May 22, 2026
By Dennis Agbo
The Chairman of the Forum of Former Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly and former Southeast Spokesman to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Denge, Josef Onoh, has issued a detailed, fact-based rebuttal to recent claims by Gen. Yakubu Gowon regarding the Aburi Accord and the events leading to the Nigerian Civil War.
In a statement made available to journalists, Onoh challenged Gen. Gowon’s portrayal of the late Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu as the party that frustrated peace efforts and undermined the Aburi Accord of January 4-5, 1967.
He argued that the narrative unfairly casts Gowon as the reasonable unifier while depicting Ojukwu as intransigent.
