Former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has blamed the late Biafran leader, Lt Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, for the failure of the landmark Aburi accord of January 1967.
He accused the secessionist leader of attending the peace meeting in Ghana with pre-prepared positions and misrepresenting the outcome of the discussions to the people of the Eastern Region.
Gowon also said Ojukwu had been secretly building up arms while mocking him as a “Bible-carrying” officer who would never fight.
The revelations are contained in Chapter Nine of Gowon’s 859-page autobiography, ‘My Life of Duty and Allegiance,’ titled ‘Aburi and Our Road to Nowhere,’ obtained by our correspondent at the book’s launch in Abuja on Tuesday.
In the 37-page chapter, which was both his historical account and a personal reckoning of the meeting, Gowon blamed Ojukwu’s conduct in the months before the Aburi meeting.
