Reno wrote some piece about Yorubas and Igbos relationship, to be honest with you Reno messed up in a big time, the way he presented the Igbos story. lgbos were blame nobody blames NZEOGWU , but lgbos,. enough is enough because some people in Delta state said there are not IGBOS! Igbo man sin in Nigeria is hard work, Yorubas use the Hausas as the tools to be able to compete with the Igbos vice versa
Reno should allow the Igbos to speak for the them self because na person way hate person dey advice am before the OBA, Benin proverb. Igbos Vote made you who you are but Yorubas Vote sent you to exile Reno. When you write all those your rubbish try balance it. Igbos lost Biafra war because the political aspect part of the war was not taking care of. So Igbos lost the War to Igbos(That is a topic for another day) Igbos might lost the War but not the battle.
This is Reno write up below so am going to treat and reply every point Reno raised one after the other with *****Donrich> my reply, below every point.
Reno>
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Sovereign State of Biafra and one or more questions still linger. I will not delve into the more contentious questions, but for the sake of improving the relationship between the Igbo and their Yoruba neighbors, let me touch on one or two areas where, if the truth is brought to the fore, the relationship between omo Oduduwa and Ndi’Igbo could be improved.
Firstly, why do Ndi’Igbo still believe the false stereotype that the omo Oduduwa (Yoruba) are cowards? This is simply not true and the facts do not support this belief.
*****Donrich> Igbos don’t see Yorubas as cowards, Igbos see Yorubas as cunning people,there is no how you can struck a deal with a cunning people for the sake of to improve relationship and thank God you know that Igbos are not good in pretending. The Yorubas voted Buhari not because they believe in him to better Nigeria but just to be able to get to the presidency through back door if Buhari dead on the sit like Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Yorubas didn’t think twice about the future of Nigeria before that drastic act, that is cunning and foolishness.
Reno>
In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.
In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that ‘Abacha did not loot’, you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenhagen. He returned to face almost certain death.
What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.
*****Donrich> Don’t let you views on Yorubas confuse you to think that is how the Igbos sees the Yorubas. You of all people shouldn’t be the one to talk because you are the only Nigerian on exile in democratic dispensation. If you gat the balls come talk trash here, so that Dazuki gate go deposit money into your account shap shap lol
Reno>
Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the Head of State, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do. I am hard pressed to believe that if it was vice versa, Ironsi would have done the same for Fajuyi, but then again, I may be wrong.
*****Donrich> To be honest with you that Guy paid a huge price(Is rewards is in heaven) but if not that Yorubas are cunning they shouldn’t have forgave the Hausas for killing Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi after they reached agreement that if he put his life down they will not kill is guest. but the hatred the Yorubas have against the Igbos couldn’t allow them to see the reason why Hausas can’t be struck deals with. The Yorubas sees the civil war as their only chance to get rid off the Igbos, because then the Igbos were in charge of helm of government, everything were working well and that is the first time things worked in Nigeria. the Yorubas can’t compete with the Igbos likewise the Hausas, so the both party saw that fracas as the only way to come up to the chart and get rid of the Igbos.
Reno>
I admired Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for his guts and stubborn determination during the events leading up to and during the civil war, but I was disappointed that he fled Biafra when the end came. I wish he remained.
*****Donrich> I would have like it if you will have the guts to call Ojukwu a coward, but i want make it clear that Ojukwu were pressured to declare the war by elders, the aftermath of what the Igbos pass through in the North, the killing on the poor Igbos and almost 350 Senior Officers etc. I will also like you to look at it this way don’t you no there’s a possibility that if Ojukwu is captured and killed by Nigeria government,the aftermath might be too bad and Igbos might not surrender or they might apply Gorilla war
Reno>
I also admired the Right Honorable Nnamdi Azikiwe, but Chief Obafemi Awolowo would NEVER have abandoned his people as Azikiwe did when he defected to the federal side during the civil war.
*****Donrich> I wish if i can defend Azikiwe, the only Nigerian that lived and dead a Nigerian. Nigeria dead with Zik, but is unfortunate you used that word ‘defected to the federal’ on Zik.
Reno>
Awolowo was in prison because of his people and he could have been released had he compromised his beliefs but he stoutly refused. That is courage not cowardice.
