Ojukwu warned us against another Biafra war - Ikokwu

                         
Chief Guy Ikokwu who fought alongside Chief Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu during the Biafra civil war has urged Igbos
clamouring for an independent Biafra state to desist from it
and heed to the warning of Ojukwu who warned that another
Biafra war must never be fought.

In an interview with Vanguard, Ikokwu who was a second
republic politician and Anambra State Chairman of the defunct
Nigeria Peoples Party however urged the federal government to
realize the agitation was a wake-up call to restructure the
country.

He said: ‘’Generally speaking and in line with what Chief
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was the first leader of
Biafra said, our people should not go for a second civil war. It
is in public domain. It is on Youtube and video. Anybody can
play it and listen to what he said.

“Saying that, he said history should be a lesson not only for
Nigeria but also for Igbo people and that the grave
implications of a civil war are such that the initiators do not
normally know where it would end and who and who would
suffer.

“In the first civil war, the majority of those who suffered were
the innocent people. More than a million people died and they
were not the ones who started the war or were fighting the
war.

“He said a second civil is not in the best interest of Nigeria,
that Nigeria should learn its own lesson and understand that
the Igbo always add value to anywhere they go. To any
situation they are called upon, they add value. They never go
anywhere to deteriorate the existing situation.

“Not only that they are so flexible that they can change their
culture – language and dressing that they and the natives will
almost look alike; that the main thing Nigeria should do is to
restructure the country into fiscal federalism as our founding
fathers – Herbert Macauley, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi
Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, Dennis Osadebey, MI Okpara , etc,
who agitated and got. They fought for a federal structure and
this is embedded in our national anthem – in diversity we
stand, there is unity in diversity.

‘’That is where the Igbo stand. There should be unity in
diversity. We should use the diverse abilities of each group. The
Yoruba have where they excel. The Urhobo, Hausa, Fulani, Tiv,
Nupe, Kanuri, etc, each have where they excel. Use all these
diversifications to promote a united front so that on the whole,
the whole nation will rise up and be better for it.

“That is where we stand. There should be justice, equity and
fair-play. Once these three things are given, you will not find
any more resentment or demonstration by youths. At the
moment, majority of Nigerians believe in the six zonal
structure.


On the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, Ikokwu said it
was his release was important as the Radio Biafra he manged
was not a crime.

‘’The issue of Radio Biafra is not treasonable. Radio Biafra is
digital instrument registered in United Kingdom or America.
“It is not the first time. Professor Wole Soyinka had Radio
Kudirat, done abroad and broadcasting to Nigeria. NADECO
endorsed such foreign radios by Nigerians.


“It is a matter of freedom of information. If Kanu is guilty of
treason on account of Radio Biafra then millions of Nigerians
are guilty of treason in the social media because it is a digital
matter now. You take your smart phone and say whatever you
like – good, bad, rubbish, exemplary, etc.”

Source:Vanguard

Chief Guy Ikokwu who fought alongside Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu during the Biafra civil war has urged Igbos clamouring for an independent Biafra state to desist from it and heed to the warning of Ojukwu who warned that another Biafra war must never be fought. In an interview with Vanguard, Ikokwu who was a second republic politician and Anambra State Chairman of the defunct Nigeria Peoples Party however urged the federal government to realize the agitation was a wake-up call to restructure the country.
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