Aburi Accord: What really happened in Ghana in January 1967? 

Will u compare gowon to a superior intelligence

The events which led to the civil war started long before Aburi.

People were being killed in the country for 6 months and leaders are out there to just drink wine and slapping backs?? 🤡

Na the nonsense hyping dey always spoil what is suppose to be a good analysis. 😂

Aburi is a non issue. The main issue is what led to Aburi . Nobody sent those folks to write a new constitution for Nigeria. When you get everything you want in a negotiation it means the other party was cheated . The aim of negotiation is for each party to lose somethings and gain something. From this viewpoint Ojukwu was not an honest broker . He got everything and the other parties got nothing. This is the character of the Igbos . For them to win the other party has to loose . There is no win win in their culture.

It’s not Ojukwus fault Gowon didn’t read the documents. If you sign a binding document, you don’t go back and say no am not honouring it because I don’t like the terms I signed.

Ojukwu was factually correct. He said no power in Africa. The United Kingdom and Russia are not African. Initially the war was a stalemate when Britain remained somewhat neutral militarily. Actually the rebel forces handed the federal Nigerian forces several defeats in battle

The same root jihadi kanu is taking. It seems igbo had not learnt any lesson from that stupid and blind support for ojukwu who led them to mass suicide. Unfortunately no single immediate ojukwu families suffered in that war. As a matter of fact he came back to live large while Philip Effiong his deputy wallowed in abject poverty.

His successor Nnamdi Kanu took the hubris to the next level, threatening to march 2 million men to Abuja too come back with the head of Buhari. At least Ojukwu had experience as a military officer with troops under his command: this Kanu initiated an insurgency/armed struggle without even stopping to count the cost of war.

Lolllll.... Why take tablet for our headache??? Your hatred for the Igbos would be ur down fall

Thank you.

“…We continued to invest in Nigeria, and placed all our security of life as well as of property in the hands of Nigerian government and Nigerian Constitution. In 1966 our folly became real tragedy when massacre followed massacre in May, June, July, August, September and October of that year. We lost over 30,000 of our kith and kin. We had to resettle over 2 million refugees, our people who had fled from all parts of Nigeria.” ------------ Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Biafran Leader, at the OAU Conference August 5, 1968.

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Desperate times required desperate measures my friend.

And we are supposed to rely on a book by Forsyth? A military regime in and of itself is "unconstitutional". Same with Ojukwu's call for secession.

​@@naturalblockade3412I wonder o. Ojukwu declaration of Biafra Republic was unconstitutional in itself and Gowon did well to make peace effort.

Frederick Forsyth was one of the tools used by the west to goad Ojukwu. He was Ojukwu’s classmate at Oxford. Was the military coup that overthrew the constitution unconstitutional? Yes .These illiterates are at it again. Talking about constitutional issues in a military regime. These Igbos understand nothing except the pampering of Ojukwu’s ego . The so called book written by Ojukwu is nothing but an exercise in self adulation and tribal jingoism. It is self serving and unscholarly.

It is also what the Western region had been proposing in the 1940s and 50s which Zik opposed arguing to the British colonialist that it would lead to Nigeria's disintegration. Eventually, after gaining power, Ironsi dissolved region govt centralising Nigeria into what Gowon inherited, what we have today. That horrible Decree of Gen Aguiyi Ironsi's (Decree 34) was drafted by Prof. Ben Nwabueze. Yorubas had nothing to do with this!

@@TheLynx8888 Centralisation of power is a characteristic of Military rule everywhere it has been practiced in the world. It was bound to happen. Gowon on the other hand destroyed the Regional system through his creation of 12 states in which he appointed Military governors in each of the states. This was practically intended to split Ojukwus power as military governor of the Eastern Region.

