OODUA Peoples Congress (OPC), in Lagos, on Tuesday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan not to resign because of threats from terrorists.
Founder of the OPC, Dr Frederick Fasehun, made the call at a news conference, stating that Jonathan should disregard those people who were demanding his resignation.
“It will be a bad precedence for a president to leave office because were demanding his removal.
“We cannot override the National Assembly to remove him, if the people think he deserves to be removed,” he said.
Fasehun said only a fool would play the ethno-religious card in contemporary Nigerian politics, adding that “religion has no place in Nigerian politics or government.”
He regretted the nonchalant attitude of some Nigerians to the security problems in the northern part of the country, lamenting that “nobody seems genuinely committed to the unity of Nigeria, which is very worrisome.”
According to him, the lack of respect for the country percolated the entire system, while he urged Nigerians to review their contributions to the current situation in the country, so as to pull it back from the brink.
“No country has ever survived two civil wars. We have experienced one. Another civil war will be Nigeria’s Armageddon,” he said.
Fasehun said the only panacea available for the restructuring, reforming, redesigning and transforming the nation was a sovereign national conference.
“We have been calling for a sovereign national conference to solve our national question. If we don’t sit down together to negotiate our future, Nigeria will implode and pass into history.
“If we continue to patch this pseudo-federalism together by the glue of the faulty 1999 Constitution, the ethnic nationalities will continue to wallow in suspicion, hunger, anger, poverty, ignorance and superstition,” the OPC founder said.
via Tribune
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/45940-terrorism-jonathan-must-not-resign--opc
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