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Buhari ‘specifically’ asked us to ‘shift’ our focus towards developing Northern Nigeria –World Bank
The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, said Thursday that the bank had concentrated on the northern region of Nigeria because President Muhammadu Buhari “specifically” requested that it did so.
Kim and the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, who spoke at separate press conferences in Washington DC, United States, also advised Buhari to invest in initiatives that would enhance economic growth.
Kim said, “You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.
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“I think Nigeria, of course, has suffered from the dropping oil prices. I think things are just now getting better. But the conversation we need to have with Nigeria, I think, is in many ways related to the theme that I brought to the table just this past week, which is investment in human capital. The percentage of the Gross Domestic Product that Nigeria spends on healthcare is less than one percent.”
He added, “Despite that, there is so much turbulence in the northern part of the country, and there is the hit that was taken from the drop in the oil prices. Nigeria has to think ahead and invest in its people. Investing in the things that will allow Nigeria to be a thriving, rapidly growing economy in the future is what the country has to focus on right now.”
Kim also said, “Focusing on the northern part of Nigeria, we hope that as commodity prices stabilise and oil prices come back up, the economy will grow a bit more. But very, very much important is the need to focus on what the drivers of growth in the future will be.”
On the bank’s broader plan for Africa, he said they would invest in human capital in other parts of Africa to prepare the continent for the next phase of growth.
In her remarks, Lagarde said Sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria’s, had posted sub-optimal growth in recent times.
The growth figures, she said, were far too minimal considering the huge demographic potential of Nigeria and other countries in the region.
As a result, she said the IMF would be engaging ministers of finance and central bank governors from the region attending the annual World Bank and IMF meetings on how they could best boost and stabilise economic growth.
Lagarde said, “The Sub-Saharan Africa is one region of the world where growth is suboptimal. Those countries grow at an average growth of 2.5 per cent. That is too low for the demographic expansion of the region”.
The revelation by the World Bank chief will only further solidify the belief by many that President Buhari overwhelmingly favours the North in his government.
He will be severely criticized for this move that will be read as maybe one of the surest and most direct proof yet of his plan to prioritize and accelerate development in the northern region of the country.
Many will be quick to recall the president’s comments in the United States last year when he drew a distinction between the regions of Nigeria on account of percentages of votes given him the presidential election, stating that those who gave him only 5% could not expect same treatment as those who gave him 97% of his vote tally, to widespread impassioned reactions.
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frankbuttrue
October 13, 2017 at 4:40 am
This is the man those slaves from the south rest their hope.
Inieke Akpan Ekuma
October 13, 2017 at 6:44 am
Read the world Bank text with open heart, question examine before you speak for or against
JOHNSON PETER
October 13, 2017 at 8:23 am
We must vote out this tribalistic man in 2019, he doesn’t have the interest of other region at heart aside his people, we need someone who will have the interest of all at heart in 2019
yanju omotodun
October 13, 2017 at 3:18 pm
The truth is that all politicians are jacobian in nature and not burkheim, this means that everyone would like to please his own ethnic groups than the interest of all at heart except for the foolish obasanjo who could not do meaningful project during his time in the west
seyi jelili
October 14, 2017 at 6:36 am
Don’t believe all you read from media, it’s all that is true
Anita Kingsley
October 13, 2017 at 9:51 am
I’m Igbo but I will not blame Buhari for doing this! At least, Buhari is investing in Northerners and developing the north which is also part of Nigeria; he his not embezzling all the money and keeping the public funds to himself alone.
Animashaun Ayodeji
October 13, 2017 at 10:22 am
Shame on previous presidents, of all of them developed their region, what Buhari is doing now won’t be a big deal. Only a bastard will leave his father who catered for him/her, to bless another person’s father at his/her father’s detriment. Buhari isn’t a bastard, that’s why we should appreciate him. Carry on, develop the north and extend it to other regions when done
Abeni Adebisi
October 13, 2017 at 10:57 am
Madness ? You’re supporting Buhari’s tribalism? Buhari knows he has one tenure to use and he has no plan for other regions. He simple the president of Nigeria just to favour the northerners alone.
