The Nigerian nation is full of such politicians. They exist and thrive in all parts of the country. They say what they want to say whenever they want to say it.
President Bola Tinubu ; Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; his Agriculture and Food Security counterpart, Abubakar Kyari and Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Aliyu Abdullahi, during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
However, the accusations have not been proved. Of course, the communal, religious, ethnic/tribal conflicts and large-scale killings and destruction of property took place in many parts of Nigeria during this period. But this is not the first time such atrocities took place in Nigeria. One hears these words virtually every day, especially from the Hausa section of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Voice of America whose correspondents in Nigeria interview these politicians of “marginalisation”, and what they tell them as if they were established truths.
In one’s own presence they talk about “we, Northerners”, which, of course, one identifies with tokenly, but then they complete those phrases with statements that one could agree or identify with. Maybe groups of this nature had a function during the military administration. It is difficult to see what legitimate functions such groups could play in a democratic setting with multiple political parties. There are 19 states in the “North” and each is headed by an executive governor elected by a majority of the people in the state.
Yet these are the people who lead the campaign to portray all the actions and activities of the Federal Government under President Obasanjo as either ill motivated or against the interest of “the North.” They created the image of “marginalisation” to portray the present Federal Government as Government of the Yorubas.”
The Ojoo Roundabout in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, was heavily militarised, yesterday, with well-armed security agents, which include the army, police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps , Nigerian Correctional Service , Federal Road Service Corps
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