Happy posthumous birthday to Ojukwu..
I would have been a Biafran if the war had
succeeded. My father was in the army during the
war and I have read and heard, and seen
evidences of the atrocities committed against
the Southerners just before the Civil War in what
is now called "Igbo Pogroms". My father told me
everything that happened.
But what I still do not understand is why Igbos
still went back to the same North after the War.
Some of them still live there even after all the
atrocities that are regularly committed against
them! Why can they not live in the East and
develop it? I just do not get it.
Two possible answers -(1) 'hubris' or the belief
that you are so special and above all others that
you will soon pull the wool over their eyes and
have one on them (obviously not working on the
Hausa north) (2) as I said earlier, a masochistic
streak that wants to be hit again and again by
the same person.
So somewhere in your pithy little brains you
think the answer to all of your home-made
problems is the creation of Biafra and the
installation of 1 man so long as he originates
from what you call Igbo nation. You know I
would have even given your postulation a 5
second thought if not that I remember that all
Igbo states are led by an Igbo governor and all
their cabinet would also typically be all Igbo; yet
not one Igbo state now or in the past has been
any more distinguished than any other state in
Nigeria.
Let me tell you a little more you need to know
about OJUKWU, BIAFRA and the WAR. It may
interest you to know the history, origin and
events that sprung up that declaration "Republic
of Biafra. This was not because of the love
Ojukwu had for the igbo people, rather than his
love for power and embitterment that power
eluded him. Ojukwu wasted so many promising
and prominent young Nigerians. These Youths
were brainwashed by Ojukwu just what Nnamdi
is doing. Immediate causes of the war included a
military coup, a counter-coup, and persecution
of Igbo living in Northern Nigeria. Control over
oil production in the Niger Delta played a vital
strategic role.
It may also interest you to know that the first
Nigerian coup d’etat that resulted in the
assassination of 11 senior Nigerian politicians
and two soldiers as well as kidnapping three
others was led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (an igbo)
and General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (another
igbo)then used the coup as a pretext to annex
power, ending Nigeria's nascent democracy.
Then along came a counter coup led by Lt. Col.
Murtala Mohammed which resulted to murder
of Gen Aguiyi Ironsi as a reaction to the killings
of Northern politicians and Officers by mostly
Igbo soldiers.
Ojukwu felt Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe was
the highest in the hierarchy of power and should
be made head of state. But when the coup
plotters insisted and made Gowon the head of
state, Ojukwu got pissed and this led to the civil
war. Brigadier Ogundipe opted out peacefully,
but pride did not allow Ojukwu to let go. Apart
from the Aburi Accord in Ghana, there were a lot
of other accords to settle issues amicably, but
Ojukwu was bent on ruling his own oil rich
country “Baifra”.
There was nothing like the "REPUBLIC OF
BIAFRA " it's an illusion. That assertion was
made on 30th may 1967, and was just for a
selfish purpose (leadership ) Why did you think
Ojukwu fought?, Who was he fighting for. Now
another self-centered Nnamdi Kanu wants to
take advantage of your sentiments . Ojukwu
fought because he could not allow Gowon who
was in the same rank as he was be head of state.
Taking advantage of his father's wealth, he
arrogated himself to a god of war without
minding how many lives he would destroy.
Did you think Biafrans rebels combated openly
with the Nigerian army? Apart from some cheap
ambushes like the Abagana, where could they
have confronted the Nigerian armies. Biafrans
dealt with Biafrans. The rebels captured Igbo
cities and tormented innocent lives. Raping
young women and forcefully taking wives from
their husbands. Recruiting boys between the
ages of 13-15 and above into their army. Killed
any person suspected of sabotage. The
saboteurs were worn the Nigerian army
uniform, killed and termed Nigerian soldiers.
Igbos suffered, but Nigerian armies rescued the
captured cities one after the other, until all was
rescued.
Benin City was captured by the Biafran soldiers
alongside Auchi, Agenebode, Okene, Asaba,
Agbor , Iloshi and Atani while indiscriminately
shooting and killing armless civilians in the
process. Unbeknownst to General Banjo (the
leader of this mobilization who was a Yoruba) a
unit of Biafran soldiers under Lt. Col. Oechi
attacked the government residence of Mid-
Western Region governor David Ejoor at the
behest of President Odumegwu Ojukwu to
capture Ejoor dead or alive. Not wanting to
appoint an Igbo over non-Igbo citizens General
Banjo suggested that either David Ejoor, Sam
Ogbemudia, or Col. Trimnell be made governor
but Ojukwu refused and ultimately placed the
Igbo medical-officer Albert Okonkwo governor.
Ojukwu would finally execute Vitor Banju,
Emmanuel Ifeanjuna (The first black African to
ever win an international gold medal) and one
Alale following a plot to agree a ceasefire with
Nigeria. Let me try to make it short. I think some
of these so called pro-Biafrans should know that
the only solution is to try to accept a modus
vivendi and let’s live in peace and unity, and stop
living in cloud cuckoo land with the stupendous
misbegotten idea of Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu is an
illiterate who sat in some classrooms, but it did
not have any positive impact on him, and he has
succeeded in brainwashing some gullible and
incredulous igbo group to joining his selfish
cause.
Now he has been lionized, praised, reverend and
worshiped. That is exactly what he wants. Can
anyone remember the names the igbos who
have died for this Nnamdi madness? No! Only
Nnamdi Kanu is the cynosure.And now that he is arrested everywhere is jus calm.
The truth is that Biafra was an Ojukwu Scam!

