LibertyRep:
Who released Awolowo from prison?

LibertyRep:
Who released Awolowo from prison?

Abdul05:
Op...it was Gowon that released awolowo

GeneralPula:
Igbo people have always been calling everyone betrayers expect themselves..

Upton:
Lol. Nobody is calling Yorubas betrayals. The topic is a click bait. How can people call them betrayals when there was never an alignment. The only thing the Yorubas showed us this election is that the average Yoruba person is a tribal bigot. They just like to mask it.

lexyking:
If Yorubas are tribal bigot, what are the igbos? You're such a hypocrite, if not how can you call the Yorubas bigot when indeed their votes pattern reflects that they voted on the basis of individual choices rather than as a ethnic group like the igbos voted.

Check the percentage of the votes Obi got from the south east and from the Igbos who reside out of the south east and see if indeed they voted based on merit or rather based on tribal sentiments, what happened in lagos was disgraceful no doubt, but a times such drastic methods needs to be taken to make a point, if not how can the Igbos expect the majority of Yorubas to vote out a performing governor like Sanwo olu for one I T architect who has never managed or hold any senior position in his life. This was inspite of majority of the lagosian Yorubas voting for obi at the presidential level o.

Until Christ returns, I would never understand why the Igbos would prefer An inexperienced GRV to a more experienced Sanwo olu who clearly performed and exceeded all expectations.

Upton:


You talk about:
vote pattern: We all know the northerners give bloc votes: Inshort your Emi Lokan chose a northern Muslim because the northerners will not vote for a ticket that doesn’t contain a northern-Muslim. PDP gave their presidential ticket to a northerner in order to secure this bloc votes from the north. You don’t have problem with that. Even Tinubu called picking a Muslim running mate political calculation when in fact he was battling Atiku for the North’s bloc vote. But it becomes a problem for you when the Easterners do the same thing and give block votes to a candidate. Don’t you see that you are the hypocrite?

Don’t make it a matter of Peter Obi - Easterners have been voting in bloc since 1999. It didn’t start with Obi. They gave bloc votes to a Fulani man in 2019, bloc votes to an Ijaw man in 2011 and 2015, bloc votes to a Fulani man in 2007. Why is it now a problem in 2023? Oh it is a problem because they are Igbos and not northern muslims.

lexyking:
Relax! I never said giving block vote is bad, I merely reacted to your assertion that Yorubas are tribal bigots. I'm glad you didn't dispute the fact that only the Yorubas practice actual democracy where each individual is allowed to make their political choice without fear or threat.

I challenge you to name one instance where the Igbos have voted on the basis of personal conviction like the Yorubas have always voted, in 2015 even with Osibanjo on the ticket of the APC, the PDP still got considerable votes from the south west, same goes for the 2019 elections. Even the just concluded elections, obi won Tinubu in Lagos Atiku won Tinubu in Osun state, but we all saw the margins with which Obi won in the south east.

So my question to you is how could you term the Yorubas bigots when they are indeed the only region that has been politically libral.

Upton:


Personal conviction?

Upton:


Personal conviction?

Fattesticles:


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Fattesticles:


Odumegwu Ojukwu

lexyking:
If Yorubas are tribal bigot, what are the igbos? You're such a hypocrite, if not how can you call the Yorubas bigot when indeed their votes pattern reflects that they voted on the basis of individual choices rather than as a ethnic group like the igbos voted.

Check the percentage of the votes Obi got from the south east and from the Igbos who reside out of the south east and see if indeed they voted based on merit or rather based on tribal sentiments, what happened in lagos was disgraceful no doubt, but a times such drastic methods needs to be taken to make a point, if not how can the Igbos expect the majority of Yorubas to vote out a performing governor like Sanwo olu for one I T architect who has never managed or hold any senior position in his life. This was inspite of majority of the lagosian Yorubas voting for obi at the presidential level o.

Until Christ returns, I would never understand why the Igbos would prefer An inexperienced GRV to a more experienced Sanwo olu who clearly performed and exceeded all expectations.

babtoundey:



You should understand why they all go for GRV. They are da bi mo se da. They are convinced GRV will drag Lagos state a century backward so they annointed him.
The Lagos that's is dirty, the Lagos that is full of agberos and the Lagos that prevents the FG to know their region exist suddenly become something they are all interested in. It's even annoying to see that some stupid Yoruba could not see through their deceptions and hypocrisy.

You all voted for one party, nobody pin you with tribal bigotry. Yet you have the temerity to accuse people who voted for all the major candidates as tribalist. If the SW and the North Vote pattern had been like their, i wonder what their noises would be

Fattesticles:

Obafemi Awolowo is the undisputed hero of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria whose wartime policy of starvation and currency change helped kill the Biafran dream. The post colonial era of Nigerian history was dominated by three actors, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello. Dr Azikiwe was an avowed nationalist who preferred one Nigeria above anything else. Sir Ahmadu Bello was a tribalist who initially preferred a balkanized Nigeria to enable his people live their religious and cultural life without external negative inluence and was later reluctantly convinced to seek an agenda for a united Nigeria. Chief Obafemi Awolowo from the onset did not hide his preference for an Oduduwa Republic.

