Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says it
is in the best interest of Nigerian elites for the country to remain united.
Mohammed stated this on Wednesday when he featured on a NAN
flagship interview programme, NAN Forum.
The minister accused elites of fanning the embers of
disintegration in the country, and warned that they will bear the greater
consequences if Nigeria breaks up.
According to him, some elites who have attained professorial
status may be left with no option than to work in bakeries in neighbouring Togo
just to survive.
“Our challenge is more with the elites, not with the common
people. Go to the remotest part of Nigeria today, you will see Nigerians from different
tribes, culture and religion living together peacefully,” he said.
“Elites ought to take the lead in cementing the unity of the
country. But when the elites start preaching tribal hatred, people believe them
because they think they know better.
“Nigeria accounts for 70 percent of West Africa’s
population, and if Nigeria should disintegrate today, we are going to overrun
Benin Republic, Togo, Niger and other neighbouring countries.
“The elites will suffer more because some professors could
be working in bakeries in Togo just to survive. We saw it happen when the
Liberians came here during their civil war.
“It is in their own enlightened interest that they should
work to fix Nigeria. Many of them have more than one passport — American,
British, Irish — and at the first crack of trouble, they are gone.”
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