GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, weekend, expressed fear that the nation was gradually moving towards disintegration.

Aregbesola spoke in Osogbo at a social gathering the government organised in honour of the newly-elected President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr. Femi Adesina, and other executive members of the guild.

The governor said unless the Federal Government urgently took concrete steps to arrest the protracted unrest in virtually all the regions of the country, the nation may collapse.

According to him, anyone with the interest of the country at heart would certainly know that Nigeria was at present closer to failure than success as a nation.

He said rather than address the fundamental causes of the crisis, Federal Government was only scratching them on the surface.

The governor said: “I am particularly worried about the fate of this nation today. Nigeria is very close to being a failed state than being successful.”

The governor charged the media to practice developmental journalism and said through this brand of journalism, it would interest all stakeholders where the nation is going.

He said: “Media should challenge the leaders and wake them up to their responsibilities.

“I want you to use your medium to also correct the bad impressions created for our state.”
All these are borne out of rumour-mongering.”

“A nation can only remain indivisible and hold itself together when people charged with responsibilities refuse to shirk in the dispensation of such responsibilities.

“Crises manifest in different ways but the real causes of the nation’s abnormalities have not been addressed.

“It is not enough to tag the insurgency in the South as militancy or youth unrest and the one up North as religious crisis or Islamic fundamentalism, rather the utmost thing needed is solutions to all these unrests.”