The Nigerian ambassador to Libya, Alhaji Aliu Mohammed, has been recalled over the provoking statement of Libyan president Muamar Gaddafi. This is made known from a statement released from the ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.

Gaddafi had on Tuesday called for the balkanisation of Nigeria against the backdrop of violence that rocked Jos, Plateau State, last week.

The Libyan leader reportedly said one of the best ways of resolving the incessant ethno-religious crises in Nigeria is for the country to go the way of Pakistan and India that separated and resolved their religious crises once and for all.

Gaddafi’s inciting statement has been condemned by many including Nigerian Senate President David Mark, who called the former AU chairman a mad man for advocating splitting of Nigeria

Reacting to a remark made by the Chairman of the Aviation Committee, Anyim Ude, on Gaddafi’s statement in the course of the debate on the motion on Wednesday, Mark said it is characteristic of the Libyan leader to call for the splitting of nations involved in conflicts.



“A mad man who said the same thing about Switzerland, who said the same thing about England; he said the same thing about every other country and then you want to give that any prominence at all? “I don’t think he deserves any mention at all. Truly, in my candid opinion, I don’t think he deserves our attention.”

http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=10554

Let Nigerian rulers put up or just shut up. Can they dare put what the Libyan leader said in a referendum? No they can't

The antics of a Nation that chooses to live in denial

They have simply succeeded in further escalating this issue and making it a serious National debate.

Talk of sticking their useless ostrich head in the sand. As if Gadafi has made a startling revelation that is alien to them.

Eziachi:

The Nigerian ambassador to Libya, Alhaji Aliu Mohammed, has been recalled over the provoking statement of Libyan president Muamar Gaddafi. This is made known from a statement released from the ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.

Gaddafi had on Tuesday called for the balkanisation of Nigeria against the backdrop of violence that rocked Jos, Plateau State, last week.
The Libyan leader reportedly said one of the best ways of resolving the incessant ethno-religious crises in Nigeria is for the country to go the way of Pakistan and India that separated and resolved their religious crises once and for all.

source please

~Bluetooth:

source please

doubting Thomas alway kept looking for source- here is your source or sauce.
http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=10554

then that serves ghadaffi right since he lacks international diplomacy.

I doubt if Ghadafi is losing any sleep over the latest self harm of Nigerian rulers. Can someone remind them to withdraw/recall thousands of their nationals surviving in Libya too while they are at it. senseless mongols.

Gaddafi is quite right. . .yes he may be a "crazy" man sometimes but hey. . .what if he now decides to go after the several thousands of Nigerians living in Libya (legally or illegally) and chooses to return them with the recalled ambassador?

CyberG:

Gaddafi is quite right. . .yes he may be a "crazy" man sometimes but hey. . .what if he now decides to go after the several thousands of Nigerians living in Libya (legally or illegally) and chooses to return them with the recalled ambassador?

no qualms.the bottomline is that his outburst caused diplomatic row between the two country and trade-wise,i dont think nigeria has anything to lose save for the immigrants in his country.

~Bluetooth:

then that serves ghadaffi right since he lacks international diplomacy.

Do you think before posting or you post b4 thinking. What serves who right. Remember he banned 26 eu countries from coming to Libya without blinkind an eye. If he can do that to EU i think its an insult to him to think of what he will do to Nigeria. He will just let one of his female house maids to decide what to do to Nigeria/Nigerians and communicate it to the world.

presido1:

Do you think before posting or you post b4 thinking. What serves who right. Remember he banned 26 eu countries from coming to Libya without blinkind an eye. If he can do that to EU i think its an insult to him to think of what he will do to Nigeria. He will just let one of his female house maids to decide what to do to Nigeria/Nigerians and communicate it to the world.

presido1:

Do you think before posting or you post b4 thinking. What serves who right. Remember he banned 26 eu countries from coming to Libya without blinkind an eye. If he can do that to EU i think its an insult to him to think of what he will do to Nigeria. He will just let one of his female house maids to decide what to do to Nigeria/Nigerians and communicate it to the world.

he can ban the whole world from entering his country but how the ban affect those people is what really matters.

