IN the context of the recent calls for the dismemberment of Nigeria and the series of accusations, counter accusations and name-calling that have followed, it is important to ask who really are those who want Nigerians to go their separate ways.



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An answer to this question will not be easy to come by but it is neither too difficult nor impossible to know.




At least an attempt to find an answer to the question may give us a sense of who are behind the calls and their motivations for fueling the embers of separation.




This is in spite of the attempts by the Nigerian state to pretend to be a neutral party in the whole controversy.




At least that is what the shuttling around, meeting with traditional rulers and community leaders by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, would suggest.




The Vice President has in the last couple of weeks met with leaders from different sections of the country.







Groups CNG, to the Igbo to leave the north by October 1, 2017. But in his latest message to Nigerians, President Muhammadu Buhari or his minders who made available the Eid Fitr message he delivered in Hausa, may be fueling the embers of disintegration, rather deliberately.





Or what is the point in a president who, at his inauguration, boasted that he belonged to nobody but to everybody becoming the one constantly taking provocative steps that call into question his belief in Nigerian unity? Was this an old speech of the president’s presented as new?





Or was this a desperate move by the cabal of presidential minders to prove that the president has no speech impairment as is being alleged? If so, then the opposite effect has been achieved.





By this speech, Nigerians can confirm that the president can’t be in the best state of health at this time. We all knew the president was ill before now.





But he may be worse now or he would not choose to address the nation in Hausa at a time when ethnic tension is at a cutting edge and his deputy is desperately running around to douse it. Buhari is convalescing in the UK.





Could he be standing outside and throwing stones at the people inside? Is he taking advantage of his absence from home, far from the scene of tension to cause trouble back here? And for what purpose would he be doing this? Mischief or plain ignorance?



Having told Nigerians of his obligation to those who voted for him at the expense of those who didn’t; having constituted a cabinet that is as exclusive and unrepresentative as it could possibly be, is the President not yet satisfied?





Is he bent on bringing down the roof on us all? Or what is the meaning of the kind of insensitivity he appears to relish and exhibits at regular intervals? Why all these attempts at aggravating Nigerians? A want of wisdom, a desire for throwing tantrums or disdain of others? Does the President not feel concerned about the tension around? Or is he content to lead a part as if it is the whole? Which question takes me back to the CNG’s quit notice to the Igbo.






That call has been met with condemnation from many parts of the country and among Nigerians of diverse ethnicities including the north. But as with most things Nigerian, it has been impossible to clear off the maze of ethnic sentiments that have characterised responses to the call.





Of course, the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, the group whose activities prompted the quit notice by the CNG, has not been silent. It has been encouraging the Igbo people in the north to move back home as if it has ready-made homes and jobs to settle the returnees into.






Indeed, the likely consequences of such capricious call to arm that both the quit notice and the counter responses from IPOB implicate have been overlooked in the ego war between the warring groups and their partisans.





Orders and counter orders are just being issued by civilians who have never handled a weapon but pretend to be war generals.




They shout out commands and intimidate everyone who does not appear to share their war-mongering into silence. There is hardly any thought for those whose lives they seek to bring disruptions to.





The irony of these calls to arm and for separation is that those making them are the least qualified persons to do so. They are far less likely to bear the brunt of their calls than those they urge into the trenches.




Nnamdi Kanu carries a British passport and when the heat got too much for him at some point, he or his supporters sought concessions for him on account of his being a British citizen.


SOURCE https://oliviablogng..com.ng/2017/06/between-buhari-and-kanu-who-really.html

KANU want to and buhari is his motivating factor

Buhari has already divided the country with his 97% and 5% speech.