₦airaland Forum

xtrorse:
Frustrated disciple of slavery, hate and propaganda from Odua Islamic Republic of Ritual-killers, in case your memory is failing you, let me remind you lousy, loud-mouthed coward your current miserable condition:
"And let me tell you that in the event of the breakup of this country, Ilorin and Offa will remain 100 % Northern Nigeria and not one inch of land will be ceded to yorubas".- Junaid Mohammed.
http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/69271-north-ready-nigeria-s-breakup-if-junaid-muhammed.html

Your Fulani slave master has spoken, Yoruba slaves like your loudmouthed self can only but cheer him. It's your destiny on earth. 
The same Fulani herdsmen have been hunting Yorubas for sport in Kwara State for decades. And don't even consider Yoruba Muslims as equals but inferior beings! It's so pathetic!

xtrorse:
[s]Nkóghérí onye ápárì bu onye àghùghò, nzuzu kpóró iyi! 

Xtrorse, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder, stop spreading your wicked propaganda against Igbos.

Xtrorse you have been running amok on almost every Igbo thread.

Is there something you are really afraid of?

Since you lack any formidable idea, you have been banking on stealing Igbo wealth and properties. Let me warn you and your cohorts: Your 'oju-kokoro' will only lead you to your Waterloo faster than you ever imagined.[/s]

[s]For the umpteenth time, Igbos won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never possess them. Sorry to disappoint you![/s]

laudate:
Nkóghérí onye ápárì bu onye àghùghò, nzuzu kpóró iyi! 

laudate, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder, stop spreading your wicked propaganda against Igbos.

laudate you have been running amok on almost every Igbo thread.

Is there something you are really afraid of?

Since you lack any formidable idea, you have been banking on stealing Igbo wealth and properties. Let me warn you and your cohorts: Your 'oju-kokoro' will only lead you to your Waterloo faster than you ever imagined.

For the umpteenth time, Igbos won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never possess them. Sorry to disappoint you!

Olabestonic001:
You are bereaved of cerebral discourse and have resulted to your insultive mode of life. Even if we are appear to be slaves, we know that such folks respects our person. As for your new found hero Junaid, we only see him as a noise maker like you TANOIDS ( true, most TANOIDS are Igbo's are not TANOIDS. That's how it is). Your land is blessed but people like you perverse it. When you exhaust your ethnic jingoistic rants and couldn't have a headway, you moved to religious incitement; insinuating Christian like your Kanu. Christians are after the brands of their Saviour and LORD who was tribeless. He warned that only those who did the will of HIS FATHER are HIS mother, brother's and sister's; are you like that? Ain't you just hating and denigrating people to feel good? Thank GOD my kids will be born by the fusion of two great and unique tribes in Nigeria. This gives them the unenviable advantage of being enterprising (Igbo kwenu) with being humble and respecting others (Yoruba ronu). These and other qualities will mend the fence of bigots like you who are fond of thinking less about the uniqueness of others as a weakness and your chest beating attitude as a strength. The Igbo's thrive on competition while the Yoruba's thrive highly on mutual respect. The Yoruba's will always pull you down as long as you tell him how feeble he is! (this is the sword of Democles the Igbo's have dangling at them).
The Yoruba's might not have the competitiveness of the Igbo's but the Igbo's can not match the cleverness of the Yoruba's. Its our unique trademark boss. We ain't clannish and we give you your dues if you do not chestbeat on us. Such men are Barrister Monday Onyekachi Ubani and Festus Keyamo. We regard you if you earn it. Till date, we celebrate Azikiwe (a part of our folklore) and Enahoro. We do not necessarily need you to be perfect but we have our indices! . We are unique and allow contrary opinion to thrive. We cherish balance and allow people to display their uniqueness.
Should Nigeria split into several countries today, we will still maintain our development. Go to Ibadan and see how your Igbo brothers are thriving and go to Ogoni land and see how you are despised! However, if during the secession (either by Referendum or War) you trample on us or denigrate us, we will show you that we are like a Panther which looks like you can stroke his nose but who can devour you. If you declare war, red war on us during your quest, we will show you that even though our hand seems so feeble, you will realize its strength when it seizes your armies (politically and economically) by the neck. Then, you will shout and we will laugh you away and you will see why our perceived weakness is our greatest strength.
As many as Regard us do we also regard.
We bring down many that despise and denigrate us. Its the only reason why we have suspicion against you all this while and you have not changed!

