Toyin Adepoju.
What are the justifications for these claims if you have read them?
Where did Sanusi Lamido make the claims?
Substantiate your claims even if you have no opinions.
OAA
Vote for majority rule at the centre come 2023.
Sent from my Galaxy
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From: Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com>
Date: 02/10/2021 18:37 (GMT+00:00)
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Thought For Today
Achebe made a similar point as Chidi.
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is referenced as making a similar claim.
It would be informative to read the justifications of these claims.
I don't have an opinion on these claims.
Thanks Chidi for the analysis on the evil potential of the current horror in the SE.
I suspect the fed govt and its terrorist alliance as being behind it.
thanks
toyin
On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 at 17:51, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--If there were negotiated agreements for the surrender of Biafra in 1970, can Chidi Anthony Opara share with us the contents of the agreements or copies of the agreements, between Biafra and the Federal Republic of Nigeria?
Biafra side was and is still vanquished - Chidi Anthony Opara.In what way was, and is, Biafra side still vanquished? As far as we know, the present day Bayelsa State belonged to the Eastern Region which was a part of Biafra as declared by Ojukwu on May 30, 1967. It is undeniable that the Biafran side has produced a President of Nigeria after the end of the war as personified by Goodluck Ebelechukwu Jonathan. Mr. Opara's assertion would imply that Biafra was solely an Igbo republic and that it constitutes vanquishment of the Igbo not to have elected one of them President of Nigeria after the war as an entitlement. However, an Igbo, out of over two hundred Nigerian tribes that have never waged war for disintegration of Nigeria, had been Vice President of Nigeria; not less than four Igbo had been President of the Nigerian Senate; there had been Igbo Deputy President of the Senate; and Nigeria has had Igbo Speaker of the House of Reps. Post civil war Nigerian masses have been vanquished and the vanquishers are all from the major ethnic groups.
The Igbos in spite of the marginalization thrown at them since after the civil war have made tremendous progress as a result of their doggedness, resourcefulness and a disposition to live in peace, even with hostile compatriots - Chidi Anthony Opara.
Since Igbo political elites, public servants and business men and women are of the same DNA as their counterparts in other ethnic groups in Nigeria, it is absolute nonsense to claim that the Igbos have been marginalized since after the war. On the contrary, Arthur Ezenukpo said a while ago, "I went to the North, they didn't know who I was. They gave me $12 million for the construction of Kano TV in 1980. I didn't have one naira then. It was the same thing in Katsina, Borno and Kaduna. Then they put me in oil business. They didn't care where I came from. Tell me any Igbo man who can do that." https://punchng.com/only-god-can-make-igbo-man-president-arthur-eze/Arthur Ezenukpo said that he was put in oil business, by northerners who are supposed to be in the forefront of vanquishing and relegating the Igbo, but he didn't say how. Arthur Eze, as he is popularly known, is a dollar billionaire after he was dashed an Oil Block, OML 109, located just 12 miles off the shores of Nigeria that encompassed some 773 square kilometres with estimated 2.2 billion barrels of crude oil. This doggedness and resourcefulness among Nigeria's political/business class in appropriating to themselves wealth that belongs to all of us is cross ethnic and not limited to the Igbo alone. And the idea of the Igbo living in peace with hostile compatriots is contradicted by the former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Anayo Ethelbert Okorocha, when he appeared in Online Weekly Trust of Saturday, 2 July 2011. He stated, "I will always say I am a Northerner and I'm very proud of it. The East gave birth to me, the North gave me life and the West empowered me financially- The North gave me life and made me who I am today and there is no reason why I should forget that. They are everything to me." One cannot say that the Igbo, since 1974, have rebuilt their economic dominance of Nigeria and yet claim that the Igbo as an ethnic group is marginalised. If we want to be truthful, the masses of Nigeria have been marginalised by the minority ethnic elites across the country.
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com>
Sent: 30 September 2021 22:34
To: USA African Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Thought For TodayImmediately after the Biafra-Nigeria civil war ended in 1970, following the negotiated surrender of Biafra, all agreements reached that necessitated the surrender were abandoned by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
The "no victor, no vanquished" declared became a mere slogan. Everything was done by the Federal Government of Nigeria to show to the world that there is a victor and a vanquished. The Biafra side was and still is the vanquished.
Political and economic policies were formulated and enunciated to make sure that the "stubborn Igbos", who form the majority and most active citizenry of the defunct Biafra, "do not become threats again in Nigeria".
By 1974, four years after the civil war, the Igbos have rebuilt their economic dominance through trading. Aba, Onitsha, Nnewi and others have regained their positions as prominent trading posts in West Africa (Nay, Africa).
On October 1st 1979, Nine years after the civil war, Dr. Alexander Ekwueme, an Igbo from Anambra state became the Vice-president of Nigeria.
The arrowhead of the civil war, late Chief Emeka Ojukwu returned home from exile in 1982 and joined national politics. In every forum where he spoke, he called for national reintegration of the Igbos and expressed belief in an equitable one Nigeria.
Late Chief Emeka Ojukwu was to be buried with full national honours as a retired military officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The Igbos in spite of the marginalizations thrown at them since after the civil war have made tremendous progress as a result of their doggedness, resourcefulness and a disposition to live in peace, even with hostile compatriots.
The current violence in Igboland in the name of whatever, would erode the tremendous progress made by Igbos so far and send the region back to the 1970-1973 era.
Thank you all for your time.
Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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