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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Monday, said that the citizens of Nigeria have the right to exit the country if they feel that it is going on a suicide slide.<\/div>\n
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\nProfessor Soyinka said this during an interview session he had with Arise Television where he described the country as a plane that is on a suicide slide, and that the citizens have the right to exit the plane before it nosedives.<\/p>\n

Speaking on various issues affecting the country, Soyinka also insisted that the only way Nigeria can continue as one is to decentralize as the continued situation in the country cannot make Nigeria stay together.<\/p>\n

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According to him: \u201cIf a plane is on a suicide slide, the people who feel that they do not deserve that kind of suicide slide have the right to say sorry, we are getting off this plane before it nosedives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soyinka also said the country cannot continue as a country if it fails to decentralize, urging the government to take the issue seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I think Nigeria can continue as one? Not if it continues this way, not if it fails to decentralize; some people call it restructuring, others use whatever word. But if Nigeria fails to decentralize, as fast as possible, manifestly and not rhetorically, then Nigeria cannot stay together.<\/p>\n

\u201cEx-heads of state have said it, politicians, Generals, analysts, economists, others have all said it. When sectional leaders cannot answer the people\u2019s existential yearnings, don\u2019t be surprised if the people start saying we want Tiv nation, we want Kanuri nation, we want Biafra nation, we want the Yoruba nation, don\u2019t be surprised to hear it. It\u2019s because you are not being taken seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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