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I hope one day someone will have the guts to discuss how Nnamdi Azikiwe may have achieved Biafra without war and the needless loss of over 3 million igbos #ozoemena
We like to play along with the narrative that suits our emotions. Zik would have gone the 'Mandela route' and probably achieved what was lost through a needless war. I will post links below for whoever needs to learn a bit more.
The late Ambassador Raph Uwechue, recounted in “Reflections On The Nigerian Civil War”: “General Ojukwu rejected advice, time and again, on the need for timely compromise. When the war began to drag on and the suffering of the masses increased steadily,
a number of prominent Ibos began to advise General Ojukwu to ask for a confederal arrangement. A number of anxious Ibos including Dr. Azikiwe, Dr. Michael Okpara, Dr. Kenneth Dike and myself, made a formal recommendation in which we told General Ojukwu
that as Africa was sympathetic to the Ibo cause, but opposed to secession, he should grant us the opportunity of the Algiers meeting to seek OAU guarantees for a confederal arrangement.
Ojukwu not only rejected this advice outright but asked some of us to recant or resign. Dr. Azikiwe left Paris in disgust and went to London in voluntary exile. I myself chose to resign.” Zik would have shaken his head and declaimed: “They would have it thus.”
