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Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Area4Area: 7:08am On Sep 16, 2019 |
richie240:Blame Azikiwe for refusing the de-amalgamation suggested by Ahmadu Bello and refusing the insertion of referendum and secession in the constitution suggested by Awolowo, he caused it all. |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by meccuno: 7:10am On Sep 16, 2019 |
Area4Area:it's not in our hands. If it was we would have left long time ago. |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by meccuno: 7:12am On Sep 16, 2019 |
Area4Area:if they are really serious,they should kick start the process of referendum. After all,they North has the highest number of seats. But we all know who needs who. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by meccuno: 7:14am On Sep 16, 2019 |
Wiifesnatcher:you trying to reply me with soft words ![]() ![]() |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Area4Area: 7:17am On Sep 16, 2019 |
meccuno:.....then let the idea of getting Biafra rest for now until you know you can handle the situation |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Area4Area: 7:19am On Sep 16, 2019 |
meccuno:Who needs who most and would not leave the other's region even after they were issued an ultimatum to leave? |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by nairavsdollars(f): 7:24am On Sep 16, 2019 |
I think Awolowo deserves praise because if not for his ingenuity, the war wouldn't have ended |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Wiifesnatcher(m): 7:34am On Sep 16, 2019 |
meccuno: obviously don't know you. you people with dumb animal sense. are you Putin, Trump or China president oh I have forgotten you're UK new prime minister it's obvious some crook surgeons have carelessly work on your brain before hence why you're seeing madness in your imagination because I don't see how a sane person will be replying and quoting mad people? ojukwu and KANU and Ralph really took the advantage of you people shortsightedness to their own advantage that's why they don't lose their family and properties during you people show of Shame |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by meccuno: 7:41am On Sep 16, 2019 |
Area4Area:you cannot force a people to be in a union. It's not called a Nation it's called a concentration camp. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by meccuno: 7:41am On Sep 16, 2019 |
Area4Area:declare the referendum then we would know that for sure. |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by meccuno: 7:43am On Sep 16, 2019 |
Wiifesnatcher:ok then.we are shortsighted. ![]() |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Wiifesnatcher(m): 7:56am On Sep 16, 2019 |
meccuno:now you know |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by oyatz(m): 11:42am On Sep 16, 2019 |
Ojukwu should have sought alliance with the oppressed peoples of the North- the Middle Belt and offered them Independence with friendly relationship with Biafra and thereafter proceed to attack and conquer Kaduna. He should also seek similar alliance with the leaders of the Mid-west and Western Regions in ways that will make all other regions allies of Biafra while working out their own secession. If three regions I Nigeria support and/embark on seccession simultaneously, there is no way the country can stand. SamNaijaboy: |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by nairavsdollars(f): 5:14pm On Sep 16, 2019 |
we all need one another to survive. No tribe is superior to another Area4Area: |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Uchek(m): 9:07pm On Sep 16, 2019 |
"The animosity between the Igbos and Yorubas is borne out of the fact that the Yorubas thought if they don’t align with the north the Igbo will. Same thing the Igbo thought if they don’t align will the north, the Yorubas will. It’s just a political game by the leaders and we are just pawn in the game." Your comments on this issue is level-headed and issue-oriented. But l totally disagree with you on the assertion above. The foundation of animosity between the Igbos and Yorubas is the deceitful role Awolowo willingly and purposely chose to play in the Nigeria - Biafra Civil War that should have been an opportunity for the south to permanently deal with the Hausa/Fulani nuisance created by the British Colonialist. LegendHero: |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by LegendHero(m): 9:15pm On Sep 16, 2019 |
