Prosecute quit notice advocates, SAN tells Buhari

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Paul Erokoro, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to bring the people that crossed the red lines of peace of the nation to book. Erokoro, in a telephone interview with Blueprint, yesterday, also said that issue of restructuring should be taken into consideration, saying the nation was not practising true federalism, but proposed devolution of power. He said this would give states power for structural development hence people living in peace and harmony with one another.

He said: “It is good that the president addressed and react to the issue of the controversial quit notice threatening the peace of Nigeria as a nation but they are more issues he should have hampered on. “To say it that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable is not enough. Th ere should be a strong, concrete action taken, words should be match with actions. He said that the people canvassing for the division of the Nation have crossed the red lines. “Th ese people are not faceless, they are known; let them be brought to book.

Th e Kaduna state Governor, Governor El Rufai said that the group will be prosecuted, till now, nothing has been done. Mike Ahamba, a former counsel to President Buhari, aligned himself with Erokoro and reiterated the issue of restructuring, but stressed the need to have a blueprint of what is really expected from the call. “President Buhari statement was expected. I wonder why people believed that the quit notice movement will take place. It has been condemned in its totality by the stakeholders and even the youths that issued the notice have backed down. It will not hold water. What the administration will do is to create an environment for dialogue and reach an agreement for unity. “Th e call is for restructuring, but have people fashioned out what area to be restructured. Th ere must be a blueprint. We are not talking about political restructuring but economic and administrative restructure”. In his reaction, Yusuf Ali, said the President Bihari-led administration should try and fi nd out what bought about the issuing of quit notice by some section of the country and react to it. “What the president should try to fi nd out is why people are giving out quit notice. Th e issue is more fundamental. Th ere should be more structural development where everyone must feel as a Nigerian where duty and right will not be denied them not by ethnic group”, he added.

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