SYND 2 7 67 INTERVIEW ITH CHIEF OF STATE, GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON
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- (1 Jul 1967) An interview with the Nigerian head state Major General Yakubu Gowon. Speaking about the steps required to bring down Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, President of the breakaway Nigeiran state, Biafra.
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Considering the pressures he was exposed to,and also his relative inexperience,his level-headed mindset was remarkable.
Was is level headed when he promptly decided to starve a whole region of people because of the actions of few?
Absolutely!
I'm so impressed with his intelligence at this age to lead a country like Nigeria at a difficult time in her history. Please commend his bravery.
HE LED NIGERIA TO WAR , DIVISION, SELF HATE AND BANKRUPTSY AND YOU WANT US TO COMMEND HIS BRAVERY?
@@tonyebiere551 Yes... All he did was to apply force to keep the nation one... Sadly lives was lost. He regrets it too.he kept saying it was a fight btw brothers..... He achived his aim finally, unfortunately other leaders didn't build on the foundation
@@JosephSuberu after applying force against the people wish. Is Nigeria still united till today? . Use of force can never stop an ideology and can never make a country progress. Our struggle for Biafra continues till today and we must achieve it. It’s will only take time and sadly more lives will continue to lost until the wish of the people is done ✅
Leaders are born with their might and ability
@@JosephSuberuWhat is the essence of keeping the nation one if it can't work for all? Mumu like you!
So the Nigerian civil war was all about oil revenue and not OJukwu or North and Igbo or one Nigeria. Oil is what is all about, oil , oil! Both ojukwu and Gowon was only interested about the oil not better life for Nigerians
That was a good observation from you.
Good observation.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, please tell me where in Igboland is there oil?
Gowon wanted to keep the country together, Ojukwu wanted to destroy for his own personal gain. Since his coup to take over Nigeria with several other Igbo generals failed, he tried to grab hold of as much land as he could and like most corrupt Nigerian politicians, he did it under the veneer of tribalism. I don't get how Nigerian will say "shine your eye" and still think these politicians who constantly throw you under the bus somehow like you because you can speak the same language as them.
@@toade1583 scroll to 0.48. There the reporter said it and not me. Are u more knowledgeable than the people in this video who where there at the beginning and end of the war. Please refer to 0:48
The Nigerian Civil (Biafran) War was mainly Britain VS France for Nigerian's oil.
Most Nigerians think it’s about tribe
For Biafra oil. Nigeria has no oil. And Oduduwa has oil
I had an opportunity to listen to one interview Gowon granted to British journalist. In the interview, things went wrong and Gowan began to yell back at the British man, "you guys are the ones who told us to kill the Igbos" I am surprised that no one had since posted this video on TH-cam.
Please why don't you paste the link of the video!
Uche Oparah I saw the video sometime in 1980s when people were still hoping that Nigeria would survive. I have since been searching to find that video. But you know what the evil Britain may have done with the video.
Mazi Efuna You may be right about the video. As for Gowon, I am happy he is alive to behold the his region and kinsmen experiencing a taste of their medicine which they have Ndi Igbo.
Uche Oparah you can see how the interview went, the stage nature of it is quite obvious. The event going on in Nigeria today vindicates Ojukwu.
See ! See!. If you have that video why don't you upload it. Why are you waiting for someone to do that.
A very sensible and intelligent leader who later on attended Warwick University to further his knowledge of Politics.
