Today in History: Aburi Accord took place.

On this day, January 4th and 5th in 1967, Aburi Accord (agreement) was reached in Aburi, Ghana, by the FG delegates and the Eastern Region delegates led by Col. Emeka Ojukwu. Its purpose was to carve out a...

way to prevent a looming war in Nigeria.

Aburi, a town in the Akuapiam South Municipal District of the Eastern Region of South Ghana, was specifically chosen as the venue of the meeting because the Eastern delegates and their leader, Col. Emeka Ojukwu's safety could not be
guaranteed anywhere within the Western and Northern Nigeria.

Issues Discussed At The Meeting Were:

Total Overhauling of the Army
Constitutional Agreement
Issue of displaced people within the country
To stop using force in the settlement of dispute.

List of Aburi Delegates Are:
Lt. Gen. J.A Ankrah (Chairman of the Ghana National Liberation Council).
Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon
Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Maj. Mobolaji Johnson (Gov. Lagos State)
Lt. Col. Hassan Katsina (Gov. Northern Region)
Lt. Col. David Ejoor (Gov. Mid-Western Region)
Joseph Wey (Military VP)
Col. Robert Adebayo (Gov. Western Region)
Kam Selem (Police Chief)
Mr. T. Omo-Bare.
note:Aburi accord suggested Nigeria return to regional government,so why did yakubu gowon renegade from aburi agreement he signed?
The above named Governors came with their secretaries headed by S. Akenzua who later became the Oba of Benin. In response to the accord, the Federal Military Govt. promulgated Decree No. 8 which
was an embodiment of the Aburi accord. The accord later broke down due to different interpretations from both sides and later led to mindless bloodletting that exacted millions of casualties of Ndi Igbo.

It's worthy to note that it was Awolowo & S Akenzua that suggested to Gowon
to relegate the Aburi agreements to the background and he accepted. Another school of thought believed that it was the discovery of Oil in Igbo land that also contributed to Gowon's rejection of Aburi agreements. Failure to implement Aburi Accord led to the death of over 3.5
million Ndi Igbo.

Gowon also decided to abandon the agreement because he claimed Ojukwu went to Aburi prepared while others were not. One can rightly say that Gowon masterminded the genocide of over 3.5 million Ndi Igbo. On Aburi we stand!

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Awolowo, the Mr potency prevailed on him. He had no choice.

Entprys:
Awolowo, the Mr potency prevailed on him. He had no choice.

I don't blame awolowo he was busy playing politics my take is
Aburi accord stated that deceree against regional government should be overturn
Meaning that igbo were against those Decree of abolishing regional government
Jacob yakubu who later converted to Muslim with the name yakubu renegade,why?

Ok

Why Gowon reneged on the Aburi agreement? The answer is very simple, Aburi agreement prevented Gowon and his fellow Northern cohorts from getting that which they wanted the most, the economic and political control of Nigeria

Basically, the Aburi agreement restructured Nigeria into a confederation of 4 Regions with each Region having its own military and resource control. It made the centre very weak.

When Gowon came back to Nigeria, him and his fellow Northerners realised that without a strong centre, there was no way they could take over Nigeria

So Gowon promulgated Decree 14 of 1967 which abolished all 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states and took away resource control from those states, thus making the centre too strong. Just what the North would use, and still use to control Nigeria

Ojukwu was not about to accept that and declared Biafra in response. Civil followed

The rest is history but Nigeria still remains under the control of the North to this day