Abeni Adebisi
October 13, 2017 at 10:59 am
Buhari will not use more than one tenure in office, and he has to deliver his promises to their northerners. Nigeria’s politics is useless, honestly
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:27 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon#Later_life The original intention of the many officers of northern Hausa-fulani Boko Haram terrorists controlling federal government of Nigeria (including Lt Colonel Murtala Muhammed (coup leader who According to Dimka’s “confession”, he met with Gowon in London, and obtained support from him for the coup) and his fellow Northern Hausa-fulani coup-plotters), 2nd Lieutenant Sani Abacha, Lieutenant Ibrahim Bako, Lieutenant Ibrahim Babangida, Lieutenant Muhammadu Buhari, and among others), seems to have been to engineer the secession of the Northern region from Nigeria as a whole.
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:28 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buka_Suka_Dimka#Participation_in_the_February_13.2C_1976_Coup During the 1940s and 1950s the Igbo and Yoruba people were in the forefront of the fight for independence from Britain. They also wanted their respective independent countries of Republic of Biafra and Odùduwà Republic respectively to be organized back to Sovereign States so that the conservative North Hausa-fulani could not dominate their respective countries of Republic of Biafra and Odùduwà Republic. Northern Hausa-fulani leaders, fearful that independence would mean political and economic domination by the west, majority tribe is Yoruba and The east, majority tribe is Igbo in the South, so Northern Hausa-fulani leaders preferred the perpetuation of British rule.
The former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (who had been overthrown by General Mohammed in July 1975), was involved in the abortive coup (by Dimka’s testimony). The British Government refused to extradite Gowon. Britain participated in overthrow. The February 13, 1976 coup that claimed the life of the then Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, General Yakubu Gowon at the weekend lavished with his involvement and blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for masterminding his (Gowon) inclusion in the list of suspects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buka_Suka_Dimka#Participation_in_the_Nigerian_Counter_Coup_of_July_1966 Murtala Muhammed felt that his colleagues were conspiring together to remove him from his job, as Gowon was militarily his senior, and finding a lack of support from the British and American advisors, he( Gowon) caved in, trapping many officers of northern Hausa-fulani Boko Haram terrorists- controlled federal government of Nigeria, which resulted in the death of the now Gen Murtala Mohammed. Gowon killed him( Murtala Mohammed) by confirming his ranking officer Dimka present at the meeting with Gowon in London, and obtained support from him for the coup.
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:29 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon#Military_career On the morning of Thursday, 13th January 1966 and Lieutenant T. Hamman, a brigade staff officer was sent by Ifeajuna, to pick him up. (Gowon and Ifeajuna were both 31 years old.) Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna was acting as Yakubu Gowon errand boy, you see, we mentioned en passant that the then Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowon was going away from UK a few days before Nigeria’s first military coup of 15 January 1966—which terminated the First Republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon#Later_life Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna was but Yakubu Gowon errand boy in the foreign Coup Service in the early hours of January 15, 1966 to meet Major Nzeogwu Kaduna, and obtained support from him(Gowon) for the coup. Ifeajuna then offered Gowon a reservation at the posh Ikoyi Hotel pending the time Njoku left. Yakubu Gowon ignored Ifeajuna’s Ikoyi Hotel reservation where no one would suspect him( Yakubu Gowon)as Coupist: a leader or a participant in a coup d’état.
http://decritiquenews.com/wp/2016/09/30/british-secret-files-on-nigerias-first-bloody-coup-path-to-biafra/ Amid all the Military of Nigeria coups in the early hours of January 15, 1966, and countercoups at roughly midnight on July 28, 1966, it was hard to say who was telling the truth among the many officers of northern Hausa-fulani controlling federal governments of Nigeria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari#Northern_counter-coup_of_28_July_1966 In the early hours of January 15, 1966, Yakubu Gowon made sure the military coup that relied on mid-level officers that Ibrahim Babangida had strategically positioned over the years to assassinate Nigeria’s Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Premier of the northern region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Yoruba Western region, Ladoke Akintola and Yoruba senior military officers , on the day of first military coup of the Nigeria’s youngest military chief of staff at the age of 31, because a military coup d’état led by Yakubu Gowon group of junior officers under Major Nzeogwu Kaduna to the overthrow of Nigeria’s civilian government.
