Coldie:



Lagos at then was not part of the western region, naturally Lagos had to get its own administrator. Ojukwu showed he had no igbo agenda here cause obviously the administrator of Lagos would still be a Yoruba man. If ojukwu wanted to invade Lagos he could hv sent ifeajuna or another igbo man to march towards Lagos with the Biafra army, but he sent one of their own, as he believes that person would do what’s best. And would easily carry the interest of their people at heart. What then did Ojukwu do wrong?

He said him and victor banjo must meet, if he was calling victor banjo to the east and saying he must meet with him at Enugu, u would think he wants to negotiate at a location and position of power. Ojukwu is a person who like such meetings to be held on neutral grounds. This was proven at aburi where it held in Ghana.

In this meeting, won’t the duration of the Biafran army on the west be discussed, or did they come to stay permanently? People who come to an area to stay permanently are an occupation force and ojukwu just proved he wasn’t.

Ojukwu proved himself fair, it would do history a big disservice if an igbo man tried to come up with a name for a Yoruba country, he asked him to come up with a name for the country.

Ojukwu also showed how fair he was in this when despite igbo being the majority tribe in the eastern region the person who came up with the name Biafra was someone from a minority tribe.


Tell me where I lied or where the igbo agenda was in any of this?

raumdeuter:


When Ojuku conquered the midwest, who did he appoint as the administrator of the midwest?

Caleb15:

David Ejoor

confusedlady:
I have always wondered about the intentions of Odumegwu Ojukwu in sending Victor Banjo to invade Ore in today's Ondo state enroute invading Lagos.
You may like to read the above letter and judge for yourselves how altruistic were the aims of Odumegwu Ojukwu and his Biafran forces he placed under Banjo's command.

Outright molestation, harassment and killing of non-Ibo civilians occurred on a daily basis. At night "suspected saboteurs" were fished out of their homes and arrested. The Hausa community in the Lagos street area of Benin and other parts of the state were targeted for particularly savage treatment, in part a reprisal for the pogroms of 1966, but also out of security concerns that they would naturally harbor sympathies for the regime in Lagos. But non-Hausas were just as badly treated. And as the hostility of the local population became more intense, so did the degree of indiscrete brutality for "internal security". Non-Ibo alumni of St. Patrick's College, Asaba and Government College, Ughelli, found to their chagrin that old school ties meant nothing in the new dispensation (17).

https://www.dawodu.net/articles/the-midwest-invasion-of-1967-lessons-for-todays-geopolitics-1138

seanfer:
Using a Westerner to conquer the SW and trying to install a government in a territory that is not yours, this has been their agenda from the days of Azikiwe who wanted to become the Western Premier....

DMerciful:
Read the letter again without bias. Read to understand

Coldie:
(viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops.

(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss:



(a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;
(b) the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.




Lagos at then was not part of the western region, naturally Lagos had to get its own administrator. Ojukwu showed he had no igbo agenda here cause obviously the administrator of Lagos would still be a Yoruba man. If ojukwu wanted to invade Lagos he could hv sent ifeajuna or another igbo man to march towards Lagos with the Biafra army, but he sent one of their own, as he believes that person would do what’s best. And would easily carry the interest of their people at heart. What then did Ojukwu do wrong?

He said him and victor banjo must meet, if he was calling victor banjo to the east and saying he must meet with him at Enugu, u would think he wants to negotiate at a location and position of power. Ojukwu is a person who like such meetings to be held on neutral grounds. This was proven at aburi where it held in Ghana.

In this meeting, won’t the duration of the Biafran army on the west be discussed, or did they come to stay permanently? People who come to an area to stay permanently are an occupation force and ojukwu just proved he wasn’t.

Ojukwu proved himself fair, it would do history a big disservice if an igbo man tried to come up with a name for a Yoruba country, he asked him to come up with a name for the country.

Ojukwu also showed how fair he was in this when despite igbo being the majority tribe in the eastern region the person who came up with the name Biafra was someone from a minority tribe.


Tell me where I lied or where the igbo agenda was in any of this?

LifestyleTonite:


When did the Western region write a letter to Ojukwu seeking his help? When did they ever cry to his hearing that they needed liberation? You mean the same Western region that was holding Owambe parties was seeking help from a Biafra that was starving and getting bombed to pieces by Nigeria?

