Aburi Accord: What really happened in Ghana in January 1967?
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- On January 4 and 5, 1967, delegates and representatives from both the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Eastern Region, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Emeka Ojukwu, met in Aburi, Ghana to agree on what is now known as the Aburi Accord.
The meeting at Aburi was supposed to be the last opportunity to avoid any conflict or civil war. Unfortunately, it was not to be.
So, what really happened in Aburi in 1967 that eventually led to the Nigerian Civil War? This is the full story… #HistoryVille #AburiAccord
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Video Credits: Nigeria History Channel, Adeyinka Makinde
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:50 The Genesis of the Aburi Accord
02:18 The Significance of the July 29,1966, Coup
03:36 On the Road to Aburi
05:05 The Significance of Aburi
06:18 The Brothers’ Palaver
07:30 Why the Aburi Accord Failed
10:10 The Role of the Permanent Secretaries
14:07 Decree No. 8
18:52 Why Nigeria’s 12 states were created
21:08 Ojukwu Declares Biafra
23:18 Gowon announces the creation of Nigeria’s 12 states
26:44 Gowon announces the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War
27:50 Philip Effiong declares an end to the Republic of Biafra
28:44 Next Video
Ojukwu was really an Igbo man to the core. We deeply rever you. You're forever our legend.
Great work HistoryVille! Comparing Ojukwu's demeanor with Gowon's, you would know he meant business and wasn't in Aburi to play. He came with a great retinue of legal, political and economic experts. A great lesson for leadership, you don't come to the negotiating table unprepared and laughing casually after making far reaching decisions
These videos are epic to anyone studying leadership and power. While Gowon was in a conciliatory mood, laughing awkwardly, back slapping ojukwu in a patronizing manner, Ojukwu was cool, standoffish, indirectly posturing that he was still superior to these young officers. The others came unprepared, aiming for a brotherly, off the cuff negotiation, ojukwu was well prepared, had done his homework and did not come to play. In the end he got what he came for and the Gowon delegates only realized what they signed for after the wine had cleared from their eyes and they had returned home. They signed an agreement they couldn't keep, paving the way for further events that led to the war.
Will u compare gowon to a superior intelligence
The events which led to the civil war started long before Aburi.
People were being killed in the country for 6 months and leaders are out there to just drink wine and slapping backs?? 🤡
Na the nonsense hyping dey always spoil what is suppose to be a good analysis. 😂
Aburi is a non issue. The main issue is what led to Aburi . Nobody sent those folks to write a new constitution for Nigeria. When you get everything you want in a negotiation it means the other party was cheated . The aim of negotiation is for each party to lose somethings and gain something. From this viewpoint Ojukwu was not an honest broker . He got everything and the other parties got nothing. This is the character of the Igbos . For them to win the other party has to loose . There is no win win in their culture.
Ojukwu strong man
Can't stop the red light
Rugged...
Very good video, the depth of what happened before the civil war was never well explored in school
"No power in africa can stop us". Im stunned by the scale Ojukwu's hubris here. At the time he made d statement, his Biafra's army was numerically outnumbered, outgunned, outmanned, and the western powers especially the United Kingdom were backing Nigeria's army and presumably would have supplied Gowon's army with modern equipments, tanks, jets, artillery and unlimited credit to buy as many war equipment as needed to crush the rebellion. For anyone that can do simple math and put thier ego aside the defeat was inevitable. Im stunned by his incalculable error that cost millions of lives of his people and further weakened thier position within Nigeria. Its an unfortunate tragedy. On a sidenote, Gowon was a fool for not reading documents he was signing at the Aburi accords. As a leader, his failure to pay attention to the details Aburi accords contributed to the misunderstanding that precipitated the war.
It’s not Ojukwus fault Gowon didn’t read the documents. If you sign a binding document, you don’t go back and say no am not honouring it because I don’t like the terms I signed.
Ojukwu was factually correct. He said no power in Africa. The United Kingdom and Russia are not African. Initially the war was a stalemate when Britain remained somewhat neutral militarily. Actually the rebel forces handed the federal Nigerian forces several defeats in battle
The same root jihadi kanu is taking. It seems igbo had not learnt any lesson from that stupid and blind support for ojukwu who led them to mass suicide. Unfortunately no single immediate ojukwu families suffered in that war. As a matter of fact he came back to live large while Philip Effiong his deputy wallowed in abject poverty.
His successor Nnamdi Kanu took the hubris to the next level, threatening to march 2 million men to Abuja too come back with the head of Buhari. At least Ojukwu had experience as a military officer with troops under his command: this Kanu initiated an insurgency/armed struggle without even stopping to count the cost of war.
Lolllll.... Why take tablet for our headache??? Your hatred for the Igbos would be ur down fall
You're great man, my friend. Thanks for the documentation!
Thank you @historyville.
Good one.
You promised us more of Nigerian history this year.
So I am expecting more.
