Three Reasons General Ibrahim Babangida’s Narratives On Odumegwu Ojukwu’s Escape During Biafra War Are Incorrect—Abubakar Ishaq

<h4>&NewLine;Three Reasons General Ibrahim<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that many months after the launch&comma; the revelations in General Ibrahim Babangida&&num;8217&semi;s book&comma; &&num;8216&semi;A Journey In Service&comma;&&num;8217&semi; are still under review&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Specifically&comma; the revelation that the Federal forces cornered Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu on Tuesday&comma; September 12&comma; 1967&comma; the day Enugu&comma; the Biafran capital&comma; fell has been faulted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to General Babangida on page 70&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;When federal and ground forces assaulted the city&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Ojukwu<&sol;a> was asleep in the State House&period; When he woke up to the sound of gunfire and explosions to find his guards gone&comma; the building was surrounded by federal troops&period; Ojukwu was said to have disguised himself as a servant to escape the cordon&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting&comma; a social media influencer&comma; By Abubakar Ishaq Eazy&comma; raised some posers which punctured IBB’s submissions&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to him&colon; <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;IBB&&num;8217&semi;s version could not have been true for the following reasons&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>1 Ojukwu had outstanding physical features which made him easily recognizable by everyone&period; Hence&comma; there was no way he could have disguised himself as a servant without being noticed&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>2 The Nigerian army or police style had always been to arrest anyone or anything on sight once you get there&period; So&comma; the idea of a servant bring allowed to leave a place like that very quickly was quite impossible&period; If not for any other thing&comma; he would have been tortured to give information about the whereabouts of his boss&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>3 Having fought a war for almost three years&comma; no soldier in his fight senses would let an enemy as Ojukwu escape and lose a the victory of having Ojukwu&&num;8217&semi;s head served on a silver platter to Gowon&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;28858" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-28858" style&equals;"width&colon; 235px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-28858" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;02&sol;IBB-e1740308753933-235x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Three Reasons General Ibrahim Babangida’s Narratives On Odumegwu Ojukwu’s Escape During Biafra War Are Incorrect ---Abubakar Ishaq " width&equals;"235" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-28858" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><strong><em>General Ibrahim Babangida<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;