TimeManager:

No, not millions of people. These were political leaders of their parties representing their respective regions. Four regions, major political parties, and selected representatives were at the constitutional conference to put together our independence constitution. Read, understand and use the brain. Stop fabricating tales off of your
What ignorance.

-Kiss the truth!

mrvitalis:

Go back read what I wrote.. Read what u wrote

Then read the article again slowly this time at a level your brain can comprehend

AlexBells:

You are not in position to decide that but I can guarantee nobody in your generation yet comes close to Zik in smartness. Same secession later plunged the country to 3 years of civil war and you think Zik wasn’t smart in avoiding that in the first place.

chinchum:
could it be that you don't have the intelligence to correctly analyse the circumstances surrounding the wish of Awolowo or you are deliberately twisting facts?

Awolowo was not asking for succession, but that a succession clause be added to the constitution. What that would have guaranteed is providing a legal framework for any part of the country to make a case if they strongly want to leave Nigeria. In other words, it could have been enshrined in the constitution how succession can be actualized, possibly through a referendum of the people.
It is treason for anyone to simply declare succession, which is what Ojukwu did.
Awolowo was the greatest visionary Nigeria ever had.

Armaggedon:
Zik stood for regionalism and federalism with financial and legislative autonomy where the regions developed in their own pace. No contradictions.

One of the most confusing figures in Nigeria's history was Awolowo. He claimed he wanted secession and zik rejected. But when the opportunity presented itself during Biafra, the same Awolowo made a complete U-turn and and started fighting for a unitary one Nigeria as championed by gowon. His attitude justified Zik's opinions about him.

Roger3D:
If Gowon had laid hands on him he would have most certainly be hung by the neck until dead

TimeManager:

You can never absolve Zik, he was the leader of NCNC and Eastern region. The british had nothing to do with it, it was entirely Zik's self aggrandizement.

-Kiss the truth!

AlexBells:

Was that the focus at the moment? And if he want secession why not he go the independence route alone with his region. He was the architect of the unrest’s we are having today. Leave Ojukwu out of this in his case Democracy was already quashed

AlexBells:

You are not in position to decide that but I can guarantee nobody in your generation yet comes close to Zik in smartness. Same secession later plunged the country to 3 years of civil war and you think Zik wasn’t smart in avoiding that in the first place.

JAMO84:
I wish he didn't escape

gidgiddy:


You are talking about 70 years ago, I am talking about today. Whatever Zik wanted or did not want 70 years ago is not half as important as what millions of people want today

Kukutente23:

How did he avoid that with no-secession clause. Your logic is flawed. If there was secession clause, even the Ijaw will stand as a separate nation today

chinchum:
writing gibberish. I believe this is beyond you.
Visionary people don't focus on the moment alone, they envision the future

AlexBells:
An that to you is a definition of a country, I don’t want to waste my time indulging f0ols

gidgiddy:


You are talking about 70 years ago, I am talking about today. Whatever Zik wanted or did not want 70 years ago is not half as important as what millions of people want today

TimeManager:

You can never absolve Zik, he was the leader of NCNC and Eastern region. The british had nothing to do with it, it was entirely Zik's self aggrandizement.

-Kiss the truth!

gidgiddy:


Zik is like many Nigerians of today who see a disaster of a country that should be dissolved, but want it to last forever. Zik could never understand that his vision of a A great united Nigeria was simply not possible, the people are too different

It was one disastrous vision Zik had, and he should have known better, that Nigeria would never work

TimeManager:

Today is the consequences of yesterday's decisions. It would be extremely difficult today to introduce such a clause ever again, that opportunity is gone. Zik was the leader of eastern region and NCNC, with selected representatives from his party, they were loud and clear that ibos were opposed to a secession clause and any other person advocating it should be charged for treason. Zik and his caucus were speaking for the ibos.

-Kiss the truth!

Kukutente23:

What is definition of a country

mrvitalis:
So zik was not even the one that made the decision, he only debated in favour of it? The final decision was in the hands of a Brit... Who had already made up his mind not to include succession before zik debated?

If they can change national anthem they can change the Constitution this is not even a debate

Armaggedon:
Zik stood for regionalism and federalism with financial and legislative autonomy where the regions developed in their own pace. No contradictions.

One of the most confusing figures in Nigeria's history was Awolowo. He claimed he wanted secession and zik rejected. But when the opportunity presented itself during Biafra, the same Awolowo made a complete U-turn and and started fighting for a unitary one Nigeria as championed by gowon. His attitude justified Zik's opinions about him.

JAMO84:
So as at the time Ojukwu was trying to remove Biafra from Nigeria, he was commiting treason and actually deserved to be shot dead at bar Beach.


Azikwe made sure Nigeria is indivisible, but his children are crying all over social media today, telling ordinary citizens like me to let them go, as if I used rope to tie them.

smileyoo:
Indeed Mr Azikiwe contributed in placing us in this bondage like contraption called Nigeria because of his fanatical yet unrealistic believe in Nigerian unity as a nationalist, but 6 decades counting, his vision of Nigerian unity is still a mirage, proving chief Awolowo vindicated as a realist and a visionary leader.
even during the Biafra / Nigeria civil war, Mr Azikiwe was still sadly deluded by his personal conviction of the imaginary Nigeria unity, to the extent that he rigidly refused to lend any support to the Biafra struggle and the yearnings of our people, i wish he was still alive to see the precarious situation, that his illusion of imaginary national unity had placed upon the victimized citizens of Nigeria.
Indeed Awolowo was the best president that Nigeria never had.

TimeManager:

Today is the consequences of yesterday's decisions. It would be extremely difficult today to introduce such a clause ever again, that opportunity is gone. Zik was the leader of eastern region and NCNC, with selected representatives from his party, they were loud and clear that ibos were opposed to a secession clause and any other person advocating it should be charged for treason. Zik and his caucus were speaking for the ibos.

-Kiss the truth!

gidgiddy:


It's one of the reasons both tribes have no business being in one country

raskymonojendor:

100%. He fled to Lagos. And was even using his influence to stop foreign supporters backing Ojukwu to back off. He called Biafrian soldiers "rebels".

Peterobiisathie:


https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/04/27/flashback-why-i-opposed-awolowo-on-secession-zik/?amp=1

AlexBells:
Check America, China, Russia, Netherlands, even Swiss, see if they throw the words secession around in the constitution. That’s the easiest way to invoke unrest with each region invoking such clause whenever things don’t work their way

smileyoo:
The so-called zik of Africa was a very useless leader to us, even to the point of being a liability to us, because i learned that some foreign powers wanted to support the Biafra struggle and demanded zik's opinion before doing so, but the clueless zik of Africa downplay the Biafra struggle, as just a few ambitious rebels deceiving the people of the eastern region, that he stood for one Nigeria.

raskymonojendor:

Zik was an idiot and the major reason we have Nigeria. If he had sided with Awolowo, the British won't have a choice than to include secession clause.

Haba! That was a bit below the belt o!

Am sure, certified members of this exclusive group (idiots), will gladly and unambiguously, reject his membership application form.

JAMO84:
So which of your legislators has moved the motion or submitted a bill to the effect of changing the Constitution to let Biafra go?

You blame everyone for your own misery except your leaders. You want Biafra but it's others that must help you get it, you can't do it yourself.