National Chairman of All
Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh has
lambasted General
Theophilus Danjuma for alleged insult on the former Biafran warlord and Ikemba
Nnewi, late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
Addressing newsmen Tuesday, Chief
Umeh wondered why some Nigerians who could not summon courage to talk ill about
late Ojukwu have suddenly woken up from their slumber to insult the man who was
and is still seen as the symbol of Igbo man, adding that any insult on the late
Biafran warlord, is an insult against Ndigbo and they will not take it from any
Nigerian.
“Danjuma displayed cowardice
attitude for not talking while Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu was a life, of course how
dare he talk before a lion, a strong man is always avoided, and those of them
who talk ill against Late Ikemba were in the lower carder from him in terms of
education and wealth.
“As at the time Ojukwu was involved
in the Nigerian affairs in the 1960’s he had a Masters Degree from the
University of Oxford, those insulting Ojukwu now had no education, they shut
themselves into the Nigerian oil and got rich overnight.
“For insulting Ojukwu who is a
symbol of Ndigbo, Danjuma will be judged rashly as one of the people who
contributed in marginalization of Igbo’s in Nigeria, he has always being a
hater of Ndigbo, now that his memory and brain is failing him, he can talk
anyhow, people should ignore him, at the end of his journey in Nigeria and on
this earth he will be judged very rashly” he said.
The visibly angry Umeh noted that
most Nigerians are having their past time by insulting prominent and ordinary
Igbomen, “we have in recent time become a laughing stock for some irresponsible
men who gets up and start talking nonsense about Igbo people, if it is not
about voting in an election, it is about one nonentity insulting respected Igbo
men”.
“Well Ojukwu our leader has passed
on, so, instead of joining issues with Gen. Danjuma, Ndigbo should rather wait
for him to pass on since, he belongs to the generation of late Ikemba Nnewi,
one day he will pass on.
“I believe he is suffering from
insomnia, loss of memory, it is a sickness he is actually suffering from, he
loses memory intermittently, his brain is no longer connecting well and instead
of us joining issues with him, we will wait for him to join his generation that
is already exiting, we cannot begin now to bite ourselves because somebody
whose time is almost up is talking very irresponsibly” he said.
According to Chief Umeh, “Ojukwu
from every account of history was a bold man who resisted the injustice being
handed down on his people, Gen. Danjuma does not belong to that league of
strong personalities, he only became relevant after the Nigerian Biafran war
which he used the advantage of being on the Nigerian side to amass oil wealth
in Nigeria”.
“Danjuma is having plenty oil money,
he can afford to abuse anybody, including President Jonathan who visited him,
but what consoles us is that he is a human being, one day he will also pass on
like Ikemba he insulted and history will record him for what he has done.
“He has oil wealth in Nigeria today,
he is richer than many state in the country, he was the one who fought the war
and took advantage of the war to appropriate oil wealth to himself, common
wealth of Nigeria, he appropriate for himself and family” he said.
Chief Umeh regretted that some
Nigerians stole oil wealth belonging to the country to the extent that they do
not know what to do with it again, and they do not even know that people are
suffering and need help.
“Millions of Nigerians are
unemployed, yet some people who shot themselves into oil wealth with guns and
became richer than some states cannot provide jobs for them with our common
wealth they stole, instead they are saying and doing things that can make the
people revolt against them
“I know that in no distant
time the Nigerian people will take their revenge on all the oil thieves who
stole their oil wealth through the guns and their ill gotten wealth will be
taken and recovered from them, if we did not do it now, one day our children
will go after their children and recover all the fathers stole from Nigeria,
and it will become history”.
“They were settled with oil wealth
for carrying gun against Biafrans, they shot themselves into riches at the
expense of Nigerians, so they did not understand the issue that led to the war
because at that time, somebody like Danjuma was not mentally developed to
appreciate what Ojukwu saw and confronted at that time” he said.
Umeh says Gen. Danjuma’s statement insult on Ojukwu, Ndigbo
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