[The Aburi Accord (Full Text) ]
Segun Toyin DAWODU MD
http://www.dawodu.com/aburi1.htm FINAL COMMUNIQUE
http://www.dawodu.com/aburi2.htm RECORD OF MINUTES
Regards,
Segun
"Mobolaji E. Aluko" <mal...@cldc.howard.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Dear All:
>
> I have asked SO OFTEN about being provided the FULL TEXXT of the Aburi
> Accord that when finally someone did, I had to double-check to be sure
> that what he provided was it.
>
> He says that it is. So I have it below, for further confirmation if need
> be.
>
> Can someone please tell me what is so amazing about the Aburi Accord that
> we sometimes ask its outcome to replace a desirable Sovereign National
> Conference?
>
> Thank you and best wishes.
>
>
> Bolaji
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> FULL TEXT OF THE ABURI ACCORD
>
> (i) A military committee comprising representatives of the regions
> should meet to take statistics of arms and ammunition in the country.
> Unallocated stores of arms and ammunition held in the country should be
> shared equitably between the various commands in the federation.
>
> (ii) The Army should be reorganized in order to restore discipline and
> confidence, Specifically,
>
> a. the army should be governed by the Supreme Military Council which
> would be chaired by a Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and
> the Head of the Federal Military Government;
>
> b. Area Commands under Area Commanders and corresponding to existing
> Regions should be created;
>
> c. During the period of the military goverment, Military Governors
> should have control over Area Commands, for internal security;
>
> d. A military headquarters, comprising equal representation from the
> regions and headed by a Chief of Staff, should be established;
>
> e. A Lagos Garrison, including Ikeja Barracks, should be created.
>
> (iii) In accordance with the decision of August 9, 1966, Army personnel of
> Northern Nigerian origin should return to the North from the West. In
> order to meet the security needs of the West, a crash programme of
> recruitment and training is necessary but the details should be examined
> after the Military Committee has finished their work.
>
> (iv) The Supreme Military Council should deal with all matters of policy
> including promotion to top executive posts in the Armed Forces and the
> Police.
>
> (v) The legislative and executive authority of the federal Military
> Government should be referred for determination, provided that, where a
> meeting was not possible, such a matter must be referred to the Military
> Governors for their comments and concurrence.
>
> (vi) Appontments to the Diplomatic and consular posts as well as to
> superscale posts in the Federal Public Service and equivalent posts in the
> Federal Corporations must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.
>
> (vii) With a view to promoting mutual confidence, all decrees or
> provisions of decrees passed since January 15, 1966, which detracted from
> the previous powers and positions of the Regional Governments should be
> repealed. Law officers of the Federation should meet in Benin on January
> 14, 1967, and list all the decrees or provisions of Decrees concerned, so
> that they may be repealed not later than January 21, 1967, if possible.
>
> (viii) A meeting of Permanent Secretaries of the Ministries of Finance
> of all the governments in the federation should be convened within two
> weeks to consider ways and means of resolving the serious problems posed
> by displaced persons all over the country.
>
> (ix) Displaced civil servants and corporation staff (including daily-paid
> employees) should continue to be paid their full salaries until March 31,
> 1967, provided they have not secured alternative employment. The Military
> Governors of the East, West and Mid-West should send representatives
> (Police Commissioners) to meet and discuss the problems of recovery of
> property left behind by displaced persons.
>
> (x) The Ad Hoc Constitutional Committee should resume sitting as soon as
> practicable, and the question of accepting the unanimous recommendations
> of September 1966 should be considered at a later meeting of the Supreme
> military Council.
>
> (xi) For at least the next six months there should be purely a Military
> Government having nothing to do with politicians.
>
> (xii) The deceased military leaders should be accorded full military
> honors due them.
>
> (xiii) All government information media should be restrained from making
> inflammatory statements and causing embarrassment to various Governments
> in the Federation.
>
> (xiv) Lt.-Col Ojukwu should keep his order - that non-Easterners should
> leave the Eastern Region - under constant review with a view to its being
> lifted as soon as practicable.
>
> (xv) The next meeting of the Supreme Military Council should be within
> Nigeria at a venue to be mutually agreed.
>
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>
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Thank you for linking us to your website where you posted Dr. Omoigui's
rendition of the Aburi Accord.
Dr. Omoigui has, over and over, demonstrated his prowess at revisionism. He
has again compiled the minutes of a meeting which he did not attend. He has
not provided any reference to his sources. Again is banking on the credo of
internet gossip journalism: if you read it over the Net, it's gotta be true.
Laughable ain't it?
I will forward you the authentic document as soon as it becomes available.
