Raskimonojendor:

That was the first betrayal recorded in Nigerian politics. Awolowo and other political parties were busy waiting for Zik in Asaba. Only for them to realise that Zik had played a fast one on them.

Even Kwame Nkrumah was shocked at the event.
Due to hatred, Zik settled for a ceremonial president position given to him by the Fulani.

illicit:
Azikwe was well informed about the first Millitary coup too

WealthyNigerian:
The Amala brouhaha has once again betrayed the ulterior motive of those that tried to force Obi on Nigerians

PoliteActivist:

As a non-tribal unbiased observer, I'd say your write-up is very biased and deceptively misleading. Here below are what some non-Ibos and fellow minorities have to say:

Goodvibes007:
Peter Obi's loss is extremely hurting the ibos. We know the sellout right from when Nigeria was created and they still keep licking the fulani's arses till date.

How Ibos Gave The NORTH The Edge To Run NIGERIA

How Zik allegedly betrayed Awo and pitched his tent with the North in 1959.
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The parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December, 1959. The result was a parliament that had no clear majority to form a government.

Zik’s National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon (NCNC) came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats.

Awolowo’s Action Group (AG), came 2nd with 1,992, 364 votes to get 73 seats.

However, Sir. Ahmadu Bello’s Northern People’s Congress (NPC) came a distant 3rd with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives, despite getting fewer public votes.

The above three major political parties in the election did not get enough seats to form a government. So, an alliance had to be formed to determine who would rule Nigeria. It was a no brainer that Zik’s NCNC and Awolowo’s Action Group should make a coalition government as they came first and second respectively.

Awolowo then humbled himself and volunteered to be a deputy prime minister or finance minister in a coalition government with Zik as the Prime Minister.

This was because Zik’s NCNC party had more public votes and seats than Awolowo’s Action Group.

Zik invited Awolowo’s team to Asaba, the gateway between the Yoruba’s western region and the Igbo’s Eastern region to hold coalition talks.

The talks were a clever ruse to keep Action Group hopes high, so that the party could be kept distracted from meeting with other minor parties for talks. Other junior parties included: Northern Elements Progressive Union with 8 seats: Mobolaje Grand Alliance with 6 seats: Igala Union with 4 seats: Independents Candidate with 4 seats: Igbira Tribal Union with 4 seats and the Niger Delta Congress with 1 seat.

While the Action Group team was waiting in Asaba for a meeting with the NCNC, they read in the newspapers that Zik and the NCNC had gone up North and clinched a deal with Ahmadu Bello on forming a coalition government with the Northern People’s Congress (NPC).

Tafawa Balewa would be the Prime Minister of Nigeria, while ZIk would be a ceremonial, Governor-General.

Even the President of Ghana, Dr. Nkrumah was shocked. He asked why ZIk, having expended so much energy, fighting for colonial emancipation and settling for a toothless bulldog role when Nigeria needed him the most.


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Zik wrote in his autobiography why he did not go for a coalition government with Awolowo
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In 1947, with over £13,500 raised from the Yoruba people and given to the NCNC. Zik had led other six prominent NCNC delegates to London to protest the obnoxious laws of Governor Arthur Richards.

The trip ended in failure with backbiting, abuses and accusation of theft leveled against Zik.

Zik’s opponents in the NCNC, accused him of squandering the money and the trust of Nigerians. Zik replied, insinuating that the Yoruba in the team, who were: Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, and Dr Olorunnimbe, were the problem.
There erupted a heated and prolonged press war among Zik’s political associates reminiscence of what happed in his West African Pilot and H.O Davie’s Political Panorama in the Daily Service. The incident spurred the Igbo in Lagos rushing to buy machetes in large numbers, thinking a tribal war was imminent. The Governor and his General Secretary, Hugh Foot quickly called ZIk and H.O Davies to order at the Government House. Zik went away with the resolve that “the Yoruba must not be allowed to rule over others in Nigeria”.

And later, Daily Service published the speech of Zik in 1949 about Igbo being destined by God to conquer and rule over others. That speech, among others, was later to explain why Zik rejected Awolowo’s offer of a coalition government in 1959 and instead decided to work with the FULANI

The Fulani had been reading Zik and the Igbo through the lens of his 1949 speech ever since. The Fulani’s way of neutralizing Zik when the opportunity came in 1959 was to offer him a powerless post, which surprisingly Zik and the NCNC dutifully accepted in place of being Nigeria’s first Prime Minister.

ZIk had thought that the Igbo could easily manipulate the Fulani unlike the educated Yoruba. He thus manipulated Balewa to arrest Awolowo in 1962 and to have him jailed for 10 years in 1963 for treasonable felony.

Zik also manipulated Balewa to remove from the Western Region the Edo, Urhobo, Isekiri and western Ijaw that account for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them Mid-Western Region.

