Daddyis:
you mean the almighty northern oligarchy pacify the coward yorubas because of the death of a single yoruba man and didn't bother to pacify the chest beating king Kong Igbos after wasting 3million of your fathers and mothers mmmmh, you guys are fools and nonentity.

Evans brains will never think straight.

For example, a single ultimatum from an unknown Northern group reset their Evans brains.

OgaBuhari:
I need sense. I pity my condition

Jobless troll like you amuse me, your parents in the grave will just be cursing you for bringing shame to them.

Guestlander:


Azikiwe only won his constituency, it was a parliamentary system. Two or more parties can form a coalition and upend the majority party if their new coalition can garner more constituencies.
This was nothing like Abiola's victory which was under a presidential system.

truth remains he is de man that is responsible 4 de mess tribalism has made in nigeria.

shukuokukobambi:


It was a very good thing Awo did. If only Zik had been more sensible to pay more attention to his homeland instead of trying to come rule over Yorubas in the west, there wouldn't have been any need for him to run away from biafra during the war to be screaming one naijeriya all over Lagos.

I LOVE WHAT AWO DID!!

ur father, awolowo introduced tribalism which is destroying nigeria today. That is my concern and de truth, no matter how u twist it.

What a bunch of drivel from a fantastic idiot . Even at his age , he still doesn't know how parliamentary system of government works. Azikwe did not win a majority to form a government .NCNC did not exist anywhere in the western region beyond lagos

BuariCopyPaste:
May you live long for saying the truth sir. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, someone from the northern part of Nigeria has said the bitter truth.
Awolowo introduced tribalism in to Nigeria government.

His e-rats will soon come online to disagree with this old man that witnessed what Awo did.

I have said it earlier that Yorubas are the real problem of Nigeria.

The truth is far from this statement if there is any one who had introduced tribalism into politics in Nigeria it is Azikiwe, it was his ego that made him fail. if he had won the western house tell me how Awo would have oust him? The truth is that none of them made the majority seat so they both needed the Ibadan municipal party to align with them Zik felt he's too big to accept the term of the IMP thinking that the IMP will come begging but Awo knows a better way to get the IMP who he had earlier had problems with. please all these people saying Awo introduced tribalism into Nigerian politics are only giving a lie to a peal to the emotion of the gullible Igbo people who want to circumvent truth. Tell who sent Eyo away to his own home?

Razorblades:


My parents are in the grave. My useless father died by emulating from the coward Awolowo by drinking rat poison popularly known as otapiapia. I regret being Yoruba cos right now I'm so useless. Pls you whose parents are alive. Take care of them cos I envy you.

Good

Guestlander:



This story has been told like a thousand times on this website and I believe everything is archived here. Yes, Azikiwe like others fought for Nigeria independence but that doesn't make him a saint.
He did use his newspaper to promote tribal hegemony and he was referred to as a demagogue.
You are the ignorant one here, you obviously only read what you want to read.
Tell me he wasn't a demagogue, tell me he didn't write articles promoting ibo superiority.

pls get d paper and cite an article dat promoted ethnic differeces

First Nigeria Regional Elections:
Western Nigeria 1951 Elections
Matthew Mbu and history:

Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well-
respected Nigerian. But in this piece,
veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike
challenges some of his claims about
Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have
its hour, but it has no future' -
Francois D. Pressense

