WHAT DO YOU FOLKS THINK OF THE FOLLOWING?
(Note the boldeds)

(Please remember I am not the one that did the interview nor wrote the article. So know who to attack.)


Nigeria’s problems started with Awo’s introduction of tribal politics — Unongo (MIDDLE BELT MAN)

26 JUN 2017

Elder statesman and nationalist, Dr. Paul Unongo, is one of the few surviving politicians who played key roles in all democratic dispensations and in the struggle for Nigeria’s independence. In this interview, he speaks on the state of the nation, pin-pointing where we started losing our way and the path forward. Excerpts:


By Omeiza Ajayi (YORUBA MAN)



Paul Unongo
What is your take on the state of the nation?

I think Nigeria as an evolving society has done pretty well. We came as an amalgamation of different kinds of people into one state as many other countries have done including the US. In our case, our relatively revered father, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was the father of this nation and who believed very strongly in a form of government that is called Union Government because he believes that Africans could evolve, like Germany evolved under (Otto Von) Bismarck with all her numerous problems, and about 300 states, was able to bring them under the umbrella of one German nation. Dr. Azikiwe thought that he could replicate that.


His younger brother, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, came on the scene with a correct diagnosis, but people did not believe him. They called him a tribalist. They were wrong. Chief Awolowo said having watched the African systems and the European systems, later on, the form of togetherness which would give the component tribes legal, constitutional ability to express their uniqueness within a larger nation-state would be preferable, and he said that form of government, federalism, was good for Nigeria.


But some of us ‘small small’ people formed our own organization to tell Britain that ‘you have divided Nigeria into three.’ Awolowo has spoken; Zik has spoken, and of course, Sir Ahmadu Bello has spoken. He said his people were not very ready for independence and that the process had to be gradual, pledging, however, to remain in Nigeria but that he would not hold the rest of the country back since they wanted independence as at 1956 while the North would be ready by 1959. There was a lot of wisdom in what they said. So, we the firebrand, the young people, we made our choices. People like me would pick the path of Nnamdi Azikiwe because we felt he was the Bismark of our time who was ready to unite everybody. So the three principal participants rejected co-federalism, rejected unionism and adopted Awolowo’s federalism, and we became the Federal Republic of Nigeria later on. Within that context, you can choose to evaluate Nigeria and ignore whatever is happening in this country now. I think Nigeria is in the process of evolving as a nation-state stressing residual powers in the regions.

On where the problem started

The problem is that after Azikiwe scored a fantastic victory in the Western House as a member of the House and his party was to form the government, the man who brought federalism as a form of governance reverted to the game we are playing in Nigeria today, which is tribalism,quite different from federalism. I just want people not to be too angry with themselves.

Awolowo felt, as the strongman of the Yoruba, Azikiwe should not have won the election in his place, and he could not countenance an Igbo man coming to be the premier or the first minister or prime minister of a predominantly Yoruba place. Night came, and when day broke, Zik discovered his majority had collapsed. The Yoruba abandoned him and went to a strange person they did not know ideologically, that is Awolowo, on the basis of tribe.

So, Zik was forced to rethink as an intelligent person, to relocate. He went back to his own part of the country to become the first Premier of Eastern Region.

Some of us sprang up too, in going with Awolowo’s federalism, that the notion that there are only three tribes or sections in the country was so fundamentally defective that we called on the metropolitan power, Britain, to correct this before they would leave. So, we in the Middle Belt of Nigeria came together and decided that we would call ourselves ‘people in the middle’ and that we were not Hausa, we were not Fulani.