CHESSBOARD:
..... [b]The whole Nigeria + Britain+ Usa+ Russia fought against Biafra and it lasted for 3 years, ended because AWO stopped food coming from the ports, brother move to 2015, IGBOs will burn down lagos in one month, the game have change, Lagos was guarded because the head of state was there now Abokis will prefer to guard Abuja leaving you to handle ur problems afterall they said they want access to the Ocean, they know SS and SE is not an option.... This is 2015, USA and Russia do not have the same interest, if USA fight for Nigeria Russia and china will fight for Biafra..... The worst that could happen is USA begging us for referendum just like they did in Ukraine, but if USA choose to remain neutral as the case might likely be because that want Nigeria to split then you ppl will know what an average Igbo man can do even outside his domain....Igbo ppl are the only race in Nigeria that can survive anywhere in the world... Even when I was in a typical Yoruba school in Ogun state they fear me as an Igbo boy even as little as I was then.... It better for you guys to pray for Biafra to just leave in peace than to believe North will save you again.... they stopped at Kwara state they want to continue to Lagos.... go and listen to what Sudana said [/b]

mankand:
Guts comes with glory. One thing I like about Nnamdi Kanu is that he is very articulate and organised.

He knows how to organise his people around his dream, he can be the next Che in Africa because he is fighting a just cause but due to the mainstream media propaganda, a lot of people won't see and agree to this.

He have been able to gather the support of the igbo people worldwide both indigenous, in diaspora and those whose ancestors were taken to slave in Europe, America and Latin America which have now become a force to recon with.

Unfortunately my people yorubas are still under the chain of mental slavery donating their hard earned money to fake men called pastors instead of donating their money to organise themselves to build another oduduwa nation. We also have the same capacity to do the same as IPOB but we won't.

We also have yorubas all over Latin America, Europe, and other parts of the world.

I wish IPOB success in their quest because with their success, it becomes a motivation for other regions in Africa to do the same

tunjion:
The truth is we yorubas should stop opening thread to speak for south south minority.

Biafra from wat i read is not by force. Igbos in Edo such as the igbanke and Ika are Biafrans without doubt.

Other Edo ethnic group might even be rejected by Biafra. Some will end up applying to join.

Sentiment aside, they might feel Hausa and Yoruba will dominate them if they remain in Nigeria

xtrorse:
Who is this clannish bigot trying to bamboozle and deceive?

Bloody, treacheerous, lousy noise-maker, you think you can cover up the atrocities of you saboteurs and your god, Obafemi Awolowo, who was the chief proponent of hatred, bitterness, tribalism, nepotism, propaganda and wickedness in this country? The same power hungry and greedy Awolowo who was imprisoned for treason and coup plotting until he was released by Odumegwu Ojukwu just before the 1967-70 war?

Hypocrite, what did you do when Obj levelled Odi and Zaki-Ibiam, maiming and killing the inhabitants? Did you and your people come to the aid of Asaba people in 1967 when genocide was being carried out on them by your wicked Yoruba tribesmen and their co-travellers? 
http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/73341-most-those-murdered-asaba-muritala-gowon-awo-were-action-group-members-emma-okocha-author-blood-niger.html

How many of the Fulani herdsmen ravaging your villages and farmlands have you killed

Just like the chameleon, the Yorubas can change the colour of their skin at will and can vacillate at random between Christian and Muslim worlds whenever the evil spirit begins to operate them. Little wonder they are descendants of a fallen demon!
The vacillation is akin to the abracadabra of a sworn homosexual who might screw a man today, a woman tomorrow, or an animal the next time. You never can tell.

The level of Yoruba treacheery and betrayal is second to none.

Finding a reliable and trustworthy Yoruba person is like searching for a pin in a haystack. Yorubas who possess these good characters are rare.

You cannot trust the allegiance of a Yoruba man, even the Abobaku that was once loyal to the Ooni of Ife absconded when it was time to prove his true loyalty.
Yorubas are not only treacherous but always at the servitude of the Northerners which is very worrisome.

Here's actually an exempt, albiet it was written by Emeka Esogbue but it is a direct summarization of Emma Okocha books.

"It was this battle that gave birth to Murtala, a “Local champion” called Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo of the Nigerian Army. Africans first had the practical experience of the word “genocide” in Igbodo where hundreds of lives were lost in the Nigerian civil war. In Isheagu, the case was not different. It was here that the ulterior motive of the Nigerian troop clearly unfolded.

