Ife agwo mulu aghaghi ito ogonogo. You are of course talking about the late infamous Raymond Njoku of the Owerri Sector in the 1967-70 War who took ten pieces of silver from the enemy and betrayed Biafra. We can now understand Chima Njoku better; now we know what caused the shrimp to bend itself out of shape. Why does an Owerri man work himself into a grotesque frenzy to out-Ojukwu Ojukwu? Is it a curse? You bet; it is even Biblical.
It is written, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon their children and their children's children. Those whose soboteuring forebears betrayed Ojukwu and Biafran soldiers at the Owerri Sector and cost Biafra the war are today haunted by the sins of their ancestors. They are condemned to live and die as deranged errand boys for a twisted version of the cause that their forebears betrayed. To pay for the sins of their parents, they must support Ojukwu, even when Ojukwu turns evil. That is their curse.
Yet, they are really here to betray this generation as well and lead it astray in the same manner that their parents betrayed Ojukwu's and their generation. Tufiakwa!
Chima Njoku:
Calm down! Seek therapy. I don't see why my simple post led you to expose the ugly demons within you.
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Wow!! Ojukwu turned evil? Don't you think your language here is a little too strong to describe the unclear un-Biafran actions Odumegwu Ojukwu is alleged to have taken recently. Remember that this is the man that successfully defended Biafra from all-out jihadist attack from the air, sea and land, until their yoroba houseboys went on "shofisticated" arms-buying diplomacy to Yandon and Mosco. Ojukwu stopped the genocide on Biafrans in 1966, invented guided missile technology to defend Biafran territory, built armored attack cars, refined crude oil, all to the shock and dismay of the world that had discouraged black technological innovations until Ojukwu liberated and turned the Biafran genius loose.
Don't you think the man that set this record is in a class of his own among blacks anywhere and should be respected, no matter his occasional human miscalculations? Was it not the shock of seeing black men in Biafra building things that galvanized strange bed-fellows in centers of power in Europe and in the jihadist arab capitals to send arms to nigerians that was use to defeat Biafra and stem the precedence it was setting for the black world. At a time in the mid-'60s when blacks were totally discounted and rendered inconsequential, Odumegwu Ojukwu brought respect to all black people. You simply can't take that away from him, regardless of his latest seeming miscalculations.
Why must we destroy our prophets and our men of distinction simply because the ngwati chauvinist press has assulted our senses for so long with Biafra/Ojukwu propagada that we are willing to believe it? In terms of innovations that elevate blacks/Africans to world parity, where is similar records as Ojukwu for the ngwati press and other critics of Biafra/Ojukwu?
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quote:Remember that this is the man that successfully defended Biafra from all-out jihadist attack from the air, sea and land, until their yoroba houseboys went on "shofisticated" arm-buying diplomacy to Yandon and Mosco. Ojukwu stopped the genocide on Biafrans in 1966, invented guided missile technology to defend Biafran territory, built armored attack cars, refined crude oil, all to the shock and dismay of the world that have discouraged black technological innovations until Ojukwu liberated and turned the Biafran genius loose.
What utter rubbish! Ojukwu was just an opportunist who rode the crest of overwhelming decision of easterners to fight for there survival. It is revisionist to try to attribute this action of the Eastern peoples to Ojukwu.
It might interest you to know that amongst our war veterans, the overwhelming feeling is that we started losing the war once Ojukwu's ego overwhelmed his common sense. On the issue of defending Nd'Igbo, I cannot recall him ever featuring in any of the sectors during the war. Lets not even go into debating the rights or wrongs of his fleeing to Ivory Coast!
On Ojukwu inventing the Guided missile system , all I have to say is that you are going into personal worship and I guess it would not be long before Ojukwu is attributed to firing the shot which set ablaze the ammunition truck of the Biafranigerian army at Abagana.
The man responsible for Biafra refining crude during the civil war was Roy Imenyi not Ojukwu. I think at some time he was a political figure in the old Anambra state.
