Uma O. Eleazu was born in Asaga town of Ohafia in Igboland, Nigeria. He earned his Doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles
, the US, after studying in the United Kingdom. In 1954 he was Polling Clerk in Abakiliki under F. J. Ellah during the Eastern Regional Election.
To demonstrate how these events imposed on Nigeria poor leadership, he formulates three arguments: He examines the personalities of three of our founding fathers or nationalists, namely, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Sir Ahmadu Bello, who led Nigeria to political independence How real was esprit de corps among the military officers that toppled the nationalists? and He did a critical analysis of our traditional, or what he calls “native,” institutions suppressed by the...
Thus, leaders engage potential followers by creating in the minds of the people a congruence of the needs and wants of the leader on the one hand and those of the would-be followers on the other.
Esprit de corps was there quite alright but the author argues that the military officers that seized power on 15th January 1966 and beyond were far from being united as they fraternized in different ideological circles: The military wasted no time plunging Nigeria into a brutal civil war condemned by Professor Wole Soyinka as a war of solidity that only reinforced those factors that gave rise to it in the first place. One of such factors is corruption that became institutionalized under military rule:
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