The people were now scampering for the safety of their lives having experienced what happened in Igbodo and some other places. In the Midwestern region, able bodied men went into hiding leaving women and children at the mercy of advancing soldiers. The people of Benin went identifying their Ibo-speaking neighbours from house to house for executions."

BLOOD ON THE NIGER: THE FIRST BLACK ON BLACK OCTOBER 1967 GENOCIDE OF ASABA PEOPLE BY MURTALA, GOWON  AND AWOLOWO

...Like my father and elder brother that were part of the over 1000 youths that were killed on October 7, 1967, in Asaba, most of them were members of the Action Group (AG). The people that believed in the NCNC at that time left for the east. My father who worked in Enugu, Nsukka, Uzuakoli and Kafanchan as a civil servant could have gone to the east. But he believed in that war. He was an apostle of the Awo ideas-free education and free medical services. In fact, the Asaba General Hospital that is now a Specialist Hospital was brought to us by the AG led by Nduka Eze, another AG hardliner who left the Zikist Movement to join Awolowo. But Nduka Eze's wife was killed by the federal troop under the command of Murtala Mohammed because she refused to be touched because they were defiling women at random when they came in.

The genocide against the Igbos has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the apology made to Asaba people by General Gowon when he came there after the release of the Blood On The Niger. The genocide against the Igbos was proved beyond reasonable doubt at the Oputa panel which the federal government has up till now refused to publish the findings. Bishop Desmond Tutu chaired the Truth and Justice tribunal in South Africa to find out what happened in South Africa during the apartheid period. It was accepted by both sides and just look at the peace that has prevailed there since then. Why would Nigeria not publish the findings of the Oputa Panel where it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that pilots were throwing bombs at random into market places in Uzuakoli, Uzuitem and Nsukka, where bottles and implements were also used against women during the war.

History is an account of the actions of actors in a community or in a state recorded that made impacts during their time. Awolowo was a great leader; great politician and great performer in government but his activities during the civil war were negative. If you are a writer, you cannot defend his position that starvation is an instrument of warfare. Starvation cannot be an instrument of warfare when you are fighting a civil war. 

Nigeria was being supplied arms from all countries. For the first time there was an unholy alliance between the Soviet Union and the West. It had never happened before. Any place that there was a war of revolution, the USSR is always taking the place of the revolutionary. How come that the USSR for the first time allied with the West against Biafra? So, let somebody go and disprove Achebe; that is what we want to see not that somebody did not commit genocide. Genocide has been proved to be committed. If there were no genocide, the World Council of Churches, the Caritas wouldn't have come in droves. If genocide was not committed, why did Biafra lose two million casualties, most of them civilians and children? And if people are not apologising to Igbos, why should they now come out to talk because one man has been put to where he belongs in history. He was the principal protagonist of using starvation as an instrument of warfare against his fellow citizens. Remember that Nigeria was fighting a war of unity. They were not as desperate as the other camp that was fighting a war of secession. So, in international convention Geneva included, you don't use starvation against civilians, you don't use firearms against civilians and you don't use bombs. Are they saying they didn't bomb civilians during the war? The Nigerian Air Force was very pronounced in its use of bombs on civilians and their targets were churches, market places and hospitals. These were recorded by missionaries and foreign journalists. 

Awolowo was the Minister of Finance under Gowon. He was the de facto prime minister of Nigeria during the war and he performed. I don't grudge him for winning the war for Nigeria; for changing the currency. He can win the war by all means but the fact that he prevented massive aid from coming is genocidal.

There was an inhuman instance. There was an incident where a Red Cross plane coming with medication and food was blown off the sky for the beleaguered people of Biafra. Even after the war, what was the purpose of denying Igbos their primary source of protein-stockfish? How can you defend the policy of giving people who have lost everything only 20 Pounds? If there is anybody that should have been given more, the returning war battered people of Biafra should have received more.

The Igbos have always accepted Awolowo as a great leader but his activities during the civil war shocked them. BY THE OBJECTIVE OF THE JANUARY 15 COUP, as quoted by Odia Ofeimun, the poet, the boys believed he was the greatest leader. 