In what seemed his 48th
independence anniversary gift to
Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu,
politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave
The Nation an interview run in its
October 1 edition addressing some
political issues in Nigeria of which he
had been a key player. Among
others, he spoke on the Western
Nigeria election held in 1951, two
generations ago, and repeated the
claim of the National Council of
Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC)
that it won that poll, but had been
robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr.
Mbu did not provide any evidence to
substantiate the NCNC claim.
Dr. Mbu said of that election held on
24 September 1951 that: "Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the
Western Region of Nigeria, not by
the electorate, but by the leaders.
The NCNC won the election against
the Action Group (led by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action
Group introduced what was
unknown to Nigerian history",
namely, "carpet crossing. They
Action Group bought members of
the NCNC to join the Action Group
after these people had won election
on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the
leader of a majority party in the
Western Region became the Leader
of Opposition overnight".
Reminded by the interviewer that the
late Chief AMA Akinloye had
maintained in his lifetime that he
and his group had contested the
election on a neutral platform from
the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his
version. He is entitled to say what he
wants to say. I don't want to say ill of
the dead. He knew he was NCNC and
his group was NCNC. Adelabu
remained NCNC. He stuck on to
NCNC till he died".
The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba
Mbadiwe said in his autobiography,
Rebirth of a nation, among others
that: "But in pursuance of the policy
of creating a political climate healthy
enough to make one a citizen
wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe
contested and won the general
elections in 1951 into the Western
House of Assembly. To stultify this
policy of one Nigeria in favour of his
tribally-based philosophy, Chief
Awolowo got some elected members
to cross carpet from the NCNC to his
AG side. Zik the victor lost. And
Awolowo's party was able to form the
government of the Western Region."
At a news conference in Lagos on 20
September 1989, more than two
years after Chief Awolowo's death,
Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic
saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party
won the majority of seats in the
Western House of Assembly. He was
due to be elected the Leader of
Government Business, when
overnight, the Action Group
introduced the notorious carpet-
crossing. By this manipulation,
members who won under the NCNC
crossed over to the Action Group
building it to become the majority
party in the West. As a result of this,
Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of
Government Business and Dr.
Azikiwe had to resign."

Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe
named the members of the NCNC
who contested the election on the
party's platform and later joined the
Action Group to enable Chief
Awolowo form the government to
the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These
are weighty allegations such that
they would have assisted their
readers to clear the issues rather just
repeat their own version of the
events at that time in the hope that
such repetition would turn
falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over
candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the
Government Public Relations Officer,
wrote to the parties to furnish a list
of the candidates contesting election
on their platforms. Only the Action
Group complied with this request
and its list of candidates was as
follows:
1. Ijebu Remo Division - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya,
Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips;
3. Oyo Division - Chief Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A.
Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun Division - SL Akintola, JO. Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola;
5. Ondo Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko;
6. Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA
Tewe and SO Tubo;
7. Epe Division - SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and
C.A. Williams;
8. Ikeja Division - O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO
Okuntola;
9. Badagry Division - Chief
CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev.
GM Fisher;
10. Egba Division - J.F.
Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole,
Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso,
SB Sobande, IO Delano and A
Adedamola.
The others were as follows:
11. Egbado Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A.
Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin
Illo and P.O. Otegbeye;
12. Ife Division -
Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O.
Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju;
13. Ekiti Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade
Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D
Atolagbe;
14. Owo Division - Michael
Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA
Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A.
Olusa;
15. Western Ijaw Division - Pere
EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee;
16. Ishan Division - Anthony Enahoro;
17. Urhobo Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri
and JD Ifode;
18.Warri Division - Arthur
Prest and O. Otere, and
19. Kukuruku Division - D.J.I. Igenuma.

Of the names on the list, only MA
Ajasin from Owo Division, which
comprised Akoko then, did not run
because of party solidarity and unity
in Owo. He stood down for A.O.
Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest
two of the three seats, which they
won, while D.K. Olumofin won the
third for the NCNC.
Three secretaries of the Action Group, who ran as independents and won were:
1. Egba Division- Alhaji D.S. Adegbenro
2. Ekiti Division - J.O. Osuntokun, and
3. Epe Division - S.O. Hassan.

At the close of polls on 24 September
1951, the Action Group had won 38
of the 72 seats in contention out of the total of 80 in the Regional Assembly. The shortfall was due to the fact that elections had been postponed in Lagos and Benin due to security concerns. Lagos had five seats in the West Regional Assembly all later won by the NCNC in the election of 20 November 1951, while Benin had three all later won by Otu Edo candidates in the election of 6 December 1951.
Of the 68 candidates on the list furnished by the Action Group to the Government PR
Department, 38 of the elected AG
members were from that list, and were as follows:
1. Ijebu Remo - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O. Awokoya;
3. Oyo - Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun - S.L. Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola.
Other elected AG members from the
list were:
5. Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji
AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and
Prince Adedamola;
6. Egbado (now Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi and A. Akin Illo;
7. Ekiti - E.A. Babalola
and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief
CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher;
8. Ikeja - SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu-
Ale;
9. Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO Olagbaju;
10. Owo - AO Ogedengbe and RA Olusa;
11. Epe - Safi Lawal Edu;
12. Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe;
13. Western Ijaw - M.F. Agidee;
14. Ishan - Anthony Enahoro, and
15. Warri - Arthur Prest.

