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Read Here About The Reasons Why The Sudan Broke Up, Colonel John Garang's Strenous Efforts To See The Emergence An Egalitarian Sudan & How His Death Inevitably Led To Disintegration

theguardian.com/world/2014/jan…

The following excerpts strike at the heart of what underpins ongoing turbulence in Nigeria. If we do not move on to a new way of doing things, we shall inevitably end up like all states which failed to manage their diversity. God grant that it be our fate IF we refuse to do right

God has placed everything needed to make a great nation out of Nigeria yet insensitivity, intolerance, a befuddling level of greed and nepotism have completely robbed the country of every chance of achieving a common purpose

QUOTE: "However, the mismanagement of diversity by the state is what determines the fate of a diverse country. The failure to manage diversity is what led to breakup of the Africa’s largest country (SUDAN)". END
paanluelwel.com/2013/01/03/the…

By the time that the rest of the world, tired of the perennial squabbles between north and south made it imperative that a referendum be held to either uphold unity or pave the way for separation, inter-regional resentment had so thoroughly set in that the inevitable happened

QUOTE: "The results (of the referendum on unity or separation) showed that in southern Sudan itself 99.57% of voters chose secession, with only 16,129 out of 3.7 million people choosing unity."

theguardian.com/world/2011/jan…

The ONLY way to preserve national unity is enlightened diversity mgt. Whether you proclaim the nation to be "indivisible and indissouluble" in a constitutional preamble or engage in empty sloganeering about our unity being non-negotiable, it won't save Nigeria UNLESS we do right

The level of violence which Sudan witnessed in its futile bid to keep that country together is instructive..two civil wars - 1955 to 1972 and 1983 to 2005. Doing what we currently do, Nigeria is likelier to split than remain as one entity

I overheard SCHOOL KIDS two days ago as they recited the national pledge. Rather than say "to serve Nigeria with all my strength", they said "to serve Nigeria is not by force".That's the generation coming behind. We've taught them to despise the Nigeria Project

As our political elite play on our natural cleavages with near-sadistic relish, let them be reminded that they are daily prodding this country to the precipice as more people ask themselves why there has to be a Nigeria IF it won't be fair to all stakeholders

The Soviet Union, a federation of fifteen constituent republics spread across eleven time zones and one-sixth of the world's landmass, home to 280m people and with 53,000 tanks imploded without a shot being fired.

There is nothing that is nearly indivisible about Nigeria. We need to quit the empty sloganeering & unify the country by purposeful action. The time to get started is now. The polarising antics of 2015-19 must be brought to a screeching halt. Good evening all

QUOTABLE QUOTES and additional reading follow...

QUOTE "This unity actually it is not serving us. Because the Muslim in the north they always, you know, like [favor] themselves" END (Commentary: nepotism and marginalisation...a recurring decimal in our polity)

voanews.com/a/south-sudane…

QUOTE "The long marriage between Sudan's Arab-and-Muslim north and its black, animist and Christian south was always unequal and unhappy. >>>>

<<<< A federal arrangement might have worked if both sides had shown flexibility and magnanimity, but neither proved able to do so." END

economist.com/leaders/2011/0…