I CHOOSE MY PEOPLE OVER NIGERIA.
I believe Igbo should have their Biafra because I find no single positive reason why we must live as one nation while other people closer to us than the Igbo are having separate nations. As a man without colonial mentality, I do not allow colonial hangover to becloud my reason.
There is already Biafra. No Hausa/Fulani dares dream of going to the east for whatever reason. So where is the One Nigeria? Is it not better to make the separation formal so that we can trade freely and and even send ambassadors? Can't you see how we ralate with Niger Republic, Cameroon, Ghana, Chad and Benin Republic? We related with some of them for ages even before we know the Igbo. What is wrong if strangers, Igbos, have their seprate nation like our old friends in Niger Rep, Ghana, Chad etc do? For a hundred years past we have lived in mutual suspicion and bitterness with this strangers, sometimes leading to carnage. Why must we live as some dead colonial masters wanted us to live?
Only truth can solve this problem not a python and not a civil war mentality. We, the Hausa/Fulani, are already the victims of this profitless irrational one Nigeria. Countless Hausa/Fulani people have died like dogs, unmourned, uncompensated for, unavenged. Why must we accept economic blockade and massacres in the name of a fictional arrangement? What is our gain and what is our profit? Northern muslims have never met with disaster in all of their history that consumes more blood, that destroys livelihood, that poisons the pyschic like one Nigeria. I care more for my people than Nigeria. I do not see Nigeria as worth the death and continuous humiliation of my people.
We lack everything because of one Nigeria. Our markets are not ours. Our banks are not ours. Our telecommunitionbusiness are not ours. Our schools are not ours. Our foreign scholarship are not ours. We have no control over anything except our mouths that we are forced to shut up. We are the poorest in all developemental indices in Africa because we gave up everything to one ungrateful Nigeria.
We must resist the false suggestion of greedy thieves posing as our leaders whose only vision is to own a mansion in Dubai. Neither shall we fall for the error of old men dreaming of past personal glory.
Let us reassess our condition rationally and boldly. Let us define the direction of our own future. Let us choose what we believe is the best for us and our children and fight for it. We and our youth must think for ourselves and give direction to our history. The world has changed and so we must change. We are not less than 90 million in population. We are the largest black nation on earth even without Nigeria. We must never remain stagnant and blinded by fake arrangement. Colonial nation states arrangement like Nigeria are fast losing relevence. The world is dealing in regions made up of real mutually compatable groups of people. Every great compatible group of people are striving to be truely represented in regions. Each mutually compatible people wish to, directly without acrimonious hinderance, exploit the oppurtunity offfered by regionally organised globalized world. Each also wish to enrich the world and preserve their common heritage. This is the reason for anti-colonial self determination struggle across the globe from Europe to Asia and from Australia to Americas. The Igbos had travelled and mingled among free nations. No power on earth will stop them from dancing in the rising sun of growing freedom of people away from the stagnant historical dustbin of nation statism. They want to face the world on their own terms.
We, on our part, must not continue to be victims of shortsighted local helmsmen who can not think beyond what those dead imperial masters had ordained by force of arms. If our parents were ruled by them, we must never accept their ghosts to rule us via greedy hosts. 90 million people are by far larger than 60% of individual nations in the world. We will not be the poorest. We will not be the weakest. We will not be isolated. Infact, we will be the biggest in Africa and among the richest. So why all the self imprisonment in an old moribond, no longer safe and no longer relevent Nigeria? Every wise man when given the choice of saving the house or the family, would certainly choose to save the family. So I choose my people. I want them to be free anywhere in the world including in Biafra, and I want them to be in control of what is theirs at home. So I choose my people!

Well said.

Could this really come from an awusa\fulani man?

@Built2Last, no link? And the title is not catchy enough.

I've never been a fan of "God does not want Nigeria to be divided". No, because it was not God that amalgamated the two Protectorates in 1914.

If you think hearing statements such as 'there's an average of 1 Nigerian out of every 5 Blacks' is a national pride, then I'll like to let you know that they don't give monetary awards to countries who have large population. China is a great country today,not because of size,but because of good governance, translating into a robust economy for its populace.
What's the use being called the largest black nation on earth and we don't come close to "small" countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and even South Africa?

The truth is, we're just comforting ourselves saying Nigeria is a great country but with no railway, no power, no good roads apart from Abj, Lag, and some other few states.
If Nigeria has to divide into 10 countries for our potentials to be actualized, why not? I think the country is too large for its past and current administrators to handle well.

This is great, we are enlighten people & should act so.
We have practiced this false nationhood for more than hundred years. Its not working & will never work.
No nigerian was signatory to the almalgamation treaty of 1914.
Then how can we hold on the legacy of people that thought & treated us like subhumans.
Let Biafra go please, we are not one & will never be one
The more we are together, the more we hate each other

Gradually they are waking up to the mutual thought- Nigeria is not working. We are better apart than together.

The Igbos had travelled and mingled among free nations. No power on earth will stop them from dancing in the rising sun of growing freedom of people away from the stagnant historical dustbin of nation statism. They want to face the world on their own terms.

Very well articulated. On point!

Apt!

@ Throwback Yyeske vexdacool

Coming and a wise Northerner that have seen the light.

North without doubt they are the greatest sacrificer and loser to one Nigeria..

That was what Ahmadu Bello saw.

Just Niger State is bigger than Netherlands, Netherlands (tho they have oil) their biggest income generator is Agric... To a tune of 100 billion dollars a year.

North are not free, even the whole Nigeria .. we are still colonial slave .

We must break this colonial bondage and own our selves.

WHY CAN'T NORTH FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN INDEPENDENCE. ?

I know Yoruba are scared of being alone... But the North have huge unused land mass... They were the richest before one Nigeria... Now the poorest...

kp3tech:
WHY CAN'T NORTH FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN INDEPENDENCE. ?

I know Yoruba are scared of being alone... But the North have huge unused land mass... They were the richest before one Nigeria... Now the poorest...

Ask people like Omenka, MalcomX,

kp3tech:
WHY CAN'T NORTH FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN INDEPENDENCE. ?

I know Yoruba are scared of being alone... But the North have huge unused land mass... They were the richest before one Nigeria... Now the poorest...

The North have always been a POOR Region since centuries ago.

Shekau is a reincarnation of Danfodiyo. Too much bloodshed of innocents in the name of Jihad brings POVERTY.

But you have government. The government is where the North has its biggest investment.

Must confess I'm shocked to find out there are sensible northerners.
I wish his brethren will listen, hold unto their pride, proving they are no parasites and let the Biafrans go.
Let everyone move on and fix their lands.
In years to come, the world will be left to judge who is the best amongst them.
Enough of living in sheer pretence and laziness.

ZKOSOSO:


The North have always been a POOR Region since centuries ago.

Shekau is a reincarnation of Danfodiyo. Too much bloodshed of innocents in the name of Jihad brings POVERTY.

Check your history.. Google Groundnut Pyramid

Zik actually begged Ahmadu Bello not to break North from Nigeria.

All the job before Independence were in Lagos and North...

it was actually after the 1966 pogrom North started falling because 70% of workers building the North Economy were Igbos... they were killed and driven away...

When they left... soon war ensue... After the war , overtime North became broke.