A Nigeria that works for all is what we need… Uniting Nigeria will need more than the “body language” of the leadership. It will take deliberate effort, personal example, and a clear strategy… Uniting Nigeria will be hard labour, but it is a task that must be done.
The place of leadership in forging bonds of communality is the place of purpose and deliberateness. The leadership must be very deliberate in managing diversity and in fostering kinship among variegated people. Nation building cannot be left to chance or to the whim of anyone. There must be purposive plans and actions towards uniting the people.
We cannot play possum about unity – most especially now. It has remained a reverie, and an elusive expedition for Nigeria. We yearn for it, or rather quibble about it, but we have not really applied ourselves to dismantling the iron curtains of ethnicity and religion.
As a matter of fact, it is a sheer pursuit of apparitions to assume or…
