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Gowon keeps making all these statements about how the civil war was a difficult time for him, how he was fighting for the unity of Nigeria, and that the war was not about hatred for anyone

Who does this man think he is deceiving in this social media age? The man is in his 90's but still thinks we are back in the stone age when information was from propaganda? Lying through his teeth.

Gowon should tell Nigerians the truth, not continue with the same lie on which he justified killing millions of people for a non-existent unity

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he did nothing as thousands of Easterners were being killed in pogrom, all over Nigeria, particularly in the North.

Was it because Northerners were the ones doing the killing?

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he broke the agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Aburi, Ghana. An agreement that was supposed to restructure Nigeria, keep the country one and prevent war. Thereby causing war.

Is it because the agreement prevented Gowon and his fellow Northerners from getting political control of Nigeria?

Gowon should tell Nigerians that he was the one who declared war after Ojukwu declared Biafra, and that he waged this war not primarily because of the unity of Nigeria.

But because of oil. Had the oil been in the North, it would have been Gowon who would have declared Arewa Republic long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. The only difference is there would have been no war as many would have been happy to see them go with their oil.


Gowon should stop these lies he keeps spewing about the war he caused. The war was not about Nigeria's unity, it was about the political and economic control of Nigeria by the North

Facts

He's probably the only surviving major player of that war. God has kept him long enough to see what the same Nigeria he killed millions to keep has become.

His inability to go past the war shows that the events of the war are still giving sleepless nights. That's why he's deeply involved in evangelism so he can find peace with himself in the twilight of his life.

Blame everyone except yourself

Even when others are plotting war against you, that's where wisdom should be applied as winning or loosing wouldn't make any difference.

In war, it's not about who is right but what's left

gidgiddy:
Gowon keeps making all these statements about how the civil war was a difficult time for him, how he was fighting for the unity of Nigeria, and that the war was not about hatred for anyone

Who does this man think he is deceiving in this social media age? The man is in his 90's but still thinks we are back in the stone age when information was from propaganda? Lying through his teeth.

Gowon should tell Nigerians the truth, not continue with the same lie on which he justified killing millions of people for a non-existent unity

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he did nothing as thousands of Easterners were being killed in pogrom, all over Nigeria, particularly in the North.

Was it because Northerners were the ones doing the killing?

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he broke the agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Aburi, Ghana. An agreement that was supposed to restructure Nigeria, keep the country one and prevent war. Thereby causing war.

Is it because the agreement prevented Gowon and his fellow Northerners from getting political control of Nigeria?

Gowon should tell Nigerians that he was the one who declared war after Ojukwu declared Biafra, and that he waged this war not primarily because of the unity of Nigeria.

But because of oil. Had the oil been in the North, it would have been Gowon who would have declared Arewa Republic long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. The only difference is there would have been no war as many would have been happy to see them go with their oil.


Gowon should stop these lies he keeps spewing about the war he caused. The war was not about Nigeria's unity, it was about the political and economic control of Nigeria by the North

I am sure in your warped mind, the Ironsi ibo coup of Jan 15 was justified and that northerners should have never carried out the counter coup to oust the treasonable and illegal Ironsi junta that was imposed upon the polity by the treacherous actions carried out by Ibo officers with Orizu and Zik throwing away the constitutional provisions to innugurate and swear in the deputy PM and with same Orizu and Zik going on air to hand over power to Ironsi without any consent nor deliberation with their senior coalition partners in the northern NPC.

I guess it was ok for Ironsi to get ojukwu to viciously and brutally clampdown on Adaka Boro and his NDVF seccesionist movements who wanted out of Nigeria on the heels of Ironsi seizing power.

Its OK for you ibos to carry out a dastardly coup that had at its core an ethnic agenda targeting for elimination senior military officers from other tribes and assassination of the PM and premieres of other region but to you the counter coup that was in direct but exponential degree higher to same IBO coup was too harsh.

I guess Orizu and Zik breaching our constitution and betraying their senior coalition partners by handing over to Ironsi is OK but Gowon breaching a non binding agreement reached in Abure is the height of betrayal to you.

FYI, Gowon never breached any agreement in Abure.

Gowon simply declared decree 8 that called for more regional autonomy that abrogated decree 34 and went on to even create regional armies.

Why was Ojukwu against regional armies ?

Also the main reason Ojukwu declared Biafra was because Gowon balkanized the old Eastern region and finally freed the IBO wearey minorities by granting them states.

In the SS there are major roads, stadia and edifices named in honour of Gowon for his role in granting the minority people of eastern Nigeria full independence.


