FACTS! FACTS!! FACTS!!! 1: Shehu Musa YarAdua (SMYA) was born 5 March 1943 to an EDUCATED Katsina politician father, who was a minister for the federal capital territory of Lagos, among other public offices he held in the First Republic, while Pa Buhari (MB) was born on 17 November 1942. He was the 23rd child of his father, who died when Baby Muhammadu was just only 3 years old, (for no fault of his). However, the impact of being orphaned at such an early age is not trivial. 2. If indeed Shehu and Pa Buhari were classmates at the Katsina Provincial College, and SMYA left Katsina Provincial College in 1959, at age 16, while MB left the same school in 1961, at 19 years of age, then definitely, young Muhammadu Buhari was relatively educationally subnormal, using Shehu YarAdua as our benchmark of comparison. 3. The young Pa Buhari joined the army at 20, and got commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Nigerian army at 21 years of age, barely one (1) year after enlisting at the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna, and attending a 6-month short course on supply and transport logistics (i.e. store keeper/driver training) at the now defunct Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, England. 4. The younger Shehu joined the army at 16, and got commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Nigerian army at 19, three (years) after leaving Katsina Provincial College, and also attending a 24-month regular officer training course at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England. The difference is obvious. 5. The foundations of the academic and professional training and experiences of both officers are as distinctly dissimilar as those of any two soldiers of the Royal Army of the United Kingdom: one, a regular commissioned officer, and the other a non-commissioned officer, at best, a subaltern. While one could rise to the very top to be a general, or even a field marshal, in the Royal Army, the other will NEVER rise above the rank of a senior Regimental Sergeant Major, or EVER be commissioned, no matter how long they may be active on Her Majestys Service, no matter how old they may be. 6. It is therefore very easy to infer, without any shadow of doubt, that the young Pa Buhari did not have the required ACADEMIC qualities that would have gained him entry into the Royal Military Academy, which, incidentally, is the default alma mater of all past and serving GENERALS in Her Majestys Military Service. Shehu YarAdua had those qualities. 7. Of course, as usual, in Nigeria, the rules are always either broken, or bent, to suit our addiction for instant gratification. Pa Buhari was not alone, neither is he unique in the matter of career short cuts that are built into the system for the exclusive advantage of some. After all, lets face it, General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi did not complete his secondary education, even though Umuahia, his home town, was a centre of academic excellence, where Government College Umuahia was located! 8. Education did not really matter in the Nigerian armed forces of the olden days, when Pa Muhammadu joined the army, over 50 years ago. He probably could not qualify to be trained like his fellow old boy of Katsina Provincial College, and towns man, Shehu Musa YarAdua, because of a glaring deficit in his educational capacity to meet even the minimum requirements of attending even Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, or gain admission into the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and be commissioned into Her Majestys Royal Army as an officer, if he had been British! Hmmmmmmmmnnnnnn......!!!!!
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 05:38:05 +0000
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