Nigeria Won’t Break Up By 2015, But…….Okorocha

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, OWERRI

PRESS RELEASE

The Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has expressed optimism that Nigeria as a nation will not disintegrate by the year 2015 as predicted from some quarters.

Governor Okorocha who bared his mind while addressing the press on the nation’s 53^rd Independence Anniversary at the Government House, Owerri, admitted that political tensions in Nigeria may suggest that 2015 would pose a major challenge in the nation.

According to him, “I don’t believe that Nigeria will break-up by 2015 and there is no reason for the prediction; but if we don’t act quickly under the present condition which this ugly situation points out, we might be justifying that prediction; but God forbid!”

While maintaining that no country that has gone through civil war and reconciled ever breaks-up again, Owelle Okorocha further pointed out that Nigeria has learnt a huge lesion from the bitter experience of civil war.  He therefore asserted that Nigeria remains an indivisible entity.

The Imo State chief Executive expressed worries at the security challenges and endless killings witnessed in Nigeria, but proffered that inculcation of the spirit of patriotism and nationalism would bring solution to the problems.  “We are shading more blood now than we had during the civil war, something is fundamentally wrong” he lamented.

Owelle Okorocha said the 53^rd Independence Anniversary of the nation is a time to reexamine whether Nigeria as a nation has done well and called the leaders to make sacrifices in order to better the lives of the common Nigerians.

He expressed hope that Nigeria will be counted among the nations that are leading world economies if her natural and human endowments are properly harnessed.