@@TheLynx8888 The person who advised Gowon against the Aburi accord for regional autonomy is Edo man, not a Yoruba. But Yoruba elites supported Gowon on his decision to thrash the accord. The idea of regional autonomy was accepted depending on who proposed it 😂. If Zick was against regional autonomy, Aguiyi Ironsi's policy could be influenced by Zickism

@@noblealbert.5075 you're intentionally skipping the point. Military centralise power, yes. But was the Military introduced to Nigeria polity by the Yoruba or the North? Let me help you. Is Aguyi Ironsi from? From what region were the bulk of the leaders of the ill-fated Janury 1966 coup from - the West or North even? Secondly, Decree 34 was all about dissolving regional govt. That was the first and only restructuring that has taken place in Nigeria. Creation of states is irrelevant, because power has remained centralised. The difficulty for some is that those who centralised power were replaced by others. Subsequently Yorubas were forced to make a choice and they picked one Nigeria. However they have always (since 1940s) maintained regionalism.

guys lets not make this tribal as we often try to do.

I am with you on this line of thought! 👍🏽

Finally someone that gets it ..the west has started so many things in Nigeria history yet never mentioned

@@lawalhakeem6734 The West as part of the victors helped to write history for the next generations. Putting hate in West youths against the East was a terrible strategy for the past decades. The truth is then forgotten and only hate survives. It seems that the West are doing it again concerning the 2023 elections as the North know that they will fall into the trap but the North is ready...don't be surprise if the North backs the East for 2023 presidency....typical divide and rule..

@@respartner100 victors writes the rules, also believe the yoruba learnt from when the north and east United against them. The message was clear team up and get what you want rather than fighting foolishly Have you spoke to a yoruba person in there mid 80s about what dey think its shocking

@@respartner100 I do want 1 Nigeria but maybe trying to win primaries should be the first step before this 2023 shout everywhere Also an abolishing of the state of origin rubbish it should be state of birth as its contributing to the sentiments remaining

No Sir . The Igbos should leave Nigeria. That is the only solution I see going forward. Nobody sent Gowon and Ojukwu to Aburi to rewrite Nigerian constitution. We had a constitution that guaranteed regional autonomy . This was overturned by Igbo officers.

That's indisputably the truth 👍👍👍

Being humble doesn't mean weakness or inferiority. Ojukwu led over 1 million Ibos to the slaughter and ran away to Ivory Coast. That civil war was avoidable. We gained nothing from it. Rather we're more marginalised before. No member of Ojukwu's household died in that war. You people stop making inflammatory statements

@@israelsamuel7764 You gain Free Niger Delta Oil money and your leaders shared the Oil Wells you conquered. You also got Sharia autonomy and power to unleash havoc to innocent people. What else do u wanna gain?

@@israelsamuel7764 Ojukwu led East Consultative Assembly to "choose" from the 3 options available after Gowon refused to honour the agreement of Aburi. I advise and encourage you to kill the bias within. Kill the bias!

Yeah

Buhari is Alive babangida is alive danjuma a.and others.

@@abbakanokano5499Were these people at ABURI, GHANA?

@@angelicakweku5293 yes

They we all see Biafra and die

​@abbakanokano5499 They wasn't at the ABURI CONFERENCE IN GHANA......

It was caused by the selfish interest of one Edo man just to secure his job as Fed Permanent Secretary - How One Bad Apple can spoil the whole Basket

Lolll... The rest of the Nigerian regions lost their powers to the North after this

​PAST OBA OF BENIN SAMUEL AKOZUWA,he was the one that told Gowon not to sign it after both Gowon and Ojukwu had agreed at ABURI on how Nigeria will be restructured back to regional govt that Agu Ironsi abolished for their self interest.

😂😂😂.

Ironsi picked him! The whole Nigeria's problems started from drunkard Ironsi. Y'all suffering from what Ironsi and Azikiwe did to all of us in the Southern Nigeria. The main reason no other tribes trust Igbos.

He was the highest ranking officer then so the north chose him after irosi was killed but not in charge of Nigeria but northern region

The reason for oil wells

My dear, not with the pogrom and mass of Igbos in the North before this conference.

as in.. the man didn't go there to play

Because the lives of his people was important to him and he did not trust the men he was dealing with just as history has proven immediately afterwards.