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/gowon-says-buhari-ibb-abacha-others-plotted-coups-selfish-reasons/ According to Dimka’s “confession”, he met with Gowon in London, and obtained support from him for the coup. The British Government refused to extradite General Yakubu Gowon in February 1976, Gowon that was caught up in the coup d’état led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, which resulted in the demise of the now Gen Murtala Mohammed. The non-violent unarmed Biafra anti-war agitations showed her as a self-assured and mature enough to conduct their own affairs. The nation’s Biafra has a right to self-determination with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) agitations without the selfish control of one Nigeria over another country’s Biafra. Igbos are not selfish, and mature enough to handle their own affairs. The northern Hausa-fulani controlling the central governments of Nigeria were so self-centered and cunningly have affairs for selfish reasons. http://republicreporters.com/ojukwu-released-awolowo-from-calabar-jail-i-released-awolowo-from-jail-even-that-some-people-are-beginning-to-contest-as-well-awo-was-in-jail-in-calabar-gowon-knows-and-the-whole-of-the-federal/ Awolowo was released from Calabar prison by Biafran leader Odumegwu Ojukwu and there was an agreement that while Ojukwu declares Biafra in the East, Awolowo would declare Oduduwa Republic in the West.
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:30 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War#Politics_and_economics_of_federalism As a condition for accepting independence, they demanded that arbitrary form of Nigeria divided continue to be into three regions with the north, majority tribe is Hausa-Fulani, The west, majority tribe is Yoruba, The east, majority tribe is Igbo. The Northern Hausa-fulani accepted demands that Nigeria divided continue to be into three regions with the north, majority tribe is Hausa-Fulani, The west, majority tribe is Yoruba, The east, majority tribe is Igbo. The Northern Hausa-fulani leaders who preferred the perpetuations of British colonial rule/government in Nigeria agree to the Biafra’s demands for independence. The country’s Biafra has been able to celebrate the return of its independence so brutally snuffed out in 1914. Northern leaders, anxious that independence would mean political and economic domination of government give in to the demands of the Yoruba leaders to obtain an independent country’s Odùduwà Republic at all costs. The British amalgamated forced the southern and northern zones of what came to be using the false name of Nigeria in 1914 only exacerbated the already tense relations between the three regions —North, West and East —The north, majority tribe is Hausa-Fulani, The west, majority tribe is Yoruba, The east, majority tribe is Igbo. 1914 – 1 January – Southern zone and intemperate Northern Hausa-fulani zones amalgamated forced, though administered separately, under British colonial rule executed by Governor General Frederick Lugard. In 1946, the British divided the Southern Region into the Western Region’s Odùduwà Republic and the Eastern temperate Region’s Republic of Biafra. Intellectuals began to agitate for greater rights and independence of the Republic of Biafra.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, is a secessionist State in eastern Region that finally seceded from Nigeria on Tuesday 30 May 1967, when Ojukwu declared independence of the Republic of Biafra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War The non-violent unarmed Biafra anti-war agitation is beginning to worry the Federal Military Government (FMG) of Nigeria. General Yakubu “Jack” Gowon, as the head of the Federal Military Government (FMG) of Nigeria made the decision to wage war. Following Thursday 6 July 1967, Gowon declared war and attacked Biafra, thus on Thursday 15 January 1970 came the end of Nigeria waging civil war on another country’s Biafra.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra#Secession Biafra as a territory existed long before the Dame Flora Lugard, the wife of Frederick John Deatry Lugard of Abinger who colonised and amalgamated forced the southern and northern parts of what came to be using the false name of Nigeria in 1914. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/biafra-has-not-been-defeated-wole-soyinka/ The Bight of Biafra, the Atlantic bay to its south was renamed by the Federal Government of Nigeria perpetrated by the British government during the Nigerian civil war—to expunge the secessionist State consciousness—but that ruse has clearly failed. Enemy forces have made a series of attacks on the Biafra. These attacks of the British amalgamated forced the southern and northern zones of what came to be using the false name of Nigeria in 1914 only exacerbated the already tense relations between the three regions —North, West and East —The north, majority tribe is Hausa-Fulani, The west, majority tribe is Yoruba, The east, majority tribe is Igbo.
