Bianca Ojukwu, Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Spain, has
opened up on what her late husband, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, told her about
Nigeria’s unity and survival as a political entity.
Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu said her late husband always lamented the
fact that Nigeria seemed incapable of lifting itself out of mediocrity and
degeneration, adding that it paid lip service to national unity and
constructive development.”
She told Sun Newspaper that her late husband would feel
vindicated in the spirit world, particularly with the rise in the clamour for
restructuring.
She noted that the country is stumbling from one crisis to
another, adding that today Nigerians are witnesses to the situation Ojukwu
anticipated and warned against so long ago.
“He always maintained that the unity of any country that is
guaranteed solely by force of arms cannot be sustained and that Nigeria’s unity
can only be assured if oppression and marginalization of certain of its
ethnicities is addressed and resolved.
“Since those who are continually denied justice have no
interest in peace it goes without saying that in a matter of time pent-up
frustrations erupt and explode like a keg of gunpowder. Dim Ojukwu has come to
be known as the man who saw ahead of his time,” she added.
She said that nothing concrete has been done by the
government to change the situation since her husband’s predictions, adding that
Ojukwu was one of the earliest advocates of restructuring.
According to her, the late Biafra warlord knew without doubts
that the 1960 independence was a distorted and unbalanced package of federalism
She said Ojukwu till his death kept hammering on the fact
that in order for the country to survive, it must equitably accommodate all its
federating units.
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