Do you honestly Believe that? Over half of nairaland is under 25!

becomrich,:

When i say, i am going to be president, some people think, i am joking. I know nigeria politics very well that nothing can stop me been president. I would win every state in igboland. I would not loss 1 state.

naijababe:

I was born in the 70s and to be honest I don't care either way about the war. Y'all need to stop ingesting the regurgitations of the war generation. As for carpet crossing and tribal politics, I think some of us need to back and relearn our history. Zik was the first to introduce tribal politics in 1938.

Proof?

naijaking1:

@naijababe
I was looking forward to seeing Zik support an Igbo man to prove he was tribalistic, but he supported a Yoruba man. In a situation where Awo supported an easterner and Zik supported a westerner, I really don't understand how you could interpret Zik's action as being tribalistic.

naijaking1:

@naijababe
I was looking forward to seeing Zik support an Igbo man to prove he was tribalistic, but he supported a Yoruba man. In a situation where Awo supported an easterner and Zik supported a westerner, I really don't understand how you could interpret Zik's action as being tribalistic.

I was looking forward to seeing Zik support an Igbo man to prove he was tribalistic, but he supported a Yoruba man. In a situation where Awo supported an easterner and Zik supported a westerner, I really don't understand how you could interpret Zik's action as being tribalistic.

Awolowo’s group solidly supported Ikoli, an Ijaw; while Azikwe’s gave his backing to Akinsanya, an Ijebu Yoruba like Awolowo. Not much of tribal politics in those good old days even as the Movement was largely Yoruba dominated. But not when Ikoli won the flag. Zik and Akinsanya charged that they lost because their candidate was Ijebu not minding that so was also Awolowo They walked out along with some Igbo members

non-Igbo members became suspicious. "They reasoned that if the Igbos continued the policy of closing ranks on issues while the others remained divided, it was only a question of time before the Igbo dominated the rest

Azikwe’s defection virtually destroyed the multi-tribal character of the Movement" (Nigerian Political Parties- R. L Sklar) .

I think that there is still some kind of discrimination meted to the Ijebus of today by other Yorubas and it is possible the discrimination was already there then. Their claim may not have been wrong.

agabaI23:



Telling us that Awo was from Ijebu is like telling me that OBJ is from the south. The hausa's chose OBJ because they thought he would do their bidding. That does not mean they would not discriminate against you when juicy posts arise. That you wine and dine with an almajeri will not hold back his knife during a riot.

agabaI23:

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I think that there is still some kind of discrimination meted to the Ijebus of today by other Yorubas and it is possible the discrimination was already there then. Their claim may not have been wrong.

I think the author you quoted was biased in his writing

Remember that the man who resigned was Yoruba and there could be a need to replace him as such (with another Yoruba)

naijababe:

I'm quoting 2 different authors
1) They reasoned that if the Igbos continued the policy of closing ranks on issues while the others remained divided, it was only a question of time before the Igbo dominated the rest. Groundwork of Nigerian History - Obaro Ikime
2) Azikwe's defection virtually destroyed the multi-tribal character of the Movement" (Nigerian Political Parties- R. L Sklar)
Note that neither of the two authors are YorubaIf this was the case Awo would have pitched tent with Akinsanya who was not only his kinsman but also an Ijebu man

This is more of personal brouhaha between ZIK and AWO than tribalism

bawomolo:

Ijebu's are discriminated against by other Yoruba's? news to me. Awo wouldn't have risen to such a prominent position in that case

read again

Zik and Akinsanya charged that they lost because their candidate was Ijebu not minding that so was also Awolowo. They walked out along with some Igbo members.

Zik had no reason to scream marginalization based on ethnicity.

I like your jabs against hausas by the way. Calling them almajiris is about as appropriate as calling all Igbo alaba boys.

naijababe:

I'm quoting 2 different authors
1) They reasoned that if the Igbos continued the policy of closing ranks on issues while the others remained divided, it was only a question of time before the Igbo dominated the rest. Groundwork of Nigerian History - Obaro Ikime
2) Azikwe's defection virtually destroyed the multi-tribal character of the Movement" (Nigerian Political Parties- R. L Sklar)
Note that neither of the two authors are YorubaIf this was the case Awo would have pitched tent with Akinsanya who was not only his kinsman but also an Ijebu man

You want to quote authors because each will give you a different account of what happened from their own perspective. Read this link below about Awolowo from an hausa author:

chosen04:



I like your jabs against hausas by the way. Calling them almajiris is about as appropriate as calling all Igbo alaba boys.