Yakubu Gowon

Who told you there was a queue? And even if there is a queue, who told you that overtaking is not an act? Nigeria's history, for instance, is full of young people who did not wait for permission.

Yakubu Gowon, as we famously know, became head of state at the age of 31.

In 1999, Samin Uturaki became a governor at the age of 35.

Donald Duke became a governor at the age of 37.

We used to be the giant of Africa.

In those good old days when you had somebody like Jogaba deliver a speech, you know, or you heard Gawain speak, or Muritala speak, even Obasanjo speak, you know, we are proud, we are happy, but all that is missing at the moment.

May God help us.

All right, from Guardian, we go to Vanguard.

So if they were flying in and out of Biafra, obviously it seems clear that Ojukwu had a relationship with these mercenaries.

On the other side, Gowon had a relationship with the mercenaries as well.

And not, and even beyond that, Goan was, and the military government was being officially supplied weapons.

Formerly by the United Kingdom government and by the Soviet Union.

Give Ojukwu time.

Give Ojukwu time to reassess this, hoping Ojukwu would come on board.

And of course, Gowon had no idea that ultimately the U.S. just wanted to freeze the military option.

That was the big picture.

Look at his perspective of his life.

Read Gowon's book.

Buhari write a book.

Go and read.

I saw him carrying a book.

What was the book that he carried? President Yakubu Gowon's book.

The book that he just wrote recently.

I was intrigued.

Yeah

... by, by Gowon and in a pre, post-civil war oil boom, but the people who actually delivered it were people who were also implementing neoliberalism.

I mean, the white elephant neoliberalism.

[laughs] White elephant neoliberalism.