Afenifere, pan-Yoruba
socio-political organisation, says the federal government is “doing all kinds
of things that can divide the country”.
Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere
spokesman, said this while responding to a comment Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo
made on the unity of the country.
Osinbajo had asked those seeking
the dissolution of Nigeria to look at the case of Sudan which broke up yet the
problems still linger.
In a statement on Wednesday,
Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere spokesman,
said the actions taken by the federal government “make the break-up
inevitable.”
Odumakin wondered why the
government declared the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) a terrorist group.
“The president said yesterday
that Abiola would have solved ethnic and religious problems in Nigeria, why are
they not solving it. Why are they doing all kinds of things that can divide the
country?,” he said.
“So if a break-up is not the
solution but all the actions they are taking make the break-up inevitable. The
Fulani people are doing so many things in the country, they are not doing
anything against them. You are doing many things that can break up the country
and yet you are saying break-up is not the solution.
“What kind of sermon are they
preaching? If they are declaring Shites group as terrorists, what act of
terrorism have they done, whereas those
who are perpetrating terror in Nigeria you are giving them money.
“The Afenifere has never set out
to ask for the break up of Nigeria, as a matter of fact, we don’t like it . It
is those who are pursuing the policy of not making Nigerians good neighbors to
themselves, those who regard some Nigerians as masters and some as slaves,
those who discriminate and pursuing policy of discrimination, those who don’t
provide employment for the millions of able-bodied Nigerians, even though,
there are opportunities to do so, that could break up the country
“Some Nigerians who have the
opportunity to utilise the resource to develop Nigeria and fail to do so. It is
these people directly or indirectly, who are breaking this country up.”
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