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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Kalvan: 9:52pm On Aug 23, 2015
FreeGlobe:
So sad that their is no credible yoruba leader.

You better leave the land of Yorubas and go back to your "Mar's looking" region. Also, stay away from the SS.

Yeeboe slut.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Nobody: 10:09pm On Aug 23, 2015
Emilokoiyawon:
cool cool cool

grin grin grin

Hausa man comes to Lagos: he does his business/minds his business/ a make his millions.

Bini man comes to Lagos:he does his business/minds his business/ a make his millions.

Itshekiri man comes to Lagos:he does his business/minds his business/ a make his millions.

Tiv man comes to Lagos:he does his business/minds his business/ a make his millions.

Igala man comes to Lagos:he does his business/minds his business/ a make his millions.

All these people find a way to respect the culture and people of Lagos (the Yorubas) without much incident.

But..............................

Igbo man comes to Lagos: as soon as he makes some small change from selling fake drugs/spare parts and he begins to say "Lagos is no man's land," deliberately inciting the people of Lagos

So tell me which among these various tribe is sensible, wise and deserving of respect? grin grin grin grin


cool cool cool Pashon ta fi na iya ile na la ma fi na iyawo ti asiko ba to cool cool

Disciple of hate and propaganda, save us your mischievous sermon of pernicious lies and perfidy.
When will Yorubas cease dragging other tribes along with their wicked propaganda to stand a chance to withstand Igbos Why have the Yorubas shamelessly formed the habit of ass-licking their Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri slave masters, spreading lies of how peace-loving and accommodative they have been
Yet Christian minorities in the North and in the Middle-belt continue to be persecuted and relegated to the background.
What do the Yoruba tribe really stand for

Loud mouthed tribalist, remember how your Field Marshall, MKO Abiola, was whisked away like a common thief by your slave master and he was slaughtered like a salah ram before you bloody cowards. Yorubas were hiding in Soka Evil Forest.
The same Slave master have been hunting Yorubas for sport in Kwara State for decades. And they even consider Yoruba Muslims as inferior beings.  

"And let me tell you that in the event of the breakup of this country, Ilorin and Offa will remain 100 % Northern Nigeria and not one each of land will be ceded to yorubas".- Junaid Mohammed.
http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/69271-north-ready-nigeria-s-breakup-if-junaid-muhammed.html
Your Fulani slave master has spoken, Yoruba slaves like your loudmouthed self can only but cheer him. It's your destiny on earth.  grin grin

Austin4lif:
if not for the Grace of God I would have been death by the Fulani/hausa machine guns. Heavy machine Guns was shot in my area for 3 hours, no police and army from the Z00 come to help us. We have to use cutlass and stones to defend ourselves. It would have been a disaster even though we lost some gallant igbo youths who fought them with some northern Christians. The machine Guns shake houses wen fired, even the army don't have such guns but youths still confronted them. Nobody is asking who bought the Guns for them, can a koro seller or a tomato seller afford to buy SMG? Some stupid pple will come here and be shouting one Nigeria , sai Buhari. Go to Riyom in plateau state, go to Rigasa in kaduna, go to wadel in kano state, u will know that we are not one Nigeria.

For many decades now Fulani herdsmen have continued to exhibit despicable attitudes and heartlessness with reckless abandon, trespassing on indigenous peasants' farmlands, destroying their crops, killing the people and chasing them far away from their ancestral lands. 

Why do Christian minorities in the North and the Middle-belt not receive such accommodative spirit as it is being championed by Yorubas? Why

Austin4lif:
Am never a Fan of this Kalu of a guy, what am concerned of is the northern domination of the minority groups in Nigeria. If you visit Kano, u will see hausa people claiming the birth right of Nigeria.

Those from the east,west and south are being regarded as foreigners in same Nigeria in Kano state. You dont have equal rights like those who are from there. Travel to Zamfara state, u will see the highest level of religious intolerance. The state school of health is an epitome of islamabad, Christians especially the girls were forced to put on Hijab b4 entering class

Who says that it is only Boko haram that want to force us to islam? Travel also to katsina state were it is a sin to be called igbo or a Christian even though there are minority christians from that state who are known as the"maguzawa" go to kebbi you will not have permit to build ur church and u will be harassed to pay tax by the local authorities even though hausa people are not goood in paying for Govt facilities. 
Only in Nigeria u will see Emirs with exotic cars and nobody is asking how did they get the money even though many of our igwe's and oba's don't even own a car.
Is only in Nigeria most mosques dnt pay NEPA bill and water Bills. Only in Nigeria will u see a particular ethnic group dominating all the sectors of the economy
...