Thank you once again.
Imo Gowan agreed to the terms but then he got a phone call from Downing Street telling him to go back his words promising him military support
Analysis soo apt and great. Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Ojukwu did not ‘claim’, he was really not safe anywhere outside eastern Nigeria.
He (Gowon) declared a State of Emergency in the East, which according to Aburi was unconstitutional since only the unified Military Council could do that. In the same hour he published a decree abolishing the regions dividing Nigeria into twelve states, also unconstitutional since the constitution (pre-Aburi and still in force) required multi-lateral consultation on internal border changes…”
---------- Frederick Forsyth in his book “Emeka”, page 91, first published in 1982.
👏👏👏
Desperate times required desperate measures my friend.
And we are supposed to rely on a book by Forsyth? A military regime in and of itself is "unconstitutional". Same with Ojukwu's call for secession.
@@naturalblockade3412I wonder o. Ojukwu declaration of Biafra Republic was unconstitutional in itself and Gowon did well to make peace effort.
Frederick Forsyth was one of the tools used by the west to goad Ojukwu. He was Ojukwu’s classmate at Oxford. Was the military coup that overthrew the constitution unconstitutional? Yes .These illiterates are at it again. Talking about constitutional issues in a military regime. These Igbos understand nothing except the pampering of Ojukwu’s ego . The so called book written by Ojukwu is nothing but an exercise in self adulation and tribal jingoism. It is self serving and unscholarly.
The Biafran Revolution stands firmly against Genocide - against any attempt to destroy a people, its security, its right to life, property and progress. Any attempt to deprive a community of its identity is abhorrent to the Biafran people. Having ourselves suffered genocide, we are all the more determined to take a clear stand now and at all times against this crime.
------ Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in Ahiara Declaration in Ahiara, Biafra, Sunday June 1, 1969.
“…We continued to invest in Nigeria, and placed all our security of life as well as of property in the hands of Nigerian government and Nigerian Constitution. In 1966 our folly became real tragedy when massacre followed massacre in May, June, July, August, September and October of that year. We lost over 30,000 of our kith and kin. We had to resettle over 2 million refugees, our people who had fled from all parts of Nigeria.”
------------ Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Biafran Leader, at the OAU Conference August 5, 1968.
The Aburi accord remains the solution to Nigeria problems
No Sir . The Igbos should leave Nigeria. That is the only solution I see going forward. Nobody sent Gowon and Ojukwu to Aburi to rewrite Nigerian constitution. We had a constitution that guaranteed regional autonomy . This was overturned by Igbo officers.
What was agreed in Aburi which Gowon turned 360 degree to trash is the same regional autonomy/restructuring South-West leaders are clamoring today.
It is also what the Western region had been proposing in the 1940s and 50s which Zik opposed arguing to the British colonialist that it would lead to Nigeria's disintegration. Eventually, after gaining power, Ironsi dissolved region govt centralising Nigeria into what Gowon inherited, what we have today. That horrible Decree of Gen Aguiyi Ironsi's (Decree 34) was drafted by Prof. Ben Nwabueze. Yorubas had nothing to do with this!
@@TheLynx8888 Centralisation of power is a characteristic of Military rule everywhere it has been practiced in the world. It was bound to happen.
Gowon on the other hand destroyed the Regional system through his creation of 12 states in which he appointed Military governors in each of the states. This was practically intended to split Ojukwus power as military governor of the Eastern Region.
@@TheLynx8888 The person who advised Gowon against the Aburi accord for regional autonomy is Edo man, not a Yoruba. But Yoruba elites supported Gowon on his decision to thrash the accord. The idea of regional autonomy was accepted depending on who proposed it 😂. If Zick was against regional autonomy, Aguiyi Ironsi's policy could be influenced by Zickism
@@noblealbert.5075 you're intentionally skipping the point. Military centralise power, yes. But was the Military introduced to Nigeria polity by the Yoruba or the North? Let me help you. Is Aguyi Ironsi from? From what region were the bulk of the leaders of the ill-fated Janury 1966 coup from - the West or North even? Secondly, Decree 34 was all about dissolving regional govt. That was the first and only restructuring that has taken place in Nigeria. Creation of states is irrelevant, because power has remained centralised. The difficulty for some is that those who centralised power were replaced by others. Subsequently Yorubas were forced to make a choice and they picked one Nigeria. However they have always (since 1940s) maintained regionalism.
guys lets not make this tribal as we often try to do.
I don't know what joke Gen. Gowon made at 9:11 but judging from the reactions of the men in the background it must have been very funny, it even managed to get a smile out of Ojukwu.
That said, it is visible in the general body language displayed that the only serious person at Aburi was Ojukwu, the others were just about laughter and merry making. Sadly, the events that ensued afterwards were disastrous.
Of all the key players, GOWON is the only one alive today!!!
He is alive for a reason!!! The world is waiting upon him to come clean and TALK THE TRUTH before he joins the ancestors!!!