Nigeria a british scam

Op I be wan call ur papa but you no resemble person wey get papa

hmmmm

Biafra was a concept of indigenous Africans on African soil. Nigeria was a concept of white Europeans on African soil. Which one sounds like the bigger scam?

Have we ever been one?... Just accept it one Nigeria ain't working mehn

The division has always been there

You haven't stated why Nigeria should be together... Northerners live and work freely in the SS/SE but people from these areas are treated as foreigners in other parts of the country and you still talk about one Nigeria?
Come on!

Blizzy9ja:
Have we ever been one?... Just accept it one Nigeria ain't working mehn

The division has always been there

You haven't stated why Nigeria should be together... Northerners live and work freely in the SS/SE but people from these areas are treated as foreigners in other parts of the country and you still talk about one Nigeria?
Come on!

Last I heard we ve more easternans in other parts of d Country than we ve pple from other parts of d country living ind east! Maybe easternans want to be State Governors in every state in d country!

ALISMILE:
Last I heard we ve more easternans in other parts of d Country than we ve pple from other parts of d country living ind east! Maybe easternans want to be State Governors in every state in d country!

For the records am proudly ND... We recently bashed South Africans for their xenophobic actions but we are the worse culprit. Take it or leave it easterner are sojorners, hustlers, they like to make it outside and come back home to flaunt it.... Their success always hurt their host why?

Blizzy9ja:
For the records am proudly ND... We recently bashed South Africans for their xenophobic actions but we are the worse culprit. Take it or leave it easterner are sojorners, hustlers, they like to make it outside and come back home to flaunt it.... Their success always hurt their host why?

am also frm d ND and from where I come frm nobdy troubles d ibos. If they er troubled and hated like u ve pointed out, the ibos will not be as successful in foreign lands as dey re! This is simply exaggerated! Go to Lag and see ow ibos claim to be omonile in such a way that others cannot be allowed in their land!

ALISMILE:
am also frm d ND and from where I come frm nobdy troubles d ibos. If they er troubled and hated like u ve pointed out, the ibos will not be as successful in foreign lands as dey re! This is simply exaggerated! Go to Lag and see ow ibos claim to be omonile in such a way that others cannot be allowed in their land!

Where's dat?... I've met a lot of your type(yoruba imposters) here on nairaland so ur judgement does not surprise me

pls why are u guys pissing in your pants, opening a thread every minute about Biafra with bad view or is it because of the coming one million march protest.
you guys try as you can to give our hero ojukwu a bad name but more you try my we love the man ojukwu. as God could have It he transfer the mantle to Nnamdi KANU. a name that gives buhari HBP.
now you have started calling nnamdi kanu bad name again, holding him by DSS is making the matter worst .
if moses can lead the Israelite out and Joshua take them to promise land. check how many year from biafra civil war to date is almost forty years and how many years Israelite wanders in the wilderness, is forty solid years
we BIAFRA are heading to our promise land you, ariwa, yeruba and Fulani nama northerners can not stop us to see where milk and honey flow. history is about to repeat itself.

austinsmat:
pls why are u guys pissing in your pants, opening a thread every minute about Biafra with bad view or is it because of the coming one million march protest.
you guys try as you can to give our hero ojukwu a bad name but more you try my we love the man ojukwu. as God could have It he transfer the mantle to Nnamdi KANU. a name that gives buhari HBP.
now you have started calling nnamdi kanu bad name again, holding him by DSS is making the matter worst .
if moses can lead the Israelite out and Joshua take them to promise land. check how many year from biafra civil war to date is almost forty years and how many years Israelite wanders in the wilderness, is forty solid years
we BIAFRA are heading to our promise land you, ariwa, yeruba and Fulani nama northerners can not stop us to see where milk and honey flow. history is about to repeat itself.

u guys can go for all we care, but don't disturb d SS!

ALISMILE:
u guys can go for all we care, but don't disturb d SS!

you are not true Ss formal first vice President of Biafra and second President of biafra is from where pls read this Wikipedia link for better understanding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Effiong

austinsmat:
you are not true Ss formal first vice President of Biafra and second President of biafra is from where pls read this Wikipedia link for better understanding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Effiong

u guys er useless in ur imaginary quest to add the SS to ur region! U want us but we don't want u! We prefer to be on our own wen it finally comes down to secession! Get this into ur brain we don't want to be ibo or biafra! If its because of d SS u re thinking and dreaming of Secession then u guys need to wake up frm that dream! U need to realise how land locked ur biafra is going to be! There will be no seaport and no outlet for u guys! So stop dreaming! Na by force to be part of biafra?