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n today's Saturday Tribune, my DAD SLAMS Chinua Achebe on his tribalist anti-yoruba views. AND the Igbos on Facebook call me a tribalist when I tell the TRUTH! This article cites my dad ripping Achebe bcos Awolowo helped nominate Wole Soyinka for a literary prize. Can y'all Igbos get it TOGETHER??
IN TODAY'S SATURDAY TRIBUNE OCT 6TH 2012: My dad SLAMS Chinua Achebe!

In his reaction, a former governor of old Oyo State, Dr Omololu Olunloyo, said that it was unfortunate that people would still be dwelling on an event that occurred ove
r 40 years ago.

Speaking with Saturday Tribune, Olunloyo said he suspected that Professor Achebe had a personal hatred for the sage,because of the nomination of Professor Wole Soyinka, a Yoruba man for Nobel award and his eventual emergence as the first African Nobel Laureate.

“The way the country is going, everybody cannot be happy but Achebe is bitter. He is not pleased that he didn’t receive the Nobel prize. Though a brilliant man, a good essayist and a man of culture, Achebe cannot be in the same fold with Soyinka.

“While Achebe writes only prose which can be extremely prosaic, Soyinka is into prose, poetry and drama. The richness and versatility of Soyinka’s works cannot be compared with that of Achebe.

“It is unfortunate that Professor Achebe could label Chief Awolowo as a tribalist. Both Awo and Zik were members of the Nigerian Youth Movement.

“He cannot begin now to blame Awolowo for the war. Awolowo did not start the war; rather, he pleaded against it. The only thing that he said then was that if, by any error, the Igbo were allowed to leave the federation, Yoruba would also leave.

“The civil war was started by the Igbo. The Igbo, in the course of the war, killed many Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani leaders, including Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, Chief Ladoke Akintola, Festus Okotie-Eboh and many officers, including Ademulegun, Maimalari, leaving out their own, like Micheal Okpara.

“Even while they were in government, (Ironsi’s government), the Igbo spared no thought of freeing Awolowo who was then in prison. So, why should the man be now labeled a tribalist?”, he said.
Photo: IN TODAY'S SATURDAY TRIBUNE OCT 6TH 2012: My dad SLAMS Chinua Achebe! In his reaction, a former governor of old Oyo State, Dr Omololu Olunloyo, said that it was unfortunate that people would still be dwelling on an event that occurred over 40 years ago. Speaking with Saturday Tribune, Olunloyo said he suspected that Professor Achebe had a personal hatred for the sage,because of the nomination of Professor Wole Soyinka, a Yoruba man for Nobel award and his eventual emergence as the first African Nobel Laureate. “The way the country is going, everybody cannot be happy but Achebe is bitter. He is not pleased that he didn’t receive the Nobel prize. Though a brilliant man, a good essayist and a man of culture, Achebe cannot be in the same fold with Soyinka. “While Achebe writes only prose which can be extremely prosaic, Soyinka is into prose, poetry and drama. The richness and versatility of Soyinka’s works cannot be compared with that of Achebe. “It is unfortunate that Professor Achebe could label Chief Awolowo as a tribalist. Both Awo and Zik were members of the Nigerian Youth Movement. “He cannot begin now to blame Awolowo for the war. Awolowo did not start the war; rather, he pleaded against it. The only thing that he said then was that if, by any error, the Igbo were allowed to leave the federation, Yoruba would also leave. “The civil war was started by the Igbo. The Igbo, in the course of the war, killed many Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani leaders, including Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, Chief Ladoke Akintola, Festus Okotie-Eboh and many officers, including Ademulegun, Maimalari, leaving out their own, like Micheal Okpara. “Even while they were in government, (Ironsi’s government), the Igbo spared no thought of freeing Awolowo who was then in prison. So, why should the man be now labeled a tribalist?”, he said.

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  • Bob Ejike The Nigerian civil war ended in 1970. No victor, no vanquished. The war is over and everybody played the role he or she was compelled by circumstances to play. I am aware that the first Nigerian military coup was led by five majors, three Igbos and two Yorubas. For Yoruba historians to now claim that their two majors were fooled into participation in the coup, that these two trained officers were mere idiots, in other to put the responsibility of that dastardly coup on Ibos is a joke of history. To say that Awolowo was nice to the enemies he acquired and did not mastermind their mindless extermination would be to say that he failed in his duty. But it is wrong to attack Achebe and begin to compare him with Soyinka because he expressed his opinion, (which is by the way his personal view and not the view of all Igbos), is an insult to Soyinka who was the most vociferous critic of the systematic war of genocide being fought against the Igbos by Gowon and Awolowo.
  • Bob Ejike I rather prefer to remember the exploits of brave and kind hearted people like Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, ( to whom I dedicated my book Weapons of Biafra, which is currently being serialized by National Edifice magazine), who laid down his life to protect Aguiyi Ironsi. If two thirds of Igbo investment is in Yoruba land, it is a testament of the fact that the Igbos have put the war behind them and are patriotic and detribalized Nigerians who take development beyond their area. My suggestion is that Achebe should be free to express his views without harrassment as it is his fundamental right. The war is over, so we should keep all that behind us and forge a strong Southern Nigerian union

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