THE LEADERS OF THE COUP, WERE TO MAKE CHIEF AWOLOWO THE PRIME MINISTER OF NIGERIA. These coup leaders didn't go for Azikiwe or Balewa. They wanted Chief Awolowo as quoted by Odia in a 1999 edition of The Guardian. Awolowo was supposed to be released by the Nzeogwu coup, which didn't have its assumed ending; it was aborted half way. It was Nzeogwu's colleague, Major Nzegwu that was supposed to pick him from Calabar prison and release him. So, I'm proving to you that the Igbo literality have always accepted Awo as one of the best and great leaders the country has ever produced but his activities during the war did not only shock them but betrayed the trust they had in.

During the whole peace conferences from Niamey to Kinshasha, Awolowo, Enahoro and Alison Ayida, who was a permanent secretary, always took a hawkish stand. That was why in the Niamey conference of 1968 Alison Ayida quoted Awo exactly that starvation is an instrument of warfare. This was at a time when millions of Biafran children were dying off. And death by starvation is not an ordinary death. It is for you to experience it. It was horror and the photographs are there but Awolowo and his henchmen never batted an eyelid even after the war. That is why we glorify other great literality like Wole Soyinka who told us in his book A Man Died that extermination was committed in Asaba. He was the first courageous soul in Nigeria that told the world about the Asaba massacre.

http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/73341-most-those-murdered-asaba-muritala-gowon-awo-were-action-group-members-emma-okocha-author-blood-niger.html

Olabestonic001:
@Xtorse:
Read up our discourse and you will find out that my comments have appealed to your reasoning while you have been grossly accusatory. That's not how to go in life bros. I've tried to pull you out of the debris of self-illusion but you ain't growing out of your pains. Please, wake up sir. You have a great life ahead of you and ethnic jingoism won't help. Learn to convince others than accuse them. Its what you NEED in life.
FYI: I have stayed at Bori Town and I love the passions of you guys. Yes, they love me so much and I've missed them. As for Igbo's, they are eternally my kit and kin. They are my second love. Only shallow people think they are superior to others. Respect is the key here boss. I don't care what Awo was, I don't send what Saudana was, I do not care what Ojukwu was. I cared about people who see others irrespective of their tribe as good humans. such is Herbert Macaulay . To me it does not matter what your tribe is but what you are. During my days at Bori, thieves came over to my lodge, same at Ogbomoso. They were thieves and nothing less. GEJ was loved because he was an "outsider" in 2011 (not because he was a Southerner; do Yoruba's care his region? Remember, we did not vote for Buhari/Bakare ticket BECAUSE Bakare is too controversial. that's how we think). PMB was voted in 2015 because GEJ disappointed ( Not because PMB is the best. We could have voted Okorocha ahead of PMB; if we assess his CV favorable).
Learn to see good in others and they will see good in you too. Try see their flaws and watch yours also dug out. Don't go out looking for friends, you will never find any! Go out to be a friend and you will find friends sir.

Olabestonic001:
Our loyalty lies not in people but in TRUTH. Which day have we as a people pledged allegiance to anyone? In your mind you think we are shallow like you guys? If you side with the truth, we queue behind you and support you. It does not mean "we will ALWAYS side with you". We can side with you today and go against you tomorrow. Its the pains of you guys; because we ain't play follow-follow. That's our strength.

xtrorse:
Mister, your message should be directed to your Yoruba folks. They are the ones that need it.
You can't be talking about conciliatory moves and at the same time threatening the Igbos. Are you on cheap drugs?
Check the cyberspace and see your tribesmen issuing baseless threats to Igbos in SW for dare seeking self-determination.

Many Yorubas do not see anything wrong in the pogrom committed against Igbos.
Believe it or not, the evil deeds of your forbears will continue to haunt unrepentant Yoruba generation.

Over the years the Igbos have tested Yorubas and found many of them untrustworthy and unreliable. Yorubas have only flourished at the expense of others by virtue of the injustice, inequity and lopsided arrangement in the polity. And many Yorubas (and your very self is no exception) desire the status quo to remain.
A typical Yoruba person is too arrogant, tribal and selfish that he/she rarely appreciates the good in other people.
Over the years Yoruba votings have proved to be along tribal line. Yorubas voted GMB simply because Osibanjo a Yoruba man was chosen as his vice. Forget your after-thought of Okorocha or even Amaechi.

Yoruba Nation can choose to be in partnership with the Igbo Nation. There's nothing wrong with that. Two cannot work together except they agree.

