JUST as the Federal Government is oiling its machinery for a
grandiose centenary celebration next year, the former Commonwealth
Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has said that Nigeria is yet to
become one nation about 100 years after amalgamation.
Anyaoku has also warned politicians in the country not to politicise
the current “very serious security challenge confronting our country.”
He spoke in Abuja on Friday at the public service lecture to commemorate the 2013 Civil Service Week.
Chief Anyaoku, who was the Chairman of the occasion, expressed
concern about the battle line already drawn by various political parties
and politicians against the 2015 elections.
He urged the political class in the country to desist from statements that would promote divisive tendencies.
He said: “In our ethnically and religiously diverse country that is
still to cohere fully in one nation, the potential consequences of the
failure by either side to win the presidency in 2015 are the grounds for
my worry.”
He, however, urged politicians and opinion makers to think of the
implications of inflammatory statements and the country’s stability
rather than having the battle line drawn on sectional and ethnic basis.
He noted that in order to succeed in entrenching the nation’s young
democracy, leaders and politicians should move away from section-based
politics to policy-based politics.
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