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LETTER FROM LT.COL. OJUKWU TO LT. COL.BANJO
22nd AUGUST 1967



From: The Military Governor,

Republic of Biafra Enugu,



22nd August, 1967.



My dear Victor,



1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circumstances that have led to the current and inevitable disintegration of what was the Federation of Nigeria. We have been fully convinced that the aim of the Hausa/Fulani complex has ever been, and will ever remain, the total domination of every other part of what was known as the Federation of Nigeria. It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree, the people of the Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools, the gallant people of Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas. We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and freedom during 1965.



2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination.

We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.



3. After clearing the whole question with my Executive Council, I, as the Commander in Chief of the Biafran Armed Forces, have decided to place at your disposal Biafran forces, for the liberation of

Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:-



(i) You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator in the Mid-West Territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West.

(ii) The willingness and preparedness of Biafra to assist any part of the former Federation of Nigeria wishing and willing to liberate itself from the Hausa/Fulani domination, does not in anyway whatever

imply any inclination on her part to compromise her sovereignty or preserve what remains of the defunct Federation of Nigeria. In other words, our sovereignty and break with Nigeria is irrevocable. Nothing must, therefore be said or done by you or any member of the Liberation Army to give a contrary impression.

(iii) Biafra is determined to maintain and safeguard her sovereignty and ensure that her integrity and safety are never again threatened.

[b](iv) Biafran troops will, after the liberation of the Yorubaland, remain in that territory only for as long as we in Biafra consider it necessary for the Yorubas to consolidate their position and sovereignty against any external threat.

(v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory.

(vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba.

(vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.

(viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops.

(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss:

(a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;
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(b) the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.



4. I do not need to remind you that Biafra regards all Yoruba as friends. As such everything should be done, to ensure the minimum force and loss of life are involved in achieving the objective of liberation.



5. It is essential, in order to avoid misunderstanding or confusion, that all subsequent requests for support be formally made to me by you in writing.



6. Will you please signify in writing, your acceptance of the above conditions so that you may leave for Western Nigeria and lead the army of liberation.





Yours very sincerely,
Signed LT.COL Odumegwu Ojukwu

Military Governor and Commander in Chief of Biafra Armed Forces.



Culled from "A break in silence;Lt Col Victor Adebukunola Banjo. pp 66-68,by F Adetowun Ogunsheye,Spectrum books,2001.

I have always wondered about the intentions of Odumegwu Ojukwu in sending Victor Banjo to invade Ore in today's Ondo state enroute invading Lagos.
You may like to read the above letter and judge for yourselves how altruistic were the aims of Odumegwu Ojukwu and his Biafran forces he placed under Banjo's command.

Many things in this letter

As a Lagos boy that speaks Yoruba fluently, Ojukwu planned to help Yoruba in displacing Hausa-Fulani troops from Yorubaland

Using a Westerner to conquer the SW and trying to install a government in a territory that is not yours, this has been their agenda from the days of Azikiwe who wanted to become the Western Premier....

This is an obvious attempt to ANNEX an entire region under the pretense of liberation.

A real joke!

Please pay attention to the following copied conditions and conclude if this was not an Ibo agenda to subjugate and control Western Nigeria and Lagos.....


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(iv) [b]Biafran troops will, after the liberation of the Yorubaland, remain in that territory only for as long as we in Biafra consider it necessary for the Yorubas to consolidate their position and sovereignty against any external threat.

(v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory.

(vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba.

(vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.

(viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops.

(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss:

(a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;[/b]

Tell me this isn't true.

Yoruba eyes for don see shege! It would have been an occupied territory

That letter is rubbish and disrespectful.. What's Ojukwu business with Western region or Midwest?.

Is Ojukwu trying to say his Eastern region has eyes and other regions are blind and cannot make decision themselves?.

We the SW,SS and SE were meant to be one...but hausha/pulani and some greedy southerner brought seperation amongst us...

LibertyRep:
Tell me this isn't true.

Yoruba eyes for don see shege! It would have been an occupied territory

The aim of the Ibo is to dominate all tribes around them. Give them Biafra today and watch them invade all the minorities surrounding them. Posters like Gidgiddy,coldie and LOVEALAIGBO will avoid these kinds of threads that expose Ibo supremacist agenda.

confusedlady:
The aim of the Ibo is to dominate all tribes around them. Give them Biafra today and watch them invade all the minorities surrounding them. Posters like Gidgiddy,coldie and LOVEALAIGBO will avoid these kinds of threads that expose Ibo supremacist agenda.

I love you for bringing me here. I have read from A to Z and am about to expose many lies from people here trying to say there’s an igbo agenda.

If u are ready to be straight and non sentimental as I engage you, just say I should ride on.

Not where once I fire you would start calling me names and say am an igbo supremacists, without any proof, u even went as far as to say am one of the most dangerous igbos, just simply because I spoke the truth,


I would fire and debunk from A to Z and out context behind absolutely everything, I am even ready to give historical contexts on it.

