A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has blasted the people advocating for a Yoruba nation According to the former minister, what Nigeria needs is restructuring where every region will be treated with fairness Meanwhile, he called on President Muhammadu Buhari and other politicians to work for those that elected them.
"Your agitation, apart from being laughable is in the extreme. In fact, it will not stand." The message was sent by Chief Ebenezer Babatope, a former minister of transportation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
According to him, fighting for a Yoruba nation is a misplaced priority. He said people should be fighting for a Nigeria that guarantees fairness and freedom of expression, where all tribes will have equal rights and opportunities.
He said it is necessary to restructure the country because this could give equal rights and freedom to all tribes in the country.
Going further, he called on President Muhammadu Buhari to be fair to all tribes in the country and be above partisan politics.He disclosed this while featuring on a weekly radio show, ‘Ayekooto on Radio’ on Lagelu 96.7 FM, Felele, Ibadan, in Oyo state .
In another report, Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo says although Nigerians would fare better staying together than breaking up, the nation’s unity should not be at ‘any cost’.
The former president stated this in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, at his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyor (NIS) organised by the Ogun chapter of the Body of Fellows of the NIS.
