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History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Nobody: 10:38pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
In Nigeria, like all the dreamers in other parts of the world, Herbert Macaulay the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a descendant of the man who interpreted the Bible into Yoruba and other languages more like an immigrant after years of slavery and his return as a Christian, in a small room in Badagry in present Lagos State also had a dream; His grandson Herbert Macaulay with the blood of the Saaro or Creole in his vain teamed up with Dr. Azikiwe and others. They thought a dream out on un-coordinated history of the people around River Niger would be real to produce a nation from 225 tribes with its foundation as a people based on tradition and culture of their forefathers, not people of immigrants, but indigenes with loyalty to their gods, and covenant to what the Supreme God gave them as people. In the West of Nigeria, they called the almighty God Olodunmare. In the East the God is called Chineke, in the North, Allah, and in some parts of the old Benin Empire, the same God is called Osanobua. these people till today, they feel God and their gods in different ways and the feelings affected the way they view other people. The first crack in the unity was first mentioned with the death of Herbert Macaulay in 1946 or so. The dreamer who died after he returned from the North in his attempt to broaden his NNPC and political associates all over the country and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe the General Secretary felt he could assumed the leadership of the party then in its political embryo and different groups emerged and frustrations and demand from the colonial masters led to the emergence of other political parties in Nigeria, without going into the details of what led to what, Dr. Azikiwe was almost on the verge of becoming the first Premier of the Western region, a 100 percent Yoruba descendants of Oduduwa for various reasons, Lagos (apart from Lagos Island colony) Ikeja which Azikiwe represented was part of Western Region, and Ibadan was then the political Headquarters of everything in the West not Lagos or Ikeja, meaning Azikiwe would have to operate from Ibadan as Premier of Western Region. At a time most of the Action Group members in the East were not allowed to campaign or have access to winning the election in the areas called Cor States like Akwa Ibom etc were then part of the Old Eastern Region in which Enugu was the center of action, just like Ibadan was to the Western Region same for Kaduna for the whole Northern Region, those three Cities were not controlled by immigrants they were cities with their ancient history and culture of local indigenes and unless a politician could be “born again” it would be difficult to be accepted as one of them. It was the same notion on how late Bola Ige, the assassinated Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria during the administration of President Obasanjo expressed as Governor of Oyo State with Headquarters in Ibadan in 1983 when he was told he would not be given more than one term as the Governor despite his laud mouth and achievement beyond anyone in history. Late Bola Ige said, though his parents were from Ijesha, he was born at Ibadan, he had all his education, Primary, Secondary and University Education at Ibadan, married to the daughter of the land and his legal firm all in the City of Oluyole, he wanted to know why he could not be called an Ibadan man. Late Chief Adisa Akinloye told him the difference between immigrants and indigenes, this is the point we will use as we progress with this article. We could see why Azikiwe could not be given the mandate to become the first Premier in the West at a time his political Party denied Action Group in the East the opportunity of fairness extended to him in Lagos then under Western Region. He was asking for too much. Secondly, politics is like eggs and chicken, never counts all your chicken until they are hatched, we saw what happened recently with the national Assembly in Abuja where Hon. Gbajabiamila was nominated by APC he did not win the Speaker same for the Senate in which Senator Saraki who was not the choice of the Party emerged as the President of the Senate. It was what happened to Azikiwe the Owelle of Onitsha his party wanted him as the Premier in the Yoruba land on the floor of the House he did not built. It was not tribalism, it was the way politics was operated then, you can only win on the floor not in the secret bedroom of assurances given by party loyalists or friends. Azikiwe turned it around, he called it tribalism, he did not call it tribalism when he ran and won in Lagos with the Yoruba votes and it was the beginning of what became the problem between the Yoruba and Igbo at the same time the maverick politician failed to tell the Igbo how his party and associates prevented Action Group in the East of Nigeria from getting to the level he got in the West. He was very economical with the truth. The trial period of Premiership was short-lived, as Dr. Azikiwe went back to the East to grab the Premiership otherwise through the policy of Dr. Azikiwe out of the three Premiers in Nigeria before independence between 1952-1959, his tribe Igbo would have grabbed two in the West and East and Sir Ahmadu Bello in the North with no representation at all from tribe of Herbert Macaulay who invited him to join the NNPC or that of Awolowo. It was the beginning of greed and disloyalty between the two tribes. Dr. Azikiwe was back home as Premier but