Developmental Disabilities sounds more like it. Where the child is crying and pointing towards ........

Rudolf's CV

Rudolf Okonkwo is a syndicated columnist. He writes about Nigerian politics and other weird happenings.

Okonkwo is from Nnobi in Anambra State. He has a Bachelor of Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State. He began his career as a Reporter for Classique Magazine under May Ellen Ezikel. He later did freelance work for Punch and Guardian newspapers before he moved to the Daily Mail of Lagos where he became the Energy Correspondent. In the Daily Mail, he rose rapidly to become the Youngest Editorial Board member of a National Newspaper. In March of 1993, he was fired from the Daily Mail over an article he wrote that embarrassed the then military government of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

In June of 1993, Okonkwo moved to the United Kingdom where he became a correspondent of THE JOURNAL OF NIGERIAN AFFAIRS. He used the medium to join in the fight against military rule and human rights abuses in Nigeria. In 1994, he visited the United States to cover the Super Eagles at the USA'94 World Cup Soccer.

Okonkwo returned to the United States in 1995 and has been living there ever since. He is a contributing editor for various journals including the New York based Nigeria & Africa, Igbo Voice, Black Business Journal amongst others.

He writes poetry and short-stories, loves comedy and music. His yet to be published works include THE DIARY OF A WASTED POET, SONGS OF A ROADSIDE POET, THE SECRET DIARY OF GEN. SANI ABACHA & OTHER CRITICS CHOICE, INTIMATE VERSES, BEHIND THE SHOWER CURTAINS, ... SPEAKING OF CASUALTIES, IN PLACE OF TEARS, THE KID FROM LABYRINTH, CHILDREN OF A RETIRED GOD and DEATH ON MOUNT TRASHMORE.

Okonkwo's column appears in tens of journals including THISDAY, CHAMPION, NIGERIAN NEWS, USAFRICAVOICE etc. etc.

Those of you who are living in self denail of the true meaning of Nigeria the "BIG FRAUD" i say SORRY. I have advised you to take trip to your homeland and see for yourself the misery that abound everywhere. Maybe, Maybe you will rethink. Meanwhile dont include N/deltans in your silly postings.

LIVE FREE OR DIE

Effiong and Ojukwu are great men. They resemble freedom and self determination. Emulate them and your worthless soul will be saved.

Anu Nti:
You now see why Osetutu calls Rudolf Okonkwo the Otapiapia journalist. Rudolf’s CV is worrisome. Anyone can claim to be a freelancer for any newspaper. But, to include the clutter of grocery store fliers and obscure websites and seek to use them to pad an empty resume? Gosh! It would have been better if he went to school after he got to the US, rather than worsen the blight that is EgbeOmoOduduwa.com with the spectacle of his illiterate vagaries on BiafraNigeria. You talk about "By-Line." You expect too much, my man. As they say, "who dash monkey banana?"

No wonder the guy cannot put his thoughts together in a debate. Yet, he had the shamelessness to show up here to masquerade as a messenger for Eke Idemili. Good that Idemili does not suffer in-articulation and foolishness. Like a good efulefu, he has once again relied upon a brood of anti-Igbo venomous Yoruba and efulefu vipers at EgbeOmoOduduwa.com to shield him from the wrath of Eke Idemili, which he invited upon himself. We should be on guard for the next episode of his dementia.

Is he a funny guy. Sometimes. Only when the issue is not serious. Now, if only he would simply come to terms with the reality that he has been called to bathroom wall comedy, and nothing else. We would all be spared the further spectacle of watching his delirium or shooing him away when serious matter is being discussed.

What more can I say? I do not denigrate his obvious lack of a CV. For all I care, he could be flipping burgers (which probably is the case, seeing himself through undergraduate courses), which wouldn't make him any less a man but he shouldn't claim what he definitely isn't just because he is after some crumbs. He is totally lacking in dignity.

If you have time, you can read this and see what you make of it, and that includes you young Dr Damages.
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GOOD-BYE NIGERIA, HELLO ODUDUWA
By
Femi Fani-Kayode

Being a verbatim copy/transcript of a lecture by the above named to Alajobi
Group (the group that wrote "the Yoruba Constitution," on occasion
commemorating June 12, as published by The News of 2 July, 2001.

