Does Jonathan also have a pact with Lord Lugard?

During the colonial era, the British evolved what they called the policy of ‘colonial self-sufficiency’ to ensure that British tax payers’ money was not used to develop any colony. To sustain the policy in what became Nigeria, the colonial governor, Sir Frederick Lugard decided in 1914 to merge the Northern and Southern Protectorates of the colony of Nigeria because he was convinced that the combined resources of both Protectorates would be enough to run the colony. He was neither bothered about the existing lop-sided structure of his creation nor did he care about the opinions of the inhabitants on the subject. Since then till date, Nigerians have continued to protest the forced merger which Chief Obafemi Awolowo described as ‘a mere geographical expression’ and not a nation. Painfully, each opportunity that arises for restructuring and making a true nation of the entity is always thwarted by those in authority who naively believe that they are fighting against the nation’s disintegration.