By Jimitota Onoyume

General Coordinator , BRAC coastal aborigines, Doris McDaniels, has berated apex Igbo body, Ohaneze Ndigbo and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for their attack on former military Head of State ,General Yakubu Gowon over his recent comment on the civil war.

It would be recalled that Secretary of a faction of Ohaneze, Okechukwu Isiguzoro and the spokesman of the Indigenous People of Biafra , Emma Powerful, had in separate publications in several national newspapers among others demanded that the former military Head of state , General Gowon apologized to Igbo nation over comment credited to him in his published interview at the villa in Abuja when he visited president Bola Tinubu.

McDaniels, in a statement made available to the Vanguard said her group was deeply offended by the utterance of the Igbo organisations, saying the retired military General was a great hero to the nation.

She said BRAC coastal aborigines was an acronym for Bayelsa, Rivers , AkwaIbom and Cross River coastal aborigines, stressing that the former Military Head of state liberated indigenes of the states with the peaceful end to the war.

“We are deeply offended by their demanding an apology from General Gowon for his divine role in leading Nigeria to a peaceful end of the war and delivering the Brac Coastal areas and her people.

“Preventing further evacuation of the Brac people from their ancestral homes.

“They should speak the truth instead of spreading falsehoods about General Yakubu Gowon’s peace mission to keep Nigeria united.”

The group urged General Gowon to ignore alleged attempt to distort his role in the civil war.

” We assure him that the people of the Brac state know the truth and appreciate the timely intervention of his leadership and federal troops to usher in peace.

“We are forever grateful to General Yakubu Gowon for creating Brac states in line with the yearning and cries of our fathers and mothers.
Truth is light. May we dwell on the truth”.