Originally Posted by Albany 
Emmanuel, i relished (almost) every bit of your article. It is true that Nzeogwu had to kill off the thieving leaders of his time, out of his love for Nigeria but you forgot to mention that there was a counter-coup on the 29th of July 1966.
I agree with you that Nigeria is ripe for a revolution but don't you think that the distrust that was palpable especially in the military then and eventually led to the counter-coup is still here with us ? In Nigeria today there is so much division along ethnic and religious lines amongst, unfortunately, even the so-called leaders of tomorrow that if a revolution were to be in the offing today, it would either leak out or there would be a counter-revolution later, since most of the victims would come from a particular ethnic/religious group in Nigeria. Wouldn't it be called an Igbo-revolution or something ?
I am afraid we are stuck in Nigeria. How i wish i was wrong !
True talk Albany. Most countries who have gone through some kind of revolution only have to go through it once to learn from it.
But that does not seem to be the case with our country Naija. If you count just the civil war it seem like we haven't learnt anything the first time around. How a second time around will teach us the lessons we refused to learn the first time beats me.
However if you count the Nzeogwu coup and counter coup, we seem to have had our second and third chances. And the chances of a fourth time around doing the trick is remote if you ask me.
Obviously things can not continue the way they are. Something has to give. So the chances of a revolution as articulated by Emmanuel cannot be ruled out as well. I hope that, that something will give to reason that will allow us all sit and discuss our continued co-existence or otherwise rather than to a bloody revolution.
Very thought provoking write up though Emmanuel. Nice one