At that time, we told Britain, Nigeria had over 250 tribes but that we could not dissect Nigeria into 250 nations. We told them that what has happened in Western Nigeria where an Igbo man was rejected…nobody questioned the fact as at then that Zik was the leader of Nigeria and then suddenly, having won victory, which would have been a great thing for Nigeria, in a predominantly Yoruba region, because the Yoruba were extremely sophisticated and they were the most developed part of Nigeria, and they voted on the basis of ideological orientation. Zik’s party produced a Zik premiership in Western Nigeria and in the night, Awolowo went round to convince the Yoruba that, ‘you are a tribe. Your tribe is called Yoruba. Zik’s tribe is called Igbo. Do not allow this to happen. Whether you like me or not, it is better to have a Yoruba man to rule over Yorubaland’. Unfortunately, I feel, this was the starting point of our problems.

So, he succeeded, and Zik was forced to go to his own place to become a little tribal leader, which was never what he wanted. That man called Zik was responsible for the revolution in Ghana, and he started his revolutionary activities in America. Zik was very keen on having a United States of Africa. He wanted nations within each state, that could create supra-powerful goals around which political actions could be taken.

So, we begged Britain to create a fourth region just to balance, because, within this fourth region that we perceived, we were not talking about religion because this region would have cut across the whole of the central part of Nigeria. It would have included the Nupe that were predominantly even Moslems; it would have included the Ebira, the Igala; it would have included some of the Yoruba, Benue-Plateau, etc., but we gave ourselves a title, Middle Belt, and we made very convincing arguments. I was the secretary to the leader of the UMBC, late Joseph Tarka, who people did not know, was only two and a half years older than me and I was very educated because I just came out from what you now call secondary school. So, I wrote our presentation for the London Constitutional Conference, and I knew we were committed to a fantastic nationalism.

Nigeria hasn’t gone beyond its past leaders

How far have we moved beyond our leaders in terms of development? Zero! We have not moved anywhere, and I am so sad. Today, the pursuit of other things rather than nationalism and patriotism have taken over. Whatever you say about our old leaders, they were patriotic. They saw a bigger picture of the nation that together we could do more in the economy, and that together we could command more respect in the international community.

When people say the problem of Nigeria is that old men have not given an opportunity to the youth to rule, well, at the time of Awolowo, all the people that ruled were young people, and they did well. Gowon was only 29. Murtala was young. All the generals that ruled Nigeria were young. Why didn’t they become our Bismarck? Why didn’t they even become this young man in Ghana, Rawlings? That is why I have no sympathy for people who do not bend down and analyse the problem correctly. People believe if my tribesman is the president of Nigeria, then I am president. The Yoruba man who thought like that, where has Obasanjo taken him? In this regard, I still haven’t found out why education hasn’t helped us, but I think that regarding what Nigeria ought to have been, 60 years after independence, it is an insult on some of us that we are still talking about Nigeria’s potentials.


Source: Vanguatd www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/nigerias-problems-started-awos-introduction-tribal-politics

The 3 Satanist "A" (Awolowo, Azikiwe, Amadu Bello) brought this upon this country because they were regional lords instead of true national leaders devoid of any tribalism whatsoever.
They played ethnic and regional politics thinking they were protecting the interest of these regions but instead they sowed evil seed of hatred, nepotism, ethnicity, religion that we reap till date.

They shall all rot in hell.

coming back

.

Am I mad that I'll start reading this rambling episode on an early Sunday morning, when I know it's way far from the truth?



Nigeria's problem started with the amalgamation of 1914.


Then the problem was exarcebated when black gold was discovered in the Southern part, with Northerners at the helm of affairs.



We're still hurtling down the bottomless abyss of chaos since these two events.

.

crackerspub:


True talk



YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA SAYS SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI



The Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
The Yoruba Factor and “Area-boy” Politics.


Read more http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-says-sanusi-lamido-sanusi/

Bros, I don't know. I only quoted an interview of a middle belt politucal icon ("northerner"if u prefer) by a Yoruba man

Diiet:
THESE ARE SOURCES OF NIGERIA'S PROBLEMS:

1= NNAMDI Azikwe,an igbo man rejected secession clause in Nigeria constitution againt OBAFEMI AWOLOWO'S proposal/advice.

