THE NIGERIA MANY DO NOT KNOW!

Once Upon a Country series:
I found the following quite worthy of sharing, ….all the events listed happened before 1966. They reveal a Nigeria many of our misinformed Youth do not know existed….
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY:
(1) In 1950 in a place called Lagos, Olorunimbe was the first Mayor of Lagos with Mazi Mbonu Ojike as his deputy.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 2/11:
(2) In 1952 a man from Ogwashi Ukwu, by the name of Chief Ekwuiyasi represented Benin West in the Western House of Assembly.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 3/11:
(3) In 1956 there was a country… whose first Mayor in a place called Enugu was a Fulani man by the name of Mallam Umaru Altine. He was not appointed but elected TWICE as Mayor.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 4/11:
(4) In 1957 there was a country which has a city called Kano, one Felix Okonkwo, as a special member of the Northern House of Chiefs.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 5/11:
(5) In 1959 there was a country, a country where when its Eastern House of Chiefs was constituted a man named Mallam Umaru Yushau, the Sarkin Hausawa or Chief of the Hausas in Onitsha, was elected a member of the Eastern House of Chiefs
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 6/11:
(6) In 1961, the people of Aba voted Margret Ekpo to represent them and Abakaliki voted Chief Eyo Bassey both non-Igbos into parliament.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 7/11:
(7) Alh.. Ibrahim Abubakar Imam from Maiduguri represented Tiv land Gboko in the house of representatives.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 8/11:
(8) There was a country which has a place called Port Harcourt. The people of Port Harcourt elected a man called Chief John Umolu (from Etsako in today’s Edo State) to represent its municipality in the Eastern Region House of Assembly.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 9/11:
(9) Before all these, Obafemi Awolowo led the campaign for Ernest Ikoli, an Ijaw man who defeated Chief Akinsanya in an election in Lagos. Nnamdi Azikiwe led the NCNC to a clean sweep of legislative seats in Lagos.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 10/11:
(10) A Ghanaian Barrister practicing on Calabar called Atta Munu represented his town of residence in the first legislature in this country elected by universal adult suffrage.

ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY 11/11:
To the young people who seem to think that Nigeria has always been a jungle where lawlessness and tribalism reign, …these were examples of the way it really was and the way we were as a people in the past.
ONCE UPON A TIME, ONCE UPON A COUNTRY :
In the past; Merit, character and patriotism held sway and the country kept pace with the world. That was our Nation before the vultures took over…
Working together, we can have that country, that Nigeria back again.
*Yes we can *