Secession threats, inter-ethnic discontent as well as abhor vox communication possess got plunged acquaint twenty-four hours Nigeria into a sectionalisation that has likely never been experienced before, quondam Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has said.
Mr. Abubakar who made the observation at the 40th anniversary of the Federal Government College Okigwe, Imo State on Saturday, noted that all tribes of the province needed i roughly other to hand desired goals.
“This celebration is coming at a critical fourth dimension inwards our country’s history,” he said. “All of y'all must last aware of the recent agitations from dissimilar parts of the country, with roughly groups threatening violence and, inwards roughly cases, secession. These agitations are the number of a number of factors which I volition non bother going into at this time, although since y'all are all enlightened men as well as women, I possess got no incertitude that y'all are good as well as fully aware of what they are.
“As a number of these diverse forces, the Nigeria of today appears to a greater extent than divided than it has e'er been before. Our province is non at state of war inwards the sense of guns as well as bombs, only the score of inter-ethnic discontent, hatred, as well as abhor vox communication is at an all-time high.”
Recently, Nigeria has been embroiled inwards secession calls peculiarly from the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, inwards the South-eastern business office of the country.
The secessionist induce which calls for an independent province of Biafra, a democracy that existed for virtually iii years during the Nigerian civil war, was inwards September designated a terrorist grouping yesteryear the Nigerian government.
To quell the tension which has arisen from IPOB agitation as well as that of other groups, many Nigerians possess got called for restructuring of the political system.
The quondam vice president, who was represented at the occasion yesteryear his media adviser, Paul Ibe, emphasised the remove for unity with dissimilar ethnic groups rather than a restructure of the country.
“You know from personal sense that the Hausa man’s occupation is non the Igbo man, that the Igbo man’s occupation is non the Yoruba man, that the Yoruba man’s occupation is non the Hausa man, etc.
“You know the beauty of unity, of living together equally blood brother as well as sister, inwards the same dormitory, inwards the same classroom, of belonging to the same solid as well as working towards the same goal, whether it last winning a medal during inter-house sports competitions or a prize during a quiz competition. You know that, at those critical times when everyone’s oculus is on the goal, the Hausa as well as Igbo as well as Yoruba remove i another, must depend on i roughly other to achieve.”
Tracing the institution of the schoolhouse as well as other federal authorities colleges to a witting movement yesteryear the as well as thence armed services direction to promote unity afterwards the civil war, Mr. Abubakar who is likewise the grand patron of the school, charged the students to accept upwards the responsibleness of restoring the lost glory of the country.
“My dearest students as well as alumni of the Federal Government College, Okigwe, Nigeria needs y'all at this hour. The glory of what was begun hither twoscore years agone must non last allowed to die. It must last propagated throughout all our country. That is a responsibleness that y'all must all meditate on equally y'all celebrate with i roughly other over the adjacent few days of this grand occasion.”
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