T•A•K•E IT or L•E•A•V•E IT! You Are An Agent Of Disunity - Presidency But the Presidency on Thursday reacted to the groups’ comment on Jonathan’s alleged ambition, saying Nigerians, and not Northern elders as represented by Abdullahi, would decide who rules Nigeria in 2015. Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, told LEADERSHIP that Abdullahi did not represent the North. Gulak said although Abdullahi and his group had the constitutional right not to support President Jonathan should he decide to run, they cannot stop other Nigerians, even northerners from supporting him. “Abdullahi is not the spokesman of the North; the north does not believe in his leadership and that of those he represents. Ultimately, Nigerians will be the ones to elect their leader in 2015; Professor Ango Abdullahi will not handpick the president for Nigerians. “Rather than heating up the polity, the man should endeavour to tow the democratic means to actualize his dream; in any case, no Nigerian leader has ever emerged with the votes of one ethnic group or region alone, it has always been a collective effort. “Funny enough, while Ango Abdulahi continues in his boastful voyage, President Jonathan has not told anyone he is contesting, so what is the noise about? “They have constitutional right not to vote for President Jonathan. Other Nigerians also have constitutional right to vote for him. At the end, the majority will carry the day; that is the beauty of democracy. Minority may have their say but the majority will have their way. “The statement of Ango Abdullahi is inflammatory, divisive and utterly undemocratic and dangerous for the unity of the nation. It is also clearly based on the wrong precise that the nation is living on the primordial sentiments era; only agents of disunity like Ango Abdulahi can make such statements. “In all contexts, Ango Abdulahi’s comments are troubling as they come when the unity of the nation has become a beacon of hope; and rather than joining other well-meaning Nigerian to find solutions to the problems facing the nation an intellectual of Abdullahi’s pedigree is fanning the embers of discord and disunity with this insistence that a particular region must get the presidency through other factors than merit to determine the next president of Nigeria. “His determination, alongside those of the organisations he claims to be speaking for, to have a president from the northern part of the country in 2015, is unfortunate. “Abdullahi may be speaking the minds of his followers no doubt, but the proper thing to do in such quest for political power is to follow constitutional and globally acceptable means other than threats and boastful utterances. “Professor Ango’s utterances are very unfortunate and do not any way show that the unity of this country matters to him; because anyone who believes in the sanctity of the unity of Nigeria will not speak in that manner. “I had had the belief that the man was misquoted, but it has become imperative to say that such comments are anti-unity, undemocratic and sectional to the extent of their consequences and effects such will have on national unity and cohesion”, Gulak said. Source: Leadership
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:10:25 +0000
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