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 the president is not a democrat," he said.
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