Former Vice President, Atiku
Abubakar has blamed Nigerian government for rising agitation for secession in
the country.
He said government, over the
years, failed to address the underlying problems that fed the agitations by
those he described as separatist forces.
Recall that Peoples Democratic
Party’s Governors Forum has also backed the demand by the its colleagues in the
All Progressives Congress (APC) for restructuring of the country.
In a statement on Tuesday from
his media office in Abuja, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain said
recent voices in support of restructuring the country and true federalism by
leaders and stakeholders were clear indications that he was not a lone voice in
the call to restructure the country.
The former vice president had
consistently spoken about the need to restructure the country and give true
federalism a chance in the past two years.
Other notable Nigerians have
recently added their voice to the call as a result of recent events in the
country.
Hailing the APC Progressive
Governors Forum for supporting the call for restructuring and true federalism,
Atiku said the issue transcended religion and ethnicity.
He described as patriotic the
convergence of positions around restructuring by leaders and stakeholders from
diverse regions of the country.
“The agitations for secession would not have arisen, if the country had shown sincere readiness to address the underlying problems that feed the agitations by separatist forces.
“The restructuring debate transcends the ambition of any single politician in Nigeria, and that any attempt to ignore the agitations could make a bad situation more complicated”, he said.
He explained that avoiding a
problem won’t solve that problem, adding that with so much hate, distrust,
suspicions and fears in the country, political leaders shouldn’t be afraid to
confront the challenge.
Atiku stressed that the present
federal structure should be freely discussed by allowing the federating units
voice their grievances with a view to finding workable solutions that protects
the rights and interests of all.
He maintained that the country
could not afford to allow bottled up frustrations of the people to explode into
violence, which threatens not only innocent lives, but also harms the country’s
economic assets.
Atiku, therefore, lauded the
Progressive APC Governors, other leaders and groups for their courage to
confront the country’s most urgent national challenge.
He added that separatist
agitations were dangerously threatening the country’s unity and indivisibility
and that no country could afford to take those threats lightly.
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Sixteen years of PDP in office that they failed to do the needful things, they are just busy in seyphoning govt money which leads to this messes.
ReplyDeleteTHE UNENDING WRONG POSTULATIONS BY ATIKU ABOUT NIGERIAN PROBLEMS SADDENS ME A TIMES!
ReplyDeleteWHERE IS THE SINCERITY IN THIS MAN WHO WANTS TO RULE NIGERIA BY HOOK OR CROOK?
WHY NOT OWN UP TO THE CHALLENGE BY SAYING "OUR GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SECESSIONISTS AGITATIONS GOING ON" RATHER THAN DEPLOYING THE INDIFFERENCE APPROACH OF SAYING "NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE" IN A COUNTRY YOU WERE ONCE UPON A TIME A QUARRELING VICE PRESIDENT WHO LIVED LIKE CAT & DOG WITH HIS PRINCIPAL (THE THEN PRESIDENT) TILL YOUR TENURE ENDED IN A FIASCO WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR FOOTPRINT ON THE SAND POLITICAL HISTORY!
I'M SURE NIGERIANS ARE KEENLY WATCHING YOUR SQUEALER'S BLAME GAME WITH PINCH OF SALT!
IF YOU LIKE, BLAME EVERYBODY FOR ONLY GOD KNOWS, THE BITTER TRUTH IS THAT YOUR LIKES CAN'T RULE US AGAIN.
NEVER AGAIN ATIKU!
Atiku is sick. He wants to infect Nigeria with his disease. That will not happen! He now suddenly realizes that Government neglected certain issues in the past and he separates himself from all that had happened. How sad!!! And that's the man that wants to rule Nigeria. Impossible. God's watcing.
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