A man whose house is on fire doesn't pursue rat my brother

@@andrewjohn5692 And history has proven Ojukwu excellently right today as we write.

the southwest has ruled more than any other region in Nigeria. and no the first coup was a tribal-based coup it seek to install Igbo as the dominant people in Nigeria's politics but they were stupid and didn't realise that diplomacy would have been a far better option

@@agberodongetinternet8651 You're factually wrong. The first coup was set in motion to reinstall Awolowo, who was in prison by that time. But the coup failed, and Aguiyi ironsi was the highest ranking at the time, and automatically became the first Head of State. Read good books, not propaganda

@@agberodongetinternet8651 Ok...so you're basically saying the whole Nigeria should keep suffering based on what should have happened. You need psychiatric evaluation

@@agberodongetinternet8651 yes the soldiers behind the coup were Igbos, may be a total of 30 to 50 soldiers. So does this justify the over 2 million innocent civilian that were killed. Your unjust mind and wickedness is what holds Nigeria back. Keep being myopic

@@agberodongetinternet8651 the first coup was not a tribal coup, although unfortunately it looked but that was never the intent from the get go.

There was no space for that before ojukwu invaded Nigeria.

@@gentlemanedotv you had your history backward. Ojukwu calling back igbos (after he initially told them to go back to the various places they ran back from, telling them that everything has been settled and they government will protect them) because the government abandoned them and allowed for their killing in various parts of Nigeria to you means invasion? Who brought war machine and troops and made the first shot in declaration of a needless war? Nigeria. So learned your history please

In fact, if Ojukwu had accepted Decree No. 8, Nigeria would have broken up without a single shot being fired going by the contents of that Decree.

@@HistoryVille If one Edo man Erediauwa could influence Gowon to trash the agreement, what makes you think he wouldn't have done the same against the Decree 8?

@@HistoryVille or maybe not. Perhaps we would have competed agmosts ourselves and built nations within a nation, each known for their distinctive capabilities, still with no bloodshed. Thanks for the good work. I enjoy your videos

@@africanday7337 first of all you do t have that facts. Gowon never stated that, and there was no Edo then, it was Midwest region. U really think at of all Gowon's ministers, u guys only singled out our Great Oba? With no proof. What a joke.

@@africanday7337 exactly, in hindsight we can try to blame ojukwu for the war but the realities on ground suggest otherwise, the northern oligarchs and henchmen behind the scenes wanted war at any cost. blood had been shed and regardless of what ojukwu agreed to, they had secretly sworn this would be the outcome. i don't blame ojukwu one bit, infact if the entire south had stood as one, we ALL, inclusive of the north would not be in the mess we are in today.

More casualties of the Northerners? Are you joking

Please Explain

Exactly, the clip is designed to vilify Ojukwu as the villain and portray Gowon as a generous gentleman

@@africanday7337 exactly. But we know the truth

You are saying total rubbish. Why must we even remain as one country in the first place? We have been existing for thousands of years on our own before the White people joined us together as a country. Are the White people our God? Think deep for once dummy

@@stevenwilliams3015 how do you think nations are formed? Flower throwing ceremonies? Just because you prefer to breakup does not mean others do. That is the reason many nations are together, not because some groups within it did not prefer to go separately. So Nigeria is what we have now, wasting time trying to breakup is wrong, better to get almost all you want as a separate nation within Nigeria. Remember for an Igbo man, it’s not all negative to operate from inside Nigeria instead of being in a separate land locked country.