Your ojukwu went to war not because of any pogroms but rather your ojukwu declared Biafra to prevent SS peopeople from finally being free from the British created IBO dominated Eastern Nigeria.

According to IPOB touts like Gidgiddy, the IBO dastardly coup was justified although now they are claiming it was carried out on behalf of and on Awo's behest.

When northerners responded in their own leisure and with far greater proportional response using the ongoing rate of exchange for one Northern leaders life to that of ibo plebs scattered in the north, who were goading their northern hosts, it was wrong .

Gidgiddy will prefer there was no counter coup and that Ironsi and Zik continue to reign illegally over the polity and to continue tweeking Nigeria into their preferred Marxist version that would have seen ibos dominate everyone.

Ironsi illegal junta that got into power by the treachery of ibo officers and their politicians is OK. But a northern counter coup went too far.

To them the northerners reacted with too much force and violence and not in proportion to the stupidity that ibos displayed from Jan 15, 1966. Northerners simply treated your stupidity with an exponential dosage of their own stupidity. No be only una get crase nah.

Adaka Boro left Nigeria for you but your Ironsi and ojukwu went hard and full scorched earth pillaging minority coastal communities in the most bloody civilian targeting clampdown which forced Adaka and his men to surrender

To you ibos, only you had the right to secede and the atrocities committed by your ojukwu on minority people during Ironsi and later after you declarex Biafra are justified.


You speak of Abure being breached but glosseed over how Zik and Orizu committed high treason by refusing to swear in the deputy PM as contained in the constitution, instead Zik and Orizu who were President and deputy President and had the powers to form and innugurate anew civilam government decided to hand power to Ironsi.


For your warped mind Zik and Orizu's breach of our constitution and betrayal of the alliance they had with the NPC is nothing compared to Abure.

Since Zik and Orizu threw away our constitution to ensure ironsi emerges as an illegal head of state, its only fair that no agreement going forward is binding .

gidgiddy:
Gowon keeps making all these statements about how the civil war was a difficult time for him, how he was fighting for the unity of Nigeria, and that the war was not about hatred for anyone

Who does this man think he is deceiving in this social media age? The man is in his 90's but still thinks we are back in the stone age when information was from propaganda? Lying through his teeth.

Gowon should tell Nigerians the truth, not continue with the same lie on which he justified killing millions of people for a non-existent unity

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he did nothing as thousands of Easterners were being killed in pogrom, all over Nigeria, particularly in the North.

Was it because Northerners were the ones doing the killing?

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he broke the agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Aburi, Ghana. An agreement that was supposed to restructure Nigeria, keep the country one and prevent war. Thereby causing war.

Is it because the agreement prevented Gowon and his fellow Northerners from getting political control of Nigeria?

Gowon should tell Nigerians that he was the one who declared war after Ojukwu declared Biafra, and that he waged this war not primarily because of the unity of Nigeria.

But because of oil. Had the oil been in the North, it would have been Gowon who would have declared Arewa Republic long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. The only difference is there would have been no war as many would have been happy to see them go with their oil.


Gowon should stop these lies he keeps spewing about the war he caused. The war was not about Nigeria's unity, it was about the political and economic control of Nigeria by the North

You are in the habit of always denouncing any one who posts about the IBO coup calling them as paid agents using the event as a way to keep anti IBO sentiments in the burner.

But you are the one always revisiting and twisting the facts of the civil war.

In your typical stinking hypocrisy, only you ibos can post about the events leading to the civil war but others are not or they be labelled as bringing back old wounds.


I blame Gowon for your current foolishness and arrogance because the current anamoly where the vanquished dominates the post war narrative is as a result of Gowon not arresting and trying your war criminals in a Nurumberg tier public trial.


If Gowon had done what is expected of the victor, we won't be inundated by Upper Iwaeka revisionists like you posting your lies and trying to paint yourself as hapless victims.

Gowon CAUSED no war.

gidgiddy:
Gowon keeps making all these statements about how the civil war was a difficult time for him, how he was fighting for the unity of Nigeria, and that the war was not about hatred for anyone

Who does this man think he is deceiving in this social media age? The man is in his 90's but still thinks we are back in the stone age when information was from propaganda? Lying through his teeth.

Gowon should tell Nigerians the truth, not continue with the same lie on which he justified killing millions of people for a non-existent unity

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he did nothing as thousands of Easterners were being killed in pogrom, all over Nigeria, particularly in the North.

Was it because Northerners were the ones doing the killing?

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he broke the agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Aburi, Ghana. An agreement that was supposed to restructure Nigeria, keep the country one and prevent war. Thereby causing war.

