By Dr Doyin Okupe
THERE ARE FRIGHTENING DEVELOPMENTS IN INTER ETHNIC RELATIONSHIPS IN NIGERIA THAT HAS GONE TOO DEEP TO BE IGNORED.
IT DRIVES A POLITICAL TWO-EDGED SWORD INTO THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE NATION. IT IS FAST ERODING THE ENTRENCHED PILLARS OF UNITY THAT HOLDS US TOGETHER.
THE INTERLACING CEMENT THAT BINDS US ARE BEING WASHED AWAY AS RAIN REMOVES MUD FROM A SURFACE. THE NAKEDNESS OF OUR NOW SEPARATING BUILDING BLOCKS IS NEARLY VISSIBLE ALL ROUND.
A SUMMIT OT ETHNIC NATIONALITIES IS AN URGENT INEVITABLE POLITICAL IMPERATIVE.
USUALLY FROM HISTORY, IN THIS SITUATION, PEOPLE PRESENTLY IN GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS AND WEALTHY ELITES AND THOSE WHO ARE SOCIOECONOMICALLY WELL POSITIONED, ARE THE LAST TO NOTICE THESE DANGEROUS CLEVEAGES.
THIS NOTIFICATION, THEREFORE WILL CERTAINLY BE IGNORED BY THE POWERS THAT BE TO THE POTENTIAL PERIL OF THE NATION.
IF THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ORGANISE THIS ALL IMPORTANT SUMMIT, THEN LET WELL MEANING NIGERIANS AND LOVERS OF THIS GREAT NATION CONSTITUTE THEMSELVES AS FACILITATORS OF THIS EVENT.
IF INDEED THERE ARE STAKEHOLDERS IN THIS NATION , THIS IS THE TIME TO STEP OUT.
THIS IS NOT AN ANTI GOVERNMENT MOVE, IT IS NOT A PROTEST, SO NO ONE NEEDS BE AFRAID OF RUNNING FOUL OF THE LAW. THE PRESENT IMPERFECT CONSTITUTION STILL GUARANTEES FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY.
EVEN IF WE NEED TO SEPARATE, LET US COME TOGETHER AND DISCUSS IT. LET US DETONATE THIS FESTERING BOMB UNDER A CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE FOR THE GOOD OF ALL.
A SECOND CIVIL WAR IS UNDESIRABLE AND ITS DESTRUCTIVE EFFECT IS BETTER IMAGINED.
ALL PLANS AND ASPIRATION TOWARDS 2023 WILL COME TO NOTHING AND ABSOLUTE NOTHING IF WE DO NOT HALT THIS DANGEROUS SLIDE AND DESCENT INTO ANACHY AND CHAOS.
MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD LEAD US RIGHT IN THIS MOMENT OF SEVERE NATIONAL STRESS IN JESUS NAME.