Again, the issue of Nigeria and her governance
took a centre stage yesterday, with the threat by a former member of the House of Representatives
and a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive
Change, Hon. Farouk Adamu Aliyu that ‘it is either a
Northerner as President in 2015 or there
will be no more Nigeria.
Aliyu’s outburst in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP in Abuja was a direct
response to the ex-Niger Delta militant and leader
of Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari Dokubo declaration
on Sunday that ‘there will be
no peace in the country, if Jonathan was denied a second
term’.
Aliyu, who was the 2011 CPC governorship
candidate in Jigawa State,
said it is unfortunate and sad that Dokubo is still walking the streets a
freeman after making such unguarded statement.
He warned that “if Jonathan, Dokubo and their people want to destroy
this country, then we are willing accomplices”.
The ex-lawmaker who claimed to
be speaking for the people of the North warned that nobody has the monopoly of
violence adding that such arm-twisting tactics as was exhibited by the
Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs, Kingsley Kuku in United States some days ago,will
not work.
“Few weeks back, Kingsley Kuku, the presidential adviser on amnesty
programme in faraway America also went and made
similar statements, which means President Goodluck Jonathan has
already won the PDP primary election and
the secondary election - that’s exactly what they are saying.
“Let me also use this
opportunity to say on behalf of us in the north that nobody has monopoly of
violence and that on behalf of the people of northern extraction, there shall
be no one Nigeria if a northerner is
not elected president of
this country, because politics is a game of numbers and the Ijaw people are not up to
one million or two million or even five million.
“So if in a democracy, the President will allow somebody
to say if he is not voted, there won’t be peace – this clearly shows that they
don’t want peace and thepresident is
not a democrat,” he said.
Source: Leadership
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