Buhari is Alive babangida is alive danjuma a.and others.
@@abbakanokano5499Were these people at ABURI, GHANA?
@@angelicakweku5293 yes
They we all see Biafra and die
@abbakanokano5499
They wasn't at the ABURI CONFERENCE IN GHANA......
When the war started, there was not a single weapon either in a store or anywhere throughout Biafra. They only had knives and cutlasses. No gun, no bomb, no nothing. In the first year of the war, the Nigerian government captured the coastal city of Port Harcourt and imposed a blockade, which cut food supplies to Biafra. Many Igbo still feel sidelined in Nigerian politics, as since the civil war no-one from the ethnic group has become president. Increasing cries of marginalisation have led in recent years to the emergence of Igbo groups agitating once again for secession, particularly the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), formed by UK-based British-Nigerian Nnamdi Kanu. Now we're here to remember all. up till now Nigeria government have done nothing about the war and the killings of the igbo.👎🤐💔😱🙄🤔😭🔋🌞
Gowon was always like a man that feels inferior to ojukwu's standard and personality the British knew it and quickly came to his aid in order to maintain their strong hold on the country they created
That's indisputably the truth 👍👍👍
Being humble doesn't mean weakness or inferiority. Ojukwu led over 1 million Ibos to the slaughter and ran away to Ivory Coast. That civil war was avoidable. We gained nothing from it. Rather we're more marginalised before. No member of Ojukwu's household died in that war. You people stop making inflammatory statements
@@israelsamuel7764 You gain Free Niger Delta Oil money and your leaders shared the Oil Wells you conquered. You also got Sharia autonomy and power to unleash havoc to innocent people. What else do u wanna gain?
@@israelsamuel7764 Ojukwu led East Consultative Assembly to "choose" from the 3 options available after Gowon refused to honour the agreement of Aburi.
I advise and encourage you to kill the bias within. Kill the bias!
Yeah
This was the begining of northern domination, after the senseless war, we became a conquared people till date
It was caused by the selfish interest of one Edo man just to secure his job as Fed Permanent Secretary - How One Bad Apple can spoil the whole Basket
Lolll... The rest of the Nigerian regions lost their powers to the North after this
The North never truly wanted one Nigeria even under British colonial rule. They accept the current Nigeria entity because they were able to maneuver themselves into the Nigerian leadership due to the West's inability to understand the long-term consequence of their support for the North thereby dividing the whole South in two (West & East). The misrule by the North in the last 50 years shows they lack truthful engagement in the success of a TRUE NIGERIAN COUNTRY...
I am with you on this line of thought! 👍🏽
Finally someone that gets it ..the west has started so many things in Nigeria history yet never mentioned
@@lawalhakeem6734 The West as part of the victors helped to write history for the next generations. Putting hate in West youths against the East was a terrible strategy for the past decades. The truth is then forgotten and only hate survives. It seems that the West are doing it again concerning the 2023 elections as the North know that they will fall into the trap but the North is ready...don't be surprise if the North backs the East for 2023 presidency....typical divide and rule..
@@respartner100 victors writes the rules, also believe the yoruba learnt from when the north and east United against them. The message was clear team up and get what you want rather than fighting foolishly
Have you spoke to a yoruba person in there mid 80s about what dey think its shocking
@@respartner100 I do want 1 Nigeria but maybe trying to win primaries should be the first step before this 2023 shout everywhere
Also an abolishing of the state of origin rubbish it should be state of birth as its contributing to the sentiments remaining
Ojukwu isn’t even eating or really drinking, he can’t even take his eyes off the opposition
My dear, not with the pogrom and mass of Igbos in the North before this conference.
as in.. the man didn't go there to play
Because the lives of his people was important to him and he did not trust the men he was dealing with just as history has proven immediately afterwards.
A man whose house is on fire doesn't pursue rat my brother
@@andrewjohn5692 And history has proven Ojukwu excellently right today as we write.
Forbidden history unearthed against the sophistory of ignorance and escapism. Viva Negritude Banner!
Today Gowon came to understand that the Fulanis used him.
The end justifies the means...we have now had more than 50 years of majorly Northern dominated polity in Nigeria...So far from what I can see, the first coup was warranted. Perhaps the soldiers that plotted the coup saw the future of Nigeria and realised that if they did not intervene, Nigeria will one day be the poverty capital of the world
They were right!
the southwest has ruled more than any other region in Nigeria. and no the first coup was a tribal-based coup it seek to install Igbo as the dominant people in Nigeria's politics but they were stupid and didn't realise that diplomacy would have been a far better option
@@agberodongetinternet8651 You're factually wrong. The first coup was set in motion to reinstall Awolowo, who was in prison by that time. But the coup failed, and Aguiyi ironsi was the highest ranking at the time, and automatically became the first Head of State. Read good books, not propaganda
@@agberodongetinternet8651
Ok...so you're basically saying the whole Nigeria should keep suffering based on what should have happened. You need psychiatric evaluation
@@agberodongetinternet8651 yes the soldiers behind the coup were Igbos, may be a total of 30 to 50 soldiers. So does this justify the over 2 million innocent civilian that were killed. Your unjust mind and wickedness is what holds Nigeria back. Keep being myopic
@@agberodongetinternet8651 the first coup was not a tribal coup, although unfortunately it looked but that was never the intent from the get go.