If u beleive what u say just tell me I should start.

BentizilL0:
That letter is rubbish and disrespectful.. What's Ojukwu business with Western region or Midwest?.

Is Ojukwu trying to say his Eastern region has eyes and other regions are blind and cannot make decision themselves?.

LibertyRep:
Tell me this isn't true.

Yoruba eyes for don see shege! It would have been an occupied territory

Confused lady should say go. And the truth would be exposed, I would expose the age long truths.


Am not saying ojukwu is a saint, he did some evil things, I would expose the truth. Confusedlady come at me, give me ur best shot. If this letter from ojukwu is what people used to deceive the previous generation, they only did that cause people like me wasn’t existing.

Haaaah!

What an audacious impunity 😂

What couldn’t be done Militarily has been done economically 😂

God Bless u

Enough of silly misinformation thread from those guys

tommy589:
As a Lagos boy that speaks Yoruba fluently, Ojukwu planned to help Yoruba in displacing Hausa-Fulani troops from Yorubaland

A great lie, Banjo is a puppet, the agenda was set long before Banjo was elected to attack Yorubaland, he was to be eliminated as soon as the Biafran captured Lagos, Banjo walked into the trap before he realized it was too late...

“ 1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circumstances that have led to the current and inevitable disintegration of what was the Federation of Nigeria. We have been fully convinced that the aim of the Hausa/Fulani complex has ever been, and will ever remain, the total domination of every other part of what was known as the Federation of Nigeria. It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree, the people of the Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools, the gallant people of Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas. We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and freedom during 1965.”


Ojukwu accused the Hausa/fulani of a plot to dominate Nigeria. Nigerians looking at alot that happened down the line, I am not a tribalist, I don’t blame Hausa/fulani people, neither am I accusing them of having any agenda. But let us all be the judge of between what ojukwu said between then and now, didn’t everything ojukwu say later happen, did the Hausa/fulani eventually dominate Nigeria?
Didn’t it get to the point that many government parastatals and offices not just in the south but in Nigeria as a whole, Hausa language became to lingua Franca, from customs, to the Nigerian army, to immigration, to nimasa to CBN etc.

If a Hausa/fulani man and a southerner join the Nigerian army the same time at the same rank, give it 20years and ask their rankings, do they have same ranking in 20years regardless of their efforts?


Nigerians did ojukwu lie or finally what he was saying was the truth?


“ It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree, the people of the Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools, the gallant people of Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas. We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and freedom during 1965.”

Did ojukwu lie in this part, coup or no coup, in Nigeria military decisions are made independently from civilians, weren’t southerners massacred for things they know nothing of? In 1965 didn’t the Yoruba and SW suffer injustice that saw awolowo get imprisoned and charged for treason unjustly?


Tell us where the lie is, I am waiting?

Number 5 shows that this letter was a result of a previous discussion between them, as he urged Banjo to relay his requests in writing to prevent misunderstandings. Even with that, the ronu dullards on the Fp are still blinded by tribalism. Iti bolibo ajoh ka!

2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination.

We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.


Like I explained above, didn’t everything ojukwu say eventually come to past? Weren’t the signs there?


Where the military have a ranking system, after aguiyi ironsi was killed the person that was next in ranking was a Yoruba man, but they jumped over him and put a junior officer from the north in power.


Did ojukwu lie?

Coldie:
Confused lady should say go. And the truth would be exposed, I would expose the age long truths.


Am not saying ojukwu is a saint, he did some evil things, I would expose the truth. Confusedlady come at me, give me ur best shot. If this letter from ojukwu is what people used to deceive the previous generation, they only did that cause people like me wasn’t existing.

So what do you want me to do? Give you the go ahead to comment on a free forum?
Read Odumegwu Ojukwu's letter and give us your opinion on what kind of arrangement this would have been if Biafran forces had succeeded in annexation of Western Nigeria and Lagos in 1967?

Ojukwu was crazy. There are pointers to the fact that he wanted annexation. He got too proud and stupid that he lost touch with reality.


He achieved a lot defending Biafra against the heavily supported Nigerian Army, but how did he expect to overun Midwest and West and occupy them with his ragtag army fighting with locally manufactured weapons? That's insanity of the highest order

tubolancer:
A great lie, Banjo is a puppet, the agenda was set long before Banjo was elected to attack Yorubaland, he was to be eliminated as soon as the Biafran captured Lagos, Banjo walked into the trap before he realized it was too late...

Banjo was nobody's puppet. His radio broadcast on the invasion was different from the presentation Biafra Hq gave him

https://www.segundawodu.com/banjo.htm

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?id=101209985249548&story_fbid=191443582892854

Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:-



(i) You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator in the Mid-West Territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West.