*****Donrich> Nigeria Problem started the first day Awo landed in from London. what happened after that will be a story for another day. but i will like you to tell Nigerians, how Awo landed in prison? how Awo came out of prison? how Awo rewarded the man that helped him out of prison ahead of the people that landed him in prison? Awo was released by Ojukwu to go convince his people but out of hatred Awo and Yorubas had for Igbos they joined the North to make sure they get rid of the Igbos.
Reno>
Even with the sullying of his name as a Quisling in the pages of history, it is on record that of all the first republic politicians that were killed in the January 1966 coup, only Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the Premier of the Western Region, put up a fight. He had a rifle and exchanged gunfire with Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi and his men. Akintola, a civilian, injured the trained soldiers and was only killed when his ammunition finished. And even at that he did not cry or beg!
*****Donrich> That is a brave man
Reno>
Ndi’Igbo may do well to remember how Wole Soyinka, at great risk to himself, traveled to Enugu during the height of the civil war crisis to persuade Ojukwu against secession. Soyinka had nothing to gain. He did what he did as a humanitarian in support of the Igbos, an act for which he was arrested by the Gowon led Federal Military Government and thrown in jail for 26 months, 22 of which he spent in solitary confinement.
*****Donrich> I was moved on Wole Soyinka moves to salvage the situation, Wole Soyinka is indeed a drop of greatness and is rewards is in Heaven.
Reno>
As we celebrate #BiafraAt50, I hope the Yoruba and Igbo can find common ground and unite as Southern Nigeria’s two main ethnic nationalities otherwise the South will continue to be politically disadvantaged even when it is the most educationally advantaged part of Nigeria.
It is true that the Igbo are marginalized in Nigeria, however, I am of the opinion that a lot of the blame for this can be laid at Ndi’Igbo’s doorstep.
In my opinion, and remember this is an opinion not a fact, the major undoing of Ndi’Igbo is their misunderstanding of the term strength.
*****Donrich> on point, we the Igbos have made a lot of mistakes that worsen our matters but hatred Nigerians have over the Igbos couldn’t allow them to give the Igbos second chance so that things will start working again.
Reno>
Ndi’Igbo erroneously believe all strength is physical. They do not seem to realize that strength is your ability to assert your will on earth and that that ability may not always be physical. The proverb-discretion is the better part of valor-is not understood by the Igbo. They tend to be reactionary and consider pausing to study a situation before you respond (not react) as cowardice. One or two of them may get it, but as a race in general they do not.
*****Donrich> on point,
Reno>
They do not consider diplomacy as a first step. To them it is weakness and makes you an efulefu! If they have an enemy, they are not able to suppress their emotions and work with those they do not like. They must make their hostility obvious to the person they do not like and being aware of the dislike, the person is armed against them. In an organization, others may be sublime and discrete in their scheming, but the Igbo are more likely to be obvious and in your face about theirs and end up causing unity amongst their enemies in plotting their downfall.
*****Donrich> on point,
Reno>
As a general rule, Ndi’Igbo have very little humility and are very proud individually though there are few exceptions and I must single out my friend Emeka Maduewesi as one of those exceptions. An epitome of a gentleman! Another example would be Uche Chuta. May God throw up leaders like Uche in Igboland!
*****Donrich> Proud is the secret Igbos used to Rise again after the war, no any other tribe in Nigeria will be able survive the civil war but only the Igbos, because we no our value and that’s why we are going places
Reno>
For example Since 2010, my white beard has been my trademark. In fact Punch newspapers refers to me as ‘the white bearded Omokri’. Yesterday (May 30th), my grandfather called me and asked me to shave it off because he does not like it. That same day, I obeyed him. I obey my grandfather at 43 the same way I obeyed him at 3. I am very successful today and I trace my success to the upbringing and prayers I got from my father and grandfather. No money ritual is as effective as a prayer and blessing from your fathers. I may be wrong, but I am not sure that a father or grandfather can have this type of influence on an adult financially and socially successful male in Igbo land. What I did may even be construed as weakness.
*****Donrich> Bros na weakness ( because children are more smarter than their parents ) that the white beard is your trademark. you suppose to convince your Dad to know that. but whatever i don’t know how that concerned Igbos. don’t you think you are going to far to ridicule the Igbos because you want to make points.
Reno>
In my opinion, Ndi’Igbo are also individually more intelligent than their neighbors (I call it as I see it) but they hardly use their intelligence to unite and have one leader, one goal and one destiny. Because of this, even though they are more intelligent, they are almost always doomed to serve those that are wiser than them because wisdom is superior to intelligence.
