Soludo Campaign train landed at Onitsha South and North in continuation of APGA electioneering campaign across the 21 Local Government Areas in the state
Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance gubernatorial candidate and Governor Willie Obiano were both received by over 10,000 party supporters and the Transition Committee Chairman of Onitsha South LGA, Hon Emeka Asoanyi (war machine)
The TC chairman in his speech commended Governor Willie Obiano for his developmental programmes across the state and Onitsha South. He appealed to Soludo to consolidate on Obiano’s sterling achievements. He promised that his LGA will deliver the 321 polling units in the 17 wards in Onitsha South to APGA in the forthcoming governorship election
The two State House of Assembly Members representing the zone, Hon. Uzoma Eli and Hon Beverly Ikpeazu both promised to deliver their constituencies for APGA
Soludo in his response promised to revamp Onitsha, address the bottlenecks the traders usually experience with Customs, eliminate illegal tax collection by employing better ways of collecting taxes as well as encourage the traders’ business partners across the world to come to Anambra State and set up their manufacturing plants, and consequently reverse the state from importing to an exporting state.
He said products made in Anambra State will be original and will be made to meet with international standards
He further added that N5 billion capital finance funds would be made available for start-ups to fund businesses, adding that he will also create the right environment for the creation of private sector led jobs and 1000 youth millionaires every year.
Cee Cee Soludo thereafter urged the people to vote overwhelmingly for APGA and the Soludo/Ibezim ticket come November 6, 2021
Governor Willie Obiano thanked the people for their warm reception and assured them that Soludo will do what he promised and would do exceedingly well. He therefore urged them to come out enmasse to vote for APGA in the coming gubernatorial election
Other speakers at the occasion, include; the Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Uche Okafor Episeni; Hon Chinedu Obidigwe; Prof Solo Chukwulobelu, Secretary to the State Government and Director-General of the Campaign Council; Barrister Sly Ezeokenwa, National Legal Adviser of APGA and many others
The campaign train later moved to Onitsha North where both Soludo and Obiano were received by another mammoth crowd over 10,000 and the TC chairman, Hon Patrick Aghamba.
The TC chairman also commended Obiano’s achievements and equally promised to deliver all the 15 wards in his local government to APGA
Soludo expressed appreciation for the warm reception accorded him and Governor Obiano.
Just as he had earlier said in Onitsha South, Soludo again promised to take Onitsha to its former glory as the international trading hub in West Africa. He said his agenda is to create jobs and more jobs, empower the youths and create wealth. He therefore urged the people to come out on November 6, to vote massively for Soludo/Ibezim ticket
Governor Willie Obiano expressed gratitude to the people and asked them to vote APGA and Soludo/Ibezim ticket come November 6, 2021 overwhelmingly
Former Deputy CBN governor, Kingsley Moghalu has pitched his tent with the Action Democratic Congress, ADC ahead of the 2023 Presidential Elections.
Moghalu announced on Friday that he is now a member of the ADC after leaving his former Party, the YPP in 2019. He aims to clinch the party’s ticket as its Presidential candidate.
Recalls that in June 2021, Moghalu announced his intentions to content for the Nation’s top seat in the 2023 Elections. Moghalu contested as the presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in 2019 and lost to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. He finished 14th on the election log with just 26,039 to Buhari’s 15.1 million votes.
Speaking on his agenda for Nigeria if elected, the banker said; “Security for all Nigerians and Nigeria’s territory, war against poverty: skills, jobs for our youth, and an innovation economy, accelerated education and healthcare reform, good governance: inclusive, transparent, effective, and accountable.”.
I believe we can have NUANCED conversation on trending issues without sacrificing the facts and useful lessons therein.
The army has come out to accuse the veteran actor, Chinwetalu Agu of dressing in the regalia of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) while recruiting for the group, thereby inciting the public to violence.
The screen idol insists he was only sharing ten thousand naira worth of bread to needy people on the street while dressed in a civilian outfit that has an inscription of a rising sun and that the attire belongs to neither IPOB nor its security outfit – The Eastern Security Network.
