Prof. Pat Utomi: Why More People Will Die in Nigeria

While speaking as a guest speaker at the 6th Pre-Convocation Lecture of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), in Abuja, Nigerian professor of political economy, Patrick Okedinachi Utomi a.k.a Pat Utomi, explained why more people will die in Nigeria than any other country of the world.

The 2-time Nigeria Presidential aspirant, who made the disclosure in‎ his lecture titled, “Political economy of education: “Issues and challenges of opening and distance learning in Nigeria”,  said the reason might not be unconnected to the fact that Nigerians like struggling over things that shouldn’t be struggled for.

He believed that, “if we were not living in denial, one of the things we would have realised is that our country is in a rolling civil war.‎‎

“We are struggling with Boko Haram, crisis in the north Central and in the South South, we are dealing with all kinds of issues like militancy and so forth.

“More people will die in Nigeria, a violent death than many of the countries in war.‎ What we have in Nigeria is an evergreen civil war.

“How are we going to make progress when there’s so much violence everywhere? We have a zero-sub mindset. People are struggling over things that they shouldn’t be struggling over."