"The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use minorities in the North as willing tools and South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future
- Sir Ahmadu Bello, October 12,  1960

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Nobody: 10:12pm On Aug 23, 2015
yorubatic:
All good nigerians should support biafrans to achieve their biafra. ..so that we can have peace in Nigeria. ..I want a sophisticated and progressive Odu'a republic devoid of drug dealer and ogogoro drinking fishermen

U almost made sense before the Opium u took last night activated with full force.... grin grin grin


last bullet: the day u people let d igbo people be... y'all shall start enjoying inner joy n peace.. #word cool

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by abbey621(m): 10:26pm On Aug 23, 2015
saintandsinnerz:

Hahahha man you are ignorant. So you are saying people can make any type of comment insofar the comment does not warrant to peoples death right? For your information people do actually lose their jobs and in some cases subjected to criminal trial after making inciting or racial comments like the one the infamous Oba made. Long serving skysports analysts richard keys and Andy Gray lost their jobs as a result of racial comment they made about a female lines woman. John Terry was stripped of the England captaincy and fined heavily after making racial comment about Antoine Ferdinand. He was even charged for criminal prosecution. If you so much believe in this freedom of speech, how about you going on air threatening to kill the president. If you are not picked then I will agree with you that truly freedom of expression do confer on us the right to say anything we want.

Another ignoramus pretending to know it all. Why do Nigerians like you love mixing apples with oranges? Why must you come up with bogus analogies to justify your position? You mentioned John Terry, Andy Gray and son but what you failed to realize is that these people were working and as part of their job descriptions they are not allowed to say or do certain things. The Oba is under no such restriction and neither is the average person. You mentioned threats against the president, are you seriously comparing negative statements made about a race to actually threatening the President of a nation? Are you really that naive? In your attempt to prove your intelligence, you've actually displayed your naivety. Like I said earlier when we remove sentiments from our reasoning, we would all be better off. Show me the place in the Nigerian Constitution which criminalizes the Oba's actions and I'll be a believer, till then kindly keep shut!

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by aresa: 10:29pm On Aug 23, 2015
FreeGlobe:

. Fayose is a cult figure in yorubaland. s


According to you hopeless and homeless villagers right? grin

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by FreeGlobe(f): 10:35pm On Aug 23, 2015
aresa:



According to you hopeless and homeless villagers right? grin
Go to the streets of yorubaland and know if what I'm saying is true
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by FreeGlobe(f): 10:36pm On Aug 23, 2015
Kalvan:


You better leave the land of Yorubas and go back to your "Mar's looking" region. Also, stay away from the SS.

Yeeboe slut.

What is in the land of Yorubas? which SS are you talking about? Igbo SS? Ikwerre SS? Ijaw SS? Okrika SS? Ogoni SS? Akwa Ibom SS?

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by OPCNAIRALAND: 10:41pm On Aug 23, 2015
Refugees and their hairy chested beard growing women plus the ballon and mirror crowned Ezes are hereby summoned to assemble at the Lagoon front. cheesy cheesy

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Nobody: 10:42pm On Aug 23, 2015
HungerBAD:


And you think your online reaction counts?
No! It is your own that counts.
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by millionaireman: 10:45pm On Aug 23, 2015
Kalvan:
Yeeboes be wise;don't let 1967 repeat itself. grin grin grin

Abi you wan lose Oyel money. You dare not repeat your madness of before 1967. That was in another century. This is 21st century, all your evil deeds in Naija - like:

threatening to throw your fellow country people from another tribe into the lagoon if they did not vote for your tribesman candidate;

driving non-northerners away from the vast northern region of Nigeria through religious violence -

all these ugly deeds are well known by most of the world.

So don do any fiam, else you lose your present parasite status, and die of hunger in what shall be left of Nigeria.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Kalvan: 10:53pm On Aug 23, 2015
millionaireman:


Abi you wan lose Oyel money. You dare not repeat your madness of before 1967. That was in another century. This is 21st century, all your evil deeds in Naija - like:

threatening to throw your fellow country people from another tribe into the lagoon if they did not vote for your tribesman candidate;

driving non-northerners away from the vast northern region of Nigeria through religious violence -

all these ugly deeds are well known by most of the world.

