It's interesting to note what Nigerian leaders think of the followers- perhaps the leaders take the masses for granted for this reason.
Some time this year Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State said there could never be a people's revolution in Nigeria because the people were too timid and that many Nigerians had become used to suffering rather than pushing for a change.
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State on Sunday expressed the same view in an interview with the punch. When asked if the crisis in the Nigeria Governors' Forum could lead to a break up of Nigeria, he was brutally frank. Read excerpt below:
Don’t you think Nigeria can break because of these problems?
Who will break it? Is it the ordinary person in Jigawa, or Sokoto or in Bayelsa? Is it the Igbo vulcaniser or the Yoruba woman who sells kerosene by the roadside or the okada man in Delta? They don’t have the capacity to unite because they are burdened by poverty. We have taken their dignity, self esteem, pride and self worth away so that they cannot even organise themselves.
Who did?
We, the elite. Up there, we (elite) unite, we sing and so we will never allow Nigeria to break because once it breaks, we will lose. But the common man loses nothing. What is he losing? He is already living in hell, he cannot lose anything more than that hell.
Don’t you think Nigeria can break because of these problems?
Who will break it? Is it the ordinary person in Jigawa, or Sokoto or in Bayelsa? Is it the Igbo vulcaniser or the Yoruba woman who sells kerosene by the roadside or the okada man in Delta? They don’t have the capacity to unite because they are burdened by poverty. We have taken their dignity, self esteem, pride and self worth away so that they cannot even organise themselves.
Who did?
We, the elite. Up there, we (elite) unite, we sing and so we will never allow Nigeria to break because once it breaks, we will lose. But the common man loses nothing. What is he losing? He is already living in hell, he cannot lose anything more than that hell.
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