I must commend the vision, strength of character, and the
clarity of purpose of the Alajobi Group together with that of the expanded
committee on the Yoruba Constituent Assembly with coming up with this noble
and innovative initiative and for drawing up this truly progressive and
pristine constitution for the Yoruba people. I salute their courage, their
sense of history, their excellent timing and their obvious and deep-seated
concern for the fate of the Yoruba race in the 21st Century and in a wider
Nigeria. These are concerns that we all, as responsible and literate Yoruba
men and women certainly share. It is for this reason that I can therefore
make the following emphatic and categorical statements on the proposed
constitution
Firstly, that I have read it carefully and that I have considered the legal
and social implications of every word and every line of the document.
Secondly, not only do I fully endorse its provisions, I also encourage
every Yoruba man and woman in Nigerian (and indeed the Diaspora), not only to
get hold of a copy, but also to imbue its laudable and beautiful message of
self-determination, autonomy, decency, tolerance, and the restoration of the
dignity and self-respect of the Yoruba people. Again the collective objective
of the proposed document is clear: It seeks to preserve and protect the
culture, the heritage, the values and the sense of excellence of the Yoruba
nation. It seeks to emancipate us from the shackles of unitary servitude and
it seeks to give us a resounding and irresistible voice, not just over our
own destiny and over our own affairs, but also a strong and respected voice
in the comity of civilized nations. It seeks to reject the muffled, garbled,
confused, and clearly weak echo that the present-day Nigeria has bestowed
upon us as a people. Though we have never been conquered, subdued or
overwhelmed by any other nation on the African continent, it is sadly clear
that we are not, in the Nigeria of today, the masters of our own souls or the
captains of our own ship. It is sadly clear that in the Nigeria of today we
are not the architects of our own destiny. And of course, this regrettable
state of affairs is not only unnatural but it is also completely
unacceptable. You cannot muffle the Yoruba, and you cannot hold back their
progress in the name of one Nigeria. And that is precisely why the document
that the Alajobi Group has prepared is not only timely but it is also clear
that the adoption of the spirit of its provisions, is vital for the future
welfare, and indeed survival of our people. This is a duty that is incumbent
on each and every one of us Yoruba men and women, and whether we would like
to admit it or not, posterity and history will judge us, kindly or unkindly,
depending on which side of the divide we find ourselves in the noble quest.
Today the Yorubas number about 40 (Forty) million people in Nigeria alone.
Our strength is self-evident, but till now we have refused to use it. We have
a historical legacy that manifests the deepest and most profound form of
liberalism, dignity and grace, and we have an in-built and instinctive
craving for excellence, fairness, lively debate, education and progress that
is second to none. We have a keen sense of justice and we have an
overwhelming desire for decency in public and private affairs that cannot be
matched anywhere else in this part of the world. We have a resilient soul, a
fighting spirit, and a courageous heart, qualities, which our rich and noble
history cannot but testify to in an eloquent and incontrovertible manner. We
have a historical lineage that is not only more enlightened, more
cosmopolitan, and more sophisticated than most, but in addition to this it is
clear to us that we have a key role to play in the restoration of the dignity
of the black man worldwide.
It is for all these reasons that I can proudly proclaim with every fiber of
my being and every atom of my soul, that before all else, I am first and
foremost a Yoruba man. We value it, we cherish education, we live by it and
we are proud of it. But this is not a value that is peculiar or particular to
my family alone. I am proud to say that it is a value that is intrinsic in
the very nature and culture of the Yorubas. It is a value that is deeply
entrenched in the deepest recesses of their body, spirit and soul. Our quest
for excellence and distinction simple knows no bounds. And of course, that is
precisely why policies such as free education at all levels is something that
the Yoruba people are prepared to live for, and if need be prepared to die
by. They, perhaps more than any other recognizes the fact that education, in
practical terms, is a liberating force: It frees the mind from the barren and
provincial bondage of myopia and it frees the spirit from the insidious and
pervasive prison of ignorance. They, perhaps more than any other, appreciate
the fact that once you are educated, the sky becomes your limit.
But sadly, all of this is now under threat as we have been compelled by our
former colonial masters to be part of an artificial, manmade, and implausible
entity called Nigeria, the majority of whose ethnic groups, from at least
north of the River Niger, certainly do not value education as much as we do.
