"If Nigeria breaks up, Professors may work in Togo bakeries"- Lai Mohammed warns Elites fanning disintegration

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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