He was one of the greatest political rhetoricians in Africa and in Diaspora. He is honored in the forth-coming publication, THE REVOLUTION OF CHIEF AWO.
Babaa! E seun.. Sun un re o! Ngh! Eni rere nile Nigeria. I'm very happy to hear this great man's voice. Gba Akin nile Yoruba. A ja fun eto mekunnu. Definitely, history will one day prove the truth of your travails with Baba Awoo. Akintola - A Great Hero!
your man of vision is a man filled with hate, when have you seen an igbo person making a hateful comment like this, all the igbo involve in that coup were more hausa or yoruba than even igbo, in terms of where they were born and their language. you hate igbo's so much yet you don't want to let us leave, you don't want to let us stay. you have been leading nigeria since after the civil war, are you better now? Igbos have been out of power since the civil war and you are still hating. All the hate will do you no good. to qoute a white man that saw the hate live "The pogroms I witnessed in Makurdi, Nigeria (late Sept. 1966) were foreshadowed by months of intensive anti-Ibo and anti-Eastern con versations among Tiv, Idoma, Hausa and other Northerners resident in Makurdi, and, fitting a pattern replicated in city after city, the mas sacres were led by the Nigerian army. Before, during and after the slaughter, Col. Gowan could be heard over the radio issuing ‘guaran tees of safety’ to all Easterners, all citizens of Nigeria, but the, intent of the soldiers, the only power that counts in Nigeria now or then, was painfully clear. After counting the disembowelled bodies along the Makurdi road I was escorted back to the city by soldiers who apolo gized for the stench and explained politely that they were doing me and the world a great favor by eliminating Ibos. ‘They eat dogs. They must die like dogs’. ‘We find ’em, we kill ’em, and they do us the same, na be so?’. ‘They are born with greed in their hearts’. ‘They are the only people spoiling Nigeria ever since-One Nigeria without Ibo!’. ‘We make sure they will never worry us again’. I am paraphras ing the kernels of conversations with dozens of soldiers conducted at nightclubs, roadblocks and in their barracks during the ten months between the pogroms and July, 1967, when I left Nigeria. I met a few soldiers, mostly officers, who were not convinced that the Ibos were innately evil, expendable, exterminatable, but they were exceptions. "
S L A is my man that history should be very kind to,i know that history is not fair to him and we the yorubas,i can not blame this generation because no judge can judge a case better than the facts presented to him.All said and done SLA is the greatest politician from the west..............history will one day favour you ,rest in peace SLA...........................................OOFA
Chief SLA was a legend of his time.He was the MLK Jr of Nigeria.He was one of the founding fathers of Nigerian politics.1966 coup eliminated the icon. RIP.
Great Man...visionary...Luminary of words and actions..how possible that we missed all the warning centruries ago regarding Yoruba focus and collaborations. The Igbo was once in the driver seat but selfishness and greedness get the best of them and still persisted today. Present administration has schemed the Yoruba out of the major position in the current administration.
KI OLORUN KI ODE ILE FUN BABA YI O . AS A YORUBA DECENT I APPRECIATE THE SAYINGS AND HE JUST HAVE SUCH VIEWS THAT ARE AHEAD OF HIS TIME .MY FOLKS DID NOT GET IT THEN, AND STILL DID NOT GET IT FOR THE COMMON MAN
@@UncleSmish I suggest you do some little readings, perhaps you could understand and don't bring that sham callled 'nationalism' to the fore for only the ignorant buys that.
@@waleabdulhamid4522 but you are ready to enjoy the nationalistic environment created in places like the US after they fought themselves too shey? You think the US, UAE, Rwanda and other examples like that never had their issues? They learnt to find middle ground. Y'all just want to fight, divide but always want to be accepted as a part of the family when you visit the West despite been enslaved once by the same West. It's called hypocrisy.
My problem with y'all is that you hate the ibos so much but can't do without them, they have been wanting to leave your country for long but you all continue to fight against it.
