Biafra: At 90 you’re expected to tell the truth – Obidigbo slams Gowon over autobiography

Elder statesman and convener of the Igbochukwu Organisation, Dr Chike Obidigbo, has expressed regret that Nigeria’s erstwhile caput of state, retired General Yakubu Gowon, intentionally omitted the cardinal truths regarding the genocide against the Igbos during the Nigeria versus Biafra warfare from 1967 to 1970.

He stated that astatine the property of 90, the erstwhile Head of State should person taken a cue from erstwhile subject President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida by addressing each the webs of deceit oregon uncertainty surrounding the events that led to his struggle with Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, soon aft the Aburi Accord was established.

He emphasised that helium and different Nigerian elders, including Ibrahim Babangida, Olusegun Obasanjo, Theophilus Danjuma, and President Bola Tinubu, should person recognised by present that it is imperative to halt misleading the younger generation, peculiarly arsenic they attack the extremity of their lives.

Obidigbo, who mentioned that helium took clip to bespeak connected the important humanities lessons presented successful Gowon’s ‘My Life of Duty & Allegiance’ earlier making his remarks, observed that the full biography resembled a bid communicative designed to bespeak a idiosyncratic stance connected the contentious issues that contributed to Nigeria’s troubled framework.