But for now, rest assured that I am working on it.
Take care.
Obiora
Mobolaji E. Aluko
Obiora, Dawodu and co:
I have gone from ZERO Aburi Accord text to the possibility of THREE
VERSIONS in one day! That cannot be a bad achievement.
So, for ease of reference, I shall call the earlier Aburi Accord that I
posted the "Ambrose Ehirim Aburi Accord" - because Ambrose posted it as
part of his "THE AMBROSE EHIRIM FILE FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2000 " Nigeria: The
Troubled Nation". We now also have the Segun Dawodu-posted "Nowa Omoigui
Aburi Accord."
I shall stay further discussions until I see the promised "Obiora Aburi
Accord."
In the time being, I shall stay cool like ice-water.
Until then: Best wishes.
Bolaji
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Since you are so keen on laying your hands on the Aburi Accord,
why don't you with all your resources try to contact either of the
major players( then Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu and Lt.Col. Yakubu
Gowon) of the Aburi accord. These men are still alive and can assist
you with a copy of the Aburi Accord if you press hard with some
respect!
I am quite sure if you press your buttons hard, your father with
all the resources around him including Uncle Sege will dig up
that document in one of the Nigerian Archives.
Having said that, you should quit your ranting about this SNC
business. The story is stale and let's find other ways to come
together and talk instead of this your one man campaign that
is not making any inroads! By the way, what happened to the
signature drive on the SNC ala PNC conference letter addressed
to Uncle Sege. Did that project take a dive for the worst? Inquiry
minds want to know.
Ugahtown
Ochiagha II of Uga
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Segun Toyin DAWODU MD
I am eagerly awaiting your version of the Aburi document and see how it
differs from the "rendition" by Dr. Omoigui.
I can assure you that Dr. Omoigui has a track record of making public only
authentic documents and the 2 documents on Aburi are of proven authenticity.
Ditto for other documents in the section of the website:
http://www.dawodu.com/speech.htm
Have a nice day.
Segun
Nc...@aol.com wrote:
> To Dawodu:
>
> Thank you for linking us to your website where you posted Dr. Omoigui's
> rendition of the Aburi Accord.
>
> Dr. Omoigui has, over and over, demonstrated his prowess at revisionism. He
> has again compiled the minutes of a meeting which he did not attend. He has
> not provided any reference to his sources. Again is banking on the credo of
> internet gossip journalism: if you read it over the Net, it's gotta be
true.
> Laughable ain't it?
>
> I will forward you the authentic document as soon as it becomes available.
> But for now, rest assured that I am working on it.
>
> Take care.
> Obiora
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NOWAMAGBE OMOIGUI
If you consider the documents put together by Kirk Greene in his Documentary
Source Books on the Nigerian Conflict in the sixties as revisionism, then
you do not deserve to be taken seriously as an intellectual. ("Crisis and
Conflict in Nigeria: A Documentary SourceBook 1966-70, Volumes I & II;
Oxford University Press)
Before you make wild statements on the Internet, do check your facts.
NAO
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Subject: Re: [The Aburi Accord (Full Text) ]
NOWAMAGBE OMOIGUI
African Studies at St. Antony's College who catalogued practically all
private and official politically focused documents from Nigerian AND Biafran
sources at the time including monitored speeches on Radio and TV.
His footnotes and bibliography are amazingly extensive. He published
Ojukwu's speeches and Press Conferences (monitored off Biafra Radio, or
released by the Biafran Ministry of Information), for example, as they were
originally delivered before those speeches made it to formal Book form later
on.
You should get a copy of both books (or check your local library) to
appreciate the detail and originality. No Library about the sixties
conflict would be complete without them.
Indeed most books on the conflict written by authors on BOTH sides have
referenced Kirk Greene in their own references.
NAO
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [The Aburi Accord (Full Text) ]
> Dear NAO,
> Please, who is Kirk Green?
>
> Ifeanyi
Tony
Egwu Kalu
>From your response, I understand Mr. Greene was not in Aburi during the
meeting neither did he record/tape the conversations that took place. As I
see it, the Aburi accord that the Nigerian side published was not what was
agreed on. The Biafran published version of the agreement seemed to be more
authentic because it was claimed to be supported with taped versions of the
same agreement. I do not think that Republic of Biafra (God Bless the
Nation) would have been able to fake the voices of the representatives from
the vandal territory of nigeria.
>From above you know where I stand.
Egwu Kalu
At 09:25 PM 3/21/00 -0500, NOWAMAGBE OMOIGUI wrote:
>A. H. M. Kirk Greene was an Oxford Scholar - a Senior Research Fellow in
>African Studies at St. Antony's College who catalogued practically all
>private and official politically focused documents from Nigerian AND Biafran
>sources at the time including monitored speeches on Radio and TV.
