Biafra: The Young Generation Don't Know What The War Caused Nigeria; Gen. Gowon

Yakubu Gowon

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has dismissed threat of Nigeria’s unity as he also said that with Biafra it is finished.

General Yakubu Gowon made this statement recently in reaction to the resent protests by some youths.
He said that Nigerians have put behind them the bad memories of the 1967 civil war, and that those behind these protests on Biafra don’t have an inkling what the Biafra war cost Nigerians.
The elder statesman speaking in Lafia, the Nasarwa State capital shortly after a malaria eradication campaign questioned that ‘do they want us to go to another war? but hoped and I prayed to God that such should not happen.’
He went further to say that those involved in this campaign were being driven by just a few people and that majority of the Igbo people do not share the same view.
‘It is only them, the few, that are there but the majority of the Igbo people that I know are not with them’
Acceding to the fact that the protesters have the right to express their feelings he stated “with Biafra it is finished”.
He said these people ‘let them say their views, yes it democracy but let s make sure they can express their wishes and desires but let them remember with Biafra it is finished. it is not a threat’