Ohanaeze Ndigbo commended Babangida for his bold and historic assertion that the January 1966 coup d’état was unequivocally not an Igbo coup.
The organisation, therefore, demanded a public and unreserved apology from President Bola Tinubu on behalf of past military regimes, particularly that of General Yakubu Gowon, for levying war against Igbos and shelling the Igbo territory during the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War that resulted in huge human suffering and losses.