For the past 24-hours, elder
statesman, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
has been a trending topic on Nigerian social
media.
Ojukwu was mentioned in President
Muhammadu Buhari's speech yesterday when
he said, 'In 2003 after I joined partisan politics,
the late Chief Emeka Ojukwu came and stayed
as my guest in my hometown Daura. Over two
days we discussed in great depth till late into
the night and analyzed the problems of
Nigeria. We both came to the conclusion that
the country must remain one and united'.
A lot of Nigerians however didn't believe this
paragraph from the president's speech and
unfortunately, Ojukwu who led the Southeast
as Biafra in a failed secessionist bid that
caused a two-and-half-year civil war in the
country between July 1967 and January 1970
died in 2011.
Now, a magazine cover of his 2004 interview
with NEWSWATCH where he said, 'I support
Biafra' has surfaced online bringing a new
perspective to the discussion.
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