In addition to the Action Group and
the NCNC, there were local/divisional
parties such as the Ibadan People's
Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA
Akinloye; Ondo Improvement
League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the
end of poll, the standing of the
parties was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. NCNC and its loyal Independents - 25;
3. IPP - 6
4. Ondo Improvement League - 2.
5. Otu Edo candidates won the three
Benin seats, namely, Chief SO
Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo-
Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi.

Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG,
while the latter two went to the
NCNC. And of the six IPP elected
members, only Adegoke Adelabu
joined the NCNC. The rest of them:
AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi
(who later became the Olubadan of
Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin,
Moyosore Aboderin and SA
Akinyemi, opted for the Action
Group. The NCNC National Secretary,
the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent
declaration forms to the IPP
assemblymen asking them to declare
for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye
returned all the forms uncompleted.
The three AG secretaries who had
run as independents - Adegbenro,
Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP
members, one Etu Edo, and one
Ondo Improvement League, Chief
F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy
Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu
Ode) had swollen the number of the
AG elected members. All the
transactions had taken place before
the inauguration of the Regional
Assembly on 7 January 1952. These
were not known members of the
NCNC, nor did the party publish their
names on the list of its candidates,
but claimed them as its "members,
supporters or sympathisers",
according to inimitable Zik in his My
Odyssey, " It takes more than
speculation to claim a person as a
member of your political party". You
cannot just be under the
"impression" as Zik had claimed that
they were and go ahead to field them
as electoral candidates.

For over a
half century, the NCNC is yet to
provide evidence to back its claim
that it had won the West Regional
election in 1951.
Mr Cooper absolved his department
of responsibility for the controversy
generated by the NCNC after the
election. At a post election news
conference in Lagos he said that "Of
the winning candidates, the names
of 38 were on the list sent to me by
the Action Group. The six successful
candidates at Ibadan were all among
those who had been identified to me
as representing the Ibadan People's
Party. No claim of any kind had
reached us about the party affiliation
of the remaining successful
candidates." Why did the NCNC not
send a list of its candidates for the
poll to the Government PR
Department before that poll? And
why have Dr. Mbu and the others not
published the list of NCNC
candidates to substantiate their
electoral victory claim in over 50
years but merely kept reaping false
claims? The records of the poll
conducted in the West and all over
Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher.
In this matter, it is facts that speak,
not what some political/ethnic
partisan said or did not say.
Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only
in losing the regional election, he
also lost the election to the House of
Representatives held on 10 January
1951 at the House of Assembly, Ibadan, among NCNC members. The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80 member Western Regional Assembly was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. Independent/AG - 15;
3. NCNC - 24;
4. Independent/NCNC - 3.
Three
members of the NCNC who had been
elected to the House changed party
allegiance that day ahead of the
House of Representatives vote. They
were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG
Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from
Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.
They were running for the House of
Representatives and wanted Action
Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and
Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went
back to the NCNC. That was all the
carpet-crossing that took place on 10
January 1952, namely, three at first
to the AG and one back to the NCNC.
From the vote tally, it is clear that the
NCNC and the Independent /NCNC
totalling 27 seats altogether out of
80 seats could not have formed the
Government of Western Nigeria.
Even if the local/divisional parties
had chosen the NCNC, it would still
be some seats short of 41 required to
form the government. The Action
Group won 38 seats; its independent
candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun,
Hassan and Odutola won four seats
making a total of 42 seats. The AG
could have formed the government
without the support of the other
small parties. It did not have to
"bribe" anybody to join it to form the
government. Since politics is a game
of number, only few principled
politicians would not be disposed to
joining the winning party, in this
case, the AG.
Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his
book: "Successful NCNC men who
were not Yoruba were scared away.
Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the
Western House (of) Assembly from a
Lagos constituency decided to resign.
Since membership of the House of
Representatives was by an electoral
college in the regional house, no
NCNC from the West came to the
House of Representatives in Lagos".
This is blatantly false. Zik resigned
because he lost election to the
federal house from the West, while
Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka
Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa-
Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir
Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected
from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever
scared non-Yoruba NCNC people
from the West? Chief Denis
Osadebey succeeded Adegoke
Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the
West and the likes of Humphrey
Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh,
Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi
Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and
GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC
in that Assembly.
As Mme De Stael says: The "search
for the truth is the noblest
occupation of man; its publication is
a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political
entourage have chosen their own
side of history. It remains to be seen
whether or not history will absolve
them. Their contemporary audience
is composed of intelligent people
who will search after the truth
without inheriting the political
prejudice and stereotype of their
lying grand-parents. That is the way
ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest
friend of truth is time; her greatest
enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton

