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The story did not start with the killing of Easternes (the current SE and SS) in the North. It started on earlier.
In 1959 General Election the NCNC of the East went into alliance with the NPC of North to form the Federal Government. The AG of the West went into opposition. Those at the centre ended up destroying the opposition party and jailed their leadership. The opposition party was divided in two with NCNC taking a half to form UPGA. The NPC took the other half to form NNA.
The next General election was in 1964 between NNA and UPGA. NNA won and the Igbo in the former coalition government flushed out of government. In grievance, young Igbo soldiers felt bad that Igbo were no longer in Government and that just cant be. They organized the
15th January coup that...

AT FEDERAL LEVEL
**killed the Tafawa Balewa - Prime Minister of Nigeria (Northern)
>>Spared Azikiwe the President (Igbo).
>>Speared Nwanfor Orizu Senate President (Igbo)

AT REGIONAL LEVEL
**killed the Akintola (Yoruba), Premier of the West.
**Killed Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the North (Northerner),
**Killed Okotiebo -Minister of Finance (Urhobo-Midwest )
>>Spared Osadebe (Igbo) Premier of Midwest
>>Spared Okpara (Igbo) Premier of the East

AT MILITARY LEVEL
>>Spared Gen. Ironsi (Igbo) Head of the Military
**Killed Brig. Ademolegun(Yoruba) Second in command.
**Killed Brig. Ademolegun's wife (Yoruba)
**Killed Brig. Maimalari (Northern) 3rd in Command
**Killed Col. Shodeinde (Yoruba) 4th in Command
**Colonel Kur Mohammed (North)
**Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Paur (North)
**Major Samuel Adegoke (North)
** Lt. Col. Chinyelu Umegbe (Igbo) for resisting them.

Such a sectional coup that killed the topmost political and military leaders of the North and West without touching those of the Igbo, that drove an elected North from headship of a government and replaced it with an Igbo head of state, was bound to have horrible side effect. This is where the story started. It did not start at the point you mentioned

Secondly, you rightly said that Easterners were killed in the North. Easterners are the current SS and SE. In May 1967, these had become East Central, Rivers, Cross Rivers and Midwest. Ojukwu was Military Governor of ECS. Only he went to war forcing others along his ambition (the way Kanu is also forcing SS into his Biafra Scheme). A month into the war, Ojukwu expanded his coast and captured MidWest that the governor (David Ejoor, an Urhobo, refused the FG to come into). He even went further into the Western State up to Ore. It was in planning how to capture the rest of West and Lagos, that Federal resistance came in. I was a Midwestern and Ojukwu caused the death of hundreds of thousands of my people who were not ready for war.
I am expecting Igbo to apologize for invading Midwest. They have not till date and people like you are asking if I am for real. Yes I am. Its you I should be asking the question