Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has dismissed threat of Nigeria’s unity as he also said that with Biafra it is finished.
General Yakubu Gowon made this statement recently in reaction to the resent protests by some youths.
General Yakubu Gowon, former head of state in Nigeria, said that Nigerians have put behind them the bad memories of the 1967 civil war, and that those behind these protests on Biafra don’t have an inkling what the Biafra war cost Nigerians.
The former head of state speaking in Lafia, the Nasarwa State capital shortly after a malaria eradication campaign questioned that ‘do they want us to go to another war? but hoped and I prayed to God that such should not happen.’
He also went further to say that those involved in this campaign were being driven by just a few people and that majority of the Igbo people do not share the same views.
Despite the fact that the protesters have the right to express their feelings according to the constitution of the country, He still stated that“with Biafra it is finished‘''let them say their views, yes it is democracy but lets make sure they can express their wishes and desires.
He further said that keeping Nigeria one was behind all that he did and not for hatred for the Igbos as that was what Odumegwu Ojukwu also stood for.
All I did is not a result of hatred against the Igbos but on the principle of keeping Nigeria one and this is all we are trying to do and that was why at the end of the war in other to see that there is no heard feeling we used the term no victor no vanquished
I have said if there is anything of this sort anywhere in any part of the country just like the problem of Boko Haram we should deal with it, Nigeria should deal with it in matured way .
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Title : With Biafra War, Nigeria is finished, says General Yakubu Gowon
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