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"The next most important cause of our failure was the behaviour of Ifeajuna himself. Having seen that Ironsi had got loose and was already raising troops against us, Ifeajuna took Okafor with him and both of  them suddenly disappeared from our midst. This raises the serious question of whether or not there was a common collusion between the two of them, and whether Okafor's failure to arrest the GOC was not a case of deliberate or willful omission. To my mind and to be quite honest, Ifeajuna should have been angry with Okafor the same way that I was angry with him. Then, if Ifeajuna had been faithful to me like I was to him, he should have stuck to me and both of us together would have planned the next line of action. This ought to be the natural course of things because Ifeajuna and I had worked together alone on this Lagos sector project for the previous three months, and more or less to the exclusion of the other majors who were brought in individually as the need for them...

"Expressions of ethnic antagonism were building to such intensity that even some Northern officials became alarmed, and on 24th March the Sardauna warned against the victimization of non-Northerners living in the Region. But that same day the Kano NA gave more than 2000 traders 48 hours to pack up and leave the Sabon Gari market; Igbo eviction from Ka tsina, Gusau, and Funtua were reported; and only the intervention of the Sardauna prevented a mass eviction in Kano (Mackintosh, 1966 556-7; Nwankwo and Ifejika, 1969: 54).  Perhaps recalling the mass ethnic violence in Kano ten years previously, Igbo leaders became visibly concerned. A delegation of Igbos from Kano, Kaduna and Zaria visited President Azikiwe and asked him to intercede. Praising their restraint in the face of provocation, he urged them to be law-abiding and to seek a judicial remedy. From the Eastern Region, Dr G.C. Mbanugo, Chairman of the NCNC Working Committee there, cabled the Prime Minister asking him to act, ‘...

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