BREAKING NEWS
2019 Election: Ohanaeze, PANDEF, Afenifere, Middle Belt Forum Set Up A New Movement
Ohaneze Ndigbo, Pan Niger
Delta Forum, PANDEF, Afenifere,and the Middle Belt Forum has
set up a movement known as the Mass Alliance for Inclusive Nigeria, MAIN Front.
The Movement is
to deepen the call for Nigeria’s restructuring.
This is contained
in a statement by PANDEF leader, Chief E.K. Clark; Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo; Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General, Chief John Nwodo and President,
Middle Belt Forum, Dr. Bala Takaya.
In a statement
titled, ‘Nigeria at crossroads: MAIN front to the rescue’, the leaders said,
“Nigeria is, at the moment, in a state of inertia, with her people stranded at
the juncture of dilemma, pondering as to what path leads to socio-economic
emancipation, where the future of our country’s younger generation can be
secured, and our women saved from needless anxiety over what fate awaits their
children.
”As a country of
energetic and hardworking people, we have not always been like this. For long
rendered prostrate and made to exist in a state of suspended animation, our
country now is on a fast-tracked race to a bleak future for the unborn
children.
“Our country has
never been in a more dire strait than it is today with the virtual collapse of
governance, crass display of insensitivity, the arrogance of power,
unquantifiable corruption, and the country fast becoming a laughing stock and
butt of practical jokes in enlightened circles.
“Beyond the
hyperboles, and given the reality of our existence, the future ended yesterday
if the ‘state of anomie’, where lives have become cheap and un-guaranteed, with
almost assured deaths of children and women, including the unborn babies, and
destruction for family compounds and communities.
”Without sounding
pessimistic, under the present social order, the quest for peace and
socio-political progress, no matter the sincerity of individual actors, will
remain, regrettably, an unfulfilled passion.
“In the
circumstances, our major assignment, is to salvage the ship of the Nigerian
state tottering in a scarily rudderless manner in the roaring waters of
insecurity, economic decline and permanent political tension, is the
restoration of stolen Nigeria ‘Article of Faith’, amongst Nigerians.
”The point being
made, in no unmistaken terms, is that the dismantled federal architecture must
be reconstructed, where each state in Nigeria will be self-accounting with
respect to its nature-endowed natural resources, of which no federating unit in
Nigeria is denied of God’s numerous gifts to His creatures, and self-securing
of lives and property within its constitutionally-defined geopolitical space.
”This is the
irreducible minimum item of a social contract that our long-suffering people
demand of any group and association that seeks to take control of our country’s
political destiny, henceforth. This precisely is what we, the Mass Alliance for
Inclusive Nigeria, pledge to affect.”
They demanded the
immediate release of the remaining Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, stressing,
“While we rejoice with the parents whose daughters have been returned, we
strongly demand the immediate release of Leah Sharibu, who remains in the
custody of her captors, given her refusal to denounce her Christian faith. The
Nigerian state cannot claim to have closed this sordid saga for as long as Leah
and outstanding Chibok Girls remain in captivity.”
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