Rejoinder to Tunde Adenobi's "Igbo: Dating Yoruba but Marrying Hausa/Fulani"

By

Ndubueze Godson III

biafraalways@yahoo.com

 

 

‘If the Igbo really, wanted to support a Yoruba, they would have supported Olu falea who was at that time, rightly or wrongly, the choice of the Yoruba” - Tunde Adenobi

 

Are you crazy? You can’t mean this, do you? Sorry I have to start our discussion in a not so gentle way but wait, who’s to say how a discourse should commence? It is the height of arrogance, a reckless one at that for assuming there are no ably qualified people in the East to steer your sunken nation back on course.  As atypical and topical Yoruba evidenced by your attempt to yet mislead the feeble minded again I wonder how long before you guys realize your deceitful rhetoric has been over used? Men with superb knowledge of what transpired in that hopeless banana republic would not be shocked to read such from you. My surprise only comes when I read facts filled honest narration of events in your Nigeria from one of you guys otherwise I expected this type of crappy gyration of yours. The level of ignorance at display can only be said to be mind boggling going by your limited understanding of the roles the Igbo have played and continue to play to your benefit. Whatever your Yoruba people said about “goat” my Igbo folks also have this to say about the same goat “the stuff that caused a dog to holler, bark, and screech is the same thing a “goat” saw but waved off as nothing to brood.”

 

My beef with the Yoruba from personal experience is always their knack for ingratitudeness, betrayal and not owning up to a defined stance and this tradition was glaring in your piece where history again was twisted to your favor. How ridiculous! By the way have you read your history lately compliments of the most revered Omo N’Oba Erediauwa of Bini? Did Oduduwa land from heaven chained (ludicrous) or was he a runaway thief who escaped death in Bini to form what’s known as Yoruba? At least you have at your disposal Gamji the site operated by your Hausa lords to drop your falsehood while most serious posts from non-Yoruba/Hausa/Bini who refused to be PC (political correct) are not published. Due to this writer’s refusal to be cowed, bought or outwitted/performed by you or your kinds my posts to that site never saw the light of day. Hopefully this would get you up your toes and eventually jumpstart your thinking with your real head.

 

NADECO’s initial vision was to garner and gather sympathy for the benefit of you guessed right, Yoruba based on the June 12th fallout. The Yoruba in their foolish thought wanted June 12th to be solely a Yoruba affairs and you wonder what were they thinking, didn’t the rest of the country participate in voting for Abiola, a Yoruba Muslim? It was not until the Igbo rushed to your rescue by joining NADECO did it begin to enjoy the national recognition and legitimacy it desired. The Igbo membership in this organ cannot be diminished, reduced or relegated to the background since men like Nduwuisi Kanu, Chima Ubani, Emeka Agbakoba, Joe Igbokwe, MCK Ajuluchukwu, Philip Umeadi, Chris Anyawu, George Mba these few to buttress played active and pivotal roles in your NADECO and with the exception of Mazi Ajuluchukwu the rest are still living. The Yoruba inability to extend a little credit, forget the equally important “Thank You” which your article reinforced is one of the major reasons why the Igbo find it difficult to forget all the evil roles you people have played to destroy us.

 

My friend, I am assuming we are, at your age and with your experience you should have understood the Igbo unrestricted participation in the fight for human rights, which is not complicated in the least bit, as a vigilant reader would infer. How did I know you asked? Well, I relocated to that qua-qua palm wine republic about then suffice it to say it was the Yoruba apathetic behavior that gave Abacha the needed impetus to hold on as can be seen from the upcoming names. Did you conveniently forgot the overwhelming numbers of men from your tribe and countless Bini indigenes that served the Abacha led junta? Here are few to get a handle, Lateef Jakande, Ebenezer Babatope, Sam Aluko, Ikimi,  and the numerous Generals (Diya, Adisa, Olarewajun etc), Brigadiers, Colonels, Majors of Yoruba extraction that didn’t see the need to topple a repressive regime despite their high number yet you want the readers to take you serious, right? Why didn’t Ernest Shonekan hand over the reign of power to his kith and kin, Abiola? Why did the master thief, Obasanjo utter that bunkum about “Abiola not the Messiah?” Why??? Whereas had an Igbo done all these we would continue to hear all sorts, I mean the usual noise and more lies.

 

Forget today’s PDP, which is populated by cross-carpet champions who you and I in agreement call political prostitutes, jobbers in the highest order without shame. Men who would sell their hearts and souls to the first bidder, a bunch of fair weather political minions whose obnoxious stench reek from north to south. And focus on the 1999 major political parties where you would find that ANPP was dominated by the Igbo first then Hausa and it was through their effort that Olu Falae secured the presidential spot of AD (Yoruba party) then in the hopes that come 2003 the benevolence would be reciprocated but we know what happened in 2003. It is my very strong opinion that their membership gave the legitimacy needed due to the Yoruba earlier attempt to tribalize it thereby reducing NADECO’s strength at the time.