>
>His footnotes and bibliography are amazingly extensive. He published
>Ojukwu's speeches and Press Conferences (monitored off Biafra Radio, or
>released by the Biafran Ministry of Information), for example, as they were
>originally delivered before those speeches made it to formal Book form later
>on.
>
>You should get a copy of both books (or check your local library) to
>appreciate the detail and originality. No Library about the sixties
>conflict would be complete without them.
>
>Indeed most books on the conflict written by authors on BOTH sides have
>referenced Kirk Greene in their own references.
>
>NAO
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Tony <ahi...@stn.nagaokaut.ac.jp>
>To: <NO...@prodigy.net>
>Cc: <igbo...@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:48 PM
NOWAMAGBE OMOIGUI
I suggest you get a copy of Kirk Greene's books and peruse the bibliography
and footnotes YOURSELF. There is no point in arguing. Like I said credible
players on BOTH sides use his work as a reference. He went to great lengths
to get original documents from BOTH sides.
Or get a copy of the Aburi minutes from the Ghanaian National Archives.
That way you can see what the Ghanaians recorded (if you trust them). It is
available.
If that fails to satisfy you, get the copy put out by the Nigerian
Government (from the National Archives in Lagos/ABuja). If that fails to
satisfy you, get the statement of interpretation put out by the Eastern
Region Ministry of Information (ABuri preceded Biafra, so it was still
Eastern Region at that time).
If that fails to suffice, get Ojukwu's own comments about it in his various
books since the War ended (He did not publish the actual minutes). And
while on the subject you might want to read a story of post-ABuri behind the
scenes policy discussions in Biafra as written by the former Head of Service
and Secretary to the Biafran Government (NU Akpan) - who accompanied Ojukwu
to ABuri in 1967 and to Abidjan in 1970. He is still alive and published
his own book six months after the War ended. He also describes
conversations he had with Ojukwu in the plane on the way back from ABuri.
(To my knowledge Ojukwu has never publicly refuted Akpan's writings).
War is a complex phenomenon - and truth is often the first casualty.
Nc...@aol.com
ek...@wombat.eng.fsu.edu writes:
<< From your response, I understand Mr. Greene was not in Aburi during the
meeting neither did he record/tape the conversations that took place. As I
see it, the Aburi accord that the Nigerian side published was not what was
agreed on. The Biafran published version of the agreement seemed to be more
authentic because it was claimed to be supported with taped versions of the
same agreement. >>
Dear Mr. Kalu:
Your email quoted above has touched the very soul of the method in Mr. Nowa
Omoigui's revisionism. Kirk Greene was in fact not at the Aburi Conference
but rather listened to the version broadcast on Radio Nigeria. Nowa has
perfected the art of using documented fabrics of near-truths and hate
literature in support of his revisionist articles. That is what makes Nowa a
dangerous intellectual - one that if not taken seriously, will continue to
divide the people of the divided country of Nigeria.
Mr. Kirk Greene documented the war rhetoric which was broadcast on Radio
Nigeria and billed as the "Aburi Accord" by the Nigerian side. One simple
glance at the depleted document would reveal that it was too empty to deserve
to be associated with the name "Aburi". Knowing this, Nowa has continued to
use Greene's document as his only source on the historic Aburi Accord.
One more note on Nowa's strategy. You will recall a few years ago when two
Harvard University professors wrote the book "Bell Curve". They sited over
300 references in their "proof" that the black race is inferior to the white
race. It took the resources of Harvard University and other institutions in
this country to conduct a research and reveal that the entirety of the Bell
Curve references was a conglomeration of hate literature from around the
world. Most of this literature originated from Nazi Germany, Apartheid South
Africa and England. Thus, the bottom was cut from the bell curve.
In the case of Omoigui's revisionist articles on the history and peoples of
Eastern Nigeria, he has perfected the art of assembling igbophobic articles
and hate literature from around Nigeria and England and parading these as his
sources.
The sooner we realize this strategy, the earlier we truncate Nowa's
revisionism in the same way the Bell Curve was nipped in the bud.
Take care.
Obiora
IG...@aol.com
independent chronicler of the Nigerian situation from Independence from
Britain to the end of the Civil war. Being British, he/she took the side of
the Nigeria nation when there was doubt or motives so I did not necessarily
agree with his/her conclusions concerning the Nigerian Civil war. Obviously
in terms of accuracy of facts, she/he was very detailed.
