How do you forgive someone who killed over 3m igbos? Has Nigeria 🇳🇬 forgiven the igbos? What does the igbos benefits from Nigeria as one nation? Unless Yakubu apologise to us, Igbos are one of the best tribes in Nigeria so we will forgive him but he has to apologise to us. Thank yoy afia tv, you guys are doing a great job. I'm very proud 👏
Forgiving or forgiveness is not what we need only general Gowon should come forward to tells us the truth about Aburi accord before he will join his ancestors
Someone is thinking right, louder for that empty barrel to hear. That's how they debase themselves and the entire Igbo community for cheap political appointments and what not.
Ezeoke's analogy is incongruent. The Americans were extraordinarily liberal and generous to the Japanese after the war. The Americans also financed a massive reconstruction of Japan after the war. A better analogy would have been the American Civil War. The rebel Confederate states that lost the American Civil War, were not vilified and marginalized by the victorious federal states. The Nigerian state is filled with fear and hatred for Ndigbo, our Igbo politicians are not helping matters with their subservient attitude at the center!
Maazi Ezeoke I respect you and Mr. Obi but both of you have your opinions and so do I. First, you cited the wrong histories and two different countries-- Japan and Israel--horrific killings as was the Igbo massacre. You have to remember that the United States helped to rebuild Japan after the bombing. I did a term paper on that as a university student in the USA. After the Second World War, the Jews got to their homeland and swore never to let "genocide" happen to their people again. American Civil War was a stronger war to use--the same country. After the South lost the war, the North saw that the South was rebuilt and was absorbed into government and the economy. If the Igbos are going to be with Biafra or Nigeria, we have to ditch any idea of appeasement in that neighborhood. The same people that killed millions of your people and destroyed your economy--for no reason that I know of--are looking to do it again if you continue to display: "We have to all get along" mindset. @@tmstms2769
Leave him... that's why I stopped following his program. He is a weak and naive appeaser. Nobody will respect you if you show weakness. Nigeria is not ready for reconciliation with Igbos.
We are still surrering for what Gowon did. Forgiveness is only possible when the surferings are ended. Gowon should go and sit down and stop reminding us of the pains of his misdeeds.
The truth is that GOWON has never asked Igbos for forgiveness for the heinous crimes he committed against the old and the starving to death of innocent children . He’s okay the way things are😳👿
USA/Japan is a good example as stated. However, the easily omitted fact is that USA rebuilt Japan through tariff. We, the injustice against igbos is not only the war... but also the confiscation of their properties after the war...
I think that we are all lying to ourselves about forgiveness, those of us that observed our little sister/ love ones from the beginning of gwochioko/malnutrition to the end of big stomach and death, while Gowon brag about how he has blocked us up and created twelve states to divide us, that's sinister. Only God knows why people like Gowon still walk the earth.
Bro, It is terrible. Hunger is the cruelest form of torture, an inhumane way of inflicting death on anyone. First the skin turns yellow, the legs swell up, the stomach bloats, the eyes bulge out, the child becomes weak, too weak to move and finally, death comes, inevitably and there is nothing anybody can do.
My dear the same reason you don't know why God is still keeping him is the same reason you need to forgive and hand him over to the same God and move on. His ways and thoughts are not and will never be our ways and thoughts.
I think People are missing the point here. Peter obi has the right to even congratulate Hitler if he wants to do so but the point is the choice of words that Peter obi used to celebrate gowon that he fought for the unity of Nigeria and he was a hero. Gowon and his accomplices never fought for the unity of Nigeria rather for their selfish interests and their colonial masters. Also, the most annoying part is that what happened before the genocide war is still happening now and which Peter obi knows about it. Of course, Igbos understand that it is good to forgive and that is why Igbos are able to jump back after all the destruction. It’s quiet unfortunate for Peter obi.
@@chimakalu5195 it’s obvious you are not privy to certain information. Gowon knows he never fought for the unity of Nigeria. Yes, people without certain information will say that he fought for the unity of Nigeria. Gowon is only a coward who wants Nigeria to fail.
Yakubu Gowon should never think that everything ends in this world. Let him help himself first by being introspective and remorseful. Unless he does that, he would certainly pay for his genocide against the Biafran people!
