Governor Kayode Fayemi states solution to solving current agitation for secession

Governor of Ekiti state, H. E. Kayode Fayemi has stated the solution to solving sectional, sectarian and partisan interests that is troubling Nigeria.

He said that members of the political class and non state actors needs to practice the June 12, 1993, ethos, in which such unity of purpose and positive disposition to the well-being of the country is needed in dealing with the current agitation for secession.

Governor Fayemi stated that there is hardly any doubt that there were calculated plans by some external forces in collaboration with domestic conspirators to dismember Niger and cause untold humanitarian crisis.

He explained that the rising tide of agitations for secession in some parts of Nigeria can be prevented when leaders are challenged to promote issues that unite the nation through fairness, equity and justice rather than issues of division.

The governor said, 

The security challenges that confront us today is a direct threat to the future of our country because of the disunity among Nigeria elite on how to confront what is clearly a threat to their survival.

Toxic mentoring that glorifies criminality, exacerbating hatred and divide our people should be scrupulously avoided. Nigeria was at such as a precipice in 1993 after the exit of Gen Gbadamosi Babangida but it was at this moment that conscientious leaders came together under the National Democratic Coalition and other various organisations to provide a national direction and a pathway to democracy. The political class elite of the time intentionally involved to curtail the rhetoric of internal issues and to avoid distraction of subverting elements.

That is why we must all come together both those who are in government and those outside the government to challenge our leaders to do the right things. Confront the issues that divide us, promote the issues that unite us, ensure fairness, ensure equity, and ensure justice in our polity. Even as we fight to end criminality, let us unite all forms of bigotry in order to build a nation where peace and justice shall reign.