The Federal Government has admonished Nigerian elites to stop fanning the embers of disintegration, saying they will bear the brunt more if the country breaks up.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the admonition in Abuja when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) flagship interview programme, NANForum. The Minister said, “Our challenge is more with the elite, not with the common people. Go to the remotest part of Nigeria today, you will see Nigerians from different tribes, culture and religion living together peacefully. “Elite ought to take the lead in cementing the unity of the country, but when the elite start preaching tribal hatred, people believe them because they think they know better,’’ he said. According to Mohammed, it is in the interest of the elite to ensure that Nigeria remains as one country because they will suffer the consequences of disintegration more.
“Nigeria accounts for 70 percent of West Africa’s population and if Nigeria should disintegrate today, we are going to overrun Benin Republic, Togo, Niger and other neighbouring countries. “The elite will suffer more because some professors could be working in bakeries in Togo just to survive. We saw it happened when the Liberians came here during their civil war."
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