Mogidi:



[size=28pt]I don't want to disrespect Awolowo (my father respects him a lot)[/size] but Awolowo was supposed to pull out the SW from the federation, instead he waited for the East to pull out then reneged on their agreement.

Mrblaze06:
NAWA ooooooo....yoruba people have
friends that are igbo,igbo pple have friends that are yoruba and yet you
people engage yourselves in tribal war online.smh for you
people

Ilekeh:


Your father was a wise man in this respect.
Even Ojukwu respect Obasanjo and Awolowo before he died.

Awolowo was supposed to kini? Did he gist your father?

Sunshinelady:
Seun & d MODs, how can u pple
permit such inciteful thread? Wat does d poster hope to achieve? Anoda
war here now? We need to look & move forward, & stop digging up
thins dat can bring about renewed enemnity. God (or Allah) is neither
Nigerian nor biafran. Ur ethnicity ends d day u breath ur last. After
wich u ll be faced with judgement, heaven or hell. Shikena!

Mogidi:



I don't want to disrespect Awolowo (my father respects him a lot) but Awolowo was supposed to pull out the SW from the federation, instead he waited for the East to pull out then reneged on their agreement.

Mogidi:


My dad only respected Awolowo because of the free education he offered in the old western region that Edo state was part of.

Am sure Obasanjo and Awolowo respects Ojukwu too, he did what they couldn't do.

teeowl:
it is to blow of steam... things that we cannot say in real life, we come here to post on nairaland.

Jokay07:
you are the one that need to re-peruse the article once again and get the fact into your head. What excuse could you give to justify the irrational and reckless decision of Ojukwu who wanted to capture the west without preparing heavily. Yes if he thought that Ore was heavily enforced, why couldn't he moved with great force with sophisticated arms to over run the region. I need to document this article for future reference, moreover we have been seeing the influx of some aunlettered chest-beating fellows who would always contravene what transpired at ore which sheer ignorance. . It's more of a logical and tactical understanding for a mere ill-equipped 179 soldiers who fought against multitudes. Winning war is not about making noise and chest beating on internet, try the westerners again and see

Rotimi47:
that's not true as Ojukwu had an agreement with Awolowo that they will secede from Nigeria at a set time but Ojukwu betrayed him by declaring war before the date, he later told Awolowo that he had to because of the increasing killing of the his people but why did he have to invaded Yoruba land when most Yoruba's were not in support of the war? Greed! If he had waited till the date he & Awo agreed there is no way a civil war will break out but Igbo being self centered always want to prove they are strong or wise & at the end of the day they lost over 2million people.

Rotimi47:
that's not true as Ojukwu had an agreement with Awolowo that they will secede from Nigeria at a set time but Ojukwu betrayed him by declaring war before the date, he later told Awolowo that he had to because of the increasing killing of the his people but why did he have to invaded Yoruba land when most Yoruba's were not in support of the war? Greed! If he had waited till the date he & Awo agreed there is no way a civil war will break out but Igbo being self centered always want to prove they are strong or wise & at the end of the day they lost over 2million people.

Ponponkon:
You claimed to have fought Biafra from beginning to end,yet,you never rose to the rank of a General nor full Colonel because you are Yoruba and you bottled it up. This man is a coward indeed.You are afraid of North

EUROBOMBER:


I don't know the Okafor you are talking about but the Biafran commander that completely destroyed Nigerian Army second division at[b] Abagana[/b] is Major Okafor. I think Mark Ibeh Okafor.

shamecurls:
I personally dont call it a war as i believe that the word WAR hyped the status quo as at that time....... Its was GENOCIDE

EUROBOMBER:


Our aim was not to attack Yorubas but to capture the capital of Nigeria which was Lagos. The war against Biafra was being planned and on Yorubaland hence the Biafran advance for Lagos.

We intended to capture the state and secure it from the Northerners.

auskenfine:
None of us here can fight poo when a real war starts and better don't pray for one. We better pretend we love one another. Ehen.

EUROBOMBER:


After deployment of troops, I rose up from my trench at about 12 midnight, it started to rain heavily, but I told the troops not to leave their trenches. So, we dug in. Then, when I saw the skyline of the vehicles of the Biafran soldiers coming towards us, I shouted that no one should fire except me. And the battle started minutes past midnight. But the bridge was so heavy that they could not penetrate. If they had known that we had a small number, maybe they could have made the effort to penetrate. So we confused them, the place was well secured and we never lost any soldier.


There was no real fight at Ore, recall that Banjo the Yoruba man withdraw and handed over miles of captured territory to Nigeria without a fight!

At the bold part what does he mean by the bridge being so heavy? Notice that he said they confused the advancing Biafran soldiers. What I understand from here is that there was no major confrontation at that bridge; you can see that he said no soldier died. Bro,

This was just a mistake on the Biafran side, if they had moved beyond the said bridge they would have killed all those 179 soldiers there. Besides, we don't know exactly how many Biafran soldiers were involved in that operation. Biafra was fighting at different fronts with the big Nigeria.