I don't get why you people from other regions bring up this landlocked rubbish when the Igbos want seperate ways. I mean it's none of your business. There are lots of countries doing well while surrounding by others. Yoruba can remain with the Fulanis

@@kaluuzoma8614 So getting a tag called a 'country' is more important to you than what access your people have to anything? Do you think being a country makes all the issues go away? The Fulanis will still remain there and the Yorubas will be there, just that now it would be international issue. Countries are also under control on regional, continental and world organizations. Nations are only as powerful or successful as there surround countries and others around the world allow them to be. Even the US needs others to be a superpower. So your dream of nationhood of prosperity is an illusion because you have been conditioned to think that way. Your lands are not occupied or out of your control. As a matter of FACT, the Igbo lands are the most homogeneous in Nigeria because most other Nigerians do not settle there compared to the North or the West or the South South. Yet you are the ones that think you have being controlled the most. Some Igbos claim marginalization but what they really mean is marginalization in terms of federal government positions and this is TRUE but so do the Igbos dominate other sectors of the country. Igbos do not hear others complaining and demanding separation. The South South barely has anything to show for the destruction of their ecosystem and wealth generated for the country, yet the Igbos are the ones crying out the loudest about injustice. Maybe if the Igbos had sympathised with the South South in the first place, they would have had support for separation. Till date, most Igbo dismiss the South South as being part of Biafra or irrelevant. You see what I mean? Its a waste of time talking about separation because the Igbo will simply do to the South South what they accuse others of doing to them. This is why one of the reasons I consider talk of separate as a precious waste of breath because there are too many argument of pitfalls against it.

This article didn't include the evil role most of the south south especially the water regions contributed to the destruction of the east during and after the war. Perhaps if they had stopped that abandoned property agenda and did better, the Igbos would have sympathized more with them. You can see the GEJ government. The SE was the only other region to vote fully for him, which I know fully well the SS won't do for an Igbo man if it was him. And again the SS are mainly responsible for the destruction of their region by doing bonkery activities. The way you see the youths in SS run into bonkery is something else, very terrible. Now the soot is something else. So you can see that the SE is more of a friend to the SS than the SS are more of a friend to the SE

🤦🤦 did you think of the aftermath of the decree 8. Democratic government will be difficult to achieve except if the supreme council changes the rule again..

You forgot that he was there on a mission,did you forget that before that meetings igbos were being killed all across Nigeria in which many of them traveled down to East,why should there leader come there and be all smiles,they are there to trash a problem and find a common agreement,you think if Putin should ever have a meeting with Ukrainian president,you think the presidents will come there smiling?

Fact

Ojokwu did but the whole world turned against him because of what they’re gaining from one Nigeria,they’re people that told gown not to agree on that, the same people supplied Nigeria weapons to fight Biafras…

Ur points are quite lucid.👌 Just to add that though Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi had centralized the country, the disintegration of the regional govt started with the creation of state under Gowon’s government.

Is that the reason why history was removed from the curriculum?

Stop saying that ojukwu was impatience, instead of you to blame the person that refuse to do the agreement of the meeting and you are here supporting evil, let me tell you what goes around must surely come around, what igbo went true you owns will be more than that

That was his opinion. Opinions are not facts.

Yet ojukwu greed is such that has never been seen in our world every one of these leaders acted foolishly in greed

@@stephenotens1865 how is Ojukwu greedy? Please explain. Is it because he chose to leave with is people and form their own nation just as how they lived before the White man joined us together? or is it because he decided to leave because of the resources found in the east (their land, their right?) I don't understand your logic

@steven Williams, you can wait forever for your answer cos he got none

​@@stephenotens1865igbos never see ojukwu as a greedy man, tell us how and what makes ojukwu a greedy man.

Finally someone else see the same thing I saw from the video, and he did that out of selfishness, and hatred.

I saw it too my brother, that edo man betrayed his brothers bcus of greediness and selfishness, he wants to keep his position and he betrayed his people 😡😡😡

That Edo man must be a very useless Man....... OMG what a mistake he did

He is not different from Adams Oshiomhole and most Edo men 😂

what autonomy in in uk? maybe you should check the year UK government created devolution of power it was was decades after. Switzerland is the better examplenor germamy/usa bu5 no africa country can do what Switzerland as we too fractured and tribal

Was Nzeogwu the leader of the coup Igbo? Your state that’s filled with internet fraudsters and international harlots, have you talked about it? You’re here opening that shit hole to spew gibberish

Don't trust the yorubas let alone the Hausa

It would be pertinent if you could fortify your post with proofs and evidence.

