If Nigeria Is Divided To Piecemeal, How Do We Share The Things That Unite Us? -Buhari; Commends South-south

By Adesina Soyooye

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, said Nigeria is better united as one big country than divided  to piecemeal.

A couple of ethnic groups in Nigeria, protesting what they see as marginalisation and ill-treatment, especially, since the Buhari Government, say they want to secede from Nigeria.

Such ethnic groups have organisations, leading from the front, proclaiming freedom now or never.

There is the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The Group wants the South-east out of Nigeria.

There is, also, the Oduduwa Republic Group led by Chief Sunday Igboho which is championing an independent Yoruba Republic – Oduduwa Republic.

While chiding those who want Nigeria balkanised, Buhari singled out the South-south Zone, for thinking straight and keeping their heads high.

Both Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, and  Duoye Diri of Bayelsa State, had warned IPOB that their States were not part of the Biafra Republic, and asked the Group to keep off. Other South-south States seem to be on the same page with them.

Praising them, Buhari said during a live interview on ARISE Television that:

“I am, particularly, impressed with the South-south Leaders regarding their stand about Nigeria. Both their elders and Youths, none told me what they said.  I listened to them myself. And their message was clear. God bless them all”

The President was of the opinion that it is neither tidy, nor a smart idea to divide Nigeria into small-small Republics. Saying it was a wrong signal to investors, the President asked: ” How do we share what united us?”

His words:

“Dividing Nigeria to piecemeal is not any solution. It’s a wrong signal to all investors.

“So each Republic will become a paradise? How do we share what united us? What we have done together within such a record time?”

Rebuking Nigeria’s elite for condoning those who ask for the division of Nigeria the President said:

“I’m surprised Nigerian elites watch these uniformed lots make criminal statements everyday. We are all better off as Nigerians”