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July 5: A Free Education Flashback, By Odia Ofeimun
“What was it all about?” And, there were many who still could not believe it when they were told that the procession was a celebration of the free primary education scheme for which the Action Group government had been campaigning, for over three years, and for which children all over the Western Region were to start registration on that very day.
On July 5, 1954, a procession of about three thousand people, led by regional ministers of state and attended by four orchestras – I. K. Dairo’s Orchestra, Ibadan String Circle Orchestra, Central Temple’s Orchestra and Ayandola Tijani Apola Band, was on the march from the British Council area of Dugbe in Ibadan towards Mapo Radio Square at the other end of the city.
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Elder Statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has said the north rejected the motion for Nigeria’s independence by 1956, because it lacked the requisite human capital to face the challenges of self-governance.
Yakasai who served as Presidential Liaison Officer during the Second Republic, said this in an essay titled, “Leadership Question and the Issue of Nigeria’s National Unity, which he wrote to celebrate his 94th birthday, on December 31st.
One of Nigeria’s foremost Pro-independence activists, Chief Anthony Enahoro, who was then a member of the now defunct Action Group, moved the motion for Nigerian’s independence from British rule in 1953.
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Second Republic politician and a foundation member of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Mallam Tanko Yakassai, has offered an insight into why the Northern Region opposed the first motion for self-government for Nigeria.
The first motion for self-government which sought independence for Nigeria in 1956, was tabled in 1953 by foremost anti-colonial and pro-democracy activist, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, a member of the defunct Action Group.
Mallam Yakassai, a nonagenarian, in a piece entitled, “Leadership Question and the Issue of Nigeria’s National Unity,” he wrote on the occasion of his 94th birthday attributed the fear of domination of the Northern Region by the Eastern and Western Region as responsible for the North resistance to the first motion for self-government.
Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, one of the most vocal and prominent Northern elders has explained why the north rejected a motion for Nigeria’s Independence raised by Chief Anthony Enaharo in 1956.
He said if the north had gone with the proposal, it would have been under the control of the South as it lacked the necessary human capital to face the challenges of self-governance.
Chief Enahoro, one of Nigeria’s pre-Independence activists and a member of the Action Group (AG), had moved the motion for Nigeria’s independence from the British colonial masters in 1953 which was to see Nigeria become a sovereign state by 1956, but the northern delegates had opposed the motion.