British Member of Parliament, Tom Tugendhat, while proposing sanctions on Nigerian Government officials complicit in violating the rights of #EndSARS protesters, said Gowon looted half of Nigeria’s treasury when he was ousted from office in a coup and fled for the United Kingdom.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKNOV 26, 2020

There is outrage from Nigerians on Twitter after Akinwumi Adesina, President of the Africa Development Bank, sprung to the defence of former military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, on looting allegations levelled against him.


British Member of Parliament, Tom Tugendhat, while proposing sanctions on Nigerian Government officials complicit in violating the rights of #EndSARS protesters, said Gowon looted half of Nigeria’s treasury when he was ousted from office in a coup and fled for the United Kingdom.


Akinwumi Adesina
The revelation by Tugendhat generated interest among many young Nigerians, who felt the information was deliberately omitted from Nigeria’s history textbooks to potray Gowon as a hero.

Gowon oversaw Nigeria’s civil war, which lasted from 1967 to 1970 where more than three million people died.

Adesina in Gowon’s defence said he was a man of integrity and impeccable character.


His tweet did not, however, go well with many Nigerians, who described his decision to defend the former military leader while choosing to stay silent on the killing of peaceful #EndSARS protesters in Lekki as hypocritical.


Jackson Ude urged Adesina to allow Gowon defend himself or sue if he feels he had been defamed.




Obademi Micheal expressed his disappointment in Adesina, saying, “Youths were murdered, you said nothing. Thank you for revealing what you stand for. Definitely not a true Nigeria. As to many that thought you were a good example. Now we know what you truly stand for.”

http://saharareporters.com/2020/11/26/nigerians-blast-afdb-president-akinwumi-adesina-defending-gowon-over-looting-allegations

The MP must have evidence.
I believe the MP.

Which of the Nigerians oo?

You mean fl@inos from potopoto republic

Twitter is the Akwa IBOm or Delta of social media they can Mob anything na straight Jungle Justice....

uptimum123:
You mean fl@inos from potopoto republic

Lol, my brother

Adesina might have profitted from Gowon proceeds of crime.

The elites always defend themselves,
Some dummies actually thought GEJ would be in jail by now,
The skill is to eat the cow called Nigeria without killing it, some are more merciful than others, but none have mercy

Igbos are bitter that a man of impeccable character and reputation like Adesina stuck their neck out in defence of the amiable General Gowon.

They should go lick their wounds elsewhere.

There are times silence echo more wisdom than words.

His rush to defend Gowon was uncalled for.

So he has been keeping tabs on Nigeria but have said nothing about Buhari's Lawlessness.

Nothing on Lekki Toll Gate saga.

But hey, Gowon should be defended at all cost.

There are lot of stupid Nigerians on that Twitter who behave like dictators themselves.

They want all Nigerians to have some form of ‘herd’ behavior where we all condemn, abuse, speak, and reason the same way.

Adesina have the right to vouch for Gowon integrity while other Nigerians have the right to abuse Gowon for the allegation.

Isn’t it the same thing the US tried to do against Adesina in AFDB? If Adesina had not stood his ground, he would have been rubbished with a stain on his integrity.

If the MP is very sure about what he said, he should provide evidence and shame Gowon if need be.

uptimum123:
You mean fl@inos from potopoto republic

Eleribu zombie! Aiye e de ma baje nii. Omo ale!

helinues:
Which of the Nigerians oo?

jack ude and obademi michaels,amongst millions of reasonable Nigerians

uptimum123:
You mean fl@inos from potopoto republic

U remind me of one movie..the living dead


Thats what brainless tribalism reduced u to

And I used to rate Adesina?

Never again

Aksnoopy:
Eleribu zombie! Aiye e de ma baje nii. Omo ale!

can you translate it

November1857:
can you translate it

Lmao!!! I said it shall be well with him for saying the truth.

Aksnoopy:
Lmao!!! I said it shall be well with him for saying the truth.

But he reported you to mod !

iwaeda:
British Member of Parliament, Tom Tugendhat, while proposing sanctions on Nigerian Government officials complicit in violating the rights of #EndSARS protesters, said Gowon looted half of Nigeria’s treasury when he was ousted from office in a coup and fled for the United Kingdom.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKNOV 26, 2020

There is outrage from Nigerians on Twitter after Akinwumi Adesina, President of the Africa Development Bank, sprung to the defence of former military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, on looting allegations levelled against him.


British Member of Parliament, Tom Tugendhat, while proposing sanctions on Nigerian Government officials complicit in violating the rights of #EndSARS protesters, said Gowon looted half of Nigeria’s treasury when he was ousted from office in a coup and fled for the United Kingdom.


Akinwumi Adesina
The revelation by Tugendhat generated interest among many young Nigerians, who felt the information was deliberately omitted from Nigeria’s history textbooks to potray Gowon as a hero.

Gowon oversaw Nigeria’s civil war, which lasted from 1967 to 1970 where more than three million people died.

Adesina in Gowon’s defence said he was a man of integrity and impeccable character.


His tweet did not, however, go well with many Nigerians, who described his decision to defend the former military leader while choosing to stay silent on the killing of peaceful #EndSARS protesters in Lekki as hypocritical.


Jackson Ude urged Adesina to allow Gowon defend himself or sue if he feels he had been defamed.




Obademi Micheal expressed his disappointment in Adesina, saying, “Youths were murdered, you said nothing. Thank you for revealing what you stand for. Definitely not a true Nigeria. As to many that thought you were a good example. Now we know what you truly stand for.”

http://saharareporters.com/2020/11/26/nigerians-blast-afdb-president-akinwumi-adesina-defending-gowon-over-looting-allegations

For those Igbos seeking brotherly relationship with the Yorubas, this global Yoruba elite, have just described Gowan as a man of integrity and impeccable character. Who is in the best position to know about Gowan's character if I may ask?. Is it the British(whom their relationship with Nigeria is that of everlasting exploitation regardless of the human cost) propped him up to play the role he played in Nigeria unfolding history or the Yorubas whom their relationship with Nigeria is primarily base on tribal permutations with the Igbos as their primary target ( until recently, as they have beginning to understand what that hate means as Hausa Fulani are hail bent/total determination to emansculate everything from the middle belt down to the Atlantic)

To me,(..& I apologises in advance if I'm being judgemental),Gowan's integrity and impeccable characteristics (as I also sense it from his aura) must also follow with a footnote,....he supervised the genocide of millions of human beings for nothing. His integrity & impeccable blinded him on the other side of the coin( Hausa Fulani agenda then & now) After war and genocide, the objectives & reasons for such human carnage will be enthroned....... Rwanda comes to mind, In Russia, tens of millions lost their lives in 1917 revolution and what comes out of that... science, technology and industrialization. The examples are numerous.
Today, Nigeria is the world capital of poverty, the world highiest infant mortality, world highiest drug abuse, out of school children etc.... still trying to see where this integrity and impeccability fits in.

I don't think we've heard the last on Gowon from the British side ( those who know this character more than any... created his historical role in Nigeria) and another Yoruba elite (not even Hausa Fulani) who will come to his defense.

It is very natural Yoruba will always defend any form of corruption perpetrated by a person from northern region of Nigeria. The Yoruba of Nigeria will even go to fight for a northerner caught in the web of corruption. I do not know why most Nigerians seemed to react feverishly to a thing which is obvious.

uptimum123:
You mean fl@inos from potopoto republic

Defenders of corruption everywhere...

Even gowon himself knows he is a bloody thief..

Look at Nigeria today... Are you happy the way this old greedy men are running it down daily..

Bloody tribalist things everywhere... Spits