I've got dozens of Yoruba friends and I don't shirk from rendering assistance to some of them. As I type right now I am on a journey in company with a Yoruba barrister.

Igbos hate nobody except you are a sworn enemy to truth, justice and equity.

Olabestonic001:
And I am presently working with a lot of Igbo's, Hausa's and Ogonis here. My grouse is that you guys rather than do an anthropological study of us decided to read our actions rather than our intent. Its the real reason why we can be unpredictable. We ain't violent but we ain't easy either. We ain't strong and we ain't feeble either. We CAN NEVER EVER BE LOYAL TO ANYONE WHO IS DISRESPECTFUL. You should have studied that from the said barrister; its our way of life. We detest it so much! Watch your friends keenly (the Yoruba's : I've just given you a code to dealing with us for the long haul). We are exceptionally loyal as long as you respect us, we are exceptionally disloyal as long as you despise us. We put our heart down to bear ALL (we could have been hostile like Northerners but we chose not to). We majorly detest only one attitude in Igbo's; ARROGANCY. Every tribe is arrogant (during my days with you guys in Ogoni land, many of the men tried to show off ditto Yorubas , Urhobos, Itshekiris, Binis, Ikwere, Kalabari, Ahoada, Ijaw etc) but an Igbo man's show-off is annoying. While others tried to show off what they can do and that's all, the typical Igbo man denigrate the other person first and sing his own praise (without resorting to insults, do an introspection on that).
The Igbo's will be accorded their true worth in this Nation the day they accord respect to others and see that those people are also unique. Forget the folly of Saudana or the unwise judgement of Ojukwu who thought Awo can unilaterally declare secession (whoever told him Awo was our demi-god?). The reason why we have diversity amidst us is to ensure we have alternative "options" the day we want to get into a fix. Its our mode of operation and we thrive in that. Its unfair to now hate us for that which has kept our region peaceful and the hub for all to dwell in. I once countered a very rich Igbo man who had various investment in Ibadan but who denigrate Ibadan people a lot. I told him if he could denigrate S/South or Northern people in their region and if mutual respect was not the key to enjoy a host community. I asked him if he really hated them that much why he invest in their land. Guessed he never thought that much before I queried his ideology about the people he was residing with. Interestingly, most of these people knew he detest them. Will they not reciprocate his hatred on the day of provocation? (Kindly answer that Xtorse).
I'm having these discourse with you because your words have contained some iota of good logic (not minding your Tribal banters and insultive comments; I'm sure thats due to some pent-up anger against a people whom are easy to pacify and deal with than you imagine!).
Yes, we are not the best tribe in this conglomeration of nations but we detest anyone whose try to tell us we are less to them. We just believe you are unique.
During my time in Bori, I observed that Bori people detest Yeghe people and vice-versa ditto Bidere and Kidere, Dekhee etc. I remembered always telling them to stop pointing at each other error but rather focus on each others strength. That's the logic of a typical Yoruba man!. We believe firmly until the Igbo's stop their aura of superiority and calling themselves the only one that makes Nigeria "rock", we will always wait strategically to show them why they must always regard others who have paid their dues.
No matter what, I honor and regard you and any other person here.

Regards.

CreamyBanana:
That is nothing but the truth. I am a Yoruba man from Ondo state but I must say that Yoruba are the most wicked and hypocritical tribe in the world. Don't take their smile as love. They are the devil himself.

A Yoruba man will be laughing with you and be killing you at the same time. All the lecturers I ever had problems with were not only Yoruba but from the same state with me. They will be showing you around as their own brother but behind your back, they will be planning on how to destroy you and make sure you never reach their standards.

Yorubas prefer to destroy their own rather than help them. They don't want those below them to succeed. They always promise and fail. If a Yoruba man promise you a job, just forget it. You will just be wasting your time reminding him.

I have got more helps from Igbos and Hausas than even those that claim to be uncles. The only thing they are good at is making promises that they will never fulfil.

When I was looking for admission, it was an Igbo man that I did not even know from Adams that helped simply because he thought I was Igbo. A Yoruba man will never do that for his brother. Instead, they will be looking for every possible ways to bring him down.

My sister had problems with her supervisor who was a Yoruba man. But I never had a problem with my own supervisor who was a Hausa man.

I don't hate my people. I just hate their hypocrisy. People from other tribes are busy building their people and taking over our lands while we scheme on how to destroy ourselves.

