Modphase:
Trust any Igbo at you own risk.
The same foolish people shouting Yoruba are Aboki slave are seen wiping for a Fulani Cameroonian as their lord n saviour. A tribe with no shame nor dignity. Imagine they have been selling their souls to the fulanis from time memorial yet they would shout the most at others for the same thing they start. We are waiting for you patiently.

oilPUSSY:

You should be so ashamed of your Lord and personal Savior who is ready to kill one of his own just because of Fulani @$$. He is hoping that Buhari will hand over to him lolzz..Ofcourse afonjas 21ist century will repeat itself.

What of your useless monarch who left his sit with alacrity for a stranger ?
Even a monarch from minority tribe in Nigeria will never exhibit that type of stupidity..Hopeless king without dignity ... I guess by now you ought to have known those that have dignity and don't that are suffering from inferiority complex.

SouthEastFacts:
What will Yorubas gain by twisting history to promote hatred against Ndi Igbo.

Nigeria was a paliamentary government and the number of popular votes doesn't matter but rather number of seats a party wins.

Northern Peoples Congress won 134 seats while Zik's NCNC won 81, this two by convention should form the government but treacherous Awolowo went behind the scene begging Zik to allow a coalition with him.

Zik rejected the madness and did the right thing and form a government.

Awolowo planned a coup with the help of Ghana but he failed.

Gabriel004:
Why are you guys filled with lies just cos hatred for awoo and Yorubas. Are you guys this daft or what? How did awoo plan a coupe. When did awoo become a military man to plan coup. How did someone in prison plan coup. Were you there when awoo beg zik to form coalition with him. Why not make use of your brain small. Later, these idiots will come out to say awoo was the one that changed regional system to unitary or it was changed to favour awoo. So, now Ghana is what you people want to blame your misfortune on again. Chronic lair

seanfer:

Zik (and his covetous kinsmen) had thought that the Igbo can easily manipulate the Fulani in place of the educated Yoruba. He thus manipulated Balewa to arrest Awolowo in 1962 and to have him jailed for 10 years in 1963.

This was the only way the ibos thought they could actualise their objective of dominating in the new nation as they believed rightly, that Awo was their stumbling block.




Zik also manipulated Balewa to remove from the Western Region the Edo, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Western Ijaw that account for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them the Mid-West Region.

In actual fact, it was the agreement reached by the 3 regional leaders to give autonomy to minority groups in their respective region but once Awo was thrown in jail (on a trumped up charge) by the Balewa/Zik coalition govt, they renegaded on their agreement.There was no one else available to make sure zik and Ahmadu bello kept to the agreement.




The Igbo coup plotters tried to undo Zik's mistake in 1966. And unfortunately, they killed other tribes and left theirs, which resulted in the civil war.

It wasn't so much as the coup plotters trying to undo zik's mistake but rather another strategy in actualising their greed and making good their prophesy of being the top dog in the new nation. After the 1965 election whereby the ibos realised it wasn't going to be easy to wrestle power from the less educated northerners, their next option seems to be through force.

This was why the coup plotters ensured they murdered all the non-ibos military men that could scupper their plan except ironsi. Initially, after the coup, the ibos were already canvassing for one of theirs (mbadiwe) to replace the slain Balewa however when it dawned on them that the northerners were not having none of it and would rather have Dipcharim to be the new PM, Nwosu the senate leader then call in Ironsi to take over power at gun point.

Once, Ironsi got into power, he subsequently embarked on policies that favors the ibos and stands to make good ibos dream of dominating all the other entities in the new country inspite of admonitions and advice from other regional leaders, both in the armed forces and civilians.

Meanwhile, the coup plotters were not punished instead they were all relocated to their home region even though their offence was a federal offence.

Ibos are definitely smart but unfortunately only by halves.

seanfer:
The British did not hand over Nigeria to the Fulani.

Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government.

Zik's National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats.

Awolowo's Action Group (AG), came second with 1,992,364 votes to get 73 seats.

However, the Ahmadu Bello's Northern People's Congress (NPC), came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives despite getting less public votes.

The above three major political parties in the election did not get enough number of the seats to form a government. An alliance had to be formed to determine who would rule.

It was a no brainer that Zik's NCNC and Awolowo's Action Group should make a coalition government as they came first and second respectively.

Awolowo, then humbled himself and volunteered to be a Deputy Prime Minister or Finance Minister in a coalition government with Zik as the Prime Minister. This was because the Zik's NCNC party had more public votes and seats than the Awolowo's Action Group.

