Ogugua Anunoby wrote, "Danjuma approves of Jonathan's concession. Does he disapprove of Buhari's three times no-concession?"
What Ogugua Anunoby should know is that Buhari's three times no-concession were pervaded by multiple voting, irregular voting (registered in one unit and voted in another unit) and voting allocations (agents and electoral officials simply allocated agreed number of votes to political parties without necessarily casting any votes). Thanks to the introduction of PVCs and CRs, those anomalies were eliminated in the last elections, except in the Southeast and South-south where the application of those technologies were sabotaged and manual accreditations were deployed to carry out elections there. Jonathan and his surrogates did everything possible (including suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/06/2015 in which a Federal High Court in Abuja was asked to restrain INEC from using PVC & CR for elections and prayed to the court to order INEC to use only Temporary Voter Cards) to prevent the use of PVC and CR for the elections but failed. In fact, there is nothing spectacular about Jonathan's concession when he was confronted with PVC/CR numerical realities.
Ogugua Anunoby wrote further, "He (Danjuma) brings Ojukwu into a conversation that had nothing to do with him. He did this in full knowledge that Ojukwu is no longer with us and is therefore in no position to speak for himself."
What did Danjuma say to cause Ogugua Anunoby to be irate? Hear Danjuma, "If Ojukwu had conceded defeat the way President Goodluck Jonathan did after the March 28 presidential elections, the nation would have been saved from one year of bloodshed." Whether anyone likes it or not, Ojukwu's is an indelible component in the history of Nigeria and his name will always be mentioned in one way or the other. Militarily speaking, the then capital of Biafra, Enugu, was captured on October 4, 1967, by the Federal forces and when Adekunle linked up with the 1st Division at Ikom, a key town on Biafra's eastern border with Cameroon, after capturing Calabar on October 18, 1967, the remainder of Biafra was completely surrounded. Militarily, Ojukwu should have negotiated for peace or surrendered. Instead, he prolonged the war for over two years, wasting lives in a war that he was sure of losing. It is in that regard that Danjuma was correct in saying that many lives would have been saved if Ojukwu had conceded defeat after the fall of Enugu and the encirclement of the rest of Biafra in October 1967. For the mere fact that Ojukwu is no longer alive should not prevent anyone from stating that fact when there is need. Awolowo died in 1985, and as late as last year, Ogugua Anunoby and others believed they had cause to accuse him of genocide in the Biafra war, even though he was not alive to defend himself. The accusation of genocide against Awolowo is very unjust compared to the factual statement of Danjuma about Ojukwu because at a press conference on 28 August 1969, Dr Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe said, "Knowing that the accusation of genocide is palpably false, but bearing in mind the widespread killing of 1966, which must always hunt our memories, why should some people continue to fool our people to believe that they are slated for slaughter, when we know that they suffer mental anguish and physical agony as a result of their being homeless and their places of abode having been desolated by war and their lives rendered helpless?" (see p. 255, NIGERIA&BIAFRA; MY STORY by PHILIP EFIONG). Apart from other sources such as International Observer Team, here Azikiwe is telling the world that THE ACCUSATION OF GENOCIDE WAS PALPABLY FALSE.
Ikhide Ikheloa wrote supposedly, "If T. Y. Danjuma and his band of cowardly murderers had not carried out a revenge 'counter-coup' perhaps we would not have had a civil war, we would be where Singapore is today." The counter coup of 29 July 1966, happened in the day time unlike January 15, 1966 coup that happened in the middle of the night and those killed were pulled out of their bed sheets under deep sleep. Therefore, the executors of July 29, 1966 coup could not be described as cowards. However, an impartial and honest Ikhide Ikheloa should have supposed more ifs of which I will now help him to bring to light. If the Five Majors in the January 1966 coup, had not been infiltrated by tribalists who turned pacifists and refused to kill their tribe's men, both civil and military, murders in the January 1966 coup, would not have been tribally lopsided. If Majors John Obienu, and Don Okafor, as well as Captain Ogbo Oji had not leaked the coup plan to Major General Johnson Thompson Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi, he would not have survived to hijack and steal the coup of the five Majors. If Major General Ironsi had listened to the pleadings of Aminu Kano and Joseph Tarka to release all political prisoners thrown into prison by the previous NPC regime in the North, the second coup would not have occurred. Had Awolowo, Enahoro, Ikoku and others, jailed by the previous regime, been released by Major General Ironsi, the second coup would not have happened. If Ironsi had not promulgated Decree No. 34 of 24 May 1966 that amounted to implementation of the NCNC manifesto of unitary form of government for Nigeria, there would not have been second coup. If the attitude of the Igbo living in the North had not been abusive and provocative, against Northerners, after the January 1966 coup (see p. 76, 88 and 332 of Philip Efiong's book: Nigeria & Biafra -my story) riots in the North that finally culminated in the second coup would not have happened. If Ojukwu had accepted Decree No. 8 of March 1967, that incorporated all Aburi agreements except that the Supreme Military Council could declare emergency in any part of the Federation provided three regional Governors supported it, there would not have been war. Let us be objective and honest in judging one another so as to correct past mistakes and avoid their repetitions.
From: AnunobyO@lincolnu.edu
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:24:14 -0500
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Danjuma and that Ojukwu comment.Danjuma approves of Jonathan's concession. Does he disapprove of Buhari's three times no-concession? He brings Ojukwu into a conversation that had nothing to do with him. He did this in full knowledge that Ojukwu is no longer with us and is therefore in no position to speak for himself. Ojukwu would have torn danjuma to shreds if he was still with us.
Danjuma committed many unjust murders. The guilt of his crimes continue to eat him up. Ojukwu made the definitive statement on Danjuma's smallness. Ojukwu said that Danjuma's signature accomplishment- the hallmark of his military career, was his (Danjuma's) murder of his supreme commander and his innocent host- both superior officers to him. It is a sad testament to Nigeria's history and situation that people like Danjuma not only got away with many murders and treason, but actually continue to profit from his crimes.
Danjuma murdered Lt. Col. Fajuyi even though he (Fajuyi) was innocent and was reportedly not the man he was determine to take his life. I am told that Danjuma's eyes turned red after he murdered the innocent men and they remain so. He has innocent men's blood on his hands. Ill-gotten wealth will not stop the drip-drip.
Only in Nigeria would a man like Danjuma not be a welcome and despicable irrelevance, if he was not under lock and key as he deserves to be, to say the least.
Thank you Ikhide for reminding us of what Nigeria might have been if Danjuma and others like him, had not been born in Nigeria.
oa
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 4:13 PM
To: USAAfrica Dialogue
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Danjuma and that Ojukwu comment.
"Danjuma said if Ojukwu had conceded defeat, the way President Goodluck Jonathan did after the March 28 presidential elections, the nation would have been saved from one year of bloodshed."
Well, if TY Danjuma and his band of cowardly murderers had not carried out a revenge "counter-coup" perhaps we would not have had a civil war, we would be where Singapore is today. Nigeria has become a scary place. I saw a picture of our "change agents" the other day; Obasanjo, Danjuma, Buhari, and Atiku, all in one place, all those that have brought Nigeria to her knees today are Nigeria's change agents. Go and listen to Fela's Army Arrangement for a bit of truth and history. These are the people that now lecture us daily from within stolen bullet-proof mansions. We deserve them jor. Nonsense.
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