Nigeria recalls Libya ambassador in Gaddafi row

Muammar Gaddafi's comments have sparked anger in Nigeria
Nigeria has recalled its ambassador to Libya after leader Muammar Gaddafi suggested Nigeria be divided into two states - one Christian and one Muslim.

The foreign ministry said the Libyan leader's statement was "irresponsible". Earlier in the week a senator had called Col Gaddafi a "mad man".

Col Gaddafi had suggested the split to prevent any more bloodshed between rival groups in central Nigeria.

Hundreds have died this year in ethnic and religious violence around Jos.

Although the violence in Nigeria generally takes place between Muslim and Christian communities, the underlying causes are a complex mix of political, social and economic grievances.

Nigeria is roughly split between its largely Muslim north, and a Christian-dominated south.

In a statement, the foreign ministry said it was recalling its Tripoli ambassador for "urgent negotiations" because of the "irresponsible utterances of Colonel Gaddafi".

"His theatrics and grandstanding at every auspicious occasion have become too numerous to recount," said the statement.

Col Gaddafi, until recently head of the African Union, praised the partition of India in 1947 as the kind of "historic, radical solution" that could benefit Nigeria.

Splitting India in 1947 caused a breakdown of law and order in which at least 200,000 people died. Some estimates say one million people were killed.

About 12 million people were left homeless and thousands were raped.
An attempt by the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria to secede in 1967 sparked a war which left more than one million people dead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8575383.stm

Lets stop attacking the messenger as is usully the practice and face the message

if you know anybody in libya tell them to lie low cos that gaddafi is vindictive, he's gonna take this out on innocent nigerians in libya, hope you know the swiss case, gaddafi is a bumkum, he calls himself the king of kings of africa, personally i hate gaddafi.

^^^^You can hate Ghadafi all you want. Me too, but he is right on his money on this one. Your northern nigerian people need to go your separate way and join with your cousins in chad and niger.

A very good decision by our foreign ministry.

@Bluetooth
Stop trying to make these thickos understand. They lack the ability to reason like you and I.

Great decision from Naija government.

Slowly but surely we'll get there.

18 platoon:

if you know anybody in libya tell them to lie low cos that gaddafi is vindictive, he's gonna take this out on innocent nigerians in libya, hope you know the swiss case, gaddafi is a bumkum, he calls himself the king of kings of africa, personally i hate gaddafi.

ghaddaffi personality has been overated due to his treacherous lifestyle.he's used to making lousy statements during arab countries conference and at the united nations.nigeria directly has nothing to loose in case of a diplomatic row.the highest he can do is to deport nigerians in his country.

As a nation, Nigeria has taken the right step. No matter how worrisome our problems may be, they remain internal and maybe resolved through dialogue without someone like Ghadaff who is one of the most despotic, most tyrannical and most brutal leaders in Africa telling us to break up. As for those supporting Ghadaffi's line of reasoning, its a shame that you never learn from history or may be your myopic minds fail to recognise that if Nigeria breaks up into 100 parts today, the problem of religion and ethnicity will not go away. We have to learn how to llive together peacefully and offending parties brought to book

why do some people want nigeria together?is it that they cant survive without others?the north should go their way abeg.all these igbo and yoruba rivalry,i ve never heard of igbos fighting with yorubas for once.we are more civilized people and can argue for years without physical attack.

It is my humble opinion that it is time for us to get a little more serious a country.

A summon of the Libyan ambassador to Nigeria to protest and express displeasure would have been enough. This whole recall of Ambassador would simply keep what is a National shame in the International circles for a while.

It was not in Tripoli that people were killing their compatriots with Machetes. Its in Nigeria. My sense is that we should be more concerned with finding solutions to this babaric behaviour of some of our compatriots than engaging in diplomatic row with Libya.

Truly we live in an age long gone.

By the way talking about diplomatic row
What did we do when US enlisted us in terror list?
What did we do when Saudi Arabia will not allow Nigerians visit their President in Saudi Arabia?

