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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday described calls for the disintegration of Nigeria as unmindful and insensitive to the plight of the minority groups in the country.

Mr Obasanjo made the observation when he received the Tiv Professional Group (TPG) from Benue State, who paid him a courtesy visit in Abeokuta.

The former president recalled a discussion between him and “a military friend” who, according to him, has described major tribes in the country as selfish and not sufficiently caring for the minority groups.

Mr Obasanjo, who aligned with his friend’s opinion, expressed worry over what would become of the minority groups if the major tribes decided to secede and begin to operate as separate countries.

“If the Yoruba can stand as a country, if the Igbos and the Hausa/Fulani can stand as separate countries, where do we want the minority groups to be?

“Now, by virtue of the present situation, they are a little bit protected, but if Nigeria breaks up, they will be oppressed and exterminated,” he said.

He recalled the meetings he had with a number of socio-cultural organisations in September 2020 and noted that nobody at such meeting talked about disintegration or breakup, saying that “all they clamoured for was a change for good.”

The former president stressed the need for Nigerian leaders to be mindful of the ethnic diversity of the Nigerian nation, adding that the country would not make any meaningful progress without such consideration.

Mr Obasanjo, who expressed hope that the rough times that Nigeria was going through would not last forever, urged Nigerians to be patient while the country gathered her goodwill and moved in the right direction.

His comments came days after another prominent leader and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, called on those clamouring for secession from Nigeria to jettison such an idea.

The leader of TPG, Zacharys Gundv, in a paper he presented to Mr Obasanjo, highlighted the challenges of the nation, including insecurity, poverty religious intolerance, kidnappings, and banditry, among others.

He explained that the Tivs were worried about the skewed narrative of insecurity in Nigeria

Proffering a solution to Nigeria’s challenges, Mr Gundv called on well meaning Nigerians to be united in serving the country.

He called for intensified advocacy against nomadic pastoralism and an “All Nationalities Summit” to discuss and proffer solutions to Nigeria’s challenges.

-"General Buhari understands that there is nothing called One Nigeria in any sense, it is only an opportunity for his Nomadic Fulani kinsmen to survive and build a Fulani country using the sweat and wealth of others legally or illegally under the guise of patriotism and humanity."

- "...Understands that the South and Middle belt are treacherous and can be used against each other. For the records Fulanis Semitic people are from the Arab stock. Fulanis don't see black Africans as equals and we will never be seen as equals."

- "..The Fulanis are masters of deceit, chaos & anarchy; and they understand how to use them to control and further their interests. They are united in crime and good deeds. They know when to sue for peace and when to crush their enemies.."[/i]

- "..They staged a revolution using the Hausa peasants to destroy Hausa kingdoms and take over their lands.They also staged a revolution in Oyo empire by conniving with a Yoruba General Afonja: together with some Yoruba peasants..."

- "...They took over power in Nigeria by using the middle belt Generals to launch a counter coup against the Igbo dominated first republic in order to consolidate their grip on other ethnic groups in Nigeria.They fully understand power, unity and they are master strategists..."

- "...Buhari has appointed strictly Fulanis as security chiefs in an heterogeneous country like Nigeria.Built Baro water port for the North.He has approved and built modern railway from Nigeria to Maradi in Niger Republic in order to integrate the economy of his kinsmen in the Sahel. He has also approved the building of oil Refinery in his hometown in Katsina where there is no barrel of crude oil..."

- "...Go to Federal ministries in Abuja, almost all the ministries have been dominated from top to bottom with Fulani youths who went to university through the quota system while their southern counterparts with First class are in cyber Cafe looking for scholarship opportunities to flee the feudal contraption called Nigeria..."

NNPC, CBN and NPA workforce are dominated by the Fulanis. They are in all the lucrative and juicy positions across Nigeria.In the next 30years, there will be no Permanent Secretary in the Federal Civil Service except from the Fulani stock.The Sharia infested Decree is a Northern Constitution and for the first time a Sharia lawyer is now the Chief Justice.

He has decimated the Shiites and empowered the Sunnis.He is buying up Traditional Rulers all over the South while killing, maiming and detaining southern freedom fighters.

- "..He doesn't want to hear anything like true federalism or restructuring and he is hellbent in creating pure Fulani Local Government Areas for his Fulani kinsmen all over Southern Nigeria in a bid to destroy the internal ethnic cohesion of the Southern Nigeria.

To do this, the Northern borders are now more open for his Fulani kinsmen to glue the so-called Nigerian nation under the Sokoto Caliphate.As we speak he has used Oil Money from the South to establish Fulani radio for the Fulanis, which is something that has never happened before..."

- "..Thousands of Southerners and Middle Belters have been wiped out by the the ongoing Fulani genocide and not a single Fulani man has been arrested or prosecuted.Buhari shows no remorse for his "fulanocentric" policies and continues to march on to decimate his perceived enemies..."

- "..Buhari understands power and he has done what no Fulani man in post colonial times can do for his people.He knows that Southern political elites think along party lines while the Fulani elites think along ethnic lines.He knows Southerners are treacherous, corrupt and saboteurs and he is using that weakness with ruthless wisdom.."

- "..If you are a Yoruba, Edo , Igbo, Tiv, , Efik, Ijaw, etc; and after reading this article with all these open facts you are still shouting One Nigeria or still screaming APC or PDP under the present 1999 Military Decree then you need to be shot at sight because you are a danger to humanity and your race."

He recalled the meetings he had with a number of socio-cultural organisations in September 2020 and noted that nobody at such meeting talked about disintegration or breakup, saying that “all they clamoured for was a change for good.”

scholes0:
See patronization.

There is already a conscious effort to exterminate minority groups and appropriate their lands and resources ALREADY ONGOING in Nigeria....

What’s the old man talking about?