The National Peace Committee headed by former Military Head of State, retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Bishop Matthew Kukah, have blamed the current agitation by various groups across the country for new nation on bad governance.
The two, who are co-chairmen of Peace Committee, made it clear too, in a statement which was jointly signed by the co-chairmwn, that politicians who failed to deliver dividends of democracy to their people are behind the clamour for secession, which they condemned.
The two leaders stressed that the manifestation of rising discontent among the populace was an indication that there was bad governance in Nigeria.
“In this regard, the National Peace Committee acknowledges that the drums of rising division also reflect the perceptions by our citizens that there is poor governance in Nigeria today.
“Politicians who have failed in delivering on the mandate of the electorate for better livelihoods and neighbourhoods have, instead, found common cause with advocates of division and hate.
“In many parts of the country, young people who have been left without means of livelihood or hope in their future have become converts to radicalisation preached by demagogues in various guises including ethnicity and religion.” [myad]