Forgiveness comes with palpable remorse/apology. General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) has never shown any remorse for his wrong doings during against the Igbos the Nigerian Civil War. Instead he goes around arrogantly in the name of "Nigeria Praise". A royal brutt who authorized the starvation to death millions of Igbo children and Asaba massacre. He will be forgiven if he humbles himself and do the most honorable thing. For Peter Obi, he did exactly what any open minded politician should do in such a situation, in line with Ibrahim Waziri's (GNPP) principle of "Politics without Bitterness ".
Mazi, I respect your opinion, and you are certainly entitled to it. However, this Igbo man can’t. To forgive this man (Yakubu Gowan) who had not even acknowledged his evil deeds against his fellow man is to desecrate the sufferings and untimely deaths of all those who experienced them.
Maazi Ezeoke is courageous, it's easy to follow the crowd, but he believes in what he is saying. My personal opinion is that Gowon is a peripheral character today, so let's just leave it that way.
Mazzi the biafran Nigeria war is still on and this people pretend that nothing is going on, which other regions occupied by police and army in every road apart from south east
The genocidal murderer gowon was humiliated and humbled in the open by his Fulani puppet masters after he helped them wrestle power, serve the Zoo and come back in shame. Peter Obi is a traitor and a corrupt criminal and should be punished when Biafra comes. We will never forgive nor forget gowon and Nigeria.
Shouldn't forgiveness be considered when there has been a publicized national apology by Gowon? What is all this subservency required of Igbos who have offended no one but was massacred in their millions! I really don't understand the subjection and continued rejection of Igbos.
I don’t know why at every turning point in Nigeria matter the Igbos would be the one on the spotlight,exerting unnecessary and disrespectful pressure on the Igbos. The onus should be on him to apologise and ask for forgiveness not the other way round.
He was not the only one that prosecuted that was against ndigbo. Some are still alive and some are dead. If Ikemba forgave him while he was alive and even hosted him in his house at Enugu, then we should forgive him too and stop villifying PO over that birthday prayer. Umunnem, biko forgive him. The important thing is that the spirit of ndigbo can never be broken.
Njenje, you and Peter Obi do not speak for ndi Igbo. nigeria and gowon must admit to their crimes against ndi Igbo before any reconciliation or forgiveness is discussed.
Gowon is an incredible wicked man and an unrepentant killers who led the war against Igbo killing millions of people in IGBOLAND. He has not even confessed to his inhuman behavior and should not be forgiven until cobfessed hi atrocities
Listen, you must get your stories right, it was not about not funding the Igbo land even when children are dying, it is about blocade. Gowon and Awolowo conspired to never let any charity organisations bring in food into Igboland . Awolowo suggested that starving them will make them stop fighting because they didn't expect the war to go that far, they said it won't last that they will just finish Igbos in 3 months to their astonishment Igbos held them down for 3 years therefore starvation became their other strategy. Gowon will never be forgiven, he can live for a miserable 90 years with the blood of the 5 million Igbos he kill rolling in his eyes.
@@chimakalu5195 Once there is life, there is a load to carry, it is only the dead that dose not carry load, until those who put the load on you are ready to off load it from you, you can not off load the( PAIN) load by yourself because the load is too heavy the bear.😤How can a sin be forgiven without repentance?.
Forgiveness is not forgetting. How will you forget something because you forgive. You can make an active effort to remove your emotions from the event, doesn’t mean you have forgotten.
Igbos are people of faith, God says that vengeance is his,and as you can see, his own people are facing what the igbos faced before,even worse, the middle belt folks are being driven away from their lands, is even a worse punishment.
The question would have been, should Nigerians forgive Gowan??? Just take a look at the country he fought for to keep as one for the benefit of the British government without even thinking about the future of the country...
Yes we have to forgive, though Gowan made a lot of mistakes and blunder as a youth, afterall Igbos are more blessed than any other people in Nigeria who knows whether the Almighty is blessing Igbos for their forgiving heart, we have to move on
Of course Christians ought to forgive Gowon for his evil deeds against Biafra for so says the WORD of GOD. Peter Obi’s birthday message to Gowon is good. The problem in the message is in the second paragraph where he exonerated Gowon of any wrongdoing against Biafrans in the war. “In a time of hate, you stood for love. At a time of strife, you stood for peace. At a time of division, you stood for unity.” Gowon insulted Africa by going against the very peace treaty he signed with Ojukwu in the presence of all African leaders. He committed genocide against Biafran civilians by starving millions to death
PO isn't going to be president of Ndi Igbo or Eastern region only. So,as someone who wants to be president,he needs support of every ethnic group to achieve that. I strongly believe PO as the president will correct the wrongs done to Ndi Igbo and other ethnic groups in the country. For me,Ndi Igbo should heal from the past and move forward whether Gowon asks for forgiveness or not.
