While some Nigerians, especially the disingenuously wise politicians among us, may continue to delude themselves that they cannot see the connection between the ethnic and sectarian killings that followed the botched local election in Jos, others not prone to such self-deceit know there is an explanation for why a so-called election would take such ethno-religious colouration.
The explanation resides in a fact known to every school boy or girl, namely that, as yet, there is nothing by way of a common sense of identity or political aspiration that unites Nigerians outside a long sense of forced association following years of playing the ostrich, afraid of asking those questions that might awaken us to the fact that we are not yet one people.
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