BETTER CHOICES BUT CHOSE TOTAL SECESSION!
WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT!! WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT OJUKWU AND BIAFRA.
By Laa Pulga Prince Colonel
Ojukwu didn't just wake up one morning and decided to go to war with Nigeria, After the 1966 northern counter-coup where Aguyi ironsi was betrayed by his own head of security guard and murdered in Abeokuta, the key players in this northern coup were Murtala Mohammed and Theophilus Danjuma (the head of security of Ironsi).
After this northern coup, things escalated and it became a public brawl. The Igbos were now been killed in the north WITHOUT A REASON and they all began to run back to the east, They were received by the military Governor of the East who Ironsi has appointed, his name was LT. COLONEL CHUKWUEMEKA OJUKWU. Ojukwu made his stance to Lagos that he was unhappy with the events but that there won't be a reprisal attack from the Igbos.
As at this time in Nigeria, there had been a previous coup it was bloody. So it was expected that the Igbos would make a reprisal one since this northern coup was already a counter-coup in the first place. Now, in Ikeja, the British (who would later go on to support Nigeria during the war) were having a meeting with the northerners and decided to hand over the reins of the affair to the HIGHEST RANKING NORTHERN OFFICER IN THE MILITARY.
A man called Lt- Col Gowon. Murtala Mohammed never forgave GOWON for this and this would lead to the coup which overthrew GOWON many years later, This isn't our focus for now. Now, this was part of the problem. This is Nigeria, you want a military leader to lead,You should get the highest ranking Nigerian military officer, not the highest ranking NORTHERN officer, That move alone, heightened the tension,That was how Gowon became the head of state then. Now there were Igbos example OJUKWU who had a higher ranking than Gowon, The highest ranking military man was Brigadier Ogundipe who in the eyes of OJUKWU should have been the head of state, When Ojukwu rejected the appointment of GOWON.
This brought about a personal hatred for Ojukwu by GOWON, But the northerners with the support of the British took power for themselves, And then Gowon turned a blind eye to the Igbos been massacred in the north, Sounds familiar to what is happening today with Buhari and the herdsmen?,This angered Ojukwu. His brothers/sisters were been killed and GOWON the head of state pretended as if nothing was going on, GOWON then was 31, GOWON was a Christian by religion. But in matters of ethnicity, loyalty isn't shared, Ojukwu asked a famous question at an interview in Enugu, the capital of the eastern government, The Question was. "At what stage do these killings become a genocide?",
The killing of the Igbos started well before the war, Northerners were having a Field day killing the Igbos. Ojukwu found a way out or thought he found a way out,He approached Obafemi Awolowo who was still in prison then and the most influential Yoruba person at that point, He asked Awolowo to take the Yorubas out of Nigeria, so he too can take the Igbos out of Nigeria,Then the northerners can have Nigeria to themselves,Awolowo thought and considered the idea for a moment. Problem was, oil had been discovered in the south and east and they knew the wealth it would bring to that region.
The North approached Obafemi and gave him an offer he couldn't refuse. Obafemi immediately after his release, was to announce the secession of the Oduduwa Republic ( Yorubas) from Nigeria. So as OJUKWU can do same with Biafra and leave the north in Nigeria alone. Instead, he accepted a top position as the highest ranking civilian in Gowon's regime, essentially creating a north and west alliance, leaving the East out in the cold,It was ironical that Awolowo who was one of those that fought for an independent Nigeria would support a GOWON regime that was bent on wiping out Igbos from the earth's surface,The British kept quiet, Awolowo supported GOWON,And this emboldened GOWON the more,And OJUKWU couldn't fold his hands and do nothing,
Britain has a part of blame in the Biafra war," He who sits on the fence in the face of abuse, has inadvertently taken the side of the abuser",Igbos were suffering and most of them already displaced were encouraging Ojukwu to take them out of Nigeria and declare Biafra,GOWON had threatened that if Ojukwu tries it, it would be seen as an act of treason and police action would be taken- a euphemism for war,How can your people be killed indiscriminately and you are asked to sit and do nothing?,Whose father would sit at home and see his sons killed like fowls and fold his hands?
OJUKWU i remember was the military Governor of the eastern province, And this pained him a lot. Ojukwu still wanted diplomatic reasonings to things, And he threw the final dice to ensure a diplomatic ending to the fights. It was ABURI ABURI, GHANA. In a bid to avoid hostilities, both sides decided to meet on a neutral ground. So they met in ABURI, Ghana in January 1967 as a guest of General Joseph Ankrah for peace talks, In that meeting, a declaration was announced that the use of force as the means of settling the present crisis in Nigeria should be stopped.
That the killing of Igbos should be stopped, And also that revenues and allocations be shared equally. And also that positions in government should be given factoring all three provinces, The ABURI accord did not see the light of the day, Factoring the fact that oil has been found in the Niger-delta. The killings of the Igbos had not stopped and to make matters worse on May 5, 1967, GOWON divided the 3 Nigerian regions into 12 states, The North-western state, North- Eastern state, Kano State, North- central state, Benue-plateau state, Kwara State, western state, Lagos State, mid-western state, Rivers State, southern-east state and east-central state. What does that tell you?
The North was given six states, the West has given 3 states and the East given 3 states,Now remember there was already an unofficial alliance between the north and the west,So it was basically a 9 against 3,You had oil and someone wants to share with you and proceeded to give you the least So the East had the oil, but from the very onset of time since the GOWON regime, the North had always had a bigger share of the revenue coming from the east. At this point, it was too much for OJUKWU to take, Igbos were still been killed. Now, Igbos were subjugated and were now getting little of their own resources.
OJUKWU had no choice than to take the Igbos out of Nigeria, This happened 5th of May and by end of May, Ojukwu had declared the independence of the Republic of Biafra and war had broken out. Remember the same Britain who kept quiet when GOWON was running amok. Same British supported Nigeria in arms and aids, Same Britain watched and saw millions of children killed because of starvation, Same Britain who is forming moral standard in the world today were enablers of that Biafra war, It was only France that came to the aid of Biafra.
It's been 50 years and what our schools have succeeded to let us know was that Ojukwu woke up one morning and decided to go to war,HE HAD NO CHOICE,Prominent Nigerians who fought against OJUKWU includes, Shehu Musa, Yar'Adua, Ken Saro-wiwa, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Benjamin Adekunle, Olusegun Obasanjo. All went on to play important roles in Nigeria, 4 of them becoming head of state/president, You see why they think it is their right to rule Nigeria, I hope we never get to see wars again, I hope Biafra comes diplomatically, Ozoemena

