• Satguru
Maharaj Ji assures of no war in Nigeria
Former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar has said he will continue to support the restructuring
of the country because the report of the 1995/96 Constitution Drafting
Committee was not what was eventually released and foisted on the people of the country in 1999.
Committee was not what was eventually released and foisted on the people of the country in 1999.
He stated
that Nigerians accepted the constitution because they were desirous of
returning the country to democracy, stressing that time has come to review the
exercise because “Nigeria is not working.”
He said that
the rising tension and agitations in the country could be checked with a
restructured polity that could meaningfully engage the people on productive
activities.
Atiku, who
spoke yesterday at Nsukka during a public lecture organised by the Senior Staff
Club of the University of Nigeria (UNN), stated that any serious government
could initiate and conclude restructuring programmes that could impact
meaningfully on Nigerians in six months, especially those that do not require
constitutional amendment.
In a related
development, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has set up a
nine-member committee to work on the contentious issue of the restructuring of
the country.
Spokesperson
of the party, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, who disclosed this yesterday at the end
of the fifth regular joint APC National Working Committee (NWC) held at the
party’s secretariat in Abuja, said the resolve to clear the air on the party’s
position on the matter became pertinent in view of the fact that the term was
being misunderstood by the citizenry.
He said
Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai is to lead the panel, which include Governors of
Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje (Kano); Simon Lalong
(Plateau); and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) as members.
Others
include former Governor of Edo State, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor; APC National
Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso; APC National Publicity Secretary,
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi and Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi (Secretary).
In another
development, the Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, has called on
Nigerians to abandon any fear of war over the October 1 quit notice given to
the Igbo in the North by the Arewa youths.
The
Spiritual leader advised all mischief-makers and manipulators of the polity to
steer clear and halt further games of mischief.
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