I have never met any of the important actors on the Biafran side during the civil war who had anything good to say about Ojukwu. Believe you me, I have met a lot of them from military intelligence to the Armed forces.
I had often believed that this was due to some sort of "bad belle" and has always defended Ikemba. It was a shock when I watched as all they had accused Ojukwu of in the past, unravel right before my eyes.
May I just list some of the accussations that had been labelled against him; inconstistent, greedy, egotistic, selfish, disloyal, arrogant etc..
Having lived in the United kingdom for a few years, I had realised that Allumni of Oxford and Cambridge universities have influence over the policies of the United Kingdom government. Ken Saro-wiwa and later his son were able to tap into this. I always did wonder why Ojukwu could not tap into his oxford connection during the civil war. Now, I have come to realise that his fellow students had seen through him and knew him for what he really was and not the image Frederick Fosythe was potraying! Posts: 585 | From: London. | Registered: Mar 2001
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I would rather we didn't see Ojukwu as either a saint or evil. He is a human who should be judged by our earthly standards. His recent political moves do not recommend him for any leadership awards. He should admit his mistakes and leave partisan politics.
The encouraging development is that we do have some consensus ideas on how to move forward.
quote: Having lived in the United kingdom for a few years, I had realised that Allumni of Oxford and Cambridge universities have influence over the policies of the United Kingdom government. Ken Saro-wiwa and later his son were able to tap into this. I always did wonder why Ojukwu could not tap into his oxford connection during the civil war.
--Wacko
quote:To gain that international backing for Biafran independence, our diplomats and leaders here on this board and on the ground in Biafra must be willing to bargain away to superpowers a substantial chunk of Biafran natural resources than olusegun obasanjo, the yoroba/hausa are currently wasting. But it's hard to match the free-for-all international owambe party on Biafra that has been going on in nigeria since 1970 organized by the rulers of nigeria.
I guess we must be willing to hold our nose for the sake of Biafran independence. Amadi O.
Amadi O. and Wacko,
You both may disagree sharply over reasons for failure of Biafran diplomacy. However, like me, you seem to share the same strategic approach as Amadi proposed in another discussion. I have commented in the past that Ojukwu dwells alot on the trivial aspects of oxbridge education; it is not about accent or use of English. It is about the influence with the power brokers as Wacko said.
I don't know why people fan this myth about oxford english and Ojukwu encourages it.
I will tell you my problem about the dialogue, the little English I learnt in Oxford tells me that a dialogue is between two people or parties and I didn’t feel that the answer to Nigeria’s problem is Obasanjo versus the rest of the country, no. I didn’t like the dichotomy already implicit in the whole thing.
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quote:I would rather we didn't see Ojukwu as either a saint or evil. He is a human who should be judged by our earthly standards.
Folks, CSE summed it up in the above statement.
He is human and we should agree that at this time that he has failed woefully. We should also admit that not all his decisions have been wise, and finally that a lot of his decisions have been anti-Igbo. It is only when we accept this that we would be able to make progress. Why should we make excuses for him simply because in 1966 he jumped on a bandwagon? Orji Uzor Kalu jumped on a similiar wagon during one of the sharia riots. We applauded him then and have since criticised him for obvious anti Igbo actions.
Was it not Ike who rightly pointed out that henceforth Ojukwu has to earn respect just as the likes of Orji and Ekwueme? If Ekwueme why not Ojukwu? It is called consistency!
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I cannot worship anyone including Ojukwu; the Igbo wasn't raised that way. But we simple think ndiIgbo must demand transparency from those who lead us, not attempt to cripple their actions by unrelenting criticisms and second guessing, as the crowd of Odumegwu Ojukwu attackers have been doing since 1970 from harmless locations in Europe and North America. And if they blame him for all the wrongs that took place during the war, they must also have the courage to give him credit for all the progress; he allowed them to happen under his watch. That is fairness!
