ELDER statesman and convener of Igbochukwu Organisation, Dr Chike Obidigbo, has regretted that Nigeria’s former head of state, retired General Yakubu Gowon, deliberately kept away the basic truths about the genocide against Igbo during the 1967 to 1970 Nigeria versus Biafra war.
He said that at 90, the former Head of State should have emulated former military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida by clearing all cobwebs of deceit or doubts about the events that culminated in his disagreement with Lt Col Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, shortly after they reached the Aburi Accord.
He said he and other Nigeria Elders such as Ibrahim Babangida; Oluesgun Obasano, Theophilus Danjuma, as well as President Bola Tinubu, ought to have learnt by now that we cannot continue to deceive the younger generation, especially now at their twilight ages.
Obidigbo, who said he waited to digest the salient historical lessons contained in Gowon’s “My Life of Duty
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