Zik invited Awolowo’s team to Asaba, the gateway between the Yoruba's Western Region and the Igbo's Eastern Region to hold coalition talks. The talks were a clever ruse to keep Action Group’s hopes high, so that Action Group would be kept distracted from meeting with other minor parties for talks, including: Northern Elements Progressive Union with 8 seats; Mobolaje Grand Alliance with 6 seats; Igala Union with 4 seats; Independents Candidates with 4 seats; Igbira Tribal Union with 4 seats and the Niger Delta Congress with 1 seat.

Whilst the Action Group team was waiting in Asaba for a meeting with the NCNC, they read in the news that Zik and the NCNC had gone up North and clinched the deal with Ahmadu Bello on forming a coalition government with the NPC.

Tafawa Balewa, a Fulani, would be the Prime Minister of Nigeria while Zik would be the figure head Governor-General. Even Nkrumah of Ghana was shocked. He asked Zik why having spent so much energy fighting for colonial emancipation and then settling for a toothless bulldog role when Nigeria needed him the most.

Zik wrote in his autobiography why he did not form a coalition government with Awolowo.

In 1947, with over £13,500 raised from the Yoruba people and given to the NCNC, Zik had led other six prominent NCNC delegates to London to protest the “obnoxious laws” of Governor Arthur Richards. The trip ended in failure with backbiting, abuses and accusation of theft against Zik. Zik’s opponents at the NCNC, accused him of squandering the money and the trust of Nigerians.

Zik replied insinuating that the Yoruba on the team, that are: Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, and Dr. A. B. Olorunnimbe, were the problem.

There erupted a heated and prolonged press war between Zik’s Political Reminiscence in his West African Pilot and H.O. Davies’ Political Panorama in the Daily Service. This led to Igbo in Lagos rushing to buy machetes in large numbers thinking a tribal war was imminent.

The Governor and his General Secretary, Hugh Foot, quickly called Zik and H.O. Davies to order at the Government House.

Zik went away with the resolve that “the Yoruba must not be allowed to rule over others in Nigeria”.

And afterwards in the Daily Service published the speech of Zik in 1949 about Igbo being destined by God to conquer and rule over others. This among others, will explain why Zik rejected Awolowo's offer of a coalition government in 1959 and instead worked with the Fulani.

The Fulani had been reading Zik and the Igbo through the lens of his 1949 speech ever since.

The Fulani way of neutralising Zik when the opportunity came in 1959 was to offer him a powerless post, which surprisingly Zik and the NCNC dutifully accepted in place of being Nigeria’s first Prime Minister.

Zik had thought that the Igbo can easily manipulate the Fulani in place of the educated Yoruba. He thus manipulated Balewa to arrest Awolowo in 1962 and to have him jailed for 10 years in 1963.

Zik also manipulated Balewa to remove from the Western Region the Edo, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Western Ijaw that account for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them the Mid-West Region.

Zik's hatred for the Yoruba gave the Fulani the impetus to rule over others in Nigeria.

The Igbo coup plotters tried to undo Zik's mistake in 1966. And unfortunately, they killed other tribes and left theirs, which resulted in the civil war.

Britain did not really hand over Nigeria to the Fulani. Nigeria was given over to the Fulani by the Igbo.

However, to hold on to power in Nigeria, the Fulani enlisted the backing of the self-serving career politicians in England.

SouthEastFacts:

The effect of the removal of history from our curriculum is really affecting you.

Awolowo was arrested when the intel leaked. He wasn't planning coup in prison. In fact, he planned coup twice and the last one cost him his life.

Ojukwu released him the first time.

Gabriel004:
Can you hear yourself. Do you think all of us here are daft. You sound like fool. Effect of removing history from curriculum. Dumbo, so only you did history in school. Same your curriculum that did not tell you your biafran atrocities in the Midwest, your same curriculum that never told you how your biafran bombed casino cinema in Lagos. See, you can only fool your fellow igbos not us.

oilPUSSY:

You should be so ashamed of your Lord and personal Savior who is ready to kill one of his own just because of Fulani @$$. He is hoping that Buhari will hand over to him lolzz..Ofcourse afonjas 21ist century will repeat itself.

What of your useless monarch who left his sit with alacrity for a stranger ?
Even a monarch from minority tribe in Nigeria will never exhibit that type of stupidity..Hopeless king without dignity ... I guess by now you ought to have known those that have dignity and don't that are suffering from inferiority complex.

Modphase:
The kind of lie ojukwu told to waste 2 million of foolish ones among your tribesmen continue with your lies n deceit. Your father is born to to do it

SouthEastFacts:

You really need help.

This thread is about the first republic and you are bringing Biafra into this. If you can't address the issues raised please crawl back to your brown roof hut.

Gabriel004:
You no your race are the ones that need help. Because, you guys always know the truth, seeing the truth but believing the lies. Do you want to deny. What brought awoo to the thread. You asked for history. I will keep exposing your lies.