“Nigerians especially youths are no longer interested in restructuring but now talking about secession” -Fani Kayode says

Fani Kayode, the former Aviation Minister,  has raised an alarm of Nigeria plunging into another “war.”

In his speech at Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Transition Inter-Ethnic Peace Dialogue that held recently at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, the former minister said that many ethnic groups are “tuning out”. He further explained that this means that ethnic groups in the country are now arming themselves ahead of another war.

Fani Kayode who insisted that majority of Nigerians especially youths are no longer interested in restructuring but now talking about secession, stressed that there is need to acknowledge this, talk about it and also ensure that these groups don’t go into the mode of enforcing separation through the use of arms.
He also said that the policies of the present administration in the last five years have resulted in carnage, killings, ethnic cleansing and has also pushed Nigerians to the edge.  He went on to say that there are millions of Nigerians in both the Northern and Southern regions who feel they are being treated as second-class citizens.

Outlining the need for the Nigerian government to apologize to the South-East people “over the killing of over 3 million people during the civil war,” FFk added that there is a need for Nigerians to set their differences aside and resolve their challenges amicably and in peace. He concluded by saying that when this is achievable and when Nigerians realize the need to stand together to fight back at foreign terrorist groups, then there will be hope for the country.