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A presidential aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba has suggested that Nigeria should be renamed Nigritia.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Garba made this known on Tuesday via his official Twitter handle, where he stressed that “Nigritia is our ancient name before Lady Lugard renamed it to Nigeria”.
The presidential aspirant said if given the opportunity through the 2023 general elections to serve as president of the country, his government will propose the change of name to the National Assembly (NASS).
“How about we rebrand this country, properly federalize it and rename it to “The Nigritian Federation” or simply NIGRITIA. After all, Nigritia is our ancient name before Lady Lugard renamed it Nigeria.
“This is part of our blueprint. Insha Allah, our govt will propose this to NASS.
“It is high time to clean ourselves from negative stereotypes, reorganize ourselves and reclaim our country away from our colonial identities and divisions to our own definitions of unity, integration, tolerance and cohesion. This is our country, we shall make it great Insha Allah.
“If Ghana can change its name from the Colonial Gold Coast, Kenya from British East Africa, Benin from Dahomey, Togo from Togoland, etc, why would Nigeria maintain a colonially induced name?
“We should rename this country back to its pre-colonial NIGRITIA. Identity is everything,” Garba tweeted.
He further went ahead to make a video of the way to pronounce the newly proposed name.
Watch the video below:
This is the way to pronounce the newly proposed name “NIGRITIA” pic.twitter.com/yHdQH1Pxk9
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— Adamu Garba II (@adamugarba) April 26, 2022