Gowon And The Four Groups Sabotaging Nigeria By Reuben Abati General Yakubu Gowon, former Head of state of Nigeria and a statesman recently came up with a four-group theory in trying to analyse that old subject namely the problem with Nigeria. Gowon is a good man but his aforementioned theory is dumb. He was speaking at the second anniversary of the Central Working Committee of the Arewa Consultative Forum where he was represented by Alhaji M. D. Yusuf and he had concluded that the problem with Nigeria can be traced to four main groups whose activities militate against the corporate survival of Nigeria. In his reckoning these are: the first group comprising idealists who cannot wait to see a perfect Nigeria. This group he says agitates for the cancellation of the 1999 Constitution on the ground that there is too much concentration of power in the centre. The second group wants the country balkanised into small territories to b...
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