Briareos:
My friend made a short film on this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZbKboaP50

oglalasioux:


Good question. However, in war, you have to capture the enemy's capital to attain victory. The enemy can never negotiate unless you have his capital city. It was a good military move but a sorry political one calculating from the point of the reasons for the war.

CUM4WHAT:
So sad


Lalasticlala bring my hankerchief fr me..... nd call prettythicksme fr me coz she staying too long inda kitchen

freshdude99:

Answer is simple, capturing the seat of power in Lagos will give him a better bargaining chip. Remember several meetings were held in Ghana and it gave birth to aburi accord which gowon vehemently refused to implement. So had Biafra republic capture Lagos, we would have been celebrating 59yrs this year

TheGoodJoe:
By 4pm two and a half hours after the executions, the gunners of the federal troops had started to hit their targets in Enugu with great accuracy. The Biafrans began to flee and the city fell a few days later.

I wonder how Ojukwu felt after killing Ifeajuna and spreading false propaganda against Ifeajuna. Then the City fell in days and a lot of Igbos died.

TheGoodJoe:
A body of soldiers drew up with their automatic rifles at the ready. On the order of their officer, they levelled their guns at the bared chests of the four men. As a hysterical mass behind the firing squad shouted: “Shoot them! Shoot them!” a grim-looking officer gave the command: “Fire!” The deafening volley was followed by lolling heads.

Ifeajuna slumped. Nigeria’s great sporting hero died a villain’s death. But he had been right. By 4pm two and a half hours after the executions, the gunners of the federal troops had started to hit their targets in Enugu with great accuracy. The Biafrans began to flee and the city fell a few days later.

This says it all. Nigerians hate anyone who has an opposing view. They will kill or sabotage you if your views are different.

The people did not care if Ifeajuna was right. At the end they paid with their lives. Millions of lives.

Mynd44 pass me the handkerchief. Tears things.

Icon4s:
My late father was part of the troup led by Victor Banjo, one of the other 3 executed with Ifeajuna.

Ojukwu took one of d greatest gambles of the Civil war by putting Victor Banjo, a Yoruba man, in charge of the troup dat was on conquest to Lagos. Banjo got through to Awolowo when the troup approached Ore after over running Benin.

Banjo negotiated a cease fire and d journey on a conquest to Lagos was halted allowing time for d Federal troup to regroup and repel the Biafran soldiers.

The war would have ended in less than 3months had Banjo nt betrayed Ojukwu.

Emmanuel Ifeajuna was also implicated in the case and all four had to die.

ColtPython:
After declaring Biafra, the igbos should have stayed in the east and set up barriers for their borders...


Why Ojukwu decided to march west to capture Lagos still baffles me....

Could it be greed or foolishness?

tosan200:
Ojukwu preferred to execute the three rather than listen to the voice of reason. On another note he left the poor children and women rather than stay behind and fight to his last blood.
From this I can conclude that ojukwu was an hypocrite executing his people for their betrayal and also doing the same by leaving his people immediately the federal troops overran them. What a LIFE.

Eddygourdo:
after the declaration of the republic of biafra, was there any response from the nigerian government militarily ? Or even threats? History tells us there was none up till the time, the lagos march was made. Thus that march towards the capital with intention to unseat the gowon government, went beyond a group trying to break away from nigeria to a rebel group trying to overthrow a sitting government. Thus explains why biafra didn't have any international sympathy at the begining of the war.

taxsman:
I wonder how Ojukwu felt after killing Ifeajuna and spreading false propaganda against Ifeajuna. Then the City fell in days and a lot of Igbos died.

YourNemesis:


Ramblings from a coward

Nnachuka:
I said to you at least, never ruled by fear.

AdaNri1:
Most people believe that Igbos are regarded as money lovers because of their fiery trading and entrepreneurial skills. No. It is because the Hausas were able to buy some of them out during the civil war. That was why the war was lost. They were enticed with money and they fell for it. I hope we have learned our lessons. Onye ele na nwanne ya maka ego. Uwa di omimi

AdaNri1:
Most people believe that Igbos are regarded as money lovers because of their fiery trading and entrepreneurial skills. No. It is because the Hausas were able to buy some of them out during the civil war. That was why the war was lost. They were enticed with money and they fell for it. I hope we have learned our lessons. Onye ele na nwanne ya maka ego. Uwa di omimi

Icon4s:
My late father was part of the troup led by Victor Banjo, one of the other 3 executed with Ifeajuna.

Ojukwu took one of d greatest gambles of the Civil war by putting Victor Banjo, a Yoruba man, in charge of the troup dat was on conquest to Lagos. Banjo got through to Awolowo when the troup approached Ore after over running Benin.

Banjo negotiated a cease fire and d journey on a conquest to Lagos was halted allowing time for d Federal troup to regroup and repel the Biafran soldiers.

The war would have ended in less than 3months had Banjo nt betrayed Ojukwu.

Emmanuel Ifeajuna was also implicated in the case and all four had to die.

Briareos:
My friend made a short film on this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZbKboaP50

Waspy:





Although it's hard to pick sides owning to the numerous biased accounts of the events before and after the war, I believe Ojukwu was wrong.