So don do any fiam, else you lose your present parasite status, and die of hunger in what shall be left of Nigeria.

Yeeboes can't do sh it! Try it, and see the dog and the baboon soaked in blood.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by iammrjohnson(m): 10:56pm On Aug 23, 2015
am not against the 'biafra' cause, am only against the hate accompanying it,i have not heard of hate messages of the hausa people though.

there are ways you can separate from nigeria without making so much fuss..it's infact legal and there are ways to go about it so far the region is in unison. no one's stopping anyone,so i keep wondering what the whole 'let us go' is all about

xtrorse:


Friend, you started off well but didn't end quite well.
No matter how the message of RB and its proponent may sound bitter to you, it can't measure up with the hate messages Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have been reeling out from their mosques and radio channel for many decades. Pray, tell me, is it a crime to seek for self-determination?
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Nobody: 10:59pm On Aug 23, 2015
iammrjohnson:
am not against the 'biafra' cause, am only against the hate accompanying it,i have not heard of hate messages of the hausa people though.

there are ways you can separate from nigeria without making so much fuss..it's infact legal and there are ways to go about it so far the region is in unison. no one's stopping anyone,so i keep wondering what the whole 'let us go' is all about


What the hell is the fuss you're writing about! You tried so hard to hide your bitterness that a people are seeking self-determination.

The worst is you feigning ignorance of the very obvious in the polity.
Do you reside in this country at all for you to not know about the numerous hate messages propagated by Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people?
What about the threats by a number of these same bigots that metamorphosed into the carnage and murder of many Southerners and Christians in the North, including many Youth Corps members when Buhari lost the 2011 presidential election? What about the famous utterance and incitement to murder - ”BABOON AND DOG WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD”?

How can a country built on a false and faulty foundation still attempts to progress by concealing the truth?

Be sincere and objective for once even if the truth is bitter and hurts!

Austin4lif:
if not for the Grace of God I would have been death by the Fulani/hausa machine guns. Heavy machine Guns was shot in my area for 3 hours, no police and army from the Z00 come to help us. We have to use cutlass and stones to defend ourselves. It would have been a disaster even though we lost some gallant igbo youths who fought them with some northern Christians. The machine Guns shake houses wen fired, even the army don't have such guns but youths still confronted them. Nobody is asking who bought the Guns for them, can a koro seller or a tomato seller afford to buy SMG? Some stupid pple will come here and be shouting one Nigeria , sai Buhari. Go to Riyom in plateau state, go to Rigasa in kaduna, go to wadel in kano state, u will know that we are not one Nigeria.

For many decades now Fulani herdsmen have continued to exhibit despicable attitudes and heartlessness with reckless abandon, trespassing on indigenous peasants' farmlands, destroying their crops, killing the people and chasing them far away from their ancestral lands. 

Why do Christian minorities in the North and the Middle-belt not receive such accommodative spirit as it is being championed by Yorubas? Why

Austin4lif:
Am never a Fan of this Kalu of a guy, what am concerned of is the northern domination of the minority groups in Nigeria. If you visit Kano, u will see hausa people claiming the birth right of Nigeria.

Those from the east,west and south are being regarded as foreigners in same Nigeria in Kano state. You dont have equal rights like those who are from there. Travel to Zamfara state, u will see the highest level of religious intolerance. The state school of health is an epitome of islamabad, Christians especially the girls were forced to put on Hijab b4 entering class

Who says that it is only Boko haram that want to force us to islam? Travel also to katsina state were it is a sin to be called igbo or a Christian even though there are minority christians from that state who are known as the"maguzawa" go to kebbi you will not have permit to build ur church and u will be harassed to pay tax by the local authorities even though hausa people are not goood in paying for Govt facilities. 
Only in Nigeria u will see Emirs with exotic cars and nobody is asking how did they get the money even though many of our igwe's and oba's don't even own a car.
Is only in Nigeria most mosques dnt pay NEPA bill and water Bills. Only in Nigeria will u see a particular ethnic group dominating all the sectors of the economy
...

"The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use minorities in the North as willing tools and South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future
- Sir Ahmadu Bello, October 12,  1960
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by plendil: 11:15pm On Aug 23, 2015
Na wa OOOO. Igbo vs Yoruba e don do naaaaaa shocked sad sad sad

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by pazienza(m): 11:31pm On Aug 23, 2015
The Oba must be fully investigated, disgraced, stripped of any royal splendor, dragged to the mud and made example of by Ndiigbo, for the rest of Nigeria to know that hate speeches against Ndiigbo by political and traditional Nigerian leaders will no longer be tolerated by Igbos of this generation.

