Gbenro Adesina
The President of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Professor Stephen Adebanji Akintoye has called for peaceful dissolution of Nigeria into smaller units, saying that the Nigeria project has never worked and cannot work.
Akintoye said this yesterday to newsmen during the opening of the National Headquarters of YWC in Ibadan.
According to him, “Rather than continue to live in pain and agony with one another, why don’t we accept division and let everybody go and manage their own affairs. It is more honourable. That is human rather than living in the same house and fighting every time, claiming this is where I belong. You don’t belong to a place where you are unhappy perpetually”.
Asked whether he was advocating for a Peaceful Succession, he replied, “I don’t use the word “succession”. We do what is needful in our situation. We do what could be done legitimately. We can negotiate the dissolution of Nigeria without anybody fighting or throwing anything at anybody and I think we as human beings should honor ourselves and dignify ourselves to do a thing like that”.
Speaking on the capacity of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption, he said, “His mind is naturally opposing to corruption”.
He explained, corruption has become overpowering in Nigeria that there is no way any Nigerian will become president of Nigeria and seriously attempt to destroy corruption, stressing that fighting corruption is a mere slogan in the regime of Buhari.
He lamented that the thriving of corruption during the current political dispensation is monumental, stressing that he never imagined that corruption will thrive this much during the regime of a president that actually got elected on the ground that he promised to make corruption a thing of history.
Akintoye noted that hardly can anybody becomes a president in Nigeria and fight corruption except such a person wants to whittle down his power, which no Nigerian leader will bargain for.