Thanks
Ojukwu looks like a movie character. Very dramatic
Nigeria cannot be a country in its current form without a well formulated restructuring. As an Igbo, i am not happy that Igbos are accepting the other tribes'' typical nonchalant attitude towards responsibility and leadership failures. The longer Igbos stay in the present Nigeria - the more we lose our Igbo culture.
“…why Gowon HAD to break his promise.” Who picked that guy for head of state?
😂😂😂.
Ironsi picked him! The whole Nigeria's problems started from drunkard Ironsi. Y'all suffering from what Ironsi and Azikiwe did to all of us in the Southern Nigeria. The main reason no other tribes trust Igbos.
Gowon taking de whole meat in both meal... while ojukwu...took de watery meal and get focused on what he's there for cudos to we bihafrans...we must be victorious in time soon
The reason for oil wells
Now I know why Nigeria is in a total Mess .
Gown is still alive he should be able to tell the world why he changed the agreement they have at Ghana,is it he did not understand the English language is Ghana or when he came back to Nigeria who advices him or who interpreted the documents that now led to war
There should be a movie about the aburi accord.
"The creation of the 12-states structure by Col. Gowon on May 27, 1967 was an act of expediency aimed primarily at completing their siege of Ndi-Igbo and frustrating their survival and struggle for Self-determination. It dismembered the Igbos as they were split into fragments and put into different non-Igbo states. Thus, there were Ndi-Igbo of Portharcourt, Ahoada, Ikwerre/Etche divisions placed into Rivers State, Ndi-Igbo of Asaba, Aboh and Ika placed in the Mid-West, some other Ndi-Igbo from Azumini and Opobo put in Cross-river state. The rest of Ndi-Igbo were isolated and land-locked into East Central State. This act was calculated to paralyze Ndi-Igbo and incite our neighbors against us."
---- Ohaneze at Oputa Panel October 1999.
Does anyone know where exactly in aburi the meeting was held
Yakubu gowon should have opted for a renegotiation. But then Gowon seem to being controlled possibly by Britain
There was no space for that before ojukwu invaded Nigeria.
@@gentlemanedotv you had your history backward. Ojukwu calling back igbos (after he initially told them to go back to the various places they ran back from, telling them that everything has been settled and they government will protect them) because the government abandoned them and allowed for their killing in various parts of Nigeria to you means invasion? Who brought war machine and troops and made the first shot in declaration of a needless war? Nigeria. So learned your history please
If Ojukwu would have just accepted the decree 8 although with its faults,maybe atleast the regions would have been saved and they would not have been any war that cost so many lives.
In fact, if Ojukwu had accepted Decree No. 8, Nigeria would have broken up without a single shot being fired going by the contents of that Decree.
@@HistoryVille If one Edo man Erediauwa could influence Gowon to trash the agreement, what makes you think he wouldn't have done the same against the Decree 8?
@@HistoryVille or maybe not. Perhaps we would have competed agmosts ourselves and built nations within a nation, each known for their distinctive capabilities, still with no bloodshed. Thanks for the good work. I enjoy your videos
@@africanday7337 first of all you do t have that facts. Gowon never stated that, and there was no Edo then, it was Midwest region. U really think at of all Gowon's ministers, u guys only singled out our Great Oba? With no proof. What a joke.
@@africanday7337 exactly, in hindsight we can try to blame ojukwu for the war but the realities on ground suggest otherwise, the northern oligarchs and henchmen
behind the scenes wanted war at any cost.
blood had been shed and regardless of what ojukwu agreed to, they had secretly sworn this would be the outcome.
i don't blame ojukwu one bit, infact if the entire south had stood as one, we ALL, inclusive of the north would not be in the mess we are in today.
The Aburi accord still remain the solution to the problem of Nigerians judging from what we the new generations have seen and studied. Secondly, the West now understand that they are to have Oduduwa Or Yoruba Nation in other to grow. Is this not what King Ojukwu who saw tomorrow tried to teach the foolish people leading then. Ojukwu tied everything to school our fore father's both North , South, East and West. Can you still see anyone who is as brilliant as Ojukwu today? Yes, Sunday Igboho and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, they both have solution to Nigerian sickness today just allow them and see. Now back to Gowon and TY Danjuma they fought and shed Igbo people blood to give power to "Fools" today we know how foolish they were. Remember Ken Sarowiwa and his likes that bites their Master helper to gaining freedom they were neutralised and cut shot by same people they supported. Believe me, Nigerians have signed Nigeria to be Fools paradise 🙈
“It was agreed at Aburi that the army be subordinate to the supreme military council as a body (i.e. collegiate leadership) and that the council would have a chairman who would also be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Head of the federal military. On the 26th (of January 1967) Gowon rejected this out of hand. He said the agreement took the control of the army out of his hands…to the council.”
