A South-East group, Njiko Igbo Forum, Friday, described the recent developments in Nigeria’s polity as a clear indication that the country is sick.
President of the Forum, Rev. Okechukwu Obioha, who spoke in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST said the order for arrest of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCB, had exposed the desperate attempt by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to foist its will on Nigerians.
Okechukwu, who described it as a welcome development in the polity, said the crisis was one of the prices the present administration would pay for excluding the South-East from the three tiers of government.
He noted that he had earlier warned that the “orchestrated attempt by the northern leaders, particularly, President Buhari to exclude Ndigbo from the three arms of government, had made this country to be sick.
“The South-East is an integral part, a major partner in this project called Nigeria; because he has sidelined the region deliberately without recourse to the Federal Character, which is in the constitution, the polity is now reaping the fruit of that problem. So, this government has been sick and with what is happening now, the ailment has become chronic.”
While accusing the Buhari-led government of being insincere with the war against corruption, the Igbo group wondered why the CCB went to the archives and brought a matter against Saraki “simply because the election of the principal officers of the National Assembly went against the wishes of powers that be”.
“The CCB has been sleeping over the years; but because this government is lawless, it is not using the CCB to cut its pound of flesh from Saraki.”
“The lawlessness also stems from the fact, that the attorney general is yet to be appointed; so who is, prosecuting Saraki; who has designated the person that is prosecuting Saraki?” he queried.
Okechukwu, who equally faulted Saraki for approaching a High Court, which he said was a court of co-ordinate jurisdiction with the CCB, further stated that “there are two illegalities going on; the country cannot progress, the 8th assembly will go into fiasco, it cannot stand”.
He maintained that the only solution was to right the wrongs against Ndigbo by “picking the Speaker of House of Reps from the zone; that is the only antidote.” .
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