 Initially, the Igbo population welcomed Biafran control, while non-Igbos generally were unhappy but decided to wait for the restoration of federal control rather than resist.Initial relations between the new administration and non-Igbos were peaceful but uneasy, and in order to improve relations Governor Okonkwo's administration saturated homes and streets with news from the Biafran position.However, the mass media campaign began to fill the state with news about the oppression of the Igbo in Nigeria, and as the days passed, only increased the region's ethnic divide.