Disregard secessionist agitations, Fayemi tells politicians

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has called on politicians to stop focusing their attention on secessionist agitations but go for a united Nigeria.

Fayemi, who is the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, said the country needed a united Nigerian founded on the core principles of equity, fairness, and justice to serve all.

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He stated these in his presentation titled, “Democracy, Good Governance and the Question of National Integration,” to mark the 21st anniversary of the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Studies, Bayero University, Kano.

The governor said the breaking up of Nigeria would only replicate the problems facing the nation rather than providing solutions while citing examples of South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

“It does not take a magician to see that we are confronted with a highly combustible cocktail of mass poverty, mass unemployment, and massive inequalities that are already generating various discontents in insurgency, criminality, banditry and various extremisms,” he said, urging actions to tackle the challenges.

Earlier at the event, Fayemi and Governor Badaru Mohammed of Jigawa State caused a stir when they addressed Alhaji Haruna Danzago as the Kano State All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman.

Danzago belongs to the Senator Ibrahim Shekarau-led G7 faction of the APC in Kano which is at loggerheads with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje led executives.

The Shekarau faction scored a point on Monday when an Abuja high court declared their ward congress as the valid congress to be recognised by the national secretariat of the APC.