*****Donrich> Yep you are on point here but let me tell you one thing, anything that have advantage also have disadvantage, Igbos are democrats in nature that is the reason why all man on is own, to create your own part that is why you can’t trust your future in the hands of a canal Man that can lead you astray. Till the day we find one honest Leader i promise you we will follow his lead.
Reno>
The Igbo also appear to value leaders because of the leader’s personal attainments in life and so money gives you more leadership credentials than wisdom or age. They forget that a rich man may have more clothes than an elder but cannot have more rags than him. They overestimate the power of money and underestimate the power of wisdom.
*****Donrich> Yep you are on point but one thing is that if that rich leader try to abuse his power i promise you he will face resistance from all corner and is down fall is imminent.
Reno>
If the Igbo can learn humility and practice diplomacy and discipline themselves to have one leader that they listen to in good and bad times not because he is always right but because he is their leader, their marginalization will end and their dominance will begin.
*****Donrich> Yea you are right. this is the hardest part of it because our people said A Man can never learn how to use left hand at old age. we are not cunning and will never be. It takes cunning people to play that character in this your diplomacy movie. I wish we can play along.
Reno>
These are merely my opinions which may be wrong.
*****Donrich> You are %85 wrong. better still keep your opinion to your self.
Reno>
For decades before Independence these minority groups had been dominated by the Fulani and when Independence came they thought that the more exposed Southerners would come and hand them a hand of fellowship and deliver them from their oppressors but to their shock we greeted them with hostility and sometimes open hatred and a wise sage like Sardauna Ahmadu Bello opened up his hands to them through his policy of One North and empowered Northern minorities like Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sunday Awoniyi and co.
Who knows, he may have done the same with the South and created a truly ‘One Nigeria’, if his life had not been tragically cut short in the coup mistakenly called Nzeogwu coup but which was actually masterminded by Emmanuel Ifeajuna with Nzeogwu being slightly more than a pawn in the game.
Ahmadu Bello was not a tribalistic leader. But he was a regional leader. He was suspicious of Southerners in general and he had something akin to disdain and maybe even contempt for Ndi’Igbo. It is an inconvenient truth that cannot be denied. Even his hardcore followers cannot deny this. He is caught on video articulating this view and these videos are now on YouTube.
*****Donrich> Its unfortunate that after watching this video you still see Ahmadu Bello as your Hero the same Ahmadu Bello that said in this video that North first in any appointment and if any not can not fit in in the appointment a white man will fit before any body from south will fit in. Reno i leave you with God. here is one of the Ahmadu Bello remarks about an Igbo man “If you put them in a labour camp, within a year they will want to emerge as the head man” The SIN of the Igbo Man is HARD WORK, HARD WORK, here the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_odAy4rVz8
Reno>
For instance, despite what the media has written about him to exaggerate his faults, the fact remains that former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is one of the most patriotic Nigerians alive. Only President Olusegun Obasanjo can be said to be more patriotic than General Babangida in contemporary Nigerian history.
Now let me ask a hypothetical question: Placed in that same situation, with Igbo dominance in the military and in government, would an Igbo leader have ceded power to the Yorubas to compensate them for an event like June 12 knowing that even if he did not there was little they could do by way of taking the power from him? Even an Igbo man would agree with me that this is very unlikely.
*****Donrich> Bros i take exception to this, you are not kind with us because is only the person that hate you will advice you befor OBA. Benin proverbs. You just made Igbos look stupid here, you killed it bro. May God help you to wake up from this hatred dream.
Reno>
I do not need to ask the question of whether or not a Yoruba man would do this because General Olusegun Obasanjo had already done it in 1979.
*****Donrich> when an Igbo man have the chance then we will see if he can do it or not, OBJ did that then as a coward and when OBJ got the balls to act he ceded power to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua a dying Man and a disaster in waiting.
Reno>
It is this states manly humility, (having the power to do something that would favour yours and your people’s cause, yet having the conscience and discipline not to do it because it is against the principles of natural justice), that Ndi’Igbo lack in sufficient quantity at their leadership levels.
*****Donrich> Next time you speak with fact can you give us fact, bro you bite the igbos hard in this line. its unfortunate.

