Nigerians Will Be Naive to Think of Coup.

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Nigerians have to be naive to the point of being delusional to call for or to support the return of the Military back to power as being suggested by the lunatic shown below

If you want to know why? I promise you a full article on that, if you bear with me.

If you disagree, it simply means you will be more than happy to have Sani Abacha, Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo return back to power in Nigeria.

When the Majors led by Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna struck on January 15, 1966 nobody expected that their regime was going to last more than a few years but it took 38 years to send them back to their Baracks.

The Coup in Nigeria had spread to other countries in the West African sub region like a bush fire in the Harmattan.

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For all you know the Coup in Mali, Burkina Faso and the most current one in Niger which is fast becoming the Siamese twin of Nigeria under the Buhari Government could predictably spread to Nigeria as being suggested in the video below.

Why do I say that? I say so because the worst civilian Government is better than the best Military Government which is Dictatorship pure and simple.

I’d rather be ruled by a bad civilian Government than the best Military Rule because we can remove a bad civilian Government with our vote but there is little we can do about a bad military rule unless we beg one of their own to bail us out.

It becomes a vicious circle we do not want or welcome.

Kwame Nkrumah and Obafemi Awolowo had convincingly put that debate to rest in all of their writings and during their tenure in Government in their respective countries.

Obafemi Awolowo in fact had practiced what he preached when he became the first Nigerian leading politician to voluntarily resign from the Yakubu Gowon Regime by keeping his promise to not overstay his welcome in serving in
an unelected Government.

Once he had played his part in helping to end the Nigerian Civil War from 1967 to 1970, he had seen no reason to continue to serve in a Military Government and he tendered his resignation and he left.

I had the opportunity of a life time to serve under Papa Awo when he was appointed the Chairman of a Special Task Force on Student Financing in Nigeria with Shehu Shagari, Shettima Ali Monguno and Wenike Briggs as members and I was specially blessed to be the Secretary to that Task Force.

The 4 eminent Nigerians are all dead today but I learned something from them that I would never forget till I join them.

One of the things I learned from Pa Obafemi Awolowo in particular is why he was very reluctant to serve under an unelected Government and why he would not stay in it a day longer than necessary and why he kept his promise with the precision and the persistence of a Demon.

We have seen the movie currently being shown in Niamey and Maradi two of the major cities of Niger.

It is only a question of time before that movie manifests itself in Nigeria if care is not taken.

I visited Nigeria so many times as the Secretary to the Joint Economic Commission of Nigeria with many countries around the globe but most especially in Africa.

If you take out the heavy investment of Nigeria in Niger, there is little to write home about Niger.

We held one of our first meetings of the Commission in Maradi the second largest city in Niger next in line to Niamey.

If Nigeria sneezes, Niger must of necessity catch cold. You could call Niger a protege or an extension of Nigeria.

That takes me to the resolution from the ECOWAS Summit hosted by Nigeria and presided over by President Tinubu and what could be the fallout from it.

I rest my case.