Egbe Omo Yoruba and Project Nigeria - The Nation Newspaper

The silver anniversary of Egbe Omo Yoruba, North America comes with a mixed feeling. On one hand, it is a great pleasure to be alive to see the tiny seed become a giant tree. On the other hand, it is frustrating that the challenges it confronted 25 years ago are still alive and well.

Still, however, the founding fathers of Nigeria took up the challenge posed by those peculiarities of a multinational state. They created a workable federal system that sought to protect languages, cultures and identities as much as possible. But in their zeal for uniformity, the military rubbished that arrangement and created a big mess.

Many believed then that it was a script from the highest Yoruba office holder. It didn’t matter. What mattered was that the exercise suffered terribly from partisan bickering. The ruling party was wary of the opposition’s strategy. It was a lost opportunity to join other zones which also craved a reformed federation. History repeated itself in 2014, this time, the opposition was cynical about the politics of the ruling party’s last-minute change of mind about a national conference.

Third, the authors suggest that a state that fails may require up to 56 years to recover, or it may never recover.

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