I am in Ife. Please, anyone in Ife should go to Lagere now. All Igbos and Hausas have opened shop while my brothers are still sleeping and scheming evil against one another.

In Ilorin, Igbos, Hausas and Chinese have taken over everything because they keep on grooming and helping their brothers. Yorubas do not know how to build. They only know how to destroy one another.

Yoruba e ronu.

dominique:
I'm Yoruba and I painfully agree to some of the things said by the Op. When it comes to being your brother's keeper, most Yorubas are lacking in that regards. My mum told me of an experience she had when her car got stuck in mud. It was the Yoruba guys that told her to pass that area that the road is not that bad. When she did and got stuck, they demanded to push out the car for a fee. She got angry and told them that rather than pay them, she would look for other people to push out the car and pay them. While she was still tongue-lashing them, two Igbo (not sure of their tribe sha) guys came out from their shop and helped her push out the car. She offered them money and they declined. She felt so ashamed for her people, I also felt ashamed. I won't say my people are evil tho. Evil knows no tribe or religion.

Yoruba e ronu tunwada (think and change your acts)

bakynes:
Am Yoruba and you can confirm from my previous comments. I agree with the OP on the point that we don't help ourselves. Even while I was in the UK, I could notice the trend among Yorubas. Indians, Jamaicans, Ghanaians help their brothers and sisters to come to the UK and help them get papers but We Yorubas even report our fellow brothers to the Home office, we don't accommodate our family members new in a foreign country for more than 6 months. WhIle in Nigeria I met with a lot of family friends who had companies but they kept on promising on helping me secure a job. Majority not all like to see you down and want you to keep begging them for money than helping you stand on your own. Igbos on the otherhand setup their brothers to stand on their own.

Ojukwu: In The Eyes Of The People
Published by The Tide Newspapers | Feb. 3rd 2012 |

The first week of February 2012 in Nigeria will witness, amongst many other significant events, the burial of late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933-2011), the Biafran Warlord. Ojukwu undisputed occupies a central position in the history of Nigeria throughout the period of the four exact years from 15 January 1966 when Nigeria’s first coup d’etat occurred to 15 January, 1970 when Nigerians unfortunate Civil War ended. It is estimated that over two million Nigerians lost their lives in the 30 month brutal war that broke out on July 6, 1967. Although, there was no Nuremberg Trials in Nigeria at the end of the war, Ojukwu has been on trial since the end of the war, mainly on the pages of newspapers, news magazines and books. The trial is likely to continue for another century.

Ojukwu means different things to different persons till he breathed the last on November 26, 2011.

Amanyanabo Opubo Daminabo dug into his archive to extract some of the opinions expressed about late Chief Ojukwu between 1970 when the Biafrans surrendered to the Federal Government under “No victor, no vanquished” arrangement and 1983 when Nigeria experienced a civil rule. Compiled in 1983, these divergent views extracted from the Appendix of Daminabo’s book entitled IBOS Are Not Biafrans (Port Harcourt Hanging Publishers) border on Ojukwu’s personality, his pardon by the Federal Government and his intention to contest the 1983 presidential election.

‘Nigeria never was and can never be a united country’. - General Emeka Ojukwu, Opening sentence of Biafra: Selected Speeches of C. Odumegwu Ojukwu New York, 1969, p.1

‘He was no devil. Everybody admired his personal courage, his ability for hard work. But he had one weakness – he did not know when to apply the brakes. But it’s purely because he was ambitious. He was a very capable chap.’ - Major General Philip Effiong Chief of Staff, Biafran Army, ‘Drum’, April, 1970.

‘A natural actor, Colonel Ojukwu had the enviable quality of controlling and concealing unpleasant emotions, a quality which he exploited to the full in inspiring false confidence even in the bleakest hours of the civil war’. - Chief N. U. Akpan Biafra’s Chief Scribe, London, 1972, The Struggle for Secession, p.175.

‘We were both agreed on this one point, that for all we cared this particular civil war could be fought with bows and arrows. I phoned up some friends at the United Nations Organization and they joined in the discussion’. - Professor Wole Soyinka London, 1972, The Man Died, p. 52.

