Ebun Francis/ Elder statesman and former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday said that Nigeria will continue to exist as a nation despite the agitation for disintegration rocking the country presently.
Obasanjo who stated this during the Book Launch and 85th Birthday of the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Sunday Mbang, at the Admiralty Centre, Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos, noted that some forces don’t want to see the country’s continued co-existence, adding that those people would continue to fail.
According to him, the cost of staying together as a nation is cheaper than the cost of dividing Nigeria.
“Whatever happens, we will continue to work for the unity, peace, security and progress of this country,” he said.
“Nigeria will continue to exist because the cost for us for Nigeria not to continue to exist is much more than the cost for us to make Nigeria to continue to exist.
“There are many people – high and low – who can be described as enemies of Nigeria, but they will not win over those who are friends of Nigeria.”
Obasanjo’s comments come amid calls for secession by separatist leaders Sunday Igboho, agitator of the Yoruba Nation and Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
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