Who Are The REAL Yoruba Leaders? Will Obasanjo Replace Awo? Who WON The Nigeria Civil War?

Q: I will advise that we stop all this nonsense of just starting unnecessary discusions that tends to talk more of what will divide Yoruba race than what we unite us. All those great men you talked about (Awo, SLA etc) have all done there best and left us better. Obasanjo and Adekunle are also proud Yorubas and there is no fact denying the fact they both fought in the Nigeria civil war...why are we now trying to "see" who won the war..? In any case is the war a Yoruba war or Nigeria civil war ...or does the Federal Government want to give award to the person that won the war ? Why are we just trying to create problems for ourselves and setting people against each other...why can't we discuss postive things that we benefit and glorify Yoruba race ? We are the one here now. Let each and every one of us no matter how little contribute to the progress and development of Yoruba race. Please let us stop this idea of "killing and destroying" eac h others. The people outside are just laughing at us. LAST NOTE: The fact that Kale confessed to know Chief Tola Adeniyi at U.I and he, Kale did not know him just confirm the adage that everybody will know a leader but a leader we not know everybody...I am not sure President Y'adua will ever know me but I can write a book on him today...... but both Kale and Chief Adeniyi are both proud Yoruba and any one of them if they really love Yoruba race and ready to work hard for progress of the race are both born leaders. Who WON the Nigeria Civil War ADEKUNLE OR OBASANJO? Please discuss and give me some ideas on this issue?

A: Talking to a friend about Tola Adeniyi regarding his anticedents, here is a response I got: There is no doubt that Tola Adeniyi did not advance Yoruba interests when it mattered most. Even before he ran away from Abacha, he was a henchman for Babaginda's scheming to annul the 1992 elections. Here is part of what somebody wrote on Nigeriaworld a year or two ago: The ABN was not alone. There was a Committee of Elder Statesmen woven around oldbreeds like Sam Ikoku - an ex-Nkrumahist, ex-Awoist, ex-official of both the populist People's Redemption Party (PRP) and the conservative NPN in the Second Republic - and Margaret Ekpo, amongst others. The Committee was organised by Tola Adeniyi, former enfant terrible of the popular Nigerian Tribune (founded by Obafemi Awolowo in 1949). Adeniyi had served under Babangida as a Director-General responsible for the movement of federal ministries to Abuja, the political capital, as well as Managing Director of the government-owned Daily Times. The Committee had no official status whatsoever, yet it was received in highly publicised audience several times by Babangida. As late as January and February 1993, the Committee's memoranda prescribing a French semi- presidential system of government for Nigeria was received by the general who promised to give it due attention. Furthermore, a British source signalled in May that plans were afoot to abort the election, suggesting that principal western diplomatic capitals - in particular London and Washington - were aware of Babangida's last-minute footworking. 'Kale Oyedeji I will advise that we stop all this nonsense of just starting unnecessary discusions that tends to talk more of what will divide Yoruba race than what we unite us. All those great men you talked about (Awo, SLA etc) have all done there best and left us better. Obasanjo and Adekunle are also proud Yorubas and there is no fact denying the fact they both fought in the Nigeria civil war...why are we now trying to "see" who won the war..? In any case is the war a Yoruba war or Nigeria civil war ...or does the Federal Government want to give award to the person that won the war ? Why are we just trying to create problems for ourselves and setting people against each other...why can't we discuss postive things that we benefit and glorify Yoruba race ? We are the one here now. Let each

and every one of us no matter how little contribute to the progress and development of Yoruba race. Please let us stop this idea of "killing and destroying" eac h others. The people outside are just laughing at us. LAST NOTE: The fact that Kale confessed to know Chief Tola Adeniyi at U.I and he, Kale did not know him just confirm the adage that everybody will know a leader but a leader we not know everybody...I am not sure President Y'adua will ever know me but I can write a book on him today...... but both Kale and Chief Adeniyi are both proud Yoruba and any one of them if they really love Yoruba race and ready to work hard for progress of the race are both born leaders.