Dedetwo:


In case of Ojukwu's dilemma in the senatorial contest, he contested under the wrong party and lost. Ndigbo will show a person love when he/she stands in in place Ndigbo consider appropriate. Ndigbo respect heroes but do not worship them.

kingkakaone:

This theory is either flawed or shows an expression of political naivity from the easterners or both.

It is flawed because the party he created brought in two governors at a time in Imo and Anambra, before Rochas decamped. PDP was powerful at that time in the East, even till now.

I said it is an expression of political naivity because we all saw how it payed out in Abia. There were better candidates with records in the private sector but you chose a governor because you feel he stands in a pace you consider appropriate? This is a mystery.

I said both because we have seen how it has panned out today.
If someone like ojukwu with a selfless heart for his people could be ignored because you felt he wasn't in the right platform then that is a flawed idea and also a politically naive one.

Dedetwo:


The poster above junk is a typical Nigerian. If this issue was examination, he gets a grade of "F" and he/she shout he/she merited a grade of "A". Please poster, the issue in discuss was when the idea of APGA was not even conceived. He contested under NPN against popular political party to Ndigbo, NPP, he lost to an Owerri based medic. By the way, Ojukwu was not actual the founder of APGA. He was simply invited to join.

Dedetwo:


The poster above junk is a typical Nigerian. If this issue was examination, he gets a grade of "F" and he/she shout he/she merited a grade of "A". Please poster, the issue in discuss was when the idea of APGA was not even conceived. He contested under NPN against popular political party to Ndigbo, NPP, he lost to an Owerri based medic. By the way, Ojukwu was not actual the founder of APGA. He was simply invited to join.

AkunaAtakasi1:
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waledeji:
Fruitless effort

Basic123:
...yIGBOs have been codedly slaves to hausa fulani for a very long time

like tafawa balewa and nnamdi azikwe

shagari and alex ekwueme

yaradua and their adopted son GEJ




what I noticed is that yIGBOs are poor in politics!

Ojukwu v Nwobodo: The battle of Nkpor


18 March 2019

Nigeria’s recent presidential and governorship (s)elections in Rivers State, aka “Rivers of Blood”, has, once again, brought to the fore the violent battle for supremacy in that state between two former allies, current governor Nyesom Wike, and his predecessor and transport minister Rotimi Amaechi. The struggle between the two, which has led to fatalities, has involved thugs, members of “cults”, and seen Nigerian security forces contributing their own “quota” towards the violence on behalf of the transport minister.

This deadly rivalry has been likened to another bitter clash about 36 years ago between two prominent politicians from the same state, which had national repercussions. A year before the elections in August 1983, President Shehu Shagari, of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), with an eye on splitting the Igbo vote – they had voted overwhelmingly for the Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP) led by Nnamdi Azikiwe in the last election – pulled off a masterstroke by granting a presidential pardon to Emeka Ojukwu.

Ojukwu was the legendary leader of the attempted secession of the predominantly-Igbo Eastern Nigeria as the Republic of Biafra between 1967 and 1970. He fled to Ivory Coast when the secession was finally quashed in a very bloody civil war. Ojukwu, on return from exile, joined Shagari’s NPN and ran for a Senate seat, representing Onitsha zone in the old Anambra State. Onitsha was also Azikiwe’s constituency and Ojukwu’s joining the NPN was viewed as an affront by the state’s governor, Jim Nwobodo, who liked to think of himself as Azikiwe’s “political son”.


Jim Nwobodo (second left) and Nnamdi Azikiwe (second right)
For Ojukwu, Nwobodo was like an “illegitimate son”. And he invested a lot of time in personal attacks against the governor, questioning his “Igbo” credentials and parentage. Nwobodo was born in Lafia and opponents spread rumours that his father was not Igbo. At one rally, Ojukwu told the crowd that before anyone aspired for a leadership position in Igboland, people needed to know who his father was in order to assess his pedigree. The fact that Ojukwu’s father, Sir Louis, was the first Igbo millionaire, must have grated with Nwobodo. The personal attacks got even more venomous, with claims that Nwobodo’s mother worked in Lafia as a woman of ill repute. Nwobodo’s supporters countered with claims that Ojukwu was a “coward” that fled Biafra, leaving others at the mercy of the conquering federal troops. He was called “Ogbo-oso 1” – “one that runs away” in Igbo.