----------------- Frederick Forsyth in his book “Emeka” page 88, published 1982.
Don't think only Igbos were the only tribe who died from the war, the Northerns died too and there were even more casualties in the North more than the east after the war even until date.
But no one is talking about it.
More casualties of the Northerners?
Are you joking
Please Explain
What are the backups to this long story? Not the original transcript, nor short videos, portraying Ojukwu as deceiving Gowon.
Exactly, the clip is designed to vilify Ojukwu as the villain and portray Gowon as a generous gentleman
@@africanday7337 exactly. But we know the truth
Look at Ojukwu body,s language, ignoring Gowon friendly gesture to him. At the end of the process, he was the one that bolts out like a rabbit escaping from a secret hole. Proud before the fall was Ojukwu fate.
🤦🤦 did you think of the aftermath of the decree 8. Democratic government will be difficult to achieve except if the supreme council changes the rule again..
You forgot that he was there on a mission,did you forget that before that meetings igbos were being killed all across Nigeria in which many of them traveled down to East,why should there leader come there and be all smiles,they are there to trash a problem and find a common agreement,you think if Putin should ever have a meeting with Ukrainian president,you think the presidents will come there smiling?
Fact
Ojukwu miscalculated greatly and was probably blinded by thought of controlling the oil wealth. Gowon gave him a generous offer that meant regions acted like a form of united nations security council and Ojukwu reject it? The proposal meant that three regions have to support the FG in taking action like declaring state of emergency, against a forth region. That is a very balanced system to me. Igbos would kill to have such a deal today. But I still think that proposal would have had issues with transitioning Nigeria to a democratic government, especially if some regions decide to oppose becoming a democratic government. Maybe the war was always inevitable.
You are saying total rubbish. Why must we even remain as one country in the first place? We have been existing for thousands of years on our own before the White people joined us together as a country. Are the White people our God? Think deep for once dummy
@@stevenwilliams3015 how do you think nations are formed? Flower throwing ceremonies?
Just because you prefer to breakup does not mean others do. That is the reason many nations are together, not because some groups within it did not prefer to go separately. So Nigeria is what we have now, wasting time trying to breakup is wrong, better to get almost all you want as a separate nation within Nigeria. Remember for an Igbo man, it’s not all negative to operate from inside Nigeria instead of being in a separate land locked country.
I don't get why you people from other regions bring up this landlocked rubbish when the Igbos want seperate ways. I mean it's none of your business. There are lots of countries doing well while surrounding by others. Yoruba can remain with the Fulanis
@@kaluuzoma8614 So getting a tag called a 'country' is more important to you than what access your people have to anything? Do you think being a country makes all the issues go away? The Fulanis will still remain there and the Yorubas will be there, just that now it would be international issue. Countries are also under control on regional, continental and world organizations. Nations are only as powerful or successful as there surround countries and others around the world allow them to be. Even the US needs others to be a superpower. So your dream of nationhood of prosperity is an illusion because you have been conditioned to think that way. Your lands are not occupied or out of your control. As a matter of FACT, the Igbo lands are the most homogeneous in Nigeria because most other Nigerians do not settle there compared to the North or the West or the South South. Yet you are the ones that think you have being controlled the most. Some Igbos claim marginalization but what they really mean is marginalization in terms of federal government positions and this is TRUE but so do the Igbos dominate other sectors of the country. Igbos do not hear others complaining and demanding separation. The South South barely has anything to show for the destruction of their ecosystem and wealth generated for the country, yet the Igbos are the ones crying out the loudest about injustice. Maybe if the Igbos had sympathised with the South South in the first place, they would have had support for separation. Till date, most Igbo dismiss the South South as being part of Biafra or irrelevant. You see what I mean? Its a waste of time talking about separation because the Igbo will simply do to the South South what they accuse others of doing to them. This is why one of the reasons I consider talk of separate as a precious waste of breath because there are too many argument of pitfalls against it.