Since no one asked for Ojukwu's help, it is safe to say he had subjugation tendencies when he invaded Ore.

The fact that he told Banjo to meet him after Western region invasion was enough red flag. Clearly, Banjo would have been assassinated at such a meeting by the same Ojukwu who didn't hesitate to kill him when he saw that Banjo refused to wage war on his own region.

Igbo are always clever by half. They dislike Yoruba people because the scam they successfully run on others is usually and easily detected by the Yoruba people.

Only an Igbo man will see Ojukwu's letter and not smell shadiness.

tommy589:
As a Lagos boy that speaks Yoruba fluently, Ojukwu planned to help Yoruba in displacing Hausa-Fulani troops from Yorubaland

BentizilL0:
That letter is rubbish and disrespectful.. What's Ojukwu business with Western region or Midwest?.

Is Ojukwu trying to say his Eastern region has eyes and other regions are blind and cannot make decision themselves?.

Intrepid01:


I have read your responses up to this point, you are giving excuses rather than the required assessment. Those people engaging you did not ask you to defend Ojukwu like you are doing but to assess those funny statements he included in the letter.

An assessment is different from a justification, an assessment must be objective, free of emotions and rational. Flip it around, and imagine if that letter was from Awolowo to Ojukwu, will your assessment be the same?

Like every ambitious soldier, Ojukwu took his whole tribe to a war they weren’t prepared for and got many killed. The only grouse I have with him is he behaved like a coward at the end, real Soldiers don’t run from battle, they’ll rather die even in the face of defeat than live as a coward. But Ojukwu ran like a simp, living ordinary Igbos to die in the hands of angry soldiers who did t see the need for the war in the first place. Lastly, Igbos should always remember that FGN didn’t declare war on SE but rather Ojukwu declared war and attacked Nigeria first.

raskymonojendor:

He appointed an Ibo man over Midwest. That was the first issue oju-iku and banjo had. Banjo wanted a Midwestern (deltan or Edo) to be appointed, but Oju-iku instead appointed his kinsman.

LifestyleTonite:


When did the Western region write a letter to Ojukwu seeking his help? When did they ever cry to his hearing that they needed liberation? You mean the same Western region that was holding Owambe parties was seeking help from a Biafra that was starving and getting bombed to pieces by Nigeria?

Since no one asked for Ojukwu's help, it is safe to say he had subjugation tendencies when he invaded Ore.

The fact that he told Banjo to meet him after Western region invasion was enough red flag. Clearly, Banjo would have been assassinated at such a meeting by the same Ojukwu who didn't hesitate to kill him when he saw that Banjo refused to wage war on his own region.

Igbo are always clever by half. They dislike Yoruba people because the scam they successfully run on others is usually and easily detected by the Yoruba people.

Only an Igbo man will see Ojukwu's letter and not smell shadiness.

LifestyleTonite:


When did the Western region write a letter to Ojukwu seeking his help? When did they ever cry to his hearing that they needed liberation? You mean the same Western region that was holding Owambe parties was seeking help from a Biafra that was starving and getting bombed to pieces by Nigeria?

Since no one asked for Ojukwu's help, it is safe to say he had subjugation tendencies when he invaded Ore.

The fact that he told Banjo to meet him after Western region invasion was enough red flag. Clearly, Banjo would have been assassinated at such a meeting by the same Ojukwu who didn't hesitate to kill him when he saw that Banjo refused to wage war on his own region.

Igbo are always clever by half. They dislike Yoruba people because the scam they successfully run on others is usually and easily detected by the Yoruba people.

Only an Igbo man will see Ojukwu's letter and not smell shadiness.

Chivisee:
Asin an ibo soldiers wanted a yoruba man to invade yoruba region because of his selfish interest to retrievce the power to control niger delta-oil??/it can only come from our sub human tribe!! i mean somebody should explained what ojukus intention was?? No wonder the iboes envy the great yorubas, the scam they easily fool the minority people from their side was brutally rejected and destroyed by the yorubas. i am beginning to see the origin of the enviness!

OkoYibo:


Facing Lagos was the greatest undoing of the Biafrans. It made the West turn against Biafra and that was the end of Biafra.

