– Nigeria just like the United Kingdom of Great Britain is a country of loose union of various ethnic peoples with diverse and evidently irreconcilable and mutually antagonistic cultures and religions. The Nigerian union was put together by a foreign power (the Great Britain during the colonial days) without any reference to the opinions of and due consultation with the indigenous ethnic peoples as to whether they would like to associate with one another as citizens of the same country. By this action the independence and sovereignty of the various ethnic peoples were forcefully taken away from them. Therefore, the Nigerian state or country is not a union of voluntarily consenting partners as is supposed to be the case in all modern states including the UK. As against the modern definition of the state as a contractual arrangement where willing adults enter into agreements with specific conditions on which to relate with one another, execute projects and resolve resulting disputes, Nigeria is an entity where most of the members do not even know why they are there in the first place.
