franchasng:
Good morning brothers and sisters from the Eastern Nigeria.


My message is mainly for the Igbos and to those who are agitating for Biafra now or may want to do so in future.


Before I move to the main points, let me make this known to all; failure is common to every successful person, most times the number of times you fail determines how huge your success will be, but you must learn from your past failures and make corrections where necessary in order for you to win tomorrow.


It is no secret that Biafra lost the war to Nigeria in 1970 even though Gowon the then Head of state of Nigeria cunningly declared the war a no victor no vanquish. Nigeria won Biafra, let's not argue that, but what we should focus on is why did Biafra lost the war despite the fact that they were fighting a just war to defend themselves from unwarranted oppression and persecution by people they called countrymen?


As someone that comes from a family that played major role in the Nigerian politics from 1950 to 1970, even though I wasn't born when the war was fought, but I can confidently tell the full story about the war; from what led to the coup, who participated in the coup and what led to the outbreak of the civil war and finally why Biafra lost the war.

For the records, my father fought in the war even though he wasn't a trained soldier, he was only a young civil servant who got conscripted into the Biafran military to fight at the war front with little training. But my uncles who were trained Nigerian soldiers, who attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and one being a strong ally of Ojukwu and another an ally of Kaduna Nzeogwu, I can say I have the full history in my palms because they told us every truth about the coup, their mistakes, their initial plan and why Biafra lost the war.


Meanwhile, I am not here to talk about the January 1966 coup and the counter coup that led to Northern pogrom, etc, maybe I will find time to talk about that some other time, but in this very write up, I want to talk about why Biafra lost the war to Nigeria, as a way of teaching other Igbos/Biafrans some lessons that we Igbos must learn in order to triumph in this Nigerian contraption we found ourselves in, if not, our journey will be very long.


I will continue in my next post, follow me.

franchasng:
According to my late uncle who happened to be a very close friend and ally of Ojukwu, Igbos weren't prepared for the war, but because of Igbo people's fearlessness and believe in the fact that their "Chi" would fight for them if they were fighting for a just cause, that Igbos didn't find it hard to support Ojukwu to declare Biafra when Ojukwu sought for the consent of Old Eastern Nigerians.


He told us that Akwa Ibom people are one of the best friends of the Igbos among the minority tribes in the Old Eastern Nigeria.


I remember the day one of our elders asked him why Igbos failed despite being able to push Nigerian soldiers far away from Biafra region at the start of the war?


He said Igbos must learn to trust outsiders less. He said one negative side of Igbos is that we easily love and trust outsiders once they show any sign of support to Igbos, that this is one of Igbo people's negative side. That this exposes Igbos to making wrong friends without proper scrutiny who usually use the insider information they got from being close to Igbos to hurt Igbos at the end.


He said Ojukwu made two grievous mistakes that made Biafra lost the war.


He said one was Ojukwu's rejection of USSR's (today's Russia) formal request to assist Biafra secure their freedom completely from Nigeria in exchange for Biafra to officially become USSR's African ally. He said Ojukwu rejected this offer which he sat with Ojukwu when Ojukwu replied them in the negative. He said some of them that were very close to Ojukwu weren't happy when Ojukwu rejected USSR's offer and they tried to convince him but Ojukwu vehemently refused to listen to them on the grounds that USSR was not a democratic free nation Biafra must associate with. He said instead Ojukwu bragged that Biafra had all it takes to defeat Nigeria and become Africa's superpower like USSR. That aligning with USSR will usurper Biafra's great future. My late uncle said he and many others were so angry but you dared not show that to Ojukwu else, he might eliminate you and tag you a traitor.



This was the number one reason Biafra lost the war to Nigeria.


I will talk about the lessons Igbos must learn towards the end of this write up.


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franchasng:
Good morning brothers and sisters from the Eastern Nigeria.


My message is mainly for the Igbos and to those who are agitating for Biafra now or may want to do so in future.


Before I move to the main points, let me make this known to all; failure is common to every successful person, most times the number of times you fail determines how huge your success will be, but you must learn from your past failures and make corrections where necessary in order for you to win tomorrow.


