THE BEST EXISTENTIAL THERAPY FOR NIGERIA IS TO COMPEL GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON TO UNDO WHAT HE STARTED i.e. LEADING HIS BOYS BACK TO THEIR BARRACKS ! ! !

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BRITISH DEMONIC COLONIALISM WILL ALWAYS BE EXPOSED NO MATTER FOR HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN BURIED

THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS SURFACE ON GOD'S APPOINTED TIME, NO MATTER FOR HOW LONG DEVIL'S CHILDREN SUPPRESS IT. See how an OCTOGENARIAN was preserved Alive TILL HE CONFESSED HOW BRITISH COLONIAL BRIGANDS MALIGNED OUR AFRICAN COMMUNITIES, using their Divide & Rule Politics of British Slave Traders, THE SAME POLICY KILLED INDIA and PAKISTAN but Nigerians are blind for ever.. Amen! !

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BRITISH BORN HAROLD SMITH CONFESSED &
APOLOGISED FOR THEIR MANIPULATING OF NIGERIA’S PRE-INDEPENDENT CENSUS AND ELECTION TO
FAVOUR THE MORE SUBMISSIVE NORTHERNERS.

The man Harold Smith is not new in Nigerian
history. He is one of the architects of colonial
foundation that midwife Nigerian independence in
1960.

I met him in a meeting three weeks ago where he
opened up a bit about the lingering problem in
Africa especially; Nigeria unbalanced protracted
social political situations. We asked if he could
make this known to the media. His response was
“I am in my 80s now; I have agreed but in the
past ‘they’ did not want me to say anything, but
now I don’t want to go to my grave without
telling the truth about the atrocities perpetrated in
Africa by the colonialists.
Brothers and sisters; on Ben TV last Thursday,
Harold Smith was on a program to reveal what
went behind the scene before the independence.
The Oxford University graduate had this to say
about his role in Nigeria pre and after
independence era.
‘Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa.
Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed
Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern
region; strength, intelligence, determination to
succeed, well established history, complex but
focused life style, great hope and aspirations… the
East is good in business and technology, the west
is good in administration and commerce, law and
medicine, but it was a pity we planned our
agenda to give power “at all cost” to the
northerner.
They seemed to be submissive and silly of a kind.
Our mission was accomplished by destroying the
opposition at all fronts. The west led in the fight
for the independence, and was punished for
asking for freedom.

THEY WILL NOT RULE NIGERIA!

Harold Smith confessed that the Census results
were announced before they were counted.
Despite seeing vast land with no human but
cattle in the north, we still gave the north 55
million instead of 32 Million. This was to be used
to maintain their majority votes and future power
bid. He stated that the West without Lagos was
the most populous in Nigeria at that time but we ignored that.
The north was seriously encouraged to go into
the military. According to him, they believed that
the south may attend western education, but
future leaders will always come from military
background. Their traditional rulers were to be
made influential and super human. The
northerners were given accelerated promotions
both in the military and civil service to justify their
superiority over the
south. Everything was to work against the south.

We truncated their good plan for their future. “I
was very sorry for the A.G; it was a great party
too much for African standard. We planned to
destroy Awolowo and Azikwe well, the west and
the east and sowed a seed of discord among
them”.

We tricked Azikwe into accepting to be president
having known that Balewa will be the main man
with power. Awolowo has to go to jail to cripple
his genius plans for a greater Nigeria.

However, Harold Smith justified their British
agenda of colonialism in Nigeria, which he
believed was originally to help build Africa after
the ruins of slave trade, but lamented that the
British only looked after themselves and not after
Nigerian interest.
The British really let Nigeria down. When I
see Nigerians being accused of fraud and from
what I saw on the streets of Lagos; the British
were worst fraudsters.

Looking at the northern leaders now he said,

“IF THEY HAVE ANY AGENDA IN NIGERIA AT ALL, SADLY IT IS ONLY FOR THE NORTH, AND NOTHING FOR NIGERIA.