Gowon should apologize to IGBOS and also tell us what was wrong in Aburi Accord and the Reason behind his turn it down.than wait for IGBO forgiveness , IGBOS can't forgive GOWON when he has not ask for it.
Gowon should tell us why he betrayed the Aburi accord, followed by apologizing to ndi Igbo, lets start from there. And mind you he has never asked for forgiveness.
Mr. gowon expelled Christian missionaries from Nigeria in 1970 accusing them of helping Biafra. Members of one Catholic order from Ireland were publicly flogged before expulsion. Maybe if such people were around today, they would have helped to save Benue-Plateau people from annihilation by rampaging Fulani hordes or at least brought their plight to the attention of the outside world.
To be honest, wasn't expecting anything less from njenje. I don't even know how ppl are bringing up forgiveness, how do we even go about forgiving that or do you guys meant moving on, because Igbos have moved on since. No one was waiting for Nigeria and Gowon. Nigeria never shown remorse, still in denial, Gowon never shown remorse, still in denial, look at the hand writing on the wall. It's about to repeat itself and some ppl with their Christian bullshit want to make igbos to let their guards down because of their desperation to have a shut at the presidency.
Blaming Gowon for all that happens during the civil war is missing the point. Yes Gowon played a role in the whole issue but he was being directed from No. 10 Downing Street in London. He was just a British stooge. The British knew fully well that if the Igbos survived with all the oil wealth in the area, it will pose a problem for them.
Never. Do not talk about forgiveness when it comes to Gowon. God; history and the spirits of the dead ones will neve forgive him. To mumu Peter Obi, may what Gowon did in Igbo land be a permanent visitor in your family and your generations to come.
One problem with some of our acclaimed educated illiterates is that, they always compare Nigeria with others countries as if we're the same with Japanese and USA. I don't get it.
Gowon may have been a tricky schemer , who found himself favored in the eyes of the British establishment way back during his days as a cadet Sandhurst and used that leverage to maneuver himself into power at the top, but he was not firmly in charge.. He was always watching his back. Besides, at that relatively young age of 32 years and his level of education which didn’t equip him with management skills needed for the running of a complex country like Nigeria, he lacked the ability to, as it were, have a mind of his own. He depended heavily on the likes of Chief Awolowo, Okoyi Arikpo etc for direction. I still believe that if it had not been someone as moderate as him in power, and that if his position as a moderate leader had not been strengthened by the fact of Dr Azikiwe’s “defection “ to the Federal Side, the war could have been ended in the battlefield and no one would have been able to stop the likes of Muritala from re-enacting the Asaba massacre all over the entire Igbo land. The only problem is that he has not been courageous to let everyone know the constraints he had during his time in power. The way his government had brought up the idea of massive federal government scholarship and loans to university students and allowed it to be benefited by students all over the country, without discrimination, spoke of his magnanimity and kind hearted nature. It’s important that he should apologize and acknowledge his mistakes or shortcomings in order to get forgiveness from God and humanity before he meets his maker. That will be a mark of greatness and something he should not allow himself to miss.
Oga Ezuoke! You did not answer the question! You are neither here nor their like politicians! Someone did not feel remorse and Bragg about it,he always say that he has no regret! So can't forgive someone who never ask for it simple!
I am Igbo! But let me ask; Did Gowon cry out to you that he needs your forgiveness? Does Gowon acknowledge that he did anything wrong? If since the 1967 or so, he has not seen a need for forgiveness, what makes you think he would'nt despise any forgiveness imposed on him? Forgiveness of sin is non negotiable no matter the degree of offence, if you must retain a relationship with the Almighty God. For with God no degree of offence can justify any unforgiveness. But even if the Igbos choose to forgive him totally, but he does not repent of that atrocity, God Almighy himself will not forgive him.
