Delivering a speech titled “The Role of the Opposition in Meeting Nigeria’s Challenges”, at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC, USA, recently, Tinubu noted that talks on disintegration of Nigeria have been fashionable in the last two weeks.
Tinubu highlighted the move by a faction of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, which issued a declaration of independence in Nigeria, designed its own flag for a Sovereign Ogoni people and calls for self-determination by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, who also applied for a UN observer status.
He added that the new Ijaw ethnic consciousness and new ethnic agitations by Boko Haram Islamic militants, all pointed to the fact that all is not well with Nigeria.
Tinubu berated the inconsistency of the Federal Government to deal decisively with the Boko Haram insurgents when government tried to coerce the Islamists one day and the next day the same government will be talking of engaging the Islamists in a dialogue.
“There has been insufficient governance for the benefit of the people. We certainly have not seen good governance. We have suffered more from inertia and confusion than from intelligent but malevolent design,” Tinubu posited.
He lamented that due to activities of Boko Haram, internal security was presently at its lowest ebb leading to fear and uncertainty and tension has dominated religious and political activities such that in many states, specially in the North, children can no longer attend schools and farmers neglect their fields fearing Boko Haram attacks.
According to him, “Nigeria is fast becoming one of the most dangerous places on earth. The stories of militia killings, brutal attacks and bombings we thought were restricted to Afghanistan, Iraq or Somalia are now daily activities in Nigeria,” adding that Boko Haram bombings have threatened Nigerian democracy while people cannot rely on the government to protect them.
To end Boko Haram and other security threats, Tinubu suggested improvement in local information gathering, enhancement of local conflict resolution, setting up of rights groups, dialogue with opinion leaders, feeding primary and secondary school children, direct support to farmers and skills development programmes for the unemployed.
He berated government’s decision to remove fuel subsidy, arguing that its plan was to make money instead of saving the hard pressed masses of Nigeria.
Tinubu said the opposition had earlier met with government and warned it about the dangers inherent in hiking price of fuel because of subsidy removal.
He said government rejected the suggestion that subsidy be removed in phases while Nigerians should be compensated with government’s investment in public transportation, primary health care and infrastructure development, adding, “ignoring our counsel, government lifted the subsidy by stealth and also deployed armed soldiers to deter protests.”
Speaking on the need to reform the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, the ACN leader observed that the PIB is not the right and effective prescription as the bill gives too much power to the Minister of Petroleum, adding that some parts of the bill make the oil sector even more fertile ground for corruption.
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Nigeria is disintegrating is because of Nigerians like you. Another morgan tsvangirai that is still practising modernism rather than post modernism. I guess this ugly creature is planning to contest for the next presidential election. Indirectly, proposing to the west to support him with their false media coverage, so called international election observers and other regime change instruments. In order to install a puppet president which will only serve for the west devils philosophy foreign policies rather than the citizens of Nigerian first. Remember this dog face squandered nearly a billion naira just to celebrate his birthday recently. Such huge amount of money spent to celebrate birthday alone could have been invested in his community which would’ve created a lot of jobs for his people. Alternatively, he chose to brainwash his own people with alcohol which will yield more alcoholics as well as health problems too. How can you make such speech to a nation that manufacture weapons at the same time, hovers around the world to stir up trouble where there is peace especially Africa because of oil. Evil creature like mr tinubu is a typical example of Libyan’s NTC leader used to massacre a just man and his family which ruled the country peacefully for more than 40 years as well as unemployment eradication and massive developments. How can you make such speech to a nation that sold human beings as tangible products that Nigerian is disintegrating? Is there any African country in the united nation’s Security Council? God is a great provider and Africans children are god’s children just like other continent. The only solution to solve African mess is unity because martin luther king said it “anytime the slaves try to unite their masters will put trouble”. African devils like traitor tinubu are one of the reasons Caribbean parents tell their children never trust Africans. This is because Africans sold them to white men during slavery and you cannot blame them for saying so. In god’s name, African will be free from western bondage, evil Africans, African parents will be able to provide for their children In abundance, African culture will rise again, all the African stolen artefact presently in the west museums will be returned, unemployment will be history, our scientists will lead the world, African will be able to issue citizenships to our distance brothers and sisters in the Caribbean countries and finally the world will be free from wars, nuclear weapons and united nation will be able to make just judgements for better tomorrow.
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