Kwankwaso suffers severe Jonathan-phobia, claims Jonathan is planning to be a life President Months after saying Jonathan is a weak leader, APC Presidential aspirant and Kano State governor, Musa Kwankwaso is now suffering acute Jonathan-phobia, alleging that the President has perfected plans to be a life President through a contrived referendum. The governor in an interview with newsmen in his office Wednesday described plans to impose a new constitution on the country as a very dangerous development that could cause serious crisis. “From the information I have, backers of the new constitution are saying that those who are opposing the idea, who are mostly from the North are a minority, which is not correct. So, tomorrow, they will force it down the throats of Nigerians by all means and the next thing is to start a kangaroo referendum, cook up the figures like they did in Ekiti and force themselves on us. I don’t think that is good enough,” he said. Kwankwaso said it is unfortunate that the presidency and its supporters are busy plotting ways of elongating the president’s tenure when ordinary Nigerians are languishing in poverty, illiteracy and insecurity. “Everyday people are being killed and maimed, properties are being destroyed and as we are sitting, the people of Borno are now living on hills, rocks and in forests while many of them are in Cameroon, Chad and Niger. But we are not talking about them, what we are talking about here is how to extend the duration of Mr. President’s term to a lifetime presidency. I am sure that some parts of this country now have flags other than the green-white-green. This is terribly unfortunate,” he added. “We want to make our position very clear to them and to the entire world that we believe just like they do that what is happening now is so dangerous not only to Nigeria but to our neighbours and I believe the consequences will cut across the continent. That is why we are appealing to the delegates whether from the North, South, Christians, Muslims, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and any other tribe to help this country by rejecting this new constitution, because it won’t help the country, its authors and anybody in the country,” he said. “All people who love this country and clearly understand the situation we are in today, know the likely consequences of the new constitution which the Villa wants to use to start eight years from 2015”, he added. The governor said the presidency decided to smuggle the new constitution through the national confab after all efforts to introduce the idea of a seven-year single tenure was rejected by the National Assembly, adding that the emergence of the new constitution has confirmed his earlier predictions.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:16:24 +0000
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