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Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:03pm On Jun 06 |
Awolowo was being fought by Akintola for the better part of the first republic and that led to the wild wild west. You guys are trying now to launder the convicted image of Awolowo ElSudani: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by seanfer(m): 5:04pm On Jun 06 |
DMerciful: Not an excuse, how come it is people from Azikiwe are now asking for secession. 6 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by ElSudani: 5:05pm On Jun 06 |
Kukutente23: Nobody can understand it. He was offered a real position with real powers he chose to be a ceremonial president. A role any traditional ruler in Nigeria could have performed effectively. The fear and paranoia is almost innate. 7 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:06pm On Jun 06 |
Because we're humans, we respond to change. Its only a stone that does not respond to change. Azikiwe, Awolowo, Amadu Bello are dead. We cannot be held by the wills of dead people seanfer: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Kukutente23: 5:07pm On Jun 06 |
AlexBells:Mtcheew Can you explain what justification Zik had to align with the Conservative North and take a mannequin position of Governor general? If Azikiwe had aligned with Awo, they would have easily broken the northern hegemony which was what Awo wanted and today, you won't be crying of marginalisation. Instead, Zik even supported the north to balkanise the West!! 6 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by 7lives: 5:08pm On Jun 06 |
gidgiddy: Seriously?. Have you watched the movie titled rat race?. Go and watch it, those mother and daughter that ended up in a ditch, only needs to buy a squirrel. Life is give and take, first Zik stood against Southern Nigerian independence, as the North says they are not ready. Southern Nigeria waited for three years, to get the North to agree to independence. Secession clause Zik bungler that again, just look at what happened in the last 70 year, those calamities wouldn't have been necessary. no wonder Yoruba elders no they do politics with the Igbos, you people can't see into the future. 7 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:09pm On Jun 06 |
You did not respond to the two questions i raised. Answer the questions. What did Amadu Bello say then Secondly, if Awolowo wasnt pretending about the secession clause, why does his actions supports one Nigeria at all cost? And why did he support Gowon to create 12 states thereby breaking the 4 regions? TimeManager: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by ElSudani: 5:11pm On Jun 06 |
DMerciful: Zik and his northern masters had a hand in it. 6 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by chigator2: 5:12pm On Jun 06 |
JAMO84: Most one Nigerianists are dumb so I'm not surprised when they know little to nothing about their Zoo. To change the constitution, you need absolute majority which the south east can not achieve alone, so we actually need you people to break us free in peace or we work our way around it through other means. How can you even attain majority with the amount of senatorial zones and LGAs the north has in proportion to the rest of the country. |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:13pm On Jun 06 |
Why will it be hard today? TimeManager: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by ElSudani: 5:13pm On Jun 06 |
Kukutente23: Lol @ mannequin position. Very apt. 3 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by TimeManager(m): 5:15pm On Jun 06 |
DMerciful:Yeah, the will to keep millions of his descendants in "bondage". I'm sure the British gave him a white lady for one night stand as a reward for his wonderful performance. -Kiss the truth! 4 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:16pm On Jun 06 |
When Ojukwu declared secession, why didnt Awolowo declare secession of the Western Region? raskymonojendor: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Wahabfuture: 5:18pm On Jun 06 |
TimeManager: Unity beggar, you can't stay in one Nigeria without the Igbos -Kiss the truth! |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:21pm On Jun 06 |
Awolowo's actions later showed he was serious about secession. He gad the opportunity but rather suggested one Nigeria policies including creation of states to Gowon Kukutente23: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Wahabfuture: 5:22pm On Jun 06 |
AlexBells: You are right, including that foolish Awolowo the RATAK Master, they can't imagine their lives without one Nigeria, I've stopped taking that tribe seriously 1 Like |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by JAMO84: 5:22pm On Jun 06 |
chigator2:Do you also need me to write and present the bill or move the motion on the floor of the national assembly? First step is to force your useless leaders in the Bifra#ud nation to set secession in motion, but of course, you have no genuine intention of leaving, just hoping you will be compensated with presidency if you make enough trouble. 4 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:23pm On Jun 06 |
