Biafra: Gowon under fire over account of civil war

From Okwe Obi, Abuja

AN elder statesman and convener of Igbochukwu Organisation, Dr Chike Obidigbo, has said that Nigeria’s former Head of State, retired General Yakubu Gowon, deliberately kept away the basic truths about the genocide against the Igbo during the 1967 to 1970 Nigeria civil war.

He said at 90, the former Head of State should have emulated former military President Ibrahim…