‘Suddenly, here were black men, intelligent, well-educated, charming black men, standing virtually alone and successfully defying an enemy four times their size backed by the world’s super powers … The Biafrans were everywhere, it seemed, eloquently putting their case in excellent English, quoting neat European or American parallels, pointing out, with obvious truth and conviction that they were the most “westernized” of all Africans, indeed, perhaps, of all Third World peoples’. - John de St. Jorre London, 1972, The Nigerian Civil War, pp. 359-360 .

‘This strange, complex, fascinating man is now sharing the lonely fate of Nkrumah and Obote, Africa’s other fallen giants. A statesman without a state, a leader without a people, an orator without a platform, an actor without a stage; for a man such as Ojukwu, exile must be a living death. - John de St. Jorre London, 1972, The Nigerian Civil War, p.413.

‘Ojukwu’s resistance was really an experiment in human misery’. - Captain Elechi Amadi London, 1973, Sunset in Blofra, p.48

‘In Nigeria, theft by rulers and officials is regrettably frequent. Some end up stealing money, others minor items; Ojukwu is the only one who tried to steal a country!’ - Ken Saro-Wiwa Lagos, Sunday Times 27/6/82

‘He was perhaps the only man who ever held power in West Africa who came out without a private nest-egg of money embezzled from public funds. Not only had he not milked the till, he had spent every penny of his private fortune on his people. He was penniless … He was and is a remarkable man. He could have had everything, if he had bowed the knee to Gowon. Instead he lost many things: his fortune, his homeland, his passport. But he never lost the loyalty of his people; and he never lost any man’s respect. Even his worst enemies respect him. Knowing him, he would say that he had still had the best of the bargain. - Frederick Forsyth, Dublin, 1976, The Making of An African Legend: The Biafra Story, pp. 285 – 286.

‘The desperate nature of this operation and the fact that it simply had to succeed earned for it the name “Operation Do or Die” …. Viewed from any angle, that operation was indeed an “Operation Do or Die”, for many did and many died’. - Major General Alexander A. Madiebo, Commander of Biafran Army, Enugu, 1980, The Nigerian Revolution and The Biafran War, pp. 343 & 348.

‘…Biafra was the first ship of state to sail the sea of nationhood on a completely indigenous motor. Biafra was run from top to bottom by blacks … the first black nation to be taken seriously in a world dominated by white people … ‘ - Arthur Nwankwo, Enugu, 1980, Nigerian: The Challenge of Biafra, pp. 81-82

‘What follows in this book is … the story of how the arrogant and conceited Ojukwu, who wanted to rule an independent nation at all costs, deceived the people he claimed to love and left them in the lurch at their desperate hour of need, and fled “Biafra” under the guise of seeking peace’. - General Olusegun Obasanjo, GOC, 3MCDO, Nigerian Army, London, 1980, My Command, p. xiii.

‘Later on, after I had been released to join in the struggle, I realized that Ojukwu knew what he was talking about whenever he assured Biafrans that they would fight to the last man. He knew that he was ill-prepared for the fight and that if it came, he had nothing to send against the enemy except the bodies of his own citizens – no guns, no armour, no planes, no ships – only flesh and flesh and flesh – what a suicide plot, or was it a reverse pogrom? … Surely, history will not forgive him’. - Major Adewale Ademoyega, Ibadan, 1981, Why We Struck, pp. 141 and 174.

‘In fact, if anything, the counter-coup was a complete flop. Significantly, it was the failure of the Northern dissidents to topple Lieutenant Colonel Ojukwu’s Enugu-based Government – and not the shortcomings of the January coup – that eventually paved the way for secession, and in time, the barbaric civil war’. - Captain Ben Gbulie Onitsha, 1981, Nigeria’s Five Majors, p. 154.

‘History will say of Victor Banjo, Emmanuel lfeajuna, Philip Alale and Samuel Agbam just as history had said of Hitler’s enemies that they brilliantly anticipated the end of the road along which Ojukwu, with fourteen million highly intelligent people on the tow, was walking, but that when it came to the crunch, they clumsily and pathetically bungled their chance to stop him from traversing the road to its bloody end’ . - Nelson Ottah, London, 1981, Rebels Against Rebels, p.l0.

‘On the 5th of January, 1967, the historic Aburi meeting of the military leaders was called to resolve accumulating differences, but Ojukwu went there to manufacture a confederal constitution. Later, Decree No. 8 was passed to satisfy his ends, yet he would not let the Ibos alone. All he wanted was secession’ . - Major Isaac Boro, Benin-City, 1982, The Twelve – Day Revolution, p. 157.

