smiled and was like: but your brothers dey say dem want Biafra naw.

Man: Na dem sabi. Most of dem na agbero wey no sabi any trade.


Although I just smiled and walked away, I couldn't believe my ears!! Though the opinion of the man is statistically irrelevant, there's no gainsaying that there are thousands like him, if not millions.

Just like you said, most of these guys that have something at stake- families and businesses don't even wanna hear anything about this. All they are after is a flourishing business- simple.

Whatever it is, if they wanna have their country, there are proper channels through which to go about it and not by threats and coercion.

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Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by omolami: 1:38pm On Oct 25, 2015
There was no need for Biafra craze when GEJ was in power. This is because the Igbos were fairly treated .The Igbos felt belong to nigeris under Gej. But now Buhari govt is alienating Igbos. Buhari is making Igbos unsafe and inferior. Check out buhari's appointments so far.By national character as embedded in Nigeria's constitution an igbo suppose to be no 3 man in Nigeria. Is it like that now?. The Hausa /Fulani taking all juicy appointments and lording self over others despite their backwardness in education and other aspect of life. Let Biafra be, the Yorubas are in support of all that will take Hausa/Fulani from being part of Nigeria.

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Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by omolami: 1:39pm On Oct 25, 2015
There was no need for Biafra craze when GEJ was in power. This is because the Igbos were fairly treated .The Igbos felt belong to nigeris under Gej. But now Buhari govt is alienating Igbos. Buhari is making Igbos unsafe and inferior. Check out buhari's appointments so far.By national character as embedded in Nigeria's constitution an igbo suppose to be no 3 man in Nigeria. Is it like that now?. The Hausa /Fulani taking all juicy appointments and lording self over others despite their backwardness in education and other aspect of life. Let Biafra be, the Yorubas are in support of all that will take Hausa/Fulani from being part of Nigeria.Suggest
Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by ItsMeAboki(m): 6:52pm On Oct 25, 2015
omolami:

There was no need for Biafra craze when GEJ was in power. This is because the Igbos were fairly treated .The Igbos felt belong to nigeris under Gej. But now Buhari govt is alienating Igbos. Buhari is making Igbos unsafe and inferior. Check out buhari's appointments so far.By national character as embedded in Nigeria's constitution an igbo suppose to be no 3 man in Nigeria. Is it like that now?. The Hausa /Fulani taking all juicy appointments and lording self over others despite their backwardness in education and other aspect of life. Let Biafra be, the Yorubas are in support of all that will take Hausa/Fulani from being part of Nigeria.

Yes they felt fairly treated and belonging in Nigeria because their brother GEJ was the one in power and playing up to their divisive tribal politics e.g. publicly stating that Igbos were the pillar of his government.
Now that somebody else is in charge, they are shouting Biafra; well I have news for you; the same GEJ that you are praising was quoted by Radio Biafra as saying, "1914 amalgamation an act of God, Nigeria is the promised land" - President Goodluck Jonathan.

http://g.radiobiafra.co/news/1914-amalgamation-an-act-of-god-nigeria-is-the-promised-land-president-goodluck-jonathan

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Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by iconaus: 7:12pm On Oct 25, 2015
I am tired of reading comments by kids in this nairaland . Biafra agitation has been there for over 15 yrs through masob n ipob started since 2009 . It appears to be gaining momentum because this govt is tribalised . Check out the appointments . It the re awakening of old wound . Compare gej appointments n buhari . Even yorubas re not even well represented talkless of igbos .

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Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by gwales: 7:47pm On Oct 25, 2015
They were busy looting the treasury
Re: Where Was This Biafra Craze When Jonathan Was President? by DelticStephEn(f): 7:49pm On Oct 25, 2015
omenka:
The other day I was on my way home when I visited my folks. It was very late at night. Stopped at a shop to get some much need supplies. The owner of the shop happened to be an Igbo man. From all the noise folks make around here, I just decided to ask the dude a couple of questions:

Me: Oga, no vex, make I ask you question- wetin you think about Nnamdi Kanu??

Man: Who be Nnamdi Kanu??

I let that slide and asked: wetin you think about Biafra??

Man: Wetin consain me consain Biafra?? Na Biafra I go chop??

I just smiled and was like: but your brothers dey say dem want Biafra naw.

Man: Na dem sabi. Most of dem na agbero wey no sabi any trade.


Although I just smiled and walked away, I couldn't believe my ears!! Though the opinion of the man is statistically irrelevant, there's no gainsaying that there are thousands like him, if not millions.

Just like you said, most of these guys that have something at stake- families and businesses don't even wanna hear anything about this. All they are after is a flourishing business- simple.

Whatever it is, if they wanna have their country, there are proper channels through which to go about it and not by threats and coercion.
kip deceiving yourself you bloody fool.
you think what inconsequencial few Igbo men think abt Biafra matters?
We are talking abt d freedom and future of our next generation and you are here exposing your stupid.
keep it up.

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