₦airaland Forum

lawani:
There was simply no way the civil war would not have broken out since the second coup did not succeed in the East. Imagine a coup today that did not succeed in the west?.
All minorities wanted and were clamouring for new states all over the country and the only way the FG could get the Eastern minorities on its side was to create states for them

Joshcoli:
Some people nightmare don start to talk again. As e be now, this man don live him life well, reach the peak of him career and even age with grace.

Hate no go change wetin don happen. Sometimes the best thing na to forgive and move on. Many of the people shouting today no even dey when the war happen, talk less of fighting am.

Make we calm down small and focus on building the future instead of carrying old anger wey no go change anything.

Racoon:
Perhaps you are now learning the APC shameless pattern of lying. Remember you were not the only one that signed the Aburi Accord. So prevaricating with the truth will only continue to hunt and hurt the soul.

There are some respect and honour that comes some more with old age. But as for Gowon, this is not to be. It is more honourable to keep quiet than to be this mischievous thereby rubbishing your supposed graceful old age sir

Racoon:
Perhaps you are now learning the APC shameless pattern of lying. Remember you were not the only one that signed the Aburi Accord. So prevaricating with the truth will only continue to hunt and hurt the soul.

There are some respect and honour that comes some more with old age. But as for Gowon, this is not to be. It is more honourable to keep quiet than to be this mischievous thereby rubbishing your supposed graceful old age sir

Racoon:
Exclusive Arise Interview with General Yakubu Chinwa Gowon( Former Nigerian Military Head of State).

aalangel:
Dear Writer, you would have even stated what is in the Aburi Accord for your readers to understand more.

The Aburi Accord was a 1967 agreement reached in Aburi, Ghana, between Nigeria's federal government (led by Gen. Yakubu Gowon) and Eastern Region representatives (led by Col. Chukwuemeka Ojukwu) to prevent civil war. It proposed a loose confederation and decentralization of power, but failed due to conflicting interpretations, leading to the Nigerian Civil War.

Key aspects and outcomes include:
Purpose: To resolve the political crisis following the 1966 coups and massacres of Easterners.

Key Terms: The agreement emphasized regional autonomy, creating area commands, and requiring the Supreme Military Council's unanimous consent for major decisions.

Collapse: The agreement broke down after both sides failed to agree on its implementation, particularly regarding the interpretation of the resulting Decree No. 8.

Consequence: Its failure resulted in a 30-month civil war (1967–1970).

aalangel:
Dear Writer, you would have even stated what is in the Aburi Accord for your readers to understand more.

The Aburi Accord was a 1967 agreement reached in Aburi, Ghana, between Nigeria's federal government (led by Gen. Yakubu Gowon) and Eastern Region representatives (led by Col. Chukwuemeka Ojukwu) to prevent civil war. It proposed a loose confederation and decentralization of power, but failed due to conflicting interpretations, leading to the Nigerian Civil War.

Key aspects and outcomes include:
Purpose: To resolve the political crisis following the 1966 coups and massacres of Easterners.

Key Terms: The agreement emphasized regional autonomy, creating area commands, and requiring the Supreme Military Council's unanimous consent for major decisions.

Collapse: The agreement broke down after both sides failed to agree on its implementation, particularly regarding the interpretation of the resulting Decree No. 8.

Consequence: Its failure resulted in a 30-month civil war (1967–1970).

esnbrutality:
That is the reason why you are even more useless at old age. To the extent that Danjuma, who being older than you has a lot of respect than you.

Just imagine a man approaching his end, still lieing shamelessly.

Gowon, fears Fulani more than the DEVIL.

Racoon:
Perhaps you are now learning the APC shameless pattern of lying. Remember you were not the only one that signed the Aburi Accord. So prevaricating with the truth will only continue to hunt and hurt the soul.

There are some respect and honour that comes some more with old age. But as for Gowon, this is not to be. It is more honourable to keep quiet than to be this mischievous thereby rubbishing your supposed graceful old age sir

CJStarz:
This man is still telling lies even in his old age!

T9ksy:
In May 1966, when his homeboy Ironsi, was in power, Ojukwu was the only military governor who, wholeheartedly supported Ironsi's unification decree 34! Ojukwu bragged in public about how he intend to export his kinsmen to the north to take up civil service posts, therein. There was a great influx of school leavers from the eastern region into the northern region, immediately after the January 15th, 1966 coup.

Less than a year later after his brother Ironsi, has been booted out of office (and rightly so), Ojukwu now wants Confederacy-decentralisation of power. Who the hell does Ojukwu thought he is? Just because his father was one of the richest man in the country at the time does not confer on him the right to dictate to us what kind of govt, we should have in our country.

Gowon was right to reneged on aburi, fever or no fever and he owes nobody any apology. In Ojukwu's world, it was acceptable for Ironsi to become a military dictator of Nigeria but Gowon cannot and should not. And for that, Ojukwu went to war and got soundly beaten.

And some folks called him a freedom fighter and an hero (sic!). Yeah right........

gidgiddy:
In other words, what you guys care about is ethnicity and nothing else?

Ironsi and Ojukwu are Igbos, and supported decree 34, a civil service Decree

But Gowon is a Northerner, so his decree 14 that abolished the 4 Region and created 12 states, and his decree 15 that ended resource control, are highly welcome

Ok

T9ksy:
That's your warped and mischevious mindset at play.
Initially, Zik was all for federalism but by 1951, he started the discordant tune of Unitary system of govt., because according to him, he doesn't want to have to get a visa to come to yorubaland.

Zik and his NCNC party were the quintessential unity beggars! He had been chanting "unity, unity, uniyy" ever since and no sooner had an igboman became HOS, and viola, he foisted unitary govt on the rest of us without so much as a plebsicite.

Your good self was here always gaslighting us that, that was the only to run a military govt as oppossed to a democratic govt. So if Ironsi is allowed to run a centralised govt in May of 1966, why then shouldn't be allowed to continue with the same centralised form of govt in Jan 1967?

Why did Ojukwu went to war because Gowon insisted on continuing with the Unitary govt that he, Ojukwu wholeheartedly supported, 6 months earlier? What has changed in that short period of time that necessitate Ojukwu plunging the whole country in a bloody and needless war?