US Speaks On Nigeria's Break Up In 2015

 Contrary to many people’s belief that Nigeria might disintegrate before, during or after the next month’s general elections, the United States Government has said that there are no signs to it happening.
Making the statement on Thursday in Lagos was US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, during an interactive session with journalists on the recent donation of a US naval ship, christened, “NNS Okpabana” to the Nigerian Navy.
The US Ambassador explained that Nigeria was indeed facing “big challenges,” but added that the problems at stake were surmountable.

According to the top American envoy, Nigerians should “throw out of the window” the idea from “some think-tank or somebody outside the (US) government” stating that Nigeria was going to fall apart in 2015.

He said: “I have been plagued by the question (on Nigeria’s 2015 disintegration) and I have gone back to look and I can’t find any government report that said Nigeria would disintegrate in 2015. Maybe some think-tank or somebody outside the government said it; I don’t know.

“But in my opinion as the US Ambassador to this country, I am not worried in the least that Nigeria is going to disintegrate in 2015. Regardless of what someone may have said, the question is that we are now here in 2015: Do we see signs that Nigeria is going to disintegrate or fall apart or something? I don’t know what you think. But I don’t see those signs.

“But I see signs of growth, optimism and I see that to minimise the challenges that you have, in this life, you have to keep on keeping on, and I think the future is quite bright.”

Entwistle added that if the Federal Government did what was needed to be done in the coming years, especially as pertaining to “security, corruption and all of these things,” the future of Nigeria would be “very bright.”