Philip Efiong (also spelled Effiong, 18 November 1925 – 6 November 2003) was the first Vice President and the second President of the now defunct Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970.

seunmsg:
God bless Philip Effiong's soul wherever he is today. At least, he was brave enough not to abandon the soldiers when defeat became imminent unlike a certain coward that ran away to Cote d'ivoire.

lalasticlala:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Effiong

seunmsg:
God bless Philip Effiong's soul wherever he is today. At least, he was brave enough not to abandon the soldiers when defeat became imminent unlike a certain coward that ran away to Cote d'ivoire.

gidgiddy:


Considering that your leader Awolowo gave up without a fight right in Lagos, Yoruba land and became 'second fiddle' to a boy young enough to be his son (Gowon) I think that Ojukwu did well in comparison.

Yorubas are the only people who surrendered their land before the fight even started.

chemicalDisease:



Is that all?

Afonjass.

seunmsg:
God bless Philip Effiong's soul wherever he is today. At least, he was brave enough not to abandon the soldiers when defeat became imminent unlike a certain coward that ran away to Cote d'ivoire.

OJUcrook:
Philip Effiong is the real Civil war hero on the Biafran side. He did not run away, he stood his ground and surrendered because he knew the odds were stacked against the Biafrans.

However, Ojukwu, the initiator of the war, who once boasted that he wiould fight till the last drop of his blood eventually ran away to Abidjan after commndeering a plane that was meant to airlift sick Biafran children

Alhaji Shehu Shagari granted Ojukwu amnesty in 1982. In 1983 Ojukwu contested in the Senatorial election, he also contested in the 2003 and 2007 Presidential elections. He lost woefully on all occassions.

It is highly preposterous that a man who led a war against Nigeria, came back to Nigeria and participated in elections in the same country he fought against

gidgiddy:


Naturally, Ojukwu who was public enemy no 1could not have handed over the way Philip Effiong did. Nobody was chasing after Philip Effiong. Ojukwu leaving paved the way for a peaceful end of the war.



Ojukwu did not initiate any war, Gowon did. It was Gowon that came down to the East to fight. It was Gowon who broke the Aburi agreement he signed with Ojukwu and that caused the trouble.



You people are strange. When Ojukwu was for Biafra, you people hated him. When he now returned from exile and was for 'one Nigeria', joined politics to play his constitutional right to vote and be voted fir, you people still are against him. What is it you people?

Doesnt matter what elections Ojukwu won or lost, nobody can replace him in the hearts of his people and thats what matters

OJUcrook:
Gowon initially ordered a Police Action to crush Ojukwu's declaration of secession. A full blown war later came into effect after Ojukwu's ragtag army invaded and annexed the midewest, a region that had ealier proclaimed neutrality. Ojukwu sent 3million ibos to the slaughter slab, only for him to run away, and then he came back much later to contest in an election in the same country he led the ibos to fight against. What a coward he was !!

gidgiddy:
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OJUcrook:


Ojukwu on his own part did not respect the midwest neutrality. He invaded the midwest, forcefully appointed Major Albert Okonkwo, an ibo man as the administrator of the region, and then ordered his Biafran Liberatin Army to march to Lagos and Ibadan

gidgiddy:


Go and read Nigerian history well before coming online to show your ignorance. The whole trouble started when Gowon broke the agreement he signed in Ghana with Ojukwu. What kind of 'police action' requires 3 Divisions of the Nigerian Army? Long before Ojukwu invaded the mid west, the Nigerian Army was already bombing parts of Nsukka and Ogoja. The war was already on before Ojukwu got into the mid west.

The 3 million people you are talking about were killed by Nigeria just because the people said they dont want 'one Nigeria' any more. Ojukwu fought a war to liberate his from Northern controlled Nigeria. There is no shame in anyone fighting for their freedom, even at the cost of millions of lives. The allied forces kost nearly 40 million people in the second world war to get freedom in Europe.

Ojukwu was a freedom fighter who fought the combined military might of Britain, Russia, Nigeria and Egypt and held firm for 3 years. When the end was near and the center coukd no longer hold, he exited. If you were waiting for him to stay back and get himself captured and killed in other to prove he is brave, keep waiting. Ojukwu would have been a fool to let this happen.

Ojukwu fough and lost. When you cant beat them, you join them and thats what he did by returning to join politics.

There can never be any shame on Ojukwus part for fighting for the freedom of his people.