2 AUGUST 1969, Page 25

New hope for Biafra?

Sir: It is very easy indeed to answer Mr E. S. James (Letters, 12 July) when he asks if apologists for 'One Nigeria' can say why the l.agos regime refuses to agree to a plebiscite which Ojukwu wants to determine the future of the present area held by the

relscI, answer—Ojukwu did nor

plebiscite to decide if the people wanted to secede from our mother country of Nigeria. Ojukwu, stupid as a fox, cannot have it both ways. Though Mr James obviously thinks he can.