Sowore: 'Wrong to FORCE any ethnic group in the country from exiting to create their own country'

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has stated that it is wrong to force any ethnic group in the country from exiting to create their own country, expressing that they have the right to leave.

Sowore disclosed this on Sunday while speaking at a town hall series for presidential candidates organised by ARISE TV and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), stating that what will unite Nigeria is to solve the foundational problems.

Recall that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a nationalist separatist group in Nigeria clamouring to restore the Republic of Biafra, a country which seceded from Nigeria prior to the Nigerian Civil War and later rejoined Nigeria after its defeat by the Nigerian military. 

He said, “We have foundational problems, which we finished discussing — those things that divided us,” he said.

“This is a country put together by outsiders. It is not as if this is the only country put together by outsiders, but our own case is peculiar. Our name, flag, everything about us is lazy.

“We never got it right from the beginning. What is going to unite Nigeria is to solve the foundational problems — it is constitutional. They (citizens) must find identity in that document (constitution); they must know where they belong.

“They must have a right, as a matter of right, to exit if they find it to be a bad marriage. You can’t force people together by creating ministries.