The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia state demanded that Yakubu Gowon, a former military head of state, apologize to the Southeast region's people for his part in the Biafra civil war.

Gowon's name unnerves a lot of people in the Southeast because of his involvement in the Civil War, according to a statement from Abraham Amah, the PDP's interim state publicity secretary in Abia.

Amah was responding to a claim that Gowon and the state's incoming governor, Alex Otti, will lead a prayer meeting on Sunday.

The Master's Vessel Church in the Umuahia region of the state will host the prayer meeting.

The statement reads, “The attention of the Abia PDP has been drawn to a news item in circulation on social media indicating that Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon;

The PDP stated that a Catholic Bishop and other prominent clerics were products of the state of Abia.

It emphasized the fact that Gowon had not yet made his faults during the Civil War public.

Amah stated, “The only way the prayer session would make meaning to the millions of South Easterners, dead and alive, is for Gowon to use the opportunity of the prayer session;

“… and convert it to a moment of truth and apologise to the people for his role in the atrocious war that led to the untimely death of millions of our very resourceful people,” he added.