Not only have we been compelled to live in this artificial entity, but we
have also been told in clear and unequivocal terms that our brightest and our
best will never be allowed to preside over the affairs of the strange and
hybrid mega-nation. And yet, sadly, it does not stop there. We have also been
told that we will never be able to discuss the terms under which our various
nationalities should remain together in a wider Nigeria and we have been told
that we will never be allowed to discuss the rules under which our
unsolicited and forced union should be sustained. The powers that be and
those who erroneously believe that they are "Born to Rule" this country in
perpetuity keep telling us that they will not allow a Sovereign National
Conference to take place. They keep telling us that they will not allow any
form of restructuring. They keep telling us that they will not allow resource
control. They keep telling us that they will not allow the establishment of a
true federation. They keep telling us that they will not allow ethnic
emancipation. As a matter of fact, they keep telling us that they will not
allow anything that is clean, wholesome, progressive and good in our public
and national affairs.
And instead of anything good, they rather insist on introducing into our body
politic, alien and archaic concepts and retrogressive and backward
philosophies like "Political Sharia" and so many other questionable
contraptions that are not only barbarous and primitive in nature but they are
also downright repugnant to what the British once described as "Equity,
National Justice, and Good Conscience." And it is precisely because of this
retrograde and abysmal attitude that there is cause for concern today about
the plight of the Yoruba in a wider Nigeria. It is precisely because of this
sort of thing that there is a need for the sort of proposals and constitution
that the Alajobi group has come up with. That is precisely why we seek to
establish a system that which at least, attempt to guarantee a higher degree
of separate development for the various nationalities and ethnic groups that
have been compelled to live together in this extraordinary mega-nation of
ethnic incompatibilities. This is precisely why every true Yoruba nationalist
will be pleased with what the Alajobi group is doing.
For we as a people have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. We must not
shy away from our noble heritage and we must not run away from our proud
history. We must not shun our obvious appointment with destiny and greatness
and we must always walk with our heads help up high. For we know where we
came from, we know where we are, and we know where we are going. And even
though the powers that be in Lugard and Harcourt's Nigeria have, cheated us,
robbed us, killed us, brutalized us, divided us, and made us simply
powerless, we are still a strong and virile people. We are still a great
race. And like all the other great races that came before us, it is in the
face of our collective adversities, our present-day challenges, and our ever
present struggles that we as a people should rise up again and dominate our
entire environment. And when that time comes, no one, and no group of people
will be in a position to say "No" to the rise of the mighty Oduduwa Nation.
It is at that time that we shall expand our borders and reestablish the
ancient boundaries. It is at that time that we will drive the alien invaders
out of the Kwara and parts of Kogi, reclaim what is rightfully ours and
deliver our Yoruba brothers that have been forced to languish in those parts
in a sad and pathetic condition of debilitating bondage. It is at that time
that we will vigorously respond to the plight of our Itsekiri cousins.
It is at that time that our fellow African, indeed the world generally
will know what being a Yoruba man is all about and what having a Yoruba
nation can mean for all of us. For now we only seek to lift up our people to
where they rightful belong, nothing more and nothing less. For now we only
seek to nurture and protect that which we deeply cherish, nothing more and
nothing less. For now we only seek to confirm the inconvertible fact that for
greater plan for the final emancipation of the African continent, nothing
more and nothing less. For now we only seek to establish the fact that we are
a people that are not only close to the heart and seat of Almighty God
Himself. But we are also a people whose irresistible and manifest destiny it
is to lead mother Africa and all her beautiful peoples to the citadels of
abundance and excellence and to the pearly gates of the Promise Land. And if
it means that before the Yoruba nation can achieve its divinely ordained
purpose that Nigeria must go, then I say today and I say it loud and clear to
all who care to listen, that it is indeed, good-bye Nigeria and hello Oduduwa
Republic. If we cannot have true federation, it is good-bye Nigeria. If we
cannot have devolution of power it is good-bye Nigeria. If we cannot have a
secular state, it is good-bye Nigeria. If we cannot have resource control, it
is good-bye Nigeria. If we cannot have regional armies, it is good-bye
Nigeria. If we cannot have regional police forces, it is good-bye Nigeria. If
we cannot have regional parliaments and a maximum degree of separate