Uchek:Bro let’s be factual and decode situation without a biased mind. Awolowo was a civilian and was in prison months before the Biafran war, remeber Gowon released him from prison. How will Awolowo, who wasn’t even the premier of Western region or hold any political power than just an elder statesman declar war on behalf of the Yorubas? He was not a military man, he does not have the necessary military background, Ojukwu was a propagandist who sold the notion that Awolowo will break out of Nigeria with him to his kinsmen to gain their support for the war. Just like he sold the lie that he will crush the federal troops in few months. Ojukwu on the other hand was a military man, he had a reason for the war which one of them was the massacre of the Igbos in the Core North, he had justification for the war. What could have been Awolowo justification for the war? Side with the Igbos that killed Akintola and other Yoruba leaders in a coup? Why should Awolowo go to war when the western region is the best region then and Nigeria is working by all standard? Why should he draft Yoruba into a massacre when he knew the Igbos drew the first sword. Don’t you even know the Igbos and the northerners are allies then and they run the country? Why should Awo intercede? Like I said, the Igbos will always see situation from their own perspective while the Yoruba will see their from their own too. I can argue that Ojukwu in his mind knew Awo can’t join but he need someone to lay the blame on to convince his kinsmen. Remeber there is also some propagandist theory that Nzeogwu planned to install Awolowo as a president, but they do not deem it fit to release him from prison, only for the Northerner (Gowon) to come to his aid later on. 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by T9ksy(m): 11:11pm On Sep 17, 2019 |
Uchek: I thought you guys claim the source of your grouse with the yorubas was 'cause the yorubas wouldn't let you manage their affairs in the 1951 regional election due to carpet-crossing? For that reason, ibos labels yorubas, tribalist. You guys keep rewriting the narratives as you deem fit. |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Chukapage(m): 7:02am On Sep 18, 2019 |
T9ksy:nobody brought any war to your lands! Capital was in Lagos for Christ sakes! Stop turning history. Even before that move was made Ojukwu informed the mid west leaders and even at that a yoruba man lead that invasion! |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Chukapage(m): 7:35am On Sep 18, 2019 |
SamNaijaboy:Yoruba man that is why we say REFRANDUM !YOU ARE NOT THE VOICE OF THE EASTERN MINORITIES! Let who will follow follow who wants to stay back will stay back . That your landlocked propaganda is stale! Very stale! Even if we are landlocked there are landlocked countries YOU WILL DO ANYTHING TO MIGRATE TO IF GIVEN A CHANCE. |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Chukapage(m): 7:41am On Sep 18, 2019 |
SamNaijaboy:lol the same Boro that was killed by the North? Or the Awolowo that was used and betrayed by the North? Even Benjamin Adekunle your war zealot how did he end ? Lol the North used you lots ![]() |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Chukapage(m): 7:51am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Area4Area:Oga that the Chinese are in Nigeria or All over America doesn't mean they need the above countries you all should mistaking movement with you being so Important. Let referandum happen NOW and see how everyone will gladly go back home! Get a passport and start coming in as Foreigners. You think Yorubas ain't in the East they are plenty here but they are not as "loud and domineering " igbos to know them and of course I don't need to tell you that you can't differentiate and Igbo from a Yoruba man unless the Yoruba has tribal marks or You hear each of them speak! The problem is you Westerner s don't travel you sit in your comfort and assume nonsense because of Nollywood mistaking you lack of travelling and seeing other people's land and cultures for being Enconomically strong ! Lol even the Chinese ,The Jews ,The Arabs ,The Europeans travels and Heck! You are not Enconomically better off than them! ![]() |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Chukapage(m): 7:55am On Sep 18, 2019 |
LegendHero:Point of correction Ojukwu released Awolowo from The Calabar prisons! Gowon had no absolute power to release Prisoners in order Regions because we operated a Regional System of Government then! |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Chukapage(m): 7:58am On Sep 18, 2019 |
LegendHero:Kaduna Nzeogwu was more hausa than he was Igbo too ! Ojukwu didn't sell any propaganda ,they agreement he had with Awolowo was that if the East secede the West should Secede too! You are clearly a history revisionist! |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Toroso: 9:28am On Sep 18, 2019 |
