Monday, 25 November 2024

Nigeria is Better Off With Igbos - Gowon

Nigeria’s wartime leader, Gen Yakubu Gowon, while delivering an oration at the burial service for Chief (Mrs.) Chinyere Asika, wife of the former Sole Administrator of East Central State has said that “Nigeria is better off with Igbos.”  

Excerpt:

Gowon’s declaration was borne out of a deep appreciation of the commitment and sacrifice of the deceased and her husband, Ajie Ukpabi Asika, to the survival of Nigeria as one entity.

The former Head of State recalled that when he proposed the post of Sole Administrator of East Central State, Asika told me, “I prefer to do this for the good of Igbo people.”

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Source: VANGUARD

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