GHANA: NIGERIAN MILITARY GOVERNORS CONCLUDE SECRET TALKS ON CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS.

Record ID: 223121

  • Title: GHANA: NIGERIAN MILITARY GOVERNORS CONCLUDE SECRET TALKS ON CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS.
  • Date: 6th January 1967
  • Summary: LODGE; LIEUTENANT COLONEL OJUKWU AND COLONEL GOWON; GHANA LEADER GENERAL ANKRAH. Initials PBS/V-S/AS/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st January 1967 12:00
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  • Location: ABURI, NEAR ACCRA, GHANA
  • Country: Ghana
  • Reuters ID: LVA8ILG1POHYYRR4DJKCHLR03IKP
  • Story Text: NIGERIAN MILITARY LEADERS YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) CONCLUDED TWO DAYS OF HIGHLY SECRET TALKS ON CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS AT THE GHANA GOVERNMENT LODGE AT ABURI, TWENTY MILES (32 K.M.) FROM ACCRA.

    AFTER THE MEETING A COMMUNIQUE WAS ISSUED SAYING THE EIGHT MILITARY GOVERNORS HAD AGREED TO HOLD A FURTHER MEETING 'SOMEWHERE IN NIGERIA'.

    THE MEETING WAS HELD TO AVERT A CRISIS SIMILAR TO THAT IN JULY LAST YEAR WHEN THERE WAS BLOODY RIOTING AND TRIBAL FIGHTING FOLLOWING THE REMOVAL OF THE EAST NIGERIAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT FROM FEDERAL POWER. IT FOLLOWED A MUTINY IN THE ARMY.

    THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNOR, COLONEL GOWON, HAD HIS FIRST MEETING WITH THE EASTERN COMMANDER, LIEUTENANT COLONEL OJUKWU, SINCE JULY AT ABURI.

    AFTER THE MEETING COLONEL GOWON TOLD REPORTERS: 'NIGERIA WILL DEFINITELY REMAIN UNITED'.

    THE OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE SAID THE MILITARY LEADERS HAD REACHED AGREEMENT ON THE REORGANISATION, ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF THE NIGERIAN ARMY, AND A COMMITTEE HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED TO INVESTIGATE THE PROBLEM OF REHABILITATION AND THE RECOVERY OF DISPLACED PERSONS' PROPERTY.

    THE NIGERIAN ARMY REPLACED THE CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT OF SIR ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA IN COUP D'ETAT IN JANUARY LAST YEAR. COLONEL GOWON TOOK OVER THE LEADERSHIP IN JULY AFTER A MUTINY IN THE ARMY.
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