Statecraft

About the Book

Although, using Nigeria’s political and developmental history, in the author’s imaginary creation, Statecraft is a grand strategic plan initiated and nurtured overtime and clinically executed by some concerned citizens of a nation. When they first met in the university, their country was dangerously drifting into anarchy and doom due to political and ethnoreligious divisiveness. Calling themselves the patriots or the partizans and their umbrella body, the Concerned Citizens Watch Organization (CCWO), those youths resolved to salvage their country not only from ethnoreligious conflicts but the political mismanagement of their extant national, human and natural resources, and reposition it. To democratically defeat the political old guard at the polls, the CCWO employed a combination of civil and uncivil designs. The organization thus hatched and developed its plot, which encapsulated thoughts, plans, strategies, and actions to prepare its political arm. To do this, the founding partizans patiently spend the time and space of their youthful years to also galvanize and mobilize the people. Then in its apogee, the CCWO’s political arm, in its first attempt at the polls, applied the well-articulated and rehearsed intriguing tact. It was a perfected political and strategic crafts that achieved unprecedented election upsets, never before witnessed in the history of elections. Most of its unknown candidates effortlessly defeated their very many established and tested political opponents. Indeed, the organization’s stunning electoral victory shocked many and disproved watchers’ permutations. Truly, Statecraft was CCWO’s application and execution of a compendium of well-designed survival strategies that satisfied unexpected overhauls. They could spur determined patriotic youths and adequately serve as panacea to freeing countries and peoples by genuine patriots frustrated and disenchanted with the status quo. Statecraft will surely find relevance in politics, administration, and management.

About the Author

COLONEL Eugo Iliemena Nwafor was commissioned into the Nigeria army on the 15th December 1979. An old boy of the government secondary school, Afikpo, Ebonyi State of NIGERIA, Eugo holds a post graduate diploma in international relations and strategy studies ( PGDIS ) from the Lagos University and MS.C IN STRATEGIC STUDIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY of Ibadan. Col Nwafor taught jungle warfare and combat survival in the Nigeria army school of infantry Jaji and a directing staff ( DS) in the Armed forces command and staff college over saw trainings in Counter Revolutionary Warfare ( CRW) later renamed low Intensity Conflicts (LIC) As Chief instructor in the same College, Eugo became supervising CI for both LIC and Tactics and also oversaw the re-writing of the college Tactics package from the Attritionist to the Maneeouvrist Approched to Warfare, Col Nwafor was also Deputy para Military secretary, Deputy Director Operations, Colonel, General Staff in Army Headquarters, Defense Headquarters and 1 Division Nigeria respectively and returned in 2008. A veteran of two ECOMOG Operations tours ( OP LIBERTY ) In Sierra Leone and Liberia respectively. His award included 2 ECOMOG Peace Medals, psc(+) and fellow of the National War College ( FWC ). A poet Col Ei Nwafor also writer as Ubid Orzord, He was married to the Late NGOZI Adaobi Charity Nwafor and blessed with children, Eugo holds the traditional title of OCHIAGHA AKPU in Akpijiogu his home town in Anambra State of Nigeria.