There was a drive to get students or people from the Northern part of the country so as to balance the officer corps of the armed forces.
So there was a deliberate drive to recruit officers from the Northern part of the country and I was fortunate that the minister for the army happened to be from this part of the country.
So one of his first recruitment drives was to come to our school; he talked to us and gave reasons why we should join the military.
Then, we saw some demonstration by General Yakubu Gowon; he was a captain at that time, a lot of us got excited. We applied and were recruited.
My original thought was to be a civil engineer but when this military thing came, I jettisoned that and went in for the military.
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