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:30 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Babangida President Babanigda, Commander-in-chief of the armed forces that follows the principle of civilian control of the military toppled the administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari that became the Nigeria’s president in 2015, Buhari was also a deadly plotter in most of the military coups in Nigeria ( January, 1966, July 1966, February 1976, December 1983, August 1985, December 1985 and April 1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuma_Kaduna_Nzeogwu#1966_Coup Ibrahim Babangida led by Yakubu Gowon group of mutinous northern Hausa-fulani junior officers and army units under Major Nzeogwu Kaduna , As one of military intelligence officers, participated in the treasonable felony trial investigations of Obafemi Awolowo. Yakubu Gowon’s rank (of general) wasn’t restored until 1987 however by General Ibrahim Babangida informed Yakubu Gowon that Obafemi Awolowo appeared to setting him up to take the fall for the treasonable felony, and Gowon advised him( Babangida) to call for courts martial and lengthy sentences for Obafemi Awolowo. He (Awolowo) did not commit any offence. It was a set-up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon#Military_career The then Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowon returned from UK two days before the coup in the early hours of January 15, 1966 to meet Major Nzeogwu Kaduna, and obtained support from him(Gowon) for the coup. While the President, Sir Nnamdi Azikiwe was on an extended vacation in the West Indies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Babangida#Participation_in_the_Nigerian_counter-coup_of_July_1966 Ibrahim Babangida, then a Lieutenant with Kaduna Nzeogwu, was also one of the many officers of a group of mutinous northern Hausa-fulani army soldiers controlling federal governments of Nigeria who staged what became known as the Military of Nigeria coups in the early hours of January 15, 1966 which resulted in the deaths of Nigeria’s Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Premier of the northern region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Yoruba Western region, Ladoke Akintola and Yoruba senior military officers , on the day of first military coup of the Nigeria’s youngest military chief of staff at the age of 31, because a military coup d’état led by Yakubu Gowon group of junior officers under Major Nzeogwu Kaduna to the overthrow of Nigeria’s civilian government. The leader of the western region, Obafemi Awolowo was lucky to escape the Nigeria’s military coup d’états of the 1966 events that led up to the assassinations. The incarceration of Obafemi Awolowo, we said, was trumped up in order to get rid of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuma_Kaduna_Nzeogwu#1966_Coup Ibrahim Babangida, then a Lieutenant with Kaduna Nzeogwu, As one of military intelligence officers, participated in the treasonable felony trial investigations of Obafemi Awolowo. https://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon#Military_career Meanwhile, the leader of the Western Region Obafemi Awolowo, was amongst several advisors which dissuaded the original intention of Murtala Mohammed and his fellow Northern Hausa-fulani coup-plotters seems to have been to engineer the secession of the Northern region from Nigeria as a whole. The Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested on a trump-up charges, charged, convicted (of treason), and Obafemi Awolowo jailed and was out from jail from trumped-up charges for conspiring with the Ghanaian authorities under Kwame Nkrumah to overthrow the federal government of Nigeria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra#Secession Amid all the Military of Nigeria coups in the early hours of January 15, 1966, and countercoups at roughly midnight on July 28, 1966 by a group of mutinous northern Hausa-fulani officers and army units staged a coup and counter-coup. Muslim officers named Army Generals of Nigeria, General Yakubu “Jack” Gowon, as the head of the Federal Military Government (FMG) led the two coups which deepened Nigeria’s ethnic tensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War#Persecution_of_Igbo In 29 September 1966, recounted approximately 30,000 Igbo were killed in the north. From June through October 1966, pogroms in the North killed more than two million Igbos, half of them children, and caused millions to flee to the Eastern Region. The Biafra ex- president Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu managed ( = succeeded) at Aburi to get agreement to a confederation for Nigeria, rather than a federation. In January 1967, the military leaders (mostly Northern Hausa-fulani) and senior police officials of each region met in Aburi, Ghana and agreed on a confederation for Nigeria, rather than a federation.
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:31 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra#Secession The Hausa-fulani Northerners were seen whey they have got an odd moment( = available; that people can agree) with the Aburi Accord; the head of the supreme Military Council of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria was warned by one of his advisers amongst Obafemi Awolowo that this reflected a failure of Gowon to understand the difference and, that being the case, predicted that it would be reneged upon the deal/agreement now; Biafra will win Nigeria in the courts—– the Eastern Region seceded from Nigeria, the Western Region would also, which persuaded the northerner Hausa-fulani controlling federal government of Nigeria of the urgency of this matter. http://dailypost.ng/2017/08/26/biafra-buhari-listen-nnamdi-kanu-amaechi/ Nigeria’s leader, Buhari should listen to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu – Chief Mbazulike Amaechi. After the eastern’s Biafra government and the northern Hausa-fulani controlling federal of Nigeria failed to reconcile, on 26 May 1967 the Eastern region put it to plebiscite, majority of the indigenous people of Biafra said they did want to go away and finally Biafra seceded from Nigeria. On 30 May, Biafra ex-president Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the South Eastern Region’s military governor, announced the Republic of Biafra, citing the Easterners killed in the post-coup violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra#Economy The large amount of oil in the region avoided conflict, as oil was already a major component of the Biafra economy.
