Ex-biafran Soldiers Slam Ojukwu Over War Threat

People talk as if war is the worst thing that can happen to a country or people. Methinks that permanent enslavement of a people is far worse than war. Some of the dignity and respect accorded Igbos in Nigeria today come from the civil war.

Also, sometimes even war (as evil as it is) can bring about the type of transformation that is needed to move a country forward. The truth is that some of the most progressive nations of the world today are creatures of war and conflict. Ojukwu is a man ahead of his peers in terms of vision. It is unfortunate that Nigeria is being led by visionless people. All the people with vision have been schemed out, killed or exiled.
I came across a great quote from Albert Einstein and it accurately captures the Nigerian scenario:

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Einstein

So, I can understand why some low level, same ol' same, pedestrian, peace at all costs, enslave me don't kill me, business as usual, business unusual, maintain the status quo, don't upturn the apple cart, protect the system apologists would prefer that the Ikemba be hanged, than rise up to defend their votes and freedom!
So, next time, if you don't share in the Ikemba's vision, please move on!

"When most of us came back from that war walking on crutches. And he doesn’t even ask  how we are fairing."

This statement illustrates the failure of his  leadership add to that his lining up for pension without making similar representations for biafra veterans plus playing houseboy for abacha. 

Thankfully the political end has come for this megalomaniac.

@Eziachi you have spoken well

@mrperfect i respect yourbright sense of understanding it is easy to talk but not easy to Reason(you have reasoned well let it be known)

@Mortiple it is good to be criticall inthought keep it up

@ruseellino hmm hmm he who sees a black cat in the night is a member in the god of sight,it is not enough to be personal in issues like this(most especially if u are an igbo man)

@noblezone you have an idea of ojukwus theorem

@citizeny the basis of socio-economic backgound of a people will not be complete without thier socio-political status(men by by nature is a political animal)
@freshmoney  while a child is crying for food in the midle of the night an adult will be busy thinking of the next day

@ben10 every soldier must come from a baracks of his own,alow him fight his own

@ponitail be wise(at least speak for yourself)

@defemz pls leave fast ,i can bet u dont know your village

@Eziachi i repeat myself you have spoken well,he who have eyes let them hear, not all educated folks are reasonable.

Ojukwu came home from exile, received a heroic welcome, probably unsurpassed in the history of Nigerians in exile, then delved into politics and lost his bid to be a senator to a lesser known politician. How relevant is he in Nigerian politics? Lets be honest, in my opinion, the man weilds little clout in Nigerian politics. 

once more only truth has spoken again. meanwhile sapele guy says some r livn in da past suffern n smiln how many battles have taken place in warri. ijaw vs itsekiri, urhobo n co,  olboy stop lyn to urself deep inside u you wish your parents supported biafra then. i hear a lot of peeps say we for even follow biafra during dat war but the north decieved our parents. ive heard peeps say this so stop being biased. OJUKS NA WARRIOR GIVE HIM DA SAME RESPECT WE ACCORD NANA.

Maybe he is a rabble rouser.

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.

May God continue to bless your wisdom.

Imagine the bald headed coward threatening war, tufiakwa.