“First, the APC must be told, in no
uncertain terms that it is fraudulent. They led us down the garden path,
lying to us about what is in the end of the tunnel. What was in the end
of the tunnel was restructuring and each one of them, the party
chairman, the president, his vice, and in that order, are all talking
from the other side of their mouths now. In other words, they lied to us
in 2015 before the election. My message to them is, they should embark
on a very major exercise now to restructure the country, otherwise, how
do they propose to settle the crisis in the South-South because it is
becoming embarrassing. A man whose land you went to tap resources and
then he couldn’t farm or fish, because you bastardised his farmland and
you then send back to him stipends from what you took away from his
land, such a man can never be happy”.
“Is the APC thinking that the matter of
religion, ethnicity and other crises across the country are just going
to go away? Even the late Sardauna of Sokoto said so, that we are a
disparate people and we must recognise that fact and use it to our
advantage. Nobody is going to build Nigeria the way APC is going about
it. I’m not too sure how many people sing our National Anthem again
because they don’t even believe in it. There is nothing like unity in
this country. Unity can only exist when we all understand one another
and there are some mutual relationships. If I know you are always
cheating me by giving 44 local councils to Kano and giving Lagos 20,
which is not in the same parameter with Kano in terms of population,
production and name it, how can I be happy”?
“However rickety Nigeria has become, if
there is a wholesome reconstruction and re-engineering of the system, it
can work. That was the major reason the Southwest went along with the
APC and Buhari, as the presidential candidate in 2015….to tell us that
he didn’t read the recommendations and that it is best for the archives
and that, in fact, restructuring is unnecessary and according to his
vice, what we needed is diversification and whatsoever, I remain
baffled. They were just saying we would diversify into agriculture and
solid minerals, as if the items will come from heaven.. If the APC fails
to do something in that direction, I’m not talking about the 2014
conference report alone, but all others preceding it that have similar
recommendations to restructure this country, then President Buhari may
forget it and I’m saying he is likely to be the last president of this
country. It is as bad as that”.
THISDAY
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