Femi Adesina, a presidential spokesman, says right from
amalgamation, Nigeria has been a divided country.
Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Wednesday Adesina
said the division in the country predates the administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
He was reacting to comments made by ex-President Olusegun
Obasanjo and Wole Soyinka, playwright and Nobel laureate, who said that Nigeria
is more divided than ever before.
But defending the president, Adesina described Nigeria as an
inconvenient amalgamation which has always been divided.
“Nigeria had always been divided right from amalgamation in
1914. Nigeria is an inconvenient amalgamation but we have kept at it and we
have worked at it,” Adesina said.
“And I tell you that there is no time in the history of this
country that the country was not divided. But then, we have kept at it and we
are trying to make it work.
“As at 2015 when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly
divided; divided along ethnic, religious and political lines; divided along
language; divided hopelessly and terribly.”
The presidential spokesman, who said the current
administration has been making efforts to unite the country, accused some
people of “playing politics with everything.”
“That is the division that President Buhari has been working
at. But you see that a number of people, instead of letting harmony return to
this country, thrive and luxuriate in widening the gap between Nigerians. They
play politics with everything,” he said.
“So, if they say Nigeria is divided today, it is because
Nigeria has always been divided. And all efforts to unite Nigeria and Nigerians
never worked.
“When Nigerians come to a decision point that we must live
together, we can’t wish anybody away, then we will be working towards being a
nation.”
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