Great orator and demagogue. I think his issue should have been about developing the land, not fighting for federal appointments. It was Akintola in the sixtees and today its the people he was complaining about (Nmadi Kanu, Peter Obi) who are making the same complain against the president of the day (Buhari) He who feels it knows it
I salute the courage of this legend son of Yoruba, for been so bold to call the ibos exactly what and who they are (cheats and slave master,) of course its natural when somebody exposed you for what you never thought anybody can discover about you particularly when its negative, its human to feel uncomfortable and call the whistle blower names, just as some of them are calling Yoruba tribalist, its understandable... now I know better, I used to support their lies of the January 1966 coup, the coup was part of the ploy to skewed everything in their favor, till today, one cannot explained how they killed known politicians in the north and west, yet no renown politician was killed in the East, the albatross of explaining how they excluded the premier of the east and zik is hanging on them till they will die. I will not be surprised, if one their sons will be calling me names, instead of asking logical questions from the issue raised and admit where necessary, but rather like devil, some of them will put on bold face, and propaganda to cover up their weakness and foolishness.
All this 'tribalism' hand-wringing is funny in a grim way. You will sooner convince men to share wives, than to remove in-group behaviour from mankind. This is simply human society. We form in-groups, we forms walls around the group to foster cohesion (e.g. LANGUAGE!) while excluding the outgroup---and over time, we love our in-groups more than all else existing. What Nigerians call 'tribalism' is closer to in-group preference. The nefarious part of it is that we let it run so deep that it turns a blind eye to justice. We let a natural impulse become a central one. Like swapping a load-bearing pillar for a stack of pangolo. Nigeria is spastic b/c there's no basic guarantee of justice. The old guard is dying out. 70% of the nation is below 30YO (unfortunately, I have no attribution here beyond the EiE organization's website...which is not ideal). But my point is, these videos should be highly trafficked. There is blame to be apportioned, I agree. And I don't care if all the Igbo commenters conclude that "the Yoruba introduced tribalism to destroy us all" like I've read below. We can argue that face to face, and see if that checks out. But these mistakes are ALL our inheritance. Balewa wasted, Bello murdered, Ladoke shot down, on and on ... the narratives of their rise and fall should be common knowledge to us all. It would make us wiser political actors. And unlike the 'politically sophisticated' Western region of old, it would make us more self-reflective. Keep pushing, fam. [Edited to fix the statistic]
SL Akintola was xenophobic to the core. The world has moved on beyond his narrow perceptions. We must decry xenophobia just as much as we detest racism!
I suggest you do some little readings, perhaps you could understand and don't bring that sham callled 'nationalism' to the fore for only the ignorant buys that. That's if you are not sentimental
I suggest you do some little readings, perhaps you could understand and don't bring that sham callled 'nationalism' to the fore for only the ignorant buys that. That's if you are not sentimental.
But if it’s a Zik’s or Bellos material - will you say thesame? The question remains - will an Igbo or Hausa Man accommodate you in their land as much as the Yorubas have. I was once like you till I learnt of my history as a Yoruba indigene, our founding fathers had their shortcomings true but to write off everything you heard on the basis of tribalism needs to be reconsidered.
@@celestinaomo-oshikoya2421 nobody is asking you to abandon your heritage, I'm from Bonny island, I was raised to believe igbos are cunning and fraudulent, I was told the hausas are bad people and that the yorubas are tribalistic and just want power. People in the North and west and maybe east too see me as a militant or cultist. Different narratives have been pushed about a whole region be it the west, the east the south or the north Recently Northerners are being cled terrorists. We cannot keep doing this to ourselves. I have friends from all over this country We can't judge a region based on the antecedents of a few people. In as much as I was not alive during the first coup and I wasn't involved I don't think it's fair to hold a people hostage based on the thoughts of an overzealous general. Just as we can't hold the North hostage for the failings of Abacha... We've received first blow from the Nigerian state. Our resources have been drained, our lands left unplantable... But amongst all this a particular set of people amongst us keep winning (politicians) The hate across the regions favours them They pick and choose when to use what(be it religion or ethnicity) They live in impunity because they have immunity or cause their friends are the ones in position to prosecute them so nothing can happen. For a people so blessed and intelligent, it's so sad how lawless we are. Our military has no virtue, our police are now errand boys for these politicians So who enforces the law. In the end an average yoruba, igbo, hausa, efik, fulani, ijaw, ibibio, ibani or ikwerre man or woman have no issues with themselves, but our politicians Try to create the divide and sell this narratives for their own selfish benefits and we all fall for them. May God help us all.
