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Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by MAYOWAAK: 9:40am On Oct 19, 2021 |
General Yakubu Gowon led our country at a most difficult period in the course of which we fought a three-year civil war, it stands to reason that he would definitely represent several things to several people. I am also aware of the charge against Gowon, especially with regard to some of the choices he made as a leader the repercussions of which we are still grappling with today. While those are legitimate issues that deserve interrogation, they are not the essence of this intervention which is about the person of Yakubu Gowon. For a man who ruled this country for as long as nine years and has been around in Nigeria for more than three decades after he returned from exile abroad, it is amazing that there has never been any scandal (financial, political or moral) around Gowon or members of his family. In the particular case of his wife, you hardly see her in any event except those attended by her husband and we are talking of a woman, if we believe all that are in the history books, who once commanded the attention of our nation by her beauty and grace. In a milieu where the ethos of the leadership elite is that enough is never enough, the Gowons are in a class by themselves. In all the stories of fuel subsidy payment scams, there has not been a Gowon involved and you will not find that name among the private jet owners. In none of the public enterprises that have been privatized has the name of Gowon (or his children) ever been mentioned as one of the buyers or promoters of the bidding companies. I am also not aware of any big edifice anywhere in Nigeria to which someone would point and say “Gowon owns it”. As a former leader, Gowon carries himself with so much dignity that you cannot but admire him while he lives an almost-perfect family life that you wonder why he chose the military rather than follow his parents into the Christian missionary field. Whatever may be anybody’s misgivings about the stewardship of Gowon as Head of State, what is not in doubt is that he commands respect by the exemplary manner in which he has lived his life outside public office. 2 Likes |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by 1daboi: 9:45am On Oct 19, 2021 |
elmodee7:the bomber of arewa and the raper of afonja. Kudos 1 Like |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by lexy2014: 9:46am On Oct 19, 2021 |
kettykin: because he didnt hand over power to civilians |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Centcanada: 9:52am On Oct 19, 2021 |
kettykin:because he is a traitor |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by BluntTheApostle(m): 9:52am On Oct 19, 2021 |
kettykin: He is recognized and well respected too. He is just not a very public person. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by BluntTheApostle(m): 9:53am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Centcanada: How is a traitor? |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Nobody: 9:55am On Oct 19, 2021 |
BluntTheApostle: War criminal. Genocide; 6 million people killed; In a civilized world ; Thats a life sentence. Genocide. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by BluntTheApostle(m): 10:12am On Oct 19, 2021 |
9jah: How? I have checked the UN list of war crimes, and I did not see any which anyone can claim Gowon perpetrated. Genocide; When? Proof of genocide. 6 million people killed; You expect people not to die? It was a war. Even riots claim lives. In a civilized world ; In a civilized war, you need proof before you can even accuse someone of war crimes. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by BluntTheApostle(m): 10:14am On Oct 19, 2021 |
pennywys: And you think your curse will work? He has lived this long despite curses from right and left from those who won't move on. Azikwe and Ojukwu both moved on before they died. I can't say about Chinua Achebe, though. But you people need to move on. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Naijanascam: 10:15am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Birthday while his people are living in fears.... |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by BluntTheApostle(m): 10:17am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Falseprofet2: So you want to blame him for the failed NYSC too The fact that NYSC has failed to achieve its goal is not the fault of the founder, but subsequent governments which failed to reposition or modify the scheme. 1 Like |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by ibietela2(m): 10:21am On Oct 19, 2021 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MASS MURDERER MAY YOU LIVE LONG TO SEE WITH YOUR EYES. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by ibietela2(m): 10:26am On Oct 19, 2021 |
kettykin: We don't care about him and his killer friends |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Nobody: 10:26am On Oct 19, 2021 |
