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Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Quotes

d. 2011 Nigeria

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician, who briefly served as leader of the breakaway state of Biafra.

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If America says to you today that they are proud of the fact that, for two hundred years, they have been trying to make their union more perfect, it sounds very reasonable. But, in Nigeria, you are not even allowed to question your union, which is ridiculous.

If the Igbos feel that things are best for them in a country of their own, why shouldn’t they have it? If after all we have been going through in Nigeria we feel that Biafra is best, we have every right to seek to re-create Biafra or any other place.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.