Nigerian inter-group relations: emerging trends and challenges

This is so because the unstated aim of the Declaration appears to be the exculpation of the leader and the leadership of blame for either initiating or badly prosecuting a calamitous war. Hence the juggling of essential words and phrases that could initiate critical debate on the war and the deployment of essentialist, human-rights and religion-based arguments in a bid to create a persecution complex in the people who, in consequence, would then see themselves as victims of a global conspiracy rather than their own misadventure.