chucky101:


Ibos say Yoruba people betrayed them, then you also say Niger Delta people betrayed them. If what you're saying is true, Please why were the Ibos betrayed by these two groups?

LOVEALAIGBO:


"It still pains them"! What's with the gloating....and where are YOU from!? Is there any country that loses a part of their territory and is gleeful about it!?

The only reason Port Harcourt and other parts of the Niger-Delta were eventually 'lost' by Biafra to 'ndi liberators' was because of the sabotage agaisnt the new republic by certain ethnic groups within the territory (Ikwerre inclusive) and their collusion with the federal side! There's hardly any country that survives a war with external agressors when they have saboteurs amongst them as part of the indigenous population!

Said Port Harcourt was being positioned by Dr M I Okpara to become the preeminent economic hub and destination for investment not only for the Eastern Region, but Nigeria in general! Look at the the national economic dynamics today as well as the general political-economy of Nigeria and see if you still wanna gloat stupidly! Look at the challenges of environmental degradation and decades long wasting of hydrocarbon assets which have made little or no commensurate impact in the economy and lives of the indigenous ethnicities of the region! Look at all this and tell me who was eventually proven to be on the right side of history! You still feel like gloating?.....That is if you're actually from the Niger-Delta and not another busy-body meddlesome interloper from outside the eastern part of Nigeria!

Schlumeinstein:
There was COLD WAR before the war.............IGBOs were everywhere manning almost all federal institutions in the Ironsi Era...........AZIKlWE was rejected in Lagos when he wanted to become the president of "EGBE OMO ODUA" .....he quickly came to the old eastern region where PROF.EYO ITA from Cross River was the president of such association...(he was first professor in the entire old eastern region .......Remember education started in ORON and calabar in the old region........"they were the first to sight a WHITE MAN".....So Eyo ita was butted out for Azikiwe to become president...The then Rivers and Cross -Rivers State were not satisfy with this....CALABAR -OGOJA-RIVER was formed............Animosity SOARS coupled with the ADAKA BORO murder by Ojukwu.......the rest is history............you cannot trust an ibo MAN.....

Goodvibes007:

It was never their property to begin with. Same way the Nazis were pained after losing Paris lol.



You are right. Below is from the book sunset in Biafria by an Ikwerre solder that served in the War - Elechi Amadi.

It was indeed a liberation.

Thundafireseun:
Now Biafrians/ Igbos are better and bigger than all of them put together

Thundafireseun:
Now Biafrians/ Igbos are better and bigger than all of them put together

muykem:
No wonder, Ojukwu flew like a coward. Nnamidi kanu also ran away before we catch him.

chucky101:


Why don't ibos focus on the development of the east and the environmental degradation going on there. Why are ibos eager to "help" other regions develop when you haven't developed your region yet. Why do you keep insisting that the South-South and Niger Delta are part of the East, When the indigenous people of that region have unequivocally distanced themselves from Biafra.

RepoMan007:
Same army cant raid a ragtag group holding a hundred villagers hostage today. Who is foolish who here?

Bulldozer90:
This is how Tinubu wants to do his restructuring. By sponsoring his e-rats to be selling false narrative ahead of his forcefully annexure of Igboland and it's resources.

Wickedlywicked:

Thank you but they (Biafra) got external supports too? That’s exactly my point and full stop.
I don’t want to see that false narrative again. The narrative that Biafra was fighting heavily supported Nigerian troops should not be aired again. It was a case of two-fighting and both sides suffered casualties and got external supports. The igbos need to grow up and stop this victim mentality already, it’s nauseating.

Goodvibes007:

It was never their property to begin with. Same way the Nazis were pained after losing Paris lol.



You are right. Below is from the book sunset in Biafria by an Ikwerre solder that served in the War - Elechi Amadi.

It was indeed a liberation.

Goodvibes007:

It was never their property to begin with. Same way the Nazis were pained after losing Paris lol.



You are right. Below is from the book sunset in Biafria by an Ikwerre solder that served in the War - Elechi Amadi.

It was indeed a liberation.

LOVEALAIGBO:


You're full of deceit, lies and revisionism!

What stupid cold war are you banging on about!? What existed pre uncivil war was the senseless envy, hatred, xenophobia and bigotry shown against Ndigbo by the Hausa-Fulani and a part of the Yoruba political elite! Azikiwe that won election in the west (voted by Yoruba electorate oh), but was schemed out of resuming his position by the chicanery and scheming of Awolowo, is who you're now saying was 'rejected in Lagos'!? I stand to be corrected, but at no point did Azikiwe go for the leadership position of egbe omo Odua! He was the national leader of his party the NCNC, and when Awolowo resorted to ethnicity to scheme him out of his elected psotion in the West, he went back to the Eastern Region to take over the Premiership (i think that's what it was called at the time) of the region from the respected Prof Eyo-Ita! Personally it's not something i would have done, but it must be stated that there was much more inclusion in clusion in governance of the region and mutual respect amongst ethnic groups in the east than was the case in Western Region!

