Dan Ulasi questions Gowon’s civil war memoir, dismisses it as ‘convenient amnesia’
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dan Ulasi, has dismissed former Head of State Yakubu Gowon’s account of the Nigerian Civil War in his recently released memoir, describing it as a collection of “convenient amnesia” and “half truths.
In his memoir, Gowon recounted the events that followed the January 1966 coup and the July counter-coup, explaining why he eventually emerged as Nigeria’s Head of State.
He also addressed Ojukwu’s insistence that Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe, then the most senior military officer after the assassination of Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, should have succeeded as Head of State.
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