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Wacko, You are completely out of line here. The fact that you reduced Ojukwu's actions throughout the 1966-70 period as merely jumping on a "bandwagon" has totally nullified anything reasonable you might have had in your post. Infact, your comments indicate more of personal hatred for Ojukwu than anything else. So if you were in Ojukwu's position in 1966 you would wait to see the bandwagon before you act?. God forbid!, I'm glad we had somebody like Ojukwu at the helm. How do you think Biafra was able to mount a defense at out break of the war?. Had he waited to join the "bandwagon" at the time our ppl made up their minds to secede, there would have been no Biafra!. You think arms procurement is similar to buying a can of sugar at a grocery store?. In fact, when I read the nonesense a lot of people post here it amazes me as to the level of ignorance. Arms purchase is much easier for a recognized government than it is for a potential rebel especially when western powers feel threatened by that rebel movement. Ojukwu might have had a streak of dictatorial tendencies but he was peerless and towered above all and sundry during that crisis. What do you have to say about Aburi accord?. Gowon forced Ojukwu's hand and Ojukwu did his best under the circumstances. Do you know that it can only take a rare breed of charismatic leaders to inspire a people to resist despite heartbreaking setbacks and the kind of overwhelming odds Biafra faced. I guess you don't beleive for once that Ojukwu had anything to do with the mind boggling technological innovations in Biafra. Well let me break it down so you can see the link. Ojukwu as the leader of Biafra had peered into the horizon and saw his limitations as far as amarments were concerned and decided to put the knowledge of our Physicists and Engineers to work. Rockets,Ogbunigwes and amored vehicles have already being developed as early as 1967 when the war broke out. That's how the "shore batteries" were able to annihiliate Muhamed's 2nd division from the eastern banks of the Niger. By the way, it is "Roy Umenyi" and not "Imenyi". Have you ever seen or heard about any supreme commander being present at the front during combat?. Pls, I'd like you to give me instances and don't go back to medieval times of knights in shining amor guarding the king. In any case, I'd like to remind you that Ojukwu frequently visited the fronts and on one recorded occassion directed the attack himself. For instance, he was there during one of the two fierce counter-attacks by Biafran troops to destroy the nigerians in Oguta town. When people try to castigate Ojukwu for his departure from Biafra at the end of the war I just wonder what is really going through their heads. Would you stay if you knew that you'd be executed after being tutured and humiliated?. Pls I need an honest answer. So wacko Ojukwu should have sat there for the yoroba and their taliban masters to have him butchered... right?. I thought it was mostly non-Igbos who try to make an issue out of Ojukwu's flight from Biafra. There is no doubt that Ojukwu could have done things differently during that war but that's in hindsight. That being said, a lot of his actions after the war has been very disappointing and this latest APGA debacle is particularly hard to ignore. People like Okwyonwuka and Chima Njoku should pull their heads out of the sand speak out against it instead of making lame excuses. Ojukwu shouldn't have taken sides on that matter. It is that simple. I still wonder why he sided with a character like Umeh. Imagine the tout with his "go back to Abia state" comment....might as well be Nwa Aro himself speaking. The point I'm trying to make here is that all criticisms should be devoid of malice or bias and we should also give credit when and where it is due.
quote:I cannot worship anyone including Ojukwu; the Igbo wasn't raised that way
I have to agree that we are not raised that way contrary to what someone wrote in this forum that we should behave like the Yoruba who do not insult there leaders. He conveniently forgets to mention that this is either because there leaders are answerable to them or it is beause they get lynched/burnt alive if they step out of line. It reminds me of the statement credited to a yoruba PDP delegate to there presidential primary who said to the effect that though he knows that Obasanjo is bad for the PDP, he would be voting for him as he did not want people "back home" to lynch him. Contrast that to Ojukwu who having decided on an unholy matrimony with the devil in the person of Obasanjo, expects Nd'Igbo to go with him. Does he expect us to forget all the atrocities Obasanjo visited on and continues to visit on Nd'Igbo till date. Are now supposed to accept that " the big boss" loves Nd'Igbo afterall just because Ojukwu said so?
quote: And if they blame him for all the wrongs that took place during the war, they must also have the courage to give him credit for all the progress; he allowed them to happen under his watch. That is fairness!
