Openbusiness:
I'm not saying this from a tribalistic perspective, capital NO, but facts only: pound for pound, weapon for weapon, intelligence for intelligence, soldier for soldier, army for army, a united North is no match for a united South. But southern unity has always been the problem, and the divide and rule is actually even being spearheaded by Southern politicians (not the North alone) because they know Southerners are enlightened, they know Southerners will demand for their rights.

Most Northerners are very simple by nature, they are generally content, they don't ask questions, they are satisfied with whatever they find themselves in. Their politicians can be extremely rich and billionaires, and their people live in extreme poverty but they won't revolt, they won't fight back, they will accept it like that as the will of God and take whatever crumbs their political class throws at them. The gap between the wealthy and the poor can be so extreme and they won't be bothered, they will live in peace.

But Southerners are not like that, Southerners are very exposed both in terms of wanting the good life and knowing their rights. In homogeneous southern countries, If the gap between the wealthy and the poor is too much, or if the southern political class enrich themselves with the commonwealth of the masses but the masses are in extreme poverty, there will be massive dissatisfaction, there will be protests, there will be riots and uprising, there will be conflicts that will overthrow the political class.

That's why the Southern political class prefer One Nigeria, where they can steal and steal and be protected by the federal system, then if people complain, they will point fingers at Abuja, that those ones are to blame, as if they themselves are not part of the same group of people and gang squandering the nation's resources and enriching themselves at the expense of the greater population of citizens.

The Southern political elite know that the day the South is emancipated, the day we have our own separate countries, then they don't have anybody in Abuja to point fingers to again and blame for the endless stealing and looting. They know when we have our own different independent countries in the south, the enlightened southern citizens will demand accountability and demand their own benefits of the individual countries wealth. It will no longer be business as usual again. They know they won't be able to be stealing and having billions, stealing lands and resources and leave the people in penury and have peace. Never!

The southern masses will fight for their rights and fight against inequality of wealth, where 1% are extremely wealthy, 3% are rich, 5% are average and 91% are extremely poor and struggling. The South is too enlightened to accept that rubbish. That's why our political class will rather keep us in bondage with Nigeria, so they can maintain the status quo and continue looting in peace.

Things are falling apart