DomPerignon:
A few years to independence, there was a great clamour by minority peoples wedged under the suffocating embrace of the "Big Three" nationalities to have their own respective regions carved out from the three existing regions.

The British only considered the plight of Western Cameron who argued that they were never part of Nigeria until after WW1 when they were partitioned from German Cameron by both the British and French following the Treaty of Versailles.

The fate of the other three conglomerate minority groups were ignored by the British and told to sort themselves out in a post colonial Nigeria.

These three heterogenous minority movements were:

1. The Middle-Belt movement

2. The Mid-West movement

3. The Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers movement.

Out of these three , only one succeeded in being granted autonomy and that was the Mid-West region.

The Middle-Belt and COR movement agitations were vehmently struck down by their respective northern and eastern parliaments.

Sir Ahmadu Bello of the northern region had already spelt out his Fulani agenda for his inherited colonial territory and had sworn to restart his grand father's jihad to convert the then so-called pagan provinces of the middle belt to Islam and total subjugation to the Sokoto Khalifate. The Sardunna defended all his desperate moves to frustrate and quash the minority agitation to be granted leave from the north by asserting that the so-called pagan provinces were his to conquer. He even coined a phrase that was until Buhari's second misadventure , very popular in the north which was "one north".

As for the most restive and most divisive region to the East, all attempts by minority groups in the COR movement to be granted leave from the colonial lumped assembly fell on similar deaf ears .

But to the west , a referendum was granted and a plebiscite reached by the minorities to leave the then western region.

The motion for a plebiscite was even moved by a Yoruba parliamentarian first in Ibadan and after the decision was reached read on the floor of the federal parliament by another Yoruba parliamentarian.

So why out of three regions , why was it only the Yoruba dominated western region that heeded to the plight of their minorities ?

Why did the Ibo dominated eastern region refuse to even have the motion debated at Enugu ?

BabaRamota1980:
Ibos themselves have become a minority tribe in Nigeria. Ijaws, a once minority, now dominates over Ibo.

VVVOLTS:
If your future is uncertain, look behind you

Let the ibo remember that what happened during the civil war,

Ojukwu, the son of a billionaire started a war, ran away and later made a statement that no one should allow such a history to be repeated ever

One guy on tvc few days ago said " the reason we Nigerians don't value our democracy and our independence is because most of us didn't fight or shed blood for it, if we labored for it, we won't take it with levity

To the topic, if you set your house on fire during the day, where will you sleep when night comes?

It is well!

DatNiggaDaz:
Goal post shifting is not allowed
Division & Tribalism will not work this time.
" it will favour me & my family ". For those of you who supported Tinubu what sayeth thou"

Ronulites, ronu

DomPerignon:



See who is preaching against division and tribalism

You spent 7ys on Biafran heat demanding for this with your IPOB propaganda lies on other nationalities.

Now that we are countering your false revisionism , you dey cry tribalism.