The Nigerian Civil War: Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe Flies To Nigeria | September 1969

Footage of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first Nigerian head of state, flying into Lagos from London on Sept. 7th 1969 after having left the renegade state of Biafra where he had been put under house arrest. Of the civil war, Azikiwe said it was time to end the slaughter and to begin to "heal old wounds". Azikiwe called on Nigerians to "forget the past". He said that he knew of about 50 people who were killed and many others put in detention for disagreeing with Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, the former Nigerian Army colonel who became the leader of Biafra. Biafran Radio denounced Azikiwe as a "defector" who had only changed sides because he felt that Biafra had lost the war. Source: Reuters News.