Former Presidential candidate of the National Action Council (NAC), Dr Olapade Agoro on Sunday said Nigeria is now threading the dangerous road to self-annihilation with the clamour for power to remain in the North beyond 2023.
Dr Agoro raised the alarm while speaking with journalists at his Apata residence in Ibadan on the state of the nation.
The former Presidential candidate lamented that most of the unfolding events in the country constitute major threat to the unity and stability of Nigeria as a nation.
According to him, other issues threatening the unity and stability of Nigeria included the “beheading of 11 Christians, Boko Haram insurgents, reckless earnings of National Assembly members, and the clamour for Power to remain in the North beyond 2023”.
“In Nigeria, we need a change; we have to go back to the change mantra. We need somebody that will lead us, we want somebody that can deliver, and this is not a matter of age. The present situation is above Buhari as an individual. Nigeria must not continue like this,” he said.
Dr Agoro pointed out that as far as Nigeria political terrain and the 2023 is concerned, the political field is still open to all parts of the country.
“The clamour by those refusing to learn from history that Nigeria is one nation although of diverse tribes and languages that power should remain in the North in 2023 after the present administration must have successfully closed shop is untenable. Lesson should be learnt that such statements are not only reckless but capable of inciting costly violence “. he said.
Speaking further, the former NAC Presidential candidate lashed out at members of the National Assembly over their plan to renovate the National Assembly Complex with N37billion.
“I want to think aloud that the National Assembly was built in 1999 at the cost of 777 million, just under 800 million naira. Somebody is thinking, is thinking with the idea of renovating something we built with less than N800million with N37billon. You will see the way we are thinking, you will see the mentality of the leadership we have. They just want to get the best out of the system. Their thinking is that if the country can shrink, let it shrink”. He said
