Dr. Josef Onoh, a brother-in-law of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has faulted General Yakubu Gowon’s claim that he reconciled with the ex-Biafra leader, the Ikemba Nnewi.
Reactions have trailed Gowon’s claim that he reconciled with the late Biafra leader, since Saturday Sun published excerpts of Mike Awoyinfa and DimgbaIgwe’s interview with the elder statesman.
Onoh said that there was no such reconciliation, instead, what happened was a chance meeting during a condolence visit by Gowon when his father and Ojukwu’s father-in-law, Chief C.C. Onoh passed on.
According to Onoh, the former head of state’s narration about his purported reconciliation with Ojukwu in London was not as correct as he recounted it. He stated with exactitudes that he was a witness to the chance meeting between Gowon and Ojukwu both in Enugu and in London.
To Onoh, Gowon substituted a condolence visit with reconciliation, noting that because Gowon has started telling “lies,” he would need subsequent lies to go on with his crooked narratives.“To Gowon I say ‘The dead don’t talk,’ but I’m privileged to have heard him talk while alive. When you lie, you have to tell another lie to cover the first lie, then another lie, and so on. It is so much easier to tell the truth than it is to lie because I was there and the truth shall set you free.”
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