The elders noted that northerners and southerners are now at each other’s throats because of his ambition. “Your ambition to contest the election has already divided Nigerians, both Northerners and Southerners, among themselves not only along political lines, but also along religious divide as well. An unhealthy and disastrous animosity between different groups in our country has clearly injected fuel in the already simmering fire. Today, some southerners refer to their Northern compatriots in very derogatory ways and vice versa.”
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