development, then it is good-bye Nigeria. If we cannot have these things then
we may as well say that the unfruitful and barren "Marriage" that an
extremely cruel, unfeeling and obviously sadistic "Englander" by the name of
Mr. Harcourt decreed between the North and South of Nigeria in 1914, is not
only truly dead but it is also well buried.
Again, if we cannot have our own constitution in the West, our own
foreign embassies and our own National emblems, then it is good-bye Nigeria.
If we cannot at least, have the right to determine our own future as a people
without and manipulation, subterfuge or input from the relentless, Byzantine
and barbarous huns that hold sway in certain parts of this nation, then it is
good-bye Nigeria. And of course, once we are forced to say "Good-bye
Nigeria," there will be no regrets, no turning back and no remorse. It will
be a clean break and it will be a break that we are prepared to defend with
the last drop of our blood. And even though, here we have not asked for and
neither have we advocated secession, I dare say that in the next few years,
if care is not taken, the spirit of secession will undoubtedly begin to rise
up and shatter the very foundations of this nation. Sadly, this is a reality
that we have to live with. We can no longer allow ourselves to be in denial.
If things don't change and if they don't change fast, this country will
eventually cease to exist. And it is only an undiscerning fool that still
cannot appreciate or recognize this bitter and unpalatable fact. It is only
the ignorant and the deluded that can still insist on treating this matter
with levity or that can dismiss the likelihood of such a sanguine course of
events from unfolding. Again, for the record, let me be clear. What we are
calling for here is not secession or armed struggle. What we want, nay what
we demand, is change: Peaceful, progressive, wholesome, equitable and
constitutional change. What we are fighting for is peaceful and purposeful
constitutional reform. And of course, based on the internationally accepted
principle of self-determination of a people (a principle which has the full
backing of International Law), we have every right, as citizens or the world,
to call for and indeed, demand such changes simply because that is precisely
what our people, over 40 million strong Yoruba people in South-Western
Nigerian certainly deserve and desperately desire. We have not called for
subversion, dissention or dismemberment here, instead we call for and
understanding of or position and an appreciation of our strong people. Again,
let it be clearly understood by all and sundry that we will do whatever it
takes within our means to liberate our people and to enable them to achieve
their full potentials as human beings. It is in the light of this that we
totally reject the new-fangled and alien concept and philosophy that
encourages wholesale and unrestrained racial integration. We refuse to become
fully integrated with, and consequently held down by other groups and ethnic
nationalities who not only come from a different world but who also
erroneously believe that they were divinely mandated to turn us into the
biblical and proverbial "Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water" in our own land.
We refuse to accept having any part or any fellowship with those that have
fully espoused and imbued the culture of ethnic hegemony, the culture of the
nomad, the culture of the leech, the culture of the cattle-rearer, the
culture of the desert, the culture of corruption and the culture of laziness.
We refuse to accept the culture and ways of those that our forefathers
continuously warned us about. They told us that when these people entered a
room with a snake that we should endeavour to kill them first even before
killing the snake. That is how dangerous they are. Yet they may overcome
others, but they will never overcome the Yoruba race and neither will we, as
a people ever, bow down before them. And lest they forget, let our core
"Arewa" brothers be reminded of one incontrovertible fact: The only reason
that the Yoruba nation is not on the march today is simply because a fellow
Yoruba man is sitting on the throne. Yet, the truth is that, Obasanjo, or no
Obasanjo, when the time is right, the militant march of the Yoruba
nationalists will rent the air and shake the very foundations of this
country. It is all that time that we will once again be in a position to
achieve our wildest dreams and our greatest ambitions. It is at that time
that they will know who we really are. Until then, I encourage every Yoruba
man, woman and child to stand firm, to stand tall, to be strong, to be
courageous and never to give up because ultimately, We Will Prevail. For the
vision is for an appointed time: Though it tarries, it shall surely come to
pass. The Lord shall be our deliverance. Until then, I say, God bless you
all. God bless the Alajobi group. God bless the Yoruba nation and may the
lord, in his infinite wisdom and mercy, deliver our beloved Nigeria. May He
raise up a biblical Jehu who will once and for all, cleanse this vast and
beleaguered land. And may He raise up a gallant Garibaldi whose brief it will
be to unite the Yoruba people and to lead them to eternal glory.

