Nigeria can break up at anytime — Odumakin

National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr Yinka Odumakin, has disclosed in a recent interview with Daily Sun, that the current Buhari administration is bereft of understanding of the signs before it. He said unless president Buhari is truly well out to facilitate the eventual disintegration of the country, it should have been apparent to the president that the only reasonable way out of the nation's current struggles, is restructuring.



Odumakin who uses Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union to back his claim on the urgency of restructuring the country, said Nigeria has many 'fault lines' and incapable of withstanding more stress.

Responding to question on which of the two options of 'restructuring or disintegration' he'd prefer, He said, "Our first option is to restructure, that’s why we have been calling for restructuring of Nigeria to allow proper federalism, for every section of Nigeria to develop. This is because at the end of the day, our failure as a country is the most sacrosanct of the failures across the country.


"A country like Nigeria with it’s clash of civilizations can never make any progress on the basis of centralization because we have different cultures and value system. Nigeria should be a salad bowel society.

"When you take a bowel of Salad, you see Lettuce, egg, tomatoes and a combination of other ingredients that give you salad. That’s what Nigeria should be.




"That Abuja must determine what happens in every section of Nigeria is a complete failure. Where is Czechoslovakia today? It has become history because of centralization.

"So yes, the options for Nigeria at this moment are either to restructure or to disintegrate. I am talking from history.



"From what we have seen globally, the Soviet Union was one of the mightiest empires of the world but it collapsed. Not to mention Nigeria with many fault lines and it’s been said that we are the poverty capital of the whole world. There is so much frustration across the country.


On whether he foresees a revolution by the masses anytime soon based on the current situation in the country, he said, "If nothing is done now, we might even experience anarchy which is worse than revolution."