One would expect that those army officers who did not approve secession would give Ojukwu a showdown. Why did you not remove him by organising a bloodless coup d’état?

It wasn’t easy; make no mistake about it. The sentiment of the people was very strong in favour of the ideas and ideals propounded by Emeka. I hate to say this because it makes me feel like a coward. Ojukwu was a dictator, you know. It wasn’t always easy or safe to oppose his ways or his will. The best one could do was to point out the dangers to Ojukwu. But if you didn’t know when to stop shooting your mouth he could quite easily throw you in detention.

Ojukwu was a man who lacked system. He didn’t like to work through organisation. Nominally, I knew very little of what was going on and initially I knew nothing. It was at the later stages that I got to know a little bit. Ojukwu kept everything under his personal control. He used civilians a lot and tended to look down on the military.

Why did you allow Ojukwu to escape?

If we had prevented Ojukwu from going away, the boys, at that stage, would probably have killed him. He would have been turned into a hero and you wouldn’t have been able to bring the war to an end as we did.

Tell me about Ojukwu’s escape.

Ojukwu left on Thursday January 8. In the morning, we had a secret meeting at which he said he was going away to seek peace and military requirements. But I knew he was running away. In fact, I had been tipped off. We advised him to name a person to act while he was away. Then he selected me. In the evening, I went to see him. It was obvious to me that he knew he couldn’t hold out militarily any longer. His last words to me were: “Well, Philip, keep it up.” His departure took place at night and was very secret. There were more people wanting to go than the plane could take. Ojukwu himself prepared the list of those who should go. There was such a rush to get onto the plane that the pilot got annoyed and moved off suddenly. As a result, some people who went in merely to do certain things but were not billed to go had to go. Some people who were meant to go were left behind.

Eko Ile:


And this village rebel leader lost millions of his people because of his dumbness and stupidity...

chosen04: Wow!!! Thank God for "THE WAS A COUNTRY"

Johndoe100: What I find amazing about the Yoruba on this thread, is the idea that if they shout abuse long enough that will change the truth of what Achebe said. Just the normal agbero tactics. Please I am not Ibo. Just an amused bystander.

chino11: It does not change the fact that 1000000 Yoruba cannot make one Ikemba. Its a feat ARM ROBBERS YORROBBERS will not achieve now and forever. Ikemba remains the first African oxford product born to the first African millionaire and was the first Nigerian graduate to enlist in the army. Mehn make una dey clap for people general.

Imagine if the war wad between dirty Yoruba and common Ijaw minority, yorrobbers would have been finished with 48hrs.

Igbos has the best and brightest that Nigeria can offer.

Zik -first president (has any Yoruba got to that feat?)

Emeka Anyaoku (commonwealth secretary general) has any Yoruba got to that feat?)

Achebe is Africa’s most powerful celebrity – Forbes (has any Yoruba got to that feat?)

Emeagwali -Father of Internet (has any Yoruba got to that feat?)

Chike Obi -first professor of mathematics in Africa. (has any Yoruba got to that feat?)

Just to mention a few. It will take YORROBBER kneeling to the Igbos to be able to achieve anything meaningful

As for Soyenka he was just a common cultist, known in his university days for that.

In the case of Awoalowoa he was just a war criminal, ex-convict, treasonable felon..name it. Infact no wonder yoorobbers does not have a single role model to look up to.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 49, of the powerful Yoruba tribe, dedicated, teetotaling Prime Minister of the Western Region of Nigeria who began as a barrister, has gradually emerged as a statesman of integrity in a land where charges of corruption are the political order of the day. His fellow Prime Minister to the more populous but primitive north, the Sardauna of Sokoto, is a haughty Moslem nobleman out of another century. Nigeria's other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result of a financial scandal in his administration. So rent by divisions (250 tribes speaking 400 languages), Nigeria has a compromise federal Prime Minister, Abubakar Balewa, a northerner. "To many of us," says Awolowo, "Britain is our second home. We have thrown no stones, fired no shot, and we have not shed a drop of British blood. We are attaining independence by peaceful, orderly and democratic methods."

Eko Ile: SIX LEADERS OF BLACK AFRICA







http://raila2012.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=423:six-leaders-of-black-africa&catid=34:articles-on-raila-frontpage







Suxcs to be AGIPA for real...lmao