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Nigeria’s Interest, Paramount In Development
Northern Leaders have been told to consider the general interest of the country above their ethnic, culture and religious inclination.
Former President of Obrikom Development Union, Chief Ifeanyi Ogbu made the call while reacting to a newspaper report asking Vice President Goodluck Jonathan not to contest the 2011 presidential election, saying the Nigerian constitution allows any qualified citizen to contest any election to do so.
According to Chief Ogbu, Nigeria is in need of leaders who are capable of ruling the country for the benefit and progress of the citizenry, and not those who come into leadership only to ridicule the country’s image and destroy its economy.
“The constitution”, he pointed out, “does not make provision for the zoning of the presidency to a particular ethnic group, but to any citizen that can pilot the ship of the country to greater height, and bringing desired development close to the people”.
He urged the north to avoid insinuations capable of throwing the country into chaos, nothing that the incessant killings and dehumanisation in some parts of the north should be seriously looked into because, as he puts it, “there is no smoke without fire”.
“Those behind the crises should be brought to book now that some names have been revealed,” Ogbu stressed and advised the acting president to remain steadfast and not to allow himself be distracted by enemies of good governance.
“Nigeria is bigger than individuals or groups that do not have the interest of the country at heart,” he continued, adding that “it is high time northerners and the cabals in the country’s leadership stopped deceiving Christians and the rest of the country on the health condition and whereabouts of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar”Adua, because Nigeria cannot continue to wait indefinitely for his recovery.
He stressed the need to swear in Acting President Jonathan as substantive president “because the constitution has no provision for an acting president”.
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