This article didn't include the evil role most of the south south especially the water regions contributed to the destruction of the east during and after the war. Perhaps if they had stopped that abandoned property agenda and did better, the Igbos would have sympathized more with them. You can see the GEJ government. The SE was the only other region to vote fully for him, which I know fully well the SS won't do for an Igbo man if it was him. And again the SS are mainly responsible for the destruction of their region by doing bonkery activities. The way you see the youths in SS run into bonkery is something else, very terrible. Now the soot is something else. So you can see that the SE is more of a friend to the SS than the SS are more of a friend to the SE
Yakubu Gowon, in conspiracy with other northern officers, murdered Major-General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, his supreme military commander and Nigeria's head of state and government, former Commander of the United Nations Peace-Keeping Mission in Congo and first African to lead such mission, doing so creditably and excellently. Ironsi, a distinguished career military officer appointed Gowon as army chief. He attained his position by merit untainted by what later became Nigeria's endemic ethnic favouritism that spawned mediocrity and gross incompetence in governance. Yakubu Gowon was a conspiratorial partner to the mass killings of Easterners, particularly Igbos and Eastern Officers and military personnel throughout Nigeria, except the Eastern region, prior to and after the ethno-regional counter coup of July 29, 1966. This genocide led by Gowon and cohorts totally employed the military might of the nation in personnel and equipment, in violation of the protective constitutional role of Nigerian citizens, in the gruesome slaughter of about 100,000 Nigerians of Eastern region extraction.
Biafra must stand...God bless odumegwu ojukwu , mnk and mse
Who imprisoned Awolowo and how released him from prison?
Gowon is such s liar
Oba Ereduwa the second was the one who explained comprehensively the treaty Gowon signed in Ghana. Further notifying him to debunk the agreement en claim the meet was inconsequential. Chaii ILLITERATE Gowon en group. This prompted the war
The implications of this is the resason Nigerains are suffering today this is too bad of Gowon, He should've been jailed for all the wrong decisions he made as a président that led to the death of millions of Nigerians during the war, even till date.
That which the leader in Aburi never attended will be attended by Baifran Government In exile.
What was agreed upon at Aburi was a Confederation in disguise . Even the Decree 8 pronounced by Gowon after the Aburi meeting (Not that of state Creation) to implement some of the agreement reached would have led to the disintegration of Nigeria when implemented. Ojukwu should have been patient to see the Gowon decree implementation first .
Ojukwu's megalomaniac impatient and Gowon's ambivalence all led to the senseless civil war . However, Ojukwu displayed a rare level of courage to have declared a secession knowing well he has no Army nor Military Equipment to Match the Nigerian Federal Army.
The dominance of the Hausa-Fulani tribe today in the affairs of Nigeria was first initiated by the British colonialists at independence and further entrenched by Gen. Aguyi Ironsi Unitary decree to centralize the civil service of the country then dominated by his Igbo Tribe but backfired to Favour the Northern region after his death.
May Nigeria learn from the mistakes of his leaders because of selfish ambitions and nepotism.
Ur points are quite lucid.👌 Just to add that though Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi had centralized the country, the disintegration of the regional govt started with the creation of state under Gowon’s government.
Is that the reason why history was removed from the curriculum?
Stop saying that ojukwu was impatience, instead of you to blame the person that refuse to do the agreement of the meeting and you are here supporting evil, let me tell you what goes around must surely come around, what igbo went true you owns will be more than that
I still don't understand why Biafrans not seeing internationally and locally, to force Nigerian government to carry out what was agreed inability.
Ojokwu did but the whole world turned against him because of what they’re gaining from one Nigeria,they’re people that told gown not to agree on that, the same people supplied Nigeria weapons to fight Biafras…
The good thing about the this trap calld one Nigeria is that all people who is against Biafra to emerge as a country , hopefully they’re still enjoying their one Nigeria? And Fulani and bandit killing most reach to household one by one, they will not escape Fulani killing!
I am tempted to believe that Gowon either did not grab an in-depth understanding of the situation confronting him or wrongly assumed that Ojuku will not Cross the red line it was only after he had returned to Lagos and the implications of the deal he had signed was made clear to him then suddenly he realized it was wise to depend on experience professionals .He did just that and bull dozed his way through the storm- Why on Earth does on go to a meeting as critical as this without your experienced relevant civil servant . African are fond of taking serious issues for granted hoping that problems will sort themselves up. Thank God he stopped playing the big brother and acted
The narration at 1.17 minute is FALSE
Only one of the soldiers were from the South East - Major Ifeajuna. Kaduna Nzeogwu is from Delta state, a region that Nigeria does not recognize as South east.
Major Ademoyega, capt Adeleke, Lt. Oyewole, lt Olafemiyan were Yoruba men. The rest were from middle belt, South south, North - Hause, Fulani.
Then how long would they keep on fighting the war, why can't us go our separate ways as the country isn't working
The Edo man Erediauwa caused the civil war. Very ignorant or out of selfish interest to secure his job. He didn't see the regional autonomy in UK, Canada, Switzerland and Belgium
Finally someone else see the same thing I saw from the video, and he did that out of selfishness, and hatred.
I saw it too my brother, that edo man betrayed his brothers bcus of greediness and selfishness, he wants to keep his position and he betrayed his people 😡😡😡
That Edo man must be a very useless Man....... OMG what a mistake he did
He is not different from Adams Oshiomhole and most Edo men 😂
what autonomy in in uk? maybe you should check the year UK government created devolution of power it was was decades after.