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Ndi ofe na onu

donrichdavid:
Reno wrote some piece about Yorubas and Igbos relationship, to be honest with you Reno messed up in a big time, the way he presented the Igbos story. lgbos were blame nobody blames NZEOGWU , but lgbos,. enough is enough because some people in Delta state said there are not IGBOS! Igbo man sin in Nigeria is hard work, Yorubas use the Hausas as the tools to be able to compete with the Igbos vice versa
Reno should allow the Igbos to speak for the them self because na person way hate person dey advice am before the OBA, Benin proverb. Igbos Vote made you who you are but Yorubas Vote sent you to exile Reno. When you write all those your rubbish try balance it. Igbos lost Biafra war because the political aspect part of the war was not taking care of. So Igbos lost the War to Igbos(That is a topic for another day) Igbos might lost the War but not the battle.
This is Reno write up below so am going to treat and reply every point Reno raised one after the other with *****Donrich> my reply, below every point.
Reno>
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Sovereign State of Biafra and one or more questions still linger. I will not delve into the more contentious questions, but for the sake of improving the relationship between the Igbo and their Yoruba neighbors, let me touch on one or two areas where, if the truth is brought to the fore, the relationship between omo Oduduwa and Ndi’Igbo could be improved.
Firstly, why do Ndi’Igbo still believe the false stereotype that the omo Oduduwa (Yoruba) are cowards? This is simply not true and the facts do not support this belief.
*****Donrich> Igbos don’t see Yorubas as cowards, Igbos see Yorubas as cunning people,there is no how you can struck a deal with a cunning people for the sake of to improve relationship and thank God you know that Igbos are not good in pretending. The Yorubas voted Buhari not because they believe in him to better Nigeria but just to be able to get to the presidency through back door if Buhari dead on the sit like Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Yorubas didn’t think twice about the future of Nigeria before that drastic act, that is cunning and foolishness.
Reno>
In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.
In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that ‘Abacha did not loot’, you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenhagen. He returned to face almost certain death.
What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.
*****Donrich> Don’t let you views on Yorubas confuse you to think that is how the Igbos sees the Yorubas. You of all people shouldn’t be the one to talk because you are the only Nigerian on exile in democratic dispensation. If you gat the balls come talk trash here, so that Dazuki gate go deposit money into your account shap shap lol
Reno>
Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the Head of State, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do. I am hard pressed to believe that if it was vice versa, Ironsi would have done the same for Fajuyi, but then again, I may be wrong.
*****Donrich> To be honest with you that Guy paid a huge price(Is rewards is in heaven) but if not that Yorubas are cunning they shouldn’t have forgave the Hausas for killing Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi after they reached agreement that if he put his life down they will not kill is guest. but the hatred the Yorubas have against the Igbos couldn’t allow them to see the reason why Hausas can’t be struck deals with. The Yorubas sees the civil war as their only chance to get rid off the Igbos, because then the Igbos were in charge of helm of government, everything were working well and that is the first time things worked in Nigeria. the Yorubas can’t compete with the Igbos likewise the Hausas, so the both party saw that fracas as the only way to come up to the chart and get rid of the Igbos.
Reno>
I admired Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for his guts and stubborn determination during the events leading up to and during the civil war, but I was disappointed that he fled Biafra when the end came. I wish he remained.
*****Donrich> I would have like it if you will have the guts to call Ojukwu a coward, but i want make it clear that Ojukwu were pressured to declare the war by elders, the aftermath of what the Igbos pass through in the North, the killing on the poor Igbos and almost 350 Senior Officers etc. I will also like you to look at it this way don’t you no there’s a possibility that if Ojukwu is captured and killed by Nigeria government,the aftermath might be too bad and Igbos might not surrender or they might apply Gorilla war
Reno>
I also admired the Right Honorable Nnamdi Azikiwe, but Chief Obafemi Awolowo would NEVER have abandoned his people as Azikiwe did when he defected to the federal side during the civil war.
*****Donrich> I wish if i can defend Azikiwe, the only Nigerian that lived and dead a Nigerian. Nigeria dead with Zik, but is unfortunate you used that word ‘defected to the federal’ on Zik.
Reno>
Awolowo was in prison because of his people and he could have been released had he compromised his beliefs but he stoutly refused. That is courage not cowardice.
