{"id":67462,"date":"2021-08-06T13:31:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=67462"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:33:32","slug":"nigerians-only-want-peace-ibb-speaks-on-secession-agitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/06\/nigerians-only-want-peace-ibb-speaks-on-secession-agitations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nigerians only want peace&#8217; &#8211; IBB speaks on secession agitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former military head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has stated that Nigerians do not believe in secession.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by the former military ruler in response to question asked about secession agitations in south-east and south-west when he featured in an interview with Arise Television on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Babangida,\u00a0it is good to agitate and that when agitators make the \u201cnoise\u201d of secession it will not get the support of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is always good to agitate but because there is this belief that this country should be one. When they make the noise, they find that it won\u2019t get supported, because Nigerians generally don\u2019t believe in anything that would disturb their peace of mind. They won\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He blamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/23\/lagos-lg-poll-play-by-the-rules-and-desist-from-violence-police-tell-politicians\/\">politicians<\/a> for disunity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was a time in the country when people held positions in regions outside their ethnic groups, adding that the present crop of politicians are not serious about nation building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIf you look back, if you take a place like Baga, in the north-east, the Igbo man, Yoruba man travelled up to Baga for trading, he lived very comfortably, he lived very well with the people around there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go to Lagos, the same thing, Yorubas, Igbos, who hold political appointments at local levels and live very well with the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we, the coming elites, did not succeed in imbibing that culture (culture of unity) for the country, so we rather live with the culture that the Europeans handed over to us \u2014 Northern Nigeria, Eastern Nigeria, Western Nigeria. We have in 1963, mid-west but we did not build ourselves as a nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political elites, then that were being developed, they run back to their cocoons and accept that, yes I have to be a thing or do this or that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTill today, unfortunately, the political class are not really into this seriously and say how do we build a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former military head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has stated that Nigerians do not believe in secession. This was stated by the former military ruler in response to question asked about secession agitations in south-east and south-west when he featured in an interview with Arise Television on Friday. 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