Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has shocked the Military Headquarters, with his latest bombshell after 17 years, stating that, he owed nobody any apology
He revealed that he owed nobody any apology for retiring top Military Officers, during Nigeria’s return to democratic rule, in 1999.
Obasanjo disclosed this on Tuesday, in Abuja, during the public presentation of a book titled: “The First Regular Combatant: Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari”, authored by Haruna Poloma.
Maimalari was one of the Military Officers killed on the night of January 15, 1966, during the coup that brought Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi to power.
He was the first regular combatant of the Nigerian Army.
While speaking, Obasanjo explained why he compulsorily retired officers in 1999, including the younger Maimalari, a Lieutenant Colonel, stressing that, he had held political positions that could engender fertile environment for the budding democracy to survive.
“It is because it is necessary to stop the sort of thing that took the life of your father prematurely, that I had to take a decision that all those that have tasted of power, that they should never have tasted of political offices while they were soldiers; that we should ease them out of the Army, so that we can have an Army that will be completely free from political aberration.”
“And so far, since 1999, I think we seem to have got it right. Let us hope that we will continue to get it right and learn the right lessons, that Nigeria has had enough sacrifices by those victims; that Nigeria deserves peace, unity, and democracy.
And may the sacrifices of the life of Brig. Zak Maimalari, be sufficient to give this country peace, development, unity and progress”, Obasanjo said.
And may the sacrifices of the life of Brig. Zak Maimalari, be sufficient to give this country peace, development, unity and progress”, Obasanjo said.
The former President, also expressed dissatisfaction with the Military’s involvement in Nigeria’s political activities over the years, lamenting that Nigeria had witnessed enough bloodshed.
“The lesson we can learn, is that we have had enough tragedy in this country; the Nigerian Army, particularly, has had the unfortunate situation, where Officers this country has spent a lot of money to train, and who had been of great service to this country and to the Nigerian Army, had to be cut out in the prime of their life. Our lesson should be that this should never happen again”, he said.
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