However perhaps she/he was one of the few detailed 'objective '
chronicler of the civil war. There was another more objective chronicler but
the name escapes me now. However if you go to the Net, you can find books
about the Nigerian civil war although they are out of print mostly.
NOWAMAGBE OMOIGUI
I suspect you sent this off before my response to Mr. Kalu.
I have read ALL Ghanaian, Nigerian and Biafran renditions of ABuri. I make
it my business to collect War literature. I doubt you have even read all
the Biafran versions.
It might interest you to know there was no unanimity even within the Biafran
government about ABuri. (Read NU Akpan, Ojukwu's own Secretary to
Government - unless he too is Igbophobic - which would be odd for a man who
held such a sensitive position.)
But the minutes (of what was recorded) are the minutes. There was also a
phase of the Aburi meeting that was not recorded. They had an informal
Gentlemen's chat (off the record) - as Ankrah described it - to cool nerves
and build confidence. The role of this part of the meeting is yet to be
fully explored by historians.
That a piece of war literature does not fit it with your preconcieved notion
of what you romantically expect it to be does not make it Igbophobic. Your
task is to put your emotions aside, get alternate references AND quote them
to the scholar whose work you intend to criticize. Then everyone grows from
the interaction.
Nigeria is a complicated country. That ABuri is a source of disagreement
should come as no surprise to any follower of Nigerian matters - when we
cannot even agree on whether or not Sharia was discussed at the Council of
States meeting a few weeks ago!
Perhaps you should remove the manic log in your eye before seeking to remove
the phobic one you think you see in others. You must also consider the
possibility that what you percieve reflexly as phobia for your tribal
sensitivities may be pathologic hatred on your part for other ethnic groups.
Take a deep breath.
Thanks,
NAO
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Subject: Re: [The Aburi Accord (Full Text) ]
Kevin Ani
Susan Cronje?
St.John de Jorre?
Fredrick Forsyth?
Kirk-green took a biased Nigerian perspective on issues and because Nigeria
won the war, those views were given prominence. In any case, those actions
that were once thought to be heroic by the main actiors have become sources
of acute embarrassement to some people today. Imagine Saro-Wiwa boasting
about how he and Abacha helped to liberate Ogoni from the Igbo! Imagine
David Ejoor and Ogbemudia bragging about their roles in installing
Hausa-Fulani hegemony! Imagine Kola Balogun blasting the Aburi Accord
because it entailed a weeak central government and autonomous regions, the
same things that his people want 30 years on!
Mz Ani.
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mife...@hotmail.com writes:
<< Igwe, "Mr old man" The Aburi conference took place January
4th and 5th 1967.
Meke.
>>
Mr Ifejika,
I won't go into name calling because it is not necessary. My opinion of
General Ojukwu is my opinion. I had prepared a well worded response to you
but some how I lost it. I don't think you merit it anyway.
It is tempting to rehearse why I have that opinion of him again. But the
major players of the war of Ojukwu's age are mostly alive and you may care to
sample opinions if that is your predisposition. Like it is said " Discretion
is a better part of valor"
I cannot misquote one sentence out of a write-up and on the basis of that
start calling names. That is what is called chicken fight in Igbo. (Ogu Okuko)
IG...@aol.com
ebony...@excite.com writes:
<<
Susan Cronje?
St.John de Jorre?
Fredrick Forsyth?
Kirk-green took a biased Nigerian perspective on issues and because Nigeria
won the war, those views were given prominence. In any case, those actions
that were once thought to be heroic by the main actiors have become sources
of acute embarrassement to some people today. Imagine Saro-Wiwa boasting
about how he and Abacha helped to liberate Ogoni from the Igbo! Imagine
David Ejoor and Ogbemudia bragging about their roles in installing
Hausa-Fulani hegemony! Imagine Kola Balogun blasting the Aburi Accord
because it entailed a weeak central government and autonomous regions, the
same things that his people want 30 years on!
Mz Ani.
>>
Mz Ani:
Thank you, Mazi Ani. It is St. John de Torre whose account in my view was
the most objective of them all.
Fredrick Forsyth tended to gloss over the flaws of Ojukwu. You must
remember that Ojukwu then (and even now?) was a brash political neophyte who
distrusted the 'old guards." It was until after Aburi when the Nigerian
delegation literarily took him to the cleaners in the art of political
'Jigbiti.' It was after Aburi also that Ojukwu brought back the 'old
guards'. Imagine the likes of M.J.C Echeruo who was not more than 33 then
and Ojukwu who was 33 or 34 then doing political business with the likes of
Awolowo and Bisi Onabanjo. In retrospect what did we expect? In fact some of
the 'old guards' never where able to work with General Ojukwu until the very
end of there lives. Even his most loyal commanders even said so in their own
memoirs [Madiebo, Achuzia , etc.] And I suspect non of them is close to
Ojukwu as a person.