@@celestinaomo-oshikoya2421 Igbos and Hausa accept other tribes. Go to their states and see for yourself. They are not also afraid of going to other states to establish themselves. It is Yoruba that is too tribalistic to go to any other state to build. Nobody is chasing them from other tribal states. You'd literally see Hausas and Igbos everywhere you go in Nigeria. But, it is not the same for Yorubas
Sadly, the claims about Igbos are true at that time. they were very domineering even up to date. they are the richest tribe and yet they claim to be marginalized.
Tunde Lardner How? Can you be more specific because last time I checked there are more Igbos in Yoruba lands than their native home states; Igbos also have the free will do do as they wish and could easily claim a high political post in Yoruba land than anywhere else. But I dare you to visit any Igbos land and see the outcome
Igbo people will often praise their own self-confidence ("my chi") or ability to make his/herself great. Igbo political self-description always begins at "Igbo enwe eze" [the Igbo have no king]. Igbos are the foremost in trading and mercantilism, even till today. This often brings them out of their ancestral lands, b/c that's the nature of trade---you go where the market is. So far those are all--I hope--indisputable facts about ndi Igbo. No opinions. Of the "big three", there have been instances of fighting/rioting/killing at home and abroad. But the Igbo, being the most dispersed, often seem like they're fighting a two-front war, albeit not at the same time. I won't get into a 'body count' cuz I dunno what can be proved with that, save for the 1966 pogroms. The point though, is that *we've all killed each other*. And sometimes we'll kill within our in-group (Aguleri-Umuleri, Ife-Modakeke, [I honestly know of no in-group Hausa Fulani fights. Either my ignorance/their cohesion. Probably the former]). So it seems to me that most of the hostility (and a lot of it is 'internet hostility', lmao) is b/c of simple competition for resources. If the average attitude of an Igbo person is any indicator, then a successful Igbo man will often have a mark on his back if he is perceived to lord it over the 'natives' outside the six SE states. [It's supposed to be the pretext for hatred of Igbo in the North in the 60s, before everything went mad]. The long and short of this is that understanding the ways we're different can help us go further than the same old tired tropes, that may have some kernel of truth but are FAR from the whole story. I could write a similar story for the other two groups. Devious Yorubas, cheating Igbos, wicked Hausas etc. are almost entirely unhelpful. Generates more heat than light. I've made a defense of what ppl attack as 'tribalism' above so I won't rehash it. Hope the reply--if you get one--moves the ball forward rather than rehearse our grandparents' bitterness, whether legitimate or not.
when people want to claim what is theirs, the igbos claim tribalisn, though they will never share what is theres with you. And i say it with emphasis, they will never share what is theirs with yours. Akintola was spot on. No one cares if you like it or not. Igbos danced in public in the north to celebrate the death of Ahmadu bello and Balewa. what can be more tribalistic and sadistic than that. if you dont like us, you are welcome to leave our land. no qualms
I don't know your ethnic background but the most accommodating ethnic group are the Yorubas. But you are entitled to your opinions. We need to move 4ward and not backwards.
What this man said is still happening today.....R.I.P great man
Thank you for posting this piece of western nigeria's history.
He was one of the greatest political rhetoricians in Africa and in Diaspora. He is honored in the forth-coming publication, THE REVOLUTION OF CHIEF AWO.
Babaa! E seun.. Sun un re o! Ngh! Eni rere nile Nigeria. I'm very happy to hear this great man's voice. Gba Akin nile Yoruba. A ja fun eto mekunnu. Definitely, history will one day prove the truth of your travails with Baba Awoo. Akintola - A Great Hero!
