We are ready for Nigeria's breakup - Ango Abdullahi
- Professor Ango Abdullahi said the north is prepared for Nigeria's breakup
- The former vice chancellor insisted that the north has sacrificed a lot for Nigeria and the region was interested in the unity of Nigeria
- According to him, no country has had constitutional conference like Nigeria, yet it has not created basis for a united country
Professor Ango Abdullahi who is the secretary of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) has said that the north is not afraid of the break-up of Nigeria.
According to report, the former vice chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University spoke at a two-day conference organised by the Arewa Research and Development Project.
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Abdullahi said the north was ready to go back to the pre-1914 arrangement.
He said: “If we can’t go back to1914, we should go back to 1960, regional governance. North is not afraid of getting its North back, just like those that want East and West. I see this as a political manoeuvre and the North will not take it."
“Restructuring means so many things to many people, but to me, I am not speaking for Unongo or NEF, when I was confronted about this, by people from the South, we sat with Prof Nwabueze and he said Nigeria is unbalanced and Lugard made mistake by amalgamation and North has always dominated that’s why they asked for national conference in 2014.
“We reminded him that the North has always sacrificed for the unity of Nigeria. I was a student when we got independence and we saw that each time there was need to unite, Nigeria, the North made the largest sacrifice.”
He emphasized that the north has always been interested in the unity of the country and has sacrificed the most.
He said: “Now we have 36 states from three regions which existed in 1960. No country has had constitutional conference like Nigeria, yet it has not created basis for a united country.
“We ought to have realized from that, that the failure of operators of the country is needed, if we want to restructure Nigeria, we have to start from the beginning, 1914, North and South, let’s go our separate ways."
He said that such clamouring are not new, because it has always been an antecedent of the South whenever a Northerner was in charge of leadership.
“Things happening since 1999 to 2006 tazarce, and 2015 when a party agreed that Presidency should rotate, and that was the beginning of what we saw.
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“Some of our various formations were unhappy with what was happening to the North, we decided that we must confront it and thanks to our efforts we succeeded in changing leadership.”
“Since assumption of Northern leadership, we have witnessed demands like they always occur whenever a northerner takes over leadership.”
Meanwhile, Junaid Mohammed who is a second republic lawmaker challenged the Indigenous People Of Biafra to start another civil war saying they are bastards if they don’t.
Mohammed made this comment while speaking with The Sun saying the Igbos will be foolish to go into another war after what happened to them during the Biafra war.
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