Only an idiot will base his decisions on rhetorics from the Oduduwa empire. Only an idiot!

Consider the following:
While they are holding hands with ohaneze and talking about floating a party(could be owambe or political), they are also cutting deals with Arewa and so called middle belt where IBB hails from.

While they'll sing about Abacha's evil ways to any who cares to listen, isn't charming that Jakande has come out to expose the deals they'd cut with mad Sani including a letter of solidarity from the Cicero.

While Gen. Sabo and Zadok are publicly screaming what most of us have always known about Abdulsalami's involvement in the death of Abiola, Abraham Adesanya(Afenifere boss)has taken up Abdulsalami's defence, accompanying him to Chicago and sending the NLC guy to "clear" him.

Now, if you (supposed Ndigbo brothers), tear him to pieces over a mere variation in viewpoint, how can you live with strange-languaged neighbours who are very different and look at life even more differently? Reality is not an N'digbo vernacular, is it?.

Reality check: Every society has its own tempest as demonstrated in article below. Even "Ndibanyi"!!

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Why should anyone be surprised at what is happening in Anambra state. As for me, they can destroy their state if they want, and I will not shed a single tear for these bunch of Igbo political touts.

Record will show that of all the problems the Igbo people have had in Nigeria, all have been caused by the people of Anambra state. That the Igbos suddenly without any explanation lost their glory and march to freedom and sunshine in Nigeria was because of the nefarious activities of Anambra people. Let us take a brief walk down memory lane:

During the independence discussions in the 1950s, Zik had a choice of being prime minister, but he chose to be a ceremonial president thereby conceding the ability of the Igbo to shape the post-independence politics of Nigeria in a way that it will preserve Igbo interests: education, military, science, and commerce. Zik was so self-fish that he preferred to be called "Zik of Africa," than serve a more important role for the Igbos. In fact, Dr. M.I Okpara (the only dedicated Igbo leader) from Umuahia warned Zik several times that he should allow the Hausa-Fulanis to go their own way and that Nigeria should split up so that each part can have their own independence from Britain. By then, the North did not want any independence because they were not prepared. In order to have a large country under him as "President," it was Zik who sold out and compromised the political fortunes of the Igbos to Tafawa Balewa before the latter could accept a post-independent coalition government. Later during the Biafran war, Zik an Onitsha man from Anambra state would strike the worst blow to the Igbos by betraying them and running off to the enemy. Zik even went to Britain and told the press that "there was no genocide in Biafra." This after hundreds and millions of Igbos have been butchered in the North. His price was that he got back all his property in Lagos, over the blood of his Igbo brethrens.

Zik's betrayal of the Igbos later earned him the title of Owelle of Onitsha. On January 15, 1966, a restless and irascible Onitsha man by name Emmanuel Ifeajuna and his Western-Igbo brethren Chukwuma Nzeogwu, and Ben Gbulie - all of Anambra state origin, all descendants of the mythical Eze Chima, launched a murderous coup that only them can explain.