Is it because the agreement prevented Gowon and his fellow Northerners from getting political control of Nigeria?

Gowon should tell Nigerians that he was the one who declared war after Ojukwu declared Biafra, and that he waged this war not primarily because of the unity of Nigeria.

But because of oil. Had the oil been in the North, it would have been Gowon who would have declared Arewa Republic long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. The only difference is there would have been no war as many would have been happy to see them go with their oil.


Gowon should stop these lies he keeps spewing about the war he caused. The war was not about Nigeria's unity, it was about the political and economic control of Nigeria by the North

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On your job as usual playing the victim and twisting history of the civil war.

Actions beget reactions.
The precursor of the Nigeria Biafra civil war was the bloody and one sided murderous IBO coup of January 15th 1966 which was carried out by acolytes of Nnamdi Azikiwe's NCNC party in the Nigeria Army.
This military wing of the NCNC party had its point heads in Majors Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu who recruited and misled other rogue elements in the Nigeria army to kill the political and military leaders of all other regions except their own.
The aim az usual with the Ibo was domination and ultimate Ibo supremacy.

This January 15th 1966 coup was the genesis of the Nigeria civil war and the deaths thereafter. Any other causes of this war are secondary and not as relevant as the main issue which was the tribal fueled Ibo coup of January 15th.

Goosethetruth:
Lol...😁😁😁

On your job as usual playing the victim and twisting history of the civil war.

Actions beget reactions.
The precursor of the Nigeria Biafra civil war was the bloody and one sided murderous IBO coup of January 15th 1966 which was carried out by acolytes of Nnamdi Azikiwe's NCNC party in the Nigeria Army.
This military wing of the NCNC party had its point heads in Majors Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu who recruited and misled other rogue elements in the Nigeria army to kill the political and military leaders of all other regions except their own.
The aim az usual with the Ibo was domination and ultimate Ibo supremacy.

This January 15th 1966 coup was the genesis of the Nigeria civil war and the deaths thereafter. Any other causes of this war are secondary and not as relevant as the main issue which was the tribal fueled Ibo coup of January 15th.

You guys keep talking about Igbo coup, the coup happened 18 months before the civil war

What about the lopsided Hausa/Fulani coup of Murtala Mohammed? The same Murtala Mohammed was put on the N20 and has Airports named after him

What about the lopsided Fulani coup of Buhari? The same Buhari was elected President twice

What about the lopsided Dimka coup?

The coup was not what caused the war, people put in things to prevent war, which Gowon and his Northern elements put aside to fight war because they wanted control of Nigeria

DomPerignon:
You are in the habit of always denouncing any one who posts about the IBO coup calling them as paid agents using the event as a way to keep anti IBO sentiments in the burner.

But you are the one always revisiting and twisting the facts of the civil war.

In your typical stinking hypocrisy, only you ibos can post about the events leading to the civil war but others are not or they be labelled as bringing back old wounds.


I blame Gowon for your current foolishness and arrogance because the current anamoly where the vanquished dominates the post war narrative is as a result of Gowon not arresting and trying your war criminals in a Nurumberg tier public trial.


If Gowon had done what is expected of the victor, we won't be inundated by Upper Iwaeka revisionists like you posting your lies and trying to paint yourself as hapless victims.

And yet you could not refute any point I made

DomPerignon:
I am sure in your warped mind, the Ironsi ibo coup of Jan 15 was justified and that northerners should have never carried out the counter coup to oust the treasonable and illegal Ironsi junta that was imposed upon the polity by the treacherous actions carried out by Ibo officers with Orizu and Zik throwing away the constitutional provisions to innugurate and swear in the deputy PM and with same Orizu and Zik going on air to hand over power to Ironsi without any consent nor deliberation with their senior coalition partners in the northern NPC.

I guess it was ok for Ironsi to get ojukwu to viciously and brutally clampdown on Adaka Boro and his NDVF seccesionist movements who wanted out of Nigeria on the heels of Ironsi seizing power.

Its OK for you ibos to carry out a dastardly coup that had at its core an ethnic agenda targeting for elimination senior military officers from other tribes and assassination of the PM and premieres of other region but to you the counter coup that was in direct but exponential degree higher to same IBO coup was too harsh.

I guess Orizu and Zik breaching our constitution and betraying their senior coalition partners by handing over to Ironsi is OK but Gowon breaching a non binding agreement reached in Abure is the height of betrayal to you.

FYI, Gowon never breached any agreement in Abure.

Gowon simply declared decree 8 that called for more regional autonomy that abrogated decree 34 and went on to even create regional armies.

Why was Ojukwu against regional armies ?