He stated that the British look after the British people
and this is so all over the world. He said the time
has come now to see people of intelligent minds
with an open and inclusive agenda for all
Nigerians in power…people who will really look
after Nigerians large population…but ”I still
curiously and sorrowfully see now that the British
has not let go of Nigeria…her wealth,. her
potentials, her future.

He opined that the Caucasian people now
assert themselves as the keeper of the “New Age”
keys. He therefore said that it is only logical for
Europeans to maintain their position of power,
scientific superiority, economic exploitation, they
must continue to perpetuate their lies and
falsehoods and this is the most unkindest cut of
all in relation to Nigeria situation!
According to him, Nigeria, a great nation was
crippled not because of military juntas or corrupt
leaders alone but by the British and American fear
of Nigeria great future. He confessed, “The fear of
the place that will be our ‘dumping ground’ really
occupied our minds”.
Some of the things he said were not new to
Nigerians or to the whole world but hearing it
from the horse’s mouth is quite revealing and
established more reality zones. He finally
submitted that the colonial masters have caused
havoc while they were in Africa, and planted
timed bombs when they finally left. What we see
since independence, the administration of new
internal colonial masters by fellow Nigerians
holding sway
in power is doing more damage to Nigeria.
Instead of detonating the time bombs planted by
the British, the north is planting mines.
He added that ‘It was my duty to carry out all of
the above and I was loyal to my country.
Nigerians should try to be loyal to their country
leaders and followers alike. Love your country.
You have got the potentials to be great again and
the whole world knows this’.
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British interests, Nigerian tragedy

Michael Leapman on cabinet papers that recall the starving children of the Biafran war

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Biafra was one of the great emotive causes of the late Sixties. The name still conjures up images of emaciated children, close to death, starved as a result of the blockade imposed by the Nigerian Federal Government to defeat the secession of the country's Eastern Region. I was there, and the images do not fade.

Britain, the former coloniser of Nigeria and its main supplier of arms, could not escape involvement. As the outcry over the famine grew, Harold Wilson's government came under attack at home and abroad for providing the weapons that tightened the noose on Biafra.

The war began in 1967. Cabinet papers for that year, just released, show how the decision to continue arming Nigeria was not based on arguments for or against secession, or on the interests of its people, but on backing the likely winner. It is a case study in realpolitik. As one Commonwealth Office briefing document to the prime minister put it: "The sole immediate British interest is to bring the [Nigerian] economy back to a condition in which our substantial trade and investment can be further developed."

The Biafran secession was the culmination of a long period of tribal and regional unrest in Nigeria that had come to the boil with the assassination in January 1966 of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Prime Minister, in a coup led by General Johnson Ironsi. The new military ruler was an Ibo, the dominant tribal group of the Eastern Region.

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In May that year, thousands of Ibos were massacred in the Northern Region in riots against Ironsi's regime. A further coup in July was led by Maj- Gen Yakubu Gowon. Fearful of renewed massacres, the Ibos of the East sought autonomy under their military governor, Col Odumegwu Ojukwu. He declared the region's independence, as the state of Biafra, in May 1967.

As more recent conflicts in Eastern Europe show, it is hard to judge the rights and wrongs of other people's ethnic fears and hatreds. In any case, the cabinet papers make clear that right and wrong were the last considerations on anyone's mind. Oil, trade and the protection of British citizens dominated the decision-making process. If today's Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, really wants to introduce an ethical basis for policy-making, he should read the file to see how radically he needs to change the diplomatic mindset.

The bulk of Nigeria's foreign earnings derived from oil and most of it was in the Eastern Region. Shell-BP, then partly owned by the British government, was the largest producer. After secession, Col Ojukwu demanded that royalties for oil production should be paid to Biafra and not to the Federal Government. Shell agreed to make a "token payment" of pounds 250,000. The Commonwealth Office at first proposed to support this decision on the grounds that Col Ojukwu was in de facto control of the oilfields. Harold Wilson bridled at that: "Dangerous argument - cf Rhodesia" he scrawled in the margin of the policy paper. Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence in 1965 but Britain was urging that nobody should recognise it, despite the regime's de facto control.