There is nothing to forgive or not forgive by Igbos or whoever. Whatsoever a man sows, so shall he reap. If Gowon even as a so-called Christian in the evening of his life, has refused to tell himself the truth , then Satan the father of lies is indeed proud of him and his eternal fate is sealed by his own hand.
This brother is talking rubbish. You are talking about Nigeria. Nigeria and Gowon do not think that they did anything wrong by those killings and they are still killing today.
What do you mean should Igbos forgive Gowon. The question should be why did Nigeria forgave the Igbos and the Igbos should be grateful to Gowon for making that declaration of no victor no vanquish after what the Igbos did by declaring biafraud and invading the old Midwest ( now Edo and delta states) ojukwu and his gang even rob our bank. The Igbos should be grateful to Gowon.
Have Igbos forgiven Britain or have they asked Britain to tender an apology for their role in the Nigeria/Biafra war??? There is No FUTURE IN THE PAST, please let us focus on how to make Ala-Igbo the envy of Nigeria and even the Rest of Africa!!! My own thought thought.
Do not think of forgiving someone that has not asked for forgiveness and has not shown any remorse.
Is that what your religion thought? Not to forgive? Na wao.
Leave him let him carry the heavy burden of unforgiveness
He must not admit or apologize or even show remorse before you forgive.
@@oyi-1of-oyiofforleyes my religion teach me not to forgive and I will never forgive or forget Gowon atrocities against me and my peoples
We will never forgive and that's all
He also scattered Igbo everywhere in other states just to dismantle Igbos
whether Gowon apologizes or not, I pray that GOD judges the case of the HATRED OF THE Igbos in Nigeria IJNA.
AMEN
How do you forgive someone who killed over 3m igbos? Has Nigeria 🇳🇬 forgiven the igbos? What does the igbos benefits from Nigeria as one nation? Unless Yakubu apologise to us, Igbos are one of the best tribes in Nigeria so we will forgive him but he has to apologise to us. Thank yoy afia tv, you guys are doing a great job. I'm very proud 👏
Forgiving or forgiveness is not what we need only general Gowon should come forward to tells us the truth about Aburi accord before he will join his ancestors
He is not coming to tell you anything. Just be quiet.
@@chimakalu5195ND who are you to ask hm to keep quiet?
@@CosmasUdeshucwu Nobody should be quiet. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, good or bad.
@@chimakalu5195nurse! he's out of bed again
Japan and America are not sharing the same country and not directly beholden to her internal policies as the SE is to Nigeria.
Don't mind him, he is defending the clown.
That's correct
Someone is thinking right, louder for that empty barrel to hear. That's how they debase themselves and the entire Igbo community for cheap political appointments and what not.
Japan and America are etrong alien today,shari g a lot of things ,even now Japan had been invited to NATO,so enemies can become friends.
Ezeoke's analogy is incongruent. The Americans were extraordinarily liberal and generous to the Japanese after the war. The Americans also financed a massive reconstruction of Japan after the war. A better analogy would have been the American Civil War. The rebel Confederate states that lost the American Civil War, were not vilified and marginalized by the victorious federal states. The Nigerian state is filled with fear and hatred for Ndigbo, our Igbo politicians are not helping matters with their subservient attitude at the center!
Agreed.
Maazi Ezeoke I respect you and Mr. Obi but both of you have your opinions and so do I. First, you cited the wrong histories and two different countries-- Japan and Israel--horrific killings as was the Igbo massacre. You have to remember that the United States helped to rebuild Japan after the bombing. I did a term paper on that as a university student in the USA. After the Second World War, the Jews got to their homeland and swore never to let "genocide" happen to their people again. American Civil War was a stronger war to use--the same country. After the South lost the war, the North saw that the South was rebuilt and was absorbed into government and the economy. If the Igbos are going to be with Biafra or Nigeria, we have to ditch any idea of appeasement in that neighborhood. The same people that killed millions of your people and destroyed your economy--for no reason that I know of--are looking to do it again if you continue to display: "We have to all get along" mindset. @@tmstms2769
Leave him... that's why I stopped following his program. He is a weak and naive appeaser. Nobody will respect you if you show weakness.
Nigeria is not ready for reconciliation with Igbos.
How would the American civil war be Analogous? This makes no sense. Igbos were vilified
Some of the igbo politicians are actually the most wicked and repugnant. Some though.
We are still surrering for what Gowon did. Forgiveness is only possible when the surferings are ended.
