Former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has advised Nigerians calling for the disintegration of the country to perish the thought.
He opined that the country would continue to remain united.
Buratai spoke in Kuta, Osun State on Sunday at the 60th birthday celebration of Olowu of Kuta, Oba Adekunle Oyelude.
He described Olowu Kuta as a detribalised Nigerian who has shown love to people across all ethnic groups in the country.
Buratai noted that those agitating that the country should disintegrate must be ready to carve out their own part and move it to the ocean.
He pointed to the civil war as a sign that agitation to divide the country would always fail.
The former chief of Army Staff subsequently called for unity to further enhance Nigeria’s development.
According to him, “You know that Nigeria is one, unless you remove those people who are agitating, and drift (them) to the Atlantic. We will remain one Nigeria, anybody who wants to leave Nigeria should carry the part of the land and take it to the Atlantic; not within the Nigeria territory. It is very clear the level of integration.
“There are many Hausas here, there are many Yoruba and Igbo in the North. So, we should not allow politics to becloud our sense of unity and sovereignty.
“Anybody that says that he wants to leave Nigeria is a dreamer because we had bitter experience during the civil war. So it is not something that we will joke with.”
The event attracted a host of dignitaries, including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, among others.
