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The war ended many, many years ego. But some Nigerians continue to remind the Igbos that they lost the war.But has it ever occured to you that the person/persons that brag most about the outcome of the war are mostly Yorubas, such as Obasanjo and others. Here come the latest, Rotomi, the Ambassador to Washington. Read about his fiasco with Ojo and you decide who is actually tribalistic. And to those who don't know how the war ended, it ended because Biafran Civilians were hopelessly killed by the Nigerian army, compounded with the starvation by the Nigeria government. The Nigerian army could not defeat Biafran soldiers. Ojukwu ended the war because of the suffering on the Civilians.
FROM THISDAY [NIGERIA]
An official statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja said that ``President Umaru Yar'Adua has approved the definite recall of Gen. Oluwole Rotimi as Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States. “Accordingly, Ambassador Rotimi has been advised to wind up his affairs and formally take leave of his hosts in keeping with diplomaic practice,'' the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes the statement as saying. “He is to return home not later than 31st March 2009,'' the statement said. “Mr President is appreciative of the services and contributions of Rotimi to the progress and stability of Nigeria and wishes him well in his future endeavours,'' the statement added. In an interview with NAN on the matter, Maduekwe said ``Matters like this should be treated with utmost dignity and forgive me if my not being as forthcoming as you wish might give the impression that the solidarity of information I do enjoy with the media is being down played here". ``Two things are involved here, one, the national interest, two, the dignity of people's office whether it's the office of an ambassador anywhere in the world, not just Washington
``It's a very important office which we should treat with a lot of respect as indeed the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs who is the president's man to conduct foreign policies in 104 missions,'' Maduekwe said. It would be recalled that the disagreement between Maduekwe and Rotimi resulted in exchange of correspondence between the duo. Rotimi had written a letter in which he refered to the minister as a tribalist boasting that "I have dealt with people like you in the past. I was the Adjutant General of the Nigerian Army that thoroughly defeated your rag tag Biafran army" Irked by Rotimi's letter, Maduekwe had complained to the President, in a memo attaching Rotimi's letter. "This man has no temprament to be an ambassador of Nigeria in our most important mission. This is a strategic assesment of the situation. Anyone who has such a disposition may not be able to handle the Nigerian embassy in Washington which is deemed in Nigerian diplomatic circles as a strategic and sensitive mission. "The recommendation that he be recalled has to do with his capacity to run the place. It is not personal", Maduekwe said.
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