The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said that Nigerians are inadvertently pushing the nation towards another civil war through hate speeches, wickedness and massive killings going on in the country.

The governor said the nation was lucky to come out of the first civil war but stressed that Nigeria might not be lucky if it was plunged into another round of civil war now.


According to a statement in Osogbo by the governor’s media aide, Mr. Sola Fasure, Aregbesola said this at the 2018 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration on Monday.

Making an allusion to the widespread killings by the Fulani herdsmen, the governor sued for caution, saying it had become imperative for every Nigerian to work assiduously for the peace of the nation by avoiding anything that could lead to war.


He said, “Through carelessness, thoughtlessness, selfishness, wickedness and hate mongering, the country may unwittingly be pushing itself towards another war.

“War is a very bad business. It is costly, deadly and ruinous, even for a supposedly winner.

“It is worse for the loser. Indeed, all are losers in a war. The resources, human and material, used to prosecute wars could have been used for the development of the people. The lesson of history is that nations and people emerged from wars weakened, devastated, poor and vulnerable.



“The worst part is that though a nation’s decision to go to war or not may be easy before the outbreak of hostilities, it is more difficult and sometimes impossible to decide to stop a war; thus we have prolonged and sometimes an indeterminate war. This is the hard part.

“We see the devastations of war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon (and closer home) in Liberia and Sierra Leone. While some like Liberia and Sierra Leone are fortunate to put the war behind them, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq have found it difficult to stop their own wars.


“Lebanon lost its Paradise and Pearl of the Middle East status to the United Arab Emirates. The mutual antagonism and distrust that the Nigerian Civil War bred are still with us.”


Aregbesola described peace as the foundation for economic and political development while stressing that no development could take place in a crisis situation.

He said Nigeria was placed in a strategic position to lead the African continent out of backwardness and crisis, saying the nation could not afford to fail in discharging its responsibilities.

The governor called on Nigerians, especially the youths, to break away from the culture of dependence on the free money from crude oil. He urged them to apply their education to solving problems facing humanity, saying that would be the way to make sustainable wealth because oil would soon lose its importance.

He said, “In the interest of the black race, Nigeria must not just exist, it must be strong to be able to lead the continent to achieve its manifest destiny.



“The greatest riches of the continent are domiciled in the Great Lakes Region comprising Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

“Nigeria should be strong and provide leadership with South Africa and the leaders of the region to be able to develop these riches for the development of the people of the continent and for Africa to be able to take her place in the world

TheHistorian:
Mtcheew.

awakeupcall4all:
Well done ooo baba Kabiru..A renowned babalawo and southwest islamic Jihadist!..So people should just keep quiet and die in silence in the face of glaring genocide and ethno-religious cleansing by a dark, vicious, satanic,devious,heinous thick grand jihadic conspiracy by blood thirsty and demonic fulani herdsman! while Mr president watch on and salivate in a demonic satisfactory awe...You really tried!
Obviously your emotional blackmail is not going to work sir and people of good intent will continue to speak up to expose this your satanic jihad to pillage, rampage and cause carnage...Osun state is sacred to Sultanate and quite obviously there is no herdsman attack there so you can freely dish out your thoughtless blackmail...But be rest assured we are not going to be cower down for your jihad to triumph.
As long as God liveth it will shamefully fail!

GavelSlam:


It is exactly your type he is referring to.

awakeupcall4all:
Well done ooo baba Kabiru..A renowned babalawo and southwest islamic Jihadist!..So people should just keep quiet and die in silence in the face of glaring genocide and ethno-religious cleansing by a dark, vicious, satanic,devious,heinous thick grand jihadic conspiracy by blood thirsty and demonic fulani herdsman! while Mr president watch on and salivate in a demonic satisfactory awe...You really tried!
Obviously your emotional blackmail is not going to work sir and people of good intent will continue to speak up to expose this your satanic jihad to pillage, rampage and cause carnage...Osun state is sacred to Sultanate and quite obviously there is no herdsman attack there so you can freely dish out your thoughtless blackmail...But be rest assured we are not going to be cower down for your jihad to triumph.
As long as God liveth it will shamefully fail!

loveth361:
To destroy the zoo called nigeria is a task we must accomplish.if boko haram fail fulani herdmen will not.






By the time we are done with the zoo called nigeria somalia will be a paradise to compare with the zoo called nigeria.

Firefire:
I told you people before the last election that Buhary bigotry can never make him rule over a united Nigeria. His parochial tendencies are well known.

The entire warmongering in Nigeria was started by Buhary himself, either due to his cluelessness about Nigeria diversity and governance in the 21st century, his myopic nature or being a gullible and full time bigot.

(1) [b]I will deal with the avengers like I deal with the Boko Haram. These are people fighting for resource control. His useless statement and 'unknown body odour' plunged the country into unnecessary economy disaster when those 'economy terrorists' start blowing up the pipelines. Don't forget we already suffered from huge negative impact on the country's revenue due to drop in global crude price below the budget benchmark. On top of that reduction in crude export. What a careless statement and a leader that could not build bridges but open and closes his mouth at will.

(2) The famous hate speech from General Mohomodu Buhary. 97% vs. 5%. You can go and figure that out on why the speech will continue to hunt him except he apologize.

(3) Buhary and his government Deadly Silence Syndrome on the continuous killings by the Fulani herdsmen terrorists.

(4) Renegotiating the Nigerian union through either the implementation of the Confab report, restructuring or resource control. The president rather formed deaf & dumb.

All these points a once peaceful and united country towards war and not peace.

E&OE.

sarrki:


You see when you wish calamity unto others

Do you expect sane people to wish you well ?

Bros stop all this unnecessary tantrum

LionDeLeo:
Those fuelling the embers of war will certainly be the first to be consumed by the war before others.

Watch how the war mongers will start acting their names.

zombieTRACKER:


Tell Buhari to call his Fulani brothers to order
They can't be going around killing people and expect peace to reign
Fulani herdsmen are fanning the embers of war encouraged by buhari

loveth361:
who is your bros?

Who care what you people wish us or have you people ever wish good to us,
abi you dont want python to continue dancing on our innocent youth while boko haram are being release from prison,fulani herdmen receiving protection from fg.

Are we talking about arewa youth terrorist,those one are sacred cow.

The day i rejected nigeria was the day zoo army killed our youth in abia

sarrki:


We are in 2018

There are better ways of doing politics

We need to get serious

In other to get things done

Pls stop been childish

sarrki:


Bros I still maintain that you should sheath your sword

There are better ways of handling things

LionDeLeo:
Those fuelling the embers of war will certainly be the first to be consumed by the war before others.

Watch how the war mongers will start acting their names.