Gowon should go and sit down and stop reminding us of the pains of his misdeeds.
The truth is that GOWON has never asked Igbos for forgiveness for the heinous crimes he committed against the old and the starving to death of innocent children . He’s okay the way things are😳👿
Even if Yakubu Gowon put foods on every igbo man's table.......he will never be forgiven
FOR GODS SAKE GOWON SHOULD BE BOLD ENOUGH AND TELL THE TRUTH BEFORE TALKING OF FORGIVENESS
No forgiveness on my dictionary, I don't forgive or forget never to forgive Gowon atrocities against Biafrans
THE NEW GENERATION DON'T FORGIVE NONE FORGET
USA/Japan is a good example as stated. However, the easily omitted fact is that USA rebuilt Japan through tariff. We, the injustice against igbos is not only the war... but also the confiscation of their properties after the war...
Did he ask for forgiveness from the Igbos? Did he say he was wrong, anybody? The last I heard, he doubled down on his defense for the war.
I think that we are all lying to ourselves about forgiveness, those of us that observed our little sister/ love ones from the beginning of gwochioko/malnutrition to the end of big stomach and death, while Gowon brag about how he has blocked us up and created twelve states to divide us, that's sinister. Only God knows why people like Gowon still walk the earth.
Bro,
It is terrible. Hunger is the cruelest form of torture, an inhumane way of inflicting death on anyone.
First the skin turns yellow, the legs swell up, the stomach bloats, the eyes bulge out, the child becomes weak,
too weak to move and finally, death comes, inevitably and there is nothing anybody can do.
My dear the same reason you don't know why God is still keeping him is the same reason you need to forgive and hand him over to the same God and move on. His ways and thoughts are not and will never be our ways and thoughts.
The answer is no and never
How can you forgive someone that dose not show any sign of remorse
We will never forget or forgive him
I think People are missing the point here.
Peter obi has the right to even congratulate Hitler if he wants to do so but the point is the choice of words that Peter obi used to celebrate gowon that he fought for the unity of Nigeria and he was a hero.
Gowon and his accomplices never fought for the unity of Nigeria rather for their selfish interests and their colonial masters.
Also, the most annoying part is that what happened before the genocide war is still happening now and which Peter obi knows about it.
Of course, Igbos understand that it is good to forgive and that is why Igbos are able to jump back after all the destruction.
It’s quiet unfortunate for Peter obi.
Correct.
Yes Gowon fought for the unity of Nigeria. He didn't want Nigeria to disintegrate
@@chimakalu5195 OK, so did he achieve the unity of Nigeria?
Nigeria is still together though dysfunctional i agree.
@@chimakalu5195 it’s obvious you are not privy to certain information. Gowon knows he never fought for the unity of Nigeria. Yes, people without certain information will say that he fought for the unity of Nigeria.
Gowon is only a coward who wants Nigeria to fail.
Mazi Ezoke, Google how has USA helped Japan to become what she is today, please. Don't misinform Igbos,
Yakubu Gowon should never think that everything ends in this world. Let him help himself first by being introspective and remorseful. Unless he does that, he would certainly pay for his genocide against the Biafran people!
This topic is not the relevant question. Why put the onus on the people who were maimed by the war??
Because they have the power of forgiveness, the culprits don't have the power of forgiveness in this matter.
Forgiveness comes with palpable remorse/apology. General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) has never shown any remorse for his wrong doings during against the Igbos the Nigerian Civil War. Instead he goes around arrogantly in the name of "Nigeria Praise". A royal brutt who authorized the starvation to death millions of Igbo children and Asaba massacre. He will be forgiven if he humbles himself and do the most honorable thing.
For Peter Obi, he did exactly what any open minded politician should do in such a situation, in line with Ibrahim Waziri's (GNPP) principle of "Politics without Bitterness ".
Mazi, I respect your opinion, and you are certainly entitled to it.
However, this Igbo man can’t. To forgive this man (Yakubu Gowan) who had not even acknowledged his evil deeds against his fellow man is to desecrate the sufferings and untimely deaths of all those who experienced them.
Genocidal crime is not forgivable.
What about the killings caused by Ogbunigwe
Maazi Ezeoke is courageous, it's easy to follow the crowd, but he believes in what he is saying.
My personal opinion is that Gowon is a peripheral character today, so let's just leave it that way.