The Willinks Commission looked into accusations made by certain groups against others in the then Eastern Region and found them generally to be without basis! Of course, being a newly formed region (barely 6 years old when it was truncated by the senseless coup and counter-coup) it was bound to have teething problems....problems which would have been addressed given the passage of time! Another problem i see (and it's still evident today in the region) is that there are some mindless, self-serving elite in the region who can't see beyond their immediate lust for power and material gain, and it's these type of individuals who become easy targets for outsiders looking to destabilise the region and undermine Igbo interests so they can get control of its hydrocarbons! This was why it was easy for said outsiders to find saboteurs from within to help sabotage and undermine the then Biafra republic!

Thiefobi1:


Fajuyi met his fate by reason best known to him.

He was told by danjuma to step aside inorder for them to deal with ironsi after evidences linking him to the murder of the prime minister.

He ignored. Or else he could have been spared

Ogundipe could not have taken over because he was not a part of the planning and execution.

But Nzeogwu ifeajuna and co killed an innocent people.

Let me ask you what was akintola, balewa and ahamadu offence to deserve such a cruel death in the hands of ibo officers.

Or ademulegun,.mimilari, sodehinde, kur.mohammed abogo legema offences.

Or what was ojukwu doing at ore, is that the route to the North.

LOVEALAIGBO:


To start with, where are you from? I ask so we can place your answers in their proper context! And why do you spell Igbo as 'ibo'?

Christistruth00:




You are lying

This is the result of the 1956 Western Region Elections and Awolowo defeated Azikiwe

Awolowo later strengthened his Posiion by allying with the Ibadan Peoples Party

It was because NCNC was previously Herbert Macauley’s Party that it was able to get many votes in the West
Herbert Macauley Still had much goodwill in the West


Azikiwe destroyed that Goodwill wth his intense Tribal bias in filling Official positions meant for party members
Azikiwe ended up turning the once National NCNC under Macauley into a Tribal party

Believeintruth:


Oga show us evidence that igbos did this in Ikwerre land. I dare you, if you cannot bring evidence God will punish you with these lies. That is the biggest lie ever told. The igbos properties in PH were not even confiiscated by Ikwerre it was Ijaw and Ogoni people courtesy of Saro Wiwa. I dare you to show me proof that igbos would walk up to you and ask you to quit. If you cannot may God punish you and your families with these lies. Was Enugu not the capital of Eastern region? The regional office for lands where you get the land permits was it situated in PH? Was it not Enugu? Stop all these lies abeg.

Slytiger:

What's wrong with spelling Igbo as Ibo. Did Azikiwe and his west African pilot not use Ibo throughout instead of Igbo? Are you more Ibo than Azikiwe?

GUNITGuy:

They were land issues I know for sure not just ph even in Calabar ...The Ikwerre elders know all this ... immediately they notice an encroachment by Ibos which was then called Ibo domination they remaned all their lands sharing similarities with Imo state and Abia state to Rumukoro Rupokwu .,Rumuibekwe inorder to distinguish them from Ibos and automatically declare themselves non Ibos this still available till today...
They were also rumors that many Ikwerre young men who refused to fight the war were buried alive in Imo state .....
War is ruthless and cruel anything can happen ....
They want to use the minority to fight while they lead from behind ....I heard all this from an elder in Ph....
The minorities were so weak and naive ....Igbo character is known to have an attempt to dominate and even take possession of other people's lands in ....Such is demonstrated even in Lagos were they call Lagos no man's land ....
A small lady was telling me before the last election that they would take over Lagos even without any legitimate powers now imagine when they have authority in a place like Enugu the kind of influence they would wield ..

confusedlady:



I refer you to Mr Elechi Amadi's book,"Sunset in Biafra" which was his observations of the attitude of the Ibo overlords in Ikwerre land before and during the Nigeria/Biafra civil war before the Federal troops liberated Port Harcourt.
It make grim reading....

Nukilia:
Those who kill by the sword die by the sword ⚔️.

A lot of blood shed by the military... You see some of them in their old age suffering terrible conditions because the government they fought for never truly cared about them.

Christistruth00:




You are lying

This is the result of the 1956 Western Region Elections and Awolowo defeated Azikiwe

Awolowo later strengthened his Posiion by allying with the Ibadan Peoples Party

It was because NCNC was previously Herbert Macauley’s Party that it was able to get many votes in the West
Herbert Macauley Still had much goodwill in the West


Azikiwe destroyed that Goodwill wth his intense Tribal bias in filling Official positions meant for party members
Azikiwe ended up turning the once National NCNC under Macauley into a Tribal party

ComputerOperato:


Sunset in Biafra.
Its good to read sha.
I don read books for this life.

I read this book and still have it in my archives.
Back then I read anything readable.
Wish I could translate to softcpy and upload for people to read.

Fewer people read these days... Sighs...