Assuming we believe the statement from the Army, it will still not justify the arrest because what was banned in Nigeria is IPOB which is an organisation, not Biafra which is an ideology shared by millions of Igbos. And the Biafra insignia – which has been in existence for over 50 years – is not the property of IPOB – which is just one of the groups formed less than 2 decades ago to agitate for Biafra as a result of the REFUSAL of the Nigerian state to operate like a normal society.
In the Southeast today, we have different Self Determination groups that are not proscribed. Some of them are;
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
Biafra Independence Movement (BIM)
Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM)
Biafra Liberation in Exile (BILIE) etc.
And all of these groups use the Biafra insignia and other paraphernalia. Ordinary Igbos who love Nigeria and do not even support secession use the Biafra insignia. I have the Biafra naira note and flag in my possession. And Biafra is not a property of IPOB.
So there is absolutely no way the arrest of CHINWETALU-AGU could be justified. THIS MUCH OUGHT NOT BE SUBJECT OF VERBAL GYMNASTICS. Again, crime is not what the army thinks it is. It is what the law SPECIFICALLY says it is with specific penalty. How do you prosecute anyone under a law that does not exist?
On whether it was a foolish move for anyone who lives in the East, especially Anambra state and understands the very tensed security mood of the state to be walking the street dressed in the manner Chinwetalu Agu was dressed, the answer is a capital YES. It was an extremely foolish move BECAUSE THIS IS NIGERIA. Arguing otherwise amounts to one lying to himself. If you live in a lawless place like Nigeria with weak institutions where even if you win a Fundamental Right Enforcement suit after so many years in court, the govt could still brazenly refuse to comply with the court ruling, it will be exceptionally foolish to approach issues as though you were living in a society with laws and strong institutions. Wisdom is profitable to direct. So those who described the action of the actor as lacking in circumspection are not entirely wrong, if we want to be honest with ourselves.
But,
Even foolishness is not a crime?? If Charles Ogbu, for instance, chose not to be circumspect, that does not mean Charles has broken any law.
So there is no way of spinning the story to exonerate the Army.
Again, Chinwetalu Agu is an Actor which means, he acts. That is his profession. In the video of his arrest, we saw him alight from a vehicle branded “Chukwunwetalu Films”. And in a short clip of his interaction with the army in their office, he was VEHEMENTLY telling the Army that he is enlightened enough to know what constitutes a breach of the law and that sharing bread to people while dressed in a civilian outfit which belongs to neither IPOB nor the ESN is no crime.
So it strains credulity to believe that the actor was foolish. No, he wasn’t. I believe he DELIBERATELY and INTENTIONALLY set out to do what he did as a mark of defiance to what many Igbos see as the attempt to totally take away their undying connection to Biafra, an ideology that lives in the hearts and minds of every Igbo person and will continue to live there till the dusk of time. Biafra is an integral and I dare say, the most outstanding part of our history as a people. No govt should be allowed to take that away from our mind. I’m glad the actor has just been released but it should not end there. The Army needs to be sued.
In my view, the Nollywood legend deserves commendation not condemnation, for successfully sparking the much needed conversation on whether the Igbos should allow the security agencies take away their right to identify with an ideology for which millions of their kinds were forcefully dispatched to the underworld in a war they were fated to fight and even more fated to lose.
The Nigerian army has released veteran actor, Chinwetalu Agu after spending the night in their custody.
The military arrested the veteran actor after he was manhandled by the soldier at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State on Thursday, 7th September, 2021 for wearing a Biafra regalia.
However, the actor has now regained his freedom, following the intervention of the Actors Guild of Nigeria.
Chiwetalu Agu, in a video after his release, assured all that he is fine and has settled with the army.
In a viral video, Agu is seen with a representative of AGN who was sent to the Nigerian Army headquarters in Enugu.
Agu expressed his gratitude for the support of the association saying, ‘’Keep on supporting Nollywood, it’s the only home we have to sustain both our public and private life.”
The army director of media, Brigadier Nwachukwu accused the 60-year-old Nollywood legend of inciting the public and supporting the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB which the Nigerian government proscribed.
