"Gowon should have allowed the Igbos to go if they are to be treated as second class citizens. If zoning which will heal the wounds is not done, there will be no Nigeria. Nobody will remain in this country as a second class citizen."

Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, has stated that former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, should have allowed the Igbo to secede at the outset of the civil war in 1966.

Clark said this during an interview on Arise TV, where he condemned the unfair treatment handed to the South-East by concentrating power in the northern region.

He stressed the need for the region to be treated with a sense of belonging and called for political parties, especially the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, to zone their presidential tickets to a candidate from the South-East.

“My idea of zoning the Presidency to the South-East is well-known. No Nigerian will like to live in a country where certain people believe that they have the only right to lead. The APC believes the 12 million votes by President Muhammadu Buhari might be eroded if it is zoned to the South. The PDP is also considering zoning to the North. This is unfair.

“Nigeria stood on three legs, and it has never been steady since one of the legs was destroyed during the Civil War. I unpacked all these facts in my forthcoming memoir ‘Brutally Frank’,” Clark stated.

He added that there was no moral justification for keeping people who are not being treated fairly, stressing that the region must be treated with a sense of belonging.

Clark noted that it was unacceptable for a region to have a domineering spirit because of its population adding that those opposed to a South-East presidency in 2023 were ready to see the end of Nigeria.

"Gowon should have allowed the Igbos to go if they are to be treated as second class citizens. If zoning which will heal the wounds is not done, there will be no Nigeria. Nobody will remain in this country as a second class citizen.

“The North believes their population can be used to oppress other Nigerians. This is not acceptable. The era of that has gone. There are many good Northerners but the Fulani-oriented ones want to dominate everywhere.”

https://punchng.com/gowon-shouldve-allowed-igbo-leave-clark/?amp

I bet he is enjoying his one Nigeria going by what the Fulanis are doing to his Plateau state people

I laugh ooo.

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Truth remains that igbos are being treated unequally
Because if we are give same access to compete
Nigeria will be the greatest in all aspects
But the mumu leaders don't want this to happen
Because igbos will be the most recognized state in the world
Drag with your ancestors

Gowon will die a very terrible death.
He sold his soul to the North, that is why his is mute, whilst Fulani, have been killing his people

After 2023 one Nigerian Igbos would have sense by force

Before or After 2023 election, mark it somewhere the fait of Nigeria as a country will be decided

As how Ironsi and Ojukwu let the Ijaw republic led by Adaka Boro to go after being marginalized right?

helinues:
As how Ironsi and Ojukwu let the Ijaw republic led by Adaka Boro to go after being marginalized right?

you will have sense by force one day just continue to be unreasonable, black man

helinues:
As how Ironsi and Ojukwu let the Ijaw republic led by Adaka Boro to go after being marginalized right?

Nice question

Malory:
I bet he is enjoying his one Nigeria going by what the Fulanis are doing to his Plateau state people

You got it...I can tell you that Gowon is one of the saddest men on earth,his face tells it all..

Emergingnation3:
Says Some one that always accused others of being incoherent....

Where did they mention Ojukwu and IJaw in the write up..

This could be a comprehension problem, trust me

Just like

Truth remains that they treat's Igbo's partially.

Is it too late to let them go now?

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hahahahaha.. This is actually unfair to Alaigbo....How can you people be deserting the region and still not be proud of her in the public.. Ko da oo

Trash from a f**lish old man
Yeebow will never rule this country, know this and know peace

2023 will change many things.

We awaits

abobote:
Gowon will die a very terrible death.
He sold his soul to the North, that is why his is mute, whilst Fulani, have been killing his people

He is over 80

“I am aware that many people have blamed General Yakubu Gowon for the failure to implement the Aburi Accord. Yes, the buck stopped at his desk.

“But many people who are crying today joined in the betrayal and subversion of the will of the people expressed in the Aburi Accord.

“Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, in his book, ‘On a Darkling Plain’, (Pages 61 to 62), said as follows: ‘When news came that general agreement had been reached at a cordial meeting in Aburi, there was general elation.

“‘Ojukwu returned and spoke in glowing terms of Aburi. He had virtually achieved his confederal aims; if the decisions of Aburi were implemented, there was little doubt that peace would return to Nigeria.

“‘The generality of Igbo were cock-a-hoop about Aburi—it was inconceivable that an Igbo would go to bargain with Hausa and fail to win.


“‘The non-Igbo, on the other hand, were dismayed: it looked as though the nation had sold them to the Igbo. In Rivers circles particularly, there was great agitation. Some showed their dismay openly’.”

Emekesiri said according to Saro-Wiwa, the non-Igbo were not happy with the Aburi Accord, which created a confederation of regional governments.

He continued: “In the book, he told the story of how he took some of the chiefs in the riverine areas, went to Lagos and defected to the Nigerian side.

“He told General Gowon that the non-Igbo in Eastern Nigeria did not want to be joined with the Igbo in the same region and did not want Biafra.

“Consequently, General Gowon violated the Aburi Accord and divided the Eastern Region into three on May 27, 1967 by creating three states: East Central State, with headquarters at Enugu; Rivers State, Port Harcourt, and South-Eastern State, Calabar.

“Three days later, on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra. This was a wrong move in political calculations because the region had already been divided three days earlier.

“It was a masterstroke by General Gowon. The Rivers State and South Eastern State had been given their own separate political identities three days before Biafra was declared

“The whole Eastern Region was no longer one entity on 30 May 1967. Mr Ken Saro-Wiwa said that their rejection of Biafra and rejection of being together with the Igbo in the same region was based on their fear that the Igbo people would dominate over them.

“In fact, he used a phrase that the Nigerian Government had sold them to the Igbo as slaves by signing the Aburi Accord.”

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/ken-saro-wiwa-sabotaged-aburi-accord-ipob-founder-317438

i don't believe in zoning, let the best man sit in Aso rock.

helinues:
As how Ironsi and Ojukwu let the Ijaw republic led by Adaka Boro to go after being marginalized right?

What kind of reasoning is this

Edwin clark,