pls any thing you people can do to see that our nation is in a better position like europe pls do masses are dieing and people in the word are making jokes with that nigeria.

Well said by Gowon and Rawlings. Despite their own huge mistakes while in power, these two past leaders do have some decency in them to go down and pull up some grains of wisdom and integrity remaining in their souls. They came out and frankly said it the way it is! This is far from the short-sighted dictatorial tendencies of Obasanjo and his cronies in the Nigerian PDP party, the Mugabes and Mubaracks of Africa. Folks, do we need another more 30 years for African leaders and Africans to understand that dictatorship is not the way to go...especially when other nations the world over are renouncing the use of force to control their people? Let us vow not to allow unpatriotic leaders keep us in perpetual cycles of underdevelopment, tyranny, and oppression…even when they are well into the senile ages of their lives!

Nigeria needs a closure to the ugliness of military rule but worse of it the civil war that ensued. We are still blessed to have both Generals Gowon and Ojukwu living. Gowon has pointed accusing finger at Ojukwu and on the other hand Ojukwu has said that Gowon was the rebel for not ceding power to Brid. Ogundikpe.

Let us bring this matter to a close by asking the prestigious Patriot Group to organize a town meeting between Ojukwu and Gowon and others to explain to us what should have been done to avoid the war and how to forge a better Nigeria from their perceptive. The town meeting should not be a forum for assigning blames but talking straight to the people from what they know and using the bully pulpit as the two men who supervised the civil war to harness a pathway forward for Nigeria including issues like regions vs. states, decentralization of the Nigeria police and abolition of state of origin ETC.