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.
Recall that the Nigerian civil war was between 1967 and 1970. Gowon was the head of state between August 1, 1966 and July 29, 1975.
Gowon, who made this statement in a published interview,the Nigerian civil war was inevitable due to the south-east’s desire to secede. According to the former military Head of State, “It got to the stage that the situation was getting pretty clear that a part of the country, the South-East wanted to secede”.
Gowon urged 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.
