What Revolution?
A revolution cannot take place in Nigeria because it is not a nation, but a country of many nations. Revolution often takes place in a nation where the people are united by common descent, history, culture, or language.
Nigeria has many nations, including the Yoruba, Hausa and Fulani, Ibo, Ijaw, Nupe, Tiv, Kanuri, Efik/Ibibio and others. Nigeria, is thus, a multicultural country. The best that can happen is ethnically motivated violence which will finally lead to the dissolution of the country.
Revolution is closely affiliated with a nation and has never happened to a country.
Consider, for instance the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was a country of four nations, including England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Not once did they ever experience a revolution, but several ethnically motivated rebellion that cumulated in the civil war between Ireland and England in 1922 which led to the Republic of Ireland breaking away from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
After Ireland left the United Kingdom, it was yet another ethnically motivated rebellion in Scotland that led to the introduction of the devolved administrations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with each having total control of its military, police, court, mineral and natural resources as well as revenue from taxation. They still have separate football teams and different currency designs. They had no revolution because the United Kingdom isn't a nation, but a country of many nations.
Once more, it was because the United Kingdom is a country of many nations that led the Northern Ireland to take up arms, another rebellion, against the England, until the intervention of the United States that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement, which enables Northern Ireland to govern itself as a self governing region, independent of the Federal Government of the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom has, consequently, never experienced a revolution because it is not a nation, but a country of many nations. The nations therein were always antagonizing one another until they all adopted regionalism.
However, the opposite is the case with the United States of America. A revolution was possible in the United States because seven people, including the English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Belgian, left their respective nations in Europe and mass migrated to the United States in order to escape religious and political persecutions in their respective countries.
When these seven immigrants got to the United States, they exterminated the native Americans and adopted among other things Christianity as their preferred religion, English as their language and democracy based on Federalism as their guiding principle of governance. They therefore became a nation of immigrants united by common descent (came from Europe), common history (escaped from religious and political persecutions), the common language (adopted the English language), inhabiting a particular territory - the United States of America. In this example, a revolution was possible in the United States and still remains one after the American revolution of 1776.
Also, the revolution in France became possible because France is not a country, but a nation of French-speaking people united by common descent, history, culture and language. Being a nation, the French revolution of 1789 happened, yet the nation did not split up.
American Revolution (1775-1783); French Revolution (1789-1999); Haitian Revolution by the Yoruba descent (1791-1804); Serbian Revolution (1804-1835); all happened because the people were united by common descent, history, culture and language.
Revolution cannot, therefore, happen in Nigeria because the people do not share common descent, history, culture and language. The Yoruba, the Ibo, the Hausa, the Kanuri, the Ijaw, the Fulani and others have no common descent, history, culture and language. Nigeria is a country of many nations. The worst thing that will happen is another civil war, which will finally break up the country or restructure it back to the regional system.
Whilst no revolution will happen in Nigeria, a revolution is, nevertheless, possible in Yorubaland, Iboland and in the Hausa and Fulani land. These are nations within Nigeria.
The Kiriji war in Yorubaland, which took place in 1878 and lasted for about 16 years, was a revolution in Yorubaland against Ibadan. The revolution was possible because Yorubaland is a nation with a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture and language. After the revolution, Yorubaland still remains one indivisible nation.
It is, therefore, unreasonable for the Yoruba Liberals to be screaming for a revolution in Nigeria. They are acting with the Ibo and Sowore, an Ijaw citizen, to distract the Young Yoruba who desires a return to the regional government or the break up of Nigeria.
COPYRIGHT: Adeyinka Grandson.
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