Jonathan Nwokpor
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Yakubu Gowon, the former military ruler of state, has come under fire from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) founders for overseeing the nation’s civil war, which resulted in the deaths of several Igbos.
According to them, Gowon was the catalyst for the upheaval that killed more than three million Biafrans.
In his interview on his 90th birthday, Gowon said that the Southeast’s attempt to break away from Nigeria was the reason behind his supervised murder of more than three million people in Eastern Nigeria between 1967 and 1970.
In response to Gowon’s interview, the original IPOB’s founder and visionary stated, “I have always said that if there’s no secession, there wouldn’t be a breakout, and there wouldn’t be a question of civil war because it got to the stage that the situation was getting pretty clear that a part of the country, the Southeast, wanted to secede.
“I read General Gowon’s speech, where he decided to hide the truth about the real cause of the war between Nigeria and Biafra. He is laboring in vain to wash and launder his image tainted by the atrocities he and his Nigerian soldiers committed against the Biafrans.
“He has told us that he was sick after the meeting at Aburi in Ghana and could not announce the agreement reached between Nigeria and Biafra about confederation or regional autonomy so that every region would govern itself and develop at its own pace.
“Gowon said he did not prepare very well for the meeting and did not go with his secretary. He came back from Ghana and became sick because Odumegwu Ojukwu went to the meeting fully prepared and presented a superior argument on regional government. It was General Gowon’s failure to implement this agreement for the confederation that caused the war.
“General Gowon, with due respect, I want to address you as an elder. You are 90 and do not know when you will depart from this world to face your maker. We expect you to tell the truth.”
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