Former House of Representatives member Abdul Oroh has alleged that the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, and other northern leaders deliberately recruited young northerners into the military as part of a calculated strategy to build a state governed by force and structured around feudal hierarchy.
Speaking in an interview with Edmund Obilo, Oroh said, “Sardauna and others went to various secondary schools in the north to select and encourage young northerners to join the military because they were already building a state that would be governed by force, and you need the military to govern such a state by force. They were working to perpetuate a culture of dictatorship built on certain hierarchies, based on a stratified society — the feudal authorities with their religious supporters — much like what happened in Europe,” he said.
Oroh argued that the architects of that strategy ultimately became victims of their own creation. He noted the bitter irony that the very young men recruited from their villages and hamlets among them figures like Ibrahim Babangida eventually turned the military against the political establishment that had cultivated them.
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