Mazzi the biafran Nigeria war is still on and this people pretend that nothing is going on, which other regions occupied by police and army in every road apart from south east
Forgive who , for what a man who kill we igbos , 😡😡😡😡🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭
Peter Obi is a politician. He knows what he's doing. Stoop to conquer.
The genocidal murderer gowon was humiliated and humbled in the open by his Fulani puppet masters after he helped them wrestle power, serve the Zoo and come back in shame. Peter Obi is a traitor and a corrupt criminal and should be punished when Biafra comes. We will never forgive nor forget gowon and Nigeria.
Shouldn't forgiveness be considered when there has been a publicized national apology by Gowon? What is all this subservency required of Igbos who have offended no one but was massacred in their millions! I really don't understand the subjection and continued rejection of Igbos.
I don’t know why at every turning point in Nigeria matter the Igbos would be the one on the spotlight,exerting unnecessary and disrespectful pressure on the Igbos.
The onus should be on him to apologise and ask for forgiveness not the other way round.
He was not the only one that prosecuted that was against ndigbo. Some are still alive and some are dead. If Ikemba forgave him while he was alive and even hosted him in his house at Enugu, then we should forgive him too and stop villifying PO over that birthday prayer. Umunnem, biko forgive him. The important thing is that the spirit of ndigbo can never be broken.
Njenje, you and Peter Obi do not speak for ndi Igbo. nigeria and gowon must admit to their crimes against ndi Igbo before any reconciliation or forgiveness is discussed.
You also must not speak for Ndigbo
Forgive a man that caused genocide among my people?,please let God deal with him
You can not call somebody that kill ur father a friend .
Forgiveness, doesn't necessarily result in "friendship".
OJUKWU WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO PRAISE GOWON calling him a friend and great Nigerian
We will never forgive and we can’t forget also, it’s myths and legends.
Good luck to you with your bad heart
@@chimakalu5195 people like you are the one sabotaging our land.
Even God does not forgive unless one asks for it and shows remorse. Igbos could not be more forgiving than God.
Gowon is an incredible wicked man and an unrepentant killers who led the war against Igbo killing millions of people in IGBOLAND. He has not even confessed to his inhuman behavior and should not be forgiven until cobfessed hi atrocities
Listen, you must get your stories right, it was not about not funding the Igbo land even when children are dying, it is about blocade. Gowon and Awolowo conspired to never let any charity organisations bring in food into Igboland . Awolowo suggested that starving them will make them stop fighting because they didn't expect the war to go that far, they said it won't last that they will just finish Igbos in 3 months to their astonishment Igbos held them down for 3 years therefore starvation became their other strategy. Gowon will never be forgiven, he can live for a miserable 90 years with the blood of the 5 million Igbos he kill rolling in his eyes.
Asking Igbos to forgive Yakubu Gowon is like asking the Jews to forgive Adolf Hitler.
Continue to carry the load
@@chimakalu5195 Once there is life, there is a load to carry, it is only the dead that dose not carry load, until those who put the load on you are ready to off load it from you, you can not off load the( PAIN) load by yourself because the load is too heavy the bear.😤How can a sin be forgiven without repentance?.
What about the Biafran Ogbunigwe ?
if Gowons shows sincere remorse and calls for the present leaders to address the agitations of ibos why not
We must continue, BIAFRA freedom is not negotiable, we must continue fighting until BIAFRA is restored no going back ✊🏾
He is 90 and still don't want to change history and come out of his darkness tormenting, God is still giving him chance to let the ghost rest on
Forgiveness is not forgetting. How will you forget something because you forgive. You can make an active effort to remove your emotions from the event, doesn’t mean you have forgotten.
No way. We do not have forgiveness in our mind
Peter Obi need to apologize to the Igbos for his statement.
He doesn't care. His mission in this world is fame and money.
You are very stupid
God shouldn't be mocked and his people shouldn't be mocked too
Igbos are people of faith, God says that vengeance is his,and as you can see, his own people are facing what the igbos faced before,even worse, the middle belt folks are being driven away from their lands, is even a worse punishment.
No igbo person will dream about forgiving Gowon.
Why forgiven when people responsible are yet repented and still acting hateful against you.
War Crimes.......await Yakubu Gowon, he will rott in jail
The question would have been, should Nigerians forgive Gowan??? Just take a look at the country he fought for to keep as one for the benefit of the British government without even thinking about the future of the country...
