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“Chief Obafemi Awolowo was, for example, to be released from jail immediately and to be made the Executive President of Nigeria.”(See West Africa magazine of July 29, 1967, page 981). And here’s Major Adewale Ademoyega: “At the end of the first week of January, Major Anuforo and I arranged to meet Captain Udeaja, a young engineering graduate from the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, UK. We met in Major Chukwuka’s house at the Ikeja Cantonment but Chukwuka himself was not there. Having briefed Udeaja generally and got his consent, we gave him his task. “He was to fly a special plane provided for the purpose to Calabar on the morning of D-Day, to effect the release of Chief Awolowo and bring him to Lagos on the plane. We had already arranged for a plane of the Nigeria Air Force to be made available that morning. “This was done through Major Nzegwu (not Nzeogwu) of the Air Force.” (See Adewale Ademoyega: Why We Struck: The Story of the First Nigerian Coup, Evans Brothers ...

I have been pondering, with 95% of the general masses running on trifurcated thinking(Africans culture/Western-Arabian Religion/struggling to understand western civilisation) which has left them confused. How then would they understand rational and pragmatic thinking proposed by Peter Obi and the likes, in cleaning up the governance space. 95% of the dysfunctional thinking influences the attitude of our politics, therefore Nigeria will continue to deteriorate to anarchy just as we are currently experiencing.