The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says the cost of staying together as a nation is cheaper than dismantling Nigeria.
He said this on Saturday during a virtual conference in Lagos.
Kukah said secessionists have the right for agitation, but it is in the best interest of every segment of the country to stick together.
“It may be right for everybody to want to go. Yes, it may be right for people to want to feel so dissatisfied that they want an end to what we have today. But the cost of staying together is far cheaper than the cost of everybody going his way,” Kukah said.
“The most important thing here is that the government must give us a reason – the body language – we need to be inspired as a country to inspire ourselves that this country is worth the psychological, the spiritual and the cultural engagements.
“Anybody who loves this country would have to accept the fact that the APC as a government and the President must take responsibility for the fact that the way power has been distributed in Nigeria has created a sense of alienation and it is the underlining factor why people feel the way they feel, why people feel so disenchanted, why people don’t feel a sense of psychological, emotional, cultural or even economical involvement in their country, and there is the need to reclaim all of those things back.”