Remember also that Chief Ojukwu was afraid of any person who was more
experienced than him, and had the propensity of being drawn, like bee to
honey, to any beautiful lady he saw even in the thickest of the battles of
the civil war.
These things were glossed over in the interest of prosecuting the war. So on
the whole I must say that leadership failed us then and I suspect leadership
may fail us again if we do not learn from the history of the prosecution of
the first civil war.(I use first civil war since it seems to me there may be
many more until Nigeria evaporates) In my own view, I often wonder if
general Ojukwus personality traits was fatal enough to have made Ndi Igbo to
loss the first civil war.
I digress.
Saro Wiwa is the most pathetic. He grew up in Aba, went to high school in
Umuahia and taught English literature in Government Secondary School Owerri
prior to the beginning of the first civil war. He in a way was like Ojukwu
in being an abrasive personality. History will judge if he played his cards
wisely.
Take care folks!
Ugo Bere Egbe bere. Onye si ibe ya ebele, nku kwa kwa ya.
I
Meke Ifejika
I've always maintained that people, more importantly Ndiigbo,
who are confused or maybe are ignorant of what took place in Biafra
should either refrain from making wrong sweeping pronouncements or
ask around for the truth.
Igwe, you stated that Ojukwu did not work with older and more
experienced Ndiigbo. It is not true. Ojukwu started working
with Ibiam, Okpara and other good politicians way before Aburi.
After the death of Ironsi and the first and second round of
killings of Ndiigbo in the North, Ibiam advised Ojukwu at
the request of some meaningful Nigerians to attend an Ad-Hoc
Conference on the Nigerian Constitution in Lagos. Ojukwu
took Ibiam's advice and on 12th of September 1966 sent
a 13-man Eastern Nigeria delegation to Lagos for the conference.
The conference lasted until 3rd of October, 1966 during which the
members made considerable progress towards arrangements for more
peaceful co-existence. The conference adjourned on 3rd of October
1966. It was scheduled to resume in November, however Gowon
unilaterally adjourned the conference indefinitely.
Igwe, "Mr old man" The Aburi conference took place January
4th and 5th 1967.
Meke.
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> Obviously if you are the leader of a people, you make your decisions,
>but eventually history will be written based on what transpired.
> In retrospect we could have had more political insight in heading on
>straight to war. To have backed us into a corner which says war was the only
>option was never a wise decision especially since we had little or no weapons
>to fight.
> For your information the Biafra's "Leaders of thought" or whatever they
>where called who almost always met at twelve at night and heard Gneneral
>Ojukwu speak at lenght was a mere rubber stamp assembly in which resolutions
>had already been prepared well in advance and which little or no changes
>where ever made through out the life of Biafra.
Igwe & Co:
Today we are faced with a problem that parallels that of 1966/67. Once
again, it does not seem that we have any organized approach on how to
respond to the issues facing us. Interestingly enough, those who
"outsmarted" us in the past seem to be playing the same games today
including our immediate neighbors. Unfortunately whereas these other groups
are accomstomed to their cultures that can accomodate sharia and islamic
rules (some form of feudal domination), same cannot be said of Ndiigbo. The
sharia idea is inimical to the republican nature of Ndiigbo and thus as we
continue playing the present game that the other groups are playing, sharia
will become a reality. Do you know what will happen? Any radical Igbo
person that stands up and rallies Ndiigbo, our people will follow him/her
and the scenario of 1966/67 will repeat itself whereby people will again
claim Ndiigbo have been outsmarted. We must recognize the cultural
difference between Igbo society and other groups within nigeria - be it the
north, yoruba or the so called south-south group. Unlike these other groups
where "one Oba or whatever name is called" can rally their people together,
Ndiigbo do not have such an entity. Ndiigbo will come together as a group
only when their republicanism is threatened. I see the sharia as such a
threat and until a solution is found, I dare say that we will get involved
once more.
As far as things stand today, sharia has become law in nigeria and the
yoruba, Efik, Ibibio,and other south-south christians/non-christians will
not challenge it. Probably, Ndiigbo should do the same and keep quiet after
all these past several years that oil from south-south region was used to
enrich people from other regions, what response did you get from
south-south? How long did it take to get that response? Was it able to
amount to anything? [Forget about the so called "economic infrastructures"
being put up in Igweocha -PH] Unless Ndiigbo stand their ground united on
the question of confederacy (even if it is used as a bargaining tool),
sharia will become a national law and there will not be any restructuring
of the morribund union. Let our wise men and intellectuals do something
now before someone they will later castigate as arrogant, uncouth etc rises
up to lead Ndiigbo to assert their freedom of Igbo natural justice [not
arab or british imported justice]. For your information, if you "the
intellectuals" do not solve the problem, I will be among the first to join
that "mad man" that will speak the true Igbo language of republican freedom!
