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More than any other Igbo political leader, K. O. Mbadiwe had consistently operated at the federal level. With the coup of January 15, 1965, he had been largely viewed as a discredited, old-guard politician who had been responsible for the ills of Nigeria’s first independent, civilian government, and he had suffered the indignity of incarceration. However, with the countercoup of July 29, 1966, and the emergence of Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowan as the new head of state, Mbadiwe and other major political leaders were released from prison. This was an attempt by Gowon to win support for his shaky new regime.
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Elizabeth Isichei, History of Nigeria (New York: Longman, 1983), 473.
Philip Effiong, Nigeria and Biafra: My Story (Princeton, NJ: Sonjai Books, 2005), 179.
K. O. Mbadiwe, “Africa Expects You to Play Your Just Role,” Speech at NAACP Conference in Waterloo, Iowa, April 19, 1969, Mbadiwe Papers.
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Lynch, H.R. (2012). The Civil War. In: K. O. Mbadiwe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002624_10
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