2= igbo young officers killed leaders of yoruabs and hausas and spared igbos politician.
As if that wasn't enough, ojukwu, an igbo man declared war on Nigerians simply because they retaliated the killings of their leaders and politicians killed by igbos officers.

3= Agui ironsi, an igbo man destroyed regionalism when he became president after his kinsmen has killed politicians of other region.

CAN YOU NOW SEE THAT IGBOS ARE THE SOURCE OF ALL THE PROBLEMS FACING THE COUNTRY TODAY.

Bros, I don't know. I only quoted an interview of a middle belt politucal icon ("northerner"if u prefer) by a Yoruba man.

DanseMacabre:
Am I mad that I'll start reading this rambling episode on an early Sunday morning, when I know it's way far from the truth?



Nigeria's problem started with the amalgamation of 1914.


Then the problem was exarcebated when black gold was discovered in the Southern part, with Northerners at the helm of affairs.



We're still hurtling down the bottomless abyss of chaos since these two events.

Read whatever u wish, my brother. I'm happy I had nothing to do with the interview or the writing.

hatchy:
The 3 Satanist "A" (Awolowo, Azikiwe, Amadu Bello) brought this upon this country because they were regional lords instead of true national leaders devoid of any tribalism whatsoever.
They played ethnic and regional politics thinking they were protecting the interest of these regions but instead they sowed evil seed of hatred, nepotism, ethnicity, religion that we reap till date.

They shall all rot in hell.

I disagree with you, Zik stood out among the three as a true nationalist devoid of any tribal sentiment. My anger is even more on him for insisting on national unity even when it was clear that the other two were ethnic jingoists.

hatchy:
The 3 Satanist "A" (Awolowo, Azikiwe, Amadu Bello) brought this upon this country because they were regional lords instead of true national leaders devoid of any tribalism whatsoever.
They played ethnic and regional politics thinking they were protecting the interest of these regions but instead they sowed evil seed of hatred, nepotism, ethnicity, religion that we reap till date.

They shall all rot in hell.

I actually think these were very great men, except maybe Ahmadu Bello, for his extremely divisive utterances. Awo didn't hate Igbos or anybody. I don't think he was even a tribalist as such, rather a pragmatist.

CaptainJeffry:
I disagree with you, Zik stood out among the three as a true nationalist devoid of any tribal sentiment. My anger is even more on him for insisting on national unity even when it was clear that the other two were ethnic jingoists.

Despite my post above, I agree with you - Zik stood out.
He was truly pan-Africanist.

WetinConsignMe:


Read whatever u wish, my brother. I'm happy I had nothing to do with the interview or the writing.

No bro, I have no grouse with you whatever.

WetinConsignMe:


I actually think these were very great men, except maybe Ahmadu Bello, for his extremely divisive utterances. Awo didn't hate Igbos or anybody. I don't think he was even a tribalist as such, rather a pragmatist.

Bro, was it out of Awo's unconditional love for the Igbos that he brought about the infamous ten pounds policy to reimburse them after the war, even those that had millions in the bank?


Awo was a staunch tribalist, just a highly intellectual and stealthy one.

Unongo is a certified fulani slave who has grown in years but yet to grow up.

Are you guys actually dumb or what? Paul Unongo a Chieftain of Northern Elders Forum from Middlebelt, granted an interview in which he said Awolowo brought tribalism in our country and that was the genesis of our problem as a nation, you didn't attack him nor his people who are you are afraid of by the way only to start screaming Igbo! Igbo!! Igbo!!! Like a a Christmas goat. Where did Igbo feature on this article you nonce.SLS wrote an article saying your tribe is the problem of Nigeria, Junaid Mohammed and Ango Abdulahi have repeated this several times you and your people have never come up with a strong rebuttal, now Paul Unongo has officially made it known what people what have been saying on the side for years, that Awo introduced tribalism to Nigerian Politics, you are screaming Igbo! Igbo!! Instead of preparing a strong rebuttal. What manner of people are these ? Your biggest problem as an ethnic group is your fear of not being loved by Northerners, Northerners only care about the North , they don't love you, no matter how it hurts and how much you live in denial , stop begging for love like a people that lacks self belief and suffer from inferiority complex. Your lack of cojones is amusing.Face your enemies and leave igbos alone wtf!

