A lawyer, Mr. Ike Ofuokwu, says the call for secession in some parts of the country is a result of injustice in the land.
Ofuokwu, is the Managing Partner at Ike Ofuokwu and Company, a corporate and commercial law firm, accused the Muhammadu Buhari administration of running a “sectional government favourable to a particular geo-political zone at the exclusion of all other zones.”
He said it was high time the Federal Government let the marginalised zones go if there concerns could not be addressed.
“The call for secession from various quarters is simply a product of great injustice in our nation such as has never been witnessed before in the history of this country.
“The Federal Government is running a sectional government favourable to a particular geo-political zone at the exclusion of all other zones.
“If we cannot accommodate the other zones due to this born-to-rule mentality by people who cannot even run a local government, then why not let the marginalised go?
“Why hold them together in this ill-conceived contraption? Must we continue in this unholy and parasitic alliance?
“The answer simply is No. A cursory look will reveal to you that our leaders over the years have been very inept at managing our multicultural and religious diversity due to their overbearing alliance to their ethnic and religious inclinations but we have never been as divided as we are as of today with this present government.
“An injustice to one section is an injustice to all except for those who are benefiting from it,” Ofuokwu told The Nation.
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“What is the justice where we go after peaceful protesters, rights agitators who are unarmed with various ‘python dances’ and what have you and you find a state governor, a sheikh, the police, military and other security agencies dining, wining and taking pictures with fully-armed bandits clutching to their AK-47’s?
“And to justify this obvious insanity, you find a nerd and obtuse state governor drawing very strange distinctions between the evil of Boko Haram, herders and bandits in the North on the one part and that of unarmed protesters and harmless secessionist agitators on the other part.
“Honestly, I wonder who did this to us as a nation.”