Ojukwu is in a state of war, his mind is suffering paranoia, there are many cases where promises are made and were completely broken, we haven’t talked about the promises broken at aburi, let’s talk about during the soldiers transfer agreement, where soldiers of northern origin were to be sent to kaduna and then Lagos while soldiers of eastern origin were to be sent to Lagos then the east, east is very small so the moment the soldiers crossed eastern borders they were free. But the moment eastern soldiers in the train to Lagos, the moment the soldiers in it heard that their brothers have crossed the east they descended on all of them.


Ojukwu suffers paranoia to the extent that guys like Emmanuel ifeajuna was executed by him cause he feared they wanted to topple him. Y then are u using his paranoid state to say it’s a form of igbo agenda?

Coldie:
I love you for bringing me here. I have read from A to Z and am about to expose many lies from people here trying to say there’s an igbo agenda.

If u are ready to be straight and non sentimental as I engage you, just say I should ride on.

Not where once I fire you would start calling me names and say am an igbo supremacists, without any proof, u even went as far as to say am one of the most dangerous igbos, just simply because I spoke the truth,


I would fire and debunk from A to Z and out context behind absolutely everything, I am even ready to give historical contexts on it.

If u beleive what u say just tell me I should start.

Okay,let's have a mature debate ,free of insults or abusive language. So ride on.....

Ojukwu was an hypocrite

Same you that is saying ojukwu is trying to annex other regions, skipped this where he spelt it out with boldness that:

(ii) The willingness and preparedness of Biafra to assist any part of the former Federation of Nigeria wishing and willing to liberate itself from the Hausa/Fulani domination, does not in anyway whatever imply any inclination on her part to compromise her sovereignty or preserve what remains of the defunct Federation of Nigeria. In other words, our sovereignty and break with Nigeria is irrevocable. Nothing must, therefore be said or done by you or any member of the Liberation Army to give a contrary impression.”


What he means is that the Biafra forces being willing to aid others, doesn’t mean they have any intentions to compromise their sovereignty of not remaining a break away nation.

If they had annexation in mind, if after they liberated Midwest region, y didn’t they annex it at once?


Confusedlady I ask you?

Coldie:
2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination.

We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.


Like I explained above, didn’t everything ojukwu say eventually come to past? Weren’t the signs there?


Where the military have a ranking system, after aguiyi ironsi was killed the person that was next in ranking was a Yoruba man, but they jumped over him and put a junior officer from the north in power.


Did ojukwu lie?

Do fast and go to point vii and start from there.
All these other ones no necessary

Coldie:
Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:-



(i) You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator in the Mid-West Territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West.


Ojukwu is in a state of war, his mind is suffering paranoia, there are many cases where promises are made and were completely broken, we haven’t talked about the promises broken at aburi, let’s talk about during the soldiers transfer agreement, where soldiers of northern origin were to be sent to kaduna and then Lagos while soldiers of eastern origin were to be sent to Lagos then the east, east is very small so the moment the soldiers crossed eastern borders they were free. But the moment eastern soldiers in the train to Lagos, the moment the soldiers in it heard that their brothers have crossed the east they descended on all of them.


Ojukwu suffers paranoia to the extent that guys like Emmanuel ifeajuna was executed by him cause he feared they wanted to topple him. Y then are u using his paranoid state to say it’s a form of igbo agenda?

You have dropped Ojukwu here like hot akpu. You're summarily saying he was mad

yoruboid:
At the end of the day the bearded coward still killed him and millions of others in Edo, Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River

He broke into the Central Bank in Benin and stole millions

These imb*ciles solely moved the country backwards by taking over a democratically elected government and murd*ring in cold bl**d leaders from other places apart from their five plots

After all said and done, the coward ran away leaving his brainwashed men behind

They have started another one led by the ediot in prison and the noisemaker in Europe but thankfully their destruction is limited to their five plots

They will end up turning it into Gaza and I hope the authorities withdraw our gallant troops from the region as they have been the target

Let them self destruct

victor banjo is the typical y0ruba COWARD who abandoned Biafrans and ran to sell us out to the enemy, he was captured by Ojukwu and dealt with...

y0ruba people massacred all those minorities, very evil and treacherous act.

No wonder you people are regarded as two-faced saboteurs by every other tribe.

Even 0basanjo when he was the president, he massacred thousands in Udi in Bayelsa state, and Timaya also sang about it in his music.

why are y0rubas always like this to minorities?

All you guys know is wickedness, lies and deceit to the gullible ones, while you massacre them behind their backs.. Evil people.

At the end of the day the bearded coward still killed him and millions of others in Edo, Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River

He broke into the Central Bank in Benin and stole millions

These imb*ciles solely moved the country backwards by taking over a democratically elected government and murd*ring in cold bl**d leaders from other places apart from their five plots

After all said and done, the coward ran away leaving his brainwashed men behind

They have started another one led by the ediot in prison and the noisemaker in Europe but thankfully their destruction is limited to their five plots

They will end up turning it into Gaza and I hope the authorities withdraw our gallant troops from the region as they have been the target

Let them self destruct