rigarmortis:


What is the proof that he didn't, man it's a debate that can go both ways

Why was he and ifeajuna killed? Why was ademulegun not killed.

Ademulegun defended everything till his dying bed?.....it's debatable. Stop w4nk1ng

fumiswtpusy:
Even though I am a yoruba girl,i am so happy how ojukwu executed these backstabber by ordering him to be shot severally before he finally died crying like a baby about to be deflowerd.
Moral lesson.
Never mess with biafrans or betray.or you get the banjo treatment.even me funmi I am always afraid of biafrans.

Osyabj:


Unless you are a Yoruba muslim and like the 50 year exploitation of Eastern Nigerian( Biafran) oil and Western taxes to build the North, Traitors, Afonja Banjo and Igboman Ifeajuna were executed not just for ploting a coup, but promarily for their sabotage of the Biafran war effort and Ore advance to enemy command headquaters of Dodan baracks, lagos. Period,

Sopigtit:


Biafran oil? What exactly is that?

oladeebo:

nothing like coup against ojukwu, it's a cooked lie!
There is no way Banjo could headed the Biafran nation!
The reality is that , ojukwu learnt, banjo, when liberated west will keep it to himself instead of release her to biafra as ojukwu plan!
that's it!

Bolustical:
Ojukwu never led a war, not even once.

Dude was hiding in bunkers all about

Col Banjo led Biafran forces to capture Benin City in less than a day and was able to get within 300 kilometers of the Nigerian capital Lagos.

Phillip Effiong too did his best

And what did he get at last- Ojukwu ordered him and others to be tied to the pole and shot

Ojukwu cowardly fled and left Effiong to face the sound of the music

Here, some descendants will come and start yarning rubbish.

fk001:
ojukwu is a scumbag and a backstabber he killed his friend.



Banjo was also at fault why would he fought alongside ojukwu, despite the fact he knew that an average igbo man is born with hatred

Opakan2:


Confirmed!

Igbos should fight their battle alone and face whatever consequences they see after. The idea of blaming Yorubas for their misfortunes is long dead.

Any Yoruba that makes himself a tool for biafra is a bastard and deserves whatever comes.

Osyabj:


Of course its Biafran Oil. 100% of all the oil fields were in then Biafran territory or old Eastern Region plus the Igbo Northern Delta.

In fact but for their british puppet masters advice that they could not survive without the oil from the Eastern Region, the North would have seceeded.

Get this thru your afonja skull. Their is no region called Niger Delta. 100% of the oil producing delta region are with Eastern Region, otherwise called Biafra.

Had Ojukwu and his advisers listened to counsel and morgaged the Biafran oil to a country like China, in exchange for weapons, the Biafran troops would have destroyed the Nigerian side within 6 months.

Mujtahida:

Do your own write up, tell us about your Uncle, your loss, your pain, your grief. Sometimes the carnage of war tends to be in the abstract. It is personal stories that break the spell of abstraction and make us feel the pain together. This now is about Victor Banjo. Surely you know on a forum like this you have opportunity to have your say now.

laliga01:


You are just been self entered. Everything about Nigeria is just me, myself and I.

oluwaahmed:


Sto talkin wat u don't know. D truth is dat we will neva know d reason ojukwu killed him, but numerous textss written by. Partakkers in d war hav dft accounts/reason why banjo was killed.
In col. Ademoyega's book- why we struck; it was revealed dat Banjo had secret meetins wit yoruba elders and monarchs @ deir seige in ore.dis emissaries of yoruba pple wanted him 2 liberate Lagos from FG troops but also turn around and declare one nigeria wit a new govt dominated by Yoruba (dis is not far from d truth as most yoruba leaders were highly ethnic oriented & natural betrayers). Dis invariably meant dat soldiers of biafra wld hav liberated Lagos 4rm hausa/fulani only 2 hand it back 2 Yoruba peeps as nigeria, thus defestin d aim of d war- dis in itself is treason.Der wer yoruba soldiers dat fought along biafra soldiers because dey dint like d oppressive nature of northern elements. We will never knw d truth only wat peole write and tell stories 4rm deir own point of view. But Ojukwu failed 2 seize d opportunity. He shdnt hav killed Banjo, he shd hav let him liberate d SW den arrest him 4 treason, and den let his pple decide wat dey will do wit him. Why wld banjo not attack d CBN in Benin & be complainin of no ammunition. Is it not money dat is used 2 buy weapons??

Mujtahida:

How? Am I Victor Banjo? Am I the one whose Uncle was killed? That I encouraged him to tell his own story means I am self centred?

laliga01:


Well, we arguing on this matter will not change anything. The only thing we can do is to exchange opinions, and life goes on.

Osyabj:

Bla bla bla bla.

Mujtahida:

I think you are mistaken. I can't recall arguing with you. Not me. I don't even get your drift

laliga01:


You sound like a small boy. Did gowon enter the war front? But he led the war on the side of Nigeria
Too much American film de worry you.

laliga01:

banjo literally sabotaged ojukwu's effort to get money from CBN benin which would have fortified his troops towards advancing to Lagos.