‘When the war Ojukwu and his group said was to defend their homeland came, they made it a war of conquest. Whose “homeland” is the Midwest? When did Ibadan and Lagos become part of the East?’ - Major General Joe Garba London, 1982, Revolution in Nigeria: Another View, p. 115.

‘What most people are saying is li the Ibo leader is back” and I share that view. What political party Ojukwu will join is immaterial. If he stands on a tree, we will all stand on the tree with him’. - Cyprian Ekwensi, Lagos 1982, ‘Sunday Times’ (27/6/82).

‘Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the former leader of Biafra, is a man of history in the most serious sense of the term, not because he is a graduate of history, but for the reasons that he probably decided to study history. Singled minded, deliberate and totally shorn of any emotional inclinations, Odumegwu Ojukwu is a man who doesn’t believe in the force of destiny, but a man who believes that strong men can shape the destiny of weaker men and cause a part for nations’. - Dele Giwa Lagos, 1982, ‘Sunday Concord’ (27/6/82).

‘Has anyone cared to ask why this son of a millionaire and History graduate, this material and intellectual aristocrat branched off into the Army at a time that many people thought the Army was a dumping ground for street brawlers and the like? I suggest that he knew that power resides in the barrel of a gun… Calculating, rational, never known to shed tears, Ojukwu, according to those who claim to know him well, has a rugged disposition that borders on demonism, and is inclined to have things his own way or not at all… I cannot say whether Ojukwu does have the Ibo tribe in his pocket, but it seems to me that the Ibo tribe would not mind having Ojukwu in its pocket.’ - Ray Ekpu, Lagos 1982, ‘Sunday Times’ (1/8/82)

‘As far as the Ibos are concerned, the name Biafra is a stolen property. How the Ibo nation stole the name is fully explained in this book. The earlier Ibos stop the use of the name, Biafra, as a symbol of Iboland, Ibo nation and Ibo culture, the better for all Nigerians. There are several Igbo names of Igbo-related names for major physical features and other man-made features (especially rivers, towns and cities and even caves) in Iboland that can serve as an appropriate substitute for the stolen Biafra name. A few examples of such Ibo names or Igbo-related names include Nri (the cradle, now a town, of Ibos), Anambra and Imo (major rivers in Iboland), Abia, Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri and Umuahia (major cities in Iboland) and Ogbunike (an important town with a famous cave). Any of these names is an appropriate substitute for the Ibo nation to bear or use as her symbol than the stolen Biafra name.’ - Opubo Daminabo, Port Harcourt, Ibos Are Not Biafrans 1983, p 1.

‘Until today Ojukwu has not explained why he was a counter-revolutionary in January 1966, whether it was because he would not yield to junior officers or because he did not agree that change was desirable at the time. What we do know, however, from what the little Forsyth has disclosed is that Ojukwu did not, because of rank-related concerns, want to serve under Yakubu Gowon following the counter-coup of July 1966. Ibo massacres and persecution were just incidental in Ojukwu’s posturing during the crisis of July 1966- May 1967. We do know also that the only reason Ojukwu was appointed military Governor of the Eastern Region in January 1966 was for being a conspirator against the patriotic majors.’ - Fidel Odum Enugu, 1983, ‘Sunday Satellite’ (20/2/83).

His ambition was to achieve the Biafran victory and to go down in history as its first “Head of State.” His genius was instrumental, not creative; he excelled in manipulation, not in construction… Emeka’s return to Nigeria and his dramatic entry into partisan politics is a clear manifestation of his inordinate ambition to grab power that eluded him in Biafra… He confused popular acclaim for popular support.’ - Obiora Egbunike, Ibadan, 1983, ‘Sunday Tribune’ (20/3/83).

Ojukwu’s pardon in conception and execution contradicts all the laws of the Medes and Persians. Nemesis will surely act… Ojukwu gambled with lives of millions of people without caring a hoot. Once a gambler, always a gambler. He is at it again and he is ready to spill blood without remorse.’ - Professor Chike Obi, Enugu 1983, ‘Satellite’ (20/3/83 and 2/8/83).

Read the rest here: http://www.thetidenewsonline.com/2012/02/03/ojukwu-in-the-eyes-of-the-people/

obitwice:
My fellow igbo u guys calls 4 separation nd biafra, men 4 get biafra nd face life.

SillyMods:
Where is our Dilector?