This is the season of high-wire politicking, and some contenders and wannabes are talking tough on rescuing Nigeria from ruin once they are elected as the country’s President.
Anybody elected as the President of Nigeria in this woebegone time must have as the first item on his agenda the organization of a proper national conference on how the diverse peoples of Nigeria can get to live together.
The Nigeria-Biafra war would not have been fought if the Aburi conference had succeeded in every material particular. Many moons after that horrendous war, the issues that elicited the war in the first place remain unsolved. Sir Frederick Lugard amalgamated the Northern and Southern Protectorates so that the South will serve as “the lady of means”, in the words of Lord Harcourt, to feed the arid North.
The coup was read to mean an Igbo coup aimed at the ethnic group dominating the entire country. Northern military officers fomented a revenge coup in July of the selfsame 1966. After the war, military and Northern domination of power came to a head with the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola.
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