The first blow was struck on the 15th of January 1966 when almost an entire generation of thinkers and people qualified to lead our country were killed like dogs in the street. I am sorry if this offends but you can not build anything great from such a brutal and catastrophic event. Everything that took place after that was bound to happen. The military do not belong in the political arena. They are not qualified and it violates the constitution of any civilised country. Ojukwu, Gowon etc should have chosen either the gun or civilian life to make a difference. You can't have both. What would you say to people who effect significant change in this world without firing a single round and killing their own brothers? Nigeria has never recovered from the choosing to rule by the gun. Secession was never a viable economic option for Nigeria and neither was the civil war. Period. It would have been the death of the rest of all our people. Every military ruler and so-called well intentioned politician comes in under the pretence of addressing injustices and cleaning up corruption only to replace what was there before with something worse. There is a difference between a man fighting for justice and a man that has achieved his aims sitting in his office with a bloated belly. Do not worship these people like they gods and do not make heroes out of anyone. They almost led all our people to destruction. The real heroes are the ordinary people who still love their country despite that shameful episode in our history. I am tired of listening to generation upon generation breathing life into an illegal and an unjust war that resulted in mass killings on both sides and shamed our race. I am Yoruba and I have many cousins from the east and we celebrate the ethnic diversity in our family. We are all brothers and sisters and we should respect our humanity which is more important that any ethnicity, country or flag. Some of these people that are being hero worshipped did not step foot in Ibo land till their 20's. Most of them were born in the north and were from privileged backgrounds as well as being stooges for the British who had bad bele after being being thrown out of the country in 1960. Fight for your name and fight for your family. Forget about these so-called leaders that never missed a meal.
You get it but igbos don't like listening to fact that the problem they want to portray themselves as saint
The hero of all time
Which hero you don’t know anything he betrayed them lied about accepting the tens don’t be fooled we are brainwashed we are a nation why should I be envies if you are igbo or Hausa . Do a research and understand g
unfortunately it is now lasting forever
Bingo
after applying force against the people wish. Is Nigeria still united till today? . Use of force can never stop an ideology and can never make a country progress. Our struggle for Biafra continues till today and we must achieve it. It’s will only take time and sadly more lives will continue to lost until the wish of the people is done ✅
Very measured response.
I'm Igbo but I have a personal love for Gowon. I cannot even say why.
Let me tell you why. Because you are a stupid person
@@chisomezeike6537 😅😂🤣💬
Seems you are fooled by his charm and looks. Your kind is easily duped, the devil is always fancy when they want to lure their victims. This man is a mass murderer, remember that.
@@feyrol42 Please tell him! Let him read my several posts on this topic and be enlightened, you're quite apt in your description of him -- the contrived chairman of a contraption called "Nigeria prays" -- the son of a roving Christian evangelist who played the ostrich while his fellow Africans were being massacred in a region of a country supposedly their own. He was the military villain whose claim to war fame was bombing civilian hospitals and market places by hired Egyptian mercenary pilots.
I was barely a child during the oil war of genocide prosecuted by the Foolani stooge Mr Yakuprevaricating Jackpot Gowontler and Mr Obafoodless AWOLowo ("Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war"; Away Without Official Leave).
Millions of innocent lives of children and babies that were snuffed out by the demonic policies of this diabolical duo cry out from the great beyond. 'nuff said.
@@feyrol42 you are right. Like I was fooled by Ojukwu's charm and command of the English language too. Now I am saddened by the fact he plunged his people into war and fled. What a cowardice behavior!
I respect both men: Gowon and Ojukwu., they were not bad in themselves; their people were. They were only being used in my view.
Gowon might have been used by his people and British for material gain, but no one uses Ojukwu rather Ojukwu uses his people to trade for power and engaged in the civil war that he has no chance to win while letting the blood of his people to flow.
Ademoyega described ojukwu as crafty and selfish
Do Biafrans even know how many Midwestern civilians your soldiers killed please don’t accuse Gowon of Hypocrisy when you yourself are being hypocritical
How many mid-westerners were killed ny Biafrans?
The greatest casualties were the Midwest Igbo areas and Midwest Igbo residents in places like Benin City where over 1,000 of them were killed by federal troops assisted by non Igbo mobs. This is well documented
Don't twist events and stop standing historical facts on their head.
The fact is, Biafran troops merely marched through the Midwest on their way to Lagos before the saboteurs stopped at Ore. The objective was not a conquest but rather to force Mr Yakuprevaricating Jackpot Gowontler to the peace table, to call off the oil war of genocide.
You have conveniently forgotten that it was the Nigerian 2nd Division under the command of Mr Murderoustala Ramrod Mohammed, assisted by Messrs IBM Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo, that ordered the massacres of the white flag waving civilians for committing no sin other than being Igbo. So be educated! 'nuff said.
