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Old Oct 15, 2007 , 11:39 AM   # 6 (permalink)
Default Re: Ojukwu: Hero or Villain?



Your villain, my hero; your hero, my villain.

I blame Ojukwu only for failing to actualise Biafra; that was the main objective, he was the spearhead; but ultimately, the project failed. That failure has been used by prevailing interests in the Nigerian nation space to marginalise the Igbos ever since the war officially ended. Nowhere else is this apparent than in the treatment of the Igbo nation regarding the presidency. It is often heard that no one of Igbo extraction would ever again be leader of Nigeria; this used to be said in hushed tones; nowadays, such 'decency' has evaporated. Ojukwu is alive; he is also aware of this apartheid. How must that feel? He may be anything now, but he certainly wasn't a coward.
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