Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has opined that Nigeria has no future if it continues to move in the direction it is hreaded.
According to him, unless the Federal Government puts its foot on the ground and decentralise the system of governance, nothing but disaster would befall it. He was engaged in an interview on Arise TV where he was quizzed w hether he sees a future for the country.
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Soyinka said, “Not if it continues this way. Not if it fails to decentralize. Some people use the word restructure, some people use the word…whatever. Not if it fails to decentralize.
“If Nigeria fails to decentralise and I mean, decentralise as fast as possible, manifestly not rhetoric, then Nigeria cannot stay together.
“Again this is not Wole Soyinka saying this. Generals have said it. Everybody has said; ex-heads of state have said it; analysts have said; economists have said it and that’s what is happening to the people on the streets; that’s why they’re moving; that’s why they’re demonstrating; that’s why they’re defying even threats from the police; from the government ‘if you demonstrate, you’re traitors, we’ll deal with you…we’ll speak to you in language which you’ll understand’.
“It doesn’t work with anybody any longer. Because the nation is on a suicide slide and the people feel that they do not deserve that kind of suicidal plunge and they have the right to say ‘sorry o, I’m getting out of this plane before it nose-dives.”