The 1966 massacre of Ndiigbo all over the country was built on the back of years of Igbo hate speeches propagated by Nigerian leaders like the Saraduna and his infamous anti Igbo speech, Akintola and his Igbophobic Yoruba Ronu speech, the Oba of Bini Igbophobic article, and so on.

Those speeches were left unchallenged by Ndiigbo, and the effect was nationwide acceptance of Igbophobia, which Nzeogwu coup only gave them an excuse to execute.

Never again, will Igbophobic utterances be left unattended. Oba or no Oba, any culprit must be dragged to the mud and disgraced, to deter future occurrence.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Nobody: 11:35pm On Aug 23, 2015
You simply stated the matter as it should be; no matter whose ox is gored!

pazienza:
The Oba must be fully investigated, disgraced, stripped of any royal splendor, dragged to the mud and made example of by Ndiigbo, for the rest of Nigeria to know that hate speeches against Ndiigbo by political and traditional Nigerian leaders will no longer be tolerated by Igbos of this generation.

The 1966 massacre of Ndiigbo all over the country was built on the back of years of Igbo hate speeches propagated by Nigerian leaders like the Saraduna and his infamous anti Igbo speech, Akintola and his Igbophobic Yoruba Ronu speech, the Oba of Bini Igbophobic article, and so on.

Those speeches were left unchallenged by Ndiigbo, and the effect was nationwide acceptance of Igbophobia, which Nzeogwu coup only gave them an excuse to execute.

Never again, will Igbophobic utterances be left unattended. Oba or no Oba, any culprit must be dragged to the mud and disgraced, to deter future occurrence.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by lastpage: 11:47pm On Aug 23, 2015
HungerBAD:
Laughing.

Part of the ICC’s latest letter to Mr. Onoh reads: “Under article 53 of the Rome statute, the prosecutor must consider whether there is a reasonable basis to believe that crimes within the jurisdiction of the court have been committed, the gravity of the crimes, whether national systems are investigating and prosecuting the relevant crimes, and the interests of justice.”


Ibos and cheap attention-seeking!

So, can these morons tell me which CRIME has been COMMITTED?

Akiolu said "They would all die in the Lagoon if they dont vote aAmbode".....

.....and they voted Ambode as Governor ( nice obedient people, at least they have not yet died in the Lagoon otherwise they wont be running to ICC grin grin grin )

So, "WHO died" in the Lagoon that ICC will investigate! shocked shocked

If you say it is a "mere threat", then that threat is "conditional" upon something happening/not happening grin

I dont know that these "chest beaters" are so fearful and cowardly like this o! grin grin grin
See as them dey wee in their pants and ICC just dey laugh.



Anyway, they should HENCEFORTH just behave themselves in Yorubaland ......as against the way they behave in the North.... because we are very accomodating but when "push becomes shove", we can be very xxxxxxxxxxx ( as in turn everyone of them into Abobaku! ) undecided grin grin



Lastpage!

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Nobody: 11:50pm On Aug 23, 2015
lastpage:





Ibos and cheap attention-seeking!

So, can these morons tell me which CRIME has been COMMITTED?

Akiolu said "They would all die in the Lagoon if they dont vote aAmbode".....

.....and they voted Ambode as Governor ( nice obedient people, at least they have not yet died in the Lagoon otherwise they wont be running to ICC grin grin grin )

So, "WHO died" in the Lagoon that ICC will investigate! shocked shocked

If you say it is a "mere threat", then that threat is "conditional" upon something happening/not happening grin

I dont know that these "chest beaters" are so fearful and cowardly like this o! grin grin grin
See as them dey wee in their pants and ICC just dey laugh.


Anyway, they should HENCEFORTH just behave themselves in Yorubaland ......as against the way they behave in the North.... because we are very accomodating but when "push becomes shove", we can be very xxxxxxxxxxx ( as in turn everyone of them into Abobaku! ) undecided grin grin


Lastpage!

Loud mouthed tribalist, go to Kaduna and Kano and ask your slave masters why they no longer attack the Sabongari areas of their cities. The last time they did that they were mowed down like weeds. If you doubt it, send your Yoruba men to join them for another show.

