The Ikemba has made my day by the following:
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NIGERIAWORLD: You once said that whoever wants this baton should snatch it if it wasn’t given to him or her. Some observers think that Chief Ralph Uwazurike is fighting to snatch the baton from you but rather than receive the support of the king makers, he is being persecuted by the governments of Imo and Abia States in conjunction with the Obasanjo’s administration, making laws aimed at keeping MASSOB down. How does this hostile environment help your search for the emergence of a new Igbo leadership?

"NIGERIAWORLD: For over a year now, you have been calling for the formation of an Igbo political party where Igbos would be majority, rather than the current situation where Igbos are minority in a majority party. You have argued consistently that it is the only way for Igbo agenda to receive the attention it deserves. What progress has been made towards the establishment of such a party? And following the same reasoning, why are you not supporting the formation of a country where Igbos would be majority?

As for the revisionists, the likes of Mobolaji (the prodigal son) Aluko, who love to manufacture their own “facts” I crave the indulgence of whom it may concern to reproduce this part of what the Ikemba said and add emphasis so those who refuse to read will have no more excuses.

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NIGERIAWORLD: There is a big debate going on in the Internet over whether Awolowo said to you that if the East should secede, the West would secede. The conversation supposedly took place in Enugu on May 6, 1967 and was pulled from what was titled, Ojukwu and Pa Awo Conversation and Speeches during the War in 1967. The information was claimed to have been classified but now declassified. Is this information authentic?

OJUKWU: Let’s stop fooling ourselves, please. When any Nigerian gets up and say, this is classified information that has recently been declassified, I say, classified by whom? Declassified by whom? Do you think we are in America where you have these things? In Nigeria nobody classifies anything and nobody has declassified anything. So, once it starts with that you know there is deception.

NIGERIAWORLD: They said you were the one that recorded this conversation.

OJUKWU: And then I declassified it recently?

NIGERIAWORLD: Prof. Aluko, Prof. Eni Njoku, Dr. Nwakanma, Dr. PNC Okigbo, Lt. Col. Imo, Chief J.I Onyia and many others supposedly attended the meeting.

OJUKWU: I find it quite amusing also that all the Igbo participants are dead. [Mobolaji Aluko, take note]

NIGERIAWORLD: That is true.

OJUKWU: How come? Is it the death of Pius Okigbo that declassified the information?

NIGERIAWORLD: Did the meeting take place, and was there such an agreement?

OJUKWU: We’ve said this over and over again, so many times, and people don’t understand; they don’t want to actually. If you remember, I released Awolowo from jail. Even that, some people are beginning to contest as well. Awo was in jail in Calabar. Gowon knows and the whole of the federal establishment knows that at no point was Gowon in charge of the East. The East took orders from me. Now, how could Gowon have released Awolowo who was in Calabar? Because of the fact that I released him, it created quite a lot of rapport between Awo and myself and I know that before he went back to Ikenne, I set up a hotline between Ikenne and my bedroom in Enugu. He tried like an elder statesman to find a solution. Awolowo is a funny one. Don’t forget that the political purpose of the coup, the Ifeajuna coup that began all this, was to hand power over to Awo. We young men respected him a great deal. He was a hero. I thought he was a hero and certainly I received him when I was governor. We talked and he was very vehement when he saw our complaints and he said that if the Igbos were forced out by Nigeria that he would take the Yorubas out also. I don’t know what anybody makes of that statement but it is simple. Whether he did or didn’t, it is too late. There is nothing you can do about it. So, he said this and I must have made some appropriate responses too. But it didn’t quite work out the way that we both thought. Awolowo, evidently, had a constant review of the Yoruba situation and took different path. That’s it. I don’t blame him for it. I have never done.

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During the war, there were saboteurs. I understand that historically. Our people didn’t fully understand the enterprise of saying no to Nigeria. A lot thought, in fact, that it would end much quicker. A lot thought that perhaps, even, it would be less painful. ……..
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There is no way Igbos would all speak with one voice. But let one be more slightly strident than the others. That is what I look for.

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Any Igbo is an efulefu saboteur who is acting like a moderate while fellow Igbos are going to jail without trial and others are being mowed down by the Obasanjo-led Gestapo in BiafraNigeria. Pure and simple. If Ojukwu were 33-years old, that is exactly what he would have said. What business does any young Igbo person have calling himself a moderate? If Ojukwu were a moderate in 1967, ALL OF US WOULD BE DEAD.

Rudolf:
I hope you are paying attention. It has NOTHING to do with being a journalist or an activist.

Igbo Moderate = Saboteur.

Biafra Moderate = Saboteur

Thank God Ojukwu lives. My father told me that the enemies of Biafra always prayed that Ojukwu would commit suicide. He lived and lives as a symbol of their failure to subdue the Spirit of Biafra.

Folanke:
Feel free to consider Awo your personal hero, or Yoruba ethnic hero. After all, Hitler is still hero to some people. But, don't make the dumb mistake of calling Awo a hero to all BiafraNigerians. That's when you cross the line.

Rudolf, you are a good son of Nnobi, keep up the good work by "asking proper questions".

Biafra
I'm very happy that Ojukwu is in support of MASSOB. Ojukwu will always remain an important man to not only the Igbos but to Efiks, Ibibios and all the true Biafrans.
Ojukwu has said that he will reunite the East and it is happening. The East cannot see themselves as enemies when they have real and greater enemies outside the East.

Folanke
U need to read and study the history of the Civil war before u start saying anything.

If Awo did what he did to us to your own people there's no way in the world that u will want to have him as your hero.

No sane person in the East will ever see Awolowo as a hero. What hero? If Awo can be hero then let every criminal be a hero. Why don't u make IBB or Abacha your hero afterall the Northerners see the two devils as heroes for whatever reason?

It is not only the Igbos that hate Awo, Ibibios, Efiks and other tribes in Biafra see him as an enemy.

Ojukwu never betrayed anyone.
Ojukwu fought against genocide.
He was not a tribalist unlike Awolowo and all other devils from Yoruba land.
He committed no atrocity or genocide.
He never supportted any land blockade.
He was never responsible and till today is not for the death and killing of 2 million Biafrans.
Ojukwu fought against evil.

Awolowo did the opposite.

I will always see Ojukwu, Uwazuruike, Effiong
and all the men who fought for Biafra as heroes.

If u regard Soyinka, or TOS Benson as heroes and u want them to national heroes I will have no problem with it. THEY ARE the opposites of Awo.

Why are u people always in support of evil when u know u should not be? No wonder your people joined the HAUSAS during the war 'cause u know nothinf but evil as long as u are doing against anothe tribe.