Gen Gowon imposed a blockade on Biafra, which meant that no oil could be exported anyway. This was a blow for the British economy, already floundering in the crisis that led to devaluation later in the year. Now the prime object of Whitehall was to get the blockade lifted. An important lever fell into British hands when Gen Gowon asked for more arms: 12 jet fighter- bombers, six fast patrol boats, 24 anti-aircraft guns.

George Thomas, Minister of State at the Commonwealth Office, was sent to Lagos. The Commonwealth Office note to Wilson about the mission was explicit: "If Gowon is helpful on oil, Mr Thomas will offer a sale of anti-aircraft guns.''

The plan went awry. Gen Gowon would not lift the blockade but he got his guns anyway; planes and boats were refused, but the Nigerians were permitted to take delivery of two previously ordered patrol boats - which ironically helped enforce the ban on Shell-BP's oil shipments.

In August the Biafrans scored a military success (their only one, as it turned out) when they marched into the Mid-West Region and occupied Benin. This provoked a rethink in Whitehall. The Commonwealth Office set out five choices. A and B involved maintaining or increasing arms to Nigeria, C was to stop all supplies, D to promote a peace initiative and E a combination of the last two. Thomas wrote to Wilson, holidaying in the Scillies, recommending Option E. That view might have prevailed had not Sir David Hunt, British ambassador in Lagos and a keen advocate of the Federal cause, flown to Britain and persuaded the government to continue providing arms.

Soon the war turned in Gowon's favour and in November the flexible Thomas wrote to Wilson again, proposing this time that arms supplies be stepped up: "It seems to me that British interests would now be served by a quick Federal victory."

That victory came, but not quickly.During 1967 the words "famine" or "hunger" appeared nowhere in the hundreds of official documents devoted to the conflict. They would not emerge until 1968, when I and other reporters went to Biafra and witnessed the scenes for ourselves.

By then the policy was too set to be altered. Too many reputations depended on the war's outcome. The conflict went on for another two years. Millions of children starved. How many would still be alive if that one slim chance had been grabbed back in August 1967 and Option E, E for ethical, had prevailed?

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THE DISEASE NIGERIA IS SUFFERING FROM IS MILITOCRACY THAT THE GREAT ZIK OF AFRICA GAVE A PRESCRIPTION IN 1972 IN A THREE-HOUR LECTURE HE ENTITLED THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DIARCHY AT THE MEDICAL CONFERENCE HALL OF LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL. IDI-ARABA CAMPUS.

But no one paid him the attention his wise counseling deserved and proclaimed as a safe escape route from the military domination of the post war Nigerian nation, rather all academicians; professors lecturers, engineers, lawyers, et cetera, carried piles of their curriculum vitae to General Yakubu Gowon at Dodan Barracks begging for political appointments. Forty years later, that is approximately today we are all suffering for not heeding the sagacious counsel and political advice of that great Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe !!!

I AM A FULL GROWN BIAFRAN WAR VETERAN WHO FOUGHT AS A NINETEEN YEAR OLD AND THE BLOOD OF MY PROUD ANCESTORS DEMANDS THAT I RECORD THIS POST HOC THERAPEUTIC PRESCRIPTION FOR NIGERIA TOBE HEALED AS MY CANDID ASSISTANCE FOR POSTERITY

THE BEST EXISTENTIAL THERAPY FOR NIGERIA IS TO COMPEL GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON TO UNDO WHAT HE STARTED i.e. LEADING HIS BOYS BACK TO THEIR BARRACKS ! ! !

