#CorruptBuhari: By 1960, shortly after Nigerias independence, the Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, had directed the Principal of Kings College, Lagos, Mr. P.H. Davies, to provide places, annually, for at least 15 boys from the North, whether or not they passed the requisite regular entrance examination. In an attempt to catch up militarily with the South, the Northern politicians had thrown out all discretion. They had lowered standards of admission drastically, settling for the minimum. For as I recalled, all the Northerners in my intake had been trained at the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot. And they had become officers after barely six months of military training, whereas those of us who had been sent to Sandhurst had had to do two long years to earn the Queens Commission. The implications were quite clear - and most disturbing. Not only had these Northerners become commissioned officers before we were half-way through our first year at Sandhurst, they had all risen to the enviable rank of Captain before we could even appear at the sovereigns parade which served essentially as a prerequisite for our passing out as Second Lieutenants. --- Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd) in Nigerias Five Majors, pages 12-13, Published 1981. To the #NobelYorubaYouth: When you go to the polls on February 14, #VoteJonathan
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