Like everything else in Nigeria where truth is suppressed and falsehood is promoted, the untrue accounts of how the East and Ojukwu rushed into War unprepared have continued to fly around all over the internet, particularly from the circle of those who, for whatever reasons, seek to equate the phantom “Biafra Restoration” scam of Nnamdi Kanu with the 1967 Biafra of Necessity that fell on General Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu to lead. 

This misplaced, mischievous and unfounded, and in some cases, ignorant comparison, is now being stretched to the ridiculous extent of presenting Ojukwu as the earlier version of the clearly delusional megalomaniac called Nnamdi Kanu, is sacrilegious, to say the least.

Whether you were looking at the extraordinary circumstances of the emergence of the Biafra of 1967 in contrast with the Money-Making Fraud Scheme packaged as Biafra Restoration OR the person and pedigree of General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu in terms of character, comportment, education, exposure, and family background, there is no basis whatsoever of mentioning Ojukwu’s name in the same sentence with Nnamdi Kanu.

Knowing Nnamdi Kanu from my direct interactions and dealings with him from our 2013 First-Meeting where I discussed the LNC 8-Point Strategy with him at the instance of an Igbo Patriot (a Retired Navy Admiral), when he first emerged with his IPOB, to his 2015 Court Trial when I went to Abuja (uninvited and pro-bono) to help his Legal Defence Team extricate him from the Treason Trial he had landed himself in, (to the shock and disbelief in Nnamdi Kanu who had done tremendous damage to the Liberation Project, in his treachery since after our 2013 Meeting). 

To our 2017 Meeting inside Kuje Prison where I had gone as a part of the Igbo Intervention Delegation led by Prof Charles Soludo which came to help broker what became the political solution to the 2015-2017 incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu, I find this comparison very offensive and most irritating, having also had the extraordinary privilege of dealing directly and closely with Ojukwu in the course of my tasks in the Liberation Campaign we took upon ourselves as Ojukwu was a Co-Convener of PRONACO, (2005-2006) and a Co-Plaintiff with Chief Anthony Enahoro, Prof Wole Soyinka, Chief C.C Onoh, Prince Tanimose Bankole-Oki, Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi and a few others, in the 2007/2009 Suits by which we challenged the Legitimacy of the 1999 Constitution on grounds of Fraud and Forgery (the onerous Task of Filing and Leading the prosecution of those Suits had fallen on me).

I can therefore say with certainty that I have known and dealt with the two individuals and that the aforementioned comparison is like one between Light and Darkness, whether the one between the Sacred Biafra of 1967 and the Phantom “Biafra Restoration” scam of Nnamdi Kanu, OR between the person of General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and the Clear-Minded, Bloodthirsty Con-Artist called Nnamdi Kanu.

It is against the backdrop of the foregoing that I make the following clarification comments:

(1) Before talking about War and Preparedness for War, what do we say about the several months of wanton killing of Easterners, particularly the Igbo, non-stop, particularly in the North (the Pogroms) which began with July 29, 1966, murder of Major-General Aguiyi- Ironsi and several Igbo Officers and Men in several Military Locations, which then spread into towns against Igbo civilians?

(2) Was it not waves and waves of those killings that led to the Aburi Meetings in Ghana in January 1966, when surviving Easterners had fled to the Eastern Region for safety and when the Military cum Political Leaders from the Eastern Region and the rest of Nigeria could not find any safe location to meet inside Nigeria due to fear that they might be killed? 

(3) Was that not a breakdown of the Nigerian Federation less than six years from Independence in October 1960?

(4) What was going on in the entire period between August 1966 and June 1967 before it became War in July 1967? Did the Massacre of the Igbo and the threat to kill more stop all through that period?

(5) Was there any effort that was spared in the search for an end to the Killings throughout the period, particularly on the side of Eastern Region?

(6) Did Ojukwu, as Military Governor of the Eastern Region, not make a broadcast asking the Igbo to go back to the North after a few meetings of political leaders when it seemed that the killings had abated, only for more massacres to resume against the Igbo, forcing the return of survivors to the East in circumstances that showed clearly that there was nowhere else the Igbo could find safety outside of the Eastern Region in that period?

The summary of these clarification comments is that the Biafra of 1967 was an honest life-saving necessity imposed on the then Eastern Region of Nigeria by the genocidal aggression of a conglomerate of implacable enemies led by Britain and the Sokoto Caliphate, while Nnamdi Kanu’s “Biafra Restoration” undertaking is no more than an elaborate scheme in Fraud, built on a Framework of Falsehood and Propaganda, backed up by deceit, violence and bloodletting for the purpose of quick wealth and cheap fame, and also to feudally control Igboland as a supreme leader.

Let those who wish to learn the truth concerning the sequence of events that led to the NIgeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 which plunged Nigeria into the pit of Unitary Constitution between 1967 and 1979 and which has raged on with the 1999 Reincarnation of the 1979 Constitution, obtain and read the Diarybook titled: “THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR” compiled by Dr Luke Aneke, which is an 800-Page unedited account of foreign eyewitnesses of what transpired day-by-day from December 31, 1964 to November 28, 1970, on all sides including Nigeria, Biafra and the International Circuit. (The Book which is on Amazon, is loaded with previously classified information on the War which were declassified and released to the author by the Office of the US Official Historian on Biafra).

NOTES

“The Untold Story Of The Nigeria-Biafra War” by Dr Luke Aneke, 2007. From online information (eg Udara Books) this book is also available to buy in Nigeria, but do first verify before parting with your money.