(We are only defending ourselves)
“So, you all will stand, support and watch an Igbo to come and rule over us.”
(Obafemi Awolowo inciting Yorubas who are members of NCNC against Zik in 1951. This automatically made the NCNC to fail).
“We will kill all Igbos. If we get to Port Harcourt we will aim at everything that moves, and even if it stops moving, we will still aim it.”
(Benjamin Adekunle “red scorpion”, 1968).
“All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should feed our enemies/igbos fat in order for them to fight harder.”
(Obafemi Awolowo, 1969. This food blockade kìlled three million kids).
“I don’t need Igbos to win in this election.”
(MKO Abiola, 1993).
“Any Igbo that doesn’t vote Ambode will be thrown into the lagoon.”
(Oba Ankiolu, Oba of Lagos, 2015).
“If you like report, we will use all the deities of Lagos to chase Igbos that can’t speak our language out of Lagos. Igbos that refused to marry Yoruba will go and we will inherit you people’s property.”
(Oluremi Tinubu, wife of President Tinubu, 2022).
“Igbo Christians Are Very Stingy To God.”
(Pastor Biodun Fatoyimbo of COZA, 2022).
“Igbos are course, thru will never rule Nigeria.”
(Pastor Tunde Bakare, 2022)
“If you are Igbo and don’t want to vote for the APC, better stay at home.”
(MC Oluomo, 2023)
“Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics. Let there be no repeat in 2027. Lagos is like Anambra, Imo, any Nigerian state. It is not No Man’s Land, not Federal Capital Territory. It is Yoruba land. Mind your business.”
(Bayo Onanuga, 2023)
“Let’s kill all the Igbos. Let’s flush them out of Yoruba lands. I hate these people with a passion. They are violent people. They are worst. They hate us. Let’s hate them without holding back”.
(Kehinde Adesogba, 2024).
Well, I took my time to delve into history, so that we can actually know who the aggressors are, and why no Igbo should be blamed for any utterance, action or inactions against the Yoruba people. The above quotes you read, weren’t fabricated one bit, and they are all factual. The Bible say that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
Clinically check the dates affixed in their sordid sayings, and you will understand that this attitude by the Yorubas has spanned for a long, and through what is known as “hate culture,” coined by Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli PM), it has been sustained for generations and many more to come, except something changes. Those that resurrected it back this time, are the Ronus; a Yoruba group that became infamous cos of Igbo hate, envy against the Igbos, and other anti Igbo sentiments.
I’ve been saying it for a while now; Obafemi Awolowo began ethnic politics in Nigeria, cos before the 50s, Igbos and Yorubas weren’t at each other’s neck, let’s say in this manner. You can read your history books if you have one. In fact, when Awolowo asked Yorubas to abandon NCNC, Zik argued that the party was formed by a Yoruba from present day Oyo state, and his name is Herbert Macaulay, why did it now all of a sudden become a party of Eastern Nigeria. Emphasis!
I may tend to blind an eye to what Awolowo did, probably it was greed, and quests that made him go all way out to incite the Yorubas, and even against the agreement he had with Ojukwu. Oh yes indeed! It was because he dislikes Nnamdi Azikiwe so much, that he betrayed Ojukwu, who released him from Calabar prison, and rather sided with the federal government (during the war) that jailed him at the first place.
In case of Abiola, I may slightly forgive him, cos he felt he has money, and was thinking that the north was with him cos he was a Muslim. But I will open two of my eyes to those who have incubated this hate and strive until now. I mean the likes of MC Oluomo, Remi Tinubu, Adeyinka Grandson, Bayo Onanuga.
