It's Too Late For Nigeria To Disintegrate- Gov Fayose
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said it is too late for
Nigeria to break up, calling for dialogue to resolve various agitations
in the country.
Fayose said this while reacting to Wednesday’s meeting between the governors of
the South-East states and the leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
He said the meeting had provided a veritable platform, which all Igbo
must key into otherwise they would remain guinea pig in Nigeria.
The governor, who appealed to the Federal Government to allow political
solutions to agitations by Nigerians as against the use of brute force
said, he remained “committed to the call for full and total
restructuring of Nigeria through dialogue and negotiation because it is
too late for Nigeria to disintegrate.”
According to a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday by his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose
said he was “particularly glad that South-East governors have come to
the realisation that they cannot ignore their own in times like this as
agitation is normal and must not be ignored, although the approach
should be handled with caution.”
Fayose blamed the actions and utterances of President Muhammadu Buhari for the agitations going on in the country.
“The father figure of this country is President Buhari and if his
language does not represent unity, there will be agitations like we are
witnessing now.
“A father figure rallies even the bad boys in his house. The utterances
and actions of Buhari when he became President were against the unity of
this country.
“How can a president say that he will only attend to the needs of those
who gave him 97 per cent vote and neglect others who didn’t vote for
him?
“For Nigeria to move forward and in unity; there must be no
sectionalism, there must be no oppression and there must be justice and
equity.”
The governor commended the northern leaders for standing up to ensure
that the Arewa youths’ quit notice against the Igbo in the North was
resolved and withdrawn without necessarily arresting and detaining
anyone.
Saying that the same could be achieved by the Igbo leaders, he warned
that arresting or re-arresting Kanu “may be counter-productive as it may
be perceived as vilification of the entire South-East geopolitical
zone, not necessarily Kanu as a person.”
Punch
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