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Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, stirred the hornets’ nest last week when he told a gathering of Nigeria’s sub-regional groupings in Abuja, that Nigeria is in such a bad shape and slowly becoming a divided and failed state.  Before the government’s spin masters could descend on the retired general, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, picked up the refrain.  Both have not been great friends, thus erstwhile antagonists suddenly created an unusual but formidable alliance of views, perhaps, the first in recent times.

Present in the Abuja audience were the representatives of the Afenifere, the South West Yoruba socio-cultural group; the Middle Belt Forum for the North Central region, the Northern Elders Forum, which represents the North West and North East, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo for the South East, and the Pan-Niger Delta Forum representing the South South region.  They had assembled to exchange views on the constitution amendment proposed by the National Assembly.

To buttress their views, both men, Obasanjo and Soyinka, recited a laundry list of what aches Nigeria.  Obasanjo said the government’s poor management of the nation’s diversity was sad and embarrassing, and was leading slowly to a failed and divided state.  Nigeria was already known as the poverty capital of the world.  He warned against war and secession and noted that to tackle the challenges, the issue of disunity must be addressed.  Nigeria, Obasanjo said, is fast becoming an unwholesome and insecure country.  Old fault lines have opened up greater fissures with drums of hatred to boot, leading to terrorism, organised crime, banditry, kidnapping, human trafficking, drug dealing, money laundry, and corruption.

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These problems can be dealt with if Nigerians are ready to live together in understanding.  A constitution review would be a veritable source of waste since it cannot, of its own, solve the problems, especially when leaders keep old prejudices and are fixated on the struggle for power in 2023 without addressing the ills ravaging the nation.

Prof. Soyinka had an even longer list.  In a statement titled “Between Dividers-in-Chief and Dividers-in-law,” he said Obasanjo’s views were an accurate reading of the state of the country.  Nigeria was “a contraption tottering on the very edge of total collapse and close to extinction as a viable country; a suppurating slaughter slab with a huge toll of mindless killings.”  The nation is divided due to the policies of the government and it must accept responsibility.  He lamented that as the cattle marauders raped and displaced thousands, the government went to sleep.  At one point, the president visited the victims and his solution was to advise the traumatised victims to learn to live peacefully with their violators.  Soyinka wrote of the profound distrust and the abandonment of hope in the government as one committed to the survival of the nation as one. Farmers are chased off their farms in large numbers while state governors appease the marauders.

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The petroleum sector is “a reeking cesspool of nepotism” and the president is also minister in charge under whose watch such unprecedented contempt for geographical parity became entrenched.

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We do not believe that Nigeria is a failed state, but we urge the Federal Government to avoid the line of least resistance in its reaction.  It is cheaper, easier though unwise to attack both men for their views than to examine the merits of their argument.  However, whichever option the government chooses, it is obvious that both men spoke the minds of an overwhelming majority of Nigerians.  Thus, they are the voice of the voiceless and deserve plaudits for their courage.

Although the country can project its authority over its territories and protect its national boundaries, the numerous incidents of kidnapping, banditry and armed robbery place a huge question mark on the country’s ability to maintain security.  Even worse is the fight against terrorism.  It is nearly five years since President Muhammadu Buhari told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that Boko Haram had been technically defeated.  After 10 years of war, we still do not know the identity of the political and financial backers of Boko Haram.  How can we win the war without such elementary information?  Issues like restructuring, devolution of powers, return to fiscal federalism, need hard work.

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We have no doubt President Buhari is thinking of his legacy.  He should do that hard work while it still matters and save the country from despair and feelings of helplessness.

Rapheal

Rapheal

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  1. Dr Uche Kalu says:
    2 years ago

    The Chief,OBJ and our Nobel Laureate,Prof. Wole Soyinka must stop beating
    about the bush with their rhetorics,hackneyed dolorous tirades or rather
    jeremaid and denunciatory complaints abouth the current Hobbessian State
    of Nature that Mallam Muhammadu Buhari has plunged the country into.
    The occasion calls for some punitive actions not for empty rhetorics
    The power-that-be has already a firm grip on the country and is hell-bent to
    bringing the dreams of the late Sarduana of Sokoto,Sir Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and
    that of our late first Prime Minister, Sir Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Belewa to
    materialization.
    The former, the Sarduana of Sokoto did vow to use political means to make
    Nigeria the Estate of his great grand father,Uthman Dan Fodio,while the latter
    the late Prime Minister wanted to use political means to dip the Qur’an down
    in our Atlantic Coast.
    Currently, our Neo-Colonialist Fulani Overlords and their Hausa/Kanuri muslim
    mongrel bastards head the three Branches of our Federal Government,control
    all our Federal Institutions and they also have a quorum in each of our two
    Houses of Assemblies.
    Besides,the alien Fulani sojourners of the North apart from running a parallel
    Islamic Republic within our surposedly Secular Commonwealth Republic of
    Nigeria,they unilaterally also made our country an OIC Member State and called
    their above insolent acts faits accomplis.
    If the current gobble – de – gook water resouces bill tabled in the State,which
    is an alternative to Ruga passes through the House of Assemblies, President
    Buhari and his MACBAN Herders would take over all our lakes’ ,rivers’ and
    streams’ banks and inclusive our entire littoral regions from the Bight of Benin
    to the Bight of Biafra and yonder to Bakassi Peninsula.
    Thanks to the Chief,OBJ’s infamous Land Act, the Abokis do own and have
    absolute control of vast Lower Niger Petroleum Wealth today.
    The onus is upon our Elder Statemen like the Chief,OBJ and our Nobel
    Laureate,Prof,Wole Soyinka to rally and moblize our Millennials and all
    patriotic Nigerians to march daily like the Belarusians, against the ongoing
    incipient genocide that we native Nigerians have been subjected to by
    those barbaric,bellicose and murderous alien Nilotic Troglodytes,the so called
    Fulanis.
    The two great and noble Sons of Oduduwa,Chief,OBJ and his kinsman,Prof,
    Wole Soyinka, must urgently match their rhetorics with some punitive actions
    by taking our case before some appropriate World Bodies and Organizations
    like the AU,EU UN ,the US and ICC.
    Enough is enough ojare!
    No to the status quo ante bellum!!
    Down with Hausa/Fulani Islamic Hegemmony!!!

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