Well, while millions of Biafrans were getting themselves killed and dying of starvation, Lagos weekend Owambe parties were going on uninterrupted.

Biafrans have been historically proven to be senseless. This was just an example.

Caleb15:

David Ejoor

confusedlady:


You are right.

NaMe4:


David Ejoor ( an Urhobo) was the Military Administrator of the Midwest and was never part of the Biafran army.

After the incursion by Biafran troops which occurred without a shot fired, unknown to Victor Banjo who led the Biafran troops into the MidWest, Ojukwu secretly ordered a certain Lt col Ochei to lead troops to open fire on the State House in Benin and capture David Ejoor dead or alive.

David Ejoor escaped.

Igbofirstson:
if igbos are raiders yoruba land would have been igbo territory before the coming of Europeans

Coldie:

I put it to you confusedlady, give us reference and historical facts or how u got the information that victor banjo had issues with ojukwu cause of the situation at Midwest where according to you he appointed solely his kinsman into power. I can tell you this with confidence that the poster you quoted is lying.


I say this with confidence.


I hv read and read and read almost every single existing thing on earth that’s available about 1966 to 1970 and u can say this that you guys are the once lying on this thread.

Coldie:

The issue is, ojukwu could have told an igbo man to lead the army that marched towards the west, if that happened these people would say it’s an igbo agenda, ojukwu told a Yoruba man to march towards the west, it’s still an igbo agenda.

Ojukwu made many mistakes, but it’s obvious his intentions were not subjugation or annexation.

Confusedlady said I was beating around the bush, but her own interpretation of the letter is lopsided with selective judgements, you can’t say

Someone wants to annex a place when he made this statement:

In other words, our sovereignty and break with Nigeria is irrevocable. Nothing must, therefore be said or done by you or any member of the Liberation Army to give a contrary impression.

You can’t say he wants to subjugate a place when he also made this statement:

4. I do not need to remind you that Biafra regards all Yoruba as friends. As such everything should be done, to ensure the minimum force and loss of life are involved in achieving the objective of liberation.

This here was proven by the biafran forces who refused to utilise absolute force in entering the west. It is on record that the group that stopped the Biafra forces were made up of a few group of hunters.

If they used absolute force they could have torn through them easily. But that wasn’t what they were there for

Coldie:


Tell us how this here is an igbo agenda:

“
(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss:
(a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;

(b) the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.”


Convince us

Coldie:


Tell us how this here is an igbo agenda:

“
(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss:
(a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;

(b) the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.”


Convince us

anonymous1759:


It baffles me how your likes still finds a way to twist this revealing “letter”
Nevanly of Russia is what Banjo is to south west.
When America wants to destabilize your country they pick a mole from within and send .
It’s been used from time in memorial in wars.
Spies are sent to live in communities blend with them to give real time information.

Saying Ojukwu had no to ulterior motive in Lagos because he sent Banjo is lame.
Ojukwu categorically stated that , Biafra reserves the right to appoint a military governor which will make him a proxy “commande”, Ojukwu also stated that Biafra troops will stay in South West until he’s satisfied that’s “conquest”.

I’m not Yoruba but whenever I see these Woke Yoruba I feel pity for them .
The average Igbo is more strategic while dealing with Territorial issues while these wannabes liberals are forming WOKEness if their forefathers hadn’t used their head i don’t think they’ll have a land to call their own today .

raumdeuter:


while Banjo and Ojukwu argued back and forth for three days about whom to appoint Governor/ Administrator of the Midwest. Ojukwu had apparently initially preferred Lt. Col. Nwawo as the governor (9). But Banjo, eager to avoid creating a restive non-Ibo population, independently and separately approached Lt. Col. David Ejoor (through the Catholic mission), Major Sam Ogbemudia (through an agent) and Lt. Col. Trimnell (a molato officer with ancestral links to Aboh division), in that order (9, 13, 14). The first two declined. Ojukwu turned down the latter, ultimately choosing Major Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, a Midwest Ibo medical officer

https://www.dawodu.net/articles/the-midwest-invasion-of-1967-lessons-for-todays-geopolitics-1138

DMerciful:
Why did Awolowo, who said if Igbos are forced out of Nigeria, they too would leave, did not leave?