u skipped the part when igbos killed all top ranking officers of other tribes except theirs n to add insult upon injury those killers were treated like heroes in prison while d igbos keep taunting the hausas by putting a picture of nzeogwu on sarduanas corpse. if u forget history, we will remind u

Unik3030:
u skipped the part when igbos killed all top ranking officers of other tribes except theirs n to add insult upon injury those killers were treated like heroes in prison while d igbos keep taunting the hausas by putting a picture of nzeogwu on sarduanas corpse. if u forget history, we will remind u

You telling me Igbo have not been killed before the 1966 coup?

What led to the killing of Igbos on 22 june 1945 in KANO was it the coup?

What led to the killing of igbos in jos 1953(pogrom) was it the 1966 coup?

Oh maybe you all started killing them in advance to the coup huh?

ezenwajosh:


You telling me Igbo have not been killed before the 1966 coup?

What led to the killing of Igbos in 1945 in KANO was it the coup?

Gbam!......SUPER RESPONSE!

Akiara:


Gbam!......SUPER RESPONSE!

They might forget but we will never forget...for the fact they have to remove history doesn't mean we can't find them else where that's the ONE OF GOOD SIDES of INTERNET

if another war is to come out of Nigeria DISINTEGRATION the SOURVIET UNION won't support Nigeria again.... Alot has changed since the civil war

The "fools" amongst them make mockery of the plight of the IGBO during the war.
The "sensible" are awe struck at the resilience of the IGBO after the war.
The "Pessimist" wish there would be another war so that they can claim properties belonging to IGBOs.