They do not blame him for all the wrongs that took place during the war. They merely state the fact that people with the necessary know how especially with regards to the running of the war were sidelined in favour of less qualified people simply because they were seen as rivals to the "absolute commander". On your use of the term "he allowed them to happen" I take it to mean that you accept the charges of dictatorial tendencies that were levelled against him.
Ogbunigwe;
Na waoh! I think you should ask what changed between when Ojukwu told the Emir of Kano that the massacre of Igbo's was a price which Nd'Igbo had to pay for the unity of Nigeria and when he decided that Biafra was the only option? Was it when the death toll was 1,000, 10,000 or maybe 50,000?
He has a consistent history of jumping onto any band wagon around!
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Wacko, I was initially of the mindset that Ojukwu mislead and made a lot of costly mistakes during that 1966-70 period that resulted in the fall of Biafra. This is the impression you get from people like Gen. Madiebo or even Ben Gbulie but after having read a little more on the crisis particularly from independent foreign authors, I came away with a different conclusion. Bernard Odogwu also gave a lot of plausible reasons why some of these officers seemed disgruntled. Infact, my final conclusion was that Ojukwu was probably good only as a crisis leader and doesn't come off as a savy politician. I really don't think you've made your point at all. In any case, I still think the APGA crisis was beyond politics and he should have handled it better.
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quote:Infact, your comments indicate more of personal hatred for Ojukwu than anything else
That is absolute rubbish. Go through my posts in BNW fron its inception and point out except with the present events where I have written anything critical of him. This is what I had to say about him very recently;
Man I sure do hate it when it turns out that Mr OneNigeria was right.
One the Bandwagon stuff, he moved from a position that the massacre of Nd'Igbo was a price worth paying for Nigerian Unity to the one of Biafra for ever once the overwhelming feeling in the East was for seccession. Ongathering people, I disagree. It was the civil servants who were responsible for this. People like Mbanefo, Ezera Kalu etc. It is also a fact that the concessions he got from Aburi was because of the team he took along. Once he made away with the advice from such people, Biafra was doomed.
quote: Would you stay if you knew that you'd be executed after being tutured and humiliated?.
Has he not been recently humiliated by Obasanjo? By letting himself to be so humiliated, he has let Nd'Igbo down. Ojukwu was until recently the symbol of the nascient Neobiafran and Igbo nationalism movement. The symbol has self destructed and not that it was not forseen, not that it was not preventable, it clearly was and he did not behaved better than other politicians whom we have come to despise on this forum. Why not judge him like them?
quote:There is no doubt that Ojukwu could have done things differently during that war but that's in hindsight.
No it is not! It is hindsight when people make a qualified decision, but it is not when people refuse to listen to counter views or surround themselves with yes men. It is preventable.
quote:That being said, a lot of his actions after the war has been very disappointing and this latest APGA debacle is particularly hard to ignore
Sorry, to those who know him, it was predictable as it followed a pattern of what they have come to expect from him. BTW; Thanks for the Roy Umenyi correction. Well appreciated.
One of the things I could never understand until now was why most Ojukwu critics are from the old Anambra state and most loyalist from the old Imo state. I suspect it was because they knew him very well.
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Having just read between the lines in this newspaper report in the SUN newspaper which I found today, some disturbing concerns have been raised in my mind about convictions previously harbored in my outlook of things.
Below is the link which I now attach, and the four major parts of it That I found disturbing, along with my comments (in bold) after each part:
quote:Chekwas Okorie ran APGA as personal property – Women leader By PETER ANOSIKE SUN Newspaper Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Princess Hajia Nana Dahiru (Photo: Sun News Publishing)
1.) ....... “What you see as crisis in APGA is mere repositioning. We are trying to put round peg inside a round hole. You call it crisis, but we in the party call it restructuring.
