By Tony Eluemunor
“I prefer to be accused of nastiness than to join in
the national pastime of consigning events of a few years ago into prehistory”.
Chinua Achebe wrote that in the preface of his book of essays, Morning Yet On Creation Day, to explain why he had to include essays on the Biafran war in that book instead of pretending that the war never took place. Here and now, I second that “motion”.
Tatalo Alamu, in his offering titled Ninety Bouquets For Jack Gowon published in the Nation newspaper of November 3, 2024, poured encomiums on Gen. Yakubu Gowon, “as an exemplary Nigerian patriot, a soldier-statesman and shining moral exemplar for many of his compatriots”.