Switzerland is the better examplenor germamy/usa bu5 no africa country can do what Switzerland as we too fractured and tribal
Aburi accord failed due to Gowon's mediocrity and intransigence. He's a typical quota system northerner.
Yet ojukwu greed is such that has never been seen in our world every one of these leaders acted foolishly in greed
@@stephenotens1865 how is Ojukwu greedy? Please explain. Is it because he chose to leave with is people and form their own nation just as how they lived before the White man joined us together? or is it because he decided to leave because of the resources found in the east (their land, their right?) I don't understand your logic
@steven Williams, you can wait forever for your answer cos he got none
@@stephenotens1865igbos never see ojukwu as a greedy man, tell us how and what makes ojukwu a greedy man.
Ojukwu, guy man
No be only aburi if you like stand on iroko
"the International Committee on the investigation of Crimes of genocide whose investigation included interview of 1,082 people representing the two sides of the conflict concluded thus through its investigator (Dr. Mensah of Ghana); "Finally, I am of the opinion that in many of the cases cited to me, hatred of the Biafrans and a wish to exterminate them was a foremost motivational factor."
---- Ohaneze's deposition at Oputa Panel --- Guardian Newspapers Thursday July 26, 2006.
That was his opinion. Opinions are not facts.
One problem with you Nigerians is being too discriminatory in tribe and religion. Okay, you rejected Aburi in 1966 and blamed Ojukwu for been prepared for a summit. Today, you are crying and begging for restructuring. What hatred of Igbo made you to reject in 1966. If Aburi was allowed by now Nigeria would be competing with China and Japan. Penny wise pound foolish.
I mean "Aburi " I the under comment last sentence.
Creation of Nigeria and creation of more states, local governments etc without the peoples consultation or consent. All these illegitimate creations must crumble. Let people decide their associations and boundaries.
Ojukwu did not eat or drink.
Ojukwu ikemba Nnewi, may ur soul keep resting on. But I faulted u by not allowing America access to the oil,in war u must have allies.
@Steven Williams It's Igbo stop. U guys will denied whenever an Igbo man did something wrong. Azikiwe, Aguiyi Ironsi, Baifra soldiers wrong killings in Midwest region and other regions of the country, the coup that lead to the war, the several corrupt senate's presidents, the current killing of Igbos by Igbos in the East..the list goes on. Blame others but never one day will look inwardly. Intellectual gullibility.
Was Nzeogwu the leader of the coup Igbo?
Your state that’s filled with internet fraudsters and international harlots, have you talked about it?
You’re here opening that shit hole to spew gibberish
Your against the Igbos and you don't know what your saying why can't you people say the facts
No Joy
The northern nd southwest both the army and police will suffer in the hands of their own brothers power government
For what they did to my innocent fathers because the easterners mean well for the Nigeria state
It's funny how many are now talking about Biafra without talking about the Midwest region which was already on their own by referendum as at 1963 three years prior to 1966. They also forgets that Midwest was part of Western region not even Eastern region prior to 1963. They pretend to forget that The Great Benin Empire was a country of its own before the colonial masters amalgamated Nigeria which in essence lead to British exiling Oba Ovonramwen nogbaisi and killing millions of Benins and drove out other millions to neighboring location. Another thing they forgot is that General Aguiyi Ironsi did nothing about those Easterners that killed the Northerners which would have resolved the issue. There's an adequate misleading information about this reports. ( The meeting in BENIN (rubber research)). The meeting was held in Benin after the Aburi meeting in Ghana, but to use it to throw blames at The Late Great Oba of Benin Oba Erediauwa His Royal Majesty Omo n'Oba n'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo it's an insult to your journalism. Provide facts and the memo with dates for your news. So, I deem Historyville as fake/biased/opinion based news. if Ojukwu had followed the proper way Nigeria would have split without a second blood dropped but he relays on foreign power and had signed an agreement with the like of France and Russia for oil refinery (agip) and for distribution therefore was supported by Russia and France, and motivated into unjust war instead of peace. The war later killed his own people ( indirectly killed his indigenous)and he regretted it in his entire life.(Never again, he said). greedy and feeling you're smart when you're not which still exist till date! Please read this www.sunnewsonline.com/50-years-after-gowon-opens-up-on-ojukwu-biafra-and-aburi-in-war-memoirs/
It would be pertinent if you could fortify your post with proofs and evidence.
@@wolfgangezeh2221 Where is the evidence on this narrative? the video already online or the narrative by the broadcaster?
Hakeem. Why dont you start your own history channel? Since you are a know-it-all. If your write up is any indication, you will need a good editor to cut our your incoherent and irrelevant side histories. And you are far too pedantic, and emotional about history to give any clear insight to anyone. Cheers!
