{"id":79512,"date":"2021-04-06T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=79512"},"modified":"2021-04-06T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:19:45","slug":"biafra-is-dead-forever-says-buharis-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/biafra-is-dead-forever-says-buharis-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Biafra is dead forever says Buhari&#8217;s aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauretta Onochie, Senior Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says there will never be a Republic of Biafra again.<\/p>\n<p>She stated this on Monday following Imo attacks which the police have accused members of the Indigenous People of Biafra of being the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/breaking-imo-attackers-are-members-of-ipobs-esn-igp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/punchng.com\/breaking-imo-attackers-are-members-of-ipobs-esn-igp\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617811787695000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFLbDBNTsa0-WrYN7WmCpN0lt1KfA\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">masterminds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Onochie, who is from Southern Nigeria, tweeted a video showing the then Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, receiving the then Biafran Vice President, Major General Philip Effiong, who facilitated the surrender of the Biafran State to Nigeria in 1970. Effiong had assumed leadership of the secessionist state after the Biafran leader, Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, fled to Ivory Coast in the heat of the civil war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe very day nails were put in the coffin of Biafra. There\u2019ll never be Biafra again, Never!\u201d the President\u2019s aide captioned the video.<\/p>\n<p>Dissatisfaction over the Nigerian State and the quest for sovereignty had led Ojukwu to declare the exit of the Republic of Biafra from Nigeria in May 1967. The Biafran territory essentially comprised the South-East region of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration led to a civil war that lasted two and half years as the Nigerian State under Gowon battled to unify the soul of the country using state powers and military might.<\/p>\n<p>The war ended in January 1970 with the South-East region back in Nigeria but the civil war left a ghoulish imprint on the Nigerian history with squalid tales of deaths, blood, hunger, horror, sorrow and more deaths.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauretta Onochie, Senior Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says there will never be a Republic of Biafra again. 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