the extended love of the Yoruba he had in Lagos and Ibadan with deep friendship was turned to tribal wars to score political points. And both of them continue to outplay one another, until Azikiwe scored a major point to destroy the influence of the Yoruba from the system in a government with the North. The Western Region was divided into two, they called it Mid-West to weaken the Western Region and the West would forever be in the opposition with the hope of sharing the leadership with the North, if possible, to destroy the North itself he grabbed or his party grabbed. Before the coup of 1966 Sir Ahmadu Bello and SLA Akintola accused the Igbo of greed and unsearchable appetite to grab more than necessary (Readers can Google those videos on YouTube) surprisingly, in 1966 in the coup led by the Igbo both men were killed by the Igbo Soldiers and it became one of the events that lead to the second coup (Readers can search for what General Jeremiah Usenni said on the reason why the second coup took place). General Aguiyi Ironsi an Igbo man the Head of State was approached by the Yoruba Elders to release Chief Awolowo who was in jail, as if to humiliate the leader of the Yoruba based on the poisoned story Azikiwe passed to the East since he came back empty handed from Ibadan, Aguiyi Ironsi gave a condition, he wanted Awolowo to ask for it in writing. The Elders persuaded Awolowo to write which he did with the list of all those jailed along with him. When Aguiyi Ironsi got the request in writing like he requested. He still refused. He wanted Awolowo to die in jail. That did not go down well with the Yoruba, what Nigerians and anyone with the history must know about Awolowo, to the Yorubas, he was the second coming of Oduduwa, to hate Awolowo is to hate the Yorubas, it is just the way it is, if you make Awolowo your enemy, if you like take a bath in River Ganges in India you can never be a friend of the Yorubas. It is the way it will be forever on how the descendants of Oduduwa chose their friends among the 225 tribes in Nigeria and out of the country. General Yakubu Gowon became the new Head of State. The same offer by the Elders was extended to the young Military Head of State, he did not ask Awolowo to beg for it, and he released Awolowo and even invited him into his government. The difference was clear between Aguiyi Ironsi and Gowon. What happened next? To be continued. 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by funkyibodude(m): 10:46pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
So what's the essence of this thread ![]() ![]() 5 Likes |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by TheEastActivist: 10:49pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
How much history is being twisted and fed to kids in that region... But who cares...? Your hatred to Igbos has never stopped them and will never stop them ![]() 38 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by bonechamberlain(m): 10:56pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
Na wa for this ur story. ![]() 1 Like |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by HtwoOw: 10:59pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
Your story would make more sense of you quoted sources 5 Likes |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by seunny4lif(m): 11:04pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
Lol |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Reminez(m): 11:13pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
No love lost.No love found |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by jneutron4000: 11:14pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
funkyibodude:it educative and also to know some truth about the past 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Newmanluckyman(m): 11:15pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
... From your narrative, I can deduced that you are having guilty conscience laced with lies so as to appear less nervous. Mr man, you can't deceive everybody all the time. We knew what exactly happened then. We knew who introduced tribalism in Nigeria politics. We have the history, information and the requisite knowledge of the events that happened before and after that. Conscience is like the pulse of reasoning. Open up! Be man enough to admit error and mistakes when you see one. It doesn't make you less a human being. To err is human and to forgive is divine. Ndigbo are progressive people. They have already moved on. And they won't hesitate to forgive genuinely those who betray, envy, deny, or stab them at the back when those people, tribe or groups come forth to apologize. I wish you well. 30 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Nobody: 11:21pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
Newmanluckyman:you do not need to be dropping water from eye. Since u were born in those time and u knw what transpired then, try an write your own to counter this story. If you don't have any, then shut up and learn. 24 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by okasebe(m): 11:24pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
Nice one @op, Azikwe won in the west but like most igbos he wanted more. 7 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by IncredibleJoe(m): 11:25pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
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Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Nobody: 11:33pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
