Anambra Crisis Could Lead To Another Civil War – Ojukwu

Ojukwu needs to go to bed, he's an old man, he needs to stop coming up with Civil War, his good old days are gone.

The way that someone perceives something is a matter of their opinion nothing more. How does it hurt you if people feel the Person who led the first civil war should be more cautious with their words, for the sake of those around them? If you dont like the way people interpreted what he said fine, but being mad throwing a hissy fit will not change ones opinion. I never thought of it as a war threat (as i think Ojukwu is a clown and a joke) If you cant see from my post earlier they were sarcastic. Now YOU dont take peoples words so seriously , if everyone was a clown like you EVERYONE would take this senile old man seriously about being Commander in chief, but we're NOT. So learn not to put so much emotion in something/someone that most Nigerians think is a joke.

   no time to argue with a clown over something that is a joke.

How can someone who cannot understand the simple meaning of a passage refer to an Icon like the great Odumegwu Ojukwu as a clown and a joke. This remains the height of ignorance! Anyway let your father and forefather and even your ancestors challenge Ojukwu on power of expression and communication. Anyway no need trying to educate you as that could be an exercise in futility.


hey man,be easy.everyone has got an opinion and it is not in your place to criticize that.anyways not everyone likes and respects him like you do and you cant blame them for that.everyone has got different experiences which form memories.and honestly,figure of speech or not,he needs to be more careful with words so as not to add fuel to the cauldron.and can we try to be more civil guys?well nice sense of humour sjeezy,no insults intended to anybody.

To start I must note that I’m of Igbo descent, from Anambra State.
I think it’s really sad that Igbo people uncritically look at Ojukuw as their great hero. Let’s review his so-called antecedents.
1.   He singlehandedly maneuvered the Igbo and Nigeria into the war. Aburi gave him more than 90% of what he had wanted, and most of his advisers, including Hilary Njoku, the highest ranking Igbo officer at the time, advised him to accept it. Njoku was initially the commander of the Biafran army. He opposed secession. Ojukuw had him under house arrest until the end of the war for that opposition and for being of higher rank than him.
2.   Ojukwu started planning secession as early as in May 1967. The so-called authorization he got from the consultative assembly was a sham. The decision was already made and the assembly was a rubber stamping body. His argument was that if he could not be president of Nigeria then he would be president of something else. Proof of that is that a man who Nigeria should have tried for treason has run for Nigerian president three times. The fool even collected his pension from the Nigerian army.
3.   There was no genocide plot to wipe out the Igbo after all Igbos had fled from the North in late 1966. Genocide by the way is a difficult task to carry out. Either you build special facilities for it, as the Nazis did, or the two sides have to live in close contact with each other, as in Rwanda. The North had no Auschwitz death camps, and, as I noted, most Igbo had returned to the East and were safe.
4.   Biafra was probably the most underequipped nation to go to war in history. By the latter half of the 20th century the penalties for being the technologically backward side in a war had escalated astronomically. Ojukwu, against the advice of most people in the East with military training still went to war.  Asked about meeting the North again for talks only about three weeks before the start of the war he pompously told Awolowo that the only place he wanted to meet the North was on the battlefield. This was when Biafra had less than two hundred machineguns.
5.   He sent “civilian volunteers” out to meet the Nigerian army near Nsukka in July 1967 armed with only machetes. They were mown down and the survivors fled.
6.   Refused to allow donated food aid from abroad to Biafra overland across Nigerian territory, although Gowon gave a guarantee. His argument was that Nigeria would poison the food. Why poison food when it was clear that you were winning? The Red Cross offered to inspect the food and Ojukwu still declined.
7.   He ran Biafra as a dictatorship. Anyone who got too popular was demoted. Opposition was ruthlessly silenced. Ifeajuna wanted to negotiate with the Federals and got executed for what may have been a fictitious coup plot.
8.   Of course, famously, he ran away. Not many people know that he commandeered a plane meant for the evacuation of sick children to get out of the ruin he created.
9.   The war set the Igbo back by decades. Without Biafra an Igbo man would have been president long ago.
10.   Biafra was founded ostensibly to protect Igbos. Is the proper protection from riots and pogroms in the North exposing the Igbo to the full firepower of wartime while sending out kids to fight with sometimes three bullets each, while cold and hungry?
11.   Joined the NPN, the party of his alleged former Northern enemies, mainly to avoid Zik’s shadow. He had to beat Zik in the contest for Igbo leader.
12.   Igbo people, think.