Referendum Is The Solution
By Mbanali Sochima
October 23, 2025
It is nothing short of madness that the Nigerian government continues to insist on sustaining the idea of “One Nigeria,” even when its very foundation is built on violence, hypocrisy, and denial.
Their model for how this “unity” would work was demonstrated on October 20, 2020, and 2025, when peaceful protesters demanding accountability were met with live ammunition, teargas, and arrests.
Instead of remorse, the state spent its time attempting to justify that barbarity, denying the killings, suppressing evidence, and intimidating witnesses. This is the Nigeria they are desperate to preserve: a nation where the cry for justice is answered with bullets, and truth is buried under propaganda.
Equally disturbing is the government’s response to those calling out the #ChristianGenocide happening in Nigeria. Rather than assure the world that Christians are safe, their defense was that “Muslims are also being killed.”
In essence, they admitted that Nigerians across different faiths, ethnicities, and identities are victims of slaughter, and somehow believed that this admission absolves them of responsibility.
It’s an astonishing level of moral decay: a government so accustomed to bloodshed that mass death is no longer a crisis but an excuse.
No effort has been made to find solutions, not even the pretense of one. For years, the authorities have lied to the international community, claiming they are combating terrorism, meanwhile they were enabling it, arming the imported Fulani terrorists, and protecting them when villagers rise to defend themselves, and turning a blind eye to their atrocities.
But lies have limits; they can only carry a regime so far before reality breaks through.
Nigeria just does not make any sense, it is an illogical experiment in forced coexistence, one that feeds on the lives of the people and on the silence of the world.
The more one observes its contradictions, the clearer it becomes: this structure cannot be sustained. Nigeria, as it exists today, no longer makes sense, and the only logical conclusion is that it must end to save lives.