Hypocritical cowards!
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by totit: 11:52pm On Aug 23, 2015
lastpage:





Ibos and cheap attention-seeking!

So, can these morons tell me which CRIME has been COMMITTED?

Akiolu said "They would all die in the Lagoon if they dont vote aAmbode".....

.....and they voted Ambode as Governor ( nice obedient people, at least they have not yet died in the Lagoon otherwise they wont be running to ICC grin grin grin )

So, "WHO died" in the Lagoon that ICC will investigate! shocked shocked

If you say it is a "mere threat", then that threat is "conditional" upon something happening/not happening grin

I dont know that these "chest beaters" are so fearful and cowardly like this o! grin grin grin
See as them dey wee in their pants and ICC just dey laugh.



Anyway, they should HENCEFORTH just behave themselves in Yorubaland ......as against the way they behave in the North.... because we are very accomodating but when "push becomes shove", we can be very xxxxxxxxxxx ( as in turn everyone of them into Abobaku! ) undecided grin grin



Lastpage!





grin grin grin grin grin grin
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by hugobuzz(m): 11:54pm On Aug 23, 2015
the lil'wayne oba of Lagos. such
a perfidious fellow. unfortunately he spoke the minds of many small minded, like -minded minions. Kings don't talk like touts. this one is a tout. trust me.
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by aresa: 11:55pm On Aug 23, 2015
pazienza:
The Oba must be fully investigated, disgraced, stripped of any royal splendor, dragged to the mud and made example of by Ndiigbo, for the rest of Nigeria to know that hate speeches against Ndiigbo by political and traditional Nigerian leaders will no longer be tolerated by Igbos of this generation.

The 1966 massacre of Ndiigbo all over the country was built on the back of years of Igbo hate speeches propagated by Nigerian leaders like the Saraduna and his infamous anti Igbo speech, Akintola and his Igbophobic Yoruba Ronu speech, the Oba of Bini Igbophobic article, and so on.

Those speeches were left unchallenged by Ndiigbo, and the effect was nationwide acceptance of Igbophobia, which Nzeogwu coup only gave them an excuse to execute.

Never again, will Igbophobic utterances be left unattended. Oba or no Oba, any culprit must be dragged to the mud and disgraced, to deter future occurrence.



You were slaughtered because drew the first blood in the history of Nigeria by slaughtering Hausa and Yoruba leaders and also because the ibo head of state refused to punish the cold blooded murderers because they were ibo just like him.


You reap what sow...

Olodo go and learn your own history.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Nobody: 11:55pm On Aug 23, 2015
aresa:


You were slaughtered because drew the first blood in the history of Nigeria by slaughtering Hausa and Yoruba leaders and also because the ibo head of state refused to punish the cold blooded murderers because they were ibo just like him.

You reap what sow...

Olodo go and learn your own history.

If you are man enough you can enter the streets and show yourself...
But first, read through this piece and gain some knowledge of how your Yoruba tribesmen participated and executed the January 1966 coup. It's time you stopped advertising and marketing your stup1dity online and further denigrating your 'suffercated' Yoruba race.

N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.


"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

REMI FANI KAYODE, AKINTOLA, AWOLOWO, WESTERN REGION AND THE CRISIS THAT TRUNCATED THE FIRST REPUBLIC

These captains of the “tribalism industry” have good incentives to always omit the causes of the January 1966 coup preferring instead to dwell only on the coup itself. The reason  is simple;  It was  in their own  Western region  then known as the “wild wild west”  that  election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other  forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness that occasioned the January 1966 coup  took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.

Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi  Awolowo became embroiled in a protracted crisis. By 1962 the crisis led to sustained violence and acts of lawlessness with law makers engaged in vicious physical combats in the Western regional parliament. Amongst serious injuries and other damages, the mace of office was broken.  The federal government intervened to curb the lawlessness and violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointing Dr Moses Majekodunmi as interim premier of the Western region on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of lawlessness. Following an alliance between Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Ladoke Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Ladoke Akintola.

By 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed.  By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government   and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).
 

In 1964, federal elections became due. As usual ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Remi Kayode and Akintola’s campaign was as usual almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, it was massively rigged in the Western region. Indeed deputy premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections.  Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.

Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.