Yes we have to forgive, though Gowan made a lot of mistakes and blunder as a youth, afterall Igbos are more blessed than any other people in Nigeria who knows whether the Almighty is blessing Igbos for their forgiving heart, we have to move on
No forgiveness. Sabo many among us .
Of course Christians ought to forgive Gowon for his evil deeds against Biafra for so says the WORD of GOD.
Peter Obi’s birthday message to Gowon is good.
The problem in the message is in the second paragraph where he exonerated Gowon of any wrongdoing against Biafrans in the war.
“In a time of hate, you stood for love. At a time of strife, you stood for peace. At a time of division, you stood for unity.”
Gowon insulted Africa by going against the very peace treaty he signed with Ojukwu in the presence of all African leaders.
He committed genocide against Biafran civilians by starving millions to death
PO isn't going to be president of Ndi Igbo or Eastern region only.
So,as someone who wants to be president,he needs support of every ethnic group to achieve that.
I strongly believe PO as the president will correct the wrongs done to Ndi Igbo and other ethnic groups in the country.
For me,Ndi Igbo should heal from the past and move forward whether Gowon asks for forgiveness or not.
Gowon should apologize to IGBOS and also tell us what was wrong in Aburi Accord and the Reason behind his turn it down.than wait for IGBO forgiveness , IGBOS can't forgive GOWON when he has not ask for it.
Capital No to your question. Apology or no apology. That man devil in human form. Devil cannot be forgiven.
Up coming politicans. He always politicses everything.
Gowon need to apologize and ask Ndigbo for forgiveness before he will be forgiven, else, deepest and hotest part of hellfire awaits him.
Peter Obi has destroyed whatever political ambition he has. I will never support Obi again. And so will most Igbo not forgive him
I agree. I will not support Peter Obi anymore as an Igbo man
That your own personal opinion.
Ur support is meaningless to Obi
Bye bye OBI doesn't need your support. You are a Biafran man pretending to be Obi voter
Bye bye OBI doesn't need your support
Gowon should tell us why he betrayed the Aburi accord, followed by apologizing to ndi Igbo, lets start from there.
And mind you he has never asked for forgiveness.
Capital because he hasn't asked or seek igbos forgiveness!
Mr. gowon expelled Christian missionaries from Nigeria in 1970 accusing them of helping Biafra. Members of one Catholic order from Ireland were publicly flogged before expulsion. Maybe if such people were around today, they would have helped to save Benue-Plateau people from annihilation by rampaging Fulani hordes or at least brought their plight to the attention of the outside world.
To be honest, wasn't expecting anything less from njenje. I don't even know how ppl are bringing up forgiveness, how do we even go about forgiving that or do you guys meant moving on, because Igbos have moved on since. No one was waiting for Nigeria and Gowon. Nigeria never shown remorse, still in denial, Gowon never shown remorse, still in denial, look at the hand writing on the wall. It's about to repeat itself and some ppl with their Christian bullshit want to make igbos to let their guards down because of their desperation to have a shut at the presidency.
Has he asked for forgiveness?
Blaming Gowon for all that happens during the civil war is missing the point. Yes Gowon played a role in the whole issue but he was being directed from No. 10 Downing Street in London. He was just a British stooge. The British knew fully well that if the Igbos survived with all the oil wealth in the area, it will pose a problem for them.
Gowon being a stooge does not absolve him of blame. He was complicit in the entire saga. He had free will.
There is no forgiveness to this British houseboy
I'm a Biafran,was born in 1958. The war didn't happen because of the MARGINALISATION of Ndi Igbo.
Never. Do not talk about forgiveness when it comes to Gowon. God; history and the spirits of the dead ones will neve forgive him. To mumu Peter Obi, may what Gowon did in Igbo land be a permanent visitor in your family and your generations to come.
Igbos should never forget,but forgive, time to move on,but it will be fine for him to call for no ,ore marginalisation of the igbos.
One problem with some of our acclaimed educated illiterates is that, they always compare Nigeria with others countries as if we're the same with Japanese and USA. I don't get it.
