When a man could not look you in the face and say the truth but will only wait until you are no more, it's then left for you to imagine if that man can ever in his lifetime say the truth. This is exactly the case of the Nigerian war time General, Yakubu Gowan.
Yakubu Gowon, a retired general, has accused Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who led eastern Nigeria in an unsuccessful secession bid in 1967, of misrepresenting the Aburi Accord to Nigerians.
An accord was reached at a meeting held between January 4-5, 1967, in Aburi, a Ghanaian town, between delegates of the federal military government and the now defunct eastern region as part of efforts to prevent the looming civil war in the aftermath of the 1966 military coups. Ojukwu, then a colonel and governor of the eastern region, had returned from Aburi announcing that it had been agreed that the country should adopt confederalism a political system in which every region would essentially be a country on its own with only a symbolic national government........................
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