Onyemaechi Ogbonnaya
In 1939, a young member of the Nigerian Railway Igbo, Moses Maduka Nwachukwu of Ovim, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State, caused a sensation in the Fulani Katsina Emirat government space when he sought the hand of his daughter, Binta Fatima Mohammed Diko, in marriage.
The couple, who won the emirate’s blessing, saw the couple remain true to their respective ideals until death separated them in 1989 when Pa Nwachukwu died after 50 years of marriage. They were blessed on September 1, 1940, in Port Harcourt, Rivers. with a son This first child is today, General (Senator) Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, a very prominent and heartless Nigerian.
He met the Ladi-Lak Institute and Yaba City College, Lagos, where he passed out in 1959. With Yaba City College founded through Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe with his West African Pilot newspapers on the same premises, the young Ike Nwachukwu is the first love journalism, so he became a reporter for the newspaper shortly after leaving school.
Again, with reports of the exploits of the first Umuahia-born Nigerian army general, JTUAguiyi-Ironsi, as commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in the early 1960s in Congo (Kinshasha), Ike Nwachukwu, with his imposing size, enlisted at the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna. He was appointed lieutenant of the time in the Nigerian infantry corps.
One of the peak moments of Ike Nwachukwu’s military career was the counter-coupe of 29 July 1966 opposed to the Aguiyi-Ironsi army government, led by Murtala Muhammed, and the Nigeria-Biafra war that followed, from 1967 to 1970. The “languages” saved him from the tribulations of a few days. As undersecretary of the Joint Military Council, Dodan Barracks, Lagos, in 1970. Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu helped reabsorption and reinterated the former Igbo biarfrenes as a component of army officers such as Ndubuisi Kanu, Ebitu Ukiwe, Chijioke Kaja, Lambert Iheanacho, Godwin Nwadike, etc. Kaja, Iheanacho and Nwadike followed in the trail of all mortals.
A former provost marshal of the Nigerian army before the December 31, 1983 coup d’eer of General Muhammadu Buhari, the new board appointed Ike Nwachukwu governor of the army of the former state of Imo with the rank of brigadier general. In Owerri, he faced the popularity of Dee Sam Mbakwe, the former civilian governor, whom the other people of Imo had voted for for a temporary period because of their unprecedented achievements in the former state of Imo. Ike Nwachukwu saw the permanent relocation of the former Imo State University to five other locations to its permanent location. site in Uturu, now Abia State University. The government has acquired 10,800 hectares of land for the university’s long-term desires as a megauniversity until the next millennium.
With General Ibrahim Babaginda’s coup d’état on August 27, 1985 opposed to Buhari, Ike Nwachukwu resumed his full military duties as NCO General of the Nigerian Army. As Minister of Employment, Labor and Productivity from 1986 to 1987, he founded and nurtured the National Employment Directorate (NDE) with Chukwu Wachuku as the pioneering executive director. With his skill flourishing day by day, Ike Nwachukwu, in 1987, has become the time the primary Igbo general of the Nigerian army, after Aguiyi-Ironsi. Foreign Relations from 1987 to 1989. Your “diplomatic soldier” (apologies to Joe Garba) saw the advent of the concept of “economic diplomacy” in the conduct of Nigerian foreign policy. The late Joseph Nanven Garba and Ike Nwachukwu remain today the top charismatic former military ministers of foreign affairs.
Her voice in the Queen’s English diction has been heard both in the OAU (now AU) and at the United Nations General Assembly on the evils of apartheid, as well as the release of Nelson de Mandela as a criminal in late 1989. Reorganized through nonconformist army president Babangida (with clamor following the retirement of Nigeria’s first four-star general, Domkat Bali), Ike Nwachukwu was appointed general commander of Nigeria’s 1st Strategic Mechanized Division, Kaduna. Commodus Lamba Gwom has been appointed a member of the AFRC to appease the ubiquitous “Langtang Mafia” of the Middle Belt. In this role, he has become a member of the Board of Directors of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Even in the process of reaping his competence, trust and reliability, Babangida appointed him in May 1990 as president of the army court that major Gideon Orkar attempted after his “bloodiest coup d’eer in Nigeria” (April 22, 1990). director of the public army at the time. Relations, Colonel Fred Chijiuka. The headquarters on Kofo-Abayomi Avenue of the Guard Brigade on Victoria Island, Lagos, seat of the army court.
He meritoriously retired from the Nigerian army with his head held high before the maradonic replacement of General Babangida’s transitional program.
In the construction of the Fourth Republic, the Ike Nwachukwu component of the G36 led through Dr. Alex Ekwueme and Solomon Lar, who boldly opposed General Sani Abacha in his attempt at military-civilian transformation as President of Nigeria. Ambition was interrupted on 8 June 1998, with the sudden disappearance of Nigeria’s highest dictator army, Abacha.
A founding member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), General Ike Nwachukwu, senator of the northern Senate domain of Abia (1999-2003) and voluntarily ceded the land to Comrade Uche Chukwumerije when he had promised to run for a single upper-house term. He is the chairman of the tough House Committee on Steel and Electricity, among the members of other committees.
He participated in the 1994, 2005 and 2014 national meetings on nigeria’s future. In 2014, under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, he was the head of the Southeast Igbo delegation who generously called for the “Restructuring of Nigeria,” whose strength and ubiquitous federal forces have stifled unifying ensembles within the country and wasted resources in 36 states that have the federal government for monthly allowances. This is not sustainable now because COVID-19 opens everyone’s eyes to a desire to restructure Nigeria. , those who support the country by jugular are vehemently opposed.
His Isuikwuato district of Abia Statem, also known as “Land of Generalsm”, produced Ike Nwachukwu, the Igbo Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army, Azubuike Ihejirika, and the first governor of the Imo State Army, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, all from Ovim Imeanyi, Isuikato. There are others on duty and retirees who have imitated Ike Nwachukwu’s access to the army.
Ike Nwachukwu is married to Gwendolyn Tonyesia Yoyinsola Ejiwunmi of Ofada, Abeokuta, Ogun state, whose mother is a kalabari of the Bob-Manuel government space in Abonema, Rivers state. His sons and daughters are married to Nigerians from all over the federation.
Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu is a true mirror image of what Nigeria is, a de-thralized Nigeria, where the tribe and language may differ, but in fraternity we will have to rise up to build the country of our dreams.
Ogbonnaya, a former defense correspondent, public affairs analyst and commentator, wrote from Abia State University, Uturu
Ike Nwachukwu fought for caliphate Peul with his emirates opposed to Biafra, killed Igbos, the traditional and bloody engagement of 1967-1970 led through Ojukwu, who effectively laid the foundations of the Republic of Biafra. Ike Nwachukwu is the Republic of Biafra in the ongoing war of revolution under disintorated indigenous republics?
Our parents led through Ojukwu effectively established the foundation of the Republic of Biafra. The Republic of Biafra came here with the sword in the ongoing revolutionary war under the disintintegrateed indigenous republics. Only the sword decides.
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