By Tim Tochukwu
For Biafra Choice Writers
A pot recently called a kettle black; and
a dog described a lion as coward. The pot and the dog is Yakubu Gowon,
Nigeria’s former military junta. The lion is late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu,
the late leader of Biafra who battled Nigeria and world powers to protect his
people.
Few days ago, Gowon resurrected his
senseless statement that Ojukwu was a coward who abandoned his people and ran
away during the Biafra/Nigeria war of 1967 – 1970. He also tried to make fun of
the Biafran leader for coming back to join Nigerian politics, and not able to
win any of the positions he contested for. He did not stop there; he called
Nnamdi Kanu a criminal, who is leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Incidentally, all that Gowon accused
Ojukwu of; he was guilty of many times over. For instance, when he was overthrown
by the excessive hemp smoker, Murtala Muhammed in the bloodless coup of 1975,
he was so cowardly that he ran away (with his tails between his legs) to
Britain. Britain took him in because they were the ones that armed him (together
with other world powers) to kill and commit genocide against Biafrans people.
He did not come home to face the charges against him.
While in UK, he studied political science
because he wanted to wipe his shame which Ojukwu dealt to him at Aburi, Ghana
(where his neophyte, illiteracy and stupidity was exposed by Ojukwu) during the
Aburi Accord discussions).
While in Britain, he plotted a counter-coup
with Brigadier Bisalla; Col. B. S Dimka; and other middle-belt officers, against
Murtala Mohammed. The coup failed, even though Mohammed was killed. Others were
shot, but the coward Gowon stayed back in Britain until he was eventually
pardoned.
After he was pardoned, Gowon came back and
wanted to Nigeria, and attempted to run for President. But Fulani people and
their Hausa slaves frightened the hell out of him after they humiliated him by
master-minding his defeat by a nonentity. He became so redundant that he
started travelling across Nigeria pretending to be running a prayer movement.
Now after many years of his prayers, what is the position of Nigeria now, if
not a failed state that is only surviving by force of arms.
After his humiliation by the Fulani, few
people were surprised. In the same way, his latest rant about Ojukwu did not
surprise anybody. Gowon has always been a fool and an opportunist, always wanting
to reap where he did not sow. Ever ybody knew that he was trying to warm his
way toward Buhari, who have started looking at him with suspicion. Since he
(Buhari) unleashed his Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria, in his bid to Islamize
Nigeria, Gowon’s people have been at the receiving end as they are being
butchered on a daily basis. His directing attention to Ojukwu and Kanu, and
saying that “Biafra was dead”, was his own way of saying that he was still a
good boy.
It is no secret, throughout his life,
Gowon has been known as a coward whose every action is motivated by fear. There
is hardly anyone who knew Gowon’s story, who did not know how he denied and
abandoned his fiancée, Edith Ike and his new-born son, Musa, out of fear of the
Fulani, and their Hausa house-slaves in 1967. Gowon was planning on getting
married to Ike. But when the second coup happened, which was led by Muhammed,
and the rampaging Fulani threatened to kill him unless he prove his hatred for
the Igbo Biafrans. They were ready to make him the figure-head of the military
junta if he would prove himself an Igbo hater.
He accepted, even though it was against
military tradition; but his fiancée and son bore the brunt. According to
military tradition, the most senior military officer, which was Brigadier
Ogundipe at the time, was supposed to take command. But the chief Fulani slave,
Gowon, succumbed to fear and took command under the supervision of the Fulani.
Gowon was to succumb to fear again few
months later, after he went for the Aburi conference and signed agreement with
other military rulers on the direction the country took. But on coming back,
the Fulani (goaded by the British) pressured him to recant on the agreement. He
cowardly recanted and took Nigeria into a bloodletting that has continued even
up till today. This was the man calling Ojukwu a coward.
Apart from denying his fiancée and son,
this useless Gowon succumbed to fear once again when in 1966 he was forced to
murder an Igbo-Biafran commercial pilot at the Lagos airport, just to prove to Muhammadu
Shuwa that he hated Biafrans.
This was how Osita Ebiem recorded it:
“While the argument went on, Shuwa came up with what he thought was a simple
and brilliant idea to settle once and for all, the contention of who killed the
most Igbo among them. Shuwa gave Gowon a service pistol and said to him that he
should cut the whole story short and rest the minds of those who doubted
Gowon’s commitment by killing an Igbo pilot who had just flown a commercial
plane to the airport…
“The Igbo pilot was taken to the tarmac
and, in the clear view of all present, Gowon shot and killed him.”
Now, this old idiot called Yakubu Gowon
also called Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader a criminal. But this is a man whose son
has been a drug dealer and a drug addict just. It is record that his son has
been in prison in the United States of America (USA) for the past 22 years. But
he has the audacity to describe a freedom fighter as a criminal.
This same Gowon is a well-known dullard,
like all Northern rulers. His stupidity showed clearly when while he was in
government, oil was booming, and (and his fellow Northerners) had occupied
Biafraland and was stealing the oil by force. He was so daft as to have boasted
to the world that his problem was not money but how to spend. So, he laid the
foundation for the profligacy that destroyed foundation of Nigeria and turned
it into a failed state. While other world leaders of oil producing countries
were investing for the future of their countries, Gowon was busy paying the
salaries of other countries of the world and organizing jamborees.
This is the old idiot that opened his
mouth to call Ojukwu a coward.
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