Former Prominent of Military Group of workers, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has instructed the ones wishing Nigeria fall apart to perish the idea, predicting that the rustic would proceed to stay a united community.
Buratai spoke in Kuta, Osun Climate on Sunday on the sixtieth birthday party of Olowu of Kuta, Oba Adekunle Oyelude.
The development attracted a bunch of dignitaries, together with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Osun Climate Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, amongst others.
Buratai, who described Olowu Kuta as a detribalised Nigerian who has proven like to public throughout all ethnic teams within the nation, mentioned the ones agitating that the rustic will have to fall apart should be able to carve out their very own phase and exit it to the sea.
Noting that the revel in of civil struggle had taught Nigerians that agitation to divide the rustic would at all times fail, Buratai known as for team spirit to additional fortify Nigeria’s building.
“You recognize that Nigeria is one, until you take away the ones public who’re agitating, and flow (them) to the Atlantic. We will be able to stay one Nigeria, anyone who needs to reduce Nigeria will have to lift the a part of the land and rush it to the Atlantic; no longer inside the Nigeria dimension. It is extremely unclouded the extent of integration.
“There are lots of Hausas right here, there are lots of Yoruba and Igbo within the North. So, we will have to no longer permit politics to becloud our sense of team spirit and self determination.
“Anybody that says that he wants to leave Nigeria is a dreamer because we had bitter experience during the civil war. So it is not something that we will joke with,” Buratai mentioned.
He recommended Nigerians to embody pleasure and concentrate on building, including that the rustic will have to paintings extra to additional cement its team spirit via taking concrete movements that will result in building, and no longer via mere utterances.
In his remarks, Oba Oyelude mentioned he would proceed to champion the reason for team spirit and journey for Nigeria, and known as on well-meaning Nigerians to paintings for the rustic’s team spirit and journey.