By Kabiru Muhammed Gwangwazo
“Loyalty is one hundred per cent, or else it is not loyalty.” — Anonymous
Loyalty is two-way; followers obey and toil for the cause; the Leader reciprocates, protects and rewards his subjects, believers and acolytes.
The core of the quote above on loyalty being two-way is one that used to be a favourite of General Muhammad Buhari, long before he became our first truly democratically elected civilian President.
He quoted bits of it to a team of his supporters of the Coalition Committee for Buhari Groups (CCBG) from Kano while educating us of why as GOC of Third Armoured Division in Jos he personally led troops to the Nigeria/Chad border in the 1980s. He had reportedly waited for clearance from the Army High Command under the Shagari NPN Government on what to do after his soldiers had been attacked and some killed by Chadian troops, and…
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