Babangida’s Book: Don’t Throw The Baby Away With The Bath Water
By ALOY EJIMAKOR
Even as it is coming so late in the day, I must commend Babangida for revealing (or finally confirming) the following self-evident truths in his epic Book - ‘A Journey in Service’:
First: That the 1966 coup was not an “Igbo coup” but somewhat of a revolution aimed at regime-change and installing Awolowo as the provisional president of Nigeria. In other words, if it could be said that the coup was tactically or covertly geared to foisting ethnic domination, it was going to be a Yoruba domination, not an Igbo domination. Still, whether Igbo domination or Yoruba domination, the counter coup was overtly geared to northern (or far-northern) domination and worse - it midwifed a horrid bloodlust and a total loss of compatriot spirit against the Igbo.
Second: That those ...