The Deputy Governor of Anambra State Dr. Nkem Okeke has reacted to his alleged defection from the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance – APGA to All Progressives Congress – APC. Dr. Nkem Okeke a gentleman and former lecturer in the Department of Economics at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka has before now been serially reported to have been at diverse degrees of loggerhead with the Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, the governor’s wife, and the governor’s close confidant who are also the governor’s brothers.
Reacting to the rumor of his defection to APC, Dr. Nkem Okeke in an exclusive interaction with Ebuka Onyekwelu of the West African Pilot News said he has not defected to APC. When asked, “Have you Sir, formally left APGA for APC”? Dr. Nkem’s answer is unequivocal and left nothing to guess or assumption; “No I haven’t”, he said. He however declined making any comment as to if he intends or is considering decamping to APC.
At the moment, APC and its candidate for the November 6 governorship election, Sen. Andy Uba has the momentum of the gubernatorial election in Anambra state. There has been series of high profile defections from APGA and PDP to APC, even as we can confirm that many are still negotiating for their entry into APC. Anambra APC has moved from having zero lawmakers at the state and federal legislature to having the highest number of lawmakers at the federal level. Although it is still unclear if APC has gained majority in Anambra State House of Assembly.
However, if what a credible source in the Anambra APC camp has confided in us, is anything to hold dear, then, the defection of Anambra Deputy Governor, Dr. Nkem Okeke to APC should still be expected in the coming weeks.
The deputy governor of Anambra state, Dr Nkem Okeke has just decmaped to APC ahead of November 6 Anambra state governorship election.
AIF Media gathered that a delegation of APC leaders led by Senator Andy Uba stormed the Ngozika Estate home of the deputy governor this evening to drag him to APC.
A source at the meeting told AIF Media that APC took the advantage of our report published few days ago on the plights of the Deputy governor in the hands of Gov Obiano and his wife to storm his home this evening to compel him to declare for the party.
Another source told This Platform that those who stormed the Deputy Governor’s home this evening to drag him to APC are Senator Andy Uba, APC’s governorship candidate, his running mate, Barr Emeka Okafor, his campaign DG, Chief Paul Chukwuma among others.
The meeting is still on going at the residence of the Deputy Governor in Ngozika estate Awka.
Like all Nigerians, the people and government of Anambra State are appalled at the statement ascribed to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, that the Federal Government will impose a state of emergency on Anambra State if the new spate of violence in Anambra State persists during the November 6 gubernatorial election in the state. The declaration is not just a strong indictment of president Muhammadu Buhari who is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the country’s Chief Security who is in charge of the Nigeria Police Force, State Security Service and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps but has confirmed the worst fear of the Nigerian people that politicians outside Anambra State in collaboration with their local minions are behind the recent spate of killings in the state to frighten people from coming out to vote in the forthcoming polls, thereby enabling them to write the results they like.
It seems that since these politicians have proved unable to intimidate the Anambra people from coming out to participate in the vote, they have resolved to impose emergency rule on the state. Not up to 15 persons have lost their lives since the new spectre of violence in the state. For a state that has for the past seven years enjoyed the well-deserved reputation of being Nigeria’s safest and most peaceful state, this number is pretty high.
But it is absolutely not even a fraction of the casualties the nation has seen in places like Borno, Zamfara, Katsina, Benue, Plateau, Yobe, Niger, Adamawa, Taraba, and others where terrorists have not only killed several thousands of civilians but also successfully attacked military formations and slaughtered soldiers and other security officers. They have even brought down some sophisticated combat aircraft. Were elections not held successfully in these states in 2019?
Is the number of victims of the politically motivated violence in Anambra State anything near what the nation has seen even in such states as Imo and Ebonyi controlled by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)? Why hasn’t Malami considered a state of emergency in these APC-controlled states?
No further evidence is required to demonstrate that certain ominous political developments in Anambra State were contrived by a coterie of elements to ruin the November 6 polls so that they could have an opportunity to impose their lapdog on the state as the governor. They include the strange and surreptitious filing of a case over the outcome of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) congress last June 23 in Anambra State at the Jigawa State High Court sitting in Birnin Kudu and the bizarre jurisdiction which Justice Ubale assumed over the case. They also include the criminal summons which a customary court in Abuja issued on Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the eminently successful former Central Bank of Nigeria governor and the APGA gubernatorial candidate in the November 6 vote. Nigerians are satisfied that both the Court of Appeal and the Chief Justice have discharged their duties professionally in correcting the misbehavior of the courts of first instance. The judiciary frequently proves in the end to be truly a temple of justice.
