Nigeria's former president,
Olusegun Obasanjo, has decried the level of challenges faced by many Nigerians
across the country.
Daily Trust reports that the
former president said many Nigerians are unhappy and want to leave the country.
Speaking on a paper titled
"Towards a Re-unification of the Sacred and Secular: Religious
Interventions in Politics,” at the 9th Toyin Falola annual international
conference held at Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun state, Obasanjo said,
Nigeria might not move forward should the country continue to lose its identity
to diversity.
He also said that mismanagement
of diversity by people especially leaders can be particularly annoying.
“I don’t know of any Nigerian who
doesn’t wish Nigeria well, but I know many Nigerians who are unhappy and want
to leave Nigeria. Our issue is so because what they expect from Nigeria they
are not getting it," Obasanjo said.
Also speaking at the event, the
vice president represented by the registrar for the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board, Ishaq Oloyede, said religion had been used “as a divisive
factor and an instrument to spread hate and unleash violence over one another.”
“The interface between religion
and the state was limited to issue of secularism, secularization and separation
of power between state and religion," he said.
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