Mere repositioning??? This comment was particularly offensive because it created the sense of premeditation and bad faith
2.) ..........According to her, Chief Chekwas Okorie short changed the party. “I am with the Umeh faction because when the problem started, I had the opportunity of talking to the warring parties. Despite all the allegations being levelled against Chief Okorie, he has not denied any of them, neither has he addressed any of the issues. What he is doing is pointing finger here and there, which he has even extended to Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, who is now the Chairman Board of Trustees of the party.”
W.r.t. “Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, who is now the Chairman Board of Trustees of the party” This comment is distressing in that as one who should have been an arbiter in this matter, Ojukwu inserted himself into the affairs and lost credibility by accepting this position with one faction, thus belittling his stature while the confrontation was still under his arbitration
3.)......... “Chekwas Okorie is somebody who I respect as a person. But the way he has been running the party since registration has been very unfortunate. You cannot go to any state of the federation and see where APGA has a befitting secretariat.
........Apart from that, he is a dictator. He has privatised the party. He ran it as if it was a personal property, which is quite unfortunate. If he had been liberal and allowed other members to contribute their own views, our party would have fared better. But he won’t allow that. He is a feudal overlord.
........“The suspension of Okorie is very constitutional. More than two-thirds of the members of the National Working Committee voted for his removal.
What disturbs me in the sentences above is that nowhere was it shown what sincere efforts had been being made by Ojukwu or other senior stakeholders to rectify this condition previouslyif it was so disturbing, something that suggests Okorie had been the one doing all the hard work and heavy lifting all along, nowhere was sincere good faith effort to weigh in by suggesting alternative ways to do things demonstrated as previously existing, documented as having been brought to the table and how many times, before suddenly exploding in the papers that Okorie had been expelled
4.) ........ “Chekwas Okorie is not going to leave the party. We just want him to vacate the position of national chairman. That he was suspended from the post does not mean he would no longer be an APGA member. After all, he was not born a national chairman. But on the other hand, if he decides to leave there will be no problem. APGA will still forge ahead. Chief Alex Ekwueme founded PDP. When he left, PDP still forged ahead. That is what will happen if Chekwas leaves APGA. Nobody is indispensable. Our greatest joy is that Chief Ojukwu is on our side and he commands more respect and followership.
To me this particular paragraph is the smoking gun that suggested a coup had been pulled by people whom Okorie had had no reason to fear or distrust in his dealings with them
OJUKWU DID BETRAY CHEKWAS OKORIE!!! AND IN THE HANDLING OF THIS PARTICULAR MATTER OJUKWU DID MISLEAD, DISRESPECT, AND ABUSE ND'IGBO'S TRUST!!!
For all the comments I have made on this board, indicating in any form or fashion that it was in Chekwas Okorie's court to go back and provide account to the questions put to him by Ojukwu as regards the allegations of financial impropriety levelled by the Umeh faction, This posting hereby nullifies them all, no matter in what thread they be.
Responsibility never lay in Chekwas Okorie's court to disprove the wrongdoing levelled by his accusers, rather, responsibility to substantiate the allegations made against Okorie lay in the laps of his accusers.
To the extent that it may not have occurred to Chekwas Okorie to express this firmly to Ojukwu from the get go, that oversight is not a crime and does not warrant the underhanded brash and unIgbolike judgements and action taken against Chekwas Okorie by Ojukwu.
UNRESERVED APOLOGIES TO CHEKWAS OKORIE: OPPORTUNITY STILL BECKONS!!!
For any injurious insinuations possibly deriveable upon the reputation of Chekwas Okorie by my suggestions already nullified above, my unreserved apologies are also hereby rendered.
While I believe that Ojukwu's intentions towards the Igbo people he has always hoped the best for remain good, I also now believe that Ojukwu in the manner of his dealing with his loyal friend and protege Chekwas Okorie, owes a debt of apology (as previously suggested on this board by Greg) to Chekwas Okorie particularly and to Nd'Igbo in general for abusing their trust.
