Igbo greed and selfishness Caused Troubles for the Igbos

You can slice it and dice it anyhow but it comes down to this issues. It all started well before independence, with Zik (ibo) thinking he would rule over a large expanse of a country and had previously said that ibos were some special breed of humans whom their god (not the real God) of greed and selfishness had chosen to be rulers, would rule over the country. Zik passed on an alliance of a more intellectual, hardworking and forward looking West so as not to have to compete so hard for anything as he knew he was on a long thing and chose the North seeing he thought he could take advantage of a largely uneducated north (at that time) and they would simply hand him high office as PM! Well he lost out and ibo soldiers wanting to bring them into an advantage by force killed every leader from every other region, Ironsi took over leadership and destroyed Nigeria's federalism (regionalism) to unitary government by his infamous decree 34 against much advise to the contrary. With ibos ululating on their victory in the north, 6 months later the revenge coup put ibos on their knees with much killings in th north where ibos had been making fun of th northerners on th killings of their leaders. No do, no do, Ojukwu without good military knowledge and common sense, under the guise of protecting ibos declared Biafra taking all of today's Niger Delta (SS), marching across to the militarily neutral Mid West (Edo & Delta states) and annexing it. Then, he planned and launched his worst military offensive against the Yoruba West deploying several tens of thousands (maybe close to a hundred thousand or more) of fully armed soldiers to approach from Ore, breach the SW defences and march straight to Lagos (deep in the heart of Yorubaland), capture and destroy it and then await orders from Ojukwu on how the West will be governed. The order was a kill, no-capture and scorched earth policy all with the cover of "liberation" of the West.

Ojukwu and his ibos failed massively because less than 200 Nigerian soldiers mostly from the West set up a defence about 40 km from the borders of Ore and set up strategy to funnel them into the cold pass, at the bridge. There, waves after waves of biafran soldiers were destroyed until they fled. The NA finished the business by ensuring the total capitulation of Biafra and Ojukwu fled as a cross dressed woman to Abidjan.