It is certain that the Federal Attorney General and Minister of Justice threatened emergency rule a few hours ago out of extreme frustration. Tomorrow is the deadline for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the final list of candidates participating in the election. Having proved incapable of subduing APGA and removing Professor Soludo as the APGA candidate, vested interests are resorting to the idea of emergency rule, through which they hope to capture Anambra State by all means and impose their lackey on a great, successful, robust and independent-minded people.
7. It is axiomatic that the incessant change of police commissioners in the state may not be a mere happenstance. Anambra is having its fifth Commissioner of Police in six months. The high turnover of police chiefs does not make for stability and continuity. Yet, the Federal Attorney General has the temerity to blame the State Government for the recent loss of lives in our beloved state.
All Nigerians are perplexed at the determination of an infinitesimal clique of politicians to conquer Igbo people and make the Southeast a vassal state. They want to impose on us those the great Professor Chinua Achebe famously described as renegades who are committed to make Anambra a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. Anambra State, having made huge progress in recent years, cannot go back to the Dark Ages. Senator Chris Ngige, OON, a worthy former governor of this state who is currently the Minister of Labour and Employment, is right to state that the November 6 election in Anambra State provides a historic choice for the people to choose between eternal slavery and perpetual freedom. We have unequivocally chosen freedom for ever.
God bless Anambra State, the Light of the Nation.
Signed
C. Don Adinuba
Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment.
The Organised Labour of Anambra State consisting of strong 15 Industrial Unions have pledged to support Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra.
The Union led by Comrade Adigwe Chikwelu paid a Solidarity visit to Cee Cee Soludo, APGA gubernatorial candidate at Awka, Anambra State, and afterwards pledged to support fully his ambition to become the next governor of the State.
During the interactive session with Cee Cee Soludo, the leader of the delegation, Comrade Adigwe Chikwelu assured Soludo of the Union’s support in the forthcoming governorship election. He appealed to Soludo to maintain the prompt payment of workers’ salary as currently being done by Governor Willie Obiano and also to look for possible ways to further improve the workers’ welfare.
Comrade Chikwelu tasked Soludo to carry the workers along when he becomes the governor of the state. He also requested that Cee Cee Soludo should look into the possibility of creating the Ministry of Labour and Productivity as other states in the federation have done as a way of improving government and labour relationship
Responding, Cee Cee Soludo said he shares a common “comradeship” with the Union. He recounted his days as student union activist at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka(UNN). He said Labour should be a strategic partner in progress, adding that being indifferent is not an option in times of crises. He therefore harped on the need for constant cooperation at all times between the Organised Labour and government.
Cee Cee Soludo also assured his visitors that the focal point of manifesto is to create wealth through job creations
He also allayed the Union fears on the issues of salaries and emoluments payment, saying the issue of regular salary payment is a right of the workers and not a favour. He equally promised to run an open and very transparent public finance management where anybody within and any part of the world can see what comes in and what it is used for.
Concluding, Soludo thanked the Union for the visit and their support assuring them further that the issue of Labour is always at his heart
Speaking earlier, Prof Solo Chukwulobelu, Director-General of APGA Campaign Council and Secretary to the State Government, commended the Union for showing support and Solidarity to the governorship candidate of APGA. He assured the body that Governor Willie Obiano has never failed in paying salaries to workers and pensioners as at when due. He further reassured the body that Soludo will continue with the tradition and improve significantly on it
The vote of thanks was given by Comrade Benson Jibike, chairman, Agriculture and Allied Workers Union of Nigeria, Anambra chapter, who appreciated Soludo for the warm reception accorded the Union. He also praised the host for his outstanding performance as CBN Governor, which he said boosted and stabilized the business activities of the Igbo business men and women across the Eastern States and beyond
Also present at the visit, were the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Primus Odili; Hon Chinedu Obidigwe, Chief Ashia Nbabuife, Mrs Chinwe Orizu Vice-chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Hon. Greg Obi, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftancy Affairs, Hon Godwin Ibekwe, SSA on Labour Matters and many others!
