Nigeria’s former minister of
external affairs and professor of political science, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi
has said that the only person right now that the north truly trusts and
believes will not play politics with their interests is Muhammadu Buhari.
In an interview with the Punch,
Akinyemi said that Buhari stands in the kind of position that the late Sardauna
stood in the sixties, adding that an average person on the northern streets
believes in Buhari in the way that they don’t believe in former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar or his former boss, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.
Akinyemi said that: “The only
person right now that the north truly trusts and believes will not play
politics with their interests is Muhammadu Buhari.
“He stands now in the kind of
position that the (late) Sardauna stood in the sixties. An average person on
the northern streets believes in Buhari in the way that they don’t believe in
(former Vice President) Atiku (Abubakar) or my former boss, IBB, because those
are the people who have spoken out forcefully calling for restructuring. The
northern streets will conclude that these persons are playing with their
interests.
“But Buhari stands in that
position of trust in the estimation of the northern streets that ‘if he should
say that we need to give up these issues, he’s not selling us.’ What we need to
do is to find people in the north that Buhari trusts – people who can discuss
with him, that he believes are not setting a trap for him.
"The Yoruba leaders’ meeting
in Ibadan and this interview will not get through to Buhari. But there are
people in the north who can speak with him. There must be mutual trust between
Buhari and those speaking with him.
Bolaji Akinyemi, be man enough to talk about Oduduwa Republic as now is the time to do so.
ReplyDelete"The northern streets will conclude that these persons are playing with their interests" That means that the North are bent on holding the rest of the country to ramson because of their interest. This is the core reason why Nigeria is the way it is at the moment. Anybody or group of people who are not talking of restructuring of Nigeria is an enermy of progress. Restructuring is the first option before disintegration of this great Nation. It will be a missed opportunity if Nigeria is not restructured.
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