General Yakubu Gowon, a former military head of state of Nigeria, says there would not have been any need for the Nigerian Civil War if there were no plans of secession.
The Nigerian civil war was between 1967 and 1970. Gowon was
the head of state between August 1, 1966 and July 29, 1975.
Gowon said the Nigerian civil war was inevitable due to the
south-east’s desire to secede.
Gowon made this statement in an interview with Daily Trust,
noting “It got to the stage that the situation was getting pretty clear that a
part of the country, the South-east wanted to secede,”
The former head of state asked south-east residents to
embrace national unity, stating that “Biafra’s dissolution followed Nigerians’
acceptance of reintegration and unity”.
“I have always said that if there’s no secession, there
wouldn’t be a breakout and there wouldn’t be a question of civil war because it
got to the stage that the situation was getting pretty clear that a part of the
country, the South-east wanted to secede,” he added.
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