Pan Niger Delta Civil Society
Groups on Wednesday August 2 stated that Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola
Saraki is playing ethnic card for rejecting the bill for the devolution of
power.
“Saraki merely doing the bidding
of the core North who have been the greatest albatross to a true federal state
of Nigeria.”
According to the group,” If hate
comments were the reason then the National Assembly ought to have voted in
favour of it because restructuring is the panacea to addressing the
socio-political divisions in the Country. Saraki’s tune in defending the
Senate’s undemocratic and unpopular decision clearly shows that he was speaking
for the North, his region and not Nigeria as a whole. A situation where someone
hold the views of some few persons against the popular views is a demonstration
of ethno-religious chauvinism.”
The group also described that the
present 1999 Constitution as the worst of its kind.
The group stated that the
constitution only contained decrees of military Fiat enacted to favour a
particular section of the country, while the vast majority of the people from
other regions or sections are regarded as second fiddle human beings or
political serfs to the feudal lords.
The group also said that,”
socio-political/religious crisis currently ravaging the Country is a fall out
of this constitutional melee. Since the inception of this present democratic
dispensation, the various regimes have initiated moves just to arrest situation
but all to no avail.”
The group opined that the
recommendations by the constituents assembly in the 2014 National Conference
Report would have been a good palliative to address some of these
constitutional malaise that have eaten deep into the fabrics of our corporate
existence.
The group also noted that the All
Progressives Congress, APC who promised to restructure the Country in its
“meretricious manifestoes” has chosen to consign the Conference Report in the
political dustbin.
“Alas, the end to Nigeria’s
existence is seems in sight gleaned from the calls by different ethnic groups
to dismember the Country due to the unbalanced fault lines foisted on the
people by the British imperialists.”
While noting that Nigeria is
battling with the problems of colonial”blunders” the group stated that the
years of bickering and acrimony among the diverse ethnic groups which in turn
has set the Country on war path between the two principal regions of the North
and the South is as a result of the lopsided political formula.
“In spite of this quagmire which
hitherto has been threatening the very foundation of our corporate existence,
the constituents assemblies which make up the federation have not been given
the opportunity to enact a Constitution that best suits our interest.”
The group warned that Nigeria may
be history in the hands of the present Government unless the All Progressives
Congress,APC takes the bull by the horn to effect a constitutional amendment to
contain the agitations for restructuring.
“The Country is on the thin line
of destruction. Only God can save it.”
The group stressed that the
arrays of ethno-religious resentments have occupied the minds of Nigerians can
only be addressed through political restructuring of the Country.
The group who was reacting to the
vote against restructuring by the National Assembly said members of National
Assembly who were holding the ace to save Nigeria from the imminent precipice
have failed the people they represent.
The group further stated that the
President Muhammadu Buhari All Progressives Congress, APC led Federal
Government should be held responsible should anything happen to Nigeria.
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