A man With Vision and Foresight. Our first Modern Are-kankanfo killed by Ibo. R.I.P
your man of vision is a man filled with hate, when have you seen an igbo person making a hateful comment like this, all the igbo involve in that coup were more hausa or yoruba than even igbo, in terms of where they were born and their language. you hate igbo's so much yet you don't want to let us leave, you don't want to let us stay. you have been leading nigeria since after the civil war, are you better now? Igbos have been out of power since the civil war and you are still hating. All the hate will do you no good. to qoute a white man that saw the hate live "The pogroms I witnessed in Makurdi, Nigeria (late Sept. 1966) were
foreshadowed by months of intensive anti-Ibo and anti-Eastern con versations among Tiv, Idoma, Hausa and other Northerners resident
in Makurdi, and, fitting a pattern replicated in city after city, the mas sacres were led by the Nigerian army. Before, during and after the
slaughter, Col. Gowan could be heard over the radio issuing ‘guaran tees of safety’ to all Easterners, all citizens of Nigeria, but the, intent
of the soldiers, the only power that counts in Nigeria now or then, was
painfully clear. After counting the disembowelled bodies along the
Makurdi road I was escorted back to the city by soldiers who apolo gized for the stench and explained politely that they were doing me
and the world a great favor by eliminating Ibos. ‘They eat dogs. They
must die like dogs’. ‘We find ’em, we kill ’em, and they do us the
same, na be so?’. ‘They are born with greed in their hearts’. ‘They
are the only people spoiling Nigeria ever since-One Nigeria without
Ibo!’. ‘We make sure they will never worry us again’. I am paraphras ing the kernels of conversations with dozens of soldiers conducted
at nightclubs, roadblocks and in their barracks during the ten months
between the pogroms and July, 1967, when I left Nigeria. I met a few
soldiers, mostly officers, who were not convinced that the Ibos were
innately evil, expendable, exterminatable, but they were exceptions. "
S L A is my man that history should be very kind to,i know that history is not fair to him and we the yorubas,i can not blame this generation because no judge can judge a case better than the facts presented to him.All said and done SLA is the greatest politician from the west..............history will one day favour you ,rest in peace SLA...........................................OOFA
Here we are again
Chief SLA was a legend of his time.He was the MLK Jr of Nigeria.He was one of the founding fathers of Nigerian politics.1966 coup eliminated the icon. RIP.
Ayoade Farinde MLK? Please get a grip...
lol yeah, that was a bit much.
VERY IMPRESSIVE TO HEAR THIS LEGEND CAMPAIGN. HISTORY WILL JUDGE ALL THE PARTICIPANTS OF HIS TIME.......D.A. AKINFEMIWA (ONDO STATE)
yruba leaders has done more than alot in nigeria..especially the traditional leaders and elders
Everything he said, is just manifesting in 2023.
Great Man...visionary...Luminary of words and actions..how possible that we missed all the warning centruries ago regarding Yoruba focus and collaborations. The Igbo was once in the driver seat but selfishness and greedness get the best of them and still persisted today. Present administration has schemed the Yoruba out of the major position in the current administration.
KI OLORUN KI ODE ILE FUN BABA YI O . AS A YORUBA DECENT I APPRECIATE THE SAYINGS AND HE JUST HAVE SUCH VIEWS THAT ARE AHEAD OF HIS TIME .MY FOLKS DID NOT GET IT THEN, AND STILL DID NOT GET IT FOR THE COMMON MAN
Igbos destroyed, our beautiful Regional Government..This Generation will revive it..Legend
How did “Igbos” destroy it? What sort of tribalist nonsense is this?
@@UncleSmish I suggest you do some little readings, perhaps you could understand and don't bring that sham callled 'nationalism' to the fore for only the ignorant buys that.
@@waleabdulhamid4522 but you are ready to enjoy the nationalistic environment created in places like the US after they fought themselves too shey? You think the US, UAE, Rwanda and other examples like that never had their issues? They learnt to find middle ground. Y'all just want to fight, divide but always want to be accepted as a part of the family when you visit the West despite been enslaved once by the same West.
It's called hypocrisy.
My problem with y'all is that you hate the ibos so much but can't do without them, they have been wanting to leave your country for long but you all continue to fight against it.
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A GOOD ORATOR!
This is happening now, Yoruba ronu o
God bless you for this
Something has been telling me to read about this great man, I just have an instinct he wasn't treated right, another bunch of knowledge ignored!!!!.
