Is Atiku attempting a 'future unification' since his presidential bid puts a dagger to the tenuous thread of North-South power equilibrium?
The “unifier” needs to beat a retreat from this path, and perhaps, unify himself with the truth that ethnic baiting is not a campaign strategy. If he divides the country during the campaigns, he runs the risk of presiding over a much more sundered people if he wins. After all, he is seeking the office of the president of Nigeria, and not of a section of the country.
I believe Nigeria faced its greatest threat yet at the time when the country was becoming ungovernable. I felt it was a bounden duty as a citizen and as someone whose faith and trust in Nigeria remain untrammelled, that I should call on my brothers and sisters in the South-East to cease the violence and abandon the doomed secessionist agitation.
I was told by an uncle to avoid returning to the South-East because these death dealers were on the look out for me. Some of the bloodiest attacks happened in my local government area in Anambra.Naturally, after eight years of power residency in one section of the country, it is expected to orbit to another. It is hard to explain and farcical to rationalise PDP’s gaucherie.
The Peoples Democratic Party blundered when it discarded a sacerdotal principle – the zoning precept. Since 1999, zoning has governed the PDP’s power distribution. It was by dint of this that Umaru Musa Yar’Adua became the party’s standard bearer in 2007 and president after Olusegun Obasanjo. So, is Atiku making an attempt at “future unification” since his presidential bid puts a dagger to the tenuous thread of North-South power equilibrium? Is he prophesying into the future on the possible consequences of his quest?
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