Pepper might have been used as bride price for Nigeria's unity, says Sen Sani

Senator Shehu Sani 

The Senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th national assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has lamented the level of hatred and division among Nigerians.

Nigerians have been living like cats and rats since the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2015. What's more, the policies of the current administration is far from helping matters.



The former Senator wonders if pepper was the item used as bride price for the unity of the country.

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, had also lamented that Nigeria was deeply divided across religious and tribal lines.

He blamed the division on the forced amalgamation of the country by Lord Frederick Lugard in 1914.

He said, “Nigeria has never been without social and ethnic tensions. That is due to the nature of our union, which was a forceful one in 1914. It was an unwilling union, forcefully consummated by Lord Frederick Lugard. Since then , it had been uneasy, with grave suspicion rifling through the polity.



“It was not helped by the colonial masters themselves, who played one ethnic nationality against the other, to serve their own interests. These tensions spiked in recent times, particularly with the advent of democracy, in which people could make utterances, however indecorous or divisive they may be.

“And you found deep fissures being driven into the various peoples and regions of the country. Awareness of where one came from became heightened, other than national cohesion.

“Politicians cashed in on our fault lines – ethnicity, religion, language, state of origin – and many others, to divide the people, and advance their own interests. That is what has led us to where we are today.”

When one reads the hate and bitterness spewed by our citizens against each other,along ethnic,regional and religious lines,it’s as if the bride price of our union was paid with pepper.

— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) July 20, 2019

But reacting on his official twitter handle Sani said "When one reads the hate and bitterness spewed by our citizens against each other,along ethnic,regional and religious lines,it’s as if the bride price of our union was paid with pepper.