Ghadaffi may have said what we don't want to hear as a Nation, but between January and Now close to 800 Nigerians have been massacred from either side and their was no drastic response from the Nigerian Government. But when Ghadaffi in showing concern over the human massacres puts a questionmark on the "sacred concept ONE NIGERIA". All of a sudden our Government is alive and awake once more.

I think we need to get a little bit more serious than that.

mikeansy:

It is my humble opinion that it is time for us to get a little more serious a country.

A summon of the Libyan ambassador to Nigeria to protest and express displeasure would have been enough. This whole recall of Ambassador would simply keep what is a National shame in the International circles for a while.

It was not in Tripoli that people were killing their compatriots with Machetes. Its in Nigeria. My sense is that we should be more concerned with finding solutions to this babaric behaviour of some of our compatriots than engaging in diplomatic row with Libya.

Truly we live in an age long gone.

By the way talking about diplomatic row
What did we do when US enlisted us in terror list?
What did we do when Saudi Arabia will not allow Nigerians visit their President in Saudi Arabia?

Ghadaffi may have said what we don't want to hear as a Nation, but between January and Now close to 800 Nigerians have been massacred from either side and their was no drastic response from the Nigerian Government. But when Ghadaffi in showing concern over the human massacres puts  a questionmark on the "sacred concept ONE NIGERIA". All of a sudden our Government is alive and awake once more.

I think we need to get a little bit more serious than that.

This is the reason why it is a good move. And besides, gadaffi made a careless, insensitive, inciting statement as far as "Nigeria" is concerned.

Guys on Nairaland can talk all day about dividing Naija, but leaders should be careful about what they say.

mikeansy:

It is my humble opinion that it is time for us to get a little more serious a country.

A summon of the Libyan ambassador to Nigeria to protest and express displeasure would have been enough. This whole recall of Ambassador would simply keep what is a National shame in the International circles for a while.

It was not in Tripoli that people were killing their compatriots with Machetes. Its in Nigeria. My sense is that we should be more concerned with finding solutions to this babaric behaviour of some of our compatriots than engaging in diplomatic row with Libya.

Truly we live in an age long gone.

By the way talking about diplomatic row
What did we do when US enlisted us in terror list?
What did we do when Saudi Arabia will not allow Nigerians visit their President in Saudi Arabia?

Ghadaffi may have said what we don't want to hear as a Nation, but between January and Now close to 800 Nigerians have been massacred from either side and their was no drastic response from the Nigerian Government. But when Ghadaffi in showing concern over the human massacres puts a questionmark on the "sacred concept ONE NIGERIA". All of a sudden our Government is alive and awake once more.

I think we need to get a little bit more serious than that.

For once in your 2,356 posts, you made a reasonable comment.

ziga:

This is the reason why it is a good move. And besides, gadaffi made a careless, insensitive, inciting statement as far as "Nigeria" is concerned.

Guys on Nairaland can talk all day about dividing Naija, but leaders should be careful about what they say.

Do you honestly believe that Gadaffi's comments should be taken more seriously than Nigerians killing fellow Nigerians with Government looking the other way? We simply have our priorities twisted as a Nation.

Thank God this is becoming a national issue. Ghadafi deserves to be paid a consultancy fee
for taking this issue to the hearing of our leaders. Someday, truth must be told.

Dr Know:

As a nation, Nigeria has taken the right step. No matter how worrisome our problems may be, they remain internal and maybe resolved through dialogue without someone like Ghadaff who is one of the most despotic, most tyrannical and most brutal leaders in Africa telling us to break up. As for those supporting Ghadaffi's line of reasoning, its a shame that you never learn from history or may be your myopic minds fail to recognise that if Nigeria breaks up into 100 parts today, the problem of religion and ethnicity will not go away. We have to learn how to llive together peacefully and offending parties brought to book

While you are still in the mood for lecture, please can you tell us where we were before Nigeria was created? As we are not living in the planet Jupiter before hand.
The same history lesson you are advocating should tell you that you cannot expect Libya-Tunisia-Algeria-Morocco-Egypt and throw Mauritania inside too to become one nation with Capital in Tripoli and expect it to work.  At least they have culture, language and religion as a bond, Yet you can hardly say that for Nigeria as one entity.

