According to him, even in population and resources, the
regions of the country are not uniformly endowed.
He,
however, said though the representatives of the agitators were few in number,
“the majority must always win.”
Speaking at a town hall meeting organised by
his committee to get inputs from youths, the governor said when people talk
about restructuring, most proponents think of their zones while no one thinks
of the country.
He said: “The greatest injustice is trying to make equals
unequal and unequals equal; things are not done like that. What do I mean by
that? There are those who have said that Nigeria and United States are the
same.
“It is just like saying everyone who is six feet, five can play basket
ball. As human beings, we are equal but you cannot come and stand here and say
we should create nine states in each zone, Nigeria is not equal, likewise the
population and resources, you can’t do that. “The representatives of the
agitators are few in number and so the majority must always win. The president
of the country exists, the Senate exists and there are 36 states of the
federation.
‘’We the old ones are still here, some of us are good, some are
bad, like the youths but you must learn to live with us because we are still
here.
“Now, some people say because we have oil, let us have resource control.
We must think of what is in the overall interest of Nigeria.
‘’By that I
mean what works for everyone. Because what works for one part of the county
will not necessarily work for the other and so as long as we are from one
country, we must seek for what is of common good, not the one that serves one
interest group.
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