Nigeria: Buhari's Course Mate Reveals What Many Didn't Know About Him

30 November 2019
interview

Enugu — Juventus Chijioke Ojukwu is President Mohammadu Buhari's course mate in the 1962 set of the Nigeria Army. He was not reabsorbed into the Nigeria army after the Civil war but he later went to the House of Representatives in 1979, a stint that was aborted in 1983, interestingly by a military coup which involved Mohammadu Buhari who eventually became Head of State.

The man was popularly called Major Ojukwu in the Biafra . In this interview, Ojukwu didn't want to talk about the civil and the Nigerian army. However, he spoke about the Buhari he knew, what Buhari did as General Officer Commanding GOC in Jos, the School certificate saga and bared his mind on the perception that Buhari disliked the Igbo. Read on.

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