Towards healing a nation’s 60 yr old wound, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Or a Northern Officers’ coup as it was powered by officers of Northern descent who had waited six months for a decisive action from their Commander-In- Chief – who happened to be Igbo – towards holding the executors of the January coup accountable for their actions.
That this coup was largely led by young, indignant – some say ‘nationalistic’- Igbo Officers did not help matters.
Even there, a positive move was made when Dr Alex Ekwueme, a nationalist if there was one, was elected Vice President as far back as 1979, and later when EmekaOjukwu was brought back from exile to the political arena.
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