A former governorship candidate of Nice Nigeria Folks’s Occasion, GNPP, in Abia State, Charles Okechukwu Okereke has suggested former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon to instantly apologize to the Igbo nation and Nigerians normally for his latest assertion on the Aso Rock Villa.
The apology, he stated, would calm the minds of the individuals who, based on Okereke, felt offended by the assertion attributed to Gowon.
The previous Head of State was just lately quoted as saying that “I do know and if I can bear in mind, once I was preventing the battle, I used to be instructed I used to be too sluggish and possibly Nigeria can not make it and that we should always search dialogue. Properly, did we do it or not?”
However chatting with reporter in Umuahia on Wednesday, the previous governorship candidate suggested Gen. Gowon, as an elder assertion, to chorus from making statements that will make Ndigbo and different Nigerians to start out remembering the ugly battle episodes of the previous.
Okereke, who stated that Nigerians have been going by way of horrible financial hardship, identified that uncomplimentary phrases from a extremely positioned citizen like Gowon might trigger extra outrage.
He stated that it was unsuitable for Gowon to check his army administration with President Bola Tinubu, as in accordance Okereke, Gowon’s choice to create a 12-state construction as a substitute of implementing an settlement he signed with Odumegwu Ojukwu earlier than the civil battle, was liable for the crises the nation was nonetheless going through immediately.
“Why is he evaluating himself with Tinubu? He’s presupposed to retire. He mustn’t remind us of what has been forgotten. He owes Ndigbo and Nigerians an apology and he ought to do this now.
“There isn’t a comparability between Gowon’s army junta and Tinubu’s civilian administration. His 3Rs will not be true. When he visited us at Authorities School after the battle, he spoke from an armored automobile; is Tinubu talking from an armored automobile? So why the comparability?” He queried.
Okereke, who stated that the continuing strikes to amend the Nigerian structure have been a pointer that many issues have been unsuitable with the Nigeria Common Gowon bequeathed to his predecessors in workplace, stated that it was unsuitable for Gowon to say that Nigerians who have been hungry, do probably not perceive the issue underground.
The “All Hail Biafra” anthem composer made it clear that the army administration of Gen. Gowon did not reconcile Nigerians and due to this fact, he iwa not certified to advise a civilian administration.