Great orator and demagogue. I think his issue should have been about developing the land, not fighting for federal appointments. It was Akintola in the sixtees and today its the people he was complaining about (Nmadi Kanu, Peter Obi) who are making the same complain against the president of the day (Buhari) He who feels it knows it
i found myself obsessed with the whole campaign speech funny enough it is still relevant to the yorubas political struggle ❤
Nigeria has never been a nation... I doubt if it will ever be
I salute the courage of this legend son of Yoruba, for been so bold to call the ibos exactly what and who they are (cheats and slave master,) of course its natural when somebody exposed you for what you never thought anybody can discover about you particularly when its negative, its human to feel uncomfortable and call the whistle blower names, just as some of them are calling Yoruba tribalist, its understandable... now I know better, I used to support their lies of the January 1966 coup, the coup was part of the ploy to skewed everything in their favor, till today, one cannot explained how they killed known politicians in the north and west, yet no renown politician was killed in the East, the albatross of explaining how they excluded the premier of the east and zik is hanging on them till they will die. I will not be surprised, if one their sons will be calling me names, instead of asking logical questions from the issue raised and admit where necessary, but rather like devil, some of them will put on bold face, and propaganda to cover up their weakness and foolishness.
Funny how same thing is happening today with the Labour Party.
Aduramigba wa yip gba Amin o to oro la gbo yo o.
2024 all these are still happening in nigeria
Ki olorun gbo Aduramigba wa Jo de da abo Bo orile Ede nigeria
All this 'tribalism' hand-wringing is funny in a grim way. You will sooner convince men to share wives, than to remove in-group behaviour from mankind. This is simply human society. We form in-groups, we forms walls around the group to foster cohesion (e.g. LANGUAGE!) while excluding the outgroup---and over time, we love our in-groups more than all else existing. What Nigerians call 'tribalism' is closer to in-group preference.
The nefarious part of it is that we let it run so deep that it turns a blind eye to justice. We let a natural impulse become a central one. Like swapping a load-bearing pillar for a stack of pangolo. Nigeria is spastic b/c there's no basic guarantee of justice. The old guard is dying out. 70% of the nation is below 30YO (unfortunately, I have no attribution here beyond the EiE organization's website...which is not ideal).
But my point is, these videos should be highly trafficked. There is blame to be apportioned, I agree. And I don't care if all the Igbo commenters conclude that "the Yoruba introduced tribalism to destroy us all" like I've read below. We can argue that face to face, and see if that checks out. But these mistakes are ALL our inheritance. Balewa wasted, Bello murdered, Ladoke shot down, on and on ... the narratives of their rise and fall should be common knowledge to us all. It would make us wiser political actors. And unlike the 'politically sophisticated' Western region of old, it would make us more self-reflective. Keep pushing, fam.
[Edited to fix the statistic]
SL Akintola was xenophobic to the core. The world has moved on beyond his narrow perceptions. We must decry xenophobia just as much as we detest racism!
I suggest you do some little readings, perhaps you could understand and don't bring that sham callled 'nationalism' to the fore for only the ignorant buys that.
That's if you are not sentimental
Lol, time will tell, you would soon understand when Nigeria happens to you.😂😂😂
Have you been able to see what’s happening now??
He is so tribalistic! Unbelievable, he is one of those who destroyed the ‘Nigeria project’ in its infancy. So sad, he is divisive! Thanks for sharing.
I suggest you do some little readings, perhaps you could understand and don't bring that sham callled 'nationalism' to the fore for only the ignorant buys that.
That's if you are not sentimental.
Truth is better
But if it’s a Zik’s or Bellos material - will you say thesame? The question remains - will an Igbo or Hausa Man accommodate you in their land as much as the Yorubas have. I was once like you till I learnt of my history as a Yoruba indigene, our founding fathers had their shortcomings true but to write off everything you heard on the basis of tribalism needs to be reconsidered.
@@celestinaomo-oshikoya2421 nobody is asking you to abandon your heritage, I'm from Bonny island, I was raised to believe igbos are cunning and fraudulent, I was told the hausas are bad people and that the yorubas are tribalistic and just want power. People in the North and west and maybe east too see me as a militant or cultist.
Different narratives have been pushed about a whole region be it the west, the east the south or the north
Recently Northerners are being cled terrorists.
