Killings, greatest threat to Nigeria’s existence, says Dickson –

Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa

Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has described the current spate of violence and killings by gunmen across the nation and particularly in the Northern part of the country as the biggest ever existential threat to the nation’s cooperate existence, since after the civil war.

The Nigerian civil war had ended in 1970.

Dickson also singled the lopsided federal structure, dysfunctional Nigeria structure as well as the over centralization and politicization of law and order as threats to contemporary governance in the country.

A press statement signed by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary,  Francis Ottah Agbo, quoted the governor as having disclosed this over the weekend in Abuja while delivering a lecture titled: “Cultural Values, National…