Diiet:
THESE ARE SOURCES OF NIGERIA'S PROBLEMS:

1= NNAMDI Azikwe,an igbo man rejected secession clause in Nigeria constitution againt OBAFEMI AWOLOWO'S proposal/advice.

2= igbo young officers killed leaders of yoruabs and hausas and spared igbos politicians.
As if that wasn't enough, ojukwu, an igbo man declared war on Nigerians simply because they retaliated the killings of their leaders and politicians killed by igbos officers.

3= Agui ironsi, an igbo man destroyed regionalism when he became president after his kinsmen had killed politicians of other region.

CAN YOU NOW SEE THAT IGBOS ARE THE SOURCE OF ALL THE PROBLEMS FACING THE COUNTRY TODAY.

DanseMacabre:



Bro, was it out of Awo's unconditional love for the Igbos that he brought about the infamous ten pounds policy to reimburse them after the war, even those that had millions in the bank?


Awo was a staunch tribalist, just a highly intellectual and stealthy one.

It was 20 pounds not 10. And it was not Awo's policy.
A committee of learned economists and monetary experts recommended the policy. Awo was neither an economist nor a monetary expert, he was a politician.

DanseMacabre:



No bro, I have no grouse with you whatever.

Gracias bro

WetinConsignMe:


It was 20 pounds not 10. And it was not Awo's policy.
A committee of learned economists and monetary experts recommended the policy. Awo was neither an economist nor a monetary expert, he was a politician.

But what do you think was the reason behind the policy, and do you think it would have flown without Awo's approval?

WetinConsignMe:
WHAT DO YOU FOLKS THINK OF THE FOLLOWING?
(Note the boldeds)

(Please remember I am not the one that did the interview nor wrote the article. So know who to attack.)


Nigeria’s problems started with Awo’s introduction of tribal politics — Unongo (MIDDLE BELT MAN)

26 JUN 2017

Elder statesman and nationalist, Dr. Paul Unongo, is one of the few surviving politicians who played key roles in all democratic dispensations and in the struggle for Nigeria’s independence. In this interview, he speaks on the state of the nation, pin-pointing where we started losing our way and the path forward. Excerpts:


By Omeiza Ajayi (YORUBA MAN)



Paul Unongo
What is your take on the state of the nation?

I think Nigeria as an evolving society has done pretty well. We came as an amalgamation of different kinds of people into one state as many other countries have done including the US. In our case, our relatively revered father, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was the father of this nation and who believed very strongly in a form of government that is called Union Government because he believes that Africans could evolve, like Germany evolved under (Otto Von) Bismarck with all her numerous problems, and about 300 states, was able to bring them under the umbrella of one German nation. Dr. Azikiwe thought that he could replicate that.


His younger brother, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, came on the scene with a correct diagnosis, but people did not believe him. They called him a tribalist. They were wrong. Chief Awolowo said having watched the African systems and the European systems, later on, the form of togetherness which would give the component tribes legal, constitutional ability to express their uniqueness within a larger nation-state would be preferable, and he said that form of government, federalism, was good for Nigeria.


