A former Nigerian and Biafran soldier, Colonel Emmanuel Nwobosi, has warned that history may repeat itself as Nigeria has failed to learn from the events of 1967.<\/p>\n
Nwobosi, who was one of the officers that truncated the nation\u2019s first republic in the January 15, 1966 coup, said that President Muhammadu Buhari was sleeping on the wheels.<\/p>\n
He further warned that the planned settlement of Fulani herdsmen across the country, otherwise known as Ruga would surely set Nigeria ablaze or bring it to its knees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing is that they said that if you don\u2019t learn from the history of war of the past; something will repeat itself,\u201d he told Sun.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat thing they said would repeat itself is what is about to happen now. The latest is with this Ruga, which would surely set Nigeria ablaze or bring it to its knees.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes, I would like to think that Buhari has lost control of the Government like he said the other time that he didn\u2019t know about the Ruga idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s true that he didn\u2019t know about it; then he must be asleep on the wheels, if not, I would think that heads should have started rolling because this Ruga programme has given him such a bad name.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to wipe it off and as if he\u2019s not attempting to learn any lesson; the fact that Ruga is just about dying down, and they\u2019ve started this one they said, is electronic registration of illegal aliens.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that one has come out in the media as Ruga; not too many people know about it. We are still talking about what was done and even more dangerous steps were being taken.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really don\u2019t know because Buhari had been really very eager to go back to the seat after his military administration. He did everything; and there were different opinions as to why he continued trying.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome said; those who wanted to use him to achieve their aim were so dogged that even if he was tired or not ready to risk it; they were pushing him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot imagine what is going on now; it\u2019s either things have gone amok; he\u2019s lost touch with reality or he is still in control but wants us to believe he\u2019s lost touch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhichever of them, it\u2019s not good for the country. You know, sometimes when Nnamdi Kanu talks about Jibril from Sudan, I try to think whether there is some truth in it; after a while, I said no, if it were Jibril, he would have betrayed certain things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former Nigerian and Biafran soldier, Colonel Emmanuel Nwobosi, has warned that history may repeat itself as Nigeria has failed to learn from the events of 1967. Nwobosi, who was one of the officers that truncated the nation\u2019s first republic in the January 15, 1966 coup, said that President Muhammadu Buhari was sleeping on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":13045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[550,231,736,78],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-biafra","tag-military","tag-ruga","tag-soldier"],"yoast_head":"\n