Former Leader, Yakubu Gowon Opens Up On How Biafran Legend, Ojukwu "Lies" Caused The Civil War

Date: 25-10-2017 11:50 am (6 years ago) | Author: CLARA JANCITA
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Nigeria's former leader, General Yakubu Gowon, has opened up on how Biafran legend, Odumegu Ojukwu, caused the Biafra civil war which led to the death of millions of people between 1967 and 1970.
While speaking on AIT’s programme “People, Politics and Power,” on Tuesday, former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), disclosed how lies by late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu after the Aburi accord led to Biafra civil war, between 1967 and 1970.
 Gowon who made the claim while giving insight into what happened at the Aburi Conference, in Ghana, convened to resolve Nigeria’s political logjam, said the Federal Government went to Aburi unprepared, following a disagreement which broke out between the Supreme Military Council (SMC) and the Eastern region, led by Ojukwu.
 
The former military leader said the decision to go to Aburi was borne out of the desire to win back the trust and confidence of Nigerians, and maintained that secession was never part of the resolutions they agreed on.
Gowon said,
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“We agreed to put our heads together, to regain the trust and confidence of Nigerians. We went to Aburi, to agree to deal with the situation of our country, by ourselves.
“We did not go with any prepared position on the federal side, but, Ojukwu came with a paper he prepared. His prepared position was on a pink paper. Usually, pink paper at the Staff College is directing staff solution to the problem.”

 
Gowon said most of the positions presented by Ojukwu at the conference were accepted and upon their return to Nigeria, he was determined to keep the country united by assuaging the South East but Ojukwu felt otherwise. He said Ojukwu’s refusal may have been as a result of killings of Igbos in the North, a situation that made him (Ojukwu) insist on Nigeria’s breakup.
 
Gowon disclosed that part of the agreement reached in Aburi was that upon return to Nigeria, he would be the first to make any statement concerning the resolutions before any governor makes any statement.
 He said,
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“But, by the time I returned, I was ill; I had fever. I could not make any statement. But, Ojukwu went to the radio, to make a statement and said the things we never agreed on.
“David Ejoor was the one who called me one early morning to ask if I had heard what Ojukwu said, and I said no. He then reeled out all that Ojukwu had said and I asked David, in all honesty, if that was what we agreed. He said no.
“To keep the country together was not a task that I could do alone. I needed the cooperation and understanding of every Nigerian. And, in order to ensure we kept the country together, I reckoned that we needed to have discussions among ourselves. We had a civil servant who was exceptionally experienced and good.

“We went there (Aburi) to restore the trust of our country. If we were working together, anyone with conscience will assuage the feelings (of the South-easterners). But, Ojukwu thought otherwise. He had in mind all along, based on what happened to his people in the North, that secession was the only way out. But, we were thinking of the whole country, because all parts of the country were involved. The military was not involved in the killings of South-easterners in the North.”


