AntiBalaka:





Afonja wey never reclaim Ilorin won defend one Nigeria

AntiBalaka:

Bede2u:
a coward who looked nigeria eye ball to eye ball and led a revolution which could have claimed his life?

Listen and listen well...ojukwu might be rash, immature and uncalculating...but he isnt a coward.

I can agree that the biafran war could have been won by a better commander..A commander who could rally the SS and make sure the federal forces didnt control nigerdelta..a commander who could get the backing of ussr and a commander who understood that the war doesnt necessarily need to be worn in a yr or too but that even if it took 10 yrs to win, its still a victory.
Ojukwu obviously wasnt that commander

MetaPhysical:


Shyyyyyytte!!!
Modafvkr had over 3million of them at disposal. What did he do with them? He led them to their grave while he saved his own @$$ from bullet fire.

KingOdart:



Wow you really want me to believe your own Biafra war fairytale?


Biafra forces outgunned the Army but Ojukwu fled, 3 Million people dead and Biafra is still a Pipe dream

franchasng:
Go back and look at map of Nigeria and check how many states that faced the whole of Nigeria and held them in a bloody war for 3 years despite massive military supports from world powers then; Britain, USSR, and even Egypt.

It was only France and Gabon that sent some food reliefs to Biafrans during the war.

Britain had to support Nigeria because Ojukwu ordered their oil firms to leave at the start of the war and they needed crude oil then to drive their own British economy.

USSR now Russia offered Ojukwu an arms and military support swap deal with crude oil, Ojukwu refused thinking he would have won the war in less than a year.

Your Nigerian government wasted Nigeria's resources, bribing foreign powers, sold Bakasi Peninsula to Cameroon all in their desperate bid to win Biafra yet you think it was an easy win.

Mind you again, what caused most deaths in Biafra was not just military attacks cos Biafran soldiers repelled federal forces so well, it was Awolowo's change of currency policy to make it difficult for Biafra to buy food, drugs, etc from internstional markets that led to the starvation and hunger in Biafra land which caused the death of so many Biafran children, aged people and women.

So think again

franchasng:
You just highlighted some of the mistakes of Ojukwu even according to my father and late uncle who were Biafran commanders close to Ojukwu during the war.

If Ojukwu had signed the deal with USSR and rallied more Niger Delta people to join the war on the side of Biafra, Biafra would have won the war.

Ojukwu's greatest mistake was not singing the deal with USSR for arms supply which would have saw Biafran troops advance into northern and western regions through massive air raids and bombardments which would have definitely pushed Gowon to surrender or allow Biafra go.

It was British air raids on Biafran region that made the war so difficult for Biafran soldiers to sustain.

Biafra was better in ground fights and attacks despite having less arms and few trained soldiers but Nigeria had the air power through British Airforce support.

Ojukwu wa brave but too stubborn in a way to take advises from Biafran elites which cost Biafra the war

EkunKekere:
It was actually economic sanctions and trade embargoes that ended the Biafran insurgency. If you follow the early months of the war and the first year, the Biafrans were actually winning and advancing westwards into the then Midwest region.
But when the sanctions and embargoes began to take effect, they could no longer buy weapons and that was the beginning of the end for Biafra.

oyatz:
I guess you qouted the wrong person.

ConqueredWest is Biafra personified and a super Hater of the Yoruba People.
You can see his moniker.



However something tells me he is going to give his Life to Christ very soon.

ConqueredWest:



Can a Christian give his or her life to Christ Twice.?

Another war is coming and millions of Nigerian soldiers will die in a futile effort to defeat Biafra.

franchasng:
We do not really pray for war, all I wish is a total restructuring of Nigeria to become independent nations united by one central government but each region must be solely independent with their national or regional security (police, etc) and resources solely in their hands or at worst a peaceful division of Nigeria into as many nations that desire and wish to have their own independent nation.

But if worst comes to worst then we fight again, and this time it will be mortal combat of fight to finish!

All states and communities in Nigeria must feel the wrath of the new war should it happen so that the remaining people that will be alive after the war will have fear and respect for sanity and human rights, and they will be forced to what's right and build a prosperous nation for the future generation

KingOdart:



Wow


All these wailing for what?

It really pained you

Biafran are cowards kiss the truth

KingOdart:



Wow


All these wailing for what?

It really pained you

Biafran are cowards kiss the truth

Bede2u:
a coward who looked nigeria eye ball to eye ball and led a revolution which could have claimed his life?

Listen and listen well...ojukwu might be rash, immature and uncalculating...but he isnt a coward.

I can agree that the biafran war could have been won by a better commander..A commander who could rally the SS and make sure the federal forces didnt control nigerdelta..a commander who could get the backing of ussr and a commander who understood that the war doesnt necessarily need to be worn in a yr or too but that even if it took 10 yrs to win, its still a victory.
Ojukwu obviously wasnt that commander

BaaleOko:

Do you actually have a credible documented source to back that claim up? I have read almost all accounts out there about the Coup(the events leading up to it), the counter coup and its aftermath... and then the Nigerian civil war... But no where did I read that Ojukwu ran and went into hiding when Murtala Moh'd threatened to match on to Enugu.

For context, whether or not Murtala even made such threats is immaterial, but what you must understand is that after the counter coup and pogroms had taken place in all of the regions, the East was only place that didn't experience a single loss of Igbo life, civilian or military... Ojukwu was in total control of all the military and paramilitary units in in the East, and he saw to it that all the Northern troops were safely repatriated back to their region with their weapons for safety measure... there was no single Northern dominated unit anywhere in the East at the time unlike other regions... so it's inconceivable that the same Ojukwu who was secretly preparing his region for war, would then run and hide over some threat from Murtala. Murtala as daring and crazy as he was, wouldn't have dared invading the East would Northern troops especially at a time when tensions and emotions were very high in the East, I'm sure he was smarter than that.

Brugo:



The war was just what it was- a war. I repeat. It was not a pogrom or genocide.

Only a suicidal maniac would ginger his people into a war they could never win. And only a people driven by hate would listen to such a leader. The results were not surprising anyway. Nnamdi knows how to sway such people and he is fuelling your hate again. Funny thing is no one gives a hoot about you guys. You are just cohabitants in this country.

Uchek:
Have you noticed that ethnic nationality( Hausa-Fulani) who wanted war ended up fighting the war least while the ethnic nationality( Yoruba) that rejected war fromm the outset ended fighting the war most - and in fact they were the difference maker.

How do you explain this reversal of roles?

Why did Yoruba of Nigeria fight the Nigeria -Biafra War?

Your response will be appreciated.

oyatz:
But this is NAIRALAND nau and not Biafran-land sir.




Even after Biafra has been established by Jul 2023, I will still be coming to greet you once in while.


Every quater, I will be coming to spend weekends in Biafra, eat Bush meat with original palm wine in Afikpo, Ofe Nsala in Isialangwa and Isi-Ewu with Hero beer in Onitsha while Amarachi ,Ngozika, Obiangeli or Adaora will be rubbing my back.

















So relax bro, we are together...one love!