DR JACOB GOWON NEEDS TO KNEEL DOWN IN ENUGU AND PUBLICLY BEG GOD TO FORGIVE HIM FOR UNKNOWINGLY KILLING HIS BLOOD BROTHERS FROM 1967 TILL 1970

 

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How Does A British Doctor Of Political Science Prefer To Answer General Jacob Gowon That His British Instructors Change To ‘Yakubu’ To Give Him “YAKUBU GOWON” That Is Neither A Full Muslim Nor Christian Nomenclature! Whichever He Maintains Now He Needs To Come Down To Enugu, Publicly Kneel Down And Pray That The Almighty Creator Forgives All Those Who Killed Seven Million Biafrans. He Must Pray On Behalf Of All Officers And Men That Were Under His Command And Obafemi Awolowo Who Forced Him To Use Starvation, Which A Sanhurst Trained Officer He Knew Was Against Geneva Conventions And "The Rules Of Engagement",,, Thus His Camouflage Of " Nigeria Prays" Is Hypocritical.

 

1. DOCTOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OR GENERAL JACOB GOWON that his British instructors changed to YAKUBU to get the amorphous YAKUBU GOWON, which is neither A FULL Muslim name nor a FULL Christian name. Split Personality Syndrome is the result.
2. WHICHEVER HE PREFERS AND ANSWERS FOR NOW, HE NEEDS TO COME DOWN TO ENUGU, PUBLICLY KNEEL DOWN IN OUR STADIUM AND PRAY THAT HIS NUCEAR FAMILY BE SAVED AND THAT THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR FORGIVES ALL THOSE WHO KILLED SEVEN MILLION BIAFRANS.
3. HE MUST PRAY ON BEHALF OF ALL OFFICERS AND MEN THAT WERE UNDER HIS COMMAND FROM 1966 – 1970 AND MEMBERS OF HIS WAR COUNCIL, especially CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO WHO FORCED HIM TO USE STARVATION, WHICH AS A BRITISH SANHURST TRAINED OFFICER HE KNEW WAS AGAINST GENEVA CONVENTIONS AND "THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT",,, .....
4. THIS HIS CAMOUFLAGE OF "NIGERIA PRAYS" HE INAUGURATED IN HIS TRUE HOMETOWN IS HYPOCRITICAL. WHY DID HE THE SON OF A CLERGYMAN & A MIDDLE-BELT CHRISTIAN MURDER FELLOW CHRISTIANS IN THE SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR LEADING MUSLIMS TO ANNIHILATE THEM … AND
5. AGAIN NOW THAT HE HAS SUCCESSFULLY TRACED HIS GENEALOGICAL ROOTS AND TRULY KNOWS HE IS AN INDIGENE OF ABAKALIKI IN EBONYI STATE NOW ...,, IS HE SO ASHAMED OF HIMSELF & HIS GENUINE ANCESTRY THAT HE REALISED IT WAS AN ABAKALIKI MAN THAT FOUGHT AGAINST AN NNEWI MAN ..

 

 

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THE MAN ON SEAT OF POWER IS A COWARD! . . . DID I NOT WARN EVERYONE THAT HE IS/WAS ONE OF THE NOTABLE STRAGGLERS IN OBASANJO'S TEAM WHO CRAFTILY DODGED REAL BATTLES DURING THE CIVIL WAR ? ? ?

2. ALL THE REAL WARRIORS IN THAT GENOCIDE DIED IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE FRONTS OR LATER SOON AFTER THE FRATRICIDAL WAR? THESE REMNANTS ARE USING BEING SEEN & REFERRED TO AS "GENERAL THIS, GENERAL THAT", JUST TO COVER UP THEIR INFERIORITY COMPLEXES?

3. FOR THEM NIGERIA AS A WHOLE IS THE BOOTY OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR BRITAIN, RUSSIA, CHINA, EGYPT AND NIGER etc ASSISTED THEM TO WIN WITH STARVING 7 MILLION BIAFRAN WOMEN, CHILDREN & WE COMBATANTS TO DEATH & FORCED SURRENDER.

