Kehinde Fajobi
Sam Amadi, Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, has said that former Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, could have prevented the Biafra civil war by prosecuting those responsible for the killing of Igbos.
In a post on X, Amadi criticised Gowon’s leadership, arguing that his failure to act decisively contributed to the conflict.
“The war came out of Nigeria’s faulty identity-based politics, which led to mass violence against Igbos,” Amadi wrote.
“If Gowon and his colleagues had acted decisively on behalf of the rule of law and openly prosecuted those who killed Igbos, there would have been no demand for secession and no war,” he added.
Amadi described Gowon as “neither a great leader nor a grave villain,” calling him “a rookie stooge of grossly incompetent and hegemonic leadership that walked Nigeria into a stupid and avoidable civil war.”
He concluded, “He’s RESPONSIBLE for GENOCIDE but did not WILL it.”