Egwu Kalu
NOWAMAGBE OMOIGUI
The correct title for Kirk-Greene's books is:
Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria - A Documentary Source Book. (Volumes I &
II) Oxford University Press 1971 - By A.H.M. Kirk-Greene
********************
Regarding Aburi these are the documents listed and reproduced verbatim in
Volume 1:
Doc #, Title, Page
77. Agenda for the Aburi Meeting 310
78. Final Aburi Communique, 5 January 1967 312
79. Statement by the Supreme Council on the Reorganization
of the Army, and the Approval of Senior Appointments,
and its Declaration on the Use of Force, January 1967 314
80. Official Record of the Minutes of the Meeting of Nigeria’s
Military Leaders Held at Aburi 315
81. Attitudes at Aburi 321
82. Comments by the Federal Permanent Secretaries on the
Decisions Reached at Aburi, 20 January 1967 340
83. Ojukwu’s Press Conference on his Return from Aburi on
6 January 1967 345
84. Speech by Military Governor (Lt.-Col. Hassan Katsina)
on Northern Nigeria Dedication Day, 15 January 1967 350
85. Gowon’s Press Conference on the Aburi Meeting, 26 January
1967 355
87. Federal Government’s View of what was Agreed at Aburi,
February 1967 356
88. The East disputes the Federal Interpretation of Aburi 358
89. ‘Unilateral Action’?A Personal Letter from Ojukwu to
Gowon, 16 February 1967 359
90. ‘On Aburi We Stand’: Ojukwu’s Dawn Broadcast, 25
February 1967 362
91. Military Governor of the West Speaks on Aburi, 1 March
1967 362
I hope these are helpful. Feel free to get the texts and read them
yourself. They are invaluable. The author reproduced the documents without
comment or editorialization, so it is left to you (or any reader) to
interpret them as you (or he/she) please(s).
NAO
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> NOA
> Thank you for this elaboration. Do you have a specific bibliography one
can
> use to source Kirk's books relevant to issues under discussion?
> I will be awfully grateful for your assistance
>
> Nwamazi
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: Tony <ahi...@stn.nagaokaut.ac.jp>
> Cc: igbo...@lists.cc.utexas.edu <igbo...@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [The Aburi Accord (Full Text) ]
>
>
> >A. H. M. Kirk Greene was an Oxford Scholar - a Senior Research Fellow in
> >African Studies at St. Antony's College who catalogued practically all
> >private and official politically focused documents from Nigerian AND
> Biafran
> >sources at the time including monitored speeches on Radio and TV.
> >
> >His footnotes and bibliography are amazingly extensive. He published
> >Ojukwu's speeches and Press Conferences (monitored off Biafra Radio, or
> >released by the Biafran Ministry of Information), for example, as they
were
> >originally delivered before those speeches made it to formal Book form
> later
> >on.
> >
> >You should get a copy of both books (or check your local library) to
> >appreciate the detail and originality. No Library about the sixties
> >conflict would be complete without them.
> >
> >Indeed most books on the conflict written by authors on BOTH sides have
> >referenced Kirk Greene in their own references.
> >
> >NAO
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
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> >Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:48 PM
> >Subject: Re: [The Aburi Accord (Full Text) ]
> >
> >
> >> Dear NAO,
> >> Please, who is Kirk Green?
> >>
> >> Ifeanyi
> >>
> >>
> >> At 0:48 PM 00.3.20 -0500, NOWAMAGBE OMOIGUI wrote:
> >> >Dear Obiora:
> >> >
> >> >If you consider the documents put together by Kirk Greene in his
> >Documentary
> >> >Source Books on the Nigerian Conflict in the sixties as revisionism,
> then
> >> >you do not deserve to be taken seriously as an intellectual. ("Crisis
> >and
> >> >Conflict in Nigeria: A Documentary SourceBook 1966-70, Volumes I & II;
> >> >Oxford University Press)
> >> >
> >> >Before you make wild statements on the Internet, do check your facts.
> >> >
> >> >NAO
> >> >
> >> >
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<< Igwe,
I've always maintained that people, more importantly Ndiigbo,
who are confused or maybe are ignorant of what took place in Biafra
should either refrain from making wrong sweeping pronouncements or
ask around for the truth.