" the man who brought federalism as a form of governance reverted to the game we are playing in Nigeria today, which is tribalism,quite different from
federalism"

obamabinladen:


E pain am

pain ke bwahaha hahaha you must be completely mad, if the killers and the tormentors of the coward Igbo nation can pacify the yorubas by giving us the chance to rule this country for good 8 years because of the miscalculation of June 12. Don't you think the Hausa fulanis understand and knows what the yorubas can do guy we don't make noise like you guys but good strategist and planner

slivertongue:


pls get d paper and cite an article dat promoted ethnic differeces

Hehehehe......Chief Awolowo brilliantly and meticulously provided the dates and name of the publication for most of the articles he mentioned. The onus is now on you to find those newspapers and prove the old man wrong.

https://www.nairaland.com/3883403/nigerias-problems-started-awos-introduction/5#57860566

BuariCopyPaste:
May you live long for saying the truth sir. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, someone from the northern part of Nigeria has said the bitter truth.
Awolowo introduced tribalism in to Nigeria government.

His e-rats will soon come online to disagree with this old man that witnessed what Awo did.

I have said it earlier that Yorubas are the real problem of Nigeria.

Young man u were not alive then, but let me hint u; Nigeria's problems started wen Aguyi ironsy plotted d first coup, in this country, accompanied by d assassination of Sir Ahmadu bello and Tafabalewa all killed by Igbo men. Abeg who led Nigeria to d first civil war, I bet it was an Igbo man by d name ojukwu.
Abeg this Igbos just need to go jor, they r a cog in d wheel of progress.

Guestlander:



Hehehehe......Chief Awolowo brilliantly and meticulously provided the dates for most of the articles he mentioned. The onus is now on you to find those newspapers and prove the old man wrong.

https://www.nairaland.com/3883403/nigerias-problems-started-awos-introduction/5#57860566

you alleged so you sud prove

slivertongue:


you alleged so you sud prove

Azikiwe Nnamdi, the Pilot newspaper with dates of publication. I can't help you more than that.

Babinski:
Unongo is not being entirely honest. Awolowo and Azikiwe were both members of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), the first genuinely nationalist organization in Nigeria. However, in 1941 Azikiwe backed Samuel Akinsanya to be NYM candidate for a vacant seat in the Legislative Council, but the executive selected Ernest Ikoli instead. Azikiwe resigned from the NYM accusing the majority Yoruba leadership of discrimination against the Ijebu-Yoruba members, Ibos and some Ijebu members with him, thus splitting the NYM along ethnic lines.

The same Azikiwe, would in May 1964 after being selected as the first President of Nigeria, give a public lecture on the benefits of tribalism in forging national unity  at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
What I can see from all these is that Zik himself considered ethnicity and tribalism as political tools and only hated it whenever he was at the receiving end. And I guess Awolowo also knew that.

When you talked about the honesty of Unongo or lack thereof, I knew you were headed to a dishonesty of your own. Prince Samuel Akinsanya won the election over Ernest Ikoli however the "returnees" in Lagos did not want "Aroke" to represent them and insisted on Ernest Ikoli's candidature. It was this apparent disregard of the movement's principles by the returnees that led to the demise of NYM.

Diademk07:


Will you shut up?

What nonsense is this for crying loud? You should be happy that you're being called flattie while you call us aafonja because if we were as tribalistic as you Ibos, Osu would ave replaced the word "flattie" on this forum..

The audacity you have to label Awolowo a tribalist when he won the election fair by canvassing for Ibadan's party support while your greedy Zik thought he already had it in bag and could rule us in our backyard. The eediot couldn't even speak Yoruba yet wanted to rule over us! Why didn't he contest in the North where he was born, considering he could speak Hausa fluently?

k.

shukuokukobambi:


And when it was time for Zik to vacate the leadership position, whom did he throw up and against whom? Whom did Awo support against whom?

