David West
A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Prof. Tam David-West, on Tuesday described Nigeria as a failed state under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The elder statesman, at a news conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said that any government that could not protect its citizens was a gross failure.
He said, “We have a failed state in Nigeria today. I have been reading what is happening in Rivers State. Any government that cannot protect its citizens is not worth being called a government.”
West said he was ready to back Governor Rotimi Amaechi and any party that would bring light over the country’s current darkness.
“I stand for a government that knows that 19 is bigger than 16. I stand for a party that I know will bring light to the darkness in Nigeria. I stand for a party of people of substance both in words and in character,” he said.
Also at the news conference, the All Progressives Congress in the state called on the United Nations, the Amnesty International and other relevant international organisations to intervene in the continued attacks on its members.
It said through its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, that while some of its members had been killed by suspected Peoples Democratic Party thugs, others had been seriously injured.
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