Nigeria Not Yet a United Nation - State

19 August 2013
Vanguard (Lagos)

THE British without consulting us amalgamated diverse ethnic groups and christened the union Nigeria. So, a revered northern monarch called the union the mistake of 1914; and, Chief Awolowo referred to Nigeria as a mere geographical expression. Since Nigeria came into being, we have always been conscious of our ethnic origins. In the 1950s, during our struggle for political emancipation, the northerners wanted to secede over the Nine point programme.

More so, the political parties that existed in pre-independence era and first republic were ethnic-based political parties. They're not national in out-look. The A.G was to the Yorubas what NCNC was to the Igbos, while NPC was owned by the northerners.

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