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AreaFada2:


But Enahoro admitted a few years before he died that they didn't make proper any plans for the future when fighting for independence.

He said they all thought that once the British were gone, we as black people will be able to negotiate things among ourselves. How wrong they were.

Sure most of them were very young and never ran an independent country before. They were were simply too optimistic.

Of course we're talking here with hindsight. If we had lived at that time, we would have succumbed to independence euphoria too.

Judging from the bolded, Enahoro was obviously speaking from a generalization perspective. Of course you would not expect him to speak specifically of his own individual efforts under such a tone.
It may interest you further to know that the same Enahoro, in the build up to independence, proposed for the future Nigeria a 45 state structure in which the tribes most compatible with one another fall into the same state in order to avoid clashes of culture within each state. But those dreaming about a false One Nigeria denounced him as nursing a divisive agenda and he had to back down therefore.
So for him as an individual he planned but the myopic majority would not let him.
Even Awolowo's famous "Geographical expression" classification declaration was, in its full text, a practical foresighted proposal for a just and equitable future Nigeria.
Herbert Macaulay too worked towards the gaining of independence between 1985 and 1990 because he understood that Nigerians were not yet civilized enough to govern themselves democratically.

Deadlytruth:


Judging from the bolded, Enahoro was obviously speaking from a generalization perspective. Of course you would not expect him to speak specifically of his own individual efforts under such a tone.
It may interest you further to know that the same Enahoro, in the build up to independence, proposed for the future Nigeria a 45 state structure in which the tribes most compatible with one another fall into the same state in order to avoid clashes of culture within each state. But those dreaming about a false One Nigeria denounced him as nursing a divisive agenda and he had to back down therefore.
So for him as an individual he planned but the myopic majority would not let him.
Even Awolowo's famous "Geographical expression" classification declaration was, in its full text, a practical foresighted proposal for a just and equitable future Nigeria.
Herbert Macaulay too worked towards the gaining of independence between [b]1985 and 1990 [/b]because he understood that Nigerians were not yet civilized enough to govern themselves democratically.

Bolded obviously a typo. Macaulay died in 1946 if I am not mistaken.

Sure several ideas were floated. However, Southern leaders had enough brainpower, education, exposure, resources (Rubber, cocoa, palm oil & nascent crude oil industry) to have achieved a purposeful foundation if they had co-operated well. At the end they didn't. Enaharo remained in Western Region parliament and later even became Federal Information Commissioner/Minister.

Individual exoneration hardly matter. None of them quit politics or resigned their positions to protest their held beliefs being ignored.

Atiku is currently touting decentralisation and state police. We all know it's not going to happen. But history can later credit him with proposing it but ignored by the powers that be. That's politics.