BluntTheApostle: The British shield the likes of Gowon and Obasanjo without the British shield ,both will be in jail. Indeed as the slaughtering of the Igbo progressively worsened, Prime Minister Wilson was unashamedly unfazed when he informed Clyde Ferguson (United States State Department special coordinator for relief to Biafra) that he, Harold Wilson, ‘would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took Nigeria to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide’. Such was the grotesquely expressed diminution of African life made by a supposedly leading politician of the world of the 1960s – barely 20 years after the deplorable perpetration of the Jewish genocide. As the final tally of its murder of the Igbo demonstrates, Nigeria probably had the perverted satisfaction of having performed far in excess of Wilson’s grim target. Predictably, it was to Wilson that the Nigerians turned to, in 1969, to ‘sort out’ the international revulsion generated by the latter’s destruction of the ICRC aircraft as we have already stated. Without British active involvement in the perpetration of the Igbo genocide, it was highly unlikely that this crime would have been committed. Nigeria did not have an arms-manufacturing capacity then to embark on this terror without external support. Many years later, Nigeria still does not have such an internal military capability. It still relies heavily on Britain, currently the world’s leading arms exporter to Africa, for its supplies. Most of the key actors in the civil war are still alive. Personalities like Yakubu Gowon and Olusegun Obasanjo still have breath in their nostrils, they appear to have got off free from any forms of sanctions from Africa (and the world) for what are, unquestionably, crimes against humanity. They should come down from their high horses and explain why the government was silent when the Igbo race was being decimated. Gowon should apologise for turning a blind eye when thousands of Igbos were killed under his watch. The consequences of this Genocide against Biafrans has been catastrophic for Africa. Several regimes elsewhere in Africa are ‘convinced’ of the conclusions that they have drawn from this crime by their Nigerian counterpart: ‘We can murder targeted constituent people(s) at will within the state we control, haul off their prized property and livelihood, comprehensively destroy their cities, towns, villages, communities – precisely their age long, priceless, inheritance. There will be no sanctions from Africa – and the world’. As a result, the Igbo genocide becomes the clearing site for the haunting killing fields that would snake across the African geographical landscape in the subsequent 40 years, with the murders of additional 12 million Africans, since January 1970, by regimes in further genocide in Rwanda, Darfur and Zaïre/Democratic Republic of Congo and other killings in Liberia, Ethiopia, Congo Republic, Somalia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, South Sudan, and Burundi. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by BluntTheApostle(m): 10:32am On Oct 19, 2021 |
9jah: This is a biased account. And it doesn't even make sense. What is war crime? The blockade is not a crime, as far as non-international war is concerned. The only war crime I can think of is the Asaba massacre. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by sammytovic(m): 10:36am On Oct 19, 2021 |
OloshoMan:You termed a Gown a simp. All I know is that he's never a weak man |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Saidfx(m): 10:38am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Kayberg: Ojukwu was stubborn. A peace talk was arraigned for them twice, Ojukwu and Gowon, at Ghana, but Ojukwu resisted. Nah stubbornness |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Nobody: 10:39am On Oct 19, 2021 |
BluntTheApostle: I hate injustice I hate evil I hate people who supports genocide Dont you ever comment on my post again I hate you And everyone that support your kind Bye |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by ibietela2(m): 10:40am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Nigerialabalaba: a country that always celebrates mass murderers. that is how the other one killed 1k people and he was giving an airport and #20 note 1 Like |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by djevino(m): 10:46am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Nigerialabalaba: Nha so e pain u reach? |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Adrian9(m): 11:09am On Oct 19, 2021 |
kettykin:He has the blood of my fathers in his hands! |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by ElValiente(m): 11:34am On Oct 19, 2021 |
This guy and sunny Ade got this same line of life t live. Rich and long life. That shit is so rare. Happy birthday sir. |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Nobody: 11:40am On Oct 19, 2021 |
Stanchem029: Wonder why Seun can't ban his IP address... |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by ExposingdMatrix: 12:08pm On Oct 19, 2021 |
The Ignorant one |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by Walkee: 12:13pm On Oct 19, 2021 |
kettykin:was he supposed to keep feeding you? Una no really serious |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by bcomputer101: 12:14pm On Oct 19, 2021 |
Solatium: You're such a jobless !diot. Please go and take ur drugs pls. I'm busy |
Re: Yakubu Gowon Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today by mightyhaze: 12:28pm On Oct 19, 2021 |
EddyNumerouno:72 |
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