20 pounds your lazy fathers n forefathers never worked for or did your father told you he went into any bank he saved at with his check and was never paid the balance on such check book?! omobs: |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Toroso: 9:43am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Your tribe is the only pathetic tribe that glorifies itself in defeat. Your father n forefathers must really be shameless. Tiny Eritre Mongolia South Sudan and many more are now free countries after waging successful war of liberation but here we have a foolish tribe beating it chest even in defeat. Imagine a tribe of over 30 million sub human claiming a single soul deny them food for 3 years in a time of war n in all their ingenuity they were unable to find a solution to just that singular problem ?! Charles Taylor, Samuel Doe, Johnson n co that over came such problems are not even beating their chest but a completely foolish tribe of rretarded humans are here grandstanding in foolishness over pathetic failure. Conner44: Awo was the one that told your father n forefathers not to use their head to provide for your people. IGBOSON1: 1 Like |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by omobs(m): 10:09am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Toroso:no need to reply you, Enjoy bro |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by LegendHero(m): 11:29am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Chukapage: Stop this lie please. Ojukwu never released Awolowo, Yakubu Gowon did. I have all the tape where Yakubu Gowon did and even the press brief for the day. Ojukwu was a Chief propagandist just like Nnamdi Kanu now, the Biafran war was built on lies and deceit. He deceived his people with a lot of things and conjured a lot of lies to justify going to the war. The problem of you guys is that you just believe the lies perpetrated by your old people without researching them, stop disgracing yourselves on a public forum. The Yorubas are intelligent humans that knows how to argue with fact and not emotions. Attached is the picture of Gowon with Awolowo after releasing him. 1 Like
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Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Chukapage(m): 11:40am On Sep 18, 2019 |
LegendHero:those pictures doesn't proof shit! Do you want to see Ojukwu s picture with PA Awolowo? Yorubas are intelligent then igbos are "emotional" ok Solomon we don't hear bye! |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by SamNaijaboy: 11:47am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Awolowo was given a state burial as well ( if state burial is the criterion for greatness ![]() Ojukwu contested but could not even make up to 1/15th the votes Awolowo received all around the country. The two of them were not equals as far as Nigeria was concerned. Awolowo was far more revered. I have no idea what transpired between Adekunle & the Northern soldiers but he wouldn’t be the first soldier to not “survive” the power plays of the military then. And he had attracted bad international press to himself so would have been a bit of an outcast then. That was of his own doing. But that he didn’t get to the apex of the military was more of military politics and the fact that his military command seemingly fell apart after initial successes. Boro, nobody knows exactly how he died. By most accounts, he was killed by a rebel (Biafran) soldier Chukapage: 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by LegendHero(m): 11:54am On Sep 18, 2019 |
Chukapage: Yes send his pics with Awolowo in that attire to me. I will also upload the link to the gazette of the New York Times of the speech Gowon gave on that day. Seems the spirit of lying is still evident in some of you, now please deny the gazette. If you deny again the next thing will be the actual gazette and video proof so that you will know all you’ve known since you are young is all a lie. Ojukwu masterminded the lies and made sure it is embedded in all average Igbo men to propagate. I will lecture you today. New York Times Published August 1966
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Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by dododawa1: 12:16pm On Sep 18, 2019 |
one Nigeria |
Re: Igbos Should Be Grateful To Awolowo For His Role During Civil War – Opadokun by Uchek(m): 8:19am On Sep 19, 2019 |
You want us to leave now? Shouldn't you be ashamed of yourself that you are saying this in 2019 - 52 years after the birth of Biafra? We left your Nigeria for you and your fellow northerners. Instead of saying good riddance to Igbo rubbish, you joined them to massacre innocent children, women and old men. Why didn't you tell northerners, HELL NO, Yorubas are not joining you to fight OkORO; but if you desperately want them back, then you have to fight them alone without Yoruba support? Should your ethnic group not acknowledge their bad choice in aligning with the north to fight us and profusely apologize? Area4Area: |
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