Pat Utomi, a political economy professor, asserts that Nigerian politicians fuel the nation’s divisions by weaponizing differences to gain votes. He calls for new thinking to overcome this phase.
During the Tony Uranta Memorial Lecture, Godknows Ighali recalled Nigeria’s founding as an intentional union based on agreed terms. Baarong Uranta, widow of Tony Uranta, remembered her husband as a patriot who advocated for Nigerian unity through fairness and justice.