The only two TV stations available at the time helped feed the frenzied atmosphere. NTA Enugu was controlled by the federal government, so was rabidly pro-NPN. It devoted a lot of airtime to Ojukwu and all the anti-Nwobodo rants. This was countered by the state-owned ATV, serving as a mouthpiece for Nwobodo and the NPP.

It all came to a head when Ojukwu and his convoy of supporters were heading to a rally and they ran into Nwobodo and his motorcade at Nkpor Junction, at the outskirts of Onitsha. Both men were with their army of thugs. Ojukwu’s was known as the “Ikemba Front” – named after the title given to the homecoming war hero by folks in his hometown, Nnewi. Nwobodo’s thugs called themselves “Jim’s Vanguard”.


Jim Nwoodo as governor of Anambra State
At Nkpor, with sirens blazing, Nwobodo, as governor, would have expected all cars on his stretch of road to give way for his convoy to proceed. Ojukwu had different ideas. He allegedly ordered his men to proceed head-on. The man who was known during the civil war as “the General of the People’s Army”, then used to roll in a Mercedes SUV assembled at the Anambra Motor Company (Anamco) in Emene and known locally then as an “Anamco jeep”.

Ojukwu was said to have poked his head out of his car’s sunroof top and started barking orders to his men, as gunshots started going off when no side was willing to give way. It was unclear at the time if anyone was injured, but the two protagonists appeared at their favourite TV stations that evening to give differing accounts of what happened.

Nwobodo read from a prepared text and seemed a bag of nerves. What came from Ojukwu was pure unscripted theatre and a throwback to his famed oratory during the civil war. He spoke about how Nwobodo got out of his car and told his men: “Get him (Ojukwu). Don’t let him escape this time”. He then ended his monologue with: “I have not been through the hell of war, through the heart of shells and bullets, to succumb to the excesses of a megalomaniac love-vendor. Yes, that’s what he is! James Nwaogbodo is a megalomaniac love-vendor!” Ojukwu may have been referring to rumours in Enugu at the time that Nwobodo made his money as a love-vendor for military top brass during military rule.

Nwobodo always preferred to be addressed as “Jim” and his surname “Nwobodo” was probably a shortened “Nwaogbodo”. It is likely that Ojukwu felt that Nwobodo didn’t like the longer version. Throughout the campaign, Ojukwu never passed up an opportunity to call the governor “James Nwaogbodo”.

Both men would lose – Ojukwu to Edwin Onwudiwe of the NPP, and Nwobodo to Christian Onoh of the NPN. While Nwobodo was very unpopular by the end of his first term, it was most likely that the results were falsified against him. The widely-held view at the time was that a goat in Azikiwe’s party would win any election in the state.

In December 1983, the military overthrew Shagari’s regime, citing election rigging alongside a long list of other grievances and Muhammadu Buhari was installed as the leader of the junta.
https://www.naijiant.com/articles/ojukwu-v-nwobodo-the-battle-of-nkpor/

kingkakaone:

Too bad!
You are ready to criticize another but any criticism on your own is irrelevant?

I was having a chat with some Igbos in PH about the Biafra wat and I was surprised that all of them blamed Chief Awolowo. I asked them, what was the role of Azikiwe, why not blame him for chanting one Nigeria when he was a leader in the East.
My shock was that they all exonerated him and preferred to blame a man whose aim was to protect his region and people.

One thing I have discovered is that you people hardly blame your leaders, except he is connected to Buhari and APC.

I think the problem of this country is championed by the three so-called big tribes. Too much of bitterness and bickering against each other is affecting us that are minorities.

yarimo:
NNAMDI KANU can not win any election in nigeria, infact he can't win primary election in any party.

Afospecialk:


The coward Ojukwu was ass licking under a Northerner party as a slave to his Fulani master and lost it woefully just as miscreant yeebows has been enslaved under PDP party


Yebow amaka slave to the North

Staro:


He'll be rigged out
That's Nigeria for you

But by popular votes he'll win

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Afospecialk:


The coward Ojukwu was ass licking under a Northerner party as a slave to his Fulani master and lost it woefully just as miscreant yeebows has been enslaved under PDP party


Yebow amaka slave to the North

piggyyeaster:

Afospecialk:


The coward Ojukwu was ass licking under a Northerner party as a slave to his Fulani master and lost it woefully just as miscreant yeebows has been enslaved under PDP party


Yebow amaka slave to the North

bolaayenimo:
He can't even step his legs Into the country