The Secretary General of the National Democratic Coalition, Chief Ayo Opadokun, claims in the Vanguard report that the military deliberately changed the demographics of some areas to “minoritise” some tribes in order to sow discord and further their own agendas. He uses the Nupe people in Niger and the Federal Capital Territory, the Yoruba people in Kwara and Kogi states, and the Ijaw people, who are dispersed among multiple states, as examples of this. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
He said, “What the military had wickedly done was to minoritise some majority tribes as they did with the Yoruba of Kwara and Kogi for selfish reasons. As they did for the Yoruba is what they have done for the Nupe. There are Nupe in Kwara and Niger. There are Gbagi people in Niger, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and some of them in Kaduna. Today, there are Ijaw in almost five different states of the country. All these things were done unscientifically without the necessary democratic variables considered. These are important things to be done before there could be peace and concord, but they were just neglected and did it by force.” CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
