President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the confidence that Nigeria will remain one indivisible country despite the occasional challenges that spring up.
The president is of strong belief despite the possibility of some ‘crazy people’ trying to ensure the breakup of the country for selfish reasons, Nigeria will remain one indivisible country.
He spoke Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa while meeting with the Nigerian Community there.
Buhari said that he feared that NIgeria might go the way of Somalia as a result of the activities of some selfish leaders.
He said, “I was afraid Nigeria might be like Somalia. The Somalis are the same people they are all Muslims but because the elites are self-centered, selfish, they have succeded to make Somalia a war country for the last 20 years.
“For that reason I said Nigerians are much more vulnerable, we have so many nationalities no matter how you look at it, Hausa-Fulanis, Kanuris, Ishekiris, Yorubas, Igbos. We are actually people of different cultures but since 1914, we have merged inspite of religion and culture, married across, produce children and only crazy people can think of balkanising Nigeria. But we are not short of crazy people that is the frightening part of it.
Buhari while expressing some regret that he was not president at a much younger age, he would still do his best to ensure that the country is moved forward.
He said that some people he referred to a, ‘strong men’ have destroyed institutions in Nigeria, while promising promising do hisbest to ensure that institutions bequeathed to the country by the British colonial leaders were restored.
On why he joined politics, the Katsina-born politician said he wanted to meet the expectations of the teeming masses of the people who had continued to troop to him to request for one favor or the other.