To re-unite Nd'Igbo in this matter, and begin to ameliorate the trauma inflicted upon them unexpectedly, Ojukwu must now unequivocally and unconditionally make a fatherly move to reconcile himself to his protege and to apply his influence upon Umeh and others in that faction to assume a more remorseful and sincere disposition for the attempt to have callously taken over what Okorie had laboriously built with his own sweat and tears, put aside their battle postures, and in good faith present and assist Okorie in bringing about any genuine reforms that it was they had been harping on about.
CONCLUSION
My positions regarding transparency, accountability, and "responsibilities of ownership" w.r.t. the relationship between the Leaders and the Led as the only vigilant way forward in which the Igbo masses can begin to seek empowerment from this point on remains. I now swallow hard and accept my humble pie.
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Ukaobasi, Your disappointment is shared by most of the guys who have supported Ojukwu so openly since the inception of this message board. First, the reaction was shock and afterwards a real determination to put the Igbo cause first as no one leader has the destiny of Igbos on their shoulders. Wacko, for example, is a guy I have spoken to quite a few times. He came across as a very down to earth Igboman. While we shared a few doubts about the conduct of the civil war, we came to a conclusion Ojukwu probably did what he had to. We discussed various accounts from people who crossed paths with Ojukwu during the war. Some of these conducts worried me a lot. But I thought that Ojukwu should have the benefit of doubt. The Chekwas story and the national dialogue were well covered and Ojukwu certainly has had a lot of opportunities to put across his views. He didn't come out of this well. Hence people like Wacko really feel betrayed.
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quote:Some of you here that have found joy insulting Dim Ojukwu will someday regret your foolishness.
My dear brother, I’ve tremendous respect for your opinions but please allow me to correct one misconstruction on your part as relates to the mess Ikemba allowed himself in. You’re wrong to believe that any joy is derived by those who lately presented their disappointment towards Ikemba’s handling of APGA fallout. No Igbo should be proud to insult Ojukwu or rip him to pieces. All insults towards him should be discouraged and insofar as I’m around, I wouldn’t support any who took that route. Suffice here however with the actual position of folks whom you thought na akpari Ojukwu being a simple disagreement that has not risen to the level of nkpari yet. It shouldn’t surprise any of us when few minorities deem peoples’ expression of disappointment with Ikemba as insult since our elders in the village take offense to any dissenting opinion from a younger one, they errorneously see it as nkpari. Now, that even the HONORABLE Uka took time to revisit the issue and came out with the proper state of affairs of this brouhaha, we should begin to wind down that is, if I’m asked. As long as you continue to be for Igbo freedom and against the nigerian injustice, count me as a comrade in arms. The truth which we should realize is that those Igbo that saw things differently from Ikemba this time had at one point or another defended him. Take myself for instance; it was based on my tenacious defense of him that caused othniel/Conumdrum to lash out at me.
quote:And if they blame him for all the wrongs that took place during the war, they must also have the courage to give him credit for all the progress; he allowed them to happen under his watch. That is fairness! Amadi O.
It would be a disaster for anyone to argue against this perspective which goes to show how we try to lump all the bad and ugly at Ikemba’s doorstep at the same time deny him his due. I wish our brothers would restrict their comments to the latest news ala APGA and the Yoruba engineered owambe. As CSE already stated, both Wacko and Amadi have valid points in their disagreement with one another with CSE’s summation that Ikemba as human should also be judged by human standards.
quote:The point I'm trying to make here is that all criticisms should be devoid of malice or bias and we should also give credit when and where it is due. – Ogbunigwe
I honest to God hope that our people would take this advice to heart when they write. Yes, Ikemba blew it with his ill advised support for treacherous touts, victor umeh and nwokolo but this in itself should not give anyone of us the grounds to really come so hard at Ojukwu or worst curse him. As we say in Modern Free, let’s do this for the “good of the order.” Also, the departure of Ojukwu from Biafra was to me a very smart maneuver since his capture and eventual execution by the clueless islamists would’ve meant more bad news to the generality of the Igbo, they would have gone on a killing frenzy. His exit gave General Effiong the flexibility to arrange a more decent cessation and tempered anger of the islamists and their Yoruba collaborators. I wouldn’t stay around if I find myself in a similar jam and trust me, no nigerian or Biafran living or dead would. Maybe a white man but certainly not an African!
