Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has appeared on the Politics Today Show airing on Channels Television on Wednesday claiming that Nigeria has always been divided.
This was in response to Prof Wole Soyinka’s statement titled “Between ‘Dividers-in-chief’ and Dividers-in-law.” The Nobel Laureate was backing up a claim made by former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
He claimed that the division was inherited from the previous administration under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Nigeria had always been divided. Always. Right from amalgamation in 1914, Nigeria has always been divided.
“Nigeria is an inconvenient amalgamation but we have worked at it and I tell you that there is no time in the history of this country that the country was not divided but then we had kept at it and we were trying to make it work.
“As of 2015, when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly, terribly divided; divided along religious lines, divided along ethnic lines; divided along language, divided hopelessly, terribly and that is the division that the President had been working at,” Adesina said.
