Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo said Nigeria should have fought the Biafra-Nigeria Civil War.
He disclosed this while speaking at the Ashbishop Vining Memorial in Ikeja, Lagos.
While giving a testimonial about his life at the Evangelical Programme of the church, the former President said he would not under any guise want to witness another civil war again in Nigeria.
He insisted the Civil War was one the nation should never have fought after all.
His words: “It is a war we should never have fought and I have said that I have fought wars too many and I hope I will not witness another war in Nigeria again.”
While narrating a series of events that led to the civil war, he said
Nigeria was engulfed in utter confusion at the time under sad review .
Nigeria was engulfed in utter confusion at the time under sad review .
He said: “from coup and counter-coup, we roll on to civil war. The initial push petered off, by the time I went to the war front, the first things I learnt were the error committed by my predecessor and the next thing is how do we push up the order that I gave?
“I followed the book strictly, by the time I have written it, a copy was in the hand of Biafra organisation for freedom, when we moved, we were seriously hammered. The final push, in 1969, my order was not typed, it was in my pocket to ensure that nobody had a copy, that ended it. Nobody on the other side got to know what we were doing,” he explained.
On what led to the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon, the former President said Gowon took over power and promised to handover to a democratically-elected civilian government in 1976 but did not which informed the desire to topple his government.
“Gowon said he would hand over power in 1976 and he now said it was unrealistic, that was what brought about the coup that unseated Gowon. And we came in, we thought we were doing what we should do, we were naïve, Murtala was killed like a chicken, I should have been killed but by the grace of God, I survived, I was forced to take over,” he said.
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