Kayode Fayemi, the governor of Ekiti state, has emphasized that patience, hard effort, and patriotism are required to maintain Nigeria’s unity.
This was expressed by Fayemi at the National Prosperity Movement (NPM), a sociopolitical group, at a national unity summit held in Abuja on Wednesday.
Secessionist sentiment has grown in several sections of the country in recent years.
The Ekiti governor, speaking on the concept of unity, stated that leaders and citizens have a responsibility to invest in unity as a full-time job.
“One of the imports of my observation that leaders and citizens have a duty to invest in and grow unity as a full time vocation is that those of our compatriots who, out of a modestly understandable frustration, often say that the amalgamation of 1914 was a mistake, will do well to keep in mind that most countries in the world today are indeed the products of an involuntary and/or compelled mergers of peoples who, once brought together under the same roof had to work to forge bonds of unity among themselves,” he said.
“The important point which we must always remember is that unity anywhere and everywhere is an outcome that is generated out of initial conditions that are not by any means perfect.
“There is, therefore, no bypassing the hard work that leaders and governments must put in to build, sustain, and renew unity.
