03/12/2025
*WHEN A LIE IS REPEATED SEVERALLY..PEOPLE BEGIN TO BELIEVE ITS TRUE*
THE BIG LIE MUST END:
THE NORTH NEVER “SUSTAINED” NIGERIA WITH AGRICULTURE.
THERE WAS NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SUSTAIN — ONLY REGIONS RUNNING THEIR OWN AFFAIRS.
Before oil, Nigeria was a regional system, not this centralised structure we have today.
Every region funded itself:
👉The West built its wealth and development from cocoa.
👉The East powered its economy with palm produce and trade.
👉The North ran itself on groundnuts, cotton, and tax revenues.
Nobody carried anybody.
There was no “Nigeria budget” to sustain — each region controlled its earnings and spent it within its borders.
So the propaganda that “Northern agriculture sustained Nigeria” is not just false, it’s a shameless distortion of history.
Now the part they never want to talk about:
In 1958–1959, the North REJECTED joining Nigeria as one country.
The Northern House of Assembly literally voted that they were not ready to be part of an independent Nigeria, openly admitting they feared Southern education, industry, and advancement.
They didn’t want Nigeria.
They wanted distance.
But suddenly, after the confirmation of huge oil deposits in the Niger Delta (Oloibiri, 1956–1958) their tune changed overnight.
Why?
Because the North realised the South was about to sit on one of the largest economic treasures in Africa.
So let’s set the record straight:
The North did NOT sustain Nigeria.
There was no FG to sustain, only self-sufficient regions.
The North initially didn’t even want Nigeria.
Interest came only after oil became the golden prize.
Anything outside these facts is propaganda rewritten to deceive the ignorant.