The first republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amechi (Dara Akunwafor) on Wednesday dissociated himself from an online report which he called falsehood.
Chief Amechi made the clarification while speaking with journalists in his Ukpor country home in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
“My attention has been drawn to a bunch of falsehood which somebody put on the internet as a statement by Mbazulike Amechi saying something about government killing Igbos. The coward did not identify himself or state the media and where I made the statement.
“Since my wife died in July, I have reclined into the customary solitude of my people until after her funeral and burial which is scheduled to take place on October 28, 2021.” Chief Amechi explained.
The former Aviation Minister said that he is personally worried by the high level of violence and killings which started from about Independence day anniversary, particularly in Anambra State because it can scare away voters in the scheduled governorship election and can also adversely affect the funeral and burial of his wife.
“As a matter of fact, before this rubbish came out in the media, I had initiated a move to bring about real and lasting peace and reconciliation and if all concerned respond and cooperate, true peace and reconciliation are just around the corner.
“I am doing this as a political father of the nation and in fulfilment of a role which God expect me to play for sparing my life this long.” He noted.
Chief Amechi appealed to whoever that is responsible for what he called senseless killings and destructions to drop their weapons because peace according to him cannot be won with gun.
As true sons and daughters of Africa, you have the inherent respect for the elders, I ask you, whoever you are, to put a stop to this violence and let me bury my wife in peace and for the Anambra State governorship election to be held. If you scare away voters and only five thousand voters cast their votes, INEC will pronounce the winner and he will be sworn in to rule you for the next four years whether you like it or not.
“It is not possible to have Biafra before November 6, even if President Muhamadu Buhari gives the nod, it is not realistic, I believe in diplomacy, let the problem be solved by dialogue and diplomacy.” Chief Amechi appealed.
He however urged the South East governors to buckle up because according to the former Minister, they have not been pulling their weights.
I was a child during the Nigerian Civil War but I have good memories of the destruction and death from the war itself and the death from kwashiokor of at least a million children who died of starvation. I remember the death of my uncle Godson, my father’s youngest brother and a Biafran soldier, and the wailing anguish of my now late grandmother at his funeral. The lives and futures of so many brilliant young men and women wasted in a conflict not of their making.
Till tomorrow, I continue to believe that Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu’s violent coup of January 1966 (which ultimately failed as it was suppressed) was a wrong move, because that’s what started the violent phase of the Nigerian crisis (there was a political crisis already). But I believe Nzeogwu and his co-conspirators from various ethnic groups in our country acted alone. No one sent sent them, let alone Ndigbo. They were simply hot-headed and misguided soldiers in a time in Africa when the military thought they could settle problems. As we know now, they created more.
Fast forward to 1970. The war is over. General Phillip Effiong, Justice Sir Louis Mbanefo, Dr. Akanu Ibiam and the rest of the Biafran military and political high command have surrendered. The short-lived Republic of Biafra is no more. General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Biafran leader, has gone into exile. Fifty years later, Ndigbo have yet to recover. Yes, we were relatively quick to recover economically. Who can possibly stop the Igbo trader or industrialist who, love him or hate him, supplies the basic elements of survival in communities across our country for a justifiable profit margin?
But, politically, it’s been complicated. Remarkably, though, nine years after the civil war an Igbo, Dr. Alex Ekwueme was Vice-President of Nigeria under President Shehu Shagari. It is quite possible, perhaps even likely, that Ekwueme could have become President and a great unifier of Nigeria in 1987 at the end of Shagari’s second term in office. But the Second Republic was truncated by the soldiers, led by the then Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. Again, another example of how the military created more problems than they were meant to have solved. The rest is history.
