I Have No Regret Retiring Politicaly-Exposed Officers – Obasanjo

Consequently, the ex-President said he had no statement of regret to offer to anybody for his activity, saying it was to the country's advantage.

This came as previous Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, said the military was not prepared to assume control established power, portraying the attack of the military into control through the January 15,1966 overthrow as the best catastrophe of the nation.

Likewise, Acting President, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo, faulted the expulsion of History subject from the country's school educational modules on broken initiative, saying the improvement affected adversely on understudies as it denied them the chance to know their past, present and future.

The trio talked in Abuja at an open introduction of a book written out of appreciation for the nation's first Nigerian Army Regular Combatant, late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari.

Serving and resigned military officers and in addition famous Nigerians assembled at the dispatch of the book, The First Regular Combatant, Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari, the Borno-conceived previous military teacher slaughtered in the January 15, 1966 upset, driven by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogu.

Obasanjo, after unique acknowledgment to the child, Lt. Colonel Mai Maimalari (retd), who is previous military manager of Jigawa State, demanded that the choice to resign politically-uncovered military officers was to a great extent educated by the need to keep a repeat of the occurrence that prompted the demise of Brigadier Maimalari and others.

He stated: "I have no expression of remorse yet I have a clarification. It is on the grounds that it's important to stop the kind of things that ended the life of your dad rashly, so I needed to take this choice. Every one of those that had tasted control as troopers ought to never have done as such.

"We dialed down out with the goal that we can have an armed force that will be totally free from political deviation. What's more, since 1999, I think we appear to have it right. Give us a chance to trust that we will keep on getting it right and take in the correct lessons that Nigeria has had enough carnage.

"Nigeria has had enough relinquishes that those casualties and Nigeria merit peace, solidarity and advance and may the penances of any semblance of Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari be adequate to give this nation peace improvement, solidarity and advance," he said.

Osinbajo accuses expulsion of History subject for flawed initiative

In his discourse , Acting President,Prof.Yemi Osinbajo, while paying shining tribute to the fallen legend, said the late Maimalari was an uncommon item the nation had ever delivered.

He stated: "Brigadier Maimalari's noteworthiness reaches out past the way of his passing, for he was an expert of extraordinary worth and trustworthiness; traits unprecedented in nowadays.

"It is these qualities that guaranteed he stood head and shoulder over his time. Brigadier Maimalari is a symbol and a national legend, who should be generally and all the more normally recognized."

Lamenting that Maimalari was murdered at only 34 years old, the Acting President stated: "Yet, considering the place in history he had manufactured for himself, he is by all accounts living for time everlasting. At regular intervals, the subject of Maimalari and his circumstances gone to the fore of open talk in Nigeria and past."

Osinbajo, who was spoken to by Minister of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, talked further: "History as a subject in our schools has turned out to be genuinely scandalous, with understudies frequently feeling that the subject has no down to earth esteem.

"However, without an establishing ever, how would we know our identity? Where we originate from? what's more, more vitally, as individuals, where we are going to?

"We have been worried, as a legislature, with the decrease in the creation and investigation of history and this has seen us recoup History from where it has been overlooked for a really long time and put it back solidly in the school educational modules.

"Regularly, the Nigerian scene has been deformed by horrifying cases of poor authority and terrible administration.

"So predominant has been that our young people can be deluded into feeling that there is no aggregate nonappearance of optimism and gallantry in our general public. However, nothing can be further from reality.

Military not prepared to assume control — Gowon

Executive of the event and previous Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), depicted the late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari as a dedicated, enthusiastic, effective and uplifting officer, who put his best in the administration of the country.

Talking on the overthrow that saw the passing of Maimalari, Gowon stated: "For a few and a number of us, the best disaster of that grim night was not just that it ended the lives of such a large number of political military initiative, honest Nigerians including that of Brigadier Maimalari. Yet, it additionally ended the lives of unambitious political and objective military officers.

"We shouldn't arrange overthrows and assume control government, that is not up to this point our preparation."

Prior in his comments, book analyst and previous Military Secretary, Major General Ike Nwachukwu, lauded the characteristics of the late officer, depicting him as his guide and "an officer with an estimable character."