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Previous Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has dismissed any potential threat to Nigeria’s proceeded with corporate presence as an aftereffect of the exercises of some professional Biafra groups.
General Gowon, who was in charge of undertakings of the country when the Nigerian common war broke out in 1967, noticed that Nigerians have put behind them the terrible recollections of the three year bleeding struggle, including that those behind the protests were adolescents who have no clue what the war cost Nigerians.
He, however, said he wished he could meet with the pro-Biafra secessionists to counsel them on the dangers of beating the drums of war, adding that “if there’s anything of the sort, anywhere in any part of the country, just like the Boko Haram issue, Nigeria should deal with it in a mature way”.
The elder statesman stated this in Lafia, the Nasarwa State capital shortly after a malaria eradication campaign visit to Governor Tanko Al-Makura.
Gowon further opined that pro-Biafra campaign was being driven by just a few people and that the generality of the Igbo people do not share the view.
While admitting that the protesters had the right to express their feelings, Gowon stated “with Biafra, it is finished”.
Yeah!I agree with general Gowon,because most of those youths agitating for biafran state are youths,who doesn’t know the consequencies of war,they shouldn’t allow what happened to their parents 51yrs ago to happen to them again.
Igbo parents should be blamed for this noise about biafra. The left over after the war who procreated the present crops gave them wrong orientation about the civil war. They forgot to tell them the other side of the story.
Igbo parents should be blamed for this noise about biafra. The left over after the war who procreated the present crops gave them wrong orientation about the civil war. They forgot to tell them the other side of the story.
Please what other side of the story do you know or do you think you know that we don’t??
I hate talking about biafra the same reason your corrupt leaders refused to talk about it or even want to teach about it in schools as history because they knew the injustice and crime committed against some certain set of people is enough to reawaken a much stronger movement and set this nation ablaze!
My grandfather cringes each time he wants to talk about that civil war.
So I would tell you to go do your research very well before coming here to make some passing statement.
Leo Churchill The side of the story is that.. the SE falls pretty too fast for pretext.. Not able to understand difference between pretext used as an organ of Physiological war and resolving issues without external covert or overt players.
Here, I am talking about Kano massacre that started virtually everything. Before and Since then the SE has been used to subdued anything good and working in the NATION.
Last but not the least why those Igbos in America hated he Yorubas, because when they returned to Lagos/SW.. To get back the properties they sold at a very ridiculous price. The SW did not agree to sell it back to them.
Tell me,who said they should listen to one drunk yard that later ran away. Your run away dead Ojujwu Hero..
Well, I trust my well most informed Igbo brothers of today. If that kind of stupid call comes up again, they will surely ignore not even today where people work very hard to make ends meet. One drunkard will now tell me to go back to SE because they’re about forming their own NATION??
We are more advance than this… Plus last thing, we know where this threat is coming from.. The AngloZionist Empire.
Leo Churchill TIMELINE:1959: Election resultsNorthern People’s congress 134NCNC(Zik) 81AG(AWO) 73The Northerners did not want independence, but Zik form coalition with them, to become the first president.
YOU FORCED THE UNION BECAUSE MAJORITY OF IGBOS WERE LIVING IN THE NORTH, WHERE ZIK, OJUKWU AND NZEOGWU WERE BORN. GOWON GAVE YOU CENTRAL EASTERN STATE AND CREATED CROSS RIVERS AND RIVERS STATE, JUST A DAY BEFORE YOU FORCED YOUR BIAFRA ON PEOPLE IN PORT HARCOURT…
Leo Churchill The cause of the civil war was the ethnic cleansing of non igbo civilian and military leaders by igbo officers and the subsequent counter coup by another Igbo man Ironsi, who stopped regional government and did not try the coup plotters. Igbo people are too paranoid to see that they are mere wanderers occupying space in other parts of Nigeria.
Mis-guided streets youths dwelling in ancensral stupidity. Tell me why this demand for self-rule was not made when Jonathan was there in all his 6 wasteful years of mis-rule ? We all massively voted for dis Jonathan in 2011 & I cann,t remember him been the president of biafra. Today jona is back in his village enjoying his lootings. The igbo youths who wanted to delete themselves for his sake suld feel free doing so.
gowon is absolutely right. instead of this pple championing the move to make the region and enviable place for other region to look at they busy lazing around.