IPOB’S RESPONSE TO MUHAMMADU BUHARI CALLING IKEMBA EMEKA OJUKWU A COWARD WHO RAN AWAY TO ABROAD AFTER CAUSING WAR.

August 22, 2017

Press Statements

IPOB’S RESPONSE TO MUHAMMADU  BUHARI CALLING IKEMBA EMEKA  OJUKWU A COWARD WHO RAN AWAY TO ABROAD AFTER CAUSING WAR.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are filled with rage from the insults heaped on the late Biafran Leader, Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, by Retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, the terminally-ill and serial coupist who also doubles as the president of the British-created criminality and contraption called Nigeria. In his nationwide broadcast on August 21, 2017, Buhari called Ojukwu a coward who “after starting trouble and when things [got] bad [he] run away and saddle others with the responsibility of bringing back order with their blood.” Buhari is following the footsteps of his Northern brothers namely, Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon and Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma who have made similar ridiculing remarks on Biafran Heroes in the molds of Generals J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

For those who do not know, Muhammadu Buhari abandoned his duty post at 2 Brigade in Lagos on the night of July 28th, 1966 and traveled to Government House in Ibadan where he assassinated his commander-in-chief, Major-General J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi in the early hours of July 29th, 1966.  Not satisfied with his orgy for spilling of Biafran blood, Buhari and his Northern colleagues in the Nigerian Army massacred over two million unarmed and defenceless civilians at Owerri-Biafra in 1968 during the genocidal war on Biafra by Nigeria and the British government. This same Muhammadu Buhari committed treason on December 31, 1983, and instead of being punished by death sentence, he was rewarded with the presidency of Nigeria 32 years after committing that heinous crime. Everyone knows that but for Section-318(1) of the Nigerian fraudulent Constitution, Buhari would never qualify to contest as a presidential candidate.

 To put it more direct, Buhari is the person that should be called a coward because he refused to confront the Biafran soldiers during the war but rather went for “soft targets” such as women, children, the sick, and the very old. Buhari cannot, in any way, compare himself with the very brave General Emeka Ojukwu who fought at the war front even as the military leader of his nation of Biafra. By the time General Emeka Ojukwu graduated with Master’s degree at Oxford University in 1956, Buhari was still an almajiri begging for alms on the streets of Daura. General Emeka Ojukwu, as one of the first 15 Nigerian Officers in the Army as at 1958 excelled in his military career and earned his promotions, unlike Buhari who joined the Nigerian Army without any known authenticated secondary school certificate.

Even if one can arbitrarily give any negative appellation to General Emeka Ojukwu, it definitely will not be calling him a coward because the world can attest to his boldness even in the face of terrible danger. It is laughable that Muhammadu Buhari who fled the presidential Aso Rock Villa under the guise of visiting another country when Niger Delta Avengers threatened to bomb the Villa is now the person calling General Emeka Ojukwu a coward.  It is even more laughable for Buhari to think that by name-dropping our highly revered General Emeka Ojukwu in paragraph-3 of his discordant speech, we will be fooled into not noticing the mockery he made of the Peoples’ General in paragraph-4 in which he indirectly referred to General Emeka Ojukwu as a coward who ran away to a foreign country after starting trouble.

Every discerning person around the globe expected Buhari to be more concerned with the disdain with which his Northern brothers under the aegis of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum treated Section-41(1) of the fraudulent Constitution. Everyone expected him to immediately order the arrest of Yerima Shettima and Co and charge them with committing offences punishable under Section-41(b & c) and Section-42 of CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004. Buhari was expected to issue a query to Lawal Musa Daura of the State Security Services (illegally called DSS) for his inability to fish out and arrest those behind the song in which the lyrics instructed all Northerners to seek out Biafrans and to kill them. Buhari never did all these, rather he was preoccupied with repeating the words of Gowon and Danjuma in making a mockery of our Biafran Heroes.

Biafrans are aware that because of Buhari’s limited education, his understanding of the right to self-determination is that war should be the final outcome. Due to his pedigree and antecedents, Buhari knows only one thing and that is squeezing the trigger of a gun pointed at Biafrans or dropping of bombs with Napalm warheads on unarmed and defenceless Biafran civilians who are expressing their United Nations-declared inalienable rights to self-determination.

While Buhari is basking in his story of meeting with General Emeka Ojukwu in 2003, we want him to go back to the speech made by the Peoples’ General in 1967 where he unmistakably stated that “nothing can shake the spirit of a determined people.” Biafrans are determined to restore their God-given nation of Biafra and no amount of derision of our late Heroes can ever deter us.

Muhammadu Buhari must know today that the restoration of the nation of Biafra is a divine project whose time has come and is, therefore, unstoppable, unquenchable, irreversible, and irrevocable.

Long live Biafrans and long live the nation of Biafra!!!