Apex Northern sociocultural group, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed deep offense and pain over what it called highly provocative statements recently credited to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Indigenous People of Biafra against former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd).
The ACF said it took time to digest a statements credited to Mr. Okechukwu Isiguozo of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo as well as the one from the IPOB calling on General Gowon, its Grand Patron, to tender apology for what the Forum referred as a nebulous “sin” against Ndigbo on his role during the Nigerian civil war between 1969 – 1970.
National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Professor T. A. Muhammad-Baba in a statement described both statements as “crude, inciteful, almost uncouth, underlined by thinly-disguised jealousy and totally uncharitable to the legacy of General Gowon, whose records in the role under reference remains, we dare say, yet unmatched in the history of modern Nigeria.”
ACF said, “It is…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
