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Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu Was Never The Richest Man In Nigeria And The Queen Never Rode In His Car

A number of my followers have shared fallacious information that they say they got from a video by veteran actor Mr. Peter Edochie, who made several claims about Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu.

With the advent of AI, it is possible that the person I saw making those claims is not really Mr. Edochie but a deep fake AI.

However, and I say this respectfully, not spitefully, Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu was never the richest man in Africa. He was not even the wealthiest man in Nigeria at any point in time.

I also saw in the purported video by a person who appeared to be Mr. Edochie, but might have been an AI, another fallacious claim that Sir Louis was a billionaire. No, he was not. And it was not just him. There was no billionaire in Nigeria for the first forty years of our existence as an independent nation.

Throughout the 1960s, Nigeria's GDP was between $4.2 billion in 1960 and $6.6 billion in 1969. A billionaire at that point would have owned one-quarter of Nigeria's wealth.

Yet another historically inaccurate claim made by the person purporting to be Mr. Edochie, who again might be an A.I., and others before him, is that Queen Elizabeth II rode in Sir Louis's Rolls-Royce during her 1956 visit to Nigeria.

Actually, that is a lie, and if you investigate the claim on Google or any other AI, that lie has been so embedded in popular culture that even Google's AI believes it. You will also find many sources, all from social media, backing the claim. They are all lies.

Now, I will attach a photo of the Queen in the Rolls-Royce from 1956. Notice that the crowd around her are dressed like Northern Nigerian royals and elite.

That is because the car belonged not to Sir Louis but to the then Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi I (the grandfather of Sanusi Lamido). It was a 1952 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith.

And on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, Emir Sanusi used that same car to receive the then Prince Charles (now King Charles III) when he visited Kano.

You can watch a video by the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, acknowledging that this was the same car used in 1956 for Queen Elizabeth II and belonged to Emir Sanusi's grandfather. Here is a link to the video https://dailymail.co.uk/video/femail/video-1798014/Video-Emir-Kano-arrives-greet-Charles-Rolls-Royce-used-Queen.html?page=

I have also taken the liberty of attaching the 2018 photo with the 1956 one. After this visit, the car was repainted in green and white because Emir Muhammadu Sanusi I was, for a brief period, the Acting Governor of Northern Nigeria in 1957.

It is possible that the British chose him for that honour as a reward for granting the Queen his automobile.

Historically, wealth in the area now known as Nigeria usually comes from the desert or the water. Caravans brought goods for trading via the desert, and ships brought commodities for commerce through the ports. That is why, in the foreseeable future, Lagos, Kano, and the coastal South-South will be the wealthiest places in Nigeria and produce the most affluent people.

For example, Sanusi Dantata, the son of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, was acknowledged by Time Magazine as the wealthiest person in Nigeria by the 1960s. This documentary evidence contradicts the claims made by the fellow purporting to be Mr. Edochie. You may want to read it here yourself https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,842145,00.html

His father, Alhassan Dantata, was also the wealthiest man in West Africa before he passed away.

Alhassan Dantata is the great-grandfather of Aliko Dangote, currently the wealthiest Black person alive.

The thing is that because the Lukumi Yoruba have a conservative culture and the North has a conservative religion, which makes both groups exhibit modesty about their acquisitions, some people have gotten the wrong idea about wealth.

Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu was never the wealthiest man in Nigeria or Africa, as claimed by the person in the video, who, in the light of A.I., may or may not be Mr. Edochie.

Reno Omokri

Baawaa:
Reno Omokri is really tackling these people because of Tinubu,how much did Tinubu pay this guy

Baawaa:
Reno Omokri is really tackling these people because of Tinubu,how much did Tinubu pay this guy

muhammaduyusufu:
Can you post proofs that Reno was paid by President Tinubu?

jmoore:
Why can't Reno fact check his ex-wife claims of abandoning his son?

Softmirror:
What do you expect from an Ex-wife if not bitterness?! Just like Obi and Obidients who fell apart with Reno Omokiri who used to support Obi and Biafra.

You should focus on what Reno Omokiri has said, and counter him.

Ofunaofu:
The question that ought to be asked is whether Reno Omokri can continue defending Tinubu so persistently without receiving any form of compensation or benefit in return.

jmoore:
Talking about what Reno Omokri said. Things like Tinubu being a druglord.

Because some Nigerians are accusing me of hate for busting their long-held lies and exposing the truth, I will now provide further irrefutable evidence.

They claim that while Queen Elizabeth II used the 1952 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith belonging to the then-Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi I (the grandfather of Sanusi Lamido), while she was in the North, she used Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu's Rolls-Royce while in Lagos.

This is another easily busted lie.

Please find attached a page from the official souvenir of the Queen's 1956 visit to Nigeria. You will note that the Rolls-Royce she used in Lagos was shipped to Nigeria along with a British driver.

The reason getting a British-owned vehicle to Kaduna was not feasible is that, in those days, airlifting cars via planes was not as practicable as it is today.

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, often used for airlifting cars and heavy military equipment, was not invented and made available to governments until December 9, 1957. The Queen visited Nigeria from January 28 to February 16, 1956.

And driving the Queen's personal Rolls-Royce from Lagos to Kaduna posed a serious security risk at a time when the British were facing independence struggles all over Africa, with many nationalists, including the Irish Republican Army, who may have had a presence in Nigeria through Catholic Irish priests, even threatening to kill the Queen.

As such, it was considered more prudent to use her personal Rolls-Royce in Lagos and the 1952 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith belonging to a loyal royal in Kano.

Queen Elizabeth II never set foot in any vehicle belonging to Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu. That story is a lie.

Please note that truth seems like hate to those who hate truth!

Reno Omokri

aribisala0:
So Ojukwu's father is attacking Tinubu

Ofunaofu:
The question that ought to be asked is whether Reno Omokri can continue defending Tinubu so persistently without receiving any form of compensation or benefit in return.

Ofunaofu:
Can Reno defend Tinubu with such loyalty purely out of patriotism or is there a paycheck involved? Don't deflect
Remember, he called Tinubu a known dr.ug lord

jmoore:
Talking about what Reno Omokri said. Things like Tinubu being a druglord.

Kushites:
Focus on what he is saying.

You people can’t stand the truth.

Once you hear Truth, you start looking to divert.

Disgrace.

Softmirror:
That was when he was making you all very happy with unfounded allegation. 😂😂😂 The moment he discovered that it was all false he changed and started supporting Tinubu. Same with the Chicago Certificate, which himself personally went to investigate and his findings convinced him the more to support Tinubu.

muhammaduyusufu:
Can you post proofs that Reno was paid by President Tinubu?

aribisala0:
My question is
is Ojukwu attacking Tinubu from the grave

Please answer


How is talking about Ojukwu = defending Tinubu
What does Tinubu have to do with this story?

jmoore:
Why can't Reno fact check his ex-wife claims of abandoning his son?