The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966.
At the same time that the Western region was aflame the Eastern region was calm and democratic. Unlike the Western region there were no cases of election rigging, thuggery or other such acts of lawlessness in the East. In the North there was sporadic violence in the TIV division which was put down by the military.

Of all the regions, the western region was torn the most by crisis and acts of lawlessness which eventually occasioned the coup. If the leadership of the Western region had played by the rules and avoided the infighting, the election rigging, the thuggery, the  planning of a coup in 1963, the  arson, the mass murders and other  such corrupt acts and vices  many of which were being  introduced for the first time  in Nigeria  and which incidentally continues to haunt the nation to date, there would have been no coup and Nigeria would no doubt have immensely benefited from  a  functional democracy  devoid of election rigging, thuggery and violence as it obtains  in many progressive nations around the world.

The leadership of the Western region in conspiracy with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello are singularly responsible for the events and crisis that truncated the first republic and ruined the nation.

Those who carried out the coup choose to act out of genuine anger and frustration at the carnage in the Western region.  Whatever the demerits of the coup, It is obvious the coupists had nothing to gain other than the patriotic urge to end the corruption and lawlessness that had taken hold of the nation particularly the Western region.


Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are  some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers  who peddle  the propaganda  of  colouring  an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals  very similar to that of  Flt Lt  Jerry Rawlings  in a tribal garb. In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings led a coup that eliminated three former heads of state, top military officers and top members of the judiciary. Not one of those killed was from Jerry Rawlings Ewe tribe, but Ghanaians didn’t spew tribalism into the coup and Ghana is better for it. With too many vultures and opportunists...preying on tribalism in Nigeria the story was bound to be different and thus a coup driven out of patriotism and obvious anger at the state of affairs was reconstructed as an Igbo coup and the worms were let out from the woodwork.


JANUARY 1966 COUP

Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January coup. His book ‘Why We Struck’ gives insight into the coup’s antecedents; planning; modus operandi and partial success. Any study of January 15 that ignores Ademoyega’s book is incomplete.

In a September 5 2010 interview with ‘The Nation’ newspaper, Matthew Mbu, then a Junior Defence Minister, narrated how, at an Air Force base in Kaduna on an official assignment on 5 January 1966, he was bluntly told by Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun that the military was going to sack the government. Ademulegun made no bones about their plan to shoot key members of the political class, notably Chief Okotie-Eboh, the Minister for Finance.

... the killing of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe is attributed to his possession and non-surrender of the Lagos armoury keys to the plotters.
As professional soldiers the plotters knew this. Going by the accounts of Ademoyega and Gbulie who wrote ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors,’ what the plotters desperately needed were armoured vehicles to consolidate their gains in Lagos on January 15.

In page 60 of his book, Ademoyega mentioned Unegbe as one of the officers he and his colleagues had marked down for arrest.

Northern officers and men were involved, especially at the execution stage. Max Silloun, the military historian, mentions them in his landmark online article ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2.’ It can be accessed from most search engines. Prominent among these Northern officers was the then Lieutenant John Atom Kpera who later became the Benue State governor in the Babangida regime. Kpera participated in the coup under Captain Ben Gbulie, Nzeogwu’s right hand-man in Kaduna. (See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

Although Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18). Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’ There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.


http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by flokii: 11:56pm On Aug 23, 2015
pazienza:
The Oba must be fully investigated, disgraced, stripped of any royal splendor, dragged to the mud and made example of by Ndiigbo, for the rest of Nigeria to know that hate speeches against Ndiigbo by political and traditional Nigerian leaders will no longer be tolerated by Igbos of this generation.

The 1966 massacre of Ndiigbo all over the country was built on the back of years of Igbo hate speeches propagated by Nigerian leaders like the Saraduna and his infamous anti Igbo speech, Akintola and his Igbophobic Yoruba Ronu speech, the Oba of Bini Igbophobic article, and so on.

Those speeches were left unchallenged by Ndiigbo, and the effect was nationwide acceptance of Igbophobia, which Nzeogwu coup only gave them an excuse to execute.

Never again, will Igbophobic utterances be left unattended. Oba or no Oba, any culprit must be dragged to the mud and disgraced, to deter future occurrence.

ode.. carry dat ur flat head to south Africa and see if they wnt treat your fuckup.. you're hiding and enjoying freedom of speech under one Nigeria you dey happy
BTW where was ICC when you guys were being butchered... COW
Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by pazienza(m): 11:59pm On Aug 23, 2015
aresa:




You were slaughtered because drew the first blood in the history of Nigeria by slaughtering Hausa and Yoruba leaders and also because the ibo head of state refused to punish the cold blooded murderers because they were ibo just like him.


