By Odumodu Gbulagu
Nigeria as it stands today is simply an army arrangement.
Because of the ban on teaching of history in schools, the current generation barely know next to nothing as what has transpired in the history of our country.
Most of them are comfortable with phones and data abusing people who do not share their views in the name of working for one politician or another.
The history of Nigeria cannot be fully appreciated without taking into account the military incursion in politics. It all started with the January 15, 1966 coup d’etat led by Major Nzeogwu and other revolutionaries, which eventually ushered in the first military Government headed by Major-Gen. Ironsi.
This was however viewed as Igbo coup and was immediately followed by a counter by a group of Officers and men of Northern origin and their accomplices in a bid to take back power to the North. The counter coup boys who eventually fought the civil war see Nigeria as their conquered estate and arrogated to themselves the sole right to appoint whoever they like to head the affairs of the country.
They see Nigeria as belonging to them as it is their own spoil of the war, hence the reason why they will always canvass for votes and install any one of them who declares intent to seek for the number one position of the country.
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It’s more like an unwritten agreement that it’s only the military boys, and whoever they chose will rule.
This is one of the reasons why I laugh at the people who berated Jonathan because it’s obvious that majority of them don’t even know the truth and are very oblivious of what is obtainable in Nigeria.
The current Nigeria is an establishment of the July 1966 counter coup boys.