Igwe, you stated that Ojukwu did not work with older and more
experienced Ndiigbo. It is not true. Ojukwu started working
with Ibiam, Okpara and other good politicians way before Aburi.
After the death of Ironsi and the first and second round of
killings of Ndiigbo in the North, Ibiam advised Ojukwu at
the request of some meaningful Nigerians to attend an Ad-Hoc
Conference on the Nigerian Constitution in Lagos. Ojukwu
took Ibiam's advice and on 12th of September 1966 sent
a 13-man Eastern Nigeria delegation to Lagos for the conference.
The conference lasted until 3rd of October, 1966 during which the
members made considerable progress towards arrangements for more
peaceful co-existence. The conference adjourned on 3rd of October
1966. It was scheduled to resume in November, however Gowon
unilaterally adjourned the conference indefinitely.
Igwe, "Mr old man" The Aburi conference took place January
4th and 5th 1967.
Meke. >>
Ifejika;
Sir Francis by his vary nature was a very conciliatory man and I am not
surprised that he stood with Ojukwu till the end of the war? Where were our
other matured politicians during and when the war ended? Where was Zik?
Where was Mbadiwe? Where was Jaja Nwachukwu? etc In the Army where was
Brigadier Njoku. Where were the other senior army officers who were higher in
enlistment order than Ojukwu? Why did some of them head straight back to
Nigeria? Even Jerome Udoji who was General Ojukwu's boss in the civil
service would not work with him and decided to remain on the Nigerian side
instead of joining the effort at home.
You may wish to know that a lot of them, like DR Okpara who was released
from House Arrest came to the rescue principally out of conceived patriotic
response not necessarily because General Ojukwu welcomed them. Others were
also afraid they would be branded saboteurs.
Maybe you ought to read Madiebo's book. Even the Chief Secretary to the
Government of Biafra Mr. Akpan had such opinion in his book too.
In any case, politically we Ndi Igbo were out smarted by a more matured
and well advised Nigerian contingent led by Gowon who not only welcomed the
politically savvy Awolowo but also received advise from the British. That
was the fact. Ifejika!!!
I do not wish to split hair over my assessment of General Ojukwu. You may
have a different opinion of him, but to say I don't have enough information
to make my statement or that I am ignorant of what transpired is very
presumptuous of you since I lived through Biafra like most of the people my
age.
mekwueme
Olia?
Ndiigbo anaghi etufu nwa afo ha. No, not even the crazed. At this point in
time when the other parts of Nigeria are hurdling together to raise an
opinion as to what they want out of Nigeria, you deem it proper to bash the
person, who has in effect, stopped all the mess by a singular action of
going to the press and saying emphatically that ndiigbo have had enough. It
has not been quite three weeks when he made that statement. If you can
recall, nobody said a word. Not Obasanjo. Not the senate. Nobody until HE
grabbed the microphone and said enough is enough. You are entitled to your
opinion but I think you should shelve that opinion if it distracts from what
is going on until you are called to differ. Biko, iwe ewela go nke ukuu.
Njinji na-eji. Mgbo osuru, we will need many generals. Unless you will
join the paper-tiger-general class. 1967-1970 is past, abi? The same thing
that caused 1967-1970 is rearing its ugly head again and I would have
expected you to lead a march down to Abuja to ask Obasanjo to stop this mess
now so that we will not repeat 1967-1970. Instead you make it your business
to make a mess of the only capable person to lead ndiigbo out of the mess.
Can you handle it if given the mantle? Who else out there do you foresee
that call ndi Hausa to order? Is it Enwerem? Okadigbo, nko? These men
have shown nothing but inability to say it like it is. The northern
senators have just met to draw up a response to federalism, what is their
Igbo counterparts doing? Being more Nigerian than everybody else as usual
and people of your volition have taken to nwoke luchaa ogu, nwanyi enwere
iko nke emetere na nke emetaghi but took to "abukwa m nwanyi" when the do
was going on. No one in his right mind wants to deitify Ojukwu but YOU must
not deny him his place in the history of ndiigbo as we chart our course in
this concoction called Nigeria. Yes, we made mistakes in the 1967-1970 era
but we must not let that deny us our rights to live if not within Nigeria,
without it. We cannot, for fear of mistakes, be forced into Mohamedanism or
anything else. I sang with ndiigbo in the first choir and will do it again,
rusted voice and all. Olee gi? WE must learn not to throw in the towel at
every turn and be able to stand up straight and tell somebody f&$% you. Na
one Nigeria we de and for dis one Nigeria, nobody be second class. Now, if
you'd prefer to give up your neck for the mallam to cut, please do it but
you must not expect all of us to follow suit.
