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| Nigeria must restructure or breakup - General Alani Akinrinade warns |
- The stark reality is that it is difficult to keep Nigeria one the way it is now
- People are discontented and the economy is down. We are a different people. It is a fallacy to say that there is one Nigeria. Yes, we are all black people, we are all Africans. But first and foremost, I am a Yoruba man.
- APC govt taking Nigerians for idiots by including restructuring in its manifesto and reneging on the promise
As debate rages over some basic national questions, an elder statesman, respected Yoruba leader, and former Chief of Defence Staff, General Alani Ipoola Akinrinade (retd), in this interview admonishes the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to do a restructuring of the country to avoid an imminent break up and also to amend the Constitution to allow any constituent part wishing to leave, to do so peacefully.
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