Gowon’s promise to secure Igbos was unfulfilled – IBB on what triggered civil war
[NigerianEye - Nigeria] - 24/02/2025
General Ibrahim Babangida, a former military head of state, has revealed that a commitment made to the Igbos by General Yakubu Gowon that their lives were safe in northern Nigeria, was unfulfilled.According to him, this led to the 1966 progrom that saw thousands of Igbos killed in every part of northern Nigeria.In his new book the ‘Journey in Service’ launched in Abuja on Thursday, the former military leader pointed out that the emergence of then Lt-Col Yakubu Gowon as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces marked the beginning of the tension between him [Gowon] and (…)
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