But some of us ‘small small’ people formed our own organization to tell Britain that ‘you have divided Nigeria into three.’ Awolowo has spoken; Zik has spoken, and of course, Sir Ahmadu Bello has spoken. He said his people were not very ready for independence and that the process had to be gradual, pledging, however, to remain in Nigeria but that he would not hold the rest of the country back since they wanted independence as at 1956 while the North would be ready by 1959. There was a lot of wisdom in what they said. So, we the firebrand, the young people, we made our choices. People like me would pick the path of Nnamdi Azikiwe because we felt he was the Bismark of our time who was ready to unite everybody. So the three principal participants rejected co-federalism, rejected unionism and adopted Awolowo’s federalism, and we became the Federal Republic of Nigeria later on. Within that context, you can choose to evaluate Nigeria and ignore whatever is happening in this country now. I think Nigeria is in the process of evolving as a nation-state stressing residual powers in the regions.

On where the problem started

The problem is that after Azikiwe scored a fantastic victory in the Western House as a member of the House and his party was to form the government, the man who brought federalism as a form of governance reverted to the game we are playing in Nigeria today, which is tribalism,quite different from federalism. I just want people not to be too angry with themselves.

Awolowo felt, as the strongman of the Yoruba, Azikiwe should not have won the election in his place, and he could not countenance an Igbo man coming to be the premier or the first minister or prime minister of a predominantly Yoruba place. Night came, and when day broke, Zik discovered his majority had collapsed. The Yoruba abandoned him and went to a strange person they did not know ideologically, that is Awolowo, on the basis of tribe.

So, Zik was forced to rethink as an intelligent person, to relocate. He went back to his own part of the country to become the first Premier of Eastern Region.

Some of us sprang up too, in going with Awolowo’s federalism, that the notion that there are only three tribes or sections in the country was so fundamentally defective that we called on the metropolitan power, Britain, to correct this before they would leave. So, we in the Middle Belt of Nigeria came together and decided that we would call ourselves ‘people in the middle’ and that we were not Hausa, we were not Fulani.

At that time, we told Britain, Nigeria had over 250 tribes but that we could not dissect Nigeria into 250 nations. We told them that what has happened in Western Nigeria where an Igbo man was rejected…nobody questioned the fact as at then that Zik was the leader of Nigeria and then suddenly, having won victory, which would have been a great thing for Nigeria, in a predominantly Yoruba region, because the Yoruba were extremely sophisticated and they were the most developed part of Nigeria, and they voted on the basis of ideological orientation. Zik’s party produced a Zik premiership in Western Nigeria and in the night, Awolowo went round to convince the Yoruba that, ‘you are a tribe. Your tribe is called Yoruba. Zik’s tribe is called Igbo. Do not allow this to happen. Whether you like me or not, it is better to have a Yoruba man to rule over Yorubaland’. Unfortunately, I feel, this was the starting point of our problems.

So, he succeeded, and Zik was forced to go to his own place to become a little tribal leader, which was never what he wanted. That man called Zik was responsible for the revolution in Ghana, and he started his revolutionary activities in America. Zik was very keen on having a United States of Africa. He wanted nations within each state, that could create supra-powerful goals around which political actions could be taken.

So, we begged Britain to create a fourth region just to balance, because, within this fourth region that we perceived, we were not talking about religion because this region would have cut across the whole of the central part of Nigeria. It would have included the Nupe that were predominantly even Moslems; it would have included the Ebira, the Igala; it would have included some of the Yoruba, Benue-Plateau, etc., but we gave ourselves a title, Middle Belt, and we made very convincing arguments. I was the secretary to the leader of the UMBC, late Joseph Tarka, who people did not know, was only two and a half years older than me and I was very educated because I just came out from what you now call secondary school. So, I wrote our presentation for the London Constitutional Conference, and I knew we were committed to a fantastic nationalism.

Nigeria hasn’t gone beyond its past leaders

How far have we moved beyond our leaders in terms of development? Zero! We have not moved anywhere, and I am so sad. Today, the pursuit of other things rather than nationalism and patriotism have taken over. Whatever you say about our old leaders, they were patriotic. They saw a bigger picture of the nation that together we could do more in the economy, and that together we could command more respect in the international community.