BUT......

THE IGBO ARE READY FOR WHATEVER THEY BRING!

ezenwajosh:


They might forget but we will never forget...for the fact they have to remove history doesn't mean we can't find them else where that's the ONE OF GOOD SIDES of INTERNET

if another war is to come out of Nigeria DISINTEGRATION the SOURVIET UNION won't support Nigeria again.... Alot has changed since the civil war

ezenwajosh:


You telling me Igbo have not been killed before the 1966 coup?

What led to the killing of Igbos on 22 june 1945 in KANO was it the coup?

What led to the killing of igbos in jos 1953(pogrom) was it the 1966 coup?

Oh maybe you all started killing them in advance to the coup huh?

see bro, u are just typing with emotions. b4 u tell us igbos were killed at a time the question should b what happened b4 they were killed? cos to every action there is an equal n opposite reaction. u never told us how igbos killed people b4 d civil war so I had to remind u b4 u brought this n am sure u ain't telling us what led to d killing too

The war was all about the North dominating Nigeria

Unik3030:
see bro, u are just typing with emotions. b4 u tell us igbos were killed at a time the question should b what happened b4 they were killed? cos to every action there is an equal n opposite reaction. u never told us how igbos killed people b4 d civil war so I had to remind u b4 u brought this n am sure u ain't telling us what led to d killing too

I leave you to do the research if you don't know as you claim to know the history before

Unik3030:
u skipped the part when igbos killed all top ranking officers of other tribes except theirs n to add insult upon injury those killers were treated like heroes in prison while d igbos keep taunting the hausas by putting a picture of nzeogwu on sarduanas corpse. if u forget history, we will remind u

THE COUP WAS PLAN AND EXECUTED BY NIGERIA MILITARY NOT IGBOS AS THEY SAID.

dignity33:
THE COUP WAS PLAN AND EXECUTED BY NIGERIA MILITARY NOT IGBOS AS THEY SAID.

so military officers who refused to kill only igbos? y did they refuse to kill only igbos if truly they are not igbo?

ezenwajosh:


You telling me Igbo have not been killed before the 1966 coup?

What led to the killing of Igbos on 22 june 1945 in KANO was it the coup?

What led to the killing of igbos in jos 1953(pogrom) was it the 1966 coup?

Oh maybe you all started killing them in advance to the coup huh?

This is intriguing. ...can you provide reference please?(not some unverified article by Any Joe)

APC thread

@OP
We agree that a series of events lead Ojukwu to declare independence for Biafra republic. He believed it was the right thing to do. His people believed in him and they wanted a better life (Nothing wrong with that).

In my opinion, they should have ended the war earlier when things didn't go as planned.

Also, we shouldn't forget that a series of event led to the first coup and the counter coup. But where do we stop laying blame and start building our future together?

food4tot:


Also, we shouldn't forget that a series of event led to the first coup and the counter coup. But where do we stop laying blame and start building our future together?

There is no future o build together. You can only build a future with someone you are on the same page with

u didnt mention he started the war with 120 rifles.
u didnt mention he declared biafra 3 days after the creation of 12 states. (main reason he declared biafra, he was no longer the gov)

kingzizzy:


There is no future o build together. You can only build a future with someone you are on the same page with

You cant commit suicide in the name of a better future. For the sake of future generations, do the right thing.

Make I grab my popcorn.

This thread will be interesting

And After They Will Tell Us To Forget The Past? No Way!! There Is No Way We Can Forget The Evil They Did To Our Fore Fathers! We Must Continue! I Will Tell My Children About This Story And They Will Tell Theirs Too,,the Story Will Continue So That Our Generations Will Know How Evil The Name Nigeria Is...We Must Continue! Its Either We Get Biafra Or Die Trying!!

If War Break Again Today I Will Gladly Fight Till Death For Biafra! It Will Be A Honour To Die For What I Believe!