You should not refute what you don't know, it is true that your so-called late Oba was then the Secretary to the Fed.Govt led by Gowon and he told Gowon to disagree on the agreed Aburi Accord which led to the Civil war. I hope you and your people are also now reaping the seed of discord Akenzuwa sowed that is ravaging Nigeria till today.
@@brightnwadike7565 A typical blame game to others but not to Igbos. Go and sit down, no matter how much you and your people hates us we will always be lions and warriors. We have done nothing but love Igbos which is why no matter the hates it gets to river Niger and returns.
Forced unity is no unity.
The Yorubas are part of the falling of Nigeria and part of the reasons for the war.
Don't trust the yorubas let alone the Hausa
The reporter here is very biased. Who knows the tribe he came from. This is not an objective report at all. This is where the problem of Nigeria lies
This video is so annoying b3cause it's quite shallow in regards to the fact that they did not go with legal team ....
Actually THREE STATES WERE CARVED OUT OF THE FORMER EASTERN REGION... THEY ARE...
Cross River State: Colonel Udoakaha Jacob Esuene
East Central State: Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu
Rivers State: Lieutenant Commander Papayere Diette-Spiff.
Ojukwu ran and bolted away with his tail in between his legs and left the poor peoole to die. More like a cowardice 😂
Biafra forever
Your story was 65 percent not correct. Am 82 years old and you should go and the truthful fact my son.
Liar
Biafra would have worked if not for greed. Ken Saro Wiwa of blessed memory asked Ojukwu specifically what his people (the Ogonis)would gain if they joined to fight in that war. But Ojukwu was very evasive. He made Biafra an Ibo thing. So, other tribes in the region felt marginalised even before it started. That's why he failed. A United Biafra would have won that war
Sorry, your comment was false,that is not how it happened from what I have research, and even now, did ogoni come out better , I mean why will you wait for others to decide for you , you shouldn't wait , you calk and join the side that is fighting for the same goal as you , that is a rubbish excuse---making it an igbo thing ,that is gibberish comming from Ogoni cos you are still in the same situation like the igbos , so stop with the ignorant talk.
@@Kiki-en9vm this one problem with your tribe. You misdirect your aggression all the time. That's how you left your criminally minded governors and be fighting Buhari. No good infrastructures in the East , one of the reason you people can't stay in your state and none of you is questioning your leaders who are stealing your monies. You misdirect your aggressivon to other tribes. For your information, I'm from Akwa Ibom not Ogoni. And my supported Biafra very well. The commander of all Biafran army was from my place, General Philip Effiong. But arrogance and Hubris on the part of Ojukwu destroyed Biafra. Have you asked yourself why Igbo elites like Nnamdi Azikiwe never supported Ojukwu. Will you call Zik a saboteur too? The same thing that Ken Saro Wiwa complained about was why Zik didn't join Ojukwu to fight. See the way you people are killing yourselves in Ibo land in the name of Biafra and you expect Akwa Ibom , Rivers , Bayelsa and Delta States to join your so called Biafra. You must be sick. Buhari is ready to let your 5 Ibo States go when you're ready. Niger Delta can never be part of your Biafra since you people feel that you're superior to other tribes. Gowon did everything possible to avoid bloodshed but Ojukwu wanted war by all means without weapons, without international allies, without food barns. He led over a million Ibo soups to untimely death but he ran away with his family when the heat turned on him. That's the man you celebrate as hero. Tell me why other tribes should take you seriously
@@israelsamuel7764 Is that all you've got? It still does not make Kiki's opinion wrong. Ibo this, Ibo that, when will you'all finally learn? You fools would rather fight alongside your enemies against your own because why? Ok what if Ibo's are highly opinionated, what is it to vou? If you think y'all are so smart why not overlook that and help your brothers? But noooo! You people don't even study, you don't read, and that is why HistoryVille will continue to decieve y'all by paltering the truth, when will y'all learn to study for yourselves? Люби правду и живи.
@@EliXerxers4590 I don't join issues with hungry touts who have nothing intellectual to offer apart from insults. Take your frustration elsewhere. Efulefu
Keep dreaming
This story is a big lie
Please can you post your own story?
Ojukwu the king 👑 of copy cat yet he killed the same person he copied from Adak Boro of Niger Delta Republic. Ojukwu is the biggest coward of all time.
ابن مؤتة
Saboteurs
You are insane 😡
Shut up! Killed who? Do you've the mind & liver to face war? Was Adak Boro not the same person that died while for the Nigerian army against his own people?
Fake history.
This narrator is a pure liar. His narratives must be from what the mischievous igbo were telling their children. Interested readers should go and listen Asiodu narratives because he was a Civil servant that time. He said if Ojukwu had agreed on decree 8 that within 6 months the country would have split without any fight.
Agree to a decree 8 a third of the country (Eastern Region) never participated in making?
@@odiodi3289 dont worry, 2023 is already in the corner when There Will Be a Country !
@@henrya60yea and that is biafra