It is no secret that Biafra lost the war to Nigeria in 1970 even though Gowon the then Head of state of Nigeria cunningly declared the war a no victor no vanquish. Nigeria won Biafra, let's not argue that, but what we should focus on is why did Biafra lost the war despite the fact that they were fighting a just war to defend themselves from unwarranted oppression and persecution by people they called countrymen?


As someone that comes from a family that played major role in the Nigerian politics from 1950 to 1970, even though I wasn't born when the war was fought, but I can confidently tell the full story about the war; from what led to the coup, who participated in the coup and what led to the outbreak of the civil war and finally why Biafra lost the war.

For the records, my father fought in the war even though he wasn't a trained soldier, he was only a young civil servant who got conscripted into the Biafran military to fight at the war front with little training. But my uncles who were trained Nigerian soldiers, who attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and one being a strong ally of Ojukwu and another an ally of Kaduna Nzeogwu, I can say I have the full history in my palms because they told us every truth about the coup, their mistakes, their initial plan and why Biafra lost the war.


Meanwhile, I am not here to talk about the January 1966 coup and the counter coup that led to Northern pogrom, etc, maybe I will find time to talk about that some other time, but in this very write up, I want to talk about why Biafra lost the war to Nigeria, as a way of teaching other Igbos/Biafrans some lessons that we Igbos must learn in order to triumph in this Nigerian contraption we found ourselves in, if not, our journey will be very long.


I will continue in my next post, follow me.

franchasng:
According to my late uncle who happened to be a very close friend and ally of Ojukwu, Igbos weren't prepared for the war, but because of Igbo people's fearlessness and believe in the fact that their "Chi" would fight for them if they were fighting for a just cause, that Igbos didn't find it hard to support Ojukwu to declare Biafra when Ojukwu sought for the consent of Old Eastern Nigerians.


He told us that Akwa Ibom people are one of the best friends of the Igbos among the minority tribes in the Old Eastern Nigeria.


I remember the day one of our elders asked him why Igbos failed despite being able to push Nigerian soldiers far away from Biafra region at the start of the war?


He said Igbos must learn to trust outsiders less. He said one negative side of Igbos is that we easily love and trust outsiders once they show any sign of support to Igbos, that this is one of Igbo people's negative side. That this exposes Igbos to making wrong friends without proper scrutiny who usually use the insider information they got from being close to Igbos to hurt Igbos at the end.


He said Ojukwu made two grievous mistakes that made Biafra lost the war.


He said one was Ojukwu's rejection of USSR's (today's Russia) formal request to assist Biafra secure their freedom completely from Nigeria in exchange for Biafra to officially become USSR's African ally. He said Ojukwu rejected this offer which he sat with Ojukwu when Ojukwu replied them in the negative. He said some of them that were very close to Ojukwu weren't happy when Ojukwu rejected USSR's offer and they tried to convince him but Ojukwu vehemently refused to listen to them on the grounds that USSR was not a democratic free nation Biafra must associate with. He said instead Ojukwu bragged that Biafra had all it takes to defeat Nigeria and become Africa's superpower like USSR. That aligning with USSR will usurper Biafra's great future. My late uncle said he and many others were so angry but you dared not show that to Ojukwu else, he might eliminate you and tag you a traitor.



This was the number one reason Biafra lost the war to Nigeria.


I will talk about the lessons Igbos must learn towards the end of this write up.


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Bookhub:
Wetin bring this one this morning?
Are Igbo's the first to loose war, Japanese have won against Russia and lost to Americans,Americans have lost war in Vietnam,Jews have lost sovereignity war many times in their history and bounced back stronger than ever ,Germans have lost wars

you guys have never fought a modern war in your history it takes a lot of guts to declare war,start first with declaring war on the fulanis grabbing your ancestral land inch by inch wars are either won or lost then everyone moves on.

franchasng:
According to my late uncle, a strong ally of Ojukwu and a Biafra government official back then, he said another mistake Ojukwu made that contributed to Biafra losing the war was Ojukwu's trust for Victor Banjo and Ifeajuna to lead the Biafran elite forces to capture Lagos.


