ElSudani:


Awo obviously was not a soldier, that is one thing. This was a man who spent a who 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.

DMerciful:
You're running away from his argument. What is holding 220 million people today if the country is not working?

Kukutente23:

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!!

DMerciful:
Why was resource control not made in subsequent constitutions going by your logic?

Kukutente23:

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

Judgementa1:


Have u forgotten all subsequent constitution were given to us by the military.

Kukutente23:

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!!

Wahabfuture:






Are you even making sense? why can't we correct that mistake now after 60 years of failed marriage?

DMerciful:
So it was meant for threatening purposes?

If he is afraid of the North, why go into a country with them? Was western Nigeria not bigger than Togo or Benin Republic?

Mind you Zambia was Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe was Northern Rhodesia. They formed two separate countries.

confusedlady:


Oga,
What kind of anarchy is this for goodness sake??
A good politician MUST have an ideology he believes in......what you are advocating is infantile stomach infrastructure politics.....this kind of politics can not lead a country or community anywhere.. .

Kukutente23:

Afraid? Lol. Why will Awo be afraid of the backwards north? He was wary and discerning. Your Zik that was not afraid how did it end?

Going into Nigeria was not Awo, Zik or Bello's idea
It was the British. The best bet was to find a way to get the best out of it Zambia and Zimbabwe were never one country. What are you talking about? Stop confusing yourself.

AlexBells:

The justification was independence, North said they were not ready which could have jeopardized everything. Zik was also raised in the North and the exigencies are different from today

DMerciful:
Same way the military would have removed secession clause after abrogating the 1963 constitution in 1966!

smileyoo:
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.

WhizdomXX:

You are right but Biafra is non-achievable.

DMerciful:
They were historically one country like Nigeria in 1914

DMerciful:
He could have stayed neutral and preoare for a possible failure of the Nigerian state to pull his people out. By encouraging Gowon to create 12 states, he ruined the regions forever.

Yorubas are complaining of Igbos in SW. It shall be so until breakup

AlexBells:

Ideology is flexible, time is impacts everything. If your ideology is not subject to change and time then it can’t endure, time and change are unstable, a great politician is unstable

ElSudani:


Who told you he wanted Nigeria to fail? Like I said earlier his argument for a secession clause was not intended to break the country apart. Rather it was intended to ensure a peaceful separation if it comes to that.
You are asking him to participate in the complete opposite of what he intended.

Kukutente23:

Ok... so when were they one 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 changenationalranthem
the caochange the Constitution this is not even a debate

Judgementa1:


Successions clause would have prevented millitary intervention in the first republic.

Army came as a result of each region premier trying to outmanoeuvre each other which led to crisis in the western region.

With successions in place it would have been easy for adaka boro to break away from Nigeria and form his own Niger delta country.

Would have been easier for ojukwu to declare Biafra without any interference or aggression from the central govt.

Judgementa1:


Successions clause would have prevented millitary intervention in the first republic.

Army came as a result of each region premier trying to outmanoeuvre each other which led to crisis in the western region.

With successions in place it would have been easy for adaka boro to break away from Nigeria and form his own Niger delta country.

Would have been easier for ojukwu to declare Biafra without any interference or aggression from the central govt.

Kukutente23:

Who wants to correct it? Who is interested in doing that? What is the name of the person?
You have dumped blaming Awo and now fishing for new excuses abi

DMerciful:
Well, it came to that but he stayed on the vison of zik which is one indivisible Nigeria

DMerciful:
I provided a reference but you're still arguing. Do your own research.

But thats not the point. You do not need secession clause to conduct a referendum to determine if Nigerians wanna be together especially since there is no unity currently

BlakKluKluxKlan:


Zik himself admitted he opposed it and also raced his objection the day and here you are, trying to twist the narrative.

Why are you children of hate always mischievous ?

ElSudani:


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.

T9ksy:



Omo, its not rocket science, na?

Zik has always believed in the superiority of his group and their eventual domination of the new country. The sardunna on the other hand has made it clear that he will not participate in a union where his people would definitely be on the lower scale of SES- social economic status.
He therefore asked for the ultimate power in the country else he will exit the union with his people.

Obviously, zik needed a fake One Nigeria to actualise his group's domination dream so he acquised to the sardunna 's condition with the min d that once Nigeria is alive and kicking, he and his "smart" group will
soon outsmart the uneducated north and snatch power from under their noses.

BlakKluKluxKlan:
An old, useless fool for nothing who lacked foresight.

His Ignorant and stupid stand led to the death of millions of people.

Wahabfuture:






Do you mean we must continue with the failed marriage? anyway I'm not the kind of person who dwell in the past, unity beggar i hate being called a Nigerian, hope you get me now,