Nigeria is Too Weak to Break, Says Lamido

Formerr Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state was quoted last week as saying that Nigeria cannot break up because members of the elite are united in preserving their advantages over the masses irrespective of their differences of tribe and religion.

Nigeria, he said, “is too weak to break. Who will break it? The ordinary person in Jigawa or the ordinary person in Sokoto or the ordinary person in Bayelsa? Is it the Igbo vulcaniser or the Yoruba woman selling 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 away from them their dignity, their self-esteem, their pride and self-worth so that they cannot even organize.

“Up there, we (elite) unite . . . 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 in hell; he cannot lose anything more than this hell.”

Straight from the horse’s mouth! A candid admission that it is the elite, who run Nigeria’s affairs, that have kept “the common man” squalid, wretched and “in hell” despite the nation’s enormous oil wealth. We see the ruling elite quarreling and calling each other bad names—but it’s just a game intended to fool the public: in reality they are quite united in quietly sharing the money and delivering little or nothing to their various constituencies. They have a stake in keeping the country exactly as it is—weak and confused and easy to exploit.

Sule Lamido’s statement is a revelation; it is as if lightning suddenly flashed, pushing aside the darkness and revealing the entire landscape for one brief moment!

I don't care. This zoo must fall whether the elites are united or not.

TRUTH dey come out small small

Igboesika:
I don't care. This zoo must fall whether the elites are united or not.

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then you are a fulllll....

Lamido is one of the sensible northerner that I know or even the only sensible northerner.

Lamido has really said everything



The elite will always want this contraption to continue because Nigeria is their only office

Very true. But I have a dream that one day the poor will unite and fight them not minding their differences

olatemitayo:
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then you are a fulllll....

you are the ''fulish fulllll '' here

can i get the source of the quote? what he said is the plain truth, that's why the igbo elites keep sabotaging the biafran effort because they know, they won't play elites in biafra.i sincerely want the ipob to vie into politics so that they can elect the new elites if possible.

The northerners are preoccupied with growing in quantity than in quality.

The leaders who are most corrupt?

Delusion grandeur

Is it the Afonja elites that opposes Biafra online

I tire

ConqueredWest:
Is it the Afonja elites that opposes Biafra online

hehehe

What is Obasanjo stooge Sule Lamido for President saying? The elite will realise very soon that, that era is gone for good.