Vanguard· 1h ago· 1 min read
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dan Ulasi, has dismissed former Head of State Yakubu Gowon’s account of the Nigerian Civil War in his recently released memoir, describing it as a collection of “convenient amnesia” and “half truths.”
Ulasi made the remarks on Friday during an appearance on The Morning Show on Arise News while reacting to Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang’s apology to the Igbo community over the role some Plateau indigenes played during the civil war.
Commenting on Gowon’s memoir, Ulasi argued that the book failed to present an accurate account of the events leading to and during the conflict.
“If you look at what happened in the Aburi Accord, General Gowon signed everything in the Aburi Accord, and only to come back to the uselessness of what he did, probably he didn’t understand what was going on there,” Ulasi said.
He accused the former…
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