IT’S A SHAME THAT 57 YEARS AFTER ABURI ACCORD NIGERIA STILL TALKS OF RESTRUCTURING – OMIRHOBO

IT’S A SHAME THAT 57 YEARS AFTER ABURI ACCORD NIGERIA STILL TALKS OF RESTRUCTURING – OMIRHOBO

Human rights lawyer and social commentator, Malcolm Omirhobo, has slammed Nigeria for her inability to find acceptable political accommodation 57 years after the January 4 and 5, 1967 Nigerian military leader meeting at Aburi in Ghana.

In a post shared in his X (former Twitter), Omirhobo said it was shameful that 57 years after the Aburi Accord, Nigeria is still talking of restructuring .No thanks to Gowon who bungled it

The Aburi Accord was an agreement reached by Nigerian military leader at Aburi in Ghana on January 4 and 5 1967, which would have prevented Eastern Nigeria from seceding and the consequent civil war.

The accord aimed to resolve the Nigerian pre-civil war crisis.

Key options and agreements included

1. Confederation: Nigeria would become a
   confederation of semi-autonomous regions
2. Regional autonomy: Regions would have
   more control over internal affairs.
3. Abolition of the Federal Government’s right to make laws for regions
4. Creation of a weak central government
5. Establishment of a constitutional conference

Omirhobo said, if Yakubu Gowon had implemented the Aburi Accord there would have been no war, no waste of resources , no loss of lives and properties, no need for the “No victor, no vanquished” proclamation and no need for the promulgation of policy of Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and
Reconstruction (the 3Rs)