Gowon may have been a tricky schemer , who found himself favored in the eyes of the British establishment way back during his days as a cadet Sandhurst and used that leverage to maneuver himself into power at the top, but he was not firmly in charge.. He was always watching his back. Besides, at that relatively young age of 32 years and his level of education which didn’t equip him with management skills needed for the running of a complex country like Nigeria, he lacked the ability to, as it were, have a mind of his own. He depended heavily on the likes of Chief Awolowo, Okoyi Arikpo etc for direction. I still believe that if it had not been someone as moderate as him in power, and that if his position as a moderate leader had not been strengthened by the fact of Dr Azikiwe’s “defection “ to the Federal Side, the war could have been ended in the battlefield and no one would have been able to stop the likes of Muritala from re-enacting the Asaba massacre all over the entire Igbo land. The only problem is that he has not been courageous to let everyone know the constraints he had during his time in power. The way his government had brought up the idea of massive federal government scholarship and loans to university students and allowed it to be benefited by students all over the country, without discrimination, spoke of his magnanimity and kind hearted nature. It’s important that he should apologize and acknowledge his mistakes or shortcomings in order to get forgiveness from God and humanity before he meets his maker. That will be a mark of greatness and something he should not allow himself to miss.
Peter obi is a fool
Oga Ezuoke! You did not answer the question! You are neither here nor their like politicians! Someone did not feel remorse and Bragg about it,he always say that he has no regret! So can't forgive someone who never ask for it simple!
Biafrans can never ever forgive gowan
I am Igbo! But let me ask; Did Gowon cry out to you that he needs your forgiveness? Does Gowon acknowledge that he did anything wrong? If since the 1967 or so, he has not seen a need for forgiveness, what makes you think he would'nt despise any forgiveness imposed on him? Forgiveness of sin is non negotiable no matter the degree of offence, if you must retain a relationship with the Almighty God. For with God no degree of offence can justify any unforgiveness. But even if the Igbos choose to forgive him totally, but he does not repent of that atrocity, God Almighy himself will not forgive him.
Gowon will never have peace till he openly apologize to ndi Igbo
What kind of logic that this man is giving here?
There is nothing to forgive or not forgive by Igbos or whoever. Whatsoever a man sows, so shall he reap.
If Gowon even as a so-called Christian in the evening of his life, has refused to tell himself the truth , then Satan the father of lies is indeed proud of him and his eternal fate is sealed by his own hand.
I don't even understand our PEPOLE , is Peter obi the one to beg for that ? What is Peter trying to tell us , the man is not ready to do dat .
This brother is talking rubbish. You are talking about Nigeria. Nigeria and Gowon do not think that they did anything wrong by those killings and they are still killing today.
He should forgive himself for what he did. I will never forgive this murder..
We will never forgive, he most pay.
You will never be forgiven because you are a very bad man
No No No. Igbos with real Igbo blood will never forgive gowon. He is evil
The Igbos should first think of the evil they commited against other tribes in Nigeris
The only forgiveness is IGBO BIAFRA TRIBE PEOPLE AND THEIR LAND freedom out of Nigeria without meaning
We all know that Gowon was used by the Northern caliphate. Apologizing to Igbos means throwing the caliphate under the bus.
What do you mean should Igbos forgive Gowon. The question should be why did Nigeria forgave the Igbos and the Igbos should be grateful to Gowon for making that declaration of no victor no vanquish after what the Igbos did by declaring biafraud and invading the old Midwest ( now Edo and delta states) ojukwu and his gang even rob our bank. The Igbos should be grateful to Gowon.
Have Igbos forgiven Britain or have they asked Britain to tender an apology for their role in the Nigeria/Biafra war??? There is No FUTURE IN THE PAST, please let us focus on how to make Ala-Igbo the envy of Nigeria and even the Rest of Africa!!! My own thought thought.
Whatever that happened has it stopped. If so why is south east is militarized?
The wording of that message was contrary to the real truth
If the WAR was about NIGERIA UNITY, why did he choose not to implement the aburi accord?
WE THE IGBOS SAY WE DIDN'T LOOSE THE WAR THEN WHY ARE WE ASKING GOWON TO APOLOGIZE TO US. WE FOUGHT A WAR NO VICTOR NO VANQUISHED
Genocide Gowon should never be forgiving
God will never forgive you too
Should the North and West forgive the ibos???
In that comparison of Japan and U S A ,there was a reconstruction of Japan by U S A
Ezeoke you speak well sir, I salute you brotherly