ADVERTISEMENTPolitical manoeuvres are currently at an advanced stage as the political class position themselves for power with the 2023 election. The political crisis in the country is however so severe that Nigeria may not reach that fatidic date in one piece. The problem, as we know, is that politicians are the most focused people on […]
Political manoeuvres are currently at an advanced stage as the political class position themselves for power with the 2023 election. The political crisis in the country is however so severe that Nigeria may not reach that fatidic date in one piece. The problem, as we know, is that politicians are the most focused people on earth – get power only, and therefore spend little time on issues of collateral damage that might be caused by their own modes of engagement.
Nigeria’s short post-colonial political life has been riddled with calls for secession, confederation or other ways to breaking up the country. What we are seeing today is not new. Whenever the interests of a political elite have been threatened, they have floated the secession banner, and all major political groups in the country have resorted to the tactic at some point.
Calls for secession were also being expressed within the Regions themselves. In February 1964, Isaac Sha’ahu of the UMBC declared in the Northern House of Assembly that the Tiv people felt unwanted and threatened “To pull out of the North and the Federation as a whole. We shall be a sovereign state, we shall be joining nobody. We are 1,000,000 in population, bigger than Gambia and Mauritania.
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