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NIGERIA And The Unity Question?
NIGERIA And The Unity Question?
Nigeria: not to break up or to break up? The issue of unity based on equity and unity based on uniformity must be addressed. Every region is as important as the others. There should be no double standards.
Arguably, among all the unification factors that are keeping Nigeria together as an entity, one of the few factors left yet untampered with is the “power rotation” between the Southern and the Northern Nigeria.
Political power rotation between the South and the North stands as one of the most democratic pillars in Nigeria in this epoch. May I put it to you all, what is democracy without Fairness, Justice and Equitable representation of the different ethnic nationalities at all levels of government including the highest office in the our country? That will be a farcical democracy. True democracy will ensure that all the constituent ethnic nationalities enjoy the full rights of belonging to the Union.
It is not those who are agitating for their own countries out of the present entity except that those sociopolitical virtues listed above are adhered to, that want to break up Nigeria but those who want to corrupt the political normative standard that has been the suture on the cracks that are affecting the stability of Nigeria as one entity since the time of amalgamation.
It was said of a White man, an historian, he said that Nigeria is the coming together of three irreconcilable people. Regardless of that, why can’t we reconcile over a hundred years of amalgamation, blend properly and unite lovingly? It is greed, greed and greed that is preventing reconciliation and the attainment of nationhood.
If a quarter of the gigantic energy with which government went after Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday ‘Ighoho’ Adeyemo had been committed to putting the rampaging herdsmen (compatriot or foreign herders) under control, the government would have been more effective and continuing enjoying all the goodwill it garnered at its outset, there would have been peace now and more so, those agitations might not have arisen in the first case scenario.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. – Lao Tzu
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”. – Edmund Hillary
Government should strive more to put right things that need some corrections so that we can enjoy peace in our country.
Only a simpleton will not exercise some resistance when his father’s inheritance is about to be taken off him.
We have to be careful with the way we handle issues of ethnic nationalities, the distribution of economic wealth and religious matters, to be without repression, oppression, injustice and overrun. We need to embrace ourselves with more love.
Believe! Nigeria could still work if and only if we are willing to make it work well by doing the right things the right ways and for the right reasons.
Nigeria should by now be enjoying a period of peace and prosperity if we really wanted it to happen.
School Teachers are by natural sensibilities, professional ethics and responsibilities compelled to be kind, loving, patient, persevering, happy, exemplary, role modeling and hardworking with positive mental attitudes, to ensure that the future generations are well prepared for their own time.