4 . OTHERWISE, HOW COME "A 48 HOURS POLICE ACTION TO SUBDUE BIAFRA" TURNED INTO "3 WHOLE YEARS OF GENOCIDAL TACTICS AGAINST "THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS" THAT OJUKWU & BIAFRANS KEPT? ? ?

5. SHAME ON ALL WHO ARE STILL ALIVE AND ARE PREPARING FOR ANOTHER, contracted South African mercenaries already NIGERIA ARMY CANNOT WITH ANY WAR WITHOUT FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ! ! MORE SUPER POWERS ARE NOW FULLY AWARE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN 1967 - 970 AND CANNOT BE DECEIVED AGAIN BY BRITAIN AND USA AS BEFORE....

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Jude Danmbaezue WHY DAVID CAMERON & BARACK OBAMA TEAMED UP , RIGGED THE 2015 ELECTIONS, HOISTED THEIR MUHAMMAD BUHARI IS EVENTUALLY BEING REVEALED. THE POLITICAL NIT WITS WHO ARRANGED FOR MY FUNERAL BECAUSE I PREDICTED THAT THE 478 MAN VISIT TO USA WAS A WASTE OF TIMEMAND MONEY can now see that intellectual wizards see beyond commoners! !

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Jude Danmbaezue IT IS A SHAME THAT A BRITISH DOCTORATE DEGREE HOLDER PREFERS TO ANSWER GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON, M why did he pretend e was a student to escape being roped in during Buka Suka Dimka COUP D'ETAT whereas BISALLA COURAGEOUSLY FACED THE MILITARY FIRING SQUAD there are many cowards in uniform, both serving & retired SHAME ON ALL YOU ! ! ! !

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Jude Danmbaezue DOCTOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OR GENERAL JACOB GOWON that his British instructors change to YAKUBU ..... NEEDS TO COME DOWN TO ENUGU, PUBLICLY KNEEL DOWN AND PRAY THAT THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR FORGIVES ALL THOSE WHO KILLED SEVEN MILLION BIAFRANS. HE MUST PRAY ON BEHALF OF ALL OFFICERS AND MEN THAT WERE UNDER HIS COMMAND AND OBAFEMI AWOLOWO WHO FORCED HIM TO USE STARVATION, WHICH A SANHURST TRAINED OFFICER HE KNEW WAS AGAINST GENEVA CONVENTIONS AND "THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT",,, ..... THIS HIS CAMOUFLAGE OF " NIGERIA PRAYS" IS HYPOCRITICAL....DID HE A MIDDLE BELT CHRISTIAN NOT MURDER FELLOW CHRISTIANS IN THE SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR LEADING MUSLIMS TO ANNIHILATE THEM AND AGAIN NOW HE KNOWS HE IS AN INDIGENE OF ABAKALIKI IN EBONYI STATE NOW ...,, IS HE SO ASHAMED OF HIS GENUINE ANCESTRY NOW HE REALISED IT WAS AN ABAKALIKI MAN THAT FOUGHT AGAINST AN NNEWI MAN

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I MIGHT AS WELL BRING TOGETHER ANOTHER LENGTHY POST ON THE SAME ISSUE OF GENUINE FORGIVENESS AND REPARATION OWED THE IGBOS

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IT SOUNDS LIKE SWEET MUSIC. AT LEAST ONE HUMANITARIAN GENIUS STILL LIVES IN ODUDUWA REPUBLIC. HOW MANY YOROUBAS KNOW THAT IF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO HAD SECEDED AS HE AGREED WITH CHUKWUEMEKA ODUNEGWU OJUKWU, THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A CIVIL WAR. SEARCH ALL MY POSTS IN THE LAST 12 WEEKS AND SEE THE HISTORICAL TRUTHS ONLY PROF WOLE SOYINKA KNOWS ALL THE DETAILS BUT SURPRISINGLY KEEPS MUTE. SAME WITH MAJOR ADEGBOYEGA, THE ONLY SURVIVING OFFICER OF THE FIVE THAT CARRIED OUT THE JANUARY 1966 COUP, AND THE PERSONAL SECRETARY TO AWOLOWO WHO OPENED UP SLIGHTLY LAST MONTH.