How would you expect Algeria to sit down and watch a scenario where Moroccans will come down from Morocco in the name of one country and carve out their land and share it among themselves and call them oil blocks, while they, the owner of the land  live in abject poverty, all in the name of choatic one nation on paper?

That is exactly what Nigeria in reality represents. Any bloody idiot can see that, including the now mad man Ghadafi.  Nigerians both old and young are wising up and cannot be decieved again by the mirage of hollow patriotism of one Nigeria.

Those who are afraid to be on their own has a problem, at least they can find a willing partner to form a union, where they will do so based on choice.

By the way a US state department report recently predicted Nigeria's dis-integration, what did we do.

If you think its a joke, Shola Odunfa of BBC recently made a report about Nigeria that showed that even recently Hillary Rodham Clinton mumbled of the idea of disintegration of Nigeria.

I think instead of calling people prohphets of doom and engaging in a row with those we think we may disintegrate, we should take an honest and serious look at ourself.

Some claim the crisis in Jos is economic. While that may be a proximate reason, the remote reason is lawlessness, disrespect for the Federal Constitution and a Federal Government too scared to implement the laws of the land.

General Domkat Bali recently claimed that at the heart of this issue is the attempt by the Hausa/Fulanis in Jos to practice sharia. If he is right then this is an attempt to export the illegalities going on in Bauchi, Kano, Zamfara. And because the Federal Government refused to take these states to court to defend the Nigerian Constitution which abhors State Religion, they are now trying to export this illegal practice.

This is the issue and no matter how anybody try to pretend, these will continue to be the facts. David Mark may choose to call Gadaffi a mad man, but if Plateau is conquered, Benue will be next.

Nigeria is a country of over 200 Ethnic groups and over 3 religions. the only way we survive is to operate as a secular country. Now its amazing that those who quickly reject the secularity of Nigeria as enshrined in the constitution are the first to lay claim to wanting the UNITY OF NIGERIA.

We all want the Unity of Nigeria but some double standards just have to be addressed and thats what we should be doing right now if we are a serious Nation, not trying to engage in a row with Libya.

Gadaffi just doesn't get it does he? And some Nigerians have a short memory. Our problem has nothing to do with the country being unified. We all know inviduals from the political classes from every tribe and religion have banded together to see Nigeria ruined, THAT is the problem and it cuts across religion and tribe If it were not the case how come you see the same cankerworm eating into the  states, where all are one tribe and religion?

If he is saying that because of Jos, is there not Lagos, which has almost all tribes and religions present and has done since independence, of the population bigger than some west Afican counties, yet there is no crisis, people live there together in relative harmony.

Gadaffi is talking like a village man who doesn't actually weigh up his opinion with evidence before he speaks. Everyone knows, this same Plateau state was one of the most peaceful places in the recent past even with all the same communites as there are today.

The man needs to shut his mouth and face his own citizens.

londoner:

Gadaffi just doesn't get it does he? And some Nigerians have a short memory. Our problem has nothing to do with the country being unified. We all know inviduals from the political classes from every tribe and religion have banded together to see Nigeria ruined, THAT is the problem and it cuts across religion and tribe If it were not the case how come you see the same cankerworm eating into the states, where all are one tribe and religion?

If he is saying that because of Jos, is there not Lagos, which has almost all tribes and religions present and has done since independence, of the population bigger than some west Afican counties, yet there is no crisis, people live there together in relative harmony.

Gadaffi is talking like a village man who doesn't actually weigh up his opinion with evidence before he speaks. Everyone knows, this same Plateau state was one of the most peaceful places in the recent past even with all the same communites as there are today.
The man needs to shut his mouth and face his own citizens.

I hope you are aware of what the deep issues are with jos?