How can your top allies and henchmen not believe in you? Maybe they actually saw what only a sane man can see. Maybe they tried to convince him? Maybe Ojukwu was selfish and had other motives?. Maybe he was destined to have his history? Ojukwu was a one man general, according to this account. He had only the pebble throwing, ignorant and confused igbo civilians behind him. ( sadly till date tho)

Why didn't Ojukwu give the Lagos "take" to someone else other than Banjo. How unthinkable. I thought Igbos always deny making any offensive moves. Igbos made us see the war as an attack on innocent women and children. Igbos playing the victim card since 419BC. Infact such thinking makes me believe the Igbo side of the story is so faked.

I'm not in the mood to banter Pls. No quoting

freshdude99:

Am glad you have a better knowledge of history unlike the Op and most NL posters.
How can ur CnC give orders and a subordinate go behind and negotiate a ceasefire huh?
We Igbos aren't cowards, if I were my leader ojukwu, Na for face I will order them to shoot the fvvkers sef. Their betrayal led to the death of millions of biafrans and one op is here writing rubbish as if we don't read history books

Ndifereke:


Seems like spewing trash was embedded in your genes. So you were among those that fought the civil war and had inside knowledge that made you so sure that Ojukwu spread a false propaganda against him. I wonder how you felt after choosing to bare open your hate for things you know nothing of.

Waspy:





Although it's hard to pick sides owning to the numerous biased accounts of the events before and after the war, I believe Ojukwu was wrong.

How can your top allies and henchmen not believe in you? Maybe they actually saw what only a sane man can see. Maybe they tried to convince him? Maybe Ojukwu was selfish and had other motives?. Maybe he was destined to have his history? Ojukwu was a one man general, according to this account. He had only the pebble throwing, ignorant and confused igbo civilians behind him. ( sadly till date tho)

Why didn't Ojukwu give the Lagos "take" to someone else other than Banjo. How unthinkable. I thought Igbos always deny making any offensive moves. Igbos made us see the war as an attack on innocent women and children. Igbos playing the victim card since 419BC. Infact such thinking makes me believe the Igbo side of the story is so faked.

I'm not in the mood to banter Pls. No quoting

Icon4s:
My late father was part of the troup led by Victor Banjo, one of the other 3 executed with Ifeajuna.

Ojukwu took one of d greatest gambles of the Civil war by putting Victor Banjo, a Yoruba man, in charge of the troup dat was on conquest to Lagos. Banjo got through to Awolowo when the troup approached Ore after over running Benin.

Banjo negotiated a cease fire and d journey on a conquest to Lagos was halted allowing time for d Federal troup to regroup and repel the Biafran soldiers.

The war would have ended in less than 3months had Banjo nt betrayed Ojukwu.

Emmanuel Ifeajuna was also implicated in the case and all four had to die.

TheGoodJoe:


I grew up among a maternal side loyal to the Biafran struggle. At a very young age, I knew about the Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna and Co. I always knew Ifeajuna as a Saboteur and one who betrayed the Igbos.

As I got older, I read more and found out, there was a lot of one sided information coming to the Igbos. They did not believe any other source. So when the news of Ifeajuna came, very few stopped to think, "What of if the war was not going as planned?" Ifeajuna and Banjo were at the war front. Their accounts should have been trusted.

They knew they were losing the war and a ceasefire agreement would have saved their brothers' lives. They warned the Soldiers were coming and people did not listen to them.

The write up says it all. Few hours later, not few days, the Nigerian Military struck the same place.

If Ojukwu listened to them, they would have saved lives. The Propaganda was they were Saboteurs but if Ojukwu listened to them they would have been seen as their brothers' keepers.

Yinkay:



Banjo avoided becoming another Afonja by turning back at Ore. The event also led to increase in enlistment in Nigerian Army by many Yorubas who earlier viewed the conflict as between Northerners and Easterners

Ndifereke:


Still didn't prove you right. Even the writer of the article makes it well-known that him (and many people) are not sure if Ifejuna really committed the crimes or not. He even said that to some people, he's a hero, to others he's guilty and villain. No-one really knows what truly happened but yet you are so sure he's innocent when you didn't even fought the civil war. That the Nigerian army struck Enugu few hours later doesn't absolve Ifejuna of his crime or make him guilty. So I don't get where you are getting evidence from to make sure of facts you know nothing of. What about those that said Banjo and Ifejuna and co reached out to Awolowo and decided to go on a ceasefire (sabotaging Biafra) at Ore which led to NA re-strategizing and defeating Biafra? Is that not a crime punishable by death if it was true? What about Ifejuna murdering Tafawa Belewa? You confidently left out those parts and went for the parts that vilifies Ojukwu out of hate without any credible evidence to prove Ojukwu guilty. Spare me your hypocrisy!!

freshdude99:

#True but this very history the Op is feeding us is poisonous lies.
Ifeajuna, Banjo and co are betrayers and saboteurs and for the record my hero OJUKWU took a necessary decision I will always cherish. And for young Biafrans and Nigerians, respect ur boss no matter what, in the army, ur boss is ur boss. Follow orders not personality.
Adieu my leader, the great Odimegwu Ojukwu