Our diversity should count for something. It should be our strength. We will be the biggest losers if the Nigerian enterprise is liquidated. We must make Nigeria work.

Racoon:
One Nigeria has never helped anyone including those who have ruled the most.Otherwise northern Nigeria should have been Eldorado by now.All Nigerians, not only igbo have investments outside their home base.

However, if Nigeria is what it is after about 60years of nationhood with all the ills bedevilling it, then there is no basis for a united Nigeria wherein everything about our national life is skewed towards an ethno-religious group.
Nigeria was structured on a defective foundation from the beginning.So anyone still haullicating that this country will work need a psychiatric examination.

Redoil:
most of the southerner have become totally lazy in farming so i wonder what they will eat


especially in the south west where almost all the able body young men have become agberos looking for easy money

Redoil:
most of the southerner have become totally lazy in farming so i wonder what they will eat


especially in the south west where almost all the able body young men have become agberos looking for easy money

Optional09:
Wait and see, SE would succeed very quickly but the SW might struggle a little bit because of our over dabi and docile attitude and our extreme respect culture.

nairalandankrah:
Mazi efulefu Fredrick Nwabufo. ;

The idea of having a near-perfect country out of a ruptured Nigeria is illusory. The composite parts of the country each contribute to the miasma of confusion that Nigeria is. [b]No single entity is responsible for Nigeria’s problems. All the ethnic nationalities are equal shareholders in the failing of the Nigerian enterprise. There is enough blame to go around.[/b]Nor should we all die like chicken just becos we want to make Nigeria work .life first Oga.




So, what will change if, for example, there is a south-east state as some are campaigning for? Will the present social order be inverted? Will the internecine hate and wrangling dissipate? Well, for sure I think the current revulsion that some have for the entity ‘’Nigeria’’ will be reserved for the emergent state. Elite corruption and abuse will still dominate the polity because the new order will be from the same predatory gene-pool. Non-ethnic predation will give way for ethnic predation because at the end of day class struggle is not resolved by the unity of language, religion or culture.


As of 2019, 400,000 citizens have been killed in the South-Sudan crisis. Four million refugees created and 1.8 million people internally displaced. The cause of these tragedies boils down to power struggle among the elite who quickly mobilised themselves behind the emergent state to capture power. A country fabled to be a lodestar in Africa and which was to be a compelling argument for splintering ‘’artificially created’’ states on the continent is now a functional example of why breaking up countries in Africa is not expedient.

An often parroted argument for Nigeria’s dissolution is that the country is an inorganic fabrication of the British. Lies, It is nearly impossible to find a homogenous country. The problem with Nigeria, as we all know, is that we are yet to have a people’s leadership or as Chinua Achebe puts it, a leader “humbled by the trust placed on him by the people’’ and ‘’willing to use the power given to him for the good of the people’’.

We are stronger together. This is not a platitude but a fact. 90 percent of wealth of the Igbo is not warehoused in the south-east. The Igbo are a peripatetic people gifted with extraordinary entrepreneurial abilities. They are among the most financially fortunate Nigerians. Nigeria and beyond are their trading arcade. They are in every nook, cranny and crevices in the country. It is unarguable that a united Nigeria is a more viable emporium for the Igbo than a fragmented Nigeria. It will not be the same for the business-minded Igbo with new states emerging from the wreck of Nigeria – the emergent states will certainly want to put up hedges that will protect their own people against outsiders. Where does that leave Chukwuma who has billions of naira worth of investments doting the south-west?

The south-west as well cannot subsist as an island. It needs the commerce of the Igbo, the endowments of the north, and rich cultural and material resources of other groups to blossom. We need each other.

Our diversity should count for something. It should be our strength. We will be the biggest losers if the Nigerian enterprise is liquidated. We must make Nigeria work.

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist
Twitter @FredrickNwabufo

Redoil:
most of the southerner have become totally lazy in farming so i wonder what they will eat


especially in the south west where almost all the able body young men have become agberos looking for easy money

Igbochief001:

LMAO watin northerners dey farm ...lol

This hypocrisy is just rubbish

The buyer and seller who has more power ? Cameron , benin can supply all the food we would need till we finish our green houses


Do u know what not selling food to south east would do to north ..crash in food prices ? LMAO u need economic class .....the recession that would hit north would be craze

South east would experiment inflation yes but that would be incentive for people to go into efficient farming