The Indivisibility And Unity Of Nigeria: A Marriage On The Rocks Billed Primed For Dissolution. By Oyetunji Oyewole

"Any marriage, forced or not that is no longer workable, should be peacefully dissolved if the untimely death of one party or both, is to be avoided". 

"Any marriage that a party in the Union or its sponsors want to keep together by all means, is suspect. It is either because the hold- tight party cannot survive without that Union or, just out of sheer wickedness".

We want people to judge for themselves to see if we have a case for asking to be let go on our own or not. 

We were forced into a marriage without our consent and because our fathers were naive, too trusting and had no powers to go against such decisions, went into that Union, fearfully, with all our family’s treasures, fortunes and resources hoping that the "forced Union" would work and we would build a life together. But, what did we get in return? 

Immediately after the contraption, they abandoned their meagre means of livelihood, latched onto our inheritances and commenced a "birthing" spree as a result of their new found wealth; our own God's given wealth including our superior intelligence and education.  

In order to have successful a marriage; forced or not, we tried to endure even with their domineering attitude that we had noticed and hoping that we would still make things work as we had no choice at that time anyway. 

Nevertheless, the more we tried to make this Union of unequal yoke work, all we got back, were to be used, abused, dehumanized, gang raped, stripped of all our resources, treasures and all of our well-being. 

They lavished our own resources and inheritances wickedly on their own families and barren lands at our detriment. The goose that lays the golden eggs was pushed aside, impoverished and brutalized. 

They continue to rely heavily on the backings of the evil colonial masters who selfishly made them the ‘husband’ in the wickedly conceived Union, to continue to enslave and exploit us; the majority and the more resourceful ones, to fund their expensive lifestyles, leaving the owners of the resources in penury. 

This is a typical example of the case of one being severely beaten and yet, commanded not to cry out.

Any marriage, forced or not that is no longer workable, should be peacefully dissolved if the untimely death of one party or both, is to be avoided. 

Any marriage that a party in the Union or its sponsors want to keep together by all means, is suspect. It is either because the hold- tight party cannot survive without that Union or, just out of sheer wickedness.