Highly Intelligent
Lol. Gowon, and how did all of this turn out?
Friends? Hell no. There's no friendship anywhere.
D war was avoidable. D ego btw Gowon n Ojukwu led to d war. Im an Oxford man vs Im a Sandhurst man. We want peace. Never again should we see ds again.
Gowon was only doing his job as the head of state
Ojukwu has earlier been described as crafty and selfish
See how these people were speaking English
They did fight a total war though 😢
This man called Gowon, was living in the past, and in spite of his age so immatured in his reasoning about the difference that he had with his Christian brethren from the Eastern region, to a point drawings arms murdering millions of them, including young children and maiming thousands upon thousands of people, vowing to till fight on. His selfish interest of being the Supreme commander, and sabotaging the Aburi Peace Accord opted it all.
You captured everything perfectly
By
my heroes
Sandhurst vs Oxford?
Oil?
Ego?
Immaturity?
Tools?
The War.
That is a leader. No wonder Nigeria is still great despite all the ills experienced in the past.
"A formal declaration of the Northern Region's secession was narrowly averted Monday August 1, (1966) when Col. Gowon was elevated to power in Lagos. Lt. Col. Gowon had prepared a radio address proclaiming the North's intention to break away from Nigeria but was dissuaded by the Yorubas in the army. Appeals to Gowon for restraint from northern secession were also made by several ambassadors from Western nations, especially Britain. Although Gowon was dissuaded from the secession, he did declare that it seemed to him to be "no basis for Nigerian unity, which has been so badly rocked, not only once but several times."
---- New York Times Wednesday August 3, 1966.
MegaOdi777 The problem with that is that it was Murtala Mohammed that wanted secession, not Gowon.
Continue deceiving yourself
Nigeria is not great, only it’s citizens.
@@folarinalabi3250 So you're agreeing that Mr Yakuprevaricating Jackpot Gowontler was a British houseboy and Foolani stooge? As for Mr Murderoustala Ramrod Mohammed, the bloodthirsty Hausa man converted to Fulani-Islamic irredentist, it's best to keep silent for now. 'nuff said.
You dont force people to be together
The living legend
Gowon may you and your generations to come never have peace for all the innocent blood you killed. Amen for ever
Even though I was a little child hiding in the bushes of Biafra I still have the greatest respect for General Gowon. Let us thank him for the way he prosecuted the war. He had no bitterness in his heart. He was simply a stooge used by these Hausa/Fulani criminals. Long Live General Yakubu Gowon.
Shamefully stooges are cowards, evils and enemies. NO Honors amongst thieves. Making excuses for evils confirmed who's worse than evils; it's a choice. Truth and Endless facts is Indigenous Biafras Originals are forever CORRECT all along*.
@@Rabekkai I don't quite see it that way bro. Tribal/ethnic wars are usually very bloody. 1 million people were slaughtered in Rwanda in 100 days.
Remember Biafra only had propaganda at the beginning. Virtually no weapons. If Gowon was the likes of Murtala Muhammed, I probably would not have survived the war.
@@trommelbiel It's okay to wax philosophical but what matters at the end of the day is, the situation on ground!
Be aware that, Igbos were the foremost ethnic group that truly believed in One Nigeria with integrity, not the "one Nigeria" of convenience championed by the likes of Mr Yakuprevaricating Jackpot Gowontler and Mr Murderoustala Ramrod Mohammed. Theirs was for oil, and nothing but oil! 'nuff said.
Bigotry from an ethonationalistic IPOB member
@@emekaezeokoli1287 We all know that we Igbos are the real believers in one Nigeria. I am speaking from the point of view of someone who saw that war as a very little child. Yes, those enemy fighter jets flew over my Dad's house and food was very scarce. Biafra had practically no airforce and every fighter jet hovering around was 99.999% Nigerian. Gowon could have prosecuted a different war if he chose to. It was still a genocidal war but Gowon did not fight the Rwandan kind of genocidal war. War is never a picnic.
Modern 4 million people biafrans die during the war
A misfit.
