It seems that the new battle line these days is in revisionism. Bala Usman is supposed to be a progressive Northern intellectual. If he holds the views on this piece, what are the views of the Emirs and Imams? I have to warn you, it quite lenghty...the learned professor needs to revisit his geography. The Bight of Biafra stretches from the Niger delta eastwards to the area that Equatorial Guinea is located. While the Bight of Benin, stretches from the west of the delta to the western border of Nigeria and the Repuplic of Benin(Dahomey). The professor's analogies are like comparing Apples and Oranges. Read for yourselves...Barka da zuwa
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Last year, when I was a member of EgbeOmoOduduwa.com, I made it clear that the Yoruba can do nothing about coups or about who becomes the leader of Nigeria. The only time a Yoruba can rule Nigeria is when we in the North select that Yoruba person. Obasanjo is there to prove this point. Twice, we put Obasanjo in power. When we said no to Abiola the Yorubas were powerless. Abacha died on his own. Even if somebody really killed Abacha, the Yorubas had nothing to do with it. They are cowards. Obasanjo or any Yoruba in power serves at our pleasure. That is what Bala Usman is saying.
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Making and unmaking the bummbling bufoon Obasanjo is besides the point,Usmans account of the History of the Niger Delta peoples is at best spurious, he should cite references. He claimed to have documents that substatiated some of his wild claims, without making such documents public so that all and sundry could verify its authenticity. He has with his poor analogies, and fairy tales proven that some people are mis-educated, and should be in the bussiness of folklore and not the History of peoples of Nigeria.
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Chudi: What facts do you have regarding the North making Obasanjo "spurious"? Isn't it clear that Obasanjo cannot claim he is self-made? If the North didn't make him, while is he having difficulties probing Babangida and letting Danjuma get away with murder?
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Read my response to Ahmed carefully, I was not disputing the fact that the cowardly Obasanjor is a stooge of the Northern hegemony. I was shading light on the poor presentation of the Northern " intellectual" Bala Usman.
Another critical part of that posting that I have not heard any of you guys of the Northern Nigerian extraction talk about, is why this days unlike in 1966-67 the North no longer chants "Araba".
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Chudi: Usman made a lot of sense. First, he gave credit to whom credit is due, citing Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Aminu Kano for their respective roles in effecting change. On the authenticity of all his (Usman)comments, read M.D. Yusuf's "Inside Nigeria History." I am quite sure his confidence was based on that book.
"Araba" was a war chant. It is now history.
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