Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,
Femi Adesina, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo contributed to the
current chaos in the country, adding that the ex-military general should mind
his utterances.
He stated this on Friday in a piece titled, ‘Nigeria’s Unity
And All The Iberiberism’.
Adesina wrote, “The sabre-rattling about Nigeria’s unity and
the possibility of disintegration has got to the point of Iberiberism (an Igbo
word which could mean stupidity). Some people have no other business than
doomsday predictions of a crumbled, collapsed Nigeria, as if they actually fast
and pray for that eventuality.
“When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was President between 1999 and 2007, they predicted that he was going to be the last President of a united Nigeria. It didn’t happen. When Umaru Yar’Adua came, they said he was too sick to hold Nigeria together. The country stood.
“Under Goodluck Jonathan, they said the man was too weak,
and different components of the country would soon say, ‘to your tents oh
Israel.’ Nigeria survived. And for six years under Muhammadu Buhari, they have
not changed their songs. The Somaliasation of Nigeria was on the way. The
Fulanisation of the country would be the final death knell. But Nigeria lives.
It trudges on from day to day, month to month, and will surely survive.”
Adesina said though some people dwell on negativity, “some
fathers of the land will not fold their hands and see Nigeria go down”.
“Fortunately, we have one of them as President now. The
young Muhammadu Buhari spent 30 months in the frontlines as a young army
officer, fighting the war of unity. And he has said it: we will not be around
and watch Nigeria go down. Never. We will rather speak to insurrectionists in
the language they understand.
“And what of Olusegun Obasanjo, a civil war hero. Despite
all that he has contributed to the current upheavals by his actions and
inactions, words and bile, he says it is idiotic to wish Nigeria disintegration
now. Good. But let us put our money where our mouth is. Let Baba mind his
thoughts, and his language,” the presidential spokesman added.
“Nigeria will survive. The polity will endure. And the
component parts will live together in amity and brotherhood. Any other option
is Iberiberism,” he concluded.
Obasanjo, a military head of state from February 1976 to
September 1979, was Nigeria’s democratically elected president between May 1999
and May 2007.
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