It is wonderment that Igboland is at this moment being encircled and primed up for taking by the same viciously malevolent forces which plotted the Campaigns of 1966, 1967-1970 and the sinister 1966-1999 Documentations we now hold as “Constitution”, and all we seem eager to do is to erect wobbly narratives of uncooked fables.
I would have preferred to spend the very minutes being invested on typing this post on other very pressing issues of now, but it is galling to see the desperate attempt being made to erect and sustain a narrative here that is at a jarring variance with what transpired. Many here already queried the motive behind this desperation to deify conjectures and coronate falsehood.
The day Ojukwu passed on in London, I recall being woken up by a call from London from someone who didn’t want me to hear it from any news medium. It was weekend.
Within few of hours, the major TV houses in Nigeria were on the phone, each trying to get me to come to their studios first.
A quick calculation on how best to reach the truly bereaved dictated the choice of Silverbird Television which at the time had the widest reach in the East without decoder assistance, which none of other TV had.
So was it that first thing Monday morning, that I was at the Silverbird TV, in a syndicated telecast.
The reason for being the first thought on the minds of the various TV Channels was simply because they had come to realize the sheer volume and depth of what was not known to the public about that dark era and the thereafter, which one had somehow dug out in course of the undertakings relating to the
jaundiced Protocols of our mutual coexistence in one polity.
Some of what was not previously known in the period 1964 to late 1970 have been captured in an 800-page 360° day-to-day Diary of that period in a book form, by a Volunteer of our Project. Some here have copies of that Diarybook called “UNTOLD STORY OF THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA WAR”.
The video of that very December 2011 outing is one of the materials the LNC is keeping for dissemination when the stops are pulled and things unhinge because it contains certain infuriating details including the facts and issues being rearranged by revisionists whose motives remain in question.
I had named Gowon in his true roles in a manner that irredeemably shattered the veneer and façade of a humble, God-fearing gentleman and patriot, which dummy had been sold to a generation that was forbidden the learning of history, by Gowon’s comrades-in-crime.
If anyone had the opportunity of finding out from Ojukwu what really went wrong, it was the man who was at the center of the Constitutional reconstructive surgery which our intervention was and still is, who, armed with facts and perceptions, had to sit down session after session with Ojukwu, probing his role, his thoughts, his actions and asking very hard questions which at times required proof that went beyond oral testimony because at times he would excavate what would put paid to conjectures.
Without hesitation, and at times without prompting, he admitted and contextually explained errors made on the Biafran side.
I saw in my dealings with him a man eager to tell the younger generation upon whom it had fallen to conclude an unfinished business that held the destiny of the Blackman hostage.
He pointed out to me the many hidden pitfalls and with the benefit of the 20/20 hindsight, he did his best to interrogate the prospects of the intervention designs we had developed.
Far from being a perfect being (nobody is), he was honest to a fault, and he loved his Igbo People with aggression.
On the other hand, the lying tongues deviously deceitful heart of Gowon leaves you with a snake wearing a human body. In that 2011 TV outing, I had pointed out that the first truth I had heard from Gowon in decades was where Gowon had told the media that Ojukwu believed in Nigeria more than all of them involved in the 1966-67 wranglings during his first reaction to the news of Ojukwu’s demise.
Regarding where all these historical tales converge today and where they are going next for Corporate Nigeria and its mosaic of entrapped Peoples, those who have their copies of the 2009 MNN Special Bulletin should go to page 21 to see what Gowon said about me and my MNN/LNC compatriots, and what Reuben Abati, then the Chairman of the Guardian Editorial Board replied him in that period.
It is a full page and reading of it will reset the compass in these directionless rigmarole in revisionism.
The same malevolent elements are arrayed again against the Igbo and Eastern Nigeria. The time and opportunity to meaningfully engage the unfurling situation for a better outcome than 1967 is being wasted and squandered by spurious, harebrained fabrications in self- glorification and scaremongering.
Whatever happens however, the spectators who fancy themselves players in some kind of self-delusion can cheer and jeer, ONLY the actors and players will decide the outcome of the current disputations with between the embattled STATUS QUO and the overpowering forces of SELF-DETERMINATION.
I have examined YESTERDAY, using the findings to interpret TODAY and so charting TOMORROW with the lessons of yesterday and the realities of today.
Have you all a great week.
Tony Nnadi
June 5, 2017.
OBLONG MEDIA GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE 
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