He said even though Ojukwu's reason of handing Victor Banjo the Western front battle in order to assure Yorubas that Biafra's advancement towards Lagos was for a mutual benefit and to end the war faster by forcing Gowon and his Northern gangs to flee to Kaduna in order for Biafra and Odua Nation to be actualized, that he and many others weren't happy with such decision, especially having Ifeajuna a known sell out that leaked the January 1966 coup secret to Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe his cousin which made Azikiwe to flee Nigeria on guise of embarking on a medical leave, which also contributed to the failure of the January 1966 coup which was erroneously tagged Igbo coup.


He said because Banjo and Ifeajuna halted Biafran soldiers advancement to Lagos close to Ijube Ode after they started having afterthoughts on whether to overthrow Ojukwu and take over the Biafran government leadership because they foolishly believed the war was almost over as they were few kilometers away from capturing Lagos amidst rumors that Gowon and his Northern gangs were planning to flee to Kaduna


He said another rumor from Banjo's camp had it that Banjo and Ifeajuna got a juicy offer from Nigerian government to sabotage Biafra in order for them to forgiven and given key political appointment in the Nigerian government of that time and that that was the reason they stopped Biafran soldiers from advancing to Lagos as they gave Nigerian side classified military information they used to regroup and push Biafran soldiers back to Benin then to Umunede and finally Asaba where they crossed over to Onitsha blowing the Niger Bridge which infuriated Delta Igbo people as they became helpless and felt betrayed by the fleeing Biafran soldiers.


Because of this, Ojukwu arrested Banjo and Ifeajuna and executed them.


He said this was another of Ojukwu's mistake that contributed to Baifra losing the war.

franchasng:
The lessons Igbos and Biafra Agitators must learn going forward


According to my late uncle, while Ojukwu rejected Russia's offer to help Biafra gain it's full independence from Nigeria with the wrong belief that Biafra can win the war on it's own without external alliance, that Nigeria went into alliance with the Western world led by Britain to help them win the war. He said if Nigeria a sovereign nation that already existed for several decades with formalized military and foreign relations could see the need to align with Western powers then to help them defeat Biafra, that it was foolish for Ojukwu to have believed that Biafra without a formal military or central bank and other government supporting agencies plus existing foreign relations to win a war against Western Backed Nigeria.



This is a big lesson for all Igbos and Biafra agitators.


Foolishly believing that you can get Biafra freedom by using some ragtag gunmen to be attacking Nigerian security in a guerrilla styled attack will never help Biafra agitation nor Igbos. It will only destabilize Southeast region and cause more sufferings to Igbos in Southeast by making the entire Southeast a very insecure region.


Biafra agitators must go back to drawing board and restrategize immediately and stop every form of gunmen attacks on Nigerian security because that will never bring about Biafra freedom, never. That useless Simon Ekpa is only deceiving some senseless Igbo youths and leading them to their early grave.



Biafra can only be actualized through international alliance and politicking and not through this guerrilla warfare some senseless Simon Ekpa's followers are using.

YoshihideSuga:
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And the citizens of the victorious countries narrated why and how they won. At the same time, the citizens of the losing nations wrote extensively why and how they lost. Why should it be different from Igbos?

Even a fugitive relative of Hamas senior leaders wrote a book about Hamas. Northern Nigeria's Christians have written books about the infiltration of the Northern Nigeria by islamists and the silent genocide across the Christian communities in the north. So, why should an Igbo man not do the same?


If fighting to secede few years after the both World Wars, I wonder what then is a "modern war".

I know you hate Igbos, and that's fine. What you shouldn't do, at least publicly, is accuse Igbos wrongly and lie at the same time.

chiagozien:
The only thing that unites yorubas and Hausafulanis is hatred for Igbos.



We understand your massage at this time

franchasng:
Good morning brothers and sisters from the Eastern Nigeria.


My message is mainly for the Igbos and to those who are agitating for Biafra now or may want to do so in future.


Before I move to the main points, let me make this known to all; failure is common to every successful person, most times the number of times you fail determines how huge your success will be, but you must learn from your past failures and make corrections where necessary in order for you to win tomorrow.


It is no secret that Biafra lost the war to Nigeria in 1970 even though Gowon the then Head of state of Nigeria cunningly declared the war a no victor no vanquish. Nigeria won Biafra, let's not argue that, but what we should focus on is why did Biafra lost the war despite the fact that they were fighting a just war to defend themselves from unwarranted oppression and persecution by people they called countrymen?


