Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has again said that there is
no hope of Nigeria continuing together as one nation if the Federal Government
fails to do the needful.
According to the foremost playwright, Nigeria cannot continue
as one country unless it is decentralised as a matter of urgency.
Asked during an interview with Arise TV if he thinks that
Nigeria can continue as one, Soyinka said, “Not if it continues this way. Not
if it fails to decentralise. Some people use the word restructure, some people
use the word…whatever. Not if it fails to decentralise.
“If Nigeria fails to decentralise and I mean, decentralise
as fast as possible, manifestly not rhetoric, then Nigeria cannot stay
together.
“Again this is not Wole Soyinka saying this. Generals have
said it. Everybody has said; ex-heads of state have said it; analysts have
said; economists have said it and that’s what is happening to the people on the
streets; that’s why they’re moving; that’s why they’re demonstrating; that’s
why they’re defying even threats from the police; from the government ‘if you
demonstrate, you’re traitors, we’ll deal with you…we’ll speak to you in
language which you’ll understand’.
“It doesn’t work with anybody any longer. Because the nation
is on a suicide slide and the people feel that they do not deserve that kind of
suicidal plunge and they have the right to say ‘sorry o, I’m getting out of
this plane before it nose-dives.”
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