₦airaland Forum

ONCE UPON A COUNTRY

They have made all efforts to stop History as a subject so that critical information will be lost for ever. But before that happens, please consider the following:

Once upon a time, once upon a country:


1. In 1956 there was a country... whose first Mayor in a place called Enugu was a Fulani man by the name of Mallam Umaru Altine. He was not appointed but elected TWICE as Mayor.



2. There was a country which has a place called Port Harcourt. The people of Port Harcourt elected a man called Chief John Umolu (from Etsako in today's Edo State) to represent its municipality in the Eastern Region House of Assembly.



3. In 1959 there was a country, a country where when its Eastern House of Chiefs was constituted and a man named Mallam Umaru Yushau, the Sarkin Hausawa or Chief of the Hausas in Onitsha, was elected a member of the Eastern House of Chiefs.



4. In 1957 there was a country which has a city called Kano. Kano celebrated the appointment of one Felix Okonkwo, as a special member of the Northern House of Chiefs.



5. In 1950 in a place called Lagos Olorunimbe was the first Mayor of Lagos with Mbonu Ojike his deputy



6. In 1952 a man from Ogwashi Ukwu, by the name of Chike Ekwuiyasi represented Benin West in the Western House of Assembly


There was a country....What happened to that country?


To especially the young people who imagine Nigeria has always been a jungle where lawlessness and tribalism reign, it is not so.

We can have that country, that Nigeria back. IT IS POSSIBLE.
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Thank you for posting this. without the knowledge of our pre and postcolonial history, we will still be wallowing in the shame of ignorance called Nigeria