God Bless Biafra!!!

splendour7:
And After They Will Tell Us To Forget The Past? No Way!! There Is No Way We Can Forget The Evil They Did To Our

if u will tell it to ur offsprings, u shuld also include how gowon handled the post- war era. when the biafra troops surrendered 2 d fed govt, they were gladly granted amnesty without minding the havoc caused both at home and in the int' system. Don't mis-quote me, am nt supporting the then govt but Gowon could have wipped biafrans(i dere not use Igbos) if he wanted to..For the purpose of knowledge, many countries surported biafra including portugal, cameroon,france e.t.c. moreso, britain placed embargo on the sales of weapons for both sides..nice write up... i am a student of foreign policy and open to critic/criticism if any.

food4tot:


You can commit suicide in the name of a better future. For the sake of future generations, do the right thing.

The right thing is for us to forget that Lugard brought us together in 1914 and go our separate ways

Unik3030:
u skipped the part when igbos killed all top ranking officers of other tribes except theirs n to add insult upon injury those killers were treated like heroes in prison while d igbos keep taunting the hausas by putting a picture of nzeogwu on sarduanas corpse. if u forget history, we will remind u

Many Northerners participated in the coup...if they didnt want to they would have done otherwise.....

OYorubas and awusa will surely reap their evil deeds against easterns,because they were not killing only Igbos,they dont as if
you are Urhobo,Isoko,Ijaw,
Ogoni, Igala,Tiv, Yako,
Idoma or Ibibio.
If you are not yoruba or
hausafulanis,you are Igbo to them.

Their justification for all their evil deeds against easterns is a coup by the military which some of the military men are their brothers.

food4tot:


This is intriguing. ...can you provide reference please?(not some unverified article by Any Joe)

Maybe it won't be real if its any Wikipedia

food4tot:
@OP
We agree that a series of events lead Ojukwu to declare independence for Biafra republic. He believed it was the right thing to do. His people believed in him and they wanted a better life (Nothing wrong with that).

In my opinion, they should have ended the war earlier when things didn't go as planned.

Also, we shouldn't forget that a series of event led to the first coup and the counter coup. But where do we stop laying blame and start building our future together?

That's the point.... I mean the whole point, the war revealed a lot of things about the name nigeria and why it was created

The whole point is that nigeria can't work the more the people believe in it the more its favouring the politicians... That's exactly what they want

T9ksy:



Yeah, ibos were slaughtered in 1945 and again in 1953 ( for no reason, at all) HOWEVER, you ibos for reason best fathom by you lot still insist on One Nigeria.

Despite all these killings, ibos were still so desirous (of the 3 major groups) of One Nigeria that when it was time for the regions to attain self-rule, ibos opted to wait for their northern brothers to be ready whilst the western region went ahead on its own.

Inspite of these killings , it's on tecord that it was the ibos who vehemently opposed incorporating seccession clause into our constitution and even went further to threathened its proponents of treasonable offence.

After all these seemingly unprovoked and excessive killings (of ibos in the North), come independence day, the same ibos somehow found a reason to play second fiddle to their killers in the 1st republic- all in the name of One (fake) Nigeria.


Ibos wanted One Nigeria much more than all other Nigerians.

Our politicians wanted one nigeria because they benefit from it being one... We knew better many years later and that's why we want REFERENDUM.... Truth is igbos or not no one is happy with the nigeria of today

T9ksy:




So, only your politicians were falling themselves on account of One Nigeria whilst the rest of you ibos were dead against it? Yeah right!!! What a cop-out!

When your fathers were being VC of Unis in yorubaland (s/thing that you wouldn't dare in the north), were they politicians? And these ibo VCs went to staff their respective uni with mostly their kith and kins- those ones too are politicians, ba.

You guys only smelt the flippin' coffee when you realised the extent your supposedly d.um.b fellow nigerians will go to, to stop you lot from dominating them on their ancestral land under the guise of One united Nigeria.

Was there a time when this blasted contraption was ever "united"?

Son nobody would have done a thing when the amalgamation treaty is still active.... Expiration of amalgamation treaty gave us the opportunity to shout secession in our highest tone....

HERE IS THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA IN PICTURE TELL ME IT CAN WORK