The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors Forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to give any justifiable reason for the constant shortfall in the federal allocation to states.
The governors had about two months ago demanded an emergency meeting with the President on the fall of revenue accruals to the state governments.
Okorocha, who is the governor of Imo and a presidential aspirant of APC, spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, while addressing the state’s delegates to Lagos primaries.
He said: “The meeting could not hold. Somehow we think the presidency is avoiding meeting with the governors on this issue of dwindling revenue and we have not really been properly informed as to the justifiable reason why we are getting what we are getting now as subvention.
“So it is rather an unfortunate situation that this country has been polarised along party line, along religious line, along tribal line, along party line.
“Meeting and rubbing of minds has become very difficult, which had helped in the past.
“So I think I call for unity and we must know when to stop politics and address the issue that affects the life of our people collectively.”
He warned that if the PDP should win the forthcoming general elections at the federal level, then it would bring a complete end to opposition politics in the country.
He said that a win for the PDP particularly with President Goodluck Jonathan in the saddle will mean a continuation of the rampaging insurgency in the north western part of the country while a win for any candidate from the northern region will also stoke the fire of violent activism witnessed few years back in the Niger Delta region.
He stated that his ambition was prodded by an encounter with the late emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, whom he claimed charged him during a visit to the traditional ruler in a London hospital to ensure the unity of Nigeria if he becomes the president.
He said: “There is no desperation for me to become the president of this country and those of you who were with us in Abuja would recall I said that if this presidency of mine would not unite Nigeria, if it would not bring an end to Boko Haram etc, may I not get it in Jesus name.
“I don’t have to be your president and I must not become your president. But I have sat down and realised that our part must win this election because if we don’t win this election then opposition would be completely destroyed in this land; there will be no more opposition in Nigeria so we must do all that we can to win.
“Then we must produce a president that can unite this country because the PDP has polarised Nigeria and it is God that is just keeping us together.
“The way PDP has divided Nigeria, if President Jonathan wins this election, Boko Haram will not stop in Nigeria.
“Likewise, if anybody from the north wins this election, the Niger Delta boys will start their trouble.
“Remember it was late President Yar’Adua that ended the Niger Delta crisis. I am the only aspirant without an enemy.”
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