They consulted no Igbo, at least not my part of Igbo land. Ifeajuna was so cold-blooded that he even had the mettle to kill two of his best friends Brigadier Maimalari and Tafawa Balewa. "Dan gwuru gwu" !!. The result is what we have now. After losing more than 50, 000 innocent civilians murdered in the North, the cream of Igbo soldiery was wiped out in the consequent July 1966 coup, a savage war was launched at the Igbo by every dick and tom from every part of Nigeria. The colossal figure of Aguiyi Ironsi, Lion of the Congo, was brutally forced to bite the dust in the lonely sands of Ibadan. We were hounded like dogs and criminals and subjected to the most inhuman of treatment. The world abandoned us to our fate. What do we have now: abandoned property, Igbo-speaking towns ceded to neighboring states, Obigbo enamed "Oyingbo," Igbo politicians so hateful of each other, crime, armed robbery, school drop-out, and prostitution. Our Igbo society and sense of unity and respect for each other has been totally destroyed, all in one generation. There was a time when a Hausa man will never muster the nerve to even look at not even to talk to an Igbo girl. The civil war broke that jinx. Nowadays, a "gworo-eating" dirty Alhaji who can boast a few thousands of naira will have pretty Igbo girls begging to be defiled by him. All this, as a result of Ifeajuna's coup, a coup that only him can explain.

During the war, as Igbos were being killed, straffed, and hunted down by a hoard of marauding Nigerians (Urhobos, Edos, Yorubas, Ibibios, Ijaws, Hausa-Fulanis, Ogojas, Efiks, Kanuris, Tivs, Nupes), the Arabs, Egyptians, Sudanese, Soviet Union, Britain, the United States, another Anambra man named Ukpabi Asika betrayed his own people and became the Administrator of the East Central State. He colluded with the enemy to finish up the dehumization of the Igbos, a process that was started by his other brethren Emmanuel Ifeajuna. As a person will an unkempt goatie and a wide-bulging eyes, not only did Ukpabi Asika make millions of dollars as Administrator of the East State, he was rewarded by his own Onitsha people
who gave him a Chieftaincy title as "Ajie Ukadiugwu." Ukpabi Asika was quoted as saying that "he whose pear is ripe, should lick it to the fullest." Sure he did, but at the expense of his fellow Igbos.

The person who declared Biafra and ruled it as his kingdom, with very little consultation with other Igbos in the Biafran hierarchy is also an Anambra man from Nnewi. Ojukwu's role in declaring and fighting for Biafra cannot be reproached, it was history that thrust him into that position. Ojukwu is a true Igboman both in deed and in spirit and I hold no contempt for him.

Alone, he meant well for the Igbo race, but many of his own Nnewi advisers undercut him on a daily basis. Even C.C. Mojekwu was said to have been given money to buy arms for Biafrans to use in defending themselves. He went overseas but took the money and absconded. This in the middle of a deadly
war. How cold-hearted could one be?

Now, what do we have again from Anambra state? We have an Emeka Offor, a man who doesn't know what to do with his money except to use it to roil and create mischief to make his state ungovernable. Is this not an abuse of wealth? Who is he to decide for the people of Anambra state? If Mbadinuju is
so bad as a Governor, then let the people of Anambra state (not ill-concieved wealth) decide it come 2003.

And this brings me to my last point. One Francis Elekwachi is being savaged
because of a view he expressed on the net a few days ago. That is wrong and those people who are trying to muscle him are the real enemies of the Igbos. Even when we disagree with Elekwachi, we must still listen to him. When it became obvious that we were losing the war, our leaders were not honest with us. It was their refusal to accept the "least minimum" from Nigeria that
eventually led to our defeat in that war. To me, anything is better than "defeat," as long as it is called "negotiated agreement." This can allow you to live and fight another day. In that war, we must recognize that we made a lot of mistakes. It is by exploring those mistakes that we can be able to win the next war, which as far as I know is inevitable. Before we embark on another "war," we must sit down as Igbos and put all opinions on the table.

We must first discover why and how we got so tangled into that war when we were not yet prepared and why we lost it under such conditions. We must hold those who led us during that war accountable. We must use our head this time, not our emotions.