 

What Internet web sites have you been visiting obviously you have not been to one of the authentic ones since your involvement has always I gather been with Gamji, which does not maintain fair and balanced views. Let me thus inform you that the same way you feel Emeka Ojukwu and Arthur “the crook” Nzeribe are bedfellows is how I see Obafemi Awolowo and Iyiola Omisore as birds of same feather and equals who has/had no shred of shame. If you disagree with this assessment then the only reasonable inference and/ or conclusion would be Emeka Ojukwu hardly share any similar ideals or behavior with the crook your people and their Hausa masters helped to enrich by patronizing his illicit arms trading. The propaganda you posted only revealed the weaknesses of your tribal character and the reinforced belief that the Yoruba would not treat one of theirs who fought as Ojukwu did to liberate his people as a criminal, but is ready to crucify one that did just that. This rare trait is rather known as HEROISM and what part you missed remains yours to figure.

 

With your so-called military claim though I view it more as militia/guerilla you should have known that when General Emeka Ojukwu put at the use of Victor Banjo some Biafran boys it was with the full knowledge that they were needed to extrapolate you guys from the jaws of death not to ‘lord’ over you after all the Hausa were doing a good job at that. If you were part of this filth (militia) you should have been aware of Emeka Ojukwu’s letter to your waffling kin, Victor Banjo who after accepting boys from the Igbo area to help free the fearful Yoruba from the stranglehold of the Fulani/Hausa claws turned around to play a very dirty and dangerous game. Of course code of military conduct was used to judge him and this sealed his fate due to his stupid double-agent performance nothing to do with anyone else. Wasn’t it the same Emeka Ojukwu you guys hate with passion who released your Awo from prison and what gratitude if any has been shown for this gesture? Didn’t the same Awo support the Aburi, Ghana accord only to renege when it mattered most? Didn’t Awo design a very wicked economic policy to inject hardship on the surviving Igbo by the N20 pittance conversion of funds regardless of how much one had? Did Awo encourage economic blockade to deny the starving children of Eastern extraction and what’s the purpose? In the civilized world economic blockade on innocent civilians is called WAR CRIME! So who is the war criminal based on this definition?

 

Fella! In my lexicon Awo fits the war criminal definition more than Ojukwu. Ojukwu’s crime is to have followed military etiquette to a fault by his lack of support for the Nzeogwu led coup. His crime stems also by not supporting a junior officer Gowon to take the helms of military affairs over a Yoruba superior officer Brigadier Ogundipe. Ojukwu should not have ordered the arrest of the coup planners who were sent to detain him in Kano instead he ordered their detention. Did Ojukwu partake in any coup real or imagined? Has he ever been involved in any military mutiny? So why can’t you as an erstwhile member of the military family (are you?) not recognize these great qualities of a disciplined soldier? Your sorry use of the 1966 coup by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu to tarnish Odumegwu Ojukwu should put you to shame since a Yoruba (Major Ademoyega) made up the five majors who organized that coup which you would have hailed as the pride of the Yoruba had it been successful. I am yet to understand why the Hausa failed to see this with their continued “dating and marrying” of the Yoruba even though the Yoruba double-faced performance at every level is not hidden.

 

Hopefully the people I respect would see this mail and perhaps add a thing or two to it to avail you since the intent is not to pick fight with anyone but to educate and share our authoritative unbiased accounts of history. It was equally unnecessary and undignified to have used Mazi Peter Opara’s name in your piece since his ‘valentine’ to you was private what were you trying to achieve? Your attempted public putdown only fortified my belief and hopefully my comrades that a Yoruba is not to be trusted under no circumstance if this is not the case the use of Peter’s name should have been skipped. A simple quote or passive reference to him would have served a better purpose and your failure to do this as a result made you puny and unstable which in essence cost you the credibility you set out to establish. Since I wanted you to read mine with as much open mind you can muster as possible now is the time to let you know what I really think of you and your type. Your writing revealed someone who is not too intelligent one who might be a chronic liar that can’t be trusted or respected, sadly. These analyses cannot be too far fetched and should be appreciated, as you wouldn’t want me to lie, would you? Our differences and hurt feelings notwithstanding there is no equivocation how the Igbo led government would treat the Yoruba nation… Care, Compassion, Respect, Equal(?), Understanding etc.

 

Assignment (History of the Yoruba 100 level):

 

Read your history and records and stop your inherent tribal myopia, hate and ignorance. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Ndubueze Godson III (Common Sense Advocate)