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So now, where are the all-too powerful ex-Nigerian military generals?
By Chiemeka Iwuoha…
So now, where are the all-too powerful ex-Nigerian military generals who, prior to the 2019 general elections vowed over their dead-and-dying-bodies in letters, public statements and other innuendoes to stop one of their fellow beneficiaries of the July 1966 counter coup d’etat that set Nigeria on the road to perdition from running for reelection as President?
Am referring of course to the principled, vehement opposition to general Muhammed Buhari’s undeclared intention to contest for a second term in 2018.
The generals’ opposition was coached in altruistic, patriotic terms seeming to have the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians at heart.
Even characters like Theophilus Danjuma (who would answer Yakubu when he wanted to play the ‘northern card’) got in on the Buhari opposition, claiming that his Tarkum brethren were facing annihilation by Buhari’s Fulani kinsmen!
Today, they are all eerily quiet, their gun powders empty.
I had imagined these men of arms taking the battle to the front gates of the katsina Islamist or something more dramatic.
But nothing.
For the sake of clarity, I don’t like buhari for his government’s war against none Muslims and continuation of the Northern-Western Nigerian conspiracy to put the vanquished Igbo down.
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ButI salute the resolute character and courage of General Muhammed Buhari who looked his fellow elite conspirators in the face and told them to go to hell by running and winning a second term to continue Nigeria’s inexorable liquidation.
That is the mark of real generalship, not those other quota system characters who became generals by the number of Igbo they murdered before, during, and after the Biafra war!
For his singular resolve to dare the lions in their dens, I salute this Fulani warrior.
My hope and wish is that he will bring the same Spartan disposition and determination to sort out the mess he helped create as a beneficiary of the wrecking of Nigeria as a military dictator.
That is, if he even wants a Nigeria to begin with!
But I doubt that too.
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