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Once again, Nigeria is tottering at the precipice. The last time I felt this way was 1993 after the annulment of the June 12 presidential election and an implosion hung precariously in the polity after the mandate of the late Moshood Abiola was annulled. The events that followed that, fed and sustained in very dangerous narratives till the very end of the military rule, portended nothing at that time other than a break up of the entity called Nigeria.
Those who were old enough to witness the commencement of the Nigerian civil war in 1967 say that the drumbeats of war they heard then sound similar to what they hear now. Let’s be hopeful there can be a rethink, one strong enough to pull back the strings and save Africa’s most populous nation the stress of disintegration.
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