Zik’s hatred for the Yoruba gave the Fulani the impetus to rule over others in Nigeria. The coup plotters tried to rectify Zik’s mistake in 1966. And unfortunately, they killed other ethnic group leaders and left their leaders, which resulted to the civil war.

Britain did not really hand over Nigeria to the Fulani, Nigeria was given over to the Fulani by the Igbo. However, to hold on to power in Nigeria, the Fulani enlisted the backing of the self-serving career politicians in England.

Has the Leopard changed its spots? No. The Igbo people have always voted for the Fulani since 1959 and continue to do so.

Goodvibes007:
How Ibos have always played slave to the Fulani.👇

1960 Azikiwe Saurdana (they outsmarted Zik and gave him a ceremonial president position) - Fulani/ibo

1979: Shagari/Ekwueme - Fulani/Ibo

1993: Tofa/Ugo - Fulani/Ibo

2003: Buhari/Okadigbo - Fulani/Ibo

2007: Buhari/ Ezeoke - Fulani/Ibo

2019: Atiku/ Peter Obi - Fulani/Ibo

LordGuru1:
We know your trademark, bloody Igbo Liar! Usual manipulative deceiver! OP's write-up is very accurate and sincere. Yoruba Youths are no more falling for your deceptions and manipulations as in the past. It is you that is wishing the truth of your ulterior motive remains covered. As usual you try to twist narrative to deceive people here. Don't get us started with the screen of Real Truths, not the manipulative one that you posted. We Yoruba Youths of this Era have started researching all the hidden historical truths. If you don't have the manipulative deceitful Igbo nature, see these attachments and you will thank OP.

vyncentino:
igbo are the real reason Nigeria is we're it is today,fact and truth are two different thing,if not the alliance ,azikiwe had with the North at that time,Nigeria will have been great today,u can never trust an igbo man never,come to Edo state they every were,when an Edo man never head any thing In igbo land, I pity who don't know igbo man

successmatters:


Just like Awolowo who was the brain behind it, dude planned it from prison to get himself free.

BiaflaOrDeath:
The Fulanis eventually took everything from them within few years and inflict everlasting pain on them.

We are different, what's the point of forcing yourselves on others, the drunkard fool Ironsi even had the chance to make things right but eventually worsen the situation because of greed.. the same greed is still is still affecting and destroying their descendants lowkey till today, they use to be about x2 of yorubas before but they just be abit above half now

PoliteActivist:
Note the circled

Isobug:
Lies and false narratives. That Amala celebration has celebrated for many years in Enugu. How come they have not been any excuse for it? You should guess well. The experience in the last general elections taught everyone a lesson or two. Particularly the Lagos experience.
It is well known to everyone who knows history that Awolowo introduced the mess we're in called Tribalism into politics. You are telling a story you don't know about. Keep shut if you don't have evidence

WealthyNigerian:
The Amalaible evil hearts against us, Help President Tinubu to make Nigeria truly Great and Prosperous! [/b]

Ibrahimcoomasie:

Even though this is different from the reason given by Azikiwe himself in his autobiography.

The circle is further proof why Nigeria is in a mess today..Aside fighting Awolowo and Balewa to ensure that a secession was not included in the constitution, so there is now this claim (your circles) again that he joined the North to ensure Nigeria stayed as one. This is disgraceful. The further explains why the Igbos always play second fiddle to the Fulanis.

PoliteActivist:


I think the mistake people make is equating Zik with Igbos. If you, as a Yoruba, grew up in the East and speak Igbo as fluently as any Igbo man, would you have same mindset as a typical Yoruba? Would you want the East to secede? Zik clearly had his own agenda, and had very good reasons for having it!

There erupted a heated and prolonged press war among Zik’s political associates reminiscence of what happed in his West African Pilot and H.O Davie’s Political Panorama in the Daily Service. The incident spurred the Igbo in Lagos rushing to buy machetes in large numbers, thinking a tribal war was imminent. The Governor and his General Secretary, Hugh Foot quickly called ZIk and H.O Davies to order at the Government House. Zik went away with the resolve that “the Yoruba must not be allowed to rule over others in Nigeria”.

PoliteActivist:


As a non-tribal unbiased observer, I'd say your write-up is very biased and deceptively misleading. Here below are what some non-Ibos and fellow minorities have to say:

Sharpsharp00123:
u igbos n your greed

There are 3 regions in Nigeria with every tribe ruling over their region

A northerner is d northern region ruler
A south easterner controls south east
But a south easterner also wants to rule over south west

Does that make sense to u?

There are 3 people n 3 things but one greedy one wants to take 2 out of 3 not minding if one doesn’t have any

Igbos greed introduced tribalism to Nigeria

PoliteActivist:


I don't think it was Igbos per se. I think it was ZIK! I honestly dont think at the time he primarily viewed himself as Ibo.
Also Biden is from the smallest state and a Catholic, which is less than ¼ of US. By your tribalistic mindset he shouldn't be President