PHOTO: Yakubu Gowon And Odumegwu Ojukwu Eating Together Before The Biafran War In 1967

Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon and the late Lt. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu sharing a meal at Aburi,Ghana,while Ghana's Head of State Joe Ankrah watches, in Jan 1967 before the Biafran/civil war....

Ojukwu took part in talks to seek an end to the hostilities by seeking peace with the then Nigerian military leadership, headed by General Yakubu Gowon (Nigeria's head of state following the July 1966 counter coup).

The military leadership met in Aburi, Ghana but the agreement reached there was not implemented to all parties satisfaction upon their return to Nigeria.

The failure to reach a suitable agreement, the decision of the Nigerian military leadership to establish new states in the Eastern Region and the continued pogrom in Northern Nigeria led Ojukwu to announce a breakaway of the Eastern Region under the new name Republic of Biafra in 1967. This sequence of events sparked the Nigerian Civil War.