So Awo should have allowed an Ibo man to come become premier of Western Nigeria to prove he wasn't a tribalist? If asking the greedy Zik to go look for leadership in his own homeland is tribalism, i support Awo 101%!! Look for something else to cry about

Same folks who wouldn't allow an Awka bishop head a catholic diocese in Imo state in this 21st century of diversity until the Pope himself gave them marching orders are now talking of tribalism. Pls jump into the lagoon if you're truly pained

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-east/233562-pope-wades-into-ethnic-crisis-in-catholic-church-in-imo.html

kk, whatever... see how you diverted the whole thing to suit your lame point.

tete7000:


Like I said, if we wake Zik up and ask why he acted the way he did, he will insist it was in the best interest of his nation. These people at some time put their lives on the line for what they believed was good at the times in question. They were human like us with their limitations. No one can see into the future, had they that opportunity, they might probably have behaved totally different. We need to applaud them for the good they were able to achieved, forgive their inadequacies, learn from their errors and see our we can push this nation forward. Ethnic and tribal wars waged everyday on e-media will not solve our problems. We are all victims of circumstances beyond us but we must take responsibility and move forward. It cut my heart everytime I see people tear themselves to shreds online. It is very sad and pathetic.

My bro that is the mess we find ourselves in, many lack understanding just like you do, ethnicity has eaten deep into our system.

obamabinladen:



The question is not why he ran for that post in SW but why your people in SW nominated and voted for him. For Awo to annul his victory is the height of tribalism but thank God for karma who paid the Yorubas in their own coin in June 12.

seems like you don't know how parliamentary system of government works.



Ad someone earlier stated




He won a seat because he took up residence along the fringes of Lagos prior to the election. He won his single seat, and as national leader of NCNC he would become their leader in government due to the way the parliamentary system is structured. You don't need to be generally popular, you only need to win your own seat, and by priviledge of being party leader you become the leader either as opposition or as government. Awolowo ensured Azikiwe would only have the role of opposition leader as he formed an alliance with the Ibandan People's Party and other independents to achieve a majority over NCNC.
Azikiwe ran back to the East and usurped the Premiership of Dr Eyo Ita.

Marcelo290:
Atimes I blame those who scrapped history from our curriculum...just look at the sheer ignorance you are displaying.

Azikiwe that was a renowned nationalist and insisted on one Nigeria even at the expense of his own brothers during the war, he used his newspaper to propagate African liberation from the colonists, unlike Awolowo who focused more on regional politics which landed him in prison...

Are you not ashamed of this trash ?
Imagine you saying Azikiwe chose one nigeria at the expence of his own people. You certainly reason with your anus.
Azikiwe was nothing but a turncoat who started with biafra but ended up with thr FG through treachery pure and simple.
Azikiwe and his NCNC opposed the inclusion of secession in the constitution. He preasurised the north to accept the amalgamation against their wish.
Eventually, he turned himself into nigeria's political harlot by his dirty politics and christened himself "the beautiful bride of nigeria politics".
Unongo is an ignorant and political neophyte for the nonsense he said. In parliamentary politics, negotiations for alliance or coalition is the dynamics. This astuteness Awo had but which Zik lacked.
He lost the majority to superior political wizardery of Awo. Only demented fools who lack parliamentary political sagacity will call that tribal politics.
Joseph Tarka dwarfed the likes of Paul Unongo in the middle belt and he worked closely with Awo. Tarka stood and fought for the emancipation of his people while the likes of Unongo prefered life as lackys of hausa-fulani just like Azikiwe.
What an irony tragedy for a man like Paul Unongo to be refered to as an elder statesman. An absurdity if you ask me.

Igbo spotted!
I know they'll never like Awolowo

if we don't learn from history, we tend to repeat them. Am sure an Hausa/Fulani is somewhere laughing at the Igbo's and Yoruba's. If you read our history well you will know the hausa's is the only one who always comes out victorious from the hatred between Igbo and Yoruba.

madjune:
Very true.

Awo pulled a great cog in Nigeria's wheel of progress.
I don't even understand why his face remains on our currency because he never believed in one Nigeria.