Also the main reason Ojukwu declared Biafra was because Gowon balkanized the old Eastern region and finally freed the IBO wearey minorities by granting them states.

In the SS there are major roads, stadia and edifices named in honour of Gowon for his role in granting the minority people of eastern Nigeria full independence.


Your ojukwu went to war not because of any pogroms but rather your ojukwu declared Biafra to prevent SS peopeople from finally being free from the British created IBO dominated Eastern Nigeria.

These ones are busy talking nonsense about what happened 18 months before the war started because they cannot talk about what happened 3 months before the civil war. They cannot go to the proximate cause of the war, the immediate cause of the war, because they would have to admit it was Gowon who caused the war

So they have to back to almost 2 years before the war to talk about Ironsi, decree 34, coup, just to deflect from the immediate cause of the war, a war Gowon caused by breaking of the Aburi agreement

You much jokers everywhere

SmartPolician:
He's probably the only surviving major player of that war. God has kept him long enough to see what the same Nigeria he killed millions to keep has become.

His inability to go past the war shows that the events of the war are still giving sleepless nights. That's why he's deeply involved in evangelism so he can find peace with himself in the twilight of his life.

I'm glad God kept Gowon alive long enough to see what his 'one Nigeria' has become today

World's poverty capital, 8th most insecure country on earth and a total mess

I can still sleep in my Local Government in Anambra any time I want

Gowon's Local Government in Plateau State has long been overrun by gunmen that he dare not even step foot there

gidgiddy:
You guys keep talking about Igbo coup, the coup happened 18 months before the civil war

What about the lopsided Hausa/Fulani coup of Murtala Mohammed? The same Murtala Mohammed was put on the N20 and has Airports named after him

What about the lopsided Fulani coup of Buhari? The same Buhari was elected President twice

What about the lopsided Dimka coup?

The coup was not what caused the war, people put in things to prevent war, which Gowon and his Northern elements put aside to fight war because they wanted control of Nigeria

No amount of spin,propaganda,lies,falsehood and double speak can erroneously change the facts that the main cause of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war was the January 15th 1966 Ibo coup carried out by the military wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe's NCNC party with the main point heads being Majors Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu. The ultimate aim of which was Ibo domination and Ibo supremacist agenda.
Any other cause are elementary to this Ibo coup of January 15th 1966.

Goosethetruth:
No amount of spin,propaganda,lies,falsehood and double speak can erroneously change the facts that the main cause of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war was the January 15th 1966 Ibo coup carried out by the military wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe's NCNC party with the main point heads being Majors Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu. The ultimate aim of which was Ibo domination and Ibo supremacist agenda.
Any other cause are elementary to this Ibo coup of January 15th 1966.

No amount of spin will make anyone believe that a war was caused by a coup that happened almost two years before.

If coups caused war, the 7 other coups that occured in Nigeria would have caused their own wars. The war was caused by Gowon and his Northern brothers when they failed to honour a binding agreement they signed in Aburi, Ghana, due to their unbridled desire to be masters of Nigeria

Gowon should stop this nonsense lies of his, the history records are there to tell everyone how he betrayed Ojukwu at Aburi, and the war that betrayal caused

Cry babies, una don come again

DomPerignon:
You are in the habit of always denouncing any one who posts about the IBO coup calling them as paid agents using the event as a way to keep anti IBO sentiments in the burner.

But you are the one always revisiting and twisting the facts of the civil war.

In your typical stinking hypocrisy, only you ibos can post about the events leading to the civil war but others are not or they be labelled as bringing back old wounds.


I blame Gowon for your current foolishness and arrogance because the current anamoly where the vanquished dominates the post war narrative is as a result of Gowon not arresting and trying your war criminals in a Nurumberg tier public trial.


If Gowon had done what is expected of the victor, we won't be inundated by Upper Iwaeka revisionists like you posting your lies and trying to paint yourself as hapless victims.

I also blame him squarely..
When Black Scorpion landed in Port Harcourt and wanted to level the whole igboland completely, devoid of anything breathing..it was this same Gowon that reined him in,stopping the anticipated bloodbath.Had it been he allowed Black Scorpion do his job, we won't be here still dealing with the Igbo scourge.
By now their numbers would probably be in few millions, segregated and locked in their region like Gaza.
What do we have? A virus like tribe, infecting and staining our white whenever they go.
Infamously known for all manner of vice and crime known to man.

Even in his 90's, Gowon is still lying through his teeth about Aburi

gidgiddy:
Gowon keeps making all these statements about how the civil war was a difficult time for him, how he was fighting for the unity of Nigeria, and that the war was not about hatred for anyone

Who does this man think he is deceiving in this social media age? The man is in his 90's but still thinks we are back in the stone age when information was from propaganda? Lying through his teeth.