“We don’t see why it should be different in Nigeria. Plebiscite does not amount to war. On 6 July 1967, Gowon declared war and attacked Biafra, while over 2 million unarmed Biafrans died in Nigeria’s evil hands. For now, the war raged on by Northern Islamist Hausa-fulani Boko Haram terrorists-dominated federal government of Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari-led government. In May 2017, Yemi Osinbajo, who is Nigeria’s acting president while President Muhammadu Buhari is absent on sick leave, declare Second Nigerian civil war and attack Biafra. The unarmed non-violent Biafra indigenous people of the independent Republic of Biafra Sovereign State/Nation in the Eastern land of the south-eastern lay was very ill equipped for war, outmanned and outgunned by the Northern Hausa-fulani Boko Haram terrorists-controlled federal governments of Nigeria’s president Buhari led by Gowon. Despite being heavily outgunned, the non-violent unarmed Biafra agitators appear to have held on to the East-southEast or South-southEast or South-east of the Eastern. Their( Biafra) advantages included subsequent non- retaliatory actions from the unarmed non-violent indigenous people of Biafra made conditions for peace negotiations tenable for independence of Biafra. And as for that doctrine of non-retaliation in their Biafra home country land, support of most Easterners, self-determination, and use of boundless resources, a Biafra leader Kanu Nnamdi and IPOB are very sure of their own self-determination before they submit to it.
http://www.thetidenewsonline.com/2017/03/22/addressing-cases-of-statelessness-in-nigeria/ We, therefore, solicited the institution of legal frameworks to reinState Odùduwà Republic represented nationalist aspirations of the Yoruba people, and/or Republic of Biafra represented nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people, whose leaderships felt they could no longer co-exist with the Northern Hausa/Fulani Boko Haram terrorists-dominated federal governments of Nigeria. The Northern Hausa/Fulani Boko Haram terrorists-dominated federal government of Nigeria must respect the rights of Republic of Biafra sovereign State, and/ or Odùduwà Republic nation to conduct their own affairs. According to Olusegun Obasanjo, “Nzeogwu Chukwuma had some scathing remarks to make about Nigeria’s Stateless national security, and about those who were being investigated. If he had his way, he said, his treatment of the whole case would have been different”. We mentioned, en passant, that We don’t see why it should be different in Nigeria. Plebiscite does not amount to war. The Nigerians are another Stateless people. The three largest ethnic groups (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) people have maintained Cases of Statelessness in Nigeria. The Nigeria has been the subject of an arbitrary British take-over ruled indirectly through the Northern Hausa-fulani Boko Haram terrorists-dominated federal government in the crisis-hit Nigeria. Nigeria is a metaphor for identity crisis and confusion in which a person’s sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a forced amalgamation in its arbitrary form of Nigeria. The Northern Hausa/Fulani Boko Haram terrorists-dominated federal government of Nigeria is a metaphor for terrorism and corruption. For all people, becoming a Nigerian can bring on an identity crisis-hit Nigeria. We expressed concern that the crisis in the north killed tens of millions of Igbos, half of them children, and caused millions to flee to the Eastern Region. Nigeria had made women and children to be stateless because they were somewhat denied their rights as a result of the crisis in the region. According to her, the incessant massacres and persecutions of lots of Igbo people living in the Nigeria north precipitated the flight of more than a million Igbos to their ancestral homeland in Eastern Region’s Biafra seceded from Nigeria.
