The wife of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Hero of Biafra. She currently works for the Nigerian government.
She is here to welcome the president of Nigeria to Anambra State. Her beloved husband’s state.
I do not know if Bianca is seriously waiting for Biafra like many Igbo people. However, I sure know she is seriously and happily working for the Nigerian government to earn her daily bred in order to cater for Ikemba’s children and maintain his estate.
Her husband, my respected Nnewi brother, was given a befitting burial by the Nigerian government when he passed on.
He was buried as a retired military personnel of the Nigerian government despite taking up arms against her. Upon defeat, he repented and was pardoned by the Nigerian state.
After Ikemba learnt his lessons and made a U-turn:
He ran for a seat in the Nigerian Senate in 1983.
He went on to openly work for Gen. Sani Abacha’s military government (1994-1998).
He contested for the president of Nigeria under All Peoples Party in 1999.
He contested for the president of Nigeria in 2007 under All Progressives Grand Alliance.
He participated actively in Nigerian politics till he took his final breath.
It is therefore safe to say that Ojukwu died working for Nigeria just like his beloved wife, former Miss Nigeria, former Nigerian ambassador to Spain, is currently doing as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
Yet, many Ndi Igbo are ready to label anyone who do not absurdly join them in replicating their Waiting for Godot, a fool for not waiting for Biafra.
If Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra, and his family have moved on, what are you still waiting for?
Another question these Waiters should ask but never will is; What reality did Ojukwu encounter that made him to move on from Biafra and assiduously identify with different Nigerian government since he returned from exile in 1982?
Ojukwu was openly buried with Nigerian flag. Yet, his people, our people, are mocking the same flag calling it zoo. The first and last Biafran head of state was buried as a Nigerian!
Go back and check the implicit meaning of that. It means Biafra has been cleanly and mortally buried!
When you attempt to elucidate on what made Ojukwu and his family to embrace Nigeria tenaciously, Biafra optimists will call you that has never worked for the Nigerian government like Ojukwu, a saboteur. They will question your loyalty to Ala Igbo.
My question is, why have these set of Igbos refused to call Ojukwu and his family a saboteur for all the times they worked and continue working for the Nigerian government since the demise of Biafra?
Is there a different yardstick for measuring saboteurs in the eyes of Biafran apologists?
Zik is a saboteur for believing in One Nigeria but Ojukwu is a hero for upholding and working for the same One Nigeria till death.
If hypocrisy and double standard was a person, it will be supporters of Biafra.
Till we as Ndi Igbo learn to call a spade a spade and apologize to Owelle of Onitsha, we will not find the answers and respect we dearly seek and truly deserve.
Till we as Ndi Igbo learn to embrace reality and move on like Ojukwu’s family, we will keep searching for a future in the ashes of a past that no longer exists.
-Nze Tobe Osigwe (Ezeikolomuo)
Obi Eziokwu
Nkpoka Nnewichi-Nnewi
Orie
