Ojukwu, Gowon Eating Together In 1967

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the late Biafra leader, and the former military head of Nigeria Yakubu Gowon were pictured together while eating from one plate in Ghana in 1967.

This meeting was attended by delegates of both the Federal government of Nigeria (the supreme Military Council) and the Eastern delegates, led by the Eastern Region’s leader Colonel Ojukwu.

During this gathering was reached Aburi Accord as a last chance of preventing all out war. The meeting was occurred between January 4 and 5 in 1967.

Gowon, a retired general, recently this year accused Ojukwu of misrepresenting the Aburi Accord to Nigerians.

Ojukwu, then a colonel and governor of the eastern region, had returned from Aburi announcing that it had been agreed that the country should adopt confederalism — a political system in which every region would essentially be a country on its own with only a symbolic national government.

However, Gowon said Ojukwu’s statement on the Aburi Accord was contrary to what was discussed.

Here is a throwback photo of Ojukwu and Gowon at the Aburi conference in Ghana.

Late Biafra leader, Gowon before war in 1967