When people say the problem of Nigeria is that old men have not given an opportunity to the youth to rule, well, at the time of Awolowo, all the people that ruled were young people, and they did well. Gowon was only 29. Murtala was young. All the generals that ruled Nigeria were young. Why didn’t they become our Bismarck? Why didn’t they even become this young man in Ghana, Rawlings? That is why I have no sympathy for people who do not bend down and analyse the problem correctly. People believe if my tribesman is the president of Nigeria, then I am president. The Yoruba man who thought like that, where has Obasanjo taken him? In this regard, I still haven’t found out why education hasn’t helped us, but I think that regarding what Nigeria ought to have been, 60 years after independence, it is an insult on some of us that we are still talking about Nigeria’s potentials.

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Igbo is specialized in falsification and history twisted!
The first test of the party came in the 1951 election. The party won majority votes in the Eastern Region of Nigeria's House of Assembly but became the opposition in the western region with Azikiwe as the opposition leader representing Lagos. Although the Action Group (AG) won a plurality of the votes in the election, its prospects were uncertain as the NCNC could have secured a majority if it had been able to persuade the third party, which was an Ibadan community party and which had been viewed by the NCNC as its ally, to support it. This it was not able to achieve and the AG therefore formed the government amid accusations of carpet-crossing by Azikiwe and his NCNC. This event is still viewed by some historiographers as the beginning of ethnic politics in Nigeria.Azikiwe later on became the Premier of Eastern Region, Nigeria in 1954.

Azikiwe,Awo and Ahmadu Bello have done theirs.

So it is this 3 that killed unarmed civilians.
It is this 3 that screams arewa,afonja and ipob.
It is this 3 that says Buhari until death even when hunger has given us meningitis.
It is this 3 that said some years ago,he is our son,it is our oyel money.
It is also this 3 that makes someone supports another who has an ethnic policy to "occupy till I come"
It is also this 3 that screams pigs and idiots
It is also this 3 that founded the Fulani herdsmen or proclaimed that an attack to BH is AntiNorth.
It is also this 3 that screams accommodators and skullarship,coneheads,ironheads,and squarebox heads.

The truth is that we are who we want to be.
An individual is as stupid or wise as he chooses to be.

These persons defined themselves,but not a race or a people.
We should hold ourselves,neighbours and leaders accountable,and refuse the temptation of our bloda,or aburo mi or Mai gida,then we can show to be stronger.

"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."(JFK)

PenSniper:
Unongo is a certified fulani slave who has grown in years but yet to grow up.

He must have had a little bit of sense to have.survived all these years, don't u think?
Plus he experienced these things.first.hand and knew.these people man to man.
Just saying...

DanseMacabre:



But what do you think was the reason behind the policy, and do you think it would have flown without Awo's approval?

It had to do with value of Bisfran currency.
Who was Awo to question a team experts in a field he knew almost nothing about.

DanseMacabre:



Bro, was it out of Awo's unconditional love for the Igbos that he brought about the infamous ten pounds policy to reimburse them after the war, even those that had millions in the bank?


Awo was a staunch tribalist, just a highly intellectual and stealthy one.

And his extreme love for Igbos introduced "starvation is a legitimate weapon of war". Gerarahia

Paul Unongo has to come out and also say the person(s) he is working for

Thank God Awolowo took that step, he left for the Yoruba timeless legacies, nothing to write home about zik premiership in his so called region. Thanks to awo again, the zik guy would have left gross incompetence behind like he did in his own home.

DanseMacabre:



But what do you think was the reason behind the policy, and do you think it would have flown without Awo's approval?

bro... If you had read about happenings before, during and after the way you would know there was no tribal sentiments. Many igbo folks withdrew their money from Nigerian banks and invested it in the Biafran Bank, the CBN iin Benin was looted to the bones with none knowing what happened to the millions stolen yet at the end of the war those who could present documents to show they have savings in any Nigerian bank where given back what was theirs. what happened to the millions in the Biafran Bank. What of the ones stolen from Benin?