He was the one that said, "NIgeria is a mere geographical expression."

Now, how can a nationalist say this?

Awo pulled a great cog in Nigeria's wheel of progress, se oro niyen sha, abeg mr history booker, please can you tell us the significant achievement ur Zik make as a premier in the Eastern part, compare to the great AWOL, it is obvious that Zik would have amount to monumental failure if he was given the opportunity to lead in the West.

Wat u guys can't take why do you want to force others to accept the same. it is high time you guys grow up and see life from different perspective and don't expect others to do Wat guys are not ready to do urself.

for your information we the Yoruba's are proud of Chief Obafemi Awolowo any day and time and we care less about your opinion regarding him.
As you know west side is still the best side.

ettybaba:
Dr. Azikwe had told Ahmadu Bello: “Let us forget our differences…” to which the latter replied: “No, let us understand our differences, I am Muslim and a Northerner. You are a Christian, an Easterner. By understanding our differences, we can build unity in our country.”
Bello was further quoted as admitting that the amalgamation of northern and southern protectorate as “mistake of 1914.”
From the above it is clear Nnamdi Azikiwe was a unity beggar.

Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite … Nigerian unity is only a British invention” – Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, 1948.

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French,’ The word ‘Nigeria’ is a mere distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not” - Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 1947.

IPOB should erect Awolowo and Tafawa Balewa statues in all the cities in Igbo land.
They should burn whatever is left of Azikiwe's family house for being a proponent of one Nigeria who left no legacies for the ibos.
Ibos should start looking inwards.

Word. Azikiwe was the blackleg of nigeria, the single architect of nigeria's woes due to his unity begging. And he did that not because he wanted better for nigeria or his own people but for selfish ambition to rule in colusion with the north.
But for him and his NCNC, there would've been nothing like nigeria.

BuariCopyPaste:
May you live long for saying the truth sir. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, someone from the northern part of Nigeria has said the bitter truth.
Awolowo introduced tribalism in to Nigeria government.

His e-rats will soon come online to disagree with this old man that witnessed what Awo did.

I have said it earlier that Yorubas are the real problem of Nigeria.

and so what, so the same awo of 60s still your problem till now,but your problems have solved now,idiot.

Daddyis:
pain ke bwahaha hahaha you must be completely mad, if the killers and the tormentors of the coward Igbo nation can pacify the yorubas by giving us the chance to rule this country for good 8 years because of the miscalculation of June 12. Don't you think the Hausa fulanis understand and knows what the yorubas can do guy we don't make noise like you guys but good strategist and planner

TRASH

BuariCopyPaste:




Can you imagine this mindset..... SMH

The truth is, you can't separate the Yorubas from tribalism!

They are like a collidal solution! Their tribalism is now like a religion, so much so that, even in the Church where I worship, because a yoruba man is the founder, the yoruba people in that Church have turned into a "Yoruba" Church in no time ! So sad, but , that's the truth.

The birth place for all Nigeria's problems is indeed, Tribalism, and the brain that hatched it was Awo, out of obsession to rule!

What is tribalism in parliamentary negotiations if your Azikiwe was not playing a politics of ignorance ? If he meant well for the region, he should've played the opposition and schemed to regain his majority. Go through all his newspaper cuttings and all you read is proponent of Ibo superiority complex.
Awo will remain our hero because he never for once betrayed his people like Azikiwe and Ojukwu.
He went on to score many firsts for the SW to the shame and puzzle of his enemies.
Had Azikiwe succeeded to become premier, the SW would have been 6th or 7th class citizens of nigeria by now.
Azikiwe's type of leadership led to his people's slaughter and degradation from majority to minority elements in nigeria's politics.

Iykmann:
please who is crying?

Some people are crying for nigeria to release them from slavery and everybody knows them.

Guestlander:


Azikiwe Nnamdi, the Pilot newspaper with dates of publication. I can't help you more than that.

scholarship don suffer for Naija

shekauvsbuhari:
ur father, awolowo introduced tribalism which is destroying nigeria today. That is my concern and de truth, no matter how u twist it.

If you're not deaf, you'll hear me scream out loud and clear I LOVE WHAT AWO DID!! If it happens again today, another Awo will do likewise. If it pains you, the lagoon is there