This is the letter the Commander in Chief of the Biafran Armed Forces, Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu wrote to Lt. Col. Victor Banjo commanding him to invade and liberate Western Nigeria (Yorubaland) from the “Hausa/Fulani dominated Nigeria”.
Letter from Lt. Col. Ojukwu to Lt. Col. Victor Banjo commanding him to liberate Western Nigeria
From: The Military Governor,
Republic of Biafra Enugu,
22nd August, 1967.
My dear Victor,
1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circumstances
that have led to the current and inevitable disintegration of what was
the Federation of Nigeria. We have been fully convinced that the aim of
the Hausa/Fulani complex has ever been, and will ever remain, the total
domination of every other part of what was known as the Federation of
Nigeria. It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the
army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by
Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the
people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree,the people of the
Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of
Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools,the gallant people of
Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas.
We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and
property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and
freedom during 1965.
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