As someone that comes from a family that played major role in the Nigerian politics from 1950 to 1970, even though I wasn't born when the war was fought, but I can confidently tell the full story about the war; from what led to the coup, who participated in the coup and what led to the outbreak of the civil war and finally why Biafra lost the war.

For the records, my father fought in the war even though he wasn't a trained soldier, he was only a young civil servant who got conscripted into the Biafran military to fight at the war front with little training. But my uncles who were trained Nigerian soldiers, who attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and one being a strong ally of Ojukwu and another an ally of Kaduna Nzeogwu, I can say I have the full history in my palms because they told us every truth about the coup, their mistakes, their initial plan and why Biafra lost the war.


Meanwhile, I am not here to talk about the January 1966 coup and the counter coup that led to Northern pogrom, etc, maybe I will find time to talk about that some other time, but in this very write up, I want to talk about why Biafra lost the war to Nigeria, as a way of teaching other Igbos/Biafrans some lessons that we Igbos must learn in order to triumph in this Nigerian contraption we found ourselves in, if not, our journey will be very long.


I will continue in my next post, follow me.

chiagozien:
The only thing that unites yorubas and Hausafulanis is hatred for Igbos.



We understand your massage at this time

confusedlady:


Stop these LIES!
Ifeajuna was never a part of the Benin/Ore invasion by Biafran forces!
The Benin invasion was led by Victor Banjo and Albert Okonkwo.....
You need to stop this revision now. VictorBanjo refused to proceed beyond Ore and never got to Ijebu Ode....Banjo paused his movement because Obasanjo refused to join forces with him from Ibadan and because of the mad cap conditions given to him by Ojukwu. Also Albert Okonkwo refused to proceed beyong Ore and swiftlyreturned to Benin.

https://www.nairaland.com/8148636/odumegwu-ojukwus-letter-victor-banjo



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franchasng:
Igbos Must Learn from Nnamdi Kanu's Mistakes


What are Nnamdi Kanu's mistakes you may ask?

1.) He was not tactical enough

2.) His abusive nature whereby he abused Britain while holding their passport, abused USA, abused France, etc. and foolishly believed Israel's support was enough. Israel that is still fighting to secure their nation from Arab enemies, who also depend on Western world led by US for their international politicking.

3.) Nnamdi Kanu failed to realize that in this world, there are two groups that control the world, and they are:

Western World
USA
Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Netherlands
Japan
Poland
Canada
Australia
South Korea
etc etc


Eastern World
Russia
China
Cuba
Pakistan

with new allies like
Iran
North Korea
Syria
South Africa
UAE
etc



To survive in this harsh world, you must align with one of the two powers controlling the world.


Nnamdi Kanu ought to have found a way to align with Russia before coming out to dare the Nigerian government. This was his greatest mistake. He ought to have known that Nigeria belongs to the Western powers through Britain, and that there was no road there.


Instead he deceived his followers that he had enough foreign backup whereas he had none, Igbos must learn from this mistake, and future Biafra agitators must learn from this too.

confusedlady:


Good morning,
Be informed that your thread is under surveillance. You are advised to post only truth,although I know that may be difficult for you,knowing where you come from and your genes. Anything you post here will be fact checked and scrutinised and any falsehood or propaganda will be countered,exposed and disputed accordingly.
Accept my warmest regards.

DevilsEqual:


I'm glad you're here, just continue to help correcting the misinformation for future sake

Anyone could stumble on this thread, later in the decade

guysbewise:
Nonsense! There was no eastern Nigeria or Biafra empire before the Europeans created Nigeria.
The Benin Kingdom with the Niger Delta and the Oyo Empire were the super powers in the south.
You cannot just decide one day you want to attack and grab other peoples regions and lands to create your nonsense Biafra which is even a Portuguese name that you grabbed also.
If you had only wanted your landlocked small piece of land then the Europeans who created Nigeria would have allowed you to go if they wanted to allow you go.

gidgiddy:


People who talk about secession clause make me laugh. The British grabbed your land by force, put it in colonial project called 'Nigeria' without your consent. Now you say there must be secession clause before anyone can leave a colonial contraption they never agreed to be part of in the first place? That's laughable