Sopigtit:


Please stop. Eastern region is not Biafra land. How many times have the Niger Deltans rejected your attachee-by-force something? The Niger Deltans said they don't want a new master. And if Biafra is declared today, they will have to decide where they will belong. It's not by force o.
Now, focus on the oil in the landlocked South East. Only Abia and Imo currently has oil in commercial quantity. Unfortunately for you, oil production and reserve from both states combined is less than half of Ondo state.

logica:
Well, the Benin branch of the CBN was indeed looted; even though Banjo refused to. This (amongst others) basically proved that Ojukwu planted a group within Banjo's forces whose role was to take direct commands from Ojukwu himself; and also spy or even worse (maliciously) implicate Banjo with trumped up transgressions.

The curious part of your post was the assumption that any money from CBN would've been used by Banjo to purchase weapons. From where and how? On the way to Lagos? Stop by at the Gun shop in Ore and buy weapons? The money was to be shipped back to Enugu which was exactly what happened. But guess what, the money was rendered useless by a brilliant and tactical move when the FG switched the currency color.

Bolustical:

And you never read about the likes of Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, Alexander the the Great?

Someone is a coward simple.

Osyabj:


Ondo oil ke? There is no oil in yoruba part of Ondo. The ota gorrilla apprpriated Eastern Region tribe of Ijaw oil fields into Ondo. When the Niger Delta militants gave the notice to Yoruba to leave, that included the Eastern Region Ijaw oil fileds temporarily located ondo.

Further, you illiterate, uncircumcized, smelly yoruba muslims, who have never left Oshogbo, sttill can not understand that, first Biafra is NOT Igbo and Igbo is NOT Biafra. Get this thru your afonja skull, the old Eastern Region or Biafra was made of Ijos (Ijaws) , Efik-Ogoja, Ibibio and Igbo and smaller tribes like Urobo, etc.

Here is the shocker for you divide and exploit yoruba muslims, upwards of 70% of the fake creation called SS or Niger Delta is Igbo SOIL for ever and ever. More than 60% of Delta State Soil and their Governor, Ifeanyi is 100% Igbo. Over 90% of Rivers State and virtually all their governors including, Peter Odilichukwu, Omehia, Chukwubike Amaechi, Nwike, etc are all Igbos despite British divide and suck oil after the British/Biafra war, when the British converted every Igbo village in Rivers into a new "tribe" called "ikwerre, Ndoni, Ogba, Egbema, Ndoki, etc. They are all Igbosm including Opobo and Bonny Islands.

Moreover, look carefully at the map of Rivers State, the pan handle is Obigbo and Egbema. These two Igbo clans alone has majority of the oil fields in Rivers state, but the britich carved them into Rivers instead of Abia, so as to say that Abia and Imo do not produce oil in large quantity.

Bottomline, for those afonja trying to divide and suck Biafran oil, just ask Asari, and Ijo man where Biafra begins and ends. Just google Asari in youtube now and get the answers.

So Igbos cannot attach themselves to fellow Igbos in the fake creation called SS or Nigeri Delta.
The Eastern Region or Biafra is the most homogenous region in Nigeria with 99% Christians and virtually the same language and culture.

So Afonja divide and suck Biafran oil deal with it, Anuofia!

laliga01:

Well, those are part of the smart moves from awolowo. Gowon is just a military man, they believe in force but awo was not.
The truth is gowon forces alone were not enough to outsmart ojukwu's forces. Awolowo was the difference in the battle and why the battle didn't go beyond what it was.

Osyabj:
...

logica:
...which was why Ojukwu should've listened to the wise counsel of Awolowo and Victor Banjo. Tactics over brute force.

laliga01:


Ojukwu cannot heed the advice of awo cos awo was o the part of Nigeria.
I believe he trusted banjo, for him to have asked him to lead the command towards the west but banjo had his own plans along the line.

Sopigtit:


Could you please type that in English? Anyway, I saw "Ijaw oil". No part of Ondo speak Ijaw if you must know. What then makes the oil there "Ijaw oil"? Moreover, that does not erase the fact that oil from the whole of South East region is less than half of the oulf from Ondo. Nor the fact that south east is landlocked, most of its soils are mud and barren. Without attachee to South South region, you and I know Biafra is doomed before it even begins.

logica:
Awolowo was to meet with Ojukwu the same period (and just before) Ojukwu without consultation decided to strike Lagos; forcing a hurried cancellation. And at that time, Awolowo was more favorably disposed towards the Biafrans than neutral as he had not yet accepted to work for the FG.

logica:
Yes, Ijaws in Ondo. But I do not remember Adaka Boro or Saro Wiwa as Yorubas. They were also very actively against Biafra. Next?

attackgat:
I think its hypocritical for people to say that Banjo believed the unity of Nigeria yet, the same Banjo became a brigadier in the Biafran Army and commanded a Biafran Army division.

What is someone who believes in ONE NIGERIA doing in the Biafran Army?

Banjo, Ifeajuna, Mr Abam and Mr Alale all plotted to topple Ojukwu and they were arrested before they could perfect their plan, were tried and executed.

The details of their arrest and excerpts of their trial can be found in "No place to hide: Crises and conflicts inside Biafra"


Banjo was secretly recorded as he plotted to overthrow Ojukwu and paid the price all failed coup plotters pay