Again, I will ask you as I have asked others and they all chickened out,
list for us the names of Igbo leaders who you think are capable and willing
to speak on behalf of ndiigbo while commanding the fear of the devil among
the rest of the Nigerian nations in THESE DAYS AND TIMES. I stand here
telling you boldly that our General is the person. I do not like him in
politics. I did not like him in title taking but in terms of what ndiigbo
do in times of danger, look no further. The 1967-1970 when Ojukwu did
everything by himself is over. Now, we have all the SE governors, we have
Ohaneze, we have IYM, we have MASSOB and everybody else meeting to define
our stand and Ojukwu is in the thick of it. He is the straw that stirs the
drink. YOU might be gnashing your teeth, but you must give it to him. If
you should have any reservations or objections to what is going on, write to
your governor, ohaneze ndiigbo or any of the aforementioned groups and let
them deal with it in-house. I would bet you that if Ojukwu is of no help
now, he would have been told. WE cannot let the lone bird singing in the
middle of the night stop us from the addressing the real danger ahead.
Rgds,
Magnus
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Mazi;
Is this an Ojukwu deification assembly? I thought that the notion of
'sabo' disapeared after the war. Are you resurecting that again? Are you
trying to say that General Ojukwu is Angel Michael and in which analysis of
his contributions defies reproach? Even Catholics have learnt to read and
question the bible.
Name calling is not what I think this place is for. You want me to
deify
Ojukwu? That is idolatory in my own religion.
My brother you keep to your opinion about General Odumegwu Ojukwu. I will
assiduosly keep to mine. All I pray is that we don't experience such hell in
my life time again as we did between 1967 -1970.
To whom much is given, much is expected I think it is an honour to examine
his work. I did not go examining the work of people like Tam David West or
Ukpabi Asika, they do not merit my time.
Some of us bear the physical scars of the civil war. It serves as a
reminder that no person shall again get our collective trust without first
having a feasible plan for maturation and completion.
I am not one to worship my leader. If Ojukwu is god number 4 after the holy
spirit then please say so.
One war in a life time is more than enough for any person I care for.
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IG...@aol.com wrote:
Igwe,
You must be feeling a lot better, now that you emptied your chest about your
personal beef with General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. What a relief, you must
feel. Sometimes, it is curative to vomit irritating material to begin to heal.
Your seriously warped views on Biafra notwithstanding, you have attained enough
maturity and acquired enough education ( I presume) to distinguish between
hindsight and foresight.
Every Nigerian with a brain bigger than a fly's, knows that what General Ojukwu
saw about Nigeria more than thrity years ago, is what Nigeria is strugling to
contain now. That is foresight, brother.
It is remarkable that what you see in your retroscope, about the same genuis of a
man, is nothing but mistakes, merry-making and clumzy leadership. I think you
read too much tabloid stuff. What a waste of energy!
In one of your earlier babbles, you stated you were a student at the UNN when the
civil war broke out. Then you fastforwarded to when the war was over and you
returned to the campus where you missed a lot of your classmates.
You palinly forgot to tell us what you did as contribution to the war effort!
Since you find all these faults about the one who had the balls to stand for, and
with his people when the chips were down, you owe it to us to tell us where you
were in Biafra, what you did for or against Biafra and why you are so bitter that
your leader was inept.Without the above information, your whinning about Ojukwu
just advertizes your envy of his balls and wisdom at age thirty-three..
Then here comes the challenge:
Igwe, you must now be close to twice Odumegwu-Ojukwu's age at the time he was
the Biafran leader. The same crisis is at our doorsteps again, even as we
debate. There is plenty of room in the Igbo leadership department., more
pressing now than then.
Could you please oblige us with your plans to fill that vaccum and how you intend
to avoid any mistakes which you KNEW Odumegwu-Ojukwu made in his watch?.
A while ago, I had to scold you for defecating in your pants at the thought that
Ndiigbo do "not have the wherewithal.." Man, you almost fainted at the thought.
Now you have all the bravado to come out with both hands blasting at
Odumegwu-Ojukwu. It is peculiar that cowards come alive in virtual battles. See
how thunderous your punches land on the internet!
It is a grave pity we have to digress here and there to respond to trivia, but
for the sake of the ones who may be led astray, it is a task that must be done.
Igwe, we would like to know what you did in Biafra and what you will be doing
now to protect us from having faulty leadership.If you do not have any clue, I
suggest you package your opinion and stuff them in your inner pocket. The ball is
in your court.
Gi kpatara nku aruru siri ngwere biara gi uno onwu.
Ebube