Gowon And The Four Groups Sabotaging Nigeria

Gowon And The Four Groups Sabotaging Nigeria By Reuben Abati General Yakubu Gowon, former Head of state of Nigeria and a statesman recently came up with a four-group theory in trying to analyse that old subject namely the problem with Nigeria. Gowon is a good man but his aforementioned theory is dumb. He was speaking at the second anniversary of the Central Working Committee of the Arewa Consultative Forum where he was represented by Alhaji M. D. Yusuf and he had concluded that the problem with Nigeria can be traced to four main groups whose activities militate against the corporate survival of Nigeria. In his reckoning these are: the first group comprising idealists who cannot wait to see a perfect Nigeria. This group he says agitates for the cancellation of the 1999 Constitution on the ground that there is too much concentration of power in the centre. The second group wants the country balkanised into small territories to b...Read the full article.

[mathelize]

My friend, tell us about the abuja land. Why is it so very easy for you to talk about others but find it difficult to explain to us how your name got listed on the abuja land sheet? You are the greatest hypocrite of Nigerian journalism.
Can you please condemn Pastor Adeboye for buying a jet as well?
If i were the Admin of this site, your articles would have been history.

[K_Station]

Originally Posted by mathelize

My friend, tell us about the abuja land. Why is it so very easy for you to talk about others but find it difficult to explain to us how your name got listed on the abuja land sheet? You are the greatest hypocrite of Nigerian journalism.
Can you please condemn Pastor Adeboye for buying a jet as well?
If i were the Admin of this site, your articles would have been history.

...and since you are not the Admin (thank God!), Abati's articles will not be history, not on NVS, not in The Guardian, for as long as God gives him the strenght & wisdom to continue to write. There are countless articles on this website, if Abati's bothers you so much, read another article.

I thought all the anti-Abati people have vowed to ignore his articles until he addresses the land issue, how come y'all keep coming back? Guess what, the man has given you silence, which sometimes, is still the best answer for fools!

[JAGA-JAGA]

Who takes general Gowon's advice seriously? This was the man who at the peak of Nigeria's oil boom in the seventies boasted that Nigeria's problem is not money but how to spend it.

[airemoheme]

Just because someone wants to know how he got the land in abuja does not make him anti abati.Its a moral question.You cant speak ill os someone who has done you a favour and if you decide to speak ill of your benefactor then you are an ingrate and ought to have rejected the gift.

He has the right to accept the gift but in doing so he has lost the moral justification to condemn any activity of the Yardua government.However methinks it would have been better for him to accept a political appointment first before the land,then he could have told us that the land was part of the perks of his office.

[Agidimolaja]

Jaga-Jaga,


Father, forgive them,for they know not what they were doing!

[akuluouno]

The Eminient Jaga,

Thanks for your update. And he went about spending it paying salaries of civil servants in several African and Caribbean countries. I think the man has some freudian instincts to contend with. He is indeed the real sabotager of Nigeria's progress. I pity him, his dubious Pax Nigerianna was hijacked by powerful forces in the north while he hangs unto the apron strings of Arewa as the good old jack that he was. For instance, after lying that he wants to use crude oil revenue to prosecute the war, he refused to return derivation to the status quo ante after the war. After lying that there was no victor no vanquished, he presided over the economic annihilation of an ethnic group ever seen in the 20th century.
I think he is a very sad man, what with his first son and exact replica, hidden from him in deep US.

[AISAGBON OMOGIADE]

I was told that Gowon told George Papadopoulos, the late greek dictator that Nigeria has money but does not know what to do with it,when the Col. drew his attention to the fact that,the few Nigerians then, who were schooling in greek universities were on the scholarship of the greek government.
That obviously was the young Nigerian general/ head of State who got to that position by the design of destiny.Today, Gowon is a professor of Political Science.He has every right to make an attempt to give any political solution to political problems in accordance with his political analysis.
Abati is a lawyer and the two men he refered to their postions on the subject matter, are lawyers as well.A professor of political science who is worthy of his title may not have a need for the assistance of a speech-witer when trying to postulate his opinions.

I am one of Abati's many admirers.His criticism of Gowon on this piece in my opinion, is very sweeping.He unknowingly opened a new avenue for those who hate him because he was the head of state during the Nigerian/ Biafran war, to pour venomous invectives on him.

[nijalaw]

Originally Posted by K_Station

...and since you are not the Admin (thank God!), Abati's articles will not be history, not on NVS, not in The Guardian, for as long as God gives him the strenght & wisdom to continue to write. There are countless articles on this website, if Abati's bothers you so much, read another article.

I thought all the anti-Abati people have vowed to ignore his articles until he addresses the land issue, how come y'all keep coming back? Guess what, the man has given you silence, which sometimes, is still the best answer for fools!

There are those who read and discuss/comment or praise the article while other read, critique the article and heckle the issue of the land deal.
I have not read any of his articles for over 6 weeks now but I do go through the posts & comment if needed.
Sometimes silence is foolish as it is in his case.

[emj]

Originally Posted by K_Station

...and since you are not the Admin (thank God!), Abati's articles will not be history, not on NVS, not in The Guardian, for as long as God gives him the strenght & wisdom to continue to write. There are countless articles on this website, if Abati's bothers you so much, read another article.

I thought all the anti-Abati people have vowed to ignore his articles until he addresses the land issue, how come y'all keep coming back? Guess what, the man has given you silence, which sometimes, is still the best answer for fools!

Eherm K_Station, let them continue to pursue the Issue of Phantom Land Gift....how can they ignore him....Abati, ki Bati...more power to his Pen Ojare.

Gowon.....is still going on with one Nigeria...The boy is good

And to respond to the particular concern that has been expressed, let it be noted that the over-concentration of power in the hands of the Federal Government is a problem with Nigeria. I shall not attempt to explain the nature of this particular issue, I can only state that if the General still does not understand this matter which is directly at the heart of the Nigerian question, he is invited to read the writings of Professors Ben Nwabueze and Itse Sagay on it. The two scholars, in various writings provide the illumination that is required in the Gowon camp. And by the way, a perfect Nigeria is a relative concept.

Eherm, oro lo so opuro/true word....WORD!

[phkra1]

Nigeria's problem is a complex web with multitudes of branches.

The case of Lagos State readily comes to mind of what leadership is all about in a government - selfless service.

But then, a man can only reason within the confines of his intellectual prowess and ability. And so is the choice of his speech writer that translates his perceived reality into words.

Wither - abi na so we go dey with age too?