No Way, Nigeria Won’t Break – Obasanjo

BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has dismissed insinuations that Nigeria was set to disintegrate, stressing that the nation sprawling over 923,768 km², and with a population of over 200 million people will continue to remain one, no matter the problems.

Speaking on Friday when he launched a book during the 85th birthday of Eminence Prelate Sunday Mbang of the Methodist Church Nigeria at the Admiralty Centre, Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos State, said that the enemies of Nigeria will continue to fail.

The former president described Mbang who once served as the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) described the religious leader as a true lover of Nigeria.

Launching the memoir that chronicles the journey of Prelate Mbang, entitled ‘My Life and Times’, Obasanjo, noted that the “many enemies” who don’t want to see the country’s continued co-existence would fail.

The cost of staying together as a nation, Obasanjo added, is cheaper than the cost of dividing the country.

The former president has some kind words for the celebrant: “We are here to honour somebody we should honour, and learn from him (Mbang), to show that we genuinely love and appreciate him for the service he has rendered to the Christian community in this country and world over. And to assure him that whatever happens, we will continue to work for unity, peace, security and progress of this country.

“I know that these are things that are dear to his heart. We want to assure you that Nigeria will continue to exist because the cost for Nigeria not to continue to exist is much more than the cost for us to make Nigeria to continue to exist.

“There are many people –high and low – who can be described as enemies of Nigeria, but they will not win over those who are friends of Nigeria.”

…with additional agency reports.