A HUMANITARIAN YORUBA GENUIS APOLOGISES TO THE IGBOS

Yoruba to Igbos: “We’re Sorry for the Civil War Atrocities” – Femi Aribisala Pleads for Unity

Among the different ethnic groups in Nigeria, the Igbo are without a doubt, one of the most remarkable. So remarkable, indeed, that some have even traced their ancestry to biblical Israel, as the far-flung descendants of Jacob, the Jewish patriarch. Gad, Jacob’s seventh son, is said to have had three sons who settled in South-eastern Nigeria.
These sons; Eri, Arodi and Areli, are believed to have fathered clans in Igbo-land and to have founded such Igbo towns as Aguleri, Arochukwu, Owerri and Umuleri.

By Femi Aribisala, Lagos.

Igbo Genius.

Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very resourceful and ingenious. Indeed, this has often been the cause of their envy and dislike by others. However, more enlightened non-Igbo Nigerians see this as a cause for celebration. While today, the centre-point of Nigeria’s manufacturing is situated in the Lagos/Ogun axis, there is no doubt that the real locomotive of Nigeria’s indigenous industrialization lies farther afield in Aba and in the mushrooming cottage-industries of the Igbo heartland.
Igbo-menIn one of the paradoxes of Nigerian history, the terrible civil war provoked homespun industrialization in the South-East. Military blockade left the Igbo with little alternative than to be inventive in a hurry. While Nigeria as a nation failed woefully to harness this profitably after the war, it has nevertheless ensured that the Igbo are at the forefront of Nigeria’s economic development today.
Indeed, the way we disregard “made in Aba” today is the same way we disregarded “made in Japan” yesterday. For those of us who believe against the odds that Nigeria is the China of tomorrow, we equally recognize that the ingenuity of the Igbo is an indelible part of the actualization of that manifest destiny.
Hall of Fame.
The Igbo have been a great credit to Nigeria. They have given us a great number of our favourite sons, including international statesman Nnamdi Azikiwe; military leader Odumegwu Ojukwu; regional leader Michael Okpara; vice-president Alex Ekwueme; mathematical genius Chike Obi; literary icon Chinua Achebe; world-class economist Pius Okigbo; world boxing champion Dick Tiger; international statesman Emeka Anyaoku; and world-class artist Ben Enwonwu. Permit me to include in this illustrious list even some of my very good Igbo friends: Pat Utomi, Ojo Madueke, Olisa Agbakoba, Joy Ogwu, and Stanley Macebuh.
Let us get one thing straight: Nigeria would be a much poorer country without the Igbo.
Indeed, Nigeria would not be Nigeria without them. Can you imagine the Super Eagles without the Igbo? Not likely! Who can forget Nwankwo Kanu, Jay Kay Okocha and our very own Emmanuel Amuneke?
Can you imagine Nollywood without the Igbo? Impossible! Just think of Stella Damascus-Aboderin; Rita Dominic and Mike Ezuruonye.
And then there are the diaspora Igbo who many are unaware are of Igbo descent, including concert singer and actor Paul Robeson; Oscar award-winner Forest Whitaker; mega-pastor T.D. Jakes; Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu; and BAFTA actor award-winner Chiwetel Ejiofor.
You may well wonder why I have found it necessary to present this small litany of Igbo who-is-who. I think it is important to emphasise how the Igbo have been very vital to the Nigerian project. They have more than represented Nigeria creditably in virtually all walks of life. This makes it all the more absurd that this same people have been consistently denied the position of executive president of the country in all but six months of Nigeria’s 54 year history.
Civil-war legacy
Of course, a major reason for this was the 1967-1970 civil-war which had the Igbo on the losing side. But that was over 40 years ago. If there is really to be “no victor, no vanquished” in anything more than mere rhetoric, then the rehabilitation of the Igbo back into post civil-war Nigeria will not be complete until an Igbo man finally becomes president of the country.
That imperative should be of interest to every Nigerian nationalist, committed to the creation of one Nigeria where everyone has a deep sense of belonging. The problem, however, is that the Igbo themselves seem to be their own worst enemies in this regard. They appear to be doing their very best to ensure that this inevitable eventuality continues to be denied and delayed.
