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The plot to make Gen. Emeka Ojukwu, the President of Equatorial Guinea. The Olu Jacobs connection has been revealed.

When Biafra collapsed on 15 January 1970, a British journalist, Frederick Forsyth was devastated. Deeply embittered by the outcome and the British government's role in it, he began plotting a radical alternative to resurrect Biafra on a new territory.

Forsyth fixed his eyes on Equatorial Guinea, which was then ruled by Francisco Macías Nguema, a paranoid and monstrously brutal dictator whose reign of terror had caused a third of the population to flee or be killed.

The country's capital, Malabo, was located on the island of Fernando Po (now called Bioko). Forsyth's vision was to depose Macías Nguema, seize Fernando Po, establish a provisional government, and invite Ojukwu to step in as president. The island would then serve as a safe haven and a new sovereign territory for exiled Biafrans.

With the money he generated from the financial success of his novel “The Day of the Jackal”, Forsyth funded the project with roughly $200,000 (an immense sum at the time) to bankroll the operation.

He invited Alexander Gay, who purchased a former naval attack craft named the Albatross, automatic rifles and ammunition. By early January 1973, the Albatross was anchored in the Canary Islands waiting to make the 3,000-mile voyage south to launch a midnight raid on the dictator’s palace.

However, the plan collapsed when the Spanish secret police and the Guardia Civil intervened, intercepting the vessel on January 23, 1973

With the collapse of the coup, Forsyth became eager to recoup his money and turned the entire experience into a book. In 1974, he published his iconic thriller, The Dogs of W*ar. The book's plot serves as an exact blueprint of his real-life failed operation, with a few adjustments.

The book was adapted into a Hollywood film and released in 1980 where Olu Jacobs played a Customs Officer.

Gen. Emeka Ojukwu, Frederick Forsyth and Olu Jacobs, may your beautiful souls continue to rest in peace. We may never get the likes of you again.

Revealed by a social media user.