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.

So what's the essence of this thread

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

Na wa for this ur story.

Your story would make more sense of you quoted sources

Lol

No love lost.No love found

funkyibodude:
So what's the essence of this thread

it educative and also to know some truth about the past

... 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.

Newmanluckyman:
... 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.

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.

Nice one @op,

Azikwe won in the west but like most igbos he wanted more.

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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

Igbos and their lies

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

well written

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? The thread title intially peaked my interest but after reading your post, I'm left rather disappointed .

Ngozi123:
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? The thread title intially peaked my interest but after reading your post, I'm left rather disappointed .

and to you, the source u are talking about were written naturally and not by human like you?

wizzakosh:
and to you, the source u are talking about were written naturally and not by human like you?

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 .

TheEastActivist:
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

This isn't twisting history. This is evil.

Oh God of Heaven, Teach Us to love, Our Country, Other Tribes, Other Races and Ourselves. ............Amen

iSlayer2:

This isn't twisting history. This is evil.

I'll read this lost when I wake up

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

TheEastActivist:
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

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!

wizzakosh:
and to you, the source u are talking about were written naturally and not by human like you?

Just imagine your reasoning yet you want people to take you serious Were you alive when those events took place? How did you get your obviously flawed information? Was it passed to you from word of mouth?? Did you get it from the archives?? If from archives, why not qoute your source so you can make a bit of sense! You guys are so myopic and dense in reasoning that it assaults the sensibility of reasonable people!!

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.

wizzakosh:
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.

The is a historical junk that should not be allowed a minute of time in an arena such as nairaland forum.

TheEastActivist:
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

nonsense flat head who are not recon with in Nigeria

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

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

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

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