The Igbo need to forgive Nigerians. No one who lived through the horrors that precipitated the secession of Biafra and led to the civil-war cannot but admit that the Igbo were abused and maltreated in one of the worst pogroms ever. It was not just that they were senselessly massacred in their own country; it was that they were butchered.
I remember vividly gory pictures of scores and scores of the Igbo with hands chopped up and with legs amputated. And then there were the ravages of the three-year civil-war itself, resulting in the death of millions of Igbo; many through starvation and attrition.
The end of the war brought no respite, as the Igbo were pauperized by fiscal decrees that wiped out their savings and their properties were blatantly sequestered by opportunists. All this is more than enough to destroy the spirit of any group of people. But God has been on the side of the Igbo.
It is a testament to their resilience that, in spite of this terrible affliction, they have survived, bounced back and have even triumphed in Nigeria. Forty years have now gone by. The Igbo may never forget what happened to them and, indeed, should never forget. But it is past time for them to forgive.
We Are Sorry.
This is one voice in the Nigerian wilderness saying to the Igbo from the depth of his heart: we are sorry. We are sorry for the way we mistreated you. We are sorry for the way we abused you. We are sorry for starving your children to death. We are sorry for killing your loved ones. We are sorry for stealing your properties.
We are sorry for making you feel unwanted in your own country. Please forgive us. It is time to forgive us. It is way past time for the Igbo to forgive Nigerians. We beg you in the name of God.
There was a civil war in the United States, but the defeated South rose from the ashes. Five of the last nine presidents of the United States have been from the South, including Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George Bush from Texas and Bill Clinton from Arkansas. The time is overdue for an Igbo president of Nigeria, but it is not going to happen as long as the Igbo continue to hold a grudge against Nigeria and Nigerians.
There is no question about it: the Igbos cannot elect a president of Nigeria on their own. To do so, they have to join forces with others. They have to form alliances with people from other parts of Nigeria. That is not going to happen as long as the Igbo continue to bear a grudge against practically everybody else.
The Igbo have a gripe against virtually all the people they need. They have this tendency to antagonise their possible alliance partners. They keep dredging up the past, refusing to let sleeping dogs lie. Until they drop these gripes, they are not likely to realise their dreams.

Demonising Yorubas
For example, the Igbo have this tendency to demonise the Yorubas. It is alarming when reading the Vanguard blogs today to see the animosity often expressed between Igbo and Yoruba contributors. The hatred is most unhealthy. Insults are traded with abandon. What is the point of this? For how long will the Igbo demand emotional retribution from every Yoruba for the betrayal of Awolowo? Most of the contributors were not even born when the civil-war took place more than a generation ago.
There is now even transferred aggression against Babatunde Fashola, who made the blunder of repatriating some destitute Igbo from Lagos back to their home-states. The man has apologised for the infraction. He should be forgiven. Blunders are not the exclusive preserve of the non-Igbo. The Igbo have made more than a few themselves and will yet make others.
Paradoxically, the redemption of the Igbos to prominent national office moved apace under President Obasanjo; a Yoruba man. Recognising that Igbos are some of the most seasoned, competent and experienced public-servants, Obasanjo relied heavily on their expertise.
Thanks to him, we got Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at Finance, Charles Soludo at Central Bank, Obiageli Ezekwesili at Education, Ndidi Okereke at the Stock Exchange, and Dora Akunyili at NAFDAC. Indeed, Igbo statesmen came into more prominence under Obasanjo than did Yoruba statesmen. But for some strange reason, this does not seem to have succeeded in assuaging the ill-feeling of the Igbos toward the Yorubas.

