All:
I have started this thread so that we may deal in a somewhat rigorous manner with the issues of the famous Aburi Accord as those issues relate to the latter day calls for a (Sovereign) National Conference, (S)NC. I have since concluded that most latter day SNC advocates are dishonest in their motivations and incoherent in stating their objectives. I will provide links of important discussions at Aburi as well as a link to the final unanimous communiqué issued by the participants at the Aburi Accord.

Some SNC advocates have criticized the Aburi Accord as a military Accord. This is absurd. Chief among the remnants of these SNC advocates is none other than the ubiquitous Mobolaji Aluko. Like the other SNC simpletons, Aluko now insists that the Aburi Accord lacked legitimacy because it was entered into by the military or that the Accord ought to have been rejected because it did not encompass all aspects of the political, social, and economic life of BiafraNigeria. It is evident from Aluko’s writing about Aburi, that Aluko conflates the legitimacy of the Aburi Accord in particular and respect for the rule of law in general with formal and insignificant matters regarding the uniforms that the leaders happened to be wearing at the time the Accord was made, or the completeness of the accord as a guide to all aspects of interaction between the regions of BiafraNigeria. These SNC cranks gloss over the lawlessness of Gowon, Awolowo, and Katsina in their willful failure to implement the terms of the UNANIMOUS ABURI ACCORD to which they WILLINGLY agreed.

It has never been adduced by the signatories to the Aburi Accord that their reason for violating the Accord was that it was incomplete in its reach. Gowon, Awolowo, and Katsina started the Biafran war in violation of the Aburi Accord and they prosecuted the war for the same narrow and primordial ethnic interests that is now fuelling the new Yoruba-led calls for SNC. After their specious fairness arguments are deleted, all that is left is the implicit position, held by SNC opportunists, that they prefer a clear-cut definition of the mechanics of regional interaction in BiafraNigeria only when they realize that the confusion they helped to create does not always favor them. Until June 12, the Yoruba benefited without interruption from the Hausa-Fulani/Yoruba alliance that scuttled Aburi. The calls for SNC started when Babangida and Abacha clarified to the Yorubas that all partners in the genocidal alliance that prosecuted the Biafran war were not equal. Some were more equal than others. The confusion created by the Failure to point out these things, in a dispassionate manner, does BiafraNigeria no good. What on earth gives these SNC crackpots the reason to hope that the terms of any SNC Accord would not suffer the same fate as Aburi? The Aburi Accord was spurned by a series of events, incuding genocide and the displacement of a large percentage of the country’s population. SNC was spurned by an annulled election result, which election was won by a well known crook. As for those who suggest that the Aburi accord was limited to military matters, to state that the Aburi Accord was limited to military matters is simply to exhibit incomprehension.

I will return for further comments. Meanwhile, here are the Aburi Minutes, the Dialogue at Aburi, and the Final Unanimous Aburi Communiqué. I invite others with relevant related documents to post them.

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Damian

The Yoruba Awolowo argued that Gowon lacked the authority to bind Nigeria at Aburi. Yet, that tribalist, Awolowo, was eager to serve as Vice President under the 'illegitimate' Gowon Government. He accepted a pardon from the 'illegitimate' Gowon government. He worked as finance Minister for the 'illegitimate' Gowon government. In both roles, he proceeded to commit atrocities against Ndigbo - stealing their money, and returning only 20 pounds, and then perpetrating the criminal indiginization decree just at the moment when Igbos had no no money to compete with. Good thing Awolowo died a wretched man who failed in his foremost ambition – to rule Nigeria. It is fitting that Awo would die a wretch since he showed ingratitude to Gen. Ojukwu who released him from prison in Calabar and provided him escort to safety in Ikene.

When are you folks going to avenge Abiola, or will the crumbs given to Aremu be just enough to pacify you ? Will you some day find the courage to ask your overlords what happened to Fajuyi in his own land or did you trade that for Awo as finance minister? What some will do for a pot of cheap porridge.