Biafra: What Ojukwu told Buhari in Daura – Chekwas Okorie

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Chekwas Okorie

In the recent interview with Vanguard, Chief Chekwas Okorie, national chairman of the United Progressives Party, UPP and before then chairman and founder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA  speaks on contemporary issues

Below are statements from Chief Chekwas Okorie;

First of all, I was the chairman of Odumegwu Ojukwu’s political party, that is, I was the chairman of APGA that fielded the late Odumegwu Ojukwu as a presidential candidate; so I can tell you authoritatively that I was privy to that meeting in Daura.

I was not there physically but upon his return he gave me a copy of the communiqué. It was not an agreement as such. It was a communiqué actually and that visit was to reciprocate an earlier visit that Gen. Buhari paid to him at Enugu, accompanied by late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo who was his running mate at that time.

 

Having said that the late Odumegwu Ojukwu has never believed in the kind of unity that Nigeria has and he variously described the unity we have in Nigeria, as the unity of Jonah and the whale; that Jonah was in the belly of the whale, a very dark environment, very uncomfortable and the whale carried him and you wouldn’t call that unity. He always wanted a unity where everybody would breathe the same air of freedom, the same air of justice, of liberty and of equity.

I want everybody to know that I am talking authoritatively outside of politics. I had a very close liaison with late Odumegwu Ojukwu for 22 years and there are so many things that he said repeatedly that I can very easily quote him on word for word.

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