Gowon’s policies still relevant in Nigeria today -Ex- President, Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the policies of ex-Head of State, Yakubu Gowon are inactive applicable successful Nigeria’s development.

Jonathan stated this connected Tuesday successful Abuja portion chairing the nationalist presumption of Gowon’s autobiography, ‘My Life of Duty and Allegiance.’

He noted that Gowon is simply a courageous person who assumed bureau astatine 1 of the astir hard periods successful Nigeria’s past and successfully steered the state done the Nigerian Civil War.

“Many radical tin beryllium bully leaders erstwhile the situation is stable. It is during periods of situation that existent enactment is revealed.

“General Gowon, astatine a precise young age, led this state done a large civilian warfare whose effects are inactive with america today. Yet, contempt the symptom and divisions of that era, helium remained committed to preserving nationalist unity and demonstrated singular magnanimity with his declaration of ‘No victor, nary vanquished.’ That doctrine laid the instauration for healing, reconstruction and reintegration,” Jonathan said.

According to him, Gowon would beryllium remembered not lone for his wartime enactment but besides for enduring policies and large infrastructure projects introduced during his administration.

Jonathan singled retired the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, established successful 1973, arsenic 1 of Gowon’s astir si...