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:32 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuma_Kaduna_Nzeogwu#Career The Head of the Nigerian government, Major General Yakubu Gowon that was overthrown by the president Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria appointed Nzeogwu Kaduna where he became friends with Olusegun Obasanjo, as the tool of the junta of military dictatorships in Nigeria that were led by the Nigerian military, having many officers of a group of mutinous northern army soldiers Hausa-fulani origin who revolted against the central/federal and regional governments of Nigeria, headed by the Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Premier of the northern region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Yoruba Western region, Ladoke Akintola, who visited the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion in Israel in 1961 and Yoruba senior military officers were executed by the president Muhammadu Buhari which was widely regarded as the tool of the military coup of Nigeria that overthrew the government of President Shehu Shagari,who was appointed as parliamentary secretary (he left the post in 1959) to the Nigerian Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and that year Sir Ahmadu Bello As leader of the Hausa-fulani Northern People’s Congress. Amid all the Military of Nigeria coups in the early hours of January 15, 1966, and countercoups at roughly midnight on July 28, 1966, it was hard to say who was telling the truth among the many officers of northern Hausa-fulani controlling federal governments of Nigeria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buka_Suka_Dimka#Participation_in_the_Nigerian_Counter_Coup_of_July_1966 The Major Nzeogwu Kaduna and Lieutenant Colonel Buka Suka Dimka had been made unwitting tools of the military regime of Nigeria’s Gen. Yakubu Gowon masterminding the Military of Nigeria coups in the early hours of January 15, 1966, and countercoups at roughly midnight on July 28, 1966, respectively. The Major Nzeogwu Kaduna became the tool of the security service, when his Hausa-fulani colleagues in the Nigerian Army gave him the name “Kaduna” because a military coup d’état by a group of mutinous Northern army soldiers under Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu led to the overthrow of Nigeria’s civilian government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Aguiyi-Ironsi#Military_career Nzeogwu was countered, captured and imprisoned by major general Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. Consequently, northern Hausa-fulani politicians and civil servants mounted pressure upon northern officers such as Muhammed to oppose the regime of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi which took power after a coup d’etat on January 15, 1966, until his murder In the night of July 29, 1966 by a group of mutinous Northern army soldiers who revolted against his government in what was the purpose of the July Counter Coup d’état was to install Yakubu Gowon as Head of State of Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces, despite the intransigence of Muhammed who wanted the role of Supreme Commander for himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuma_Kaduna_Nzeogwu#Nigerian_Civil_war_and_death orders were given by the Head of the Nigerian government, Major General Yakubu Gowon, Nzeogwu was released from close observation, and for him to be killed by the Northern Hausa-fulani terrorist-controlled federal governments of Nigeria ambush. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari#Buhari.27s_participation_in_July_1975_coup Then Lieutenant Colonel Muhammadu Buhari, who was now the president of Nigeria in 2015 was among a group of the coup plotters that appointed Brigadier Murtala Muhammad as head of the new government, and Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo as his deputy.
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 1:33 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon#Military_career The original intention of Murtala Mohammed and his fellow Northern Hausa-fulani coup-plotters seems to have been to engineer the secession of the Northern region from Nigeria as a whole, but several advisors, amongst which included a number of high-ranking civil servants and judges, and importantly emissaries of the British and American Democrat governments who had interests in the arbitrary form of Nigeria’s forced amalgamation polity, made subsequently no attempt to dissuade the then Lieutenant Colonel Muhammadu Buhari’s participation in July 1975 coup d’état plotting, now the president of Nigeria, who was among a group of officers plotted coup d’état (led by Colonels Ibrahim Taiwo, Joseph Garba, Abdulahi Mohammed, Anthony Ochefu, Lieutenant Colonels Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, Ibrahim Babangida and Alfred Aduloju), who overthrew the Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon#Later_life Shortly after the Nigerian civil war, Ex-Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon subsequently went into exile in the United Kingdom, where he met Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka in London, and obtained support from him( Gowon) for the coup d’état led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, which resulted in the death of the now Gen Murtala Mohammed.
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/gowon-says-buhari-ibb-abacha-others-plotted-coups-selfish-reasons/ According to Dimka’s “confession”, he met with Gowon in London, and obtained support from him for the coup. The British Government refused to extradite General Yakubu Gowon in February 1976, Gowon that was caught up in the coup d’état led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, which resulted in the demise of the now Gen Murtala Mohammed. The non-violent unarmed Biafra anti-war agitations showed her as a self-assured and mature enough to conduct their own affairs. The nation’s Biafra has a right to self-determination with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) agitations without the selfish control of one Nigeria over another country’s Biafra. Igbos are not selfish, and mature enough to handle their own affairs. The northern Hausa-fulani controlling the central governments of Nigeria were so self-centered and cunningly have affairs for selfish reasons.
Balarabe musa
October 14, 2017 at 6:17 am
You really dug into history but your history makes no sense, baba buhari is not a partial person, he is spreading development to every region of the country
Olalekan Ajiboye Oyewole
October 14, 2017 at 8:23 am
Balarabe musa: It makes sense to dig the history!