Deputy
Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu said, Friday, that Nigeria’s leaders
over the years should be blamed and held responsible for the nation’s many
problems associated with the nation’s diversity.
Ekweremadu also faulted the notion that the Nigeria’s diversity was the cause
of her internal divisiveness and wrangling, just as he blamed Military
incursion into the country’s politics for the seeds of discord and distortion
of Nigeria’s federal structure, which he said has now left Nigeria a Federal
Republic in name, but a Unitary Republic in practice.
Speaking Friday in Abuja while speaking at the first Isawa
Elaigwu Foundation Annual Distinguished Lecture themed “Federalism, Diversity,
and Nation-Building: Tackling the Challenges of integration in Nigeria, the
deputy Senate President who noted that it was sad that decades after Nigeria’s
independence and the civil war, “the crisis of identity, ethno-religious
squabbles, debilitating nepotism, pampering and promotion of mediocrity,
sectional segregation, and other factors that were responsible for the war have
persisted”.
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