A First Republic Minister, Chief
Mbazulike Amaechi, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari does not understand
the language of democracy.
According to him, the candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has repeatedly
given a clear assurance that he would restructure the imbalanced federation.
He, therefore, called on Igbo
electorate to vote for Atiku and his running mate, Peter Obi, to get Nigeria on
the path of progress again.
Amaechi addressed reporters at
his country home at Ukpor in Nnewi South local government area of Anambra State
on Tuesday.
He said, “As the very last
surviving nationalist, freedom fighter and minister of the first republic still
alive, I feel compelled to say something and warn those who may be plotting to
plunge the country into a major crisis that may threaten the very foundation of
our federation.
“Nigerians must brace up and
defend democracy and the federation itself. There is grave danger ahead. Those
who destroyed democracy is 1983 are up again to deprive the people of their
fundamental rights.
“They don’t understand the
language of democracy. From what they are doing to the judiciary and
legislature, one can imagine what will happen if for any error they are
returned to Aso Rock.
“I call on the international
community to help and expose the evil plans, of a cabal who wants to perpetuate
themselves in power even if they lose the election.
“They have been badly
marginalized, exploited, denied of their rights in a federation that they
played a major role in founding.
“Atiku has also taken our own
Peter Obi as his running mate. I call on Ndigbo at home and everywhere in
Nigeria to turn out in totality and vote for the Akiku/Obi candidacy for the
president.
“I speak the minds of the great
nationalists like Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello, Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi
Awolowo, Dennis Osadebay, Aminu Kano, M.I. Okpara, Maitama Sule, S.L. Akintola,
Herbert Macaulay, Festus Okotie-Eboh, Nwafor Orizu, Joseph Tarka, Eyo Ita,
Odeleye Fedahunsi, Muhammadu Ribadu, Zanna Bukar Dipchadima, Kola Balogun,
Margret Ekpo, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, HajyaGambo Sawaba, Mary Nzimiro, Maggie
Obinwe, Malam Umoru Altune, Bisi Onabanjo and others who have been silenced by
death in pleading with Nigerian Voters to vote into power, the rare gift of
Atiku/Obi presidency so that fraternal love and unity may return in a
democratic united Nigeria.
“In the other elections, they can
vote for their individual parties or conscience. Ndigbo should not mind a small
band of mercenaries and Judases who went to Wuse Market at Abuja, bought some
Red Caps, adorned the caps and trouped to Aso Rock, spoke some sweet nonsense,
received some greasy handshakes and sheepishly smiled home. They represent
nobody but their treacherous selves.”
On the call for boycott of the
election by Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Amaechi added, “As a political
father in Nigeria and Igboland, I had appealed to the youths of IPOB, in the
interest of Igboland, not to pursue their election boycott programme. It is
counter-productive and suicidal.
“I call on the government to
de-proscribe IPOB. It is primitive injustice to leave the gun- bearing Fulani
herdsmen and their jungle comrades in Zamfara State alone and turn to kill the
youths of IPOB because they are Igbo.”
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