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Aburi Accord: It's Implication On The Nigerian Civil War
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Many
scholars believe the Aburi question and its implication on the Nigerian
Civil War has its origin in the creation of the Nigerian state. That is,
the debate over the implementation of the Aburi agreement was the
problem of how the origin of the Nigerian state became tied to the
issue of the future association of the constituent units within the
nation. In the views of Adebayo Oluoshi and Osita Agbu (1996), “the
attempt by the military officers to prevent the nation from experiencing
a bloody conflict merely fudged the question of Aburi and complicated
it further with the consequences of civil warâ€.
Precisely, on January
1, 1914, Britain, a former colonial power gave birth to the nation,
Nigeria through series of diplomatic initiatives and conquests that led
to the amalgamation of the ethnically and cultural incongruent Northern
and Southern Protectorates. This, unquestionably, according to Eleazu,
explains that Nigeria became a British colony as a result of the
diplomacy of imperialism than a matter of choice for any of the peoples
that were to be enclosed within this grid that came to be recognized and
administered as one territorial unit called Nigeria (Eleazu,
195:61-71). From the time of its amalgamation in 1914, to independence
in 1960 and beyond, the nation’s stuttering part to survival was marred
by a quantum of serious conflict issues that climaxed into the civil war
that took place between 1967-1970. Obviously, this history of crises
was a result of the decision to merge the various incompatible entities
as one.
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