@@wolfgangezeh2221 Where is the evidence on this narrative? the video already online or the narrative by the broadcaster?

Hakeem. Why dont you start your own history channel? Since you are a know-it-all. If your write up is any indication, you will need a good editor to cut our your incoherent and irrelevant side histories. And you are far too pedantic, and emotional about history to give any clear insight to anyone. Cheers!

You should not refute what you don't know, it is true that your so-called late Oba was then the Secretary to the Fed.Govt led by Gowon and he told Gowon to disagree on the agreed Aburi Accord which led to the Civil war. I hope you and your people are also now reaping the seed of discord Akenzuwa sowed that is ravaging Nigeria till today.

@@brightnwadike7565 A typical blame game to others but not to Igbos. Go and sit down, no matter how much you and your people hates us we will always be lions and warriors. We have done nothing but love Igbos which is why no matter the hates it gets to river Niger and returns.

Please can you post your own story?

Liar

Sorry, your comment was false,that is not how it happened from what I have research, and even now, did ogoni come out better , I mean why will you wait for others to decide for you , you shouldn't wait , you calk and join the side that is fighting for the same goal as you , that is a rubbish excuse---making it an igbo thing ,that is gibberish comming from Ogoni cos you are still in the same situation like the igbos , so stop with the ignorant talk.

@@Kiki-en9vm this one problem with your tribe. You misdirect your aggression all the time. That's how you left your criminally minded governors and be fighting Buhari. No good infrastructures in the East , one of the reason you people can't stay in your state and none of you is questioning your leaders who are stealing your monies. You misdirect your aggressivon to other tribes. For your information, I'm from Akwa Ibom not Ogoni. And my supported Biafra very well. The commander of all Biafran army was from my place, General Philip Effiong. But arrogance and Hubris on the part of Ojukwu destroyed Biafra. Have you asked yourself why Igbo elites like Nnamdi Azikiwe never supported Ojukwu. Will you call Zik a saboteur too? The same thing that Ken Saro Wiwa complained about was why Zik didn't join Ojukwu to fight. See the way you people are killing yourselves in Ibo land in the name of Biafra and you expect Akwa Ibom , Rivers , Bayelsa and Delta States to join your so called Biafra. You must be sick. Buhari is ready to let your 5 Ibo States go when you're ready. Niger Delta can never be part of your Biafra since you people feel that you're superior to other tribes. Gowon did everything possible to avoid bloodshed but Ojukwu wanted war by all means without weapons, without international allies, without food barns. He led over a million Ibo soups to untimely death but he ran away with his family when the heat turned on him. That's the man you celebrate as hero. Tell me why other tribes should take you seriously

@@israelsamuel7764 Is that all you've got? It still does not make Kiki's opinion wrong. Ibo this, Ibo that, when will you'all finally learn? You fools would rather fight alongside your enemies against your own because why? Ok what if Ibo's are highly opinionated, what is it to vou? If you think y'all are so smart why not overlook that and help your brothers? But noooo! You people don't even study, you don't read, and that is why HistoryVille will continue to decieve y'all by paltering the truth, when will y'all learn to study for yourselves? Люби правду и живи.

@@EliXerxers4590 I don't join issues with hungry touts who have nothing intellectual to offer apart from insults. Take your frustration elsewhere. Efulefu

Keep dreaming

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Saboteurs

You are insane 😡

Shut up! Killed who? Do you've the mind & liver to face war? Was Adak Boro not the same person that died while for the Nigerian army against his own people?

Agree to a decree 8 a third of the country (Eastern Region) never participated in making?

@@odiodi3289 dont worry, 2023 is already in the corner when There Will Be a Country !

@@henrya60yea and that is biafra