I want Biafra and I want self-determination for the Igbos, but no one will unilateraaly decide for me and my part of Igboland how this will be achieved. The last time the Anambra people decided that for, they were the same people who also unravelled it and led to its defeat. Ojukwu is constantly saying that he has been looking for someone to pass "his torch" to. This is silly. The point is that Ojukwu has no torch to pass to anybody. His torch ended and was a extinguished in January 1970. Any contemplation of Ojukwu passing or even having a touch must be construed as one of those illusory dreams that children have about travelling to Mars and Jupiter.

Even his self-proclaimed title of "Eze-Igbo Gburu Gburu" is nonsense. As far as I know, this "Eze-Igbo Gburu Gburu" business is not recognized and does not extend to my part of Igbo land. No one imposes any fantasy on us. If Nnewi people or even Anambra state want an "Eze-Anambra Gburu Gburu" that is their business.

They are not entitled to be given that opportunity again. I think that is what Elekwachi has been saying. After what has happened to us in Nigeria, it is time that Igbos start looking inwards, even if it means self-criticism.

Is the problem us or someone else? We use to look at the Hausa-Fulani herding their cattle to the slaughter, but please note that Igbos are not cattle? Even our noted Oracle Chinua Achebe stated in one of his books that in Igboland, it is not our custom to refuse to listen to a man, but we can
refuse to do what he asks of us." Please give Francis Elekwachi some slack and let the man speak. Udo.

Author has touched on many truth nerves and blew a few others. Above is interpreted in my vernacular to mean that the only passable torch - Biafra (as per Ojukwu) - is illusory. Need I say more. You heard it from Mazi's mouth.

>>There was a time when a Hausa man will never muster the nerve to even look at not even to talk to an Igbo girl. The civil war broke that jinx. Nowadays, a "gworo-eating" dirty Alhaji who can boast a few thousands of naira will have pretty Igbo girls begging to be defiled by him. All this, as a result of Ifeajuna's coup, a coup that only him can explain.<<

Although I abhor sterotypical name calling, take off the mask of that misbehaviour and see the naked truth in result of Ifeajuna's coup (as with any other military coups and wars). When extrapolated to include other coups, we can discern direct results and calamities visited upon Nigeria by Gens. Aguyi Ironsi through Abubakar.

All this because you uncle is the secretary to the federal Government?
When will you stop eating crumbs given to you by the Hausa/Fulani when you can grab the bull by the horns and have you destiny in you own hands?

I would have asked for respite for your soul but you are beyond redemption.

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“Likes of Rudolph is needed to shock your world into the 21st century” because “[i]t is not in mundane traditions and hero worship - but in honest motions to wear garments of good leadership, such as the likes of Nigeria leaders up to present have never given.”

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Rudolf came to BiafraNigeriaWorld and announced that a snake sent him to deliver a message. Rudolf claimed that the snake that sent him was Eke Idemili. Obviously, the Igbo members of BiafraNigeriaWorld are more intimately familiar with Eke Idemili than Rudolf was. They quickly suspected that it was not the real Eke Idemili that sent Rudolf, and they told Rudolf so. But, Rudolf persisted in his foolishness, until Eke Idemili disgraced him, first by refusing to appear at BiafraNigeriaWorld, and then by chasing after Rudolf at EgbeOmoOduduwa.com where Rudolf was hiding after disgracing himself at BiafraNigeriaWorld.

Here is a chronology of Rudolf’s failed errand for the fake eke that sent him.

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”But Eke Idemili say make I come talk wetin he say make I talk.”. --- Rudolf

”In case you are wondering why I did this, I am just feeling good about myself today that I chose to do the biding of Eke Idemili.” --- Rudolf.

”It is when we face Amadioha that we all shall answer the question of how ….”
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“I am Nwa Idemili and when Eke Idemili goes out to deliver the message of the gods, he does not care ….” --- Rudolf

”And Eke Idemili Wept!” – Rudolf

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So, you see that by your own standard, Rudolf is not a 21st century man. He is a false traditionalist. If I were you, I would not be as quick to call African and Igbo traditions “mundane.” Rudolf did not come to contribute to the debate. He came with an agenda. He failed rather spectacularly.