The Military Foray into Nigerian Politics and Nation-Building: Historical Reflections on Murtala/Obasanjo Military Regime

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dc.contributor.authorOgunode, Sunday Abraham
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-06T12:00:35Z
dc.date.available2021-12-06T12:00:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstract-translatedThe Nigerian military, after each successful coup d’état in the second half of the twentieth century, advanced no reasons to justify their intervention in the nation’s politics beyond corruption and mismanagement of the economy. While these reasons were obvious, the political workings and institutional framings of the various military regimes that ruled Nigeria for over three decades did not reflect any significant change in the nation’s fortune. If politics of ethnicity and religious bigotry were adduced by the army as other reasons for their interventions, the military was, in the end, guilty of the same. This chapter is, therefore, concerned with retrospective historical reflections on the efforts of the Murtala/Obasanjo military regime at nation-building. The historical methodology of critical analysis, concise chronology, and objective interpretation were applied to the cross-examined data obtained from primary and secondary sources. In-depth interviews were conducted with purposively selected informants based on their knowledge of the subject matter and excerpts of Murtala speeches were analyzed while secondary data sourced from history and political science texts. Through these sources, the chapter argues that, though the regime made appreciable efforts at breathing new life into the troubled socio-economic and political waters of the nation, their inability to grapple with the complexities of the Nigerian polity proved beyond every reasonable doubt, their non-readiness to be the change and development agents they presented themselves to be. The chapter concludes that military intervention in Nigerian politics did more harm than good to the country as state institutions and structures that would have given a new direction to the nation were fundamentally damaged and this has been part of the bane to Nigeria’s inclusive development and nation-building since the 1960s.en
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dc.identifier.citationWest Bohemian Historical Review. 2021, no. 2, p. 273-290.en
dc.identifier.issn1804-5480
dc.identifier.urihttp://wbhr.cz/images/issues/WBHR_2021_2.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/46296
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherZápadočeská univerzita v Plznics
dc.rights© Západočeská univerzita v Plznics
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dc.subjecthistorické úvahycs
dc.subjectrežim Murtala/Obasanjocs
dc.subjectvyprávění o budování národacs
dc.subjectnigerijská armádacs
dc.subject.translatedhistorical reflectionsen
dc.subject.translatedMurtala/Obasanjo regimeen
dc.subject.translatednation-building narrativeen
dc.subject.translatedNigerian militaryen
dc.titleThe Military Foray into Nigerian Politics and Nation-Building: Historical Reflections on Murtala/Obasanjo Military Regimeen
dc.typearticleen
dc.typečlánekcs
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
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