Ojukwu wanted to become an oil sheikh from Nnewi. The man is a greedy bufoon.
"Awolowo was a devil and his policies led to the present problems that the people of Niger Delta are fighting…the Yoruba instead should apologize to the Niger Delta people for the federal government’s policies the late premier of defunct Western Region influenced against the interest of the Niger Delta.”
-------- Asari Dokubo Champion Newspapers Tuesday march 22, 2005.
Please can you educate me more on your statement?
You are only short sighted. Sure the group of ethnicity masquerading as a Nation today ain't better off? Or is it? Let me know your candid opinion?
You are wrong 1000 %wrong how about( Aburi Accord) I think UK use them to get what they want in Nigeria and the Igbo people and the other's played the price and still
You forget the Aburi accord.....
There are too many chances to avert this civil war if not Ojukwu's greed ,selfishness and desperation for power.
Mumu. Why did Gowon not keep to the aburi accord?
You are a fool! The essence of being a rational human being as contrasted with an animal is to make a statement and defend same. You throw out careless statements without an iota of fact.
Ojukwu's "greed etc etc ..." -- for not sitting on his keister and watch as his kinsmen got slaughtered for the "sin" of being Igbo?
Your hero, the Foolani stooge Mr Yakuprevaricating Jackpot Gowontler reneged on the Aburi Accord to which he was a signatory, after being dissuaded by his British masters from declaring Arewa Republic. 'nuff said.
@@ndukafelix3722
What was in the Aburi Accord?
Gowon only issued a decree to create more states from the eastern region few weeks after the meeting in Aburi,and Ojukwu just assumed that he was trying to take away the oil regions from under his control,and he indefinitely declared Biafra Republic. Gowon on the other hand had a different reason why he created more states from the Eastern Region.
If only I had the time to explain further.
@@Mauyeme_Nigeria Ojukwu uses that Aburi meeting to brainwash the so-called Ibo people that sometimes reasons from their anus while claiming to be wise. Gowon did not disagree with Aburi meeting rather he created more states so that every state will be autonomous as you agreed in Aburi meeting and Ojukwu rebelliously disagree and declare Biafran state in order to counter Gowon's new state creation to regain the control of the oil rich region of defunct rivers state and defunct south central states. Which dictatorship/head of state of a nation will tolerate an insubordinate state governor under his administration? Gowon even play childish for allowing Ojukwu to drag him up and down without ordering his immediate removal, retire or assassination to move the government forward. Ojukwu's selfish and desperate for power is what causes the civil war, but his fellow Ibos kept talking about hopeless Aburi meeting that has no basis. At the end the poor Ibo masses pay with their blood while Ojukwu ran away for his life to a luxurious exile. Who is fooling who?
That was why he was describes as crafty and selfish by ademoyega
You all keep alluding to Ojukwu s greed. You forget that his father was Nigerias first self made millionaire, for which Sir Odumegwu was knighted. His son, young colonel was Sandhurst trained, understood economics, he needed the oil money from his homeland to defend his people, allowing access to this revenue to the Federal Government was his major failure, especially after Aburi accord which the Federal government ignored. Without gunboats all Biafrans were sitting ducks to be slaughtered by British aided Naval blockade through starvation. The only credit I give Gowon is that he chose this more humane method, but he later went on to embezzle $40million and bought house in Britain while still a student in his late thirties, there. Colonel Ojukwu never stole oil money and no Biafra born Army officers did. Almost all the northern military leaders stole money starting from Gowon, through Abacha,etc. Some got creative and called their loot "Rural Electrification " ,I personal ly lost my paychecks to Babangidas greed when he cut salaries.
Disgraceful
Chiboy Boyman how
One can see your illogicality in all your arguments, for instance, you say "I told my troupes that they are not fighting a total war". So what did you fight? The past generation, the present generation, and the future have you to blame for your rash decision and for the evil that will happen to Nigeria because of the thoughtless decision you and Ojukwu made.
“…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.
He was only a greedy fool. Thank God he's alive to see where we are today. He will be forced to know he made a compound mistake
They didn't even fight a total war. If they did.
Maybe your fathers won't be here today.