You reap what sow...



Olodo go and learn your own history.

Ignorant being, 1966 was not the first time Easterners were murdered in the North.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by aresa: 12:01am On Aug 24, 2015
pazienza:


Never again, will Igbophobic utterances be left unattended. Oba or no Oba, any culprit must be dragged to the mud and disgraced, to deter future occurrence.


What are you going to do? Carry gun? grin

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by aresa: 12:04am On Aug 24, 2015
pazienza:


Ignorant being, 1966 was not the first time Easterners were murdered in the North.




If so, shey na by force to carry load go North and stay in the North? Why are you losers so scared to sit your assesss in your villages?

You are cruising for the same treatment in the SW and the Oba telling you to die inside lagoon is the first warning...


abi den swear for you people ni? Na by force to die on top other peopel's land ni?grin

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by pazienza(m): 12:06am On Aug 24, 2015
flokii:


ode.. carry dat ur flat head to south Africa and see if they wnt treat your fuckup.. you're hiding and enjoying freedom of speech under one Nigeria you dey happy
BTW where was ICC when you guys were being butchered... COW

Your Oba must be brought down to his knee, by the time Ndiigbo is through with him, he would have no reputation left.

Your ignorant Oba thinks this is 1960s when Akintola and Awo were allowed to get away with public display of Igbophobia packaged as speeches, the world has changed, but you lots haven't, you will soon realize how much the world have changed.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by ModiKen(m): 12:07am On Aug 24, 2015
Rose2014:


Why won't u find it funny when all u do on nl is to be looking for anti-Igbo threads to spite them?

I expect Oba Akiolu's statement to be condemned by all. Well except by people like you and dr Ariyo

When did voting a candidate of your choice become a crime in Nigeria?


Oh by the way, proudly 5%


I hope the ICC is also looking into Patience Jonathan's "stone anyone that shouts change" statement.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by pazienza(m): 12:13am On Aug 24, 2015
aresa:



If so, shey na by force to carry load go North and stay in the North? Why are you losers so scared to sit your assesss in your villages?

You are cruising for the same treatment in the SW and the Oba telling you to die inside lagoon is the first warning...


abi den swear for you people ni? Na by force to die on top other peopel's land ni?grin

Last time I checked, Ndiigbo packed their bags and left Arewa-Oduanistan for you lots and headed East, did you lots stay in your Islamic Arewa Oduanistan, or did you match down to the East at Gakem forcing co existence with Easterners?

Are you lots suffering from a kind of dissonance? You want "one Nigeria", but you at the same time want to keep your regions to yourselves, are you lots serious?

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by pazienza(m): 12:16am On Aug 24, 2015
aresa:



What are you going to do? Carry gun? grin

Disgrace Oba, his throne and his hordes of Yoruba supporters like we are currently doing all over the social media and all relevant authorities, drag him to as much mud as possible.

Expose you lots for psychos you lots are.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by Curlieweed: 12:19am On Aug 24, 2015
pazienza:


Last time I checked, Ndiigbo packed their bags and left Arewa-Oduanistan for you lots and headed East, did you lots stay in your Islamic Arewa Oduanistan, or did you match down to the East at Gakem forcing co existence with Easterners?

Are you lots suffering from a kind of dissonance? You want "one Nigeria", but you at the same time want to keep your regions to yourselves, are you lots serious?

I really admire your patience with these clowns. I can't understand how you can proclaim your hatred for a group yet continue fighting to stay in the same country with them. As they say, extreme hatred leads to irrationality.

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Re: ICC Investigates Oba Of Lagos For Anti-igbo Remarks by aresa: 12:24am On Aug 24, 2015
pazienza:


Last time I checked, Ndiigbo packed their bags and left Arewa-Oduanistan for you lots and headed East, did you lots stay in your Islamic Arewa Oduanistan, or did you match down to the East at Gakem forcing co existence with Easterners?

Are you lots suffering from a kind of dissonance? You want "one Nigeria", but you at the same time want to keep your regions to yourselves, are you lots serious?


What is this village bingo barking all over the place? The fact that I want 1 Nigerian doesn't mean people should tolerate your hateful, bigoted and warped way of life...


Keep your madness in your backward and stoneage village..

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