AGITATIONS FOR SECESSION IN NIGERIA: AUGURIES OF A TICKING TIME BOMB
AGITATIONS FOR SECESSION IN NIGERIA: AUGURIES OF A TICKING TIME BOMB AGITATIONS FOR SECESSION IN NIGERIA: AUGURIES OF A TICKING TIME BOMB The propagation of hateful and divisive rhetoric via the (social) media, terrorism, militancy, reinforced threats from Arewa Youths (in the North), agitators for Oduduwa Republic (in the South West), the Niger Delta Avengers (who agitate for Niger Delta Republic), The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (led by Ralph Uwazuruike), Indigenous People of Biafra (a younger generation, impatient with what they see as the snail pace at which MASSOB has been moving) led by Nnamdi Kanu all loom large on the socio-political horizon of Nigeria. The last three are stroking different chords in galvanizing a new symphony for the actualization of the Biafran dream through secession. Secession is the act of a group’s withdrawal from the membership of an alliance or political union with who