Umeh blasts Danjuma over remarks on Ojukwu

Nnewi—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 at Nnewi, yesterday, Chief Umeh wondered why some Nigerians who could not summon courage to talk ill about late Ojukwu have suddenly woken up from slumber to insult the man who was and is still seen as the symbol of Igbo man.

According to him, any insult on the late Biafran warlord is an insult against Ndigbo which will not be taken from any Nigerian.

“Danjuma displayed cowardice for not talking while Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu was alive; of course, how dared he talk before a lion? A strong man is always avoided, and those of them who talk ill of Late Ikemba were in the lower cadre 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 Master’s Degree from the University of Oxford, those insulting Ojukwu now had no education, they shot 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 marginalisation of Igbo in Nigeria. He has always been 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 were having their pastime by insulting prominent and ordinary Igbo men.

He noted that the Igbo had in a recent time become a laughing stock for some irresponsible men, lamenting that if it was not about voting in an election, it was about one nonentity insulting respected Igbo men.

He said: “Well, Ojukwu, our leader, has passed on, so, instead of joining issues with General 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.

“Ojukwu from every account of history was a bold man who resisted the injustice being handed down on his people. General 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.”