Abdur-Rahman⚕️ :
it's finally time to comment. Sir you've done a great work of narrating a part of Nigerian history a lot of people didn't know about. I really thank you very much for your efforts. Subconsciously, a narrator/historian will always see some part of history as insignificant but those part are always the turning point. had it been that it was the western region that lost a prime minister and a regional head at the same time to a bloodly coup while the main plotters and their region were left unscathed, the Westerner wouldn't have revolted or seek revenge?
let's not forget that in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the industrial hubs of the country were the northern states, textile, rubber processing, automobile(Peugeot), Beverages, mining (columbite and tin), etc even before the discovery of oil in the late 1950s. the death of the two prominent northern leaders destabilized the region and its effects still lingers till dates.
and crude oil which was then becoming the new global economy falls in the Eastern region, a region that is now seeking to break free from the already wounded Nigeria and we all know what having crude oil means.
in my own opinion, i think Ojukwu was hunger for power and he portrayed his hunger for power as securing peace for his people. maybe he had thought that with oil he would be largely supported by foreign countries but he miscalculated. the war wasn't worth fighting for in the first place. in a war, it is always the children, the women, and and the old that always suffer more. A real savior wouldn't foresake his people in their direst time by escaping to another country.
i think i have received a great insight in this series by being dedicated till the end 💯🙌. God bless Nigeria, God bless us all.
2026-07-28 00:25:47