Gowon should tell Nigerians the truth, not continue with the same lie on which he justified killing millions of people for a non-existent unity

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he did nothing as thousands of Easterners were being killed in pogrom, all over Nigeria, particularly in the North.

Was it because Northerners were the ones doing the killing?

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he broke the agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Aburi, Ghana. An agreement that was supposed to restructure Nigeria, keep the country one and prevent war. Thereby causing war.

Is it because the agreement prevented Gowon and his fellow Northerners from getting political control of Nigeria?

Gowon should tell Nigerians that he was the one who declared war after Ojukwu declared Biafra, and that he waged this war not primarily because of the unity of Nigeria.

But because of oil. Had the oil been in the North, it would have been Gowon who would have declared Arewa Republic long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. The only difference is there would have been no war as many would have been happy to see them go with their oil.


Gowon should stop these lies he keeps spewing about the war he caused. The war was not about Nigeria's unity, it was about the political and economic control of Nigeria by the North

So Gowon who was at the centre of events should no state his narrative but it is fake historians like yourself with your revisionist propaganda that should be allowed to spew their nonsense narrative without any one countering you guys.

gidgiddy:
Even in his 90's, Gowon is still lying through his teeth about Aburi

I don't blame you at all. I blame General Yakubu Gowon for being an urbane and human head of state,who tried to reduce blood shed to a barest minimum during the civil war.
He even rewarded the belligerent Ibo by rewarding them with money and reintegrated them back into Nigerian society instead of allowing all their leadership to face trials in special military courts like Nuremberg in Nazi Germany.
It has never a good thing to reward a conquered people with monetary rewards and then leave the intelligensia of the conquered people to set a narrative of false propaganda on what led to the civil war.
If there is anything to blame General Gowon for,it is his weakness in trying to keep rewarding and appeasing rebellion instead of totally crushing such a rebellion ruthlessly.

Gowon is suffering from the affliction of the blood of the innocent Igbo people that he killed pretending to be fighting for unity.

Gowon should bury his ugly face in shame, he is a murderer

Goosethetruth:
I don't blame you at all. I blame General Yakubu Gowon for being an urbane and human head of state,who tried to reduce blood shed to a barest minimum during the civil war.
He even rewarded the belligerent Ibo by rewarding them with money and reintegrated them back into Nigerian society instead of allowing all their leadership to face trials in special military courts like Nuremberg in Nazi Germany.
It has never a good thing to reward a conquered people with monetary rewards and then leave the intelligensia of the conquered people to set a narrative of false propaganda on what led to the civil war.
If there is anything to blame General Gowon for,it is his weakness in trying to keep rewarding and appeasing rebellion instead of totally crushing such a rebellion ruthlessly.

Makes you wonder what the point of 'one Nigeria' is doesn't it?

gidgiddy:
Makes you wonder what the point of 'one Nigeria' is doesn't it?

It actually makes you wonder why you guys delight in pushing falsehood and half truths about the civil war.
1.Cause of the civil war-Falsehood.
2. January 15th coup-Falsehood.
3. Who released Awolowo from jail- Falsehood.
4. Who won the last presidential election- Falsehood.
5. Nnamdi Kanu conviction- Falsehood.
6. Simon Ekpa conviction- Falsehood.
7.How many Ibo died during the civil war-Falsehood.


A house built on a pack of lies will eventually collapse.

Goosethetruth:
It actually makes you wonder why you guys delight in pushing falsehood and half truths about the civil war.
1.Cause of the civil war-Falsehood.
2. January 15th coup-Falsehood.
3. Who released Awolowo from jail- Falsehood.
4. Who won the last presidential election- Falsehood.
5. Nnamdi Kanu conviction- Falsehood.
6. Simon Ekpa conviction- Falsehood.
7.How many Ibo died during the civil war-Falsehood.


A house built on a pack of lies will eventually collapse.

My point exactly. We have been wasting our time together since 1960 over a non existent 'one Nigeria' when we should have held referendum and gone our seperate ways long ago

gidgiddy:
My point exactly. We have been wasting our time together since 1960 over a non existent 'one Nigeria' when we should have held referendum and gone our seperate ways long ago

That is why I don't blame you but I blame General Gowon for his humane nature and for attempting to accommodate rebellion and grand treason. It is a known fact that all those that attempt to accommodate or help you people end up as objects of ruddicule and derision in the end.
I blame General Gowon for restraining his field soldiers from what they wanted to do. It is the same Gowon that is the object and subject of your ridicule and insults today.