Promise is a debt Sir, here I am fulfilling my promise. It has been clearly demonstrated that it was the efforts and activities of ordinary Nigerians in the 40s and 50s that forced the British to leave the shore of this country. No doubt about it, our Independence was a SHAM. Yes! there were fissiparous tendencies which were pushed into the background by the joys of achievement of independence, these tendencies have been blown open during the tenure of President GEJ. I knw it is not easy to have common cause and interest in Nigeria, because of the country nature itself, I know there is no common ideology for the different ethnic groups that make up the country, what do I mean? If a popular uprising starts from the North those in the South will see it as a scheme by the North to impose their will on the rest of the country and if it starts from the South, the North will be suspicious of the intention of the South. There is no mutual trust among the people of Nigeria, nothing to hold the country together except the force of arms. The North favours a theocratic state while the South is committed to a secular state, building a single nation based on these two diametrically opposed ideologies requires a visionary leader which Nigeria lacks at the moment Suggested measures for Post- Independence Nigeria growth 1. The power of the central administration should be reduced to make it more effective in handling more important federal matters. The power of the federal government of Nigeria is so much that it controls everything including human beings (Scoff). The over concentration of power at the centre is responsible for the do -or-die political violence being witnessed today in Nigeria. 2. The nation in its present form can no longer sustain itself and therefore needs to be re-organised in such a way as to give greater autonomy to each of the geographic zones of the country to enable it develop according to its cultural norms and practises and most importantly according to its religion. To be continued*
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:08:12 +0000
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