Senior statesman, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari not to make strides that could release Nigeria the method for Yugoslavia which clasped under grisly wars before it in the long run broke into littler countries.
Ajayi, a political partner of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, while responding to the on-going unsettling in the Niger Delta and Eastern Region, said Buhari ought not dismiss the diligent calls by good natured Nigerians for the rebuilding of the nation.
He made it clear that pioneers of Yugoslavia's inability to perceive the way that the nation was a confederation of republics prompted the arrangement of bleeding war which in the long run made the nation deteriorated into a few countries.
He said "Yugoslavia has around eight nationalities. They've done whatever they could to ensure that each country in that nation went his own specific manner, however their pioneers said no up to the season of Josep Broz Tito in 1980."
The nonagenarian noticed that somewhere around 1980 and 1990, the Yugoslavs did whatever it takes not to deteriorate until they started to execute themselves, and in 1991 they started to separate into Croatia (1991), Slovenia (1991), Macedonia (1991), Serbia (2006 ), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992), Kosovo (2008), Montenegro(2006). He noticed that Nigeria ought to be keep running along the current six geo-political zones to empower each zone create at its own pace.
"We are not a one solid nation. We are an organization of various countries. Also, in the event that we are so diverse, we ought to be overseen as per our temperament and society," he said.
He called attention to that there was no chance the president or any pioneer would compel a multicultural nation like Nigeria to live same way, saying the belief systems and lifestyles of Fulani and Igbo are not the same, nor is Yoruba and Kanuri lifestyles the same.
On what the country ought to don't to go the method for Yugoslavia, Ajayi said "that is the reason in 2014 there was national gathering. It was for us to rub psyches and ensure every one of these things don't happen.
"Be that as it may, a few people encourage fat on the issues of Nigeria, they need to continue getting income from oil, income from various things, then position from various stuff" he included.
Ajayi, who is in his mid 90s cautioned the president and other national pioneers on the consequencies of inability to rebuild the nation.
"In any case, for you to say you are going to accumulate and control everything the outcomes will be cataclysmic on the grounds that when the chips are down, the circumstance will be more terrible.
"The entire of West Africa won't contain Nigerians ought to the war break out. What's more, it would not end on time. Furthermore, it is just the start of war that a man can foresee; no one can say when and how it will end.
"The Syria war has not finished. Iraq and Libya lack out of their emergencies.
Along these lines, they ought to be watchful and listen to the voice of the general population. You can think about how you drove the countries in the 1980s, when normal men didn't have entry to telephone and there was no online networking as we have tooday," he included.
Ajayi, a political partner of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, while responding to the on-going unsettling in the Niger Delta and Eastern Region, said Buhari ought not dismiss the diligent calls by good natured Nigerians for the rebuilding of the nation.
He made it clear that pioneers of Yugoslavia's inability to perceive the way that the nation was a confederation of republics prompted the arrangement of bleeding war which in the long run made the nation deteriorated into a few countries.
He said "Yugoslavia has around eight nationalities. They've done whatever they could to ensure that each country in that nation went his own specific manner, however their pioneers said no up to the season of Josep Broz Tito in 1980."
The nonagenarian noticed that somewhere around 1980 and 1990, the Yugoslavs did whatever it takes not to deteriorate until they started to execute themselves, and in 1991 they started to separate into Croatia (1991), Slovenia (1991), Macedonia (1991), Serbia (2006 ), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992), Kosovo (2008), Montenegro(2006). He noticed that Nigeria ought to be keep running along the current six geo-political zones to empower each zone create at its own pace.
"We are not a one solid nation. We are an organization of various countries. Also, in the event that we are so diverse, we ought to be overseen as per our temperament and society," he said.
He called attention to that there was no chance the president or any pioneer would compel a multicultural nation like Nigeria to live same way, saying the belief systems and lifestyles of Fulani and Igbo are not the same, nor is Yoruba and Kanuri lifestyles the same.
On what the country ought to don't to go the method for Yugoslavia, Ajayi said "that is the reason in 2014 there was national gathering. It was for us to rub psyches and ensure every one of these things don't happen.
"Be that as it may, a few people encourage fat on the issues of Nigeria, they need to continue getting income from oil, income from various things, then position from various stuff" he included.
Ajayi, who is in his mid 90s cautioned the president and other national pioneers on the consequencies of inability to rebuild the nation.
"In any case, for you to say you are going to accumulate and control everything the outcomes will be cataclysmic on the grounds that when the chips are down, the circumstance will be more terrible.
"The entire of West Africa won't contain Nigerians ought to the war break out. What's more, it would not end on time. Furthermore, it is just the start of war that a man can foresee; no one can say when and how it will end.
"The Syria war has not finished. Iraq and Libya lack out of their emergencies.
Along these lines, they ought to be watchful and listen to the voice of the general population. You can think about how you drove the countries in the 1980s, when normal men didn't have entry to telephone and there was no online networking as we have tooday," he included.
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