Chief Awolowo is idolized by the Yorubas because he was able to transform the South West into an educational and industrial hub in Africa and build a robust political climate. He so much understood the value of education that he made it free, affordable and offered a lot of scholarships to Yorubas to advance academically to the highest level. He ran a political system in Action Group whereby people have their say while the leader has his way.

This is the system Bola Tinubu is unsuccessfully trying to emulate in Action Congress of Nigeria.

Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, a core nationalist, never received the level of hero worship Awolowo received in the South West because Igbos severally accuses him of not taking them out of Nigeria when Chief Awolowo and Sir Ahmadu Bello were angling for a balkanized nation. Chief Awolowo was the sage whose idea ended the Nigerian civil war. He advised the Gowon Cabinet to block all food supply to Biafra so as to end the war quickly and according to him ” starvation is a legitimate instrument of war ” This led to the starvation of over one million Biafran children. Thus Awolowo’s advice and actions led to the quick end to the Biafran dream. Therefore it is right to say that what the entire armed forces of Nigeria could not do, the wisdom of Awolowo did. Chief Awolowo convinced Gowon that every adult Biafran who managed to survive the starvation deserved only #20 pounds to start life afresh irrespective of economic status before the war, an action perceived as intended to further reduce the ability of Igbos to recover economically.

Another policy of his which frustrated Biafra’s ability to import food and arms was the change of currency which according to Awolowo” And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra.

He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers has stolen from our Central bank for sale abroad to buy arms…So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place”.

Chief Awolowo has been variously accused of introducing tribalism into the Nigerian politics. He chased Dr Azikiwe out of the Ibadan in 1954 when the NCNC headed by Azikiwe won majority seats in the West Nigerian House of Assembly and through a palace coup called cross carpeting Zik was denied the Premiership of Western Nigeria, at a time when Professor Eyo Ita, an Efik was premier of Eastern Region and Alhaji Umoru Altine , a Fulani, was Mayor of Enugu. Dr Azikiwe, following the footsteps of Awolowo, had to frustrate Professor Eyo Ita out of Enugu. Chief Awolowo and Sir Ahmadu Bello seems to have a deeper understanding of the Nigerian complexities than Dr Azikiwe.

While Awolowo never trusted the Igbos, the north never trusted Awolowo and theYorubas. The northern oligarchy instigated crisis in Western Nigeria in the same manner President Obasanjo used the Uba brothers to instigate crisis in Anambra State. This crisis led to the trumped up charges leading to the trial and imprisonment of Awolowo . Reports has it that he was to be poisoned in prison before the military coup altered the state of affairs.

Awolowo was released from Calabar prison by Biafran leader Odumegwu Ojukwu and there was an agreement that while Ojukwu declares Biafra in the East, Awolowo would declare Oduduwa Republic in the West. The British establishment, sensing the dangers of Awolowo declaring Oduduwa Republic in the West, convinced Gowon and the north to checkmate Awolowo’s secessionist agenda by appointing him the Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council. This strategy worked effectively and Awolowo was deceived that after Gowon’s tenure he would be given the opportunity of ruling Nigeria. Awolowo thus had to checkmate the Biafran dream to clear any obstacle to his ruling Nigeria while the north was looking for the right opportunity to throw him into the dustbin. In frustration, Awo resigned from Gowon’s cabinet when he realized he has been politically duped.

Awolowo quashed the Biafran dream while the northern establishment killed the Oduduwa dream and betrayed Awolowo’s presidential ambition thrice. This fact was aptly captured by a prominent Yoruba leader and Nigeria’s former minister of aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode while replying to a boastful statement by another prominent northern leader, Alhaji Usman Farouk on how the north dominated the Yoruba people and conquered the Niger Delta.

yarimo:
IPOB terrorists not Nigerians, point of correction.

Upton:


The voting pattern isn’t a new thing. The north has always voted like that, it’s not a South East thing. Tinubu splitted those northern votes by picking up a northern Muslim as running mate. You guys respected the north by picking a running mate from amongst them so they can give you their votes, and you want to blackmail the East into voting for you.

Next time, APC should pick a SEasterner to split East votes and see if the north will not give all their votes to a Northerner. It’s only wrong to you when the SE does it.

babtoundey:


Wow! So, Tinubu will be from SE and will still pick his running mate from the SE. What you guys complained about is MM ticket. This time around it would be SS ticket.
You should have advised Obi too to pick his Vice from either the SS or SW.

Fattesticles:


Odumegwu Ojukwu

Upton:


I knew someone would quote me to say this . You guys interpret things the way you like.

Firstly, I was referring to how APC presented a ticket that has a northern Muslim in order to split the North’s bloc vote. I said “next time, APC should present a ticket with a South easterner to split the SE bloc vote” . I didn’t say APC or Tinubu should have picked his running mate from the SE. The word next time was simply referring to the future. It’s APCs business if they want to present an all south ticket in the future, they already presented a Muslim-Muslim ticket, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

babtoundey:


So, it is until a they present a candidate or running mate from the south East before they can get vote. Judging by ypur presumption, the South westerners that voted LP (SE/N) and PDP (N/SS) ate fools.