We cannot keep doing this to ourselves.
I have friends from all over this country
We can't judge a region based on the antecedents of a few people.
In as much as I was not alive during the first coup and I wasn't involved I don't think it's fair to hold a people hostage based on the thoughts of an overzealous general.
Just as we can't hold the North hostage for the failings of Abacha...
We've received first blow from the Nigerian state.
Our resources have been drained, our lands left unplantable...
But amongst all this a particular set of people amongst us keep winning (politicians)
The hate across the regions favours them
They pick and choose when to use what(be it religion or ethnicity)
They live in impunity because they have immunity or cause their friends are the ones in position to prosecute them so nothing can happen.
For a people so blessed and intelligent, it's so sad how lawless we are.
Our military has no virtue, our police are now errand boys for these politicians
So who enforces the law.
In the end an average yoruba, igbo, hausa, efik, fulani, ijaw, ibibio, ibani or ikwerre man or woman have no issues with themselves, but our politicians Try to create the divide and sell this narratives for their own selfish benefits and we all fall for them.
May God help us all.
@@celestinaomo-oshikoya2421 Igbos and Hausa accept other tribes. Go to their states and see for yourself. They are not also afraid of going to other states to establish themselves. It is Yoruba that is too tribalistic to go to any other state to build. Nobody is chasing them from other tribal states.
You'd literally see Hausas and Igbos everywhere you go in Nigeria. But, it is not the same for Yorubas
Yorubas sadly are highly tribalistic
Sadly, the claims about Igbos are true at that time. they were very domineering even up to date. they are the richest tribe and yet they claim to be marginalized.
Tunde Lardner How? Can you be more specific because last time I checked there are more Igbos in Yoruba lands than their native home states; Igbos also have the free will do do as they wish and could easily claim a high political post in Yoruba land than anywhere else. But I dare you to visit any Igbos land and see the outcome
Igbo people will often praise their own self-confidence ("my chi") or ability to make his/herself great. Igbo political self-description always begins at "Igbo enwe eze" [the Igbo have no king]. Igbos are the foremost in trading and mercantilism, even till today. This often brings them out of their ancestral lands, b/c that's the nature of trade---you go where the market is. So far those are all--I hope--indisputable facts about ndi Igbo. No opinions.
Of the "big three", there have been instances of fighting/rioting/killing at home and abroad. But the Igbo, being the most dispersed, often seem like they're fighting a two-front war, albeit not at the same time. I won't get into a 'body count' cuz I dunno what can be proved with that, save for the 1966 pogroms. The point though, is that *we've all killed each other*. And sometimes we'll kill within our in-group (Aguleri-Umuleri, Ife-Modakeke, [I honestly know of no in-group Hausa Fulani fights. Either my ignorance/their cohesion. Probably the former]).
So it seems to me that most of the hostility (and a lot of it is 'internet hostility', lmao) is b/c of simple competition for resources. If the average attitude of an Igbo person is any indicator, then a successful Igbo man will often have a mark on his back if he is perceived to lord it over the 'natives' outside the six SE states. [It's supposed to be the pretext for hatred of Igbo in the North in the 60s, before everything went mad].
The long and short of this is that understanding the ways we're different can help us go further than the same old tired tropes, that may have some kernel of truth but are FAR from the whole story. I could write a similar story for the other two groups. Devious Yorubas, cheating Igbos, wicked Hausas etc. are almost entirely unhelpful. Generates more heat than light. I've made a defense of what ppl attack as 'tribalism' above so I won't rehash it. Hope the reply--if you get one--moves the ball forward rather than rehearse our grandparents' bitterness, whether legitimate or not.
when people want to claim what is theirs, the igbos claim tribalisn, though they will never share what is theres with you. And i say it with emphasis, they will never share what is theirs with yours.
Akintola was spot on. No one cares if you like it or not. Igbos danced in public in the north to celebrate the death of Ahmadu bello and Balewa. what can be more tribalistic and sadistic than that.
if you dont like us, you are welcome to leave our land. no qualms
I don't know your ethnic background but the most accommodating ethnic group are the Yorubas. But you are entitled to your opinions. We need to move 4ward and not backwards.