We need national reconciliation. Nigeria needs healing and peaceful co-existence of its motley ethnic groups joined together by the British without our consent but nevertheless a legal reality under the International law doctrine of uti possedetis. We are not unique in this regard. Other countries were colonized too, and many of them are doing well today, thank you. They built their nations and moved on from the past, focused now on achieving glorious futures
Who will bring and lead the necessary healing and reconciliation, and how can it be achieved in a practical manner? It’s an open question, but my many years of experience in conflict resolution, international security operations and nation-building as a United Nations diplomat (before the next chapter in central banking and economic management) have left me with some answers.
Flashback. In 1982, Ojukwu returned to a tumultuous welcome following a state pardon from President Shagari. (General Gowon, accused of complicity in the Dimka coup of 1976 that killed Murtala Muhammad who overthrew the Gowon regime seven months earlier, was also pardoned and cleared to return home to Nigeria in 1981). For those of us old enough to have seen these events first hand, it is hard to reconcile the progress we made in healing and nation-building, especially under the Shagari presidency, with what is happening in Nigeria today.
Ojukwu was to go headlong into Nigerian politics in the years after his pardon and return from exile. He was later elected to the Senate, and in the next decade even contested for the Nigerian presidency in 2003 in the Fourth Republic after the second return to democracy in 1999. Older and wiser, he sought to advance the interest of Ndigbo in a united Nigeria. He now saw a territorial Biafra as unrealistic.
I am yet to be convinced that he was foolish in reaching this conclusion, or that anyone could be more “Biafran” than the man who led the military fight, ultimately without success, for a territorial Biafran enclave.
What is the lesson of all this history from the standpoint of the present? It is this: that although Nigeria’s Southeast region has a valid case of being politically denied justice and equity, secession or a victim mentality are not the answer. There simply isn’t a path forward for Ndigbo other than to embrace our national politics and bring their 20 million (at the very least) adult, voting age votes into it. Period. Any other alternative, such as boycotting elections or having low numbers in voter registration, is to marginalize themselves and then turn around to blame others.
In the United States, residents of the two largest states of Texas and California have occasionally floated the idea of secession. They have not seceded. But they have not been persecuted for having that desire. These demands are simply managed within the boundaries of the Constitution as the right to free speech and assembly in America. The French speaking Quebec Region in Canada had a strong seccessionist movement. Today, tout et calm (all is quiet). It was all negotiated politically. Constitutional adjustments were made to accommodate their grievances. Not a bullet was fired. I respect civilized people, I have to tell you.
In Spain, the same thing, the problem even worse. In 2017 the country went into its worst political crisis in 40 years after separatist politicians in its affluent Catalonia region (home to Barcelona) tried to have the region secede from Spain. They failed, but the battle continues, politically and inside the Spanish electoral system. Today, the separatist forces have won a majority in the Catalan regional parliament and are calling on the European authorities for negotiations. But the Spanish Constitution does not permit secession.
Self determination is a right under international law. But in reality it is a qualified right. When domination is external, as was the case in colonialism, the right is interpreted as an absolute one, and the United Nations supported the independence process of many nations under this principle. When it concerns self-determination from an already constituted, independent country, it becomes more complicated, because it is then subject to the Constitution of that country.
To conclude, there is a big difference between having a grievance and pursuing such a grievance intelligently. The destruction of the economy of the Southeast in endless sit-at-home orders by IPOB is hurting the interest of the region and Nigerians who live there. So is the ongoing violence , although there is some confusion about its true provenance because of a mish-mash of actors and motives. Of course, we know this is happening because of a failure of leadership by the State Governors and other politicians from the region . Nature abhors a vacuum. The Nigerian political class in the Southeast, as in most of Northern Nigeria, for example, have lost legitimacy. Non-state actors have filled the vacuum.
But we simply cannot go on living as if in a jungle, with citizens cowed and terrorized by a confusing array of forces, and legally constituted authorities unable to investigate, provide answers and stop the violence. This is called state failure, pure and simple. But the lessons of the tragedy of 1967-1970 must be kept sharply in mind. It cannot happen a second time. No matter the challenges, peace is a better option than war.
I believe that every part of Nigeria will benefit from remaining one country in the larger union it is today, if we can successfully re-engineer (restructure) our country for success instead of our current failure. A great future for Nigeria is possible and doable. We just need to select the leaders that have the vision and the capacity to make it possible. This is where we must now spend our time and energy.
