The storm generated by renown novelist, Prof Chinua
Achebe, over his claim that war-time Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, and
the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo formulated the policy of genocide against Igbo
during the civil war continued, yesterday.
Awolowo’s daughter, Dr (Mrs) Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu,
said she was disappointed about Achebe’s claim. She also hinted that the
Awolowo family may issue a formal response on the controversial claim by the
novelist in his latest memoir on Biafra, ‘There was a country’.
But a former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chinwoke
Mbadinuju, said whatever Achebe said about the civil war should be taken
seriously. Mbadinuju cited the novelist’s antecedents. Awolowo was
the vice chairman of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), equivalent of deputy
to Gowon, during the civil war.
Dr Awolowo-Dosunmu told Vanguard, yesterday, while
responding to the Achebe claim: “One is still trying to come to terms with the
sense of disappointment about the person who wrote what is now a brewing
controversy in the country.
“While a formal statement responding to the offensive
comments of the writer is being prepared by the family all I can say for now is
that I feel so disappointed”.
Vanguard
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