Bad Politicians
Within the framework of Nigerian politics, the Igbo also have a fundamental problem. Out of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, the Igbo have by far the worst politicians. They have no recognizable leaders, and have no discernible strategy as to how to negotiate power at the centre. As a result, the Igbo have tended to be short-changed at the federal level. Traditionally, the inconsequential ministries, such as the Ministry of Information, have been zoned to them.
The Igbo need to work out a plan that will take them to Aso Rock. First, they need to choose and groom a de-tribalised leader of the Azikiwe mould who can be sold to non-Igbos. Then, they need to give him undiluted support. At the moment the internal politics of the Igbo militates against this. The Igbo seem to hate themselves as much as they hate others. They seem to fight themselves with as much venom as they fight others. Every potential Igbo leader seems to have more enemies within than without. This must not be allowed to continue.
The Igbo need to help themselves in order that their friends can help them. In this centenary of Nigeria’s amalgamation, as we embark on the arduous process of crafting our future through a National Conference, we salute the Igbo for their fortitude and implore them to stake their claim in Nigeria. Nigeria cannot survive without the Igbo.

AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED THIS IS THE NEXT LEADER OF ALL THE ODUDUWAS TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF AWOLOWO AND OBASANJO

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Jude Danmbaezue WHEN SHALL WE STOP RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, PROSPERITY GOSPEL PREACHING, BUYING JET PLANES AND START PRODUCING SCIENTISTS INSTEAD OF CLUELESS YOUTHS WHO WALLOW IN KIDNAPPING, PROSTITUTION, DRUG PUSHING AND REGIONAL MILITANCY WHEN, WHERE AND HOW ,,,

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Jude Danmbaezue NOW SEE THERE ARE YOUTHS IN NIGERIA WHO KNOW THE TRUTH, WE HOPE ALL THE YOUTHS CAN COME TOGETHER AND REUNITE BEFORE CHASING THE OLD FOOLS AWAY..............http://click.publisher-news.com/AVCmDmgXxQR8dE9Q79LU/1996591 THIS IS ANOTHER NEW GENERATION LEADER IN THE MAKING, I HOPE THE ALMIGHTY IS IN THIS NEW ENLIGHTENMENT, GREAT IS HIS NAME AND DIVINE INTERVENTION AMEN

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MY LOVELY KIDS WILL NEVER BE SO BRAINWASHED THAT THEY WILL MISS OUT BECOMING OBJECTIVE SCIENTISTS THEY ARE IN UNIVERSITIES FOR; HUMAN MEDICINE, COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES

TYPE INTO GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE KING LEOPOLD II LETTER TO MISSIONARIES IN 1883, TO SEE WHY AFRICANS CAN ONLY READ & BELIEVE THEN YOU WILL BE ENLIGHTENED ENOUGH TO APPRECIATE WHY WE ELDERS NEED TO REALLY ERASE THE MIS-EDUCATION SO WE CAN THEN REORIENT OUR YOUTH. THIS IS THE RESOLVE OF DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, EXISTENTIAL FAMILY THERAPIST STATES THUS:

YOU CAN TAKE A COW, A A DONKEY OR HORSE TO THE STREAM BUT YOU CANNOT FORCE ANY OF THEM TO DRINK! AS AN ELDER, IT IS MY DUTY TO FOREWARN THE YOUTHS OF THE FUTILITY OF APING IMPORTED RELIGIONS AND THE WHITEMAN’S CULTURE; IT IS LEFT FOR THEM TO HEED MY COUNSELLING! WE MUST TEACH THEM TO READ & REASON & INVENT!