Former military ruler Gen. Yakubu Gowon yesterday
accused the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu, of misrepresenting the Aburi
Accord to Nigerians.

Speaking yesterday at the launch of a four-part
biography on President Goodluck Jonathan, Gowon
said he had to correct an impression created in the
book by the author, Charles Imokhai, a reverend
father.

Gowon said Ojukwu’s statement on the Aburi Accord
was contrary to what was discussed.
He said: “I have seen that you (Imokhai) have gone
back in history in your research when Ojukwu and
myself had the Aburi Accord.

“I was fascinated by that because I can assure you
that that meeting was to break the ice and for all of
us, the military leaders at the time, be allowed to be
able to agree to be discussing our problems in
Nigeria and to solve them.

“What happened to us at Aburi was that I couldn’t
make it down (to Nigeria) because I was
unfortunately down with a fever. “Ojukwu got back
(before me) and made a statement and that wasn’t
what we discussed and that was the beginning of the
misunderstanding. “Since you presented that we had
a meeting, I thought I should make that comment
and to correct that.”

The accord was reached at a meeting held between
January 4-5, 1967, in Aburi, a Ghanaian town,
between delegates of the federal military
government and the now defunct eastern region as
part of efforts to prevent the looming civil war in the
aftermath of the 1966 military coups.

Gowon was the civil war time leader of Nigeria and
prevented the secession bid of the then Eastern
region from the federation between 1967 and 1970.
Ojukwu as governor of the eastern region led the
succession bid.

He had returned from Aburi announcing that it had
been agreed that the country should adopt
confederalism — a political system in which every
region would essentially be a country on its own with
only a symbolic national government.

Nigeria eventually went to war in May of that year
after different interpretations of the Aburi Accord and
failed peace moves

Caseless:
As a people, Ojukwu caused us pain at some point in our history , but I think he should be forgiven and allowed to rest in peace since he's dead.

Toosure70:
Igbo can lie. Igbo (tribe) Igbo (weeds), all Na the same jare

gleaf:
Gowon, I have enormous respect for you cos of the way and manner you have been carrying and projecting a peaceful image, but you don't have to accuse anybody at this point, why do you have to wait now to say such, pls sir respect the dead .

naijaseeker:

What deep level of darkness and wickedness in your soul. Demons that murdered innocent foetus did not curse you pain, Gowon that reneged on an agreement and is lying against the dead did not cause you ain, you are shit.

jerseyboy:
Let's go back to Aburi

gleaf:
Gowon, I have enormous respect for you cos of the way and manner you have been carrying and projecting a peaceful image, but you don't have to accuse anybody at this point, why do you have to wait now to say such, pls sir respect the dead .

gleaf:
Gowon, I have enormous respect for you cos of the way and manner you have been carrying and projecting a peaceful image, but you don't have to accuse anybody at this point, why do you have to wait now to say such, pls sir respect the dead .

manuelreports:
Gowon is mad
Why not spew this trash when Ojukwu was alive