*****Donrich> Nigeria Problem started the first day Awo landed in from London. what happened after that will be a story for another day. but i will like you to tell Nigerians, how Awo landed in prison? how Awo came out of prison? how Awo rewarded the man that helped him out of prison ahead of the people that landed him in prison? Awo was released by Ojukwu to go convince his people but out of hatred Awo and Yorubas had for Igbos they joined the North to make sure they get rid of the Igbos.
Reno>
Even with the sullying of his name as a Quisling in the pages of history, it is on record that of all the first republic politicians that were killed in the January 1966 coup, only Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the Premier of the Western Region, put up a fight. He had a rifle and exchanged gunfire with Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi and his men. Akintola, a civilian, injured the trained soldiers and was only killed when his ammunition finished. And even at that he did not cry or beg!
*****Donrich> That is a brave man
Reno>
Ndi’Igbo may do well to remember how Wole Soyinka, at great risk to himself, traveled to Enugu during the height of the civil war crisis to persuade Ojukwu against secession. Soyinka had nothing to gain. He did what he did as a humanitarian in support of the Igbos, an act for which he was arrested by the Gowon led Federal Military Government and thrown in jail for 26 months, 22 of which he spent in solitary confinement.
*****Donrich> I was moved on Wole Soyinka moves to salvage the situation, Wole Soyinka is indeed a drop of greatness and is rewards is in Heaven.
Reno>
As we celebrate #BiafraAt50, I hope the Yoruba and Igbo can find common ground and unite as Southern Nigeria’s two main ethnic nationalities otherwise the South will continue to be politically disadvantaged even when it is the most educationally advantaged part of Nigeria.
It is true that the Igbo are marginalized in Nigeria, however, I am of the opinion that a lot of the blame for this can be laid at Ndi’Igbo’s doorstep.
In my opinion, and remember this is an opinion not a fact, the major undoing of Ndi’Igbo is their misunderstanding of the term strength.
*****Donrich> on point, we the Igbos have made a lot of mistakes that worsen our matters but hatred Nigerians have over the Igbos couldn’t allow them to give the Igbos second chance so that things will start working again.
Reno>
Ndi’Igbo erroneously believe all strength is physical. They do not seem to realize that strength is your ability to assert your will on earth and that that ability may not always be physical. The proverb-discretion is the better part of valor-is not understood by the Igbo. They tend to be reactionary and consider pausing to study a situation before you respond (not react) as cowardice. One or two of them may get it, but as a race in general they do not.
*****Donrich> on point,
Reno>
They do not consider diplomacy as a first step. To them it is weakness and makes you an efulefu! If they have an enemy, they are not able to suppress their emotions and work with those they do not like. They must make their hostility obvious to the person they do not like and being aware of the dislike, the person is armed against them. In an organization, others may be sublime and discrete in their scheming, but the Igbo are more likely to be obvious and in your face about theirs and end up causing unity amongst their enemies in plotting their downfall.
*****Donrich> on point,
Reno>
As a general rule, Ndi’Igbo have very little humility and are very proud individually though there are few exceptions and I must single out my friend Emeka Maduewesi as one of those exceptions. An epitome of a gentleman! Another example would be Uche Chuta. May God throw up leaders like Uche in Igboland!
*****Donrich> Proud is the secret Igbos used to Rise again after the war, no any other tribe in Nigeria will be able survive the civil war but only the Igbos, because we no our value and that’s why we are going places
Reno>
For example Since 2010, my white beard has been my trademark. In fact Punch newspapers refers to me as ‘the white bearded Omokri’. Yesterday (May 30th), my grandfather called me and asked me to shave it off because he does not like it. That same day, I obeyed him. I obey my grandfather at 43 the same way I obeyed him at 3. I am very successful today and I trace my success to the upbringing and prayers I got from my father and grandfather. No money ritual is as effective as a prayer and blessing from your fathers. I may be wrong, but I am not sure that a father or grandfather can have this type of influence on an adult financially and socially successful male in Igbo land. What I did may even be construed as weakness.
*****Donrich> Bros na weakness ( because children are more smarter than their parents ) that the white beard is your trademark. you suppose to convince your Dad to know that. but whatever i don’t know how that concerned Igbos. don’t you think you are going to far to ridicule the Igbos because you want to make points.
Reno>
In my opinion, Ndi’Igbo are also individually more intelligent than their neighbors (I call it as I see it) but they hardly use their intelligence to unite and have one leader, one goal and one destiny. Because of this, even though they are more intelligent, they are almost always doomed to serve those that are wiser than them because wisdom is superior to intelligence.
