 Meanwhile, Biafran President Ojukwu offered no comment on the declaration, concentrating instead on Biafran soldiers' failure to stop the government advance.His attention to Okonkwo's military failures and lack of comment on the independence declaration suggests that Biafran officials may have been planning for the declaration of the Republic of Benin, and that their objections referred to its poor timing, rather than its occurrence.Biafra had won limited recognition from some foreign states, but all gains were unrelated to the proclamation of Benin.