Olu Falae, a Chieftain of the Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has stated that persons close to the seat of power want former President Goodluck Jonathan to replace President Muhammadu Buhari so that power can be promptly returned to the north.
Falae, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), told reporters in Akure, Ondo State’s capital, that Jonathan is only valuable to these people because he can’t do more than four years.
In the run-up to the 2015 election, he lambasted the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for wanting Jonathan to return to Aso Rock after calling him unprintable things.
Falae said: “They don’t want the presidency to be in the South for more than four years. They want it quickly back in the North. So they want to use Goodluck to achieve that objective against his own people.
“They don’t care what he does if he goes back and he is a bigger “thief” this time, if he is more “incompetent” this time, it does not bother them as long as they get power quickly back. Are we on the same plane? Do we have the same objective?
“They will sacrifice anything Nigeria as long as they get what they want. So this is where we are, and that’s why we need a political party not what I call opportunistic gang up for power. That’s what PDP is; that’s what APC is – opportunistic gang up for power, not parties.”
According to the former presidential candidate, the APC is like an army that takes power by force and seizes control of the national and state institutions of power, including the national treasury and state governments.
“Take a look at the party’s primary runoffs. At every level, it’s like a war. Because the aspirants’ goal is personal and financial, this is the case. It is not a strategy for bringing Nigeria out of its crisis of unemployment and towards prosperity. “That is not the reason they are fighting,” he explained.
“They are fighting because they want to be the ones to grab the national treasury. That’s what it’s all about.
“So, without restructuring, we are wasting our time because the English man was not a fool when he gave us a true federal constitution.
” It is within the ambit of a true federal constitution that 448 different ethnic nationalities can co-exist with reasonable amity and peace.
“But this quasi-unitary constitution which is what some people want to hang on because it suits them is a faulty arrangement.”
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