Nigerians react to Yakubu Gowon’s fever induced signing of Aburi Accord statement

Cross section of Nigerians have reacted angrily to the interview granted by former Head of State,Gen.Yakubu Gowon  to Arise TV, where he said that fever made him to sign the Aburi Accord in Ghana.

They said that it is shameful that General Yakubu Gowon who is almost close to the grave cannot tell the truth.

According to him, instead of looking for excuses, the former head of state should apologize to the Igbos who lost over three million lives during the Nigeria-Biafra war.

In his reaction, the former president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Lagos State, Chief Oliver Akubueze, said that it is very shameful that Gowon would still be telling lies at his age.

According to him, the whole information about what transpired during the three years of massacre of the Igbos is in public domain so there is nothing again to hide.

He said that the real truth is that the former head of state has little education and as such did not understand the content of the agreement that he signed.

Also reacting, the Executive Director of Civil Liberty Organization(CLO), Comrade Ibuchukwu Ezike said that Gowon should asking God for forgiveness instead of making a mockery of himself.

According to him, at almost hundred years of age, former head of state should be more concerned of how posterity would remember him than anything else.

He said that saying that he had fever and mistakenly signed the Aburi Accord which later led to the death of millions of people does not speak well of somebody who calls himself a general in the Army.