It has been widely debated among scholars, students, and elders that as a country we are unequally yoked together, hence, there is proper need to define our unification and chart a new course (could be our pre-amalgamation position of Southern and Northern Protectorate, regionalism of the 60s though not having a region too powerful at the central or referendum well undertaken through a National Conference) that will steer this ship of state to the Promised Land! However, the Leaders we so much look up to have their diatribes against the so-called Amalgamation of 1914;

(1) Lord Lugard: “The North and the South are like oil and water, they will never mix”

(2) Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa: “The Southern people who are swamping into this region daily in such large numbers are really intruders; we don’t want them and they are not welcome here in the North. Since 1914, the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country. But the people are different in every way, including religion, custom, language and aspirations, we in the North take it that Nigeria unity is only a British intention for the country they created. IT IS NOT FOR US.”

(3) Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo: “Nigeria is only a geographical expression to which life was given by the diabolical amalgamation of 1914 that amalgamation will EVER remain the most painful injury a British Government inflicted on Southern Nigeria.”

(4) Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello: “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate from our great grandfather, Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the south as conquered territories and never allow them to have control of their future.”

(5) Rtd General Yakubu Gowon: “Suffice it to say that putting all considerations to the test, political, economic as well as social, the basis of unity is not there.”

(6) Dr Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe: “If this embryo republic of ours must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be a short and painless one.”

(7) Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu: “Nigeria is a stooge of Europe. Her independence was and is a lie. Nigeria committed many crimes against her nationals which in the end made complete nonsense of her claim to unity. Nigeria persecuted and slaughtered her minorities; Nigerian justice was a farce; her elections, her census, her politics – her everything – was corrupt. Qualification, merit and experience were discounted in public service. In one area of Nigeria, for instance, they preferred to turn a nurse who had worked for five years into a doctor rather than employ a qualified doctor from another part of Nigeria; barely literate clerks were made Permanent Secretaries; a university Vice-Chancellor was sacked because he belonged to the wrong tribe.”

If this is what is going on in the inside then may GOD help this country, no wonder the North have held in high esteem the words of their leaders to hold us bound for donkey years! Indeed, the marriage is one of inconvenience that must be separated!

Tafawa Balawa is no Hero of this country! I feel like digging up his bones and burning it.

Each I read everything about him, its always tribalistic and evil.

Talking of dipping the Quran into the Atlantic through Jihadist conquest
Talking of not allowing a christian rule Kaduna State etc.

He is definitely not a hero of this country, lets teach school children the truth!

The Clown: Tafawa Balawa is no Hero of this country! I feel like digging up his bones and burning it.

Each I read everything about him, its always tribalistic and evil.

Talking of dipping the Quran into the Atlantic through Jihadist conquest
Talking of not allowing a christian rule Kaduna State etc.

He is definitely not a hero of this country, lets teach school children the truth!

Right on point bro! We are watching.

Considering the above quotes, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu and Chief Obafemi Awolowo seem to be the ones who understood the real definition of this contraption called NIGERIA!

Let us correct the mistake now.

Memoirs to Ojukwu,
Dear sir,
Your voice is still echoing loud and clear.
Each new day, there are reasons to see the futility of sweating for "one" Nigeria.
many are still bleeding to death at this moment.

sir, are getting scared of 2015! It is pregnant with worries.
There is smell of smoke from afar, but it might be for good.
2015 might be our year, when we shall hoist our flag to fly forever.

Regards to all fallen heroes.

All hail Biafra, the land of the rising sun.

And where is your source? Or did all the leaders you quoted speak to you personally