*****Donrich> Yep you are on point here but let me tell you one thing, anything that have advantage also have disadvantage, Igbos are democrats in nature that is the reason why all man on is own, to create your own part that is why you can’t trust your future in the hands of a canal Man that can lead you astray. Till the day we find one honest Leader i promise you we will follow his lead.
Reno>
The Igbo also appear to value leaders because of the leader’s personal attainments in life and so money gives you more leadership credentials than wisdom or age. They forget that a rich man may have more clothes than an elder but cannot have more rags than him. They overestimate the power of money and underestimate the power of wisdom.
*****Donrich> Yep you are on point but one thing is that if that rich leader try to abuse his power i promise you he will face resistance from all corner and is down fall is imminent.
Reno>
If the Igbo can learn humility and practice diplomacy and discipline themselves to have one leader that they listen to in good and bad times not because he is always right but because he is their leader, their marginalization will end and their dominance will begin.
*****Donrich> Yea you are right. this is the hardest part of it because our people said A Man can never learn how to use left hand at old age. we are not cunning and will never be. It takes cunning people to play that character in this your diplomacy movie. I wish we can play along.
Reno>
These are merely my opinions which may be wrong.
*****Donrich> You are %85 wrong. better still keep your opinion to your self.
Reno>
For decades before Independence these minority groups had been dominated by the Fulani and when Independence came they thought that the more exposed Southerners would come and hand them a hand of fellowship and deliver them from their oppressors but to their shock we greeted them with hostility and sometimes open hatred and a wise sage like Sardauna Ahmadu Bello opened up his hands to them through his policy of One North and empowered Northern minorities like Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sunday Awoniyi and co.
Who knows, he may have done the same with the South and created a truly ‘One Nigeria’, if his life had not been tragically cut short in the coup mistakenly called Nzeogwu coup but which was actually masterminded by Emmanuel Ifeajuna with Nzeogwu being slightly more than a pawn in the game.
Ahmadu Bello was not a tribalistic leader. But he was a regional leader. He was suspicious of Southerners in general and he had something akin to disdain and maybe even contempt for Ndi’Igbo. It is an inconvenient truth that cannot be denied. Even his hardcore followers cannot deny this. He is caught on video articulating this view and these videos are now on YouTube.
*****Donrich> Its unfortunate that after watching this video you still see Ahmadu Bello as your Hero the same Ahmadu Bello that said in this video that North first in any appointment and if any not can not fit in in the appointment a white man will fit before any body from south will fit in. Reno i leave you with God. here is one of the Ahmadu Bello remarks about an Igbo man “If you put them in a labour camp, within a year they will want to emerge as the head man” The SIN of the Igbo Man is HARD WORK, HARD WORK, here the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_odAy4rVz8
Reno>
For instance, despite what the media has written about him to exaggerate his faults, the fact remains that former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is one of the most patriotic Nigerians alive. Only President Olusegun Obasanjo can be said to be more patriotic than General Babangida in contemporary Nigerian history.
Now let me ask a hypothetical question: Placed in that same situation, with Igbo dominance in the military and in government, would an Igbo leader have ceded power to the Yorubas to compensate them for an event like June 12 knowing that even if he did not there was little they could do by way of taking the power from him? Even an Igbo man would agree with me that this is very unlikely.
*****Donrich> Bros i take exception to this, you are not kind with us because is only the person that hate you will advice you befor OBA. Benin proverbs. You just made Igbos look stupid here, you killed it bro. May God help you to wake up from this hatred dream.
Reno>
I do not need to ask the question of whether or not a Yoruba man would do this because General Olusegun Obasanjo had already done it in 1979.
*****Donrich> when an Igbo man have the chance then we will see if he can do it or not, OBJ did that then as a coward and when OBJ got the balls to act he ceded power to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua a dying Man and a disaster in waiting.
Reno>
It is this states manly humility, (having the power to do something that would favour yours and your people’s cause, yet having the conscience and discipline not to do it because it is against the principles of natural justice), that Ndi’Igbo lack in sufficient quantity at their leadership levels.
*****Donrich> Next time you speak with fact can you give us fact, bro you bite the igbos hard in this line. its unfortunate.

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TRASH!

Your reasoning is as jaundiced as the way you speak English.