Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has again said that there is no hope of Nigeria continuing together as one nation if the Federal Government fails to do the needful.
According to the playwright, Nigeria cannot continue as one country unless it is decentralised as a matter of urgency.
Asked during an interview on a television programme if he thinks that Nigeria can continue as one, Soyinka said, Not if it continues this way. Not if it fails to decentralise. Some people use the word restructure, some people use the wordwhatever. Not if it fails to decentralise.
If Nigeria fails to decentralise and I mean, decentralise as fast as possible, manifestly not rhetoric, then Nigeria cannot stay together.
Again this is not Wole Soyinka saying this. Generals have said it. Everybody has said; ex-heads of state have said it; analysts have said; economists have said it and thats what is happening to the people on the streets; thats why theyre moving; thats why theyre demonstrating; thats why theyre defying even threats from the police; from the government if you demonstrate, youre traitors, well deal with youwell speak to you in language which youll understand.
It doesnt work with anybody any longer. Because the nation is on a suicide slide and the people feel that they do not deserve that kind of suicidal plunge and they have the right to say sorry o, Im getting out of this plane before it nose-dives.