Posted: at 25-10-2017 11:50 AM (6 years ago) | Hero
- gogoman at 25-10-2017 11:57 AM (6 years ago)
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GOWON......
Posted: at 25-10-2017 11:57 AM (6 years ago) | Grande Master
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- BournIdentity at 25-10-2017 12:01 PM (6 years ago)
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Based on logistics, oga Ade.., you dey on point
Posted: at 25-10-2017 12:01 PM (6 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- BournIdentity at 25-10-2017 12:04 PM (6 years ago)
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Biafla imbeciles obviously got drug through dumbass forest.
Posted: at 25-10-2017 12:04 PM (6 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- okihcolly at 25-10-2017 12:53 PM (6 years ago)
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Gowon, Gowon, you are lieing against a dead man who can not give his own side of the story. You were ill, had fever for how long that you cannot make a broadcast to nigerians or delegate the speech to your 2nd in command to state what was the aburi accord. You were teleguiuded and misled by your lieutenants and Awolowo who felt that the aburi accord did not meet your inhuman imaginations and desires against the people of the south east. Your fed govt intentionally did not want to keep the aburi accord, so don`t come here and deceive yourself and not nigerians. The likes of Awolowo was leading you into hell fire so that your fed. govt can annihilate, decimate the south east. Gowon you were not intelligent and smart enough that the likes of Awolowo and others that surrounded you were full of jealosy, animosity hatred against the domineering influence of the igbos in the military, civil service, business cycle. You talked of the killings of igbos in the north by the civilians but refused to mention of the massacre of igbo senior military officers by your coup detat. I don`t want to talk about your satanic-economic policies you implemented against the south east to ensure that no one from that region survives the war and post war era. Gowon, remember your economic and air blockade, abandoned property decree, indigenisation policy, nationalisation of foreign companies, transfer of ownership to nigerians through sale of shares less than two years after the civil war, the 20 pounds war reparation etc. Please just keep mum and stop deceiving yourself.
Posted: at 25-10-2017 12:53 PM (6 years ago) | Newbie
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- freethinker at 25-10-2017 01:11 PM (6 years ago)
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Quote from: BournIdentity on 25-10-2017 12:04 PM
Biafla imbeciles obviously got drug through dumbass forest.
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YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY IS IMBECILE
YOU SENT YOUR MOTHER TO EUROPE, SHE IS IN ITALY SLEEPING WITH DOGS MAKING MONEY FOR HOPELESS CHILD LIKE YOU
Posted: at 25-10-2017 01:11 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- freethinker at 25-10-2017 01:12 PM (6 years ago)
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GOWON, GOD PUNISH U
Posted: at 25-10-2017 01:12 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- ruthie at 25-10-2017 02:49 PM (6 years ago)
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EVERYONE ALWAYS HAVE THEIR  OWN AGENDA...OJUKWU/KANU ...WHY TALK OF BREAK UP WITHOUT ADDRESSING ISSUES...WELL WE ARE STILL TOGETHER FOR NOW....
Posted: at 25-10-2017 02:49 PM (6 years ago) | Hero
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- manfred1 at 25-10-2017 02:59 PM (6 years ago)
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GOWON, WHAT IS THE STAND OF UR PEOPLE IN NIGERIA TODAY
IGBOS ARE BETTER THAN THEM
SHAME ON YOU
Posted: at 25-10-2017 02:59 PM (6 years ago) | Upcoming
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- kixme at 25-10-2017 03:35 PM (6 years ago)
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Now!! you lie more than Ojukwu...the only truth in this you story is that you were aware the eastherners were killed in their number and you didn't deploy operation python dance..you did nothing to stop it as the head of states.....because OJUKWU is dead thats why you can open your cavity and say nonsense.....you this old fools caused most of the crisis in Nigeria...see what one of you is still doing today...Nonsense
Posted: at 25-10-2017 03:35 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- SweetDaddy1 at 25-10-2017 04:25 PM (6 years ago)
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Gowon, why don't you opened up when Ojukwu was still alive to enable him tell his own side of the story   Grin Grin Grin
Posted: at 25-10-2017 04:25 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- BournIdentity at 25-10-2017 04:41 PM (6 years ago)
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@freethinker,., make I no talk sey God punish you cos uno go fit handle am as devil don alrdy polish and level your whole family to a local naija policeman shoe.. Just dey manage ur mumu life like that Grin
Posted: at 25-10-2017 04:41 PM (6 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- BournIdentity at 25-10-2017 04:45 PM (6 years ago)
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Forget d rope una tie for neck, waka enter here to fyn work @nyashthinker, @monkey010, @monkey77, @kixmonkey.,, anybody wey near any of una zoomorphic chronic moronic morons... Smell poverty Grin
Posted: at 25-10-2017 04:45 PM (6 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- Zaki68 at 25-10-2017 05:54 PM (6 years ago)
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Quote from: freethinker on 25-10-2017 01:12 PM
GOWON, GOD PUNISH U
DID YOU READ WHAT HE SAID BEFORE RAINY CAUSES? YOU HAVE LIVED SO LONG IN EUROPE BUT YOU ARE WORSE THAN THOSE LEAVING IN THE VILLAGE IN ANAMBRA STATE.
Posted: at 25-10-2017 05:54 PM (6 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Bebold at 25-10-2017 06:58 PM (6 years ago)
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God will finish you bloody criminal
Posted: at 25-10-2017 06:58 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Zaki68 at 25-10-2017 07:24 PM (6 years ago)
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Quote from: manfred1 on 25-10-2017 02:59 PM
GOWON, WHAT IS THE STAND OF UR PEOPLE IN NIGERIA TODAY
IGBOS ARE BETTER THAN THEM
SHAME ON YOU
IGBOS ARE BETTER THATS WHY YOU HAVE OVER 25 MILLIONS IGBOS LEAVING IN THE NORTH WHILE LESS THAN 2 MILLION NORTHERNERS LEAVING IN THE ENTIRE IGBO LAND USE YOUR BRAIN MR IGBOMAN.
Posted: at 25-10-2017 07:24 PM (6 years ago) | Upcoming
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- james987 at 26-10-2017 03:59 PM (6 years ago)
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Northerners are simply scared of the igbos,the killings in the north is borne out of jealousy.   Yeye dey smell
Posted: at 26-10-2017 03:59 PM (6 years ago) | Hero
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- christianity at 27-10-2017 12:23 AM (6 years ago)
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Quote from: Zaki68 on 25-10-2017 07:24 PM
IGBOS ARE BETTER THATS WHY YOU HAVE OVER 25 MILLIONS IGBOS LEAVING IN THE NORTH WHILE LESS THAN 2 MILLION NORTHERNERS LEAVING IN THE ENTIRE IGBO LAND USE YOUR BRAIN MR IGBOMAN.
My dear,there is a very big difference between leaving and living. Both means two different things.
Posted: at 27-10-2017 12:23 AM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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