UKA the HONORABLE,
It surely takes an HONORABLE man, a just and mature mind to acknowledge what you just did so, my friend, let me reassure you that the respect a good number of us hold for you is still at all time high. Even when some of us realized that a grievous mistake was done by Ojukwu, we still respected your position as evident in our diligent disagreement. Jidekwe nke iji.
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Until such a time we will have leaders that play according to the rule, all politicians are tainted. Ojukwu, Chekwas, Ngige,Obi, Obasanjo, Orji Kalu etc etc. Those that seem to be with some credibility are those that have not yet tasted power. This is why i support Ngige, atleast, he was able to stand and say NO to bloodsucker Ubah! And for that the poor civil servant gets paid as at when due and the poor teacher can atleast concentrate on teaching the leaders of tomorow instead of wheeling and dealing for his daily bread.
We must demand accountability from those we entrust with the task of serving (not ruling) us.
Uka: I doff my hat for u sir!
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quote:Get ready to swallow even more, as the whole Ojukwu/Biafra show has merely just begun. The next pie for you to swallow will be Ojukwu's Biafra itself. --Judges 113
Just as I feared, much of the wrangling here has not been so much about Ojukwu as it has been about the idea of Biafra itself. How can internal APGA divisions translate itself into a referendum on the legitimacy of the Biafran state?
Obviously, many of Ojukwu's detractors are indignant about his political machinations, but it seems that some have another strong and ulterior motive for rubbishing his total image as a man of any integrity. In their minds, Ojukwu is synonymous with the idea of a Biafran state. It is for them "Ojukwu's Biafra." Is it not also our Biafra, and Nd'Igbo's Biafra? How then can the idea of Biafra lose any legitimacy on account of Ojukwu?
Yet we see from the above quote that the next thing we will have to swallow is "Ojukwu's Biafra," and all because of internal disagreements among Igbos about how best to represent their interests.
Yes, Ukaobasi, we may have to swallow hard about Ojukwu's handling of the APGA crisis, but we don't have to accept that somehow, after a life's service to the interests of Nd'Igbo, Ojukwu is now opposed to the total well-being of Igbos everywhere. That would be utter nonsense.
We may disagree with Ojukwu's thinking lately as to how to advance the cause of Igbos, but is he not still a staunch advocate of anything good for Igbo people?
He may not have seen our good this time as clearly as we expected, but is he now completely opposed to our interests, as some would like it to appear?
And now that most Igbos have condemned Ojukwu's questionable political power plays, the "anti-Biafra" voices begin to condemn the Biafran state as another of Ojukwu's "blunders," denying the right of Biafrans to have a homeland, all because of the political mis-steps of one man. I just don't follow this logic, except it were to say just how important this man has been in the eyes of Biafran critics.
Brother, I will swallow my part of the humble pie too, but I won't so much as smell what is cooking in their favorite stew. I already know the stench.
___________________ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves... Posts: 660 | From: Valle del Sol | Registered: Nov 2004
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You put your finger at it! The yoroba/nigerian propaganda is beginning to yield dividend for them. The Republic of Biafra is now on trial by its citizens, as the nigerians want, just because Odumegwu Ojukwu may have miscalculated in the dirty nigerian political game. Crap!!
The truth is that there's no alternative to Biafra -- the nation that was well served by its first president, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. It doesn't mean we don't demand accountability from Odumegwu Ojukwu and Chekwas Okorie on what's happening with APGA today.
___________________ achieve Biafra and show the difference Posts: 642 | From: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: Nov 2002
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