Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has revealed that when Biafra warlord Odumegwu Ojukwu died, no northerner celebrated his death.

Omokri said this in an apparent reaction to how people of Southeast extraction have been celebrating the death of former presidential Muhammadu Buhari who died on Sunday at the age of 82.

In a Facebook post, Omokri recalled that despite fighting against Nigeria during the civil war, Ojukwu was still given a state burial by Nigeria when he passed away.

He said, "Irrespective of how bitterly the Nigerian Civil War was fought, when Dim Emeka Ojukwu died on Saturday, November 26, 2011, nobody in Northern Nigeria celebrated either individually or as a group. Rather, prominent Northerners mourned, with a number of them attending his funeral.

"Chief Emeka Ojukwu was given a National Funeral as an officer of the Nigerian Armed Forces by the Nigerian Army on Friday, March 2, 2012, as seen in this photo. The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces was in attendance at the burial.

"As you can see from the photo, the soldiers who carried his coffin hailed from all parts of Nigeria, including Northern Nigeria.
These Northern leaders and soldiers did not consider Chief Ojukwu an enemy, as Peter Obi described General Gowon on his 90th birthday. Mr. Obi called Mr. Gowon an "enemy" to be forgiven—his exact word!

"It will be hard to find a higher standard of civilisation than that displayed by Mutanen Arewa after Chief Ojukwu died, or a lower act of barbarism like the present celebration over the death of General Muhammadu Buhari by some Nigerians.

"Being governed by your emotions rather than principles keeps you in a very low state of vibration. "

ASA