Thread to bring tribal spat between Yoruba and Igbo while their Hausa Lord continue to rule over them. These southern tribes can never progress because of their stupidity 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by AkinPhysicist: 11:35pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
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Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by SIRmanjar(m): 11:42pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
1946 ke?i tink say na 4 nairaland d tribal war start.well na me b Goc of 18th division ad the commanda of 3rd marine brigade.The one ad only naira land field marshal ![]() 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by raumdeuter: 11:51pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
well written 4 Likes |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Ngozi123(f): 11:54pm On Dec 08, 2016 |
Not a single source in sight... I wonder how someone who claims to know anything about history can go about making claims without having any evidence to back them up? ![]() ![]() 17 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Nobody: 12:26am On Dec 09, 2016 |
Ngozi123:and to you, the source u are talking about were written naturally and not by human like you? 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Ngozi123(f): 12:34am On Dec 09, 2016 |
wizzakosh: Are you telling me that you believe yourself to be on an equal footing with numerous historians who've actually done proper research and (some of whom) had a first hand experience of the war, and the events building up to it? Like I said, you can't just go around making claims like you have done without giving evidence to support it. No one will take you seriously ![]() 22 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Nobody: 1:10am On Dec 09, 2016 |
TheEastActivist:This isn't twisting history. This is evil. 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Edenliv(m): 2:29am On Dec 09, 2016 |
Oh God of Heaven, Teach Us to love, Our Country, Other Tribes, Other Races and Ourselves. ............Amen iSlayer2: |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Boleyndynasty2(f): 3:39am On Dec 09, 2016 |
I'll read this lost when I wake up 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by JingoOAU(m): 4:41am On Dec 09, 2016 |
So had it been Azikwe was elected premier of the Western region, we would have had 2 Igbos as Premiers, one for east and one for west, then One for the whole north. Without twisting history, I knew the first elective post Azikwe got was from through the Yoruba votes in Lagos... Nobody should blame the Yorubas for rejecting Azikwe to be their premier. Even up till today, a man from Anambra cnt be a governor in Imo, likewise a man from Osun State cnt be a governor in Ondo State. I am indifferent to that history 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by MrEverest(m): 5:43am On Dec 09, 2016 |
TheEastActivist:It is shocking to see the length these children of hate from the waste region can go to twist history, vituperate blatant and obvious lies, laced with half truths just to continue brain washing their ill informed people! Well, they can continue in their foolhardiness, we are equal to the task! 22 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by MrEverest(m): 5:53am On Dec 09, 2016 |
wizzakosh:Just imagine your reasoning yet you want people to take you serious ![]() 21 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by overall90: 6:19am On Dec 09, 2016 |
The revisionists at it again. This is the first time I am reading that AG was not allowed to campaign in the East and there was even an Akwa Ibom in 1946. Trying to equate the political climate and indices of 1946 to what we have years later is to me very mischievous. As of 1946,there were no tribal political affiliations.everybody who is a Nigerian then had just one enemy, the white colonial masters and whoever then that was seeking for a political post was seeking it on behalf of the natives. 23 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by DerideGull(m): 6:43am On Dec 09, 2016 |
wizzakosh: The is a historical junk that should not be allowed a minute of time in an arena such as nairaland forum. 24 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by disumusa: 7:02am On Dec 09, 2016 |
TheEastActivist:nonsense flat head who are not recon with in Nigeria 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by annayawchee: 7:21am On Dec 09, 2016 |
Let me not say anything before they ban me again: beside why are this mod so biased? They ban me because i reply a guy who said the igbo tribe is useless... God dey ![]() 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by okasebe(m): 7:34am On Dec 09, 2016 |
The fact remains the first ever elective post nnamdi azikwe ever occupied was in the west, yorubas voted for him. But he wanted to become our premier and politics was played out. What the igbos can't allow in their region, they like doing it somewhere else. Abia sacked workers of imo state descent, whereas igbos are permanent secretaries, directors, special advisers in ogun state. You even have internal tribalism in your region 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by Nobody: 7:39am On Dec 09, 2016 |
Part 1 Kó, part 1million ní. If there ever be a conflict between the two party, Igbos had defeated Yorubas already. Go n ask tinubu he knows better ![]() 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: History Of Tribal Wars Between Igbo And Yoruba In Nigeria Since 1946 (part One) by macfish101(m): 7:42am On Dec 09, 2016 |
Chai.....your story too long joor.....but if you can enter into the other room, u will see one mumu wey go believe you......Am I clear on this ![]() 6 Likes |
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