Photos: Chief Mbazulike Amechi, Yakubu Gowon, Obi of Onitsha, Emeka Azikiwe and many others at a book Lunch Today in Lagos

Photos from a book launch tittled ZIK: TESTIMONIES TO A GREAT AFRICAN, today, 10th May 2016 at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Lagos. See pictures below

The keynote speaker, Chief Mbazulike Amechi during presentation

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From right to left: Chief Mbazulike Amechi, Igwe Alfred Achebe(Obi of Onitsha), General Yakubu Gowon, Emeka Azikiwe, Henry Onukwube(the writer) and Rev. Fr. Onukwube at the event

Presentation by Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe

Displaying of the book

 

 Gowon berated those agitating for the sovereign state of Biafra, reminding them of the unifying role the late first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, played during the civil war, despite hailing from the secessionist side.

He particularly fumed that the youths, who are in the vanguard of the clamour, are ignorant of Nigeria’s history, noting that Igbo youths at the end of the civil war prayed never to experience the kind of suffering occasioned by the war.

Gowon, who said this in the light of the agitation by the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, noted that what Nigeria needed now is the right political perspective and not self-determination sentiments.