A former Minister of Youth and Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has traced Nigeria’s problem to 1966 when the nation had its first coup plot, an event which preceded the Nigerian-Biafran war of 1967 to 1970.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Abdullahi, the Kwara central senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, stated that no nation can have peace without justice.
The former minister spoke on Wednesday while featuring at the 33rd edition of the ‘Media Parliament’ of the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ilorin.
“After the civil war, our leaders ought to realise that the Nigeria that the British gave us could not work. We should have restructured the country then,” he said.
“Another opportunity we missed to make Nigeria a real nation was the annulment of June 12.
“We diagnosed the issue as if it was a Yoruba problem and decided to make one of them a president in 1999.
“We had a lot of opportunities in June 12 debacle, but we bungled them.”