You're not a serious person TimeManager: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Wahabfuture: 5:24pm On Jun 06 |
TimeManager: You are in severe pains, he's greater than anybody from your region both living and death ones -Kiss the truth! |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:25pm On Jun 06 |
But when Awolowo had the opportunity of leaving the union during the civil war, he doubled down to stay by giving policies that would cement one Nigeria like supporting Gowon to create states as well as suggesting food blockade which was against the Geneva convention ElSudani: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:28pm On Jun 06 |
Are you responding to Ojukwu or gidgiddy? You keep referring to Ojukwu that was probably 35yrs old then. What can 220 million people do now? leokid866: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Kukutente23: 5:28pm On Jun 06 |
DMerciful:What opportunity did Awo have to secede? Besides, Awo never said he wanted secession. His stand has always been that the North is the main problem and needs to be tamed. Him and Ahmadu Bello never saw eye to eye. Awo would never enter into any agreement with the north. In fact, he was actively working to liberate the Northern minorities from the core north, something that if achieved would have made Nigeria more balanced. The question is why Azikiwe refused to see all that fact. Balewa already said in 1954 that the south is the biggest threat to the north. He talked about how the north should be wary of the south and ensure they don't have a upper hand. So how could Zik have entered an alliance with the north and later turn around to support secession? It sounds so stupid if you ask me 6 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Wahabfuture: 5:29pm On Jun 06 |
TimeManager: I'm glad you acknowledged that he's greater than your ancestors both alive and deads -Kiss the truth! |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by smileyoo: 5:30pm On Jun 06 |
confusedlady:zik's initially pretense of supporting the Biafra struggle, was just politics, because he was never convinced of abaddoning his delusional Nigerian unity. his passion was for Nigerian unity and never the actualization of the Biafra nation. 1 Like |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by WhizdomXX(m): 5:30pm On Jun 06 |
Armaggedon:You are right but Biafra is non-achievable. |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Kukutente23: 5:30pm On Jun 06 |
DMerciful:Did Awo ever tell you he wants to secede. The idea of secession clause was to guard against the belligerence of the north which the tone deaf Zik failed to understand. Awo was never for secession but for a balanced union to serve as a bulwark against domination and oppression as already being touted by the north. The only person to speak up against the British idea of Nigeria was Awolowo not Zik nor Bello 6 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Wahabfuture: 5:31pm On Jun 06 |
Kukutente23: Who will believe this trash? Awo is nothing but bags of bigotry |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Wahabfuture: 5:32pm On Jun 06 |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:33pm On Jun 06 |
You're running away from his argument. What is holding 220 million people today if the country is not working? TimeManager: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by ElSudani: 5:33pm On Jun 06 |
DMerciful: Awo obviously was not a soldier, that is one thing. This was a man who spent a whole day a few years back trying to convince your leaders about the wisdom of having a secession clause in the constitution. The secession clause doesn't mean you can just wake up one day and say bye bye we don't want to be in Nigeria anymore. It provides a peaceful pathway like a referendum. Knowing this, you want a democrat like Awo to support a hot headed 30 something year old soldier in starting an armed insurrection to split Nigeria? What do you take the man for? He was far more intelligent than that. He couldn't have sacrificed millions of people to achieve what could have been achieved through a legally constituted referendum. Too bad Ibo leaders couldn't see that. 9 Likes |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by DMerciful(m): 5:37pm On Jun 06 |
Carved out lands tgat were existing for thousands of years before him? Igbos have always been there for centuries TimeManager: |
Re: Flashback: Why I Opposed Awolowo On Secession - Zik by Kukutente23: 5:38pm On Jun 06 |
Wahabfuture:Of course Awo was a sectionalist and he had no pretensions about it. He believed each tribe had a right to determine how they want to be in the nigerian context. He never claimed any utopian Nigerian nationalist. He was for his tribe and the progress of his tribe. Same with Bello. It was Azikiwe that was forming nationalist yet he went and aligned with the biggest ethno-religious bigots in Nigeria then. Bello preferred to be northern premier than Nigerian PM. That's the person Azikiwe chose over Awo yet you think it is Awo that's the problem. You're deluded!! 6 Likes |
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