The Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, has responded to a claim by ex-military head of state, Yakubu Gowon, that late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu caused the Biafra common war.
IPOB asked Mr. Gowon to quit putting forth "false" expressions against the late warlord. The gathering denounced Mr. Gowon of having the inclination of mutilating history, particularly as it concerned the common war.
Mr. Gowon had as of late in a meeting with AIT Television said "Ojukwu's falsehoods caused the common war in the nation in the vicinity of 1967 and 1970."
He made the claim while giving understanding into what occurred at the Aburi Conference, in Ghana, met to determine the war.
He claimed that the common war broke in light of the fact that Ojukwu went on TV and gave his record of the Aburi Accord, which was at difference with what was settled upon; along these lines misdirecting the general population of Biafra to go to war against the Federal Government.
In any case, IPOB in an announcement by its Media and Publicity Officer, Emma Powerful, depicted Mr. Gowon's remark as "add up to deception from the mouth of a hater."
"At the ready seniority of 83 and with the little window God has left open to him to apologize and demonstrate regret, Yakubu Gowon has continueed to trick himself with his bunch of deception", the announcement incompletely read,
"It was the Labor Party administration of Britain that shrewdly persuaded the Arewa North to put weight on Gowon to fake ailment, consequently making it troublesome for him to tell the nation what was concurred in Aburi in light of the fact that they were not happy with the understanding.
"Today, Gowon, whom we are persuaded is a determined Christian, has said he couldn't talk when he came back from Aburi on the grounds that he was sick. Question is: Was his data serve additionally sick? Were all administration's representatives in Lagos likewise down with disease while made it troublesome for Lagos to make a declaration on Aburi Agreement a little while after the meeting?"
The gathering said "Mr. Gowon's endeavor to rework history would have worked had IPOB not been in presence."
Likewise responding to Gowon's cases, a previous clergyman of avionics, Femi Fani-Kayode, kept up that late Ojukwu consented to the terms came to at Aburi.
Portraying Mr. Gowon's comment as false, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain focused on that the previous head of state reneged on the assention upon his arrival to Nigeria from Ghana.
In a tweet on his Twitter handle, Mr. Fani-Kayode stated: "Gen. Yakubu Gowon, a senior statesman said Ojukwu caused the common war by lying about what happened in Aburi. This is false. Ojukwu told no lie. Gowon consented to every one of the terms in Aburi yet when he returned home, he reneged on the assention. This is the thing that prompted the common war."
After more than 50 years of the Nigerian Civil War, otherwise called the Biafra war, where thousands kicked the bucket, the Nnamdi Kanu - drove IPOB is as yet requesting a Biafran state.
IPOB asked Mr. Gowon to quit putting forth "false" expressions against the late warlord. The gathering denounced Mr. Gowon of having the inclination of mutilating history, particularly as it concerned the common war.
Mr. Gowon had as of late in a meeting with AIT Television said "Ojukwu's falsehoods caused the common war in the nation in the vicinity of 1967 and 1970."
He made the claim while giving understanding into what occurred at the Aburi Conference, in Ghana, met to determine the war.
He claimed that the common war broke in light of the fact that Ojukwu went on TV and gave his record of the Aburi Accord, which was at difference with what was settled upon; along these lines misdirecting the general population of Biafra to go to war against the Federal Government.
In any case, IPOB in an announcement by its Media and Publicity Officer, Emma Powerful, depicted Mr. Gowon's remark as "add up to deception from the mouth of a hater."
"At the ready seniority of 83 and with the little window God has left open to him to apologize and demonstrate regret, Yakubu Gowon has continueed to trick himself with his bunch of deception", the announcement incompletely read,
"It was the Labor Party administration of Britain that shrewdly persuaded the Arewa North to put weight on Gowon to fake ailment, consequently making it troublesome for him to tell the nation what was concurred in Aburi in light of the fact that they were not happy with the understanding.
"Today, Gowon, whom we are persuaded is a determined Christian, has said he couldn't talk when he came back from Aburi on the grounds that he was sick. Question is: Was his data serve additionally sick? Were all administration's representatives in Lagos likewise down with disease while made it troublesome for Lagos to make a declaration on Aburi Agreement a little while after the meeting?"
The gathering said "Mr. Gowon's endeavor to rework history would have worked had IPOB not been in presence."
Likewise responding to Gowon's cases, a previous clergyman of avionics, Femi Fani-Kayode, kept up that late Ojukwu consented to the terms came to at Aburi.
Portraying Mr. Gowon's comment as false, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain focused on that the previous head of state reneged on the assention upon his arrival to Nigeria from Ghana.
In a tweet on his Twitter handle, Mr. Fani-Kayode stated: "Gen. Yakubu Gowon, a senior statesman said Ojukwu caused the common war by lying about what happened in Aburi. This is false. Ojukwu told no lie. Gowon consented to every one of the terms in Aburi yet when he returned home, he reneged on the assention. This is the thing that prompted the common war."
After more than 50 years of the Nigerian Civil War, otherwise called the Biafra war, where thousands kicked the bucket, the Nnamdi Kanu - drove IPOB is as yet requesting a Biafran state.
IPOB asked Mr. Gowon to quit putting forth "false" expressions against the late warlord
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