The role of leadership in Nigeria: A look at the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra

Obayi, Paul Martins (2019) The role of leadership in Nigeria: A look at the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra. In: Development of communication and leadership in Africa. Bowie state: library material, pp. 169-191. ISBN : 978-0-578-492704

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This work on “the role of leadership in Nigeria: A look at the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra” aimed at finding the missing link in Nigerian leadership right from the Nigerian civil war to the current state of the country. After the civil war in Nigeria, in order to keep the fragile peace of the nation then, General Yakubu Gowon, the Nigerian Head of State (President), instituted the 3Rs—Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Reintegration; and also pronounced to the world’s acclaim that the war has ended with a: “No Victor No Vanquished” stand. All these were done so that the wounds of the war will heal fast, the horrors of war forgotten fast, and reintegration rapidly achieved. The un-implementation of the 3Rs: Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Reintegration and the no victor, no vanquish has thrown more light to other laws, policies and verdicts that are left unimplemented. Most of our Leaders, do not know the implication of words they make public, that’s why they are not bothered on seeing and enforcing its strict implementation. Flowing from this understanding, it cannot be rightly posited that the un-implemented 3Rs promised by the Federal Government of Nigeria under Jack Gowon at the end of the civil war in 1970, to obtain peace from the (defeated) Biafrans (who had an option of going into prolonged Gorilla/Bush/Fluid warfare after the combats from 1967-1970, till the world comes-in to negotiate and embrace peace) is an evidence of failed leadership.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Management and Social Sciences
Depositing User: mrs chioma hannah
Date Deposited: 02 Oct 2019 08:08
Last Modified: 02 Oct 2019 08:08
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/2232

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